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Before, three travelers from China, Wu Shiwei, 30, and his wife Zhou Liping, 29, and Zhan Fan, were swept away by sea currents on Selukat Beach, Keramas village, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, last Saturday (Aug 16) around 4:30 p.m. Two people could be rescued, while another, Wu Shiwei, was not found on Sunday.

He had been searched for nearly three hours but was not found to date. One of the local Komune lifeguards, Wayan Yogantara, admitted that his team could not find the victim because the sea currents had been large. “We were only able

to rescue two people,” he said.At that afternoon, the three Chinese travelers bathed on

the beach. Before bathing, the lifeguards had banned them. Unfortunately, it was ignored. Even, according to the narra-tive of local residents, the entourage of Chinese traveler had wanted to rent a surf board for surfing in the morning. How-ever, as the waves were huge and fierce enough, the board owner warned them from doing the activity. Somehow they came again in the afternoon and ignored the ban of bathing. “Not long after entering the beach, they were swept away. Instantly, we took a speed boat to rescue them,” he said.

Zhou Liping (Wu Shiwei’s wife) looked to cry. She kept urging the lifeguards to conduct a search. “Please continue to find out my husband, I will pay no matter how much it costs,” said her tourist guide interpreting the request of Zhou Liping.

Since the sea waves were in high tide and on safety con-sideration, the search was discontinued for a while. Never-theless, the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Gianyar, National SAR Agency (Basarnas), lifeguard, Red Cross, police and local residents remained to keep track the Selukat Beach, Keramas village.

The Head of Gianyar Disaster Mitigation Agency, Anak Agung Gde Oka Digjaya, said the search had been carried out in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Nevertheless, his party would continue to monitor.

On the request of the victim and the entourage, local residents said prayers on Selukat Beach. Meanwhile, the Chinese travelers coming to Bali stayed at Swan Hotel and totally amounted to 26 people. They arrived last Thursday (Aug 14) and scheduled to return to China on Sunday (Aug 17). (kmb16)

People searched for a chinese traveler who swept away at Selukat Beach. The body of Wu Shiwei (30), that’s

been swept away at Selukat Beach, Gianyar, found on Monday. The body was founded at Rangkan Beach and

evacuated to Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar.

swept away by sea currents

Two Chinese travelers survived, one found dead

Bali PostGIANYAR - The body of Wu Shiwei (30), that’s

been swept away at Selukat Beach, Gianyar, found on Monday. The body was founded at Rangkan Beach and evacuated to Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar.

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NEW YORK — Brian Williams didn’t have to look hard for a photo of actress Allison Williams as a toddler in a Peter Pan cos-tume. A framed one has been on display in the den of his family’s Connecticut home for years.

The NBC “Nightly News” anchor and proud father said he emailed family members to see if they approved of him reporting on his daughter being cast in the lead role of “Peter Pan.” NBC is airing a new version of the musical live on Dec. 4.

Reporting the news was more than a proud papa’s privilege: “Nightly” announced casting for “The Sound of Music” before NBC aired that musical late last year, he said. His report of Allison’s good news played it straight — at least until the end.

As a picture of the 26-year-old “Girls” actress as a young girl garbed in green appeared on the screen, Williams said, “Family members confirm she’s been rehearsing for this role since the age of 3, and they’re looking forward to seeing her fly.”

“Believe me,” he said later. “I know every word of every song.”Williams insisted that Allison didn’t give him any grief for show-

ing the photo on the air.

The famous pizza-munching turtles, on a mission to save New York from diabolical evil-doers plotting to unleash a virus across the city, raked in $28.4 million in their sec-ond weekend in theaters, box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations reported.

The turtles remained just ahead of Mar-vel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” in second place, the critically acclaimed science-fiction superhero romp which added an-other $24.7 million to its three-week haul of $222.3 million.

Third spot was taken by raunchy adult comedy “Let’s Be Cops,” starring Damon Wayans Jr, about two friends who become entangled in criminal intrigue when they dress up as police officers for a costume party.

The film, which has been savaged by overwhelmingly negative reviews, never-theless took $17.7 million in its opening weekend, meaning the film will turn a profit after costing around $17 million to make.

But it was a disappointing bow for the latest installment of Stallone’s “The

Expendables” saga. The third movie in the light-hearted action romp took just $16.2 million on its opening weekend to finish in fourth.

The first two films in “The Expend-ables” series had taken $34.8 million and $28.6 million in their opening weekends, suggesting that interest in the franchise, which groups together a galaxy of ac-tion stars including Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wesley Snipes, Jet Li, Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford, is firmly on the wane.

In fifth place was dystopian drama “The Giver” based on Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel of the same name. The film, starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep and Brenton Thwaites, earned $12.8 million.

Turbulent weather disaster movie “Into The Storm” was in sixth place with $7.7 million while “The Hundred Foot Journey,” a romantic comedy with Helen Mirren and Om Puri as culture-clashing restaurateurs, was seventh with $7.1 million.

French action film “Lucy,” starring

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This image released by Lionsgate shows Sylvester Stallone, left, and Jason Statham, center, in a scene from “Expendables 3.”

‘Turtles’ outmuscle Stallone, Schwarzenegger at box office

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LOS ANGELES - The “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” remained in top spot at the North American box office this weekend, outmuscling the latest installment of Sylvester Stallone’s geriatric “Expendables” action-hero franchise, estimates showed Sunday.

Scarlett Johansson as a drug mule with telekinetic powers, was eighth with $5.3 million in its fourth week in theaters.

Ninth place was taken by dance movie “Step Up All In,” which took $2.7 million. Rounding out the top 10 was the Oscar-tipped drama “Boyhood,” which earned $2.1 million.

AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca, File

This April 4, 2012 file photo shows Actress Allison Williams poses with her father, NBC News’ Brian Williams, at the premiere of the HBO original series “Girls,” in New York. Allison Williams will star in the lead role of “Peter Pan.” NBC is airing a new version of the musical live on Dec. 4.

Brian Williams shares in daughter’s acting success

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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

Tuesday, August 19, 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

JAKARTA - Archipelago Interna-tional, Indonesia’s leading hotel man-agement group, recently announced plans to expand it’s Hotel NEO portfolio with three new properties opening before the end of 2014, and 12 new properties and up to 1500 rooms planned for 2015.

Currently, Hotel NEO boasts 8 existing hotels spanning four differ-ent cities. Bali has seen the opening of two Hotel NEOs (Gatot Subroto-Denpasar and Kuta Jelantik), while in Jakarta there are four (Tanah Abang Cideng, Mangga Dua, Melawai and Tendean) and one each in Semarang and Bogor (Sentul). In total, the NEO brand offers 822 rooms with an aver-age occupancy rate of 80 percent.

Two of the three new hotels open-ing in 2014 will be located in Bali; Hotel NEO Kuta – Tuban and Hotel NEO Petitenget - Seminyak, while the third, NEO Eltari – Kupang, will be opening in East Nusa Tenggara.

The 12 hotels planned for 2015 will be opening across the Indone-sian archipelago. The first quarter

will see the opening of Hotel NEO+ Awanna – Jogja, Hotel NEO Palma – Palangkaraya and Hotel NEO Ke-bayoran – Jakarta, while the second quarter will see the opening of Hotel NEO Hayam Wuruk – Jakarta and Hotel NEO Malioboro.

Into the third and fourth quarter of 2015 and Archipelago International will be opening Hotel NEO+ Pahla-wan – Samarinda, Hotel NEO Gajah Mada – Pontianak, Hotel NEO+ Karawang, Hotel NEO Samadikun – Cirebon, Hotel NEO Dalem Kaum – Bandung and Hotel NEO+ Medan.

In line with the NEO concept, all of the new hotels will be follow-ing their sister hotels by taking the standard minimalist budget hotel concept to an entirely new level, packaging authentic contemporary art with invigorating interior designs and high end in-room facilities. The NEO brand also promises a totally smoke-free environment, ultra high-speed complimentary WiFi and an uncomplicated, smart-casual ap-proach to service. All of this wrapped up with very affordable room rates for every guest, as well as exclusive

benefits reserved for online custom-ers booking via the group’s website www.NeoHotels.com

“We are delighted to announce the fantastic growth of our very popular

Hotel NEO brand. The NEO concept was first launched in February 2011, so to be increasing its portfolio by adding fifteen NEO hotels before the end of 2015 is an impressive leap,

and it just shows how well the hotel has been received by our Indonesian and International guests.” Said John Flood, Archipelago International’s President & CEO.

15 new Hotel Neo planned for 2014/2015

IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Criminal Inves-tigator Unit of Denpasar Police is still difficult to go deep into the murder case of Sheila, 64. After autopsy of the victim’s body, Denpasar Police and forensic team agreed to make crime scene inves-tigation on Monday (Aug 18) under monitor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

It was expressed by Spokesper-son of Denpasar Police, IB Sarjana, Sunday (Aug 17). However, his party could not confirm the exact

time. “If any information is re-quired related to both suspects and victim, the FBI is ready to assist. It will help accelerate the handling of this case so that it can be resolved as soon as possible,” said Sarjana.

Meanwhile, a source in police department revealed that after the autopsy of Sheila the FBI planned to check the scene. ”As planned, it will be carried out tomorrow (Monday—Ed). The plan was de-cided in a deliberation at Sanglah Hospital after the autopsy,” said the source.

The source added that the FBI

officers getting involved in the case investigation justified if the two suspects often made troubles in their home country. Even, the suspect Heather often quarreled with the victim, her foster mother. Meanwhile, the suspect Tommy often dealt with the U.S. Police De-partment. “Various teams including that of fingerprint, identification, forensic and forensic laboratory, including the FBI, were involved in the investigation,” he said.

Related to the investigation pro-cess of the electrifying case, a source requesting anonymity revealed there

had been no significant development because the suspects preferred to shut up. On that account, the in-vestigators were still trying to find evidence whether there was an ele-ment of planning or not. “Victim’s nasal bone was crushed as hit by the suspect,” he said.

Besides, the investigators were still awaiting the test results of blood sample of both suspects. A few days after the arrest, the offi-cers took a blood sample of the two suspects and were taken to Forensic Laboratory of the National Police Headquarters of Denpasar Branch.

“Both suspects did not show the sense of regret. When arrested, they just relaxed and even sang. Whether they were under influence of drugs or not is still being explored,” said the source.

Previously, the body of Sheila was found in a suitcase, Tuesday (Aug 12) by security guard of the St. Regis Hotel Nusa Dua in a cab. After conducting an investigation and checking to the hotel CCTV footage, police could finally arrest the suspects Heather and Tommy when they were at one of the hotels in Kuta area. (kmb36)

Commander of the 1610/Klung-kung Military District Command, Andree Saputro, when contacted

after the ceremony justified that all this time there was no woman leading such a ceremony in the celebration of

the Independence Day in Indonesia. “It is the first of its kind in Indonesia,” he said. Andree added that initially

the Klungkung Military District as a part of the Independence Day cel-ebration committee was asked to pre-pare personnel for the ceremony by Klungkung government. One of them was the commander of ceremony. To give a different nuance in the celebra-tion, the Military District Command finally appointed the Commander of Banjarangkan Military Region Command a commander of the cer-emony. “She was one of the officers who served as captain. Therefore, we designated her,” he said.

Having been coordinated with the Klungkung government and county police, the initiative was then approved. Meanwhile, Purniawati directly expressed her readiness for the task. In addition, with the rank of captain she was considered to be able to carry out the task and had the edu-cation of prospective NCO (Women’s Army Corps) in Bandung.

“I am grateful that she could carry out her duties as commander of ceremony smoothly,” he said. Meanwhile, Purniawati was proud of the task. Celebration of the Indepen-dence Day was a historic day for the whole society. So, when she became the commander of the ceremony she was at full concentration to complete the task.

Ni Ketut Purniawati has occupied the current position as Commander

of the Banjarangkan Military Region Command since December 20, 2012. She replaced the previous officer, Ketut Suarta. It rarely happened in the military rank in Bali. For the first time, the Commander of Military Region in Bali is led by a woman. While in this position, she was con-sidered capable of carrying out her duties and establishing synergy with horizontal line as well as other agen-cies in Banjarangkan. Andree Saputro hoped the commander of military region from Teges hamlet (Gianyar) was able to become an example for other women that a woman could also become a leader.

The flag raising ceremony of the Independence Day itself took place solemnly at Puputan Klungkung Square, Sunday morning (Aug 17). Before the ceremony, the Regent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, granted remission to some inmates. Submission of the remission was carried out in a modest rally in the courtyard of Klungkung Prison. A total of 33 prisoners got general remission (reduction of detention pe-riod) in accordance with the Decree of the Minister of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia No. W20.731 PK.01.01.02/2014. The remission granted to the 33 inmates varied ranging from 1 to 5 months. (kmb31)

FBI monitors the scene investigation of Sheila’s murder case

Celebration of Independence Day

First in Indonesia, led by female commander

IBP/Bagiarta

Danramil Banjarangkan Kapten CAJ (K) Ni Ketut Purniawati led the ceremony of Indonesian Independence in Klungkung.

Bali Post

SEMArAPUrA - The ceremony to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the Independence Day of the republic of Indonesia in Klungkung County on Sunday (Aug 17) looked different from previous years. The ceremony was led by a female commander doubling as the Commander of Banjarangkan Military region, Ni Ketut Purniawati. Female commander of ceremony in the celebration of the Independence Day was claimed to be first in Bali, even in Indonesia.

3Tuesday, August 19, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Tuesday, August 19, 2014

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WASHINGTON — More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world’s glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds.

Scientists looking at glacier melt since 1851 didn’t see a human fingerprint until about the middle of the 20th century. Even then only one-quarter of the warming wasn’t from natural causes.

But since 1991, about 69 percent of the rapidly increasing melt was man-made, said Ben Marzeion, a climate scientist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

“Glaciers are really shrinking rapidly now,” he said. “I think it’s fair to say most of it is man-made.”

Scientists fault global warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas as well as changes in land use near glaciers and soot pollution. Glaciers in Alaska and the Alps in general have more human-caused melting than the global average, Marzeion said.

The study is published Thurs-day in the journal Science.

The research is the first to

calculate just how much of the glacial melting can be attributed to people and “the jump from about a quarter to roughly 70 per-cent of total glacier mass loss is significant and concerning,” said University of Alaska Fairbanks geophysicist Regine Hock, who wasn’t part of the study.

Over the last two decades, about 295 billion tons (269 billion metric tons) of ice is melting each year on average due to human causes and about 130 billion tons (121 million metric tons) a year are melting because of natural causes, Marzeion calculated.

Glaciers alone add to about four-tenths of an inch of sea level rise every decade, along with even bigger increases from melting ice sheets — which are different than glaciers — and the expansion of water with warmer temperatures.

Marzeion and colleagues ran multiple computer simulations to see how much melting there would be from all causes and then did it again to see how much melting there would be if only natural causes were included. The difference is what was caused by humans.

Scientists aren’t quite certain

what natural causes started gla-ciers shrinking after the end of the Little Ice Age in the middle of the 19th century, but do know what are human-causes: climate change, soot, and local changes in land use.

There is a sizable margin of error so the 69 percent human caused can be as low as 45 per-cent or as high as 93 percent, but likely in the middle.

“This study makes perfect sense,” said Pennsylvania State University glacier expert Rich-ard Alley, who wasn’t part of the research. “The authors have quantified what I believe most scientists would have expected.”

Not all of the human-caused melting is from global warming from the burning of fossil fuels, but climate change is the biggest factor, said Ted Scambos, a scien-tist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The study showed that it took time for global warming and other factors to build up and cause melting. That lag ef-fect means the world is already locked into more rapid melting from the warming that has al-ready occurred, Marzeion and Alley said.

The figure is 6.77 percent down from the previous furniture exports in the same period of 2013 which stood at US&14.72 million, according to data made available at the Industry and Trade Service.

Data at the industry and trade service showed that the volume of the exports dropped 86.56 percent from 9.07 million units in the first five months of 2013 to 1.21 million units in the same period this year.

Furniture is one of Bali’s 17 cottage handicraft products which is able to penetrate the global market and is able to contribute 6.38 percent of Bali’s total exports which reached about US$215.04 million.

In the meantime, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) recoded that Bali’s export earning declined 1.53 percent to US$266.13 million in the first half of the year from US$270.26 million in the same period last year.

“Manufactured goods and products of cottage industry accounted for 75 percent of the export income,” head of the provincial office of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Panusunan Siregar said.

Around 50 percent of the exports were made via ports in other Indonesian provinces with the rest via the Benoa port of Denpasar.

The provincial administration needs to expand the Benoa port to become an international ports to be able to handle all shipments of all exports from Bali, Siregar said.

“Expansion of the Benoa port would help reduce conges-tion over land transport and increase the regional income,” he said.

In June alone exports from Bali were valued at US$47.05 million, up 7.49 percent from the same period last year or an increase of 15.90 percent from May this year.

The main export commodities of Bali are fish and shrimps, jewelry, garments, wood products and furniture.

The export destinations include the United States, Singapore, Australia , Japan, and Thailand.

The take-home advice: drilling your kids on simple addition and multiplication may pay off.

“Experience really does mat-ter,” said Dr. Kathy Mann Koepke of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the re-search.

Healthy children start making that switch between counting to what’s called fact retrieval when they’re 8 years old to 9 years old, when they’re still working on fundamental addition and sub-traction. How well kids make that shift to memory-based problem-solving is known to predict their ultimate math achievement.

Those who fall behind “are impairing or slowing down their math learning later on,” Mann Koepke said.

But why do some kids make the transition easier than oth-ers?

To start finding out, Stan-ford University researchers first peeked into the brains of 28 children as they solved a series of simple addition problems inside a brain-scanning MRI machine.

No scribbling out the answer: The 7- to 9-year-olds saw a cal-culation — three plus four equals seven, for example — flash on a screen and pushed a button to say if the answer was right or wrong. Scientists recorded how quickly they responded and what regions of their brain became active as they did.

In a separate session, they also tested the kids face to face, watching if they moved their lips or counted on their fingers, for comparison with the brain data.

The children were tested twice, roughly a year apart. As the kids got older, their answers relied more on memory and became faster and more accurate, and it showed in the brain. There was less activity in the prefrontal and parietal regions associated with counting and more in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, the researchers reported Sunday in Nature Neuroscience.

The hippocampus is sort of

like a relay station where new memories come in — short-term working memory — and then can be sent elsewhere for longer-term storage and retrieval. Those hippocampal connections increased with the kids’ math performance.

“The stronger the connections, the greater each individual’s ability to retrieve facts from memory,” said Dr. Vinod Menon, a psychiatry professor at Stanford and the study’s senior author.

But that’s not the whole sto-ry.

Next, Menon’s team put 20 adolescents and 20 adults into the MRI machines and gave them the same simple addition problems. It turns out that adults don’t use their memory-crunching hippocampus in the same way. Instead of using a lot of effort, retrieving six plus four equals 10 from long-term storage was almost automatic, Menon said.

In other words, over time the brain became increasingly ef-ficient at retrieving facts. Think of it like a bumpy, grassy field, NIH’s Mann Koepke explained. Walk over the same spot enough and a smooth, grass-free path forms, making it easier to get from start to end.

If your brain doesn’t have to work as hard on simple math, it has more working memory free to process the teacher’s brand-new lesson on more complex math.

Quiz your child in different orders, she advised — nine times three and then 10 times nine — to make sure they really remem-ber and didn’t have to think it through.

While the study focuses on math, Mann Koepke said cogni-tive development in general prob-ably works the same way. After all, kids who match sounds to let-ters earlier learn to read faster.

Stanford’s Menon said the next step is to study what goes wrong with this system in children with math learning disabilities, so that scientists might try new strategies to help them learn.

AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott, File

This Aug. 18, 2008, file photo shows students of the Institute of Geography of the Univer-sity of Mainz, Germany, collect data on the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps. More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world’s glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds.

Peek into brain shows how kids learn math skillsAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — At some point, children quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain reorganizes itself as kids learn math.

Study blames humans for most of melting glaciers

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The selling price of properties in Bali in the second quarter of 2014 slows down. Result of the survey on the residential property prices (SHPR) by Bank In-donesia (BI) indicated a slowdown in the growth at 16.23 percent to 14.81 percent (yoy).

“We did a survey about residen-tial property prices on a quarterly basis to approximately 30 develop-ers located in Denpasar and a small fraction in Badung and Tabanan region. As a result, the BI noted a slowing growth in the selling price of property in the second quarter,” said Representative Head of the Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara, Benny Siswanto.

According to him, the current condition in the field indicated a slowdown in the index price of the residential property prices in second quarter of 2014 compared to the previous quarter, namely from

186.68 to 185.75. On average, the declining growth occurred to resi-dential property prices over the pre-ceding quarter, namely from 7.28 percent to -0.50 percent (qtq).

“Indication of the slowdown in the index price of the residential property price is the occurrence of slowdown in the increase of selling price as the impact of decline in sales volume,” he said.

He described the highest growth of slowdown happened to small- and medium-type house. Small types slowed from 26.75 percent to 25.32 percent, while medium type slowed from 16.03 percent to 13.12 percent.

“From the survey conducted by Bank Indonesia in the field, some respondents tended to maintain the selling price of property. Several other respondents slightly raised the price to keep the consumer market in order to avoid significant decline, especially after the enforce-ment of loan to value (LTV),” he

explained.Benny Siswanto also recognized

if in the survey there were also respondents giving discount to the selling price because the buyers were deserted. By all means, the selling price discount was given to any purchase in cash or gradual installments.

“Some respondents also stated that they did not dare to raise the prices, despite the land price has slightly increased. Respondents noted the LTV implementation has caused prospective buyers to face difficulty and reluctant to purchase a home,” he said.

Benny assessed such conditions were not only caused by the increas-ing down payment of property for the next home purchase, but also the down payment determined by mortgage (KPR) when the house construction had been totally ac-complished.

As reported previously, the ap-plication of risk management in

banks providing credit or property-backed consumer finance and credit mentioned a restriction to mortgage issuance for the first home with

maximal loan facility of 70 per-cent, the second home (60 percent) and the third home (50 percent). (kmb27)

Selling price growth of property in Bali slows down

IBP/File Photo

Tourists passed the property project at Kuta, Bali Island. The selling price of properties in Bali in the second quarter of 2014 slows down.

Bali earns US$13.72 million from furniture exports

ANTARA FOTO/Risbiani fardaniah

The Indonesian tourist resort province of Bali has earned US$13.72 from its furniture exports in the January - May 2014 period, data at the local industry and trade office showed.

Antara

DENPASAR - The Indonesian tourist resort prov-ince of Bali has earned US$13.72 from its furniture exports in the January - May 2014 period, data at the local industry and trade office showed.

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—A doctor named Riza Edwin, 32, was the victim of fraud, with

the mode to be lured of becoming a civil servant. Ironically, the man staying on Jalan Padang Griya, Padangsambian, Denpasar, already transferred the sum of IDR 3.7 million. This incident was then reported to Denpasar Police station.

A police source said on Thursday (Aug 14) that the fraud origi-nated from Riza who received a phone call from someone claiming from PT Megah Mandiri Tours and Travel on Monday (Aug 11) at 2:38 p.m. The culprit also asked the victim to pay as soon as pos-sible so that this young doctor could take the selection test of civil servant (PNS) at Pertamina Hospital in Jakarta. “Over the phone, he was asked to transfer money amounting to IDR 3.7 million to pay for the airline ticket of Denpasar- Jakarta,” he said.

The victim believing in the lure of the culprit then transferred the sum of IDR 3.7 million to the specified account through BNI’s ATM at Supernova Supermarket, Kuta. Not long after, he was asked again to transfer money to another account with the same reason. Being suspicious, he did not transfer the money requested and immediately reported the incident to the Integrated Police Service Center (SPKT) of Denpasar Police. “He just realized to have been scammed after asked to make the second transfer,” he said.

In addition, a private employee, Dewa Putu Sarawada, also re-ported a fraud action. The fraud began when the victim applied for a loan with the collateral of vehicle ownership book belonging to his pickup truck with license plate DK 9610 GT around September. Then, a woman, Ni Wayan Purnamayanti, 43, said that she could disburse a loan with the collateral of the vehicle ownership book. Without thinking twice, Sarawada immediately handed over his vehicle ownership book to Purnamayanti known to live in Mengwi, Badung. “At that time, the vehicle ownership book was submitted on Jalan Moh Yamin, Denpasar,” said the source.

So far, Sarawada claimed to have not received the funds prom-ised by Purnamayanti. As a result, the victim suffered a loss worth IDR 70 million and just reported the case last Monday.

Spokesperson of Denpasar Police, IB Sarjana, when asked for his confirmation justified the existence of the two fraud reports. He said that after receiving the fraud report the Denpasar Police Criminal Detective immediately conducted an investigation. “Police are still investigating the case,” he said. (nik)

Allegedly the wooden log was stored on the land owned by Made Sudiartawan. Together with rang-ers, the Jembrana Police Criminal Investigator then conducted an investigation to check the location. Apparently, the information was correct. Dozens of timbers belonging to balang-balang and kutat type or various sizes were found by the officers. The owner of the timber, known as Sudiartawan, had escaped as soon as knew the coming of police.

After nearly a month on the run, the culprit man-aged to be arrested in front of Gilimanuk Market last week. Police then interrogated and it could reveal another culprit, namely Komang Ardana Yasa, 29. To police, Sudiartawan admitted to have bought the timber from Ardana at IDR 100,000 per stem.

Based on the information, Ardana could be ar-

rested around the Negara Square. From physical check of the timbers, they belonged to kutat type sizing 6x10x4 meters with a total of 54 stems or 1,276 cubic meters, while balang-balang type sized 13x17x4 meters with a total of two stems and another stem sized 13x22x4 meters. From the recognition of the suspect, the timber would be used to make a cage. Evidence of the timber was commended at the Forestry Office of Gilimanuk.

Meanwhile, both culprits had been secured in Jembrana Police and charged under Article 12 e in conjunction with Article 83 paragraph 1 letter b of Law No. 18/2013 on the prevention and eradica-tion of forest destruction with a minimum penalty of one year in prison and a maximum of 5 years. (kmb26)

Bali PostDENPASAR - A female student, Dewa Ayu Sucitra Dewi, 26,

was found dead in her home room, Sunday (Aug 17). The victim was alleged to get depression because after her divorce she did not want to eat.

According to Chief of South Denpasar Police, Nanang Pri-hasmoko, his party had made examination against witnesses and the victim’s mother, I Dewa Ayu Sriasih, 62. The mother staying on Jalan Pakisaji Gang Cengana Sari III, East Denpasar came to the victim’s house to bring her food. When arriving at the scene, she immediately entered the room because the door was not locked.

“Originally Sriasih was not suspicious because she thought her daughter was sleeping. She tried to wake up the victim but her body was already cold. Having been rechecked, in fact the victim had died. The victim has made hunger strike for a week,” said police chief.

The victim’s mother asked for help to David Maukaling to find a midwife and report the incident to hamlet chief. After ensuring whether the single-son widow died or not, the incident was reported to the South Denpasar Police. “The victim has divorced 6 months ago and she lived alone at the scene. No signs of violence were found on the victim’s body,” he said.

Information in the field mentioned if the victim was alleged to get depression after her divorce because her single son was taken by her husband. Meanwhile, her husband lived in Gianyar. Since then, the victim got depression and did hunger strikes. (kmb36)

IBP/Gus OloThe illegal loggers are arrested by the police in Jembrana

Police arrest two illegal loggersBali Post

NEGARA - Two illegal loggers becoming the fugitive of Jembrana Police Criminal Detective since July 21 were finally arrested. One of the culprits is Made Sudiartawan aka Dek Pendang, 36, who previously escaped. Chief of the Jembrana Police Criminal Detective, Gusti Made Sudarma, with permission from the Chief of Jembrana Police said on Sunday (Aug 17) the arrest began from the public information on Monday (Jul 21) related to the timber taking activities from the forest.

Hunger strike, a female student found dead

Lured to be a civil servant, a doctor scammed

Jhanka Nath Dhakal of Nepal’s National Emergency Operation Center said four helicopters with food, emergency supplies, medicine and medical workers were sent to villages in the west of the country.

Rescuers were also attempting to reach the villages by road. How-ever, most of the highways and rural roads are either submerged or dam-aged by the flooding, preventing vehicles from passing. Thousands of people have been left without shelter and cut off from the rest of the country since Thursday in 10 districts in west Nepal. Much of the area is farm land where the villagers are poor and live in mud and straw huts that are easily washed away.

Authorities fear the lack of clean drinking water, food and sanitation could lead to outbreak of cholera, dysentery and encephalitis. Dhakal said the government was trying to

send medical teams to the villages with medical supplies to prevent diseases that can follow flooding. They are also distributing tents and plastic sheets to make temporary shelter, utensils to cook food and clothes for those who lost their belongings.

Earlier this month, a massive landslide covered an entire village near Katmandu, killing 156 people. The June-September monsoon season often bring flooding to Ne-pal and neighboring India, and in northern India, torrential rain and landslides have killed at least 50 people in Uttarakhand state, many of them washed away as rivers overflowed, submerging villages and fields.

Officials in neighboring Uttar Pradesh state reported 10 more deaths overnight, pushing the death toll in the state to 34.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Pres i -dent Barack Obama returned to Washington just after midnight Monday for a two-day break from a summer vacation, dur-ing which airstrikes in Iraq and violent clashes in a St. Louis suburb intruded on his golf and beach plans.

The exact reason for Obama’s return remained unclear, though it appeared aimed in part at countering criticism that Obama was spending two weeks on the Massachusetts resort island of Martha’s Vineyard in the midst of multiple crises. His return to Washington was planned even before the U.S. military began striking targets in Iraq and before the standoff between police and protestsers in Ferguson, Mis-souri.

Obama had meetings on both matters scheduled for Monday.

The president was scheduled to return to Martha’s Vineyard Tuesday night.

The president spent a leisurely Sunday on the island before his late night departure. He played a round of golf — his most frequent vacation activity — then attended a jazz concert and dinner with first lady Michelle Obama.

While Obama has had plenty of downtime since arriving in Martha’s Vineyard a week ago, he also made two public statements about the situations in Iraq and Ferguson. The president had or-dered the Iraq strikes days before leaving for vacation, while the tensions in Ferguson that stem from the shooting death of an unarmed teen boiled over during his vacation.

“I think it’s fair to say there are, of course, ongoing compli-cated situations in the world, and that’s why you’ve seen the presi-dent stay engaged,” White House

spokesman Eric Schultz said.Obama’s vacation has also

been infused with a dose of poli-tics. He headlined a fundraiser on the island for Democratic Senate candidates and attended a birth-day party for veteran Democratic adviser Vernon Jordan’s wife, where he spent time with former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

That get-together between the former rivals-turned-partners added another complicated dy-namic to Obama’s vacation. Just as Obama was arriving on Martha’s Vineyard, an interview with the former secretary of state was published in which she levied some of her sharpest criticism of Obama’s foreign policy.

AP Photo/Steven SennePresident Barack Obama smiles

while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014.

AP Photo/Niranjan ShresthaNepalese rescuers search for bodies of victims of Saturday’s landslide as a damaged school bus lies on left, in Mankha, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Aug.4, 2014.

Nepal flood toll hits 101, fears of disease rise Associated Press

KATMANDU — Nepalese authorities said Monday they feared an outbreak of diseases as they attempt to reach thousands of people stranded by flooding that has already killed more than 100 people. The swirling floodwaters have even crossed into neighboring India, submerging farmland and hundreds of villages. At least 84 Indians have died, either from the floodwaters or from torrential rains, au-thorities said.

Obama back in Washington on rare vacation break

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Associated Press

HOUSTON — Increasing work-ers’ earning power and offering Latino-owned companies easier access to funding that can be used for growth and expansion can help improve the social and economic status of Latinos in the U.S. and throughout Latin America, Mexi-can billionaire Carlos Slim told a group of religious and community leaders Sunday.

During a speech at the annual conference of the Catholic Associa-tion of Latino Leaders, Slim spoke for more than an hour on how to better the plight of Latino workers and Latino-owned businesses.

Slim, a telecom magnate who this year was ranked by Forbes magazine as the world’s second-richest person with an estimated net worth of $72 billion, suggested establishing investment firms or companies dedicated to working with small- and medium-sized Latino businesses in need of fi-nancing.

He told a crowd of about 200 people that in a time of recent economic crises, countries need to focus on strengthening the middle class as well as health care systems and education.

“What is important is that people earn more and that more middle classes are formed,” said Slim, who

owns telecommunications giant America Movil, a leading cellphone service provider in Latin America.

Slim also reiterated an idea he first made public last month at an-other conference: his proposal for a three-day work week. He said the idea would mean longer work hours and delaying retirement until a per-son is 70 to 75 years old. But he said it would mean people having more free time with their families or for personal enrichment.

Last week, Slim’s foundation unveiled “Acceso Latino,” a free website created to provide U.S. Latinos easy access to tools and content about education, health care, job training, culture and other

areas.The growing importance of the

Latino population can be seen in its rising numbers, Slim said. There are more than 53 million Hispanics living in the United States, which is about 17 percent of the nation’s total population, according to U.S. census figures.

Slim said this figure makes the U.S. Hispanic population larger than the populations of many Latin American countries.

Martin Cabrera, the CEO of a Chicago-based investment firm who attended the conference, said there are already multibillion-dollar pension funds that have investment arms that provide financing to start-

ups and other companies.“The amount of business they

are doing with Latino (firms) is close to zero,” he said.

Cabrera said Slim can use his influence and stature to develop a dialogue with these pension funds and their investment arms to get them to see the potential of invest-ing in Latino-owned businesses.

Cabrera added that these funds and investment firms not only provide much needed money, but they also bring “management and experience to help” Latino-owned businesses grow and “get them to the next level and even possibly be the Latino Facebook or the Latino Google.”

The luxury unit of Germany’s Daimler AG abused its control over supplies of spare parts to engage in “vertical price-fixing,” according to the official Xinhua News Agency. It said investigators from the price bureau of the eastern province of Jiangsu found prices were so high that purchasing the parts used to make one Mercedes C-class car would cost the equivalent of buying 12 vehicles.

An official said earlier that Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s Chrysler would face unspecified punishment for violating the anti-monopoly law.

Chinese regulators have launched investigations of foreign auto, tech-nology, pharmaceutical and dairy companies over the past two years using the 2008 anti-monopoly law in an apparent effort to force down consumer prices.

“Mercedes-Benz is a typical case of vertical price fixing — that is, the use of its dominant position in after-market parts to maintain price controls,” said Zhou Gao, chief of the Jiangsu price agency’s

anti-monopoly unit, according to Xinhua.

It gave no indication what pen-alty Mercedes might face.

In response to questions, Mer-cedes said it was “assisting the authorities” in the investigation.

“Please understand that we are unable to comment further on what is still an ongoing matter,” the com-pany said in a statement.

Monday’s report gave the clear-est explanation yet of the grounds for the industry probe.

Industry analysts have suggested regulators were motivated by com-plaints global automakers use their control over supplies of spare parts to charge inflated prices.

Toyota Motor Co. has said its Lexus unit also is under scrutiny. General Motors Co.’s main China joint venture said last week it has responded to requests by regulators for information but gave no indica-tion it was the target of a formal investigation.

Business groups welcomed the enactment of China’s anti-monopoly law in 2008 as a step toward clarifying operating condi-

tions. Since then, they have said it is enforced more actively against foreign companies than against local rivals.

Other companies under inves-

tigation include Qualcomm Inc., a San Diego, California-based maker of chips used in mobile phones, and software giant Microsoft Corp.

Mercedes and Audi responded

earlier to the investigation by cut-ting prices for replacement parts such as windshields by up to 38 percent. Chrysler cut prices of im-ported vehicles.

China says Mercedes guilty of price abuses

Associated Press

BEIJING — China’s government said Monday it has concluded Mercedes-Benz violated anti-monopoly law and charged excessive prices for parts, adding to a growing number of global automakers snared in an investigation of the industry.

In this photo taken Sunday, April 20, 2014, a child touches the latest model from Mercedes at an auto show in Beijing, China. China’s government said Monday it has concluded Mercedes-Benz violated anti-monopoly law and charged excessive prices for parts, adding to a growing number of global automakers snared in an investigation of the industry.

Carlos Slim offers advice for Latinos

Bali Post

BANGLI - Forest area at Munduk, Titi Tanggun, Trunyan village, Kintamani was on fire. Sunny weather tending to be hot had made the fire quickly spread and burn trees in the forest. The officers got difficulty to extinguish the fire considering the location was on the hill.

The fire occurred on Saturday (Aug 16) at 12:10 a.m. At that time, people at the surrounding areas were surprised by the appearance of smoke and flames burning the hilltops suddenly. When the fire occurred, the weather was sunny and hot. Thus, it caused the fire to spread quickly and burn trees in the forest.

The Head of the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Bangli, Wayan Sugiarta, when confirmed on Sunday (Aug 17) said the fire occurred in the area of Forest Management Units (FMU) of East Bali. When the fire occurred the officers could only perform a monitor-ing. They could only take precautions so that the fire would not spread to the bottom of the hill. Since it was quite difficult to reach, the fire easily burned the eucalyptus and pine trees at the location. At least, a total of 10 hectares of forest were burnt in the incident.

Sugiarta said the fire could just be extinguished around 8:00 p.m. “The fire went out by itself as the location of the fire is difficult to reach,” he said. When touched regarding the causes of forest fire, Sugiarta claimed not to know. So far, the cause was still under in-vestigation by the FMU of East Bali.

Meanwhile, the Head of East Bali FMU, Abdul Muntalib, when confirmed last Sunday said that it was still being investigated to de-termine the cause of forest fire. According to Muntalib, the forest fire burning the forest was not caused by the influence of weather. “It is still under investigation. The fire possibly came by itself. Obviously, it was not caused by nature, maybe due to something,” he said.

Regarding the possibility to be caused by unscrupulous people fac-tor deliberately burning the forests for particular benefit, he denied it. According to him, the forest was located on the hill so it was not possible for people to utilize it. “Probably, there is no such a motif. Moreover, the location is on a hill like that. The most important thing today is increasing vigilance,” he said. (ina)

According to I Ketut Edi Putra, one of the residents of Yeh Panas hamlet, Songan village, Kintamani, the color change of Lake Batur had occurred since Saturday (Aug 16).

The color change into yellowish green was originally found around the area of Kedisan. Afterward, such condition started to spread to the area of Toya Bungkah. He suspected such color change hap-pened due to the mixture of sulfur content in the lake water. Aside from the color change, the lake water also smelt like sulfur when being approached. The condition was estimated to occur as the result of eruption at the bottom of the lake as it had happened in 2011.

Such color change was also rec-ognized by the headman of Trunyan, Wayan Arjana. When asked for his confirmation, he justified the color change into green had happened since the past few days. However, the condition did not occur in the

lake area around Trunyan. “Indeed, the color change happened here. However, the sulfuric water did not reach Trunyan area,” he said.

Chief of Water Police Unit of Bangli Police, Wayan Reda, with permission from Bangli Police Chief, Suswanto, also confirmed the color change of water in Lake Batur within the past few days. However, the current condition was recognized to have returned to normal by degrees. His party did not hear any reports on dead fish from the owners of fish cage due to such condition.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Environment Agency (BLH) of Bangli, Wayan Sukartana, when asked for his confirmation re-garding what happened in Lake Batur currently said that it was a regular cycle within a certain time. Although the water color changed, the condition would return to nor-mal in the near future. (ina)

IBP/SwasrinaWater condition of Lake Batur in Kintamani, Bangli, experienced color change. Since the past two days, the lake water usually blue turned into yellowish green.

Water color of Lake Batur changesBali Post

BANGLI - Water condition of Lake Batur in Kintamani, Bangli, experienced color change. Since the past two days, the lake water usu-ally blue turned into yellowish green. Allegedly the color change posed the results of a mixture of sulfur contained in the lake water.

IBP/NetForest area at Munduk, Titi Tanggun, Trunyan village, Kintamani was on fire. Sunny weather tending to be hot had made the fire quickly spread and burn trees in the forest.

10 hectares of forest at Trunyan on fire

BUSINESS

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The rescue brought to 23 the number of people saved since the vessel sank Saturday as it headed from Lombok island to Komodo island, famed as the home of the Komodo dragon, the world’s biggest lizard.

Among them were 18 foreign tour-ists, from New Zealand, Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Italy. Some of the group rescued Sunday had to swim hours to the closest island, Sangeang, even though there was a vol-cano erupting on it at the time.

Two foreigners remain missing. Those rescued Monday were found in the early hours some 60 miles (100 kilometres) off the coast of Sumbawa island, which is close to Sangeang, a search official said.

“They were all found together, some in a lifeboat and some floating with their life jackets on around 60 miles (100 kilome-tres) off Sape,” on the east of Sumbawa, said rescue official Budiawan, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

Budiawan, head of the search and rescue agency on Lombok island which lies to the west of Sumbawa, said they were now in the town of Sape.

“The search operation is continuing this morning, and involves the military and police,” he said.

The foreigners rescued Monday were

from the Netherlands, Italy and Ger-many, while the Indonesians were four boat crew members and a tour guide, said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

An AFP journalist in Sape saw some of those rescued being treated at a com-munity health centre, with several put on drips. They appeared in shock and declined to speak with journalists.

French survivor Bertrand Homas-sel told AFP Sunday how and he and a group of others had to swim for six hours to reach Sangeang as the vessel slowly foundered, as only a small number could fit in the single lifeboat on board.

He said the boat started sinking after being hit by a storm on Friday night, which damaged the hull.

“Six people were in the lifeboat. The others climbed onto the roof of the boat, which had not completely sunk,” he said, speaking from a hotel in Bima, a city on Sumbawa where those rescued Sunday were taken.

“We waited until midday on Saturday. We were five kilometres (three miles) from the coast -- there were many big waves separating us from the coast.

“People started to panic... Everyone took the decision to swim to the closest island, five kilometres away, where there was an erupting volcano.”

He said they arrived in Sangeang as the sun was setting, but found it deserted. They spent Saturday night there, sur-viving by drinking their own urine and eating leaves.

On Sunday, they attracted the atten-tion of a passing boat by waving their life jackets, and were rescued and taken to Bima, he said.

“I was really very lucky,” Homassel added.

Komodo island is one of several is-lands that make up the Komodo National Park, a protected area.

Its eponymous lizards can grow up to three metres (10 feet) long and have a venomous bite.

Indonesia relies heavily on boats to connect its more than 17,000 islands, but has a poor maritime safety record.

Two vessels sank last month in differ-ent parts of the archipelago as millions travelled for the Muslim Eid holiday, leaving at least 36 people dead.

Fatal incidents involving asylum-seeker vessels trying to make the treach-erous sea crossing from Indonesia to Australia are also common.

But boat sinkings involving foreign tourists are rare, with accidents in In-donesia’s fast-growing aviation sector more of a danger for overseas visitors in recent years.

Antara

JAKARTA - The Chief Executive Officer of state oil and gas company PT Pertamina, Karen Agustiawan, has resigned from her post to teach at Harvard University and to tend to her family, stated a minister.

“We have received the letter of resignation from the Pertamina chief executive officer ac-cepted her request to resign from her position,” State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan noted on Monday.

The minister remarked that Pertamina share-holders were unable to retain Karen Agustiawan because she wanted to teach at Harvard Uni-versity.

“Harvard University has repeatedly asked Karen to teach there, and this time, she has made up her mind to resign from Pertamina for her new post,” Dahlan explained.

He pointed out that Karen has worked for Pertamina for six years and was able to over-come several problems that the company had faced, in addition to making it one of the leading companies in the world.

When questioned if Karen’s resignation had something to do with a plan to raise fuel oil prices, Dahlan denied it.

“No, her resignation is purely because she wants to teach at Harvard University and to take care of her family,” the state enterprises minister affirmed.

Pertamina CEO tenders resignation

Thirteen rescued two days after Indonesia tourist boat sinks

In this image taken from video Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, survivors are checked by paramedics in Lombok, Indonesia, after a boat sank Satur-day evening on its way from Lombok island to Komodo island. Rescu-ers on Monday safely re-covered 13 more people from the tourist boat that sank after hitting a reef in central Indonesia, but were searching for a Dutch man and an Italian woman who were still missing, officials said.

Agence France-Presse

SAPE - Eight foreigners and five Indonesians were rescued Monday two days after their tourist boat sank during a storm in the archipelago, having survived by huddling in a lifeboat or floating in their life jackets.

AP Photo/AP Video

Rumors are rife that Western aid workers are importing Ebola, stealing bodies or even deliberately infecting patients. Winning trust is made harder by a full suit of hood, goggles, mask and gown that hides their faces. “You want to say so much ... because they’re in so much pain,” said nurse Monia Sayah, of Doctors Without Borders. “They suffer so much, but they can only see your eyes.”

The outbreak has hit three of the world’s poorest countries, where health systems there were already woefully understaffed and ill-equipped. In Liberia, there is only one doctor for every 100,000 people, while in Sierra Leone there are two, according to the World Health Organization; there were no statistics available for Guinea. The figure is 245 for the United States.

Emotional distress conspires with exhaustion and dehydration, but doctors say it’s hard to stop working. “When the need is so great, you can’t justify not being

there for a day or going home ear-lier,” said Dr. Robert Fowler, who recently worked in Guinea and Si-erra Leone. The critical care doctor at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Canada — now on sabbatical with the World Health Organization — said that the barrier of the protective suit is big but not insurmountable.

“There was a young girl, about 6, who came in late in the illness who was bleeding from her bow-els, very dehydrated and deliri-ous,” he said. Ebola wiped out her immediate family — so she was all alone. “She was very fright-ened and very reluctant to engage, and just wanted to push people away,” he said. Fowler spent days trying to help her, bringing her things she wanted like Fanta soda. “She eventually developed this sense that this person in the suit who’s a bit scary is trying to help me.”

One day he brought the girl her favorite dish: cucumbers and lime. “She chowed down,” he said — a

sign that she was on the mend. Fowler said the girl was close to being discharged by the time he left Guinea. The girl is the excep-tion rather than the rule. Death is the fate of more than half of the West Africans infected in the Ebola outbreak.

“With the mortality rate being what it is,” Fowler said, “you know every day there will be a couple of patients on your ward who didn’t make it through the night.” Dr. Kent Brantly — an American who fell sick from Ebola last month treating patients — echoed Fowler in speaking of the moral weight of the struggle.

“I held the hands of countless individuals as this terrible disease took their lives away from them,” Brantly said in a statement this month. “I witnessed the horror firsthand and I can still remember every face and name.” Brantly is now being treated in an Atlanta hospital. His condition was im-proving.

Associated Press

BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip — Shahed Quishta was curled up in an armchair one late afternoon during the Gaza war when a shell slammed into her living room. Shrapnel pierced the 8-year-old’s head and neck, and she died minutes after arriving at a hospital. Her funeral was held before nightfall, in line with Muslim tradition. Her family couldn’t host a customary three-day wake, typically attended by hundreds of people, because streets remained dangerous during ongoing fighting between Israel and Gaza militants.

Almost a month after her death from what her father says was an Israeli tank shell, her family remains paralyzed by grief. Sister Rojina, 14, can’t sleep in the room they shared, spending nights on a mattress in the hallway. Her mother Nisreen, 38, takes clothes from Shahed’s closet from time to time, crying as she in-hales the lingering scent.

The Quishtas are among thousands who suffered a loss during the current Israel-Hamas war, the third in Gaza in just over five years. The emotional wounds, though sometimes hidden, can be seen in the grim statistics of the conflict.

Close to 2,000 Palestinians were killed, including 459 children, and

more than 10,000 people were wounded since fighting began July 8, according to U.N. figures. About 20 percent of Gaza’s population of 1.8 million people has been displaced, including about 100,000 whose homes were destroyed or damaged beyond repair.

Based on these numbers, “the psychological effects (in this war) will be much higher than in the previous ones,” said Dr. Iyad Zaqout, who runs the community mental health program of Gaza’s main aid group, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. Children are especially vulnerable because they can’t put their experiences into context yet, he said.

The U.N. estimates that about 373,000 children in Gaza need direct psychological intervention because they’ve witnessed violence, lost a relative or have been displaced. Such children often display one or more of a range of symptoms, including bed-wetting, nightmares, irritability or clinging to parents.

In the last major round of fighting in Gaza in the winter of 2008-2009, about 18,000 of some 190,000 chil-dren attending U.N.-run schools required counseling, Zaqout said. Sev-eral hundred still haven’t recovered, he said, adding that repeated exposure to trauma — a given in Gaza — com-pounds the problem.

Associated Press

LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will be leav-ing the Ecuadorean Embassy in Lon-don soon — but did not say when or explain his decision. Assange has been holed up in the embassy — a small ground floor apartment near London’s Harrods department store — for more than two years.

The Australian fled there in 2012 to escape extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted over sex crime allegations.

Ecuador has granted him refugee status, but British police have so far refused to let him leave.

Assange told reporters during a news conference on Monday that his health had suffered during his time at the embassy.

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FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, file photo, A 43 year old Congolese patient, center, who has been confirmed to have Ebola hemorrhagic fever, following laboratory tests, is comforted by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) nurse Isabel Grovas, left, and Doctor Hilde Declerck, right, in Kampungu, Kasai Occidental province, Congo.

Ebola health workers battle death, heat, rumorsAssociated Press

LONDON — Doctors and nurses fighting Ebola in West Africa are working 14-hour days, seven days a week, wearing head-to-toe gear in the heat of muddy clinics. Agonizing death is the norm. The hellish conditions aren’t the only problem: Health workers struggle to convince patients they’re trying to help them, not hurt them.

In Gaza, emotional wounds of war remain unhealed

WikiLeaks founder says he’ll leave embassy soon

AP Photo/Khalil Hamra

In this Saturday Aug. 16, 2014 photo shows, a portrait of Shahed Quishta, 8, in the living room where she was killed by an Israeli tank shell on July 22 in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip. The Quishtas are among thousands who suffered a loss during the current Israel-Hamas war, the third in Gaza in just over five years.

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It marked the sixth Cincinnati title for the Swiss second seed and, com-ing off last week’s runner-up finish in Toronto, will give him plenty of confidence going into the year’s final grand slam.

“I thought the final was good. The whole tournament was really good for me,” Federer told ESPN. “I’ve been beating top 10 (players) along the way and just enjoying myself out on court, playing some positive tennis, so it’s really encouraging.”

Federer recorded the only break of the opening set for a 5-3 lead over his sixth seeded opponent and then did

well to fight off four break points in the next game before wrapping up a tidy first set in 31 minutes.

But Ferrer quickly stole the match’s momentum when he staved off four break points en route to prevailing in an 18-point game to open the second set.

Ferrer raced out to a 5-0 lead before Federer finally held serve but the 33-year-old Swiss was unable to avoid being pushed to a third set.

Federer found his groove in the decisive set, getting his second break of serve to open a 3-1 lead and then capping the match with yet another

break to remain undefeated in 16 career meetings versus Ferrer.

“It feels great,” said Federer, who beat fifth seed Milos Raonic and eighth seed Andy Murray en route to captur-ing his third trophy from eight finals this season.

“I really enjoy playing here. I’ve played some really good tennis here over the years, so it’s really nice to come back and win it again.”

The 17-times grand slam winner has not captured one of the sport’s blue ribband events since Wimbledon in 2012 but is playing at a high level. The U.S. Open is from Aug. 25-Sept. 8.

Marc Marquez said being beaten for the first time in the 2014 MotoGP season at Brno came as a relief.

The reigning world champion won the first 10 races of the year, but could only finish fourth in the Czech Grand Prix, behind Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa and Yamaha duo Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi.

“In a way it’s taken a weight off my shoulders, as now people won’t be asking me if I can win every race anymore,” said Mar-quez.

“It was also important that we were able to focus on staying in fourth, even though it was tough not to be fighting for the win; we took 13 points that are important for the world championship and

we have a big advantage.”Marquez, who is now 77 points

ahead of Pedrosa in the standings, said there was no dramatic reason for his lack of speed at Brno.

“Today was one of those Sun-days in which I neither felt com-pletely comfortable nor found the best set-up for the bike,” he said.

“It wasn’t down to a mistake by me or by the team, it was sim-ply that we didn’t have the same feeling as on other Sundays.”

He shrugged off the signifi-cance of the Brno defeat, saying he was far more interested in winning another championship than having an unbeaten season. “What matters is who wins the title, not who wins the most races,” said Marquez.

Sergio Perez reckons his former Sauber Formula 1 team-mate Ka-mui Kobayashi is an “amazing” ri-val who taught him vital lessons in how to manage tyres. Perez raced alongside the Japanese driver at Sauber for his first two seasons in Formula 1 in 2011-2012, before moving to McLaren.

The Mexican has gained a reputation for excellent tyre man-agement during his time in F1, allowing him to often stop fewer times during races than rivals.

Perez, who utilised such a strategy to finish an unlikely sixth in June’s Austrian Grand Prix for Force India, said he owed much of this reputation to skills learned during his early campaigns along-side current Caterham driver Kobayashi.

“Kobayashi was really, re-ally difficult to beat,” Perez told AUTOSPORT. “When he felt comfortable he was definitely one of the most difficult ones to beat, especially over a single lap.

“He was really amazing. I learned a lot from him on how to work with the tyres. “He has a good experience with the Japa-nese, they are always good on tyres. “That was good for me to learn from him.”

Perez has been comprehen-sively outscored by Force India team-mate Nico Hulkenberg across the first 11 races of the current campaign.

Hulkenberg had finished 12 consecutive races inside the points before crashing out of the recent Hungarian GP, and Perez said the German’s driving had helped him raise his own game.

“Nico is a very strong team-mate - definitely one of the stron-gest I’ve had,” Perez added. “He is very complete and that helps me to go to another level.

“From every team-mate I learn things, and it’s good when you have different team-mates in different teams, it helps you with your experience for the future.”

AP Photo/Al BehrmanRoger Federer, from Switzerland, holds the championship trophy after defeating David Ferrer, from Spain, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2, in the final match at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, in Mason, Ohio.

Federer downs Ferrer to capture sixth Cincinnati title

Reuters

Roger Federer’s hopes of adding to his record grand slam haul got a boost as he beat Spain’s David Ferrer 6-3 1-6 6-2 to win the Western and Southern Open title in Cincinnati on Sunday in the last key U.S. Open tune-up event.

Perez says Kobayashi was an amazing F1 team-mate at Sauber

REUTERS/David W Cerny Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain competes during the Czech Grand Prix in Brno August 17, 2014.

Marquez says first defeat of 2014 eases pressure

Gitgit WaterfallIBP

SINGARAJA - Gitgit Waterfall is a beautiful tourist destination in north part of Bali. Gitgit waterfall is located in the plateau area with the height about 35 meters and it is surrounded by tropical tree and emits the constantly natural water debit during the year. Wa-terfall voice around the charming nature was amazing and it was the separate attraction which can be enjoyed by each visitor who comes to visit. There are some plantations protecting the rain forest around the water-fall and in this place we often met the wild monkey.

Gitgit Waterfall is one of the famous tourist destina-tions in Bali which is located in Gitgit countryside, Sukasada sub district and about 10 Km from Singaraja Town or about 70 Km from Denpasar. It is set at height land about 300 meters above sea level.

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David Alaba’s powerful shot in off the crossbar made it 3-0 in the 52nd, before Mueller set up substitute Claudio Pizarro to score in the 73rd. Rogier Krohne scored an 89th-minute consolation from the penalty spot for Muenster.

There was still time for goalkeeper Daniel Masuch to save Lewandowski’s weak penalty attempt in injury time. Muenster midfielder Marc Heitmeier was sent off for bringing down the Polish striker.

Bayern defender Holger Badstuber played his first competitive game since tearing the cruciate ligament in his right knee in a draw with Dortmund on Dec. 1, 2012. Bayern was missing Bastian Schweinsteiger, Rafinha, Franck Ribery, Javi Martinez and Thiago Alcantara through injury.

Elsewhere, Sven Schipplock scored five in Hoffenheim’s 9-0 rout of fifth-tier side USC Paloma, Werder Bremen needed extra time to beat fourth-tier FV Illertissen 3-2, and Freiburg defeated Eintracht Trier, another

fourth-tier side, 2-0.Wolfsburg progressed by winning 5-4 on

penalties after a scoreless game at second-division Darmstadt. Goalkeeper Max Gruen made two saves in the shootout for the visi-tors.

Augsburg lost 1-0 to fourth-tier side Magdeburg for the biggest upset of the opening round, and Paderborn, promoted to the Bundesliga this season, lost 2-1 at second-division Leipzig. Third-division side Arminia Bielefeld upset second-division SV Sandhausen 4-1, with captain Fabian Klos scoring arguably the goal of the round - a spectacular volley directly from a corner in off the crossbar.

There was another upset later, when fourth-tier Wuerzburger Kickers defeated second-division Fortuna Duesseldorf 3-2 with a deflected free-kick in extra time.

Erzgebirge Aue defeated fourth-tier Carl Zeiss Jena 1-0, 1860 Munich beat third-divi-sion Holstein Kiel 2-1 and Karlsruher SC won

3-1 at fifth-tier Neubrandenburg. Another second-division side, Aalen, defeated fourth-tier BSV Rehden 4-3 on penalties after their game finished 1-1 after extra time.

Reuters

AMSTERDAM - Lasse Schone was among the goals for a second successive week as Dutch champions Ajax Amsterdam won 3-1 away to spoil the home debut of new AZ Alkmaar coach Marco van Basten.

The victory means Ajax share the early season lead with PEC Zwolle and PSV Eindhoven, who both won their second game of the new league season on Saturday, and Groningen, who beat Heracles Almelo 3-1 on Sunday.

Newly promoted Excelsior Rotterdam won 3-2 at home to Go Ahead Eagles while Utrecht were 2-1 winners over Willem II Tilburg in Sunday’s other games.

Denmark international Schone, who scored twice against Vitesse Arnhem last week, set up the opening goal for Davy Klaassen and netted the second himself before substitute Anwar El Ghazi got the third on the stroke of fulltime.

“Ajax dominated the ball and quickly got a good goal. We struggled with both defence and attack and it was only right that we lost,” said Van Basten, the former Ajax idol who both played and coached the team.

A gust of wind helped Go Ahead Eagles’ Erik Cummins score with a kick out from his own penalty area for the first goal by a goalkeeper in the Dutch league since 2005 but he still finished on the losing side, beaten by a last-minute penalty as Excelsior moved onto four points.

The Rotterdam club squandered a 2-0 lead but the stoppage-time spot kick con- verted by Sander Fischer ensured a narrow win.

Substitute Leon de K o g e l scored a late winner too f o r Utrecht in a sluggish per- f o r -mance but Groningen were m o r e emphatic in their success a f t e r being 2-0 up at halftime.

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Manchester City manager Man-uel Pellegrini remains wary of avoiding another “disaster” the sea-son after winning a Premier League title, despite the comfortable nature of Sunday’s opening 2-0 victory at Newcastle United. Three years ago, City claimed their first top-flight title in 44 years under Italian Ro-berto Mancini but were off the pace during their defence the following season, finishing well behind lo-cal rivals Manchester United in second spot.

Last season brought another league crown to the Etihad Stadium in Pellegrini’s first campaign at the club, and he said they could not afford to rest on their laurels if they hoped to avoid another letdown. “This team won the title two years ago and the next season was a disaster, it wasn’t a useful year for anyone,” the Chilean told

the BBC.“Last season, Manchester Unit-

ed had a disaster (finished sev-enth) after winning the title. “It’s important from the beginning that we understand we won the title last season and need to win again this year.”

City were not at their thrilling best at St James’ Park, with some players not up to full fitness and Newcastle showing some steel that was missing for much of last season.

However, their attacking riches proved the difference, Yaya Toure and Edin Dzeko combining to set up David Silva before halftime and Sergio Aguero adding a second late on. Fernando, a 15 million euros ($20.08 million) arrival from Porto, was confident on his midfield debut and with Eliaquim Mangala, Bacary Sagna, Willy Caballero and Frank Lampard not featuring, Pellegrini was confident

he had the squad depth to claim repeat Premier League titles for the first time.

One More Year“It’s very difficult to compare

each year. Maybe last year a lot of people doubted we could win the title because it was my first season here in the Premier League,” Pellegrini said. “Today, we have one year more working with the players and we have a strong squad. “You have five or six teams that can win the title, so we need the same attitude, the hunger with which we have started the season and the same humility in every game.

“I am sure this squad can fight, and we will see at the end of the season which titles we will win.” Pellegrini said Bosnia striker Dzeko was set to commit his long-term future to the club, join-ing Samir Nasri, Vincent Kompa-

ny, Alek-s a n d a r Kolarov and A g u e r o i n penning new deals.

Dzeko scored 16 league goals last season, and while he did not open his account on Sunday, his clever backheel to set up Silva was the highlight of a strong performance.

“That’s why he is renewing his contract here - he has a very impor-tant duty in our team. I don’t think it’s 100 percent finished - but, yes, he will renew his contract. He’s a very important player for us,” Pel-legrini added.

“Today he was one of our best players, not just because of the way he created the first goal and worked hard but because he won a lot of headers and duels and held the ball up well. It was a complete performance.”

Associated Press

CAIRO — Rwan-da has been thrown out of the African Cup

after one of its players was found to have “two

identities” and was using a different name and a Congo-

lese passport when playing for his club team, the Confederation

of African Football said. CAF said Sunday that striker Dady

Birori was ineligible to play for Rwanda

and disquali-f i e d t h e

country

from the African Cup qualifying com-petition for fielding him.

Birori, who CAF said is registered as Tady Etekiama when playing for Congo club AS Vita, was banned pending a hearing on Sept. 17 to de-cide his sanction. Africa’s top football body said the Congo-born Birori was also using a different date of birth and Congolese nationality in his club documents. “CAF established that the two identities only referred to a single person,” Africa’s top football body said.

CAF stripped Rwanda of its victory over Republic of Congo in the second round of African Cup qualifying this month with Republic of Congo now taking its place in the final round of qualifiers. Birori scored a hat-trick when Rwanda eliminated Libya in the first round of qualifying. He has been playing for Rwanda since 2009 and represented it in qualifiers for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. Rwanda didn’t qualify for either.

Rwanda is the third team to be disqualified in the 2015 African Cup’s qualifying competition. Equatorial Guinea was thrown out for fielding an ineligible player and Gambia was removed after being banned from all competitions for fielding overage play-ers in a youth tournament. Two other countries, Eritrea and Seychelles, withdrew.

CAF called Birori to its headquar-ters in Cairo to testify last week before reaching its decision and banning him from all football. The African confederation said it would decide the length of Birori’s ban next month and could “impose additional sanctions if necessary.”

Republic of Congo was reinstated in the African Cup qualifiers and will face defending continental champion Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan in Group A. The final round will decide the 15 teams to join host Morocco at the African Cup of Nations finals in January and February.

Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES — Emmanuel Gigliotti

scored a late winner as

Boca Juniors snatched a 1-0 victory over Belgrano in the second round of Argentina’s first division.

Reigning champion River Plate - Boca’s biggest rival - also won on Sunday, overcoming Rosario 2-0, while

Racing beat Copa Libertadores holder San Lorenzo 2-0.

Federico Carrizo came close to scoring for Boca Juniors when he hit the bar in the 28th minute, but the breakthrough didn’t come until the last minute of second half injury time when Gigliotti headed in the decisive winner.

Teofilo Gutierrez scored from the edge of the penalty area for River Plate in the 17th, after a 35-yard (meter) pass from Rodrigo Mora. River’s second came via Leonardo Pisculichi, who struck a powerful left foot shot from a tight angle in the 79th.

Luciano Lollo netted for Racing Club on the stroke of half time, and Facundo Castillon doubled the score in the 92nd.

On Saturday, Jonathan Blanco scored both first half penalties in Olimpo’s 2-1 victory over Tigre, Banfield lost 2-3 to Defensa y Justicia, Velez Sarsfield beat Arsenal 2-1 and Estudiantes secured a 1-0 victory against Independiente. On Friday, Newell’s Old Boys drew 1-1 with Gimnasia.

The final two games of the second round take place on Monday when Quilmes face Godoy Cruz and Atletico Rafaela play Lanus.

Associated Press

PARIS — Monaco’s poor start to the season continued on Sunday as it lost 4-1 at Bordeaux for its second straight defeat in the French league.

Monaco striker Dimitar Barbatov opened the scoring with a diving header on the stroke of halftime. But Bordeaux forward Diego Rolan leveled from close range three minutes after the break, and the hosts took the lead when Argentine striker Emiliano Sala converted a pen-alty in the 61st.

Rolan volleyed home to make it 3-1 in the 65th before Wahbi Khazri sealed the win with another spot kick in the 75th.

“We were clinical in the first half. We should have kept the ball a bit more but

we didn’t,” Monaco midfielder Jeremy Toulalan said. “We were not as good in the second half. We had less control and fewer chances.”

Also Sunday, Saint-Etienne rallied past Reims 3-1 while Marseille lost 2-0 to Montpellier. Bordeaux and Saint-Etienne are the only clubs that have won their first two league games.

Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim made five changes from the side that lost 2-1 to Lorient in the opening round.

The visitors pressed high up the pitch to dominate possession and created their first chance in the 20th when winger Lucas Ocampos unleashed a low drive that Bordeaux goalkeeper Cedric Car-rasso parried.

Monaco struggled to find space until Berbatov lost his marker at the far post to head in a cross from Valere Germain.

Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol re-placed striker Cheick Diabate with Jaro-slav Plasil at halftime to add more density in midfield. T h a t tactical move quickly paid off as fullback Diego Con-tento knocked down a high ball for Rolan, who flicked home the equalizer.

Last season’s runner-up was then punished for three defen-sive mistakes. Monaco center-back Aymen Abdennour held Khazri in the 60th to give away a penalty converted by Sala.

Rolan capitalized on some poor marking to tap in a free kick redi-rected by Bordeaux defender Lamine Sane, and Monaco goalkeeper Danijel Subasic then tripped Khazri, who con-verted the penalty himself.

Schone stars again as Ajax spoil

Van Basten’s day

Rwanda disqualified for player with 2 identities

Boca Juniors snatched late victory over Belgrano

Bordeaux beats Monaco 4-1 in French league

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates after scoring a goal against Newcastle United during their English Premier League

soccer match at St James’ Park in Newcastle upon Tyne,

northern England August 17, 2014.

Pellegrini wary of second-season collapse

Robert Lewandowski, center, challenges for the ball with Muenster’s Marc Heitmeier, left, and Dominik Schmidt, right, during the German soccer cup first round match between third division club SC Preussen Muenster and FC Bayern Munich in

Muenster, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014.

AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach

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BERLIN — Bayern Munich opened its German Cup defense with a 4-1 win at third-division side Preussen Muenster on Sunday. Robert Lewandowski crossed for former Borussia Dortmund teammate Mario Goetze to score with a header in the 19th minute, and Thomas Mueller claimed his 100th goal in a competitive game for Bayern 10 minutes later.

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David Alaba’s powerful shot in off the crossbar made it 3-0 in the 52nd, before Mueller set up substitute Claudio Pizarro to score in the 73rd. Rogier Krohne scored an 89th-minute consolation from the penalty spot for Muenster.

There was still time for goalkeeper Daniel Masuch to save Lewandowski’s weak penalty attempt in injury time. Muenster midfielder Marc Heitmeier was sent off for bringing down the Polish striker.

Bayern defender Holger Badstuber played his first competitive game since tearing the cruciate ligament in his right knee in a draw with Dortmund on Dec. 1, 2012. Bayern was missing Bastian Schweinsteiger, Rafinha, Franck Ribery, Javi Martinez and Thiago Alcantara through injury.

Elsewhere, Sven Schipplock scored five in Hoffenheim’s 9-0 rout of fifth-tier side USC Paloma, Werder Bremen needed extra time to beat fourth-tier FV Illertissen 3-2, and Freiburg defeated Eintracht Trier, another

fourth-tier side, 2-0.Wolfsburg progressed by winning 5-4 on

penalties after a scoreless game at second-division Darmstadt. Goalkeeper Max Gruen made two saves in the shootout for the visi-tors.

Augsburg lost 1-0 to fourth-tier side Magdeburg for the biggest upset of the opening round, and Paderborn, promoted to the Bundesliga this season, lost 2-1 at second-division Leipzig. Third-division side Arminia Bielefeld upset second-division SV Sandhausen 4-1, with captain Fabian Klos scoring arguably the goal of the round - a spectacular volley directly from a corner in off the crossbar.

There was another upset later, when fourth-tier Wuerzburger Kickers defeated second-division Fortuna Duesseldorf 3-2 with a deflected free-kick in extra time.

Erzgebirge Aue defeated fourth-tier Carl Zeiss Jena 1-0, 1860 Munich beat third-divi-sion Holstein Kiel 2-1 and Karlsruher SC won

3-1 at fifth-tier Neubrandenburg. Another second-division side, Aalen, defeated fourth-tier BSV Rehden 4-3 on penalties after their game finished 1-1 after extra time.

Reuters

AMSTERDAM - Lasse Schone was among the goals for a second successive week as Dutch champions Ajax Amsterdam won 3-1 away to spoil the home debut of new AZ Alkmaar coach Marco van Basten.

The victory means Ajax share the early season lead with PEC Zwolle and PSV Eindhoven, who both won their second game of the new league season on Saturday, and Groningen, who beat Heracles Almelo 3-1 on Sunday.

Newly promoted Excelsior Rotterdam won 3-2 at home to Go Ahead Eagles while Utrecht were 2-1 winners over Willem II Tilburg in Sunday’s other games.

Denmark international Schone, who scored twice against Vitesse Arnhem last week, set up the opening goal for Davy Klaassen and netted the second himself before substitute Anwar El Ghazi got the third on the stroke of fulltime.

“Ajax dominated the ball and quickly got a good goal. We struggled with both defence and attack and it was only right that we lost,” said Van Basten, the former Ajax idol who both played and coached the team.

A gust of wind helped Go Ahead Eagles’ Erik Cummins score with a kick out from his own penalty area for the first goal by a goalkeeper in the Dutch league since 2005 but he still finished on the losing side, beaten by a last-minute penalty as Excelsior moved onto four points.

The Rotterdam club squandered a 2-0 lead but the stoppage-time spot kick con- verted by Sander Fischer ensured a narrow win.

Substitute Leon de K o g e l scored a late winner too f o r Utrecht in a sluggish per- f o r -mance but Groningen were m o r e emphatic in their success a f t e r being 2-0 up at halftime.

Reuters

Manchester City manager Man-uel Pellegrini remains wary of avoiding another “disaster” the sea-son after winning a Premier League title, despite the comfortable nature of Sunday’s opening 2-0 victory at Newcastle United. Three years ago, City claimed their first top-flight title in 44 years under Italian Ro-berto Mancini but were off the pace during their defence the following season, finishing well behind lo-cal rivals Manchester United in second spot.

Last season brought another league crown to the Etihad Stadium in Pellegrini’s first campaign at the club, and he said they could not afford to rest on their laurels if they hoped to avoid another letdown. “This team won the title two years ago and the next season was a disaster, it wasn’t a useful year for anyone,” the Chilean told

the BBC.“Last season, Manchester Unit-

ed had a disaster (finished sev-enth) after winning the title. “It’s important from the beginning that we understand we won the title last season and need to win again this year.”

City were not at their thrilling best at St James’ Park, with some players not up to full fitness and Newcastle showing some steel that was missing for much of last season.

However, their attacking riches proved the difference, Yaya Toure and Edin Dzeko combining to set up David Silva before halftime and Sergio Aguero adding a second late on. Fernando, a 15 million euros ($20.08 million) arrival from Porto, was confident on his midfield debut and with Eliaquim Mangala, Bacary Sagna, Willy Caballero and Frank Lampard not featuring, Pellegrini was confident

he had the squad depth to claim repeat Premier League titles for the first time.

One More Year“It’s very difficult to compare

each year. Maybe last year a lot of people doubted we could win the title because it was my first season here in the Premier League,” Pellegrini said. “Today, we have one year more working with the players and we have a strong squad. “You have five or six teams that can win the title, so we need the same attitude, the hunger with which we have started the season and the same humility in every game.

“I am sure this squad can fight, and we will see at the end of the season which titles we will win.” Pellegrini said Bosnia striker Dzeko was set to commit his long-term future to the club, join-ing Samir Nasri, Vincent Kompa-

ny, Alek-s a n d a r Kolarov and A g u e r o i n penning new deals.

Dzeko scored 16 league goals last season, and while he did not open his account on Sunday, his clever backheel to set up Silva was the highlight of a strong performance.

“That’s why he is renewing his contract here - he has a very impor-tant duty in our team. I don’t think it’s 100 percent finished - but, yes, he will renew his contract. He’s a very important player for us,” Pel-legrini added.

“Today he was one of our best players, not just because of the way he created the first goal and worked hard but because he won a lot of headers and duels and held the ball up well. It was a complete performance.”

Associated Press

CAIRO — Rwan-da has been thrown out of the African Cup

after one of its players was found to have “two

identities” and was using a different name and a Congo-

lese passport when playing for his club team, the Confederation

of African Football said. CAF said Sunday that striker Dady

Birori was ineligible to play for Rwanda

and disquali-f i e d t h e

country

from the African Cup qualifying com-petition for fielding him.

Birori, who CAF said is registered as Tady Etekiama when playing for Congo club AS Vita, was banned pending a hearing on Sept. 17 to de-cide his sanction. Africa’s top football body said the Congo-born Birori was also using a different date of birth and Congolese nationality in his club documents. “CAF established that the two identities only referred to a single person,” Africa’s top football body said.

CAF stripped Rwanda of its victory over Republic of Congo in the second round of African Cup qualifying this month with Republic of Congo now taking its place in the final round of qualifiers. Birori scored a hat-trick when Rwanda eliminated Libya in the first round of qualifying. He has been playing for Rwanda since 2009 and represented it in qualifiers for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. Rwanda didn’t qualify for either.

Rwanda is the third team to be disqualified in the 2015 African Cup’s qualifying competition. Equatorial Guinea was thrown out for fielding an ineligible player and Gambia was removed after being banned from all competitions for fielding overage play-ers in a youth tournament. Two other countries, Eritrea and Seychelles, withdrew.

CAF called Birori to its headquar-ters in Cairo to testify last week before reaching its decision and banning him from all football. The African confederation said it would decide the length of Birori’s ban next month and could “impose additional sanctions if necessary.”

Republic of Congo was reinstated in the African Cup qualifiers and will face defending continental champion Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan in Group A. The final round will decide the 15 teams to join host Morocco at the African Cup of Nations finals in January and February.

Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES — Emmanuel Gigliotti

scored a late winner as

Boca Juniors snatched a 1-0 victory over Belgrano in the second round of Argentina’s first division.

Reigning champion River Plate - Boca’s biggest rival - also won on Sunday, overcoming Rosario 2-0, while

Racing beat Copa Libertadores holder San Lorenzo 2-0.

Federico Carrizo came close to scoring for Boca Juniors when he hit the bar in the 28th minute, but the breakthrough didn’t come until the last minute of second half injury time when Gigliotti headed in the decisive winner.

Teofilo Gutierrez scored from the edge of the penalty area for River Plate in the 17th, after a 35-yard (meter) pass from Rodrigo Mora. River’s second came via Leonardo Pisculichi, who struck a powerful left foot shot from a tight angle in the 79th.

Luciano Lollo netted for Racing Club on the stroke of half time, and Facundo Castillon doubled the score in the 92nd.

On Saturday, Jonathan Blanco scored both first half penalties in Olimpo’s 2-1 victory over Tigre, Banfield lost 2-3 to Defensa y Justicia, Velez Sarsfield beat Arsenal 2-1 and Estudiantes secured a 1-0 victory against Independiente. On Friday, Newell’s Old Boys drew 1-1 with Gimnasia.

The final two games of the second round take place on Monday when Quilmes face Godoy Cruz and Atletico Rafaela play Lanus.

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PARIS — Monaco’s poor start to the season continued on Sunday as it lost 4-1 at Bordeaux for its second straight defeat in the French league.

Monaco striker Dimitar Barbatov opened the scoring with a diving header on the stroke of halftime. But Bordeaux forward Diego Rolan leveled from close range three minutes after the break, and the hosts took the lead when Argentine striker Emiliano Sala converted a pen-alty in the 61st.

Rolan volleyed home to make it 3-1 in the 65th before Wahbi Khazri sealed the win with another spot kick in the 75th.

“We were clinical in the first half. We should have kept the ball a bit more but

we didn’t,” Monaco midfielder Jeremy Toulalan said. “We were not as good in the second half. We had less control and fewer chances.”

Also Sunday, Saint-Etienne rallied past Reims 3-1 while Marseille lost 2-0 to Montpellier. Bordeaux and Saint-Etienne are the only clubs that have won their first two league games.

Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim made five changes from the side that lost 2-1 to Lorient in the opening round.

The visitors pressed high up the pitch to dominate possession and created their first chance in the 20th when winger Lucas Ocampos unleashed a low drive that Bordeaux goalkeeper Cedric Car-rasso parried.

Monaco struggled to find space until Berbatov lost his marker at the far post to head in a cross from Valere Germain.

Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol re-placed striker Cheick Diabate with Jaro-slav Plasil at halftime to add more density in midfield. T h a t tactical move quickly paid off as fullback Diego Con-tento knocked down a high ball for Rolan, who flicked home the equalizer.

Last season’s runner-up was then punished for three defen-sive mistakes. Monaco center-back Aymen Abdennour held Khazri in the 60th to give away a penalty converted by Sala.

Rolan capitalized on some poor marking to tap in a free kick redi-rected by Bordeaux defender Lamine Sane, and Monaco goalkeeper Danijel Subasic then tripped Khazri, who con-verted the penalty himself.

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Bordeaux beats Monaco 4-1 in French league

Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero celebrates after scoring a goal against Newcastle United during their English Premier League

soccer match at St James’ Park in Newcastle upon Tyne,

northern England August 17, 2014.

Pellegrini wary of second-season collapse

Robert Lewandowski, center, challenges for the ball with Muenster’s Marc Heitmeier, left, and Dominik Schmidt, right, during the German soccer cup first round match between third division club SC Preussen Muenster and FC Bayern Munich in

Muenster, Germany, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014.

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Bayern gets German Cup defense off to good startAssociated Press

BERLIN — Bayern Munich opened its German Cup defense with a 4-1 win at third-division side Preussen Muenster on Sunday. Robert Lewandowski crossed for former Borussia Dortmund teammate Mario Goetze to score with a header in the 19th minute, and Thomas Mueller claimed his 100th goal in a competitive game for Bayern 10 minutes later.

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It marked the sixth Cincinnati title for the Swiss second seed and, com-ing off last week’s runner-up finish in Toronto, will give him plenty of confidence going into the year’s final grand slam.

“I thought the final was good. The whole tournament was really good for me,” Federer told ESPN. “I’ve been beating top 10 (players) along the way and just enjoying myself out on court, playing some positive tennis, so it’s really encouraging.”

Federer recorded the only break of the opening set for a 5-3 lead over his sixth seeded opponent and then did

well to fight off four break points in the next game before wrapping up a tidy first set in 31 minutes.

But Ferrer quickly stole the match’s momentum when he staved off four break points en route to prevailing in an 18-point game to open the second set.

Ferrer raced out to a 5-0 lead before Federer finally held serve but the 33-year-old Swiss was unable to avoid being pushed to a third set.

Federer found his groove in the decisive set, getting his second break of serve to open a 3-1 lead and then capping the match with yet another

break to remain undefeated in 16 career meetings versus Ferrer.

“It feels great,” said Federer, who beat fifth seed Milos Raonic and eighth seed Andy Murray en route to captur-ing his third trophy from eight finals this season.

“I really enjoy playing here. I’ve played some really good tennis here over the years, so it’s really nice to come back and win it again.”

The 17-times grand slam winner has not captured one of the sport’s blue ribband events since Wimbledon in 2012 but is playing at a high level. The U.S. Open is from Aug. 25-Sept. 8.

Marc Marquez said being beaten for the first time in the 2014 MotoGP season at Brno came as a relief.

The reigning world champion won the first 10 races of the year, but could only finish fourth in the Czech Grand Prix, behind Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa and Yamaha duo Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi.

“In a way it’s taken a weight off my shoulders, as now people won’t be asking me if I can win every race anymore,” said Mar-quez.

“It was also important that we were able to focus on staying in fourth, even though it was tough not to be fighting for the win; we took 13 points that are important for the world championship and

we have a big advantage.”Marquez, who is now 77 points

ahead of Pedrosa in the standings, said there was no dramatic reason for his lack of speed at Brno.

“Today was one of those Sun-days in which I neither felt com-pletely comfortable nor found the best set-up for the bike,” he said.

“It wasn’t down to a mistake by me or by the team, it was sim-ply that we didn’t have the same feeling as on other Sundays.”

He shrugged off the signifi-cance of the Brno defeat, saying he was far more interested in winning another championship than having an unbeaten season. “What matters is who wins the title, not who wins the most races,” said Marquez.

Sergio Perez reckons his former Sauber Formula 1 team-mate Ka-mui Kobayashi is an “amazing” ri-val who taught him vital lessons in how to manage tyres. Perez raced alongside the Japanese driver at Sauber for his first two seasons in Formula 1 in 2011-2012, before moving to McLaren.

The Mexican has gained a reputation for excellent tyre man-agement during his time in F1, allowing him to often stop fewer times during races than rivals.

Perez, who utilised such a strategy to finish an unlikely sixth in June’s Austrian Grand Prix for Force India, said he owed much of this reputation to skills learned during his early campaigns along-side current Caterham driver Kobayashi.

“Kobayashi was really, re-ally difficult to beat,” Perez told AUTOSPORT. “When he felt comfortable he was definitely one of the most difficult ones to beat, especially over a single lap.

“He was really amazing. I learned a lot from him on how to work with the tyres. “He has a good experience with the Japa-nese, they are always good on tyres. “That was good for me to learn from him.”

Perez has been comprehen-sively outscored by Force India team-mate Nico Hulkenberg across the first 11 races of the current campaign.

Hulkenberg had finished 12 consecutive races inside the points before crashing out of the recent Hungarian GP, and Perez said the German’s driving had helped him raise his own game.

“Nico is a very strong team-mate - definitely one of the stron-gest I’ve had,” Perez added. “He is very complete and that helps me to go to another level.

“From every team-mate I learn things, and it’s good when you have different team-mates in different teams, it helps you with your experience for the future.”

AP Photo/Al BehrmanRoger Federer, from Switzerland, holds the championship trophy after defeating David Ferrer, from Spain, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2, in the final match at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, in Mason, Ohio.

Federer downs Ferrer to capture sixth Cincinnati title

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Roger Federer’s hopes of adding to his record grand slam haul got a boost as he beat Spain’s David Ferrer 6-3 1-6 6-2 to win the Western and Southern Open title in Cincinnati on Sunday in the last key U.S. Open tune-up event.

Perez says Kobayashi was an amazing F1 team-mate at Sauber

REUTERS/David W Cerny Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain competes during the Czech Grand Prix in Brno August 17, 2014.

Marquez says first defeat of 2014 eases pressure

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SINGARAJA - Gitgit Waterfall is a beautiful tourist destination in north part of Bali. Gitgit waterfall is located in the plateau area with the height about 35 meters and it is surrounded by tropical tree and emits the constantly natural water debit during the year. Wa-terfall voice around the charming nature was amazing and it was the separate attraction which can be enjoyed by each visitor who comes to visit. There are some plantations protecting the rain forest around the water-fall and in this place we often met the wild monkey.

Gitgit Waterfall is one of the famous tourist destina-tions in Bali which is located in Gitgit countryside, Sukasada sub district and about 10 Km from Singaraja Town or about 70 Km from Denpasar. It is set at height land about 300 meters above sea level.

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The rescue brought to 23 the number of people saved since the vessel sank Saturday as it headed from Lombok island to Komodo island, famed as the home of the Komodo dragon, the world’s biggest lizard.

Among them were 18 foreign tour-ists, from New Zealand, Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Italy. Some of the group rescued Sunday had to swim hours to the closest island, Sangeang, even though there was a vol-cano erupting on it at the time.

Two foreigners remain missing. Those rescued Monday were found in the early hours some 60 miles (100 kilometres) off the coast of Sumbawa island, which is close to Sangeang, a search official said.

“They were all found together, some in a lifeboat and some floating with their life jackets on around 60 miles (100 kilome-tres) off Sape,” on the east of Sumbawa, said rescue official Budiawan, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

Budiawan, head of the search and rescue agency on Lombok island which lies to the west of Sumbawa, said they were now in the town of Sape.

“The search operation is continuing this morning, and involves the military and police,” he said.

The foreigners rescued Monday were

from the Netherlands, Italy and Ger-many, while the Indonesians were four boat crew members and a tour guide, said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

An AFP journalist in Sape saw some of those rescued being treated at a com-munity health centre, with several put on drips. They appeared in shock and declined to speak with journalists.

French survivor Bertrand Homas-sel told AFP Sunday how and he and a group of others had to swim for six hours to reach Sangeang as the vessel slowly foundered, as only a small number could fit in the single lifeboat on board.

He said the boat started sinking after being hit by a storm on Friday night, which damaged the hull.

“Six people were in the lifeboat. The others climbed onto the roof of the boat, which had not completely sunk,” he said, speaking from a hotel in Bima, a city on Sumbawa where those rescued Sunday were taken.

“We waited until midday on Saturday. We were five kilometres (three miles) from the coast -- there were many big waves separating us from the coast.

“People started to panic... Everyone took the decision to swim to the closest island, five kilometres away, where there was an erupting volcano.”

He said they arrived in Sangeang as the sun was setting, but found it deserted. They spent Saturday night there, sur-viving by drinking their own urine and eating leaves.

On Sunday, they attracted the atten-tion of a passing boat by waving their life jackets, and were rescued and taken to Bima, he said.

“I was really very lucky,” Homassel added.

Komodo island is one of several is-lands that make up the Komodo National Park, a protected area.

Its eponymous lizards can grow up to three metres (10 feet) long and have a venomous bite.

Indonesia relies heavily on boats to connect its more than 17,000 islands, but has a poor maritime safety record.

Two vessels sank last month in differ-ent parts of the archipelago as millions travelled for the Muslim Eid holiday, leaving at least 36 people dead.

Fatal incidents involving asylum-seeker vessels trying to make the treach-erous sea crossing from Indonesia to Australia are also common.

But boat sinkings involving foreign tourists are rare, with accidents in In-donesia’s fast-growing aviation sector more of a danger for overseas visitors in recent years.

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JAKARTA - The Chief Executive Officer of state oil and gas company PT Pertamina, Karen Agustiawan, has resigned from her post to teach at Harvard University and to tend to her family, stated a minister.

“We have received the letter of resignation from the Pertamina chief executive officer ac-cepted her request to resign from her position,” State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan noted on Monday.

The minister remarked that Pertamina share-holders were unable to retain Karen Agustiawan because she wanted to teach at Harvard Uni-versity.

“Harvard University has repeatedly asked Karen to teach there, and this time, she has made up her mind to resign from Pertamina for her new post,” Dahlan explained.

He pointed out that Karen has worked for Pertamina for six years and was able to over-come several problems that the company had faced, in addition to making it one of the leading companies in the world.

When questioned if Karen’s resignation had something to do with a plan to raise fuel oil prices, Dahlan denied it.

“No, her resignation is purely because she wants to teach at Harvard University and to take care of her family,” the state enterprises minister affirmed.

Pertamina CEO tenders resignation

Thirteen rescued two days after Indonesia tourist boat sinks

In this image taken from video Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, survivors are checked by paramedics in Lombok, Indonesia, after a boat sank Satur-day evening on its way from Lombok island to Komodo island. Rescu-ers on Monday safely re-covered 13 more people from the tourist boat that sank after hitting a reef in central Indonesia, but were searching for a Dutch man and an Italian woman who were still missing, officials said.

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SAPE - Eight foreigners and five Indonesians were rescued Monday two days after their tourist boat sank during a storm in the archipelago, having survived by huddling in a lifeboat or floating in their life jackets.

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Rumors are rife that Western aid workers are importing Ebola, stealing bodies or even deliberately infecting patients. Winning trust is made harder by a full suit of hood, goggles, mask and gown that hides their faces. “You want to say so much ... because they’re in so much pain,” said nurse Monia Sayah, of Doctors Without Borders. “They suffer so much, but they can only see your eyes.”

The outbreak has hit three of the world’s poorest countries, where health systems there were already woefully understaffed and ill-equipped. In Liberia, there is only one doctor for every 100,000 people, while in Sierra Leone there are two, according to the World Health Organization; there were no statistics available for Guinea. The figure is 245 for the United States.

Emotional distress conspires with exhaustion and dehydration, but doctors say it’s hard to stop working. “When the need is so great, you can’t justify not being

there for a day or going home ear-lier,” said Dr. Robert Fowler, who recently worked in Guinea and Si-erra Leone. The critical care doctor at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Canada — now on sabbatical with the World Health Organization — said that the barrier of the protective suit is big but not insurmountable.

“There was a young girl, about 6, who came in late in the illness who was bleeding from her bow-els, very dehydrated and deliri-ous,” he said. Ebola wiped out her immediate family — so she was all alone. “She was very fright-ened and very reluctant to engage, and just wanted to push people away,” he said. Fowler spent days trying to help her, bringing her things she wanted like Fanta soda. “She eventually developed this sense that this person in the suit who’s a bit scary is trying to help me.”

One day he brought the girl her favorite dish: cucumbers and lime. “She chowed down,” he said — a

sign that she was on the mend. Fowler said the girl was close to being discharged by the time he left Guinea. The girl is the excep-tion rather than the rule. Death is the fate of more than half of the West Africans infected in the Ebola outbreak.

“With the mortality rate being what it is,” Fowler said, “you know every day there will be a couple of patients on your ward who didn’t make it through the night.” Dr. Kent Brantly — an American who fell sick from Ebola last month treating patients — echoed Fowler in speaking of the moral weight of the struggle.

“I held the hands of countless individuals as this terrible disease took their lives away from them,” Brantly said in a statement this month. “I witnessed the horror firsthand and I can still remember every face and name.” Brantly is now being treated in an Atlanta hospital. His condition was im-proving.

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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip — Shahed Quishta was curled up in an armchair one late afternoon during the Gaza war when a shell slammed into her living room. Shrapnel pierced the 8-year-old’s head and neck, and she died minutes after arriving at a hospital. Her funeral was held before nightfall, in line with Muslim tradition. Her family couldn’t host a customary three-day wake, typically attended by hundreds of people, because streets remained dangerous during ongoing fighting between Israel and Gaza militants.

Almost a month after her death from what her father says was an Israeli tank shell, her family remains paralyzed by grief. Sister Rojina, 14, can’t sleep in the room they shared, spending nights on a mattress in the hallway. Her mother Nisreen, 38, takes clothes from Shahed’s closet from time to time, crying as she in-hales the lingering scent.

The Quishtas are among thousands who suffered a loss during the current Israel-Hamas war, the third in Gaza in just over five years. The emotional wounds, though sometimes hidden, can be seen in the grim statistics of the conflict.

Close to 2,000 Palestinians were killed, including 459 children, and

more than 10,000 people were wounded since fighting began July 8, according to U.N. figures. About 20 percent of Gaza’s population of 1.8 million people has been displaced, including about 100,000 whose homes were destroyed or damaged beyond repair.

Based on these numbers, “the psychological effects (in this war) will be much higher than in the previous ones,” said Dr. Iyad Zaqout, who runs the community mental health program of Gaza’s main aid group, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency. Children are especially vulnerable because they can’t put their experiences into context yet, he said.

The U.N. estimates that about 373,000 children in Gaza need direct psychological intervention because they’ve witnessed violence, lost a relative or have been displaced. Such children often display one or more of a range of symptoms, including bed-wetting, nightmares, irritability or clinging to parents.

In the last major round of fighting in Gaza in the winter of 2008-2009, about 18,000 of some 190,000 chil-dren attending U.N.-run schools required counseling, Zaqout said. Sev-eral hundred still haven’t recovered, he said, adding that repeated exposure to trauma — a given in Gaza — com-pounds the problem.

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LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will be leav-ing the Ecuadorean Embassy in Lon-don soon — but did not say when or explain his decision. Assange has been holed up in the embassy — a small ground floor apartment near London’s Harrods department store — for more than two years.

The Australian fled there in 2012 to escape extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted over sex crime allegations.

Ecuador has granted him refugee status, but British police have so far refused to let him leave.

Assange told reporters during a news conference on Monday that his health had suffered during his time at the embassy.

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FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, file photo, A 43 year old Congolese patient, center, who has been confirmed to have Ebola hemorrhagic fever, following laboratory tests, is comforted by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) nurse Isabel Grovas, left, and Doctor Hilde Declerck, right, in Kampungu, Kasai Occidental province, Congo.

Ebola health workers battle death, heat, rumorsAssociated Press

LONDON — Doctors and nurses fighting Ebola in West Africa are working 14-hour days, seven days a week, wearing head-to-toe gear in the heat of muddy clinics. Agonizing death is the norm. The hellish conditions aren’t the only problem: Health workers struggle to convince patients they’re trying to help them, not hurt them.

In Gaza, emotional wounds of war remain unhealed

WikiLeaks founder says he’ll leave embassy soon

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In this Saturday Aug. 16, 2014 photo shows, a portrait of Shahed Quishta, 8, in the living room where she was killed by an Israeli tank shell on July 22 in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip. The Quishtas are among thousands who suffered a loss during the current Israel-Hamas war, the third in Gaza in just over five years.

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HOUSTON — Increasing work-ers’ earning power and offering Latino-owned companies easier access to funding that can be used for growth and expansion can help improve the social and economic status of Latinos in the U.S. and throughout Latin America, Mexi-can billionaire Carlos Slim told a group of religious and community leaders Sunday.

During a speech at the annual conference of the Catholic Associa-tion of Latino Leaders, Slim spoke for more than an hour on how to better the plight of Latino workers and Latino-owned businesses.

Slim, a telecom magnate who this year was ranked by Forbes magazine as the world’s second-richest person with an estimated net worth of $72 billion, suggested establishing investment firms or companies dedicated to working with small- and medium-sized Latino businesses in need of fi-nancing.

He told a crowd of about 200 people that in a time of recent economic crises, countries need to focus on strengthening the middle class as well as health care systems and education.

“What is important is that people earn more and that more middle classes are formed,” said Slim, who

owns telecommunications giant America Movil, a leading cellphone service provider in Latin America.

Slim also reiterated an idea he first made public last month at an-other conference: his proposal for a three-day work week. He said the idea would mean longer work hours and delaying retirement until a per-son is 70 to 75 years old. But he said it would mean people having more free time with their families or for personal enrichment.

Last week, Slim’s foundation unveiled “Acceso Latino,” a free website created to provide U.S. Latinos easy access to tools and content about education, health care, job training, culture and other

areas.The growing importance of the

Latino population can be seen in its rising numbers, Slim said. There are more than 53 million Hispanics living in the United States, which is about 17 percent of the nation’s total population, according to U.S. census figures.

Slim said this figure makes the U.S. Hispanic population larger than the populations of many Latin American countries.

Martin Cabrera, the CEO of a Chicago-based investment firm who attended the conference, said there are already multibillion-dollar pension funds that have investment arms that provide financing to start-

ups and other companies.“The amount of business they

are doing with Latino (firms) is close to zero,” he said.

Cabrera said Slim can use his influence and stature to develop a dialogue with these pension funds and their investment arms to get them to see the potential of invest-ing in Latino-owned businesses.

Cabrera added that these funds and investment firms not only provide much needed money, but they also bring “management and experience to help” Latino-owned businesses grow and “get them to the next level and even possibly be the Latino Facebook or the Latino Google.”

The luxury unit of Germany’s Daimler AG abused its control over supplies of spare parts to engage in “vertical price-fixing,” according to the official Xinhua News Agency. It said investigators from the price bureau of the eastern province of Jiangsu found prices were so high that purchasing the parts used to make one Mercedes C-class car would cost the equivalent of buying 12 vehicles.

An official said earlier that Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s Chrysler would face unspecified punishment for violating the anti-monopoly law.

Chinese regulators have launched investigations of foreign auto, tech-nology, pharmaceutical and dairy companies over the past two years using the 2008 anti-monopoly law in an apparent effort to force down consumer prices.

“Mercedes-Benz is a typical case of vertical price fixing — that is, the use of its dominant position in after-market parts to maintain price controls,” said Zhou Gao, chief of the Jiangsu price agency’s

anti-monopoly unit, according to Xinhua.

It gave no indication what pen-alty Mercedes might face.

In response to questions, Mer-cedes said it was “assisting the authorities” in the investigation.

“Please understand that we are unable to comment further on what is still an ongoing matter,” the com-pany said in a statement.

Monday’s report gave the clear-est explanation yet of the grounds for the industry probe.

Industry analysts have suggested regulators were motivated by com-plaints global automakers use their control over supplies of spare parts to charge inflated prices.

Toyota Motor Co. has said its Lexus unit also is under scrutiny. General Motors Co.’s main China joint venture said last week it has responded to requests by regulators for information but gave no indica-tion it was the target of a formal investigation.

Business groups welcomed the enactment of China’s anti-monopoly law in 2008 as a step toward clarifying operating condi-

tions. Since then, they have said it is enforced more actively against foreign companies than against local rivals.

Other companies under inves-

tigation include Qualcomm Inc., a San Diego, California-based maker of chips used in mobile phones, and software giant Microsoft Corp.

Mercedes and Audi responded

earlier to the investigation by cut-ting prices for replacement parts such as windshields by up to 38 percent. Chrysler cut prices of im-ported vehicles.

China says Mercedes guilty of price abuses

Associated Press

BEIJING — China’s government said Monday it has concluded Mercedes-Benz violated anti-monopoly law and charged excessive prices for parts, adding to a growing number of global automakers snared in an investigation of the industry.

In this photo taken Sunday, April 20, 2014, a child touches the latest model from Mercedes at an auto show in Beijing, China. China’s government said Monday it has concluded Mercedes-Benz violated anti-monopoly law and charged excessive prices for parts, adding to a growing number of global automakers snared in an investigation of the industry.

Carlos Slim offers advice for Latinos

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BANGLI - Forest area at Munduk, Titi Tanggun, Trunyan village, Kintamani was on fire. Sunny weather tending to be hot had made the fire quickly spread and burn trees in the forest. The officers got difficulty to extinguish the fire considering the location was on the hill.

The fire occurred on Saturday (Aug 16) at 12:10 a.m. At that time, people at the surrounding areas were surprised by the appearance of smoke and flames burning the hilltops suddenly. When the fire occurred, the weather was sunny and hot. Thus, it caused the fire to spread quickly and burn trees in the forest.

The Head of the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Bangli, Wayan Sugiarta, when confirmed on Sunday (Aug 17) said the fire occurred in the area of Forest Management Units (FMU) of East Bali. When the fire occurred the officers could only perform a monitor-ing. They could only take precautions so that the fire would not spread to the bottom of the hill. Since it was quite difficult to reach, the fire easily burned the eucalyptus and pine trees at the location. At least, a total of 10 hectares of forest were burnt in the incident.

Sugiarta said the fire could just be extinguished around 8:00 p.m. “The fire went out by itself as the location of the fire is difficult to reach,” he said. When touched regarding the causes of forest fire, Sugiarta claimed not to know. So far, the cause was still under in-vestigation by the FMU of East Bali.

Meanwhile, the Head of East Bali FMU, Abdul Muntalib, when confirmed last Sunday said that it was still being investigated to de-termine the cause of forest fire. According to Muntalib, the forest fire burning the forest was not caused by the influence of weather. “It is still under investigation. The fire possibly came by itself. Obviously, it was not caused by nature, maybe due to something,” he said.

Regarding the possibility to be caused by unscrupulous people fac-tor deliberately burning the forests for particular benefit, he denied it. According to him, the forest was located on the hill so it was not possible for people to utilize it. “Probably, there is no such a motif. Moreover, the location is on a hill like that. The most important thing today is increasing vigilance,” he said. (ina)

According to I Ketut Edi Putra, one of the residents of Yeh Panas hamlet, Songan village, Kintamani, the color change of Lake Batur had occurred since Saturday (Aug 16).

The color change into yellowish green was originally found around the area of Kedisan. Afterward, such condition started to spread to the area of Toya Bungkah. He suspected such color change hap-pened due to the mixture of sulfur content in the lake water. Aside from the color change, the lake water also smelt like sulfur when being approached. The condition was estimated to occur as the result of eruption at the bottom of the lake as it had happened in 2011.

Such color change was also rec-ognized by the headman of Trunyan, Wayan Arjana. When asked for his confirmation, he justified the color change into green had happened since the past few days. However, the condition did not occur in the

lake area around Trunyan. “Indeed, the color change happened here. However, the sulfuric water did not reach Trunyan area,” he said.

Chief of Water Police Unit of Bangli Police, Wayan Reda, with permission from Bangli Police Chief, Suswanto, also confirmed the color change of water in Lake Batur within the past few days. However, the current condition was recognized to have returned to normal by degrees. His party did not hear any reports on dead fish from the owners of fish cage due to such condition.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Environment Agency (BLH) of Bangli, Wayan Sukartana, when asked for his confirmation re-garding what happened in Lake Batur currently said that it was a regular cycle within a certain time. Although the water color changed, the condition would return to nor-mal in the near future. (ina)

IBP/SwasrinaWater condition of Lake Batur in Kintamani, Bangli, experienced color change. Since the past two days, the lake water usually blue turned into yellowish green.

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BANGLI - Water condition of Lake Batur in Kintamani, Bangli, experienced color change. Since the past two days, the lake water usu-ally blue turned into yellowish green. Allegedly the color change posed the results of a mixture of sulfur contained in the lake water.

IBP/NetForest area at Munduk, Titi Tanggun, Trunyan village, Kintamani was on fire. Sunny weather tending to be hot had made the fire quickly spread and burn trees in the forest.

10 hectares of forest at Trunyan on fire

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—A doctor named Riza Edwin, 32, was the victim of fraud, with

the mode to be lured of becoming a civil servant. Ironically, the man staying on Jalan Padang Griya, Padangsambian, Denpasar, already transferred the sum of IDR 3.7 million. This incident was then reported to Denpasar Police station.

A police source said on Thursday (Aug 14) that the fraud origi-nated from Riza who received a phone call from someone claiming from PT Megah Mandiri Tours and Travel on Monday (Aug 11) at 2:38 p.m. The culprit also asked the victim to pay as soon as pos-sible so that this young doctor could take the selection test of civil servant (PNS) at Pertamina Hospital in Jakarta. “Over the phone, he was asked to transfer money amounting to IDR 3.7 million to pay for the airline ticket of Denpasar- Jakarta,” he said.

The victim believing in the lure of the culprit then transferred the sum of IDR 3.7 million to the specified account through BNI’s ATM at Supernova Supermarket, Kuta. Not long after, he was asked again to transfer money to another account with the same reason. Being suspicious, he did not transfer the money requested and immediately reported the incident to the Integrated Police Service Center (SPKT) of Denpasar Police. “He just realized to have been scammed after asked to make the second transfer,” he said.

In addition, a private employee, Dewa Putu Sarawada, also re-ported a fraud action. The fraud began when the victim applied for a loan with the collateral of vehicle ownership book belonging to his pickup truck with license plate DK 9610 GT around September. Then, a woman, Ni Wayan Purnamayanti, 43, said that she could disburse a loan with the collateral of the vehicle ownership book. Without thinking twice, Sarawada immediately handed over his vehicle ownership book to Purnamayanti known to live in Mengwi, Badung. “At that time, the vehicle ownership book was submitted on Jalan Moh Yamin, Denpasar,” said the source.

So far, Sarawada claimed to have not received the funds prom-ised by Purnamayanti. As a result, the victim suffered a loss worth IDR 70 million and just reported the case last Monday.

Spokesperson of Denpasar Police, IB Sarjana, when asked for his confirmation justified the existence of the two fraud reports. He said that after receiving the fraud report the Denpasar Police Criminal Detective immediately conducted an investigation. “Police are still investigating the case,” he said. (nik)

Allegedly the wooden log was stored on the land owned by Made Sudiartawan. Together with rang-ers, the Jembrana Police Criminal Investigator then conducted an investigation to check the location. Apparently, the information was correct. Dozens of timbers belonging to balang-balang and kutat type or various sizes were found by the officers. The owner of the timber, known as Sudiartawan, had escaped as soon as knew the coming of police.

After nearly a month on the run, the culprit man-aged to be arrested in front of Gilimanuk Market last week. Police then interrogated and it could reveal another culprit, namely Komang Ardana Yasa, 29. To police, Sudiartawan admitted to have bought the timber from Ardana at IDR 100,000 per stem.

Based on the information, Ardana could be ar-

rested around the Negara Square. From physical check of the timbers, they belonged to kutat type sizing 6x10x4 meters with a total of 54 stems or 1,276 cubic meters, while balang-balang type sized 13x17x4 meters with a total of two stems and another stem sized 13x22x4 meters. From the recognition of the suspect, the timber would be used to make a cage. Evidence of the timber was commended at the Forestry Office of Gilimanuk.

Meanwhile, both culprits had been secured in Jembrana Police and charged under Article 12 e in conjunction with Article 83 paragraph 1 letter b of Law No. 18/2013 on the prevention and eradica-tion of forest destruction with a minimum penalty of one year in prison and a maximum of 5 years. (kmb26)

Bali PostDENPASAR - A female student, Dewa Ayu Sucitra Dewi, 26,

was found dead in her home room, Sunday (Aug 17). The victim was alleged to get depression because after her divorce she did not want to eat.

According to Chief of South Denpasar Police, Nanang Pri-hasmoko, his party had made examination against witnesses and the victim’s mother, I Dewa Ayu Sriasih, 62. The mother staying on Jalan Pakisaji Gang Cengana Sari III, East Denpasar came to the victim’s house to bring her food. When arriving at the scene, she immediately entered the room because the door was not locked.

“Originally Sriasih was not suspicious because she thought her daughter was sleeping. She tried to wake up the victim but her body was already cold. Having been rechecked, in fact the victim had died. The victim has made hunger strike for a week,” said police chief.

The victim’s mother asked for help to David Maukaling to find a midwife and report the incident to hamlet chief. After ensuring whether the single-son widow died or not, the incident was reported to the South Denpasar Police. “The victim has divorced 6 months ago and she lived alone at the scene. No signs of violence were found on the victim’s body,” he said.

Information in the field mentioned if the victim was alleged to get depression after her divorce because her single son was taken by her husband. Meanwhile, her husband lived in Gianyar. Since then, the victim got depression and did hunger strikes. (kmb36)

IBP/Gus OloThe illegal loggers are arrested by the police in Jembrana

Police arrest two illegal loggersBali Post

NEGARA - Two illegal loggers becoming the fugitive of Jembrana Police Criminal Detective since July 21 were finally arrested. One of the culprits is Made Sudiartawan aka Dek Pendang, 36, who previously escaped. Chief of the Jembrana Police Criminal Detective, Gusti Made Sudarma, with permission from the Chief of Jembrana Police said on Sunday (Aug 17) the arrest began from the public information on Monday (Jul 21) related to the timber taking activities from the forest.

Hunger strike, a female student found dead

Lured to be a civil servant, a doctor scammed

Jhanka Nath Dhakal of Nepal’s National Emergency Operation Center said four helicopters with food, emergency supplies, medicine and medical workers were sent to villages in the west of the country.

Rescuers were also attempting to reach the villages by road. How-ever, most of the highways and rural roads are either submerged or dam-aged by the flooding, preventing vehicles from passing. Thousands of people have been left without shelter and cut off from the rest of the country since Thursday in 10 districts in west Nepal. Much of the area is farm land where the villagers are poor and live in mud and straw huts that are easily washed away.

Authorities fear the lack of clean drinking water, food and sanitation could lead to outbreak of cholera, dysentery and encephalitis. Dhakal said the government was trying to

send medical teams to the villages with medical supplies to prevent diseases that can follow flooding. They are also distributing tents and plastic sheets to make temporary shelter, utensils to cook food and clothes for those who lost their belongings.

Earlier this month, a massive landslide covered an entire village near Katmandu, killing 156 people. The June-September monsoon season often bring flooding to Ne-pal and neighboring India, and in northern India, torrential rain and landslides have killed at least 50 people in Uttarakhand state, many of them washed away as rivers overflowed, submerging villages and fields.

Officials in neighboring Uttar Pradesh state reported 10 more deaths overnight, pushing the death toll in the state to 34.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Pres i -dent Barack Obama returned to Washington just after midnight Monday for a two-day break from a summer vacation, dur-ing which airstrikes in Iraq and violent clashes in a St. Louis suburb intruded on his golf and beach plans.

The exact reason for Obama’s return remained unclear, though it appeared aimed in part at countering criticism that Obama was spending two weeks on the Massachusetts resort island of Martha’s Vineyard in the midst of multiple crises. His return to Washington was planned even before the U.S. military began striking targets in Iraq and before the standoff between police and protestsers in Ferguson, Mis-souri.

Obama had meetings on both matters scheduled for Monday.

The president was scheduled to return to Martha’s Vineyard Tuesday night.

The president spent a leisurely Sunday on the island before his late night departure. He played a round of golf — his most frequent vacation activity — then attended a jazz concert and dinner with first lady Michelle Obama.

While Obama has had plenty of downtime since arriving in Martha’s Vineyard a week ago, he also made two public statements about the situations in Iraq and Ferguson. The president had or-dered the Iraq strikes days before leaving for vacation, while the tensions in Ferguson that stem from the shooting death of an unarmed teen boiled over during his vacation.

“I think it’s fair to say there are, of course, ongoing compli-cated situations in the world, and that’s why you’ve seen the presi-dent stay engaged,” White House

spokesman Eric Schultz said.Obama’s vacation has also

been infused with a dose of poli-tics. He headlined a fundraiser on the island for Democratic Senate candidates and attended a birth-day party for veteran Democratic adviser Vernon Jordan’s wife, where he spent time with former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

That get-together between the former rivals-turned-partners added another complicated dy-namic to Obama’s vacation. Just as Obama was arriving on Martha’s Vineyard, an interview with the former secretary of state was published in which she levied some of her sharpest criticism of Obama’s foreign policy.

AP Photo/Steven SennePresident Barack Obama smiles

while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014.

AP Photo/Niranjan ShresthaNepalese rescuers search for bodies of victims of Saturday’s landslide as a damaged school bus lies on left, in Mankha, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Aug.4, 2014.

Nepal flood toll hits 101, fears of disease rise Associated Press

KATMANDU — Nepalese authorities said Monday they feared an outbreak of diseases as they attempt to reach thousands of people stranded by flooding that has already killed more than 100 people. The swirling floodwaters have even crossed into neighboring India, submerging farmland and hundreds of villages. At least 84 Indians have died, either from the floodwaters or from torrential rains, au-thorities said.

Obama back in Washington on rare vacation break

3Tuesday, August 19, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world’s glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds.

Scientists looking at glacier melt since 1851 didn’t see a human fingerprint until about the middle of the 20th century. Even then only one-quarter of the warming wasn’t from natural causes.

But since 1991, about 69 percent of the rapidly increasing melt was man-made, said Ben Marzeion, a climate scientist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.

“Glaciers are really shrinking rapidly now,” he said. “I think it’s fair to say most of it is man-made.”

Scientists fault global warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas as well as changes in land use near glaciers and soot pollution. Glaciers in Alaska and the Alps in general have more human-caused melting than the global average, Marzeion said.

The study is published Thurs-day in the journal Science.

The research is the first to

calculate just how much of the glacial melting can be attributed to people and “the jump from about a quarter to roughly 70 per-cent of total glacier mass loss is significant and concerning,” said University of Alaska Fairbanks geophysicist Regine Hock, who wasn’t part of the study.

Over the last two decades, about 295 billion tons (269 billion metric tons) of ice is melting each year on average due to human causes and about 130 billion tons (121 million metric tons) a year are melting because of natural causes, Marzeion calculated.

Glaciers alone add to about four-tenths of an inch of sea level rise every decade, along with even bigger increases from melting ice sheets — which are different than glaciers — and the expansion of water with warmer temperatures.

Marzeion and colleagues ran multiple computer simulations to see how much melting there would be from all causes and then did it again to see how much melting there would be if only natural causes were included. The difference is what was caused by humans.

Scientists aren’t quite certain

what natural causes started gla-ciers shrinking after the end of the Little Ice Age in the middle of the 19th century, but do know what are human-causes: climate change, soot, and local changes in land use.

There is a sizable margin of error so the 69 percent human caused can be as low as 45 per-cent or as high as 93 percent, but likely in the middle.

“This study makes perfect sense,” said Pennsylvania State University glacier expert Rich-ard Alley, who wasn’t part of the research. “The authors have quantified what I believe most scientists would have expected.”

Not all of the human-caused melting is from global warming from the burning of fossil fuels, but climate change is the biggest factor, said Ted Scambos, a scien-tist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The study showed that it took time for global warming and other factors to build up and cause melting. That lag ef-fect means the world is already locked into more rapid melting from the warming that has al-ready occurred, Marzeion and Alley said.

The figure is 6.77 percent down from the previous furniture exports in the same period of 2013 which stood at US&14.72 million, according to data made available at the Industry and Trade Service.

Data at the industry and trade service showed that the volume of the exports dropped 86.56 percent from 9.07 million units in the first five months of 2013 to 1.21 million units in the same period this year.

Furniture is one of Bali’s 17 cottage handicraft products which is able to penetrate the global market and is able to contribute 6.38 percent of Bali’s total exports which reached about US$215.04 million.

In the meantime, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) recoded that Bali’s export earning declined 1.53 percent to US$266.13 million in the first half of the year from US$270.26 million in the same period last year.

“Manufactured goods and products of cottage industry accounted for 75 percent of the export income,” head of the provincial office of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Panusunan Siregar said.

Around 50 percent of the exports were made via ports in other Indonesian provinces with the rest via the Benoa port of Denpasar.

The provincial administration needs to expand the Benoa port to become an international ports to be able to handle all shipments of all exports from Bali, Siregar said.

“Expansion of the Benoa port would help reduce conges-tion over land transport and increase the regional income,” he said.

In June alone exports from Bali were valued at US$47.05 million, up 7.49 percent from the same period last year or an increase of 15.90 percent from May this year.

The main export commodities of Bali are fish and shrimps, jewelry, garments, wood products and furniture.

The export destinations include the United States, Singapore, Australia , Japan, and Thailand.

The take-home advice: drilling your kids on simple addition and multiplication may pay off.

“Experience really does mat-ter,” said Dr. Kathy Mann Koepke of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the re-search.

Healthy children start making that switch between counting to what’s called fact retrieval when they’re 8 years old to 9 years old, when they’re still working on fundamental addition and sub-traction. How well kids make that shift to memory-based problem-solving is known to predict their ultimate math achievement.

Those who fall behind “are impairing or slowing down their math learning later on,” Mann Koepke said.

But why do some kids make the transition easier than oth-ers?

To start finding out, Stan-ford University researchers first peeked into the brains of 28 children as they solved a series of simple addition problems inside a brain-scanning MRI machine.

No scribbling out the answer: The 7- to 9-year-olds saw a cal-culation — three plus four equals seven, for example — flash on a screen and pushed a button to say if the answer was right or wrong. Scientists recorded how quickly they responded and what regions of their brain became active as they did.

In a separate session, they also tested the kids face to face, watching if they moved their lips or counted on their fingers, for comparison with the brain data.

The children were tested twice, roughly a year apart. As the kids got older, their answers relied more on memory and became faster and more accurate, and it showed in the brain. There was less activity in the prefrontal and parietal regions associated with counting and more in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, the researchers reported Sunday in Nature Neuroscience.

The hippocampus is sort of

like a relay station where new memories come in — short-term working memory — and then can be sent elsewhere for longer-term storage and retrieval. Those hippocampal connections increased with the kids’ math performance.

“The stronger the connections, the greater each individual’s ability to retrieve facts from memory,” said Dr. Vinod Menon, a psychiatry professor at Stanford and the study’s senior author.

But that’s not the whole sto-ry.

Next, Menon’s team put 20 adolescents and 20 adults into the MRI machines and gave them the same simple addition problems. It turns out that adults don’t use their memory-crunching hippocampus in the same way. Instead of using a lot of effort, retrieving six plus four equals 10 from long-term storage was almost automatic, Menon said.

In other words, over time the brain became increasingly ef-ficient at retrieving facts. Think of it like a bumpy, grassy field, NIH’s Mann Koepke explained. Walk over the same spot enough and a smooth, grass-free path forms, making it easier to get from start to end.

If your brain doesn’t have to work as hard on simple math, it has more working memory free to process the teacher’s brand-new lesson on more complex math.

Quiz your child in different orders, she advised — nine times three and then 10 times nine — to make sure they really remem-ber and didn’t have to think it through.

While the study focuses on math, Mann Koepke said cogni-tive development in general prob-ably works the same way. After all, kids who match sounds to let-ters earlier learn to read faster.

Stanford’s Menon said the next step is to study what goes wrong with this system in children with math learning disabilities, so that scientists might try new strategies to help them learn.

AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott, File

This Aug. 18, 2008, file photo shows students of the Institute of Geography of the Univer-sity of Mainz, Germany, collect data on the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps. More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world’s glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds.

Peek into brain shows how kids learn math skillsAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — At some point, children quit counting your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain reorganizes itself as kids learn math.

Study blames humans for most of melting glaciers

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The selling price of properties in Bali in the second quarter of 2014 slows down. Result of the survey on the residential property prices (SHPR) by Bank In-donesia (BI) indicated a slowdown in the growth at 16.23 percent to 14.81 percent (yoy).

“We did a survey about residen-tial property prices on a quarterly basis to approximately 30 develop-ers located in Denpasar and a small fraction in Badung and Tabanan region. As a result, the BI noted a slowing growth in the selling price of property in the second quarter,” said Representative Head of the Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara, Benny Siswanto.

According to him, the current condition in the field indicated a slowdown in the index price of the residential property prices in second quarter of 2014 compared to the previous quarter, namely from

186.68 to 185.75. On average, the declining growth occurred to resi-dential property prices over the pre-ceding quarter, namely from 7.28 percent to -0.50 percent (qtq).

“Indication of the slowdown in the index price of the residential property price is the occurrence of slowdown in the increase of selling price as the impact of decline in sales volume,” he said.

He described the highest growth of slowdown happened to small- and medium-type house. Small types slowed from 26.75 percent to 25.32 percent, while medium type slowed from 16.03 percent to 13.12 percent.

“From the survey conducted by Bank Indonesia in the field, some respondents tended to maintain the selling price of property. Several other respondents slightly raised the price to keep the consumer market in order to avoid significant decline, especially after the enforce-ment of loan to value (LTV),” he

explained.Benny Siswanto also recognized

if in the survey there were also respondents giving discount to the selling price because the buyers were deserted. By all means, the selling price discount was given to any purchase in cash or gradual installments.

“Some respondents also stated that they did not dare to raise the prices, despite the land price has slightly increased. Respondents noted the LTV implementation has caused prospective buyers to face difficulty and reluctant to purchase a home,” he said.

Benny assessed such conditions were not only caused by the increas-ing down payment of property for the next home purchase, but also the down payment determined by mortgage (KPR) when the house construction had been totally ac-complished.

As reported previously, the ap-plication of risk management in

banks providing credit or property-backed consumer finance and credit mentioned a restriction to mortgage issuance for the first home with

maximal loan facility of 70 per-cent, the second home (60 percent) and the third home (50 percent). (kmb27)

Selling price growth of property in Bali slows down

IBP/File Photo

Tourists passed the property project at Kuta, Bali Island. The selling price of properties in Bali in the second quarter of 2014 slows down.

Bali earns US$13.72 million from furniture exports

ANTARA FOTO/Risbiani fardaniah

The Indonesian tourist resort province of Bali has earned US$13.72 from its furniture exports in the January - May 2014 period, data at the local industry and trade office showed.

Antara

DENPASAR - The Indonesian tourist resort prov-ince of Bali has earned US$13.72 from its furniture exports in the January - May 2014 period, data at the local industry and trade office showed.

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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

Tuesday, August 19, 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

JAKARTA - Archipelago Interna-tional, Indonesia’s leading hotel man-agement group, recently announced plans to expand it’s Hotel NEO portfolio with three new properties opening before the end of 2014, and 12 new properties and up to 1500 rooms planned for 2015.

Currently, Hotel NEO boasts 8 existing hotels spanning four differ-ent cities. Bali has seen the opening of two Hotel NEOs (Gatot Subroto-Denpasar and Kuta Jelantik), while in Jakarta there are four (Tanah Abang Cideng, Mangga Dua, Melawai and Tendean) and one each in Semarang and Bogor (Sentul). In total, the NEO brand offers 822 rooms with an aver-age occupancy rate of 80 percent.

Two of the three new hotels open-ing in 2014 will be located in Bali; Hotel NEO Kuta – Tuban and Hotel NEO Petitenget - Seminyak, while the third, NEO Eltari – Kupang, will be opening in East Nusa Tenggara.

The 12 hotels planned for 2015 will be opening across the Indone-sian archipelago. The first quarter

will see the opening of Hotel NEO+ Awanna – Jogja, Hotel NEO Palma – Palangkaraya and Hotel NEO Ke-bayoran – Jakarta, while the second quarter will see the opening of Hotel NEO Hayam Wuruk – Jakarta and Hotel NEO Malioboro.

Into the third and fourth quarter of 2015 and Archipelago International will be opening Hotel NEO+ Pahla-wan – Samarinda, Hotel NEO Gajah Mada – Pontianak, Hotel NEO+ Karawang, Hotel NEO Samadikun – Cirebon, Hotel NEO Dalem Kaum – Bandung and Hotel NEO+ Medan.

In line with the NEO concept, all of the new hotels will be follow-ing their sister hotels by taking the standard minimalist budget hotel concept to an entirely new level, packaging authentic contemporary art with invigorating interior designs and high end in-room facilities. The NEO brand also promises a totally smoke-free environment, ultra high-speed complimentary WiFi and an uncomplicated, smart-casual ap-proach to service. All of this wrapped up with very affordable room rates for every guest, as well as exclusive

benefits reserved for online custom-ers booking via the group’s website www.NeoHotels.com

“We are delighted to announce the fantastic growth of our very popular

Hotel NEO brand. The NEO concept was first launched in February 2011, so to be increasing its portfolio by adding fifteen NEO hotels before the end of 2015 is an impressive leap,

and it just shows how well the hotel has been received by our Indonesian and International guests.” Said John Flood, Archipelago International’s President & CEO.

15 new Hotel Neo planned for 2014/2015

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Bali Post

DENPASAR - Criminal Inves-tigator Unit of Denpasar Police is still difficult to go deep into the murder case of Sheila, 64. After autopsy of the victim’s body, Denpasar Police and forensic team agreed to make crime scene inves-tigation on Monday (Aug 18) under monitor of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

It was expressed by Spokesper-son of Denpasar Police, IB Sarjana, Sunday (Aug 17). However, his party could not confirm the exact

time. “If any information is re-quired related to both suspects and victim, the FBI is ready to assist. It will help accelerate the handling of this case so that it can be resolved as soon as possible,” said Sarjana.

Meanwhile, a source in police department revealed that after the autopsy of Sheila the FBI planned to check the scene. ”As planned, it will be carried out tomorrow (Monday—Ed). The plan was de-cided in a deliberation at Sanglah Hospital after the autopsy,” said the source.

The source added that the FBI

officers getting involved in the case investigation justified if the two suspects often made troubles in their home country. Even, the suspect Heather often quarreled with the victim, her foster mother. Meanwhile, the suspect Tommy often dealt with the U.S. Police De-partment. “Various teams including that of fingerprint, identification, forensic and forensic laboratory, including the FBI, were involved in the investigation,” he said.

Related to the investigation pro-cess of the electrifying case, a source requesting anonymity revealed there

had been no significant development because the suspects preferred to shut up. On that account, the in-vestigators were still trying to find evidence whether there was an ele-ment of planning or not. “Victim’s nasal bone was crushed as hit by the suspect,” he said.

Besides, the investigators were still awaiting the test results of blood sample of both suspects. A few days after the arrest, the offi-cers took a blood sample of the two suspects and were taken to Forensic Laboratory of the National Police Headquarters of Denpasar Branch.

“Both suspects did not show the sense of regret. When arrested, they just relaxed and even sang. Whether they were under influence of drugs or not is still being explored,” said the source.

Previously, the body of Sheila was found in a suitcase, Tuesday (Aug 12) by security guard of the St. Regis Hotel Nusa Dua in a cab. After conducting an investigation and checking to the hotel CCTV footage, police could finally arrest the suspects Heather and Tommy when they were at one of the hotels in Kuta area. (kmb36)

Commander of the 1610/Klung-kung Military District Command, Andree Saputro, when contacted

after the ceremony justified that all this time there was no woman leading such a ceremony in the celebration of

the Independence Day in Indonesia. “It is the first of its kind in Indonesia,” he said. Andree added that initially

the Klungkung Military District as a part of the Independence Day cel-ebration committee was asked to pre-pare personnel for the ceremony by Klungkung government. One of them was the commander of ceremony. To give a different nuance in the celebra-tion, the Military District Command finally appointed the Commander of Banjarangkan Military Region Command a commander of the cer-emony. “She was one of the officers who served as captain. Therefore, we designated her,” he said.

Having been coordinated with the Klungkung government and county police, the initiative was then approved. Meanwhile, Purniawati directly expressed her readiness for the task. In addition, with the rank of captain she was considered to be able to carry out the task and had the edu-cation of prospective NCO (Women’s Army Corps) in Bandung.

“I am grateful that she could carry out her duties as commander of ceremony smoothly,” he said. Meanwhile, Purniawati was proud of the task. Celebration of the Indepen-dence Day was a historic day for the whole society. So, when she became the commander of the ceremony she was at full concentration to complete the task.

Ni Ketut Purniawati has occupied the current position as Commander

of the Banjarangkan Military Region Command since December 20, 2012. She replaced the previous officer, Ketut Suarta. It rarely happened in the military rank in Bali. For the first time, the Commander of Military Region in Bali is led by a woman. While in this position, she was con-sidered capable of carrying out her duties and establishing synergy with horizontal line as well as other agen-cies in Banjarangkan. Andree Saputro hoped the commander of military region from Teges hamlet (Gianyar) was able to become an example for other women that a woman could also become a leader.

The flag raising ceremony of the Independence Day itself took place solemnly at Puputan Klungkung Square, Sunday morning (Aug 17). Before the ceremony, the Regent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, granted remission to some inmates. Submission of the remission was carried out in a modest rally in the courtyard of Klungkung Prison. A total of 33 prisoners got general remission (reduction of detention pe-riod) in accordance with the Decree of the Minister of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia No. W20.731 PK.01.01.02/2014. The remission granted to the 33 inmates varied ranging from 1 to 5 months. (kmb31)

FBI monitors the scene investigation of Sheila’s murder case

Celebration of Independence Day

First in Indonesia, led by female commander

IBP/Bagiarta

Danramil Banjarangkan Kapten CAJ (K) Ni Ketut Purniawati led the ceremony of Indonesian Independence in Klungkung.

Bali Post

SEMArAPUrA - The ceremony to commemorate the 69th anniversary of the Independence Day of the republic of Indonesia in Klungkung County on Sunday (Aug 17) looked different from previous years. The ceremony was led by a female commander doubling as the Commander of Banjarangkan Military region, Ni Ketut Purniawati. Female commander of ceremony in the celebration of the Independence Day was claimed to be first in Bali, even in Indonesia.

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Before, three travelers from China, Wu Shiwei, 30, and his wife Zhou Liping, 29, and Zhan Fan, were swept away by sea currents on Selukat Beach, Keramas village, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, last Saturday (Aug 16) around 4:30 p.m. Two people could be rescued, while another, Wu Shiwei, was not found on Sunday.

He had been searched for nearly three hours but was not found to date. One of the local Komune lifeguards, Wayan Yogantara, admitted that his team could not find the victim because the sea currents had been large. “We were only able

to rescue two people,” he said.At that afternoon, the three Chinese travelers bathed on

the beach. Before bathing, the lifeguards had banned them. Unfortunately, it was ignored. Even, according to the narra-tive of local residents, the entourage of Chinese traveler had wanted to rent a surf board for surfing in the morning. How-ever, as the waves were huge and fierce enough, the board owner warned them from doing the activity. Somehow they came again in the afternoon and ignored the ban of bathing. “Not long after entering the beach, they were swept away. Instantly, we took a speed boat to rescue them,” he said.

Zhou Liping (Wu Shiwei’s wife) looked to cry. She kept urging the lifeguards to conduct a search. “Please continue to find out my husband, I will pay no matter how much it costs,” said her tourist guide interpreting the request of Zhou Liping.

Since the sea waves were in high tide and on safety con-sideration, the search was discontinued for a while. Never-theless, the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) of Gianyar, National SAR Agency (Basarnas), lifeguard, Red Cross, police and local residents remained to keep track the Selukat Beach, Keramas village.

The Head of Gianyar Disaster Mitigation Agency, Anak Agung Gde Oka Digjaya, said the search had been carried out in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Nevertheless, his party would continue to monitor.

On the request of the victim and the entourage, local residents said prayers on Selukat Beach. Meanwhile, the Chinese travelers coming to Bali stayed at Swan Hotel and totally amounted to 26 people. They arrived last Thursday (Aug 14) and scheduled to return to China on Sunday (Aug 17). (kmb16)

People searched for a chinese traveler who swept away at Selukat Beach. The body of Wu Shiwei (30), that’s

been swept away at Selukat Beach, Gianyar, found on Monday. The body was founded at Rangkan Beach and

evacuated to Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar.

swept away by sea currents

Two Chinese travelers survived, one found dead

Bali PostGIANYAR - The body of Wu Shiwei (30), that’s

been swept away at Selukat Beach, Gianyar, found on Monday. The body was founded at Rangkan Beach and evacuated to Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar.

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Associated Press

NEW YORK — Brian Williams didn’t have to look hard for a photo of actress Allison Williams as a toddler in a Peter Pan cos-tume. A framed one has been on display in the den of his family’s Connecticut home for years.

The NBC “Nightly News” anchor and proud father said he emailed family members to see if they approved of him reporting on his daughter being cast in the lead role of “Peter Pan.” NBC is airing a new version of the musical live on Dec. 4.

Reporting the news was more than a proud papa’s privilege: “Nightly” announced casting for “The Sound of Music” before NBC aired that musical late last year, he said. His report of Allison’s good news played it straight — at least until the end.

As a picture of the 26-year-old “Girls” actress as a young girl garbed in green appeared on the screen, Williams said, “Family members confirm she’s been rehearsing for this role since the age of 3, and they’re looking forward to seeing her fly.”

“Believe me,” he said later. “I know every word of every song.”Williams insisted that Allison didn’t give him any grief for show-

ing the photo on the air.

The famous pizza-munching turtles, on a mission to save New York from diabolical evil-doers plotting to unleash a virus across the city, raked in $28.4 million in their sec-ond weekend in theaters, box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations reported.

The turtles remained just ahead of Mar-vel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” in second place, the critically acclaimed science-fiction superhero romp which added an-other $24.7 million to its three-week haul of $222.3 million.

Third spot was taken by raunchy adult comedy “Let’s Be Cops,” starring Damon Wayans Jr, about two friends who become entangled in criminal intrigue when they dress up as police officers for a costume party.

The film, which has been savaged by overwhelmingly negative reviews, never-theless took $17.7 million in its opening weekend, meaning the film will turn a profit after costing around $17 million to make.

But it was a disappointing bow for the latest installment of Stallone’s “The

Expendables” saga. The third movie in the light-hearted action romp took just $16.2 million on its opening weekend to finish in fourth.

The first two films in “The Expend-ables” series had taken $34.8 million and $28.6 million in their opening weekends, suggesting that interest in the franchise, which groups together a galaxy of ac-tion stars including Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wesley Snipes, Jet Li, Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford, is firmly on the wane.

In fifth place was dystopian drama “The Giver” based on Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel of the same name. The film, starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep and Brenton Thwaites, earned $12.8 million.

Turbulent weather disaster movie “Into The Storm” was in sixth place with $7.7 million while “The Hundred Foot Journey,” a romantic comedy with Helen Mirren and Om Puri as culture-clashing restaurateurs, was seventh with $7.1 million.

French action film “Lucy,” starring

AP Photo/Lionsgate, Phil Bray

This image released by Lionsgate shows Sylvester Stallone, left, and Jason Statham, center, in a scene from “Expendables 3.”

‘Turtles’ outmuscle Stallone, Schwarzenegger at box office

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LOS ANGELES - The “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” remained in top spot at the North American box office this weekend, outmuscling the latest installment of Sylvester Stallone’s geriatric “Expendables” action-hero franchise, estimates showed Sunday.

Scarlett Johansson as a drug mule with telekinetic powers, was eighth with $5.3 million in its fourth week in theaters.

Ninth place was taken by dance movie “Step Up All In,” which took $2.7 million. Rounding out the top 10 was the Oscar-tipped drama “Boyhood,” which earned $2.1 million.

AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca, File

This April 4, 2012 file photo shows Actress Allison Williams poses with her father, NBC News’ Brian Williams, at the premiere of the HBO original series “Girls,” in New York. Allison Williams will star in the lead role of “Peter Pan.” NBC is airing a new version of the musical live on Dec. 4.

Brian Williams shares in daughter’s acting success