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Various circles believe if there are great scenario and conspiracy among the authorities to sell the environment, land and even the sea in Bali to investors. One of them continuing to kindle the public opposition is the reclamation plan of some 400 hectares of the sea in the area of Benoa Bay, Badung, into an integrated tourism resort. Even, such a plan has been roll-ing out since 2009. Similarly, the public suspect there are hidden

conspiracy and flows of fund to the authorities in order to pass the investor’s intention. Even, such a flow of fund was alleged to be get-ting swifter to one of the candidate pairs before the voting of the gu-bernatorial election, so that when the candidate pair was elected governor and deputy governor of Bali, the investors could smoothly execute their plan.

A Badung community leader, Nyoman Sentana, said it was very

unfortunate if there was a con-spiracy to sell Bali by the leader of Bali. He also firmly rejected the reclamation plan of Benoa Bay. Necessarily, it should not happen if all the components of Balinese community, including the govern-ment officials, consistently main-tained and properly cared for Bali. Bali should not be harmed because it had been pockmarked due to the increasingly severe environmental damage. He also confirmed the leader of Bali should not become land broker and sell the land, the sea and the environment of Bali. “The leader of Bali must not become a land broker. There should be no conspiracy to sell Bali. I appeal to the people to do a revolution-ary movement for Bali against the

ungrateful leader of Bali selling the land of Bali,” he said.

He warned that the Island of Bali should not be made a political commodity under any pretext. Bali should be well treated and main-tained for the sake of our children and grandchildren. On that account, he hoped the leader of Bali to make introspection and Bali should do not be sacrificed to satisfy the investor appetite. “If the land and sea of Bali can be released to the hands of the investors, it is inseparable from the significant role of Bali’s leader. It is impossible for the investors to make transaction without the role of the ruler. Thus, the endeavor to sell Bali cannot be forgiven and neglected. It remains fresh in our mind regarding the effort to drill

the hills, beach reclamation and the mortgage of mangrove forests. As the subsequent impact is the evacu-ation or resettlement of Balinese people,” he protested.

He also asked the Hindu Dharma Council of Indonesia (PHDI) and the academicians chiefly from the Udayana University to consistently preserve Bali. When the team from the Udayana University made the assessment for the reclamation plan, the study should be under-taken independently, objectively and paid great attention to the im-pact of the environmental damage of Bali lest the results of the study was only to satisfy and smooth the reclamation process at the Benoa Bay by the investor.

unfortunate if there was a con-spiracy to sell Bali by the leader

ungrateful leader of Bali selling the land of Bali,” he said.

the hills, beach reclamation and the mortgage of mangrove forests. As

Reject reclamation plan of Benoa Bay

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MANGUPURA - Bali is increasingly pockmarked and the environmental damage is also getting more severe. Unluckily, the environment of Bali, ranging from the mangroves to the sea, continues to be the target of investors pursuing for profits as much as possible in Bali.

Bali is increasingly pockmarked and the environmental damage is also getting more severe. Unluckily, the environment of Bali,

ranging from the mangroves to the sea, con-tinues to be the target of investors pursuing

for profits as much as possible in Bali. IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

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Monday, July 1, 2013

SCHOOL holiday season is not let through by children, especially those classified into poor children. School holiday is in fact exploited to earn a livelihood as seen around the Badung Market. A number of child hawkers looked to peddle their merchandise consisting of fresh fruits under heat of the sun.

I Wayan Mupu, 11, this sixth grade student from Songan village, Kin-tamani, looked to uphold tray filled with fresh fruits to be sold around the Badung Market. He admitted to have been in Denpasar for ten days and filled his school holiday by sell-ing fresh fruits to traders and visitors in the market.

He usually began peddling from 6:00 a.m. until late afternoon. Ac-cording to his testimony, he was usu-ally taken in the morning to peddle to Badung Market by the owner of merchandise which he called the boss. The boss still belonging to his kinship, said Mupu, had several other men of similar age employed to peddle fresh fruits by roving around the area of Denpasar.

The income he earned from selling the fruits depended on the amount of merchandise sold. If he could peddle at IDR 150,000 a day, then the wage he acquired was around IDR 25,000.

“When the selling reached IDR 150,000, I will get only IDR 25,000,” he said. Even, said Mupu, when a lot of merchandise was unsalable, his boss was often angry at him. “When the merchandise is unsalable, I will usually be scolded by boss,” he ad-mitted when met on Saturday (Jun 29). However, all the treatments he received so far from his boss was never reported to his parents at home, for fear of being scolded. So far, he admitted to have managed to collect his wage of totally some IDR 300,000. The wage obtained from peddling would be given to his parents and partly be used for his pocket money when attending to school later.

Another story was told by Komang Suar, 9. This child also working to sell fresh fruit claimed to originally peddle fruits in Denpasar just to fill in the school holiday. However, he was not taken back home by his boss to Songan, so that he was forced to continue his work to date. Even, the more apprehensive thing was that the youngest of 8 children admitted to have never been visited by his family all this time.

However, in the mind of child who had dropped out of school lay a great desire to continue his study like his friend, Wayan Mupu. (ina)

After the evacuation made by the Regional Disaster Man-agement Agency (BPBD) on Saturday (Jun 29), the water coming into people’s home had receded as sucked by pump. On the one hand, when the evacua-tion made to the cause of flood, the Gianyar Sanitation and Land-scaping Agency got nine trucks of garbage clogging the hole of rivers and culverts. “Six trucks of garbage have been transported by the Sanitation and Landscaping officers and three other trucks by the officers of Public Works,” said the Head of Gianyar Sanita-tion and Landscaping Agency, Wayan Kujus Parwita.

Responding to such condition, the Head of Gianyar Regional Di-saster Management Agency, Anak Agung Oka Digjaya, expected the public awareness not to dispose garbage haphazardly like into the river or existing road culvert. Al-though not mentioning the source

of garbage whether it was taken along by the upstream water flows or disposed by local community, in this case the team of Gianyar Regional Disaster Management Agency expected the public to be aware of the garbage existence that could kindle catastrophe. Moreover, Mas village was a tourist area so that such incident was much deplored.

After the disaster affecting about 12 homes, the Gianyar County government delivered assistance through Social Affairs to the victims. The submission was made by the Head of Gi-anyar Social Affairs, I Wayan Suardana.

According to Suardana, the assistance was given to ease the burden of victims after the flooding. It was the form of food, cooking equipment and clothing given to elementary school students of 22 families comprising 19 families of Batan

Ancak hamlet and 3 families of Kawan Hamlet, Mas village, Ubud subdistrict.

One of the flood victims, I Wayan Marep, said the assis-tance given by Gianyar County government was very helpful either in terms of material, moral and energy.

Previously, the flooding oc-curred at Batan Ancak hamlet, Mas village, reached the height of 1.5 meters where the water overflowed and submerged 12 houses of residents. The water inundating the homes of resident originated in the overflowing wa-ter of the river and clogged drain due to piles of garbage from the river through the water irrigation of Subak Rapuan in the north of Mas village. The water height reached 1.5 meters and woke up the residents at 02:00 a.m. As consequence, they were forced to save their sober household appliances. (kmb16)

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The officers are cleaning a house which was flooded in Gianyar.

Garbage causing flood reaches 9 trucksGianyar (Bali Post)—

The flood inundating several houses at Batan Ancak hamlet, Mas, village Ubud, was one of the indications if people were not aware of the littering aftermath. It submerged 12 houses and killed dozens of chickens. The flood itself was caused by the blockage of river water, so that it kindled the water to overflow onto the street and come into the house yard.

Fill in school holiday by becoming child hawker

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A hawker is choosing garbage. A number of child hawkers looked to peddle their merchandise consisting of fresh fruits under heat of the sun during holiday.

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AntaraDENPASAR - A number of

residential areas in Denpasar are inundated by flood waters after Denpasar City was showered with rain since Thursday night until Fri-day morning, an official said.

The average depth of the flood waters is about 50 cm or knee-deep of adult person. “We have sent personnel to a number of locations to help pump the flood waters,” Chief of the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Unit of the Den-pasar regional government Made Prapta said.

He said that areas affected by the floods included the Tegal Indah housing complex in Jalan Gunung

Tangkuban Perau and Jalan Subur Monang-Maning. These areas were known to be flood prone zones.

“We received reports about the floods at 4 a.m this morning and our team has been sent to the flood locations,” he said.

Tegal Indah housing complex previously has three water pumps to suck flood waters so that resi-dents could taken anticipatory steps when floods take place.

He said his office will assist residents in a number of flood loca-tions when the floods occurred.

“We also coordinate with the Public Works Service and the Sanitation and Park Service to anticipate floods,” he said.

According to a hydrologist from the Udayana University, I Nyoman Sunarta, if the reclamation plan around the waters of Benoa Bay would be truly realized, the definite result would surely be going to cause the occurrence of changes in the ocean currents around the waters.

The results of his recent observation indicated if there had been current dis-ruption around the Benoa Bay. Later, it turned more serious if the reclamation plan would be actually realized. The ocean current that should enter into the Benoa Bay would change due to the presence of marina islands around the waters and it then moved to the periphery of the surrounding coastline. “The ocean current should come into the Benoa Bay, but the making of the islands will cause it to have no longer opportunity to get into the Benoa Bay. As consequence, the sea water will run to Sanur and collides there,” he said when contacted on Saturday (Jun 29). Thus, indirectly the reclamation plan would also aggravate the abrasion on a number of beaches around the Benoa Bay.

Similar opinion was also ex-pressed by a geomorphologist from the Udayana University, R. Suryanto. According to him, the change in the water circulation around the Benoa Bay would also disrupt the develop-ment of mangroves and marine life in the vicinity. If the ocean current would switch to the other coast, it would disturb the sea water intakes

to mangroves and cause disruption to the growth and development of the mangroves. Likewise, the develop-ment of marine life such as fish and crabs around the mangroves would be disrupted due to inadequate intake of nutrients carried by sea water.

Not only that, reclamation in the waters of Benoa Bay would also have an impact on the siltation at Benoa Harbor. Therefore, the mak-ing of the islands in the vicinity would result in high sediment piles leading to difficulty for vessels to dock at the harbor. “A harbor needs deeper waters. Many buildings will bring in a lot of sediment. Quick accumulation of the sediment will make difficult for vessels to enter. As a result, it will be required much cost to dredge,” he said.

Related to the reclamation pro-cess that would require a number of materials such as beach sand to be taken from the underwater of Sawangan Beach, said Suryanto, it was not too problematic because amount of sand at the area of Sawan-gan Beach remained sufficient for the reclamation.

However, the very important thing to consider in the process of taking the sand was monitoring. The sand for reclamation of Benoa Bay should not be taken at shallow waters. According to Suryanto, the minimal depth to take sand in the waters of Sawangan area was about 30 meters below sea level. (ina)

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

Reclamation plan at Benoa Bay waters is assessed by a number of academicians to bring in adverse effects on the environment in Bali. They are ranging from the environmental damage on land to the changes in the ocean currents around the Benoa Bay waters.

Impact of reclamation plan

Damage land, ocean current to changeBali Post

DENPASAR - Reclamation plan at Benoa Bay waters is as-sessed by a number of academicians to bring in adverse effects on the environment in Bali. They are ranging from the envi-ronmental damage on land to the changes in the ocean currents around the Benoa Bay waters.

Floods inundate residential areas in Denpasar

IBP/Asmara Putra

A number of residential areas in Denpasar are inundated by flood waters after Denpasar City was showered with rain since Thursday night until Friday morning, an official said.

Bali News International4 Monday, July 1, 2013

BALI Starling on Verge of ExtinctionBali Island has one of the beautiful and elegant birds, namely Bali starling (Leucopsar rothschildi). Unfortunately, twit-ter of the bird is now rarely au-dible in the wild life because it is continuously hunted to be traded. About five years ago, the price of Bali starling was touted to reach IDR 50 million per pair. Later on, the price of such medium-sized warbler with a length of approxi-mately 25 centimeters started to decline. Although declining, the price is still ranging from IDR 17

million to IDR 20 million per pair. With such high price, the Bali starling continues to be hunted by people.

Bali starling is a beautiful bird. Because of its beauty, the bird has become a sort of mascot for the Island of Bali and has been named the faunal symbol of Bali.

The Head of Buleleng Natu-ral Resources Conservation of Buleleng, Gede Wenten, said that population of Bali starling was mostly located in the West Bali Na-tional Park (TNBB). But now, the existence of the very rare bird was

extinct and virtually disappeared. Bali starling could only be found in breeding area such as at Tegal Bunder, TNBB. In addition, many people around the TNBB also bred it independently.

Wenten said that population of Bali starling at breeding loca-tion at Tegal Bunder amounted to some 35 pairs. Meanwhile, the Bali starling bred by people came to some 30 pairs. “Approximately 12 residents at Sumberklampok near the TNBB are breeding the birds,” said Wenten.

He added that his party contin-

ued to supervise the commercial breeding carried out by residents. The surveillance was made in order the bird would not be traded beyond the rules. It was also ex-ecuted so that the bird would not be abandoned. “If they are found to abandon the bird, we will impose strict sanction,” he said. According to Wenten, the residents who did the breeding of Bali starling were allowed to sell the birds to others. However, the bird sold should be of the second filial of the parent or its grandchild. “Its mother cannot be sold. It is only allowed to sell

the second filial or its grandchild,” he said.

Wenten confirmed the bird price was indeed expensive so that it was always sought after by bird col-lectors. Formerly, it was sold for IDR 50 million per pair. But now the price had started to fall to IDR 20 million. This happened because many people had bred the birds so that the amount of birds on sale turned a lot. “This is a normal case, if the number is scarce, the price is more expensive. But if many people have owned it, the price is going cheaper,” he said.

Information at location mentioned if such brutal action took place spontaneously, around 9:00 p.m. Somehow, the mass suddenly got emotional and then stormed into the victim’s home. The angry mob knocked down the front compound wall nearly along 30 meters and then threw at the victim’s house by stones. Almost all the roof tiles of the house were badly damaged. “It happened at night. The emotional residents directly committed vandalism,” said a resident, Friday (Jun 28).

Aside from harming the house, residents also cut down the trees belonging to the victim, including the plant in front of the victim’s house garden. In such critical condition, the victim chose to surrender. Families of the victim could

have been rescued after police arrived at the scene and they were rushed to Tabanan Police. Such vandalism only stopped after police man-aged to calm down the residents. However, the damage was already severe. Having been tranquilized by police officers, the mass gradu-ally broke up.

The subdistrict head of Marga, Made Mur-dika, confirmed such incident. He explained that such mass rioting was kindled by people’s anger related to the padlocking action of Megada Temple. It happened a few days ago. For no ap-parent reason, the temple belonging to custom-ary villagers was suddenly locked. None of the residents knew who did it. However, a suspicion arose and set in to I Made Gunung as the culprit

because he lived right in front of the temple. This man had also claimed the temple land to belong to his ancestor. “Probably, the temple locking is-sue kindled the mass emotion and then attacked the victim,” he said last Friday.

Murdika added that people’s misunder-standing originated from the excommunication (kasepekang) sanction imposed on the victim in 2008. Due to disagreement with the customary village, the residents imposed a sanction on the victim. Within the past few days, the residents suspected the victim of padlocking the temple door. “But, it’s just a suspicion. No one has dared to ascertain whether the locking was made by the victim,” he said.

Related to such incident, his party had gath-ered the residents in Marga Police station, Friday afternoon. Police ranks asked the residents about the chronology of the mass rioting and heard their aspirations. As the result, said Murdika, a further meeting would be held. Residents were also asked to hold back and no longer commit anarchical action. Until Friday, a number of police officers were still stationed at location

Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Illegal landfill (TPS) cannot only be found at residential ar-eas or urban areas. In Badung, such illegal landfill can also be found in one of the corners of the Badung Civic Center.

The illegal landfill is located on the back of the Badung Rev-enue Office (Dispenda) and the Badung Office of Population and Civil Registry. Vacant land measuring approximately 30 square meters is taken advan-tage for garbage disposal. Piles of the garbage have piled up. Most of the garbage is plastic belonging to the indecompos-able item.

When confirmed the mat-ter on Friday (Jun 28), the Head of Badung Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP), Putu Eka Merthawan, did not deny the existence of such illegal landfill. Even, he said the condition had taken place within the past few years. The garbage originated from the internal neighborhood of the civic center.

According to him, the loca-tion was deliberately used as a landfill. He argued if the loca-tion was used temporarily be-cause the Badung Civic Center had not owned a landfill and the vacant land accidentally had not been exploited yet.

He said that currently an integrated landfill was being built. He also promised that the garbage piles on the vacant land would be cleared within three months. (kmb25)

Bali Starling on verge of extinction

Illegal landfill in Badung Civic Center

A police officer is guarding the damage house in Tabanan.

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A temple padlocked, mass harms resident’s houseTabanan (Bali Post)—

A mass rioting broke out in Tabanan on Thursday night (Jun 27). Since the temple was padlocked, the residents of Gereseh hamlet, Payangan village, Marga, sprung into a rage. They destroyed the family house of I Made Gunung, 60, because they suspected him of padlocking the sanctified Megada temple. As a result, the front wall of the victim’s house was destroyed, including roof tiles and window glass. The victim could survive after being evacuated by police.

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It is a sacred presentation to welcome and entertain the gods coming down from heaven to earth. Among the Balinese Hindu commu-nity, the Rejang Dewa dance is staged in the deva yajña ritual such as temple anniversary or piodalan.

In contrast to the Sanghyang Dance denot-ing the dance of the gods-goddesses as well as other holy spirits entering into the body of the dancers, the Rejang Dewa is a sacred offering to gods. During the temple ceremony, gods are invited through mantra and puja to come down from heaven, and then abide in the sacred objects like Pratima or effigy. To welcome and cheer the arrival of the gods, people then per-form Rejang Dewa dance. Through the dance, people express their sincere gratitude to gods for their willingness to come down to earth.

Rejang Dewa dance is performed by female dancers usually around a holy place or shrine,

where the effigies are placed. The Rejang Dewa dancers generally put on the attires dominated by white and yellow colors with a headdress made of materials such as young coconut leaves. “White is a symbol of purity, while yellow is sacred just like the moon and the sun. Most of the sacred dances put on the attires definitely dominated by white and yel-low colors,” said Kadek Suartaya, a lecturer in Philosophy and Art Criticism, in the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Denpasar when met not long ago.

In performing the Rejang Dewa dance, the dancers usually make a circle in the temple or shrine courtyard. Sometimes, the dancers carry out this dance while holding hands. As a wel-coming dance to gods, aside from having to be performed in sacred place like a temple, it also has the other requirements. “In the context of sacredness, Rejang Dewa dance must be danced

by a girl who has not got their period yet. In the Balinese belief, if the Rejang Dewa dance is performed by women who have got their men-struation, gods and goddess will not be willing to come down to earth. This also applies to the other wali dance such as the Sanghyang dance. Hence, most of the dancers performing this dance remain at elementary school,” he added.

In terms of the type of the movement, the Rejang Dewa is said to be quite simple, while the tempo of its movement is slow and tender. Dominant movements used in the Rejang Dewa dance is ngembat and ngelikas or left and right movements performed while moving forward slowly. When dancing, the dancers of Rejang Dewa generally have no dialogue or singing. Rejang Dewa dance is generally accompanied by gamelan music, although there are also accompanied by tembang or Song. Gamelan accompaniment of the Rejang Dewa dance in general is Gong Kebyar gamelan music.

Rejang Dewa dance is a ritual dance whose performance is always associated with ritual, where it is mainly performed in the Deva Yajña ritual in temple. It is commonly performed in the temple outermost courtyard located closer to the placement of ritual oblations or the other places considered to be sacred. (BTN/sak)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The fuel (BBM) price hike will make the production cost borne by farmers bigger than ever. Indirectly, it will also have an impact on the increase in the agricultural production facility and infrastructure cost.

“For example, it happens to trac-tor rental becoming one of the most necessary needs to cultivate land. The tractor rental price will probably increase, not to mention the other cost hike if farmers do not want to work on by themselves,” said the Head of the Bali Agriculture Agency, Ida Bagus Wisnuardhana, recently. Ac-cording to him, the second planting season this year was the stage of rice production process directly affected by the fuel price hike. However, the condition would not disrupt the rice production target this year set at 850,000 tons.

“We are still optimistic that Bali is capable of achieving the production target having been defined previ-ously. Therefore, we help farmers with a variety of programs. Most importantly, the farmers’ need rang-ing from the seed to fertilizer is attempted to remain available in the market,” he said.

He described, the potential in-crease of production cost had been poised with various programs pre-pared by the agency that essentially encouraged farmers to produce well by remaining to disburse subsidy. Even, the Bali Agricultural Crop Agency had proposed to central government to review the sources of farmers’ income originating in the Government Purchase Price (GPP) established by Presidential Instruc-tion (Inpres). It aimed to increase the farmers’ income amid the rising production costs.

“Actually, the HPP has just been increased in early 2012, where the price of the unhusked rice at farmer level has been increased to IDR 3,300 per kg. Hopefully, after this fuel price hike, it is also followed by a new Presidential Instruction regarding the HPP adjustment,” he hoped.

Achievement of the production target was expected from the har-vest area of about 150,000 hectares. From such area, he said, the average productivity rate reached 5.7 tons of dry unhusked rice per hectare. He added that this year’s produc-tion target showed an increase of 2 percent compared to last year. The regions expected to contribute to the production were Tabanan, Badung and Gianyar. (kmb28)

Fuel price hike burdens farmers

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Rejang Dewa:

A Sacred Dance to Welcome Gods’ Arrival

Largely, the dances existing in Bali do not only serve as an entertaining art, but also as ritual dance devoted to gods. Therefore, it is not surprising if the dances in Bali are mostly performed in temples, including the Rejang Dance. This dance has many variants such as the Rejang Renteng, Rejang Bengkel, Rejang Ayodpadi, Rejang Galuh, Rejang Dewa, Rejang Palak, Rejang Mebingin, Rejang Makitut, Rejang Haja and Rejang Negara. In Balinese community, the most popularly staged rejang dance is the Rejang Dewa. Rejang Dewa is a ritual dance of the Balinese community.

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Temperatures in Las Vegas shot up to 115 degrees on Satur-day afternoon, two degrees short of a record, while Phoenix baked in 119 degrees. Large swaths of California sweltered under extreme heat warnings, which are expected to last into Tuesday night - and maybe even longer.

In Death Valley - known as the hottest place on Earth - temps reached 125, according to the National Weather Service. Death Valley’s record high of 134 de-grees, set nearly a century ago on July 10, 1913, stands as the planet’s highest recorded tem-perature.

Las Vegas fire and rescue spokesman Tim Szymanski said paramedics responded to a home without air conditioning and found an elderly man dead. He said while the man had medical issues, paramedics thought the heat worsened his condition.

Paramedics said another el-derly man suffered a heat stroke when the air conditioner in his car went out for several hours while he was on a long road trip. He stopped in Las Vegas, called 911 and was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

The oppressive heat has sent more than 40 other people to hospitals in Las Vegas since it arrived Friday, but no life-threat-ening injuries were reported.

“We will probably start to see a rise in calls Sunday and Monday as the event prolongs,” Szymanski said in a statement. “People’s bodies will be more agitated the longer the event lasts and people may require medical assistance.”

Elsewhere in Southern Cali-fornia, Palm Springs peaked at 122 degrees while the mercury in Lancaster hit 111 and 117 in Baker. The strip of gas stations and restaurants between Los An-geles and Las Vegas is known by travelers for the giant thermom-eter that often notes temperatures in the triple digits.

To make matters worse, Na-tional Weather Service meteo-rologists John Dumas said cool-ing ocean breezes haven’t been traveling far enough inland to fan the region’s overheated valleys and deserts.

In Northern California, re-cord-breaking temperatures were recorded in Sacramento, where the high was 107 degrees; Marys-

ville reached 109 degrees; and Stockton saw 106 degrees.

Cooling stations were set up to shelter the homeless and elderly people who can’t afford to run their air conditioners. In Phoenix, Joe Arpaio, the famously hard-nosed sheriff who runs a tent jail, planned to distribute ice cream and cold towels to inmates this weekend.

Officials said personnel were added to the Border Patrol’s search-and-rescue unit because of the danger to people trying to slip across the Mexican border. At least seven people have been found dead in the last week in Arizona after falling victim to the brutal desert heat. Temperatures are also expected to soar across Utah and into Wyoming and Idaho.

The heat was so punishing that rangers took up positions at trail-heads at Lake Mead in Nevada to persuade people not to hike. Zookeepers in Phoenix hosed down the elephants and fed tigers frozen fish snacks. Dogs were at risk of burning their paws on scorched pavement, and airlines kept close watch on the heat for fear that it could cause flights to be delayed.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - Police say four women and four men have been shot at a party in Brooklyn, including one woman taken to a hospital in critical condition.

Authorities say shots rang out at a party at a residence at approxi-mately 1 a.m. Sunday. They say the woman and seven other people who sustained non-life-threatening injuries have been transported to three different hospitals.

Police say there is no immediate word on the extent of the injuries or the identities of those who were hurt. Police say no arrests have been made and no suspects identified.

AP Photo/Julie Jacobson

Five-year-old Ashawn Rabb runs through a fountain of water at the Red Ridge Park kids water park, Thursday, June 27, 2013 in Las Vegas.

Heat wave intensifies across western USAssociated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS - Forecasters called for more supercharged temperatures Sunday as a heat wave gripped the Southwest, leaving one man dead and another hospitalized in serious condition in heat-aggravated incidents in this sunbaked city.

8 shot at Brooklyn party; 1 in critical condition

“Academicians must not get involved in the union circles of the authorities and entrepreneurs or investors. The academicians must consistently preserve Bali because their consideration and study will be a reference for all of us,” he said.

He also called on the customary leaders to declare a ‘war’ and rejection against the reclamation plan. “Customary leaders must be brave to declare a war against the seduction of investor that will undermine the taksu (divine vibration) of Bali. Even, the war is against the ruler with duplicity as a developer or builder and broker of land plots. Go to hell such a leader,” he concluded.

Meanwhile, an environmentalist, Gede Bangun Nusantara, as-sessed the flirting between the authorities and the entrepreneur was nothing new in any great agenda taken by the investors to Bali. “The matter of flirting often happens between the investors and the authorities because they respectively have power and interest. The ruler has permission, while the entrepreneur or investor has money. Coupled with the money-oriented mentality of the ruler, it will result in a conspiracy between the authority and the entre-preneur or investor,” he said, Saturday (Jun 29).

He hoped the leader of Bali to be wise in addressing the recla-mation plan, namely absolutely rejecting it for the sake of future generations of Bali. The current leader of Bali should not pass down a pockmarked and badly damaged Bali to our children and grandchildren so that they would reap the suffering and bear the mistakes of their predecessors. “Balinese people hope the ruler of Bali must have a conscience to save Bali. Money can be sought but good reputation is a priceless heritage,” he said.

He had confidence the components of Balinese community firmly rejected the reclamation plan. “What should be done is not reclaiming the Benoa Bay and mangrove forest areas but planting mangroves as many as possible,” he said.

He hoped the academicians to also oversee the reclamation plan and make an objective assessment and watch the environmental damage caused. So, they would not even make the assessment based on the order and benefit of the investors, but hurt the people of Bali. “The academicians are the last doorstop that should be able to think clearly and rationally and can be used as a reference. If they get colds and flirt with the investors, there is nothing that we can trust,” he said.

Similarly, he asked the circles of the Bali House to firmly reject the plan and take side with the people and the environment of Bali, not with the investors. “All the components of Balinese com-munity and people’s representatives in the Bali House and leader of Bali should be willing to be united and consistent to reject the reclamation plan. We all should really be determined to reject the endeavor to sell Bali. Moreover, they will annex the land that we must protect, such as the mangroves and Benoa Bay. It is time for us to firmly oppose the endeavor to annex the land supposed to become a buffer zone,” he concluded. (kmb29)

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“This is by far the greatest day in my whole life,” Kittel said. “I hope I can sleep, I’m going to be pretty excited about tomorrow.” What happened behind them was far more incidental.

The decision was initially taken late on to shorten the flat stage by three kilometers (two miles) because a bus from the Orica Greenedge team was stuck on the finish line. But organizers man-aged to move the colossal vehicle just in time.

“This was a really unfortunate situation,” Greenedge sporting director Matt White said. “The bus was led under the finish gantry, and we took it for granted that there was enough clearance.”

Kittel was lucky to avoid the crash to win the flat 213-kilometer (132-mile) trek from Porto Vecchio to Bastia in just under 5 hours. Kristoff and third-place Danny van Poppel clocked the same time.

“It feels like I have gold on my shoulders,” Kittel said about wear-ing the yellow jersey. “I didn’t know about the bus. I’m glad they were able to move it.” Because of the unforeseen circumstances, all 198 riders got the same time.

“We would’ve preferred a nice finish like the one we’d planned. But in exceptional situations, you have to take exceptional decisions,” race events director Jean-Francois Pesch-

eux said by telephone. “We’re not go-ing to stop the riders, and ask (them) what decision we should take.”

Kittel would have faced stiffer competition if more than a dozen riders hadn’t fallen close to the end, among them two-time former champion Alberto Contador and sprinter Peter Sagan. They got back up, with Contador’s left shoulder cut and bruised.

“I knew that Mark and Andre (Greipel) were no longer in conten-tion and it was a good chance for us,” said Kittel, who also finished the day with the best sprinter’s green jersey.

British sprinter Mark Cavendish was stuck behind those who fell and could not challenge for his 24th stage win on a day he was hoping to wear the prestigious yellow jersey for the first time.

“I’m lucky I didn’t come down,” Cavendish said. “What caused the problems was changing the finish. Like, we heard on the radio with literally 5K to go that the sprint was in 2k and then a K (kilometer) later, they were like ‘No, it’s at the finish.’ It’s just carnage.” Francaise Des Jeux team manager Marc Madiot was furious.

“The president of the (race jury) didn’t do his job,” he said. “When we (managers, riders) make a mis-take we get a fine. Well, he should get a huge fine.”

Reuters

LONDON - After all the shocks and spills of the opening week, top seed Serena Williams remained impregnable as she unleashed her full arsenal to move almost effortlessly into the last 16 at Wimbledon on Saturday.

A crushing 6-2 6-0 win over Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm offered a reminder that while her closest rivals in the women’s game are often vulnerable to upsets, she is an immovable object at the top of the tree.

With main rivals Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka departing in the second round, Williams spoke optimistically of a new generation coming through. The fact the she was playing a 42-year-old, perhaps told a different story.

“I feel like this might be the beginning of maybe the future,” she said. “Eventu-ally there’s going to have to be a shift of players.”

Williams, considered an old-stager herself despite being 11 years younger than her opponent, never allowed Date-Krumm to gain a foothold in the match, crunching winners and firing down eight

aces with her usual high levels of ag-gression.

The fact that the Japanese had got this far was a testament to her wiles, but without the weapons to threaten arguably the greatest athlete the women’s game has ever seen, she came up well short of turning the match into a contest.

The 84th-ranked Date-Krumm origi-nally retired two years before Williams set foot on the Wimbledon grass for the first time, but is currently enjoying a late bloom in her career having returned to the court in 2008 after a 12-year break.

The spirit that helped her reach a Wimbledon semi-final in 1996 is there but the raw power now required to make an impression against the likes of Williams is missing. The pedestrian Date-Krumm serve seemed to belong to a different era and was ruthlessly dispatched as Williams took the first set in 35 minutes, breaking three times.

The second set was an exercise in bru-tality as Williams wrapped up the match without dropping another game to extend her winning streak 34.

The top seed had been made to wait before getting under way. She was

scheduled third on Court One, but when the two men’s matches that came before dragged on she was switched to Centre for a maiden appearance under the roof lights.

She complained that maybe Wimble-don’s tradition of having two men’s matches on the showpiece arenas was unfair.

“Well, it’s their policy,” she said. “I’m always fighting for the ladies. Maybe one day we’ll get two matches and the men will get one match, and maybe they’ll be able to switch back and forth hope-fully.”

The fans may disagree. The two men’s matches on Court One on Saturday pro-duced more than six hours of entertain-ment, while Williams’s brief appearance lasted 61 minutes.

Williams, chasing a sixth Wimbledon title and 17th grand slam overall, will face Germany’s 23rd seed Sabine Lisicki in the fourth round.

“I feel like she’s serving massive,” she said. “I feel like she plays some of her best tennis on grass. She always pulls an upset. It will be a really tough match for me. I have to get serious to play it.”

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Alberto Contador of Spain, center with number 91, sits on the road after a group of riders crashed dur-ing the first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 213 kilometers (133 miles) with start in Porto Vecchio and finish in Bastia, Corsica island, France, Saturday June 29, 2013.

Marcel Kittel wins 1st stage of Tour de FranceAssociated Press Writer

BASTIA, Corsica — The first stage of the 100th Tour de France ended in chaotic scenes with riders crashing and a bus parked on the finish line until moments from the end on Saturday. German rider Marcel Kittel escaped the mayhem to win the first ever stage on Corsica, beating Russian sprinter Alex-ander Kristoff in a sprint finish.

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Perhaps he can be forgiven: He’s a robot, after all. Welcome to the RoboCup, where more than a thou-sand soccer-playing robots from forty countries have descended on the Dutch technology Mecca of Eindhoven this week with one goal in mind: beat the humans.

Eventually. The tournament’s mission is to defeat the human World Cup winners by 2050 — cre-ating technology along the way that will have applications far beyond the realm of sport.

To achieve the goal, organizers

Robots in the “standard plat-form” division pre-pare for kickoff at a match held dur-ing the RoboCup championships in Eindhoven, Nether-lands on Thursday, June 27, 2013.

Move over Messi, here come the robotsAssociated Press Writer

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — With the score tied 1-1, it’s gone to a penalty shootout in a tense soccer match between teams from Israel and Australia. As the Australian goalkeeper in his red jersey braces for the shot, the Israeli striker pauses. Then he breaks into a dance instead of kicking the ball.

have created multiple competition classes — including small robots, large robots, humanoid robots and even virtual robots — with plans to merge their techniques into a single squad of all-star androids capable of one day winning a man vs. machine matchup.

For now, Lionel Messi doesn’t need to look over his shoulder. Humanoid robots have difficulty keeping their balance, and the larg-est — human height — move more like, well, robots than world-class athletes.

“To be honest, I think a 3-year-old could win against any of the humanoid teams,” says Marcell Missura of the University of Bonn, whose NimbRO team won the “teen” humanoid class in Mexico City last year.

NimbRO’s 3-foot (120 centime-ter) striker sports a shock of white hair and a flashy pink bandanna as it towers above a Japanese oppo-nent in one match. That’s because the Japanese player doesn’t have a head, just a prong with a camera mounted on top.

The NimbRO striker shuffles over to the ball where it lies near one sideline, centers itself care-fully, and then raises its head to gauge the placement of the goal. It then shifts its weight to one foot, draws back the other foot and kicks.

GOAAAAAAL!The shot is not powerful, but it’s

spot on, and it leaves the opposing keeper flat-footed. “It’s starting to look like soccer,” Missura says hopefully.

Missura says his robot’s outfit, which also includes a pair of shorts that hang clumsily from its robotic hips, actually hinders its perfor-mance, leading to overheating. But making the bots look human is part of his task. “If they’re ugly they

will not be accepted by people,” he said. “Plus it is a little fun.”

While the humanoid robots have a long way to go, it’s a different story when robots are allowed to be robots — that is, with wheels, joints that can pivot 360 degrees and a wide array of sensors.

The smallest robots, each about the size and shape of a birthday cake, swarm across their field, weaving around like piranhas. These bots play with a golf ball they tick into the goal so powerfully it’s difficult to see it happen.

As in all the divisions, once a game starts, there’s no human interference — except for substitu-tions, when humans are allowed to remove a bot that has broken down, and when referees eject a player for fouling an opponent.

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SALVADOR, Brazil — Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has a dream. A tactical dream. The studious Azzurri manager would like to use seven different formations in seven matches at next year’s World Cup — if only he could.

Already known for varying his lineups, Prandelli was asked about the possibility Saturday ahead of Italy’s third-place game at the Con-federations Cup against Uruguay.

“In Italy I would be arrested. But it would be a dream,” Prandelli said with a laugh. “That’s football. You’ve got to maintain your phi-losophy of the game but you need to prepare for the opponent, not to defend but to attack. ... But in Italy we’re probably not ready for that yet because it would be a bit difficult.” Not least because playing seven matches would mean reaching the final.

In this tournament, Prandelli changed from the traditional four-man defense to a three-man backline to face World Cup holder Spain, allowing him to flood the midfield with an extra man and contain Spain’s passing wizards.

At halftime of the semifinal — which Spain won 7-6 on penalties following a 0-0 draw result after extra time — Prandelli pulled out another tactical trick, moving Daniele De Rossi back to central defense and adding another attacking player in Riccardo Montolivo.

“I would like to talk more about the tactical aspect because everyone has their own way of interpreting a match,” Prandelli said. “I read a lot of opinions, some I shared some not. It’s great to compare.

“Spain plays very patiently but not very deep. So they have eight players who don’t give you any reference points,” Prandelli said. Italy was most impressive in the first half against Spain, often running through Spanish defenders in full-pitch sweeps that took a matter of seconds.

“We all need to understand the difference between (solo) counterat-tacks and studied breakaways,” Prandelli said. “A counterattack is when you start off with the ball alone. But when you strike back with five men and four passes like we were doing it’s something planned.”

It’s a long way from the “catenaccio” or lockdown defense that Italy was once known for, and former Azzurri coach Arrigo Sacchi has taken note.

Reuters

MADRID - The president of Espanyol, Joan Collet, has angrily denounced city rivals Barcelona for what he called the “shameful” practice of poaching youngsters from the club’s academy.

Local media reported that five graduates from Espanyol’s youth academy had recently joined Barca and Collet told a news conference on Friday the club would be taking steps to make sure it did not hap-pen again.

“For a start, staff and coaches from other clubs will not be allowed to watch training sessions if they do not have permission or a prior appointment,” he said. “And we will oblige players selected by the coaching staff to sign a training con-tract,” he added. “We are not here to produce players for other clubs.”

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SOFIA - Fifteen people have been held by police in connection with an attack on the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) headquarters on Saturday, the country’s interior ministry said on Sunday.

CSKA Sofia fans threw stones and fireworks at the BFU building in central Sofia, smashing windows and hitting a reporter who tried to take a photograph [ID: nL3N0F508O]. “Fifteen people have been detained so far,” the interior min-istry’s chief secretary Svetlozar Lazarov told reporters.

“We’re still conducting questionings that will determine if any will be charged,” he said, adding that further arrests were planned. Police had stopped fans trying to set fire to the building, he said.

“The police prevented more serious incidents. When

they arrived, some of the fans were inside the building, lighting torches and trying to damage the furniture and equipment in the building.”

Supporters of CSKA, who are the most successful Bulgarian club with 31 league titles, have accused the BFU of being too strict and not allowing a merger with another club.

Debt-ridden CSKA will play in the amateur champion-ship next season if they fail to merge with another first divi-sion club in time for the start of the league on July 20.

CSKA condemned the violence, saying in a statement: “We are sure that the millions of CSKA fans in Bulgaria do not admire such behaviour; CSKA has proved it can build, not destroy. “We categorically state that the management of the club is not involved even indirectly in the vandalism against the building of the Bulgarian Football Union.”

Reuters PARIS - Ligue One newcomers Monaco have

been handed a two-point penalty for next season following violent incidents by fans during their second-division title celebrations, the French League (LFP) said on Thursday.

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

“Regarding the seriousness of the facts, Monaco

are condemned to one match behind closed doors and a three-point penalty, including one suspended, for the next Ligue 1 season,” the LFP said in a statement.

Big-spending Monaco, owned by Russian billion-aire Dmitry Rybolovlev, are widely expected to be the main challengers to champions Paris St Germain in the title race next season.

They have already splashed out more than 120 million euros to sign Colombian striker Radamel Falcao from Atletico Madrid, and fellow country-man James Rodriguez and Portugal midfield Joao Moutinho from FC Porto.

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sure Espanyol were involved in talks with their new club would not be allowed back, Collet said, and called on the professional league (LFP) to act to prevent clubs poach-

ing youngsters.Many Spanish clubs have highly

successful academies and those of Espanyol and Barca are considered to be among the best.

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Italy coach Cesare Prandelli answers questions during a press conference at the soccer Confederations Cup in Sal-vador, Brazil, Saturday, June 29, 2013. Italy will play Uruguay in the third-place match on Sunday.

Monaco handed two-point penalty for next season

Police arrest 15 for attacking Bulgarian FA headquarters

Monday, July 1, 201310 InternationalDestinationPulaki

TempleIBP

Pulaki Temple or Pura Pulaki is a Hindu shrine located in the hill bank and in front of the beautiful

beach in north part of Bali. It is one of the biggest Hindu temples in Bali situated in the coastal side

west part of Singaraja town or 1 hour drive to the west from the

town. This temple is set on the flat land with stone hill bank as a back drop meanwhile the blue ocean is

just in front of the temple.Pulaki Temple is a famous

temple among the Hindu people in Bali located in Singaraja regency,

north part of Bali. There are the group of monkeys dwell the hill

forest around the temple and it usually standing around the tem-ple in the day time. The beautiful

beach with black sand and calm seawater is one of the fascinations

to visitor to come to this temple. We can find the beautiful hill bank

and beaches along the coastal road.

It is located in Pulaki Village, Seririt Sub District, Singaraja

Regency, north part of Bali. It is just 3 hours drive from Bali’s In-

ternational Airport or 1 hour drive from Singaraja town. It is strategi-

cally set in the main road from Singaraja to Gilimanuk with the

group of monkeys as the identity for the traveler who wants to visit

this temple.\IBP/File Photo

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AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Argentina soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona, center, kicks the ball during a coach-ing clinic for Indonesian youths at Gelora Bung stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, June 29, 2013. Maradona is on a four-day visit in Indonesia.

The first quake which hit Donggala district at 09.04 a.m. local time was centered 125 km northwest of the district at a depth of 10 km, the local BMKG office said.

The second quake jolted Palu city bordering Donggala district at 09.46 a.m. local time, with the epicenter located 39 km north-west of the Central Sulawesi provincial capital.

Both quakes were not signifi-cant enough to cause a tsunami.

The quakes which lasted for less than 10 seconds prompted local residents to rush outdoors in panic.

No fatalities or injuries were

reported. Local resident Radit said he

jumped from his bed and rushed outdoors as he felt the quake.

Palu was last hit by a quake with a magnitude of 4.1 on the Richter scale at a depth of 10 km on June 24, 2013. The temblor also caused no casualties or mate-rial damage.

The quakes occurred along the Palu Koro fault line which is moving at a speed of 3 cm per year. The Palu Koro fault stretches over a distance of 800 km. According to the National Disaster Management Agency said that the fault is known as very dangerous.

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al Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) is to launch massive for-est fire extinguishing operations in eight provinces in Sumatra applying weather modification technology (MTC) and water bombings, a BNPB spokesman said.

“Besides Riau Province which becomes the main focus of BNPB in fighting forest fires that have caused haze, the agency is also to launch fire fighting operations in other provinces such as Jambi, South Sumatra and Lampung,” BNPB Spokesman Agus Wibowo said here on Saturday.

The fire extinguishing opera-tions will also be carried out in four other provinces of West Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and East Kalimantan.

In carrying out large scale fire operations, the BNPB is planning to increase the number of its air-craft fleet members of the Russian made planes type Fix Wing Beriey BE-200.

“The Russian plane of this type

is a special aircraft effective to put out fires such as water bomb he-licopter which could spray 4,000 liters of water ,” he said.

BNPB is also planning to add two Bolcow type helicopters to help put out various land fires in the provinces.

“Two Bolcow helicopters are expected to arrive in Pekanbaru in one week. These helicopters are expected to put out fires by water bombing,” BNPB Deputy for Emergency Handling Dody Ruswandi said.

He said that Bolcow helicopter had a large body and was able to carry a maximum 5,000 liters of water.

It was earlier reported that more than 150 water-bombs had been dropped on forest fires raging in several Sumatran districts and towns over the past one week.

“Five days ago, there were 70 water-bombs, yesterday there were about 37 more, and today 50 water-bombs are expected to be dropped,” Agus Wibowo of BNPB, said here on Thursday.

The water bombing operation was focused on the worst fire-

affected districts such as Pela-lawan District and Perawang in Siak District, he said.

“Four helicopters have been deployed to drop the water-bombs in the two areas. Two helicopters are from BNPB and two others from PT Sinar Mas and PT RAPP (Riau Andalan Pulp an Paper),” he said.

The two companies in fact have respectively sent two heli-copters to help extinguish the for-est fires, he added. The Indone-sian Air Force also deployed two helicopters in the operation.

In addition to the water-bomb-ing, the Indonesian Technol-ogy Assessment and Application Agency (BPPT) has been carry-ing out cloud seeding to make artificial rains by using climate modification technology.

“Over the past five days, ten tons of salt has been used in the cloud seeding efforts,” he said.

The could seeding efforts were conducted by using a Her-cules plane and a Cassa plane over Pelalawan District and Perarawang Sub District in Siak District, he added.

AntaraSEMARANG - Defense min-

ister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said that negotiations for the purchase of some Apache helicopters from the US were still ongoing.

“It is still under process but what is important is that the US government has approved it,” he said here on Saturday.

Purnomo was here to monitor distribution of cash handouts for the poor following the gov-ernment’s recent decision to increase the prices of subsidized fuel oils.

The minister said the idea to purchase a number of assault helicopters was connected with the preparations for the forma-tion of an Apache Squadron as part of efforts to build a defense system to safeguard the country’s sovereignty.

He said several countries in Asia such as China and Japan are currently also building their

defense forces.“Seeing the conditions we must

also prepare ourselves but it is not for war but for protecting Indone-sia’s sovereignty,” he said.

He said the Apache helicopters would also be used to secure the country’s natural resources that are located in areas bordering other countries.

The minister said as part of the development of the country’s de-fense forces the Indonesian Navy is also preparing anti-submarine helicopters that could be carried by Indonesian warships, a fleet of destroyers of ships with missiles and submarines.

“Thank God, Indonesia’s econ-omy is quite good so that some funds could be used for improv-ing public welfare and defense power to meet future challenges,” he said.

The army plans to purchase 40 Apache helicopters at a cost of US$40 million per unit.

Two quakes hit Central SulawesiAntara

PALU - Two earthquakes measuring 5.1 and 5.0 respectively on the Richter scale rocked Central Sulawesi province in no less than one hour on Sunday morning, according to the Meteorol-ogy, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG).

Government negotiating purchase of Apache helicopters

Disaster agency to launch fire operations in 8 provinces

Associated Press

TORONTO — Shares of Black-Berry maker Research In Motion

plunged nearly 30 percent Friday after the company posted a loss and warned of future losses despite releasing its make-or-break new

smartphones this year.RIM also announced that it will

stop developing new versions of its slow-selling tablet computer called

the Playbook.Analysts were looking for in-

sight into how phones running RIM’s new Blackberry 10 operating system are selling. It wasn’t good.

RIM said it sold 6.8 million phones overall versus 7.8 mil-lion last year. That includes older models. In wasn’t until well into a conference call with analysts that RIM announced that 2.7 million of the devices sold in the quarter were Blackberry 10 models.

RIM’s Blackberry 10 operating system is critical to the company’s comeback. New phones running the BlackBerry 10 software began selling around the world this year. The BlackBerry Z10, a touchscreen model and the Q10, which sports a keyboard, have received positive reviews, but there was a delay in getting them to market in the U.S.

The first quarter, however, in-cluded a substantial period of sales of the Z10 phone in the U.S. It didn’t include sales numbers for the Q10 in the U.S. The Q10 just went on sale in the U.S. earlier this month.

Sales results and RIM’s projec-tions, however, signal that the new BlackBerry 10 phones are not sell-ing well. The company said it antici-pates it will generate an operating loss in the second quarter, too.

Mike Walkley, an analyst with Canaccord Genuity, said it’s clear the new operating system has not turned the company around.

“With Z10, Q10, and Q5 all shipping in the August quarter and BlackBerry still guiding to a loss we believe that is strong evidence BB10 has not turned around BlackBerry in an extremely competitive smart-phone market,” Walkley said.

Chief Executive Thorsten Heins said on a conference call with ana-lysts that the “transition takes time”

and noted things are better com-pared to last year when “we were told the company was finished.”

Shares of Research in Motion Ltd. dropped $4.02, or 28 percent, to close at $10.46 Friday.

The BlackBerry, introduced in 1999, was once the dominant smartphone for on-the-go business people. But it lost its cachet not long after Apple released the first iPhone in 2007. Apple’s device reset expectations for what a smartphone can do. RIM promised to catch up while developing new a software system called BlackBerry 10, which uses technology it got through its 2010 purchase of QNX Software Systems. But the company took more than two years to unveil new phones that were redesigned for the multimedia, Internet browsing and apps experience that customers now demand. During that time, RIM cut more than 5,000 jobs and saw shareholder wealth of more than $70 billion vanish.

The Canadian company said it lost $84 million, or 16 cents a share, in the three months ended June 1 on revenue of $3.1 billion. It lost $518 million, or 99 cents per share, on revenue of $2.8 billion a year ago.

Analysts expected RIM to earn 5 cents a share on revenue of $3.37 billion.

The number of BlackBerry users in the world also fell by four mil-lion to 72 million. RIM also said it anticipates it will generate an operating loss in the second quarter. Heins noted the highly competitive smartphone market makes it diffi-cult to estimate revenue and levels of profitability.

Heins also announced on the call that he has halted further develop-ment of RIM’s failed tablet offering, the Playbook. The Playbook has not sold well.

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Obama will announce the plan, which leverages existing cash and private fi-nance, during a visit to Cape Town.

The initiative, dubbed “Power Af-rica”, aims to double access to power in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than two-thirds of the population is without electricity, a statement said.

“Power Africa will build on Africa’s enormous power potential, including new discoveries of vast reserves of oil and gas, and the potential to develop clean geothermal, hydro, wind and solar energy,” it said.

It said countries involved in the plan included Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libe-

ria, Nigeria and Tanzania, which have “ambitious goals” in electric power generation.

According to the International Energy Agency, sub-Saharan Africa will need investment of more than $300 billion to achieve universal electricity access by 2030, it noted.

Obama to unveil $7 billion Africa power plan

Agence France-Presse

JOHANNESBURG - US President Barack Obama will on Sunday unveil a plan, worth $7 billion over five

years, to upgrade African power networks in a bid to reduce electricity cuts and blackouts that scare off

business investment, the White House said.

RIM posts larger-than-expected loss, shares plunge

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File

In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013,file photo, Thorsten Heins, CEO of Research in Motion, introduces the BlackBerry Q10, in New York. Research in Motion Ltd. reports quarterly financial results before the market opens on Friday, June 28, 2013.

BUSINESS

Published Saturday by Folha de S. Paulo, the country’s biggest news-paper, the Datafolha survey found 30 percent of respondents rated Rous-seff’s government as “great/good,” a sharp fall from the 57 percent who gave it that rating three weeks ago before the demonstrations began.

The government’s popularity was down throughout the country, including in the northeast where the ruling Workers Party is strong. Her rating dropped there from 64 to 40 percent there.

The poll also found that 30 per-cent of voters say they’ll cast their ballot for Rousseff in October 2014 - that is down from 51 percent just a few weeks ago. If no candidate wins an outright majority, a second-round vote is held between the top two vote winners.

In the Datafolha poll, that second-

round candidate would be Marina Silva, a former Workers Party envi-ronment minister who split with the party in 2009 over policy differences and joined the Green Party. She ran for president in 2010 and won a sur-prising 20 million first-round votes, but it wasn’t enough to get her to the second-round ballot.

In the most recent poll, 23 per-cent of respondents said they’ll vote for Silva, up from 16 percent a few weeks ago. Datafolha interviewed 4,717 people on June 27 and 28, and the poll has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.

The government’s approval rat-ing had hit 65 percent in March, according to Datafolha, but in June suffered its biggest drop since Rousseff took office 2 ½ years ago. Many Brazilians have been upset about rising inflation and shrinking

purchasing power.The firm said the government’s ap-

proval had suffered the biggest drop for any president since a 1990 fall for then-leader Fernando Collor de Mello who tried to control spiraling inflation by freezing all savings accounts. He

was forced from office because of a corruption scandal two years later.

Beginning mid-June, the recent protests had first targeted trans-portation fare hikes but quickly expanded to a variety of causes including government corruption,

high taxes, poor public services and the billions of dollars spent for next year’s World Cup soccer tour-nament and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The Datafolha poll showed that 81 percent of respon-dents supported the protests.

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Associated Press Writer

PIFO, Ecuador - Gino Descalzi used to fret about things like aphids, mildew and the high cost of shipping millions of roses a year from Ec-uador to florists in the United States. These days he’s worried about a 30-year-old former spy stuck in the transit area of the Moscow airport, and he can’t believe it.

The Obama administration sent a thinly veiled economic threat to this South American country on Thursday when it indefinitely delayed a decision to eliminate tariffs on imports of roses worth about $250 mil-lion a year. The move created leverage over the leftist government seen as likeliest to grant National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden political asylum that would protect him from U.S. criminal charges.

About the same time, a small group of U.S. senators made explicit threats of trade retaliation if Ecuador harbors Snowden. And on Sat-urday, Vice President Joe Biden asked Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa to turn down any asylum request, although Correa described the conversation as cordial.

A week after Snowden began his stuttering, surreal flight across the globe, every passing day without him making progress toward Ecua-dorean asylum makes the prospect look less likely. But the men who grow roses, asters and delphinia in the thin air of Ecuador’s sun-soaked highlands are deeply concerned that, whatever happens to Snowden, they may turn out to be the most unlikely collateral damage from the geopolitical wrangle over his fate.

“This totally changes the financial panorama for our businesses and seriously affects the structure of our markets,” said Descalzi, whose 280 employees produce some 22 million roses a year. “We’re just shocked that an event so far from the political and economic life of Ecuador has caused so much commotion and worry.”

The rose benefit for Ecuador had been widely expected to be ap-proved. Any delay, they say, puts it into uncomfortably uncertain territory.

Popularity rating of Brazil president plummetsAssociated Press Writer

SAO PAULO - Public approval of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s government has suffered a steep drop in the weeks since massive protests broke out across this country, according to Brazil’s first nationwide poll released since the unrest began. For the first time, polling shows she would be forced into a second-round runoff vote in next year’s presidential election.

AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, center, sits with her Chief of Staff Gleisi Hoffmann, left, and the Min-ister of Labor Manoel Dias, right, as they meet with union leaders at the Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, June 26, 2013.

Ecuador flower growers in Snowden shock

AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa

Flowers grow in a greenhouse on the Valleflor flower farm in Pifo, Ecuador, Saturday, June 29, 2013.

Monday, July 1, 201314 InternationalLifestyle

Scientists also are predicting the optimal temperature zone for giant se-quoias will rise hundreds and hundreds of feet (meters), leaving trees at risk of dying over the next 100 years.

As indicators point toward a warm-ing climate, scientists across 4 million acres (1.62 million hectares) of feder-ally protected land are noting changes affecting everything from the massive trees that can grow to more than two-dozen (7.3 meters) across to the tiny, hamsterlike pika. But what the changes mean and whether humans should do anything to intervene are sources of disagreement among land managers.

“That’s the tricky part of the de-bate: If humans are causing warming, does that obligate us under the laws of the National Park Service to try to counteract those effects?” said Nate Stephenson, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

“How do you adapt to a changing climate if you’re a national park?” add-ed Stephenson, who is 30 years into a study of trees in the largest wilderness in the continental U.S., Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park.

Since 1895, the average tempera-ture across California has increased by 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius), and experts say the most visible effects of that warming oc-cur within the Sierra Nevada, where low temperatures are rising and precipitation increasingly falls as rain rather than snow. Some models show noncoastal California warming by 2.7 degrees (1.5 Celsius) between 2000 and 2050, one of many reasons President Barack Obama pledged last week to use executive powers to cut carbon pollution.

The state’s two largest rivers — the Sacramento and San Joaquin — origi-

nate in the Sierra. The range also is home to Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America; Mount Whit-ney, the highest peak in the Lower 48; and America’s only groves of giant sequoias, the largest living things on earth.

There are mounting concerns about the beloved sequoias, whose sprawling, 10-foot-(three-meter)deep root systems make them especially vulnerable to drought and heat.

Because the trees exist only in such a small region, scientists are debating whether to irrigate the 65 groves in the southern Sierra to help them endure warmer temperatures. Otherwise they fear the trees could die. During the last warm, dry period 4,000 to 10,000 years ago, their numbers were greatly diminished, according to pol-len evidence collected by researchers at Northern Arizona University.

“Whether we would water them certainly comes up on our climate change scenario planning,” said Koren Nydick, science coordinator at Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park. “They are a very unusual species because they’re also looked on as a social artifact.”

Stephenson says his decades of studying conifers in Sequoia National Forest have shown they are dying at twice their historic rate, partly because the climate is warmer and dryer. The giant sequoias grow much more slow-ly than conifers over many hundreds of years so changes have been tougher to recognize, though researchers sus-pect seedlings already may be having a harder time taking root.

“That’s always the million-dollar question,” said Stephenson, director of USGS’s Sierra Nevada Global Change Research Program. “We just don’t have a big enough sample size

to know what’s going on with the giant sequoias, whereas we monitor thousands of pines and firs and have much more confidence.”

So far, the dozens of changes re-searchers have noted, in everything from earlier songbird fledging dates to greater wildfire intensity, may point to a warming climate. But it’s far from understood whether that would mean doom or adaptation for California’s ecological heart.

“I don’t want to say that because we’re seeing one thing, that’s how it will play out,” said Rob Klinger who is studying alpine mammals for the USGS’s Western Ecological Research Center. “The endgame of our study is determining whether there will be uni-form change or will it be patchwork. If you look at evolutionary time scales, species have gone through these changes before, and they handle it.”

As part of a Ph.D. project at the University of California, Merced, Kaitlin Lubetkin for five summers has hiked the backcountry taking inventory of 350 subalpine meadows formed when glaciers retreated eons ago. The marshy ground acts as a reservoir that eases flooding after snow melts, and the stored water feeds streams during dry months and sustains wildlife such as the endangered willow flycatcher song-bird and the Yosemite toad, which is being considered for threatened species status.

Over the past decade of warmer, drier conditions, however, pine trees have begun to take root, acting like straws to pull the moisture out of the meadows, Klinger and Lubetkin have observed.

“Pretty much right up to the tree line you’re getting encroachment in every meadow,” said Lubetkin.

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — More than 150 years of African-American history from slavery to civil rights and contemporary suburban life are in focus in two new exhibitions opening in America’s capital.

The National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Art opened exhibits Friday, in part to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared “I have a dream” in August 1963. One show features the work of contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall, while the other follows King’s rise to prominence.

The National Gallery brought together a series of paintings by Marshall for the Chicago-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Washington. They serve as a timeline of history in pictures and symbols spanning the Middle Passage of slave ships traveling from Africa to America to the entry of black people in the middle class.

In a tour of the exhibit, Marshall said he has long worked to show the more complicated dimensions of history in his art.

“What mattered to me was really advancing the idea and the image and the presence of black folks in pictures — where they were infrequently encountered,” he said. Marshall said he wanted to find a way to ensure such pictures would have a place in the nation’s museums to tell a more complete history.

In 2011, the National Gallery of Art acquired his painting “Great America,” which depicts black figures in a small boat on an amusement park ride. It’s a scene of middle-class leisure but also contains troubling images of the past.

In other paintings, Marshall depicts the Virginia estates of two founding fathers, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who were slave holders — and he includes images of slaves or slave ships in the scene.

Marshall’s painting “Our Town” presents a more contemporary scene with black children in a suburban setting in place of “Dick and Jane” from old reading texts. The boy rides a bicycle, and a girl with a dog runs beside him. Their mother waves goodbye in the distance.

“There are black people who live in neighborhoods that are like that. But the truth is that many of those neighborhoods are black neighborhoods because the white folks who used to live in those neighborhoods moved out as soon as we started moving in,” Mar-shall said. “Those things ... complicate the idea of your success when you arrive at a place like that.”

AP Photo/Hassan Basagic

In this Sept. 5, 2004 photo provided by Hassan Basagic is Lyell Glacier in Yosemite National Park. In parts of California’s Sierra Nevada, the incursion of trees is sucking marshy meadows dry.

Calif.’s Sierra a ‘living lab’ for climate change

Associated Press Writer

SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, California — In parts of California’s Sierra Nevada, marshy meadows are going dry, wildflowers are blooming earlier and glaciers are melting into ice fields.

AP Photo/National Gallery of Art

This undated handout image provided by the National Gallery of Art shows Kerry James Marshall 1995 acrylic and collage on canvas entitled: Our Town, which is part of an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington which is part of an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington focus-ing on more than 150 years of African-American history from slavery to civil rights and contemporary suburban life.

Black history in focus with 2 new exhibits in DC

Monday, July 1, 2013 15International Activities

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Calendar Event for July 10 through August 10, 2013

10 Jul Buda Kliwon Ugu

Pura Dalem Tarukan - Pulasari Peninjauan

Tembuku Bangli

Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba Kaba Tabanan

Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng

Pura Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng

Pura Agung Gunung Raung Tarokaja Taro

Tegallalang

17 Jul Buda Paing Wayang

Pura Dang Khayangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda

Sekaan Bangli

20 Jul Tumpek Wayang

Pura Majapahit Jembrana

Bathara Ratu Gede Celuk Sukawati

Bathara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati

Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan

Sesetan Denpasar

Bathara Ratu Allit lan Ratu Lingsir Singakerta

Ubud

Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih

Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih

Pura Pedarman Kaba Kaba Besakih

Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih

Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan

Gelgel klungkung

Pura Pemerajan Agung Sulang Dawan

Klungkung

Pura Padharman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna

Kepakisan Besakih ( Dalem Klungkung )

Pura Penataran dan Pasraman Kuta Rejo ,

Kendal Rejo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi

Pura Jala Sidhi Amerta Juanda Surabaya

22 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa

Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih

Pura Tirta Besakih

Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan

Jati Jakarta Selatan

Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja

Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-

Susut-Bangli

Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur

Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar

Buleleng

Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani

Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani

Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati

Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-

Lumajang Jawa Timur

Pura Pengubengan Besakih

Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati

Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur

Kintamani

Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu

Kanding-Nusa Penida

Pura Luhur Candi Narmada Tanah Kilap Desa

PemogaN Denpasar Selatan

Pura Panca Tirta Sido Luhur Bakanheni

Lampung Selatan

Pura Ponjok Batu Tejakula Buleleng

24 Jul Buda Wage Kelawu

Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang

Karangasem

Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Sukawati

Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida

Pura Pasek Pengembungan Bongkasa

Abiansemal

Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede

Penebel Tabanan

Pura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Jawa Banjar Jawa

Tengah Buleleng

Pura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta Ubud

Pura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding

Tampaksiring

Pura Penataran Batupelang Kamasan klungkung

Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Kedonganan

Kuta

Pura Guwa Besakih

Pura Basukian Besakih

Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh/Bukit Kiwa

Tengen Penataran Agung Besakih

Pura Jati Ubud

Pura Melanting Ubud

Pura Dalem Peed Nusa Penida

Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Desa Sakti

Nusa Penida

Pura Penataran Agung Anyar Liligundi

Bebandem Karangasem

30 Jul Anggar Kasih Dukut

Pura Dalem Batuyang Batubulan

Pura Dalem Pasek Gelgel Mengening

Kediri Tabanan

Pura Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan

Tabanan

Pura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman

Bedulu Gianyar

Pura Puser Jagat,Dalem Dukut, Puri Sukun

Nusa Penida

Pura Dalem Purwa Banjar Kawan Bangli

Pura Desa Ketewel Sukawati

31 Jul Buda Umanis Dukut

Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibangkaja

Abiansemal

Pura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar

Pura Paiobon Dukuh Segening Serongga

Kelod Gianyar

4 Aug Redite Kliwon Watugunung

Pura Penataran Agung Mahagotra Tirta

Harum Srisrengga Desa Nyalian

Banjarangkan Klungkung

6 Aug Tilem Sasih Kasa

Pura Dalem Seme Jawa Desa Kukuh

Marga Tabanan

10 Aug Hari Raya Saraswati

Pura Pasek Tangkas - Gempinis Dalang

Tabanan

Pura Pasek Gelgel - Sayan Bongkasa

Abiansemal

Pura Watugunung Bima

Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya

Pura Aditya Jaya - Rawamangun Jakarta Timur

Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Buleleng

Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi

Jawa Barat

Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori

Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal

Badung

Pura Kawitan Bendesa Aban Baturning

Desa Mambal Abiansemal

Peking Duck is a famous duck dish from Beijing that has been prepared since the imperial era, and is now considered a national dish of China.

This special dish is served as three separate courses. Firstly the whole crispy Peking Duck is presented and carved by the Chef at your table .The Duck’s crispy skin is rolled in Chinese pancakes and mixed with Black Bean Sauce, Cu-cumber and Spring Onions. For the next course the Duck’s meat is cooked with Black Bean sauce and mixed with veg-etables and then finally the soup is served consisting of the stock made from the duck bones with vegetables added.

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EntertainmentMonday, July 1, 2013

One student from California was warned to perform “I Believe” from “The Book of Mormon” without an ounce of smirk. A teen from Utah was advised not to overthink a Stephen Sondheim lyric. And when a Colorado student wanted advice on whether she was better off singing a serious song from “Aida” or a funny one from “Cinderella,” she was asked to sing both. The funny one came out on top.

“That’s the one,” said the coach, Tony Award-nominee Liz Callaway, whose Broadway credits include “Miss Saigon” and “Baby.” The student, Nicole Seefried, seemed convinced — and relieved. “It is,” she said, happily.

The teens were among 62 hoping to be crowned top actor and top actress at this year’s contest. Now in its fifth year, the National High School Musical Theater Awards will be held Monday at the Minskoff Theatre, the long-term home of “The Lion King.”

The 62 teens who made it to New York — 31 girls and 31 boys — get a five-day theatri-cal boot camp at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, complete with scrambling to learn an opening and closing group number, intense advice on their solo songs, plus a field trip to watch “Annie” on Broadway and din-ner at famed theater-district hangout Sardi’s. It’s not all glamorous, though. Hours are spent in plain classrooms on plastic chairs, with battered pianos and bottles of water.

“It’s an experience that’s going to stay with them for the rest of their lives,” said Van Kaplan, president of the awards organization

and the show’s director.Both top winners will receive a scholarship

award, capping a monthslong winnowing process that began with 50,000 students from 1,000 schools. This year’s contestants come from 20 states: Geor-gia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Illinois, Texas, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, California, Pennsylva-nia, Missouri, Nevada, Utah, Wisconsin, Tennessee, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Florida and Kansas.

On Monday night, all 62 will perform snippets of the songs that they sung at regional competi-tions as part of several large medleys, and then six finalists — three boys and three girls — will be plucked to sing solos. The winners will be picked from the last six.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — The Glastonbury Fes-tival is wrapping up, with many fans still on a high from the Rolling Stones’ first-ever gig at Britain’s leading music extravaganza. Festival founder Michael Eavis declared the concert “the high spot of 43 years of Glastonbury.”

The Stones played for more than two hours Saturday, giving fans a clutch of hits, from opener “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” through to encores of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Satisfaction.”

Organizers estimate 100,000 people watched the show, including celeb-rity music fans Prince Harry and Kate Moss.

The gig was a coup for the festival, although there were grumbles from TV viewers because the Stones agreed to let the BBC air only an hour of its set. The festival ends Sunday with a performance by Mumford & Sons.

Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

Mick Jagger, center, Ronnie Wood, left ,Charlie Watts, rear on drums and Keith Richards, right, of British band the Rolling Stones, perform on the Pyramid main stage at Glastonbury, England, Saturday, June 29, 2013.

Mumfords to close Glastonbury after Stones triumph

62 high school students hopeful of a musical crown

AP Photo/Mark Kennedy

In this Thursday, June 27, 2013, photo, Anthony Nappier of Los An-geles practices singing “I Believe” from “The Book of Mormon” in New York City, ahead of the National High School Musical Theater Awards on Monday, July 1.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — In a steaming, stuffy classroom downtown, it was time for some talented youngsters to face the music. Half a dozen high school students from across the country were being critiqued on their singing and performance skills by a coach helping them prepare for the National High School Musical Theater Awards on Monday night.