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Associated Press

NEW YORK — It’s taken a few years, but Vanessa Hudgens has finally made the leap from “High School Musical” to a Broadway musical. The actress-singer will star in a Broadway-bound revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe’s musical “Gigi” that first debuts in Washington, D.C. early next year. She’s already jumped into twice-a-day vocal exercises and memorizing her lines.

“I think, as an actor, the ultimate dream is to be on Broadway. I think it’s the true test. There are no second takes. You’ve got to bring everything you’ve got

for the most critical of audiences,” she said by phone Wednesday. “It’s an honor, if anything. I’m over the moon.”

“Gigi,” set in Paris at the turn of the last century, comes from the same com-poser and lyricist as “My Fair Lady.” It centers on a teenage girl being groomed to serve as a companion to a bored, wealthy playboy until the pair realize they have fallen in love.

Hudgens was familiar with the show and some of the music. “My mom’s name is Gina, her nickname’s been Gigi. We have a dog named Gigi. Gigi is very preva-lent in our lives,” she says, laughing.

The original novel by Colette began as

a play starring Audrey Hepburn in 1951 and then became a movie musical star-ring Leslie Caron. A stage musical was made in 1973 starring Karin Wolfe but lasted only about 100 performances.

“Gigi” features the memorable tunes “Thank Heaven For Little Girls,” ‘’I Remember It Well” and “The Night They Invented Champagne,” which Hudgens called “an absolutely electric musical number.” The score also includes a few songs added to the score in 1973, includ-ing “Paris is Paris Again” and “I Never Want to Go Home Again.”

Hudgens, 25, who made her feature film debut in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen,” is best known for play-ing Gabriella, the love interest of Zac Efron’s Troy, in Disney’s “High School Musical” movies. Recent screen credits include “Bandslam” and “Spring Break-ers.” Hudgens has put out two albums, including 2008’s “Identified.”

She grew up doing musical theater and says that’s “what brought me out of my shell. So being onstage is something I feel very comforting.” She starred as Mimi in “Rent” at the Hollywood Bowl in 2010.

Playwright Heidi Thomas, who wrote the PBS/BBC hit “Call the Midwife,” is reimagining the new production of “Gigi.” Her TV credits include a “Madame Bovary” that starred Frances O’Connor and a revival of the classic British TV series “Upstairs, Downstairs” from 2010 to 2012. Her plays include “Shamrocks and Crocodiles,” “Some Singing Blood” and “The House of Special Purpose.”

The production, directed by Benedict Andrews, is set in present day New Or-leans on a stage that revolves constantly, offering viewers both the shifting per-spective of the characters and their slow turns into madness.

Anderson, who plays Williams’ leg-endary desperate Southern belle Blanche DuBois, is joined by Ben Foster as Stanley, her lower-class nemesis, and Vanessa Kirby as his suffering wife. The spinning stage might sound like a recipe for motion sickness, but Anderson said most theatergoers get used to it.

“A good deal of people who see it say

the revolve disappears for them and, if they notice it, it’s to notice the benefits of it and the benefits of the perspective that it gives,” said Anderson by phone from London.

“Every once in a while, somebody will see it and just not be able to see beyond the fact that it’s revolving and it becomes an albatross around the neck of their experi-ence. But that’s the minority.”

Anderson, the 46-year-old former co-star of “The X-Files,” said that she has long wanted to tackle the doomed Blanche onstage and compares it to rid-ing a stallion every night that she cannot

ever tame.“It’s a behemoth,” she said. “It sits on

your shoulders like a bad dream, but if you can ride through the punctuation and the energy and the stamina and the beats, it is heaven, absolute heaven.”

The production opened at the Young Vic on July 28 and the Sept. 16 show will be captured live and broadcast to about 1,500 venues in 40 different countries over the following hours and days, with some encore screenings expected.

Anderson, who hopes to take the pro-duction to Broadway one day, said there might be added pressure of having cameras capture her show, but there’s not much she and her fellow actors can do about it.

“We’re already live and exposed and the most that we can hope is that on that particular night that it’s captured that we do one of our better performances,” she said. “That’s not necessarily in our hands. We’ll show up and do the best that we can do.”

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Gillian Anderson onscreen soon in ‘Streetcar’Associated Press

NEW YORK — If you can’t get to London in time to catch Gillian Anderson spinning onstage in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” her orbit is about to get larger. Starting Tuesday, Fathom Events, National Theatre Live and BY Experience will broadcast to movie theaters worldwide the fresh, critically cheered take on Tennessee Williams’ classic tale from London’s Young Vic Theatre.

Vanessa Hudgens coming to Broadway as ‘Gigi’

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A tourism businessman of Bali, Ketut Ardana, judged the rampant construction of budget hotels in the Bali region was the cause of the decline in hotel room oc-cupancy rate. “The decline can have been predicted previously. As the main cause, he explained,

is the widespread permits issued without paying attention to capac-ity,” revealed Ardana in Denpasar, Tuesday (Sep 2).

He said the construction of star hotels in Badung and Denpasar was quite disturbing the occupancy rate because the growth in accommoda-

tion and tourist arrival showed an inequality. “As a result, hotels sold their rooms at low prices to fill in the occupancy rate. This must be antici-pated so that Bali tourism does not become a cheap tourism,” he said.

This Chairman of the Associa-tion of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) of Bali Chapter hoped that local government could tighten the permit and should dare to restrain the rate of growth and not merely think of the regionally generated revenue (PAD).

Meanwhile, the Head of BPS Bali, Panusunan Siregar, asserted that such conditions could not re-flect if the quality of travelers com-

ing to Bali dropped, but it happened because they had many options of accommodation to choose from.

“We cannot detect the matter of quality. Probably, they have already known about the facilities avail-able here. They are still staying for longer time, but just looking for a cheaper room rate,” he explained.

He added the construction of star hotels in Badung and Denpasar had disrupted the occupancy rate. As a result, hotels then sold their room at low prices to meet the occupancy rate. Even, he suspected that Bali tourism tended to move towards cheaper tourism. The decline in occupancy rate was inversely pro-

portional to the average length of stay in star hotels with the increase of 0.28 days to 3.47 days from 3.19 days in the same period earlier.

“I think many tourists choose to stay at cheaper hotel rather than stay-ing at star hotels. By doing so, they can stay longer in Bali,” he said.

According to him, the decline in hotel occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali will have a positive impact on small hotels and non-star hotels owned by local business people. “These conditions will equalize the distribution of the Bali tourism pie, so that it is not only enjoyed by entrepreneurs with large capitals,” he said. (kmb27)

Pakistan evacuates thousands as floods hit plains

Tourist arrivals soar

Room occupancy of star-hotels slumps

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A hotel project at Batu Belig, Bali Island, shown in this photo. Rampant construction of budget hotels in the Bali region was the cause of the decline in hotel room occupancy rate.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Many tourist arrivals to Bali do not necessar-ily have an impact on the hotel room occupancy rate in Bali. Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali noted that the number of foreign tourist visiting Bali reached 361,066 tourists (July 2014), while the occupancy rate of hotels fell 1.04 points to 61.4 percent compared to the same period last year reaching 62.44 percent.

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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

Friday, September 12, 2014Friday, September 12, 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 continues to expand it design oriented superior select service Hotel NEO throughout Bali, this time enter-ing Bali’s commercial and administra-tive heart on Jalan Gatot Subroto in Denpasar.

The Hotel NEO Gatot Subroto targets Bali’s growing MICE industry and aims to deliver a proficient hotel and a chick environment at a reason-able price point. The all non smoking hotel consist of 112 modern rooms and the newest and probably hippest low cost meeting venues and conference rooms in Bali’s capital. Business trav-elers can make use of the 3 meeting rooms grouped around a covered but essentially open air pre function space ideally suited for cocktail receptions, café breaks and BBQ parties, free high-speed Wi-Fi throughout the en-tire hotel, express check-in & check-out facilities and ample of parking space. Down time can then be enjoyed at the hotel’s swimming pool and the signature “Noodles Now” coffee shop. Additional facilities also include a

hotel laundry service, a security key card system as well as 24 hour front desk facilities & security. All room rates are intentionally affordable for everyone while exclusive benefits are reserved for online customer book-ings via the group’s website www.NeoHotels.com.

“Indonesia’s phenomenal economic growth and an ever growing and more and more affluent middle class set to soon represent 140 million people as well as demographic shifts towards a younger and more style conscious consumer have increased demand for affordable life-style hotels fully equipped with complete facilities. NEO hotels answer this demand by offering a chic hotel concept with amenities that are usually found in more expensive hotels. Considering that Bali is one of the top tourism destinations in the world, we are con-fident that NEO Gatot Subroto - Bali will be another welcomed addition to our NEO portfolio in Bali which will soon also see hotel openings in Kuta, Legian and Petitenget ” says Norbert Vas, Vice President Sales & Marketing Archipelago International.

Hotel Neo Gatot Subroto opens

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Mr. Wayan Garutma Utama as Hotel Manager of Hotel NEO Gatot Subroto Bali, Mrs. Happy Lutjika as Director of Sales and Marketing of Archipelago International, Mrs. Ida Ayu Ketut Caturini as Managing Director of PT. Graha Sastra Loka and Mr. Ida Bagus Putra Arimbawa as Commisioner of PT. Sastra Mas Estetika during Opening event.

There are two clean water pipe-line projects in Karangasem. One of them is the Telaga Waja water pipeline project started in 2008 worth more than IDR 125 billion. The budget originated from central

government and was managed by the Bali-Penida River Area Agency. However, so far the result of the project cannot be enjoyed by residents because the water has not run yet.

A number of headmen in Karan-gasem called the project a grave of pipeline. All this time, many pipelines have indeed been in-stalled. Yet, the water has not run. The water from Telaga Waja was planned to be sold to cruise ships mooring at the Tanah Ampo Quay, Manggis. Unfortunately, the quay project touted as the largest one in Southeast Asia by the regent of Karangasem failed to bring in cruise ships to drop by.

Aside from the Telaga Waja pipeline project, Karangasem also has the four-subdistict pipeline project. This project is financed through the regional budget of Karangasem. The total budget used was IDR 27 billion or surpassed the upper limit of the Karangasem regional budget in 2009 amounting to IDR 29 billion.

The Regent of Karangasem, Wayan Geredeg, said not long ago that the water pipeline project for supplying the four subdistricts took the water from a well at the edge of Lake Batur, Bangli. The water was flowed to Munti Gunung. When the regent made site inspection to the project in 2012, the residents of Munti Gunung said that only three groups could have enjoyed the wa-ter service of the project. Actually, the Munti Gunung barren village

in 2012 had more than 25 groups of people that were still in need of clean water.

Other than at Munti Gunung, the water of the pipeline project from Embukan at Ababi village is drained to Abang subdistrict and Karangasem subdistrict. In Abang subdistrict, the water is drained to Umanyar, Ababi village. But so far, the residents are still queuing to take water at public cistern. The wa-ter supply does not run every day, but sometimes it only runs once to twice within a week. It only runs at particular hours. Even, the residents at Kelakah, Pidpid village, said that the water only ran for four hours a week. Within a week, the water only ran for two days and each day ran for two hours, provided that it could run smoothly.

At Seraya, the water pipeline from Tirtagangga and Embukan could have only been enjoyed by residents living at roadside of West Seraya and Seraya. Meanwhile, East Seraya was still in drought. Regent Geredeg admitted that only few residents of Bunutan and East Seraya that could be reached by the clean water pipeline projects. People expected their village could be reached next year.

Meanwhile, the water pipeline from the spring of Tirtagangga is flowed to Manggis subdistrict. The water has reached Pesedahan and can have been enjoyed by resi-dents of Tenganan Pegringsingan village.

Although there have been many pipeline projects with large funds

and 15 reservoir projects, many residents in Karangasem still face clean water crisis. Residents at Antiga and Padangbai village complain about clean water cri-sis. Even, the water supply from the Municipal Waterworks also frequently jams. When it runs, the discharge is very small.

Residents at Pempatan, Sebudi village, in Jungutan mountain areas, at Butus, Buana Giri village, at mountainous villages in Abang and Kubu subdistrict, said Chairman of the PDI-P Faction in the Karan-gasem House, I Gede Dana, were still facing clean water crisis. This legislator from the barren Pengin-yahan hamlet, Tianyar, Kubu, said that the severe water crisis did not only occur in the mountains areas.

Many residents living at the edge of the Amlapura-Singaraja road section were also hit by clean water crisis. Musna Antara, for in-stance, said that since last May the residents in Kubu had been already screaming for clean water crisis.

He said the installation of Telaga Waja water pipeline project had indeed been a lot. Lately, the pipe installation had reached some vil-lages. At least, two water reservoirs had been installed in Kubu. One of them was built in the west of Penginyahan village. On the other hand, Deputy Regent of Karan-gasem, Made Sukerana, expected the Telaga Waja pipeline project could have been accomplished in 2015. By doing so, the water of the project was expected to run in 2016. (Budana)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The team of the Denpasar Police Narcotics Unit raided a dorm room of drug supplier with the initials GD, 40, on Jalan Taman Sari, South Kuta, Sunday (Sep 7). In addition to arresting the suspect, the officers also secured the evidence in the form of 39 pack-ages of crystal meth weighing 175.9 grams that were ready to be distrib-uted worth IDR 360 million.

“The suspect was just released from Kerobokan Prison in June 2014. When arrested in 2010, he was found to have 0.2 gram of

crystal meth and sent to prison after sentenced to 4 years. Upon the release, he even became a supplier of crystal meth,” said the Chief of Denpasar Police, Djoko Hariutomo, accompanied by Chief of the Narcotics Unit, Gede Ganefo, Wednesday (Sep 10).

Chief of Denpasar Police added that the reveal of this case origi-nated from the public information if the suspect often distributed drugs. Based on that information, the officers conducted an inves-tigation. On Sunday around 7:30 a.m., the troops of Gede Ganefo raided the boarding house and ar-

rested the suspect. After arresting the suspect, the officers searched his room and found a lot of bread boxes containing crystal meth as evidence.

The box contained some pack-ages of various kinds of crystal meth and had special features. For affordable package was taped with yellow paper and sold for IDR 500,000, red package for IDR 800,000, black package for IDR 1.8 million and blue package for IDR 6.7 million. “Blue package weighs 100.47 grams, while black package 10.27 grams,” added Ganefo.

In addition to securing crystal

meth, police also seized evidence in the form of small package, bong, gas lighters, 2 pieces of pipette, two empty plastic clips, an electric scale, 3 books, 9 large tapes, 3 small tapes and tape cutter. “According to the suspect, the crystal meth was sent from Surabaya. He distributed the illicit goods in person. The black and blue package has not been divided into smaller package,” said Ganefo, the former chief of Denpasar Police Intelligence and Security Unit.

Related to the disclosure of the case, police chief said that his party was still hunting the upper supplier.

Therefore, he could not disclose the suspect’s syndicate. “It is still being developed, especially the pursuit of upper supplier. Formerly, the suspect served as dealer and was arrested. Having been released, he became a supplier,” said Djoko.

He added that his party could arrest 12 suspects. Meanwhile, the evidence at hand consisted of crystal meth and ecstasy. “Bali is a tourist destination, so that thou-sands of travelers come every day. Likewise, the numerous drug users also come so that it kindles quite a lot of drug trafficking,” he affirmed. (kmb36)

IBP/File

The dry condition of Seraya Village is seen in the picture. The problem of distributing water to this kind of area has been a prob-lem since a long time ago but there is no proper solution for it.

A supplier ready to distribute drugs worth IDR 360 million

Karangasem flushed with pipeline projectsBali Post

AMLAPURA - Since five years ago, Karangasem has been flushed with clean water pipeline projects. However, so far the residents of Karangasem living at barren villages remain to face water crisis. Even, the water supply of the Karangasem Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) is com-plained by many customers. It happens because the water flow often jams or runs sluggishly.

314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, September 12, 2014Friday, September 12, 2014

Associated Press

NEW YORK — There was lots to see on the runway at Oscar de la Renta’s Fashion Week show on Tuesday evening. But you were even luckier if you could see into the wings.

There, the 82-year-old master designer sat on a chair and looked intently at a monitor as he super-vised the movements of each model traveling down the runway. At the end, he emerged smiling — with supermodel Karlie Kloss on one arm — to take a bow. He kissed Kloss on the cheek, then another model. He went back into the wings, and the models stood and cheered him loudly.

As for his spring 2015 collection, it had all the sumptuous, rich detail that de la Renta delivers every time.

And the designer seemed happy to show some skin, with a number of his lacy skirts and gowns revealing the entirety of the models’ endless legs, and occasionally more.

The designer began with more casual designs, pairing a large buf-falo check print, in pink, light blue or black, with more delicate looks such as a white lacy skirt.

He got fancier as he progressed. An ivory organza embroidered dress was beautifully embellished with hand-painted flowers and ostrich feathers. Another dress, in white tulle, was covered with crystal and ostrich-feather embroidery.

De la Renta’s three final looks were all in a bright key lime green, with Kloss closing down the show in a glamorous ivory silk gown, shorter in front, with green organza leaf embroidery.

“It’s a crazy world right now; you know, we look at the headlines, and it’s pretty tough out there. And I think that spring time ... it’s a time that people do feel more optimistic and I think that if you put something on that kind of have some charm to it I think it changes your spirits,” he said Wednesday an interview before his collection debuted.

There was plenty of whimsy and charm in his spring 2015 collection, which debuted to a packed crowd that included Heidi Klum, Jessica Chastain, Mary J. Blige and Jada Pinkett Smith.

Flowers played a leading role — sewn on in color on solid prints, embroidered on linen, and skirts and dresses with incredibly intricate designs.

Some looks were decidedly

sexier than what Lucy would have worn; the sheer skirt trend continued here with organza skirts (though intricate flower designs prevented one from seeing too much). There was also a sheer white linen pullover paired with a conservative linen A-line skirt.

Kors also mixed in suede in a jacket and skirt, denim and canvas; there was single-breasted coat in a bright sunny yellow, patterned skirt suits and sexy plaid dresses that looked red-carpet ready.

But it was all very wearable for the typical woman — a Kors quality that even his celebrity fans lauded.

“That’s what I love about it. Anybody can wear it. He has a little something for everybody. I think that he is one of the most versatile designers that we have,” said Pinkett

Smith.Chastain lauded his “casual el-

egance.”“I like that he designs clothes

for real women and that it’s easy to move from day wear to evening wear,” she said.

Though Kors said many of his A-list admirers are his muses, he said they had more in common with the everyday woman than some may think.

“And the variety of women who are in the public eye, you know, who wear Michael Kors ... it’s a range of women who do different things, different ages different body types and height,” he said. “The one thing is they’re all busy, they all know themselves, they travel and they want it all and it’s my job to do that for them.”

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Marc by Marc Jacobs, the designer’s more mod-erately priced line, threw a seizure-inducing rave Tuesday complete with multicolored light show and T-shirts declaring a “New World System.”

The line is steered by Brits Katie Hillier, the creative director, and Luella Bartley, who heads design.

For spring this New York Fashion Week, they went for teased 1980s punk hair and black latex leggings, along with supple plastic jackets and other pieces with blue polka dots fit for the average grunge fashionista.

And they pieced together patch-works of solids on one side of gar-ments with mixed layers of pleats on the other in solid yellow topped by dark dots. It came in dresses and other looks.

Some outfits were in a slippery nylon for the brand skewing young-er than the designer’s primary Marc Jacobs line. Itsy bitsy bralettes were worn over cropped shirts. For the rest of us, there were hooded coats and flight jackets in solid beiges and whites. One trenchcoat in white could be worn every day.

That last part wasn’t so true for a backless army-style top in black paired with black ninja trousers.

Sheer luxury in every way at Oscar de la Renta

AP Photo/Diane Bondareff

The Oscar de la Renta Spring 2015 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014.

Marc by Marc Jacobs puts on NY Fashion Week rave

The Michael Kors Spring 2015 collec-tion is modeled dur-ing Fashion Week, in

New York, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

Kors goes for the retro look at fashion week

Associated Press

NEW YORK — With embroidered flowers, retro plaids and classic A-line dresses, Michael Kors went back decades for a dreamy collection that could have been classified as “I Love Lucy” chic. Actually, Kors himself called it “optimistic chic” — clothes that inspire cheer in a dour world.

AP Photo/Richard Drew

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Other than causing the source of clean water totally comes to a standstill, now the watersheds also dry up due to drought hitting Buleleng lately. As noted, 64 rivers functioning to ir-rigate paddy field area have dried up. Meanwhile, around 24 other rivers spreading across a number of villages are still flowing water but the discharge increasingly diminishes.

As the data collected from the Buleleng Public Works Agency on Wednesday (Sep 10), the wa-tersheds in Buleleng have been totally recorded by the Bali Public Works Agency and the Bali-Penida River Area Agency. From the centralized data, a total of 88 rivers are in Buleleng. Of that number, 50 rivers are categorized into the rivers that are not func-tioned for agricultural irrigation. Meanwhile, the 38 other rivers are categorized into the rivers functioned to irrigate the subak agricultural land in North Bali.

A total of 64 rivers functioned for irrigation has dried up since the dry season. While the remain-ing 24 rivers still flow water. Although the rivers are still flow-ing water from the upstream, the discharge is very small. If the pro-longed drought is getting worse, the rivers whose water discharge is now diminishing will have no water.

The Head of Public Works Agency, Nyoman Gede Suryawan, accompanied by the Irrigation Division Head, I Gusti Ketut Sukertia, said at his office last Wednesday that dozens of rivers in Buleleng had been in dry con-dition. Based on the observation including the report from the weir keepers as well as the information from subak group, some of the dried rivers were located in the eastern region of Buleleng. Since the past, the rivers in this region were not used to irrigate paddy fields, but only served as water

flow in rainy season.Meanwhile, in Sukasada sub-

district, especially at Selat village, the rivers have also dried up. The rivers formerly draining seepage water from the forest area have now dried up. Then, the river flows at Pedawa village, Banjar subdistrict and the region of Ger-okgak subdistrict have also totally come to a standstill. In rainy sea-son, these rivers will flow water in a large enough volume. No wonder, the river is classified into rain-fed river. “In the meantime, the rivers in the eastern region of Buleleng belong to dried river and are not functioned for agriculture because there are no paddy fields. However, the rivers at Selat, Pedawa including Gerokgak are categorized into dead river, so that the irrigation does not get any water supply,” he said.

Following the drying rivers in dry season, added Suryawan, the other impact was damage to the irrigation network such as the leak of channels. In dry season, the irrigation channels were broken to cause holes. Without a repair, the water would get wasted when the river water ran. In addition, the channel might be broken as the holes were suddenly drained with water.

To resolve the damage to the irrigation channels due to dry season, the Buleleng Public Works Agency had prepared mainte-nance cost sourcing from the regional budget. These funds would be allocated to repair minor damages. Meanwhile, if the dam-ages were considered severe, the repair would be proposed in next year’s budget. “Indeed, we have allocated maintenance cost, but the amount is not too large. Thus, we will prioritize the repair of the damaged irrigation channel. When requiring larger funds, we will propose it in next year’s budget or if it happens due to disaster, it will be handled by the Regional Disas-ter Mitigation Agency (BPBD),” he explained. (kmb38)

“I’d like to make a regular report-ing,” she told the officer. Afterwards, the officer asked the controversial woman to the execution room where people usually made a report. Last Wednesday, Corby putting on black trousers and shirt with batik motif as well as shawl necklace directly came into the room near the prosecutor’s detention room. Within less than five minutes, Corby went out and headed to her car and had been awaited by the driver. When leaving the office, Corby looked relaxed. She even greeted a number of prosecutor’s officers, including the prisoner’s driver usually picked her up. At that time, the condition of her car was still on. However, Corby did not directly get into the car, but was seen chatting with a woman. It was unknown what she talked about. Ten minutes later, Corby got into the car and sat right next to the driver. She

then closed the door and hurriedly left the prosecutor’s office. It was different from when she was released from Kerobokan Prison.

“Yes, she is indeed Corby,” said a guard officer to Bali Post. The reporter was once in doubt because Corby looked different from when she was detained at Kerobokan Prison. “Now, she looks beautiful. Her hair seems to have been well groomed,” said another female officer.

Based on the information, Bali Post confirmed to the officer on duty, Edy Artha Wijaya. The man having the position in the General Criminal confirmed if the woman who just came out of the execution room was Schapelle Leigh Corby. “Yes, she is indeed Corby. She just made a regular reporting. She has come here for many times,” said Edy Arta.

When cross-checked into the registration book, it could be known if Corby had made a compulsory re-porting for eight times since getting a parole. How long will the compul-sory reporting of Corby take place? Edy Artha said that as the prevailing rules and file of the previous report-ing, Corby was required to make a reporting until 2017. In other words, before that year Corby was not al-lowed to leave the town.

“Yes, she is not allowed to leave the town. It is just like under control, while her passport is still held by the immigration office,” he said.

Previously, the 37-year-old woman dubbed as the queen of marijuana from Australia got a pa-role from the Minister of Justice and Human Rights. She was released by Chief of Kerobokan Prison on February 10, 2014. (kmb37)

Bali Post

GIANYAR - After requiring foreign labor (TKA) working in Gi-anyar to pay a monthly levy of USD 100 and amid the lack of certified tourism labor, the tourism workers in Gianyar are obliged to undergo a competency test and certification. Even in 2015, all tourism workers in Gianyar are required to have been certified.

On Wednesday, the preparation of competency test and certifica-tion for tourism workers had been done by presenting the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI), Professional Certification Institute (LSP) of Tourism Division and the authority of Gianyar in this case the Manpower and Resettle-ment Agency. As target, at least 50 percent of the tourism workers (8,588 people) in Gianyar would

have a professional certification so that they could compete in tourism industry both within and outside the country.

The Head of Gianyar Manpower and Resettlement Agency, Gede Wi-darma Suharta, said the number of certified tourism workers in Gianyar up to 2013 had reached 1,116 people or 13 percent of 8,588 people in total. From that number, 7,472 people had not been certified. “In long-term,

we target at least 50 percent of the tourism workers in Gianyar has been certified,” he said.

However, the compulsory certifi-cation in 2015 would target tourism workers at star hotels, ranging from the one- to five-star hotels amount-ing to 1,358 people, where they totally amounted to 18 star hotels.

He said the professional certi-fication of tourism labor posed an improvement of human resources of

job seekers and tourism workers to facilitate them in the competition of tourism industry. It was also in ac-cordance with the Law No.10/2009 on tourism and Government Regu-lation No.52/2012 on the certifica-tion of competency in the tourism business stating that tourism was required to employ workers having the certificate of competency in the field of tourism, including foreign workers. (kmb16)

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Having become a ‘target’ of foreign and local media, the Australian woman dubbed as the queen of marijuana, Schapelle Leigh Corby, tended to have a closed attitude. However, on Wednesday (Sep 10), she looked calm when entering the execution room to the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office.

Tourism workers must be certified in 2015

Long drought impactDozens of rivers

in Buleleng dry up

Corby showed at Prosecutor OfficeBali Post

DENPASAR - Having become a ‘target’ of foreign and local media, the Australian woman dubbed as the queen of marijuana, Schapelle Leigh Corby, tended to have a closed attitude. However, on Wednesday (Sep 10), she looked calm when entering the execution room to the Den-pasar Prosecutor’s Office. She was quite calm as the prosecutor’s room was pretty quiet. Once out of the golden yellow Suzuki APV vehicle with license plate DK 1162 XC, she immediately came in and led to guard room.

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Obama announced Wednesday night that he was dispatching nearly 500 more U.S. troops to Iraq to as-sist that country’s besieged security forces, bringing the total number of American forces sent there this summer to more than 1,500. He also urged Congress anew to authorize a program to train and arm Syrian rebels who are fighting both the Islamic State militants and Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“We will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wher-ever they are,” Obama declared in a prime-time address to the nation from the White House. “This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.”

Obama’s plans amounted to a striking shift for a president who rose to political prominence in part because of his early opposition to the Iraq war. While in office, he has steadfastly sought to wind down American military campaigns in

the Middle East and avoid new wars — particularly in Syria, a country where the chaos of an intractable civil war has given the Islamic State space to thrive and move freely across the border with Iraq.

Speaking on the eve of the an-niversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Obama’s plans were also an admission that years of American-led war in the Middle East have not quelled the terror threat emanating from the region. Obama insisted he was not returning U.S. combat troops to the Middle East. Even so, he acknowledged that “any time we take military action, there are risks involved, especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions.”

“But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil,” he added.

The president’s announcements

follow a summer of deliberation at the White House over how to respond to the violent Islamic State militants. While administration of-ficials have said they are not aware of a credible threat of a potential attack by the militants in the U.S., they say the group poses risks to Americans and interests across the Middle East. Officials are also concerned about the prospect that Westerners, including Americans, who have joined the militant group could return to their home countries to launch attacks.

In recent weeks, the militants have released videos depicting the behead-ing of two American journalists in Syria. The violent images appear to have had an impact on a formerly war-weary public, with multiple polls in recent days showing that the major-ity of Americans support airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria.

The U.S. began launching lim-ited airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq earlier this summer at the request of that country’s former prime minister. But Obama vowed that he would not commit the U.S. to a deeper military campaign until Iraq formed a new government that allowed greater participation from all sects, a step Iraqi leaders took Tuesday.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Earth’s protective ozone layer is beginning to recover, largely because of the phase-out since the 1980s of certain chemicals used in refrigerants and aerosol cans, a U.N. scientific panel reported Wednesday in a rare piece of good news about the health of the planet.

Scientists said the development demonstrates that when the world comes together, it can counteract a brewing ecological crisis.

For the first time in 35 years, scientists were able to confirm a sta-tistically significant and sustained increase in stratospheric ozone, which shields the planet from solar radiation that causes skin cancer, crop damage and other problems.

From 2000 to 2013, ozone lev-els climbed 4 percent in the key mid-northern latitudes at about 30 miles up, said NASA scientist Paul A. Newman. He co-chaired the every-four-years ozone assessment by 300 scientists, released at the United Nations.

“It’s a victory for diplomacy and for science and for the fact that we were able to work together,” said chemist Mario Molina. In 1974, Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland wrote a scientific study forecasting the ozone depletion problem. They

won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chem-istry for their work.

The ozone layer had been thin-ning since the late 1970s. Man-made chlorofluorocarbons, called CFCs, released chlorine and bromine, which destroyed ozone molecules high in the air. After scientists raised the alarm, countries around the world agreed to a treaty in 1987 that phased out CFCs. Levels of those chemicals between 30 and 50 miles up are decreasing.

The United Nations calculated in an earlier report that without the pact, by 2030 there would have been an extra 2 million skin cancer cases a year around the world.

Paradoxically, heat-trapping greenhouse gases — considered the major cause of global warming — are also helping to rebuild the ozone layer, Newman said. The report said rising levels of carbon dioxide and other gases cool the upper strato-sphere, and the cooler air increases the amount of ozone.

And in another worrisome trend, the chemicals that replaced CFCs contribute to global warming and are on the rise, said MIT atmo-spheric scientist Susan Solomon. At the moment, they don’t make much of a dent, but they are expected to increase dramatically by 2050 and make “a big contribution” to global warming.

AP Photo/Saul Loeb, PoolPresident Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. In a major reversal, Obama ordered the United States into a broad military campaign to “degrade and ultimately destroy” militants in two volatile Middle East nations, authorizing airstrikes inside Syria for the first time, as well as an expansion of strikes in Iraq.

Obama orders airstrikes in Syria for first timeAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Opening a new military front in the Middle East, President Barack Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes inside Syria for the first time, along with expanded strikes in Iraq as part of “a steady, relentless effort” to root out Islamic State extremists and their spreading reign of terror.

Scientists say the ozone layer is recovering

AP Photo/NASAThis undated image provided by NASA shows the ozone layer over the years, Sept. 17, 1979, top left, Oct. 7, 1989, top right, Oct. 9, 2006, lower left, and Oct. 1, 2010, lower right.

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - The family of Peter James Maynard, 46, seems to have resigned to the disappearance of the victim (Peter—Ed) at Lembongan, Nusa Penida, Klungkung.

So far, the victim has not been found. Police officers are still searching for the victim hav-ing been missing since 14 days ago, exactly August 28. Unluckily, the efforts made by the officer seem to fail.

Even, in the recent development, the vic-

tim’s families also participated in the search. They also came down with the officers to search around the Jungutbatu Beach. Besides, before returning to Australia, the victim’s family also spread pamphlets containing the victim’s photographs and identity. It was spread around the scene of the missing and a number of remote villages and coastal areas. In the pamphlet, the victim’s family promised a reward of AUD 5,000 for people finding the victim’s body. This was also recognized by the Chief of Klungkung Police Criminal In-vestigation Unit, Nyoman Wirajaya, Wednes-day (Sep 10). Prior to returning to Australia, the victim’s wife Kylie Maynard with some relatives had also come to the Headquarters of Klungkung Police, Wednesday morning.

Their arrival at the Headquarters of Klung-kung Police, he said, was to say farewell before returning to Australia. Besides, they also expressed gratitude for the efforts made by the officers in the search for victim all this time. During the search, the victim’s family was also said to come down and see firsthand the search for the victim by exploring coastal areas using helicopter. He recognized the of-ficers could not find the victim to date.

Interestingly, according to him, the family also promised a reward worth AUD 5,000 for residents finding the victim’s body. So far, he recognized the victim could not have

been found. Moreover, the victim’s wife and family would leave for Australia on Thursday night (Sep 11).

“As planned, the victim’s family will return to their home country tomorrow night (Thursday). So, before leaving they would like to say farewell and express gratitude to police authorities and we continue to search for victims in the field,” he said.

So far, the results of victim’s search could only find a piece of victim’s surfboard. It was found by a fisherman named Made Apel around the Jungutbatu Beach on August 28. The piece of surfboard was also recognized by the victim’s family and had been taken to Australia.

Aside from taking the piece of surfboard, the victim’s wife and brothers also had time to take the belongings of the victim left in room 205 at Nusa Indah Bungalow at Nusa Lembongan where the victim stayed recently. During in Bali, the victim spent holiday alone filled with surfing at Lembongan. Meanwhile, his wife, Kylie Maynard, was unable to join because she was busy working in Australia. So, the victim came alone to Bali for holiday. Before known to disappear, the victim had sent a text message (SMS) to his wife on August 22 when he would be on holiday to Lembongan for surfing. After sending the last message, there was no information from the victim. (119)

This famous vegetable producer in Tabanan even has been getting involved in waste, mainly those sourcing from rotten vegetables. Other than generating stench, the rotten vegetable waste is often dis-posed carelessly by local people on a number of vacant lots or even at riverside. As a result, village official often gets complaint and reprimand from the subdistrict or county gov-ernment due to the stench of rotten vegetables.

However, such condition does not last long because Batusesa hamlet, Candikuning village, Ba-turiti, began processing the organic and inorganic waste into useful products. Hamlet chief of Batusesa, Made Sucika, said that the organic waste was packed in a compost house to be processed into organic fertilizer, while the inorganic waste was sold to recycle goods collector. “The volume of waste at our hamlet continues to grow in keeping with the increasing number of vegetable collectors. Averagely, it amounts to 5 tons each day,” he said, Wednes-day (Sep 10).

Of the 5 tons of waste, he added, eighty percent was leaf litter (the remains of vegetables—Ed). As-sisted by local residents as well as supported by facility and infra-structure from private sector, the waste formerly becoming a prob-lem could have been transformed into a blessing. Initially, the waste was collected by the officers by using a three-wheeled motor-cycle given by central government through the Tabanan Agriculture Agency. Unfortunately, the motor-cycle could not last long. Having been operated for a few months, it was out of order. “Besides, it is very difficult to fix because the parts are very hard to find,” he explained.

Armed with the agreement of local residents, he finally decided to buy a waste operational truck in installment where the fund was obtained from the waste subscrip-tion fee of residents. For waste collection fee, each resident was only charged at IDR 1,000 each day. “From people’s fee, we can get income to pay the salaries of

our collecting officers and install-ment fee of the truck. We do this to resolve the waste problem,” he explained.

The compost of Batusesa had been marketed at local village

and urban areas. “Now, Can-dikuning village does not only offer the commodity of fresh veg-etables, but also compost. Even, the Ulundanu tourist attraction also requests our compost with

an average amount of 1 ton each month. Besides, we also pick up the waste of canang (oblation) remnants at the Ulundanu to be further recycled into compost,” he concluded. (kmb28)

Hit by waste problem for 15 years, Batusesa gets blessing by processing itBali Post

TABANAN - One of the major problems in a number of areas staying to need serious attention is waste. Aside from big cities, waste problem also hit remote rural areas. One of them also happens at Candikuning village, Baturiti subdistrict.

IBP/BitThe waste processing unit in Candikuning village, Baturiti subdistrict, Tabanan

Victim’s family of missing traveler offers AUD 5,000-reward

IBP/WawanThe garbage truck is carrying the garbage to the final disposal unit. Garbag has be-come a major problem in the island and solution is needed to solve the problem. The garbage can cause a set back in the tourism development of Bali

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Pursuant to tradition of Hindu com-munity in Bali, Saturday September 13, is calls the Tumpek Wayang. On this day, all the puppeteers and those who have a pup-pet in Bali will give a special ceremony to theirs. They call the Tumpek Wayang as Odalan Wayang. In addition, many people choose Tumpek Wayang as an auspicious day to perform purificatory rite (ruwatan) both physically and mentally.

Tumpek Wayang has a very special posi-tion and is considered the most sacred. Why? Because of Tumpek Wayang poses a pile of transitional times falling on Saniscara (Sat-urday), Kajeng, Kliwon, Wayang. Saniscara (Saturday) is the last day in the count of Saptawara (seven-day week); Kajeng is the last day in the count of Triwara (three-day week); and Kliwon is the last day in the count of Pancawara (five-day week). Meanwhile, Tumpek Wayang is the last tumpek in the six sequences existing in the cycle of Balinese pawukon-based calendar. On that account, Tumpek Wayang becomes the day filled with transitional times.

Other than due to confluence of the last days, Tumpek Wayang is also considered sacred because the Hindus always link the day as the birthday of Lord Kala. That is why the Tumpek Wayang has close connection with Sapuh Leger mythology, or refers to the mythology of the birth of Lord Kala as the aftermath of improper sexual intercourse of Lord Shiva and his spouse Goddess Uma. In the mythology is mentioned, they engage in an improper sexual intercourse so it is called kama salah and the birth of Lord Kala is said to be Salah Wetu (wrongly born). Similarly, people born on Tumpek Wayang are consid-ered wrongly born so they have less good and sickly properties.

There are several versions about the my-thology of the Lord Kala’s birth. In the Kala Tattwa chronicle is recounted that Lord Shiva got his passion when having a leisurely walk with Goddess Uma on the beach. At that time, Lord Shiva saw the beautiful calf of Goddess Uma because her clothes were revealed by the blowing winds. Lord Shiva then wooed the Goddess Uma to ‘make a love’. The god-dess refused on the grounds that behavior of Lord Shiva violated the applicable norms in heaven.

Since the lust of Lord Shiva flared up, his semen was dripping into the ocean and then discovered by Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu. The sperms were then given a mantra. From the sperm of Lord Shiva was then born an ogre who was snarling angrily asked who his parents were. Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu told that Lord Shiva and Goddess Uma were his parents.

Before Lord Shiva was willing to admit the ogre as his son, he first asked the ogre to cut his long fangs. By doing so, he would be able to see his parents in a complete form. The ogre then complied with the require-ments. Other than blessing, the Lord Shiva also named his son the Lord Kala. To honor the day of his birth, Lord Shiva gave a boon that Lord Kala was allowed to prey on people who were born on Tumpek Wayang. In addi-tion, he was also given the rights to prey on people who were having a promenade at noon on Tumpek Wayang.

Later, Lord Shiva had another son named Lord Kumara, who was also born on Tumpek Wayang. In accordance with the grace of Lord Shiva, Lord Kala was entitled to prey on Kumara. However, on the request of Lord Shiva, Lord Kala may prey on Kumara if this younger brother had grown up.

As a matter of fact, Lord Shiva was unwill-ing if his son would be savored. Therefore, Lord Shiva gave a boon to Lord Kumara that he would never grow up or always be a kid. Since Kumara never grew up, the patience of Lord Kala came to an end. Lord Kumara was chased by him. In the pursuit, Lord Kala came across with Lord Shiva and Goddess Uma riding the cow Nandini at midday. They also wanted to be gobbled down by Lord Kala pursuant to the promise of his father. Then, Lord Shiva gave the puzzle first, if Lord Kala wanted to prey. Unfortunately, Lord Kala was unable to answer all the riddles and the sun was almost leaning to the west. As a result, the time to prey on Lord Shiva and Goddess Uma

virtually elapsed. Then, Lord Kala continued his pursuit to prey on Lord Kumara.

Ultimately, Lord Kala encountered a pup-pet shadow play. Since he was very hungry, he devoured the entire oblation of the show. The puppeteer begged all the edible offerings to be thrown back entirely. Lord Kala could not fulfill the request. Instead, he promised not to prey on people who were born on Tumpek Wayang, if they had organized a ceremony and staged the Wayang Sapuh Leger.

Based on the mythology the people who were born on Tumpek Wayang should perform the self-purificatory rite with the presentation of puppet shadow play staged under the title of Sapuh Leger.

Such congestion occurs be-cause people take the road shoul-der to park their cars. “The owner of cars park on both sides of the road. It is the trigger of the congestion,” said one of the local residents, Wayan Loka.

According to him, the density of population in the three villages of Batur and limited land had caused many residents to have no car garage. As a result, their car was parked on the roadside. “Most Batur residents have a car. Even, a family may have more than one car. As having no garage, they finally park their car on roadside,” he said.

In addition, he continued, the

land conversion of the parking lot at Kintamani Market into the place of selling also contributed to the congestion at Kintamani. “Visitors to the market park their car on roadside. As a result, it aggravates the condition and disrupts the traffic,” he said.

A number of Kintamani resi-dents hoped there would be an effort made by stakeholders to overcome the congestion. For example, they could install traf-fic sign of parking restriction or restore the function of the park-ing lot. “In addition, the residents should be made aware of parking in the assigned areas,” hoped the residents. (kmb)

Congestion afflicts KintamaniBali Post

KIntaManI - traffic congestion has now become a routine spectacle faced by residents of Kintamani, chiefly those living at Batur and Kintamani village. Previously, traffic congestion only occurred during the temple anniversary took place at ulun Danu Batur temple and market day of Kintamani Market, but now it occurs almost every day. the most severe congestion occurs on the road section in front of the ulun Danu Batur temple to Kintamani Market.

IBP/kmbTraffic congestion has now become a routine spectacle faced by residents of Kintamani, chiefly those living at Batur and Kintamani village.

Celebrating Tumpek Wayang in Bali

IBP/WanPursuant to tradition of Hindu community in Bali, Saturday September 13, is calls the Tumpek Wayang. On this day, all the puppeteers and those who have a puppet in Bali will give a special ceremony to theirs. They call the Tumpek Wayang as Odalan Wayang.

Associated Press

BEIJING — China’s premier promised Wednesday to open the world’s No. 2 economy wider to foreign companies, promising favor-able conditions despite a wave of anti-monopoly investigations that business groups say might be aimed at limiting competition.

Speaking at a business conference, Premier Li Keqiang made no mention of the probes against foreign automak-ers, drug and technology suppliers and other companies. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in a report this week the investigations unfairly target foreign companies and might be a violation of Beijing’s free-trade pledges.

“We oppose protectionism in all its forms,” the premier said at the World Economic Forum in the Tianjin, east of Beijing. “We will continue to pursue a more proactive strategy of opening up.”

The premier promised to “improve and standardize the business environ-ment” to attract foreign companies and investment. Li’s comments echo promises often made by Chinese lead-ers but come at a time when the wave of anti-monopoly investigations have prompted questions about Beijing’s attitude toward foreign companies.

Business groups have said regula-tors might be misusing investigations to force companies to lower prices or to promote Chinese competitors.

Regulators have fined Japanese suppliers of auto parts and foreign milk producers. Officials say global automakers including Audi, Mercedes and Chrysler will face punishment for violating anti-monopoly law.

Regulatory pressure, along with slowing economic growth, has fueled pessimism among foreign companies in China. A survey last month by the American Chamber of Commerce in China found 60 percent of managers

queried felt “less welcome” in this country. That was up from 41 percent who expressed similar sentiments in a survey in late 2013.

Li said Beijing wants foreign com-panies to help make China a creator of new technologies to support better-paid jobs and more environmentally friendly economic growth.

“We will work hard and turn China into a major innovative country,” he said.

The premier promised to stamp out theft of intellectual property but gave no indication what would hap-pen to major Chinese state companies that critics abroad say are actively involved in industrial spying.

Global companies in fields from software to autos to pharmaceuticals have set up research and development operations in China. But business groups say they are reluctant to trans-fer their most advanced know-how to this country due to fears of theft.

Finance Minister Michel Sapin said Wednesday the budget deficit would be around 4.3 percent of GDP in 2015 and would not dip under the 3 percent target for European Union countries until 2017, a decade after the last time France hit the target.

He revised down the country’s growth figures yet again to 0.4 percent this year and 1 percent for next year, down from initial projections of 1.7 percent.

France’s economic troubles mirror a broader lack of growth in Europe.

Sapin said “an economic real-ity that concerns all of us” needed to be taken into consideration, although he said France was not requesting a change in the budget rules. Hollande’s government had earlier negotiated a delay in meet-ing the target until 2015.

The news was not welcome at EU headquarters in Brussels, since France’s dragging economy

is weighing on a Europe-wide recovery.

Simon O’Connor, spokesman for the EU’s economic commis-sioner, said France must “clearly specify credible measures” to cut spending and rein in its deficit in the coming years. Bold reforms and solid public finances “are essential not only for France but for the euro area as a whole,” he said.

Like other European countries, France is struggling to trim its deficit after years of excessive state spending. Sapin said Presi-dent Francois Hollande’s Socialist government would push ahead with 21 billion euros ($27 billion) in cuts next year and 50 billion euros ($64 billion) by 2017, the last year of Hollande’s term.

France has company in miss-ing the deficit target: Last year, it was joined by Britain, Greece, Spain and Ireland, among other scofflaws.

Stalled France to miss deficit target until 2017Associated Press

ParIs — France has revised down its growth forecasts and says it will miss its deficit target for another three years, confir-mation that Europe’s second-largest economy will emerge only slowly from its stagnation.

REUTERS/Benoit TessierA view shows scaffolding at a construction site for new housing buildings in Paris September 3, 2014. France has revised down its growth forecasts and says it will miss its deficit target for another three years, confirma-tion that Europe’s second-largest economy will emerge only slowly from its stagnation.

China’s premier promises more open economy

AP PhotoIn this Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 photo, a woman works at a fac-tory manufacture aluminum wheel hubs in Zouping county in east China’s Shandong province. Chinese premier Li Keqiang promised Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 to open its economy wider to foreign businesses, promising favorable conditions amid a wave of anti-monopoly investigations that business groups say might be aimed at limiting competition.

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Pakistani and Indian officials said the death toll had reached 461 in the two countries. Flash floods have washed away crops, damaged tens of thousands of homes and affected over a million people since Sept. 3, when heavy monsoon rains lashed Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province and the Kashmir region, claimed by both India and Pakistan.

Ahmad Kamal, a spokesman for Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority, said 261 people have been killed and 482 injured in Pakistan. “The situation is still alarming as flood waters are entering the country’s plains in the Jhang district, inundating more villages and affecting thousands,” he said. The military said it was expanding relief operations in Punjab, where the Chenab River overflowed. Troops in helicopters and boats evacuated 4,000 more people from Jhang, it said.

Kamal said high floods were likely to reach the southern Sindh province later this week. Authori-ties were supplying tents, food and

other items to survivors, but many complained that the government was not doing enough. “I feel as If I am a beggar, as I have to wait for hours to get free food,” a survivor told a Pakistani news channel.

Hafiz Saeed, who heads Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an anti-India charity, accused India of releasing flood wa-ters that caused destruction in Paki-stan. “Pakistan should take notice of this situation,” he told a Pakistani news channel late Wednesday, adding that he was providing food to hundreds of thousands of flood victims in Jhang.

India says Jamaat-ud-Dawa is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, which it blames for a 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people. Pakistan and India have a history of uneasy relations, but relations have improved in recent years. Each side has offered to help the other recover from the floods, the worst to hit Pakistan since 2010, when some 1,700 people died.

The Kashmir region in the north-ern Himalayas is divided between

India and Pakistan and claimed by both. Two of the three wars the countries have fought since their independence from Britain in 1947 have been over control of Kashmir.

In India, Sandeep Rai Rathore, head of the National Disaster Re-sponse Force, said Thursday that 80 army and air force transport aircraft and helicopters were drop-ping drinking water, biscuits, baby food and food packets for hundreds of thousands of marooned people in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.

Officials said the flooding has killed 200 people in India, where anger and resentment was mounting over what victims described as a slow rescue and relief effort.

“We want water and food. We will die here. Please drop some food packets,” The Hindustan Times newspaper quoted S. Lala, a strand-ed resident of Srinagar, as saying. With flood waters receding in parts of region, authorities prepared to cope with the spread of waterborne diseases such as diarrhea.

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GAZA CITY — Palestinian filmmaker Khalil Mozayen’s lat-est work was already complexly layered — a movie within a movie about a director and screenwriter producing a film about an honor killing in the Gaza Strip.

Then the latest Gaza war burst in to add yet another layer: An Is-raeli airstrike levelled the 13-story apartment tower where Mozayen’s office, studio and archive were lo-cated. So he filmed the mountain of rubble and used it for the final scene of his movie, “Sarah 2014.”

Mozayen had hoped to create a film not connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But he and his screenwriter Naim al-Khatib said they decided they couldn’t avoid addressing the war.

“It is like, as a Palestinian, you don’t have the right to have your own dream, that everything in your life has to have something to do with war and (Israeli) occupa-tion,” said al-Khatib, who also

plays the fictional screenwriter in the movie.

“The occupation crashed our privacy ... and the war became an integral part of the film’s ending,” he said.

The themes and reality of war impose themselves on Gaza’s small but vibrant arts scene, and the latest war has been a powerful inspiration for its artists in their new work. The 50 days of fighting, which ended with an indefinite truce on Aug. 26, was the deadli-est and most ruinous of three such conflicts between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas militant rulers since late 2008. More than 2,143 Palestin-ians were killed and 100,000 left homeless.

The artists also incorporate the death and destruction into themes drawn from the other realities of life in the tiny Mediterranean coastal strip — a seven-year blockade en-forced by Israel and Egypt and the restrictions on freedoms imposed by Hamas on a society that is al-ready deeply conservative.

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BARCELONA — A week before Scotland votes on whether to break away from the United Kingdom, Cata-lan separatists in northeastern Spain hope at least 1 million people will take to the streets in Barcelona and across Catalonia to demand a secession vote. The central government in Madrid insists that would be illegal.

Several hours before protests be-gan, Catalonia regional leader Artur Mas said Thursday his government

is not wavering from plans to hold a secession referendum on Nov. 9 even though experts say an attempt is sure to be blocked Spain’s Con-stitutional Court.

Polls suggesting Scotland’s “Yes” independence camp could win their Sept. 18 vote have en-ergized Catalan separatists, Cor-sicans who want to break away from France and Flemish speak-ers in Belgium demanding more autonomy, independence or union with the Netherlands.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and First Lady Ani Yudhoyono bid farewell to all the employees of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta after serving as the president of Indonesia for a decade.

“Myself, the First Lady, the secretary of state, and the cabinet secretary would like to express our gratitude and appreciation for the support and assistance from every employee in the presidential palace. Without it, I could not carry out the governance task well,” the president stated here on Thursday during a farewell photo session.

The president emphasized that the cooperation and role of every palace employee also contributed in helping him to successfully carry out the presidential duties.

“Everyone is important whether the officials and all members of the secretariat of state, the cabinet, the Palace’s housekeeping staff includ-ing the Presidential Security Detail Paspampres, Special staff, and the team of doctors and journalists,”

Yudhoyono affirmed.“Therefore, I sincerely express

my deepest gratitude and apprecia-tion,” stated the president.

The photo session, which started at 8.00 a.m. local time, was attended by all the presidential secretariat employees from various fields, Presidential Security Detail officers (Paspampres), the palace’s house-keeping staff, and journalists who served in the Presidential Palace on a daily basis.

“Please forgive me and the First Lady if the employees and staff experienced any unpleasant inci-dent during my 10-year service as president,” Yudhoyono remarked.

On that occasion, the head of state also reminded that such level of cooperation must also be ex-tended for the next state’s adminis-tration. “Please convey my love and regards to the family and friends at home,” Yudhoyono stated.

Yudhoyono will be replaced by his successor President-elect Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who won the presidential election held on July 9, 2014.

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An Pakistani army helicopter hovers to rescue trapped people from a flooded area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. Heavy monsoon rains killed dozens of people across Pakistan as flash flood inundated villages, prompting authorities to send troops to evacuate residents and assist in the emergency, officials said.

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani troops used helicopters and boats to evacuate thousands of marooned people from the country’s plains where raging monsoon floods inundated more vil-lages Thursday, officials said. In neighboring India, the military dropped food for hundreds of thousands of people marooned in flood-hit areas of Indian-held Kashmir.

Catalans demand secession vote as Scot poll looms

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In this Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 photo, Palestinian filmmaker Khalil Mozayen, second right, observes his crew during a rehearsal for his new movie in Gaza City.

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Lebak District is experiencing a serious drought, and it will be a challenge to meet its water require-ments in the upcoming months.

Therefore, hundreds of pumps have been installed for transporting ground water to rice fields for irrigation in order to avoid harvest failure.

The drought has left thousands of residents suffering from acute respiratory tract infections (ISPA).

“We have to stay alert because thousands are suffering from ISPA,” Lebak district health department chief for prevention of infectious diseases Firman Rahmatullah said.

He stated that many people in the district have been suffering from respiratory problems because of drought, particularly in the south-ern part of the district where the

construction of a cement factory is underway.

“Besides the bad weather, ash from the cement factory has also contributed to the respiratory prob-lems,” he said, calling on the local community to live a healthy life-style and clean living pattern.

Acute respiratory infection is a serious issue that prevents normal breathing function and usually be-gins as a viral infection of the nose, trachea, or lungs.

If the infection is not treated properly, it can spread to the entire respiratory system.

Therefore, Firman has encour-aged the local community to be wary of its symptoms, such as run-ning nose, cough, sore throat, body ache, fatigue, difficulty in breath-

ing, dizziness, low blood oxygen level, and loss of consciousness.

In West Nusa Tenggara, local government spokesman Bachrudin stated in Mataram on Tuesday that many villages had been hit by drought, which has led to water scar-city. “We find it difficult to distribute clean water to so many drought-hit villages,” Bachrudin remarked.

He was, however, confident that the local government will come up with a solution to resolve the issue and not remain silent.

Meanwhile, East Nusa Tenggara Regional Natural Disaster Mitiga-tion Agency (BPBD) reported in Kupang on Monday that drought had hit and damaged food crops at 16-22 districts in the province.

Head of BPBD Tini Thadeus

remarked that 16 districts in the province are feared to have suffered worst because of drought. Thadeus noted that the 16 regencies include Kupang, Timor Tengah Selatan, Timor Tengah Utara, Belu, Malaka, Sumba Timur, Sumba Barat, Sumba Tengah and Sumba Barat Daya, Ende, Sikka, Flores Timur, Lem-bata, and Alor.

The six regencies suffering from minor impact are Kota Kupang, Ngada, Nagekeo, Manggarai Timur, Manggarai, and Manggarai Barat.

Drought was also reported to have hit six subdistricts in Langkat, North Sumatra, where around 1,754 hectares of rice fields are feared to have suffered harvest failure. The hardest hit was the subdistrict Ba-balan, where 1,274 hectares of rice fields have been damaged.

Other subdistricts that have been suffering include Secanggang, Pangkalan Susu, Brandan Barat, Binjai, and Sei Lepan.

Therefore, the House of Repre-sentatives’ Commission IX member

from the United Development Party faction Okky Assokawati has called on the government to promptly respond to the impacts of drought, which has affected those regions.

“Many regions in Indonesia have been currently hit by drought, which may impact environment and communities, and therefore, the government should quickly respond to it,” Okky said in a press statement here on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Environment Minis-try spokesman Arief Yuwono noted here on Tuesday that due to several factors, including drought, nine provinces in Indonesia are prone to forest fires.

“Data have been collected on the nine provinces. The provinces have to take preventive measures in order to act immediately if for-est fires occur,” Arief stated here on Tuesday.

The nine provinces are North and South Sumatra, Jambi, and Riau, as well as West, East, Central, South, and North Kalimantan.

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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (right) talked with former Britain’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair, during his visit to Jakarta on Thursday, September 11, 2014.

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JAKARTA - Drought has parched Indonesia’s numerous regions and is feared to cause losses to crops, slow down economic growth, and disrupt water supply. The hardest hit are some dis-tricts in Central and East Java, West and East Nusa Tenggara, and Lebak District in Banten Province.

Yudhoyono bids farewell to state

palace staff

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Having coming up short in his bid for an 18th Grand Slam title, Roger Federer is quickly turning his focus to the Davis Cup — a trophy still missing from his collection.

The former top-ranked player leads Switzerland against Italy in Geneva this weekend as his country bids to reach the final for the first time since 1992. France hosts two-time defending champion Czech Republic in the other semifinal at Roland Garros, home of the French Open.

The best-of-five series begin Friday with two singles matches, followed by doubles on Saturday and reverse singles on Sunday.

After his straight-set loss to eventual winner Marin Cilic in the U.S. Open semi-finals, seven-time Wimbledon champion Federer showed his commitment to the Swiss team, heading back home to prepare for the Davis Cup tie on an indoor hard court.

“In tennis there are so many highlights thankfully, so I have something to do next Friday already again,” Federer said after bowing out of Flushing Meadows. “I’ll be very preoccupied with that, starting right

now.”For years, the 33-year-old Federer did

not regard the Davis Cup as a main prior-ity, preferring to dedicate himself to Grand Slam events and big tournaments. But the emergence of teammate and Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka as a top player has convinced him they have a good chance of winning the prestigious team competition.

“We obviously are favorites,” the third-ranked Federer said. “We have a formidable team. We are playing at home and we chose the surface. We can do it.”

Along with Federer and Wawrinka, Marco Chiudinelli and Michael Lammer complete the Swiss team, which has never lost to Italy at home. The Italian team in-cludes Fabio Fognini and Andreas Seppi.

Swiss captain Severin Luthi said the presence of both Federer and Wawrinka in Switzerland since the beginning of the week helped the team to prepare.

“We could train together as soon as Tuesday, which was not the case in our opening two rounds,” Luthi said, refer-ring to the tight 3-2 wins over Serbia and Kazakhstan. If Switzerland wins, it will travel to France or the Czech Republic for the final.

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But France defended well and re-bounded even better to ruin Spain’s quest for a title for a second straight summer. Last summer, Tony Parker helped France end Spain’s quest for a third consecutive European title.

This time, Spain had several reasons to believe it would avenge that loss. Parker wasn’t playing for France, and Spain had Pau Gasol back in its ranks, besides playing at home. “It’s a painful and disap-pointing defeat,” Pau said. “We had such high expectations and had played so well until now.”

Spain had averaged 88 points per game through its first six wins, all blowouts. But France cut off Spain’s passing lanes and forced it into solo efforts. Spain’s guards didn’t adjust by looking for Pau and Marc Gasol in the post enough, and then compounded that by missing all but two of their 22 attempts from beyond the 3-point arc.

“Everyone thought we had won this before it started, but we didn’t prepare well for the game and were trying to play catchup the entire

way,” Spain guard Juan Carlos Navarro said. “They prepared bet-ter than we did. We relied on doing what we always do, defend and get out on the break, but our shots didn’t fall, and they played with a lot of poise.” Boris Diaw scored 15 points and Thomas Heurtel added 13 for a France team which pulled in 50 rebounds to Spain’s 28.

Pau had 17 for Spain, but his brother Marc and Serge Ibaka each went 1-of-7 from the field to com-bine for just 5 points. Serbia awaits France on Friday after it routed Brazil 84-56 in the other quarter-final. The U.S. plays Lithuania in the other semifinal in Barcelona on Thursday.

Pau scored in the post to spark Spain’s 12-4 run to open the third period and edge ahead 40-39. A brief scuffle marred that span when France’s Florent Pietrus slapped Sergi Llull in the back of the head after an argument. Pietrus was awarded an unsporstmanlike technical foul.

Spain entered the final period

with a one-point lead but without any clear plan of attack. Diaw nailed a backbreaking 3 after France again beat Spain to the offensive boards to take a 51-45 lead and force Juan Orenga to call time-out with 6:41 left.

A contested jumper by Pau brought Spain to within three points with under two to play, but Heurtel scored five points to quash the comeback and spark chants for Orenga’s resignation in a loss that hurt almost as much as the Spanish football team’s early elimination from this summer’s World Cup. Pau left open the possibility that this was his last game for Spain, which he has led to one world champion-ship in 2006, two Olympic silver medals, and two European titles.

“You never know when your last game or tournament will be,” the new Chicago Bull center said. “I would like to play until I am 50, but I doubt it. We have great young players coming up and I’m sure that we have a good team in the future.”

Whether or not Pau continues, Spain will likely not have such a chance to try and finally beat the U.S. with Pau now 34, and the Olympics two years away. Ser-bia’s result also reversed a group matchup, as Serbia lost to Brazil last Wednesday, when Spain also beat France.

France upsets Spain 65-52 in WCup quarters

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de OlzaFrance’s Boris Diaw, left, defends as Spain’s Serge Ibaka shoots dur-ing the basketball World Cup quarter finals match between Spain and France in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

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MADRID — France upset Spain 65-52 in front of its stunned fans in the quarterfinals of the Basketball World Cup on Wednesday. After dominating its first six games and blowing out France by 24 points in the group phase, Spain appeared to be the main candidate to dethrone the United States in a possible final that would have been a rematch of the past two Olympic gold-medal games.

Federer leads Switzerland’s Davis Cup challenge

AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di NolfiRoger Federer, of Switzerland, returns a ball during a training session of the Swiss Davis Cup Team prior to the Davis Cup World Group Semifinal match between Switzerland and Italy, at Palexpo, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

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AMLAPURA - Based on local folklore, the name Jemeluk is

originated from the Balinese word menyeluk or seluk meaning the bay. This area is famous for its underwater attraction. Jemeluk is situated at Purwakerti village,

Abang subdistrict - about 100 km from Denpasar or 21 km from Am-

lapura. Around this area visitors can find various tourist facilities like restaurants, hotels and food stalls. When wishing to see the panoramic sea view, it can be

enjoyed from the stopover point. Coral reef of Jemeluk becomes the

main attraction for visitors from around the world. Aside from the

underwater panorama, we can also enjoy the beautiful scenery of-

fered by the surrounding hills and valleys in combination with the

charming vast sea.

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While a shortage of strikers cannot be blamed for City’s inconsistent start, manager Manuel Pellegrini said they lacked a creative spark when they slipped to a surprise 1-0 home defeat by Stoke City last time out. In a bid to ease their attacking woes, Arsenal snapped up Danny Welbeck on the final day of the transfer window and the former Man-chester United striker is confident his style of play will fit in perfectly at The Emirates.

“I’ve envisaged myself playing in this team before. For it to finally happen is very exciting,” said Welbeck, who scored both goals in England’s opening Euro 2016 quali-fying campaign victory over Switzerland on Monday. “At Arsenal, we’re not short of combination football and I like to join in on that and get in behind defenders and try to get shots off at goal. I want to score

some goals and help the team to achieve the right results.” Along with Giroud, midfielder Aaron Ramsey, who has scored in two of Arsenal’s three Premier League games this season, could miss Saturday’s clash after twisting his ankle in Wales’ 2-1 win over Andorra on Tuesday.

Champions City, so potent in front of goal last season, head to north London having let Spanish striker Alvaro Negredo join Valen-cia, while in-form forward Stevan Jovetic, who scored two goals against Liverpool, is struggling with a hamstring injury. “It will be difficult, but I’m an optimist,” said Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko, who could lead City’s attack against Arsenal.

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problems in front of goal this season thanks largely to the efforts of Diego Costa but the Spaniard could miss the encounter with second-placed Swansea City at Stamford Bridge because of a leg injury. Costa, who has scored four goals in three appearances for Chelsea this season, pulled out of Spain’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Macedonia on Monday with a hamstring injury and his absence would come as a blow to manager Jose Mourinho.

“He produced a fantastic performance in every aspect,” Mourinho said after Costa netted twice against Everton in Chelsea’s 6-3 victory at Goodison Park. “Diego is maybe the best player in the league in these first three matches.” If Costa fails to recover in time then French striker Loic Remy, who joined from local rivals Queens Park Rangers, could make his Chelsea debut against a Swansea side that have looked well organised under inexperienced manager Garry Monk.

West Bromwich Albion manager Alan Irvine faces Everton, the club where he spent time as assistant manager to David Moyes and more recently as academy manager, but Roberto Martinez says there will be no room for sentiment on Saturday. “He (Irvine) did a terrific job at our club in different roles and we wish him the very best of luck in his new project - but just not for this weekend,” said the Everton boss. Tottenham Hotspur will be hoping to get back on track against Sun-derland after their steady start came crashing down with a 3-0 home defeat by Liverpool.

Elsewhere on Saturday, Liverpool host Aston Villa, Southampton entertain New-castle United, Stoke City face Leicester City and Burnley travel to Crystal Palace hoping to build on their draw against Manchester United.

On Sunday, an air of mystery will descend on Old Trafford when Manchester United face QPR with manager Louis van Gaal look-ing to accommodate a squad that includes strikers Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and new loan signing Radamel Falcao.

Dutch striker Van Persie is confident Van Gaal will find the right blend to reignite a disjointed United side that have claimed two points from their first three matches.

“It’s plain and simple. The manager chooses his tactics,” Van Persie said. “We, the players, have nothing else to do than to execute what the manager has in his mind. “Tactics and formation are matters of the manager and his staff, not something the players must get involved in.”

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PRETORIA, South Africa — Cameroon threw off its dreadful World Cup performance to beat star-studded Ivory Coast 4-1 in African Cup of Nations qualifying on Wednesday.

Forwards Clinton N’Jie and Vincent Aboubakar scored a double each as Cameroon moved on from the retirement of striker Samuel Eto’o to overpower the Ivorians and take a second win to go top of Group D.

Cameroon lost all three games at the World Cup in Brazil and was Africa’s worst team, but has rebounded with successive victories over Congo and Yaya Toure’s Ivory Coast in the continental champion-ship’s final qualifying stage.

Republic of Congo followed up its surprise victory over defending champion Nigeria on Saturday with a 2-0 win over Sudan to take charge of Group A. South Africa and Nige-ria drew 0-0 in Cape Town.

Christian Atsu’s 85th-minute goal lifted Ghana to a late 3-2 win in Togo, but Uganda was still the surprise leader on goal difference in Group E after it beat Guinea 2-0 at home. Cape Verde put itself in a good position to reach the African Cup next year in Morocco after a second straight win, this time

over 2012 Cup of Nations winner Zambia.

Egypt, the record seven-time African champion, lost 1-0 at home to North African rival Tunisia after an early goal by Fakhreddine Ben Youssef in Cairo. While Tunisia and Senegal have two wins from two, Egypt is at the bottom of Group G. After two out of six games in the final group stage, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Zambia and Guinea are also out of the qualify-ing places alongside Egypt and have work to do.

“We need to win the remaining four games to go through and that’s what we shall work towards achiev-ing,” Ivory Coast captain Toure said. The top two teams from each of the seven groups will qualify for the finals alongside one best third-placed team. N’Jie enhanced his reputation as Cameroon’s new star in place of Eto’o with the open-ing goal off a rapid counterattack at Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaounde. He also had a goal disal-lowed soon after. Toure equalized by sliding in to bury a loose ball in the 25th minute.

But that spurred the Cameroo-nians on, and Aboubakar put them ahead again before halftime before the two strikers both scored high quality second goals. Aboubakar sent a first-time shot into the top

corner in the 54th, and N’Jie con-trolled a pass with his chest and volleyed home in the 76th. Congo is second to Cameroon in Group D after winning 2-0 against Sierra Leone in a game that was relocated from Sierra Leone to Congo be-cause of the Ebola outbreak.

In Group A, Nigeria appeared weary as it labored to 0-0 in South Africa, leaving the Nigerians still without a win in the qualifiers and third behind Republic of Congo and South Africa. Republic of Congo only made it through to the final round of qualifiers after Rwanda was disqualified but tops the group ahead of two former African cham-pions.

In a full-blooded battle in Lome, Togo appeared to have claimed a point with Emmanuel Adebayor’s late header to make it 2-2 against Ghana. But Atsu pounced for the winner five minutes from time to lift Ghana up to second behind the Ugandans.

Senegal and Tunisia are in pole position to qualify from Group G after both won on Wednesday, with Senegal’s Sadio Mane scoring his second goal in two games in a 2-0 win in Botswana. Egypt, the Afri-can Cup’s most successful team, is in danger of completely missing out on the tournament for the third time in a row.

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Pele re-minded Brazilians what they already knew, and were shown so obvi-ously in the humiliating 7-1 loss to eventual champion Germany in the World Cup semifinals: Brazil must play as a team, not as individual stars if it is to win a sixth title.

Years of growing anticipation turned to disappointment and de-spondence after the underperform-ing Brazilian squad failed to deliver a World Cup title on home soil in July. And after being bundled out of contention by Germany, Brazil lost 3-0 to the Netherlands in the playoff for third place.

“There’s no need to explain that what happened was a disaster,” Pele said Wednesday. “We had expecta-tions of a different result, but this is something of football. We always have big surprises in football and, unfortunately, it was a negative surprise for us.”

Luiz Felipe Scolari quit as Brazil coach immediately after the tourna-

ment and was quickly replaced by former Brazil midfielder Dunga, who previously guided the national team from 2006 to 2010.

“Dunga was already the head coach of Brazil. He is a trustwor-thy person,” Pele, speaking at an endorsement function in Rio, was quoted as saying. “I know him personally, know how serious he is. But it won’t be hard to have the na-tional team rebuilt. The only thing we need is a more serious work.”

Pele, who scored 77 goals for Brazil between 1957 and 1971, said it was wrong to place so much emphasis on star striker Neymar in the Brazil team. Neymar fractured a vertebra in his back during the quarterfinal win over Colombia, and missed the remainder of the World Cup, throwing the Brazil attack into disarray.

“Neymar alone will not win a World Cup,” he said. “Neymar is a very good player, raised at our San-tos FC, but he himself will not win a World Cup by himself. We need several ... to win a World Cup.”

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MELBOURNE - Australia will warm up for host-ing the Asian Cup with a rematch of the 2011 final when they face reigning champions Japan in a friendly in Osaka on Nov. 18.

Australia lost the 2011 final when the Blue Samurai scored in extra time and the two nations have waged an intriguing battle for continental supremacy since, drawing 1-1 in two qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup.

“I’m delighted we have been able to secure a match against Japan in November to finalise our preparations for the Asian Cup,” Socceroos coach Ange Posteco-glou said in a statement on Thursday.

“Our aim is to become the best football nation in Asia and Japan is one of nations we will have to overcome to achieve that goal.”

The Socceroos won their first match in 10 months under Postecoglou with a 3-2 friendly victory over Saudi Arabia on Monday after being eliminated from the World Cup with three straight defeats and losing a recent friendly to Belgium 2-0.

Japan are also rebuilding under new coach Javier Aguirre after Alberto Zaccheroni departed in the wake of a disappointing first round exit in Brazil. Australia host the Asian Cup from Jan. 9-31

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ROME - UEFA president Michel Platini had a dig at soccer’s world governing body FIFA on Wednesday, saying it had failed to show zero tolerance towards discrimination at the World Cup.

“It’s all well and good to create committees and task forces but you will get nowhere without infrastructure and... rules,” the Frenchman said as he opened an anti-discrimination conference in Rome.

“UEFA put up a system that is a complex monitor-ing system of all high risk matches so that, unlike the World Cup in Brazil, zero tolerance is really put into practice.”

Platini appeared to be referring to FIFA’s failure to hand out sanctions after Mexican fans chanted the word “puto” - or “faggot” in Spanish - at opposition goalkeepers during games.

Claudio Sulser, head of FIFA’s Disciplinary Com-mittee, said at the time that the decision to take no action against Mexico reflected that the abuse was not aimed at an individual player.

FIFA also took no action against German fans who blacked up their faces at the match against Ghana and Croatian fans who displayed neo-Nazi flags and insignia.

Platini added: “Football is a mirror of society, it reflects its qualities but magnifies its flaws.

“We need to make sure we can protect the most vul-nerable. Discrimination is a scourge that has scarred history for many years... that can no longer by accepted in our society in which everyone should be equal.”

“Gone are the days of football in Europe as sport for middle class, white male chauvinists and it will never return,” he added.

Platini said the fact the conference was being held showed that, for all its efforts, football had failed to stamp out discrimination.

Platini criticises FIFA over discrimination tolerance

Australia to face Japan in final Asian Cup warm-up

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Arsenal’s Yaya Sanogo runs with the ball during their English Premier League soccer match against Leicester City at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, northern England August 31, 2014.

Arsenal and Man City hoping to jump-start campaigns

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LONDON - Arsenal and Manchester City meet at The Emirates on Saturday when both teams will seek to roar into life after making spluttering starts to their Premier League campaigns. A month after demolishing City 3-0 in the Community Shield at Wembley, seventh-placed Arsenal have failed to reach the same high notes, drawing their last two league matches and losing French striker Olivier Giroud to injury.

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Brazilian soccer great Pele, pumps his fist in the air while he poses for photos during the inauguration of a soccer pitch to be powered by player’s footsteps at the Morro da Mineira favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

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Cameroon beats Ivory Coast 4-1 in qualifying

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While a shortage of strikers cannot be blamed for City’s inconsistent start, manager Manuel Pellegrini said they lacked a creative spark when they slipped to a surprise 1-0 home defeat by Stoke City last time out. In a bid to ease their attacking woes, Arsenal snapped up Danny Welbeck on the final day of the transfer window and the former Man-chester United striker is confident his style of play will fit in perfectly at The Emirates.

“I’ve envisaged myself playing in this team before. For it to finally happen is very exciting,” said Welbeck, who scored both goals in England’s opening Euro 2016 quali-fying campaign victory over Switzerland on Monday. “At Arsenal, we’re not short of combination football and I like to join in on that and get in behind defenders and try to get shots off at goal. I want to score

some goals and help the team to achieve the right results.” Along with Giroud, midfielder Aaron Ramsey, who has scored in two of Arsenal’s three Premier League games this season, could miss Saturday’s clash after twisting his ankle in Wales’ 2-1 win over Andorra on Tuesday.

Champions City, so potent in front of goal last season, head to north London having let Spanish striker Alvaro Negredo join Valen-cia, while in-form forward Stevan Jovetic, who scored two goals against Liverpool, is struggling with a hamstring injury. “It will be difficult, but I’m an optimist,” said Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko, who could lead City’s attack against Arsenal.

Table-topping counterTable-toppers Chelsea have suffered no

problems in front of goal this season thanks largely to the efforts of Diego Costa but the Spaniard could miss the encounter with second-placed Swansea City at Stamford Bridge because of a leg injury. Costa, who has scored four goals in three appearances for Chelsea this season, pulled out of Spain’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Macedonia on Monday with a hamstring injury and his absence would come as a blow to manager Jose Mourinho.

“He produced a fantastic performance in every aspect,” Mourinho said after Costa netted twice against Everton in Chelsea’s 6-3 victory at Goodison Park. “Diego is maybe the best player in the league in these first three matches.” If Costa fails to recover in time then French striker Loic Remy, who joined from local rivals Queens Park Rangers, could make his Chelsea debut against a Swansea side that have looked well organised under inexperienced manager Garry Monk.

West Bromwich Albion manager Alan Irvine faces Everton, the club where he spent time as assistant manager to David Moyes and more recently as academy manager, but Roberto Martinez says there will be no room for sentiment on Saturday. “He (Irvine) did a terrific job at our club in different roles and we wish him the very best of luck in his new project - but just not for this weekend,” said the Everton boss. Tottenham Hotspur will be hoping to get back on track against Sun-derland after their steady start came crashing down with a 3-0 home defeat by Liverpool.

Elsewhere on Saturday, Liverpool host Aston Villa, Southampton entertain New-castle United, Stoke City face Leicester City and Burnley travel to Crystal Palace hoping to build on their draw against Manchester United.

On Sunday, an air of mystery will descend on Old Trafford when Manchester United face QPR with manager Louis van Gaal look-ing to accommodate a squad that includes strikers Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and new loan signing Radamel Falcao.

Dutch striker Van Persie is confident Van Gaal will find the right blend to reignite a disjointed United side that have claimed two points from their first three matches.

“It’s plain and simple. The manager chooses his tactics,” Van Persie said. “We, the players, have nothing else to do than to execute what the manager has in his mind. “Tactics and formation are matters of the manager and his staff, not something the players must get involved in.”

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PRETORIA, South Africa — Cameroon threw off its dreadful World Cup performance to beat star-studded Ivory Coast 4-1 in African Cup of Nations qualifying on Wednesday.

Forwards Clinton N’Jie and Vincent Aboubakar scored a double each as Cameroon moved on from the retirement of striker Samuel Eto’o to overpower the Ivorians and take a second win to go top of Group D.

Cameroon lost all three games at the World Cup in Brazil and was Africa’s worst team, but has rebounded with successive victories over Congo and Yaya Toure’s Ivory Coast in the continental champion-ship’s final qualifying stage.

Republic of Congo followed up its surprise victory over defending champion Nigeria on Saturday with a 2-0 win over Sudan to take charge of Group A. South Africa and Nige-ria drew 0-0 in Cape Town.

Christian Atsu’s 85th-minute goal lifted Ghana to a late 3-2 win in Togo, but Uganda was still the surprise leader on goal difference in Group E after it beat Guinea 2-0 at home. Cape Verde put itself in a good position to reach the African Cup next year in Morocco after a second straight win, this time

over 2012 Cup of Nations winner Zambia.

Egypt, the record seven-time African champion, lost 1-0 at home to North African rival Tunisia after an early goal by Fakhreddine Ben Youssef in Cairo. While Tunisia and Senegal have two wins from two, Egypt is at the bottom of Group G. After two out of six games in the final group stage, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Zambia and Guinea are also out of the qualify-ing places alongside Egypt and have work to do.

“We need to win the remaining four games to go through and that’s what we shall work towards achiev-ing,” Ivory Coast captain Toure said. The top two teams from each of the seven groups will qualify for the finals alongside one best third-placed team. N’Jie enhanced his reputation as Cameroon’s new star in place of Eto’o with the open-ing goal off a rapid counterattack at Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaounde. He also had a goal disal-lowed soon after. Toure equalized by sliding in to bury a loose ball in the 25th minute.

But that spurred the Cameroo-nians on, and Aboubakar put them ahead again before halftime before the two strikers both scored high quality second goals. Aboubakar sent a first-time shot into the top

corner in the 54th, and N’Jie con-trolled a pass with his chest and volleyed home in the 76th. Congo is second to Cameroon in Group D after winning 2-0 against Sierra Leone in a game that was relocated from Sierra Leone to Congo be-cause of the Ebola outbreak.

In Group A, Nigeria appeared weary as it labored to 0-0 in South Africa, leaving the Nigerians still without a win in the qualifiers and third behind Republic of Congo and South Africa. Republic of Congo only made it through to the final round of qualifiers after Rwanda was disqualified but tops the group ahead of two former African cham-pions.

In a full-blooded battle in Lome, Togo appeared to have claimed a point with Emmanuel Adebayor’s late header to make it 2-2 against Ghana. But Atsu pounced for the winner five minutes from time to lift Ghana up to second behind the Ugandans.

Senegal and Tunisia are in pole position to qualify from Group G after both won on Wednesday, with Senegal’s Sadio Mane scoring his second goal in two games in a 2-0 win in Botswana. Egypt, the Afri-can Cup’s most successful team, is in danger of completely missing out on the tournament for the third time in a row.

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Pele re-minded Brazilians what they already knew, and were shown so obvi-ously in the humiliating 7-1 loss to eventual champion Germany in the World Cup semifinals: Brazil must play as a team, not as individual stars if it is to win a sixth title.

Years of growing anticipation turned to disappointment and de-spondence after the underperform-ing Brazilian squad failed to deliver a World Cup title on home soil in July. And after being bundled out of contention by Germany, Brazil lost 3-0 to the Netherlands in the playoff for third place.

“There’s no need to explain that what happened was a disaster,” Pele said Wednesday. “We had expecta-tions of a different result, but this is something of football. We always have big surprises in football and, unfortunately, it was a negative surprise for us.”

Luiz Felipe Scolari quit as Brazil coach immediately after the tourna-

ment and was quickly replaced by former Brazil midfielder Dunga, who previously guided the national team from 2006 to 2010.

“Dunga was already the head coach of Brazil. He is a trustwor-thy person,” Pele, speaking at an endorsement function in Rio, was quoted as saying. “I know him personally, know how serious he is. But it won’t be hard to have the na-tional team rebuilt. The only thing we need is a more serious work.”

Pele, who scored 77 goals for Brazil between 1957 and 1971, said it was wrong to place so much emphasis on star striker Neymar in the Brazil team. Neymar fractured a vertebra in his back during the quarterfinal win over Colombia, and missed the remainder of the World Cup, throwing the Brazil attack into disarray.

“Neymar alone will not win a World Cup,” he said. “Neymar is a very good player, raised at our San-tos FC, but he himself will not win a World Cup by himself. We need several ... to win a World Cup.”

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MELBOURNE - Australia will warm up for host-ing the Asian Cup with a rematch of the 2011 final when they face reigning champions Japan in a friendly in Osaka on Nov. 18.

Australia lost the 2011 final when the Blue Samurai scored in extra time and the two nations have waged an intriguing battle for continental supremacy since, drawing 1-1 in two qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup.

“I’m delighted we have been able to secure a match against Japan in November to finalise our preparations for the Asian Cup,” Socceroos coach Ange Posteco-glou said in a statement on Thursday.

“Our aim is to become the best football nation in Asia and Japan is one of nations we will have to overcome to achieve that goal.”

The Socceroos won their first match in 10 months under Postecoglou with a 3-2 friendly victory over Saudi Arabia on Monday after being eliminated from the World Cup with three straight defeats and losing a recent friendly to Belgium 2-0.

Japan are also rebuilding under new coach Javier Aguirre after Alberto Zaccheroni departed in the wake of a disappointing first round exit in Brazil. Australia host the Asian Cup from Jan. 9-31

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ROME - UEFA president Michel Platini had a dig at soccer’s world governing body FIFA on Wednesday, saying it had failed to show zero tolerance towards discrimination at the World Cup.

“It’s all well and good to create committees and task forces but you will get nowhere without infrastructure and... rules,” the Frenchman said as he opened an anti-discrimination conference in Rome.

“UEFA put up a system that is a complex monitor-ing system of all high risk matches so that, unlike the World Cup in Brazil, zero tolerance is really put into practice.”

Platini appeared to be referring to FIFA’s failure to hand out sanctions after Mexican fans chanted the word “puto” - or “faggot” in Spanish - at opposition goalkeepers during games.

Claudio Sulser, head of FIFA’s Disciplinary Com-mittee, said at the time that the decision to take no action against Mexico reflected that the abuse was not aimed at an individual player.

FIFA also took no action against German fans who blacked up their faces at the match against Ghana and Croatian fans who displayed neo-Nazi flags and insignia.

Platini added: “Football is a mirror of society, it reflects its qualities but magnifies its flaws.

“We need to make sure we can protect the most vul-nerable. Discrimination is a scourge that has scarred history for many years... that can no longer by accepted in our society in which everyone should be equal.”

“Gone are the days of football in Europe as sport for middle class, white male chauvinists and it will never return,” he added.

Platini said the fact the conference was being held showed that, for all its efforts, football had failed to stamp out discrimination.

Platini criticises FIFA over discrimination tolerance

Australia to face Japan in final Asian Cup warm-up

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Arsenal’s Yaya Sanogo runs with the ball during their English Premier League soccer match against Leicester City at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, northern England August 31, 2014.

Arsenal and Man City hoping to jump-start campaigns

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LONDON - Arsenal and Manchester City meet at The Emirates on Saturday when both teams will seek to roar into life after making spluttering starts to their Premier League campaigns. A month after demolishing City 3-0 in the Community Shield at Wembley, seventh-placed Arsenal have failed to reach the same high notes, drawing their last two league matches and losing French striker Olivier Giroud to injury.

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Brazilian soccer great Pele, pumps his fist in the air while he poses for photos during the inauguration of a soccer pitch to be powered by player’s footsteps at the Morro da Mineira favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

Pele reminds Brazil it must play as a team

Cameroon beats Ivory Coast 4-1 in qualifying

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Having coming up short in his bid for an 18th Grand Slam title, Roger Federer is quickly turning his focus to the Davis Cup — a trophy still missing from his collection.

The former top-ranked player leads Switzerland against Italy in Geneva this weekend as his country bids to reach the final for the first time since 1992. France hosts two-time defending champion Czech Republic in the other semifinal at Roland Garros, home of the French Open.

The best-of-five series begin Friday with two singles matches, followed by doubles on Saturday and reverse singles on Sunday.

After his straight-set loss to eventual winner Marin Cilic in the U.S. Open semi-finals, seven-time Wimbledon champion Federer showed his commitment to the Swiss team, heading back home to prepare for the Davis Cup tie on an indoor hard court.

“In tennis there are so many highlights thankfully, so I have something to do next Friday already again,” Federer said after bowing out of Flushing Meadows. “I’ll be very preoccupied with that, starting right

now.”For years, the 33-year-old Federer did

not regard the Davis Cup as a main prior-ity, preferring to dedicate himself to Grand Slam events and big tournaments. But the emergence of teammate and Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka as a top player has convinced him they have a good chance of winning the prestigious team competition.

“We obviously are favorites,” the third-ranked Federer said. “We have a formidable team. We are playing at home and we chose the surface. We can do it.”

Along with Federer and Wawrinka, Marco Chiudinelli and Michael Lammer complete the Swiss team, which has never lost to Italy at home. The Italian team in-cludes Fabio Fognini and Andreas Seppi.

Swiss captain Severin Luthi said the presence of both Federer and Wawrinka in Switzerland since the beginning of the week helped the team to prepare.

“We could train together as soon as Tuesday, which was not the case in our opening two rounds,” Luthi said, refer-ring to the tight 3-2 wins over Serbia and Kazakhstan. If Switzerland wins, it will travel to France or the Czech Republic for the final.

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But France defended well and re-bounded even better to ruin Spain’s quest for a title for a second straight summer. Last summer, Tony Parker helped France end Spain’s quest for a third consecutive European title.

This time, Spain had several reasons to believe it would avenge that loss. Parker wasn’t playing for France, and Spain had Pau Gasol back in its ranks, besides playing at home. “It’s a painful and disap-pointing defeat,” Pau said. “We had such high expectations and had played so well until now.”

Spain had averaged 88 points per game through its first six wins, all blowouts. But France cut off Spain’s passing lanes and forced it into solo efforts. Spain’s guards didn’t adjust by looking for Pau and Marc Gasol in the post enough, and then compounded that by missing all but two of their 22 attempts from beyond the 3-point arc.

“Everyone thought we had won this before it started, but we didn’t prepare well for the game and were trying to play catchup the entire

way,” Spain guard Juan Carlos Navarro said. “They prepared bet-ter than we did. We relied on doing what we always do, defend and get out on the break, but our shots didn’t fall, and they played with a lot of poise.” Boris Diaw scored 15 points and Thomas Heurtel added 13 for a France team which pulled in 50 rebounds to Spain’s 28.

Pau had 17 for Spain, but his brother Marc and Serge Ibaka each went 1-of-7 from the field to com-bine for just 5 points. Serbia awaits France on Friday after it routed Brazil 84-56 in the other quarter-final. The U.S. plays Lithuania in the other semifinal in Barcelona on Thursday.

Pau scored in the post to spark Spain’s 12-4 run to open the third period and edge ahead 40-39. A brief scuffle marred that span when France’s Florent Pietrus slapped Sergi Llull in the back of the head after an argument. Pietrus was awarded an unsporstmanlike technical foul.

Spain entered the final period

with a one-point lead but without any clear plan of attack. Diaw nailed a backbreaking 3 after France again beat Spain to the offensive boards to take a 51-45 lead and force Juan Orenga to call time-out with 6:41 left.

A contested jumper by Pau brought Spain to within three points with under two to play, but Heurtel scored five points to quash the comeback and spark chants for Orenga’s resignation in a loss that hurt almost as much as the Spanish football team’s early elimination from this summer’s World Cup. Pau left open the possibility that this was his last game for Spain, which he has led to one world champion-ship in 2006, two Olympic silver medals, and two European titles.

“You never know when your last game or tournament will be,” the new Chicago Bull center said. “I would like to play until I am 50, but I doubt it. We have great young players coming up and I’m sure that we have a good team in the future.”

Whether or not Pau continues, Spain will likely not have such a chance to try and finally beat the U.S. with Pau now 34, and the Olympics two years away. Ser-bia’s result also reversed a group matchup, as Serbia lost to Brazil last Wednesday, when Spain also beat France.

France upsets Spain 65-52 in WCup quarters

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de OlzaFrance’s Boris Diaw, left, defends as Spain’s Serge Ibaka shoots dur-ing the basketball World Cup quarter finals match between Spain and France in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

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MADRID — France upset Spain 65-52 in front of its stunned fans in the quarterfinals of the Basketball World Cup on Wednesday. After dominating its first six games and blowing out France by 24 points in the group phase, Spain appeared to be the main candidate to dethrone the United States in a possible final that would have been a rematch of the past two Olympic gold-medal games.

Federer leads Switzerland’s Davis Cup challenge

AP Photo/Keystone/Salvatore Di NolfiRoger Federer, of Switzerland, returns a ball during a training session of the Swiss Davis Cup Team prior to the Davis Cup World Group Semifinal match between Switzerland and Italy, at Palexpo, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

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AMLAPURA - Based on local folklore, the name Jemeluk is

originated from the Balinese word menyeluk or seluk meaning the bay. This area is famous for its underwater attraction. Jemeluk is situated at Purwakerti village,

Abang subdistrict - about 100 km from Denpasar or 21 km from Am-

lapura. Around this area visitors can find various tourist facilities like restaurants, hotels and food stalls. When wishing to see the panoramic sea view, it can be

enjoyed from the stopover point. Coral reef of Jemeluk becomes the

main attraction for visitors from around the world. Aside from the

underwater panorama, we can also enjoy the beautiful scenery of-

fered by the surrounding hills and valleys in combination with the

charming vast sea.

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Pakistani and Indian officials said the death toll had reached 461 in the two countries. Flash floods have washed away crops, damaged tens of thousands of homes and affected over a million people since Sept. 3, when heavy monsoon rains lashed Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province and the Kashmir region, claimed by both India and Pakistan.

Ahmad Kamal, a spokesman for Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority, said 261 people have been killed and 482 injured in Pakistan. “The situation is still alarming as flood waters are entering the country’s plains in the Jhang district, inundating more villages and affecting thousands,” he said. The military said it was expanding relief operations in Punjab, where the Chenab River overflowed. Troops in helicopters and boats evacuated 4,000 more people from Jhang, it said.

Kamal said high floods were likely to reach the southern Sindh province later this week. Authori-ties were supplying tents, food and

other items to survivors, but many complained that the government was not doing enough. “I feel as If I am a beggar, as I have to wait for hours to get free food,” a survivor told a Pakistani news channel.

Hafiz Saeed, who heads Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an anti-India charity, accused India of releasing flood wa-ters that caused destruction in Paki-stan. “Pakistan should take notice of this situation,” he told a Pakistani news channel late Wednesday, adding that he was providing food to hundreds of thousands of flood victims in Jhang.

India says Jamaat-ud-Dawa is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, which it blames for a 2008 attack on the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people. Pakistan and India have a history of uneasy relations, but relations have improved in recent years. Each side has offered to help the other recover from the floods, the worst to hit Pakistan since 2010, when some 1,700 people died.

The Kashmir region in the north-ern Himalayas is divided between

India and Pakistan and claimed by both. Two of the three wars the countries have fought since their independence from Britain in 1947 have been over control of Kashmir.

In India, Sandeep Rai Rathore, head of the National Disaster Re-sponse Force, said Thursday that 80 army and air force transport aircraft and helicopters were drop-ping drinking water, biscuits, baby food and food packets for hundreds of thousands of marooned people in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.

Officials said the flooding has killed 200 people in India, where anger and resentment was mounting over what victims described as a slow rescue and relief effort.

“We want water and food. We will die here. Please drop some food packets,” The Hindustan Times newspaper quoted S. Lala, a strand-ed resident of Srinagar, as saying. With flood waters receding in parts of region, authorities prepared to cope with the spread of waterborne diseases such as diarrhea.

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GAZA CITY — Palestinian filmmaker Khalil Mozayen’s lat-est work was already complexly layered — a movie within a movie about a director and screenwriter producing a film about an honor killing in the Gaza Strip.

Then the latest Gaza war burst in to add yet another layer: An Is-raeli airstrike levelled the 13-story apartment tower where Mozayen’s office, studio and archive were lo-cated. So he filmed the mountain of rubble and used it for the final scene of his movie, “Sarah 2014.”

Mozayen had hoped to create a film not connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But he and his screenwriter Naim al-Khatib said they decided they couldn’t avoid addressing the war.

“It is like, as a Palestinian, you don’t have the right to have your own dream, that everything in your life has to have something to do with war and (Israeli) occupa-tion,” said al-Khatib, who also

plays the fictional screenwriter in the movie.

“The occupation crashed our privacy ... and the war became an integral part of the film’s ending,” he said.

The themes and reality of war impose themselves on Gaza’s small but vibrant arts scene, and the latest war has been a powerful inspiration for its artists in their new work. The 50 days of fighting, which ended with an indefinite truce on Aug. 26, was the deadli-est and most ruinous of three such conflicts between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas militant rulers since late 2008. More than 2,143 Palestin-ians were killed and 100,000 left homeless.

The artists also incorporate the death and destruction into themes drawn from the other realities of life in the tiny Mediterranean coastal strip — a seven-year blockade en-forced by Israel and Egypt and the restrictions on freedoms imposed by Hamas on a society that is al-ready deeply conservative.

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BARCELONA — A week before Scotland votes on whether to break away from the United Kingdom, Cata-lan separatists in northeastern Spain hope at least 1 million people will take to the streets in Barcelona and across Catalonia to demand a secession vote. The central government in Madrid insists that would be illegal.

Several hours before protests be-gan, Catalonia regional leader Artur Mas said Thursday his government

is not wavering from plans to hold a secession referendum on Nov. 9 even though experts say an attempt is sure to be blocked Spain’s Con-stitutional Court.

Polls suggesting Scotland’s “Yes” independence camp could win their Sept. 18 vote have en-ergized Catalan separatists, Cor-sicans who want to break away from France and Flemish speak-ers in Belgium demanding more autonomy, independence or union with the Netherlands.

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JAKARTA - Indonesian Presi-dent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and First Lady Ani Yudhoyono bid farewell to all the employees of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta after serving as the president of Indonesia for a decade.

“Myself, the First Lady, the secretary of state, and the cabinet secretary would like to express our gratitude and appreciation for the support and assistance from every employee in the presidential palace. Without it, I could not carry out the governance task well,” the president stated here on Thursday during a farewell photo session.

The president emphasized that the cooperation and role of every palace employee also contributed in helping him to successfully carry out the presidential duties.

“Everyone is important whether the officials and all members of the secretariat of state, the cabinet, the Palace’s housekeeping staff includ-ing the Presidential Security Detail Paspampres, Special staff, and the team of doctors and journalists,”

Yudhoyono affirmed.“Therefore, I sincerely express

my deepest gratitude and apprecia-tion,” stated the president.

The photo session, which started at 8.00 a.m. local time, was attended by all the presidential secretariat employees from various fields, Presidential Security Detail officers (Paspampres), the palace’s house-keeping staff, and journalists who served in the Presidential Palace on a daily basis.

“Please forgive me and the First Lady if the employees and staff experienced any unpleasant inci-dent during my 10-year service as president,” Yudhoyono remarked.

On that occasion, the head of state also reminded that such level of cooperation must also be ex-tended for the next state’s adminis-tration. “Please convey my love and regards to the family and friends at home,” Yudhoyono stated.

Yudhoyono will be replaced by his successor President-elect Joko Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who won the presidential election held on July 9, 2014.

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An Pakistani army helicopter hovers to rescue trapped people from a flooded area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. Heavy monsoon rains killed dozens of people across Pakistan as flash flood inundated villages, prompting authorities to send troops to evacuate residents and assist in the emergency, officials said.

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ISLAMABAD — Pakistani troops used helicopters and boats to evacuate thousands of marooned people from the country’s plains where raging monsoon floods inundated more vil-lages Thursday, officials said. In neighboring India, the military dropped food for hundreds of thousands of people marooned in flood-hit areas of Indian-held Kashmir.

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In this Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 photo, Palestinian filmmaker Khalil Mozayen, second right, observes his crew during a rehearsal for his new movie in Gaza City.

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Lebak District is experiencing a serious drought, and it will be a challenge to meet its water require-ments in the upcoming months.

Therefore, hundreds of pumps have been installed for transporting ground water to rice fields for irrigation in order to avoid harvest failure.

The drought has left thousands of residents suffering from acute respiratory tract infections (ISPA).

“We have to stay alert because thousands are suffering from ISPA,” Lebak district health department chief for prevention of infectious diseases Firman Rahmatullah said.

He stated that many people in the district have been suffering from respiratory problems because of drought, particularly in the south-ern part of the district where the

construction of a cement factory is underway.

“Besides the bad weather, ash from the cement factory has also contributed to the respiratory prob-lems,” he said, calling on the local community to live a healthy life-style and clean living pattern.

Acute respiratory infection is a serious issue that prevents normal breathing function and usually be-gins as a viral infection of the nose, trachea, or lungs.

If the infection is not treated properly, it can spread to the entire respiratory system.

Therefore, Firman has encour-aged the local community to be wary of its symptoms, such as run-ning nose, cough, sore throat, body ache, fatigue, difficulty in breath-

ing, dizziness, low blood oxygen level, and loss of consciousness.

In West Nusa Tenggara, local government spokesman Bachrudin stated in Mataram on Tuesday that many villages had been hit by drought, which has led to water scar-city. “We find it difficult to distribute clean water to so many drought-hit villages,” Bachrudin remarked.

He was, however, confident that the local government will come up with a solution to resolve the issue and not remain silent.

Meanwhile, East Nusa Tenggara Regional Natural Disaster Mitiga-tion Agency (BPBD) reported in Kupang on Monday that drought had hit and damaged food crops at 16-22 districts in the province.

Head of BPBD Tini Thadeus

remarked that 16 districts in the province are feared to have suffered worst because of drought. Thadeus noted that the 16 regencies include Kupang, Timor Tengah Selatan, Timor Tengah Utara, Belu, Malaka, Sumba Timur, Sumba Barat, Sumba Tengah and Sumba Barat Daya, Ende, Sikka, Flores Timur, Lem-bata, and Alor.

The six regencies suffering from minor impact are Kota Kupang, Ngada, Nagekeo, Manggarai Timur, Manggarai, and Manggarai Barat.

Drought was also reported to have hit six subdistricts in Langkat, North Sumatra, where around 1,754 hectares of rice fields are feared to have suffered harvest failure. The hardest hit was the subdistrict Ba-balan, where 1,274 hectares of rice fields have been damaged.

Other subdistricts that have been suffering include Secanggang, Pangkalan Susu, Brandan Barat, Binjai, and Sei Lepan.

Therefore, the House of Repre-sentatives’ Commission IX member

from the United Development Party faction Okky Assokawati has called on the government to promptly respond to the impacts of drought, which has affected those regions.

“Many regions in Indonesia have been currently hit by drought, which may impact environment and communities, and therefore, the government should quickly respond to it,” Okky said in a press statement here on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Environment Minis-try spokesman Arief Yuwono noted here on Tuesday that due to several factors, including drought, nine provinces in Indonesia are prone to forest fires.

“Data have been collected on the nine provinces. The provinces have to take preventive measures in order to act immediately if for-est fires occur,” Arief stated here on Tuesday.

The nine provinces are North and South Sumatra, Jambi, and Riau, as well as West, East, Central, South, and North Kalimantan.

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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (right) talked with former Britain’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair, during his visit to Jakarta on Thursday, September 11, 2014.

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JAKARTA - Drought has parched Indonesia’s numerous regions and is feared to cause losses to crops, slow down economic growth, and disrupt water supply. The hardest hit are some dis-tricts in Central and East Java, West and East Nusa Tenggara, and Lebak District in Banten Province.

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Pursuant to tradition of Hindu com-munity in Bali, Saturday September 13, is calls the Tumpek Wayang. On this day, all the puppeteers and those who have a pup-pet in Bali will give a special ceremony to theirs. They call the Tumpek Wayang as Odalan Wayang. In addition, many people choose Tumpek Wayang as an auspicious day to perform purificatory rite (ruwatan) both physically and mentally.

Tumpek Wayang has a very special posi-tion and is considered the most sacred. Why? Because of Tumpek Wayang poses a pile of transitional times falling on Saniscara (Sat-urday), Kajeng, Kliwon, Wayang. Saniscara (Saturday) is the last day in the count of Saptawara (seven-day week); Kajeng is the last day in the count of Triwara (three-day week); and Kliwon is the last day in the count of Pancawara (five-day week). Meanwhile, Tumpek Wayang is the last tumpek in the six sequences existing in the cycle of Balinese pawukon-based calendar. On that account, Tumpek Wayang becomes the day filled with transitional times.

Other than due to confluence of the last days, Tumpek Wayang is also considered sacred because the Hindus always link the day as the birthday of Lord Kala. That is why the Tumpek Wayang has close connection with Sapuh Leger mythology, or refers to the mythology of the birth of Lord Kala as the aftermath of improper sexual intercourse of Lord Shiva and his spouse Goddess Uma. In the mythology is mentioned, they engage in an improper sexual intercourse so it is called kama salah and the birth of Lord Kala is said to be Salah Wetu (wrongly born). Similarly, people born on Tumpek Wayang are consid-ered wrongly born so they have less good and sickly properties.

There are several versions about the my-thology of the Lord Kala’s birth. In the Kala Tattwa chronicle is recounted that Lord Shiva got his passion when having a leisurely walk with Goddess Uma on the beach. At that time, Lord Shiva saw the beautiful calf of Goddess Uma because her clothes were revealed by the blowing winds. Lord Shiva then wooed the Goddess Uma to ‘make a love’. The god-dess refused on the grounds that behavior of Lord Shiva violated the applicable norms in heaven.

Since the lust of Lord Shiva flared up, his semen was dripping into the ocean and then discovered by Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu. The sperms were then given a mantra. From the sperm of Lord Shiva was then born an ogre who was snarling angrily asked who his parents were. Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu told that Lord Shiva and Goddess Uma were his parents.

Before Lord Shiva was willing to admit the ogre as his son, he first asked the ogre to cut his long fangs. By doing so, he would be able to see his parents in a complete form. The ogre then complied with the require-ments. Other than blessing, the Lord Shiva also named his son the Lord Kala. To honor the day of his birth, Lord Shiva gave a boon that Lord Kala was allowed to prey on people who were born on Tumpek Wayang. In addi-tion, he was also given the rights to prey on people who were having a promenade at noon on Tumpek Wayang.

Later, Lord Shiva had another son named Lord Kumara, who was also born on Tumpek Wayang. In accordance with the grace of Lord Shiva, Lord Kala was entitled to prey on Kumara. However, on the request of Lord Shiva, Lord Kala may prey on Kumara if this younger brother had grown up.

As a matter of fact, Lord Shiva was unwill-ing if his son would be savored. Therefore, Lord Shiva gave a boon to Lord Kumara that he would never grow up or always be a kid. Since Kumara never grew up, the patience of Lord Kala came to an end. Lord Kumara was chased by him. In the pursuit, Lord Kala came across with Lord Shiva and Goddess Uma riding the cow Nandini at midday. They also wanted to be gobbled down by Lord Kala pursuant to the promise of his father. Then, Lord Shiva gave the puzzle first, if Lord Kala wanted to prey. Unfortunately, Lord Kala was unable to answer all the riddles and the sun was almost leaning to the west. As a result, the time to prey on Lord Shiva and Goddess Uma

virtually elapsed. Then, Lord Kala continued his pursuit to prey on Lord Kumara.

Ultimately, Lord Kala encountered a pup-pet shadow play. Since he was very hungry, he devoured the entire oblation of the show. The puppeteer begged all the edible offerings to be thrown back entirely. Lord Kala could not fulfill the request. Instead, he promised not to prey on people who were born on Tumpek Wayang, if they had organized a ceremony and staged the Wayang Sapuh Leger.

Based on the mythology the people who were born on Tumpek Wayang should perform the self-purificatory rite with the presentation of puppet shadow play staged under the title of Sapuh Leger.

Such congestion occurs be-cause people take the road shoul-der to park their cars. “The owner of cars park on both sides of the road. It is the trigger of the congestion,” said one of the local residents, Wayan Loka.

According to him, the density of population in the three villages of Batur and limited land had caused many residents to have no car garage. As a result, their car was parked on the roadside. “Most Batur residents have a car. Even, a family may have more than one car. As having no garage, they finally park their car on roadside,” he said.

In addition, he continued, the

land conversion of the parking lot at Kintamani Market into the place of selling also contributed to the congestion at Kintamani. “Visitors to the market park their car on roadside. As a result, it aggravates the condition and disrupts the traffic,” he said.

A number of Kintamani resi-dents hoped there would be an effort made by stakeholders to overcome the congestion. For example, they could install traf-fic sign of parking restriction or restore the function of the park-ing lot. “In addition, the residents should be made aware of parking in the assigned areas,” hoped the residents. (kmb)

Congestion afflicts KintamaniBali Post

KIntaManI - traffic congestion has now become a routine spectacle faced by residents of Kintamani, chiefly those living at Batur and Kintamani village. Previously, traffic congestion only occurred during the temple anniversary took place at ulun Danu Batur temple and market day of Kintamani Market, but now it occurs almost every day. the most severe congestion occurs on the road section in front of the ulun Danu Batur temple to Kintamani Market.

IBP/kmbTraffic congestion has now become a routine spectacle faced by residents of Kintamani, chiefly those living at Batur and Kintamani village.

Celebrating Tumpek Wayang in Bali

IBP/WanPursuant to tradition of Hindu community in Bali, Saturday September 13, is calls the Tumpek Wayang. On this day, all the puppeteers and those who have a puppet in Bali will give a special ceremony to theirs. They call the Tumpek Wayang as Odalan Wayang.

Associated Press

BEIJING — China’s premier promised Wednesday to open the world’s No. 2 economy wider to foreign companies, promising favor-able conditions despite a wave of anti-monopoly investigations that business groups say might be aimed at limiting competition.

Speaking at a business conference, Premier Li Keqiang made no mention of the probes against foreign automak-ers, drug and technology suppliers and other companies. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in a report this week the investigations unfairly target foreign companies and might be a violation of Beijing’s free-trade pledges.

“We oppose protectionism in all its forms,” the premier said at the World Economic Forum in the Tianjin, east of Beijing. “We will continue to pursue a more proactive strategy of opening up.”

The premier promised to “improve and standardize the business environ-ment” to attract foreign companies and investment. Li’s comments echo promises often made by Chinese lead-ers but come at a time when the wave of anti-monopoly investigations have prompted questions about Beijing’s attitude toward foreign companies.

Business groups have said regula-tors might be misusing investigations to force companies to lower prices or to promote Chinese competitors.

Regulators have fined Japanese suppliers of auto parts and foreign milk producers. Officials say global automakers including Audi, Mercedes and Chrysler will face punishment for violating anti-monopoly law.

Regulatory pressure, along with slowing economic growth, has fueled pessimism among foreign companies in China. A survey last month by the American Chamber of Commerce in China found 60 percent of managers

queried felt “less welcome” in this country. That was up from 41 percent who expressed similar sentiments in a survey in late 2013.

Li said Beijing wants foreign com-panies to help make China a creator of new technologies to support better-paid jobs and more environmentally friendly economic growth.

“We will work hard and turn China into a major innovative country,” he said.

The premier promised to stamp out theft of intellectual property but gave no indication what would hap-pen to major Chinese state companies that critics abroad say are actively involved in industrial spying.

Global companies in fields from software to autos to pharmaceuticals have set up research and development operations in China. But business groups say they are reluctant to trans-fer their most advanced know-how to this country due to fears of theft.

Finance Minister Michel Sapin said Wednesday the budget deficit would be around 4.3 percent of GDP in 2015 and would not dip under the 3 percent target for European Union countries until 2017, a decade after the last time France hit the target.

He revised down the country’s growth figures yet again to 0.4 percent this year and 1 percent for next year, down from initial projections of 1.7 percent.

France’s economic troubles mirror a broader lack of growth in Europe.

Sapin said “an economic real-ity that concerns all of us” needed to be taken into consideration, although he said France was not requesting a change in the budget rules. Hollande’s government had earlier negotiated a delay in meet-ing the target until 2015.

The news was not welcome at EU headquarters in Brussels, since France’s dragging economy

is weighing on a Europe-wide recovery.

Simon O’Connor, spokesman for the EU’s economic commis-sioner, said France must “clearly specify credible measures” to cut spending and rein in its deficit in the coming years. Bold reforms and solid public finances “are essential not only for France but for the euro area as a whole,” he said.

Like other European countries, France is struggling to trim its deficit after years of excessive state spending. Sapin said Presi-dent Francois Hollande’s Socialist government would push ahead with 21 billion euros ($27 billion) in cuts next year and 50 billion euros ($64 billion) by 2017, the last year of Hollande’s term.

France has company in miss-ing the deficit target: Last year, it was joined by Britain, Greece, Spain and Ireland, among other scofflaws.

Stalled France to miss deficit target until 2017Associated Press

ParIs — France has revised down its growth forecasts and says it will miss its deficit target for another three years, confir-mation that Europe’s second-largest economy will emerge only slowly from its stagnation.

REUTERS/Benoit TessierA view shows scaffolding at a construction site for new housing buildings in Paris September 3, 2014. France has revised down its growth forecasts and says it will miss its deficit target for another three years, confirma-tion that Europe’s second-largest economy will emerge only slowly from its stagnation.

China’s premier promises more open economy

AP PhotoIn this Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014 photo, a woman works at a fac-tory manufacture aluminum wheel hubs in Zouping county in east China’s Shandong province. Chinese premier Li Keqiang promised Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 to open its economy wider to foreign businesses, promising favorable conditions amid a wave of anti-monopoly investigations that business groups say might be aimed at limiting competition.

BUSINESS

Bali News International4 Friday, September 12, 2014 Friday, September 12, 2014 13International RLDW

Obama announced Wednesday night that he was dispatching nearly 500 more U.S. troops to Iraq to as-sist that country’s besieged security forces, bringing the total number of American forces sent there this summer to more than 1,500. He also urged Congress anew to authorize a program to train and arm Syrian rebels who are fighting both the Islamic State militants and Syrian President Bashar Assad.

“We will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wher-ever they are,” Obama declared in a prime-time address to the nation from the White House. “This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.”

Obama’s plans amounted to a striking shift for a president who rose to political prominence in part because of his early opposition to the Iraq war. While in office, he has steadfastly sought to wind down American military campaigns in

the Middle East and avoid new wars — particularly in Syria, a country where the chaos of an intractable civil war has given the Islamic State space to thrive and move freely across the border with Iraq.

Speaking on the eve of the an-niversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Obama’s plans were also an admission that years of American-led war in the Middle East have not quelled the terror threat emanating from the region. Obama insisted he was not returning U.S. combat troops to the Middle East. Even so, he acknowledged that “any time we take military action, there are risks involved, especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions.”

“But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil,” he added.

The president’s announcements

follow a summer of deliberation at the White House over how to respond to the violent Islamic State militants. While administration of-ficials have said they are not aware of a credible threat of a potential attack by the militants in the U.S., they say the group poses risks to Americans and interests across the Middle East. Officials are also concerned about the prospect that Westerners, including Americans, who have joined the militant group could return to their home countries to launch attacks.

In recent weeks, the militants have released videos depicting the behead-ing of two American journalists in Syria. The violent images appear to have had an impact on a formerly war-weary public, with multiple polls in recent days showing that the major-ity of Americans support airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria.

The U.S. began launching lim-ited airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq earlier this summer at the request of that country’s former prime minister. But Obama vowed that he would not commit the U.S. to a deeper military campaign until Iraq formed a new government that allowed greater participation from all sects, a step Iraqi leaders took Tuesday.

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Earth’s protective ozone layer is beginning to recover, largely because of the phase-out since the 1980s of certain chemicals used in refrigerants and aerosol cans, a U.N. scientific panel reported Wednesday in a rare piece of good news about the health of the planet.

Scientists said the development demonstrates that when the world comes together, it can counteract a brewing ecological crisis.

For the first time in 35 years, scientists were able to confirm a sta-tistically significant and sustained increase in stratospheric ozone, which shields the planet from solar radiation that causes skin cancer, crop damage and other problems.

From 2000 to 2013, ozone lev-els climbed 4 percent in the key mid-northern latitudes at about 30 miles up, said NASA scientist Paul A. Newman. He co-chaired the every-four-years ozone assessment by 300 scientists, released at the United Nations.

“It’s a victory for diplomacy and for science and for the fact that we were able to work together,” said chemist Mario Molina. In 1974, Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland wrote a scientific study forecasting the ozone depletion problem. They

won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chem-istry for their work.

The ozone layer had been thin-ning since the late 1970s. Man-made chlorofluorocarbons, called CFCs, released chlorine and bromine, which destroyed ozone molecules high in the air. After scientists raised the alarm, countries around the world agreed to a treaty in 1987 that phased out CFCs. Levels of those chemicals between 30 and 50 miles up are decreasing.

The United Nations calculated in an earlier report that without the pact, by 2030 there would have been an extra 2 million skin cancer cases a year around the world.

Paradoxically, heat-trapping greenhouse gases — considered the major cause of global warming — are also helping to rebuild the ozone layer, Newman said. The report said rising levels of carbon dioxide and other gases cool the upper strato-sphere, and the cooler air increases the amount of ozone.

And in another worrisome trend, the chemicals that replaced CFCs contribute to global warming and are on the rise, said MIT atmo-spheric scientist Susan Solomon. At the moment, they don’t make much of a dent, but they are expected to increase dramatically by 2050 and make “a big contribution” to global warming.

AP Photo/Saul Loeb, PoolPresident Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Cross Hall in the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. In a major reversal, Obama ordered the United States into a broad military campaign to “degrade and ultimately destroy” militants in two volatile Middle East nations, authorizing airstrikes inside Syria for the first time, as well as an expansion of strikes in Iraq.

Obama orders airstrikes in Syria for first timeAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Opening a new military front in the Middle East, President Barack Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes inside Syria for the first time, along with expanded strikes in Iraq as part of “a steady, relentless effort” to root out Islamic State extremists and their spreading reign of terror.

Scientists say the ozone layer is recovering

AP Photo/NASAThis undated image provided by NASA shows the ozone layer over the years, Sept. 17, 1979, top left, Oct. 7, 1989, top right, Oct. 9, 2006, lower left, and Oct. 1, 2010, lower right.

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - The family of Peter James Maynard, 46, seems to have resigned to the disappearance of the victim (Peter—Ed) at Lembongan, Nusa Penida, Klungkung.

So far, the victim has not been found. Police officers are still searching for the victim hav-ing been missing since 14 days ago, exactly August 28. Unluckily, the efforts made by the officer seem to fail.

Even, in the recent development, the vic-

tim’s families also participated in the search. They also came down with the officers to search around the Jungutbatu Beach. Besides, before returning to Australia, the victim’s family also spread pamphlets containing the victim’s photographs and identity. It was spread around the scene of the missing and a number of remote villages and coastal areas. In the pamphlet, the victim’s family promised a reward of AUD 5,000 for people finding the victim’s body. This was also recognized by the Chief of Klungkung Police Criminal In-vestigation Unit, Nyoman Wirajaya, Wednes-day (Sep 10). Prior to returning to Australia, the victim’s wife Kylie Maynard with some relatives had also come to the Headquarters of Klungkung Police, Wednesday morning.

Their arrival at the Headquarters of Klung-kung Police, he said, was to say farewell before returning to Australia. Besides, they also expressed gratitude for the efforts made by the officers in the search for victim all this time. During the search, the victim’s family was also said to come down and see firsthand the search for the victim by exploring coastal areas using helicopter. He recognized the of-ficers could not find the victim to date.

Interestingly, according to him, the family also promised a reward worth AUD 5,000 for residents finding the victim’s body. So far, he recognized the victim could not have

been found. Moreover, the victim’s wife and family would leave for Australia on Thursday night (Sep 11).

“As planned, the victim’s family will return to their home country tomorrow night (Thursday). So, before leaving they would like to say farewell and express gratitude to police authorities and we continue to search for victims in the field,” he said.

So far, the results of victim’s search could only find a piece of victim’s surfboard. It was found by a fisherman named Made Apel around the Jungutbatu Beach on August 28. The piece of surfboard was also recognized by the victim’s family and had been taken to Australia.

Aside from taking the piece of surfboard, the victim’s wife and brothers also had time to take the belongings of the victim left in room 205 at Nusa Indah Bungalow at Nusa Lembongan where the victim stayed recently. During in Bali, the victim spent holiday alone filled with surfing at Lembongan. Meanwhile, his wife, Kylie Maynard, was unable to join because she was busy working in Australia. So, the victim came alone to Bali for holiday. Before known to disappear, the victim had sent a text message (SMS) to his wife on August 22 when he would be on holiday to Lembongan for surfing. After sending the last message, there was no information from the victim. (119)

This famous vegetable producer in Tabanan even has been getting involved in waste, mainly those sourcing from rotten vegetables. Other than generating stench, the rotten vegetable waste is often dis-posed carelessly by local people on a number of vacant lots or even at riverside. As a result, village official often gets complaint and reprimand from the subdistrict or county gov-ernment due to the stench of rotten vegetables.

However, such condition does not last long because Batusesa hamlet, Candikuning village, Ba-turiti, began processing the organic and inorganic waste into useful products. Hamlet chief of Batusesa, Made Sucika, said that the organic waste was packed in a compost house to be processed into organic fertilizer, while the inorganic waste was sold to recycle goods collector. “The volume of waste at our hamlet continues to grow in keeping with the increasing number of vegetable collectors. Averagely, it amounts to 5 tons each day,” he said, Wednes-day (Sep 10).

Of the 5 tons of waste, he added, eighty percent was leaf litter (the remains of vegetables—Ed). As-sisted by local residents as well as supported by facility and infra-structure from private sector, the waste formerly becoming a prob-lem could have been transformed into a blessing. Initially, the waste was collected by the officers by using a three-wheeled motor-cycle given by central government through the Tabanan Agriculture Agency. Unfortunately, the motor-cycle could not last long. Having been operated for a few months, it was out of order. “Besides, it is very difficult to fix because the parts are very hard to find,” he explained.

Armed with the agreement of local residents, he finally decided to buy a waste operational truck in installment where the fund was obtained from the waste subscrip-tion fee of residents. For waste collection fee, each resident was only charged at IDR 1,000 each day. “From people’s fee, we can get income to pay the salaries of

our collecting officers and install-ment fee of the truck. We do this to resolve the waste problem,” he explained.

The compost of Batusesa had been marketed at local village

and urban areas. “Now, Can-dikuning village does not only offer the commodity of fresh veg-etables, but also compost. Even, the Ulundanu tourist attraction also requests our compost with

an average amount of 1 ton each month. Besides, we also pick up the waste of canang (oblation) remnants at the Ulundanu to be further recycled into compost,” he concluded. (kmb28)

Hit by waste problem for 15 years, Batusesa gets blessing by processing itBali Post

TABANAN - One of the major problems in a number of areas staying to need serious attention is waste. Aside from big cities, waste problem also hit remote rural areas. One of them also happens at Candikuning village, Baturiti subdistrict.

IBP/BitThe waste processing unit in Candikuning village, Baturiti subdistrict, Tabanan

Victim’s family of missing traveler offers AUD 5,000-reward

IBP/WawanThe garbage truck is carrying the garbage to the final disposal unit. Garbag has be-come a major problem in the island and solution is needed to solve the problem. The garbage can cause a set back in the tourism development of Bali

314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, September 12, 2014Friday, September 12, 2014

Associated Press

NEW YORK — There was lots to see on the runway at Oscar de la Renta’s Fashion Week show on Tuesday evening. But you were even luckier if you could see into the wings.

There, the 82-year-old master designer sat on a chair and looked intently at a monitor as he super-vised the movements of each model traveling down the runway. At the end, he emerged smiling — with supermodel Karlie Kloss on one arm — to take a bow. He kissed Kloss on the cheek, then another model. He went back into the wings, and the models stood and cheered him loudly.

As for his spring 2015 collection, it had all the sumptuous, rich detail that de la Renta delivers every time.

And the designer seemed happy to show some skin, with a number of his lacy skirts and gowns revealing the entirety of the models’ endless legs, and occasionally more.

The designer began with more casual designs, pairing a large buf-falo check print, in pink, light blue or black, with more delicate looks such as a white lacy skirt.

He got fancier as he progressed. An ivory organza embroidered dress was beautifully embellished with hand-painted flowers and ostrich feathers. Another dress, in white tulle, was covered with crystal and ostrich-feather embroidery.

De la Renta’s three final looks were all in a bright key lime green, with Kloss closing down the show in a glamorous ivory silk gown, shorter in front, with green organza leaf embroidery.

“It’s a crazy world right now; you know, we look at the headlines, and it’s pretty tough out there. And I think that spring time ... it’s a time that people do feel more optimistic and I think that if you put something on that kind of have some charm to it I think it changes your spirits,” he said Wednesday an interview before his collection debuted.

There was plenty of whimsy and charm in his spring 2015 collection, which debuted to a packed crowd that included Heidi Klum, Jessica Chastain, Mary J. Blige and Jada Pinkett Smith.

Flowers played a leading role — sewn on in color on solid prints, embroidered on linen, and skirts and dresses with incredibly intricate designs.

Some looks were decidedly

sexier than what Lucy would have worn; the sheer skirt trend continued here with organza skirts (though intricate flower designs prevented one from seeing too much). There was also a sheer white linen pullover paired with a conservative linen A-line skirt.

Kors also mixed in suede in a jacket and skirt, denim and canvas; there was single-breasted coat in a bright sunny yellow, patterned skirt suits and sexy plaid dresses that looked red-carpet ready.

But it was all very wearable for the typical woman — a Kors quality that even his celebrity fans lauded.

“That’s what I love about it. Anybody can wear it. He has a little something for everybody. I think that he is one of the most versatile designers that we have,” said Pinkett

Smith.Chastain lauded his “casual el-

egance.”“I like that he designs clothes

for real women and that it’s easy to move from day wear to evening wear,” she said.

Though Kors said many of his A-list admirers are his muses, he said they had more in common with the everyday woman than some may think.

“And the variety of women who are in the public eye, you know, who wear Michael Kors ... it’s a range of women who do different things, different ages different body types and height,” he said. “The one thing is they’re all busy, they all know themselves, they travel and they want it all and it’s my job to do that for them.”

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Marc by Marc Jacobs, the designer’s more mod-erately priced line, threw a seizure-inducing rave Tuesday complete with multicolored light show and T-shirts declaring a “New World System.”

The line is steered by Brits Katie Hillier, the creative director, and Luella Bartley, who heads design.

For spring this New York Fashion Week, they went for teased 1980s punk hair and black latex leggings, along with supple plastic jackets and other pieces with blue polka dots fit for the average grunge fashionista.

And they pieced together patch-works of solids on one side of gar-ments with mixed layers of pleats on the other in solid yellow topped by dark dots. It came in dresses and other looks.

Some outfits were in a slippery nylon for the brand skewing young-er than the designer’s primary Marc Jacobs line. Itsy bitsy bralettes were worn over cropped shirts. For the rest of us, there were hooded coats and flight jackets in solid beiges and whites. One trenchcoat in white could be worn every day.

That last part wasn’t so true for a backless army-style top in black paired with black ninja trousers.

Sheer luxury in every way at Oscar de la Renta

AP Photo/Diane Bondareff

The Oscar de la Renta Spring 2015 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014.

Marc by Marc Jacobs puts on NY Fashion Week rave

The Michael Kors Spring 2015 collec-tion is modeled dur-ing Fashion Week, in

New York, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

Kors goes for the retro look at fashion week

Associated Press

NEW YORK — With embroidered flowers, retro plaids and classic A-line dresses, Michael Kors went back decades for a dreamy collection that could have been classified as “I Love Lucy” chic. Actually, Kors himself called it “optimistic chic” — clothes that inspire cheer in a dour world.

AP Photo/Richard Drew

Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Other than causing the source of clean water totally comes to a standstill, now the watersheds also dry up due to drought hitting Buleleng lately. As noted, 64 rivers functioning to ir-rigate paddy field area have dried up. Meanwhile, around 24 other rivers spreading across a number of villages are still flowing water but the discharge increasingly diminishes.

As the data collected from the Buleleng Public Works Agency on Wednesday (Sep 10), the wa-tersheds in Buleleng have been totally recorded by the Bali Public Works Agency and the Bali-Penida River Area Agency. From the centralized data, a total of 88 rivers are in Buleleng. Of that number, 50 rivers are categorized into the rivers that are not func-tioned for agricultural irrigation. Meanwhile, the 38 other rivers are categorized into the rivers functioned to irrigate the subak agricultural land in North Bali.

A total of 64 rivers functioned for irrigation has dried up since the dry season. While the remain-ing 24 rivers still flow water. Although the rivers are still flow-ing water from the upstream, the discharge is very small. If the pro-longed drought is getting worse, the rivers whose water discharge is now diminishing will have no water.

The Head of Public Works Agency, Nyoman Gede Suryawan, accompanied by the Irrigation Division Head, I Gusti Ketut Sukertia, said at his office last Wednesday that dozens of rivers in Buleleng had been in dry con-dition. Based on the observation including the report from the weir keepers as well as the information from subak group, some of the dried rivers were located in the eastern region of Buleleng. Since the past, the rivers in this region were not used to irrigate paddy fields, but only served as water

flow in rainy season.Meanwhile, in Sukasada sub-

district, especially at Selat village, the rivers have also dried up. The rivers formerly draining seepage water from the forest area have now dried up. Then, the river flows at Pedawa village, Banjar subdistrict and the region of Ger-okgak subdistrict have also totally come to a standstill. In rainy sea-son, these rivers will flow water in a large enough volume. No wonder, the river is classified into rain-fed river. “In the meantime, the rivers in the eastern region of Buleleng belong to dried river and are not functioned for agriculture because there are no paddy fields. However, the rivers at Selat, Pedawa including Gerokgak are categorized into dead river, so that the irrigation does not get any water supply,” he said.

Following the drying rivers in dry season, added Suryawan, the other impact was damage to the irrigation network such as the leak of channels. In dry season, the irrigation channels were broken to cause holes. Without a repair, the water would get wasted when the river water ran. In addition, the channel might be broken as the holes were suddenly drained with water.

To resolve the damage to the irrigation channels due to dry season, the Buleleng Public Works Agency had prepared mainte-nance cost sourcing from the regional budget. These funds would be allocated to repair minor damages. Meanwhile, if the dam-ages were considered severe, the repair would be proposed in next year’s budget. “Indeed, we have allocated maintenance cost, but the amount is not too large. Thus, we will prioritize the repair of the damaged irrigation channel. When requiring larger funds, we will propose it in next year’s budget or if it happens due to disaster, it will be handled by the Regional Disas-ter Mitigation Agency (BPBD),” he explained. (kmb38)

“I’d like to make a regular report-ing,” she told the officer. Afterwards, the officer asked the controversial woman to the execution room where people usually made a report. Last Wednesday, Corby putting on black trousers and shirt with batik motif as well as shawl necklace directly came into the room near the prosecutor’s detention room. Within less than five minutes, Corby went out and headed to her car and had been awaited by the driver. When leaving the office, Corby looked relaxed. She even greeted a number of prosecutor’s officers, including the prisoner’s driver usually picked her up. At that time, the condition of her car was still on. However, Corby did not directly get into the car, but was seen chatting with a woman. It was unknown what she talked about. Ten minutes later, Corby got into the car and sat right next to the driver. She

then closed the door and hurriedly left the prosecutor’s office. It was different from when she was released from Kerobokan Prison.

“Yes, she is indeed Corby,” said a guard officer to Bali Post. The reporter was once in doubt because Corby looked different from when she was detained at Kerobokan Prison. “Now, she looks beautiful. Her hair seems to have been well groomed,” said another female officer.

Based on the information, Bali Post confirmed to the officer on duty, Edy Artha Wijaya. The man having the position in the General Criminal confirmed if the woman who just came out of the execution room was Schapelle Leigh Corby. “Yes, she is indeed Corby. She just made a regular reporting. She has come here for many times,” said Edy Arta.

When cross-checked into the registration book, it could be known if Corby had made a compulsory re-porting for eight times since getting a parole. How long will the compul-sory reporting of Corby take place? Edy Artha said that as the prevailing rules and file of the previous report-ing, Corby was required to make a reporting until 2017. In other words, before that year Corby was not al-lowed to leave the town.

“Yes, she is not allowed to leave the town. It is just like under control, while her passport is still held by the immigration office,” he said.

Previously, the 37-year-old woman dubbed as the queen of marijuana from Australia got a pa-role from the Minister of Justice and Human Rights. She was released by Chief of Kerobokan Prison on February 10, 2014. (kmb37)

Bali Post

GIANYAR - After requiring foreign labor (TKA) working in Gi-anyar to pay a monthly levy of USD 100 and amid the lack of certified tourism labor, the tourism workers in Gianyar are obliged to undergo a competency test and certification. Even in 2015, all tourism workers in Gianyar are required to have been certified.

On Wednesday, the preparation of competency test and certifica-tion for tourism workers had been done by presenting the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI), Professional Certification Institute (LSP) of Tourism Division and the authority of Gianyar in this case the Manpower and Resettle-ment Agency. As target, at least 50 percent of the tourism workers (8,588 people) in Gianyar would

have a professional certification so that they could compete in tourism industry both within and outside the country.

The Head of Gianyar Manpower and Resettlement Agency, Gede Wi-darma Suharta, said the number of certified tourism workers in Gianyar up to 2013 had reached 1,116 people or 13 percent of 8,588 people in total. From that number, 7,472 people had not been certified. “In long-term,

we target at least 50 percent of the tourism workers in Gianyar has been certified,” he said.

However, the compulsory certifi-cation in 2015 would target tourism workers at star hotels, ranging from the one- to five-star hotels amount-ing to 1,358 people, where they totally amounted to 18 star hotels.

He said the professional certi-fication of tourism labor posed an improvement of human resources of

job seekers and tourism workers to facilitate them in the competition of tourism industry. It was also in ac-cordance with the Law No.10/2009 on tourism and Government Regu-lation No.52/2012 on the certifica-tion of competency in the tourism business stating that tourism was required to employ workers having the certificate of competency in the field of tourism, including foreign workers. (kmb16)

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Having become a ‘target’ of foreign and local media, the Australian woman dubbed as the queen of marijuana, Schapelle Leigh Corby, tended to have a closed attitude. However, on Wednesday (Sep 10), she looked calm when entering the execution room to the Denpasar Prosecutor’s Office.

Tourism workers must be certified in 2015

Long drought impactDozens of rivers

in Buleleng dry up

Corby showed at Prosecutor OfficeBali Post

DENPASAR - Having become a ‘target’ of foreign and local media, the Australian woman dubbed as the queen of marijuana, Schapelle Leigh Corby, tended to have a closed attitude. However, on Wednesday (Sep 10), she looked calm when entering the execution room to the Den-pasar Prosecutor’s Office. She was quite calm as the prosecutor’s room was pretty quiet. Once out of the golden yellow Suzuki APV vehicle with license plate DK 1162 XC, she immediately came in and led to guard room.

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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

Friday, September 12, 2014Friday, September 12, 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 continues to expand it design oriented superior select service Hotel NEO throughout Bali, this time enter-ing Bali’s commercial and administra-tive heart on Jalan Gatot Subroto in Denpasar.

The Hotel NEO Gatot Subroto targets Bali’s growing MICE industry and aims to deliver a proficient hotel and a chick environment at a reason-able price point. The all non smoking hotel consist of 112 modern rooms and the newest and probably hippest low cost meeting venues and conference rooms in Bali’s capital. Business trav-elers can make use of the 3 meeting rooms grouped around a covered but essentially open air pre function space ideally suited for cocktail receptions, café breaks and BBQ parties, free high-speed Wi-Fi throughout the en-tire hotel, express check-in & check-out facilities and ample of parking space. Down time can then be enjoyed at the hotel’s swimming pool and the signature “Noodles Now” coffee shop. Additional facilities also include a

hotel laundry service, a security key card system as well as 24 hour front desk facilities & security. All room rates are intentionally affordable for everyone while exclusive benefits are reserved for online customer book-ings via the group’s website www.NeoHotels.com.

“Indonesia’s phenomenal economic growth and an ever growing and more and more affluent middle class set to soon represent 140 million people as well as demographic shifts towards a younger and more style conscious consumer have increased demand for affordable life-style hotels fully equipped with complete facilities. NEO hotels answer this demand by offering a chic hotel concept with amenities that are usually found in more expensive hotels. Considering that Bali is one of the top tourism destinations in the world, we are con-fident that NEO Gatot Subroto - Bali will be another welcomed addition to our NEO portfolio in Bali which will soon also see hotel openings in Kuta, Legian and Petitenget ” says Norbert Vas, Vice President Sales & Marketing Archipelago International.

Hotel Neo Gatot Subroto opens

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Mr. Wayan Garutma Utama as Hotel Manager of Hotel NEO Gatot Subroto Bali, Mrs. Happy Lutjika as Director of Sales and Marketing of Archipelago International, Mrs. Ida Ayu Ketut Caturini as Managing Director of PT. Graha Sastra Loka and Mr. Ida Bagus Putra Arimbawa as Commisioner of PT. Sastra Mas Estetika during Opening event.

There are two clean water pipe-line projects in Karangasem. One of them is the Telaga Waja water pipeline project started in 2008 worth more than IDR 125 billion. The budget originated from central

government and was managed by the Bali-Penida River Area Agency. However, so far the result of the project cannot be enjoyed by residents because the water has not run yet.

A number of headmen in Karan-gasem called the project a grave of pipeline. All this time, many pipelines have indeed been in-stalled. Yet, the water has not run. The water from Telaga Waja was planned to be sold to cruise ships mooring at the Tanah Ampo Quay, Manggis. Unfortunately, the quay project touted as the largest one in Southeast Asia by the regent of Karangasem failed to bring in cruise ships to drop by.

Aside from the Telaga Waja pipeline project, Karangasem also has the four-subdistict pipeline project. This project is financed through the regional budget of Karangasem. The total budget used was IDR 27 billion or surpassed the upper limit of the Karangasem regional budget in 2009 amounting to IDR 29 billion.

The Regent of Karangasem, Wayan Geredeg, said not long ago that the water pipeline project for supplying the four subdistricts took the water from a well at the edge of Lake Batur, Bangli. The water was flowed to Munti Gunung. When the regent made site inspection to the project in 2012, the residents of Munti Gunung said that only three groups could have enjoyed the wa-ter service of the project. Actually, the Munti Gunung barren village

in 2012 had more than 25 groups of people that were still in need of clean water.

Other than at Munti Gunung, the water of the pipeline project from Embukan at Ababi village is drained to Abang subdistrict and Karangasem subdistrict. In Abang subdistrict, the water is drained to Umanyar, Ababi village. But so far, the residents are still queuing to take water at public cistern. The wa-ter supply does not run every day, but sometimes it only runs once to twice within a week. It only runs at particular hours. Even, the residents at Kelakah, Pidpid village, said that the water only ran for four hours a week. Within a week, the water only ran for two days and each day ran for two hours, provided that it could run smoothly.

At Seraya, the water pipeline from Tirtagangga and Embukan could have only been enjoyed by residents living at roadside of West Seraya and Seraya. Meanwhile, East Seraya was still in drought. Regent Geredeg admitted that only few residents of Bunutan and East Seraya that could be reached by the clean water pipeline projects. People expected their village could be reached next year.

Meanwhile, the water pipeline from the spring of Tirtagangga is flowed to Manggis subdistrict. The water has reached Pesedahan and can have been enjoyed by resi-dents of Tenganan Pegringsingan village.

Although there have been many pipeline projects with large funds

and 15 reservoir projects, many residents in Karangasem still face clean water crisis. Residents at Antiga and Padangbai village complain about clean water cri-sis. Even, the water supply from the Municipal Waterworks also frequently jams. When it runs, the discharge is very small.

Residents at Pempatan, Sebudi village, in Jungutan mountain areas, at Butus, Buana Giri village, at mountainous villages in Abang and Kubu subdistrict, said Chairman of the PDI-P Faction in the Karan-gasem House, I Gede Dana, were still facing clean water crisis. This legislator from the barren Pengin-yahan hamlet, Tianyar, Kubu, said that the severe water crisis did not only occur in the mountains areas.

Many residents living at the edge of the Amlapura-Singaraja road section were also hit by clean water crisis. Musna Antara, for in-stance, said that since last May the residents in Kubu had been already screaming for clean water crisis.

He said the installation of Telaga Waja water pipeline project had indeed been a lot. Lately, the pipe installation had reached some vil-lages. At least, two water reservoirs had been installed in Kubu. One of them was built in the west of Penginyahan village. On the other hand, Deputy Regent of Karan-gasem, Made Sukerana, expected the Telaga Waja pipeline project could have been accomplished in 2015. By doing so, the water of the project was expected to run in 2016. (Budana)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The team of the Denpasar Police Narcotics Unit raided a dorm room of drug supplier with the initials GD, 40, on Jalan Taman Sari, South Kuta, Sunday (Sep 7). In addition to arresting the suspect, the officers also secured the evidence in the form of 39 pack-ages of crystal meth weighing 175.9 grams that were ready to be distrib-uted worth IDR 360 million.

“The suspect was just released from Kerobokan Prison in June 2014. When arrested in 2010, he was found to have 0.2 gram of

crystal meth and sent to prison after sentenced to 4 years. Upon the release, he even became a supplier of crystal meth,” said the Chief of Denpasar Police, Djoko Hariutomo, accompanied by Chief of the Narcotics Unit, Gede Ganefo, Wednesday (Sep 10).

Chief of Denpasar Police added that the reveal of this case origi-nated from the public information if the suspect often distributed drugs. Based on that information, the officers conducted an inves-tigation. On Sunday around 7:30 a.m., the troops of Gede Ganefo raided the boarding house and ar-

rested the suspect. After arresting the suspect, the officers searched his room and found a lot of bread boxes containing crystal meth as evidence.

The box contained some pack-ages of various kinds of crystal meth and had special features. For affordable package was taped with yellow paper and sold for IDR 500,000, red package for IDR 800,000, black package for IDR 1.8 million and blue package for IDR 6.7 million. “Blue package weighs 100.47 grams, while black package 10.27 grams,” added Ganefo.

In addition to securing crystal

meth, police also seized evidence in the form of small package, bong, gas lighters, 2 pieces of pipette, two empty plastic clips, an electric scale, 3 books, 9 large tapes, 3 small tapes and tape cutter. “According to the suspect, the crystal meth was sent from Surabaya. He distributed the illicit goods in person. The black and blue package has not been divided into smaller package,” said Ganefo, the former chief of Denpasar Police Intelligence and Security Unit.

Related to the disclosure of the case, police chief said that his party was still hunting the upper supplier.

Therefore, he could not disclose the suspect’s syndicate. “It is still being developed, especially the pursuit of upper supplier. Formerly, the suspect served as dealer and was arrested. Having been released, he became a supplier,” said Djoko.

He added that his party could arrest 12 suspects. Meanwhile, the evidence at hand consisted of crystal meth and ecstasy. “Bali is a tourist destination, so that thou-sands of travelers come every day. Likewise, the numerous drug users also come so that it kindles quite a lot of drug trafficking,” he affirmed. (kmb36)

IBP/File

The dry condition of Seraya Village is seen in the picture. The problem of distributing water to this kind of area has been a prob-lem since a long time ago but there is no proper solution for it.

A supplier ready to distribute drugs worth IDR 360 million

Karangasem flushed with pipeline projectsBali Post

AMLAPURA - Since five years ago, Karangasem has been flushed with clean water pipeline projects. However, so far the residents of Karangasem living at barren villages remain to face water crisis. Even, the water supply of the Karangasem Municipal Waterworks (PDAM) is com-plained by many customers. It happens because the water flow often jams or runs sluggishly.

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NEW YORK — It’s taken a few years, but Vanessa Hudgens has finally made the leap from “High School Musical” to a Broadway musical. The actress-singer will star in a Broadway-bound revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe’s musical “Gigi” that first debuts in Washington, D.C. early next year. She’s already jumped into twice-a-day vocal exercises and memorizing her lines.

“I think, as an actor, the ultimate dream is to be on Broadway. I think it’s the true test. There are no second takes. You’ve got to bring everything you’ve got

for the most critical of audiences,” she said by phone Wednesday. “It’s an honor, if anything. I’m over the moon.”

“Gigi,” set in Paris at the turn of the last century, comes from the same com-poser and lyricist as “My Fair Lady.” It centers on a teenage girl being groomed to serve as a companion to a bored, wealthy playboy until the pair realize they have fallen in love.

Hudgens was familiar with the show and some of the music. “My mom’s name is Gina, her nickname’s been Gigi. We have a dog named Gigi. Gigi is very preva-lent in our lives,” she says, laughing.

The original novel by Colette began as

a play starring Audrey Hepburn in 1951 and then became a movie musical star-ring Leslie Caron. A stage musical was made in 1973 starring Karin Wolfe but lasted only about 100 performances.

“Gigi” features the memorable tunes “Thank Heaven For Little Girls,” ‘’I Remember It Well” and “The Night They Invented Champagne,” which Hudgens called “an absolutely electric musical number.” The score also includes a few songs added to the score in 1973, includ-ing “Paris is Paris Again” and “I Never Want to Go Home Again.”

Hudgens, 25, who made her feature film debut in Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen,” is best known for play-ing Gabriella, the love interest of Zac Efron’s Troy, in Disney’s “High School Musical” movies. Recent screen credits include “Bandslam” and “Spring Break-ers.” Hudgens has put out two albums, including 2008’s “Identified.”

She grew up doing musical theater and says that’s “what brought me out of my shell. So being onstage is something I feel very comforting.” She starred as Mimi in “Rent” at the Hollywood Bowl in 2010.

Playwright Heidi Thomas, who wrote the PBS/BBC hit “Call the Midwife,” is reimagining the new production of “Gigi.” Her TV credits include a “Madame Bovary” that starred Frances O’Connor and a revival of the classic British TV series “Upstairs, Downstairs” from 2010 to 2012. Her plays include “Shamrocks and Crocodiles,” “Some Singing Blood” and “The House of Special Purpose.”

The production, directed by Benedict Andrews, is set in present day New Or-leans on a stage that revolves constantly, offering viewers both the shifting per-spective of the characters and their slow turns into madness.

Anderson, who plays Williams’ leg-endary desperate Southern belle Blanche DuBois, is joined by Ben Foster as Stanley, her lower-class nemesis, and Vanessa Kirby as his suffering wife. The spinning stage might sound like a recipe for motion sickness, but Anderson said most theatergoers get used to it.

“A good deal of people who see it say

the revolve disappears for them and, if they notice it, it’s to notice the benefits of it and the benefits of the perspective that it gives,” said Anderson by phone from London.

“Every once in a while, somebody will see it and just not be able to see beyond the fact that it’s revolving and it becomes an albatross around the neck of their experi-ence. But that’s the minority.”

Anderson, the 46-year-old former co-star of “The X-Files,” said that she has long wanted to tackle the doomed Blanche onstage and compares it to rid-ing a stallion every night that she cannot

ever tame.“It’s a behemoth,” she said. “It sits on

your shoulders like a bad dream, but if you can ride through the punctuation and the energy and the stamina and the beats, it is heaven, absolute heaven.”

The production opened at the Young Vic on July 28 and the Sept. 16 show will be captured live and broadcast to about 1,500 venues in 40 different countries over the following hours and days, with some encore screenings expected.

Anderson, who hopes to take the pro-duction to Broadway one day, said there might be added pressure of having cameras capture her show, but there’s not much she and her fellow actors can do about it.

“We’re already live and exposed and the most that we can hope is that on that particular night that it’s captured that we do one of our better performances,” she said. “That’s not necessarily in our hands. We’ll show up and do the best that we can do.”

AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Johan Persson

Gillian Anderson onscreen soon in ‘Streetcar’Associated Press

NEW YORK — If you can’t get to London in time to catch Gillian Anderson spinning onstage in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” her orbit is about to get larger. Starting Tuesday, Fathom Events, National Theatre Live and BY Experience will broadcast to movie theaters worldwide the fresh, critically cheered take on Tennessee Williams’ classic tale from London’s Young Vic Theatre.

Vanessa Hudgens coming to Broadway as ‘Gigi’

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Obama orders airstrikes in Syria for first time

A tourism businessman of Bali, Ketut Ardana, judged the rampant construction of budget hotels in the Bali region was the cause of the decline in hotel room oc-cupancy rate. “The decline can have been predicted previously. As the main cause, he explained,

is the widespread permits issued without paying attention to capac-ity,” revealed Ardana in Denpasar, Tuesday (Sep 2).

He said the construction of star hotels in Badung and Denpasar was quite disturbing the occupancy rate because the growth in accommoda-

tion and tourist arrival showed an inequality. “As a result, hotels sold their rooms at low prices to fill in the occupancy rate. This must be antici-pated so that Bali tourism does not become a cheap tourism,” he said.

This Chairman of the Associa-tion of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agencies (ASITA) of Bali Chapter hoped that local government could tighten the permit and should dare to restrain the rate of growth and not merely think of the regionally generated revenue (PAD).

Meanwhile, the Head of BPS Bali, Panusunan Siregar, asserted that such conditions could not re-flect if the quality of travelers com-

ing to Bali dropped, but it happened because they had many options of accommodation to choose from.

“We cannot detect the matter of quality. Probably, they have already known about the facilities avail-able here. They are still staying for longer time, but just looking for a cheaper room rate,” he explained.

He added the construction of star hotels in Badung and Denpasar had disrupted the occupancy rate. As a result, hotels then sold their room at low prices to meet the occupancy rate. Even, he suspected that Bali tourism tended to move towards cheaper tourism. The decline in occupancy rate was inversely pro-

portional to the average length of stay in star hotels with the increase of 0.28 days to 3.47 days from 3.19 days in the same period earlier.

“I think many tourists choose to stay at cheaper hotel rather than stay-ing at star hotels. By doing so, they can stay longer in Bali,” he said.

According to him, the decline in hotel occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali will have a positive impact on small hotels and non-star hotels owned by local business people. “These conditions will equalize the distribution of the Bali tourism pie, so that it is not only enjoyed by entrepreneurs with large capitals,” he said. (kmb27)

Pakistan evacuates thousands as floods hit plains

Tourist arrivals soar

Room occupancy of star-hotels slumps

IBP/Wan

A hotel project at Batu Belig, Bali Island, shown in this photo. Rampant construction of budget hotels in the Bali region was the cause of the decline in hotel room occupancy rate.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Many tourist arrivals to Bali do not necessar-ily have an impact on the hotel room occupancy rate in Bali. Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali noted that the number of foreign tourist visiting Bali reached 361,066 tourists (July 2014), while the occupancy rate of hotels fell 1.04 points to 61.4 percent compared to the same period last year reaching 62.44 percent.

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