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Associated Press

MONTECITO, California — Jessica Simpson is a newlywed. The singer and TV personality married retired NFL player Eric Johnson Saturday at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, Cali-fornia, her publicist Lauren Auslander confirms.

Simpson and Johnson began dating in 2010. They have a two-year-old daugh-ter, Maxwell, and a one-year-old son named Ace. Auslander said Ace served as a ring bearer and Maxwell walked down the aisle as a flower girl.

It is the second marriage for both Simpson, 33, and the 34-year-old John-son. Simpson was previously married to singer Nick Lachey. The two co-starred on a VH1 reality series “Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica” for three seasons. Shortly after their third wedding an-niversary, the two split up.

Disney announced Sunday that shooting would be halted for two weeks in August to adjust the production schedule following Ford’s injury. The 71-year-old actor broke his leg in June during filming of the much-anticipated sequel at Pinewood Studios outside of London.

Disney had said earlier that Ford’s injury

wouldn’t cause any delays. The studio said Sunday that “Episode VII” is still “on track” to wrap in the fall and be released in December 2015.

The accident involved a spacecraft door on the Millennium Falcon falling on Ford’s leg. His recuperation was expected to take up to two months.

Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, FileAssociated Press

NEW YORK — The Fourth of July went off like a dud at the box office, as the Michael Bay sequel “Transform-ers: Age of Extinction” and the Melisa McCarthy comedy “Tammy” led the weakest summer holiday weekend in at least a decade.

The North American box office was down a whopping 44 percent over the July Fourth weekend last year, when “Despicable Me 2” and “The Lone Ranger” opened.

This weekend sputtered not because of an oversized bomb like “The Lone Ranger,” but because of numerous fac-tors, including that Hollywood simply didn’t aim for big fireworks this year. The holdover “Transformers” led all films with an estimated $36.4 million, while “Tammy” had a below expectations Friday-to-Sunday haul of $21.2 million.

“This ranks as one of the low-est Fourth of Julys ever,” said Paul

Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. “We always think of Fourth of July being a big weekend. This year, we just have to lick our wounds and look forward to ‘Planet of the Apes’ and some other films to get us back on track.”

Paramount’s “Transformers,” the fourth in the series, opened the week-end prior to the year’s biggest debut with $100 million. The movie, with a rebooted cast led by Mark Wahlberg, dropped considerably (63 percent) in its second week of release despite relatively little competition.

Overseas, “Age of Extinction” is performing exceptionally well. It added $95.8 million from 37 territories for a two-week worldwide gross of $575.6 million. It’s set to soon become the highest grossing film ever in China, with already more than $200 million in box office sales. “Transformers 4” was partially shot in China, features local star Li Bingbing and premiered at the

Shanghai Film Festival.New Line’s R-rated, Midwest road trip

romp “Tammy” boasts one of the most bankable stars in movies — McCarthy — but is a smaller, homespun movie made for just $20 million and directed by Mc-Carthy’s husband, Ben Falcone. Despite being savaged by critics, the Warner Bros. release made $32.9 million in five days since opening Wednesday.

“Why the weekend was so weak in terms of competition is hard to tell,” said Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution for Warner Bros., who said he was very pleased with the perfor-mance of “Tammy.” ‘’It’s just the way things fell.”

The other new wide release was the horror flick “Deliver Us From Evil,” which had no blockbuster ambitions. The Sony Screen Gems release, starring Eric Bana, opened in third with $9.5 million. Also debuting was Relativity Media’s animated release “Earth to Echo,” which took in $8.3 million.

Ford injury to halt ‘Star Wars’ for 2 weeks

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Harri-son Ford’s injury will cause production on “Star Wars:

Episode VII” to be suspended for two weeks.

‘Transformers’ tops ‘Tammy’

Jessica Simpson weds Eric Johnson

Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File

“We will deploy two-third of the 13 thousand total forces. The rest of the forces are on reserve and must always be on standby,” Bali Police Chief Inspector General Albertus Julius Benny Mokalu noted on Monday.

The police personnel will se-cure 5,939 polling stations on the

island.Mokalu stated that ideally, each

polling station will be guarded by at least one policeman and civilian security officers.

“It will prevent any potential violation during the election. If we are ready and on alert, anyone wanting to disturb the security will

be deterred,” he emphasized.The police will also safeguard

tourist spots, the election supervi-sory office, and the local General Elections Committee’s (KPU’s) office.

In general, the security condition in Bali prior to the election was sound, Mokalu claimed.

Indonesia will conduct a demo-cratic presidential election on July 9, 2014, which will be contested by two pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates: Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Jokowi-

Jusuf Kalla (JK).Prabowo Subianto is a retired

military general and the founder of the Great Indonesia Move-ment Party (Gerindra), while his running mate, Hatta Rajasa, is a former coordinating minister for economic affairs and the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN).

Jokowi is Jakarta’s governor and a cadre of the Indonesian Demo-cratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), while his running mate, JK, is a former vice president and a senior

politician of the Golkar Party.The Prabowo-Hatta pair is sup-

ported by Gerindra, PAN, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the United Development Party (PPP), the Crescent and Star Party (PBB), the Golkar Party, and the Democrat Party.

The Jokowi-JK pair is supported by five political parties: PDIP, the Nation Awakening Party (PKB), the People’s Conscience Party (Ha-nura), the Justice and Indonesian Unity Party (PKPI), and the Na-tional Democrat Party (Nasdem).

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

Indonesian soldiers take position during a security parade in preparation for the upcoming presidential election in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, July 7, 2014. The presidential elections are scheduled to be held on July 9.

8,700 personnel deploy on polling day

Antara

DENPASAR - The Bali provincial police will deploy 8.7 thousand personnel to safeguard the implementation of the presidential election on July 9, 2014.

Pro-Russia separatists vow to keep up the fight

Classical Indian music performed beautifully

Brazil tries to stay confident after losing Neymar

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Calendar Event for Jun 1 through Jul 12, 2014

1 Jun Pura Sakenan Serangan DenpasarPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar TimurPura Alas Harum Batur KintamaniPura Alas Angker Munduk KintamaniPura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung

4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang KapalDalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida

8 Jun Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesi-man DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan

10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung SelatanPura Luhur UluwatuPura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badungPura Penataran Agung Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Gua Lawah KlungkungPura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralaya Banda klungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan TabananPura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

GianyarPura Gerya Sakti Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh UbudPura Segara Ketewel SukawatiPura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud

11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungPura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana KlungkungPura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Dukuh TegallalangPura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah KesimanPura Sahab Nusa penidaPura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar

12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Ulun Swi Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar

15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi

25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai KarangasemPura Aer jeruk Sukawati GianyarPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyarPura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem KarangasemPura Batur Sari Ubud

27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati

30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi

5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan KlungkungPura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Penebel TabananPura Benua Tarukan Besakih

9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Kalah BatubulanPura Desa Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem Petitenget Kuta BadungPura Dalem Pulasari GianyarPura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar SelatanPura Paibon Sumerta DenpasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak SiringPura Pasar Agung Kediri TabananPura Puaya Batuan Sukawati

11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri 12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

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Aston Madiun launched soft openingIBP

JAKArTA – By the end of this month, the city of Madiun will see the soft opening of Archipelago International’s latest Aston property, The Aston Madiun Hotel & Conference Center. As the most recent addition to the hotel manage-ment’s ever-growing portfolio, The Aston Madiun will be the newest 4 star hotel in East Java and the first international standard, modern hotel in Madiun.

Located in the western part of East Java, Madiun is easily reached from Central Java’s popular travel destina-tions, Solo and Yogyakarta. Madiun is also known as a hub of agriculture, with adventurous tourists beginning to take note of the area’s stunning land-scapes, like the vast forests, secluded waterfalls, the recreational park and a historical site from the Majapahit era.

Just 5 minutes out of the city centre, The Aston Madiun Hotel & Confer-ence Center is strategically located on Jl. Mayjen Sungkono which is conve-niently close to the central business district, government offices and also Plaza Madiun. For easy transporta-tion, the hotel is also within walking distance to the main train station and bus terminals, both of which are just 10 minutes away.

The hotel will feature 125 well designed guest rooms and suites, together with a signature restaurant, a lounge and bar, a swimming pool, spa and well-equipped gym. For business affairs, there will be 7 modern meeting rooms and a pillar-less ballroom that can accommodate up to 1500 guests.

“The Aston Madiun Hotel is set to become the leading hotel and confer-ence center in Madiun; a city that until now, has not seen a four-star hotel that meets international standards. Here at Archipelago, we believe that every city in Indonesia has the potential to create a market of high-quality hospitality services, which in effect will increase the economic prosperity of the sur-rounding communities.” Says Norbert Vas, Archipelago International’s VP Sales & Marketing.

Bali PostNEGARA - The harbor authority,

PT ASDP Ketapang, admitted the existence of the unfortunate vessel running aground in the Strait of Bali did not have an impact on the home-coming traffic whose peak would occur a few weeks away. The ASDP Ketapang had prepared both passenger and cargo vessels.

General Manager (GM) of the ASDP Ketapang, Waspada Heruwan-to, amidst the evacuation last weekend said the disaster of cargo vessel oc-curred in the waters of Gilimanuk did not affect the ferry services, including when the traffic was very crowded during the homecoming and backflow traffic. Currently, the Ketapang-Gili-manuk ferry services had 40 vessels, where 25 units were passenger ferries and the remaining units were Landing Craft Tanks (LCTs). “We’ve prepared for the most crowded traffic (home-coming), but not all vessels will be used,” he explained. During crowded traffic (peak of homecoming), he said that only 36 vessels would be operated. The remaining vessels, both passenger and cargo vessels, would

be used as backup. During crowded condition, the port authority would also cut the unloading time.

Meanwhile, the Pancar Indah LCT currently running aground in the wa-ters of Gilimanuk was ascertained not to be operated. Moreover, the condi-tion of the vessel had not yet been evacuated with the trucks remaining to sink.

Meanwhile, the harbormaster of Gilimanuk, Nyoman Delon, men-tioned that the entire vessels serving the Gilimanuk-Ketapang crossing had been tested. Such regular test was performed particularly in the preparation ahead of the crowded traffic. Result of the recent test was good. With the incident of the Pancar Indah LCT, it was uncertain whether to be tested or not. So far, the cause of the disaster to the LCT vessel was still under investigation, whether due to leakage, excessive load or other factors such as weather. The ASDP and harbormaster currently focused on the evacuation of the vessel wreck remaining to be moored about 200 meters away from the LCM pier of Gilimanuk. (kmb26)

As stated by Principal of the SMK 1 PGRI Badung vo-cational school, Putra Wijaya, the quota of new student at his school for the academic year 2014/2015 amounted to 400 people. Meanwhile, the students having made pre-registration reached 723 people. But so far, only 349 students reconfirmed their registration.

He admitted to worry if the enrollment this time would stagnate or even declined from the previous academic year. It happened because the re-registration remained a few days away. “We still have time until July 12 for the re-registration. If there is no addition until the deadline, it means the admission of new students at our school

declines this year,” he said while adding if his school received 365 students last year from the quota of 400 students.

He explained that similar condition was also experienced by a number of other private schools in Badung. Some pri-vate schools began to worry as being unable to meet the enrollment quota. This condi-tion was surprising because despite the admission of new students in public schools was carried out more strictly, but in fact private schools did not get students. “We will explore what causes this condition, whether the students drop out or find another school,” he said.

When asked for confirma-tion about this case, the Head

of Badung Education Agency, Ketut Widia Astika, said on Sunday (Jul 6) that many pri-vate schools could not fulfill the quota due to various fac-tors. But, he had confidence if the problem was not caused by dropouts. “I’m sure it was not caused by school dropouts. Probably, it may happen as other school offer more inter-esting program to prospective students,” he said.

Regarding the possibility of students switching the region, he did not explain in details. He just mentioned if the stu-dents who wanted to switch the region, but did not qualify, then they would possibly return to Badung and looked for private school. (kmb25)

IBP/File

The students are taking the final test in their school. Some private schoos are worry about the number of students applying to their schools.

Some private schools worry about lacking of students Bali Post

MANGUPUrA - Admission of New Students (PPDB) gets particular attention from private schools each year, including those in Badung County. It happens because private schools are often unable to meet their enrollment quota or lacks of students. Even, a num-ber of private schools currently begin misgivings because their quota has not been met.

Crashing vessel does not disrupt homecoming flows

IBP/File

The vessel which was running aground in Bali Strait a few days ago.

3Tuesday, July 8, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Tuesday, July 8, 2014

The 36th Bali Art Festival

“The vulnerable markets to political issues are the countries belonging to the largest sup-plier of Bali tourism, such as America and Europe. Meanwhile, the Asian markets like China are only vulnerable to incident they experience in person,” said Chairman of the Indonesian Congress and Convention Associa-tion (INCCA) of Bali Chapter, IB Surakusuma, in Denpasar.

Stability of security According to him, the government should

be extra vigilant against the emergence of tur-bulence in the third direct presidential election in Indonesia because millions of people who had a different choice were vulnerable to cause a friction in the election.

“Indeed, 50 of 100 emails I’ve received, none asked about the presidential election in Indonesia, especially Bali. However, do not forget that we cannot deny if there can be a terror of unrest in the calm water,” he said.

Moreover, he said, the political elite among the candidates continued to grab the public sym-pathy by mutually seeking the weakness of the other candidate for publication. This condition would damage the mentality and sportiveness of voters. “We need to remember that tourism depends on the people’s mentality,” he said.

On the other hand, the annual growth of Bali’s economy in the second quarter of 2014 was estimated to grow more than in the pre-vious quarter. The period of school holiday coinciding with the beginning of Ramadan and the overflow of travelers from Thailand destination had encouraged the high economic growth in the second quarter.

“In the second quarter of 2014, the sector of trade, hotel and restaurant, transport as well as services has increased in harmony with the increasing tourist arrivals. Based on data from April to May 2014, the number of tour-ist arrival remains to grow high in the range of 15 percent (yoy),” said the Representative Office Head of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusra, Benny Siswanto.

He said the increase was the result of the inclusion of summer season pinnacle as well as many national holidays in the second quar-ter of the year 2014. In addition, the crisis of Thailand driving some travelers to divert their destination to Bali also helped boost the tour-ism industry. The increase was also supported by the increase in the average room occupancy rate in April 2014 compared to the overall av-erage of the first quarter of 2014. (kmb27)

IBP

DENPASAR - On the evening of Sunday, 6 July 2014, the Ksirarnawa Auditorium at the Bali Art Centre in Denpasar resonated with the classical Indian music played on Violin, Tabla, Sarod, Sitar, Harmonium & Dhol, among others.

Johar Ali, the Music Teacher and performer at the Jawaharlal Nehru In-dian Cultural Centre (JNICC) in Jakarta beautifully played classical raaga, semi-classical Sufi song & popular Bollywood songs on his violin to repeated applause and appreciation of the audience. He was accompanied on tabla by Steve Bolton & Gita and on Sitar by Yoyo, all from Bali. Later, Barok, Ari Ariama and Arjun played Indian classical ragas on Sitar, Harmonium and Tabla, wonderful instruments used in Hindustani classical music, particularly in North India.

In the dance segment, I Gede Agus Suparta and Sharada Jenny Anggerer performed dance drama ‘Dewi Ma-haakali’, through the medium of classi-cal Odissi dance style from India. Their colourful costumes, beautiful and perfect dance moves were intensely watched and appreciated by the audience.

At the same event, 18 Balinese stu-dents of the Indian Culture Centre (ICC) in Bali presented semi-classical dance ‘Vyaktaavyakta’, with the message to fostering harmonious atmosphere and peaceful co-existence to be able to soothe our minds and understand who we are and what our ultimate goal should be.

Speaking on the occasion, Consul General A.S. Takhi highlighted that Indian contribution to this year’s Bali Art Festival has been varied and multi-faceted. India contributed a contingent in the opening day’s cultural parade and

rendered three cultural performances focussed on Indian classical and popu-lar Bollywood dances as well as Indian classical music. Besides, a month-long Indian pavilion at the exhibition grounds is also disseminating information on Indian tourism, art & culture, besides scholarships for higher education and training in India as well as Indian prod-ucts for enhancing trade & investment ties.

He reiterated that the Indian Cultural Centre in Bali has introduced several new courses, registration for which is

free during the period of the Bali Art Festival. He encouraged Balinese friends of India to register early as seats are limited.

Consul General also informed that several music lovers discussed plans for joint musical productions, including with popular Balinese gamelan. Work-shops on Indian classical music will be conducted periodically in collaboration with Balinese art & music institutions. Many members of the public expressed their interest in learning music at the Indian Cultural Centre.

Largest traveler suppliers vulnerable to political issues

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The presidential elec-tion of Indonesia to be held on July 9 caused a concern among tourism businesspeople. It happened because the seconds before the electoral mo-ment was starting to heat up, so that it was feared to have a negative impact on tourism in the Island of the Gods. Moreover, a number of countries be-coming the potential tourism market are vulnerable to political issues.

Classical Indian music performed beautifully

Courtesy of Indian Consulate

I Gede Agus Suparta and Sharada Jenny Anggerer performed dance drama ‘Dewi Mahaakali’, through the medium of classical Odissi dance style from India.

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US scientists said Thursday two distant Earth-like planets, which some believed might be able to harbor life, do not actually exist and that astronomers were confused by a star’s sunspots.

The controversial pair of planets, Gliese d and g, some 22 light years away, were once believed to be in the Goldilocks zone -- not too close and not too far from the star, where the potential exists for water and perhaps life.

They are part of a larger trove of potentially Earth-like planets that have been identified by as-tronomers so far, and NASA has said billions may be out there.

Too far to be seen with the naked eye or a tele-scope, they were spotted with a technique called Doppler radial velocity, orbiting a cool, red star called Gliese 581.

The method takes starlight from telescope and analyzes its wavelengths. By detecting signs of a wobble from the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet, it can reveal the mass of a planet.

But astronomers at Pennsylvania State University now say Gliese 581 g and d were not planets at all, but a jumbled signal from the star itself.

“These two Goldilocks planets that people have been talking about, unfortunately, based on our research are not real,” said co-author Suvrath Ma-hadevan, assistant professor in the department of astronomy and astrophysics.

“What was previously thought to be a planetary signal was actually caused by stellar activity,” he told AFP.

In other words, magnetic fields or sunspots could have interfered with the signal that astronomers were reading.

The study in the journal Science said that “intense stellar magnetic activity, like sunspots on our own star... created false planet signals for d and g.”

Scientists have already ruled out the existence of a third planet, Gliese f. That leaves three planets known to be orbiting this particular star, none of which are in the habitable zone.

‘Pushing limits’Astronomers have two ways of detecting faraway

planets. The NASA Kepler mission observes the dimming light of a star as a planet passes in front of it, known as a transit. This technique can tell astrono-mers about the approximate size of a planet, but not the mass.

The other approach, the one used in the study in Science, is known as Doppler radial velocity (RV). It is more sensitive to stellar activities and can reveal the mass of a planet.

“Astronomers have made great progress being able to detect planets increasingly similar to the Earth -- smaller in size, lower in mass, at similar distances from their stars -- and we keep pushing that boundary,” said Eric Ford, an astronomy professor at Penn State who was not involved in the study.

“It is a lesson that, as you push the limits of what a technology can do, things that used to not really matter and things that you could neglect, begin to matter.”

Mahadevan said more study is needed to determine how many of the Earth-like planets discovered so far could be just a mixed signal.

“Most of the more massive exoplanets are not go-ing to be affected by this. The issue is with the subtler signal,” he said. “A lot of the systems that we are seeing are probably real.”

While researchers have long been able to perform such transformations with a differ-ent method, the newly reported technique was far simpler, and the papers caused a sensation — and some skepticism — in the research community. They were also widely reported in the media, including by The Associated Press.

But before long, the gov-ernment-funded Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Japan accused one of its scientists, Haruko Obokata, of falsifying data in the research. Obokata, the key author of the papers, defended the results during a televised news confer-ence in April while apologizing for using wrong and altered images in the published reports. She also said she opposed with-drawing the papers, a process

called retraction, and the 30-year-old attributed her mistakes to inexperience.

On Wednesday, Nature re-leased a statement from Oboka-ta and the other authors of the papers that retracted the papers, a rare occurrence for the pres-tigious journal. The scientists acknowledged “extensive” er-rors that meant “we are unable to say without a doubt” that the method works. They noted that studies of the simpler method are still going on by other re-searchers.

The Riken center also said on its website Wednesday that it expected a separate statement from Obokata and would post it when available.

Dr. Charles Vacanti of the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, another main author, issued his

own statement in which he said he believes the further stud-ies will vindicate the method, which produced what the au-thors called STAP cells.

But another author, Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken center, said the errors in the papers meant “it has become increasingly difficult to call the STAP phenomenon even a promising hypothe-sis.” In a statement issued by Riken, he said he was “deeply ashamed” of the problems in the papers.

The Riken investigation that led to allegations against Obokata also focused on Sasai and two other employees, but they were not accused of re-search misconduct.

Retractions of papers in ma-jor scientific journals like Nature are unusual. They can come

about because of fraud or the discovery of honest mistakes that undercut the conclusions of research. Publications like Nature routinely have experts review papers submitted by scientists to look for problems. But in an editorial released Wednesday, Nature concluded that its editors and reviewers “could not have detected the fatal faults in this work.”

Still, the journal said it is reviewing its practices to detect inappropriate manipulation of images. Many of the problems with the papers have to do with photos illustrating the results.

Mark Frankel, director of scientific responsibility at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called the episode a black eye for science in terms of public opinion. His association also publishes a major research journal, Science.

Frankel also said stem cell research is so complicated that even honest errors can crop up. “If one is trying to do the right thing, one might see something there that’s not really there be-cause of the complexity of the problem,” he said.

Two ‘Earth-like’ planets don’t exist: study

In this Jan. 28, 2014 file photo, researcher Haruko Obokata, the lead author of a widely heralded stem-cell research paper by the Japanese government-funded laboratory Riken Center for Development Biol-ogy, speaks about research results during a news con-ference in Kobe, western Japan.

Scientists withdraw report on simpler stem cellsAssociated Press

NEW YORK — U.S. and Japanese scientists who reported that they’d found a startlingly simple way to make stem cells withdrew that claim Wednesday, admit-ting to “extensive” errors in the research. In two papers published in January in the journal Nature, the researchers said that they’d been able to transform ordinary mouse cells into versatile stem cells by exposing them to a mildly acidic environment. Someday, scientists hope to harness stem cells to grow replacement tissue for treating a variety of diseases.

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At a rally in a central Donetsk square, the rebels were cheered on by thousands of supporters waving flags from Russia and the self-proclaimed independent Donetsk People’s Republic. Many urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to quickly come to their aid — but there was no comment Sunday from Russia.

While the rebel withdrawal Saturday from Slovyansk, a city of 100,000 they had held for months, was not a total victory, President Petro Poroshenko said purging the city of the insurgents had “incred-ible symbolic importance.” It was unclear whether the government — after abandoning a cease-fire last week and going back on the offen-sive — was now winning the fight that had sputtered for months.

Rebel fighters from Slovyansk could be seen walking through Donetsk on Sunday in groups of 10 to 15. Most were still wear-ing camouflage, but some sported identical new bright-colored shorts and shirts. It was an unsuccessful

effort to blend in with the civilian population, since they still carried automatic weapons.

At one money-exchange office in the city center, about 20 rebels lined up to trade U.S. dollars for Ukrainian hryvnas. The dollar is considered a more stable currency in Ukraine and Russia, but it was not known who had given them to the rebels. They refused to speak with Associated Press journalists and their mood appeared black.

Igor Girkin, defense minister of what the separatists call the Donetsk People’s Republic, told the Russian television channel Life News on Sunday that he would now coordinate the fight from Donetsk.

“We will continue the combat operations and will try not to make the same mistakes that we made in the past,” said Girkin, a Russian also known by his nom de guerre, Igor Strelkov. Ukrainian authorities have identified him as a veteran of the Russian military intelligence agency. Rhetoric soared Sunday afternoon at the rally.

Associated Press

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — More than 60 Nigerian girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have managed to escape, officials said Monday. Nigerian security forces and federal government officials had denied reports of the mass abduction from three villages in the northeast state of Borno on June 22.

Chibok local government chairman Pogu Bitrus said Monday he had verified that about 60 women and girls escaped on Thursday and Friday by sending a representative who met with some of the escapees and their families at the hospi-tal in Lassa, a town in the neighboring Damboa local government area.

Vigilante leader Abbas Gava in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, said Sunday that vigilantes in the area told him 63 women and girls managed to get away on Friday while their captors were engaged in a major attack on a military barracks and police headquarters in Damboa town. Small-scale kidnappings by Boko Haram extremists had been going on for months when they drew

international condemnation for the ab-ductions of more than 200 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok town of Borno state on April 15. Some 219 of those girls still are missing.

The government and military failure to rescue them has attracted criticism at home and abroad. Boko Haram is demanding the release of detained fight-ers in exchange for the girls. Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan report-edly has refused to consider a prisoner swap.

Amid the stalemate, Bitrus said that attacks have increased around Chibok and that Boko Haram has taken over some villages in the area and is threat-ening to take over others. The Kibaku Area Development Association, a local residents’ association of which he is also chairman, reported that 19 villages have been attacked since the April 15 abduc-tions, with more than 229 people killed and about 100 seriously wounded.

In 90 percent of cases there had been advance warning of the attacks — as happened in the Chibok kidnappings — yet the military had taken no action, the association said in a statement Friday.

Pro-Russia separatists vow to keep up the fightAssociated Press Writer

DONETSK, Ukraine — Discouraged but defiant, pro-Russia separatists vowed to keep fighting the government in Kiev from the largest city in eastern Ukraine, where they regrouped Sunday after being driven out of a key stronghold.

AP Photo/Dmitry LovetskyPeople listen to Pavel Gubarev, self-proclaimed people’s governor, during a pro-Russian meeting in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, July 6, 2014.

63 abducted females escape extremists in Nigeria

AP Photo/Sunday Alamba,FileFILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, Women attend a prayer meeting calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - As alleged to have smuggled seven turtles, two individual officers of Di-rectorate of Marine Police, Bali Police, were arrested by the officers of South Denpasar Po-lice at Pitik hamlet, Pedungan village, Friday (Jul 4). However, police did not process the case and eventually released the two marine police officers with the initials WDN and AP. Meanwhile, the seven turtles were returned to turtle breeding on Serangan Island.

A police source revealed on Sunday (Jul 6) that the arrest originated in public information related to the rampant sale of the endangered sea turtles in the area of South Denpasar. “Po-lice received information if a pickup truck will carry the turtle to Pedungan area,” he said.

Then, police officers made surveillance from Thursday night and finally watched a pickup truck passing in front of the Pitik hamlet hall, Pedungan. Police suspecting the pickup then stopped and did a search. “The pickup truck just appeared around 03:00 a.m.,” he added.

Police performing the check eventually found seven turtles hidden on the bed floor of the pickup truck. In addition, police also secured the two car riders who were in fact the personnel of the Directorate of Marine Police, Bali Police with the initials WDN and AP. “Both marine police officers and seven turtles were immediately taken to the South Denpasar Police station for questioning,” he explained.

When interrogated, the two marine police officers of Bali Police admitted if the seven turtles were brought from Canggu area, North Kuta, Badung, heading for the home of a turtle fence with the initial B at Pedungan, Denpasar. “They admitted it would be intended for ritual purpose, but we alleged the man is a fence,” he said.

After the interrogation, the officers of South Denpasar Police handed over the arrest to the Directorate of Marine Police at Bali Police for further action. “Since they are the member of Marine Police, the case is not processed at the subdistrict police and handed over to Directorate of Marine Police of Bali Police,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the Chief of South Denpasar Police, Nanang Prihasmoko, when asked for his confirmation justified the case. He said both marine police officers of Bali Police were carrying seven turtles and had been handed over to the Directorate of Marine Police, Bali Police. Meanwhile, the seven turtles secured had already been taken to turtle breeding. “Yes, we arrested them early yesterday morn-ing, but they have now been returned to the Directorate of Marine Police,” he said.

In the meantime, Directorate of Marine Police, Bali Police, Tubuh Musyareh, said the arrest of the two personnel with the initials WDN and AP was due to smuggling seven turtles. When contacted by phone, they did not answer. (kmb35)

Gede Arta said on Sunday (Jul 6) that so far his party had regularly made supervi-sion against the existing parking attendants. He acknowledged the monitoring carried out by his party was not enough. In this matter, the public participation was also required to monitor the presence of such fraudulent parking attendant.

According to him, in truth such condi-tion occurred due to the weakness of people themselves. Many were still willing to pay parking ticket even though they were given the ticket by the individual parking atten-dant. Actually the parking attendants that did not give the ticket might be the illegal ones or those performing illegal charges. Therefore, to suppress the leakage, his

party appealed to people not to pay for the parking ticket if there was an individual parking attendant committed so. “I’d like to appeal to the people. When no ticket is given by a parking attendant, do not pay the ticket,” he appealed.

Meanwhile, so far the parking atten-dant supervised by the Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency amounted to 22 people. They were scat-tered at a number of places in Bangli. For this year, his party targeted the revenue from parking sector could reached IDR 400 million.

Aside from individual fraudulent parking attendant, the issues on illegal parking attendant also occurred in Ban-

gli as those found at Penelokan area, Kintamani. Based on recent observation, regardless of the presence of no-parking traffic sign and prohibition to stop, the illegal parking attendants at Penelokan did not hesitate to approach the owners of vehicle and asked for parking charges without providing ticket sheet. Quite often the presence of parking attendant was complained and their legality was questioned.

Especially for the parking attendant at Penelokan, Gede Arta explained that his party had never commissioned any officers to levy parking service along the Penelo-kan area. Thus, it could be ascertained if the parking attendants were illegal. Related to the issue, his party claimed to have been often conducting joint op-eration. However, his party seemed to be taken to play hide-and-seek by the park-ing attendants. When the officers of the Transportation Agency and Traffic Police made an operation, the parking attendants often committing illegal charges were hard to find. (ina)

Smuggling turtle, two police officers released

IBP/RinaThe number of illegal parking attendant in Kintamani is increasing in the last feew years.

Give no ticket, parking attendant to be firedBali Post

BANGLI - The allegation on the leakage in the parking sector due to fraudulent behavior frequently committed by unscrupulous parking attendants at a number of places in Bangli was not rejected by the Head of Bangli Transportation, Com-munication and Informatics Agency, Gede Arta. To suppress the leakage, his party promised to increase supervision against the parking attendants. Even, when any parking attendants found making a fraud, his party would probably lay them off.

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DENPASAR - Weaving cloth with hibiscus floral motif becom-ing the icon on the anniversary of Gianyar town rolled in the Bali Arts Festival, Sunday (Jul 6). Gianyar County featured five designs.

The weaving cloth fashionistas were presented with various de-signs of hibiscus weaving clothes nicely modified and yielding graceful and elegant outfits. Se-lection of natural colors made the clothes look more attractive.

As other counties throughout Bali featuring their typical weav-ing clothes, Gianyar County for the first time introduced the hibis-cus weaving clothes in the BAF.

Chairperson of the PKK Gianyar, Mrs. Surya Adnyani Mahayastra, said that her party was intensively promoting the hibiscus weaving clothes in the community, where one of event taken advantage was the workshop on fashion.

Along with the entire counties in Bali, Gianyar was given the op-portunity to show off its customary attires used for temple worship, bridal makeup and the parade of modified endek attires char-acterizing the respective region. She hoped the hibiscus weaving clothes could be widely known by the community as other kind of endek clothes so that it could be used as materials by designers to make their superior designs. (kmb16)

From a recent observation, the nar-rowing and silting could be found at almost every corner of the Mati River flow. At Pengubengan area, Seminyak, for example, various types and sizes of rubbish piled up in the watershed. As a result, the river flow stagnated. Similarly, sedimentation occurred due to unhandled rubbish. Besides, at one point of the riverbank areas was even used for building villas.

More severe damaged occurred in the estuary of Mati River. The siltation was so serious. The river was getting narrower due to sedimentation. On the other hand, the rubbish kept piling up. Despite the dredging of rubbish was going on, the high volume of rubbish from the upstream areas was still dif-ficult to clean up.

The Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, revealed that his party was attempting to normalize the flow of Mati River. A number of projects were and would be implemented by Badung County. However, the normalization program encountered many obstacles, where one of which was the public awareness to maintain the river flow. So far, the public awareness of not disposing rubbish into the river was still quite low.

Another problem, said Gde Agung, was the rampant encroachment of riverbanks by residents. To note, many slum settlement areas were established around the mouth of the Mati River, Kuta. Illegal population took advan-tage of the riverbanks, estuaries and mangrove forests to build huts for their residence.

According to Gde Agung, his party had made coordination with community leaders and legislators to prevent the encroachment of Mati River. One of the things to be done in the near future would be in the form of controlling illegal population. His party had also asked the Kuta subdistrict head to con-duct an inventory of the state land used by locals for their residence. “We ask the land contract expiring in 2015 not to be extended. We will discipline the huts encroaching on the mangroves,” said Gde Agung while mentioning that normalization program of Mati River could not only be carried out by Ba-dung County without the support from various components, chiefly the central government.

Meanwhile, the Head of Bali-Penida River Agency, I Ketut Jayada, said the ideal width of Mati River was 27 me-ters. But so far, his party just acquired the land on average of about 22 meters away, and the widening in the bottle neck area could only be made 18 me-ters. Even, in the area of Jalan Kunti, the river widening could not be done. Although it had been budgeted, the pro-gram failed to be implemented because the community did not support.

He explained that in 2015 his party would try to pioneer again the river widening. One of the concepts to be used was the long storage that would be discussed with the Badung County regarding the detail planning. As an ex-tension of central government, his party claimed to be ready to make coopera-tion for the handling of the Mati River with Badung government. (kmb25)

Slum settlement aggravates damage to Mati RiverBali Post

MANGUPURA - Condition of the downstream area at Mati River in Kuta is very alarming. Massive volume of waste from the upstream and sedimentation make the width of estuary get nar-rower and shallower. Not only that, the action of resident utilizing riverbank and clearing away mangrove forests also helps exacerbate the damage to Mati River.

IBP/Eka AdhiyasaCondition of the downstream area at Mati River in Kuta is very alarming. Massive volume of waste from the upstream and sedimentation make the width of estuary get narrower and shallower.

Hibiscus weaving cloth of Gianyar style rolls at BAF

IBP/DharmadaWeaving cloth with hibiscus floral motif becoming the icon on the anniversary of Gianyar town rolled in the Bali Arts Festival, Sunday (Jul 6). Gianyar County featured five designs.

Associated Press

BEIJING — German Chan-cellor Angela Merkel met the Chinese premier Monday and hailed ties between the two sides as she led a large business delega-tion on a visit to promote trade with the Asian economic giant.

Merkel met Premier Li Keq-iang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in the morning and expressed an interest in the development of China’s inland areas. Merkel, who is on her sev-enth visit to China as chancellor, had landed Sunday in the south-western city of Chengdu.

“I came to understand this yesterday in Chengdu, where I felt the vitality of this western Chinese city. I saw that China’s development is not only limited to coastal areas but also taking place in the west,” Merkel said in opening remarks, before report-ers were ushered out of the room. “I’m looking forward to engag-ing in deep discussions.”

Merkel said talks between the two sides would also cover social issues and human rights. Later Monday, she would attend a meet-ing of the China-Germany Eco-nomic and Trade Commission and meet with President Xi Jinping, who visited Berlin in March.

In March, Xi visited Germany and with Merkel oversaw the signing of deals including agree-ments for automakers Daimler AG and BMW AG to deepen ties

with their Chinese partners.“China-Germany relations

are at their best in history,” said China’s official Xinhua News Agency on Sunday, “strongly underpinned by the pragmatic cooperation between the two economic heavyweights.”

It pointed out that Germany is China’s largest trading part-ner in Europe, while China is Germany’s biggest in the Asia-Pacific region.

Negotiations with Iran to end its nuclear program and the ongo-ing conflict in Ukraine may also come up in Monday’s discus-sions. Both China and Germany are part of the six-nation group that is trying to thrash out a nuclear deal with Iran. Merkel has been a key figure in trying to reduce tensions in Ukraine and get Russia to cooperate.

In Chengdu on Sunday, Merkel met members of a German-Chi-nese dialogue forum, attended a forum on urbanization coopera-tion between the local province and Germany, and visited a Volk-swagen production plant which employs about 7,300 people.

On Tuesday, she will give a speech to students at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.

China and Germany, the world’s two leading exporters, had a bilateral trade volume last year of 140.4 billion euros ($193 billion), making China Germany’s No. 3 trade partner, ahead of the United States.

The head of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund predicted global economic growth, which has been “subdued” in the first months of 2014, will strengthen in the second half and accelerate next year.

Growth in China, the world’s sec-ond-largest economy and a key driver of international trade, is unlikely to slow sharply and is moving into a “more qualitative and more sustain-able” phase, Lagarde said.

But she warned loose monetary policies pursued by central banks to help the world economy recover from the global financial crisis were “find-ing their limit” and governments now needed to act.

“Global activity is picking up, but the momentum could be less robust than expected because potential

growth is weaker... (and) investment remains lacklustre,” Lagarde told a conference in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence.

“Evidently, from our point of view, we must therefore reinforce supply capacity in order to strengthen the recovery.”

She called for politicians to take advantage of “very favourable” con-ditions in financial markets to “revive public investments (to) give a neces-sary boost to growth, particularly in advanced economies” while ensuring debt remains at sustainable levels.

The IMF will give its official global economic forecasts in two weeks. Last month the global crisis lender slashed its 2014 forecast for the United States to 2.0 percent, down from 2.8 percent, after bad weather sparked an unexpected contraction

in the first quarter.Lagarde predicted growth would

pick up in the next quarter as long as the Federal Reserve’s tightening of its easy monetary policy is orderly and there is a precise medium term budget framework.

The Fed, like many central banks around the world, has kept interest rates at historic lows and pumped money into the US’s financial system to help drive growth.

Last month the European Central Bank cut its key interest rates, includ-ing taking one into negative territory for the first time, in a bid to help the region’s stalling economy emerge from the eurozone debt crisis.

In the 18 nations that share the single currency, which are only “slowly” emerging from recession, the “recovery is far from being enough to lower debt and unemploy-ment,” Lagarde said.

Emerging economies, meanwhile, “continue to ensure most of global growth but at a slower pace than before,” Lagarde said.

AP Photo/Shuji KajiyamaIn this March 1, 2014 photo, a worker adjusts the net at a construction site in Tokyo. Governments must increase public investment to help drive the global recovery and help boost “less robust than expected” economic growth, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said Sunday.

Public investment needed to recover Agence France-Presse

AIX-EN-PROVENCE - Governments must increase public invest-ment to help drive the global recovery and help boost “less robust than expected” economic growth, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said Sunday.

Merkel brings German business leaders to China

AP Photo/Andy Wong, PoolGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, looks as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks during a joint news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Monday, July 7, 2014.

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Since Suharto’s downfall in 1998 after a three-decade dictatorship, Indonesia has transformed into a freewheeling democracy. However corruption has flourished among the new political class, and nostalgia is growing in some quarters for a return to an era of stronger rule.

“This is going to be an election that determines whether Indonesia moves forward or starts to look backwards,” said Paul Rowland, an independent political analyst based in the capital Jakarta.

Several months ago Widodo, known by his nickname Jokowi, looked to be on a smooth course to the presidency of the world’s third-biggest democracy, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, with about 190 million eligible voters.

But after a polarising campaign, Widodo’s once-huge poll lead has shrunk considerably. He was targeted by a flood of smears, including that he

Workers arrange ballot boxes to be distributed to polling stations, in Medan, North Sumatra, Indo-nesia, Sunday, July 6, 2014. Indonesia will hold its presi-dential election on July 9, pit-ting the popular Jakarta governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo against a former special forces com-mander Prabowo Subianto.

Indonesians face stark choice in pivotal presidential vote

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesians vote Wednesday in the country’s most pivotal presidential election since the downfall of dictator Suharto, with Jakarta governor Joko Widodo and an ex-general with a chequered human rights record in a tight race. Voters face a stark choice between Widodo, the first serious presidential contender without deep roots in the Suharto era, seen as likely to strengthen democracy, and Prabowo Subianto, who critics fear may shift Indonesia back to-wards authoritarian rule.

is not a Muslim -- a serious charge in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.

With surveys showing a large number of undecided voters, analysts say the race is wide open. A series of “quick counts” by pollsters on the day are expected to give an accurate indi-cation of the winner. Official results are not due for about three weeks.

Whoever wins will be the country’s second directly-elected president after Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who steps down this year after a decade of stable but often indecisive rule.

He has served two terms of five years each and is constitutionally barred from running for a third.

It will be a delicate transition. Growth is slowing in Southeast Asia’s top economy, corruption is rampant, millions remain mired in poverty, and fears are mounting that Islamic radicals returning from Middle East conflicts could revive militant net-

works.Widodo, a former furniture ex-

porter, shot to national prominence when he was elected Jakarta governor in 2012, winning legions of fans due to his humble background and com-mon touch.

The 53-year-old used to make regular tours of the metropolis’s slums in casual clothes, and was praised for initiating projects to tackle the city’s myriad problems.

“He used to be a poor person like me, he better understands the difficul-ties of our lives than other leaders, who are all rich,” said Emi, a 53-year-old drinks vendor, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

However doubts have also been raised about whether a man with no experience in national politics is ready to be president.

Roots in authoritarian pastPrabowo, in contrast, was a top

general in the Suharto era and has admitted ordering the abduction of democracy activists in the dying days of authoritarian rule in 1998. He used to be married to one of the dictator’s daughters.

The 62-year-old has played up his military background to appeal to a yearning for a strong leader, which -- along with a slick campaign and the backing of several Muslim par-ties -- helped him close the gap on Widodo.

Prabowo’s speeches have been marked by fiery, populist rhetoric and sharp criticism of foreign influence in Indonesia. But it is his comments about democracy that have caused the most alarm.

During a talk at a Jakarta cultural centre, he reportedly said that Western-

style politics “doesn’t suit” Indonesia, including direct elections.

For the United States, an ally of Indonesia, a Prabowo victory could prove awkward. He was denied a visa to the country in 2000, reportedly because of his rights record.

Investors are hoping for a Widodo win, seeing him as a potential re-former, and the rupiah has fallen heavily in recent weeks as Prabowo has gained ground.

Despite the concerns, the ex-general’s strongman appeal has won over many voters.

“Only a firm leader can bring pros-perity to this country,” said Rismaya, a 42-year-old textile shop owner, who also goes by one name. “Hopefully Prabowo can return the country to the time of Suharto.”

AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara

The two governments are in-volved in a dispute over owner-ship of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. China has expressed unease about Japan’s reinterpretation of its pacifist constitution to ease restrictions on military activity. While the change has met with opposition within Japan, it has been sup-ported by the United States and Australia, where Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was due to visit Monday.

“Unfortunately, nearly 70 years after the victory of the Chinese war of resistance against Japanese aggression and the anti-Fascist war, there is still a minority group of people who ignore historical facts, who ignore the tens of

thousands of lives lost in the war, who go against the tide of history and deny and even beautify the history of aggression and harm international mutual trust and cre-ate regional tension,” Xi said at a ceremony at suburban Beijing’s Lugou Bridge, called the Marco Polo Bridge in the 1930s.

Asked about the commemora-tion, Japan’s chief government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, said China’s attempt to dredge up wartime history and turn it into an international issue was unnecessary and “not helpful at all in building peace and coop-eration in the region.” Suga said Japan has been recognized by the international community for being a peaceful nation since the end of

World War II.“We will continue our con-

tribution to international peace and prosperity and to building a forward-looking relationship,” he said. Rana Mitter, a professor of Chinese history and politics at Ox-ford University, said Xi’s speech fit into a pattern of attempts by China to highlight Chinese war-time resistance against Japan to “inspire patriotic fervor.”

“It’s really part of a growing tendency that we have seen, no-tably in the last few months, of attempts by China and the Chi-nese leadership to use events from the Second World War period to make points about contemporary geopolitics, particularly if they relate to Japan,” he said.

Associated Press

PAMPLONA, Spain — One person was gored as thousands of thrill-seekers tested their bravery and speed Monday by dashing with fighting bulls through the streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona.

Jose Aldaba, a spokesman for Spain’s Red Cross, said four people were taken to a city hospital for injuries sustained in the 8.a.m. run, the first of the annual San Fermin festival. One was gored in the thigh.

A statement from the Navarra regional government said the four were Spaniards but none was in serious condition. The run sees people racing with the bulls along a narrow 930-yard (850-meter) course from a holding pen to the city bull ring.

It lasted just over two minutes. Dozens of people are injured each year in the “encierros,” as the runs are called in Spanish. Most get hurt in falls. Fifteen people have died from gorings since record-keeping began in 1924.

The nine-day fiesta was immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises” and attracts thousands of foreign tourists. The bulls, which take part each morning are invariably killed by matadors in evening bull fights, and their meat is served up in Pamplona’s restaurants.

Associated Press

TBILISI, Georgia — Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said. Marina Davitashvili said Shevardnadze died after a long illness. She did not say where he died.

Shevardnadze swept heroically across the international stage in the final years of the Soviet empire, helping topple the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War, but as the leader of post-Soviet Georgia his career in the public eye ended in humiliation and he was chased out of his parliament and forced into retirement..

As Soviet foreign minister, the white-haired man with a gravelly voice was the diplomatic face of Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberalizing policies of glasnost and perestroika. Following the wooden Andrei Gromyko, Shevardnadze impressed Western leaders with his charisma, his quick wit and his com-mitment to Gorbachev’s reform course.

Shevardnadze helped push through the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1989, signed landmark arms control agreements, and helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 — a development that Soviet leaders had long feared and staunchly opposed. Western leaders, especially Germans, would remain grateful for Shevardnadze’s work as foreign minister. But in the former Soviet Union, those nostalgic for a return to superpower status lumped Shevardnadze with Gorbachev in the ranks of the unpardonable.

Shevardnadze resigned in December 1990, warning that reform was collapsing and dictatorship was imminent. A year later, the Soviet Union collapsed in the wake of an attempted hard-line coup against Gorbachev.

Shevardnadze returned to Georgia after its first elected president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, was ousted in a coup in 1992; Shevardnadze was elected speaker of parliament and became the country’s leader. Gamsakhurdia died under mysterious circumstances in 1993, and Shevardnadze was elected president for a five-year term in 1995 after the country adopted a new constitution.

AP Photo/Kim Hong-Ji, Pool

Chinese President Xi Jinping greets children waving the national flags of South Korea and China during a welcome ceremony at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, Thurs-day, July 3, 2014.

China holds ceremony to mark China-Japan war

Associated Press

BEIJING — President Xi Jinping criticized people who “beautify the history of aggression” as China on Monday marked the 77th anniversary of the start of a war with Japan amid rising tensions between Beijing and Tokyo. This year’s unusually high-profile commemoration of the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident, including a nationally televised speech by Xi, comes amid an anti-Japanese propaganda campaign by Beijing.

First day of Pamplona bull-run sees 1 gored

Shevardnaze, former Georgian president, dies at 86

Torrestrella fighting bulls and revelers run during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festi-

val, in Pamplona, Spain, Monday, July 7, 2014.

AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

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GIANYAR - If you are a spiri-tualist, try to feel the vibration of the magical temple of Goa Garba or Garba Cave. Aura of the cave is so pronounced. People who aim to meditate and gain knowledge often come to this cave. This Goa Garba ancient relic is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple estimated to have been built around the twelfth century AD during the reign of King Jayapangus.

Goa Garba is located at Sawe-gunung hamlet, Pejeng village, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar. By car, it is about 50 minutes away or about 34 km from Denpasar. This historic site is now becoming a tourist destination visited by many foreign travelers.

Other than being known as a tourist destination with an abun-dance of temples, Bali also retains a good few of cave. One of them is Goa Garba posing one of the ancient relics having a great significance. Goa Garba is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple. The temple was formerly used as a school for the kings of Bali.

It is situated on a steep cliff, right on the bank of the Pakerisan River. Based on information of local residents, Goa Garba is a hermitage niche carved on the wall of cliff edge of the Pakerisan River. On top of this hermitage lie a number of pools and showers where at pool side sits a hole leading to a cave.

To achieve this cultural heri-tage, visitor must first visit a neat entrance gate with nicely arranged stairs made of river stone. Mean-while, the entrance gate is made of sand stone. It is said that the cave was made by Kebo Iwa, a Balinese vice regent having supernatural power.

There is a stone containing the footprints whose size exceeds the size of an ordinary human foot and it is believed to belong to Kebo Iwa. At the time of making the staircase, the stone is said to move by itself in accordance with the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time of step-ping down the stone staircase, its number is always different. When counting them for again and again, the amount will not be the same.

In the niche can be found several sculptures such as a stone board carved with the motif of a pot. In the meantime, in the Pengukur-Ukuran temple can be found several carved stones and a stone door that reads Saka Year 1116 or be equal to 1194 AD. In the inscription is mentioned the name Dharmaanyar and this may be the former name of the temple.

To support the tourism sector, this Goa Garba tourist attraction has been equipped with facilities like a spacious parking lot. Although most of the population around the Goa Garba has livelihood as farmers, they have intelligent mind, so that the ancient relics can be preserved well.

Goa Garba

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Steeling himself when he so desperately needed to, Serbia’s Djokovic held on for a 6-7 (7), 6-4, 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-4 victory after nearly four hours of momentum shifts Sunday to win Wimbledon for the second time — and deny Switzer-land’s Federer what would have been a record eighth championship at the All England Club.

“I could have easily lost my concentration in the fifth and just handed him the win. But I didn’t, and that’s why this win has a special importance to me, mentally,” Djok-ovic said. “I managed to not just win against my opponent, but win against myself, as well, and find that inner strength.” Cradling his trophy during the post-match ceremony, Djokovic addressed Federer directly, saying: “I respect your career and everything you have done. And thank you for letting me win today.”

Even Federer had to smile at that line. Truth is, Djokovic deserved plenty of credit for figuring out a way to raise his Grand Slam total to seven titles and allows him to overtake Rafael Nadal at No. 1 in the rankings.

“Novak deserved it at the end, clearly,” said Federer, who hadn’t

been to a Grand Slam final since winning his 17th major at Wimble-don in 2012, “but it was extremely close.” Federer, who turns 33 next month, won 88 of 89 service games through the semifinals and produced 29 aces in the final, but Djokovic broke him four times.

Federer went to the net ag-gressively, only to see Djokovic zoom more than a dozen passing shots past him. And with most of the Centre Court crowd of about 15,000 raucously cheering for Federer, the 27-year-old Djokovic kept believing in himself. That part might have been the most difficult, given that Djokovic lost his past three major finals, and five of his past six, including against Andy Murray at Wimbledon last year, and against Nadal at the French Open last month.

“Started doubting, of course, a little bit,” Djokovic said. “I needed this win a lot.” Boris Becker, the three-time Wimbledon champion who began coaching Djokovic this season, called the new cham-pion “the biggest competitor” and praised “his sense of not giving up, giving it always another try.” “It could’ve gone either way in

the fifth set,” said Becker, whose former rival as a player, Stefan Edberg, coaches Federer. “Novak finds another way. He digs deep and finds another way.”

Djokovic built a 5-2 lead in the fourth set and served for the cham-pionship at 5-3. But Federer broke there for the first time all afternoon, smacking a forehand winner as Djokovic slipped and fell on a patch of brown dirt. Djokovic took a nastier tumble in the second set, hurting his left leg and prompting the first of two medical timeouts; he got his right calf massaged by a trainer in the fifth.

With Federer serving at 5-4 in the fourth, he double-faulted to 30-all, then netted a backhand for 30-40 — handing Djokovic a match point. Federer hit a 118 mph (190 kph) serve that was called out, but he challenged the ruling, and the replay showed the ball touched a line for an ace. That was part of Federer’s five-game run to force a fifth set. It would be another 42 minutes until Djokovic again stood so close to triumph.

“Can’t believe I made it to five,” Federer said. “Wasn’t looking good there for a while.”

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SHEFFIELD, England — Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali displayed his riding smarts at the Tour de France, winning Stage 2 on Sun-day and taking the yellow jersey after a well-choreographed attack on rivals in the postindustrial English city known for “The Full Monty.”

The Astana team leader nick-named “The Shark” for his road savvy took the final lead in a cy-cling dance of sorts with other title hopefuls, who took turns in front in the last stretch through a sea of fans from York to Sheffield.

Nibali perhaps had more at stake: The 29-year-old rider has won the Italian Giro and Spain’s Vuelta, but has never captured cycling’s showcase event.

The victory on Sunday gave him both his first Tour stage win and yellow jersey, and sent a message that he could contend to take it home from Paris in three weeks.

With less than two kilometers left, Nibali escaped a 21-man breakaway bunch at the end of the 201-kilometer course over nine heath-covered hills of Yorkshire, and held off their late surge. Eng-land is hosting the first three Tour stages this year.

Losses Yellow JerseyMarcel Kittel, a powerful Ger-

man sprinter who often struggles

on climbs, trailed nearly 20 min-utes back and lost the yellow jersey that he had captured by winning Stage 1.

While the Italian won the fight to the line, under the shadow of a black Sheffield Forgemasters tower, defending champion Chris Froome of Britain and two-time winner Alberto Conta-dor of Spain are focusing more on the overall race — which ends July 27 on Paris’ Champs-Elysees.

Overall, Nibali leads 20 other riders by two seconds, including Froome in fifth place and Conta-dor in eighth.

A six-man breakaway bunch tried its chances early, but got swallowed up by the pack with less than 40 kilometers left. Then, the big race stars moved to the front, splitting the pack.

Contador, Froome, and Ameri-cans Andrew Talansky and Tejay van Garderen all spent time at the front. At times, they mustered bursts of speed or zipped across with width of the road in tactical maneuvers.

“In the finale, a lot of contend-ers were making moves: Nibali ended up taking two seconds on us,” Froome said. “It’s not a big margin. For me, it was about staying out of trouble to stay at the front, and avoiding any major issues or splits. “I’m tired, but I hope everyone’s tired after a day like today.”

The Full Nibali: Savvy Italian wins Tour 2nd leg

AP Photo/Laurent CiprianiItaly’s Vincenzo Nibali grimaces as he strains to stay ahead of the sprinting pack, rear, to win the second stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 201 kilometers (124.9 miles) with start in York and finish in Sheffield, England, Sunday, July 6, 2014.

AP Photo/Pavel GolovkinNovak Djokovic of Serbia holds the trophy after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in the men’s singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Sunday July 6, 2014.

What a final! Djokovic tops Federer at WimbledonAssociated Press

LONDON — Novak Djokovic’s large lead in the rollicking Wimbledon final was slipping away, due in no small part to Roger Federer’s regal presence and resurgent play. No man has won tennis’ oldest major tournament more often than Federer, and he was not about to let it go easily. Djokovic went from being a point from victory in the fourth set to suddenly caught in the crucible of a fifth, and knew all too well that he had come up short in recent Grand Slam title matches.

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“We have to try to be mature in a moment like this,” Brazil defender David Luiz said. “We are sad be-cause we are missing an important player and someone who was try-ing to fulfill his dream of winning this title.”

One of the tournament’s main attractions, Neymar had been deci-sive for Brazil until the devastating injury late in the team’s 2-1 win over Colombia in the quarterfinals on Friday. He was crucial on the field and an essential part of the

group trying to win the title at home. He was seen as the joyful youngster who was admired and respected by everyone. A meet-ing with the team’s psychologist was scheduled with the players on Sunday to discuss the striker’s absence.

“We will talk about what needs to be done to make sure the players understand that we can still win the World Cup despite of what hap-pened,” Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said. Brazil doctor Jose

Luiz Runco said the players were “shocked and saddened” when they heard Neymar would miss the rest of the World Cup.

“It’s sad because we know how hard he worked to be here with us,” striker Fred said. “We know how important he was for us. But we have to look at our group and realize that it still has a lot of qual-ity.” Everyone knows it won’t be easy replacing Neymar. Brazil thrived when he played well and struggled when he didn’t live up to

expectations.“It’s difficult to lose a player

who is so crucial to our team,” veteran right back Maicon said. It will be up to Scolari to find a replacement for the 22-year-old striker and to keep the team in contention for a sixth world title. The team’s other forwards have been struggling since the competi-tion began, and nobody else in the squad has the characteristics of the Barcelona star.

Instead of using reserve strikers Bernard or Jo, it’s likely that Scolari will pick one of his midfielders to play in the match against Germany on Tuesday in Belo Horizonte. Willian, Hernanes and Ramires are the most probable options. Making matters worse for Scolari is the fact that captain and central

defender Thiago Silva will also be missing because of a yellow card suspension.

“We don’t know who is going to come in, but we know that we have a lot of quality players in our squad,” Silva said. “We are sad for Neymar and because I’m not going to play, but we have to be prepared despite these absences.” One way for Brazil to try to stay positive may be to look to its past. It’s not the first time Brazil’s national team lost its best player to injury during the World Cup. It happened to Pele and Brazil still won the title.

“I was also injured during the 1962 World Cup in Chile, and I was out for the rest of the tourna-ment,” Pele said. “But God helped Brazil continue on to win the championship.”

Brazil’s Marcelo gestures over his injured team-mate Neymar, who was fouled by Colombia’s Camilo Zuniga (not pic-tured) during their 2014 World Cup quarter-finals at the Castelao arena in Fortaleza July 4, 2014.

Brazil tries to stay confident after losing NeymarAssociated Press

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil — Still coping with the loss of its biggest star, Brazil is trying to find ways to remain upbeat about its prospects at the World Cup. The medical helicopter that took Neymar home with a back injury also carried away much of the country’s hopes for a sixth world title, but the tournament isn’t over yet and Brazil is just days away from a dif-ficult semifinal against Germany.

REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

Associated Press

PORTO SEGURO, Brazil — Bastian Schweinsteiger’s fragile left knee has been a matter of concern

for weeks and the reason the Ger-many midfielder started the

World Cup on the bench. Now he’s fit again just as the tournament gets into the decisive stage and Germany faces host Brazil in the semifi-nals. Germany coach

Joachim Loew consid-ers Schweinsteiger one

of his key players, the man who controls the pace

of his team’s game and sets quick transitions in motion

once he wins the ball.But Schweinsteiger was on the

bench when the tournament started because he was not yet fully fit after a lingering knee injury that forced him to miss of Germany’s pre-World Cup training camp. He has been in the starting line-up for the last three games, however,

and said on Sunday that Loew was right to give him time to get back in shape.

“I feel very good now, I’ve played a lot of minutes at a high level and I can go now for more than 90 minutes, although of course I hope that it won’t be necessary,” Schweinsteiger said. Loew took a gamble when he took an ailing Schweinsteiger to the 2012 European Champi-onship. Schweinsteiger played below par and Germany lost to Italy in the semifinals. His lack of fitness was singled out as one of the reasons Germany failed to win the title.

The Germany coach had prom-ised before the World Cup that he would take along only healthy players. But a slew of injuries to some key players, including Sch-weinsteiger and Sami Khedira, gave him little choice but to hope that they would recover as the tournament goes on. “Bastian and Sami did not have their rhythm at the start. It was important for both

to be fit again,” assistant coach Hansi Flick said on Sunday. “We were hoping that they would get fit as the group stage progressed. We are not stubborn, we all work on a common plan and so far it has worked out sensationally.” Schweinsteiger agreed, saying he did not mind sitting on the bench despite being one of the team’s leaders.

“I completely share the opinion of the coach. He made the right decision. The matches here sap a lot of energy. My mood was al-ways good. It’s not about a person, we are here to win the title, to win for Germany,” he said.

The 29-year-old Bayern Munich midfielder has 106 caps and is one of Germany’s most experienced players. Schweinsteiger believes this team is better than the one of 2010, when Germany lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Spain. “We are more mature, we have more experience and we have a deep bench with more options,” Schweinsteiger said.

Associated Press

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil — Argentina midfielder Angel Di Maria has been ruled out of the World Cup semifinal against the Netherlands with a thigh injury while striker Sergio Aguero has been declared fit to play after recover-ing from a similar problem. Di Maria limped off the field in the first half of Argentina’s quarterfinal win over Belgium after straining a muscle in the back of his right thigh.

Team doctor Daniel Martinez on Sunday said tests showed it was a “first-degree” strain — the mildest kind but added that Di Maria wouldn’t be fit to play in Wednesday’s semifinal. Martinez said Aguero, who sustained a similar injury 10 days ago, had recovered in an “excellent” way.

Losing Di Maria is a big blow for Argentina as it prepares for its first World Cup semifinal since 1990. Besides Lionel Messi, he’s been the team’s most influential player in Brazil.

Di Maria scored the extra-time winner against Switzerland in the second round and set up Gonzalo Higuain’s winning goal in the first half against Belgium on Saturday. “He’s a key player in this project,” Higuain said of Di Maria. The last time Argentina reached the semifinal stage in the World Cup was 24 years ago in Italy, when it made it to the final but lost 1-0 to West Germany.

Coach Alejandro Sabella said being among the final four was the “minimum” that Argentina expected out of this World Cup after being eliminated in the quarterfinals in two consecutive tournaments.

Sabella made two key changes to the lineup against Belgium, fielding Manchester City defender Martin Demichelis for the first time in Brazil, and having Lucas Biglia replace Fernando Gago in the midfield. “You always hope to play,” Demichelis said. “I was showing a lot of heart in practice and tried to get to the place where I would get called up.”

Argentina’s Angel Di Maria falls during their 2014 World Cup quarter-finals against

Belgium at the Brasilia national stadium in

Brasilia July 5, 2014.

Di Maria ruled out of World Cup semifinals

REUTERS/David Gray

Germany’s Bastian Schweinsteiger gets up after falling on the pitch during extra time in their 2014 World Cup round of 16 game against Algeria at the Beira Rio stadium in Porto Alegre June 30, 2014.

Schweinsteiger fit for late World Cup stage

REUTERS/Darren Staples

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“We have to try to be mature in a moment like this,” Brazil defender David Luiz said. “We are sad be-cause we are missing an important player and someone who was try-ing to fulfill his dream of winning this title.”

One of the tournament’s main attractions, Neymar had been deci-sive for Brazil until the devastating injury late in the team’s 2-1 win over Colombia in the quarterfinals on Friday. He was crucial on the field and an essential part of the

group trying to win the title at home. He was seen as the joyful youngster who was admired and respected by everyone. A meet-ing with the team’s psychologist was scheduled with the players on Sunday to discuss the striker’s absence.

“We will talk about what needs to be done to make sure the players understand that we can still win the World Cup despite of what hap-pened,” Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari said. Brazil doctor Jose

Luiz Runco said the players were “shocked and saddened” when they heard Neymar would miss the rest of the World Cup.

“It’s sad because we know how hard he worked to be here with us,” striker Fred said. “We know how important he was for us. But we have to look at our group and realize that it still has a lot of qual-ity.” Everyone knows it won’t be easy replacing Neymar. Brazil thrived when he played well and struggled when he didn’t live up to

expectations.“It’s difficult to lose a player

who is so crucial to our team,” veteran right back Maicon said. It will be up to Scolari to find a replacement for the 22-year-old striker and to keep the team in contention for a sixth world title. The team’s other forwards have been struggling since the competi-tion began, and nobody else in the squad has the characteristics of the Barcelona star.

Instead of using reserve strikers Bernard or Jo, it’s likely that Scolari will pick one of his midfielders to play in the match against Germany on Tuesday in Belo Horizonte. Willian, Hernanes and Ramires are the most probable options. Making matters worse for Scolari is the fact that captain and central

defender Thiago Silva will also be missing because of a yellow card suspension.

“We don’t know who is going to come in, but we know that we have a lot of quality players in our squad,” Silva said. “We are sad for Neymar and because I’m not going to play, but we have to be prepared despite these absences.” One way for Brazil to try to stay positive may be to look to its past. It’s not the first time Brazil’s national team lost its best player to injury during the World Cup. It happened to Pele and Brazil still won the title.

“I was also injured during the 1962 World Cup in Chile, and I was out for the rest of the tourna-ment,” Pele said. “But God helped Brazil continue on to win the championship.”

Brazil’s Marcelo gestures over his injured team-mate Neymar, who was fouled by Colombia’s Camilo Zuniga (not pic-tured) during their 2014 World Cup quarter-finals at the Castelao arena in Fortaleza July 4, 2014.

Brazil tries to stay confident after losing NeymarAssociated Press

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil — Still coping with the loss of its biggest star, Brazil is trying to find ways to remain upbeat about its prospects at the World Cup. The medical helicopter that took Neymar home with a back injury also carried away much of the country’s hopes for a sixth world title, but the tournament isn’t over yet and Brazil is just days away from a dif-ficult semifinal against Germany.

REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

Associated Press

PORTO SEGURO, Brazil — Bastian Schweinsteiger’s fragile left knee has been a matter of concern

for weeks and the reason the Ger-many midfielder started the

World Cup on the bench. Now he’s fit again just as the tournament gets into the decisive stage and Germany faces host Brazil in the semifi-nals. Germany coach

Joachim Loew consid-ers Schweinsteiger one

of his key players, the man who controls the pace

of his team’s game and sets quick transitions in motion

once he wins the ball.But Schweinsteiger was on the

bench when the tournament started because he was not yet fully fit after a lingering knee injury that forced him to miss of Germany’s pre-World Cup training camp. He has been in the starting line-up for the last three games, however,

and said on Sunday that Loew was right to give him time to get back in shape.

“I feel very good now, I’ve played a lot of minutes at a high level and I can go now for more than 90 minutes, although of course I hope that it won’t be necessary,” Schweinsteiger said. Loew took a gamble when he took an ailing Schweinsteiger to the 2012 European Champi-onship. Schweinsteiger played below par and Germany lost to Italy in the semifinals. His lack of fitness was singled out as one of the reasons Germany failed to win the title.

The Germany coach had prom-ised before the World Cup that he would take along only healthy players. But a slew of injuries to some key players, including Sch-weinsteiger and Sami Khedira, gave him little choice but to hope that they would recover as the tournament goes on. “Bastian and Sami did not have their rhythm at the start. It was important for both

to be fit again,” assistant coach Hansi Flick said on Sunday. “We were hoping that they would get fit as the group stage progressed. We are not stubborn, we all work on a common plan and so far it has worked out sensationally.” Schweinsteiger agreed, saying he did not mind sitting on the bench despite being one of the team’s leaders.

“I completely share the opinion of the coach. He made the right decision. The matches here sap a lot of energy. My mood was al-ways good. It’s not about a person, we are here to win the title, to win for Germany,” he said.

The 29-year-old Bayern Munich midfielder has 106 caps and is one of Germany’s most experienced players. Schweinsteiger believes this team is better than the one of 2010, when Germany lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Spain. “We are more mature, we have more experience and we have a deep bench with more options,” Schweinsteiger said.

Associated Press

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil — Argentina midfielder Angel Di Maria has been ruled out of the World Cup semifinal against the Netherlands with a thigh injury while striker Sergio Aguero has been declared fit to play after recover-ing from a similar problem. Di Maria limped off the field in the first half of Argentina’s quarterfinal win over Belgium after straining a muscle in the back of his right thigh.

Team doctor Daniel Martinez on Sunday said tests showed it was a “first-degree” strain — the mildest kind but added that Di Maria wouldn’t be fit to play in Wednesday’s semifinal. Martinez said Aguero, who sustained a similar injury 10 days ago, had recovered in an “excellent” way.

Losing Di Maria is a big blow for Argentina as it prepares for its first World Cup semifinal since 1990. Besides Lionel Messi, he’s been the team’s most influential player in Brazil.

Di Maria scored the extra-time winner against Switzerland in the second round and set up Gonzalo Higuain’s winning goal in the first half against Belgium on Saturday. “He’s a key player in this project,” Higuain said of Di Maria. The last time Argentina reached the semifinal stage in the World Cup was 24 years ago in Italy, when it made it to the final but lost 1-0 to West Germany.

Coach Alejandro Sabella said being among the final four was the “minimum” that Argentina expected out of this World Cup after being eliminated in the quarterfinals in two consecutive tournaments.

Sabella made two key changes to the lineup against Belgium, fielding Manchester City defender Martin Demichelis for the first time in Brazil, and having Lucas Biglia replace Fernando Gago in the midfield. “You always hope to play,” Demichelis said. “I was showing a lot of heart in practice and tried to get to the place where I would get called up.”

Argentina’s Angel Di Maria falls during their 2014 World Cup quarter-finals against

Belgium at the Brasilia national stadium in

Brasilia July 5, 2014.

Di Maria ruled out of World Cup semifinals

REUTERS/David Gray

Germany’s Bastian Schweinsteiger gets up after falling on the pitch during extra time in their 2014 World Cup round of 16 game against Algeria at the Beira Rio stadium in Porto Alegre June 30, 2014.

Schweinsteiger fit for late World Cup stage

REUTERS/Darren Staples

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GIANYAR - If you are a spiri-tualist, try to feel the vibration of the magical temple of Goa Garba or Garba Cave. Aura of the cave is so pronounced. People who aim to meditate and gain knowledge often come to this cave. This Goa Garba ancient relic is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple estimated to have been built around the twelfth century AD during the reign of King Jayapangus.

Goa Garba is located at Sawe-gunung hamlet, Pejeng village, Tampaksiring subdistrict, Gianyar. By car, it is about 50 minutes away or about 34 km from Denpasar. This historic site is now becoming a tourist destination visited by many foreign travelers.

Other than being known as a tourist destination with an abun-dance of temples, Bali also retains a good few of cave. One of them is Goa Garba posing one of the ancient relics having a great significance. Goa Garba is located beneath the Pengukur-Ukuran Temple. The temple was formerly used as a school for the kings of Bali.

It is situated on a steep cliff, right on the bank of the Pakerisan River. Based on information of local residents, Goa Garba is a hermitage niche carved on the wall of cliff edge of the Pakerisan River. On top of this hermitage lie a number of pools and showers where at pool side sits a hole leading to a cave.

To achieve this cultural heri-tage, visitor must first visit a neat entrance gate with nicely arranged stairs made of river stone. Mean-while, the entrance gate is made of sand stone. It is said that the cave was made by Kebo Iwa, a Balinese vice regent having supernatural power.

There is a stone containing the footprints whose size exceeds the size of an ordinary human foot and it is believed to belong to Kebo Iwa. At the time of making the staircase, the stone is said to move by itself in accordance with the will of Kebo Iwa. Uniquely, every time of step-ping down the stone staircase, its number is always different. When counting them for again and again, the amount will not be the same.

In the niche can be found several sculptures such as a stone board carved with the motif of a pot. In the meantime, in the Pengukur-Ukuran temple can be found several carved stones and a stone door that reads Saka Year 1116 or be equal to 1194 AD. In the inscription is mentioned the name Dharmaanyar and this may be the former name of the temple.

To support the tourism sector, this Goa Garba tourist attraction has been equipped with facilities like a spacious parking lot. Although most of the population around the Goa Garba has livelihood as farmers, they have intelligent mind, so that the ancient relics can be preserved well.

Goa Garba

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Steeling himself when he so desperately needed to, Serbia’s Djokovic held on for a 6-7 (7), 6-4, 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-4 victory after nearly four hours of momentum shifts Sunday to win Wimbledon for the second time — and deny Switzer-land’s Federer what would have been a record eighth championship at the All England Club.

“I could have easily lost my concentration in the fifth and just handed him the win. But I didn’t, and that’s why this win has a special importance to me, mentally,” Djok-ovic said. “I managed to not just win against my opponent, but win against myself, as well, and find that inner strength.” Cradling his trophy during the post-match ceremony, Djokovic addressed Federer directly, saying: “I respect your career and everything you have done. And thank you for letting me win today.”

Even Federer had to smile at that line. Truth is, Djokovic deserved plenty of credit for figuring out a way to raise his Grand Slam total to seven titles and allows him to overtake Rafael Nadal at No. 1 in the rankings.

“Novak deserved it at the end, clearly,” said Federer, who hadn’t

been to a Grand Slam final since winning his 17th major at Wimble-don in 2012, “but it was extremely close.” Federer, who turns 33 next month, won 88 of 89 service games through the semifinals and produced 29 aces in the final, but Djokovic broke him four times.

Federer went to the net ag-gressively, only to see Djokovic zoom more than a dozen passing shots past him. And with most of the Centre Court crowd of about 15,000 raucously cheering for Federer, the 27-year-old Djokovic kept believing in himself. That part might have been the most difficult, given that Djokovic lost his past three major finals, and five of his past six, including against Andy Murray at Wimbledon last year, and against Nadal at the French Open last month.

“Started doubting, of course, a little bit,” Djokovic said. “I needed this win a lot.” Boris Becker, the three-time Wimbledon champion who began coaching Djokovic this season, called the new cham-pion “the biggest competitor” and praised “his sense of not giving up, giving it always another try.” “It could’ve gone either way in

the fifth set,” said Becker, whose former rival as a player, Stefan Edberg, coaches Federer. “Novak finds another way. He digs deep and finds another way.”

Djokovic built a 5-2 lead in the fourth set and served for the cham-pionship at 5-3. But Federer broke there for the first time all afternoon, smacking a forehand winner as Djokovic slipped and fell on a patch of brown dirt. Djokovic took a nastier tumble in the second set, hurting his left leg and prompting the first of two medical timeouts; he got his right calf massaged by a trainer in the fifth.

With Federer serving at 5-4 in the fourth, he double-faulted to 30-all, then netted a backhand for 30-40 — handing Djokovic a match point. Federer hit a 118 mph (190 kph) serve that was called out, but he challenged the ruling, and the replay showed the ball touched a line for an ace. That was part of Federer’s five-game run to force a fifth set. It would be another 42 minutes until Djokovic again stood so close to triumph.

“Can’t believe I made it to five,” Federer said. “Wasn’t looking good there for a while.”

Associated Press

SHEFFIELD, England — Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali displayed his riding smarts at the Tour de France, winning Stage 2 on Sun-day and taking the yellow jersey after a well-choreographed attack on rivals in the postindustrial English city known for “The Full Monty.”

The Astana team leader nick-named “The Shark” for his road savvy took the final lead in a cy-cling dance of sorts with other title hopefuls, who took turns in front in the last stretch through a sea of fans from York to Sheffield.

Nibali perhaps had more at stake: The 29-year-old rider has won the Italian Giro and Spain’s Vuelta, but has never captured cycling’s showcase event.

The victory on Sunday gave him both his first Tour stage win and yellow jersey, and sent a message that he could contend to take it home from Paris in three weeks.

With less than two kilometers left, Nibali escaped a 21-man breakaway bunch at the end of the 201-kilometer course over nine heath-covered hills of Yorkshire, and held off their late surge. Eng-land is hosting the first three Tour stages this year.

Losses Yellow JerseyMarcel Kittel, a powerful Ger-

man sprinter who often struggles

on climbs, trailed nearly 20 min-utes back and lost the yellow jersey that he had captured by winning Stage 1.

While the Italian won the fight to the line, under the shadow of a black Sheffield Forgemasters tower, defending champion Chris Froome of Britain and two-time winner Alberto Conta-dor of Spain are focusing more on the overall race — which ends July 27 on Paris’ Champs-Elysees.

Overall, Nibali leads 20 other riders by two seconds, including Froome in fifth place and Conta-dor in eighth.

A six-man breakaway bunch tried its chances early, but got swallowed up by the pack with less than 40 kilometers left. Then, the big race stars moved to the front, splitting the pack.

Contador, Froome, and Ameri-cans Andrew Talansky and Tejay van Garderen all spent time at the front. At times, they mustered bursts of speed or zipped across with width of the road in tactical maneuvers.

“In the finale, a lot of contend-ers were making moves: Nibali ended up taking two seconds on us,” Froome said. “It’s not a big margin. For me, it was about staying out of trouble to stay at the front, and avoiding any major issues or splits. “I’m tired, but I hope everyone’s tired after a day like today.”

The Full Nibali: Savvy Italian wins Tour 2nd leg

AP Photo/Laurent CiprianiItaly’s Vincenzo Nibali grimaces as he strains to stay ahead of the sprinting pack, rear, to win the second stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 201 kilometers (124.9 miles) with start in York and finish in Sheffield, England, Sunday, July 6, 2014.

AP Photo/Pavel GolovkinNovak Djokovic of Serbia holds the trophy after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in the men’s singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Sunday July 6, 2014.

What a final! Djokovic tops Federer at WimbledonAssociated Press

LONDON — Novak Djokovic’s large lead in the rollicking Wimbledon final was slipping away, due in no small part to Roger Federer’s regal presence and resurgent play. No man has won tennis’ oldest major tournament more often than Federer, and he was not about to let it go easily. Djokovic went from being a point from victory in the fourth set to suddenly caught in the crucible of a fifth, and knew all too well that he had come up short in recent Grand Slam title matches.

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Since Suharto’s downfall in 1998 after a three-decade dictatorship, Indonesia has transformed into a freewheeling democracy. However corruption has flourished among the new political class, and nostalgia is growing in some quarters for a return to an era of stronger rule.

“This is going to be an election that determines whether Indonesia moves forward or starts to look backwards,” said Paul Rowland, an independent political analyst based in the capital Jakarta.

Several months ago Widodo, known by his nickname Jokowi, looked to be on a smooth course to the presidency of the world’s third-biggest democracy, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, with about 190 million eligible voters.

But after a polarising campaign, Widodo’s once-huge poll lead has shrunk considerably. He was targeted by a flood of smears, including that he

Workers arrange ballot boxes to be distributed to polling stations, in Medan, North Sumatra, Indo-nesia, Sunday, July 6, 2014. Indonesia will hold its presi-dential election on July 9, pit-ting the popular Jakarta governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo against a former special forces com-mander Prabowo Subianto.

Indonesians face stark choice in pivotal presidential vote

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesians vote Wednesday in the country’s most pivotal presidential election since the downfall of dictator Suharto, with Jakarta governor Joko Widodo and an ex-general with a chequered human rights record in a tight race. Voters face a stark choice between Widodo, the first serious presidential contender without deep roots in the Suharto era, seen as likely to strengthen democracy, and Prabowo Subianto, who critics fear may shift Indonesia back to-wards authoritarian rule.

is not a Muslim -- a serious charge in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country.

With surveys showing a large number of undecided voters, analysts say the race is wide open. A series of “quick counts” by pollsters on the day are expected to give an accurate indi-cation of the winner. Official results are not due for about three weeks.

Whoever wins will be the country’s second directly-elected president after Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who steps down this year after a decade of stable but often indecisive rule.

He has served two terms of five years each and is constitutionally barred from running for a third.

It will be a delicate transition. Growth is slowing in Southeast Asia’s top economy, corruption is rampant, millions remain mired in poverty, and fears are mounting that Islamic radicals returning from Middle East conflicts could revive militant net-

works.Widodo, a former furniture ex-

porter, shot to national prominence when he was elected Jakarta governor in 2012, winning legions of fans due to his humble background and com-mon touch.

The 53-year-old used to make regular tours of the metropolis’s slums in casual clothes, and was praised for initiating projects to tackle the city’s myriad problems.

“He used to be a poor person like me, he better understands the difficul-ties of our lives than other leaders, who are all rich,” said Emi, a 53-year-old drinks vendor, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

However doubts have also been raised about whether a man with no experience in national politics is ready to be president.

Roots in authoritarian pastPrabowo, in contrast, was a top

general in the Suharto era and has admitted ordering the abduction of democracy activists in the dying days of authoritarian rule in 1998. He used to be married to one of the dictator’s daughters.

The 62-year-old has played up his military background to appeal to a yearning for a strong leader, which -- along with a slick campaign and the backing of several Muslim par-ties -- helped him close the gap on Widodo.

Prabowo’s speeches have been marked by fiery, populist rhetoric and sharp criticism of foreign influence in Indonesia. But it is his comments about democracy that have caused the most alarm.

During a talk at a Jakarta cultural centre, he reportedly said that Western-

style politics “doesn’t suit” Indonesia, including direct elections.

For the United States, an ally of Indonesia, a Prabowo victory could prove awkward. He was denied a visa to the country in 2000, reportedly because of his rights record.

Investors are hoping for a Widodo win, seeing him as a potential re-former, and the rupiah has fallen heavily in recent weeks as Prabowo has gained ground.

Despite the concerns, the ex-general’s strongman appeal has won over many voters.

“Only a firm leader can bring pros-perity to this country,” said Rismaya, a 42-year-old textile shop owner, who also goes by one name. “Hopefully Prabowo can return the country to the time of Suharto.”

AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara

The two governments are in-volved in a dispute over owner-ship of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. China has expressed unease about Japan’s reinterpretation of its pacifist constitution to ease restrictions on military activity. While the change has met with opposition within Japan, it has been sup-ported by the United States and Australia, where Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was due to visit Monday.

“Unfortunately, nearly 70 years after the victory of the Chinese war of resistance against Japanese aggression and the anti-Fascist war, there is still a minority group of people who ignore historical facts, who ignore the tens of

thousands of lives lost in the war, who go against the tide of history and deny and even beautify the history of aggression and harm international mutual trust and cre-ate regional tension,” Xi said at a ceremony at suburban Beijing’s Lugou Bridge, called the Marco Polo Bridge in the 1930s.

Asked about the commemora-tion, Japan’s chief government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, said China’s attempt to dredge up wartime history and turn it into an international issue was unnecessary and “not helpful at all in building peace and coop-eration in the region.” Suga said Japan has been recognized by the international community for being a peaceful nation since the end of

World War II.“We will continue our con-

tribution to international peace and prosperity and to building a forward-looking relationship,” he said. Rana Mitter, a professor of Chinese history and politics at Ox-ford University, said Xi’s speech fit into a pattern of attempts by China to highlight Chinese war-time resistance against Japan to “inspire patriotic fervor.”

“It’s really part of a growing tendency that we have seen, no-tably in the last few months, of attempts by China and the Chi-nese leadership to use events from the Second World War period to make points about contemporary geopolitics, particularly if they relate to Japan,” he said.

Associated Press

PAMPLONA, Spain — One person was gored as thousands of thrill-seekers tested their bravery and speed Monday by dashing with fighting bulls through the streets of the northern Spanish city of Pamplona.

Jose Aldaba, a spokesman for Spain’s Red Cross, said four people were taken to a city hospital for injuries sustained in the 8.a.m. run, the first of the annual San Fermin festival. One was gored in the thigh.

A statement from the Navarra regional government said the four were Spaniards but none was in serious condition. The run sees people racing with the bulls along a narrow 930-yard (850-meter) course from a holding pen to the city bull ring.

It lasted just over two minutes. Dozens of people are injured each year in the “encierros,” as the runs are called in Spanish. Most get hurt in falls. Fifteen people have died from gorings since record-keeping began in 1924.

The nine-day fiesta was immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises” and attracts thousands of foreign tourists. The bulls, which take part each morning are invariably killed by matadors in evening bull fights, and their meat is served up in Pamplona’s restaurants.

Associated Press

TBILISI, Georgia — Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said. Marina Davitashvili said Shevardnadze died after a long illness. She did not say where he died.

Shevardnadze swept heroically across the international stage in the final years of the Soviet empire, helping topple the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War, but as the leader of post-Soviet Georgia his career in the public eye ended in humiliation and he was chased out of his parliament and forced into retirement..

As Soviet foreign minister, the white-haired man with a gravelly voice was the diplomatic face of Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberalizing policies of glasnost and perestroika. Following the wooden Andrei Gromyko, Shevardnadze impressed Western leaders with his charisma, his quick wit and his com-mitment to Gorbachev’s reform course.

Shevardnadze helped push through the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1989, signed landmark arms control agreements, and helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 — a development that Soviet leaders had long feared and staunchly opposed. Western leaders, especially Germans, would remain grateful for Shevardnadze’s work as foreign minister. But in the former Soviet Union, those nostalgic for a return to superpower status lumped Shevardnadze with Gorbachev in the ranks of the unpardonable.

Shevardnadze resigned in December 1990, warning that reform was collapsing and dictatorship was imminent. A year later, the Soviet Union collapsed in the wake of an attempted hard-line coup against Gorbachev.

Shevardnadze returned to Georgia after its first elected president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, was ousted in a coup in 1992; Shevardnadze was elected speaker of parliament and became the country’s leader. Gamsakhurdia died under mysterious circumstances in 1993, and Shevardnadze was elected president for a five-year term in 1995 after the country adopted a new constitution.

AP Photo/Kim Hong-Ji, Pool

Chinese President Xi Jinping greets children waving the national flags of South Korea and China during a welcome ceremony at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, Thurs-day, July 3, 2014.

China holds ceremony to mark China-Japan war

Associated Press

BEIJING — President Xi Jinping criticized people who “beautify the history of aggression” as China on Monday marked the 77th anniversary of the start of a war with Japan amid rising tensions between Beijing and Tokyo. This year’s unusually high-profile commemoration of the 1937 Marco Polo Bridge Incident, including a nationally televised speech by Xi, comes amid an anti-Japanese propaganda campaign by Beijing.

First day of Pamplona bull-run sees 1 gored

Shevardnaze, former Georgian president, dies at 86

Torrestrella fighting bulls and revelers run during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festi-

val, in Pamplona, Spain, Monday, July 7, 2014.

AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

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DENPASAR - Weaving cloth with hibiscus floral motif becom-ing the icon on the anniversary of Gianyar town rolled in the Bali Arts Festival, Sunday (Jul 6). Gianyar County featured five designs.

The weaving cloth fashionistas were presented with various de-signs of hibiscus weaving clothes nicely modified and yielding graceful and elegant outfits. Se-lection of natural colors made the clothes look more attractive.

As other counties throughout Bali featuring their typical weav-ing clothes, Gianyar County for the first time introduced the hibis-cus weaving clothes in the BAF.

Chairperson of the PKK Gianyar, Mrs. Surya Adnyani Mahayastra, said that her party was intensively promoting the hibiscus weaving clothes in the community, where one of event taken advantage was the workshop on fashion.

Along with the entire counties in Bali, Gianyar was given the op-portunity to show off its customary attires used for temple worship, bridal makeup and the parade of modified endek attires char-acterizing the respective region. She hoped the hibiscus weaving clothes could be widely known by the community as other kind of endek clothes so that it could be used as materials by designers to make their superior designs. (kmb16)

From a recent observation, the nar-rowing and silting could be found at almost every corner of the Mati River flow. At Pengubengan area, Seminyak, for example, various types and sizes of rubbish piled up in the watershed. As a result, the river flow stagnated. Similarly, sedimentation occurred due to unhandled rubbish. Besides, at one point of the riverbank areas was even used for building villas.

More severe damaged occurred in the estuary of Mati River. The siltation was so serious. The river was getting narrower due to sedimentation. On the other hand, the rubbish kept piling up. Despite the dredging of rubbish was going on, the high volume of rubbish from the upstream areas was still dif-ficult to clean up.

The Regent of Badung, AA Gde Agung, revealed that his party was attempting to normalize the flow of Mati River. A number of projects were and would be implemented by Badung County. However, the normalization program encountered many obstacles, where one of which was the public awareness to maintain the river flow. So far, the public awareness of not disposing rubbish into the river was still quite low.

Another problem, said Gde Agung, was the rampant encroachment of riverbanks by residents. To note, many slum settlement areas were established around the mouth of the Mati River, Kuta. Illegal population took advan-tage of the riverbanks, estuaries and mangrove forests to build huts for their residence.

According to Gde Agung, his party had made coordination with community leaders and legislators to prevent the encroachment of Mati River. One of the things to be done in the near future would be in the form of controlling illegal population. His party had also asked the Kuta subdistrict head to con-duct an inventory of the state land used by locals for their residence. “We ask the land contract expiring in 2015 not to be extended. We will discipline the huts encroaching on the mangroves,” said Gde Agung while mentioning that normalization program of Mati River could not only be carried out by Ba-dung County without the support from various components, chiefly the central government.

Meanwhile, the Head of Bali-Penida River Agency, I Ketut Jayada, said the ideal width of Mati River was 27 me-ters. But so far, his party just acquired the land on average of about 22 meters away, and the widening in the bottle neck area could only be made 18 me-ters. Even, in the area of Jalan Kunti, the river widening could not be done. Although it had been budgeted, the pro-gram failed to be implemented because the community did not support.

He explained that in 2015 his party would try to pioneer again the river widening. One of the concepts to be used was the long storage that would be discussed with the Badung County regarding the detail planning. As an ex-tension of central government, his party claimed to be ready to make coopera-tion for the handling of the Mati River with Badung government. (kmb25)

Slum settlement aggravates damage to Mati RiverBali Post

MANGUPURA - Condition of the downstream area at Mati River in Kuta is very alarming. Massive volume of waste from the upstream and sedimentation make the width of estuary get nar-rower and shallower. Not only that, the action of resident utilizing riverbank and clearing away mangrove forests also helps exacerbate the damage to Mati River.

IBP/Eka AdhiyasaCondition of the downstream area at Mati River in Kuta is very alarming. Massive volume of waste from the upstream and sedimentation make the width of estuary get narrower and shallower.

Hibiscus weaving cloth of Gianyar style rolls at BAF

IBP/DharmadaWeaving cloth with hibiscus floral motif becoming the icon on the anniversary of Gianyar town rolled in the Bali Arts Festival, Sunday (Jul 6). Gianyar County featured five designs.

Associated Press

BEIJING — German Chan-cellor Angela Merkel met the Chinese premier Monday and hailed ties between the two sides as she led a large business delega-tion on a visit to promote trade with the Asian economic giant.

Merkel met Premier Li Keq-iang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in the morning and expressed an interest in the development of China’s inland areas. Merkel, who is on her sev-enth visit to China as chancellor, had landed Sunday in the south-western city of Chengdu.

“I came to understand this yesterday in Chengdu, where I felt the vitality of this western Chinese city. I saw that China’s development is not only limited to coastal areas but also taking place in the west,” Merkel said in opening remarks, before report-ers were ushered out of the room. “I’m looking forward to engag-ing in deep discussions.”

Merkel said talks between the two sides would also cover social issues and human rights. Later Monday, she would attend a meet-ing of the China-Germany Eco-nomic and Trade Commission and meet with President Xi Jinping, who visited Berlin in March.

In March, Xi visited Germany and with Merkel oversaw the signing of deals including agree-ments for automakers Daimler AG and BMW AG to deepen ties

with their Chinese partners.“China-Germany relations

are at their best in history,” said China’s official Xinhua News Agency on Sunday, “strongly underpinned by the pragmatic cooperation between the two economic heavyweights.”

It pointed out that Germany is China’s largest trading part-ner in Europe, while China is Germany’s biggest in the Asia-Pacific region.

Negotiations with Iran to end its nuclear program and the ongo-ing conflict in Ukraine may also come up in Monday’s discus-sions. Both China and Germany are part of the six-nation group that is trying to thrash out a nuclear deal with Iran. Merkel has been a key figure in trying to reduce tensions in Ukraine and get Russia to cooperate.

In Chengdu on Sunday, Merkel met members of a German-Chi-nese dialogue forum, attended a forum on urbanization coopera-tion between the local province and Germany, and visited a Volk-swagen production plant which employs about 7,300 people.

On Tuesday, she will give a speech to students at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.

China and Germany, the world’s two leading exporters, had a bilateral trade volume last year of 140.4 billion euros ($193 billion), making China Germany’s No. 3 trade partner, ahead of the United States.

The head of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund predicted global economic growth, which has been “subdued” in the first months of 2014, will strengthen in the second half and accelerate next year.

Growth in China, the world’s sec-ond-largest economy and a key driver of international trade, is unlikely to slow sharply and is moving into a “more qualitative and more sustain-able” phase, Lagarde said.

But she warned loose monetary policies pursued by central banks to help the world economy recover from the global financial crisis were “find-ing their limit” and governments now needed to act.

“Global activity is picking up, but the momentum could be less robust than expected because potential

growth is weaker... (and) investment remains lacklustre,” Lagarde told a conference in the southern French town of Aix-en-Provence.

“Evidently, from our point of view, we must therefore reinforce supply capacity in order to strengthen the recovery.”

She called for politicians to take advantage of “very favourable” con-ditions in financial markets to “revive public investments (to) give a neces-sary boost to growth, particularly in advanced economies” while ensuring debt remains at sustainable levels.

The IMF will give its official global economic forecasts in two weeks. Last month the global crisis lender slashed its 2014 forecast for the United States to 2.0 percent, down from 2.8 percent, after bad weather sparked an unexpected contraction

in the first quarter.Lagarde predicted growth would

pick up in the next quarter as long as the Federal Reserve’s tightening of its easy monetary policy is orderly and there is a precise medium term budget framework.

The Fed, like many central banks around the world, has kept interest rates at historic lows and pumped money into the US’s financial system to help drive growth.

Last month the European Central Bank cut its key interest rates, includ-ing taking one into negative territory for the first time, in a bid to help the region’s stalling economy emerge from the eurozone debt crisis.

In the 18 nations that share the single currency, which are only “slowly” emerging from recession, the “recovery is far from being enough to lower debt and unemploy-ment,” Lagarde said.

Emerging economies, meanwhile, “continue to ensure most of global growth but at a slower pace than before,” Lagarde said.

AP Photo/Shuji KajiyamaIn this March 1, 2014 photo, a worker adjusts the net at a construction site in Tokyo. Governments must increase public investment to help drive the global recovery and help boost “less robust than expected” economic growth, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said Sunday.

Public investment needed to recover Agence France-Presse

AIX-EN-PROVENCE - Governments must increase public invest-ment to help drive the global recovery and help boost “less robust than expected” economic growth, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said Sunday.

Merkel brings German business leaders to China

AP Photo/Andy Wong, PoolGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, looks as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks during a joint news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Monday, July 7, 2014.

BUSINESS

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At a rally in a central Donetsk square, the rebels were cheered on by thousands of supporters waving flags from Russia and the self-proclaimed independent Donetsk People’s Republic. Many urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to quickly come to their aid — but there was no comment Sunday from Russia.

While the rebel withdrawal Saturday from Slovyansk, a city of 100,000 they had held for months, was not a total victory, President Petro Poroshenko said purging the city of the insurgents had “incred-ible symbolic importance.” It was unclear whether the government — after abandoning a cease-fire last week and going back on the offen-sive — was now winning the fight that had sputtered for months.

Rebel fighters from Slovyansk could be seen walking through Donetsk on Sunday in groups of 10 to 15. Most were still wear-ing camouflage, but some sported identical new bright-colored shorts and shirts. It was an unsuccessful

effort to blend in with the civilian population, since they still carried automatic weapons.

At one money-exchange office in the city center, about 20 rebels lined up to trade U.S. dollars for Ukrainian hryvnas. The dollar is considered a more stable currency in Ukraine and Russia, but it was not known who had given them to the rebels. They refused to speak with Associated Press journalists and their mood appeared black.

Igor Girkin, defense minister of what the separatists call the Donetsk People’s Republic, told the Russian television channel Life News on Sunday that he would now coordinate the fight from Donetsk.

“We will continue the combat operations and will try not to make the same mistakes that we made in the past,” said Girkin, a Russian also known by his nom de guerre, Igor Strelkov. Ukrainian authorities have identified him as a veteran of the Russian military intelligence agency. Rhetoric soared Sunday afternoon at the rally.

Associated Press

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — More than 60 Nigerian girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have managed to escape, officials said Monday. Nigerian security forces and federal government officials had denied reports of the mass abduction from three villages in the northeast state of Borno on June 22.

Chibok local government chairman Pogu Bitrus said Monday he had verified that about 60 women and girls escaped on Thursday and Friday by sending a representative who met with some of the escapees and their families at the hospi-tal in Lassa, a town in the neighboring Damboa local government area.

Vigilante leader Abbas Gava in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, said Sunday that vigilantes in the area told him 63 women and girls managed to get away on Friday while their captors were engaged in a major attack on a military barracks and police headquarters in Damboa town. Small-scale kidnappings by Boko Haram extremists had been going on for months when they drew

international condemnation for the ab-ductions of more than 200 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok town of Borno state on April 15. Some 219 of those girls still are missing.

The government and military failure to rescue them has attracted criticism at home and abroad. Boko Haram is demanding the release of detained fight-ers in exchange for the girls. Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan report-edly has refused to consider a prisoner swap.

Amid the stalemate, Bitrus said that attacks have increased around Chibok and that Boko Haram has taken over some villages in the area and is threat-ening to take over others. The Kibaku Area Development Association, a local residents’ association of which he is also chairman, reported that 19 villages have been attacked since the April 15 abduc-tions, with more than 229 people killed and about 100 seriously wounded.

In 90 percent of cases there had been advance warning of the attacks — as happened in the Chibok kidnappings — yet the military had taken no action, the association said in a statement Friday.

Pro-Russia separatists vow to keep up the fightAssociated Press Writer

DONETSK, Ukraine — Discouraged but defiant, pro-Russia separatists vowed to keep fighting the government in Kiev from the largest city in eastern Ukraine, where they regrouped Sunday after being driven out of a key stronghold.

AP Photo/Dmitry LovetskyPeople listen to Pavel Gubarev, self-proclaimed people’s governor, during a pro-Russian meeting in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Sunday, July 6, 2014.

63 abducted females escape extremists in Nigeria

AP Photo/Sunday Alamba,FileFILE - In this file photo taken on Tuesday, May 27, 2014, Women attend a prayer meeting calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - As alleged to have smuggled seven turtles, two individual officers of Di-rectorate of Marine Police, Bali Police, were arrested by the officers of South Denpasar Po-lice at Pitik hamlet, Pedungan village, Friday (Jul 4). However, police did not process the case and eventually released the two marine police officers with the initials WDN and AP. Meanwhile, the seven turtles were returned to turtle breeding on Serangan Island.

A police source revealed on Sunday (Jul 6) that the arrest originated in public information related to the rampant sale of the endangered sea turtles in the area of South Denpasar. “Po-lice received information if a pickup truck will carry the turtle to Pedungan area,” he said.

Then, police officers made surveillance from Thursday night and finally watched a pickup truck passing in front of the Pitik hamlet hall, Pedungan. Police suspecting the pickup then stopped and did a search. “The pickup truck just appeared around 03:00 a.m.,” he added.

Police performing the check eventually found seven turtles hidden on the bed floor of the pickup truck. In addition, police also secured the two car riders who were in fact the personnel of the Directorate of Marine Police, Bali Police with the initials WDN and AP. “Both marine police officers and seven turtles were immediately taken to the South Denpasar Police station for questioning,” he explained.

When interrogated, the two marine police officers of Bali Police admitted if the seven turtles were brought from Canggu area, North Kuta, Badung, heading for the home of a turtle fence with the initial B at Pedungan, Denpasar. “They admitted it would be intended for ritual purpose, but we alleged the man is a fence,” he said.

After the interrogation, the officers of South Denpasar Police handed over the arrest to the Directorate of Marine Police at Bali Police for further action. “Since they are the member of Marine Police, the case is not processed at the subdistrict police and handed over to Directorate of Marine Police of Bali Police,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the Chief of South Denpasar Police, Nanang Prihasmoko, when asked for his confirmation justified the case. He said both marine police officers of Bali Police were carrying seven turtles and had been handed over to the Directorate of Marine Police, Bali Police. Meanwhile, the seven turtles secured had already been taken to turtle breeding. “Yes, we arrested them early yesterday morn-ing, but they have now been returned to the Directorate of Marine Police,” he said.

In the meantime, Directorate of Marine Police, Bali Police, Tubuh Musyareh, said the arrest of the two personnel with the initials WDN and AP was due to smuggling seven turtles. When contacted by phone, they did not answer. (kmb35)

Gede Arta said on Sunday (Jul 6) that so far his party had regularly made supervi-sion against the existing parking attendants. He acknowledged the monitoring carried out by his party was not enough. In this matter, the public participation was also required to monitor the presence of such fraudulent parking attendant.

According to him, in truth such condi-tion occurred due to the weakness of people themselves. Many were still willing to pay parking ticket even though they were given the ticket by the individual parking atten-dant. Actually the parking attendants that did not give the ticket might be the illegal ones or those performing illegal charges. Therefore, to suppress the leakage, his

party appealed to people not to pay for the parking ticket if there was an individual parking attendant committed so. “I’d like to appeal to the people. When no ticket is given by a parking attendant, do not pay the ticket,” he appealed.

Meanwhile, so far the parking atten-dant supervised by the Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency amounted to 22 people. They were scat-tered at a number of places in Bangli. For this year, his party targeted the revenue from parking sector could reached IDR 400 million.

Aside from individual fraudulent parking attendant, the issues on illegal parking attendant also occurred in Ban-

gli as those found at Penelokan area, Kintamani. Based on recent observation, regardless of the presence of no-parking traffic sign and prohibition to stop, the illegal parking attendants at Penelokan did not hesitate to approach the owners of vehicle and asked for parking charges without providing ticket sheet. Quite often the presence of parking attendant was complained and their legality was questioned.

Especially for the parking attendant at Penelokan, Gede Arta explained that his party had never commissioned any officers to levy parking service along the Penelo-kan area. Thus, it could be ascertained if the parking attendants were illegal. Related to the issue, his party claimed to have been often conducting joint op-eration. However, his party seemed to be taken to play hide-and-seek by the park-ing attendants. When the officers of the Transportation Agency and Traffic Police made an operation, the parking attendants often committing illegal charges were hard to find. (ina)

Smuggling turtle, two police officers released

IBP/RinaThe number of illegal parking attendant in Kintamani is increasing in the last feew years.

Give no ticket, parking attendant to be firedBali Post

BANGLI - The allegation on the leakage in the parking sector due to fraudulent behavior frequently committed by unscrupulous parking attendants at a number of places in Bangli was not rejected by the Head of Bangli Transportation, Com-munication and Informatics Agency, Gede Arta. To suppress the leakage, his party promised to increase supervision against the parking attendants. Even, when any parking attendants found making a fraud, his party would probably lay them off.

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The 36th Bali Art Festival

“The vulnerable markets to political issues are the countries belonging to the largest sup-plier of Bali tourism, such as America and Europe. Meanwhile, the Asian markets like China are only vulnerable to incident they experience in person,” said Chairman of the Indonesian Congress and Convention Associa-tion (INCCA) of Bali Chapter, IB Surakusuma, in Denpasar.

Stability of security According to him, the government should

be extra vigilant against the emergence of tur-bulence in the third direct presidential election in Indonesia because millions of people who had a different choice were vulnerable to cause a friction in the election.

“Indeed, 50 of 100 emails I’ve received, none asked about the presidential election in Indonesia, especially Bali. However, do not forget that we cannot deny if there can be a terror of unrest in the calm water,” he said.

Moreover, he said, the political elite among the candidates continued to grab the public sym-pathy by mutually seeking the weakness of the other candidate for publication. This condition would damage the mentality and sportiveness of voters. “We need to remember that tourism depends on the people’s mentality,” he said.

On the other hand, the annual growth of Bali’s economy in the second quarter of 2014 was estimated to grow more than in the pre-vious quarter. The period of school holiday coinciding with the beginning of Ramadan and the overflow of travelers from Thailand destination had encouraged the high economic growth in the second quarter.

“In the second quarter of 2014, the sector of trade, hotel and restaurant, transport as well as services has increased in harmony with the increasing tourist arrivals. Based on data from April to May 2014, the number of tour-ist arrival remains to grow high in the range of 15 percent (yoy),” said the Representative Office Head of Bank Indonesia for Region III Bali-Nusra, Benny Siswanto.

He said the increase was the result of the inclusion of summer season pinnacle as well as many national holidays in the second quar-ter of the year 2014. In addition, the crisis of Thailand driving some travelers to divert their destination to Bali also helped boost the tour-ism industry. The increase was also supported by the increase in the average room occupancy rate in April 2014 compared to the overall av-erage of the first quarter of 2014. (kmb27)

IBP

DENPASAR - On the evening of Sunday, 6 July 2014, the Ksirarnawa Auditorium at the Bali Art Centre in Denpasar resonated with the classical Indian music played on Violin, Tabla, Sarod, Sitar, Harmonium & Dhol, among others.

Johar Ali, the Music Teacher and performer at the Jawaharlal Nehru In-dian Cultural Centre (JNICC) in Jakarta beautifully played classical raaga, semi-classical Sufi song & popular Bollywood songs on his violin to repeated applause and appreciation of the audience. He was accompanied on tabla by Steve Bolton & Gita and on Sitar by Yoyo, all from Bali. Later, Barok, Ari Ariama and Arjun played Indian classical ragas on Sitar, Harmonium and Tabla, wonderful instruments used in Hindustani classical music, particularly in North India.

In the dance segment, I Gede Agus Suparta and Sharada Jenny Anggerer performed dance drama ‘Dewi Ma-haakali’, through the medium of classi-cal Odissi dance style from India. Their colourful costumes, beautiful and perfect dance moves were intensely watched and appreciated by the audience.

At the same event, 18 Balinese stu-dents of the Indian Culture Centre (ICC) in Bali presented semi-classical dance ‘Vyaktaavyakta’, with the message to fostering harmonious atmosphere and peaceful co-existence to be able to soothe our minds and understand who we are and what our ultimate goal should be.

Speaking on the occasion, Consul General A.S. Takhi highlighted that Indian contribution to this year’s Bali Art Festival has been varied and multi-faceted. India contributed a contingent in the opening day’s cultural parade and

rendered three cultural performances focussed on Indian classical and popu-lar Bollywood dances as well as Indian classical music. Besides, a month-long Indian pavilion at the exhibition grounds is also disseminating information on Indian tourism, art & culture, besides scholarships for higher education and training in India as well as Indian prod-ucts for enhancing trade & investment ties.

He reiterated that the Indian Cultural Centre in Bali has introduced several new courses, registration for which is

free during the period of the Bali Art Festival. He encouraged Balinese friends of India to register early as seats are limited.

Consul General also informed that several music lovers discussed plans for joint musical productions, including with popular Balinese gamelan. Work-shops on Indian classical music will be conducted periodically in collaboration with Balinese art & music institutions. Many members of the public expressed their interest in learning music at the Indian Cultural Centre.

Largest traveler suppliers vulnerable to political issues

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The presidential elec-tion of Indonesia to be held on July 9 caused a concern among tourism businesspeople. It happened because the seconds before the electoral mo-ment was starting to heat up, so that it was feared to have a negative impact on tourism in the Island of the Gods. Moreover, a number of countries be-coming the potential tourism market are vulnerable to political issues.

Classical Indian music performed beautifully

Courtesy of Indian Consulate

I Gede Agus Suparta and Sharada Jenny Anggerer performed dance drama ‘Dewi Mahaakali’, through the medium of classical Odissi dance style from India.

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US scientists said Thursday two distant Earth-like planets, which some believed might be able to harbor life, do not actually exist and that astronomers were confused by a star’s sunspots.

The controversial pair of planets, Gliese d and g, some 22 light years away, were once believed to be in the Goldilocks zone -- not too close and not too far from the star, where the potential exists for water and perhaps life.

They are part of a larger trove of potentially Earth-like planets that have been identified by as-tronomers so far, and NASA has said billions may be out there.

Too far to be seen with the naked eye or a tele-scope, they were spotted with a technique called Doppler radial velocity, orbiting a cool, red star called Gliese 581.

The method takes starlight from telescope and analyzes its wavelengths. By detecting signs of a wobble from the gravitational tug of an orbiting planet, it can reveal the mass of a planet.

But astronomers at Pennsylvania State University now say Gliese 581 g and d were not planets at all, but a jumbled signal from the star itself.

“These two Goldilocks planets that people have been talking about, unfortunately, based on our research are not real,” said co-author Suvrath Ma-hadevan, assistant professor in the department of astronomy and astrophysics.

“What was previously thought to be a planetary signal was actually caused by stellar activity,” he told AFP.

In other words, magnetic fields or sunspots could have interfered with the signal that astronomers were reading.

The study in the journal Science said that “intense stellar magnetic activity, like sunspots on our own star... created false planet signals for d and g.”

Scientists have already ruled out the existence of a third planet, Gliese f. That leaves three planets known to be orbiting this particular star, none of which are in the habitable zone.

‘Pushing limits’Astronomers have two ways of detecting faraway

planets. The NASA Kepler mission observes the dimming light of a star as a planet passes in front of it, known as a transit. This technique can tell astrono-mers about the approximate size of a planet, but not the mass.

The other approach, the one used in the study in Science, is known as Doppler radial velocity (RV). It is more sensitive to stellar activities and can reveal the mass of a planet.

“Astronomers have made great progress being able to detect planets increasingly similar to the Earth -- smaller in size, lower in mass, at similar distances from their stars -- and we keep pushing that boundary,” said Eric Ford, an astronomy professor at Penn State who was not involved in the study.

“It is a lesson that, as you push the limits of what a technology can do, things that used to not really matter and things that you could neglect, begin to matter.”

Mahadevan said more study is needed to determine how many of the Earth-like planets discovered so far could be just a mixed signal.

“Most of the more massive exoplanets are not go-ing to be affected by this. The issue is with the subtler signal,” he said. “A lot of the systems that we are seeing are probably real.”

While researchers have long been able to perform such transformations with a differ-ent method, the newly reported technique was far simpler, and the papers caused a sensation — and some skepticism — in the research community. They were also widely reported in the media, including by The Associated Press.

But before long, the gov-ernment-funded Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Japan accused one of its scientists, Haruko Obokata, of falsifying data in the research. Obokata, the key author of the papers, defended the results during a televised news confer-ence in April while apologizing for using wrong and altered images in the published reports. She also said she opposed with-drawing the papers, a process

called retraction, and the 30-year-old attributed her mistakes to inexperience.

On Wednesday, Nature re-leased a statement from Oboka-ta and the other authors of the papers that retracted the papers, a rare occurrence for the pres-tigious journal. The scientists acknowledged “extensive” er-rors that meant “we are unable to say without a doubt” that the method works. They noted that studies of the simpler method are still going on by other re-searchers.

The Riken center also said on its website Wednesday that it expected a separate statement from Obokata and would post it when available.

Dr. Charles Vacanti of the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, another main author, issued his

own statement in which he said he believes the further stud-ies will vindicate the method, which produced what the au-thors called STAP cells.

But another author, Yoshiki Sasai, deputy director of the Riken center, said the errors in the papers meant “it has become increasingly difficult to call the STAP phenomenon even a promising hypothe-sis.” In a statement issued by Riken, he said he was “deeply ashamed” of the problems in the papers.

The Riken investigation that led to allegations against Obokata also focused on Sasai and two other employees, but they were not accused of re-search misconduct.

Retractions of papers in ma-jor scientific journals like Nature are unusual. They can come

about because of fraud or the discovery of honest mistakes that undercut the conclusions of research. Publications like Nature routinely have experts review papers submitted by scientists to look for problems. But in an editorial released Wednesday, Nature concluded that its editors and reviewers “could not have detected the fatal faults in this work.”

Still, the journal said it is reviewing its practices to detect inappropriate manipulation of images. Many of the problems with the papers have to do with photos illustrating the results.

Mark Frankel, director of scientific responsibility at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called the episode a black eye for science in terms of public opinion. His association also publishes a major research journal, Science.

Frankel also said stem cell research is so complicated that even honest errors can crop up. “If one is trying to do the right thing, one might see something there that’s not really there be-cause of the complexity of the problem,” he said.

Two ‘Earth-like’ planets don’t exist: study

In this Jan. 28, 2014 file photo, researcher Haruko Obokata, the lead author of a widely heralded stem-cell research paper by the Japanese government-funded laboratory Riken Center for Development Biol-ogy, speaks about research results during a news con-ference in Kobe, western Japan.

Scientists withdraw report on simpler stem cellsAssociated Press

NEW YORK — U.S. and Japanese scientists who reported that they’d found a startlingly simple way to make stem cells withdrew that claim Wednesday, admit-ting to “extensive” errors in the research. In two papers published in January in the journal Nature, the researchers said that they’d been able to transform ordinary mouse cells into versatile stem cells by exposing them to a mildly acidic environment. Someday, scientists hope to harness stem cells to grow replacement tissue for treating a variety of diseases.

AP Photo/Kyodo News

BAF Schedule

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Time Place Event

11.00 Ratna Kanda Topeng Panca Exhibition 14.00 Angsoka Stage Jaranan Dance20.00 Wantilan Shadow Puppet Performance20.00 Ksirarnawa Performance from Yogyakarta20.00 Ardha Candra Women’s Gong Kebyar

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Calendar Event for Jun 1 through Jul 12, 2014

1 Jun Pura Sakenan Serangan DenpasarPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar TimurPura Alas Harum Batur KintamaniPura Alas Angker Munduk KintamaniPura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung

4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang KapalDalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida

8 Jun Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesi-man DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan

10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung SelatanPura Luhur UluwatuPura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badungPura Penataran Agung Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Gua Lawah KlungkungPura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralaya Banda klungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan TabananPura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

GianyarPura Gerya Sakti Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh UbudPura Segara Ketewel SukawatiPura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud

11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungPura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana KlungkungPura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Dukuh TegallalangPura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah KesimanPura Sahab Nusa penidaPura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar

12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Ulun Swi Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar

15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi

25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai KarangasemPura Aer jeruk Sukawati GianyarPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyarPura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem KarangasemPura Batur Sari Ubud

27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati

30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi

5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan KlungkungPura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Penebel TabananPura Benua Tarukan Besakih

9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Kalah BatubulanPura Desa Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem Petitenget Kuta BadungPura Dalem Pulasari GianyarPura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar SelatanPura Paibon Sumerta DenpasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak SiringPura Pasar Agung Kediri TabananPura Puaya Batuan Sukawati

11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri 12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

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Aston Madiun launched soft openingIBP

JAKArTA – By the end of this month, the city of Madiun will see the soft opening of Archipelago International’s latest Aston property, The Aston Madiun Hotel & Conference Center. As the most recent addition to the hotel manage-ment’s ever-growing portfolio, The Aston Madiun will be the newest 4 star hotel in East Java and the first international standard, modern hotel in Madiun.

Located in the western part of East Java, Madiun is easily reached from Central Java’s popular travel destina-tions, Solo and Yogyakarta. Madiun is also known as a hub of agriculture, with adventurous tourists beginning to take note of the area’s stunning land-scapes, like the vast forests, secluded waterfalls, the recreational park and a historical site from the Majapahit era.

Just 5 minutes out of the city centre, The Aston Madiun Hotel & Confer-ence Center is strategically located on Jl. Mayjen Sungkono which is conve-niently close to the central business district, government offices and also Plaza Madiun. For easy transporta-tion, the hotel is also within walking distance to the main train station and bus terminals, both of which are just 10 minutes away.

The hotel will feature 125 well designed guest rooms and suites, together with a signature restaurant, a lounge and bar, a swimming pool, spa and well-equipped gym. For business affairs, there will be 7 modern meeting rooms and a pillar-less ballroom that can accommodate up to 1500 guests.

“The Aston Madiun Hotel is set to become the leading hotel and confer-ence center in Madiun; a city that until now, has not seen a four-star hotel that meets international standards. Here at Archipelago, we believe that every city in Indonesia has the potential to create a market of high-quality hospitality services, which in effect will increase the economic prosperity of the sur-rounding communities.” Says Norbert Vas, Archipelago International’s VP Sales & Marketing.

Bali PostNEGARA - The harbor authority,

PT ASDP Ketapang, admitted the existence of the unfortunate vessel running aground in the Strait of Bali did not have an impact on the home-coming traffic whose peak would occur a few weeks away. The ASDP Ketapang had prepared both passenger and cargo vessels.

General Manager (GM) of the ASDP Ketapang, Waspada Heruwan-to, amidst the evacuation last weekend said the disaster of cargo vessel oc-curred in the waters of Gilimanuk did not affect the ferry services, including when the traffic was very crowded during the homecoming and backflow traffic. Currently, the Ketapang-Gili-manuk ferry services had 40 vessels, where 25 units were passenger ferries and the remaining units were Landing Craft Tanks (LCTs). “We’ve prepared for the most crowded traffic (home-coming), but not all vessels will be used,” he explained. During crowded traffic (peak of homecoming), he said that only 36 vessels would be operated. The remaining vessels, both passenger and cargo vessels, would

be used as backup. During crowded condition, the port authority would also cut the unloading time.

Meanwhile, the Pancar Indah LCT currently running aground in the wa-ters of Gilimanuk was ascertained not to be operated. Moreover, the condi-tion of the vessel had not yet been evacuated with the trucks remaining to sink.

Meanwhile, the harbormaster of Gilimanuk, Nyoman Delon, men-tioned that the entire vessels serving the Gilimanuk-Ketapang crossing had been tested. Such regular test was performed particularly in the preparation ahead of the crowded traffic. Result of the recent test was good. With the incident of the Pancar Indah LCT, it was uncertain whether to be tested or not. So far, the cause of the disaster to the LCT vessel was still under investigation, whether due to leakage, excessive load or other factors such as weather. The ASDP and harbormaster currently focused on the evacuation of the vessel wreck remaining to be moored about 200 meters away from the LCM pier of Gilimanuk. (kmb26)

As stated by Principal of the SMK 1 PGRI Badung vo-cational school, Putra Wijaya, the quota of new student at his school for the academic year 2014/2015 amounted to 400 people. Meanwhile, the students having made pre-registration reached 723 people. But so far, only 349 students reconfirmed their registration.

He admitted to worry if the enrollment this time would stagnate or even declined from the previous academic year. It happened because the re-registration remained a few days away. “We still have time until July 12 for the re-registration. If there is no addition until the deadline, it means the admission of new students at our school

declines this year,” he said while adding if his school received 365 students last year from the quota of 400 students.

He explained that similar condition was also experienced by a number of other private schools in Badung. Some pri-vate schools began to worry as being unable to meet the enrollment quota. This condi-tion was surprising because despite the admission of new students in public schools was carried out more strictly, but in fact private schools did not get students. “We will explore what causes this condition, whether the students drop out or find another school,” he said.

When asked for confirma-tion about this case, the Head

of Badung Education Agency, Ketut Widia Astika, said on Sunday (Jul 6) that many pri-vate schools could not fulfill the quota due to various fac-tors. But, he had confidence if the problem was not caused by dropouts. “I’m sure it was not caused by school dropouts. Probably, it may happen as other school offer more inter-esting program to prospective students,” he said.

Regarding the possibility of students switching the region, he did not explain in details. He just mentioned if the stu-dents who wanted to switch the region, but did not qualify, then they would possibly return to Badung and looked for private school. (kmb25)

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The students are taking the final test in their school. Some private schoos are worry about the number of students applying to their schools.

Some private schools worry about lacking of students Bali Post

MANGUPUrA - Admission of New Students (PPDB) gets particular attention from private schools each year, including those in Badung County. It happens because private schools are often unable to meet their enrollment quota or lacks of students. Even, a num-ber of private schools currently begin misgivings because their quota has not been met.

Crashing vessel does not disrupt homecoming flows

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The vessel which was running aground in Bali Strait a few days ago.

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Associated Press

MONTECITO, California — Jessica Simpson is a newlywed. The singer and TV personality married retired NFL player Eric Johnson Saturday at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, Cali-fornia, her publicist Lauren Auslander confirms.

Simpson and Johnson began dating in 2010. They have a two-year-old daugh-ter, Maxwell, and a one-year-old son named Ace. Auslander said Ace served as a ring bearer and Maxwell walked down the aisle as a flower girl.

It is the second marriage for both Simpson, 33, and the 34-year-old John-son. Simpson was previously married to singer Nick Lachey. The two co-starred on a VH1 reality series “Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica” for three seasons. Shortly after their third wedding an-niversary, the two split up.

Disney announced Sunday that shooting would be halted for two weeks in August to adjust the production schedule following Ford’s injury. The 71-year-old actor broke his leg in June during filming of the much-anticipated sequel at Pinewood Studios outside of London.

Disney had said earlier that Ford’s injury

wouldn’t cause any delays. The studio said Sunday that “Episode VII” is still “on track” to wrap in the fall and be released in December 2015.

The accident involved a spacecraft door on the Millennium Falcon falling on Ford’s leg. His recuperation was expected to take up to two months.

Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, FileAssociated Press

NEW YORK — The Fourth of July went off like a dud at the box office, as the Michael Bay sequel “Transform-ers: Age of Extinction” and the Melisa McCarthy comedy “Tammy” led the weakest summer holiday weekend in at least a decade.

The North American box office was down a whopping 44 percent over the July Fourth weekend last year, when “Despicable Me 2” and “The Lone Ranger” opened.

This weekend sputtered not because of an oversized bomb like “The Lone Ranger,” but because of numerous fac-tors, including that Hollywood simply didn’t aim for big fireworks this year. The holdover “Transformers” led all films with an estimated $36.4 million, while “Tammy” had a below expectations Friday-to-Sunday haul of $21.2 million.

“This ranks as one of the low-est Fourth of Julys ever,” said Paul

Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. “We always think of Fourth of July being a big weekend. This year, we just have to lick our wounds and look forward to ‘Planet of the Apes’ and some other films to get us back on track.”

Paramount’s “Transformers,” the fourth in the series, opened the week-end prior to the year’s biggest debut with $100 million. The movie, with a rebooted cast led by Mark Wahlberg, dropped considerably (63 percent) in its second week of release despite relatively little competition.

Overseas, “Age of Extinction” is performing exceptionally well. It added $95.8 million from 37 territories for a two-week worldwide gross of $575.6 million. It’s set to soon become the highest grossing film ever in China, with already more than $200 million in box office sales. “Transformers 4” was partially shot in China, features local star Li Bingbing and premiered at the

Shanghai Film Festival.New Line’s R-rated, Midwest road trip

romp “Tammy” boasts one of the most bankable stars in movies — McCarthy — but is a smaller, homespun movie made for just $20 million and directed by Mc-Carthy’s husband, Ben Falcone. Despite being savaged by critics, the Warner Bros. release made $32.9 million in five days since opening Wednesday.

“Why the weekend was so weak in terms of competition is hard to tell,” said Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution for Warner Bros., who said he was very pleased with the perfor-mance of “Tammy.” ‘’It’s just the way things fell.”

The other new wide release was the horror flick “Deliver Us From Evil,” which had no blockbuster ambitions. The Sony Screen Gems release, starring Eric Bana, opened in third with $9.5 million. Also debuting was Relativity Media’s animated release “Earth to Echo,” which took in $8.3 million.

Ford injury to halt ‘Star Wars’ for 2 weeks

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Harri-son Ford’s injury will cause production on “Star Wars:

Episode VII” to be suspended for two weeks.

‘Transformers’ tops ‘Tammy’

Jessica Simpson weds Eric Johnson

Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File

“We will deploy two-third of the 13 thousand total forces. The rest of the forces are on reserve and must always be on standby,” Bali Police Chief Inspector General Albertus Julius Benny Mokalu noted on Monday.

The police personnel will se-cure 5,939 polling stations on the

island.Mokalu stated that ideally, each

polling station will be guarded by at least one policeman and civilian security officers.

“It will prevent any potential violation during the election. If we are ready and on alert, anyone wanting to disturb the security will

be deterred,” he emphasized.The police will also safeguard

tourist spots, the election supervi-sory office, and the local General Elections Committee’s (KPU’s) office.

In general, the security condition in Bali prior to the election was sound, Mokalu claimed.

Indonesia will conduct a demo-cratic presidential election on July 9, 2014, which will be contested by two pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates: Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa and Jokowi-

Jusuf Kalla (JK).Prabowo Subianto is a retired

military general and the founder of the Great Indonesia Move-ment Party (Gerindra), while his running mate, Hatta Rajasa, is a former coordinating minister for economic affairs and the chairman of the National Mandate Party (PAN).

Jokowi is Jakarta’s governor and a cadre of the Indonesian Demo-cratic Party of Struggle (PDIP), while his running mate, JK, is a former vice president and a senior

politician of the Golkar Party.The Prabowo-Hatta pair is sup-

ported by Gerindra, PAN, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the United Development Party (PPP), the Crescent and Star Party (PBB), the Golkar Party, and the Democrat Party.

The Jokowi-JK pair is supported by five political parties: PDIP, the Nation Awakening Party (PKB), the People’s Conscience Party (Ha-nura), the Justice and Indonesian Unity Party (PKPI), and the Na-tional Democrat Party (Nasdem).

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Indonesian soldiers take position during a security parade in preparation for the upcoming presidential election in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, July 7, 2014. The presidential elections are scheduled to be held on July 9.

8,700 personnel deploy on polling day

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DENPASAR - The Bali provincial police will deploy 8.7 thousand personnel to safeguard the implementation of the presidential election on July 9, 2014.

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