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“The sooner you accept the dull, miserable nature of your existence, the happier you’ll be,” worldly-wise snail Chet (Paul Giamatti) advises his younger brother Turbo (Ryan Reynolds) after yet another day scouring a garden tomato patch. Turbo spends all his downtime watching VHS tapes of profes-sional car races, especially the many won by his hero, Guy Gagne (Bill Hader, amusingly assuming a French-Canadian accent).

Of course, the message of the film, as with so many other kid-inspirational cartoons and other fantasies, is that no dream is too big, you can do anything if you set your mind to it, etc., etc. Unfortunately, the real embedded lesson of Turbo is that, if you’re too small or weak or otherwise incapable of greatness, you have a shot to win if you’re juiced.

Which is what happens late one night when Turbo, coming upon a “Fast & Furious”-style drag race in the dry LA River bed, gets sucked into an engine. Instead of being toasted, however, the little guy becomes infused with nitrous oxide, enabling him to zoom along the ground seemingly as fast as Superman shoots through the skies. Ahhh, the wonders of chemicals and strength enhancers. Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire would approve.

Of course, Turbo needs a sponsor, which he finds in the form of Van Nuys taco truck

driver Tito (Michael Pena), a wild dreamer himself who argues endlessly with his more practical brother Angelo (Luis Guzman) about the merits of promoting their forlorn business_Dos Bros Tacos_with a snail. Joining in is a rainbow coalition of smart-mouthed supporting snails and neighboring business owners voiced by the eminent likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Rodriguez, Snoop Dogg, Maya Rudolph, Ben Schwartz, Richard Jenkins and Ken Jeong.

The ultimate destination_Indianapolis--is inevitable but it takes a long time to get there, given a script that is short on invention and long on largely unfunny yacking. Once the gang arrives and begins overcoming the ob-stacles that might prevent a snail from enter-ing a car race (conveniently unmentioned is the most obvious one, that Turbo lacks four wheels and an engine), the hitherto genial Guy Gagne suddenly becomes a villain, feeling so threatened by the now-mighty mollusk that he goes to all lengths to prevent an eternally humiliating defeat.

In the run-up to the race and then during it, you mostly wonder about how a critter so small it can’t be seen on the track (although its blue/white-hot streak can be) will avoid being crunched by the giant tires of the hu-mans’ racing machines; indeed, the film’s

most irreverent merit is that it is periodically honest about the fate of snails by casually showing them getting squashed by humans or gobbled up by animals, especially crows. In the event, Turbo just zips through traffic as if in an obstacle course, the obvious longshot pipsqueak favorite in a field of giants.

“Turbo,” a 20th Century Fox/DreamWorks Animation release, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America “for some mild action and thematic elements. Running time: 95 minutes.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Readers eager for hardcover copies of the detective novel J.K. Rowling wrote under another name will have to wait at least a couple of days. Little, Brown and Co. imprint Mulholland Books announced Monday it has commissioned 300,000 more copies of “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” and the books will be shipped this week.

“The Cuckoo’s Calling” was released in April and credited to Robert Galbraith. Demand soared after it was revealed Saturday that Rowling wrote it. It is still available as an e-book. The new printing will include a note saying Gal-braith is a pseudonym for Rowling. The British “Harry Potter” author says she had wanted “The Cuckoo’s Calling” to be judged on its merits. The novel received strong reviews but had sold poorly.

‘Turbo’ is attractive but runs out of gasAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — In delivering a film about a garden snail that dreams of winning the Indy 500, it’s as if the makers of “Turbo” had been pressed to come up with the most extreme underdog tale they could think of. Or else animators really are running out of ideas for original new characters. An at-tractively designed but narratively challenged, one-note film, “Turbo” skews younger than the norm for big animated features these days and has limited appeal for little girls.

AP Photo/DreamWorks Animation

This film publicity image released by DreamWorks Animation shows, from left, White Shadow voiced by Michael Bell, Smoove Move voiced by Snoop Dogg, Skidmark voiced by Ben Schwartz, Burn voiced by Maya Rudolph, Whiplash voiced by Samuel L. Jackson and Turbo voiced by Ryan Reynolds in a scene from the animated movie “Turbo.”

More hardcover copies of Rowling book on the way

AP

Photo/Lefteris P

itarakis, File

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, British author J.K. Rowling

poses for photographers during a photo call to unveil her new book, entitled: ‘The Casual Vacancy’, at the Southbank Centre in London.

Australian PM changes carbon tax ahead of election

Diplomat: Sudan leader has fled Nigeria

El Salvador, Trinidad advance at Gold Cup

AP Photo/Hussein Malla

Opponents of ousted President Mohammed Morsi run from fireworks fired by pro-Morsi supporters during clashes on a bridge in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 15, 2013.

7 killed in overnight clashes in Cairo

Associated Press

CAIRO — A senior Health Ministry official says clashes overnight between police and sup-porters of Egypt’s ousted president have left at least seven people dead.

Khaled el-Khateib also says 261 people were injured in the violence that broke out late Monday and carried on into the early morning hours of Tuesday in four dif-ferent locations in the capital, Cairo.

Thousands of supporters of Mohammed Morsi, who was overthrown by the military, were protesting to press their demands that Morsi be reinstated as president.

Egypt’s military deposed Morsi on July 3 after days of mass street protests calling for him to step down.

The ousted president’s supporters say he was ousted by a military coup that overturned democratic rule.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Calendar Event for July 10 through August 10, 2013

10 Jul Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan - Pulasari Peninjauan Tembuku Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Raung Tarokaja Taro Tegallalang 17 Jul Buda Paing Wayang Pura Dang Khayangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli 20 Jul Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bathara Ratu Gede Celuk Sukawati Bathara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Denpasar Bathara Ratu Allit lan Ratu Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarman Kaba Kaba Besakih Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel klungkung Pura Pemerajan Agung Sulang Dawan Klungkung Pura Padharman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih ( Dalem Klungkung ) Pura Penataran dan Pasraman Kuta Rejo , Kendal Rejo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Sidhi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 22 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan- Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar

Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru- Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Luhur Candi Narmada Tanah Kilap Desa PemogaN Denpasar Selatan Pura Panca Tirta Sido Luhur Bakanheni Lampung Selatan Pura Ponjok Batu Tejakula Buleleng 24 Jul Buda Wage Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Pengembungan Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Jawa Banjar Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Penataran Batupelang Kamasan klungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Kedonganan Kuta Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh/Bukit Kiwa Tengen Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Jati Ubud Pura Melanting Ubud Pura Dalem Peed Nusa Penida Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Desa Sakti Nusa Penida

Pura Penataran Agung Anyar Liligundi Bebandem Karangasem 30 Jul Anggar Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Dalem Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar Pura Puser Jagat,Dalem Dukut, Puri Sukun Nusa Penida Pura Dalem Purwa Banjar Kawan Bangli Pura Desa Ketewel Sukawati 31 Jul Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibangkaja Abiansemal Pura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar Pura Paiobon Dukuh Segening Serongga Kelod Gianyar 4 Aug redite Kliwon Watugunung Pura Penataran Agung Mahagotra Tirta Harum Srisrengga Desa Nyalian Banjarangkan Klungkung 6 Aug Tilem Sasih Kasa Pura Dalem Seme Jawa Desa Kukuh Marga Tabanan 10 Aug Hari raya Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas - Gempinis Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel - Sayan Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Watugunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya - Rawamangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung Pura Kawitan Bendesa Aban Baturning Desa Mambal Abiansemal

He describes, as a hotel located in the heart of Nusa Dua, Hotel Santika Siligita remains committed to bring the feel of Bali in variety of ways, ranging from facilities to the services provided.

A series of events held in its first birthday, including cutting the ribbon and release doves to marked series of events to cel-ebrated its birthday. Staffs and management of Santika Siligita also worship 3 temples located around the hotel, picking the Best Employee and also held Santika Star, a singing competi-tion which is followed by employee representatives from each department. The management also held a chess competitions and contests related to unity and fun, such as sack races, catch eels, make-up competition, and grabbing coins from grapefruit.

Management also organized social activities with visiting dis-abled children foundation “Senang Hati” that located in Tampak Siring village, Gianyar and beach cleaning activity.

On the 17th July, from afternoon until the evening all em-ployees of Santika Siligita will be using uniform with the theme “Together for ONE” and will hold a celebration event that will be closed with dinner. IBP/Courtesy of Santika Siligita

Santika Siligita celebrate 1st anniversaryIBP

NUSA DUA - Hotel Santika Siligita celebrate its 1 year anniversary on July 17th 2013. According to General Manager Sang N. Gunarta, the first anniversary is a begin-ning that will determine success in the future. “Especially in the middle of dynamic competition of hotel industry in Bali,” he said.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—After being discontinued, the radio-

therapy equipment at Sanglah Hospital is back into operation. However, not all patients requiring the therapy could be served because there are requirements defined for patient safety.

It was revealed by Director of Sanglah Hospital, Wayan Sutarga. According to him, the requirement to be met in radiotherapy treatment was that the patients should have the weight under 60 kilograms. “When they are more than 60 kg, they will require higher dose and it’s beyond the equipment capabilities,” said Sutarga.

He admitted the radiotherapy equip-ment at Sanglah Hospital had been old and the technology in use did not belong to the latest. “The radiotherapy equipment owned by Sanglah Hospital remains to belong to cobalt type, while the latest one belongs to Linex type. However, the hospital cannot afford to buy the one using Linex technology,” said Sutarga. He added the Linex technology applied magnetic

method so that it was safer than cobalt using the radiation.

Due to inadequate budget to buy the Lin-ex equipment, Sanglah Hospital attempted to repair the existing equipment. However, the spare parts of cobalt type equipment were only available in Canada and China. “We’re trying to replace the spare parts but they are only available in Canada and China. For the preparation of the parts, it will take us 8 months,” said Sutarga.

Procurement of the spare parts for the previous equipment was hampered by ten-der process because no one could have been able to buy the source because it took many months. “Although the budget of Sanglah Hospital is sufficient to replace the source of radiotherapy equipment, but in the tender process nobody can purchase the parts be-cause it takes a long time,” said Sutarga. On that account, Sanglah Hospital was forced to maximize the use of existing equipment with a few requirements to maintain the safety until the parts of the radiotherapy equipment were available. (san)

According to Chairman of the Indonesian Marine Tourism As-sociation (Gahawisri) of Badung, I Made Tromat, the marine debris flooded the region was dominated by organic garbage such as the water hyacinth and twigs. His party asked for the help of the gov-ernment to deal with the garbage starting to threaten the tourism.

“We need the support of the government and the public to handle the marine debris so that it does not harm the tourism in Bali,” said Chairman of the Ga-hawisri Badung, I Made Tromat, Monday (Jul 15).

According to him, his party did not know exactly the origin of the marine debris due to the effects of weather. “Clearly, the marine debris will disrupt the marine tourism activities at Tan-jung Benoa both diving and water sport activities. Especially for diving activities, the underwater

sight can be disrupted due to the organic waste,” he said.

He explained that in Badung there were 24 marine tourism companies and 5 dive centers. Due to organic waste, rain and strong winds, foreign tourists were then reluctant to take the marine tour-ism activities.

“Users of the marine tourism services decreased 35 percent. In addition, it is only domestic tourist wishing to visit the turtle breeding site,” he said.

He said the handling of marine debris was conducted indepen-dently with the support of local community. Even, many students also helped handle the garbage piling up on the coast of Tanjung Benoa. Organic waste was then buried in the sand so as not to contaminate the area becoming the marine tourist attraction.

“Employers of the marine tour-ism have proposed in order the

marine debris can be entirely handled by the government. In reality, the handling of marine debris at Tanjung Benoa has not been getting the attention from the government,” he complained.

Moreover, he said, his party had just raised the rates of the water tourist attractions such as snorkel-ing, parasailing, banana boat and the others up to 40 percent. The increase was to offset the subsi-dized fuel price hike made by the government.

“The rate increase definitely has an impact on the tourist interest, but it is not significant. If we did not raise the rates, the employers can go bankrupt,” he said.

The rate increase in this mid-year had been agreed by the stake-holders or travel agencies. As con-sequence, the contract agreement made valid for a year should be revised and adapted to the subsi-dized fuel price hike. (kmb27)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—The drivers of urban public transport

of Tegal (Denpasar) - Jimbaran (Badung) route start to face the impact of Trans Sar-bagita operation. When the Trans Sarbagita was first operated, they got a subsidy worth IDR 250,000 per day, but the policy is now no longer extended. Besides, the number of passengers they take with the Isuzu vehicle has decreased lately. As a result, the drivers’ destiny is getting uncertain.

One of the drivers serving the Tegal-Jimbaran route, I Made Patra, when en-countered at Tegal Terminal on Monday (Jul 15) acknowledged the decline in the passenger number. Aside from the ris-ing number of residents driving private vehicles, the operation of Trans Sarbagita covering nearly the same route also had a great impact on the continuity of the route passed through. “Since the Trans Sarbagita is in operation, our passenger decreases because our route is nearly the same, espe-cially from the Dewa Ruci roundabout to the south,” said Patra accompanied by his fellow driver.

He said that since the Trans Sarbagita was first operated, his party and the other drivers got a subsidy worth IDR 250,000 per day. They were required to get around

on the specified route to support the Trans Sarbagita. However, after a year had passed, the contract was not renewed. Since January 2013, the contract was no longer extended. Automatically, the drivers were losing the deposit. “Subsidies have been discontinued and passenger also reduced,” said Patra.

They hoped the Trans Sarbagita would not harm the survival of the public transport drivers of the Tegal-Jimbaran route. In other words, the previously applied pattern could give hope to drivers that were now increasingly pressured by the other modes of transportation. “We hope the Trans Sarbagita could give subsidies again for the transport operations,” said the driver at Tegal Terminal.

Patra said that a few years ago the number of vehicles hanging out in Tegal Terminal was pretty much. Even, in 1996 the number of vehicle reached 200 units. Now after a few years, the number of ac-tive vehicles was about 120 units. Many vehicles were no longer in operation due to lacking of passengers whereas in terms of feasibility, condition of the armada was still worthy. “Since lacking of passenger, many of our colleagues switched to the other transportation, such as freight trans-port,” he said. (kmb12)

IBP/file

The water sport attraction in Benoa, Badung.

Badung marine tourism flooded by marine debrisMangupura (Bali Post)—

Marine tourism at Tanjung Benoa, Badung County, looked dirty due to marine debris. Piles of garbage within the past week started to annoy the beauty of tourist attraction and the comfort of visitors aside from disrupting the growing marine tourism activities in the region.

Radiotherapy at Sanglah Hospital in operation

Driver woes of Tegal terminalSubsidy ends, passenger grabbed by Trans Sarbagita

3Wednesday, July 17, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Wednesday, July 17, 2013

It’s by far the largest study to look at this, and researchers say the conclusion makes sense. Working tends to keep people physically active, socially connected and mentally challenged — all things known to help prevent mental decline.

“For each additional year of work, the risk of getting dementia is reduced by 3.2 percent,” said Carole Dufouil, a scientist at INSERM, the French government’s health research agency. She led the study and gave results Monday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Boston.

About 35 million people worldwide have dementia, and Alzheimer’s is the most common type. In the U.S., about 5 million have Alzheimer’s — 1 in 9 people aged 65 and over. What causes the mind-robbing disease isn’t known and there is no cure or any treatments that slow its progression.

France has had some of the best Alzheimer’s research in the world, partly because its former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, made it a priority. The country also has detailed health records on self-employed people who pay into a Medicare-like health system.

Researchers used these records on more than 429,000 workers, most of whom were shopkeepers or craftsmen such as bakers and woodworkers. They were 74 on average and had been retired for an average of 12 years.

Nearly 3 percent had developed dementia but the risk of this was lower for each year of age at retirement. Someone who retired at 65 had about a 15 percent lower risk of developing dementia compared to someone retiring at 60, after other factors that affect those odds were taken into account, Dufouil said.

To rule out the possibility that mental decline may have led people to retire earlier, researchers did analyses that eliminated people who devel-oped dementia within 5 years of retirement, and within 10 years of it.

“The trend is exactly the same,” suggesting that work was having an effect on cognition, not the other way around, Dufouil said.

Associated Press Writer

KINGSTON, Jamaica — People caught lighting up in bars, restaurants and other enclosed public spaces now face hefty pen-alties in Jamaica. The new law also prohibits smoking in outdoor public spots such as bus stops and open-air sports stadiums.

Health Minister Fenton Ferguson says businesses will have six months to post “no smoking” signs and all tobacco products have to include graphic new warnings about the health effects of lighting up.

Police commanders say they will likely issue warnings to violators for now while they wait for the public to be sensitized to the new law. First-time offenders could be fined up to $500 or face three months in a lockup.

Other Caribbean countries that already have public smoking bans include the Cayman Islands, Suriname and Grenada.

Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA — Republicans around the U.S. see no immedi-ate hope of overturning the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark decision legalizing abortion, but they are increasingly pushing leg-islation to restrict the procedure. The issue looms in the 2014 elec-tions for seats in Congress and in statehouses.

Republicans are pursuing a range of ideas: banning nearly all abortions beyond the 20th week af-ter conception; requiring women to get ultrasounds before terminating a pregnancy; making abortion clin-ics follow regulations for surgical care; mandating that clinic physi-cians have admitting privileges at local hospitals.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, which works on repro-ductive health issues, states this year have enacted at least 43

new laws that restrict or further regulate abortion. The issue, one of the most politically sensitive in the country, also is prominent in early 2016 maneuvering for the race to succeed President Barack Obama.

The abortion issue energizes social conservatives who drive the Republican Party’s success in nonpresidential years when the electorate is older, whiter and more conservative. But Democrats and abortion-rights advocates say mod-erate voters have other priorities.

“Defense workers are being fur-loughed, student loan interest rates have doubled and these Republi-cans insist on a relentless pursuit of more restrictions on women’s freedoms,” said Rep. Steve Is-rael, chairman of the Democrats’ national congressional campaign committee for 2014.

The House of Representatives adopted a 20-week abort ion

ban in June. It has no chance of passing the Democratic-run Senate or being signed into law by President Barack Obama. A top anti-abortion lobbyist, Na-tional Right to Life Committee president Carol Tobias, told The Associated Press that her orga-nization is working on a Senate bill with the office of Republi-can Sen. Marco Rubio, who is a high-profile possibility for the 2016 presidential race.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry called his Republican legislature back into special session to consider a 20-week ban and sweeping regu-latory changes after Democratic maneuvers — including a half-day speech that drew international at-tention — temporarily blocked the measure. The legislature passed the bill Friday, and it’s headed to Perry’s desk. Opponents of the abortion legislation are expected to sue to block implementation.

Study: Later retirement may help prevent dementiaAssociated Press Writer

BOSTON — New research boosts the “use it or lose it” theory about brainpower and staying mentally sharp. People who delay retirement have less risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia, a study of nearly half a million people in France found.

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

In this Friday, July 12, 2013 photo, June Springer poses for a photograph where she works at Caffi Contracting Services, in Alexandria, Va. Springer, who just turned 90, works as a recep-tionist.

Abortion top issue again for 2014 elections in US

Jamaica adopts smoking ban in public places

Bali PostDENPASAR - People may

have been familiar with tra-ditional healing ranging from herbal drink, fracture healer, acupuncture and spiritual energy

IBP/File Photo

Two staff of Food and Medicine Agency showing an illegal traditional medicine during a raid on illegal medicine in Denpasar recently. People should be more selective in choosing the traditional healing because some of them perform excessive promotion that actually violates the existing regulations.

Traditional healing violates terms of promotion

“Although there has been a law governing the matter, the conspiracy among the employers is inevitable. This practice really harms the consumers. To that end, the government has the obligation to oversee it,” said Sri Darma in Denpasar, Monday (Jul 15).

According to him, in the fair market competition, the price of a commodity would rise when the demand was higher than the avail-ability (supply). This price was getting higher when the number of demand exceeded the number of supply of the commodities.

Cartel only benefits entrepreneursDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Conspiracy among the businesses people to raise food price was assessed by the economist from Bali, Prof. Sri Darma, DBA, to be only benefit the entrepreneurs. Cartel practice implemented by hoarding goods was actually detrimental to the public as consumers.

However, when the supply was declared adequate, it was very unnatural if the price was still rising.

“Indeed, it needs the atten-tion of all parties, not only the government but also the public. They must also keep an eye on it because the public as consumer is in direct contact with the condi-tion,” he said.

Director of Consumer Protec-tion Foundation, Putu Armaya, also admitted that consumer so-ciety had always been the victims of the free market in Indonesia.

The price of basic commodities soaring up to several times was considered an unbearable price. The government seemed help-less to control the price of basic needs.

“Like right now, the price increases quite high on entering the month of fasting. After the Eid the prices will decline. It only slightly decreases, but it will not come back to the original price,” he explained.

Armaya also asked the govern-ment to intervene in determining the prices as performed by the

Malaysian government and a number of other countries. Mar-ket operations conducted by the government all this time was just to check.

“The market operation cannot lower the price that has been es-tablished in the market. It was just checking the market price alone. The price remains high,” he said.

Instead, he said that such condi-tions would only benefit specula-tors. They were very comfortable with the conditions when there was no control by the govern-ment. “Inevitably, the government should indeed become a price determinant for some staple com-modities,” he said.

Meanwhile, Saidah Sakwan, Deputy Chairman of the Business

Competition Supervisor (KPPU) of Indonesia mentioned that cartel was behavior violating the Law No.5/1999 on the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition.

Cartel behavior by hoarding commodities got the attention and vigilance from the Business Competition Supervisor (KPPU) especially during the month of fasting and Eid later where the demand would be very high.

“We have reprimanded busi-nesses people not to speculate by practicing cartel. We will take action and impose a sanction if the results of our investigation prove that the price increase occurred is caused by cartel practice,” he said. (kmb27)

up to religious healing. Even, such traditional healing has been growing rampant in Bali. There-fore, people should be more se-lective in choosing the traditional healing because some of them

perform excessive promotion that actually violates the existing regulations.

The Head of Bali Health Agen-cy, Ketut Suarjaya, explained that traditional healing or commonly

known as alternative healing ba-sically used traditional medicines made from natural ingredients. The use of chemical and medical device was not allowed in the treatment. “Permit of traditional healing practice is governed by the County/Municipal Health Agency. Meanwhile, the control against their drugs is undertaken by the National Agency of Food and Drug Control (BPOM),” he said.

One of the regions having many traditional healing prac-tices is Denpasar City. The Head of Denpasar Health Agency, Luh Putu Sri Armini, explained the implementation of traditional healing had been set forth by the Decree of Minister of Health No.1076/2003. Traditional heal-ing was defined as treatment or care that referred to the experi-ence, hereditary skills or training applied in accordance with the norms prevailing in the society.

Armini added that based on the Decree of Minister of Health the traditional healing was classified into 4 types, namely the healing based on skill, concoction, reli-gious approach and supernatural. “Examples of the skill applica-tion are in traditional midwife or fracture healing, while the examples of concoctions are herbal drink and mucus cleaner. Then, the healing based on reli-gious approach (Hinduism) and the Supernatural is the healing by means of spiritual power and mysticism,” she said.

In their practice, the tradi-tional healers falling into the 4 categories should be registered in the County/Municipal Health Agency and have a traditional healer registration (STPT). The

STPT was given to traditional healer that had not been tested. “There is also Traditional Healer Permit (SIPT). It is intended for traditional healers whose meth-ods have been assessed, tested and proved to be secure and ben-eficial to health,” she said.

Denpasar Municipality record-ed 95 traditional healers where 77 of them had registered, while 18 others had owned a permit. “All the traditional healings that have permit belong to acupuncture healing because its method has been tested,” said Armini.

Other than issuing permits in the form of the STPT and SIPT, the Denpasar Health Agency also had the tasks to give coaching and do license revocation if any traditional healing was known to be harmful to society.

At the moment, some viola-tions monitored were related to excessive promotion made by traditional healers. In this regard, the Denpasar Health Agency had the authority to reprimand and give coaching. “In the promo-tion, the contents allowed are mentioning the name, location and skills possessed. Meanwhile, it is not allowed to do excessive promotion such as mentioning the types of disease that can be cured,” explained Armini.

She hoped that people could participate to report when finding any harmful traditional healing practice. “Unluckily, people are rarely willing to report it. Prob-ably, it happens because they are ashamed though having been aggrieved,” said Armini. She also suggested that it would better to choose traditional healing that had owned a permit issued by local health authority. (san)

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The carbon tax on Australia’s worst industrial polluters, including its coal-reliant power producers, went into effect in July 2012 and was supposed to remain in place until 2015. At that point, it was set to be replaced by an emissions trading scheme, in which the cost of emitting a ton of carbon would be determined by buyers and sellers in a carbon market.

Rudd is advancing that timeline by a year, with the emissions trading scheme now beginning on July 1, 2014. The move will reduce the cost of carbon from a pre-

dicted 25.40 Australian dollars ($22.40) per metric ton in July next year to an esti-mated AU$6 per metric ton, Rudd said.

“This is the fiscally responsible thing to do,” Rudd told reporters in the northern city of Townsville. “The nation’s 370 biggest polluters will continue to pay for their car-bon pollution, but the cost will be reduced, meaning less pressure on consumers.”The move is expected to save Australian house-holds an average of AU$380 a year, Rudd said. The savings would largely be in the form of lower energy bills. The government

will make up for a predicted $3.8 billion shortfall in the federal budget with spend-ing cuts, including scaling back funding for some environmental programs. The carbon tax was enacted under the previous prime minister, Julia Gillard, who was ousted by Rudd last month in an internal Labor Party coup. Rudd had been ousted as prime min-ister by Gillard in her own internal coup three years earlier.

Under Gillard, Labor looked set for an overwhelming defeat at this year’s elec-tions. But recent polls suggest the race has tightened since Rudd took back the reins. Gillard had set elections for Sept. 14, though Rudd can hold them between August and November. He has refused to publicly announce a date, though said “there’s not going to be a huge variation” from Sept. 14.

Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is to blame for last month’s cyberattacks on the web-sites of South Korean media companies and the president and prime minister’s offices, a South Korean investigation concluded Tuesday.

South Korea’s ministry of science said it was blaming North Korea based on analysis of codes, Internet addresses and personal computers used to launch the attacks. The attacks occurred June 25, the 63rd anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War.

It is the latest of several cyberattacks in recent years that Seoul blames on North Korea. Pyong-yang has denied previous claims and has accused the U.S. and South Korea of a cyberattack in March that shut down its own websites for two days.

The South Korean government-led team of investigators said the online assaults were planned for several months, and the attackers hacked file-sharing websites in South Korea to find security weaknesses.

An investigator told reporters that the attackers tried to steal personal information from the web-sites targeted in the June 25 cyberattacks, but it was not clear when the attempt took place. Local media reported that the personal information of millions of people was stolen from the presidential office’s website and the ruling party.

Investigators managed to recover data on the hard drives that the attackers destroyed June 25 and found an Internet protocol address that was used by North Korea. They also found that the codes used in the June attacks had the same features as the codes used in the larger March 20 cyberattacks that shut down tens of thousands of computers at South Korean broadcasters and banks.

The attackers in June tried to hide their identi-ties by destroying hard drives and disguising the Internet protocol addresses they used, the ministry said. The attackers also tried to misguide investiga-tors by using the picture of the Anonymous group, the ministry said.

Local media reported in June that the attack was done by a global hacking collective called Anony-mous. But a South Korean government official told the Associated Press at the time that the attackers could not be confirmed at the moment.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Protesters ran through Los Angeles streets Monday night, breaking windows, attacking people on sidewalks and at one point raiding a Wal-Mart store, while others blocked a major freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area in the third night of demon-strations in California over George Zimmerman’s Florida acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Thirteen people were arrested after multiple acts of vandalism and several assaults in Los Angeles’

Crenshaw District, Mayor Eric Gar-cetti and Police Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference.

Garcetti and Beck didn’t elabo-rate on the assaults or any injuries, but at least one man could be seen in the street with a head injury.

More than 300 officers were called to the scene and were at first slow to directly engage protesters in an attempt to allow a peaceful end to the demonstration, Beck said. But the chief said police would take a much stricter posture in the com-ing nights. “This will not be allowed to continue,” Beck said.

Several hundred mostly peaceful

protesters gathered Monday night at Leimert Park southwest of down-town LA, many of them chanting, praying and singing.

But a smaller group of between 100 and 150 people splintered off and began blocking traffic on nearby Crenshaw Boulevard, some of them jumping on cars and break-ing windows at liquor stores and fast food outlets.

Several protesters ran into a Wal-Mart store, where they knocked down displays before store security chased them out, and police began guarding the door.

Tonya Williams was shopping

South Korea blames North Korea for cyberattack

Zimmerman protesters raid LA store, stop freeway

AP Photo/Jae C. HongA protester confronts a Los Angles police officer during a demon-stration in reaction to the acquittal of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on Monday, July 15, 2013, in Los Angeles.

AP Photo/Rob Griffith, FileFILE - In this Friday, July 8, 2011 file photo, smoke bellows out of a chimney stack at Bluescope Steel works at Port Kembla, south of Sydney. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Tuesday, July 16, 2013 he will transform a deeply unpopular carbon tax a year ahead of schedule, in a bid to cut costs to households as a national election looms.

Australian PM changes carbon tax ahead of electionAssociated Press Writer

SYDNEY — Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Tuesday a deeply

unpopular carbon tax will be replaced by a less-severe emissions trading scheme a year ahead of schedule, in a bid to lower power bills for households as a tight national election looms.

“Mass cremation ceremony is a manifestation of community together-ness. Hopefully, this ceremony can pu-rify the ancestral souls,” said Chairman of the Committee, Nyoman Suatra.

Meanwhile, the mass cremation at Jagatamu customary village was fol-lowed by 13 corpses. The difference lay in the payment where each corpse was charged at IDR 6.5 million. According to the Chairman of the Committee, I

Gusti Made Wandra, the mass cremation was followed by three clans namely the Arya, Pasek and Bujangga.

The cremation (atiwa-tiwa) series would be held on Wednesday (Jul 17) and followed by atma wadana and enthrone the ancestral soul in the respective family shrine. “It’s our commitment to integrate the perception. On that account, the sense of togetherness would continue to exist through mass cremation,” he explained.

Mass cremation ceremony at both villages was visited by special guest. She was the Regent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, making a time to attend the ceremony. This official expected the ceremony could realize the unity in supporting the regional development. “If the community can come together, the ideals of develop-ment in Tabanan can be realized eas-ily,” he said. (kmb30)

Bangli (Bali Post)—

Dormant construction of the con-crete bridge connecting Tembuku village to Yangapi village for years causes the surrounding community to take initiative to build a bamboo bridge. However, the bamboo bridge connecting both villages has now been in alarming condition. The simple bamboo bridge hanging over the cliff with the height of more than 25 meters causes anxiety because it stays to be used by many local people. Even, the fragile bridge is often passed by elementary school students to commute to school.

As observation of Bali Post on Monday (Jul 15), the bridge having the length of approximately 20 me-ters was in very alarming condition. Braided bamboo used as the bridge deck looked fragile and tenuous. Handrails also made of bamboo were only reinforced with plastic rope. When setting foot on the bridge, it

would strongly sway. Besides, the safety threat was aggravated by the crackling sound of brittle wood. Such condition could certainly harm residents who crossed it. “Actually, I do not dare to pass here because the deck is damaged,” said Ni Luh Demila Febriyanti, one of the el-ementary school students from Yan-gapi village when met after crossing the damaged bamboo bridge.

Nevertheless, some local resi-dents told if the bridge located amidst the woods had long been used as short cut to neighboring village. Residents of Medui hamlet, Tembuku village, often crossed it as short cut to Metra Market and to obtain health services at the community health center located at Yangapi village. The distance to be covered if passing the bridge would be only about 1 kilometer. It was much more efficient than taking the other route along 10 kilometers.

According to former headman of

Yangapi, Nengah Sutami, the over-hanging concrete foundation on the east and west side of both villages were the evidence if the bridge con-struction had ever been made at the location. Unfortunately, Sutami said the construction was eventually dis-continued until now. “So far, there has been no follow-up. When questioned, the construction was disconnected because it lacked of fund,” he said.

Meanwhile, one of the commu-nity leaders of Yangapi village, I Wayan Sudarta, hoped the dormant bridge construction since a few years ago could be immediately resumed considering the community of both villages desperately needed a short cut connecting Yangapi to Tembuku village. “Hopefully, the relevant agencies could immediately repair the bridge connecting both villages. Communities at both villages highly need it in relation to the economic, health care, educational and socio-cultural activities,” he hoped. (ina)

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Traffic flows on Jalan Bypass Soekarno, Dauh Peken village, Ta-banan, was disturbed, Monday (Jul 15). A medium-sized mahogany tree uprooted at the location. No casual-ties were reported in the disaster. When the incident happened at 11:00 a.m., the road was deserted.

Allegedly, the collapse of the tree with the height of almost 10 meters was due to aging because the wind in that afternoon was not too strong. Such suspicion was strengthened by fragile condition of the tree roots. “It happened very quickly. When we installed the side-walk block, the tree suddenly fell and blocked the road,” said Hariono, 40, one of the witnesses. According to Hariono, when the tree crashed onto the middle of the road, the traf-

fic was silent as they were stopping at traffic light. If crowded, the tree collapse was ascertained to claim casualties because the diameter of the tree trunk was relatively large, about 2 meters. The entire trunk including the branches covered up the road.

Police personnel with the Re-gional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and Tabanan Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) moved quickly. By using chainsaw, the offi-cers evacuated the trunk covering up the Denpasar-Gilimanuk road sec-tion. During the evacuation process, the traffic flows were arranged by implementing the open and closed system. As a result, the traffic ran slowly from two directions.

Evacuation process did not last long. With three chainsaws, the joint officers managed to quickly remove

of the tree trunks, just within an hour. Once the trees could be re-moved, the traffic flow returned to normal. “Maybe it was only caused by the factor of age, so that the tree suddenly tumbled and covered up the road,” said the Section Head of Emergency and Logistics of the Tabanan Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Surya Darma. He explained that as soon as receiving the report, his party assigned the joint team to make evacuation. It had not known yet about the losses incurred due to the incident. Other than closing the road, the fallen tree also knocked down a pole of street lighting. The newly installed facil-ity also tumbled, while the mercury lamp broke. Since it was hazardous, the officers finally took off the street lighting at the end of the Yeh Empas Bridge. (kmb30)

Two customary villages hold mass cremation ceremony

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Mass cremation tradition is increasingly popular among the customary villagers in Tabanan. Customary villagers of

two villages held a mass cremation ceremony on Monday (Jul 15). They consisted of Jagatamu customary hamlet, Meliling

village and Kesiut customary village, Kerambitan subdistrict. At Kesiut hamlet, 57 corpses (its symbols) were involved in the

ceremony, where the climax took place on Sunday afternoon (Jul 14). Each corpse was charged at IDR 1.5 million.

For years, people desperate to cross damaged bamboo bridge

IBP/FileThe students are using the damage bamboo brigde to go to school.

Fallen tree, bypass road section gets disturbed

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Agence France-PresseLONDON - London’s Mayor Boris Johnson on

Monday proposed shutting Heathrow airport, one of the busiest in the world, and replacing it with a major new hub to the east of the capital.

Setting out three proposals to end Britain’s chronic shortage of air capacity, Johnson said a new four-runway airport would create thousands of jobs and allow London to compete with rival international transport hubs.

“For London and the wider UK to remain com-petitive, we have to build an airport capable of emulating that scale of growth,” he told a press conference.

“Anyone who believes there would be the space to do that at Heathrow, which already blights the lives of hundreds of thousands of Londoners, is quite simply crackers.”

Despite being one of the world’s busiest airports, Heathrow in west London has only two runways and is running at 98.5 percent of its capacity.

For years politicians have wrestled with con-tentious plans to give Heathrow another runway, with Johnson among those arguing that the noise and air pollution would be intolerable for people who live nearby.

On Monday, he put forward three alternative locations for a new four-runway hub, including his long-touted proposal to build an airport on an artificial island in the River Thames, dubbed Boris Island.

The other two ideas are to expand Stansted air-port northeast of London, which currently has one runway, and to build an airport on the Isle of Grain in Kent on the River Thames.

The new hub could open by 2029 and would cost approximately £20 billion ($75 billion, 58 billion euros) including the construction of road and rail links to the airport, Johnson claimed.

“Of all the three, I still think the Isle of Grain seems to me to combine the regeneration with the connectivity and with the ease of communication to London,” said Johnson.

He added that British politicians had been “sit-ting around like puddings for the last 40 years doing nothing” while rival countries built up their air capacity.

Up to 100,000 homes could be built on Heath-row’s site as well as a new university campus, the Conservative mayor suggested.

“There is a fantastic opportunity here for London and the United Kingdom,” he told a press confer-ence, adding that the plan would help to solve London’s “catastrophic housing shortage”.

In May, lawmakers on parliament’s Transport Committee rejected the “Boris Island” plan and instead backed the expansion of Heathrow.

A new hub to the east would not be possible without vast public investment in the road and rail system, the committee said.

Johnson will submit the plans this week to the government-appointed Airport Commission, which is due to give its recommendations on the future of British air transport in 2015.

A day after Beijing released data showing its economy slowed for a second successive month in April-June, the Manila-based ADB trimmed its outlook for developing Asia this year to 6.3 percent, from 6.6 percent.In the update to its annual Asian De-velopment Outlook publication, first published in April, the bank also pared its 2014 forecast for developing Asia to 6.4 percent, from 6.7 percent.

The update is only a little better that what the bank described in the report as the region’s “relatively sluggish” growth pace of 6.1 percent last year.

“The drop in trade and scaling back of investment are part of a more balanced growth path for (China), and the knock-on effect of its slower pace is definitely a concern for the region,” the bank’s chief economist, Changyong Rhee, said in a state-

ment.“But we are also seeing more sub-

dued activity across much of develop-ing Asia,” Rhee added.

Developing Asia groups 45 na-tions or territories from Central Asia through to the Pacific islands, but excludes Japan.

The report cited a marginally better outlook for the advanced economies, particularly Japan.

However, this did not lead to stron-ger demand for Asian exports, and the first-half economic performance across the region was “unexpectedly subdued”, it added.

China said Monday gross domestic product expanded 7.5 percent in the second quarter, following 7.7 percent in the previous three months and 7.9 percent in October-December.

The ADB said it now sees China’s economy growing 7.7 percent this

year and 7.5 percent in 2014.Both figures are lower than its

April forecasts of 8.2 percent and 8.0 percent. The Asian economic giant grew 7.8 percent last year.The ADB now expects Southeast Asia’s econo-mies to expand 5.2 percent this year, down from 5.4 percent.

It also trimmed its forecast for South Asia to 5.6 percent this year, while maintaining its 6.2 percent projection for 2014.

On a positive note, the ADB said slower GDP growth was helping the region contain inflation., while expanded global natural gas produc-tion was also helping suppress energy prices.

The bank lowered its inflation forecasts for developing Asia to 3.5 percent this year and 3.7 percent in 2014, the latter on par with the 2012 rate.

Close Heathrow airport, London mayor proposes

AP PhotoIn this photo taken Monday July 8, 2013, containers are piled at a port in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong prov-ince. China’s slowing economic growth is weakening momentum throughout the rest of Asia, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday as it revised down its forecasts for the region.

ADB trims Asia growth forecasts on China slowdown

Agence France-Presse

MANILA - China’s slowing economic growth is weakening momentum throughout the rest of Asia, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday as it revised down its forecasts for the region.

Advancement of science of technology does not answer all problems encountered by human life. In agriculture, for instance, modern farmers can now have boosted the quantity of production, even in multiple amounts. On the one hand, it’s a great success but on the other hand it still leaves a problem on the decline of environ-mental and human health quality.

Green revolution occurred between 1943 and 1970s through the implementation of chemi-cal fertilizer and good irrigation system has conjured up the rice production. In short term, it became an efficacious medicine to resolve the famine in tropical countries. Few decades later, it had an impact on the reduction of environmental quality, like pollution in water, land and oth-ers. Apart from the impact on the environment, it was also had an impact on human health like the

rise of some new cancers.Green culture is intended to

change the societal behavior in managing their waste manage-ment and environment. Green economy hints that all economic activities should be in the eco-friendly orientation. These two aspects will empty out into the initiative of Bali Organic.

One of the aspects is applied in the agricultural field. Socializa-tion has been intensified while es-tablishing farmer groups. Through breeding local cows, for instance, farmers are expected to get maxi-mal benefits. Other than increas-ing the number of cows, they will be able to take advantage the cow dung and urine for organic fertiliz-ers. In the long run, it will reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Of course, this endeav-or will reduce the production cost that should be spent by farmers and at the same time increase the

quality of rice as well as improve the environmental quality.

As a matter of fact, simple practice of this concept could have been seen around 1970s. Farmers using cows to cultivate their land could also take advantage of their cow dung. It was spread out onto the rice field and its efficacy could last for at least for two planting seasons. In terraced rice field, it could uniquely be managed by es-tablishing a cowshed in the upper stream. Later on, the collected dry cow dung was channeled to rice field through the water gutter.

However, since being urged by the demand to multiple the rice production, farmers left the method. Introduction of hand trac-tor and chemical fertilizers gradu-ally replaced the role of cows. The new method was expected to accelerate the land cultivation process. As consequence, cows were only serving as ‘family sav-

ing’ for farmers.Simple eco-friendly pest con-

trol actually has been proposed in the palm-leaf manuscript en-titled “Shri Tattwa or Darmaning Pemaculan.” It has been applied by subak community in Bali from generation to generation until today. However, it seems to put more emphasis on the ritual as-pect only, while herbal pesticide or other means of the oblation is only applied symbolically. For instance, bird raids are managed by offering two pieces of ketupat sidayu together with oblation and side dish of yellow dragonfly.

Meanwhile, Subash Palekar from India claimed to have devel-oped the vedic-based farming. He has initiated his ‘spiritual farming’ since 1988. In essence he said that God or nature has provided hu-man with everything required to grow plants. So implementing the chemical fertilizers and pesticide

means to oppose God and will re-sult in bad impact to human. Cow dung and urine as well as compost are three beneficial ingredients being enough for farming both on irrigated and non-irrigated land. By doing so, he claims it is a ‘zero budget of natural farming’ as in his trilogy book entitled Philoso-phy of Spiritual Farming.

To sum up, all movements at least refer to the same keywords namely green, natural and eco-friendly concept. They denote milestone of new awareness on modern human to re-orientate their food production in quality. This awareness has triggered the orientation in the quality of life and environment. Hopefully, the aspiration of Bali as Green Prov-ince and other green concepts could be realized supported by entire community based on their awareness of a better quality life! (BTN/punia)

“It will be accompanied with a gala dinner, delegate meeting, limited meet-ing and a visit to a number of craftsmen in the Badung region,” said Secretary of the Women Empowerment and Child Protection of Indonesia, Sridanti, when making a visit to the Badung Regent, AA Gde Agung.

Regent Gde Agung said that some international events would be held in Nusa Dua from the mid to late 2013. Current ly, h is par ty was prepar ing

everything to support the implementa-tion of those events starting from the infrastructure improvements to beau-tification of the landscaping garden along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai to Nusa Dua.

There were three major projects implemented in Bali such as the Ngurah Rai airport expansion, construction of the underpasses and overwater toll road. Related to the APEC Women Economic Forum, the regent through relevant

agencies helped the preparation of loca-tion for the installation of banner and billboards. Performing arts at the open-ing of the event would be prepared for the performance of the Badung mascot dance named ‘Sekar Jepun.’

“The government of Badung County supports this activity because the suc-cess of this event is very influential for the APEC Summit and the other events held this year in Bali and Badung in particular,” said Regent Gde Agung.

APEC Women Economic Forum 2013 to be held in SeptemberBTN

MANGUPURA - APEC Women Eco-nomic Forum will be held in Nusa Dua in September 2013. Such an event is a series of the APEC Summit to be attended by 21 delegates from around the world. The international event will last for two days. At the opening will be filled with the economic dialogue involving women business partici-pants amounting to 400 people.

IBP/File PhotoA farmer working in rice field on Bali Island recently. Advancement of science of technology does not answer all problems encountered by human life. In agriculture, for instance, modern farmers can now have boosted the quantity of production, even in multiple amounts. On the one hand, it’s a great success but on the other hand it still leaves a problem on the decline of environmental and human health quality.

Spiritual Farming:From One Green to Some other Greens

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Human rights lawyers filed a suit in the Federal High Court on Monday to try to compel Nigeria’s government to arrest al-Bashir. And a civil rights group urgently appealed to the International Criminal Court to refer the government to the U.N. Security Council for allowing the visit.

Presidential spokesman Reu-ben Abati told The Associated Press that al-Bashir had come to attend the African Union summit, and not at Nigeria’s invitation. He said Nigeria’s action in allowing him to come was in line with in-structions from the African Union, which has told its 53 member states not to cooperate with the European-based court that some accuse of targeting Africans

Nigeria was forced in the past to hand over an internationally

wanted criminal — former Libe-rian President Charles Taylor, the warlord who began that country’s devastating civil war in 1989.

In 2003, Taylor resigned under pressure and a promise from Nige-ria’s government to give him a safe haven. When democratically elected leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf de-manded his extradition in 2006, Ni-geria came under huge international pressure and was forced to go back on its word and hand him over.

Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison by the Interna-tional Criminal Court in May, not for crimes committed in his own country but for his responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in neighbor-ing Sierra Leone.

A diplomat at the Sudanese embassy in Abuja, the Nige-rian capital, told The Associated

Press that al-Bashir left at 3 p.m. Monday, less than 24 hours after he arrived and in the middle of a two-day summit ending Tues-day. The diplomat, who refused to give his name, said his hasty departure had nothing to do with the pressure for his arrest.

Leaders from eight other Af-rican countries are attending the summit, including Kenya, which has shunned al-Bashir.

South Africa, Malawi, Ugan-da, Kenya, Zambia, and Central Africa Republic “have specifi-cally made clear Bashir will be arrested on their territory, seen to it that other Sudanese officials visit instead of Bashir, relo-cated conferences or otherwise avoided his visits,” said human rights lawyer Chino Obiagwu, who heads the Nigerian Coali-tion on the ICC.

Associated Press Writer

OMAHA, Neb. — Authorities arrested an Indiana doctor on suspi-cion of carrying out two attacks in Omaha over the past five years in which four people were killed who had ties to a local university medical school that fired him in 2001.

Dr. Anthony Garcia, who now lives in Terre Haute, Ind., was arrested by Illinois State Police during a traffic stop Monday in Union County, which is in the south of the state near Illinois’ borders with Indiana and Missouri, Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said. Officers said Garcia appeared to be intoxicated when they arrested him and he had a .45-caliber handgun with him.

Garcia, 40, was being held in Illinois on suspicion of four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of using a weapon to commit a felony, Schmaderer said. An Illinois State Police official declined to discuss details of Garcia’s arrest or detention, and said any questions should go to Omaha police.

Garcia didn’t have a listed phone number in Terre Haute or in Chi-cago, where he previously lived, and it wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney. No one answered the phone at his family’s home in Walnut, Calif., Monday evening.

Public records show that since 2003, Garcia has held medical licenses in California, Illinois and Indiana, but his temporary Indiana license expired in January.

Investigators believe that in May, Garcia broke into the Omaha home of Creighton University medical school pathology professor Roger Brumback and fatally shot him and stabbed his wife Mary to death, Schmaderer said. They also believe Garcia was behind a 2008 home invasion in which the 11-year-old son and family housekeeper of another pathology department professor, William Hunter, were stabbed to death.

Associated Press Writer

HANOI, Vietnam — A Vietnamese court has sentenced five people to death for dealing heroin, lengthening the country’s list of condemned criminals even as it struggles to obtain the chemicals needed to execute them.

Vietnam has not executed anyone since 2011, when it decided to switch from firing squads to lethal injection on humanitarian grounds.

But it cannot get the chemicals it needs because the European Union bans factories there from exporting drugs used in lethal injections and Vietnam has yet to produce the poisons locally.

The state-run Vietnam News Agency said Tuesday that three men and two women were convicted of dealing 78 kilograms of heroin at the end of a four-day trial Monday in northern province of Bac Giang.

The report said four other women were sentenced to life in prison while four other defendants received 20 years in jail on the same charges in the case.

Four other people were convicted of the same charges last week, and there are currently more than 500 people on death row.

AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze

President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan, left, and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir right, shake hands before an African Union summit on health focusing on HIV and AIDS in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, July 15, 2013.

Diplomat: Sudan leader has fled NigeriaAssociated Press Writer

ABUJA, Nigeria — Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir has left Nigeria, a diplomat at his em-bassy said Tuesday, following demands from human rights activists for the arrest of the man indicted for genocide and war crimes in Darfur.

Vietnam sentences 5 to death for dealing heroin

US doctor suspected in 2 deadly attacks

AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara

Officials prepare meals provided free for Muslim devotees to break their fast at a mosque in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, July 14, 2013. Muslims around the world are in the first week of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, where they refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.

“Based on order of performances, it is a bit too early. The training just finished last Saturday and teachers need to prepare themselves by read-ing manuals, arrange the syllabus and other curriculum’s documents,” PGRI chief Sulistyo said here on Monday.

However Sulistyo appreciated the 2013 curriculum training for the teachers including the book review and micro-teaching sessions.

He said PGRI members through-out Indonesia would monitor the implementation of the 2013 cur-riculum in schools for evaluation purposes.

He hoped the government would also conduct serious monitoring and providing mentors to ensure the implementation of the curriculum to go as expected.

“We hope teachers’ guiding by the govt would run seriously, compatible with its spirit and not just a mere for-mality,” he said. He also emphasized that teachers need to be serious in implementing the 2013 curriculum while keeping the students’ develop-ment on the record from time to time so transformation will not only be on the mindset but also on the behavior as planned.

However, Sulistyo reminded ev-eryone of not only blaming teachers if during implementation no signifi-cant transformation happened.

“If the teachers fail, do not blame them. Because once again, the implementation is a bit too early,” he said.

He said evaluation will be needed in the short-term and long-term, so its development can be monitored.

AntaraJAKARTA - Japan is committed to increasing its investment in the Indo-

nesian energy sector, Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa said.

“They have commitment to increasing investment in Indonesia particularly in the automotive, energy and trade sectors,” he said after receiving Japanese Deputy Minister of Economy Yasutoshi Nishimura in Jakarta on Monday.

Hatta said investment opportunities in the energy sector included the use of geothermal, wind, solar and biomass energy.

“The development of geothermal energy needs huge investment and that almost all Japanese investments in the geothermal sector will be involved, such as those in Lampung, South Sumatra, and North Sumatra,” he said.

In regard to the Japanese investment in the automotive sector, Hatta ex-pressed hope that Indonesia would become a production basis for Japanese manufacturing industry.

“At present some Japanese companies are expanding their businesses in the ASEAN region. We must encourage medium-sized companies to support large-scale companies to reduce our dependence on imports,” he said.

At the meeting the two officials also discussed the continuation of Met-ropolitan Priority Area (MPA) project and its financing scheme through the private sector. “I want the private sector to get involved in it so that it will not burden the government and rely on debts. The state budget funds and loans should be used to develop rural infrastructures, irrigation networks, dams and water reservoirs,” he said.

Nishimura meanwhile responded positively to the effort to enhance trade and investment cooperation between the two countries.

“We have agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in the energy and in-frastructure sectors, particularly renewable and geothermal energy. We are pleased to support it,” he said.

AntaraAMBON - A total of 22 yachts

have been confirmed to par-ticipate in the Darwin-Ambon Yacht Race 2013 (DAYR 2013), official said.

“Up to July 15, 22 yachts with Australian flags have been regis-tered to participate in the race,” Ambon tourism office spokes-man Pieter Ohman said here on Tuesday.

According to him, the 600

nautical mile race to the capital of the Spice Islands attracts en-tries from blue water sailors from Australia and the world.

Pieter said the colorful fleet of yachts would start their sailing adventure to Ambon from Darwin foreshore on August 17, 2013, and the first yacht would arrive in Ambon on August 20.

“If nothing intervenes, all the yachts will arrive here on August 22,” Pieter said, adding

that he had made coordination with related institutions, such as immigration, quarantine house, Maluku tourism office, and Am-bon port authority.

He said the 2012 Darwin to Ambon Yacht Race and Rally was a great success with race par-ticipants and officials attended departure celebrations in Darwin and were then warmly welcomed in Ambon with a number of tra-ditional performances.

Implementation of 2013 curriculum too earlyAntara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Teachers Association (PGRI) said the implementation of the 2013 curriculum was too early considering that the training about it had only finished last Saturday.

Japan committed to increasing investment in energy sector

22 yachts participate in DAYR 2013REUTERS/Omaha Police De-partment/Handout via Reuters

Omaha Police Department photo shows suspect Anthony Joseph Garcia in this booking photo taken after his ar-rest in Illinois on July 15, 2013.

Valentino Rossi has questioned the safety of the Sachsenring layout fol-lowing a spate of heavy crashes during the MotoGP weekend. Championship protagonists Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa were both forced to sit out Sun-day’s race as a result of injuries sustained in horrible highsides during practice.

Andrea Dovizioso, Nicky Hayden, Cal Crutchlow, Andrea Iannone and Bryan Staring were among a list of other riders to fall, with the sixth-gear right-hander of Turn 11 the chief area for incidents.

Rossi admitted it was impossible to ignore the magnitude and frequency of such crashes, particularly when they were localised at a section of track the Italian believes is “very dangerous.”

Asked by AUTOSPORT if the crashes weighed on his approach, Rossi said: “Yeah - every crash, you are more scared. “For me that corner [Turn 11] is very dangerous. It is very fast, going downhill, and you are coming from seven or eight left turns, so the right part of the tyre is cool.

“That corner you have to arrive at the right speed lap by lap, practice by practice - you cannot just arrive, bang. “In the morning I started to push, but then you get yellow flags for the crash

of Iannone.“Also with the crash of Cal, I don’t

expect because it’s my bike. “I think that with a Yamaha it is more difficult to crash there, but Cal crashed, so it’s scary.”

Rossi added that Lorenzo’s shunt, which came at the exit of Turn 10, was also dangerous because his bike had

slid down the hill and was unsighted as Rossi approached.

“I was very lucky that I slowed down,” Rossi explained, “because if not I arrive with the bike in the centre of the track, so it’s very dangerous. “I don’t know which way we can improve the situation.”

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After another brutal attack in the moun-tains on Sunday, Froome leads Bauke Mol-lema and Alberto Contador by more than four minutes with only six stages left — four of them suited to him. There is a time trial on Wednesday, followed by three straight days of tortuous climbs in the Alps. But winning looks like the easy part. The 28-year-old Froome’s physical superiority at the 100th Tour has raised eyebrows, practically inevi-table in the climate of suspicion that haunts cycling after Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven titles for serial doping.

This year’s race is the first since Arm-strong lost his titles, and Froome understands the tone of the questions. Still, he was un-happy that doping became a main topic of his news conference on Monday’s rest day. That followed his stage win on Mont Ventoux, a mammoth climb in Provence that he tamed with two blistering attacks and where he left Contador — the 2007 and ‘09 Tour champion — lagging behind.

“I just think it’s quite sad that we’re sit-ting here the day after the biggest victory of my life ... quite a historic win, talking about doping,” Froome said. “Here I am basically being accused of being a cheat and a liar and that’s not cool. “To compare me with Lance, I mean, Lance cheated. I’m not cheating. End of story.”

With so many of cycling’s recent exploits later shown to have been drug-assisted, people understandably want to know whether they should continue believ-ing. Froome’s performances are subject to intense debate on social media, cycling blogs and in mainstream media.

“I can assure you that we are thinking very, very hard about the optimal way of proving to you guys that we’re not dop-ing,” Sky team manager Dave Brailsford said Monday, adding that the World Anti-Doping Agency could help by appointing an expert to scrutinize Froome.

“They can come and live with us,” Brailsfordsaid. “They can have all of our information. They can see all of our data.” Brailsford and Froome would much rather focusing on the Alps. And judging by what Contador saw on the 21-kilometer (13-mile) ascent up Ventoux, the Spaniard has every reason to fear more misery there. “My objec-tive was to win the Tour, but (Froome) is a level above the rest,” Contador said.

If Contador thinks Ventoux was tough, then he will be dreading Thursday’s 18th stage — featuring two big climbs up l’Alpe d’Huez, one of the Tour’s most famed mountain passes. That is bad enough, but Friday’s 204.5-kilome-ter (127-mile) trek from Bourg d’Oisans to Le Grand-Bornand looks horrendous.

Reuters The Houston Rockets introduced their “Superman” on

Saturday with the official announcement they had signed three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year Dwight Howard to a four-year free agent deal.

Howard, 27, said playing for the Rockets would bring a smile back on his face and help make Houston big winners, and team owner Leslie Alexander said the seven-time All-Star center could lift the team to great heights.

“He’s going to be phenomenal,” Alexander said at a news conference/pep rally, vowing that the center’s arrival made the Rockets NBA title contenders.

Houston clinched the last playoff berth in the Western Conference last season with a 45-37 record and lost in the first round to Oklahoma City.

The powerfully built Howard, who wore a Superman tee shirt and cape when he won the NBA All-Star Game slam dunk contest in 2008, said he was eager for a fresh start in Houston, where big men have thrived at the center position.

“This is very special,” said Howard, who after forcing a trade from his original team, the Orlando Magic, spent an unhappy season with the Los Angeles Lakers. “Words really can’t explain how I feel about being here. “It’s a fresh start, a clean slate.”

Froome looks unbeatable in Tour de France quest

AP Photo/Christophe EnaSpectators run alongside stage winner Christopher Froome of Britain, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, and second place Nairo Alexander Quintana of Colombia, right, as they climb Mont Ventoux pass during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 242.5 kilometers (150.7 miles) with start in in Givors and finish on the summit of Mont Ventoux pass, France, Sunday July 14, 2013.

Associated Press Writer

entReCHaUX, France — there appears to be little to stop Chris Froome from reaching the Champs-elysees on Sunday in the yellow jersey and becoming the second straight British cyclist to win the tour de France.

Howard says Rockets’ ride will feature smiles and wins

Rossi questions Sachsenring safety

AP Photo/Jens MeyerYamaha rider Valentino Rossi of Italy races to finish third in the MotoGP at the Grand Prix of Germany at the Sachsenring circuit in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, near the city of Chemnitz, Germany, Sunday, July 14, 2013.

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Kehen Temple is a beautiful Hindu temple located in foothills, south part of Bangli Regency and it is about 45 Km from Denpasar town. Inside of this temple are, there is Panyimpenan Temple build-ing keep 3 inscriptions which is relating to its contents and temple existence. It is strategically located in the high land, so we can see the beautiful view. It is a famous temple in Bali and many visitors from foreign country has visited it.

The existence of the inscription at Kehen Temple can be explained as follows:

* Kehen Temple Inscription ‘A’ is mentioning the existence of 3 sanctums those are Hyang Api, Hyang Tanda, and Hyang Kari-mama

* Kehen Temple Inscription ‘B’ from 11 century is mentioning the empire functionary that is the Senapati Kuturan pu Kandara and it elaborate with the anathema words in oath

* The Inscription from 13 century (year 1204 M) is mentioning Hyang Kehen and Hyang Wukir. At the moment Hyang Kehen is equal to Kehen Temple and Hyang Wukir is Puncak Bukit Bangli Temple.

* It is one of Monarchic Temple, The temple under the aegis of king while ceremony execution and construction is delivered to lo-cal countryside custom

* As a sanctum which is used as a altar (oath) for empire func-tionary who disloyal to his obligation will incur the Sapata or very horrible anathema. The function of Kehen Temple as sanctum in execution of oath ceremony is supported by the existence of a circumlocutory canister by 4 dragon tails which is called canister Sarpantaka. Nowadays, the canister is placed in a building in form of Gedong

* Worshiping supremacy Siwa God in the form of Eka Dasa Rudra utilizes to request the godsend to the good human life and universe for blessing of fertile life, secure, prosperous and peaceful.

The structure of Kehen Temple yard is arranged to have a ter-race and it shows the existence of tradition megalithic which is continued as a symbol from the existence of mount that is one of the fertility sources. The temple festival can be divided into 2 types those are Piodalan Ceremony which is executed every 6 month, that is on Wednesday Keliwon Sinta (Balinese Calendar) and Ngusaba Ceremony which is executed every 5 years.

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Rodolfo Zelaya scored his third goal of the tournament to lift El Salvador to a 1-0 victory over Haiti. Zelaya redirected a rebound after Haiti goalkeeper Frandy Montrevil stopped his penalty in the 76th minute.

“We came here to have a good Gold Cup,” Zelaya said. “Hopefully we can surprise some people in the next round.”

Haiti, which had only needed a draw to advance, was knocked out of the tournament after Trini-dad and Tobago’s 2-0 win over Group B leader Honduras in the second game of the night.

Honduras, which had previously beaten Haiti and El Salvador, was already assured of advancing.

Stoke City striker Kenwyne Jones converted a penalty in the 47th minute to put Trini-dad and Tobago up 1-0. Kevin Molino added a second goal in the 67th.

“We knew we had to play for the result, but more important for me was the positive approach the team took,” Trinidad and Tobago coach Stephen Hart said. “We tried to not only keep possession of the ball but to attack and create some opportunities.”

Haiti had been trying to reach the quarterfinals for the sec-ond time in the last three Gold Cups.

“We didn’t know how to play with the pressure of knowing we needed only a tie to advance,” Haiti coach Israel Blake Cantero said.

Mexico and El Salvador will play in the quarterfinals on Sat-urday. The other pairings will be determined after the final group-stage games between Costa Rica and the United States, both of which are already through to the quarterfinals, and Belize and Cuba on Tuesday.

Reuters England captain Steven Gerrard has signed a contract extension that will keep him at

Liverpool until 2015, the Premier League club announced on Monday. Gerrard, 33, has spent his entire 15-year professional career at Liverpool where he has scored 158 goals in

630 appearances.“I think everyone knows what it means to me,” Gerrard said in a statement on Liver-

pool’s website (www.liverpoolfc.com).“I’ve been here that long and so to extend, it’s a big day for me and I’m really

happy. It’s great news.“I’m glad it’s all done and it’s happened at the right time before the season, so

I can just focus on playing as well as I can,” Gerrard added. Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre was hopeful Gerrard would end his career at the club.

“We’ve said what we’ll do in two years’ time is review it again and see how happy Steven is,” Ayre said. “We seem to always be happy with him, so hope-fully we’ll just continue in that vein.”

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Associated Press Writer

FLORENCE, Italy — Mario Gomez has made it clear why he chose to leave European champion Bayern Mu-nich for Fiorentina. The Germany striker believes that by transferring to a smaller club he’ll get more playing time and have a better chance of staying in form for next year’s World Cup.

“My transfer may seem strange to some people. I had everything in Munich. But here I have the chance to play in view of the World Cup,” Gomez said at his presentation Monday. Gomez added that new Bayern coach Pep Guardiola recommended Fiorentina to him for the Tuscan club’s attacking style developed last season under first-year manager Vincenzo Montella.

Gomez scored 112 goals in 172 games for Bayern across the past four seasons. His reported transfer fee was €20 million ($26 million).

“The arrival of a champion like Gomez confirms how strong our ownership is,” said Fiorentina sporting director Daniele Prade. “It’s an ownership that allows us to battle against Goliath on equal terms.” About 15,000 fans welcomed Gomez at the Stadio Franchi.

“All this enthusiasm is great, it gives me a lot of energy,” Gomez said. “I feel a lot of responsibility and I want to win.”

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader,File

In this April 7, 2012 file picture Bayern’s Mario Gomez controls the ball and scores his side’s

opening goal during the German first divi-sion Bundesliga soccer match between FC

Bayern Munich and FC Augsburg in Munich, Germany.

Associated Press Writer

JOHANNESBURG — Cameroon club Coton Sport won’t be al-lowed to play in the African Champions League this weekend because the country’s football federation is still suspended for government interference, FIFA said on Monday.

Coton Sport’s ineligibility adds to the complications surrounding Africa’s top club competition with Egyptian rivals Zamalek and Al Ahly, the defending champion, without a venue for their meeting because of the political turmoil and threat of violence in their country.

The eight-team group stage, which will ultimately decide Africa’s Champions League semifinalists, is due to have its first round of games on Saturday and Sunday.

FIFA said that it was in contact with various parties in Cameroon but conditions had not yet been met for the suspension to be lifted after the country was banned on July 4. For Cameroon’s clubs and national team to be allowed to compete internationally again, a temporary “nor-malization committee” needs to be formed and take over the running of the federation, FIFA ruled.

“We confirm as well that as the Cameroonian FA is suspended the (Coton Sport) game can’t take place,” the world body said on Monday.

Cameroon’s suspension followed a contested June 19 election in which Mohammed Iya was re-elected as head of the federation despite being under arrest and facing a possible trial for alleged financial mismanagement while in charge of the Cameroon Cotton Development Corporation — ironically the company that finances the Coton Sport club.

Coton Sport will not be able to play against Ivory Coast’s Sewe Sport on Saturday, FIFA said, and might not be able to take part as one of the last eight teams in the Champions League altogether despite Antoine Depadoue Eyenga Essomba, a vice president of the Cameroon federa-tion, saying that the ban was a “blunder” by FIFA and that the federation would challenge it at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Africa’s ruling body, the Confederation of African Football, has not yet made public any decision over Coton Sport’s participation despite there being just five days to go until the first round of group matches.

CAF also hasn’t ruled on the venue for the Zamalek-Al Ahly game on Sunday, although the Egyptian federation has proposed that it take place in the Red Sea resort of El Gouna after authorities couldn’t guarantee security in Cairo or the Mediterranean city of Alexandria because of spiraling violence in Egypt.

Reuters LINKOPING, Sweden - An early goal from Wendie Renard helped

France book their place in the last eight of the European women’s soc-cer championship in Sweden as they secured a 1-0 win over Spain that guaranteed them top spot in Group C on Monday.

Toni Duggan scored a last-gasp equaliser for England, who main-tained their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals with a 1-1 draw against Russia.

France top the standings with six points from their two matches and cannot be overtaken, having beaten second-place Spain, who have three points with one game remaining. England and Russia have a point apiece with the English occupying third spot on goal difference.

France’s winner came after five minutes when Renard got in front of Spain’s Irene Paredes and headed home.

England, who lost their opening game to Spain, dominated the open-ing exchanges, but fell behind when Russia’s Nelli Korovkina struck in the 38th minute.

England piled on the pressure but were wasteful in front of goal and looked to be heading for an early exit until substitute Duggan swept a low shot into the net in stoppage time.

England must beat France in their final group game on Thursday to have any chance of progressing to the last eight, with Russia under similar pressure against Spain.

El Salvador, Trinidad advance at Gold Cup

AP Photo/Bob Levey

Trinidad & Tobago celebrate their first goal against Honduras in the second half a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match on Monday, July 15, 2013, in Houston. Trinidad & Tobago defeated Honduras 2-0.

Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON — El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago got their first victories in the Gold Cup on Monday to ensure both will advance to the quarterfinals of the biennial competition.

FIFA: Cameroon ban still stands

Renard heads winner as France reach quarter-finals

England captain Gerrard extends Liverpool love affair

Gomez joins Fiorentina with eye on World Cup

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Rodolfo Zelaya scored his third goal of the tournament to lift El Salvador to a 1-0 victory over Haiti. Zelaya redirected a rebound after Haiti goalkeeper Frandy Montrevil stopped his penalty in the 76th minute.

“We came here to have a good Gold Cup,” Zelaya said. “Hopefully we can surprise some people in the next round.”

Haiti, which had only needed a draw to advance, was knocked out of the tournament after Trini-dad and Tobago’s 2-0 win over Group B leader Honduras in the second game of the night.

Honduras, which had previously beaten Haiti and El Salvador, was already assured of advancing.

Stoke City striker Kenwyne Jones converted a penalty in the 47th minute to put Trini-dad and Tobago up 1-0. Kevin Molino added a second goal in the 67th.

“We knew we had to play for the result, but more important for me was the positive approach the team took,” Trinidad and Tobago coach Stephen Hart said. “We tried to not only keep possession of the ball but to attack and create some opportunities.”

Haiti had been trying to reach the quarterfinals for the sec-ond time in the last three Gold Cups.

“We didn’t know how to play with the pressure of knowing we needed only a tie to advance,” Haiti coach Israel Blake Cantero said.

Mexico and El Salvador will play in the quarterfinals on Sat-urday. The other pairings will be determined after the final group-stage games between Costa Rica and the United States, both of which are already through to the quarterfinals, and Belize and Cuba on Tuesday.

Reuters England captain Steven Gerrard has signed a contract extension that will keep him at

Liverpool until 2015, the Premier League club announced on Monday. Gerrard, 33, has spent his entire 15-year professional career at Liverpool where he has scored 158 goals in

630 appearances.“I think everyone knows what it means to me,” Gerrard said in a statement on Liver-

pool’s website (www.liverpoolfc.com).“I’ve been here that long and so to extend, it’s a big day for me and I’m really

happy. It’s great news.“I’m glad it’s all done and it’s happened at the right time before the season, so

I can just focus on playing as well as I can,” Gerrard added. Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre was hopeful Gerrard would end his career at the club.

“We’ve said what we’ll do in two years’ time is review it again and see how happy Steven is,” Ayre said. “We seem to always be happy with him, so hope-fully we’ll just continue in that vein.”

IBP/ist

Associated Press Writer

FLORENCE, Italy — Mario Gomez has made it clear why he chose to leave European champion Bayern Mu-nich for Fiorentina. The Germany striker believes that by transferring to a smaller club he’ll get more playing time and have a better chance of staying in form for next year’s World Cup.

“My transfer may seem strange to some people. I had everything in Munich. But here I have the chance to play in view of the World Cup,” Gomez said at his presentation Monday. Gomez added that new Bayern coach Pep Guardiola recommended Fiorentina to him for the Tuscan club’s attacking style developed last season under first-year manager Vincenzo Montella.

Gomez scored 112 goals in 172 games for Bayern across the past four seasons. His reported transfer fee was €20 million ($26 million).

“The arrival of a champion like Gomez confirms how strong our ownership is,” said Fiorentina sporting director Daniele Prade. “It’s an ownership that allows us to battle against Goliath on equal terms.” About 15,000 fans welcomed Gomez at the Stadio Franchi.

“All this enthusiasm is great, it gives me a lot of energy,” Gomez said. “I feel a lot of responsibility and I want to win.”

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader,File

In this April 7, 2012 file picture Bayern’s Mario Gomez controls the ball and scores his side’s

opening goal during the German first divi-sion Bundesliga soccer match between FC

Bayern Munich and FC Augsburg in Munich, Germany.

Associated Press Writer

JOHANNESBURG — Cameroon club Coton Sport won’t be al-lowed to play in the African Champions League this weekend because the country’s football federation is still suspended for government interference, FIFA said on Monday.

Coton Sport’s ineligibility adds to the complications surrounding Africa’s top club competition with Egyptian rivals Zamalek and Al Ahly, the defending champion, without a venue for their meeting because of the political turmoil and threat of violence in their country.

The eight-team group stage, which will ultimately decide Africa’s Champions League semifinalists, is due to have its first round of games on Saturday and Sunday.

FIFA said that it was in contact with various parties in Cameroon but conditions had not yet been met for the suspension to be lifted after the country was banned on July 4. For Cameroon’s clubs and national team to be allowed to compete internationally again, a temporary “nor-malization committee” needs to be formed and take over the running of the federation, FIFA ruled.

“We confirm as well that as the Cameroonian FA is suspended the (Coton Sport) game can’t take place,” the world body said on Monday.

Cameroon’s suspension followed a contested June 19 election in which Mohammed Iya was re-elected as head of the federation despite being under arrest and facing a possible trial for alleged financial mismanagement while in charge of the Cameroon Cotton Development Corporation — ironically the company that finances the Coton Sport club.

Coton Sport will not be able to play against Ivory Coast’s Sewe Sport on Saturday, FIFA said, and might not be able to take part as one of the last eight teams in the Champions League altogether despite Antoine Depadoue Eyenga Essomba, a vice president of the Cameroon federa-tion, saying that the ban was a “blunder” by FIFA and that the federation would challenge it at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Africa’s ruling body, the Confederation of African Football, has not yet made public any decision over Coton Sport’s participation despite there being just five days to go until the first round of group matches.

CAF also hasn’t ruled on the venue for the Zamalek-Al Ahly game on Sunday, although the Egyptian federation has proposed that it take place in the Red Sea resort of El Gouna after authorities couldn’t guarantee security in Cairo or the Mediterranean city of Alexandria because of spiraling violence in Egypt.

Reuters LINKOPING, Sweden - An early goal from Wendie Renard helped

France book their place in the last eight of the European women’s soc-cer championship in Sweden as they secured a 1-0 win over Spain that guaranteed them top spot in Group C on Monday.

Toni Duggan scored a last-gasp equaliser for England, who main-tained their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals with a 1-1 draw against Russia.

France top the standings with six points from their two matches and cannot be overtaken, having beaten second-place Spain, who have three points with one game remaining. England and Russia have a point apiece with the English occupying third spot on goal difference.

France’s winner came after five minutes when Renard got in front of Spain’s Irene Paredes and headed home.

England, who lost their opening game to Spain, dominated the open-ing exchanges, but fell behind when Russia’s Nelli Korovkina struck in the 38th minute.

England piled on the pressure but were wasteful in front of goal and looked to be heading for an early exit until substitute Duggan swept a low shot into the net in stoppage time.

England must beat France in their final group game on Thursday to have any chance of progressing to the last eight, with Russia under similar pressure against Spain.

El Salvador, Trinidad advance at Gold Cup

AP Photo/Bob Levey

Trinidad & Tobago celebrate their first goal against Honduras in the second half a CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer match on Monday, July 15, 2013, in Houston. Trinidad & Tobago defeated Honduras 2-0.

Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON — El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago got their first victories in the Gold Cup on Monday to ensure both will advance to the quarterfinals of the biennial competition.

FIFA: Cameroon ban still stands

Renard heads winner as France reach quarter-finals

England captain Gerrard extends Liverpool love affair

Gomez joins Fiorentina with eye on World Cup

Valentino Rossi has questioned the safety of the Sachsenring layout fol-lowing a spate of heavy crashes during the MotoGP weekend. Championship protagonists Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa were both forced to sit out Sun-day’s race as a result of injuries sustained in horrible highsides during practice.

Andrea Dovizioso, Nicky Hayden, Cal Crutchlow, Andrea Iannone and Bryan Staring were among a list of other riders to fall, with the sixth-gear right-hander of Turn 11 the chief area for incidents.

Rossi admitted it was impossible to ignore the magnitude and frequency of such crashes, particularly when they were localised at a section of track the Italian believes is “very dangerous.”

Asked by AUTOSPORT if the crashes weighed on his approach, Rossi said: “Yeah - every crash, you are more scared. “For me that corner [Turn 11] is very dangerous. It is very fast, going downhill, and you are coming from seven or eight left turns, so the right part of the tyre is cool.

“That corner you have to arrive at the right speed lap by lap, practice by practice - you cannot just arrive, bang. “In the morning I started to push, but then you get yellow flags for the crash

of Iannone.“Also with the crash of Cal, I don’t

expect because it’s my bike. “I think that with a Yamaha it is more difficult to crash there, but Cal crashed, so it’s scary.”

Rossi added that Lorenzo’s shunt, which came at the exit of Turn 10, was also dangerous because his bike had

slid down the hill and was unsighted as Rossi approached.

“I was very lucky that I slowed down,” Rossi explained, “because if not I arrive with the bike in the centre of the track, so it’s very dangerous. “I don’t know which way we can improve the situation.”

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After another brutal attack in the moun-tains on Sunday, Froome leads Bauke Mol-lema and Alberto Contador by more than four minutes with only six stages left — four of them suited to him. There is a time trial on Wednesday, followed by three straight days of tortuous climbs in the Alps. But winning looks like the easy part. The 28-year-old Froome’s physical superiority at the 100th Tour has raised eyebrows, practically inevi-table in the climate of suspicion that haunts cycling after Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven titles for serial doping.

This year’s race is the first since Arm-strong lost his titles, and Froome understands the tone of the questions. Still, he was un-happy that doping became a main topic of his news conference on Monday’s rest day. That followed his stage win on Mont Ventoux, a mammoth climb in Provence that he tamed with two blistering attacks and where he left Contador — the 2007 and ‘09 Tour champion — lagging behind.

“I just think it’s quite sad that we’re sit-ting here the day after the biggest victory of my life ... quite a historic win, talking about doping,” Froome said. “Here I am basically being accused of being a cheat and a liar and that’s not cool. “To compare me with Lance, I mean, Lance cheated. I’m not cheating. End of story.”

With so many of cycling’s recent exploits later shown to have been drug-assisted, people understandably want to know whether they should continue believ-ing. Froome’s performances are subject to intense debate on social media, cycling blogs and in mainstream media.

“I can assure you that we are thinking very, very hard about the optimal way of proving to you guys that we’re not dop-ing,” Sky team manager Dave Brailsford said Monday, adding that the World Anti-Doping Agency could help by appointing an expert to scrutinize Froome.

“They can come and live with us,” Brailsfordsaid. “They can have all of our information. They can see all of our data.” Brailsford and Froome would much rather focusing on the Alps. And judging by what Contador saw on the 21-kilometer (13-mile) ascent up Ventoux, the Spaniard has every reason to fear more misery there. “My objec-tive was to win the Tour, but (Froome) is a level above the rest,” Contador said.

If Contador thinks Ventoux was tough, then he will be dreading Thursday’s 18th stage — featuring two big climbs up l’Alpe d’Huez, one of the Tour’s most famed mountain passes. That is bad enough, but Friday’s 204.5-kilome-ter (127-mile) trek from Bourg d’Oisans to Le Grand-Bornand looks horrendous.

Reuters The Houston Rockets introduced their “Superman” on

Saturday with the official announcement they had signed three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year Dwight Howard to a four-year free agent deal.

Howard, 27, said playing for the Rockets would bring a smile back on his face and help make Houston big winners, and team owner Leslie Alexander said the seven-time All-Star center could lift the team to great heights.

“He’s going to be phenomenal,” Alexander said at a news conference/pep rally, vowing that the center’s arrival made the Rockets NBA title contenders.

Houston clinched the last playoff berth in the Western Conference last season with a 45-37 record and lost in the first round to Oklahoma City.

The powerfully built Howard, who wore a Superman tee shirt and cape when he won the NBA All-Star Game slam dunk contest in 2008, said he was eager for a fresh start in Houston, where big men have thrived at the center position.

“This is very special,” said Howard, who after forcing a trade from his original team, the Orlando Magic, spent an unhappy season with the Los Angeles Lakers. “Words really can’t explain how I feel about being here. “It’s a fresh start, a clean slate.”

Froome looks unbeatable in Tour de France quest

AP Photo/Christophe EnaSpectators run alongside stage winner Christopher Froome of Britain, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, and second place Nairo Alexander Quintana of Colombia, right, as they climb Mont Ventoux pass during the fifteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 242.5 kilometers (150.7 miles) with start in in Givors and finish on the summit of Mont Ventoux pass, France, Sunday July 14, 2013.

Associated Press Writer

entReCHaUX, France — there appears to be little to stop Chris Froome from reaching the Champs-elysees on Sunday in the yellow jersey and becoming the second straight British cyclist to win the tour de France.

Howard says Rockets’ ride will feature smiles and wins

Rossi questions Sachsenring safety

AP Photo/Jens MeyerYamaha rider Valentino Rossi of Italy races to finish third in the MotoGP at the Grand Prix of Germany at the Sachsenring circuit in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, near the city of Chemnitz, Germany, Sunday, July 14, 2013.

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Kehen Temple is a beautiful Hindu temple located in foothills, south part of Bangli Regency and it is about 45 Km from Denpasar town. Inside of this temple are, there is Panyimpenan Temple build-ing keep 3 inscriptions which is relating to its contents and temple existence. It is strategically located in the high land, so we can see the beautiful view. It is a famous temple in Bali and many visitors from foreign country has visited it.

The existence of the inscription at Kehen Temple can be explained as follows:

* Kehen Temple Inscription ‘A’ is mentioning the existence of 3 sanctums those are Hyang Api, Hyang Tanda, and Hyang Kari-mama

* Kehen Temple Inscription ‘B’ from 11 century is mentioning the empire functionary that is the Senapati Kuturan pu Kandara and it elaborate with the anathema words in oath

* The Inscription from 13 century (year 1204 M) is mentioning Hyang Kehen and Hyang Wukir. At the moment Hyang Kehen is equal to Kehen Temple and Hyang Wukir is Puncak Bukit Bangli Temple.

* It is one of Monarchic Temple, The temple under the aegis of king while ceremony execution and construction is delivered to lo-cal countryside custom

* As a sanctum which is used as a altar (oath) for empire func-tionary who disloyal to his obligation will incur the Sapata or very horrible anathema. The function of Kehen Temple as sanctum in execution of oath ceremony is supported by the existence of a circumlocutory canister by 4 dragon tails which is called canister Sarpantaka. Nowadays, the canister is placed in a building in form of Gedong

* Worshiping supremacy Siwa God in the form of Eka Dasa Rudra utilizes to request the godsend to the good human life and universe for blessing of fertile life, secure, prosperous and peaceful.

The structure of Kehen Temple yard is arranged to have a ter-race and it shows the existence of tradition megalithic which is continued as a symbol from the existence of mount that is one of the fertility sources. The temple festival can be divided into 2 types those are Piodalan Ceremony which is executed every 6 month, that is on Wednesday Keliwon Sinta (Balinese Calendar) and Ngusaba Ceremony which is executed every 5 years.

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Kehen Temple

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Human rights lawyers filed a suit in the Federal High Court on Monday to try to compel Nigeria’s government to arrest al-Bashir. And a civil rights group urgently appealed to the International Criminal Court to refer the government to the U.N. Security Council for allowing the visit.

Presidential spokesman Reu-ben Abati told The Associated Press that al-Bashir had come to attend the African Union summit, and not at Nigeria’s invitation. He said Nigeria’s action in allowing him to come was in line with in-structions from the African Union, which has told its 53 member states not to cooperate with the European-based court that some accuse of targeting Africans

Nigeria was forced in the past to hand over an internationally

wanted criminal — former Libe-rian President Charles Taylor, the warlord who began that country’s devastating civil war in 1989.

In 2003, Taylor resigned under pressure and a promise from Nige-ria’s government to give him a safe haven. When democratically elected leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf de-manded his extradition in 2006, Ni-geria came under huge international pressure and was forced to go back on its word and hand him over.

Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison by the Interna-tional Criminal Court in May, not for crimes committed in his own country but for his responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in neighbor-ing Sierra Leone.

A diplomat at the Sudanese embassy in Abuja, the Nige-rian capital, told The Associated

Press that al-Bashir left at 3 p.m. Monday, less than 24 hours after he arrived and in the middle of a two-day summit ending Tues-day. The diplomat, who refused to give his name, said his hasty departure had nothing to do with the pressure for his arrest.

Leaders from eight other Af-rican countries are attending the summit, including Kenya, which has shunned al-Bashir.

South Africa, Malawi, Ugan-da, Kenya, Zambia, and Central Africa Republic “have specifi-cally made clear Bashir will be arrested on their territory, seen to it that other Sudanese officials visit instead of Bashir, relo-cated conferences or otherwise avoided his visits,” said human rights lawyer Chino Obiagwu, who heads the Nigerian Coali-tion on the ICC.

Associated Press Writer

OMAHA, Neb. — Authorities arrested an Indiana doctor on suspi-cion of carrying out two attacks in Omaha over the past five years in which four people were killed who had ties to a local university medical school that fired him in 2001.

Dr. Anthony Garcia, who now lives in Terre Haute, Ind., was arrested by Illinois State Police during a traffic stop Monday in Union County, which is in the south of the state near Illinois’ borders with Indiana and Missouri, Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said. Officers said Garcia appeared to be intoxicated when they arrested him and he had a .45-caliber handgun with him.

Garcia, 40, was being held in Illinois on suspicion of four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of using a weapon to commit a felony, Schmaderer said. An Illinois State Police official declined to discuss details of Garcia’s arrest or detention, and said any questions should go to Omaha police.

Garcia didn’t have a listed phone number in Terre Haute or in Chi-cago, where he previously lived, and it wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney. No one answered the phone at his family’s home in Walnut, Calif., Monday evening.

Public records show that since 2003, Garcia has held medical licenses in California, Illinois and Indiana, but his temporary Indiana license expired in January.

Investigators believe that in May, Garcia broke into the Omaha home of Creighton University medical school pathology professor Roger Brumback and fatally shot him and stabbed his wife Mary to death, Schmaderer said. They also believe Garcia was behind a 2008 home invasion in which the 11-year-old son and family housekeeper of another pathology department professor, William Hunter, were stabbed to death.

Associated Press Writer

HANOI, Vietnam — A Vietnamese court has sentenced five people to death for dealing heroin, lengthening the country’s list of condemned criminals even as it struggles to obtain the chemicals needed to execute them.

Vietnam has not executed anyone since 2011, when it decided to switch from firing squads to lethal injection on humanitarian grounds.

But it cannot get the chemicals it needs because the European Union bans factories there from exporting drugs used in lethal injections and Vietnam has yet to produce the poisons locally.

The state-run Vietnam News Agency said Tuesday that three men and two women were convicted of dealing 78 kilograms of heroin at the end of a four-day trial Monday in northern province of Bac Giang.

The report said four other women were sentenced to life in prison while four other defendants received 20 years in jail on the same charges in the case.

Four other people were convicted of the same charges last week, and there are currently more than 500 people on death row.

AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze

President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan, left, and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir right, shake hands before an African Union summit on health focusing on HIV and AIDS in Abuja, Nigeria, Monday, July 15, 2013.

Diplomat: Sudan leader has fled NigeriaAssociated Press Writer

ABUJA, Nigeria — Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir has left Nigeria, a diplomat at his em-bassy said Tuesday, following demands from human rights activists for the arrest of the man indicted for genocide and war crimes in Darfur.

Vietnam sentences 5 to death for dealing heroin

US doctor suspected in 2 deadly attacks

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Officials prepare meals provided free for Muslim devotees to break their fast at a mosque in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, July 14, 2013. Muslims around the world are in the first week of Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, where they refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.

“Based on order of performances, it is a bit too early. The training just finished last Saturday and teachers need to prepare themselves by read-ing manuals, arrange the syllabus and other curriculum’s documents,” PGRI chief Sulistyo said here on Monday.

However Sulistyo appreciated the 2013 curriculum training for the teachers including the book review and micro-teaching sessions.

He said PGRI members through-out Indonesia would monitor the implementation of the 2013 cur-riculum in schools for evaluation purposes.

He hoped the government would also conduct serious monitoring and providing mentors to ensure the implementation of the curriculum to go as expected.

“We hope teachers’ guiding by the govt would run seriously, compatible with its spirit and not just a mere for-mality,” he said. He also emphasized that teachers need to be serious in implementing the 2013 curriculum while keeping the students’ develop-ment on the record from time to time so transformation will not only be on the mindset but also on the behavior as planned.

However, Sulistyo reminded ev-eryone of not only blaming teachers if during implementation no signifi-cant transformation happened.

“If the teachers fail, do not blame them. Because once again, the implementation is a bit too early,” he said.

He said evaluation will be needed in the short-term and long-term, so its development can be monitored.

AntaraJAKARTA - Japan is committed to increasing its investment in the Indo-

nesian energy sector, Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa said.

“They have commitment to increasing investment in Indonesia particularly in the automotive, energy and trade sectors,” he said after receiving Japanese Deputy Minister of Economy Yasutoshi Nishimura in Jakarta on Monday.

Hatta said investment opportunities in the energy sector included the use of geothermal, wind, solar and biomass energy.

“The development of geothermal energy needs huge investment and that almost all Japanese investments in the geothermal sector will be involved, such as those in Lampung, South Sumatra, and North Sumatra,” he said.

In regard to the Japanese investment in the automotive sector, Hatta ex-pressed hope that Indonesia would become a production basis for Japanese manufacturing industry.

“At present some Japanese companies are expanding their businesses in the ASEAN region. We must encourage medium-sized companies to support large-scale companies to reduce our dependence on imports,” he said.

At the meeting the two officials also discussed the continuation of Met-ropolitan Priority Area (MPA) project and its financing scheme through the private sector. “I want the private sector to get involved in it so that it will not burden the government and rely on debts. The state budget funds and loans should be used to develop rural infrastructures, irrigation networks, dams and water reservoirs,” he said.

Nishimura meanwhile responded positively to the effort to enhance trade and investment cooperation between the two countries.

“We have agreed to enhance bilateral cooperation in the energy and in-frastructure sectors, particularly renewable and geothermal energy. We are pleased to support it,” he said.

AntaraAMBON - A total of 22 yachts

have been confirmed to par-ticipate in the Darwin-Ambon Yacht Race 2013 (DAYR 2013), official said.

“Up to July 15, 22 yachts with Australian flags have been regis-tered to participate in the race,” Ambon tourism office spokes-man Pieter Ohman said here on Tuesday.

According to him, the 600

nautical mile race to the capital of the Spice Islands attracts en-tries from blue water sailors from Australia and the world.

Pieter said the colorful fleet of yachts would start their sailing adventure to Ambon from Darwin foreshore on August 17, 2013, and the first yacht would arrive in Ambon on August 20.

“If nothing intervenes, all the yachts will arrive here on August 22,” Pieter said, adding

that he had made coordination with related institutions, such as immigration, quarantine house, Maluku tourism office, and Am-bon port authority.

He said the 2012 Darwin to Ambon Yacht Race and Rally was a great success with race par-ticipants and officials attended departure celebrations in Darwin and were then warmly welcomed in Ambon with a number of tra-ditional performances.

Implementation of 2013 curriculum too earlyAntara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Teachers Association (PGRI) said the implementation of the 2013 curriculum was too early considering that the training about it had only finished last Saturday.

Japan committed to increasing investment in energy sector

22 yachts participate in DAYR 2013REUTERS/Omaha Police De-partment/Handout via Reuters

Omaha Police Department photo shows suspect Anthony Joseph Garcia in this booking photo taken after his ar-rest in Illinois on July 15, 2013.

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Agence France-PresseLONDON - London’s Mayor Boris Johnson on

Monday proposed shutting Heathrow airport, one of the busiest in the world, and replacing it with a major new hub to the east of the capital.

Setting out three proposals to end Britain’s chronic shortage of air capacity, Johnson said a new four-runway airport would create thousands of jobs and allow London to compete with rival international transport hubs.

“For London and the wider UK to remain com-petitive, we have to build an airport capable of emulating that scale of growth,” he told a press conference.

“Anyone who believes there would be the space to do that at Heathrow, which already blights the lives of hundreds of thousands of Londoners, is quite simply crackers.”

Despite being one of the world’s busiest airports, Heathrow in west London has only two runways and is running at 98.5 percent of its capacity.

For years politicians have wrestled with con-tentious plans to give Heathrow another runway, with Johnson among those arguing that the noise and air pollution would be intolerable for people who live nearby.

On Monday, he put forward three alternative locations for a new four-runway hub, including his long-touted proposal to build an airport on an artificial island in the River Thames, dubbed Boris Island.

The other two ideas are to expand Stansted air-port northeast of London, which currently has one runway, and to build an airport on the Isle of Grain in Kent on the River Thames.

The new hub could open by 2029 and would cost approximately £20 billion ($75 billion, 58 billion euros) including the construction of road and rail links to the airport, Johnson claimed.

“Of all the three, I still think the Isle of Grain seems to me to combine the regeneration with the connectivity and with the ease of communication to London,” said Johnson.

He added that British politicians had been “sit-ting around like puddings for the last 40 years doing nothing” while rival countries built up their air capacity.

Up to 100,000 homes could be built on Heath-row’s site as well as a new university campus, the Conservative mayor suggested.

“There is a fantastic opportunity here for London and the United Kingdom,” he told a press confer-ence, adding that the plan would help to solve London’s “catastrophic housing shortage”.

In May, lawmakers on parliament’s Transport Committee rejected the “Boris Island” plan and instead backed the expansion of Heathrow.

A new hub to the east would not be possible without vast public investment in the road and rail system, the committee said.

Johnson will submit the plans this week to the government-appointed Airport Commission, which is due to give its recommendations on the future of British air transport in 2015.

A day after Beijing released data showing its economy slowed for a second successive month in April-June, the Manila-based ADB trimmed its outlook for developing Asia this year to 6.3 percent, from 6.6 percent.In the update to its annual Asian De-velopment Outlook publication, first published in April, the bank also pared its 2014 forecast for developing Asia to 6.4 percent, from 6.7 percent.

The update is only a little better that what the bank described in the report as the region’s “relatively sluggish” growth pace of 6.1 percent last year.

“The drop in trade and scaling back of investment are part of a more balanced growth path for (China), and the knock-on effect of its slower pace is definitely a concern for the region,” the bank’s chief economist, Changyong Rhee, said in a state-

ment.“But we are also seeing more sub-

dued activity across much of develop-ing Asia,” Rhee added.

Developing Asia groups 45 na-tions or territories from Central Asia through to the Pacific islands, but excludes Japan.

The report cited a marginally better outlook for the advanced economies, particularly Japan.

However, this did not lead to stron-ger demand for Asian exports, and the first-half economic performance across the region was “unexpectedly subdued”, it added.

China said Monday gross domestic product expanded 7.5 percent in the second quarter, following 7.7 percent in the previous three months and 7.9 percent in October-December.

The ADB said it now sees China’s economy growing 7.7 percent this

year and 7.5 percent in 2014.Both figures are lower than its

April forecasts of 8.2 percent and 8.0 percent. The Asian economic giant grew 7.8 percent last year.The ADB now expects Southeast Asia’s econo-mies to expand 5.2 percent this year, down from 5.4 percent.

It also trimmed its forecast for South Asia to 5.6 percent this year, while maintaining its 6.2 percent projection for 2014.

On a positive note, the ADB said slower GDP growth was helping the region contain inflation., while expanded global natural gas produc-tion was also helping suppress energy prices.

The bank lowered its inflation forecasts for developing Asia to 3.5 percent this year and 3.7 percent in 2014, the latter on par with the 2012 rate.

Close Heathrow airport, London mayor proposes

AP PhotoIn this photo taken Monday July 8, 2013, containers are piled at a port in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong prov-ince. China’s slowing economic growth is weakening momentum throughout the rest of Asia, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday as it revised down its forecasts for the region.

ADB trims Asia growth forecasts on China slowdown

Agence France-Presse

MANILA - China’s slowing economic growth is weakening momentum throughout the rest of Asia, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday as it revised down its forecasts for the region.

Advancement of science of technology does not answer all problems encountered by human life. In agriculture, for instance, modern farmers can now have boosted the quantity of production, even in multiple amounts. On the one hand, it’s a great success but on the other hand it still leaves a problem on the decline of environ-mental and human health quality.

Green revolution occurred between 1943 and 1970s through the implementation of chemi-cal fertilizer and good irrigation system has conjured up the rice production. In short term, it became an efficacious medicine to resolve the famine in tropical countries. Few decades later, it had an impact on the reduction of environmental quality, like pollution in water, land and oth-ers. Apart from the impact on the environment, it was also had an impact on human health like the

rise of some new cancers.Green culture is intended to

change the societal behavior in managing their waste manage-ment and environment. Green economy hints that all economic activities should be in the eco-friendly orientation. These two aspects will empty out into the initiative of Bali Organic.

One of the aspects is applied in the agricultural field. Socializa-tion has been intensified while es-tablishing farmer groups. Through breeding local cows, for instance, farmers are expected to get maxi-mal benefits. Other than increas-ing the number of cows, they will be able to take advantage the cow dung and urine for organic fertiliz-ers. In the long run, it will reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Of course, this endeav-or will reduce the production cost that should be spent by farmers and at the same time increase the

quality of rice as well as improve the environmental quality.

As a matter of fact, simple practice of this concept could have been seen around 1970s. Farmers using cows to cultivate their land could also take advantage of their cow dung. It was spread out onto the rice field and its efficacy could last for at least for two planting seasons. In terraced rice field, it could uniquely be managed by es-tablishing a cowshed in the upper stream. Later on, the collected dry cow dung was channeled to rice field through the water gutter.

However, since being urged by the demand to multiple the rice production, farmers left the method. Introduction of hand trac-tor and chemical fertilizers gradu-ally replaced the role of cows. The new method was expected to accelerate the land cultivation process. As consequence, cows were only serving as ‘family sav-

ing’ for farmers.Simple eco-friendly pest con-

trol actually has been proposed in the palm-leaf manuscript en-titled “Shri Tattwa or Darmaning Pemaculan.” It has been applied by subak community in Bali from generation to generation until today. However, it seems to put more emphasis on the ritual as-pect only, while herbal pesticide or other means of the oblation is only applied symbolically. For instance, bird raids are managed by offering two pieces of ketupat sidayu together with oblation and side dish of yellow dragonfly.

Meanwhile, Subash Palekar from India claimed to have devel-oped the vedic-based farming. He has initiated his ‘spiritual farming’ since 1988. In essence he said that God or nature has provided hu-man with everything required to grow plants. So implementing the chemical fertilizers and pesticide

means to oppose God and will re-sult in bad impact to human. Cow dung and urine as well as compost are three beneficial ingredients being enough for farming both on irrigated and non-irrigated land. By doing so, he claims it is a ‘zero budget of natural farming’ as in his trilogy book entitled Philoso-phy of Spiritual Farming.

To sum up, all movements at least refer to the same keywords namely green, natural and eco-friendly concept. They denote milestone of new awareness on modern human to re-orientate their food production in quality. This awareness has triggered the orientation in the quality of life and environment. Hopefully, the aspiration of Bali as Green Prov-ince and other green concepts could be realized supported by entire community based on their awareness of a better quality life! (BTN/punia)

“It will be accompanied with a gala dinner, delegate meeting, limited meet-ing and a visit to a number of craftsmen in the Badung region,” said Secretary of the Women Empowerment and Child Protection of Indonesia, Sridanti, when making a visit to the Badung Regent, AA Gde Agung.

Regent Gde Agung said that some international events would be held in Nusa Dua from the mid to late 2013. Current ly, h is par ty was prepar ing

everything to support the implementa-tion of those events starting from the infrastructure improvements to beau-tification of the landscaping garden along the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai to Nusa Dua.

There were three major projects implemented in Bali such as the Ngurah Rai airport expansion, construction of the underpasses and overwater toll road. Related to the APEC Women Economic Forum, the regent through relevant

agencies helped the preparation of loca-tion for the installation of banner and billboards. Performing arts at the open-ing of the event would be prepared for the performance of the Badung mascot dance named ‘Sekar Jepun.’

“The government of Badung County supports this activity because the suc-cess of this event is very influential for the APEC Summit and the other events held this year in Bali and Badung in particular,” said Regent Gde Agung.

APEC Women Economic Forum 2013 to be held in SeptemberBTN

MANGUPURA - APEC Women Eco-nomic Forum will be held in Nusa Dua in September 2013. Such an event is a series of the APEC Summit to be attended by 21 delegates from around the world. The international event will last for two days. At the opening will be filled with the economic dialogue involving women business partici-pants amounting to 400 people.

IBP/File PhotoA farmer working in rice field on Bali Island recently. Advancement of science of technology does not answer all problems encountered by human life. In agriculture, for instance, modern farmers can now have boosted the quantity of production, even in multiple amounts. On the one hand, it’s a great success but on the other hand it still leaves a problem on the decline of environmental and human health quality.

Spiritual Farming:From One Green to Some other Greens

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The carbon tax on Australia’s worst industrial polluters, including its coal-reliant power producers, went into effect in July 2012 and was supposed to remain in place until 2015. At that point, it was set to be replaced by an emissions trading scheme, in which the cost of emitting a ton of carbon would be determined by buyers and sellers in a carbon market.

Rudd is advancing that timeline by a year, with the emissions trading scheme now beginning on July 1, 2014. The move will reduce the cost of carbon from a pre-

dicted 25.40 Australian dollars ($22.40) per metric ton in July next year to an esti-mated AU$6 per metric ton, Rudd said.

“This is the fiscally responsible thing to do,” Rudd told reporters in the northern city of Townsville. “The nation’s 370 biggest polluters will continue to pay for their car-bon pollution, but the cost will be reduced, meaning less pressure on consumers.”The move is expected to save Australian house-holds an average of AU$380 a year, Rudd said. The savings would largely be in the form of lower energy bills. The government

will make up for a predicted $3.8 billion shortfall in the federal budget with spend-ing cuts, including scaling back funding for some environmental programs. The carbon tax was enacted under the previous prime minister, Julia Gillard, who was ousted by Rudd last month in an internal Labor Party coup. Rudd had been ousted as prime min-ister by Gillard in her own internal coup three years earlier.

Under Gillard, Labor looked set for an overwhelming defeat at this year’s elec-tions. But recent polls suggest the race has tightened since Rudd took back the reins. Gillard had set elections for Sept. 14, though Rudd can hold them between August and November. He has refused to publicly announce a date, though said “there’s not going to be a huge variation” from Sept. 14.

Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is to blame for last month’s cyberattacks on the web-sites of South Korean media companies and the president and prime minister’s offices, a South Korean investigation concluded Tuesday.

South Korea’s ministry of science said it was blaming North Korea based on analysis of codes, Internet addresses and personal computers used to launch the attacks. The attacks occurred June 25, the 63rd anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War.

It is the latest of several cyberattacks in recent years that Seoul blames on North Korea. Pyong-yang has denied previous claims and has accused the U.S. and South Korea of a cyberattack in March that shut down its own websites for two days.

The South Korean government-led team of investigators said the online assaults were planned for several months, and the attackers hacked file-sharing websites in South Korea to find security weaknesses.

An investigator told reporters that the attackers tried to steal personal information from the web-sites targeted in the June 25 cyberattacks, but it was not clear when the attempt took place. Local media reported that the personal information of millions of people was stolen from the presidential office’s website and the ruling party.

Investigators managed to recover data on the hard drives that the attackers destroyed June 25 and found an Internet protocol address that was used by North Korea. They also found that the codes used in the June attacks had the same features as the codes used in the larger March 20 cyberattacks that shut down tens of thousands of computers at South Korean broadcasters and banks.

The attackers in June tried to hide their identi-ties by destroying hard drives and disguising the Internet protocol addresses they used, the ministry said. The attackers also tried to misguide investiga-tors by using the picture of the Anonymous group, the ministry said.

Local media reported in June that the attack was done by a global hacking collective called Anony-mous. But a South Korean government official told the Associated Press at the time that the attackers could not be confirmed at the moment.

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Protesters ran through Los Angeles streets Monday night, breaking windows, attacking people on sidewalks and at one point raiding a Wal-Mart store, while others blocked a major freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area in the third night of demon-strations in California over George Zimmerman’s Florida acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Thirteen people were arrested after multiple acts of vandalism and several assaults in Los Angeles’

Crenshaw District, Mayor Eric Gar-cetti and Police Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference.

Garcetti and Beck didn’t elabo-rate on the assaults or any injuries, but at least one man could be seen in the street with a head injury.

More than 300 officers were called to the scene and were at first slow to directly engage protesters in an attempt to allow a peaceful end to the demonstration, Beck said. But the chief said police would take a much stricter posture in the com-ing nights. “This will not be allowed to continue,” Beck said.

Several hundred mostly peaceful

protesters gathered Monday night at Leimert Park southwest of down-town LA, many of them chanting, praying and singing.

But a smaller group of between 100 and 150 people splintered off and began blocking traffic on nearby Crenshaw Boulevard, some of them jumping on cars and break-ing windows at liquor stores and fast food outlets.

Several protesters ran into a Wal-Mart store, where they knocked down displays before store security chased them out, and police began guarding the door.

Tonya Williams was shopping

South Korea blames North Korea for cyberattack

Zimmerman protesters raid LA store, stop freeway

AP Photo/Jae C. HongA protester confronts a Los Angles police officer during a demon-stration in reaction to the acquittal of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on Monday, July 15, 2013, in Los Angeles.

AP Photo/Rob Griffith, FileFILE - In this Friday, July 8, 2011 file photo, smoke bellows out of a chimney stack at Bluescope Steel works at Port Kembla, south of Sydney. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Tuesday, July 16, 2013 he will transform a deeply unpopular carbon tax a year ahead of schedule, in a bid to cut costs to households as a national election looms.

Australian PM changes carbon tax ahead of electionAssociated Press Writer

SYDNEY — Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Tuesday a deeply

unpopular carbon tax will be replaced by a less-severe emissions trading scheme a year ahead of schedule, in a bid to lower power bills for households as a tight national election looms.

“Mass cremation ceremony is a manifestation of community together-ness. Hopefully, this ceremony can pu-rify the ancestral souls,” said Chairman of the Committee, Nyoman Suatra.

Meanwhile, the mass cremation at Jagatamu customary village was fol-lowed by 13 corpses. The difference lay in the payment where each corpse was charged at IDR 6.5 million. According to the Chairman of the Committee, I

Gusti Made Wandra, the mass cremation was followed by three clans namely the Arya, Pasek and Bujangga.

The cremation (atiwa-tiwa) series would be held on Wednesday (Jul 17) and followed by atma wadana and enthrone the ancestral soul in the respective family shrine. “It’s our commitment to integrate the perception. On that account, the sense of togetherness would continue to exist through mass cremation,” he explained.

Mass cremation ceremony at both villages was visited by special guest. She was the Regent of Tabanan, Ni Putu Eka Wiryastuti, making a time to attend the ceremony. This official expected the ceremony could realize the unity in supporting the regional development. “If the community can come together, the ideals of develop-ment in Tabanan can be realized eas-ily,” he said. (kmb30)

Bangli (Bali Post)—

Dormant construction of the con-crete bridge connecting Tembuku village to Yangapi village for years causes the surrounding community to take initiative to build a bamboo bridge. However, the bamboo bridge connecting both villages has now been in alarming condition. The simple bamboo bridge hanging over the cliff with the height of more than 25 meters causes anxiety because it stays to be used by many local people. Even, the fragile bridge is often passed by elementary school students to commute to school.

As observation of Bali Post on Monday (Jul 15), the bridge having the length of approximately 20 me-ters was in very alarming condition. Braided bamboo used as the bridge deck looked fragile and tenuous. Handrails also made of bamboo were only reinforced with plastic rope. When setting foot on the bridge, it

would strongly sway. Besides, the safety threat was aggravated by the crackling sound of brittle wood. Such condition could certainly harm residents who crossed it. “Actually, I do not dare to pass here because the deck is damaged,” said Ni Luh Demila Febriyanti, one of the el-ementary school students from Yan-gapi village when met after crossing the damaged bamboo bridge.

Nevertheless, some local resi-dents told if the bridge located amidst the woods had long been used as short cut to neighboring village. Residents of Medui hamlet, Tembuku village, often crossed it as short cut to Metra Market and to obtain health services at the community health center located at Yangapi village. The distance to be covered if passing the bridge would be only about 1 kilometer. It was much more efficient than taking the other route along 10 kilometers.

According to former headman of

Yangapi, Nengah Sutami, the over-hanging concrete foundation on the east and west side of both villages were the evidence if the bridge con-struction had ever been made at the location. Unfortunately, Sutami said the construction was eventually dis-continued until now. “So far, there has been no follow-up. When questioned, the construction was disconnected because it lacked of fund,” he said.

Meanwhile, one of the commu-nity leaders of Yangapi village, I Wayan Sudarta, hoped the dormant bridge construction since a few years ago could be immediately resumed considering the community of both villages desperately needed a short cut connecting Yangapi to Tembuku village. “Hopefully, the relevant agencies could immediately repair the bridge connecting both villages. Communities at both villages highly need it in relation to the economic, health care, educational and socio-cultural activities,” he hoped. (ina)

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Traffic flows on Jalan Bypass Soekarno, Dauh Peken village, Ta-banan, was disturbed, Monday (Jul 15). A medium-sized mahogany tree uprooted at the location. No casual-ties were reported in the disaster. When the incident happened at 11:00 a.m., the road was deserted.

Allegedly, the collapse of the tree with the height of almost 10 meters was due to aging because the wind in that afternoon was not too strong. Such suspicion was strengthened by fragile condition of the tree roots. “It happened very quickly. When we installed the side-walk block, the tree suddenly fell and blocked the road,” said Hariono, 40, one of the witnesses. According to Hariono, when the tree crashed onto the middle of the road, the traf-

fic was silent as they were stopping at traffic light. If crowded, the tree collapse was ascertained to claim casualties because the diameter of the tree trunk was relatively large, about 2 meters. The entire trunk including the branches covered up the road.

Police personnel with the Re-gional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) and Tabanan Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) moved quickly. By using chainsaw, the offi-cers evacuated the trunk covering up the Denpasar-Gilimanuk road sec-tion. During the evacuation process, the traffic flows were arranged by implementing the open and closed system. As a result, the traffic ran slowly from two directions.

Evacuation process did not last long. With three chainsaws, the joint officers managed to quickly remove

of the tree trunks, just within an hour. Once the trees could be re-moved, the traffic flow returned to normal. “Maybe it was only caused by the factor of age, so that the tree suddenly tumbled and covered up the road,” said the Section Head of Emergency and Logistics of the Tabanan Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD), Surya Darma. He explained that as soon as receiving the report, his party assigned the joint team to make evacuation. It had not known yet about the losses incurred due to the incident. Other than closing the road, the fallen tree also knocked down a pole of street lighting. The newly installed facil-ity also tumbled, while the mercury lamp broke. Since it was hazardous, the officers finally took off the street lighting at the end of the Yeh Empas Bridge. (kmb30)

Two customary villages hold mass cremation ceremony

Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Mass cremation tradition is increasingly popular among the customary villagers in Tabanan. Customary villagers of

two villages held a mass cremation ceremony on Monday (Jul 15). They consisted of Jagatamu customary hamlet, Meliling

village and Kesiut customary village, Kerambitan subdistrict. At Kesiut hamlet, 57 corpses (its symbols) were involved in the

ceremony, where the climax took place on Sunday afternoon (Jul 14). Each corpse was charged at IDR 1.5 million.

For years, people desperate to cross damaged bamboo bridge

IBP/FileThe students are using the damage bamboo brigde to go to school.

Fallen tree, bypass road section gets disturbed

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It’s by far the largest study to look at this, and researchers say the conclusion makes sense. Working tends to keep people physically active, socially connected and mentally challenged — all things known to help prevent mental decline.

“For each additional year of work, the risk of getting dementia is reduced by 3.2 percent,” said Carole Dufouil, a scientist at INSERM, the French government’s health research agency. She led the study and gave results Monday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Boston.

About 35 million people worldwide have dementia, and Alzheimer’s is the most common type. In the U.S., about 5 million have Alzheimer’s — 1 in 9 people aged 65 and over. What causes the mind-robbing disease isn’t known and there is no cure or any treatments that slow its progression.

France has had some of the best Alzheimer’s research in the world, partly because its former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, made it a priority. The country also has detailed health records on self-employed people who pay into a Medicare-like health system.

Researchers used these records on more than 429,000 workers, most of whom were shopkeepers or craftsmen such as bakers and woodworkers. They were 74 on average and had been retired for an average of 12 years.

Nearly 3 percent had developed dementia but the risk of this was lower for each year of age at retirement. Someone who retired at 65 had about a 15 percent lower risk of developing dementia compared to someone retiring at 60, after other factors that affect those odds were taken into account, Dufouil said.

To rule out the possibility that mental decline may have led people to retire earlier, researchers did analyses that eliminated people who devel-oped dementia within 5 years of retirement, and within 10 years of it.

“The trend is exactly the same,” suggesting that work was having an effect on cognition, not the other way around, Dufouil said.

Associated Press Writer

KINGSTON, Jamaica — People caught lighting up in bars, restaurants and other enclosed public spaces now face hefty pen-alties in Jamaica. The new law also prohibits smoking in outdoor public spots such as bus stops and open-air sports stadiums.

Health Minister Fenton Ferguson says businesses will have six months to post “no smoking” signs and all tobacco products have to include graphic new warnings about the health effects of lighting up.

Police commanders say they will likely issue warnings to violators for now while they wait for the public to be sensitized to the new law. First-time offenders could be fined up to $500 or face three months in a lockup.

Other Caribbean countries that already have public smoking bans include the Cayman Islands, Suriname and Grenada.

Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA — Republicans around the U.S. see no immedi-ate hope of overturning the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark decision legalizing abortion, but they are increasingly pushing leg-islation to restrict the procedure. The issue looms in the 2014 elec-tions for seats in Congress and in statehouses.

Republicans are pursuing a range of ideas: banning nearly all abortions beyond the 20th week af-ter conception; requiring women to get ultrasounds before terminating a pregnancy; making abortion clin-ics follow regulations for surgical care; mandating that clinic physi-cians have admitting privileges at local hospitals.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, which works on repro-ductive health issues, states this year have enacted at least 43

new laws that restrict or further regulate abortion. The issue, one of the most politically sensitive in the country, also is prominent in early 2016 maneuvering for the race to succeed President Barack Obama.

The abortion issue energizes social conservatives who drive the Republican Party’s success in nonpresidential years when the electorate is older, whiter and more conservative. But Democrats and abortion-rights advocates say mod-erate voters have other priorities.

“Defense workers are being fur-loughed, student loan interest rates have doubled and these Republi-cans insist on a relentless pursuit of more restrictions on women’s freedoms,” said Rep. Steve Is-rael, chairman of the Democrats’ national congressional campaign committee for 2014.

The House of Representatives adopted a 20-week abort ion

ban in June. It has no chance of passing the Democratic-run Senate or being signed into law by President Barack Obama. A top anti-abortion lobbyist, Na-tional Right to Life Committee president Carol Tobias, told The Associated Press that her orga-nization is working on a Senate bill with the office of Republi-can Sen. Marco Rubio, who is a high-profile possibility for the 2016 presidential race.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry called his Republican legislature back into special session to consider a 20-week ban and sweeping regu-latory changes after Democratic maneuvers — including a half-day speech that drew international at-tention — temporarily blocked the measure. The legislature passed the bill Friday, and it’s headed to Perry’s desk. Opponents of the abortion legislation are expected to sue to block implementation.

Study: Later retirement may help prevent dementiaAssociated Press Writer

BOSTON — New research boosts the “use it or lose it” theory about brainpower and staying mentally sharp. People who delay retirement have less risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia, a study of nearly half a million people in France found.

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

In this Friday, July 12, 2013 photo, June Springer poses for a photograph where she works at Caffi Contracting Services, in Alexandria, Va. Springer, who just turned 90, works as a recep-tionist.

Abortion top issue again for 2014 elections in US

Jamaica adopts smoking ban in public places

Bali PostDENPASAR - People may

have been familiar with tra-ditional healing ranging from herbal drink, fracture healer, acupuncture and spiritual energy

IBP/File Photo

Two staff of Food and Medicine Agency showing an illegal traditional medicine during a raid on illegal medicine in Denpasar recently. People should be more selective in choosing the traditional healing because some of them perform excessive promotion that actually violates the existing regulations.

Traditional healing violates terms of promotion

“Although there has been a law governing the matter, the conspiracy among the employers is inevitable. This practice really harms the consumers. To that end, the government has the obligation to oversee it,” said Sri Darma in Denpasar, Monday (Jul 15).

According to him, in the fair market competition, the price of a commodity would rise when the demand was higher than the avail-ability (supply). This price was getting higher when the number of demand exceeded the number of supply of the commodities.

Cartel only benefits entrepreneursDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Conspiracy among the businesses people to raise food price was assessed by the economist from Bali, Prof. Sri Darma, DBA, to be only benefit the entrepreneurs. Cartel practice implemented by hoarding goods was actually detrimental to the public as consumers.

However, when the supply was declared adequate, it was very unnatural if the price was still rising.

“Indeed, it needs the atten-tion of all parties, not only the government but also the public. They must also keep an eye on it because the public as consumer is in direct contact with the condi-tion,” he said.

Director of Consumer Protec-tion Foundation, Putu Armaya, also admitted that consumer so-ciety had always been the victims of the free market in Indonesia.

The price of basic commodities soaring up to several times was considered an unbearable price. The government seemed help-less to control the price of basic needs.

“Like right now, the price increases quite high on entering the month of fasting. After the Eid the prices will decline. It only slightly decreases, but it will not come back to the original price,” he explained.

Armaya also asked the govern-ment to intervene in determining the prices as performed by the

Malaysian government and a number of other countries. Mar-ket operations conducted by the government all this time was just to check.

“The market operation cannot lower the price that has been es-tablished in the market. It was just checking the market price alone. The price remains high,” he said.

Instead, he said that such condi-tions would only benefit specula-tors. They were very comfortable with the conditions when there was no control by the govern-ment. “Inevitably, the government should indeed become a price determinant for some staple com-modities,” he said.

Meanwhile, Saidah Sakwan, Deputy Chairman of the Business

Competition Supervisor (KPPU) of Indonesia mentioned that cartel was behavior violating the Law No.5/1999 on the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition.

Cartel behavior by hoarding commodities got the attention and vigilance from the Business Competition Supervisor (KPPU) especially during the month of fasting and Eid later where the demand would be very high.

“We have reprimanded busi-nesses people not to speculate by practicing cartel. We will take action and impose a sanction if the results of our investigation prove that the price increase occurred is caused by cartel practice,” he said. (kmb27)

up to religious healing. Even, such traditional healing has been growing rampant in Bali. There-fore, people should be more se-lective in choosing the traditional healing because some of them

perform excessive promotion that actually violates the existing regulations.

The Head of Bali Health Agen-cy, Ketut Suarjaya, explained that traditional healing or commonly

known as alternative healing ba-sically used traditional medicines made from natural ingredients. The use of chemical and medical device was not allowed in the treatment. “Permit of traditional healing practice is governed by the County/Municipal Health Agency. Meanwhile, the control against their drugs is undertaken by the National Agency of Food and Drug Control (BPOM),” he said.

One of the regions having many traditional healing prac-tices is Denpasar City. The Head of Denpasar Health Agency, Luh Putu Sri Armini, explained the implementation of traditional healing had been set forth by the Decree of Minister of Health No.1076/2003. Traditional heal-ing was defined as treatment or care that referred to the experi-ence, hereditary skills or training applied in accordance with the norms prevailing in the society.

Armini added that based on the Decree of Minister of Health the traditional healing was classified into 4 types, namely the healing based on skill, concoction, reli-gious approach and supernatural. “Examples of the skill applica-tion are in traditional midwife or fracture healing, while the examples of concoctions are herbal drink and mucus cleaner. Then, the healing based on reli-gious approach (Hinduism) and the Supernatural is the healing by means of spiritual power and mysticism,” she said.

In their practice, the tradi-tional healers falling into the 4 categories should be registered in the County/Municipal Health Agency and have a traditional healer registration (STPT). The

STPT was given to traditional healer that had not been tested. “There is also Traditional Healer Permit (SIPT). It is intended for traditional healers whose meth-ods have been assessed, tested and proved to be secure and ben-eficial to health,” she said.

Denpasar Municipality record-ed 95 traditional healers where 77 of them had registered, while 18 others had owned a permit. “All the traditional healings that have permit belong to acupuncture healing because its method has been tested,” said Armini.

Other than issuing permits in the form of the STPT and SIPT, the Denpasar Health Agency also had the tasks to give coaching and do license revocation if any traditional healing was known to be harmful to society.

At the moment, some viola-tions monitored were related to excessive promotion made by traditional healers. In this regard, the Denpasar Health Agency had the authority to reprimand and give coaching. “In the promo-tion, the contents allowed are mentioning the name, location and skills possessed. Meanwhile, it is not allowed to do excessive promotion such as mentioning the types of disease that can be cured,” explained Armini.

She hoped that people could participate to report when finding any harmful traditional healing practice. “Unluckily, people are rarely willing to report it. Prob-ably, it happens because they are ashamed though having been aggrieved,” said Armini. She also suggested that it would better to choose traditional healing that had owned a permit issued by local health authority. (san)

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Calendar Event for July 10 through August 10, 2013

10 Jul Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan - Pulasari Peninjauan Tembuku Bangli Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba Kaba Tabanan Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng Pura Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Agung Gunung Raung Tarokaja Taro Tegallalang 17 Jul Buda Paing Wayang Pura Dang Khayangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli 20 Jul Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit Jembrana Bathara Ratu Gede Celuk Sukawati Bathara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Denpasar Bathara Ratu Allit lan Ratu Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarman Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarman Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarman Kaba Kaba Besakih Pura Pedarman Dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Dadya Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel klungkung Pura Pemerajan Agung Sulang Dawan Klungkung Pura Padharman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan Besakih ( Dalem Klungkung ) Pura Penataran dan Pasraman Kuta Rejo , Kendal Rejo Tegal Delimo Banyuwangi Pura Jala Sidhi Amerta Juanda Surabaya 22 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan- Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar

Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru- Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Luhur Candi Narmada Tanah Kilap Desa PemogaN Denpasar Selatan Pura Panca Tirta Sido Luhur Bakanheni Lampung Selatan Pura Ponjok Batu Tejakula Buleleng 24 Jul Buda Wage Kelawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida Pura Pasek Pengembungan Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Jawa Banjar Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Penataran Batupelang Kamasan klungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Kedonganan Kuta Pura Guwa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh/Bukit Kiwa Tengen Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Jati Ubud Pura Melanting Ubud Pura Dalem Peed Nusa Penida Pura Sad Kahyangan Penida Desa Sakti Nusa Penida

Pura Penataran Agung Anyar Liligundi Bebandem Karangasem 30 Jul Anggar Kasih Dukut Pura Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Dalem Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar Pura Puser Jagat,Dalem Dukut, Puri Sukun Nusa Penida Pura Dalem Purwa Banjar Kawan Bangli Pura Desa Ketewel Sukawati 31 Jul Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibangkaja Abiansemal Pura Dalem Samprangan Gianyar Pura Paiobon Dukuh Segening Serongga Kelod Gianyar 4 Aug redite Kliwon Watugunung Pura Penataran Agung Mahagotra Tirta Harum Srisrengga Desa Nyalian Banjarangkan Klungkung 6 Aug Tilem Sasih Kasa Pura Dalem Seme Jawa Desa Kukuh Marga Tabanan 10 Aug Hari raya Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas - Gempinis Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel - Sayan Bongkasa Abiansemal Pura Watugunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya - Rawamangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung Pura Kawitan Bendesa Aban Baturning Desa Mambal Abiansemal

He describes, as a hotel located in the heart of Nusa Dua, Hotel Santika Siligita remains committed to bring the feel of Bali in variety of ways, ranging from facilities to the services provided.

A series of events held in its first birthday, including cutting the ribbon and release doves to marked series of events to cel-ebrated its birthday. Staffs and management of Santika Siligita also worship 3 temples located around the hotel, picking the Best Employee and also held Santika Star, a singing competi-tion which is followed by employee representatives from each department. The management also held a chess competitions and contests related to unity and fun, such as sack races, catch eels, make-up competition, and grabbing coins from grapefruit.

Management also organized social activities with visiting dis-abled children foundation “Senang Hati” that located in Tampak Siring village, Gianyar and beach cleaning activity.

On the 17th July, from afternoon until the evening all em-ployees of Santika Siligita will be using uniform with the theme “Together for ONE” and will hold a celebration event that will be closed with dinner. IBP/Courtesy of Santika Siligita

Santika Siligita celebrate 1st anniversaryIBP

NUSA DUA - Hotel Santika Siligita celebrate its 1 year anniversary on July 17th 2013. According to General Manager Sang N. Gunarta, the first anniversary is a begin-ning that will determine success in the future. “Especially in the middle of dynamic competition of hotel industry in Bali,” he said.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—After being discontinued, the radio-

therapy equipment at Sanglah Hospital is back into operation. However, not all patients requiring the therapy could be served because there are requirements defined for patient safety.

It was revealed by Director of Sanglah Hospital, Wayan Sutarga. According to him, the requirement to be met in radiotherapy treatment was that the patients should have the weight under 60 kilograms. “When they are more than 60 kg, they will require higher dose and it’s beyond the equipment capabilities,” said Sutarga.

He admitted the radiotherapy equip-ment at Sanglah Hospital had been old and the technology in use did not belong to the latest. “The radiotherapy equipment owned by Sanglah Hospital remains to belong to cobalt type, while the latest one belongs to Linex type. However, the hospital cannot afford to buy the one using Linex technology,” said Sutarga. He added the Linex technology applied magnetic

method so that it was safer than cobalt using the radiation.

Due to inadequate budget to buy the Lin-ex equipment, Sanglah Hospital attempted to repair the existing equipment. However, the spare parts of cobalt type equipment were only available in Canada and China. “We’re trying to replace the spare parts but they are only available in Canada and China. For the preparation of the parts, it will take us 8 months,” said Sutarga.

Procurement of the spare parts for the previous equipment was hampered by ten-der process because no one could have been able to buy the source because it took many months. “Although the budget of Sanglah Hospital is sufficient to replace the source of radiotherapy equipment, but in the tender process nobody can purchase the parts be-cause it takes a long time,” said Sutarga. On that account, Sanglah Hospital was forced to maximize the use of existing equipment with a few requirements to maintain the safety until the parts of the radiotherapy equipment were available. (san)

According to Chairman of the Indonesian Marine Tourism As-sociation (Gahawisri) of Badung, I Made Tromat, the marine debris flooded the region was dominated by organic garbage such as the water hyacinth and twigs. His party asked for the help of the gov-ernment to deal with the garbage starting to threaten the tourism.

“We need the support of the government and the public to handle the marine debris so that it does not harm the tourism in Bali,” said Chairman of the Ga-hawisri Badung, I Made Tromat, Monday (Jul 15).

According to him, his party did not know exactly the origin of the marine debris due to the effects of weather. “Clearly, the marine debris will disrupt the marine tourism activities at Tan-jung Benoa both diving and water sport activities. Especially for diving activities, the underwater

sight can be disrupted due to the organic waste,” he said.

He explained that in Badung there were 24 marine tourism companies and 5 dive centers. Due to organic waste, rain and strong winds, foreign tourists were then reluctant to take the marine tour-ism activities.

“Users of the marine tourism services decreased 35 percent. In addition, it is only domestic tourist wishing to visit the turtle breeding site,” he said.

He said the handling of marine debris was conducted indepen-dently with the support of local community. Even, many students also helped handle the garbage piling up on the coast of Tanjung Benoa. Organic waste was then buried in the sand so as not to contaminate the area becoming the marine tourist attraction.

“Employers of the marine tour-ism have proposed in order the

marine debris can be entirely handled by the government. In reality, the handling of marine debris at Tanjung Benoa has not been getting the attention from the government,” he complained.

Moreover, he said, his party had just raised the rates of the water tourist attractions such as snorkel-ing, parasailing, banana boat and the others up to 40 percent. The increase was to offset the subsi-dized fuel price hike made by the government.

“The rate increase definitely has an impact on the tourist interest, but it is not significant. If we did not raise the rates, the employers can go bankrupt,” he said.

The rate increase in this mid-year had been agreed by the stake-holders or travel agencies. As con-sequence, the contract agreement made valid for a year should be revised and adapted to the subsi-dized fuel price hike. (kmb27)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—The drivers of urban public transport

of Tegal (Denpasar) - Jimbaran (Badung) route start to face the impact of Trans Sar-bagita operation. When the Trans Sarbagita was first operated, they got a subsidy worth IDR 250,000 per day, but the policy is now no longer extended. Besides, the number of passengers they take with the Isuzu vehicle has decreased lately. As a result, the drivers’ destiny is getting uncertain.

One of the drivers serving the Tegal-Jimbaran route, I Made Patra, when en-countered at Tegal Terminal on Monday (Jul 15) acknowledged the decline in the passenger number. Aside from the ris-ing number of residents driving private vehicles, the operation of Trans Sarbagita covering nearly the same route also had a great impact on the continuity of the route passed through. “Since the Trans Sarbagita is in operation, our passenger decreases because our route is nearly the same, espe-cially from the Dewa Ruci roundabout to the south,” said Patra accompanied by his fellow driver.

He said that since the Trans Sarbagita was first operated, his party and the other drivers got a subsidy worth IDR 250,000 per day. They were required to get around

on the specified route to support the Trans Sarbagita. However, after a year had passed, the contract was not renewed. Since January 2013, the contract was no longer extended. Automatically, the drivers were losing the deposit. “Subsidies have been discontinued and passenger also reduced,” said Patra.

They hoped the Trans Sarbagita would not harm the survival of the public transport drivers of the Tegal-Jimbaran route. In other words, the previously applied pattern could give hope to drivers that were now increasingly pressured by the other modes of transportation. “We hope the Trans Sarbagita could give subsidies again for the transport operations,” said the driver at Tegal Terminal.

Patra said that a few years ago the number of vehicles hanging out in Tegal Terminal was pretty much. Even, in 1996 the number of vehicle reached 200 units. Now after a few years, the number of ac-tive vehicles was about 120 units. Many vehicles were no longer in operation due to lacking of passengers whereas in terms of feasibility, condition of the armada was still worthy. “Since lacking of passenger, many of our colleagues switched to the other transportation, such as freight trans-port,” he said. (kmb12)

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The water sport attraction in Benoa, Badung.

Badung marine tourism flooded by marine debrisMangupura (Bali Post)—

Marine tourism at Tanjung Benoa, Badung County, looked dirty due to marine debris. Piles of garbage within the past week started to annoy the beauty of tourist attraction and the comfort of visitors aside from disrupting the growing marine tourism activities in the region.

Radiotherapy at Sanglah Hospital in operation

Driver woes of Tegal terminalSubsidy ends, passenger grabbed by Trans Sarbagita

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“The sooner you accept the dull, miserable nature of your existence, the happier you’ll be,” worldly-wise snail Chet (Paul Giamatti) advises his younger brother Turbo (Ryan Reynolds) after yet another day scouring a garden tomato patch. Turbo spends all his downtime watching VHS tapes of profes-sional car races, especially the many won by his hero, Guy Gagne (Bill Hader, amusingly assuming a French-Canadian accent).

Of course, the message of the film, as with so many other kid-inspirational cartoons and other fantasies, is that no dream is too big, you can do anything if you set your mind to it, etc., etc. Unfortunately, the real embedded lesson of Turbo is that, if you’re too small or weak or otherwise incapable of greatness, you have a shot to win if you’re juiced.

Which is what happens late one night when Turbo, coming upon a “Fast & Furious”-style drag race in the dry LA River bed, gets sucked into an engine. Instead of being toasted, however, the little guy becomes infused with nitrous oxide, enabling him to zoom along the ground seemingly as fast as Superman shoots through the skies. Ahhh, the wonders of chemicals and strength enhancers. Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire would approve.

Of course, Turbo needs a sponsor, which he finds in the form of Van Nuys taco truck

driver Tito (Michael Pena), a wild dreamer himself who argues endlessly with his more practical brother Angelo (Luis Guzman) about the merits of promoting their forlorn business_Dos Bros Tacos_with a snail. Joining in is a rainbow coalition of smart-mouthed supporting snails and neighboring business owners voiced by the eminent likes of Samuel L. Jackson, Michelle Rodriguez, Snoop Dogg, Maya Rudolph, Ben Schwartz, Richard Jenkins and Ken Jeong.

The ultimate destination_Indianapolis--is inevitable but it takes a long time to get there, given a script that is short on invention and long on largely unfunny yacking. Once the gang arrives and begins overcoming the ob-stacles that might prevent a snail from enter-ing a car race (conveniently unmentioned is the most obvious one, that Turbo lacks four wheels and an engine), the hitherto genial Guy Gagne suddenly becomes a villain, feeling so threatened by the now-mighty mollusk that he goes to all lengths to prevent an eternally humiliating defeat.

In the run-up to the race and then during it, you mostly wonder about how a critter so small it can’t be seen on the track (although its blue/white-hot streak can be) will avoid being crunched by the giant tires of the hu-mans’ racing machines; indeed, the film’s

most irreverent merit is that it is periodically honest about the fate of snails by casually showing them getting squashed by humans or gobbled up by animals, especially crows. In the event, Turbo just zips through traffic as if in an obstacle course, the obvious longshot pipsqueak favorite in a field of giants.

“Turbo,” a 20th Century Fox/DreamWorks Animation release, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America “for some mild action and thematic elements. Running time: 95 minutes.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Readers eager for hardcover copies of the detective novel J.K. Rowling wrote under another name will have to wait at least a couple of days. Little, Brown and Co. imprint Mulholland Books announced Monday it has commissioned 300,000 more copies of “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” and the books will be shipped this week.

“The Cuckoo’s Calling” was released in April and credited to Robert Galbraith. Demand soared after it was revealed Saturday that Rowling wrote it. It is still available as an e-book. The new printing will include a note saying Gal-braith is a pseudonym for Rowling. The British “Harry Potter” author says she had wanted “The Cuckoo’s Calling” to be judged on its merits. The novel received strong reviews but had sold poorly.

‘Turbo’ is attractive but runs out of gasAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — In delivering a film about a garden snail that dreams of winning the Indy 500, it’s as if the makers of “Turbo” had been pressed to come up with the most extreme underdog tale they could think of. Or else animators really are running out of ideas for original new characters. An at-tractively designed but narratively challenged, one-note film, “Turbo” skews younger than the norm for big animated features these days and has limited appeal for little girls.

AP Photo/DreamWorks Animation

This film publicity image released by DreamWorks Animation shows, from left, White Shadow voiced by Michael Bell, Smoove Move voiced by Snoop Dogg, Skidmark voiced by Ben Schwartz, Burn voiced by Maya Rudolph, Whiplash voiced by Samuel L. Jackson and Turbo voiced by Ryan Reynolds in a scene from the animated movie “Turbo.”

More hardcover copies of Rowling book on the way

AP

Photo/Lefteris P

itarakis, File

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, British author J.K. Rowling

poses for photographers during a photo call to unveil her new book, entitled: ‘The Casual Vacancy’, at the Southbank Centre in London.

Australian PM changes carbon tax ahead of election

Diplomat: Sudan leader has fled Nigeria

El Salvador, Trinidad advance at Gold Cup

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Opponents of ousted President Mohammed Morsi run from fireworks fired by pro-Morsi supporters during clashes on a bridge in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 15, 2013.

7 killed in overnight clashes in Cairo

Associated Press

CAIRO — A senior Health Ministry official says clashes overnight between police and sup-porters of Egypt’s ousted president have left at least seven people dead.

Khaled el-Khateib also says 261 people were injured in the violence that broke out late Monday and carried on into the early morning hours of Tuesday in four dif-ferent locations in the capital, Cairo.

Thousands of supporters of Mohammed Morsi, who was overthrown by the military, were protesting to press their demands that Morsi be reinstated as president.

Egypt’s military deposed Morsi on July 3 after days of mass street protests calling for him to step down.

The ousted president’s supporters say he was ousted by a military coup that overturned democratic rule.