Academy rules allow online entries to compete with cable and broadcast programs, although so far Internet shows have popped up only in lower-profile categories. That could change with the 65th Primetime Emmys.

“It certainly is a marker of the new era. ... It will send shock waves through the industry,” said Tim Brooks, a TV his-torian and former network executive.

“House of Cards,” a tale of political intrigue, is aiming for a best drama series

bid and nods for stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright. “Arrested Development,” the sitcom revived by Netflix after Fox canceled it, may get a best comedy series nod and nominations for cast members including Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter. Spacey and Wright also are part of a movement that keeps growing: prominent film actors finding good reason to work on the small screen.

With theaters dominated by block-buster movies that are heavy on action and light on acting, performers are seeking out juicy roles in well-crafted series and made-for-TV films. Women in particular are being welcomed, even after passing the ingénue stage of their career.

Movie stars with a shot at Emmy gold include Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in “Behind the Candelabra”; Al Pacino and Helen Mirren in “Phil Spec-tor”; Holly Hunter in “Top of the Lake”; Shirley MacLaine in “Downton Abbey,” Jeff Daniels in “The Newsroom” and Kevin Bacon in “The Following.”

Potential behind-the-camera nomi-nees from the industry’s movie side in-clude filmmakers Jane Campion for “Top of the Lake,” Steven Soderbergh for the Liberace biopic “Candelabra” and David Fincher for “House of Cards.”

A “House of Cards” best drama nod would weaken cable’s near-monopoly on the category last year, aside from PBS contender “Downton Abbey.” The 2012 winner, “Homeland,” likely will be back to defend its crown, with other possible nomi-nees including “Breaking Bad,” ‘’Game of Thrones” and “Downton” again.

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NEW YORK — Scheduling the release of a summer movie isn’t exactly a science. It clearly isn’t an art, either. It’s more akin to a contact sport: Seize the advantageous position, sustain as little damage as possible, and score.

All of which makes this weekend’s open-ing of both “Red 2” and “R.I.P.D.” a little like sacking your own quarterback. Both films are action-thrillers. Both are about over-age law enforcers (in “R.I.P.D.,” some are so old, they’re dead). And both make a virtue of their, shall we say, mature stars.

Those stars include Bruce Willis (58), An-thony Hopkins (75), John Malkovich (59) and Helen Mirren (67) in “Red 2” and Jeff Bridges (63) and Kevin Bacon (55) in “R.I.P.D.,” which, by the way, stands for “Rest in Peace Department.”

It may not make a huge difference at the box office, but both films also feature the less-than-prolific Mary-Louise Parker, who has a solid base among discriminating male viewers

but is better known for her work in cable TV’s “Weeds.”

Add to all this the fact that Robert Sch-wentke, the director of Universal’s “R.I.P.D.,” had directed the original “Red” of 2010 from Summit Entertainment and for whatever reason (Schwentke didn’t want to talk about it) lost the sequel to director Dean Parisot.

Assuming there’s no ill will involved, that’s a lot of coincidence, said distribution consul-tant Richard Abramowitz, who teaches film production at New York University and runs the film company Abramorama. “It seems like too big a mistake to be a mistake.”

But the “Red 2”/’’R.I.P.D.” collision may simply be a symptom of the state of Holly-wood. There have been very few weekends since May that haven’t been dominated by a big-budget, major-studio release — a so-called “tent-pole” picture. There was “Iron Man 3” on May 2, “The Great Gatsby” on May 10, “Star Trek Into Darkness” on May 15, “Fast & Furious 6” on May 24, “After Earth” on May 31 and so on.

‘Red’ and ‘RIPD’ end up in a game of chicken

AP Photo/Summit Entertainment, Frank Masi

This film publicity image released by Summit Entertainment shows Helen Mirren in a scene from “Red 2.” The film will be released nationwide on Friday, July 19.

Online series, movie stars hope for Emmy honorsAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — “House of Cards” and “Arrested Development,” which Netflix delivered to viewers on the Internet, not on TV, may become the first online programs to receive top series and acting bids when the Emmy nominations are announced early Thursday.

AP Photo/HBO, Claudette Barius

This film image released by HBO shows Michael Douglas, left, as Liberace, and Matt Damon, as Scott Thorson in a scene from “Behind the Candelabra.” Nominations for the 65th annual Primetime Emmy Nominations were to be announced Thursday, July 18, 2013.

The photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sched-uled to hit shelves Friday looks more like a young Bob Dylan or Jim Morrison than the 19-year-old who pleaded not guilty last week, looking casual despite having a swollen face and his arm in a cast.

The same image of Tsarnaev, an eth-nic Chechen who came to the U.S. as a child, was widely circulated and used by newspapers and magazines before, but the music magazine is being criticized for turning it into something more ap-pealing — and making Tsarnaev look like a rock star.

“I can’t think of another instance in which one has glamorized the image of an alleged terrorist. This is the image of a rock star. This is the image of someone who is admired, of someone who has a fan base, of someone we are critiquing as art,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Public outrage was swift, including tough words from the Boston mayor, bombing survivors and the governor of Massachusetts. At least five retailers with strong New England ties said they would not sell the issue that features an in-depth look into how a charming, well-liked teen took a dark turn toward radical Islam.

The magazine uses Tsarnaev’s playful nickname in a headline: “Jahar’s World.” Its cover teaser declares for the story: “The Bomber. How a Popular, Promising Student was Failed by His Family, Fell Into Radical Islam and Became a Monster.” The story was made available on the magazine’s website Wednesday.

A brief Rolling Stone statement offered condolences to bombing survivors and the loved ones of the dead. Three people were killed in the bombing, and dozens were wounded.

“The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more

important for us to examine the complexi-ties of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens,” the statement said.

That’s little consolation for James “Bim” Costello, 30, who needed pig skin grafts on most of his right arm and right leg after the bombing. His body was pebbled with shrapnel, including nails he pulled out of his stomach himself. Three of his close friends lost legs that day, and others suf-fered serious burns and shrapnel injuries.

“I think whoever wrote the article should have their legs blown off by some-one,” struggle through treatment “and then see who they would choose to put on the cover,” Costello said.

Lauren Gabler had finished her fourth Boston Marathon and was two blocks from the finish line explosions that April day. At first she thought the Rolling Stone photo, first released on the magazine’s website and Facebook page, was of a model or a rock star.

“All of a sudden you realize that’s the Boston bomber,” said Gabler. “The cover almost tricks you into what you’re look-ing at. I haven’t read the article yet, and I know it will probably be quite in-depth, but my initial reaction is that the photo that’s being used almost makes him look like a good guy.”

Rolling Stone said the cover story was part of its “long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural is-sues of our day.” The magazine has had plenty of covers featuring people outside the realm of entertainment, from President Barack Obama to Charles Manson.

Putting criminals and alleged criminals on the covers of major magazines is justi-fied if they are major news figures, said Samir Husni, who heads the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi. It’s digitally manipulating a photo that never is, he said.

AP Photo/Wenner Media

In this magazine cover image released by Wenner Media, Boston Marathon bomb-ing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears on the cover of the Aug. 1, 2013 issue of “Rolling Stone.”

Rolling Stone cover outrage

Bomber as rock star? Associated Press

NEW YORK - A Rolling Stone story on Boston Marathon bombing sus-pect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is generating controversy even before it hits stores, with critics saying the cover photo glamorizes an accused killer and some retailers saying they will not carry the issue.

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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

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“We are aiming to be one of the best hotels in Bali by giving the best experience to the guest,” Parmita added. He also stated that the hotel is located nicely and it is only 15 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport. Not to mention, it is very close to interesting places in the island such as Nusa Dua, Tanjung Benoa water sport, garuda Wisnu Kencana and Uluwatu Temple.

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Amaroossa Suite also has great meet-ing room that can accommodate 150 people. We are aiming for the MICE industry also,” Parmita said. The guest will also pamper by The Roses Restau-rant which serve first class menus.

This restaurant also can serve as the perfect spot for the guest to held special event or as a place to host meeting with client. Parwita also stated that the hotel also have Chandu Bar on the roof of Amaroossa Suite Bali.

“In the bar, the guest can see a beauti-ful view of Bali. It is the perfect antidote for the tired body and soul,” he said. With all of those facilities, the guest will have an unforgettable experience when they stay in Amaroossa Suite. IBP/BTN File Photo

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—The reason of investors to reclaim

Benoa Bay is assessed to be ground-less. Reclamation of Benoa Bay will only hurt the people of Bali, harm the Balinese socio-cultural order as well as increase the economic and development inequality.

Deputy Chairman of the Bali House, Ida Bagus Putu Sukarta, said on Tuesday (Jul 16) that reclamation plan was better to be stopped. The executive had to ab-sorb the aspirations of Balinese people. “We do not agree to the reclamation plan. Therefore, let’s absorb the aspirations of Balinese people. Simply stop the recla-mation,” said Sukarta.

Sukarta doubling as Chairman of the Gerindra Party of Bali Chapter empha-sized the importance for the executive to absorb the people’s aspirations and respond to the rejection revealed by component of Balinese people against the reclamation plan. It should not think about the reclamation and development of tourist accommodation facilities in the form of marine residence, apart-ments, Disneyland-like recreational park, golf courses and yacht harbor that would make Balinese community more prosperous. The reclamation would only plunge the Balinese into the abyss of the economic inequality. Balinese people would race in the competition against large capitalists.

On that account, as a Balinese peo-ple’s representative he firmly rejected the reclamation plan. “Let absorb and listen to the aspirations of Balinese people and let’s be on our mettle. Simply stop the reclamation because it’s more harmful to Balinese people,” he said.

Likewise, he asked the executive to refer to the rules in relation to the recla-mation plan. This politician from Sanur also requested all the components of

society to understand about the interests of large capital owners behind the rec-lamation plan because the reclamation was only for business interests, not for preservation of the environment. “We indeed have to think dynamically, but the structure of the environment and Balinese culture may not change fun-damentally,” hoped Sukarta who would put up in the legislative election 2014 to represent Bali in the House of Represen-tatives of the RI.

He added the reclamation would have a negative impact on the structure of socio-culture. The behavior of Balinese humans would change and they would be getting involved in the increasingly high-er competition. He cited the reclamation of Serangan Island that had changed the socio-cultural order of local community such as the increasingly higher crime and more rampant HIV/AIDS. Physically, the reclamation of Serangan Island had caused Sanur, Padanggalak and Lebih Beach to be exposed to abrasion due to changing ocean currents. “So, do not let similar condition happen due to reclama-tion at Benoa Bay,” he hoped.

Besides, the economy and business activities would be concentrated in Southern Bali, so that the balance and distribution of economy and develop-ment could not be realized. “It is certainly not in accordance with the development plan to balance the development for the entire region of Bali,” he said.

Mobilization of the population would also increasingly concentrated in Southern Bali, so that the conges-tion would be getting more severe. “By increasing the facilities and tour-ist accommodation in Southern Bali, the population movement will grow faster so that it also causes more serious congestion,” he concluded. (kmb29)

“Provision of infrastructure poses the duty of the gov-ernment. Do not only make programs on paper, while they cannot be realized. For instance, the Kuta-Soka road plan is not materialized until now, so that investors do not want to in-vest there and prefer to choose Southern Bali though it has been crowded,” said Ramantha in Denpasar, Wednesday (Jul 17).

According to him, with the availability of adequate infra-structure in Northern, Eastern and Western Bali, the investors would flock to the regions to invest. For example, the plan to build the airport at Sumberkima, Buleleng, although it was unclear yet, the investors had been eyeing the region to invest.

“The government does not need to drive out the investors from Southern Bali especially

Badung. Even, the moratorium is not required because investors will invest to Northern and East-ern if the adequate infrastructure has been available,” he said.

He added that in terms of economic standpoint, investing in Northern and Eastern Bali was not currently profitable. It happened because the road ac-cess to the regions took a long time, so that tourists coming to Bali were reluctant to visit the regions. Actually, the tourist at-tractions existing in the regions were no less interesting than the ones in Southern Bali.

“For instance, dolphin tour in Singaraja cannot be found in other regions. Due to travel time is longer, guests must spend the night there. There has been no road access to shorter the travel time, so that tourists are lazy to visit the region. As

a result, the investors are also lazy to invest because it is not economically feasible. To that end, it is required an adequate infrastructure first to encourage the investment there,” he said.

Aside from providing in-frastructure, Ramantha also expected the government not to promise the investors any regions that were clearly im-possible to invest because such a pattern would make the investors give up investing in Bali. “It must be clear which regions will be intended for investments and which regions will not. It means to give cer-tainty to investors so that they do not give up after investing because in fact they are faced with some problems or it is not feasible. Ultimately, the proj-ect is abandoned and fails,” he concluded. (kmb27)

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The underpass in Dewa Ruci Junction, one of the infrastructure developed by the gov-ernment.

To resolve economic inequality in Bali Govt must prepare infrastructure Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Provision of adequate infrastructure, according to Prof. Dr. Wayan ramantha from Udayana University, was the key to overcome the economic disparities in Bali. Investors were reluctant to invest in Northern and Eastern Bali and chose to invest in Southern Bali, namely in Badung, Denpasar and Gianyar, due to adequate infrastructure. To that end, both the county/municipal and provincial government should provide adequate infrastructure to the regions rarely touched by investment.

Only benefits investor, stop reclamation

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The result of reclamation in Serangan Island.

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DENPASAR - The potential of salt farming in Bali, especially in three counties namely Karangasem, Klungkung and Buleleng, is quite high. Unfortunately, according to a member of Commission IV of the House of Representatives from Bali in charge of agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry sector, AA Bagus Jelantik Sanjaya, the potential had not been worked on optimally due to lack of technology touch. “The potential of salt production in Bali has not been worked on optimally because the process stays traditional, without the use of technology. Therefore, local governments and farmers need to be encouraged to work on the potential,” said Sanjaya Jelantik in Denpasar.

Further, he said the potential of salt production in some regions in Bali was quite high. As in Karangasem, the salt production had reached 920 tons per year on an area of 8 hectares.

In Buleleng, the production reached 5,855 tons of salt per year on the land of 149 hectares. Both regions had been included in the program known as the People’s Salt Business Empowerment (Pugar) of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries and the production continued to increase each year. “Meanwhile, in Klungkung the potential is high but so far the salt production remains in small number because it has not been taken seriously,” he said.

He added that salt production in Bali remained to be mostly used to supply the demand in Bali, while the rest was sent to outside Bali and abroad.

He pointed out that salt farming at Tejakula, Buleleng, had been ex-ported to Japan for the manufacture of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. As being exported, the price would surely be more expensive reaching IDR 10,000 per kg compared to salt for domestic consumption only lying in the range of IDR 2,000 to IDR 3,000 per kg. “Such great potential has not been worked on optimally. So, we ask the salt farmer group and local government to proactively develop the region and explore the potential so that it can improve the welfare of salt farmers,” said the politician from Karangasem.

Nationally, the demand for domestic salt consumption could have been met by domestic production. Even, Indonesia had reached production surplus of salt for consumption amounting to 1,538,616 tons. Meanwhile, for the salt of industry, Indonesia had not been able to meet the domestic demand and was forced to import from other countries.

“There were 119,900 tons of imported salt to meet the demand for industry. Compared to the previous two years, the number of imported salt for industry dropped from 60 percent to 30-40 percent,” he said while adding that government was attempting to boost the production of salt for industry so that it was no longer needed to import. “Now, we are boosting the production of salt for industry and some regions in Bali like Karangasem chiefly Amed have such potential,” said the Gerindra politician. (kmb29)

It was revealed in a roundtable discussion taking the theme ‘So-cial Inequality amidst the Rapid Growth of Bali Development.’ The discussion held on Tuesday (Jul 16) presented some academicians such as Prof. Dr. Wayan Ramantha, from the Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Raka Suardana, the Dean of Faculty of Economics, Undiknas University, I Gusti Agung Oka Mahagangga, the Head of Tourist Destination Study Program, Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University.

Prof. Dr. Wayan Ramantha, said that Bali as a world tourist destina-tion should have a comparative advantage, not artificial tourism. To that end, the island known as the paradise of travelers should maintain its cultural tourism hav-ing become the icon of tourism in Bali.

“It isn’t different from a suicide if we leave cultural tourism. How silly it is if we leave the cultural tourism. Why must we preserve the cultural tourism? It is our comparative advantage, while if we think about the other kinds of tourism (new destination at Benoa Bay—Ed) denoting the comparative advantage of other countries, we would not have been able to catch it up,” he said.

According to him, every country had its own advantage in develop-ing tourism in their country. Singa-pore, for instance, had been known worldwide for shopping tourism and Thailand for nightlife tourism. Each of these countries sold their

potential considered to have strong competitiveness, so as to compete in the tourism sector.

“For instance, if Singapore wants cultural tourism, of course it cannot do it. On the contrary, if Bali wants to develop shopping tourism it has been left behind for 30 years. There-fore, we have confidence to fail because our comparative advantage has failed, why must we plan some-thing that will fail?” he said.

Ramantha added the develop-ment of Bali was only on paper whereas in terms of vision and mis-sion it was extraordinary because having taken sides with the growth (pro-growth), creation of job oppor-tunities (pro-job), poverty allevia-tion (pro-poor) and preservation of environment (pro-environment).

Taking sides with the growth was indeed correct, but the growth averagely 6 percent achieved at this time could not be proud of. The government had not made long term investment in the form of community empowerment to alleviate poverty.

To that end, he said, the urgent measure that should be taken by the stakeholders was the empow-erment of community, namely the improvement of entrepreneurship. Although they could not become entrepreneurs, they could at least have the working skills.

Similar opinion was revealed by the Dean of Faculty of Economics, Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Raka Suardana. Reclamation of Benoa Bay was a very basic mis-

take. The government should reflect on the reclamation of Serangan Island that had not been clear so far. Even, it was detrimental to the environment, society and culture.

According to him, economically the rapid development in Southern Bali would boost the economic growth of Bali. Unluckily, the growth happening deviated from the expectations and the gap was increasingly wider. “The current growth is ambiguous because there was no equalization. The growth (in Southern Bali—Ed) does not absorb the competence of the Balinese,” he said.

Other than causing congestion and social impacts, the rapid devel-opment of tourism in Southern Bali, especially in Badung County, would also lead to economic leakage. When an investment was financed by foreign or corporate network, then the goods required would be supplied from outside, so that the money generated would not be circulating in Bali, but evaporated back to the country of origin of the investment.

The Head of Tourist Destination Undergraduate Study Program, Fac-ulty of Tourism, Udayana Universi-ty, I Gusti Agung Oka Mahagangga, also agreed that the government and the whole community of Bali upheld their cultural tourism. “Bali is small, so that it must be set in order to achieve a sustainable tourism conceptually. We’ve got cultural tourism and this must be preserved,” he said. (par)

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

Reclamation plan on Benoa Bay should learn from the reclamation that done in Serangan Island. The picture shows Serangan Island after big reclamation that held in 1990s.

Reclamation of Benoa Bay, an absurd thingBali Post

DENPASAR - Endeavors to smooth the Benoa Bay reclamation as a new tourist destination in Bali was an absurd measure taken by local government because the development of new artificial destination would not be competitive. Even, it was a suicide pace because Balinese people will just become a spectator of the tourism development.

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The salt production in Bali not optimally explored because its lack technology touch. Farmers only use traditional way to produce salt like in Klungkung Regency.

Potential of salt farming in Bali not optimally managed

“It’s never too late,” says Anu Narayanan, vice president of women’s and non-apparel at Old Navy. “You can always find, even on sale, great pieces, and it’s how you mix them together that makes everything look new.”

This year, many stores are recognizing that shoppers like to purchase summer clothing closer to when the weather is warm enough for them to wear it, says Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst with The NPD Group.

That translates to a later, more gradual rollout of summer clothing as well as staggered and later-than-usual sales, he said. While the 40 to 50 percent off deals used to arrive in early July and grow to 75 percent by August, Cohen predicts it will be August when the half-off sales begin.

“It used to be June would be when sales began and July Fourth would be the big clearance,” Cohen said. “Now, July Fourth is the beginning of the sales.”

The weeks ahead in mid-July and August are prime time to look for deals on basics like tank tops and trendy dresses, printed pants and colorful blouses, he said, though it may be trickier to find what you want because the sales will not be storewide. Cohen recommends checking online for deals before shopping.

While you’re making your way through the sale racks, style experts recommend keeping an eye out for clothing that remains in the fashion forecast for fall. Consider if a piece can be worn with boots instead of sandals. Can you swap shorts for dark pants?

“It’s a great time to find things you’re going to wear for the summer months and a great time to look for things that will effortlessly move into your fall wardrobe,” said Ken Down-ing, senior vice president/fashion director for Neiman Marcus. “I’m all about a great trend that has staying power.”

Calling leather now a “365-day-a-year proposal in fashion,” his top pick is warm-weather leather, especially by way of a biker jacket.

“Scoop up every biker jacket you can find on sale after July Fourth because rocker chic is the major message as we go into the fall season,” he said. “You can make it super girlie, you can make it tomboy. That biker jacket will take you everywhere.”

For color, think orange, a popular spring and summer hue that will work well in autumn with violets, reds and cranberries, Downing said. An orange handbag, he said, “pops everything in your wardrobe.”

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The on-again, off-again sale of Hulu is off — again.

Hulu’s owners, 21st Century Fox, Disney and NBCUniversal, said Friday that they will remain owners of the online video service, while providing a cash infusion of about $750 million to

ensure its future growth.The owners accepted for-

mal bids for Hulu as recently as last week as part of their

second attempt in three years to sell the company. But Fri-day’s announcement suggests the bids were too low. Reports pegged the high end of bidding

around $1 billion, which is half of what Hulu was valued at when the existing owners bought out Providence Equity Partners’

10 percent stake for $200 mil-lion in April 2012.

Among the bidders were DirecTV as well as AT&T in partnership with a group led by former Fox executive Peter Chernin. Time Warner Cable Inc. was reportedly interested in buying a stake in Hulu, rather than taking

it over completely.21st Century Fox

President Chase Car-ey said in a state-

ment that taking Hulu off the market is the

“best path forward.”“We had m e a n i n g f u l

conversations with a number of potential partners and buyers, each

with impressive plans and offers to match, but with 21st Century Fox and Disney fully aligned in our collective vision and goals for the business, we decided to continue to empower the Hulu team, in this fashion, to continue the incredible momentum they’ve built over the last few years,” he said.

21st Century Fox last month split from News Corp., which maintains the conglomerate’s publishing assets. Hulu’s

other owners are The Walt Disney Co. and Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal. Comcast is a silent partner as a condi-tion of its purchase of NBCUniversal in January 2011.

Hulu, which carries older movies and recently aired TV shows from Disney’s ABC, Fox, NBC and other networks, has more than 4 million paying subscribers to its Hulu Plus premium plan. The $8-a-month plan allows greater access to back episodes and lets viewers watch content on multiple devices like mobile phones, tablet computers and game consoles. A free version of Hulu only allows viewing on computers. Both versions come with ads. Last year, the service generated about $690 million in revenue, but it wasn’t profitable.

The end of the sale process still leaves open the possibility that Time Warner Ca-ble or other interested TV industry players will take a stake in Hulu, according to a person familiar with the matter, who was not authorized to comment publicly.

The person also said the announcement suggests that both the free and paid ver-sions of Hulu will continue.

The injection of funds from the owner companies will go toward programming, marketing, technology and expansion costs, the person said.

Currently, Hulu has a hodge-podge of offerings. Fox, for example, provides next-day access to recent TV episodes, but only to people who subscribe to regular pay TV. It makes other viewers wait eight days be-fore they can see recent reruns. ABC and NBC do not impose such a wait.

The broadcast networks also offer full episode viewing for free on separate apps on mobile devices. On its app, NBC doesn’t require viewers to prove they are pay TV subscribers, but Fox does. ABC requires proof for live TV viewing on its app, but not for reruns.

If the networks aligned their strate-gies, next-day access on Hulu could be touted as one of the benefits of paying for a traditional TV subscription. Tying online access to a regular TV subscription is part of an industry initiative called “TV Everywhere.” But that initiative is marred by inconsistency across shows, networks and TV providers.

Summer shopping? How to score the best from salesAssociated Press Writer

Don’t worry if you never got around to buying a summer ensemble in time to make a splash at July Fourth pool parties and barbecues. Now the fun kind of summer shopping begins, those exhilarating trips to your favorite haunts where you can score a swimsuit, sundress and sandals — all on sale — just before embarking on a week at the beach.

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The 70-year-old Wolfgang Schaeuble is widely seen in Greece as an enforcer of the country’s harsh austerity measures and has been often singled out for criticism by protesters.

Schaeuble, on his first visit to Greece since its financial crisis broke out in 2009, said the country had made impressive progress in efforts to balance its budget. But he added that the debt-strapped coun-try had little choice other than to press ahead with painful reforms.

“There is no way around struc-tural and fiscal reforms ... There is no convenient shortcut,” Schaeuble

said. More than 4,000 police offi-cers were on duty Thursday for his one-day visit, which occurred a day after Parliament narrowly agreed to thousands of public-sector job cuts.

Demonstrations have been banned throughout Athens during the trip. The German minister is due to meet conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and other senior Greek officials.

Police placed parliament and the city’s main Syntagma Square off lim-its to protesters, in security measures that were more extensive than those reserved for heads of government. Busy downtown subway stations

were also closed for the day, while traffic restrictions were imposed along the route from Athens Interna-tional Airport into the capital.

Tough austerity measures have helped keep Greece in the euro but have seen an alarming rise in poverty and unemployment since the country was first bailed out in 2010 by other euro countries and the International Monetary Fund.

Left-wing opposition leader Alexis Tsipras accused Samaras of trying to help his fellow conser-vatives in Germany ahead of the federal election there in September. “Mr. Samaras is acting like a man-ager for the (German) Christian Democrat party, as Mr. Schaeuble tours the countryside,” Tsipras said in parliament Wednesday. “He is coming here to support his cata-strophic policies.”

Associated Press Writer

KIROV, Russia - Alexei Navalny, one of the Russian opposition’s leading figures, was convicted of em-bezzlement Thursday and sentenced to five years in prison. Navalny and his supporters claimed the case was politically driven to try to shut down the vehement Kremlin critic and intimidate his supporters.

Navalny was found guilty of heading a group that embezzled 16 million rubles’ ($500,000) worth of timber from state-owned company Kirovles in 2009 while he worked as an unpaid adviser to the provincial governor in Kirov, about 760 kilome-ters (470 miles) east of Moscow.

The 37-year-old lawyer played with his smartphone for much of the nearly 3 ½-hour verdict reading. A post on his Twitter account after the sentence was pronounced said, “Oh, well. Don’t get bored without me. And, importantly, don’t be idle ...”

Navalny handed the phone and his watch to his wife, Yulia, before bailiffs took custody of him and co-defendant Pyotr Ofitserov, who was given a four-year sentence.

Navalny first came to wide at-tention for vigorous blogging about

corruption. He was a top leader of the wave of massive protest rallies that broke out in late 2011 after a national parliamentary election scarred by allegations of widespread fraud. It was Navalny who first called the dominant United Russia party “the party of crooks and thieves,” a phrase that became a rallying cry for the nascent opposition to Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin.

More recently, he pushed his ambitions by declaring himself a candidate for this fall’s Moscow mayoral election. The head of his campaign staff, Leonid Volkov, said a decision on whether to pull out of the race would be made only after he could consult with Na-valny, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. Russian news reports said Navalny would be taken to a detention facility in Kirov before being sent to a prison.

Several dozen Navalny sup-porters gathered outside the de-tention facility soon after the sentencing. Navalny’s wife ap-peared composed after seeing her husband taken away in handcuffs, saying, “If someone hopes that Alexei’s investigations will cease, that’s wrong.”

Associated Press Writer

BANGKOK - He’s known as Thailand’s jet-setting fugitive monk, and his story has riveted the country with daily headlines of lav-ish excess, promiscuity and alleged crimes ranging from statutory rape to manslaughter.

Until a month ago, 33-year old Wirapol Sukphol was relatively unknown in Thailand. Now he is at the center of the biggest religious

scandal the predominantly Buddhist country has seen in years.

Despite the vows he took to lead a life of celibacy and simplic-ity, Wirapol had a taste for luxury, police say. His excesses first came to light in June with a YouTube video that went viral. It showed the orange-robed monk in aviator sunglasses taking a private jet ride with a Louis Vuitton carry-on.

The video sparked criticism of his un-monkly behavior and a

stream of humorous headlines like, “Now boarding, Air Nirvana.”

Since then, a long list of darker secrets has emerged - including his accumulated assets of an estimated 1 billion baht ($32 million). This week, authorities issued an arrest warrant for the disgraced monk after having him defrocked in absentia.

Wirapol was in France when the scandal surfaced after leading a meditation retreat at a monastery

near Provence. He is believed to have then fled to the United States but his current whereabouts are unknown.

The arrest warrant implicates him on three charges including statutory rape, embezzlement and online fraud to seek donations. He is also under investigation for money laundering, drug trafficking and manslaughter for a hit-and-run accident. Authorities are struggling to figure out how he amassed so

much money.“Over the years there have been

several cases of men who abused the robe, but never has a monk been implicated in so many crimes,” said Pong-in Intarakhao, the case’s chief investigator for the Department of Special Investigation, Thailand’s equivalent of the FBI. “We have never seen a case this widespread, where a monk has caused so much damage to so many people and to Thai society.”

Thailand riveted by jet-setting monk scandal

Russian opposition leader sentenced to 5 years

AP Photo/Dmitry LovetskyRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walks during a break at a court in Kirov, Russia on Thursday, July 18, 2013. A Russian judge has found Navalny guilty of embezzlement, a finding that could bring the charismatic anti-corruption blogger and Moscow mayoral candidate up to six years in prison.

AP Photo/Kostas TsironisRiot policemen guard the Greek parliament during a protest in Athens , Wednesday, July 17 2013, as lawmakers voted for thousands of public-sector job cuts and transfers. The vote was the first major political test for Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras since a left-wing party abandoned his coalition government last month.

Schaeuble insists no shortcut for GreeceAssociated Press Writer

ATHENS, Greece - Germany’s Finance Minister arrived for a short visit to Greece Thursday amid massive police security, insisting there was “no convenient shortcut” for the country’s bailout program.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Plantation enterprise covering an area of 25 hectares or more and plan-tation product processing industry with particular plant capacity are now required to have a plantation business license (IUP). It is in accordance with the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture No.26/Permentan/OT.140/2/2007 on the Guidelines for Plantation Licensing.

The Head of Bali Plantation Agency, I Dewa Made Buana Du-wuran, explained on Wednesday (Jul 17) the plantation license was a legality requirement as well as a guarantee for the sustainability of

the cultivation business and planta-tion product processing. “The area of plantation in Bali reaches 157,061 hectares (Statistics of Bali Planta-tion Agency, 2011). Of the acreage, 99.38 percent or 156,095 hectares belong to smallholders, while the remaining is managed by company. In Bali, there are three companies managing the plantation business namely the Bali regional company, autonomous company and PT. Bali Anacardia,” he explained.

He explained that plantation area in Bali was very small and meaningless compared to other regions in Indonesia. Though Bali plantation area was small, in terms

of product quality, the commodities of smallholders in Bali had been recognized by international market. “The Arabica coffee, for instance, has got a trademark ‘Kintamani Bali Arabica Coffee’ and poses the first commodity getting the Geographical Indication certificate issued by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia,” he explained.

Aside from coffee, the other com-modities such as cashew, according to him, were being pioneered to get the same certificate as the Arabica coffee. According to Dewa Buana, existence of the company engaged in the plantation business in Bali

was expected to serve as a busi-ness partner of the farmer groups or Subak Abian considering 99.38 percent of the Bali plantation area belonged to smallholders.

When asked about the business policy of smallholders in Bali, Dewa Made Duwuran said that for a number of leading commodities like the Arabica coffee, Robusta cof-fee, cocoa, cashew, coconut, clove, vanilla and tobacco were focused on the improvement of productivity and quality. Meanwhile, the guidance and supervision against the Pri-vate National Plantation Company (PBSN) in Bali was based on the results of reclassification toward the

plantation maintained by the PBSN under coordination of Bali and County Plantation Agency in charge of the plantation whose territory had the PBSN such as Jembrana, Bule-leng and Karangasem County.

“Result of the reclassification by the BPSN through the Bali Gu-bernatorial Decree stated that Bali in 2012 only had one plantation company namely PT. Bali Anacar-dia which could be upgraded from class IV in 2009 to class IV in 2013, while the plantation owned by two other companies namely the Bali regional company and autonomous company remained to belong to class III. (kmb28)

Negara (Bali Post)—

Strong wind engulfing the area of Jembrana on Tuesday afternoon (Jul 16) swept a house of poor family at Tengah hamlet, Tegal Badeng village, to the ground. The home owner, Ko-mang Sudiana, 29, when the incident occurred was out of the house, but his wife, Ni Putu Eli Suyanti, was almost struck down if she did not immediately go out of the house.

Eli Suyanti claimed the incident occurred at 6:00 p.m. when the wind blew from the East. Shortly before the plaited bamboo house measur-ing 7x6 meters collapsed, she was still inside the house. “I’m looking for the missing cell phone of my husband, while my husband was out with my son to look it for at his workplace,” said the brick labor. A moment later, she heard the roaring wind accompanied by the sound of splintering timber. As she worried if the house built eight years ago would collapse, Eli rushed to go out. “As soon as leaving the porch, the house collapsed to the rear (northwards), luckily I promptly went out,” she explained. All the furniture such as bed, dresser, chair and rice were buried by roofs.

Komang Sudiana admitted that at that time he was back to his workplace to look for his missing cell phone with his son. He just knew if his house collapsed after arriving at home. “Indeed, the

house has been porous and was formerly occupied by my father. Now, my father has got house refur-bishment assistance,” explained Sudiana equally working as a brick labor. Temporarily, the victim with his wife and son occupied one of the rooms in the house assisted by the government. Other than his father, the house was also occupied by his brother and his mother. “For the time being, we will stay there together as there is no other place to stay,” he added.

Chief of Tengah hamlet, Putu Wirawan, when met at the location with the village representative agency (BPD) of Tegal Badeng Barat, Sukirman, said that his party had reported the incident to village authority and resumed the proposal for the handling to Jembrana and Bali government. The victim was a poor family and was recorded in the red book. Meanwhile, the victim’s father, Ketut Pasek, pre-viously recorded as poor family had been delisted after receiving the house refurbishment assistance. “The victim has also been proposed to get such house refurbishment assistance,” he explained.

Based on observation last Wednesday, the plaited bamboo wall of his house was destroyed after the collapse. Nothing was remained be-cause everything was impinged by the building. Last Wednesday, Komang and his wife began sorting and unpacking their re-usable materials and furnishings. (kmb26)

According to one of the local residents, the project was worked on by CBM contractor. In its imple-mentation, the project often took place until the night. Not only

that, local workers were also often played loud music at night. The residents mentioned if the project implementation regulations had been posted. In fact, the regulations

were not obeyed.Due to the inconvenience, the

residents asked the government, especially the Public Order Officer (Satpol PP) of Badung, to come down and check it to the field. The officers were also asked to take firm action against the activities interfer-ing with the residents.

When asked for his confirma-tion separately, the Head of Public Order Officer of Badung, I Ketut

Martha, said on Wednesday (Jul 17) that his party would imme-diately follow up the matter. He explained that each project would surely have an impact on the en-vironment.

Impact of the development on the surrounding environment, add-ed Martha, could be anticipated if the project implementer complied with the environmental manage-ment effort and the environmental

monitoring effort (UKL-UPL). The document had mentioned the efforts to be made in anticipating the impact. Unfortunately, not all the project implementers under-stood the matter. “That’s why we are often appealing in order that all the documents including the licens-ing should be displayed at project location so that the implementer can see and obey it,” he affirmed. (kmb25)

Plantation business license must be owned by plantation entrepreneurs

A hotel project in Legian complained by residentsMangupura (Bali Post)—

A hotel project on Jalan Arjuna, Legian village, was complained by local residents. Residents assessed that implementation of the project had disturbed the comfort of the surrounding environment. So, the government was asked to come down and follow up the issue.

IBP/FileThe collapse house at Tegal Badeng, Jembrana

Swept by strong wind A house of poor family at Tegal Badeng collapses

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Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - Apple’s iP-hone sales are sputtering as rival smartphone makers ramp up their offerings, a market research firm said Wednesday. The survey by IHS iSuppli said smartphones are still going strong around the world, but that Apple is lagging.

“Apple’s iPhone franchise ap-pears to be stalling as first-quarter shipments of 37.4 million fell below expectations,” the report said.

“With the next iPhone model not expected until the second half of the year, there is a real possibility that the full-year 2013 sales volume of the iPhone may be essentially flat at around 150 million units, compared

to 134 million units in 2012.”IHS analyst Wayne Lam said

the volume of new flagship smart-phones from top manufacturers this year “has been astounding,” citing the new BlackBerry Z10, HTC One, and updated Samsung Galaxy S4.

“The possible slowing growth of the iPhone and the rapid pace of competitive smartphone releases

speak to the ferocious nature of the handset business, especially now as the market continues to pivot from a market dominated by lower-end handsets known as feature phones to one that is increasingly smart-phone-centric,” Lam said.

IHS said smartphones are likely to make up more than half of the 1.5 billion handsets sold in 2013. It said

that by the end of 2013, the number of mobile subscribers worldwide is projected to reach seven billion, an increase of 6.5 percent from the end of 2012. Recent surveys have shown Google’s Android operating system is used on around three-fourths of new smartphones. Apple’s iOS ac-counts for around one-fifth of the worldwide market.

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The US econo-my grew at a “modest to moderate” pace in recent weeks, with the hous-ing market and construction improv-ing nationwide, the Federal Reserve said in a report Wednesday.

The Beige Book’s overall as-sessment of the US economy was unchanged from the June 5 report.

“Overall economic activity con-tinued to increase at a modest to moderate pace since the previous survey,” said the report covering late May through July 8.

The rebounding housing market continued to be a bright spot in the recovery.

“Residential real estate and con-struction activity increased at a mod-erate to strong pace in all reporting districts,” the report said.

Most of the Fed’s 12 districts reported a pickup in manufactur-

ing, consumer spending and auto sales, while hiring “held steady or increased at a measured pace,” the report said.

The Beige Book is used by Fed policymakers to frame monetary policy decisions.

Based on anecdotal information gathered in the central bank’s 12 districts, the report is published eight times a year roughly two weeks ahead of Federal Open Market Com-mittee meetings.

The FOMC is scheduled to meet on July 30-31. At its June meeting, the FOMC kept its stimulus program locked in place, saying unemployment remains high and growth was curbed by sharp federal spending cuts.

The latest Beige Book said that manufacturing activity had increased in almost all districts, boosted in part by “strong demand in residential construction” and automobile pro-duction.

Consumer spending -- which accounts for two thirds of US eco-nomic activity, overall increased but there were pockets of retail softness, particularly in the New York region.

An unusually wet June appeared to damp down consumer spending and tourism in the eastern half of the country, according to contacts surveyed.

But the picture on the slowly recovering jobs market highlighted deep woes.

US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reiterated Wednes-day that the Fed stimulus could be wound down next year if economic growth remains steady as forecast.

But with unemployment still high and falling slowly and inflation very low, he said, “a highly accommoda-tive monetary policy will remain appropriate for the foreseeable future.”

A fourth round of talks about the complex again ended without agreement, but the two sides will meet again next Monday, said Seoul’s chief delegate Kim Ki-Woong.

The Kaesong estate in North Korea, the last remaining symbol of cross-border cooperation, shut down in April as military ten-sions mounted after the North’s February nuclear test and South Korean-US war games.

Dialogue resumed in recent weeks but little progress has been made amid squabbles over which side should take responsibility for the suspension of business there. Wednesday’s discussions appeared to be a repeat of pre-vious rounds, with each side refusing to budge on conditions for resuming operations at the estate, built after a landmark inter-Korean summit in 2000.

The South urged the North to promise not to cause another closure and to take a respectful and constructive position to re-

solve the issue, according to an official with Seoul’s unification ministry.

However the North reiter-ated its previous position that operations at the zone should be normalised as soon as possible, the official said.

“There was a big difference” over how to work out a legal framework to prevent a future shutdown, Kim told reporters at the end of Wednesday’s talks, according to pool reports.

The North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Pyongyang negotiators had advanced “sincere and practical proposals” and blamed the failure of the talks on the South.

“The talks ended without fruit due to the unreasonable assertions and insincere attitude despite the north side’s sincere efforts,” it said, confirming the next round of talks for Monday.

Kaesong was previously a valuable source of hard currency for the impoverished North.

Two Koreas fail to agree on reviving joint factory estate

iPhone sales ‘stalling’ as rivals gain

Agence France-Presse

SEOUL - North and South Korea failed Wednesday to reach agreement on reopening their jointly-run industrial estate as they wrangled over who was to blame for its shutdown.

Fed report finds US economy growing modestly

AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 17, 2013, on the conduct of monetary policy and the state of the economy.

IBP

ULUWATU – On a historic night, Rip Curl and Uluwatu Surf Villas successfully raised over $18,000 for local environmental organization Project Clean Uluwatu (PCU) dur-ing their surf memorabilia auction on Saturday. The total amount raised includes proceeds from auction items, raffle tickets, food and beverage sales, entrance fees, and donations.

Over 300 guests attended the auction fundraiser, expertly hosted by SurfTime Magazine Editor-In-Chief Matt George, and held at the beautiful Uluwatu Surf Villas overlooking the Indian Ocean. All

proceeds from the auction will help fund PCU clean-up projects and environmental initiatives at world-famous Uluwatu beach, one of the planet’s most iconic surf spots.

Specifically, the money raised at last weekend’s fundraiser will go directly towards the completion of an 18-cubic meter bio-digester waste water tank to manage all the liquid waste from the many local warungs (small restaurants) lining the cliffs at Uluwatu. The tank will sit in a protec-tive housing alongside the lowest point of the Uluwatu riverbed, so that all the warungs can hook into it by gravity. The fundraiser money will also go towards installing the central plumb-

ing links for all the warungs as well as individual grease traps in each of the 20 or more warungs with kitchens.

“Installation of the waste water tank should be finished by the end of October, weather dependent,” said PCU committee member Ol-lie Crowell. “The next phase is installing all the pumps and creat-ing a waste water garden for the processed water, so no more liquid waste can pool up in the riverbed.”

Crowell noted how important the Rip Curl and Uluwatu Surf Villas fundraiser was for PCU’s ongoing cleanup work at Uluwatu, in terms of both funding and support from the local community.

“This was incredibly important since PCU is operating by piecemeal and the contractors were due for another pay-ment,” he said. “This new funding will get us into the final phase of the waste water treatment system before the rainy season starts, when it becomes impos-sible to build in that riverbed. The tank is big enough to sustain an average of 500 visitor per day, and if we need more than that in the future, it’s easy to add another tank next to it.”

With Uluwatu beach reaching criti-cal mass with surfers and tourists during the current high season in Bali, moving the liquid waste system at Uluwatu for-ward into the final stages is crucial.

“All the engineering is super

basic and has been proven success-ful many times over all around the world,” said Crowell. “It’s just been slow getting people to trust in us initially and then join with us. But we now have all the local Uluwatu beach warung owners’ support and they all contribute each month to-wards the solid waste collection and recycling system we put in place two years ago. They are empowered and amping to get the liquid waste treatment system finished ASAP. When it’s all complete, this will be a model for all beaches in Indonesia suffering the same pollution woes, and it will be that much easier to repeat in the future.”

Based on this philosophy, ex-plained the Secretary of the Ritual Consulting Agency, Faculty of Religious and Cultural Studies, UNHI, the Hindus believed and made it a basis to hold a tooth filing ritual. “It is also strengthened by the discovery of ancient human fossils in Jembrana, where the teeth of hu-

man fossil in the sarcophagus were neatly cut. Then, it was interpreted if the tooth filing activity has been done since long ago,” he said.

In the ritual, the six teeth to be filed consisting of two canines and four incisors. The six teeth symbol-ized the control against the Sad Ripu or six enemies within the human self.

The Sad Ripu or six self-enemies were the kama (desire), loba (greed and avarice), kroda (anger), moha (confusion), mada (drunk) and mat-sarya (envy). Essentially, said Satria, it was not to eliminate the Sad Ripu itself but to get power to control them because human needed them all for self-motivation. For example,

everyone should have a desire but it should lead to a positive one. Anger and emotion were also important to flog people to attain advancement. Envy was also needed to get motiva-tion, not to destroy others.

According to Satria, the dead person whose teeth had not been filed was also required to do so. Therefore, before being bathed the dead man should follow the tooth filing procession. However, it was not carried out by a sangging (filer) but by the oldest child or the elder. The tool used was not shaper but lo-tus bud.Nevertheless, not all people could join the tooth filing ritual. Its requirement was teenager or those

who had performed the ritual of ngeraja sewala, menek kelih (grow-ing up) for girls and ngeraja singa for boys. Pregnant women were not allowed to attend the tooth filing ritual because it could damage the fetus in the abdomen.

Tooth filing ritual was usually held when organizing a mapedudus agung, ngenteg linggih, mamukur (post-cremation) and mesakapan (marriage). Poor people usually joined a mass tooth filing ritual. “Mass tooth filing is legitimate, considering if the ritual is organized individually will be very costly. By doing so, it will not cost too much,” he added.

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DENPASAR - For Hindus in Bali, performing mepandes or tooth filing ritual has become a liability. Such a ritual is believed to neutralize and provide power for controlling the Sad Ripu (six self-enemies). Nevertheless, not all people can meet the requirement to join the ritual. A lecturer of philosophy in the Hindu University of Indonesia (UNHI) Denpasar, I Kadek Satria, said in Kala Tatwa palm-leaf manuscript was mentioned that Lord Kala would like to meet his father and be recognized as his son by Lord Shiva after he cut its fangs. Having done it, Lord Shiva received and acknowledged him as his son.

Preserving Uluwatu Surf memorabilia auction raises over $18,000

On a historic night, Rip Curl and Ulu-watu Surf Villas successfully raised over $18,000 for local environmental organization Project Clean Uluwatu (PCU) during their surf memorabilia auction on Saturday.

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It was a calculating display of cool by an army general plotting the overthrow of his commander in chief. Just over a week later, el-Sissi slid in the knife, announcing Morsi’s ouster on state TV on July 3 as troops took the Islamist leader into custody.

The move was the culmination of nearly a year of acrimonious relations between el-Sissi and Egypt’s first freely elected — and first civilian — president.

A series of interviews by The Asso-ciated Press with defense, security and intelligence officials paint a picture of a president who intended to flex his civilian authority as supreme com-mander of the armed forces, issuing orders to el-Sissi. In turn, the military chief believed Morsi was leading the country into turmoil and repeatedly challenged him, defying his orders in at least two cases.

The degree of their differences sug-gests that the military had been plan-ning for months to take greater control of the political reins in Egypt. When an activist group named Tamarod began a campaign to oust Morsi, building up to protests by millions nationwide that began June 30, it appears to have pro-vided a golden opportunity for el-Sissi to get rid of the president. The military helped Tamarod from early on, com-

municating with it through third par-ties, according to the officials.

The reason, the officials said, was because of profound policy differ-ences with Morsi. El-Sissi saw him as dangerously mismanaging a wave of protests early in the year that saw dozens killed by security forces. More significantly, however, the military also worried that Morsi was giving a free hand to Islamic militants in the Si-nai Peninsula, ordering el-Sissi to stop crackdowns on jihadis who had killed Egyptian soldiers and were escalating a campaign of violence.

“I don’t want Muslims to shed the blood of fellow Muslims,” Morsi told el-Sissi in ordering a halt to a planned offensive in November, retired army Gen. Sameh Seif el-Yazl told AP. Seif el-Yazl remains close to the military and sometimes appears with el-Sissi at public events.

And at root, the military estab-lishment has historically had little tolerance for the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi’s Islamist group. The military leadership has long held the convic-tion that the group puts its regional Islamist ambitions above Egypt’s security interests.

Its alliances with Gaza’s Hamas rulers and other Islamist groups alarmed the military, which believed

Gaza militants were involved in Sinai violence. The officials said the military leadership also believed the Brotherhood was trying to co-opt commanders to turn against el-Sissi.

The military has been the most powerful institution in Egypt since officers staged a 1952 coup that top-pled the monarchy. Except for Morsi, the military has since given Egypt all of its presidents and maintained a powerful influence over policy. Hav-ing a civilian leader over the military was entirely new for the country.

The Brotherhood accuses el-Sissi of turning against them and carrying out a coup to wreck democracy. Since being deposed, Morsi is detained by the military at an undisclosed De-fense Ministry facility.

The Brotherhood had believed that el-Sissi was sympathetic with their Islamist agenda. A senior Broth-erhood official told AP that Morsi installed el-Sissi, then the head of military intelligence, as defense minister and head of the armed forces in August 2012 in part because he had been the contact man between the Brotherhood and the military junta that ruled Egypt for nearly 17 months after the February 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Cooler temperatures are within sight but likely not soon enough and cool enough for a large swath of the country hit with dangerously high temperatures for days as the largest heat wave of the summer failed to budge from South Dakota to Massachusetts.

The relief is expected to begin arriving Thursday in some regions of the country as a cold front drops south from Canada. But it is not soon enough for others. New York City, for instance, is bracing for another day of temperatures in the high 90s.

Cooler temperatures are likely to sweep through the Midwest and into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions by Saturday. They might be ac-companied by severe thunderstorms.

The largest heat wave of the summer has stagnated over large regions, bringing sizzling temperatures and little hope of relief without rain, a grow-ing possibility for some hard-hit areas as the weekend approaches.

Most states in the U.S. had at least one region where the temperature hit 90 degrees Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service, though the worst heat was in the Midwest to Northeast. Humid air just made it all feel worse, with heat indexes in some places over 100.

It was hot enough to buckle highway pavement in several states. Fire-fighters in Indianapolis evacuated 300 people from a senior living com-munity after a power outage knocked out the air conditioning. The state of Illinois opened cooling centers. The Environmental Protection Agency said the heat was contributing to air pollution in New England.

Associated Press Writer

PARIS - There are no trash cans on the Champs-Elysees. Paris’ depart-ment stores, as well as shops and restaurants across the country, are closed on Sundays. And pickpockets swarm the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre.

France has long had a reputation - particularly in the English-speaking world - for being a bit difficult to visit. We love to hate it, with its surly wait-ers and superior shopkeepers. But we also love to love it: More people visit France than any other country in the world.

But now, after years of casually riding a reputation for stunning monu-ments and world-class food, the French are starting to talk about tourism as an economic benefit - and one they need to do more to capitalize on. This is a sea change in a country that has long prided itself on not doing anything as gauche as catering to visitors.

“The problem is that in France we don’t value jobs in tourism,” says Di-dier Arino, a director of the consultancy Protourisme. “We conflate services with servitude.”

The numbers show that something is amiss. With the draws of Paris, Alpine skiing and some of the ritziest Mediterranean resorts, France has been the most-visited country for every year there are statistics in the World Bank database, welcoming 83 million foreign tourists in 2012. But it has never sat atop the list of places where visitors spend the most. There, it has been No. 3, behind the U.S. and Spain, for several years. France’s Socialist government has vowed to change this.

“I want to make France No. 1, period,” Tourism Minister Sylvia Pinel told reporters last year as a new government took the reins and laid out its priorities. Improving France’s “welcome” was one of those - creating a true tourism policy for the first time, Pinel said.

AP Photo/Hussein Malla

Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi, shout slogans during a demonstra-tion in front of Cairo University, where protesters have installed their camp in Giza, southwest of Cairo, Egypt, late Wednesday, July 17, 2013.

Disputes between Morsi, military led to Egypt coupAssociated Press Writer

CAIRO — The head of Egypt’s military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, sat with a polite smile in the front row listening to President Mohammed Morsi give a 2 1/2-hour speech defending his year in office. El-Sissi even clapped lightly as the audience of Morsi supporters broke into cheers.

Relief from worst heat on the horizon by weekend

France learns to speak ‘touriste’

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino wrote a letter to Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner accusing the magazine of offering Tsarnaev “celebrity treatment” and calling the cover “ill-conceived, at best,” in that it supports the “terrible message that destruction gains fame for killers and their ‘causes.’”

The letter calls the cover an obvious marketing strategy and concludes: “The survivors of the Boston attacks deserve Rolling Stone cover stories, though I no longer feel that Rolling Stone deserves them.”

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AntaraJAKARTA - The Liverpool FC

is undergoing their first training session in the pitch of Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Stadium, Jakarta, on Thursday after they arrived a day earlier.

Their first training session is also the first time for Steven Gerrards and his teammates that undergo in the biggest football stadium in Indonesia. However, there was a player who previ-ously had felt the GBK Stadium’s atmosphere, which is Philippe Coutinho, when he visit Indonesia earlier with his former team Inter Milan last year.

The Brendan Rodgers’ boys en-ter the field of GBK Stadium at 10 am and starting their light exercise training session, which is closed to the public.

Eventhough the training session is closed to the public, there are a bunch of Kopites from Big Reds Indonesia Official Liverpool Sup-porter Club waiting outside the sta-dium, chanting their team songs.

“Of course we really want to meet the players. But what could I do, the training session is closed to the pub-lic and the security was tight,” said one of the local Kopites, Satria.

While the training session is undergo, the stadium security is getting tighten. The all black ward-robe securities is guard every gate of the stadium.

“For its part, we will struggle for a 50 percent increase in mini-mum wages next year,” he said. The confederation will try to get the demand accepted either through negotiations at regional wage councils or mass rallies in September, October and Novem-ber across Indonesia, he said.

Even if the minimum wages were to be raised by 50 percent the wages would still be below those of the Philippines, Malay-sia, Thailand, India, and Brazil and slightly above those of Viet-nam and Cambodia, he said.

Therefore, the confederation called on both the government

and employers to discuss how to increase the productivity of the local workers and reduce over-head costs rather than turning down the demand for wage hike, he said.

“After the Muslim holiday of Lebaran, members of all regional wage councils representing work-ers will gather in Jakarta and Makassar to struggle for a 50 percent increase in minimum wages,” he said.

The government raised the prices of subsidized gasoline and diesel oil to Rp6,500 and Rp5,500 respectively from Rp4,500 a liter last month.

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

Indonesian Muslims buy food and sweets to break the fast during the holy month of Ramadan in Jakarta on July 16, 2013. The recent fuel price hike has reduced the purchasing power of Indonesian workers by up to 30 percent, President of the Indonesian Labor Union Confedera-tion (KSPI) Said Iqbal said.

Workers’ purchasing power falls 30 percentAntara

JAKARTA - The recent fuel price hike has reduced the purchasing power of Indonesian workers by up to 30 percent, President of the Indonesian Labor Union Confederation (KSPI) Said Iqbal said.

ANTARA FOTO/Ismar Patrizki

The Liverpool FC is undergoing their first training session in the pitch of Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Stadium, Jakarta, on Thursday after they arrived a day earlier. Their first training ses-sion is also the first time for Steven Gerrards and his teammates that undergo in the biggest football stadium in Indonesia.

Liverpool undergoes first training session The Reds is scheduled to un-

dergo five training session in the morning and evening, in prior to the match against the Indonesia XI in GBK Stadium, July 20.

Rodgers brought 24 players for their first Indonesia visit namely Brad Jones, Simon Mignolet, Glen Johnson, Jose Enrique, Kolo Toure, Daniel Agger, Luis Alberto, Ste-ven Gerrard, Iago Aspas, Philippe Coutinho, Oussama Assaidi, Jor-dan Henderson, Stewart Downing, Jay Spearing, Lucal Leiva, Joe Al-len, Fabio Borini, Raheem Sterling, Martin Kelly, Martin Skrtel, Jon Flanagan, Andrew Wisdom, Jack Robinson and Jordon Ibe.

Rodgers actually named 28 players, the rest that did not join with their teammates in Indonesia is Jose Manuel Reina, Sebastian Coates, Luis Suarez and Dani Pacheco.

Three players who just come back from their participation in FIFA Confederations Cup Reina, Coates and Suarez scheduled to join their teammates on preseason tour macth in Australia.

Meanwhile Dani Pacheco did not join with the rest of his teammates because he is on the way to join Celta Vigo on long season loan.

After the first opening match of their preseason tour against In-donesia, Reds going to fly to Mel-bourne, Australia in July 24 and Bangkok, Thailand in July 28.

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Using a bigger racket for the first time, Federer served three aces in the opening game but still lost his serve and ultimately the set to the German. The former No. 1 broke once in the second set and twice in the decider to reach the third round.

The 17-time major champion is a four-time winner in Hamburg, the city where he won his first title in 2002 to break into the top 10.

After losing at Wimbledon to Sergiy Stakhovsky - who failed to qualify for the main draw in Hamburg - Federer dropped to No. 5 in the rankings, the first time in a decade that he’s been that low.

Brands, who celebrated his 26th birthday Wednesday and received a cake after the match, received few presents from the top-seeded Feder-er in the last two sets. However, the Swiss star needed four match points to close it out. He finished with nine aces on the clay-court surface. “It was a tough match, Daniel is play-ing a very good season,” Federer said.

Federer will play qualifier Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic, who beat 15th-seeded Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

Tommy Haas outlasted qualifier Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the third round.

The second-seeded Haas blew a 4-1 lead in the third set but held serve and then broke to clinch the match when Kavcic sent a forehand long. “At the end, it’s the victory that counts,” Haas said.

Haas was runner-up in the tour-nament last year and is the oldest player in the top 100 at 35. He is looking for his second title at home this season, after winning in Mu-nich. Fourth-seeded Jerzy Janowicz of Poland, a Wimbledon semifinal-ist, prevailed 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4) over Robin Haase of the Netherlands.

Defending champion Juan Mo-naco of Argentina, seeded fifth, beat Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-4. Four other seeded players lost - No. 6 Andreas Seppi, No. 10 Tommy Robredo, No. 13 Mikhail Youzhny and No. 16 Martin Klizan. No. 11 Feliciano Lopez, No. 12 Fabio Fog-nini and No. 14 Fernando Verdasco advanced.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON - Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been charged by German prosecutors with pay-ing a $44 million bribe, placing his future as head of the motor sport series in doubt. The 82-year-old British billionaire has been under investigation since a German banker was convicted of taking the pay-ment from him in connection with the sale of a stake in F1.

The Munich state court said Ecclestone has until mid-August to respond to charges of bribery and incitement to breach of trust in con-nection with Gerhard Gribkowsky’s management of the bank Bayern-LB’s 47 percent stake in F1.

Ecclestone, the longtime com-mercial head of F1, acknowledged during Gribkowsky’s trial in 2011 that he made the payment five years earlier but said he was pres-sured to do so. Ecclestone’s indict-ment was dated on May 10 and has since been translated into English and delivered to Ecclestone and his

lawyers, the court said. “The law-yers have accepted an indictment,” Ecclestone told The Associated Press. “It means they have to reply to the indictment, which they are strenuously doing.”

Ecclestone, whom Forbes mag-azine reports is worth $3.8 billion, said he is yet to read the indict-ment. “They are alleging I bribed someone,” Ecclestone said, while insisting he did “nothing illegal.”

Sentences in Germany for bribery range from three months to 10 years in prison. CVC Capital Partners, the investment group that has owned F1’s commercial rights since 2006, issued no direct com-ment Wednesday about the future of Ecclestone.

“Mr. Ecclestone has six weeks to provide a response to this bill of indictment prior to a deci-sion being made by the court on opening proceedings,” the board of Formula One Group said in a statement. “The board will con-tinue to monitor developments in this situation accordingly.”

Associated Press Writer

GULLANE, Scotland — One of the big surprises Thursday in the British Open came from Carl Pettersson. For the first

time in a major, he’s using a conventional putter.

Pettersson has used a long putter ever since he was in college, and the Swede has anchored it against his chest his entire pro-

fessional career. A new rule adopted in May means golfers no longer will be able to use anchored strokes starting in 2016.

Pettersson strongly opposed the rule, but he’s going along with it — at a major

championship, no less. He has a short putter and uses a “claw” grip.

His caddie says Pettersson first used the short putter on Sunday at the John Deere Classic, where he tied for 54th.

Pettersson abandons his anchoring for Open

REUTERS/Toby Melville Roger Federer of Switzerland hits a return to Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine in their men’s singles tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London June 26, 2013.

Federer rallies to win at German ChampionshipsAssociated Press Writer

HAMBURG, Germany - Roger Federer rallied to beat Daniel Brands 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday at the German Tennis Champi-onships in his first match since his second-round loss at Wimbledon last month.

F1 boss Ecclestone charged in bribery case

AP Photo/David J. Phillip, FileFILE - In this Nov. 18, 2012 file photo, Bernie Ecclestone, president and CEO of Formula One Management, shields his eyes from the sun before the first running of the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.

IBP Cucukan Beach retains something unique.

This beach has a magical power with ca-pability of curing illnesses. By burying the body in the black sand, the pain will relieve. This beach is located at Cucukan Village, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, or about 7 km south of Gianyar and about 17 km east of Denpasar.

Cucukan Beach is indeed not much different from other beaches owned by Gianyar. The beach area is clean, shaded by many trees and has an

intense magical aura. Sea water is not too deep. The waves are not too big because breakwater has been installed in the sea. Therefore, it is good for bathing or just relaxing with family and beloved one. Its panorama is very fantastic. So, do not be surprised if the coastal region has been equipped with many hotels and villas.

This advantage is already commonplace where Cucukan Beach has been known as the place to cure some diseases. They are starting from the sick of the palsy, stroke, leg weakness, and itchy skin. “Other than having recreation

and taking a bath, many Balinese people also did treatment on this beach,” said Dewa Ayu Ketut Sukarini, a trader of food and drink on the beach.

Cucukan Beach offering tranquil and peace-ful atmosphere is also widely taken advantage by Balinese people to hold purificatory rite or melukat. On Banyu Pinaruh, a holy day after celebration of Sarasvati, the people of Gianyar flock the beach and take a bath. From early morn-ing until noon, the beach will look like a sea of people. “On holidays, this beach is also visited

by many people to just relax,” she added.Meanwhile, foreign tourists have different ori-

entation. They prefer to use the power of waves for surfing activities. On that account, aside from the vendors of food and beverage, the beach is also equipped with the rental of surfing equip-ment. Tourists staying in Ubud such as those from Germany, Australia, Europe, Taiwan and Japan frequently visit the beach. “Besides, there are also many tourists staying in Kuta, Sanur and Nusa Dua Beach who want to explore the surfing charm of this beach,” she added again.

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But both Alex Ferguson and David Moyes, who succeeded his fellow Scot as manager in May, have insisted Rooney is not for sale since he has two years left on his contract. Despite those public statements, Chelsea has maintained its pursuit of the England striker, culminating in a formal bid submitted to its Premier League rival.

The London club was moved to confirm the bid to deny reports that it had offered midfielder Juan Mata or defender David Luiz as part of a 10 million pound ($15 million) offer.

“The official bid was just about a certain about of money ... not one single player was involved in our bid,” Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said Wednesday after a 1-0 vic-tory over Thailand’s all-star team during a pre-season tour of Asia. And now Mourinho said United “knows we want the player.”

“We did what we have to do in a proper way, in an ethical way,” said Mourinho, who is back in charge at Chelsea after six years. “We feel very happy with our behavior because it was clean ... we made the bid

and now it is up to Man United and now it is up the player.” Asked whether Chelsea’s transfer plans amounted to “Rooney or bust, Mourinho replied: “Yes.”

Rooney also sought to leave United in 2010 but backed down after negotiating a new and improved contract with the club. Back then, despite underperforming at the 2010 World Cup, Rooney was widely con-sidered among the world’s top strikers.

Now, he is no longer the No. 1 choice at United, slipping behind striker Robin van Persie at Old Trafford last season and often playing in central midfield. “He is a little bit frustrated at being taken off,” Ferguson said in May when revealing Rooney’s transfer request before retiring.

Neither Rooney nor his management team has disputed Ferguson’s version of events or said the player is committed to United. Moyes has made it clear he wants Rooney to remain among the striking op-tions for his first season in charge of the 20-time English champions.

“If for any reason we had an injury to

Robin van Persie we are going to need him, and I want as many options as possible,” Moyes said at the weekend. Rooney returned home from United’s tour of Asia last week with a hamstring injury that the club says will keep him out until August.

Before Chelsea lodged its bid, Mourinho publicly lavished praise on Rooney and said England’s 2014 World Cup hopes could be jeopar-dized if first-team opportunities are limited at United. “If Wayne is a second choice for Man United, then the national team will be affected,” Mourinho told the BBC on Tuesday.

Chelsea bid for United striker Rooney rejected

REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney arrives at Don Muang

International Airport, ahead of Saturday’s soccer friendly

against the Thailand Singha All Stars as part of the team’s Asia

tour, in Bangkok July 11, 2013.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Chelsea’s ambitious bid to sign striker Wayne Rooney from Manchester United has been rejected by the Premier League champions. The 27-year-old Rooney has been pushing for a move since expressing his frustration to the club about his lack of playing time towards the end of last season.

Associated Press Writer

ASCUNCION, Paraguay — Olimpia of Paraguay won 2-0 at home against Brazilian club Atletico Mineiro on Wednesday in the first leg of the Copa Libertadores final.

Alejandro Silva scored on a left-footed shot in the 23rd-minute that went in off the near post to beat keeper Victor, and Wilson Pittoni added a potentially vital second goal with a free kick deep into second-half stoppage time. The second leg is next Wednesday in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte.

Brazilian clubs have won the past three titles — Corinthians, San-tos and Internacional — but Pittoni’s late goal meant Atletico face an

uphill task in the second leg to make it four straight.After Silva’s opener, Juan Maneul Salgueiro just missed making it 2-0 to Olimpia

in the 37th minute with a shot that rolled inches wide. He was in alone down the left minutes later, but failed to hit his shot squarely. He also had openings in the second half as did teammate Fredy Jose Bareiro

Diego Tardelli, who teamed up often with strike partner Ronaldinho for Atletico, had several chances early in the second half to equalize for the Brazilians.

Olimpia too spurned numerous chances to get a second goal and needed goalkeeper Martin Silva to make several key saves to preserve the one-goal advantage before Pitto-ni directed a perfect free kick just under the crossbar three minutes into stoppage time.

Atletico’s Richarlyson was sent off with his second yellow card in the 89th. Olim-pia is seeking its fourth title. It’s the first time in the final for Atletico Mineiro.

AP Photo/Jorge Saenz

Brazil Atletico Mineiro’s Ronaldinho protest to the referee during the first leg of the Copa Libertadores soccer

final in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednes-day, July 17, 2013.

Olimpia wins first leg of Libertadores final 2-0

Associated Press Writer

GOING, Austria — FIFA Presi-dent Sepp Blatter said Brazil might have been the wrong choice as host of the 2014 World Cup if the tourna-ment is affected by social protests like those as at the Confederations Cup last month.

Associated Press Writer

SEVILLE, Spain — Sevilla says it has agreed to sell striker Alvaro Negredo to Manchester City, pending a medical checkup. There was no announcement of a transfer fee or length of contract, but Sevilla says “it’s official: Alvaro Negredo is now a Manchester City player.”

The Andalucian club held a farewell cer-emony for the 27-year-old Negredo at Ramon

Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium on Wednesday evening.

At the ceremony, Negredo said he has spent four happy years at Sevilla but was fortunate to get an offer from “a big one, like City, and I’m happy to go to such a big team.”

The Spanish international joined Sevilla from Almeria in 2009, winning the Copa del Rey that season. He scored 70 goals in 139 appearances.

Reuters LONDON - Former Brazil international

right-back Maicon has left Manchester City for a permanent move to Serie A side AS Roma, the Premier League club confirmed on Thursday.

Maicon, 31, who played 66 times for Brazil between 2003 and 2011, joined City

from Inter Milan for 3.0 million pounds ($4.55 million) a year ago, but made only 13 appearances in all competitions during his solitary season at the Etihad Stadium.

The club said on its website (www.mcfc.co.uk): “With Pablo Zabaleta and Micah Richards seemingly ahead of him in the battle for the right-back role, (he) has opted to return to Serie A to continue his career.”

Blatter: Brazil may have been wrong choice as host

AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner

FIFA President Sepp Blatter attends a press conference in Jerusalem, Tuesday, July 9, 2013.

Hundreds of thousands of Bra-zilians took to the streets during the warm-up tournament in June, demanding better public services and expressing their anger over the costs to stage the World Cup.

“If this happens again we have to question whether we made the wrong decision awarding the hosting

rights,” Blatter told German press agency DPA on Wednesday.

FIFA spoke with the Brazilian government after the Confederations Cup, and Blatter said he’ll discuss the issue again with Brazil President Dilma Rousseff in September.

“We didn’t do a political debrief-ing, but we did emphasize the fact of this social unrest being there for the entire duration of the Confederations Cup,” he said. “The government is now aware that next year the World Cup shouldn’t be disturbed.

“To me, these protests were like alarm bells for the government, the senate, the parliament. They should work on it so that this is not going to happen again. Though protests, if peaceful, are part of democracy and therefore have to be accepted ... we are convinced the government, and especially the president, will find the words and the actions to prevent a repeat. They have a year to do so.”

Blatter was speaking at the start of a two-day conference on sports,

media and economy set up by German great Franz Beckenbauer in Austria. FIFA later verified the comments were accurate.

The Confederations Cup, which was won by Brazil, angered citizens who are upset with the billions of dollars spent on the tournaments while they endure underfunded schools and hospitals.

Protesters aired a wide spec-trum of grievances, including the high cost of hosting the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The protests were originally or-ganized by university students be-fore spreading across the country, including tournament host cities Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Fortaleza and Belo Horizonte.

“It’s not we who have to learn lessons from the protests in Bra-zil — politics in Brazil have to do that,” said Blatter, adding that “FIFA cannot be held respon-sible” for social discrepancy in the country.

Without FIFA’s executive com-mittee having to vote, Brazil won the right to host the tournament in Octo-ber 2007. That was six months after the only other candidate, Colombia, withdrew its bid. “The decision for Brazil was the best decision we could make. It was the correct decision, we stick to this decision,” Blatter said.

Blatter said the success of next year’s tournament will be instrumen-tal in his decision whether to stand for president for a fifth time in 2015, adding that not all of the governing body’s tasks have been fulfilled yet.

“First we have to complete the reforms, which are three-quarters done. I’ll then have to deliver the World Cup ... the way the world looks now, I’ll say yes or no (to standing again) at the next congress in Sao Paulo in 2014,” he said. “FIFA should be taken over by someone who can take over a FIFA which is not just financially healthy, which it is now, but which also has credibility.”

Sevilla agrees to sell Alvaro Negredo to Man City Maicon joins AS Roma

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But both Alex Ferguson and David Moyes, who succeeded his fellow Scot as manager in May, have insisted Rooney is not for sale since he has two years left on his contract. Despite those public statements, Chelsea has maintained its pursuit of the England striker, culminating in a formal bid submitted to its Premier League rival.

The London club was moved to confirm the bid to deny reports that it had offered midfielder Juan Mata or defender David Luiz as part of a 10 million pound ($15 million) offer.

“The official bid was just about a certain about of money ... not one single player was involved in our bid,” Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said Wednesday after a 1-0 vic-tory over Thailand’s all-star team during a pre-season tour of Asia. And now Mourinho said United “knows we want the player.”

“We did what we have to do in a proper way, in an ethical way,” said Mourinho, who is back in charge at Chelsea after six years. “We feel very happy with our behavior because it was clean ... we made the bid

and now it is up to Man United and now it is up the player.” Asked whether Chelsea’s transfer plans amounted to “Rooney or bust, Mourinho replied: “Yes.”

Rooney also sought to leave United in 2010 but backed down after negotiating a new and improved contract with the club. Back then, despite underperforming at the 2010 World Cup, Rooney was widely con-sidered among the world’s top strikers.

Now, he is no longer the No. 1 choice at United, slipping behind striker Robin van Persie at Old Trafford last season and often playing in central midfield. “He is a little bit frustrated at being taken off,” Ferguson said in May when revealing Rooney’s transfer request before retiring.

Neither Rooney nor his management team has disputed Ferguson’s version of events or said the player is committed to United. Moyes has made it clear he wants Rooney to remain among the striking op-tions for his first season in charge of the 20-time English champions.

“If for any reason we had an injury to

Robin van Persie we are going to need him, and I want as many options as possible,” Moyes said at the weekend. Rooney returned home from United’s tour of Asia last week with a hamstring injury that the club says will keep him out until August.

Before Chelsea lodged its bid, Mourinho publicly lavished praise on Rooney and said England’s 2014 World Cup hopes could be jeopar-dized if first-team opportunities are limited at United. “If Wayne is a second choice for Man United, then the national team will be affected,” Mourinho told the BBC on Tuesday.

Chelsea bid for United striker Rooney rejected

REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney arrives at Don Muang

International Airport, ahead of Saturday’s soccer friendly

against the Thailand Singha All Stars as part of the team’s Asia

tour, in Bangkok July 11, 2013.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — Chelsea’s ambitious bid to sign striker Wayne Rooney from Manchester United has been rejected by the Premier League champions. The 27-year-old Rooney has been pushing for a move since expressing his frustration to the club about his lack of playing time towards the end of last season.

Associated Press Writer

ASCUNCION, Paraguay — Olimpia of Paraguay won 2-0 at home against Brazilian club Atletico Mineiro on Wednesday in the first leg of the Copa Libertadores final.

Alejandro Silva scored on a left-footed shot in the 23rd-minute that went in off the near post to beat keeper Victor, and Wilson Pittoni added a potentially vital second goal with a free kick deep into second-half stoppage time. The second leg is next Wednesday in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte.

Brazilian clubs have won the past three titles — Corinthians, San-tos and Internacional — but Pittoni’s late goal meant Atletico face an

uphill task in the second leg to make it four straight.After Silva’s opener, Juan Maneul Salgueiro just missed making it 2-0 to Olimpia

in the 37th minute with a shot that rolled inches wide. He was in alone down the left minutes later, but failed to hit his shot squarely. He also had openings in the second half as did teammate Fredy Jose Bareiro

Diego Tardelli, who teamed up often with strike partner Ronaldinho for Atletico, had several chances early in the second half to equalize for the Brazilians.

Olimpia too spurned numerous chances to get a second goal and needed goalkeeper Martin Silva to make several key saves to preserve the one-goal advantage before Pitto-ni directed a perfect free kick just under the crossbar three minutes into stoppage time.

Atletico’s Richarlyson was sent off with his second yellow card in the 89th. Olim-pia is seeking its fourth title. It’s the first time in the final for Atletico Mineiro.

AP Photo/Jorge Saenz

Brazil Atletico Mineiro’s Ronaldinho protest to the referee during the first leg of the Copa Libertadores soccer

final in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednes-day, July 17, 2013.

Olimpia wins first leg of Libertadores final 2-0

Associated Press Writer

GOING, Austria — FIFA Presi-dent Sepp Blatter said Brazil might have been the wrong choice as host of the 2014 World Cup if the tourna-ment is affected by social protests like those as at the Confederations Cup last month.

Associated Press Writer

SEVILLE, Spain — Sevilla says it has agreed to sell striker Alvaro Negredo to Manchester City, pending a medical checkup. There was no announcement of a transfer fee or length of contract, but Sevilla says “it’s official: Alvaro Negredo is now a Manchester City player.”

The Andalucian club held a farewell cer-emony for the 27-year-old Negredo at Ramon

Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium on Wednesday evening.

At the ceremony, Negredo said he has spent four happy years at Sevilla but was fortunate to get an offer from “a big one, like City, and I’m happy to go to such a big team.”

The Spanish international joined Sevilla from Almeria in 2009, winning the Copa del Rey that season. He scored 70 goals in 139 appearances.

Reuters LONDON - Former Brazil international

right-back Maicon has left Manchester City for a permanent move to Serie A side AS Roma, the Premier League club confirmed on Thursday.

Maicon, 31, who played 66 times for Brazil between 2003 and 2011, joined City

from Inter Milan for 3.0 million pounds ($4.55 million) a year ago, but made only 13 appearances in all competitions during his solitary season at the Etihad Stadium.

The club said on its website (www.mcfc.co.uk): “With Pablo Zabaleta and Micah Richards seemingly ahead of him in the battle for the right-back role, (he) has opted to return to Serie A to continue his career.”

Blatter: Brazil may have been wrong choice as host

AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner

FIFA President Sepp Blatter attends a press conference in Jerusalem, Tuesday, July 9, 2013.

Hundreds of thousands of Bra-zilians took to the streets during the warm-up tournament in June, demanding better public services and expressing their anger over the costs to stage the World Cup.

“If this happens again we have to question whether we made the wrong decision awarding the hosting

rights,” Blatter told German press agency DPA on Wednesday.

FIFA spoke with the Brazilian government after the Confederations Cup, and Blatter said he’ll discuss the issue again with Brazil President Dilma Rousseff in September.

“We didn’t do a political debrief-ing, but we did emphasize the fact of this social unrest being there for the entire duration of the Confederations Cup,” he said. “The government is now aware that next year the World Cup shouldn’t be disturbed.

“To me, these protests were like alarm bells for the government, the senate, the parliament. They should work on it so that this is not going to happen again. Though protests, if peaceful, are part of democracy and therefore have to be accepted ... we are convinced the government, and especially the president, will find the words and the actions to prevent a repeat. They have a year to do so.”

Blatter was speaking at the start of a two-day conference on sports,

media and economy set up by German great Franz Beckenbauer in Austria. FIFA later verified the comments were accurate.

The Confederations Cup, which was won by Brazil, angered citizens who are upset with the billions of dollars spent on the tournaments while they endure underfunded schools and hospitals.

Protesters aired a wide spec-trum of grievances, including the high cost of hosting the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The protests were originally or-ganized by university students be-fore spreading across the country, including tournament host cities Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Fortaleza and Belo Horizonte.

“It’s not we who have to learn lessons from the protests in Bra-zil — politics in Brazil have to do that,” said Blatter, adding that “FIFA cannot be held respon-sible” for social discrepancy in the country.

Without FIFA’s executive com-mittee having to vote, Brazil won the right to host the tournament in Octo-ber 2007. That was six months after the only other candidate, Colombia, withdrew its bid. “The decision for Brazil was the best decision we could make. It was the correct decision, we stick to this decision,” Blatter said.

Blatter said the success of next year’s tournament will be instrumen-tal in his decision whether to stand for president for a fifth time in 2015, adding that not all of the governing body’s tasks have been fulfilled yet.

“First we have to complete the reforms, which are three-quarters done. I’ll then have to deliver the World Cup ... the way the world looks now, I’ll say yes or no (to standing again) at the next congress in Sao Paulo in 2014,” he said. “FIFA should be taken over by someone who can take over a FIFA which is not just financially healthy, which it is now, but which also has credibility.”

Sevilla agrees to sell Alvaro Negredo to Man City Maicon joins AS Roma

after one season at Man City

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Using a bigger racket for the first time, Federer served three aces in the opening game but still lost his serve and ultimately the set to the German. The former No. 1 broke once in the second set and twice in the decider to reach the third round.

The 17-time major champion is a four-time winner in Hamburg, the city where he won his first title in 2002 to break into the top 10.

After losing at Wimbledon to Sergiy Stakhovsky - who failed to qualify for the main draw in Hamburg - Federer dropped to No. 5 in the rankings, the first time in a decade that he’s been that low.

Brands, who celebrated his 26th birthday Wednesday and received a cake after the match, received few presents from the top-seeded Feder-er in the last two sets. However, the Swiss star needed four match points to close it out. He finished with nine aces on the clay-court surface. “It was a tough match, Daniel is play-ing a very good season,” Federer said.

Federer will play qualifier Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic, who beat 15th-seeded Ernests Gulbis of Latvia 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

Tommy Haas outlasted qualifier Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 to advance to the third round.

The second-seeded Haas blew a 4-1 lead in the third set but held serve and then broke to clinch the match when Kavcic sent a forehand long. “At the end, it’s the victory that counts,” Haas said.

Haas was runner-up in the tour-nament last year and is the oldest player in the top 100 at 35. He is looking for his second title at home this season, after winning in Mu-nich. Fourth-seeded Jerzy Janowicz of Poland, a Wimbledon semifinal-ist, prevailed 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4) over Robin Haase of the Netherlands.

Defending champion Juan Mo-naco of Argentina, seeded fifth, beat Gael Monfils 6-4, 6-4. Four other seeded players lost - No. 6 Andreas Seppi, No. 10 Tommy Robredo, No. 13 Mikhail Youzhny and No. 16 Martin Klizan. No. 11 Feliciano Lopez, No. 12 Fabio Fog-nini and No. 14 Fernando Verdasco advanced.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON - Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been charged by German prosecutors with pay-ing a $44 million bribe, placing his future as head of the motor sport series in doubt. The 82-year-old British billionaire has been under investigation since a German banker was convicted of taking the pay-ment from him in connection with the sale of a stake in F1.

The Munich state court said Ecclestone has until mid-August to respond to charges of bribery and incitement to breach of trust in con-nection with Gerhard Gribkowsky’s management of the bank Bayern-LB’s 47 percent stake in F1.

Ecclestone, the longtime com-mercial head of F1, acknowledged during Gribkowsky’s trial in 2011 that he made the payment five years earlier but said he was pres-sured to do so. Ecclestone’s indict-ment was dated on May 10 and has since been translated into English and delivered to Ecclestone and his

lawyers, the court said. “The law-yers have accepted an indictment,” Ecclestone told The Associated Press. “It means they have to reply to the indictment, which they are strenuously doing.”

Ecclestone, whom Forbes mag-azine reports is worth $3.8 billion, said he is yet to read the indict-ment. “They are alleging I bribed someone,” Ecclestone said, while insisting he did “nothing illegal.”

Sentences in Germany for bribery range from three months to 10 years in prison. CVC Capital Partners, the investment group that has owned F1’s commercial rights since 2006, issued no direct com-ment Wednesday about the future of Ecclestone.

“Mr. Ecclestone has six weeks to provide a response to this bill of indictment prior to a deci-sion being made by the court on opening proceedings,” the board of Formula One Group said in a statement. “The board will con-tinue to monitor developments in this situation accordingly.”

Associated Press Writer

GULLANE, Scotland — One of the big surprises Thursday in the British Open came from Carl Pettersson. For the first

time in a major, he’s using a conventional putter.

Pettersson has used a long putter ever since he was in college, and the Swede has anchored it against his chest his entire pro-

fessional career. A new rule adopted in May means golfers no longer will be able to use anchored strokes starting in 2016.

Pettersson strongly opposed the rule, but he’s going along with it — at a major

championship, no less. He has a short putter and uses a “claw” grip.

His caddie says Pettersson first used the short putter on Sunday at the John Deere Classic, where he tied for 54th.

Pettersson abandons his anchoring for Open

REUTERS/Toby Melville Roger Federer of Switzerland hits a return to Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine in their men’s singles tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London June 26, 2013.

Federer rallies to win at German ChampionshipsAssociated Press Writer

HAMBURG, Germany - Roger Federer rallied to beat Daniel Brands 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday at the German Tennis Champi-onships in his first match since his second-round loss at Wimbledon last month.

F1 boss Ecclestone charged in bribery case

AP Photo/David J. Phillip, FileFILE - In this Nov. 18, 2012 file photo, Bernie Ecclestone, president and CEO of Formula One Management, shields his eyes from the sun before the first running of the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.

IBP Cucukan Beach retains something unique.

This beach has a magical power with ca-pability of curing illnesses. By burying the body in the black sand, the pain will relieve. This beach is located at Cucukan Village, Blahbatuh, Gianyar, or about 7 km south of Gianyar and about 17 km east of Denpasar.

Cucukan Beach is indeed not much different from other beaches owned by Gianyar. The beach area is clean, shaded by many trees and has an

intense magical aura. Sea water is not too deep. The waves are not too big because breakwater has been installed in the sea. Therefore, it is good for bathing or just relaxing with family and beloved one. Its panorama is very fantastic. So, do not be surprised if the coastal region has been equipped with many hotels and villas.

This advantage is already commonplace where Cucukan Beach has been known as the place to cure some diseases. They are starting from the sick of the palsy, stroke, leg weakness, and itchy skin. “Other than having recreation

and taking a bath, many Balinese people also did treatment on this beach,” said Dewa Ayu Ketut Sukarini, a trader of food and drink on the beach.

Cucukan Beach offering tranquil and peace-ful atmosphere is also widely taken advantage by Balinese people to hold purificatory rite or melukat. On Banyu Pinaruh, a holy day after celebration of Sarasvati, the people of Gianyar flock the beach and take a bath. From early morn-ing until noon, the beach will look like a sea of people. “On holidays, this beach is also visited

by many people to just relax,” she added.Meanwhile, foreign tourists have different ori-

entation. They prefer to use the power of waves for surfing activities. On that account, aside from the vendors of food and beverage, the beach is also equipped with the rental of surfing equip-ment. Tourists staying in Ubud such as those from Germany, Australia, Europe, Taiwan and Japan frequently visit the beach. “Besides, there are also many tourists staying in Kuta, Sanur and Nusa Dua Beach who want to explore the surfing charm of this beach,” she added again.

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Cucukan Beach

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It was a calculating display of cool by an army general plotting the overthrow of his commander in chief. Just over a week later, el-Sissi slid in the knife, announcing Morsi’s ouster on state TV on July 3 as troops took the Islamist leader into custody.

The move was the culmination of nearly a year of acrimonious relations between el-Sissi and Egypt’s first freely elected — and first civilian — president.

A series of interviews by The Asso-ciated Press with defense, security and intelligence officials paint a picture of a president who intended to flex his civilian authority as supreme com-mander of the armed forces, issuing orders to el-Sissi. In turn, the military chief believed Morsi was leading the country into turmoil and repeatedly challenged him, defying his orders in at least two cases.

The degree of their differences sug-gests that the military had been plan-ning for months to take greater control of the political reins in Egypt. When an activist group named Tamarod began a campaign to oust Morsi, building up to protests by millions nationwide that began June 30, it appears to have pro-vided a golden opportunity for el-Sissi to get rid of the president. The military helped Tamarod from early on, com-

municating with it through third par-ties, according to the officials.

The reason, the officials said, was because of profound policy differ-ences with Morsi. El-Sissi saw him as dangerously mismanaging a wave of protests early in the year that saw dozens killed by security forces. More significantly, however, the military also worried that Morsi was giving a free hand to Islamic militants in the Si-nai Peninsula, ordering el-Sissi to stop crackdowns on jihadis who had killed Egyptian soldiers and were escalating a campaign of violence.

“I don’t want Muslims to shed the blood of fellow Muslims,” Morsi told el-Sissi in ordering a halt to a planned offensive in November, retired army Gen. Sameh Seif el-Yazl told AP. Seif el-Yazl remains close to the military and sometimes appears with el-Sissi at public events.

And at root, the military estab-lishment has historically had little tolerance for the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi’s Islamist group. The military leadership has long held the convic-tion that the group puts its regional Islamist ambitions above Egypt’s security interests.

Its alliances with Gaza’s Hamas rulers and other Islamist groups alarmed the military, which believed

Gaza militants were involved in Sinai violence. The officials said the military leadership also believed the Brotherhood was trying to co-opt commanders to turn against el-Sissi.

The military has been the most powerful institution in Egypt since officers staged a 1952 coup that top-pled the monarchy. Except for Morsi, the military has since given Egypt all of its presidents and maintained a powerful influence over policy. Hav-ing a civilian leader over the military was entirely new for the country.

The Brotherhood accuses el-Sissi of turning against them and carrying out a coup to wreck democracy. Since being deposed, Morsi is detained by the military at an undisclosed De-fense Ministry facility.

The Brotherhood had believed that el-Sissi was sympathetic with their Islamist agenda. A senior Broth-erhood official told AP that Morsi installed el-Sissi, then the head of military intelligence, as defense minister and head of the armed forces in August 2012 in part because he had been the contact man between the Brotherhood and the military junta that ruled Egypt for nearly 17 months after the February 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Cooler temperatures are within sight but likely not soon enough and cool enough for a large swath of the country hit with dangerously high temperatures for days as the largest heat wave of the summer failed to budge from South Dakota to Massachusetts.

The relief is expected to begin arriving Thursday in some regions of the country as a cold front drops south from Canada. But it is not soon enough for others. New York City, for instance, is bracing for another day of temperatures in the high 90s.

Cooler temperatures are likely to sweep through the Midwest and into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions by Saturday. They might be ac-companied by severe thunderstorms.

The largest heat wave of the summer has stagnated over large regions, bringing sizzling temperatures and little hope of relief without rain, a grow-ing possibility for some hard-hit areas as the weekend approaches.

Most states in the U.S. had at least one region where the temperature hit 90 degrees Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service, though the worst heat was in the Midwest to Northeast. Humid air just made it all feel worse, with heat indexes in some places over 100.

It was hot enough to buckle highway pavement in several states. Fire-fighters in Indianapolis evacuated 300 people from a senior living com-munity after a power outage knocked out the air conditioning. The state of Illinois opened cooling centers. The Environmental Protection Agency said the heat was contributing to air pollution in New England.

Associated Press Writer

PARIS - There are no trash cans on the Champs-Elysees. Paris’ depart-ment stores, as well as shops and restaurants across the country, are closed on Sundays. And pickpockets swarm the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre.

France has long had a reputation - particularly in the English-speaking world - for being a bit difficult to visit. We love to hate it, with its surly wait-ers and superior shopkeepers. But we also love to love it: More people visit France than any other country in the world.

But now, after years of casually riding a reputation for stunning monu-ments and world-class food, the French are starting to talk about tourism as an economic benefit - and one they need to do more to capitalize on. This is a sea change in a country that has long prided itself on not doing anything as gauche as catering to visitors.

“The problem is that in France we don’t value jobs in tourism,” says Di-dier Arino, a director of the consultancy Protourisme. “We conflate services with servitude.”

The numbers show that something is amiss. With the draws of Paris, Alpine skiing and some of the ritziest Mediterranean resorts, France has been the most-visited country for every year there are statistics in the World Bank database, welcoming 83 million foreign tourists in 2012. But it has never sat atop the list of places where visitors spend the most. There, it has been No. 3, behind the U.S. and Spain, for several years. France’s Socialist government has vowed to change this.

“I want to make France No. 1, period,” Tourism Minister Sylvia Pinel told reporters last year as a new government took the reins and laid out its priorities. Improving France’s “welcome” was one of those - creating a true tourism policy for the first time, Pinel said.

AP Photo/Hussein Malla

Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi, shout slogans during a demonstra-tion in front of Cairo University, where protesters have installed their camp in Giza, southwest of Cairo, Egypt, late Wednesday, July 17, 2013.

Disputes between Morsi, military led to Egypt coupAssociated Press Writer

CAIRO — The head of Egypt’s military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, sat with a polite smile in the front row listening to President Mohammed Morsi give a 2 1/2-hour speech defending his year in office. El-Sissi even clapped lightly as the audience of Morsi supporters broke into cheers.

Relief from worst heat on the horizon by weekend

France learns to speak ‘touriste’

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino wrote a letter to Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner accusing the magazine of offering Tsarnaev “celebrity treatment” and calling the cover “ill-conceived, at best,” in that it supports the “terrible message that destruction gains fame for killers and their ‘causes.’”

The letter calls the cover an obvious marketing strategy and concludes: “The survivors of the Boston attacks deserve Rolling Stone cover stories, though I no longer feel that Rolling Stone deserves them.”

Bomber...

AntaraJAKARTA - The Liverpool FC

is undergoing their first training session in the pitch of Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Stadium, Jakarta, on Thursday after they arrived a day earlier.

Their first training session is also the first time for Steven Gerrards and his teammates that undergo in the biggest football stadium in Indonesia. However, there was a player who previ-ously had felt the GBK Stadium’s atmosphere, which is Philippe Coutinho, when he visit Indonesia earlier with his former team Inter Milan last year.

The Brendan Rodgers’ boys en-ter the field of GBK Stadium at 10 am and starting their light exercise training session, which is closed to the public.

Eventhough the training session is closed to the public, there are a bunch of Kopites from Big Reds Indonesia Official Liverpool Sup-porter Club waiting outside the sta-dium, chanting their team songs.

“Of course we really want to meet the players. But what could I do, the training session is closed to the pub-lic and the security was tight,” said one of the local Kopites, Satria.

While the training session is undergo, the stadium security is getting tighten. The all black ward-robe securities is guard every gate of the stadium.

“For its part, we will struggle for a 50 percent increase in mini-mum wages next year,” he said. The confederation will try to get the demand accepted either through negotiations at regional wage councils or mass rallies in September, October and Novem-ber across Indonesia, he said.

Even if the minimum wages were to be raised by 50 percent the wages would still be below those of the Philippines, Malay-sia, Thailand, India, and Brazil and slightly above those of Viet-nam and Cambodia, he said.

Therefore, the confederation called on both the government

and employers to discuss how to increase the productivity of the local workers and reduce over-head costs rather than turning down the demand for wage hike, he said.

“After the Muslim holiday of Lebaran, members of all regional wage councils representing work-ers will gather in Jakarta and Makassar to struggle for a 50 percent increase in minimum wages,” he said.

The government raised the prices of subsidized gasoline and diesel oil to Rp6,500 and Rp5,500 respectively from Rp4,500 a liter last month.

AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

Indonesian Muslims buy food and sweets to break the fast during the holy month of Ramadan in Jakarta on July 16, 2013. The recent fuel price hike has reduced the purchasing power of Indonesian workers by up to 30 percent, President of the Indonesian Labor Union Confedera-tion (KSPI) Said Iqbal said.

Workers’ purchasing power falls 30 percentAntara

JAKARTA - The recent fuel price hike has reduced the purchasing power of Indonesian workers by up to 30 percent, President of the Indonesian Labor Union Confederation (KSPI) Said Iqbal said.

ANTARA FOTO/Ismar Patrizki

The Liverpool FC is undergoing their first training session in the pitch of Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Stadium, Jakarta, on Thursday after they arrived a day earlier. Their first training ses-sion is also the first time for Steven Gerrards and his teammates that undergo in the biggest football stadium in Indonesia.

Liverpool undergoes first training session The Reds is scheduled to un-

dergo five training session in the morning and evening, in prior to the match against the Indonesia XI in GBK Stadium, July 20.

Rodgers brought 24 players for their first Indonesia visit namely Brad Jones, Simon Mignolet, Glen Johnson, Jose Enrique, Kolo Toure, Daniel Agger, Luis Alberto, Ste-ven Gerrard, Iago Aspas, Philippe Coutinho, Oussama Assaidi, Jor-dan Henderson, Stewart Downing, Jay Spearing, Lucal Leiva, Joe Al-len, Fabio Borini, Raheem Sterling, Martin Kelly, Martin Skrtel, Jon Flanagan, Andrew Wisdom, Jack Robinson and Jordon Ibe.

Rodgers actually named 28 players, the rest that did not join with their teammates in Indonesia is Jose Manuel Reina, Sebastian Coates, Luis Suarez and Dani Pacheco.

Three players who just come back from their participation in FIFA Confederations Cup Reina, Coates and Suarez scheduled to join their teammates on preseason tour macth in Australia.

Meanwhile Dani Pacheco did not join with the rest of his teammates because he is on the way to join Celta Vigo on long season loan.

After the first opening match of their preseason tour against In-donesia, Reds going to fly to Mel-bourne, Australia in July 24 and Bangkok, Thailand in July 28.

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WASHINGTON - Apple’s iP-hone sales are sputtering as rival smartphone makers ramp up their offerings, a market research firm said Wednesday. The survey by IHS iSuppli said smartphones are still going strong around the world, but that Apple is lagging.

“Apple’s iPhone franchise ap-pears to be stalling as first-quarter shipments of 37.4 million fell below expectations,” the report said.

“With the next iPhone model not expected until the second half of the year, there is a real possibility that the full-year 2013 sales volume of the iPhone may be essentially flat at around 150 million units, compared

to 134 million units in 2012.”IHS analyst Wayne Lam said

the volume of new flagship smart-phones from top manufacturers this year “has been astounding,” citing the new BlackBerry Z10, HTC One, and updated Samsung Galaxy S4.

“The possible slowing growth of the iPhone and the rapid pace of competitive smartphone releases

speak to the ferocious nature of the handset business, especially now as the market continues to pivot from a market dominated by lower-end handsets known as feature phones to one that is increasingly smart-phone-centric,” Lam said.

IHS said smartphones are likely to make up more than half of the 1.5 billion handsets sold in 2013. It said

that by the end of 2013, the number of mobile subscribers worldwide is projected to reach seven billion, an increase of 6.5 percent from the end of 2012. Recent surveys have shown Google’s Android operating system is used on around three-fourths of new smartphones. Apple’s iOS ac-counts for around one-fifth of the worldwide market.

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The US econo-my grew at a “modest to moderate” pace in recent weeks, with the hous-ing market and construction improv-ing nationwide, the Federal Reserve said in a report Wednesday.

The Beige Book’s overall as-sessment of the US economy was unchanged from the June 5 report.

“Overall economic activity con-tinued to increase at a modest to moderate pace since the previous survey,” said the report covering late May through July 8.

The rebounding housing market continued to be a bright spot in the recovery.

“Residential real estate and con-struction activity increased at a mod-erate to strong pace in all reporting districts,” the report said.

Most of the Fed’s 12 districts reported a pickup in manufactur-

ing, consumer spending and auto sales, while hiring “held steady or increased at a measured pace,” the report said.

The Beige Book is used by Fed policymakers to frame monetary policy decisions.

Based on anecdotal information gathered in the central bank’s 12 districts, the report is published eight times a year roughly two weeks ahead of Federal Open Market Com-mittee meetings.

The FOMC is scheduled to meet on July 30-31. At its June meeting, the FOMC kept its stimulus program locked in place, saying unemployment remains high and growth was curbed by sharp federal spending cuts.

The latest Beige Book said that manufacturing activity had increased in almost all districts, boosted in part by “strong demand in residential construction” and automobile pro-duction.

Consumer spending -- which accounts for two thirds of US eco-nomic activity, overall increased but there were pockets of retail softness, particularly in the New York region.

An unusually wet June appeared to damp down consumer spending and tourism in the eastern half of the country, according to contacts surveyed.

But the picture on the slowly recovering jobs market highlighted deep woes.

US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reiterated Wednes-day that the Fed stimulus could be wound down next year if economic growth remains steady as forecast.

But with unemployment still high and falling slowly and inflation very low, he said, “a highly accommoda-tive monetary policy will remain appropriate for the foreseeable future.”

A fourth round of talks about the complex again ended without agreement, but the two sides will meet again next Monday, said Seoul’s chief delegate Kim Ki-Woong.

The Kaesong estate in North Korea, the last remaining symbol of cross-border cooperation, shut down in April as military ten-sions mounted after the North’s February nuclear test and South Korean-US war games.

Dialogue resumed in recent weeks but little progress has been made amid squabbles over which side should take responsibility for the suspension of business there. Wednesday’s discussions appeared to be a repeat of pre-vious rounds, with each side refusing to budge on conditions for resuming operations at the estate, built after a landmark inter-Korean summit in 2000.

The South urged the North to promise not to cause another closure and to take a respectful and constructive position to re-

solve the issue, according to an official with Seoul’s unification ministry.

However the North reiter-ated its previous position that operations at the zone should be normalised as soon as possible, the official said.

“There was a big difference” over how to work out a legal framework to prevent a future shutdown, Kim told reporters at the end of Wednesday’s talks, according to pool reports.

The North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Pyongyang negotiators had advanced “sincere and practical proposals” and blamed the failure of the talks on the South.

“The talks ended without fruit due to the unreasonable assertions and insincere attitude despite the north side’s sincere efforts,” it said, confirming the next round of talks for Monday.

Kaesong was previously a valuable source of hard currency for the impoverished North.

Two Koreas fail to agree on reviving joint factory estate

iPhone sales ‘stalling’ as rivals gain

Agence France-Presse

SEOUL - North and South Korea failed Wednesday to reach agreement on reopening their jointly-run industrial estate as they wrangled over who was to blame for its shutdown.

Fed report finds US economy growing modestly

AFP PHOTO/JIM WATSON Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 17, 2013, on the conduct of monetary policy and the state of the economy.

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ULUWATU – On a historic night, Rip Curl and Uluwatu Surf Villas successfully raised over $18,000 for local environmental organization Project Clean Uluwatu (PCU) dur-ing their surf memorabilia auction on Saturday. The total amount raised includes proceeds from auction items, raffle tickets, food and beverage sales, entrance fees, and donations.

Over 300 guests attended the auction fundraiser, expertly hosted by SurfTime Magazine Editor-In-Chief Matt George, and held at the beautiful Uluwatu Surf Villas overlooking the Indian Ocean. All

proceeds from the auction will help fund PCU clean-up projects and environmental initiatives at world-famous Uluwatu beach, one of the planet’s most iconic surf spots.

Specifically, the money raised at last weekend’s fundraiser will go directly towards the completion of an 18-cubic meter bio-digester waste water tank to manage all the liquid waste from the many local warungs (small restaurants) lining the cliffs at Uluwatu. The tank will sit in a protec-tive housing alongside the lowest point of the Uluwatu riverbed, so that all the warungs can hook into it by gravity. The fundraiser money will also go towards installing the central plumb-

ing links for all the warungs as well as individual grease traps in each of the 20 or more warungs with kitchens.

“Installation of the waste water tank should be finished by the end of October, weather dependent,” said PCU committee member Ol-lie Crowell. “The next phase is installing all the pumps and creat-ing a waste water garden for the processed water, so no more liquid waste can pool up in the riverbed.”

Crowell noted how important the Rip Curl and Uluwatu Surf Villas fundraiser was for PCU’s ongoing cleanup work at Uluwatu, in terms of both funding and support from the local community.

“This was incredibly important since PCU is operating by piecemeal and the contractors were due for another pay-ment,” he said. “This new funding will get us into the final phase of the waste water treatment system before the rainy season starts, when it becomes impos-sible to build in that riverbed. The tank is big enough to sustain an average of 500 visitor per day, and if we need more than that in the future, it’s easy to add another tank next to it.”

With Uluwatu beach reaching criti-cal mass with surfers and tourists during the current high season in Bali, moving the liquid waste system at Uluwatu for-ward into the final stages is crucial.

“All the engineering is super

basic and has been proven success-ful many times over all around the world,” said Crowell. “It’s just been slow getting people to trust in us initially and then join with us. But we now have all the local Uluwatu beach warung owners’ support and they all contribute each month to-wards the solid waste collection and recycling system we put in place two years ago. They are empowered and amping to get the liquid waste treatment system finished ASAP. When it’s all complete, this will be a model for all beaches in Indonesia suffering the same pollution woes, and it will be that much easier to repeat in the future.”

Based on this philosophy, ex-plained the Secretary of the Ritual Consulting Agency, Faculty of Religious and Cultural Studies, UNHI, the Hindus believed and made it a basis to hold a tooth filing ritual. “It is also strengthened by the discovery of ancient human fossils in Jembrana, where the teeth of hu-

man fossil in the sarcophagus were neatly cut. Then, it was interpreted if the tooth filing activity has been done since long ago,” he said.

In the ritual, the six teeth to be filed consisting of two canines and four incisors. The six teeth symbol-ized the control against the Sad Ripu or six enemies within the human self.

The Sad Ripu or six self-enemies were the kama (desire), loba (greed and avarice), kroda (anger), moha (confusion), mada (drunk) and mat-sarya (envy). Essentially, said Satria, it was not to eliminate the Sad Ripu itself but to get power to control them because human needed them all for self-motivation. For example,

everyone should have a desire but it should lead to a positive one. Anger and emotion were also important to flog people to attain advancement. Envy was also needed to get motiva-tion, not to destroy others.

According to Satria, the dead person whose teeth had not been filed was also required to do so. Therefore, before being bathed the dead man should follow the tooth filing procession. However, it was not carried out by a sangging (filer) but by the oldest child or the elder. The tool used was not shaper but lo-tus bud.Nevertheless, not all people could join the tooth filing ritual. Its requirement was teenager or those

who had performed the ritual of ngeraja sewala, menek kelih (grow-ing up) for girls and ngeraja singa for boys. Pregnant women were not allowed to attend the tooth filing ritual because it could damage the fetus in the abdomen.

Tooth filing ritual was usually held when organizing a mapedudus agung, ngenteg linggih, mamukur (post-cremation) and mesakapan (marriage). Poor people usually joined a mass tooth filing ritual. “Mass tooth filing is legitimate, considering if the ritual is organized individually will be very costly. By doing so, it will not cost too much,” he added.

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Neutralizing six self-enemies IBP

DENPASAR - For Hindus in Bali, performing mepandes or tooth filing ritual has become a liability. Such a ritual is believed to neutralize and provide power for controlling the Sad Ripu (six self-enemies). Nevertheless, not all people can meet the requirement to join the ritual. A lecturer of philosophy in the Hindu University of Indonesia (UNHI) Denpasar, I Kadek Satria, said in Kala Tatwa palm-leaf manuscript was mentioned that Lord Kala would like to meet his father and be recognized as his son by Lord Shiva after he cut its fangs. Having done it, Lord Shiva received and acknowledged him as his son.

Preserving Uluwatu Surf memorabilia auction raises over $18,000

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The 70-year-old Wolfgang Schaeuble is widely seen in Greece as an enforcer of the country’s harsh austerity measures and has been often singled out for criticism by protesters.

Schaeuble, on his first visit to Greece since its financial crisis broke out in 2009, said the country had made impressive progress in efforts to balance its budget. But he added that the debt-strapped coun-try had little choice other than to press ahead with painful reforms.

“There is no way around struc-tural and fiscal reforms ... There is no convenient shortcut,” Schaeuble

said. More than 4,000 police offi-cers were on duty Thursday for his one-day visit, which occurred a day after Parliament narrowly agreed to thousands of public-sector job cuts.

Demonstrations have been banned throughout Athens during the trip. The German minister is due to meet conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and other senior Greek officials.

Police placed parliament and the city’s main Syntagma Square off lim-its to protesters, in security measures that were more extensive than those reserved for heads of government. Busy downtown subway stations

were also closed for the day, while traffic restrictions were imposed along the route from Athens Interna-tional Airport into the capital.

Tough austerity measures have helped keep Greece in the euro but have seen an alarming rise in poverty and unemployment since the country was first bailed out in 2010 by other euro countries and the International Monetary Fund.

Left-wing opposition leader Alexis Tsipras accused Samaras of trying to help his fellow conser-vatives in Germany ahead of the federal election there in September. “Mr. Samaras is acting like a man-ager for the (German) Christian Democrat party, as Mr. Schaeuble tours the countryside,” Tsipras said in parliament Wednesday. “He is coming here to support his cata-strophic policies.”

Associated Press Writer

KIROV, Russia - Alexei Navalny, one of the Russian opposition’s leading figures, was convicted of em-bezzlement Thursday and sentenced to five years in prison. Navalny and his supporters claimed the case was politically driven to try to shut down the vehement Kremlin critic and intimidate his supporters.

Navalny was found guilty of heading a group that embezzled 16 million rubles’ ($500,000) worth of timber from state-owned company Kirovles in 2009 while he worked as an unpaid adviser to the provincial governor in Kirov, about 760 kilome-ters (470 miles) east of Moscow.

The 37-year-old lawyer played with his smartphone for much of the nearly 3 ½-hour verdict reading. A post on his Twitter account after the sentence was pronounced said, “Oh, well. Don’t get bored without me. And, importantly, don’t be idle ...”

Navalny handed the phone and his watch to his wife, Yulia, before bailiffs took custody of him and co-defendant Pyotr Ofitserov, who was given a four-year sentence.

Navalny first came to wide at-tention for vigorous blogging about

corruption. He was a top leader of the wave of massive protest rallies that broke out in late 2011 after a national parliamentary election scarred by allegations of widespread fraud. It was Navalny who first called the dominant United Russia party “the party of crooks and thieves,” a phrase that became a rallying cry for the nascent opposition to Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin.

More recently, he pushed his ambitions by declaring himself a candidate for this fall’s Moscow mayoral election. The head of his campaign staff, Leonid Volkov, said a decision on whether to pull out of the race would be made only after he could consult with Na-valny, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. Russian news reports said Navalny would be taken to a detention facility in Kirov before being sent to a prison.

Several dozen Navalny sup-porters gathered outside the de-tention facility soon after the sentencing. Navalny’s wife ap-peared composed after seeing her husband taken away in handcuffs, saying, “If someone hopes that Alexei’s investigations will cease, that’s wrong.”

Associated Press Writer

BANGKOK - He’s known as Thailand’s jet-setting fugitive monk, and his story has riveted the country with daily headlines of lav-ish excess, promiscuity and alleged crimes ranging from statutory rape to manslaughter.

Until a month ago, 33-year old Wirapol Sukphol was relatively unknown in Thailand. Now he is at the center of the biggest religious

scandal the predominantly Buddhist country has seen in years.

Despite the vows he took to lead a life of celibacy and simplic-ity, Wirapol had a taste for luxury, police say. His excesses first came to light in June with a YouTube video that went viral. It showed the orange-robed monk in aviator sunglasses taking a private jet ride with a Louis Vuitton carry-on.

The video sparked criticism of his un-monkly behavior and a

stream of humorous headlines like, “Now boarding, Air Nirvana.”

Since then, a long list of darker secrets has emerged - including his accumulated assets of an estimated 1 billion baht ($32 million). This week, authorities issued an arrest warrant for the disgraced monk after having him defrocked in absentia.

Wirapol was in France when the scandal surfaced after leading a meditation retreat at a monastery

near Provence. He is believed to have then fled to the United States but his current whereabouts are unknown.

The arrest warrant implicates him on three charges including statutory rape, embezzlement and online fraud to seek donations. He is also under investigation for money laundering, drug trafficking and manslaughter for a hit-and-run accident. Authorities are struggling to figure out how he amassed so

much money.“Over the years there have been

several cases of men who abused the robe, but never has a monk been implicated in so many crimes,” said Pong-in Intarakhao, the case’s chief investigator for the Department of Special Investigation, Thailand’s equivalent of the FBI. “We have never seen a case this widespread, where a monk has caused so much damage to so many people and to Thai society.”

Thailand riveted by jet-setting monk scandal

Russian opposition leader sentenced to 5 years

AP Photo/Dmitry LovetskyRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walks during a break at a court in Kirov, Russia on Thursday, July 18, 2013. A Russian judge has found Navalny guilty of embezzlement, a finding that could bring the charismatic anti-corruption blogger and Moscow mayoral candidate up to six years in prison.

AP Photo/Kostas TsironisRiot policemen guard the Greek parliament during a protest in Athens , Wednesday, July 17 2013, as lawmakers voted for thousands of public-sector job cuts and transfers. The vote was the first major political test for Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras since a left-wing party abandoned his coalition government last month.

Schaeuble insists no shortcut for GreeceAssociated Press Writer

ATHENS, Greece - Germany’s Finance Minister arrived for a short visit to Greece Thursday amid massive police security, insisting there was “no convenient shortcut” for the country’s bailout program.

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Plantation enterprise covering an area of 25 hectares or more and plan-tation product processing industry with particular plant capacity are now required to have a plantation business license (IUP). It is in accordance with the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture No.26/Permentan/OT.140/2/2007 on the Guidelines for Plantation Licensing.

The Head of Bali Plantation Agency, I Dewa Made Buana Du-wuran, explained on Wednesday (Jul 17) the plantation license was a legality requirement as well as a guarantee for the sustainability of

the cultivation business and planta-tion product processing. “The area of plantation in Bali reaches 157,061 hectares (Statistics of Bali Planta-tion Agency, 2011). Of the acreage, 99.38 percent or 156,095 hectares belong to smallholders, while the remaining is managed by company. In Bali, there are three companies managing the plantation business namely the Bali regional company, autonomous company and PT. Bali Anacardia,” he explained.

He explained that plantation area in Bali was very small and meaningless compared to other regions in Indonesia. Though Bali plantation area was small, in terms

of product quality, the commodities of smallholders in Bali had been recognized by international market. “The Arabica coffee, for instance, has got a trademark ‘Kintamani Bali Arabica Coffee’ and poses the first commodity getting the Geographical Indication certificate issued by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Republic of Indonesia,” he explained.

Aside from coffee, the other com-modities such as cashew, according to him, were being pioneered to get the same certificate as the Arabica coffee. According to Dewa Buana, existence of the company engaged in the plantation business in Bali

was expected to serve as a busi-ness partner of the farmer groups or Subak Abian considering 99.38 percent of the Bali plantation area belonged to smallholders.

When asked about the business policy of smallholders in Bali, Dewa Made Duwuran said that for a number of leading commodities like the Arabica coffee, Robusta cof-fee, cocoa, cashew, coconut, clove, vanilla and tobacco were focused on the improvement of productivity and quality. Meanwhile, the guidance and supervision against the Pri-vate National Plantation Company (PBSN) in Bali was based on the results of reclassification toward the

plantation maintained by the PBSN under coordination of Bali and County Plantation Agency in charge of the plantation whose territory had the PBSN such as Jembrana, Bule-leng and Karangasem County.

“Result of the reclassification by the BPSN through the Bali Gu-bernatorial Decree stated that Bali in 2012 only had one plantation company namely PT. Bali Anacar-dia which could be upgraded from class IV in 2009 to class IV in 2013, while the plantation owned by two other companies namely the Bali regional company and autonomous company remained to belong to class III. (kmb28)

Negara (Bali Post)—

Strong wind engulfing the area of Jembrana on Tuesday afternoon (Jul 16) swept a house of poor family at Tengah hamlet, Tegal Badeng village, to the ground. The home owner, Ko-mang Sudiana, 29, when the incident occurred was out of the house, but his wife, Ni Putu Eli Suyanti, was almost struck down if she did not immediately go out of the house.

Eli Suyanti claimed the incident occurred at 6:00 p.m. when the wind blew from the East. Shortly before the plaited bamboo house measur-ing 7x6 meters collapsed, she was still inside the house. “I’m looking for the missing cell phone of my husband, while my husband was out with my son to look it for at his workplace,” said the brick labor. A moment later, she heard the roaring wind accompanied by the sound of splintering timber. As she worried if the house built eight years ago would collapse, Eli rushed to go out. “As soon as leaving the porch, the house collapsed to the rear (northwards), luckily I promptly went out,” she explained. All the furniture such as bed, dresser, chair and rice were buried by roofs.

Komang Sudiana admitted that at that time he was back to his workplace to look for his missing cell phone with his son. He just knew if his house collapsed after arriving at home. “Indeed, the

house has been porous and was formerly occupied by my father. Now, my father has got house refur-bishment assistance,” explained Sudiana equally working as a brick labor. Temporarily, the victim with his wife and son occupied one of the rooms in the house assisted by the government. Other than his father, the house was also occupied by his brother and his mother. “For the time being, we will stay there together as there is no other place to stay,” he added.

Chief of Tengah hamlet, Putu Wirawan, when met at the location with the village representative agency (BPD) of Tegal Badeng Barat, Sukirman, said that his party had reported the incident to village authority and resumed the proposal for the handling to Jembrana and Bali government. The victim was a poor family and was recorded in the red book. Meanwhile, the victim’s father, Ketut Pasek, pre-viously recorded as poor family had been delisted after receiving the house refurbishment assistance. “The victim has also been proposed to get such house refurbishment assistance,” he explained.

Based on observation last Wednesday, the plaited bamboo wall of his house was destroyed after the collapse. Nothing was remained be-cause everything was impinged by the building. Last Wednesday, Komang and his wife began sorting and unpacking their re-usable materials and furnishings. (kmb26)

According to one of the local residents, the project was worked on by CBM contractor. In its imple-mentation, the project often took place until the night. Not only

that, local workers were also often played loud music at night. The residents mentioned if the project implementation regulations had been posted. In fact, the regulations

were not obeyed.Due to the inconvenience, the

residents asked the government, especially the Public Order Officer (Satpol PP) of Badung, to come down and check it to the field. The officers were also asked to take firm action against the activities interfer-ing with the residents.

When asked for his confirma-tion separately, the Head of Public Order Officer of Badung, I Ketut

Martha, said on Wednesday (Jul 17) that his party would imme-diately follow up the matter. He explained that each project would surely have an impact on the en-vironment.

Impact of the development on the surrounding environment, add-ed Martha, could be anticipated if the project implementer complied with the environmental manage-ment effort and the environmental

monitoring effort (UKL-UPL). The document had mentioned the efforts to be made in anticipating the impact. Unfortunately, not all the project implementers under-stood the matter. “That’s why we are often appealing in order that all the documents including the licens-ing should be displayed at project location so that the implementer can see and obey it,” he affirmed. (kmb25)

Plantation business license must be owned by plantation entrepreneurs

A hotel project in Legian complained by residentsMangupura (Bali Post)—

A hotel project on Jalan Arjuna, Legian village, was complained by local residents. Residents assessed that implementation of the project had disturbed the comfort of the surrounding environment. So, the government was asked to come down and follow up the issue.

IBP/FileThe collapse house at Tegal Badeng, Jembrana

Swept by strong wind A house of poor family at Tegal Badeng collapses

3Friday, July 19, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, July 19, 2013

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The potential of salt farming in Bali, especially in three counties namely Karangasem, Klungkung and Buleleng, is quite high. Unfortunately, according to a member of Commission IV of the House of Representatives from Bali in charge of agriculture, livestock, fisheries and forestry sector, AA Bagus Jelantik Sanjaya, the potential had not been worked on optimally due to lack of technology touch. “The potential of salt production in Bali has not been worked on optimally because the process stays traditional, without the use of technology. Therefore, local governments and farmers need to be encouraged to work on the potential,” said Sanjaya Jelantik in Denpasar.

Further, he said the potential of salt production in some regions in Bali was quite high. As in Karangasem, the salt production had reached 920 tons per year on an area of 8 hectares.

In Buleleng, the production reached 5,855 tons of salt per year on the land of 149 hectares. Both regions had been included in the program known as the People’s Salt Business Empowerment (Pugar) of the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries and the production continued to increase each year. “Meanwhile, in Klungkung the potential is high but so far the salt production remains in small number because it has not been taken seriously,” he said.

He added that salt production in Bali remained to be mostly used to supply the demand in Bali, while the rest was sent to outside Bali and abroad.

He pointed out that salt farming at Tejakula, Buleleng, had been ex-ported to Japan for the manufacture of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. As being exported, the price would surely be more expensive reaching IDR 10,000 per kg compared to salt for domestic consumption only lying in the range of IDR 2,000 to IDR 3,000 per kg. “Such great potential has not been worked on optimally. So, we ask the salt farmer group and local government to proactively develop the region and explore the potential so that it can improve the welfare of salt farmers,” said the politician from Karangasem.

Nationally, the demand for domestic salt consumption could have been met by domestic production. Even, Indonesia had reached production surplus of salt for consumption amounting to 1,538,616 tons. Meanwhile, for the salt of industry, Indonesia had not been able to meet the domestic demand and was forced to import from other countries.

“There were 119,900 tons of imported salt to meet the demand for industry. Compared to the previous two years, the number of imported salt for industry dropped from 60 percent to 30-40 percent,” he said while adding that government was attempting to boost the production of salt for industry so that it was no longer needed to import. “Now, we are boosting the production of salt for industry and some regions in Bali like Karangasem chiefly Amed have such potential,” said the Gerindra politician. (kmb29)

It was revealed in a roundtable discussion taking the theme ‘So-cial Inequality amidst the Rapid Growth of Bali Development.’ The discussion held on Tuesday (Jul 16) presented some academicians such as Prof. Dr. Wayan Ramantha, from the Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Raka Suardana, the Dean of Faculty of Economics, Undiknas University, I Gusti Agung Oka Mahagangga, the Head of Tourist Destination Study Program, Faculty of Tourism, Udayana University.

Prof. Dr. Wayan Ramantha, said that Bali as a world tourist destina-tion should have a comparative advantage, not artificial tourism. To that end, the island known as the paradise of travelers should maintain its cultural tourism hav-ing become the icon of tourism in Bali.

“It isn’t different from a suicide if we leave cultural tourism. How silly it is if we leave the cultural tourism. Why must we preserve the cultural tourism? It is our comparative advantage, while if we think about the other kinds of tourism (new destination at Benoa Bay—Ed) denoting the comparative advantage of other countries, we would not have been able to catch it up,” he said.

According to him, every country had its own advantage in develop-ing tourism in their country. Singa-pore, for instance, had been known worldwide for shopping tourism and Thailand for nightlife tourism. Each of these countries sold their

potential considered to have strong competitiveness, so as to compete in the tourism sector.

“For instance, if Singapore wants cultural tourism, of course it cannot do it. On the contrary, if Bali wants to develop shopping tourism it has been left behind for 30 years. There-fore, we have confidence to fail because our comparative advantage has failed, why must we plan some-thing that will fail?” he said.

Ramantha added the develop-ment of Bali was only on paper whereas in terms of vision and mis-sion it was extraordinary because having taken sides with the growth (pro-growth), creation of job oppor-tunities (pro-job), poverty allevia-tion (pro-poor) and preservation of environment (pro-environment).

Taking sides with the growth was indeed correct, but the growth averagely 6 percent achieved at this time could not be proud of. The government had not made long term investment in the form of community empowerment to alleviate poverty.

To that end, he said, the urgent measure that should be taken by the stakeholders was the empow-erment of community, namely the improvement of entrepreneurship. Although they could not become entrepreneurs, they could at least have the working skills.

Similar opinion was revealed by the Dean of Faculty of Economics, Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Raka Suardana. Reclamation of Benoa Bay was a very basic mis-

take. The government should reflect on the reclamation of Serangan Island that had not been clear so far. Even, it was detrimental to the environment, society and culture.

According to him, economically the rapid development in Southern Bali would boost the economic growth of Bali. Unluckily, the growth happening deviated from the expectations and the gap was increasingly wider. “The current growth is ambiguous because there was no equalization. The growth (in Southern Bali—Ed) does not absorb the competence of the Balinese,” he said.

Other than causing congestion and social impacts, the rapid devel-opment of tourism in Southern Bali, especially in Badung County, would also lead to economic leakage. When an investment was financed by foreign or corporate network, then the goods required would be supplied from outside, so that the money generated would not be circulating in Bali, but evaporated back to the country of origin of the investment.

The Head of Tourist Destination Undergraduate Study Program, Fac-ulty of Tourism, Udayana Universi-ty, I Gusti Agung Oka Mahagangga, also agreed that the government and the whole community of Bali upheld their cultural tourism. “Bali is small, so that it must be set in order to achieve a sustainable tourism conceptually. We’ve got cultural tourism and this must be preserved,” he said. (par)

IBP/Yudi Karnaedi

Reclamation plan on Benoa Bay should learn from the reclamation that done in Serangan Island. The picture shows Serangan Island after big reclamation that held in 1990s.

Reclamation of Benoa Bay, an absurd thingBali Post

DENPASAR - Endeavors to smooth the Benoa Bay reclamation as a new tourist destination in Bali was an absurd measure taken by local government because the development of new artificial destination would not be competitive. Even, it was a suicide pace because Balinese people will just become a spectator of the tourism development.

IBP/Bagiarta

The salt production in Bali not optimally explored because its lack technology touch. Farmers only use traditional way to produce salt like in Klungkung Regency.

Potential of salt farming in Bali not optimally managed

“It’s never too late,” says Anu Narayanan, vice president of women’s and non-apparel at Old Navy. “You can always find, even on sale, great pieces, and it’s how you mix them together that makes everything look new.”

This year, many stores are recognizing that shoppers like to purchase summer clothing closer to when the weather is warm enough for them to wear it, says Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst with The NPD Group.

That translates to a later, more gradual rollout of summer clothing as well as staggered and later-than-usual sales, he said. While the 40 to 50 percent off deals used to arrive in early July and grow to 75 percent by August, Cohen predicts it will be August when the half-off sales begin.

“It used to be June would be when sales began and July Fourth would be the big clearance,” Cohen said. “Now, July Fourth is the beginning of the sales.”

The weeks ahead in mid-July and August are prime time to look for deals on basics like tank tops and trendy dresses, printed pants and colorful blouses, he said, though it may be trickier to find what you want because the sales will not be storewide. Cohen recommends checking online for deals before shopping.

While you’re making your way through the sale racks, style experts recommend keeping an eye out for clothing that remains in the fashion forecast for fall. Consider if a piece can be worn with boots instead of sandals. Can you swap shorts for dark pants?

“It’s a great time to find things you’re going to wear for the summer months and a great time to look for things that will effortlessly move into your fall wardrobe,” said Ken Down-ing, senior vice president/fashion director for Neiman Marcus. “I’m all about a great trend that has staying power.”

Calling leather now a “365-day-a-year proposal in fashion,” his top pick is warm-weather leather, especially by way of a biker jacket.

“Scoop up every biker jacket you can find on sale after July Fourth because rocker chic is the major message as we go into the fall season,” he said. “You can make it super girlie, you can make it tomboy. That biker jacket will take you everywhere.”

For color, think orange, a popular spring and summer hue that will work well in autumn with violets, reds and cranberries, Downing said. An orange handbag, he said, “pops everything in your wardrobe.”

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The on-again, off-again sale of Hulu is off — again.

Hulu’s owners, 21st Century Fox, Disney and NBCUniversal, said Friday that they will remain owners of the online video service, while providing a cash infusion of about $750 million to

ensure its future growth.The owners accepted for-

mal bids for Hulu as recently as last week as part of their

second attempt in three years to sell the company. But Fri-day’s announcement suggests the bids were too low. Reports pegged the high end of bidding

around $1 billion, which is half of what Hulu was valued at when the existing owners bought out Providence Equity Partners’

10 percent stake for $200 mil-lion in April 2012.

Among the bidders were DirecTV as well as AT&T in partnership with a group led by former Fox executive Peter Chernin. Time Warner Cable Inc. was reportedly interested in buying a stake in Hulu, rather than taking

it over completely.21st Century Fox

President Chase Car-ey said in a state-

ment that taking Hulu off the market is the

“best path forward.”“We had m e a n i n g f u l

conversations with a number of potential partners and buyers, each

with impressive plans and offers to match, but with 21st Century Fox and Disney fully aligned in our collective vision and goals for the business, we decided to continue to empower the Hulu team, in this fashion, to continue the incredible momentum they’ve built over the last few years,” he said.

21st Century Fox last month split from News Corp., which maintains the conglomerate’s publishing assets. Hulu’s

other owners are The Walt Disney Co. and Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal. Comcast is a silent partner as a condi-tion of its purchase of NBCUniversal in January 2011.

Hulu, which carries older movies and recently aired TV shows from Disney’s ABC, Fox, NBC and other networks, has more than 4 million paying subscribers to its Hulu Plus premium plan. The $8-a-month plan allows greater access to back episodes and lets viewers watch content on multiple devices like mobile phones, tablet computers and game consoles. A free version of Hulu only allows viewing on computers. Both versions come with ads. Last year, the service generated about $690 million in revenue, but it wasn’t profitable.

The end of the sale process still leaves open the possibility that Time Warner Ca-ble or other interested TV industry players will take a stake in Hulu, according to a person familiar with the matter, who was not authorized to comment publicly.

The person also said the announcement suggests that both the free and paid ver-sions of Hulu will continue.

The injection of funds from the owner companies will go toward programming, marketing, technology and expansion costs, the person said.

Currently, Hulu has a hodge-podge of offerings. Fox, for example, provides next-day access to recent TV episodes, but only to people who subscribe to regular pay TV. It makes other viewers wait eight days be-fore they can see recent reruns. ABC and NBC do not impose such a wait.

The broadcast networks also offer full episode viewing for free on separate apps on mobile devices. On its app, NBC doesn’t require viewers to prove they are pay TV subscribers, but Fox does. ABC requires proof for live TV viewing on its app, but not for reruns.

If the networks aligned their strate-gies, next-day access on Hulu could be touted as one of the benefits of paying for a traditional TV subscription. Tying online access to a regular TV subscription is part of an industry initiative called “TV Everywhere.” But that initiative is marred by inconsistency across shows, networks and TV providers.

Summer shopping? How to score the best from salesAssociated Press Writer

Don’t worry if you never got around to buying a summer ensemble in time to make a splash at July Fourth pool parties and barbecues. Now the fun kind of summer shopping begins, those exhilarating trips to your favorite haunts where you can score a swimsuit, sundress and sandals — all on sale — just before embarking on a week at the beach.

AP Photo/Old Navy

In this product image released by Old Navy, a model wears white denim shorts and a two-

tone blue denim top.

Owners call off Hulu sale, to inject cash instead

AP Photo/Hulu, File

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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

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“We are aiming to be one of the best hotels in Bali by giving the best experience to the guest,” Parmita added. He also stated that the hotel is located nicely and it is only 15 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport. Not to mention, it is very close to interesting places in the island such as Nusa Dua, Tanjung Benoa water sport, garuda Wisnu Kencana and Uluwatu Temple.

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Amaroossa Suite also has great meet-ing room that can accommodate 150 people. We are aiming for the MICE industry also,” Parmita said. The guest will also pamper by The Roses Restau-rant which serve first class menus.

This restaurant also can serve as the perfect spot for the guest to held special event or as a place to host meeting with client. Parwita also stated that the hotel also have Chandu Bar on the roof of Amaroossa Suite Bali.

“In the bar, the guest can see a beauti-ful view of Bali. It is the perfect antidote for the tired body and soul,” he said. With all of those facilities, the guest will have an unforgettable experience when they stay in Amaroossa Suite. IBP/BTN File Photo

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—The reason of investors to reclaim

Benoa Bay is assessed to be ground-less. Reclamation of Benoa Bay will only hurt the people of Bali, harm the Balinese socio-cultural order as well as increase the economic and development inequality.

Deputy Chairman of the Bali House, Ida Bagus Putu Sukarta, said on Tuesday (Jul 16) that reclamation plan was better to be stopped. The executive had to ab-sorb the aspirations of Balinese people. “We do not agree to the reclamation plan. Therefore, let’s absorb the aspirations of Balinese people. Simply stop the recla-mation,” said Sukarta.

Sukarta doubling as Chairman of the Gerindra Party of Bali Chapter empha-sized the importance for the executive to absorb the people’s aspirations and respond to the rejection revealed by component of Balinese people against the reclamation plan. It should not think about the reclamation and development of tourist accommodation facilities in the form of marine residence, apart-ments, Disneyland-like recreational park, golf courses and yacht harbor that would make Balinese community more prosperous. The reclamation would only plunge the Balinese into the abyss of the economic inequality. Balinese people would race in the competition against large capitalists.

On that account, as a Balinese peo-ple’s representative he firmly rejected the reclamation plan. “Let absorb and listen to the aspirations of Balinese people and let’s be on our mettle. Simply stop the reclamation because it’s more harmful to Balinese people,” he said.

Likewise, he asked the executive to refer to the rules in relation to the recla-mation plan. This politician from Sanur also requested all the components of

society to understand about the interests of large capital owners behind the rec-lamation plan because the reclamation was only for business interests, not for preservation of the environment. “We indeed have to think dynamically, but the structure of the environment and Balinese culture may not change fun-damentally,” hoped Sukarta who would put up in the legislative election 2014 to represent Bali in the House of Represen-tatives of the RI.

He added the reclamation would have a negative impact on the structure of socio-culture. The behavior of Balinese humans would change and they would be getting involved in the increasingly high-er competition. He cited the reclamation of Serangan Island that had changed the socio-cultural order of local community such as the increasingly higher crime and more rampant HIV/AIDS. Physically, the reclamation of Serangan Island had caused Sanur, Padanggalak and Lebih Beach to be exposed to abrasion due to changing ocean currents. “So, do not let similar condition happen due to reclama-tion at Benoa Bay,” he hoped.

Besides, the economy and business activities would be concentrated in Southern Bali, so that the balance and distribution of economy and develop-ment could not be realized. “It is certainly not in accordance with the development plan to balance the development for the entire region of Bali,” he said.

Mobilization of the population would also increasingly concentrated in Southern Bali, so that the conges-tion would be getting more severe. “By increasing the facilities and tour-ist accommodation in Southern Bali, the population movement will grow faster so that it also causes more serious congestion,” he concluded. (kmb29)

“Provision of infrastructure poses the duty of the gov-ernment. Do not only make programs on paper, while they cannot be realized. For instance, the Kuta-Soka road plan is not materialized until now, so that investors do not want to in-vest there and prefer to choose Southern Bali though it has been crowded,” said Ramantha in Denpasar, Wednesday (Jul 17).

According to him, with the availability of adequate infra-structure in Northern, Eastern and Western Bali, the investors would flock to the regions to invest. For example, the plan to build the airport at Sumberkima, Buleleng, although it was unclear yet, the investors had been eyeing the region to invest.

“The government does not need to drive out the investors from Southern Bali especially

Badung. Even, the moratorium is not required because investors will invest to Northern and East-ern if the adequate infrastructure has been available,” he said.

He added that in terms of economic standpoint, investing in Northern and Eastern Bali was not currently profitable. It happened because the road ac-cess to the regions took a long time, so that tourists coming to Bali were reluctant to visit the regions. Actually, the tourist at-tractions existing in the regions were no less interesting than the ones in Southern Bali.

“For instance, dolphin tour in Singaraja cannot be found in other regions. Due to travel time is longer, guests must spend the night there. There has been no road access to shorter the travel time, so that tourists are lazy to visit the region. As

a result, the investors are also lazy to invest because it is not economically feasible. To that end, it is required an adequate infrastructure first to encourage the investment there,” he said.

Aside from providing in-frastructure, Ramantha also expected the government not to promise the investors any regions that were clearly im-possible to invest because such a pattern would make the investors give up investing in Bali. “It must be clear which regions will be intended for investments and which regions will not. It means to give cer-tainty to investors so that they do not give up after investing because in fact they are faced with some problems or it is not feasible. Ultimately, the proj-ect is abandoned and fails,” he concluded. (kmb27)

IBP/file

The underpass in Dewa Ruci Junction, one of the infrastructure developed by the gov-ernment.

To resolve economic inequality in Bali Govt must prepare infrastructure Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Provision of adequate infrastructure, according to Prof. Dr. Wayan ramantha from Udayana University, was the key to overcome the economic disparities in Bali. Investors were reluctant to invest in Northern and Eastern Bali and chose to invest in Southern Bali, namely in Badung, Denpasar and Gianyar, due to adequate infrastructure. To that end, both the county/municipal and provincial government should provide adequate infrastructure to the regions rarely touched by investment.

Only benefits investor, stop reclamation

IBP/File

The result of reclamation in Serangan Island.

Academy rules allow online entries to compete with cable and broadcast programs, although so far Internet shows have popped up only in lower-profile categories. That could change with the 65th Primetime Emmys.

“It certainly is a marker of the new era. ... It will send shock waves through the industry,” said Tim Brooks, a TV his-torian and former network executive.

“House of Cards,” a tale of political intrigue, is aiming for a best drama series

bid and nods for stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright. “Arrested Development,” the sitcom revived by Netflix after Fox canceled it, may get a best comedy series nod and nominations for cast members including Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor and Jessica Walter. Spacey and Wright also are part of a movement that keeps growing: prominent film actors finding good reason to work on the small screen.

With theaters dominated by block-buster movies that are heavy on action and light on acting, performers are seeking out juicy roles in well-crafted series and made-for-TV films. Women in particular are being welcomed, even after passing the ingénue stage of their career.

Movie stars with a shot at Emmy gold include Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in “Behind the Candelabra”; Al Pacino and Helen Mirren in “Phil Spec-tor”; Holly Hunter in “Top of the Lake”; Shirley MacLaine in “Downton Abbey,” Jeff Daniels in “The Newsroom” and Kevin Bacon in “The Following.”

Potential behind-the-camera nomi-nees from the industry’s movie side in-clude filmmakers Jane Campion for “Top of the Lake,” Steven Soderbergh for the Liberace biopic “Candelabra” and David Fincher for “House of Cards.”

A “House of Cards” best drama nod would weaken cable’s near-monopoly on the category last year, aside from PBS contender “Downton Abbey.” The 2012 winner, “Homeland,” likely will be back to defend its crown, with other possible nomi-nees including “Breaking Bad,” ‘’Game of Thrones” and “Downton” again.

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NEW YORK — Scheduling the release of a summer movie isn’t exactly a science. It clearly isn’t an art, either. It’s more akin to a contact sport: Seize the advantageous position, sustain as little damage as possible, and score.

All of which makes this weekend’s open-ing of both “Red 2” and “R.I.P.D.” a little like sacking your own quarterback. Both films are action-thrillers. Both are about over-age law enforcers (in “R.I.P.D.,” some are so old, they’re dead). And both make a virtue of their, shall we say, mature stars.

Those stars include Bruce Willis (58), An-thony Hopkins (75), John Malkovich (59) and Helen Mirren (67) in “Red 2” and Jeff Bridges (63) and Kevin Bacon (55) in “R.I.P.D.,” which, by the way, stands for “Rest in Peace Department.”

It may not make a huge difference at the box office, but both films also feature the less-than-prolific Mary-Louise Parker, who has a solid base among discriminating male viewers

but is better known for her work in cable TV’s “Weeds.”

Add to all this the fact that Robert Sch-wentke, the director of Universal’s “R.I.P.D.,” had directed the original “Red” of 2010 from Summit Entertainment and for whatever reason (Schwentke didn’t want to talk about it) lost the sequel to director Dean Parisot.

Assuming there’s no ill will involved, that’s a lot of coincidence, said distribution consul-tant Richard Abramowitz, who teaches film production at New York University and runs the film company Abramorama. “It seems like too big a mistake to be a mistake.”

But the “Red 2”/’’R.I.P.D.” collision may simply be a symptom of the state of Holly-wood. There have been very few weekends since May that haven’t been dominated by a big-budget, major-studio release — a so-called “tent-pole” picture. There was “Iron Man 3” on May 2, “The Great Gatsby” on May 10, “Star Trek Into Darkness” on May 15, “Fast & Furious 6” on May 24, “After Earth” on May 31 and so on.

‘Red’ and ‘RIPD’ end up in a game of chicken

AP Photo/Summit Entertainment, Frank Masi

This film publicity image released by Summit Entertainment shows Helen Mirren in a scene from “Red 2.” The film will be released nationwide on Friday, July 19.

Online series, movie stars hope for Emmy honorsAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — “House of Cards” and “Arrested Development,” which Netflix delivered to viewers on the Internet, not on TV, may become the first online programs to receive top series and acting bids when the Emmy nominations are announced early Thursday.

AP Photo/HBO, Claudette Barius

This film image released by HBO shows Michael Douglas, left, as Liberace, and Matt Damon, as Scott Thorson in a scene from “Behind the Candelabra.” Nominations for the 65th annual Primetime Emmy Nominations were to be announced Thursday, July 18, 2013.

The photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sched-uled to hit shelves Friday looks more like a young Bob Dylan or Jim Morrison than the 19-year-old who pleaded not guilty last week, looking casual despite having a swollen face and his arm in a cast.

The same image of Tsarnaev, an eth-nic Chechen who came to the U.S. as a child, was widely circulated and used by newspapers and magazines before, but the music magazine is being criticized for turning it into something more ap-pealing — and making Tsarnaev look like a rock star.

“I can’t think of another instance in which one has glamorized the image of an alleged terrorist. This is the image of a rock star. This is the image of someone who is admired, of someone who has a fan base, of someone we are critiquing as art,” said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Public outrage was swift, including tough words from the Boston mayor, bombing survivors and the governor of Massachusetts. At least five retailers with strong New England ties said they would not sell the issue that features an in-depth look into how a charming, well-liked teen took a dark turn toward radical Islam.

The magazine uses Tsarnaev’s playful nickname in a headline: “Jahar’s World.” Its cover teaser declares for the story: “The Bomber. How a Popular, Promising Student was Failed by His Family, Fell Into Radical Islam and Became a Monster.” The story was made available on the magazine’s website Wednesday.

A brief Rolling Stone statement offered condolences to bombing survivors and the loved ones of the dead. Three people were killed in the bombing, and dozens were wounded.

“The fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is young, and in the same age group as many of our readers, makes it all the more

important for us to examine the complexi-ties of this issue and gain a more complete understanding of how a tragedy like this happens,” the statement said.

That’s little consolation for James “Bim” Costello, 30, who needed pig skin grafts on most of his right arm and right leg after the bombing. His body was pebbled with shrapnel, including nails he pulled out of his stomach himself. Three of his close friends lost legs that day, and others suf-fered serious burns and shrapnel injuries.

“I think whoever wrote the article should have their legs blown off by some-one,” struggle through treatment “and then see who they would choose to put on the cover,” Costello said.

Lauren Gabler had finished her fourth Boston Marathon and was two blocks from the finish line explosions that April day. At first she thought the Rolling Stone photo, first released on the magazine’s website and Facebook page, was of a model or a rock star.

“All of a sudden you realize that’s the Boston bomber,” said Gabler. “The cover almost tricks you into what you’re look-ing at. I haven’t read the article yet, and I know it will probably be quite in-depth, but my initial reaction is that the photo that’s being used almost makes him look like a good guy.”

Rolling Stone said the cover story was part of its “long-standing commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important political and cultural is-sues of our day.” The magazine has had plenty of covers featuring people outside the realm of entertainment, from President Barack Obama to Charles Manson.

Putting criminals and alleged criminals on the covers of major magazines is justi-fied if they are major news figures, said Samir Husni, who heads the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi. It’s digitally manipulating a photo that never is, he said.

AP Photo/Wenner Media

In this magazine cover image released by Wenner Media, Boston Marathon bomb-ing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears on the cover of the Aug. 1, 2013 issue of “Rolling Stone.”

Rolling Stone cover outrage

Bomber as rock star? Associated Press

NEW YORK - A Rolling Stone story on Boston Marathon bombing sus-pect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is generating controversy even before it hits stores, with critics saying the cover photo glamorizes an accused killer and some retailers saying they will not carry the issue.

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