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The Head of Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, when asked for his confirmation on Saturday (Jul 12) justified that Batur Geopark would be re-evaluat-ed by UNESCO in 2016. “In other words, it will be re-validate whether

it is qualified or not. If it remains qualified, it will of course continue. Otherwise, it will be issued a yel-low card,” he explained.

He mentioned the points of evaluation would be in accordance with the three main objectives of

the geopark development, includ-ing conservation, education and local economic growth through the utilization of tourism. In order to be able to maintain the Batur Geopark status, the management should be able to show progress towards a development. This offi-cial originating in Batur, Kintamani also claimed optimistic to maintain the predicate.

He claimed that almost all of the major targets of the geopark development had already well developed. For example, in terms of education or training, the Batur Geopark had been included in the educational curriculum. So far, the advancement of education had also

been shored up by the supporting infrastructure, namely the exis-tence of geopark museum. Mean-while, in terms of conservation, he also claimed there had been a better improvement such as the arrangement of geosite. Similarly, in terms of local economic growth through the tourism utilization, it had showed a significant increase. “Since the enactment of the Batur Geopark, the tourist arrival has grown up to 12 percent from 2012 to 2013,” he added. To that end, he was very optimistic if the predicate of Batur Geopark could be maintained.

All this time, since the estab-lishment on September 20, 2012,

the existence of Batur Geopark seemed to be a pride in itself for the Bangli government. Ironically, in the midst of the recognition as geopark by the UNESCO, so far the Batur Geopark area remained to have a very complex problem. The most highly visible activity was the remaining rampant ex-ploitation of quarry in the middle of the region.

However, many people con-sidered the three main objectives, namely conservation, education and local economic growth through tourism utilization were actually still limited to be at the level of con-cept and had not been able to give contribution significantly. (ina)

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2016, fate of Batur Geopark determinedBali Post

BANGLI - Bangli government still has two years to complete all the complex problems in the area of the Kintamani caldera. In 2016, a team of the UNESCO will come to evaluate the predi-cate of Batur Geopark. If in the view of the UNESCO, Batur Geopark does not develop into a destination being capable of maintaining the environmental preservation, it is not impossible for the Batur Geopark to be disqualified from membership of the Global Geopark Network (GGN).

Bangli government still has two years to complete all the complex problems in the area of the Kintamani caldera.

Associated Press

BEVERLY HILLS — Katherine Heigl is returning to television, with her mother in tow. She stars on the new fall series “State of Affairs,” playing a CIA attache who informs the president on high-level incidents around the world. It’s the first TV series for Heigl since she left her Emmy-winning role on “Grey’s Anatomy” in 2010 after six seasons.

Heigl’s mother, Nancy, is serving as an executive producer on the NBC series debuting in November. She manages her 35-year-old daughter’s career and has had similar credits on “One for the Money,” ‘’Life as We Know It” and “The Ugly Truth,” all starring Heigl.

The notion that Heigl and her mother are difficult on set has followed the ac-tress since “Grey’s Anatomy.”

“I certainly don’t see myself as being difficult. I would never intend to be dif-ficult,” she said. “I don’t think my mother sees herself as being difficult. I think it’s important to everybody to conduct themselves professionally and respect-fully and kindly. If I’ve ever disappointed somebody, it was never intentional.”

When her mother was asked about her role on the show, Heigl interjected, “She bakes us cookies.”

Nancy Heigl said she and her daughter pitched the series.

“I am her mother for sure, so of course I care about her interests,” she said. “But I’m just learning about executive produc-ing. I’m a newcomer to it.”

NBC Entertainment president Jen-nifer Salke described Nancy Heigl as “someone with a strong opinion.”

“There have been no problems,”

Salke said. “She’s not been disruptive in any way.”

After the session with critics at the summer TV tour, Heigl described the talk about her reputation as “awkward.”

“I don’t think I really see myself as re-ally being difficult,” she said. “How can I prove that to you until you’ve met me and until you’ve worked with me?”

She said, laughing, “I think I’m a joy to work with.”

After leaving “Grey’s Anatomy,” Heigl limited her movie roles to be with her family, including husband and singer Josh Kelley and their two adopted daughters.

“I needed that time,” she said. “I needed to be a mom and wife and friend and revel with that, and remember what it is I feel so passionate about in this industry.

Premium cable channel HBO’s grisly royal feud saga scored 19 nods includ-ing for best drama series, followed by “Fargo” -- based on the quirky 1996 Coen brothers’ movie -- with nomina-tions in 18 categories.

Other notable nominees included Netflix’s breakthrough women’s prison show “Orange is the New Black,” earn-ing nominations for five members of its cast, and the new crime drama “True Detective”.

Other female-led shows like “Veep,” “The Good Wife,” “Scandal” and “Amer-ican Horror Story: Coven” also made strong showings.

“How incredibly humbling to be nomi-nated not only a third time but among a group of exceptionally talented and critically acclaimed actresses,” Mayim Bialik of “The Big Bang Theory” told the Hollywood Reporter. Overall, HBO won the most nominations with 99, while online streaming giant Netflix doubled its number of nods from last year with 31.

Overall “American Horror Story: Coven” was third with 17 nods, followed by 16 for “Breaking Bad,” the cult se-ries about teacher-turned-drugs kingpin Walter White which ended last year, and the same number for AIDS drama movie “The Normal Heart.”

A slew of British actors are in the run-ning, including Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba, repeat nominees Michelle Dockery and Maggie Smith for “Downton Abbey” and “12 Years a Slave” star Chiwetel Ejiofor.

But there were also some notable snubs, including CBS’s widely-ac-claimed “The Good Wife” in the best drama race, where “Game of Thrones” is up against “Breaking Bad,” “Mad Men,” “House of Cards,” “True Detective” and “Downton Abbey.”

Also snubbed were “Homeland” star Damian Lewis and Elisabeth Moss of “Mad Men”.

In the best comedy race, newcomer “Orange is the New Black” was nominated alongside long-running series “The Big Bang Theory,” “Louie,” “Modern Family” and “Veep,” as well as “Silicon Valley.”

Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Katherine Heigl returns to TV

‘Game of Thrones’ leads Emmy nomineesAgence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Hit fantasy series “Game of Thrones” topped nomi-nations for the Primetime Emmy awards, as online streaming service Netflix again challenged traditional networks for television’s version of the Oscars.

AP Photo/HBO, Macall B. Polay

This image released by HBO shows Natalie Dormer, left, Jack Gleeson, Peter Dinklage, right in a scene from “Game of Thrones.”

Philippines braces for floods from tropical storm

Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens; 500+ dead

Germany basks in 4th World Cup after 24-year wait

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Calendar Event for Jun 1 through Jul 12, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi

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

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

27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati

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

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

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

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

Food & Beverage Manager doubling as Sous Chef of the Hula’s Café, Wayan Wira Astana, conveyed the menus offered at Hula’s Café greatly varied ranging from the Indonesian, Asian to Western food. “We also offer Balinese cuisines for foreign and domestic travelers. So, for the foodies of Balinese cuisines, they can order it right here,” said the Sous Chef from Tabanan.

Balinese food, he said, was a favorite dish at the café. For example, Balinese chicken, Kaliwang chicken, fish, satay, seafood and a variety of soups prepared with natural seasonings of Bali. “Hy-giene of the dishes gets serious attention. So, we only use the freshest ingredients, including the MSG- and preservatives-free spices,” he explained.

Hula’s Café provided about thirty spe-cial menus for in-house guests and walk-in travelers. The restaurant accommodating about 100 guests as usual offered the pro-motion of the month every three months for food and beverage menus. “Recently, we had a new menu for appetizer, main course and dessert,” he said.

No less importantly, he added, there was also a variety of healthy juices such as orange, melon, papaya, avocado juice and mixed juice including welcome drink. There were also mocktail, cocktail, soft drinks and local wine. “We bring healthy sugar-free juice so it is good for your health. Moreover, the price of the menus here are very affordable so it can be en-joyed by guests ranging from local middle to middle up class,” he added. (ocha)

Hula’s Café offers Balinese to western delicaciesIBP

KUTA - Among the hundreds of restaurants existing in Kuta area, the Hula’s Café at Aston Tuban Inn Bali is one of the attractive op-tions to enjoy a variety of dishes. The restaurant designed with the concept of casual, colorful and modern is neatly arranged in front of pool bar and ying-yang Outdoor Swimming Pool. It is only 4 minute’s drive from the Ngurah rai International Airport and located at Jalan Kediri 5, Tuban.

IBP/Ocha

Bali PostBANGLI - Ceiling in one of the rooms owned by the Susut subdistrict head

office was broken down by the flush of heavy rain having occurred since the past few days. It did not only make the ceiling mess, but the raindrops also flooded the floor of the room.

According to a member of Susut Subdistrict Electoral Committee (PPK), Wayan Sukadana, the breakdown of the roof at the office of Susut subdistrict head occurred around 03:00 a.m. At that time, he was in charge of guarding the ballot boxes stored in the room. According to him, the roof ceiling in front of the meeting hall broke down as it could not hold the water seep-age flushing for the whole night. He suspected the leakage happened as the connection between the two existing buildings was not good. So, when it rained heavily, the ceiling along the connection broke down. “When it rains heavily, suddenly the ceiling in front of the ballot box storage broke down,” he said.

Luckily, when it happened no one was under the ceiling so that it did not cause any casualties. Nevertheless, it did not hamper the recapitulation at the local subdistrict head office. Implementation of the plenary session on the calculation of vote count results of the presidential election could go smoothly until the afternoon. However, before the plenary session began, a number of officers should first clean up the ruins of the breakdown ceiling. As a result, the recapitulation process was slightly delayed. (ina)

Based on information gathered on Sunday (Jul 13), the smallest school charge imposed to new student averagely valued at IDR 1.5 million. Each school was still burdened with the cost of school known as investment fund. As at the SMAN 1 Gianyar high school, the investment fund charged was IDR 2 million, while at SMAN 1 Sukawati reached IDR 1.5 million, and so did the other high schools in Gianyar.

The investment fund is the replacement of the building fund. Besides, the new students are also subject to purchase uniforms and monthly charges where the average amount in Gianyar reached IDR 200,000 more.

Kadek, a resident of Gianyar whose child just attended state high school this year admitted that the costs to be spent by new student exceeded IDR 2.5 million. But in the parent meeting, it had been

informed that the monthly fund would be assisted by the govern-ment. However, the charge still considered burdensome was the investment fund or building charges amounting to IDR 1.5 million. Though it was the government-owned school, parents were still obliged to pay building charges, he said.

Separately, the Principal of SMAN 1 Gianyar high school, Dewa Nyoman Alit, said the new students were indeed charged with investment fund denoting a vol-untary financial contribution from parents of students having been agreed in the meeting of the school committee. In addition to collect-ing investment funds, his school also collected participation fund from each student at IDR 300,000 per month.

Student orientation periodMeanwhile, the junior (SMP)

and senior high (SMA)/voca-tional school (SMK) in Gianyar that would hold the student ori-entation period (MOS) should not burden the parents and students, both psychologically and mentally. “Its implementa-tion may not deviate and violate the code of ethics of the student coaching,” said the Head of Gianyar Education Agency, I Dewa Alit Mudiarta, amidst the simultaneous opening of the student orientation period for the academic year 2014/2015, Sunday.

This year, the student orien-tation period was followed by 15,870 students of junior high, high school / vocational school in the Gianyar County. The ac-tivities were expected to be more focused on environmental con-cern and social contact between students and the surrounding communities. (kmb16)

Bali PostSINGARAJA - The Head of Buleleng Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,

Nyoman Sutrisna, said on Sunday afternoon (Jul 13) that Fish Landing Base (PPI) at Sangsit having been built since 2004, due to limited devel-opment fund, remains under gradual development process considering the PPI development has not been entirely accomplished.

“Development of the Fish Landing Base still has no anchoring pond and a more representative pier. However, the operation at the PPI Sangsit is still observed to run normally. Even, the fish transporting vessels still perform their regular activity,” he said.

Sutrisna affirmed that his party applied clear rules such as by making law-substituting regulation and regional bylaw. However, the draft of regional bylaw was still experiencing delays in the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. Two years ago, the Buleleng House had consulted the PPI regional bylaw draft to the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries in Jakarta. “The regional bylaw draft proposed two years ago by the Buleleng House was hampered by the letter from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries where each Fish Landing Base is not al-lowed to collect high levy to community,” he said.

Meanwhile, the existence of Fish Fingerling House (BBI), especially for freshwater fish, located in the area of Ringdikit produced commodities like tilapia, silver barb, common carp and koi fish. His party admitted to make frequent restocking in some areas such as lake, reservoir, river and fish ponds. Hundreds of fish fingerlings were broadcast obtained from the Fish Fingerling House. The restocking effort posed a concrete step to increase the catch fish stocks by the spread in public waters due to over-fishing. “Through the Fish Fingerling House, we managed to restocking and selling so that it results in a levy,” said Sutrisna.

For information, the regionally generated revenue (PAD) in the maritime affairs and fishery sector sourced from levies and third party contribution (SP3). In 2013, the target of regional revenue was IDR 90 million and could reach IDR 190,166,000 (levy) and contribution of the third party was IDR 72,830,000. In the 2014, the target set was IDR 150 million, as of May it has reached IDR 81,357,000. Meanwhile, the contribution of third party in 2014 reached IDR 40 million. (kmb34)

IBP/Eka Adyaksa

The new students are joining the school introduction program. The high school fee make it difficult for parents to give the best education for their children.

School admission fee remains to be parent’s burden Bali Post

GIANyAr - Even though the government has discourse to provide free education, in fact, the current school admission remains to be the burden of parents. New students of this academic year, though in public schools, are still burdened with quite expensive cost whose amount is almost the same as that of private school.

Restocking effort increases fish population

Flushed by rain, ceiling of Susut subdistrict head office broken

3Tuesday, July 15, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Tuesday, July 15, 2014

AntaraDENPASAR - The number of foreign tourists in the world-renowned

tourist destination of Bali is expected to exceed the government-set target of 3.5 million for this year, an observer said.

“Bali has so far been the favorite tourist destination for international tourists because of its spectacular natural scenery and attractive culture,” tourism observer and practitioner Dewa Nyoman Putra said.

The number of foreign tourists visiting Bali in the first half of this year was 1.727,875 million, a 15.73 percent increase compared with 1.483,021 million in the same period last year, according to the data.

“This means, in the first half of 2014 the number of tourist arrivals has come closer to the target. Interestingly, many foreign tourists are expected to spend their holidays in Bali in the middle of this year,” he said.

Although the European and US economies had not shown signs of full recovery, the number of tourist arrivals from the two regions in Bali was on the rise, Nyoman noted.

The same was also true with tourists from other ASEAN member states, he said.

In the first half of this year, 326.993 thousand European tourists visited Bali, accounting for 18.92 percent of the overall tourist arrivals over the period.

Meanwhile, the number of US tourists visiting Bali reached 85.669 thousand in the first half of this year, representing 5 percent of the overall tourist arrivals.

The number of US tourists increased to 14.937 thousand in June from 13 thousand, in January, he said.

“We usually close the port when the weather is not good and perilous for ferries to cross the strait, because the safety of ferry passengers is our concern,” inland waterway transportation service PT ASDP Indonesia spokesman Wahyudi Susianto said on Mon-day.

He said the weather at Bali Strait was unpredictable and thus

the decision to close Gilimanuk port on Monday was taken im-mediately in accordance with the situation.

Wahyudi stated that he had been monitoring the weather report at the strait from the Meteorol-ogy, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) every day.

“We usually compare the weath-er report from BMKG with the

situation in the field to understand the condition of the weather. We immediately order the ferries to stop operation temporarily,” he remarked.

He noted that bad weather had forced Gilimanuk port authorities to temporarily close the port on several occasions, and it has left a long queue of cars and buses head-ing to the port stranded.

AntaraBADUNG - A fire ravaged five

kiosks at Sangeh village in Badung district, Bali province, early Mon-day, but there were no reported casualties, noted the police.

“The fire was caused by a short circuit,” Badung Police Public Relations Chief Adj. Comr I. Made Dina stated on Monday.

The fire was first spotted at 1:30 a.m. by a motorist, I. Wayan

Erik Suganda, passing by, Dina remarked.

Suganda sought help from the local residents of Sangeh village to put out the fire. But, they were afraid to get closer to the scene as one of the kiosks sold gas.

The residents later contacted the Badung Fire Department. But, when the fire fighters arrived at the scene, all the kiosks had already been burned, he reported.

No fatalities or injuries were reported in the fire. The fire in-flicted material losses of around Rp100 million.

I. Md Wijaya, who had hired one of the kiosks, was shocked to hear the news about the fire, he added.

“The kiosks were relatively old. They would have been renovated after the lease contract with the traders had expired,” he stated.

Bad weather at Bali Strait has forced Gilimanuk ferry port

in Jembrana district, Bali, to remain closed for three hours

from 11.50 am to 3 pm on Mon-day, official said.

Gilimanuk port closed for three hoursAntara

NEGARA - Bad weather at Bali Strait has forced Gilimanuk ferry port in Jembrana district, Bali, to remain closed for three hours from 11.50 am to 3 pm on Monday, official said.

Tourist arrivals exceed target

Fire razes five kiosks in Sangeh

IBP/Olo

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Duke Uni-versity professor Kathleen Pryer has received her share of grant money. But for her newest proj-ect, she’s getting help from a retired nurse in Canada and a 17-year-old in Arkansas.

It’s her first foray into the modern-day world of crowdfund-ing, the practice of using the Internet to raise relatively small amounts of money from a lot of people to finance a project. It’s quite a departure from the normal sources of funding for scientific research, chiefly industry, gov-ernment and philanthropies.

Outside of science, it’s been successful for projects like de-veloping video games and other consumer products, publishing books and making films and other entertainment programs. A campaign to finance a movie sequel to the cult television show “Veronica Mars” pulled in $2 million in less than a day, even-tually gathering more than $5.7 million in 30 days.

But “science has yet to gain Veronica Mars status,” notes Jeanne Garbarino, director of science outreach at Rockefeller University in New York, who has used crowdfunding and in-formally advised others. Instead, scientific projects tend to be far more modest, generally raising just thousands or tens of thou-sands of dollars.

One researcher, for example, raised about $2,000 to hire a truck and buy camp supplies to recover a triceratops skeleton he’d found in Wyoming. Cur-rent campaigns on the website experiment.com include $5,000 to investigate a parasite in North

The Planetary Society’s Light-Sail, an unmanned satellite-like craft known as a solar sail, aims to reach orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in two years, said the group’s leader Bill Nye.

The foot-long (30-centimeter) spacecraft with its four, ultra-thin Mylar sails may then undertake a journey around the cosmos, pow-ered only by the constant pressure

exerted by sunlight.“It is so thrilling to see this

grand endeavor setting the date for its pioneering mission above our planet,” Nye said in a state-ment.

The project is funded by pri-vate donors and members of the Planetary Society, which describes itself as the world’s largest space group and was co-

founded by famous American astronomer Carl Sagan in 1980.

Solar sails have generated ex-citement due to their potential to travel to other stars and galaxies, without the need for fuel.

“Closer to home, solar sails may give us access to unique orbits for vital Earth science and space weather missions,” said Jennifer Vaughn, the chief

operating officer of the Planetary Society.

LightSail aims to go beyond low Earth orbit, where the International Space Station circles the Earth, into medium Earth orbit.

The solar sail will initially be stored inside another spacecraft, called Prox-1, which will eject the solar sail and then follow it and take images of it.

A few weeks after it reaches or-bit, the LightSail’s reflective wings will expand to 344 square feet (32 square meters), making it visible from the Earth.

Nye said a test flight, using a smaller rocket and a lower orbit, may be attempted next year.

The society attempted in vain to launch a solar sail called Cosmos 1 in 2005.

That bid was unsuccessful due to a failure with the Russian booster.

The Japanese space agency in 2010 launched IKAROS, which be-came “the world’s first demonstra-tion of solar power sail,” according to JAXA’s website.

A NASA solar sail called Sun-jammer is scheduled for takeoff later this year.

Privately funded solar spacecraft to launch in 2016

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - A tiny spacecraft designed to sail by the power of the sun is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX rocket in 2016, a leading US space enthusiast said.

AP Photo Stephan Savoia

In this June 30, 2014 photo, Ken Buesseler, senior scientist of marine chemistry and geo-chemistry, holds an extract of a water sample taken from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the United States in a lab at his Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research facility in Woods Hole, Mass.

US scientists turn to public to help fund researchCarolina bay scallops, $3,560 to study a disease of bats, and $17,400 to tag sharks for migra-tion research.

In one impressive success, more than $150,000 was raised to contact an old research satellite and put it back to work.

Pryer launched a six-week campaign last month to raise $15,000 to decipher the DNA of a fast-growing aquatic fern called Azolla. It’s small enough to fit on your thumbnail, but she says learning more about the plant could pay big benefits.

Azolla captures and processes nitrogen from the air with the help of bacteria that live on it, and further study may let sci-entists engineer that trick into crop plants, reducing the need for fertilizer, she says. Azolla also sucks heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, making it potentially useful for fighting global warming, accord-ing to Pryer.

She turned to crowdfunding after being “turned down flat” by the National Science Foundation, and rejected by other traditional sources of funds.

But her project caught the eye of Andrew Willoughby, 17, of Little Rock, Arkansas, when he learned about it on Twitter. With his inter-est in botany, he thought any steps toward engineering crops that get and process their own nitrogen would be “a great idea.” He pitched in $15.

Similarly, retired nurse Ingrid Kern of Toronto was impressed by the project when she read a commentary by Pryer in her local newspaper. She tracked down Pry-er’s page on experiment.com and donated $100, her first contribution to a crowdfunding campaign.

The fern “interests me because it’s tiny and it has great potential,” said Kern, who’d been an industrial microbiologist before turning to nursing.

By late June, Pryer’s campaign had raised only about a third of her goal, with just two weeks to go. Then things took a dramatic turn. BGI, a nonprofit institution

in China that does DNA research, said it would carry out Pryer’s project for free.

If that hadn’t happened, “I do not think we would have met our goal,” she said.

Her campaign now has a new fundraising target. She hopes to use donated money to pay for analysis of the data she’ll get from BGI. The

effort ends this week.How much science will crowd-

funding support? It’s not clear yet. But apart from the money, there’s an educational payoff from hav-ing scientists explain their work clearly to lay people as they ask for money, says Edward Derrick of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Associated Press Writer

HORONOBE, Japan — Rein-deer farms and grazing Holstein cows dot a vast stretch of rolling green pasture here on Japan’s northern tip. Underground it’s a different story.

Workers and scientists have carved a sprawling laboratory deep below this sleep dairy town that, despite government reassurances, some of Horonobe’s 2,500 residents fear could turn their neighborhood into a nuclear waste storage site.

“I’m worried,” said 54-year-old reindeer handler Atsushi Arase. “If the government already has its eye on us as a potential site, it may eventually come here even if we refuse.”

Japanese utilities have more than 17,000 tons of “spent” fuel rods that have finished their useful life but will remain dangerously radioactive for thousands of years. What to do with them is a vexing problem that nuclear-powered nations around the world face, and that has come to the fore as Japan debates whether

to keep using nuclear energy after the 2011 disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima plant.

The answer to that problem may lie in the Horonobe Underground Research Center, which has been collecting geological data to deter-mine if and how radioactive waste can be stored safely for as long as 100,000 years in a country that is susceptible to volcanic activity, earthquakes and shifting under-ground water flows.

Several journalists donned hard hats recently and crammed in small groups into a cage-like mesh eleva-tor for a 350-meter (1,150-foot) descent to reach the laboratory.

They emerged in a 760-meter-long (2,500-feet-long) tunnel cut in the shape of a figure 8, its bare wall showing 3 million-year-old sedimentary layers. Dripping water formed puddles on the ground. Doz-ens of cables and gauges connected to biscuit-size holes in the wall were analyzing the composition and movement of groundwater and other data around the clock.

In return for hosting the research, which under an agreement with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency doesn’t involve any radioactivity, Horonobe has received about 1 billion yen ($10 million) in govern-

ment subsidies and tunnel-related public works projects since 2000, according to town statistics. Of-ficially, this is only a test.

But as with America’s doomed Yucca Mountain project, finding a

community willing to host a radio-active dump site is proving difficult, even with a raft of financial entice-ments. One mayor expressed inter-est in 2007, and was booted from office in the next election.

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Rammasun was about 500 kilo-meters (310 miles) east of eastern Legazpi city as of Monday after-noon, packing sustained winds of 110 kilometers (68 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 140 kph (87 mph), government weather forecaster Rene Paciente said. It entered Phil-ippine territory on Sunday but was still over the sea.

Alexander Pama, executive di-rector of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Coun-cil, said the council’s field offices in at least seven regions, including Metropolitan Manila, had been put on alert for landslides and flash floods. “Our initial assessment is that there is not much on the wind. What we are wary about are land-slides, flooding,” Pama said.

Schools suspended classes Mon-day afternoon in some areas, in-cluding Manila, the capital. Local

officials urged sea vessels not to sail in the storm’s path, readied relief goods and prepared for the possible evacuation of residents, especially in flood- and landslide-prone areas.

Rammasun’s impact is expected to be felt in metropolitan Manila starting Tuesday morning and will be over the capital by early Wednesday before moving into the South China Sea through either Bataan or Zam-bales province in the northwest, fore-casters said. It is expected to be out of Philippine territory by Thursday, moving toward southern China.

Central Philippine provinces have not yet fully recovered from the massive devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan last November. Haiyan’s strong winds and tsunami-like storm surges flattened towns, leaving at least 6,300 people dead and more than 1,000 missing.

AP Photo/Shizuo KambayashiIn this photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, women plant seedlings backdropped by Horonobe Under-ground Research Center in Horonobe, Japan.

Underground lab tackles Japan nuclear waste issue

Philippines braces for floods from tropical stormAssociated Press Writer

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines was bracing for possible floods and landslides as a tropical storm continued to strengthen Monday as it moved closer to the country’s eastern seaboard. Tropical Storm Rammasun was expected to intensify into a typhoon before making landfall Tuesday morning in Albay province, the government’s weather bureau said.

AP Photo/Aaron Favila

A Filipino fisherman covers parts of his boat that is docked on top of piles of garbage as he prepares for a coming storm along a coastal village in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines on Monday, July 14, 2014.

Bali Post

BANGLI - Currently the fate of urban transportation in Bangli County is progressively suffering. Since the rapid growth in the num-ber of motor vehicles, the existence of public urban transportation is increasingly marginalized. The unit number continues to diminish in line with the lacking of public interest utilizing the means of transportation.

Based on the data owned by the Bangli Transportation, Communi-cations and Informatics Agency, the current public transportation remaining to operate in Bangli only amounted to 62 units. They were operating at the routes of Bangli-Tembuku, Bangli-Susut, Bangli-Kintamani and Bangli-Gianyar.

According to the Head of Bangli Transportation, Commu-nications and Informatics Agency, Gede Arta, the number of public transportation had decreased

dramatically since the past five years. Before the rapid growth of private vehicles these days, the number of public transportation in the Bangli reached hundreds of units. “Due to the ease of people to have motorcycles, the number of passenger declines. Then, it has an impact on the reduction in the number of public transportation in Bangli,” said Gede Arta, Thursday (Jul 10).

Even, this official from Kinta-mani said the condition of public transportation in Bangli was like the proverb saying ‘too timid to live, but unwilling to die.’ “Today, people rarely want to use public transportation,” he added.

Similar condition was also rec-ognized by one of the drivers of public transportation when met in the region of Kidul Market, Bangli. Since the past few years, he admit-ted, the public interest in taking advantage of public transportation decreased drastically. Even, due to deserted passengers, his vehicle was

often empty. “Similarly, I often get no passenger for the whole day,” he said. Even though during holidays many people were coming to the market, it did not have an impact on the number of public transport passengers.

Meanwhile, based on the field observation, the public transport vehicles operating in Bangli were mostly those serving passengers among the subdistrict town, while the inter-county public transport was very minimal. Since the Loka

Carana Terminal was intended for traders of the Kidul Market, the public transportation was forced to hang out while waiting for pas-sengers at some points, such as in the north of Kidul Market and east of Jalan Ngurah Rai. (ina)

The Head of Badung Municipal Police, Ketut Martha, accompanied by the Section Head of Operations I Gusti Alit Antara revealed the four buildings were forcibly stopped as they had been established in the green belt area and obvi-ously had no permit. The projects halted were in the form of three buildings of restaurant and sandstone carving business. The four buildings were uncovered during a routine patrol conducted by its ranks.

Martha said that related to the breach, the Badung Mu-nicipal Police officers immediately stopped the projects. Besides, the officers also seized a number of working tools in use. In addition to stopping the projects, his party would also summon the building owners. According to the plan, the summons would be filed on Monday (Jul 14). “Next Monday, we cast the summons to the building owners,” he said.

Martha described that his party would provide guidance to building owners. If the owners of the building remained stubborn, a reprimand letter would be posted. However, if the reprimand letter was also ignored, so the further sanc-tion would be in the form of building demolition by force. (kmb25)

Violate green belt

Municipal Police close four projects at Munggu

IBP/FileThe green belt is seen in the picture. Many violations occur on the green belt areas in Bali

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - On Sunday (Jul 13), the Badung Municipal Police officers stopped four development projects around Munggu-Tanah Lot road section, Mengwi subdistrict. All the four development projects were penalized because of breaking the green belt.

Fate of urban transportation in Bangli Too timid to live, but unwilling to die

IBP/FileThe public transport in Bangli Regency

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SEOUL — Samsung Electronics Co. said it has suspended business ties with a Chinese supplier that allegedly hired children.

The South Korean company, which is the world’s biggest smartphone maker, said in its blog Monday that it had found possible evidence of child labor and illegal hiring at Dongguan Shinyang Electron-ics Co.

Samsung said last week it would urgently look into the Chinese supplier following a New York-based watchdog’s report that it hired at least five children under the age of 16.

China Labor Watch said children as well as mi-nors under 18 worked at Shinyang for three to six months to meet production targets during a period of high demand. The watchdog said the child workers were paid for 10 hours a day but worked 11 hours.

The report detailed 15 labor violations discovered during its undercover investigation. They included child labor, the absence of safety training, no over-time wages and no social insurance for temporary workers, who constituted at least 40 percent of 1,200 employees at the Chinese cellphone parts supplier for Samsung.

China Labor Watch’s report came shortly after Samsung said its audit found no child labor at hun-dreds of Chinese suppliers. Samsung began inspect-ing its Chinese suppliers after the labor watchdog raised the child labor issue in 2012.

Samsung said Chinese authorities are investigat-ing the case and if the investigation finds child labor, Samsung will permanently stop doing business with Shinyang.

ECB President Mario Draghi is likely to face questions on what can be done to reduce the value of the euro when he faces lawmak-ers at the European Parliament on Monday.

At around $1.36, the euro has come down from its 2014 high of just below the $1.40 mark in May. Even so, the currency remains well above its historic average. That’s a problem for the region’s exporters as they try to drum up business in the growing global economy. Car-makers from Germany to Greek yoghurt makers find it more difficult

to sell their wares when the euro is so strong.

With the economy barely grow-ing and not creating many jobs, politicians are piling on the pressure on the central bank.

On Thursday, French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg said the ECB should do more to weaken the euro to boost growth, which would help bring down the sky-high unemployment rate, particularly among the young. The ECB frowns upon such interventions by politi-cians as it does not want investors to doubt that it is able to set its

policies independently of govern-ment pressure.

If needed, the ECB could fur-ther loosen its monetary policy through interest rate cuts or launch a monetary stimulus similar to those undertaken by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. Those programs involve injecting new money into the economy by buying large amounts of bonds and other financial assets.

Few economists think Draghi and the ECB want to go down that route, partly because of technical problems such as how to buy assets — and which ones — across a cur-rency bloc comprising 18 countries. However, Draghi has said such a program, called quantitative easing, or QE, is within the bank’s mandate and could be used if needed.

And therein lie potential prob-

lems for Draghi and the ECB, according to Gary Jenkins, chief credit strategist at LNG Capital.

Having been told that QE is a possibility, Europe’s politicians may get increasingly exercised by the failure of the ECB to use such a program to help the economy, especially if growth remains ane-mic and inflation, at 0.5 percent, stays below the ECB’s target of just below 2 percent.

“Unless growth returns, I expect that European politicians will start to put him under more pressure to imple-ment unconventional policy measures such as QE,” said Jenkins. “These wolves will huff and puff until they blow the ECB’s defenses down.”

Draghi is also likely to be grilled about the health of Europe’s finan-cial system days after concern over a Portuguese bank caused market

gyrations.The ECB has certainly been

active over the past few months to heal the economy and the banks. It is reviewing the finances of Europe’s largest financial groups and given them cheap loans to help get credit to businesses. It has reduced its bench-mark interest rate to a record low of 0.15 percent. It also set a negative rate for the deposits bank keep at the central bank in the hope that pushes them to lend more to businesses and households instead.

It may seem counter-intuitive that the euro has been strong, par-ticularly against the dollar, over the past few years, at a time the euro-zone was embroiled in a debt crisis that threatened the single currency’s very future and the Fed pumped bil-lions of dollars every month into the U.S. economy.

ECB under pressure to get euro downAssociated Press

LONDON — The European Central Bank is coming under increas-ing pressure to do more to stem the strength of the euro currency, which is hurting exporters and keeping a lid on the region’s recovery from recession.

Samsung suspends China supplier over child labor

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joonA woman passes by a billboard of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy 5 at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Samsung Electronics Co. said it has suspended business ties with a Chinese supplier that allegedly hired children.

A total of 36,611 animals al-leged to be prone to transmitting rabies were given anti-rabies vaccination. Tens of thousands of animals including dogs and cats were vaccinated as early efforts to

prevent the transmission of rabies virus in the community. “It is our fifth session in providing mass vaccination. The target is wild dogs susceptible of contracting rabies,” said the Head of Buleleng

Agriculture and Livestock Agency, I Nyoman Swatantra.

He said the process of vaccina-tion was conducted from April 7 to June 23, 2014. Cases of rabies got a concern and should be supervised to prevent any rabies victims. “Ra-bies diseases remain to occur in the field whereas the government has implemented several prevention efforts. The vaccination effort is expected to minimize rabies cases in Buleleng,” he said.

Based on the data, the mass rabies vaccinat ion has been made to 36,611 rabies-carrier animals, consisting of 217 cats, 13 monkeys and 36,381 dogs. The government also targeted vacci-nation against tens of thousands of stray dogs roaming around without the owner amounting to 29,348 heads.

Swatantra explained that Gerok-gak and Kubutambahan subdistrict were declared to have completed

the rabies vaccination. Meanwhile, other subdistricts were still at-tempted for rechecking and the administration of another mass vaccination. “We will continue to stimulate the rabies vaccination in the community, so that all the rabies issues can be covered. Some subdistricts are still not completely given vaccination because their geographic location is quite difficult to be reached by the vaccination of-ficers,” he explained. (kmb34)

In the Sunarigama palm-leaf manuscript is stated that on Saniscara Pon Uye pinaka prakertining sarwa sato. In other words, the day should be made the milestone for pre-serving all kinds of animals. Celebration of the Tumpek Kandang ritual is not meant to worship the animals. It is a religious festival dedicated to worship Lord Shiva Pasupati, a manifestation of God who has created the animals.

On Tumpek Kandang, animals especially cattle are made some celebratory oblations. Essentially, devotees worship the Lord Shiva Pasupati as manifestation of God serving as the king of all the living things. In the ritual procession, devotees invoke blessing in order their cattle could be bestowed with prime healthy and safety. However, philosophically the Tumpek Kandang celebration implies that people should develop compassion for all the living creatures. In the economic context, the procession mandates that agricultural sector in the broader sense (livestock) can be devel-oped to strengthen the economic foundations of society.

Sarasamusccaya says that Ayuwa tan masih ring sarwa prani, apan prani ngaran prana, which means not to ignore any care to animals because they are a force of na-ture. In other words, people must develop compassion for all beings. Especially on Tumpek Kandang, devotees worship God in His manifestation as Lord Shiva Pasupati in order the cattle could be blessed with welfare.

Similarly, the prayers are also recited for other livestock such as pigs, goats, chick-ens and ducks. Even, a pig for the Hindu community in Bali is often used as a sort

of saving or piggy bank. When people hold celebrations, the pigs are slaughter or in emergency case they can be sold to meet the needs.

As the animals destined for human food, chickens, ducks, pigs and so forth are often used as a protein source to support the hu-man life. To that end, those animals should be constantly developed.

However, other specific animals, espe-cially those belonged to the endangered species, should be preserved. For example,

they are green turtles, Bali starlings, deers, monkeys and so forth. These rare animals must be maintained so as not to become extinct.

To keep the endangered species from extinction, Balinese people associate them with mythology. For instance, the animals are regarded as the property (duwe) of God such as the white cow, ape, fruit bats, snake and so on. Through the mythology, devotees are ac-tually encouraged to conserve the wildlife by preserving them based on religious concepts.

Mythology seems much more powerful than a call or an appeal to preserve the endangered species.

In the Hindu concept, no single thing is without the power of God. Inside them lie the jivatman or the soul. On that account, the concept of developing compassion for all the God’s creatures should be continued. Through the celebration Tumpek Kandang, people should develop them well for the benefit of life and preserve the endangered species in order not to become extinct. (kmb)

To prevent rabies

Livestock Agency vaccinates 36,611 dogsBali Post

SINGARAJA - To prevent rabies disease due to dog bites in the com-munity, a mass vaccination has been conducted in every subdistrict in Buleleng County. Stray dogs without owners have been vaccinated by an officer team of the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency.

Tumpek Kandang:

A ritual of animal conservation

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Hindus in Bali commemorate a fes-tivity of Tumpek Kandang. The festiv-ity falling every Saniscara (Saturday)

Pon Wuku Uye actually has a meaning to develop compassion for all the God’s creatures, especially animals. Through

the Tumpek Kandang ritual, people are expected to develop the livestock

sector to strengthen the economic foundations. Then, how should devo-tees interpret the Tumpek Kandang?

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A protester steps on an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a rally to call for an end to the Israeli strikes in Gaza, in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mon-day, July 14, 2014.

Artha had been arrested by KPK since June due to his al-leged involvement in bribery case involving former Head of Upstream Oil and Gas Regula-tory Special Task Force (SKK Migas) Rudi Rubiandini.

“Just wait and see,” Susilo said briefly on Monday upon his arrival at KPK’s building in Central Jakarta.

Former head of the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special task Force (SKK Migas) Rudi

Rubiandini last April 30 was sentenced to 7 years imprison-ment for corruption and money laundering. Rudi was also fined Rp200 million or an additional jail term of three months.

Rudi was found guil ty of receiving a bribe of S$200,000 and US$900 from Singaporean bus inessman Widodo Rata -nachai thong and PT Kernel Oil Pte Limited (KOPL) via Simon Gunawan Tandjaya and US$522,500 from Artha Meris

Simbolon and PT Kaltim Parna Industri (KPI).

All the money was given to Rudi through his golf trainer Deviardi.

The money from Widodo was in exchange of recommendation by Rudi to the energy and min-eral resources ministry to cut the gas price for KPI.

Rudi said he accepted the sen-tence and the prosecutors said they would consider to appeal the verdict.

Antara

JAKARTA - Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said on Sunday that there has never been any vote tabulation activity or a Cikeas Center in the presidents private residence in Cikeas, Bogor, West Java.

“In connection with online media news reports about Cikeas Center we confirm that there has never been any vote tabulation activity in Cikeas or Cikeas Tabulation Center,” he said in a text message to newsmen.

He said what is found in Cikeas is a video conference facility where the President could communicate with TNI (military) leadership at central or regional levels.

“The facility has been made available for the president to be able to monitor situation in the field with regard to vote counting by KPU (General Election Commission),” he said.

With regard to that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, he said, has appealed to the people to remain calm in following and receiving the results of vote tallies by the KPU.

“People must not be provoked by unconfirmed and irresponsible news reports like the one telling that there is tabulation of vote tallies in Cikeas,” he said.

Julian said “President SBY until now has not known who is the winner of the presidential election. In connection with that he ask all parties to be patient and want for the result of final vote counting by the KPU.

The head of state, Julian said, states if KPU has officially an-nounced the result of the election all parties must accept it and honor it.

Several survey institutes have claimed the Jokowi-JK pair was the winner of the election based on their quick vote counts. Other institutes however have declared the Prabowo-Hatta ticket as the winner.

The KPU is scheduled to announce the official result of vote counting and the winner of the election on July 22.

Tabulation of vote tallies is now still ongoing.

AntaraKUPANG - The security condition along the border of Indonesia

and Timor Leste remains under control, according to Border Security Task Force Commander Lieutenant Colonel (Infantry) Fransiskus Ari Susetio.

“The present security condition along the border remains under control, but the task force personnel will continue to step up supervi-sion at every sensitive path,” Fransiskus stated on Monday.

Besides this, he explained that the task force personnel were also assigned to conduct patrolling of the villages, which are directly adjacent to Timor Leste in order to monitor and supervise possible border intrusion.

Fransiskus noted that besides monitoring and supervising the ad-jacent villages, the task force personnel and military officials at the border also conducted numerous social and economic activities with the people of both countries to strengthen the sense of nationalism.

According to Fransiskus, the task force personnel and military officials were deployed for three days before and after the July 9 presi-dential election at numerous cross-border gates and sensitive areas to anticipate possible mass mobilization to and from Timor Leste.

Therefore, he emphasized that the security situation along the border with Timor Leste is now relatively conducive, and there is con-tinuous communication between the people of the two countries.

No Cikeas Center

Security condition on RI-Timor Leste border under control

KPK questioning energy deputy ministerAntara

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questions Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Susilo Siswotomo on Monday as a witness for a cor-ruption suspect Director of PT Kaltim Parna Industri (KPI) Artha Meris Simbolon.

Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever that can cause its victims to bleed from the ears and nose, had never before been seen in this part of West Africa where medical clinics are few and far between. The disease has turned up in at least two other countries — Liberia and Sierra Leone — and 539 deaths have been attributed to the outbreak that is now the largest on record.

The key to halting Ebola is iso-lating the sick, but fear and panic have sent some patients into hid-ing, complicating efforts to stop its spread. Ebola has reached the capitals of all three countries, and the World Health Organization re-ported 44 new cases including 21 deaths on Friday.

There has been “a gross mis-judgment across the board in gaug-ing the severity and scale of dam-age the current Ebola outbreak can unleash,” the aid group Plan International warned earlier this month. “There are no cases from outside Africa to date. The threat of it spreading though is very much there,” said Dr. Unni Krishnan, head of disaster preparedness and response for the aid group.

Preachers are calling for divine

intervention, and panicked residents in remote areas have on multiple occasions attacked the very health workers sent to help them. In one town in Sierra Leone, residents partially burned down a treatment center over fears that the drugs given to victims were actually causing the disease. Activists are trying to spread awareness in the countryside where literacy is low, even through a song penned about Ebola. “It has no cure, but it can be prevented; let us fight it together. Let’s protect our-selves, our families and our nation,” sings the chorus.

“Do not touch people with the signs of Ebola,” sings musician and activist Juli Endee. “Don’t eat bush meat. Don’t play with monkey and baboons. Plums that bats have bit-ten or half-eaten, don’t eat them.” Guinea first notified WHO about the emergence of Ebola in March and soon after cases were reported in neighboring Liberia. Two months later there were hopes that the out-break was waning, but then people began falling ill in Sierra Leone.

Doctors Without Borders says it fears the number of patients now being treated in Sierra Leone could be “just the tip of the iceberg.”

Nearly 40 were reported in a single village in the country’s east.

“We’re under massive time pres-sure: The longer it takes to find and follow up with people who have come in contact with sick people, the more difficult it will be to con-trol the outbreak,” said Anja Wolz, emergency coordinator for the group, also referred to by its French name Medecins Sans Frontieres.

This Ebola virus is a new strain and did not spread to West Africa from previous outbreaks in Uganda and Congo, researchers say. Many believe it is linked to the human consumption of bats carrying the virus. Many of those who have fallen ill in the current outbreak are family members of victims and the health workers who treated them.

There is no cure and no vaccine for Ebola, and those who have survived managed to do so only by receiving rehydration and other supportive treatment. Ebola’s high fatality rate means many of those brought to health clinics have been merely kept as comfortable as pos-sible in quarantine as they await death. As a result, some families have been afraid to take sick loved ones to the clinics.

Associated Press

GIGLIO, Italy — The shipwrecked Costa Concordia has been suc-cessfully refloated in preparation for towing it away for scrapping.

Authorities expressed satisfaction that the operation to float the Concordia from an underwater platform had proceeded without a hitch early Monday. The cruise liner struck a reef in January 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people.

The ship was set upright in September, and then crews fastened huge tanks to its flanks, like water wings, to float it.

Italy’s environmental minister told reporters that the operation will only be finished when the ship is successfully transported to the port of Genoa for scrapping. Towing is set for later this month.

Concordia’s Italian captain is being tried in Tuscany for man-slaughter, causing the shipwreck and abandoning ship before all were evacuated.

Associated Press

ABUJA, Nigeria — Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai is celebrating her 17th birthday in Nigeria and meeting with the parents of some 219 girls still held by Islamic extremists, and with the dozens that escaped.

She says, “My birthday wish this year is Bring Back Our Girls now and alive.” The teenager who escaped a Taliban assassina-tion attempt in 2012 is to meet President Goodluck Jonathan later Monday.

On Sunday she met in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, with parents of the kidnapped girls and some of the dozens who escaped the abduction before dawn April 15 in northeast Chibok town.

The parents and Chibok community have been begging Jonathan to negotiate with Boko Haram extremists demanding that he release scores of detained insurgents in exchange for the girls. Jonathan so far has refused.

AP Photo/Jonathan Paye-Layleh

Empty hospital beds are seen at Redemption hospital after nurses and patients fled the hospital due to Ebola deaths in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday,

June 17, 2014.

Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens; 500+ deadAssociated Press

DAKAR, Senegal — Deep in the forests of southern Guinea, the first victims fell ill with high fevers. People assumed it was the perennial killer malaria and had no reason to fear touch-ing the bodies, as is the custom in traditional funerals. Some desperate relatives brought their loved ones to the distant capital in search of better medical care, unknowingly spreading what ultimately was discovered to be Ebola, one of the world’s most deadly diseases.

‘Bring Back Our Girls’

Shipwrecked Concordia floated successfully

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file

FILE - In this file photo taken on Sept. 18, 2013 a small boat passes next to the damaged side of he Costa Concordia on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy.

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SINGARAJA - This water recreation offers a natural spring swimming pool. Located at Sanih village, Kubutambahan subdis-trict, it is approximately 17 km east of Singaraja town. Sanih is famous for its water springs appearing endlessly in the south-eastern corner of the pool. The springs are the underground wa-

tershed coming from Lake Batur, Kintamani.

This tourist attraction has two pools, one for adults and another for children. A few meters to the north occurs the beach that is relatively safe for swimming and other water sport activities or just lazing on the black sandy beach. Around the object have been available several small inns, restaurants and parking areas.

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Air Sanih

The Repsol Honda star will head into the summer break with a perfect 225 points, a massive 77 more than team-mate and nearest rival Dani Pedrosa.

Marquez beat Pedrosa by 1.4s in Germany, the pair being among 14 riders to dive into pit lane at the end of the formation lap, having realised that wet tyres were a mistake on the rapidly drying track.

“I thought the race would begin like Assen [on wet tyres] but then I saw it was drying really quickly,” explained Marquez. “I was on the limit between putting slicks and keeping rain tyres.

“Then I saw Bradl put slicks and maybe that was the best option, but my strategy was just to copy Dani and Valentino because they are my main opponents for the champion-ship. They put wet tyres, I followed

them. On the warm-up lap they went into the pits, so I followed them!”

Queued up tightly, the pit lane starters were released en masse once the other riders had reached turn one, with Marquez and Pedrosa heading the pursuit.

“It was like a Motocross start, everybody very tight, with the elbows out,” smiled Marquez. “It was nice, but a little bit dangerous too because I think for everybody when we pushed for the brakes, the carbon brakes did not stop the bike. That was maybe the most dangerous, at the first corner. It also maybe looked a little bit strange on TV but it was nice from there on.”

Home star Stefan Bradl was the only rider to correctly predict slicks, but a wet bias to his set-up meant he was passed by Marquez and Pedrosa within six of the 30 laps. Marquez then broke Pedrosa’s challenge with

ten laps to go.“I managed the situation at the

beginning when it was quite danger-ous, but in the end everything was completely dry and our rhythm was like FP4 and the warm-up,” said Marquez.

To make things worse for his beleaguered rivals, Marquez was far from physically fit this weekend.

“All weekend I didn’t feel so powerful because on Wednesday I had a fever. So high. Then I took antibiotic and after two antibiot-ics your body feels a bit tired,” explained Marquez, who also hurt his neck in a nasty Friday morning highside. “Already before the race I felt tired, but on the bike I was able to forget and push 100 percent.”

Marquez is the first rider to win the opening nine races of the year since Giacomo Agostini won the opening ten grands prix in 1970. Mick Doohan also won successive races in 1997, although not the first ten.

Marquez: Strategy was to copy Dani and Valentino

REUTERS/Thomas PeterWinner Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain celebrates with the trophy after the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit in the eastern German town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal July 13, 2014.

Not even the chaos of a mass ‘Motocross-style’ pitlane start could prevent MotoGP champion Marc Marquez completing a perfect nine race win-streak at Sachsenring on Sunday.

Associated Press

EL SEGUNDO, California — Jeremy Lin joined the Lak-ers on Sunday in a trade with the Houston Rockets, who also gave up first- and second-round draft picks in 2015 for the rights to European center Sergei Lishchuk.

Lin will make about $15 million this season in the last year of a deal that counts only $8 million against the salary cap. The Lakers have the cap room to absorb Lin’s contract.

Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak says the trade allows the team to acquire a solid player and two draft picks while maintaining financial flexibility.

Lin averaged 12.5 points and 4.1 assists last season, but lost his starting job because coach Kevin McHale preferred Patrick Beverley’s defensive play.

Lin was born in Los Angeles and figures to be popular with the region’s large Asian community. He was raised in Northern California and played four years at Harvard.

Lishchuk is from Ukraine and played for Valencia of the Spanish ACB League last season, appearing in the Euro Cup. He was drafted by Memphis in 2004 and traded to the Rock-ets in February 2008 before landing with the Lakers as part of a three-way trade with New Jersey in December 2010.

Jeremy Lin joins Lakers in trade with Houston

REUTERS/Aly Song

NBA player Jeremy Lin of Los Angeles Lakers attends a promotional event as part of his

Asia tour, in Shanghai July 14, 2014.

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Midfielder Mario Goetze, who wasn’t born when Germany won its last World Cup, sealed the title with his extra-time goal. “THANK GOETZ! World champions!” screamed the mass-circulation daily Bild. “Super Mario gets the fourth star!” read the headline in Berlin tabloid Berliner Kurier.

German astronaut Alexander

Gerst congratulated the team from the International Space Station on its “top performance.” He tweeted a picture of himself in a Germany jersey with an extra fourth star — “as experts on stars, we already got one.” Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer said after the match: “All of Germany is the world champion.”

The theme was picked up by a top official in Chancellor An-gela Merkel’s party, Peter Tauber, who tweeted, “Good morning, you world champions out there!” Merkel and President Joachim Gauck, who traveled together to the final in Rio de Janeiro, posed for pictures with the team and the trophy. And there was another

selfie with a beaming chancel-lor for forward Lukas Podolski, weeks after Merkel dropped into the dressing room during a visit to Germany’s opening match.

It’s Germany’s first World Cup title as a reunited nation, though that fact drew barely any attention in German media. West Germany’s 1990 win came with the country just three months away from reuni-fication; united Germany won the 1996 European Championship.

About a quarter of a million fans celebrated into the night at the packed “fan mile” in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, while

car drivers blasted their horns into the early hours of the morning.

The party resumes on Tuesday morning, when coach Joachim Loew’s team is due to land at Berlin’s Tegel airport and then celebrate its triumph at the Bran-denburg Gate.

The Finance Ministry said it will issue a special “Germany World Cup champion” post-age stamp. But don’t expect Germany to declare a national holiday in celebration. “There i s no ser ious d iscuss ion of this,” government spokeswoman Christiane Wirtz said.

Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO - Lionel Messi walked up the steps at the Maracana. It was at the end of 120 minutes of Sunday’s gripping World Cup final and the Argentine was collecting a revered golden trophy, one befitting his status as the greatest player of his genera-tion.

Still, though, Messi wore a look of anguish. The trophy he was receiving was the “Golden Ball” awarded to the World Cup’s best player, scant consolation for miss-ing out on the big prize which sat within touching distance but as far away as ever.

“It is a sad prize that I won be-cause we wanted to lift the trophy

for Argentina,” he said, as if the look on his face had not already said it all.

For two hours, in front of almost 75,000 howling football fans, Messi failed to produce that special magic for which he is renowned, and was unable to lead his team to World Cup glory.

Instead, Germany broke the South American stranglehold on World Cups held in the Americas, and won a fourth title to add to the trophies won by West Germany in 1954, 1974 and 1990.

Messi will surely long reflect on this match, one which could have gilded his already sparkling reputation, but which instead will sit like a stain on his resume.

It took him two minutes to get

his first touch of the ball with a cushioned chest from a throw-in and 118 minutes later he had his last with a free kick lashed high over the German bar.

Messi’s chance of adding a World Cup crown to his staggering haul of football treasure had disappeared in a Maracana cauldron of noise.

The greatest player of his gen-eration grimaced, smiled and looked up into the Rio de Janeiro night sky. The magical Messi had been unable to unlock the world’s best team and Germany were champions.

Their 1-0 victory had been a thunderous contest, full of robust tackles and it was a match Messi had been unable to stamp his au-thority over.

Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO - Germany’s World Cup victory on Sunday was not just down to 50 days of good preparation for the tournament but was the culmination of a meticulously-planned long-term project, coach Joachim Loew said.

Loew, who took over from Juergen Klinsmann in 2006 after their third-place finish at the World Cup in Germany, said were it not for the team’s first-round ex-its in earlier tournaments their fourth World Cup win may have been delayed.

“I think that we were 50 days together but this is a project we started 10 years ago,” the 54-year-old said after his team Argentina 1-0 in the final.

“We started it with Juergen Klinsmann (after 2004) and then we continued it. Our biggest strength is that we improved throughout the years even if we missed taking that last step at tournaments.”

Germany made at least the semi-finals in the last two World Cups and Euro-pean Championships after failing to get past the group stage at Euro 2000 and 2004. “We knew we would take that last step and we believed in it and today it finally worked,” he said.

Those setbacks led to the creation of a national plan to invest in youth centres for the sport with many players in Loew’s current team, including 22-year-old Mario Goetze who scored the extra-time winner against Argentina.

“We were disappointed at times in the past but today there was only deserved winner. This team. It is a special moment because it was not just these days here but the entire 10 years,” he said.

Loew said during that time German players had to learn not to rely only on what he said were the traditional German virtues of working hard and battling until the very end.

Young players had to learn more skills to be able to compete with foreign clubs and national teams. “The Bundesliga has a big part in this with its training centres,” he said.

“In 2000 and 2004, German football was at the very bottom. But we took action to invest in training, to become technically better. “The German virtues were not enough any more and we had to improve our skills.”

The first signs were visible at the 2010 World Cup when Loew fielded their youngest team in 76 years and their attractive attacking style won over many fans.

Associated Press

SAO PAULO — Brazilian me-dia say the local football confedera-tion has decided to drop Luiz Felipe Scolari as Brazil head coach.

Globo TV and other news out-lets said early Monday that Scolari will not remain as coach after the

national team’s failure to win the World Cup at home.

Scolari said Saturday after Bra-zil’s 3-0 loss to the Netherlands in the third-place match that he was handing over the team’s command and that it would be up to the Brazil confederation to decide whether he would continue. Globo said

the confederation’s official an-nouncement would be made later Monday.

Delfim Peixoto, elected as a confederation vice presidents for 2015, confirmed the information to the UOL web news portal, saying he was told by top officials that Scolari will not stay as coach.

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Germany’s Philipp Lahm raises the trophy after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina

at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Germany won the match 1-0.

Germany basks in 4th World Cup after 24-year wait

Associated Press

BERLIN — It’s been a long wait, and now Germany is basking in its fourth World Cup title. The Die Welt newspaper celebrated Monday with a three-word headline in the national colors of black, red and gold that read simply: “It is true,” while Der Spiegel magazine’s website listed Germany’s titles: “1954. 1974. 1990. 2014!”

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Germany’s head coach Joachim Loew celebrates after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Germany won the match 1-0.

Germany’s World Cup triumph was 10 years in the making

Scolari out as Brazil coach

Muted not magical, Messi misses again

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Argentina’s Lionel Messi scratches his head as he goes up to get his runners-up medal after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 13, 2014.

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Midfielder Mario Goetze, who wasn’t born when Germany won its last World Cup, sealed the title with his extra-time goal. “THANK GOETZ! World champions!” screamed the mass-circulation daily Bild. “Super Mario gets the fourth star!” read the headline in Berlin tabloid Berliner Kurier.

German astronaut Alexander

Gerst congratulated the team from the International Space Station on its “top performance.” He tweeted a picture of himself in a Germany jersey with an extra fourth star — “as experts on stars, we already got one.” Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer said after the match: “All of Germany is the world champion.”

The theme was picked up by a top official in Chancellor An-gela Merkel’s party, Peter Tauber, who tweeted, “Good morning, you world champions out there!” Merkel and President Joachim Gauck, who traveled together to the final in Rio de Janeiro, posed for pictures with the team and the trophy. And there was another

selfie with a beaming chancel-lor for forward Lukas Podolski, weeks after Merkel dropped into the dressing room during a visit to Germany’s opening match.

It’s Germany’s first World Cup title as a reunited nation, though that fact drew barely any attention in German media. West Germany’s 1990 win came with the country just three months away from reuni-fication; united Germany won the 1996 European Championship.

About a quarter of a million fans celebrated into the night at the packed “fan mile” in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, while

car drivers blasted their horns into the early hours of the morning.

The party resumes on Tuesday morning, when coach Joachim Loew’s team is due to land at Berlin’s Tegel airport and then celebrate its triumph at the Bran-denburg Gate.

The Finance Ministry said it will issue a special “Germany World Cup champion” post-age stamp. But don’t expect Germany to declare a national holiday in celebration. “There i s no ser ious d iscuss ion of this,” government spokeswoman Christiane Wirtz said.

Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO - Lionel Messi walked up the steps at the Maracana. It was at the end of 120 minutes of Sunday’s gripping World Cup final and the Argentine was collecting a revered golden trophy, one befitting his status as the greatest player of his genera-tion.

Still, though, Messi wore a look of anguish. The trophy he was receiving was the “Golden Ball” awarded to the World Cup’s best player, scant consolation for miss-ing out on the big prize which sat within touching distance but as far away as ever.

“It is a sad prize that I won be-cause we wanted to lift the trophy

for Argentina,” he said, as if the look on his face had not already said it all.

For two hours, in front of almost 75,000 howling football fans, Messi failed to produce that special magic for which he is renowned, and was unable to lead his team to World Cup glory.

Instead, Germany broke the South American stranglehold on World Cups held in the Americas, and won a fourth title to add to the trophies won by West Germany in 1954, 1974 and 1990.

Messi will surely long reflect on this match, one which could have gilded his already sparkling reputation, but which instead will sit like a stain on his resume.

It took him two minutes to get

his first touch of the ball with a cushioned chest from a throw-in and 118 minutes later he had his last with a free kick lashed high over the German bar.

Messi’s chance of adding a World Cup crown to his staggering haul of football treasure had disappeared in a Maracana cauldron of noise.

The greatest player of his gen-eration grimaced, smiled and looked up into the Rio de Janeiro night sky. The magical Messi had been unable to unlock the world’s best team and Germany were champions.

Their 1-0 victory had been a thunderous contest, full of robust tackles and it was a match Messi had been unable to stamp his au-thority over.

Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO - Germany’s World Cup victory on Sunday was not just down to 50 days of good preparation for the tournament but was the culmination of a meticulously-planned long-term project, coach Joachim Loew said.

Loew, who took over from Juergen Klinsmann in 2006 after their third-place finish at the World Cup in Germany, said were it not for the team’s first-round ex-its in earlier tournaments their fourth World Cup win may have been delayed.

“I think that we were 50 days together but this is a project we started 10 years ago,” the 54-year-old said after his team Argentina 1-0 in the final.

“We started it with Juergen Klinsmann (after 2004) and then we continued it. Our biggest strength is that we improved throughout the years even if we missed taking that last step at tournaments.”

Germany made at least the semi-finals in the last two World Cups and Euro-pean Championships after failing to get past the group stage at Euro 2000 and 2004. “We knew we would take that last step and we believed in it and today it finally worked,” he said.

Those setbacks led to the creation of a national plan to invest in youth centres for the sport with many players in Loew’s current team, including 22-year-old Mario Goetze who scored the extra-time winner against Argentina.

“We were disappointed at times in the past but today there was only deserved winner. This team. It is a special moment because it was not just these days here but the entire 10 years,” he said.

Loew said during that time German players had to learn not to rely only on what he said were the traditional German virtues of working hard and battling until the very end.

Young players had to learn more skills to be able to compete with foreign clubs and national teams. “The Bundesliga has a big part in this with its training centres,” he said.

“In 2000 and 2004, German football was at the very bottom. But we took action to invest in training, to become technically better. “The German virtues were not enough any more and we had to improve our skills.”

The first signs were visible at the 2010 World Cup when Loew fielded their youngest team in 76 years and their attractive attacking style won over many fans.

Associated Press

SAO PAULO — Brazilian me-dia say the local football confedera-tion has decided to drop Luiz Felipe Scolari as Brazil head coach.

Globo TV and other news out-lets said early Monday that Scolari will not remain as coach after the

national team’s failure to win the World Cup at home.

Scolari said Saturday after Bra-zil’s 3-0 loss to the Netherlands in the third-place match that he was handing over the team’s command and that it would be up to the Brazil confederation to decide whether he would continue. Globo said

the confederation’s official an-nouncement would be made later Monday.

Delfim Peixoto, elected as a confederation vice presidents for 2015, confirmed the information to the UOL web news portal, saying he was told by top officials that Scolari will not stay as coach.

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Germany’s Philipp Lahm raises the trophy after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina

at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Germany won the match 1-0.

Germany basks in 4th World Cup after 24-year wait

Associated Press

BERLIN — It’s been a long wait, and now Germany is basking in its fourth World Cup title. The Die Welt newspaper celebrated Monday with a three-word headline in the national colors of black, red and gold that read simply: “It is true,” while Der Spiegel magazine’s website listed Germany’s titles: “1954. 1974. 1990. 2014!”

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Germany’s head coach Joachim Loew celebrates after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Germany won the match 1-0.

Germany’s World Cup triumph was 10 years in the making

Scolari out as Brazil coach

Muted not magical, Messi misses again

AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Argentina’s Lionel Messi scratches his head as he goes up to get his runners-up medal after the World Cup final soccer match between Germany and Argentina at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 13, 2014.

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IBP

SINGARAJA - This water recreation offers a natural spring swimming pool. Located at Sanih village, Kubutambahan subdis-trict, it is approximately 17 km east of Singaraja town. Sanih is famous for its water springs appearing endlessly in the south-eastern corner of the pool. The springs are the underground wa-

tershed coming from Lake Batur, Kintamani.

This tourist attraction has two pools, one for adults and another for children. A few meters to the north occurs the beach that is relatively safe for swimming and other water sport activities or just lazing on the black sandy beach. Around the object have been available several small inns, restaurants and parking areas.

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Air Sanih

The Repsol Honda star will head into the summer break with a perfect 225 points, a massive 77 more than team-mate and nearest rival Dani Pedrosa.

Marquez beat Pedrosa by 1.4s in Germany, the pair being among 14 riders to dive into pit lane at the end of the formation lap, having realised that wet tyres were a mistake on the rapidly drying track.

“I thought the race would begin like Assen [on wet tyres] but then I saw it was drying really quickly,” explained Marquez. “I was on the limit between putting slicks and keeping rain tyres.

“Then I saw Bradl put slicks and maybe that was the best option, but my strategy was just to copy Dani and Valentino because they are my main opponents for the champion-ship. They put wet tyres, I followed

them. On the warm-up lap they went into the pits, so I followed them!”

Queued up tightly, the pit lane starters were released en masse once the other riders had reached turn one, with Marquez and Pedrosa heading the pursuit.

“It was like a Motocross start, everybody very tight, with the elbows out,” smiled Marquez. “It was nice, but a little bit dangerous too because I think for everybody when we pushed for the brakes, the carbon brakes did not stop the bike. That was maybe the most dangerous, at the first corner. It also maybe looked a little bit strange on TV but it was nice from there on.”

Home star Stefan Bradl was the only rider to correctly predict slicks, but a wet bias to his set-up meant he was passed by Marquez and Pedrosa within six of the 30 laps. Marquez then broke Pedrosa’s challenge with

ten laps to go.“I managed the situation at the

beginning when it was quite danger-ous, but in the end everything was completely dry and our rhythm was like FP4 and the warm-up,” said Marquez.

To make things worse for his beleaguered rivals, Marquez was far from physically fit this weekend.

“All weekend I didn’t feel so powerful because on Wednesday I had a fever. So high. Then I took antibiotic and after two antibiot-ics your body feels a bit tired,” explained Marquez, who also hurt his neck in a nasty Friday morning highside. “Already before the race I felt tired, but on the bike I was able to forget and push 100 percent.”

Marquez is the first rider to win the opening nine races of the year since Giacomo Agostini won the opening ten grands prix in 1970. Mick Doohan also won successive races in 1997, although not the first ten.

Marquez: Strategy was to copy Dani and Valentino

REUTERS/Thomas PeterWinner Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Spain celebrates with the trophy after the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit in the eastern German town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal July 13, 2014.

Not even the chaos of a mass ‘Motocross-style’ pitlane start could prevent MotoGP champion Marc Marquez completing a perfect nine race win-streak at Sachsenring on Sunday.

Associated Press

EL SEGUNDO, California — Jeremy Lin joined the Lak-ers on Sunday in a trade with the Houston Rockets, who also gave up first- and second-round draft picks in 2015 for the rights to European center Sergei Lishchuk.

Lin will make about $15 million this season in the last year of a deal that counts only $8 million against the salary cap. The Lakers have the cap room to absorb Lin’s contract.

Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak says the trade allows the team to acquire a solid player and two draft picks while maintaining financial flexibility.

Lin averaged 12.5 points and 4.1 assists last season, but lost his starting job because coach Kevin McHale preferred Patrick Beverley’s defensive play.

Lin was born in Los Angeles and figures to be popular with the region’s large Asian community. He was raised in Northern California and played four years at Harvard.

Lishchuk is from Ukraine and played for Valencia of the Spanish ACB League last season, appearing in the Euro Cup. He was drafted by Memphis in 2004 and traded to the Rock-ets in February 2008 before landing with the Lakers as part of a three-way trade with New Jersey in December 2010.

Jeremy Lin joins Lakers in trade with Houston

REUTERS/Aly Song

NBA player Jeremy Lin of Los Angeles Lakers attends a promotional event as part of his

Asia tour, in Shanghai July 14, 2014.

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A protester steps on an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a rally to call for an end to the Israeli strikes in Gaza, in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Mon-day, July 14, 2014.

Artha had been arrested by KPK since June due to his al-leged involvement in bribery case involving former Head of Upstream Oil and Gas Regula-tory Special Task Force (SKK Migas) Rudi Rubiandini.

“Just wait and see,” Susilo said briefly on Monday upon his arrival at KPK’s building in Central Jakarta.

Former head of the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special task Force (SKK Migas) Rudi

Rubiandini last April 30 was sentenced to 7 years imprison-ment for corruption and money laundering. Rudi was also fined Rp200 million or an additional jail term of three months.

Rudi was found guil ty of receiving a bribe of S$200,000 and US$900 from Singaporean bus inessman Widodo Rata -nachai thong and PT Kernel Oil Pte Limited (KOPL) via Simon Gunawan Tandjaya and US$522,500 from Artha Meris

Simbolon and PT Kaltim Parna Industri (KPI).

All the money was given to Rudi through his golf trainer Deviardi.

The money from Widodo was in exchange of recommendation by Rudi to the energy and min-eral resources ministry to cut the gas price for KPI.

Rudi said he accepted the sen-tence and the prosecutors said they would consider to appeal the verdict.

Antara

JAKARTA - Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said on Sunday that there has never been any vote tabulation activity or a Cikeas Center in the presidents private residence in Cikeas, Bogor, West Java.

“In connection with online media news reports about Cikeas Center we confirm that there has never been any vote tabulation activity in Cikeas or Cikeas Tabulation Center,” he said in a text message to newsmen.

He said what is found in Cikeas is a video conference facility where the President could communicate with TNI (military) leadership at central or regional levels.

“The facility has been made available for the president to be able to monitor situation in the field with regard to vote counting by KPU (General Election Commission),” he said.

With regard to that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, he said, has appealed to the people to remain calm in following and receiving the results of vote tallies by the KPU.

“People must not be provoked by unconfirmed and irresponsible news reports like the one telling that there is tabulation of vote tallies in Cikeas,” he said.

Julian said “President SBY until now has not known who is the winner of the presidential election. In connection with that he ask all parties to be patient and want for the result of final vote counting by the KPU.

The head of state, Julian said, states if KPU has officially an-nounced the result of the election all parties must accept it and honor it.

Several survey institutes have claimed the Jokowi-JK pair was the winner of the election based on their quick vote counts. Other institutes however have declared the Prabowo-Hatta ticket as the winner.

The KPU is scheduled to announce the official result of vote counting and the winner of the election on July 22.

Tabulation of vote tallies is now still ongoing.

AntaraKUPANG - The security condition along the border of Indonesia

and Timor Leste remains under control, according to Border Security Task Force Commander Lieutenant Colonel (Infantry) Fransiskus Ari Susetio.

“The present security condition along the border remains under control, but the task force personnel will continue to step up supervi-sion at every sensitive path,” Fransiskus stated on Monday.

Besides this, he explained that the task force personnel were also assigned to conduct patrolling of the villages, which are directly adjacent to Timor Leste in order to monitor and supervise possible border intrusion.

Fransiskus noted that besides monitoring and supervising the ad-jacent villages, the task force personnel and military officials at the border also conducted numerous social and economic activities with the people of both countries to strengthen the sense of nationalism.

According to Fransiskus, the task force personnel and military officials were deployed for three days before and after the July 9 presi-dential election at numerous cross-border gates and sensitive areas to anticipate possible mass mobilization to and from Timor Leste.

Therefore, he emphasized that the security situation along the border with Timor Leste is now relatively conducive, and there is con-tinuous communication between the people of the two countries.

No Cikeas Center

Security condition on RI-Timor Leste border under control

KPK questioning energy deputy ministerAntara

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questions Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Susilo Siswotomo on Monday as a witness for a cor-ruption suspect Director of PT Kaltim Parna Industri (KPI) Artha Meris Simbolon.

Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever that can cause its victims to bleed from the ears and nose, had never before been seen in this part of West Africa where medical clinics are few and far between. The disease has turned up in at least two other countries — Liberia and Sierra Leone — and 539 deaths have been attributed to the outbreak that is now the largest on record.

The key to halting Ebola is iso-lating the sick, but fear and panic have sent some patients into hid-ing, complicating efforts to stop its spread. Ebola has reached the capitals of all three countries, and the World Health Organization re-ported 44 new cases including 21 deaths on Friday.

There has been “a gross mis-judgment across the board in gaug-ing the severity and scale of dam-age the current Ebola outbreak can unleash,” the aid group Plan International warned earlier this month. “There are no cases from outside Africa to date. The threat of it spreading though is very much there,” said Dr. Unni Krishnan, head of disaster preparedness and response for the aid group.

Preachers are calling for divine

intervention, and panicked residents in remote areas have on multiple occasions attacked the very health workers sent to help them. In one town in Sierra Leone, residents partially burned down a treatment center over fears that the drugs given to victims were actually causing the disease. Activists are trying to spread awareness in the countryside where literacy is low, even through a song penned about Ebola. “It has no cure, but it can be prevented; let us fight it together. Let’s protect our-selves, our families and our nation,” sings the chorus.

“Do not touch people with the signs of Ebola,” sings musician and activist Juli Endee. “Don’t eat bush meat. Don’t play with monkey and baboons. Plums that bats have bit-ten or half-eaten, don’t eat them.” Guinea first notified WHO about the emergence of Ebola in March and soon after cases were reported in neighboring Liberia. Two months later there were hopes that the out-break was waning, but then people began falling ill in Sierra Leone.

Doctors Without Borders says it fears the number of patients now being treated in Sierra Leone could be “just the tip of the iceberg.”

Nearly 40 were reported in a single village in the country’s east.

“We’re under massive time pres-sure: The longer it takes to find and follow up with people who have come in contact with sick people, the more difficult it will be to con-trol the outbreak,” said Anja Wolz, emergency coordinator for the group, also referred to by its French name Medecins Sans Frontieres.

This Ebola virus is a new strain and did not spread to West Africa from previous outbreaks in Uganda and Congo, researchers say. Many believe it is linked to the human consumption of bats carrying the virus. Many of those who have fallen ill in the current outbreak are family members of victims and the health workers who treated them.

There is no cure and no vaccine for Ebola, and those who have survived managed to do so only by receiving rehydration and other supportive treatment. Ebola’s high fatality rate means many of those brought to health clinics have been merely kept as comfortable as pos-sible in quarantine as they await death. As a result, some families have been afraid to take sick loved ones to the clinics.

Associated Press

GIGLIO, Italy — The shipwrecked Costa Concordia has been suc-cessfully refloated in preparation for towing it away for scrapping.

Authorities expressed satisfaction that the operation to float the Concordia from an underwater platform had proceeded without a hitch early Monday. The cruise liner struck a reef in January 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people.

The ship was set upright in September, and then crews fastened huge tanks to its flanks, like water wings, to float it.

Italy’s environmental minister told reporters that the operation will only be finished when the ship is successfully transported to the port of Genoa for scrapping. Towing is set for later this month.

Concordia’s Italian captain is being tried in Tuscany for man-slaughter, causing the shipwreck and abandoning ship before all were evacuated.

Associated Press

ABUJA, Nigeria — Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai is celebrating her 17th birthday in Nigeria and meeting with the parents of some 219 girls still held by Islamic extremists, and with the dozens that escaped.

She says, “My birthday wish this year is Bring Back Our Girls now and alive.” The teenager who escaped a Taliban assassina-tion attempt in 2012 is to meet President Goodluck Jonathan later Monday.

On Sunday she met in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, with parents of the kidnapped girls and some of the dozens who escaped the abduction before dawn April 15 in northeast Chibok town.

The parents and Chibok community have been begging Jonathan to negotiate with Boko Haram extremists demanding that he release scores of detained insurgents in exchange for the girls. Jonathan so far has refused.

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Empty hospital beds are seen at Redemption hospital after nurses and patients fled the hospital due to Ebola deaths in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday,

June 17, 2014.

Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens; 500+ deadAssociated Press

DAKAR, Senegal — Deep in the forests of southern Guinea, the first victims fell ill with high fevers. People assumed it was the perennial killer malaria and had no reason to fear touch-ing the bodies, as is the custom in traditional funerals. Some desperate relatives brought their loved ones to the distant capital in search of better medical care, unknowingly spreading what ultimately was discovered to be Ebola, one of the world’s most deadly diseases.

‘Bring Back Our Girls’

Shipwrecked Concordia floated successfully

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file

FILE - In this file photo taken on Sept. 18, 2013 a small boat passes next to the damaged side of he Costa Concordia on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy.

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SEOUL — Samsung Electronics Co. said it has suspended business ties with a Chinese supplier that allegedly hired children.

The South Korean company, which is the world’s biggest smartphone maker, said in its blog Monday that it had found possible evidence of child labor and illegal hiring at Dongguan Shinyang Electron-ics Co.

Samsung said last week it would urgently look into the Chinese supplier following a New York-based watchdog’s report that it hired at least five children under the age of 16.

China Labor Watch said children as well as mi-nors under 18 worked at Shinyang for three to six months to meet production targets during a period of high demand. The watchdog said the child workers were paid for 10 hours a day but worked 11 hours.

The report detailed 15 labor violations discovered during its undercover investigation. They included child labor, the absence of safety training, no over-time wages and no social insurance for temporary workers, who constituted at least 40 percent of 1,200 employees at the Chinese cellphone parts supplier for Samsung.

China Labor Watch’s report came shortly after Samsung said its audit found no child labor at hun-dreds of Chinese suppliers. Samsung began inspect-ing its Chinese suppliers after the labor watchdog raised the child labor issue in 2012.

Samsung said Chinese authorities are investigat-ing the case and if the investigation finds child labor, Samsung will permanently stop doing business with Shinyang.

ECB President Mario Draghi is likely to face questions on what can be done to reduce the value of the euro when he faces lawmak-ers at the European Parliament on Monday.

At around $1.36, the euro has come down from its 2014 high of just below the $1.40 mark in May. Even so, the currency remains well above its historic average. That’s a problem for the region’s exporters as they try to drum up business in the growing global economy. Car-makers from Germany to Greek yoghurt makers find it more difficult

to sell their wares when the euro is so strong.

With the economy barely grow-ing and not creating many jobs, politicians are piling on the pressure on the central bank.

On Thursday, French Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg said the ECB should do more to weaken the euro to boost growth, which would help bring down the sky-high unemployment rate, particularly among the young. The ECB frowns upon such interventions by politi-cians as it does not want investors to doubt that it is able to set its

policies independently of govern-ment pressure.

If needed, the ECB could fur-ther loosen its monetary policy through interest rate cuts or launch a monetary stimulus similar to those undertaken by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. Those programs involve injecting new money into the economy by buying large amounts of bonds and other financial assets.

Few economists think Draghi and the ECB want to go down that route, partly because of technical problems such as how to buy assets — and which ones — across a cur-rency bloc comprising 18 countries. However, Draghi has said such a program, called quantitative easing, or QE, is within the bank’s mandate and could be used if needed.

And therein lie potential prob-

lems for Draghi and the ECB, according to Gary Jenkins, chief credit strategist at LNG Capital.

Having been told that QE is a possibility, Europe’s politicians may get increasingly exercised by the failure of the ECB to use such a program to help the economy, especially if growth remains ane-mic and inflation, at 0.5 percent, stays below the ECB’s target of just below 2 percent.

“Unless growth returns, I expect that European politicians will start to put him under more pressure to imple-ment unconventional policy measures such as QE,” said Jenkins. “These wolves will huff and puff until they blow the ECB’s defenses down.”

Draghi is also likely to be grilled about the health of Europe’s finan-cial system days after concern over a Portuguese bank caused market

gyrations.The ECB has certainly been

active over the past few months to heal the economy and the banks. It is reviewing the finances of Europe’s largest financial groups and given them cheap loans to help get credit to businesses. It has reduced its bench-mark interest rate to a record low of 0.15 percent. It also set a negative rate for the deposits bank keep at the central bank in the hope that pushes them to lend more to businesses and households instead.

It may seem counter-intuitive that the euro has been strong, par-ticularly against the dollar, over the past few years, at a time the euro-zone was embroiled in a debt crisis that threatened the single currency’s very future and the Fed pumped bil-lions of dollars every month into the U.S. economy.

ECB under pressure to get euro downAssociated Press

LONDON — The European Central Bank is coming under increas-ing pressure to do more to stem the strength of the euro currency, which is hurting exporters and keeping a lid on the region’s recovery from recession.

Samsung suspends China supplier over child labor

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joonA woman passes by a billboard of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy 5 at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Samsung Electronics Co. said it has suspended business ties with a Chinese supplier that allegedly hired children.

A total of 36,611 animals al-leged to be prone to transmitting rabies were given anti-rabies vaccination. Tens of thousands of animals including dogs and cats were vaccinated as early efforts to

prevent the transmission of rabies virus in the community. “It is our fifth session in providing mass vaccination. The target is wild dogs susceptible of contracting rabies,” said the Head of Buleleng

Agriculture and Livestock Agency, I Nyoman Swatantra.

He said the process of vaccina-tion was conducted from April 7 to June 23, 2014. Cases of rabies got a concern and should be supervised to prevent any rabies victims. “Ra-bies diseases remain to occur in the field whereas the government has implemented several prevention efforts. The vaccination effort is expected to minimize rabies cases in Buleleng,” he said.

Based on the data, the mass rabies vaccinat ion has been made to 36,611 rabies-carrier animals, consisting of 217 cats, 13 monkeys and 36,381 dogs. The government also targeted vacci-nation against tens of thousands of stray dogs roaming around without the owner amounting to 29,348 heads.

Swatantra explained that Gerok-gak and Kubutambahan subdistrict were declared to have completed

the rabies vaccination. Meanwhile, other subdistricts were still at-tempted for rechecking and the administration of another mass vaccination. “We will continue to stimulate the rabies vaccination in the community, so that all the rabies issues can be covered. Some subdistricts are still not completely given vaccination because their geographic location is quite difficult to be reached by the vaccination of-ficers,” he explained. (kmb34)

In the Sunarigama palm-leaf manuscript is stated that on Saniscara Pon Uye pinaka prakertining sarwa sato. In other words, the day should be made the milestone for pre-serving all kinds of animals. Celebration of the Tumpek Kandang ritual is not meant to worship the animals. It is a religious festival dedicated to worship Lord Shiva Pasupati, a manifestation of God who has created the animals.

On Tumpek Kandang, animals especially cattle are made some celebratory oblations. Essentially, devotees worship the Lord Shiva Pasupati as manifestation of God serving as the king of all the living things. In the ritual procession, devotees invoke blessing in order their cattle could be bestowed with prime healthy and safety. However, philosophically the Tumpek Kandang celebration implies that people should develop compassion for all the living creatures. In the economic context, the procession mandates that agricultural sector in the broader sense (livestock) can be devel-oped to strengthen the economic foundations of society.

Sarasamusccaya says that Ayuwa tan masih ring sarwa prani, apan prani ngaran prana, which means not to ignore any care to animals because they are a force of na-ture. In other words, people must develop compassion for all beings. Especially on Tumpek Kandang, devotees worship God in His manifestation as Lord Shiva Pasupati in order the cattle could be blessed with welfare.

Similarly, the prayers are also recited for other livestock such as pigs, goats, chick-ens and ducks. Even, a pig for the Hindu community in Bali is often used as a sort

of saving or piggy bank. When people hold celebrations, the pigs are slaughter or in emergency case they can be sold to meet the needs.

As the animals destined for human food, chickens, ducks, pigs and so forth are often used as a protein source to support the hu-man life. To that end, those animals should be constantly developed.

However, other specific animals, espe-cially those belonged to the endangered species, should be preserved. For example,

they are green turtles, Bali starlings, deers, monkeys and so forth. These rare animals must be maintained so as not to become extinct.

To keep the endangered species from extinction, Balinese people associate them with mythology. For instance, the animals are regarded as the property (duwe) of God such as the white cow, ape, fruit bats, snake and so on. Through the mythology, devotees are ac-tually encouraged to conserve the wildlife by preserving them based on religious concepts.

Mythology seems much more powerful than a call or an appeal to preserve the endangered species.

In the Hindu concept, no single thing is without the power of God. Inside them lie the jivatman or the soul. On that account, the concept of developing compassion for all the God’s creatures should be continued. Through the celebration Tumpek Kandang, people should develop them well for the benefit of life and preserve the endangered species in order not to become extinct. (kmb)

To prevent rabies

Livestock Agency vaccinates 36,611 dogsBali Post

SINGARAJA - To prevent rabies disease due to dog bites in the com-munity, a mass vaccination has been conducted in every subdistrict in Buleleng County. Stray dogs without owners have been vaccinated by an officer team of the Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency.

Tumpek Kandang:

A ritual of animal conservation

IBP/File Photo

Hindus in Bali commemorate a fes-tivity of Tumpek Kandang. The festiv-ity falling every Saniscara (Saturday)

Pon Wuku Uye actually has a meaning to develop compassion for all the God’s creatures, especially animals. Through

the Tumpek Kandang ritual, people are expected to develop the livestock

sector to strengthen the economic foundations. Then, how should devo-tees interpret the Tumpek Kandang?

BUSINESS

Associated Press Writer

HORONOBE, Japan — Rein-deer farms and grazing Holstein cows dot a vast stretch of rolling green pasture here on Japan’s northern tip. Underground it’s a different story.

Workers and scientists have carved a sprawling laboratory deep below this sleep dairy town that, despite government reassurances, some of Horonobe’s 2,500 residents fear could turn their neighborhood into a nuclear waste storage site.

“I’m worried,” said 54-year-old reindeer handler Atsushi Arase. “If the government already has its eye on us as a potential site, it may eventually come here even if we refuse.”

Japanese utilities have more than 17,000 tons of “spent” fuel rods that have finished their useful life but will remain dangerously radioactive for thousands of years. What to do with them is a vexing problem that nuclear-powered nations around the world face, and that has come to the fore as Japan debates whether

to keep using nuclear energy after the 2011 disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima plant.

The answer to that problem may lie in the Horonobe Underground Research Center, which has been collecting geological data to deter-mine if and how radioactive waste can be stored safely for as long as 100,000 years in a country that is susceptible to volcanic activity, earthquakes and shifting under-ground water flows.

Several journalists donned hard hats recently and crammed in small groups into a cage-like mesh eleva-tor for a 350-meter (1,150-foot) descent to reach the laboratory.

They emerged in a 760-meter-long (2,500-feet-long) tunnel cut in the shape of a figure 8, its bare wall showing 3 million-year-old sedimentary layers. Dripping water formed puddles on the ground. Doz-ens of cables and gauges connected to biscuit-size holes in the wall were analyzing the composition and movement of groundwater and other data around the clock.

In return for hosting the research, which under an agreement with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency doesn’t involve any radioactivity, Horonobe has received about 1 billion yen ($10 million) in govern-

ment subsidies and tunnel-related public works projects since 2000, according to town statistics. Of-ficially, this is only a test.

But as with America’s doomed Yucca Mountain project, finding a

community willing to host a radio-active dump site is proving difficult, even with a raft of financial entice-ments. One mayor expressed inter-est in 2007, and was booted from office in the next election.

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Rammasun was about 500 kilo-meters (310 miles) east of eastern Legazpi city as of Monday after-noon, packing sustained winds of 110 kilometers (68 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 140 kph (87 mph), government weather forecaster Rene Paciente said. It entered Phil-ippine territory on Sunday but was still over the sea.

Alexander Pama, executive di-rector of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Coun-cil, said the council’s field offices in at least seven regions, including Metropolitan Manila, had been put on alert for landslides and flash floods. “Our initial assessment is that there is not much on the wind. What we are wary about are land-slides, flooding,” Pama said.

Schools suspended classes Mon-day afternoon in some areas, in-cluding Manila, the capital. Local

officials urged sea vessels not to sail in the storm’s path, readied relief goods and prepared for the possible evacuation of residents, especially in flood- and landslide-prone areas.

Rammasun’s impact is expected to be felt in metropolitan Manila starting Tuesday morning and will be over the capital by early Wednesday before moving into the South China Sea through either Bataan or Zam-bales province in the northwest, fore-casters said. It is expected to be out of Philippine territory by Thursday, moving toward southern China.

Central Philippine provinces have not yet fully recovered from the massive devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan last November. Haiyan’s strong winds and tsunami-like storm surges flattened towns, leaving at least 6,300 people dead and more than 1,000 missing.

AP Photo/Shizuo KambayashiIn this photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014, women plant seedlings backdropped by Horonobe Under-ground Research Center in Horonobe, Japan.

Underground lab tackles Japan nuclear waste issue

Philippines braces for floods from tropical stormAssociated Press Writer

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines was bracing for possible floods and landslides as a tropical storm continued to strengthen Monday as it moved closer to the country’s eastern seaboard. Tropical Storm Rammasun was expected to intensify into a typhoon before making landfall Tuesday morning in Albay province, the government’s weather bureau said.

AP Photo/Aaron Favila

A Filipino fisherman covers parts of his boat that is docked on top of piles of garbage as he prepares for a coming storm along a coastal village in Navotas, north of Manila, Philippines on Monday, July 14, 2014.

Bali Post

BANGLI - Currently the fate of urban transportation in Bangli County is progressively suffering. Since the rapid growth in the num-ber of motor vehicles, the existence of public urban transportation is increasingly marginalized. The unit number continues to diminish in line with the lacking of public interest utilizing the means of transportation.

Based on the data owned by the Bangli Transportation, Communi-cations and Informatics Agency, the current public transportation remaining to operate in Bangli only amounted to 62 units. They were operating at the routes of Bangli-Tembuku, Bangli-Susut, Bangli-Kintamani and Bangli-Gianyar.

According to the Head of Bangli Transportation, Commu-nications and Informatics Agency, Gede Arta, the number of public transportation had decreased

dramatically since the past five years. Before the rapid growth of private vehicles these days, the number of public transportation in the Bangli reached hundreds of units. “Due to the ease of people to have motorcycles, the number of passenger declines. Then, it has an impact on the reduction in the number of public transportation in Bangli,” said Gede Arta, Thursday (Jul 10).

Even, this official from Kinta-mani said the condition of public transportation in Bangli was like the proverb saying ‘too timid to live, but unwilling to die.’ “Today, people rarely want to use public transportation,” he added.

Similar condition was also rec-ognized by one of the drivers of public transportation when met in the region of Kidul Market, Bangli. Since the past few years, he admit-ted, the public interest in taking advantage of public transportation decreased drastically. Even, due to deserted passengers, his vehicle was

often empty. “Similarly, I often get no passenger for the whole day,” he said. Even though during holidays many people were coming to the market, it did not have an impact on the number of public transport passengers.

Meanwhile, based on the field observation, the public transport vehicles operating in Bangli were mostly those serving passengers among the subdistrict town, while the inter-county public transport was very minimal. Since the Loka

Carana Terminal was intended for traders of the Kidul Market, the public transportation was forced to hang out while waiting for pas-sengers at some points, such as in the north of Kidul Market and east of Jalan Ngurah Rai. (ina)

The Head of Badung Municipal Police, Ketut Martha, accompanied by the Section Head of Operations I Gusti Alit Antara revealed the four buildings were forcibly stopped as they had been established in the green belt area and obvi-ously had no permit. The projects halted were in the form of three buildings of restaurant and sandstone carving business. The four buildings were uncovered during a routine patrol conducted by its ranks.

Martha said that related to the breach, the Badung Mu-nicipal Police officers immediately stopped the projects. Besides, the officers also seized a number of working tools in use. In addition to stopping the projects, his party would also summon the building owners. According to the plan, the summons would be filed on Monday (Jul 14). “Next Monday, we cast the summons to the building owners,” he said.

Martha described that his party would provide guidance to building owners. If the owners of the building remained stubborn, a reprimand letter would be posted. However, if the reprimand letter was also ignored, so the further sanc-tion would be in the form of building demolition by force. (kmb25)

Violate green belt

Municipal Police close four projects at Munggu

IBP/FileThe green belt is seen in the picture. Many violations occur on the green belt areas in Bali

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - On Sunday (Jul 13), the Badung Municipal Police officers stopped four development projects around Munggu-Tanah Lot road section, Mengwi subdistrict. All the four development projects were penalized because of breaking the green belt.

Fate of urban transportation in Bangli Too timid to live, but unwilling to die

IBP/FileThe public transport in Bangli Regency

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AntaraDENPASAR - The number of foreign tourists in the world-renowned

tourist destination of Bali is expected to exceed the government-set target of 3.5 million for this year, an observer said.

“Bali has so far been the favorite tourist destination for international tourists because of its spectacular natural scenery and attractive culture,” tourism observer and practitioner Dewa Nyoman Putra said.

The number of foreign tourists visiting Bali in the first half of this year was 1.727,875 million, a 15.73 percent increase compared with 1.483,021 million in the same period last year, according to the data.

“This means, in the first half of 2014 the number of tourist arrivals has come closer to the target. Interestingly, many foreign tourists are expected to spend their holidays in Bali in the middle of this year,” he said.

Although the European and US economies had not shown signs of full recovery, the number of tourist arrivals from the two regions in Bali was on the rise, Nyoman noted.

The same was also true with tourists from other ASEAN member states, he said.

In the first half of this year, 326.993 thousand European tourists visited Bali, accounting for 18.92 percent of the overall tourist arrivals over the period.

Meanwhile, the number of US tourists visiting Bali reached 85.669 thousand in the first half of this year, representing 5 percent of the overall tourist arrivals.

The number of US tourists increased to 14.937 thousand in June from 13 thousand, in January, he said.

“We usually close the port when the weather is not good and perilous for ferries to cross the strait, because the safety of ferry passengers is our concern,” inland waterway transportation service PT ASDP Indonesia spokesman Wahyudi Susianto said on Mon-day.

He said the weather at Bali Strait was unpredictable and thus

the decision to close Gilimanuk port on Monday was taken im-mediately in accordance with the situation.

Wahyudi stated that he had been monitoring the weather report at the strait from the Meteorol-ogy, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) every day.

“We usually compare the weath-er report from BMKG with the

situation in the field to understand the condition of the weather. We immediately order the ferries to stop operation temporarily,” he remarked.

He noted that bad weather had forced Gilimanuk port authorities to temporarily close the port on several occasions, and it has left a long queue of cars and buses head-ing to the port stranded.

AntaraBADUNG - A fire ravaged five

kiosks at Sangeh village in Badung district, Bali province, early Mon-day, but there were no reported casualties, noted the police.

“The fire was caused by a short circuit,” Badung Police Public Relations Chief Adj. Comr I. Made Dina stated on Monday.

The fire was first spotted at 1:30 a.m. by a motorist, I. Wayan

Erik Suganda, passing by, Dina remarked.

Suganda sought help from the local residents of Sangeh village to put out the fire. But, they were afraid to get closer to the scene as one of the kiosks sold gas.

The residents later contacted the Badung Fire Department. But, when the fire fighters arrived at the scene, all the kiosks had already been burned, he reported.

No fatalities or injuries were reported in the fire. The fire in-flicted material losses of around Rp100 million.

I. Md Wijaya, who had hired one of the kiosks, was shocked to hear the news about the fire, he added.

“The kiosks were relatively old. They would have been renovated after the lease contract with the traders had expired,” he stated.

Bad weather at Bali Strait has forced Gilimanuk ferry port

in Jembrana district, Bali, to remain closed for three hours

from 11.50 am to 3 pm on Mon-day, official said.

Gilimanuk port closed for three hoursAntara

NEGARA - Bad weather at Bali Strait has forced Gilimanuk ferry port in Jembrana district, Bali, to remain closed for three hours from 11.50 am to 3 pm on Monday, official said.

Tourist arrivals exceed target

Fire razes five kiosks in Sangeh

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Associated Press

NEW YORK — Duke Uni-versity professor Kathleen Pryer has received her share of grant money. But for her newest proj-ect, she’s getting help from a retired nurse in Canada and a 17-year-old in Arkansas.

It’s her first foray into the modern-day world of crowdfund-ing, the practice of using the Internet to raise relatively small amounts of money from a lot of people to finance a project. It’s quite a departure from the normal sources of funding for scientific research, chiefly industry, gov-ernment and philanthropies.

Outside of science, it’s been successful for projects like de-veloping video games and other consumer products, publishing books and making films and other entertainment programs. A campaign to finance a movie sequel to the cult television show “Veronica Mars” pulled in $2 million in less than a day, even-tually gathering more than $5.7 million in 30 days.

But “science has yet to gain Veronica Mars status,” notes Jeanne Garbarino, director of science outreach at Rockefeller University in New York, who has used crowdfunding and in-formally advised others. Instead, scientific projects tend to be far more modest, generally raising just thousands or tens of thou-sands of dollars.

One researcher, for example, raised about $2,000 to hire a truck and buy camp supplies to recover a triceratops skeleton he’d found in Wyoming. Cur-rent campaigns on the website experiment.com include $5,000 to investigate a parasite in North

The Planetary Society’s Light-Sail, an unmanned satellite-like craft known as a solar sail, aims to reach orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in two years, said the group’s leader Bill Nye.

The foot-long (30-centimeter) spacecraft with its four, ultra-thin Mylar sails may then undertake a journey around the cosmos, pow-ered only by the constant pressure

exerted by sunlight.“It is so thrilling to see this

grand endeavor setting the date for its pioneering mission above our planet,” Nye said in a state-ment.

The project is funded by pri-vate donors and members of the Planetary Society, which describes itself as the world’s largest space group and was co-

founded by famous American astronomer Carl Sagan in 1980.

Solar sails have generated ex-citement due to their potential to travel to other stars and galaxies, without the need for fuel.

“Closer to home, solar sails may give us access to unique orbits for vital Earth science and space weather missions,” said Jennifer Vaughn, the chief

operating officer of the Planetary Society.

LightSail aims to go beyond low Earth orbit, where the International Space Station circles the Earth, into medium Earth orbit.

The solar sail will initially be stored inside another spacecraft, called Prox-1, which will eject the solar sail and then follow it and take images of it.

A few weeks after it reaches or-bit, the LightSail’s reflective wings will expand to 344 square feet (32 square meters), making it visible from the Earth.

Nye said a test flight, using a smaller rocket and a lower orbit, may be attempted next year.

The society attempted in vain to launch a solar sail called Cosmos 1 in 2005.

That bid was unsuccessful due to a failure with the Russian booster.

The Japanese space agency in 2010 launched IKAROS, which be-came “the world’s first demonstra-tion of solar power sail,” according to JAXA’s website.

A NASA solar sail called Sun-jammer is scheduled for takeoff later this year.

Privately funded solar spacecraft to launch in 2016

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - A tiny spacecraft designed to sail by the power of the sun is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX rocket in 2016, a leading US space enthusiast said.

AP Photo Stephan Savoia

In this June 30, 2014 photo, Ken Buesseler, senior scientist of marine chemistry and geo-chemistry, holds an extract of a water sample taken from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the United States in a lab at his Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research facility in Woods Hole, Mass.

US scientists turn to public to help fund researchCarolina bay scallops, $3,560 to study a disease of bats, and $17,400 to tag sharks for migra-tion research.

In one impressive success, more than $150,000 was raised to contact an old research satellite and put it back to work.

Pryer launched a six-week campaign last month to raise $15,000 to decipher the DNA of a fast-growing aquatic fern called Azolla. It’s small enough to fit on your thumbnail, but she says learning more about the plant could pay big benefits.

Azolla captures and processes nitrogen from the air with the help of bacteria that live on it, and further study may let sci-entists engineer that trick into crop plants, reducing the need for fertilizer, she says. Azolla also sucks heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, making it potentially useful for fighting global warming, accord-ing to Pryer.

She turned to crowdfunding after being “turned down flat” by the National Science Foundation, and rejected by other traditional sources of funds.

But her project caught the eye of Andrew Willoughby, 17, of Little Rock, Arkansas, when he learned about it on Twitter. With his inter-est in botany, he thought any steps toward engineering crops that get and process their own nitrogen would be “a great idea.” He pitched in $15.

Similarly, retired nurse Ingrid Kern of Toronto was impressed by the project when she read a commentary by Pryer in her local newspaper. She tracked down Pry-er’s page on experiment.com and donated $100, her first contribution to a crowdfunding campaign.

The fern “interests me because it’s tiny and it has great potential,” said Kern, who’d been an industrial microbiologist before turning to nursing.

By late June, Pryer’s campaign had raised only about a third of her goal, with just two weeks to go. Then things took a dramatic turn. BGI, a nonprofit institution

in China that does DNA research, said it would carry out Pryer’s project for free.

If that hadn’t happened, “I do not think we would have met our goal,” she said.

Her campaign now has a new fundraising target. She hopes to use donated money to pay for analysis of the data she’ll get from BGI. The

effort ends this week.How much science will crowd-

funding support? It’s not clear yet. But apart from the money, there’s an educational payoff from hav-ing scientists explain their work clearly to lay people as they ask for money, says Edward Derrick of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Calendar Event for Jun 1 through Jul 12, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi

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

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

27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati

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

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

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

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

Food & Beverage Manager doubling as Sous Chef of the Hula’s Café, Wayan Wira Astana, conveyed the menus offered at Hula’s Café greatly varied ranging from the Indonesian, Asian to Western food. “We also offer Balinese cuisines for foreign and domestic travelers. So, for the foodies of Balinese cuisines, they can order it right here,” said the Sous Chef from Tabanan.

Balinese food, he said, was a favorite dish at the café. For example, Balinese chicken, Kaliwang chicken, fish, satay, seafood and a variety of soups prepared with natural seasonings of Bali. “Hy-giene of the dishes gets serious attention. So, we only use the freshest ingredients, including the MSG- and preservatives-free spices,” he explained.

Hula’s Café provided about thirty spe-cial menus for in-house guests and walk-in travelers. The restaurant accommodating about 100 guests as usual offered the pro-motion of the month every three months for food and beverage menus. “Recently, we had a new menu for appetizer, main course and dessert,” he said.

No less importantly, he added, there was also a variety of healthy juices such as orange, melon, papaya, avocado juice and mixed juice including welcome drink. There were also mocktail, cocktail, soft drinks and local wine. “We bring healthy sugar-free juice so it is good for your health. Moreover, the price of the menus here are very affordable so it can be en-joyed by guests ranging from local middle to middle up class,” he added. (ocha)

Hula’s Café offers Balinese to western delicaciesIBP

KUTA - Among the hundreds of restaurants existing in Kuta area, the Hula’s Café at Aston Tuban Inn Bali is one of the attractive op-tions to enjoy a variety of dishes. The restaurant designed with the concept of casual, colorful and modern is neatly arranged in front of pool bar and ying-yang Outdoor Swimming Pool. It is only 4 minute’s drive from the Ngurah rai International Airport and located at Jalan Kediri 5, Tuban.

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Bali PostBANGLI - Ceiling in one of the rooms owned by the Susut subdistrict head

office was broken down by the flush of heavy rain having occurred since the past few days. It did not only make the ceiling mess, but the raindrops also flooded the floor of the room.

According to a member of Susut Subdistrict Electoral Committee (PPK), Wayan Sukadana, the breakdown of the roof at the office of Susut subdistrict head occurred around 03:00 a.m. At that time, he was in charge of guarding the ballot boxes stored in the room. According to him, the roof ceiling in front of the meeting hall broke down as it could not hold the water seep-age flushing for the whole night. He suspected the leakage happened as the connection between the two existing buildings was not good. So, when it rained heavily, the ceiling along the connection broke down. “When it rains heavily, suddenly the ceiling in front of the ballot box storage broke down,” he said.

Luckily, when it happened no one was under the ceiling so that it did not cause any casualties. Nevertheless, it did not hamper the recapitulation at the local subdistrict head office. Implementation of the plenary session on the calculation of vote count results of the presidential election could go smoothly until the afternoon. However, before the plenary session began, a number of officers should first clean up the ruins of the breakdown ceiling. As a result, the recapitulation process was slightly delayed. (ina)

Based on information gathered on Sunday (Jul 13), the smallest school charge imposed to new student averagely valued at IDR 1.5 million. Each school was still burdened with the cost of school known as investment fund. As at the SMAN 1 Gianyar high school, the investment fund charged was IDR 2 million, while at SMAN 1 Sukawati reached IDR 1.5 million, and so did the other high schools in Gianyar.

The investment fund is the replacement of the building fund. Besides, the new students are also subject to purchase uniforms and monthly charges where the average amount in Gianyar reached IDR 200,000 more.

Kadek, a resident of Gianyar whose child just attended state high school this year admitted that the costs to be spent by new student exceeded IDR 2.5 million. But in the parent meeting, it had been

informed that the monthly fund would be assisted by the govern-ment. However, the charge still considered burdensome was the investment fund or building charges amounting to IDR 1.5 million. Though it was the government-owned school, parents were still obliged to pay building charges, he said.

Separately, the Principal of SMAN 1 Gianyar high school, Dewa Nyoman Alit, said the new students were indeed charged with investment fund denoting a vol-untary financial contribution from parents of students having been agreed in the meeting of the school committee. In addition to collect-ing investment funds, his school also collected participation fund from each student at IDR 300,000 per month.

Student orientation periodMeanwhile, the junior (SMP)

and senior high (SMA)/voca-tional school (SMK) in Gianyar that would hold the student ori-entation period (MOS) should not burden the parents and students, both psychologically and mentally. “Its implementa-tion may not deviate and violate the code of ethics of the student coaching,” said the Head of Gianyar Education Agency, I Dewa Alit Mudiarta, amidst the simultaneous opening of the student orientation period for the academic year 2014/2015, Sunday.

This year, the student orien-tation period was followed by 15,870 students of junior high, high school / vocational school in the Gianyar County. The ac-tivities were expected to be more focused on environmental con-cern and social contact between students and the surrounding communities. (kmb16)

Bali PostSINGARAJA - The Head of Buleleng Maritime Affairs and Fisheries,

Nyoman Sutrisna, said on Sunday afternoon (Jul 13) that Fish Landing Base (PPI) at Sangsit having been built since 2004, due to limited devel-opment fund, remains under gradual development process considering the PPI development has not been entirely accomplished.

“Development of the Fish Landing Base still has no anchoring pond and a more representative pier. However, the operation at the PPI Sangsit is still observed to run normally. Even, the fish transporting vessels still perform their regular activity,” he said.

Sutrisna affirmed that his party applied clear rules such as by making law-substituting regulation and regional bylaw. However, the draft of regional bylaw was still experiencing delays in the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. Two years ago, the Buleleng House had consulted the PPI regional bylaw draft to the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries in Jakarta. “The regional bylaw draft proposed two years ago by the Buleleng House was hampered by the letter from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries where each Fish Landing Base is not al-lowed to collect high levy to community,” he said.

Meanwhile, the existence of Fish Fingerling House (BBI), especially for freshwater fish, located in the area of Ringdikit produced commodities like tilapia, silver barb, common carp and koi fish. His party admitted to make frequent restocking in some areas such as lake, reservoir, river and fish ponds. Hundreds of fish fingerlings were broadcast obtained from the Fish Fingerling House. The restocking effort posed a concrete step to increase the catch fish stocks by the spread in public waters due to over-fishing. “Through the Fish Fingerling House, we managed to restocking and selling so that it results in a levy,” said Sutrisna.

For information, the regionally generated revenue (PAD) in the maritime affairs and fishery sector sourced from levies and third party contribution (SP3). In 2013, the target of regional revenue was IDR 90 million and could reach IDR 190,166,000 (levy) and contribution of the third party was IDR 72,830,000. In the 2014, the target set was IDR 150 million, as of May it has reached IDR 81,357,000. Meanwhile, the contribution of third party in 2014 reached IDR 40 million. (kmb34)

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The new students are joining the school introduction program. The high school fee make it difficult for parents to give the best education for their children.

School admission fee remains to be parent’s burden Bali Post

GIANyAr - Even though the government has discourse to provide free education, in fact, the current school admission remains to be the burden of parents. New students of this academic year, though in public schools, are still burdened with quite expensive cost whose amount is almost the same as that of private school.

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The Head of Bangli Culture and Tourism Agency, Wayan Adnyana, when asked for his confirmation on Saturday (Jul 12) justified that Batur Geopark would be re-evaluat-ed by UNESCO in 2016. “In other words, it will be re-validate whether

it is qualified or not. If it remains qualified, it will of course continue. Otherwise, it will be issued a yel-low card,” he explained.

He mentioned the points of evaluation would be in accordance with the three main objectives of

the geopark development, includ-ing conservation, education and local economic growth through the utilization of tourism. In order to be able to maintain the Batur Geopark status, the management should be able to show progress towards a development. This offi-cial originating in Batur, Kintamani also claimed optimistic to maintain the predicate.

He claimed that almost all of the major targets of the geopark development had already well developed. For example, in terms of education or training, the Batur Geopark had been included in the educational curriculum. So far, the advancement of education had also

been shored up by the supporting infrastructure, namely the exis-tence of geopark museum. Mean-while, in terms of conservation, he also claimed there had been a better improvement such as the arrangement of geosite. Similarly, in terms of local economic growth through the tourism utilization, it had showed a significant increase. “Since the enactment of the Batur Geopark, the tourist arrival has grown up to 12 percent from 2012 to 2013,” he added. To that end, he was very optimistic if the predicate of Batur Geopark could be maintained.

All this time, since the estab-lishment on September 20, 2012,

the existence of Batur Geopark seemed to be a pride in itself for the Bangli government. Ironically, in the midst of the recognition as geopark by the UNESCO, so far the Batur Geopark area remained to have a very complex problem. The most highly visible activity was the remaining rampant ex-ploitation of quarry in the middle of the region.

However, many people con-sidered the three main objectives, namely conservation, education and local economic growth through tourism utilization were actually still limited to be at the level of con-cept and had not been able to give contribution significantly. (ina)

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2016, fate of Batur Geopark determinedBali Post

BANGLI - Bangli government still has two years to complete all the complex problems in the area of the Kintamani caldera. In 2016, a team of the UNESCO will come to evaluate the predi-cate of Batur Geopark. If in the view of the UNESCO, Batur Geopark does not develop into a destination being capable of maintaining the environmental preservation, it is not impossible for the Batur Geopark to be disqualified from membership of the Global Geopark Network (GGN).

Bangli government still has two years to complete all the complex problems in the area of the Kintamani caldera.

Associated Press

BEVERLY HILLS — Katherine Heigl is returning to television, with her mother in tow. She stars on the new fall series “State of Affairs,” playing a CIA attache who informs the president on high-level incidents around the world. It’s the first TV series for Heigl since she left her Emmy-winning role on “Grey’s Anatomy” in 2010 after six seasons.

Heigl’s mother, Nancy, is serving as an executive producer on the NBC series debuting in November. She manages her 35-year-old daughter’s career and has had similar credits on “One for the Money,” ‘’Life as We Know It” and “The Ugly Truth,” all starring Heigl.

The notion that Heigl and her mother are difficult on set has followed the ac-tress since “Grey’s Anatomy.”

“I certainly don’t see myself as being difficult. I would never intend to be dif-ficult,” she said. “I don’t think my mother sees herself as being difficult. I think it’s important to everybody to conduct themselves professionally and respect-fully and kindly. If I’ve ever disappointed somebody, it was never intentional.”

When her mother was asked about her role on the show, Heigl interjected, “She bakes us cookies.”

Nancy Heigl said she and her daughter pitched the series.

“I am her mother for sure, so of course I care about her interests,” she said. “But I’m just learning about executive produc-ing. I’m a newcomer to it.”

NBC Entertainment president Jen-nifer Salke described Nancy Heigl as “someone with a strong opinion.”

“There have been no problems,”

Salke said. “She’s not been disruptive in any way.”

After the session with critics at the summer TV tour, Heigl described the talk about her reputation as “awkward.”

“I don’t think I really see myself as re-ally being difficult,” she said. “How can I prove that to you until you’ve met me and until you’ve worked with me?”

She said, laughing, “I think I’m a joy to work with.”

After leaving “Grey’s Anatomy,” Heigl limited her movie roles to be with her family, including husband and singer Josh Kelley and their two adopted daughters.

“I needed that time,” she said. “I needed to be a mom and wife and friend and revel with that, and remember what it is I feel so passionate about in this industry.

Premium cable channel HBO’s grisly royal feud saga scored 19 nods includ-ing for best drama series, followed by “Fargo” -- based on the quirky 1996 Coen brothers’ movie -- with nomina-tions in 18 categories.

Other notable nominees included Netflix’s breakthrough women’s prison show “Orange is the New Black,” earn-ing nominations for five members of its cast, and the new crime drama “True Detective”.

Other female-led shows like “Veep,” “The Good Wife,” “Scandal” and “Amer-ican Horror Story: Coven” also made strong showings.

“How incredibly humbling to be nomi-nated not only a third time but among a group of exceptionally talented and critically acclaimed actresses,” Mayim Bialik of “The Big Bang Theory” told the Hollywood Reporter. Overall, HBO won the most nominations with 99, while online streaming giant Netflix doubled its number of nods from last year with 31.

Overall “American Horror Story: Coven” was third with 17 nods, followed by 16 for “Breaking Bad,” the cult se-ries about teacher-turned-drugs kingpin Walter White which ended last year, and the same number for AIDS drama movie “The Normal Heart.”

A slew of British actors are in the run-ning, including Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba, repeat nominees Michelle Dockery and Maggie Smith for “Downton Abbey” and “12 Years a Slave” star Chiwetel Ejiofor.

But there were also some notable snubs, including CBS’s widely-ac-claimed “The Good Wife” in the best drama race, where “Game of Thrones” is up against “Breaking Bad,” “Mad Men,” “House of Cards,” “True Detective” and “Downton Abbey.”

Also snubbed were “Homeland” star Damian Lewis and Elisabeth Moss of “Mad Men”.

In the best comedy race, newcomer “Orange is the New Black” was nominated alongside long-running series “The Big Bang Theory,” “Louie,” “Modern Family” and “Veep,” as well as “Silicon Valley.”

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Katherine Heigl returns to TV

‘Game of Thrones’ leads Emmy nomineesAgence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Hit fantasy series “Game of Thrones” topped nomi-nations for the Primetime Emmy awards, as online streaming service Netflix again challenged traditional networks for television’s version of the Oscars.

AP Photo/HBO, Macall B. Polay

This image released by HBO shows Natalie Dormer, left, Jack Gleeson, Peter Dinklage, right in a scene from “Game of Thrones.”

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