It’s a good question. It’s now been five years since Cameron’s last feature film (a little independent movie called “Avatar”), and in that time, the priorities of the most bankable director in Hollywood have sometimes been as murky as the deep sea. He has spent those years producing a fleet of documentaries about ocean exploration and deep-water life forms. His biggest project hasn’t been a mega blockbuster but building a deep-diving sub and piloting it more than 35,000 feet down into the Challenger Deep, the deep-est part of the Mariana Trench.

“I make the Hollywood movies to pay for the exploration,” Cameron said in a recent phone interview from Cali-fornia.

Certainly, many moviegoers are ea-ger for Cameron to get back on a film set. After some earlier postponements, he’s on his way, currently finishing the scripts and design work for three planned “Avatar” sequels.

But for now, on Friday, he’s releas-ing in theaters a 3-D film for National Geographic that chronicles his 2012 dive into another alien world, “the last great frontier,” as he calls the ocean. For Cameron, the movie is a testament to the spirit of exploration, which he feels is flagging in America.

Cameron’s dive, nearly seven miles deep, was only the second manned-dive to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest known point of the seabed. Some 68 new species were iden-tified from the sub, which was equipped with 3-D cameras.

“I think explorers feel a sense of the sacred,” said Cameron of descending into such a remote abyss. “Something that’s beyond themselves, when they go to a place that’s never been witnessed before and bare witness for the first time.”

“Deepsea” co-director John Bruno had to capture it all in stormy conditions and while coordinating 3-D cameras that

each took two men to operate.“The ocean hasn’t read the script, so

it’s not going to cooperate,” says Cam-eron. “And the sub is a bit like a diva movie actress. You’re not always going to get it on camera when you want it.”

The similarities of leading an expedi-tion team and a feature film crew are, to Cameron, identical. Ever the taskmaster, the documentary shows him prodding his scientists on their time tables. In Cam-eron’s day job, the interaction would be the same.

Speaking of time tables, there is the pace of work on the “Avatar” films,

which are scheduled for release in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Though Cameron earlier said the screenplays (which he’s writing with Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Shane Salerno) would be finished by the end of the spring, they’re still being completed.

“It’s going to be another couple months, I would say, at least,” said Cam-eron. “We will serve no wine before it’s time, and I would be pretty stupid to run off and start shooting ‘Avatar’ until the scripts are perfect. Whether that com-promises our announced release date of Christmas ‘16, at this point I can’t really say until we break down the budget and schedule.”

Cameron said he’s working seven days a week on “Avatar” as the pages “pour in,” but with one exception. He’s taking an upcoming vacation to Tahiti for — what else? — a little scuba diving.

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LONDON — U.S. action star Wesley Snipes is back on the big screen for the first time since his release from prison as he joins Sylvester Stallone and the cast of “The Expendables 3.”

Speaking ahead of the movie’s world premiere Monday, Snipes joked that Stallone had him in mind for the first “Expendables” movie but he was “just a little occupied at the time.”

“They reserved a spot for me and

when the opportunity came along he reached out again and said come join us, we would like you to be a part of this.”

Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 after failing to file income tax returns. He began his jail term in De-cember 2010.The movie makes reference to Snipes’ time behind bars with a tax-evasion joke in the opening scenes.

“Whether I do something really funny or really stupid, it is okay with me,” says Snipes. “I think that is what life is about. You can’t take life itself too seriously.”

“At the end of the day, nobody really cares. You’re going to be forgotten any-way. The issues and problems that you think are like mountains that you have to deal with now, after time goes by, nobody cares,” he continues. “Might as well have a good time with it.”

The 52-year-old actor is currently looking for new action projects, with a return to the blood-soaked universe of vampire “Blade” at the top of his list.

“A lot of people are calling for it and I would like to do it,” he says.

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Cameron dives into an abyssAssociated Press

In the documentary of his record-breaking deep-sea dive, “Deepsea Challenge 3D,” James Cameron asks, “Am I a filmmaker who does exploration work on the side, or am I an explorer who does filming on the side?”

“Looking ahead, the tourism in-dustry continues to grow, but to Bali, I have confidence that cultural tourism remains excellent. Cultural tourism and the beauty of nature are fixed price,” said a tourism practitioner, Dewa Gde Ngurah Byomantara.

He added the beauty of nature could be found in some countries. Even, some provinces in Indonesia also offered tremendous beauty of

nature. Meanwhile, Bali had added value namely cultural tourism that did not exist in other regions or countries. Other than maintaining and preserving nature, the main pri-ority should be given to culture.

“I do hope that religious-based culture of Bali should always be fostered. Then, educational insti-tutions should also contribute. For example, we are encouraging the

students of the Bali Tourism Insti-tute (STP) Nusa Dua Bali through their extra-curricular activities to live and practice our culture. It is an extraordinary grace of God to Ba-linese people becoming prominent in the tourism sector,” said Director of the STPND Bali.

The challenge of tourism in the future, according to Byomantara, was that tourism players should aggressively prepare themselves for the ASEAN Economic Com-munity (AEC) 2015. Meanwhile, his party had made various prepa-rations since 20 years ago. “We must prepare ourselves as well as possible to face the AEC. Even, we can become the center of excellence

in Asia-Pacific,” he said.He was confident the graduates

of tourism school in Bali, chiefly the STPND, had been well prepared for the AEC. It happened because many graduates of tourism school worked and even became the citi-zens of the ASEAN countries, in-cluding in Singapore and Malaysia. “In those countries they can com-pete. I am very confident we can compete in the AEC,” he said.

When asked whether the number of hotels and villas, especially in Southern Badung, had been saturat-ed, Byomantara claimed that he did not dare to make such a conclusion. No studies were made to ascertain whether the number of hotels still

lacked or had surpassed. “Without a benchmark, we cannot conclude that way. Actually in 2014, I have sug-gested making a study so that people will not talk nonsense but must be based on data,” said Byomantara.

Most importantly, the tourism development should be carried out equally in the future. An effort should be made to stimulate or encourage young people to attend schools in the field of tourism. After graduating, they were expected to build tourism in their respective region. “Thus, the even distribution of tourism in Bali can be reached and will not only be dominated by the people of Southern Badung,” he said. (kmb36)

Facing tourism competition

Balinese culture must be nurturedBali Post

NUSA DUA - Bali remains to become a favorite tourist destination in the world. Aside from the beauty of nature, Bali becomes an international tourist destination due to the ances-tral heritage, namely its sublime culture. On that account, the Balinese community has to maintain and preserve it.

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The file photo shows Balinese children performed Kecak Dance during the opening of Bali Art Festival. Bali remains to become a favorite tourist destination in the world. Aside from the beauty of nature, Bali becomes an international tourist destination due to the ancestral heritage, namely its sublime culture.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Friday, August 8, 2014

Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014

9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap BesakihPura Dangkahyangan TabananPura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem

13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku BangliPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal MengwiPura Taman Limut Mas Ubud

14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri 19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang BangliPura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan BulelengPura Gunung Pengsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Tengah TegalalangPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan TabananPira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan DenpasarPura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala BesakihPura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Batu Sari UbudPura Penataran Dalem Guliang BangliPura Pasek Dangka Guwang SukawatiPura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem

20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak SiringPura Rambut Siwi JembranaPura Batu Bolong Canggu KutaPura Pasek Marga Klaci TabananPura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru NegaraPura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan BulelengPira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede TabananPura Desa Banyuning BulelengPura Srijong TabananPura Pucak Mundi Nusa PenidaPura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod GianyarPura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud

21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng

3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan BangliPura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba TabananPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah BulelengPura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang

9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTBPura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu KarangasemPura Padharman Arya Telabah BesakihPura Bukit Mentik Batur KintamaniPura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar

10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaBhatara Ratu Gede Celuk GianyarPura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Sesetan DenpasarBhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klung-kungPura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya

17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Cemenggaon GianyarPura Penataran Ped Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa AbiansemalPura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah BulelengPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa PenidaPura Jati Ubud GianyarPura Melanting Ubud GianyarPura Dalem Ped Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Karangasem

19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri 23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

Each menu is offered at very cheap price. It is not much different from the existing Angkringan at street side, the origin of this dining site. The price ranges from IDR 2,000 to IDR 15,000. These menus include fried rice, a variety of satay items, toast, grilled bananas, sausages and various fries.

Although it is presented in an open space, the sanitation and hygiene of those menus remain to be well maintained, so that visitors can enjoy the menus comfortably. The Angkringan is opened every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m.

Visitors can place the food order to professional chef of Ibis Styles. While enjoying the food, visitors will be accompanied by Balinese and Javanese traditional music. If visitors want a more relaxing atmosphere, they can also chat with friends, girlfriend and family by taking advantage of free Wi-Fi facilities.

General Manager of Ibis Styles, Tantiarini Hidayati, said, though it was located at hotel the Angkringan of Ibis Styles Bali Kuta was opened to public and in-house guests. “On Monday through Thursday, we serve tapas menus of the restaurant,” said Tantiarini Hidayati amidst

the launching of the Angkringan.Excellence of the Angkringan at Ibis Styles Bali Kuta,

explained Tantriarini, was that visitors could enjoy their meal in the open space on the second floor directly facing the Kuta atmosphere. The atmosphere was cool because it took place in the evening. “Nevertheless, visitors can still choose the lobby area and sTREATs Lounge & Bar,” she said.

Waiters dressed in typical uniform present a variety of distinctive, delicious and cheap foods, yet they are still qualifying five-star hotel. Visitors will be served with traditional drinks, Wedang Jahe and Beer Pletok at free of charge. This offer lasts during the first 2 hours. “The Angkringan from Yogyakarta normally existing at street side is brought to hotel environment with unique setting,” she added.

The presence of the Angkringan, hoped Tantiarini, would become one of the right choices for traditional foodies. “To introduce this Angkringan, we also invite colleagues and motorcycle community to try it. In addi-tion, we are also promoting it through print and electronic media,” she concluded. (ocha)

Angkringan of Ibis Styles Bali

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KUTA - Do you want to dine in a traditional setting? Simply come to Angkringan at Ibis Styles Bali Kuta Dewi Sri. This unique dining place situated in a three-star hotel and managed by Accor offers a variety of traditional Indonesian menus. Aside from unique menus, the setting of this dining area is also arranged in classical style, so the atmosphere becomes more attractive and convenient.

Bali Post

SEMArAPUrA - Tourism development on the islands of Lembongan, Klungkung, begins to result in a negative impact. Drug syndicate, for instance, is mentioned to have been operat-ing in the region in order to meet the needs of foreign travelers. Even, the syndicate is driven by local people.

It was delivered by the Head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Bali, I Gusti Ketut Budiartha, when speak-ing in advocacy activities in the meeting hall of the Klungkung Cooperatives, SMEs and Industry Agency, Wednesday (Aug 6). He said the syndicate had started to be built since the beginning of 2013. Target market of the syndicate was foreign travelers. Rapid growth of tourism in the region drew more and more foreign travelers to come to this place. Unfortunately, he was reluctant to explain how the syndicate worked to reach Lembon-gan and how to appoint local people as the main players of the syndicate. However, he mentioned it had been established with the help of another syndicate on Bali Island. “In addition, there are also drugs coming into Lembongan through Gili Trawangan, Lombok,” he said.

Most drugs distributed by the syndicate to foreign travelers were in the form of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, crystal meth and other drug types. Despite knowing the syndicate, his party had not taken action. Currently, his party just made surveillance. Nevertheless, he asserted to seriously address the threat of the syndicate in eradicating drug abuse in Bali. He confirmed that drug abuse in Bali had made a lot of local people into the new rich. However, in the end they slowly fall into the negative effects of the drug abuse. Ultimately it only left a misery in the family.

He claimed that lately many Balinese people came to his of-fice. On average they complained about their family members that could not get out of drug influence. “It’s a pity to see their family facing difficulty to get out of drug influence. They should be rehabilitated,” he said. He asked Balinese people to remain vigilant against illicit trafficking and the smuggling of illicit goods by drug syndicate in Bali. Results of the latest research showed an estimation number of drug abuse in Bali reaching 50,535 or 1.8 percent of the total population of Bali reaching some 4 million. Currently, Bali was ranked 17th among other provinces related to the estimation number of drug abuse in Indonesia.

Until July 2014, he mentioned that Bali had revealed 367 cases. Meanwhile, in 2013 it reached 842 cases, in 2012 (866 cases), in 2011 (887 cases) and in 2010 (790 cases). Bali had become a strategic location for drug trafficking. “Many cases have been revealed when the culprits entered the Ngurah Rai Airport. They applied manifold modes. In most cases, they transited in Malaysia,” he said. For Bali, the most vulnerable areas to drug trafficking were around Denpasar and Badung. However, recently it was mentioned to have started moving up to Klungkung to Karangasem. For Karangasem, the rampant drug distribution was triggered by the increasing quarry activities.

Mitigation Division Head of the BNN Bali, Ketut Lisdiani, said for the time being the county narcotics agency was only established in Denpasar, Badung and Gianyar. She urged this vertical agency could be established in other counties. Thus, the preventive efforts could be more massive and reduced the number of drug abuse in order to achieve a drug-free Indonesia in 2015. (kmb31)

It was admitted by Regent Suwir-ta when met in the office of Public Works, Wednesday (Aug 6). He said that Klungkung got the recruitment quota for 45 employees this year. Of this amount, the required applicants were teacher and health worker. As planned, those filling the position would be placed in the region of Nusa Penida. “On the island, we lack of many teachers and health workers,” he said. However, lately he admitted to be frequently visited at his official residence by people intending to become a civil servant instantly. Virtually every day, there were always people coming up with similar aims.

He admitted to be surprised. They came to him while bringing cash ranging from IDR 100 million to IDR 300 million. “I’ve just told them to go home. Now, we attempt to do the recruitment transparently. Let the process run properly. Hence, those who qualify are actually yielded from the normal process and competent candidate,” he said.

Aside from the residents of Klungkung, people from other coun-ties such as Karangasem, Bangli and Gianyar also came to his residence. Even, there were also many middle-men coming to his office and official residence. However, he constantly emphasized that such habit was no longer applicable in the era of his reign. He said that he did not want to tarnish the public trust by profiting in such a way.

Related to the rampant middle-men, the regent called for people participating in this year’s quota of civil servant not to easily believe in such practice. When having promised something and ensured to pass without selection, it was clearly an attempt to seek personal

gains. He asserted that he would oversee the recruitment process rigorously, starting from the grant-ing of quota, quota determination to the announcement of the selection process. Klungkung would apply a Computer Assisted Test (CAT) system.

Unfortunately, he had not been able to explain about the way how the system worked. However, the system was believed to yield competent people that would fill in the quotas of the prospective civil servant in Klungkung.

Meanwhile, the Head of Klung-kung Regional Recruitment Agency (BKD), Nengah Sudiarta, said on Wednesday after receiving the quota

from the Ministry of State Appa-ratus Utilization and Bureaucratic Reform that it had been determined to get 45 quotas, where 20 quotas were allocated for teachers and 25 others for health professionals. He said the letter had been delivered back to the ministry. Currently, his party just needed to wait for a reply from the ministry for selec-tion process. Additionally, he also emphasized the selection process of prospective civil servant would take place transparently. So, people were expected not to easily believe in the presence of middlemen promising to qualify for civil servants with an easy way without going through the existing process. (kmb31)

Monitoring of BNN Bali, drug syndicates haunt Lembongan

Want to be civil servant

People bribe regent at IDR 300 millionBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Ahead of the prospective civil servant (CPNS) recruitment, the official residence of the regent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, is more frequently visited by residents and brokers of prospective civil servants. They wanted to bribe the regent with the hope they could fill in the job opportunities instantly without passing though regular selection process. No half-heartedly, some of them even brought the cash up to IDr 300 million.

3Friday, August 8, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsFashion Friday, August 8, 2014

DENPASAR - Restriction of service

time to the sale of subsidized diesel fuel resulted in a dilemma for Bali tourism transportation companies. The circular of the Downstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (BPH Migas) setting out the sale at 08:00 to 18:00 local time disrupted their operations.

Bagus Soediana, a tourism transport entrepreneur in Denpasar, admitted on Wednesday (Aug 6) that his party could still survive. However, since the sales hours were restricted, his party got a trouble because the sales hours of subsi-dized fuel were only opened during tour or operational hours.

“Now, we must set a strategy smartly in order that we can purchase subsidized fuel. However, when our vehicles are transporting guests it seems less elegant for us to queue for fuel at petrol station.

Perhaps, we’ll reap a complaint from tour guide or travel agencies,” said the advisor to Bali Tourism Transportation Association (Pawiba).

According to him, the tourism trans-port consuming diesel fuel reached around 5,000 units, so that the new policy applied to eight petrol stations in Den-pasar would have an impact on vehicle operation. “The government (policy) is clever and applies politely, but tastes bitter,” he complained.

Similar opinion was revealed by Chairman of the Land Transportation Organization (Organda) of Bali Chapter, Eddy Dharma Putra. He expected the government policy should be adjusted to the conditions in the field. For instance, inter-provincial bus transportation could not be refueled only once. In Bali, there were about 139 units of inter-provincial bus coalesced into the Organda.

“Public transport may operate for 24 hours, especially the inter-provincial transportation. Probably, the enactment of such policy can lead to stagnant move-ment of transportation,” he said.

He gave an example, if a bus departed from Bali to Yogyakarta, for instance, it could refuel twice. “If it got difficulty regarding the diesel sales having been closed, the bus giving out of fuel will not be able to run, what to do in this situa-tion? It is impossible to overnight on the way,” he said.

Eddy stated the inter-provincial trans-portation indeed reaped a dilemma. How-ever, if the transportation only operated in Bali province, it could still be tricked because the distance to each county was not too far away.

“Such policy does not have an impact on the inter-city transportation. It can still be tricked as the distance is not too

far away. Different case will happen when leaving out of the province as it is adapted to the tank capacity of the transport,” he said while adding that the policy restricting the diesel fuel was as-sessed to raise new concern and issues for land transportation.

As reported earlier, eight petrol sta-tions such as on Jalan Hayam Wuruk, Gunung Sanghyang, Sesetan, Raya Pupu-tan, Ahmad Yani, Pulau Bungin and Jalan Buana Raya were imposed with such restriction policy. People could easily identify the petrol stations imposed with time restriction through stickers, posters and banners posted in the station area. To anticipate the needs of consumers who made purchase of diesel fuel beyond the time restriction, Pertamina increased the availability of Pertamina Dex and non-subsidized diesel fuel at those petrol stations. (kmb27)

Not only that, the matter of punctuality was highlighted. Relevant agency had promised the arrival time of Trans Sarbagita from post 1 to post 2 would only take five minutes. However in reality, many service users were complaining because the waiting time did not match the promise. Even, some service users should wait until thirty minutes.

The Head of Bali Transportation, Communication and Informatics Agency, I Ketut Artika, when asked for his confirmation on Wednesday (Aug 6) denied all the rumors. He said that his party had operated the entire units. “That is not true. We have operated the entire unit, but some units are indeed still under repair. Maybe 1 or 2, I do not know exactly,” he explained.

Regarding the matter of punctuality, he did not deny. The government had promised the arrival time was 5 minutes, but admittedly it could not been reached yet. However, for the time being, the average time was 15 minutes. Further, he explained that of the entire fleet, 15 units were operated in corridor two, while the remaining ones in corridor one. Artika said the interest of people to use Trans Sarbagita from year to year had increased. The increase in passenger reached 5 percent. “Every year, the number of passengers increased, especially for the route to GWK, reaching 5 percent,” he said, Wednesday (Aug 6).

In addition, he also explained regarding the assistance of 30 units from central government through the Ministry of Transportation of the RI. The assistance, he said, there was no certainty so far. “There is no certainty about it (assistance of 30 buses—Ed) because we still have two options,” he said but did not explain in detail the relevant option. (kmb21)

Subsidized diesel fuel restriction dilemmatic

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Existence of Trans Sarbagita is criticized again. At least, there are 25 fleets operating in the predetermined route. However, there are rumors if the bus in operation today is only half of them.

Trans Sarbagita operated only half of its fleetsBali Post

DENPASAR - Existence of Trans Sarbagita is criticized again. At least, there are 25 fleets oper-ating in the predetermined route. However, there are rumors if the bus in operation today is only half of them. More severely, the daily operating cost is touted for the whole number of fleets.

Reuters

ROME - Italian designer label Tod’s is edging away from its comfortable driving shoes, bal-

It is Blanchett’s second appear-ance and the first for Nyong’o on the annual list, which does not rank its fashion stars. The style setters list is dominated by actors, but it also includes European roy-als, sports stars and artists.

Princess Mary of Denmark, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and “Downton Abbey” actress Michelle Dockery were noted for their style, along with artist Jeff Koons, New York Giant football wide receiver Victor Cruz and Grammy-winning musician Phar-rell Williams.

Williams, on the list for a second time, named actor Johnny Depp as his style icon, while Cruz said he admired Williams for his style.

Although Nyong’o has been praised for her fashion flair, when asked to name her favorite places to shop she told the magazine, “nowhere. I dislike shopping.”

Tony award winner Neil Patrick Harris was another first-timer on the list, along with actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba, Emmy Rossum and “Harry Potter” star Emma Watson, who said her fa-vorite place to shop was British retail chain Topshop.

The Duchess of Cambridge, a fixture of the list for four years, will be joined in the magazine’s best-dressed Hall of Fame by German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, the creative force be-hind Chanel. REUTERS/Mike Blake/Files

Cate Blanchett, Lupita Nyong’o make Vanity Fair’s best dressed list

Reuters

NEW YORK - Cate Blanchett and Lupita Nyong’o, both Oscar-winning actresses and favorites on Hollywood’s red carpet, made Vanity Fair’s 2014 international best dressed list on Wednesday and Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, was named to its Hall of Fame.

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A pair of wooden shoe forms, made for Princess Diana, hangs on the wall at the Italian luxury shoemaker Tod’s in Sant’Elpidio a Mare, in this April 17, 2014 file photo.

Tod’s moves on from cosy loaferslerina flats and platform sandals in an attempt to diversify its busi-ness and revive flagging sales.

The company hired former Gucci designer Alessandra Fac-

chinetti last year to create a limited collection of clothes and accessories, and just last June appointed a new creative chief, Andrea Incontri, for its mens-wear line.

The strategy is to find new areas of growth after focusing too long on its well-known footwear - and on Thursday the company will offer a look at whether it’s starting to work when it releases six-month financial results.

“We are trying to send the message that Tod’s is not any longer simply a great producer of high-quality shoes, but also that it is more and more becom-ing a ‘maison’,” Chief Financial officer Emilio Macellari told Reuters.

For luxury goods companies, handbags, wallets and other ac-cessories are easier to sell because they don’t require a particular fit. A clothes line helps drive those accessory sales by giving the la-bel - and the shop window - the allure of a collection and ensuring magazine spreads.

Lately a slowdown in China, once the sector’s growth engine, has hit profits across the luxury goods business. But Tod’s high reliance on lower-margin shoes is

widely seen as being to blame for sharper falls in sales and profits than its peers have seen.

Footwear, such as its driving shoe which retails at $400-$920, makes up 75 percent of total sales at Tod’s Group, of which the Tod’s label represents 60 percent of the business. Acces-sories - which can add around 10 percentage points more to a company’s gross margin than footwear or clothing - make up around 16 percent. That compares to more than 30 percent and 60 percent at Salvatore Ferragamo and Prada.

Analysts say that narrow defi-nition contributed to a slump in same-store sales growth, which slowed to 2.3 percent last year from 7.2 percent the year earlier, and a 6.7 percent fall in sales in the first five months of this year.

That in turn has hit the com-pany’s bottom line: Net profit dropped to 134 million euros ($179.5 million) last year from 145.5 million euros in 2012, com-pared with a jump at Salvatore Ferragamo and incremental an-nual rises at Prada and Gucci.

Tod’s share price has led a fall in Italian luxury goods stocks

over the past year, down 35 percent while Ferragamo’s stock lost 24 percent and Prada’s 26 percent.

Armand Hadida, founder of French shop chain L’Eclaireur which was the first multibrand store to sell Tod’s and sister brand Hogan shoes in Paris in the 1980s said Tod’s had not offered as many new products as rival brands in recent years.

“There is a lack of innovation at Tod’s, a lack of differentiation. Everywhere you find the same image, the same presentation in the boutiques. It is not logical in the world in which we live. Consumers need new experi-ences. Brands need to constantly surprise them,” said Hadida.

Its struggle to convince people to buy a wider range of its prod-ucts suggests Tod’s may have fallen victim to the success of its signature item.

“Tod’s makes driving shoes. If you’ve been telling people you make great loafers for decades, it’s very hard to change their minds,” said Mary-Ellen Field, an intellectual property manage-ment and licensing expert, and director at Vintage Asset Man-agement in London.

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The commemorations were cen-tered on St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, capital of Victoria state where 16 of the victims lived.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott told the multi-faith service that hundreds of Australian police and military personnel had been working around the clock to retrieve human remains and belongings from the war zone where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed on July 17 with 298 people aboard.

“There will be a time to judge the guilty, but today we honor the dead and we grieve with the living,” Abbott said.

“We do rededicate ourselves today to supporting the bereaved, to obtaining justice for the dead and for their families, and to working for a better world,” he added. Flags flew at half-mast and church bells chimed around Australia in honor of the dead.

The West has accused Russia of most likely providing Ukrainian

insurgents with surface-to-air mis-siles that may have been used to shoot down the Boeing 777 over rebel-held territory.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte of The Netherlands, whose nation-als made up more than half of the victims, said Wednesday that the search involving Dutch and Aus-tralian police for victims’ remains is being halted because fighting in the area of the crash site makes it too dangerous to continue.

Australia sponsored a United Nations Security Council Resolu-tion that demanded that separatists allow the dead to be retrieved and international investigators free ac-cess to the crash site.

Australia’s first priority is re-trieving its dead, followed by establishing who shot the Boeing 777 down and bringing the culprits before the courts.

“We cannot bring them back, but we will bring them home, as far as we humanly can,” Abbott said.

Associated Press

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian authorities rushed to obtain isolation tents Wednesday in anticipation of more Ebola infections as they dis-closed five more cases of the virus and a death in Africa’s most populous nation, where officials were racing to keep the gruesome disease confined to a small group of patients.

The five new Nigerian cases were all in Lagos, a megacity of 21 million people in a country already beset with poor health care infrastructure and widespread corruption, and all five were reported to have had direct contact with one infected man.

Meanwhile, the World Health Or-ganization began a meeting to decide whether the crisis, the worst recorded outbreak of its kind, amounts to an in-ternational public health emergency. At least 932 deaths in four countries have been blamed on the illness, with 1,711 reported cases.

In recent years, the WHO has declared an emergency only twice, for swine flu in 2009 and polio in May. The declaration would prob-ably come with recommendations on travel and trade restrictions and wider

Ebola screening. It also would be an acknowledgment that the situation is critical and could worsen without a fast global response.

The group did not immediately confirm the new cases reported in Nigeria. And Nigerian authorities did not release any details on the latest infections, except to say they all had come into direct contact with the sick man who arrived by plane in Lagos late last month.

With the death toll mounting in the region, Liberia’s president an-nounced a state of emergency late Wednesday and said it may result in the suspension of some citizens’ rights. She lamented that fear and panic had kept many family members from sending sick relatives to isola-tion centers.

“Ignorance and poverty, as well as entrenched religious and cultural practices, continue to exacerbate the spread of the disease,” President El-len Johnson Sirleaf said.

And in Sierra Leone, where en-forcing quarantines of sick patients also has been met with resistance, some 750 soldiers deployed to the Ebola-ravaged east as part of “Opera-tion Octopus.”

Australians mourn victims of downed Malaysian jet

AP Photo/Mark Dadswell, PoolMourners console each other during a national memorial service for the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Autralia Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.

Associated Press

CANBERRA — Australia’s prime minister said Thursday that those responsible for shooting down the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine will face justice, as his nation marked a day of mourning for the 38 Australian citizens and residents who died in the crash.

Nigeria rushes to get isolation tents for Ebola

AP Photo/ Michael DuffA man and woman taking part in a Ebola prevention campaign holds a placard with an Ebola preven-tion information message in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The development of HIV cases in Indonesia and Bali in particular starts worrying. The discovery of case is not only about people with high risk factor but also those with low risk factor such as housewives, children and adolescents. To address these issues, several new programs are then applied.

The Head of Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suar-jaya, described on Wednesday (Aug 6) that one of the programs implemented was not only the expansion of HIV test in people with high risk factor such as the injection drug users (IDU) and sex workers, but also pregnant women, young people, migrant workers, miners and prisoners. “It is also collaborated with tuberculosis, syphilis and hepatitis test,” said Suarjaya.

For pregnant women, added Suarjaya, the HIV and syphilis were incorporated in maternal and child health check up when mothers underwent regular antenatal care. For teens, they would be given facilitating access when they wanted to have HIV test in health care with voluntary testing and counseling (VCT) services.

According to Suarjaya, the Ministry of Health had launched a Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PPIA) service. In the ser-vice, every woman coming to the maternal and child health-family planning services and teenag-ers should be informed about the PPIA. He added the PPIA policy also listed the widespread and concentrated HIV epidemic area and required the officers in health care facilities to offer HIV testing to all pregnant women inclusively on other regular laboratory tests at antenatal period. “The PPIA ser-vices are integrated on Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning and Adolescent Counseling at every level of health care,” said Suarjaya.

Any teenager wishing to undergo HIV test was recommended to be accompanied by parent, but in fact some of them came on their own initiative. Suarjaya explained that teenagers overseas could undergo an HIV test without having been accom-panied by family. However, in Indonesia, based on the Constitution, teenager still needed parental guidance when undergoing HIV test.

When teenagers came alone and the results were positive, according to Suarjaya, the health care officer would provide counseling on the im-portance of status delivery to their parent. “But in general, the treatment to teenager HIV patients is the same as other HIV patients. Confidentiality is preserved and they are given the same treatment,” said Suarjaya.

Other program to prevent HIV was direct ad-ministration of antiretroviral drugs to patients who tested positive. According to Suarjaya, formerly the antiretroviral was granted in case of CD4 or pa-tient endurance cell reached a certain value. How-ever, at this time it had been directly given when immediately known to be HIV positive regardless of the value of CD4. “Antiretroviral administration has showed a good result since the beginning in suppressing the virus and maintaining the quality of life of patients with HIV,” said Suarjaya.

So far, the HIV case in Bali is recorded to reach 9,477. In terms of age, most of the HIV patients be-long to the age range of 20-29 years (3,646 cases) and 30-39 years (3,433 cases). (kmb24)

Based on information, a very strong current occurred to the south around 10:00 a.m. and tidal waves even started in the Bali Strait. When the LCT Tanu Pratama sailed from Ketapang to Gilimanuk, it floated off and was swept away. Few minutes later at 10:45 a.m., another vessel, the Nusa Makmur pas-senger motor vessel, driven by Sugeng from Banyuwangi floated off. The vessel held a large truck, three medium trucks, 22 small vehicles, 84 motorcycles and

250 people. The vessel heavily loaded with freight was swept away to the south.

Such condition caused the vessel to swerve and come out of the way south-wardly passing the yellow light that marked the position of submarine cable lines. An officer said the Nusa Makmur passenger motor vessel departed from Ketapang to Gilimanuk Harbor around 09:30 in the morning. Amidst the voyage, the sea currents were very strong so the

captain was unable to go up against it and just attempted to get away from the current sweeping away the vessel.

Once the situation was getting safer and back to normal, both vessels at-tempted to moor at Gilimanuk quay. Ultimately, the vessels were able to moor at 12:30 a.m.

Harbormaster of Gilimanuk, Nyo-man Delon, confirmed the incident. The vessels were swept away by strong cur-rents, but they could finally moor. The harbormaster had warned all the captains to be more careful. Though having made coordination with the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), bad weather could suddenly occur and should be anticipated and alerted. (kmb26)

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IBP/FileThed boat which was stranded a few weeks ago in Bali Strait. The current weather condition create big waves and it is very dangerous for the vessel to travel in the sea.

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NEGARA - Due to bad weather, two vessels serving the crossing in the Bali Strait were swept away, Wednesday (Aug 6). The LCT Tanu Pratama and Nusa Makmur passenger motor vessel were full charge when swept away.

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Agence France-Presse

SEOUL - Arch-rivals Samsung and Apple decided Wednesday to drop all patent disputes outside the United States, marking a partial ceasefire in a long-running legal war between the world’s two largest smartphone makers.

Both companies have been locked in a three-year battle of litigative attrition in close to a dozen coun-tries, with each accusing the other of infringing on various patents related to their flagship smartphone and tablet products.

But neither has managed to deliver a knock-out blow with a number of rulings going different ways, and Wednesday’s announcement suggested a line was finally being drawn.

“Samsung and Apple have agreed to drop all litiga-tion between the two companies outside the United States,” Samsung said in a statement.

However, the agreement came with one key caveat, with the two giants stressing that they would continue “to pursue the existing cases in US courts.”

The patent row kicked off in earnest back in 2011, when Apple sued Samsung in a US court, and swiftly went trans-continental with cases being heard in South Korea, Germany, Japan, Italia, the Netherlands, Eng-land, France and Australia among others.

Apple has accused its South Korean rival of mas-sive and wilful copying of its designs and technology for smartphones and tablets, and has asked for a bar on US sales of Samsung smartphones and tablet computers.

Samsung has counter-claimed that Apple had used some of its technology without permission.

The two firms had been pushed into talks in early February by a US court order that saw Apple CEO Tim Cook and his Samsung mobile communications counterpart JK Shin attend a full-day negotiation ses-sion, along with their advisors and legal teams.

But despite several follow-ups, the mediator’s settlement proposal was not taken up and the litiga-tion continued.

In the latest development in May, a jury in fed-eral court in California awarded Apple close to $120 million in damages in one of its patent suits with Samsung.

The award was only a fraction of the more than $2 billion Apple had sought at the outset of the trial, and the result was seen as partial victory for both sides.

Daishin Securities analyst Claire Kim said the two companies appeared to have tired of a lengthy, costly process that was producing no tangible dividends.

“They now realise there is no reason to continue their battle outside the US, because their lawsuits have produced so little results,” Kim told AFP.

When the lawsuits first started flying Samsung and Apple were the undisputed kings of the global smart-phone market and their legal wrangles were seen as a fight for supremacy.

But that situation has changed, as developed mar-kets have become increasingly saturated and emerging markets more competitive with the rise of Chinese manufacturers like Lenovo, Xiaomi and Huawei.

Western officials warn that a Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s border could herald a major incursion to pro-tect the pro-Moscow separatists fighting Ukrainian forces. Despite bipartisan pressure from lawmakers to send U.S. military aid to Ukraine, however, the Obama administration thus far has said it doesn’t believe U.S. military assistance is needed.

“Keep in mind that the Russian army is a lot bigger than the Ukrainian army,” Obama said at a news conference Wednesday. “So the issue here is not whether the Ukrainian army has some additional weaponry.”

The U.S. and the European Union have accused Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March,

of fomenting tensions in eastern Ukraine by supplying arms and expertise to the pro-Moscow insurgency.

“At least up until this point, they’ve been fighting a group of separatists who have engaged in some terrible violence, but who can’t match the Ukrainian army,” Obama said. “Now if you start seeing an invasion by Russia, that’s obviously a different set of questions. We’re not there yet.”

Obama was asked about the impact of sanctions on the same day that Russian President Vladimir Putin hit back hard against the U.S. for imposing sanctions against Moscow’s moves in Ukraine. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti quoted a Russian official as saying all agricultural products produced in the U.S. won’t be allowed into Russia.

According to USDA’s Foreign Agri-cultural Service, U.S. exporters shipped $1.2 billion worth of food and agricul-tural products to Russia in 2013, which represents less than 1 percent of all U.S. agricultural exports. U.S. poultry exports make up the largest portion of the total, with a little more than $300 million in exports to Russia last year.

“Sanctions are working as intended in putting enormous pressure and strain on the Russian economy,” Obama said.

“That’s not my estimation. If you look at the markets and you look at estimates in terms of capital flight, if you look at projections for Russian growth, what you’re seeing is that the economy has ground to a halt.

“It has presented the choice to Presi-dent Putin as to whether he is going to try to resolve the issues in eastern Ukraine through diplomacy and peaceful means ... or alternatively continue on the course he’s on, in which case he’s going to be hurting his economy, and hurting his own people over the long term.”

Samsung, Apple call truce in patent war outside US

AP Photo, Yuri Snegirev, Rossiyiskaya Gazeta, FileThis July 14, 2014 file photo shows black smoke billowing following a mortar attack during fighting between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian fighters in Luhansk, Ukraine. President Barack Obama says that U.S. sanctions levied against Russia over its actions in Ukraine are working but that Washington would face a much different set of questions about how to respond if Moscow invaded eastern Ukraine.

US sanctions are straining Russian economyAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says that U.S. sanctions levied against Russia over its actions in Ukraine are working but that Washington would face a much different set of questions about how to respond if Moscow invaded eastern Ukraine.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Related to the Regulation of Minister of Trade No.70/2013, the management of modern stores is expected to provide guidance to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) so that their products can meet the quality standards. It was revealed by an MSME observer, Dr. Putu Saroyini Piartrini.

He added that for the advancement and growth of the MSMEs it was needed an adequate distribution network to distribute the products to market. Meanwhile, the market or modern store visited by com-munity was one of the potential retailers in the product distribution due to easy access, product diversity and brand options compared to traditional markets.

On the other hand, said Saroyini, modern markets had a policy on standard quality that needed to be accommodated by their suppliers. Thus, if there was rejection of modern markets against the MSME products it happened due to a product or service quality gap. Then, the management of modern market should provide guidance and direction in the implementation of the MSME business. It was intended in order the MSMEs were able to meet the quality standards to be displayed and sold in modern markets.

“The modern market is a part of complex system of goods and ser-vice exchange where the MSME community becomes an inseparable element,” he said.

On that account, the modern market needed to consider social re-sponsibility to provide enough space for domestic MSMEs products. It was meant for the empowerment of the MSMEs so that they could survive in the face of global suppliers that would be definitely more efficient. (kmb36)

Bali Post

GIANYAR - Clean water services provided by mu-nicipal waterworks (PDAM) of Gianyar County got many complaints recently. At least ten villages has been facing water crisis from the municipal waterworks. Such condition made people difficult to run their day-to-day activities.

As field observation on Wednesday (Aug 6), the water crisis condition was undergone by ten villages in Gianyar subdistrict. From the search, the village facing the water crisis in the past few weeks included the Siangan, Purna, Suwat, Mulung, Sumita, Benawah, Penyembahan, Man-tring, Papadan and Madangan. Against such condition, the Municipal Waterworks should provide tank truck to the region. As a result, people should scramble to get clean water from the tank truck brought in by the Gianyar Municipality Waterworks.

In addition to drinking water, residents should also throng the local river. Jero Lisnawati, one of the local resi-dents, highly regretted and complained about the service provided by the Gianyar Municipality Waterworks. “It’s very difficult, almost a week I have to work hard to get clean water. Just to wash clothes, I have to look for water to the river at neighboring village,” said the resident of Benawah.

Meanwhile, the clean water crisis was caused by pipe damage of the Municipal Waterworks at Petak village. Today, the company still continued to repair the clogged drains. Di-rector of the Gianyar Municipal Waterworks, I Made Sastra Kencana, said the 12-kilometer long pipeline was broken after being filled by air. The water discharge would run nor-mally if the air in the pipeline could be taken up. “Hopefully, in relatively short time the air suctioning processes can be completed,” he told media crews. (kmb16)

Management of modern markets expected to foster MSMEs

ANTARA FOTO/Adhitya HendraRelated to the Regulation of Minister of Trade No.70/2013, the management of modern stores is expected to provide guidance to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) so that their products can meet the quality standards.

IBP/File PhotoClean water services provided by municipal waterworks (PDAM) of Gianyar County got many complaints recently. At least ten villages has been facing water crisis from the municipal waterworks.

Ten villages face municipal waterworks supply crisis

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The 11-year-old male Komodo dragon died in its cage at Sura-baya zoo, on the main island of Java, said Liang Kaspe, the park’s veterinary surgeon.

Two of the Komodos, which

are the world’s largest living lizards and have a venomous bite, died in February and June at the zoo, which is Indonesia’s biggest.

An initial autopsy indicated

that the latest death was caused by intest inal problems, said Kaspe, but further laboratory tests will be carried out over the next month to check for other problems.

The zoo now has seven male, six female and 59 baby Komodos. More than 30 eggs have also been laid since the end of July, Kaspe said.

Surabaya zoo has been dubbed the “death zoo” because so many animals have died there prema-turely in recent years owing to neglect, including several orang-utans, a tiger and a giraffe.

The management of the zoo

has been taken over by the Sura-baya city administration, but the deaths have not stopped and animal welfare groups continue to call for the zoo’s closure.

Komodo dragons, which are native to several islands in central Indonesia, can grow up to three metres (10 feet) long and weigh up to 70 kilograms (154 pounds). They are classified as a vulner-able species.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - An Indonesian bombmaker convicted of helping to or-chestrate terror attacks on the resort island of Bali in 2005 which killed 20 people was released on parole Wednesday, an official said.

Muhammad Cholili, 36, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in Sep-tember 2006 for assisting slain ringleaders Noordin Mohammad Top and Azahari Husin to assemble the explosives used in the blasts.

The attacks on restaurants on October 1, 2005 left 20 people dead and over 100 injured.

Noordin and Azahari were key members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah extremist network blamed for a string of deadly attacks in Indonesia, including the 2002 Bali bombing which killed 202 people, mostly Western holidaymakers.

“Muhammad Cholili has been released on parole today after several remissions which he received for good behaviour. He has never broken any prison regulations,” the justice ministry’s prisons spokeswoman Ika Yusanti told AFP.

Sentences are routinely cut in Indonesia to mark major religious celebrations such as Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday and the country’s independence day on August 17.

This meant that Cholili served only around half of his term, but Yusanti said that his release has “received the recommen-dation from the Detachment 88 and the National Anti-Terror Agency”, which are responsible for tracking terror activities in the country.

Yusanti also added that the authorities would continue to monitor Cholili’s activities and he will not be able to leave Indonesia without the justice minister’s approval.

“If he commits any crime or creates any problems in the com-munity, he will be sent back to prison,” she added.

Indonesia’s English daily The Jakarta Globe reported that Cholili was surprised to learn of his release from the Lowokwaru Prison in Malang, East Java, but was happy to leave prison.

“The most important thing is to go home and meet my family,” he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation, has long struggled with terrorism but a successful clampdown in recent years has prevented major deadly attacks.

However, recent reports of Indonesians joining the procession of jihadists to Syria and Iraq have sparked fears that they will revive sophisticated militant networks.

AntaraJAKARTA - PT Garuda Indone-

sia’s President Director Emirsyah Satar will be replaced following the end of his second office term in October this year, State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan revealed.

Dahlan stated here on Thurs-day that his office, which has been bestowed the power to run the state-owned company by its shareholders, is currently looking for the right person to replace Satar. With regard to the requirements, he elaborated that the person concerned must have strong integrity and the requisite skills to improve the company’s performance.

“He must have integrity and must not be corrupt. He should not be involved in favoritism. The new president director must also have a sound knowledge of finance because there are a lot of financial problems in Garuda,” Dahlan emphasized following a state-owned company leaders’ meeting.

The would-be number-one fig-ure in the company must have full capabilities, he stressed.

Dahlan noted that his office is currently also conducting a fit and proper test on candidates.

“Emirsyah’s replacement can come from inside or outside Garuda. Only those who come from outside the company will have to undergo the test,” he pointed out.

Dahlan declined to divulge the names of candidates, but two names that have so far been ru-mored as the strongest contenders are Garuda’s Marketing Director Elisa Lumbantoruan and former president director of PT Telkom Rinaldi Firmansyah.

In the f i rs t semester this year, Garuda booked a net loss

2005 Bali bombing convict release from jail

Emirsyah Satar to end tenure at Garuda Indonesia

New Komodo dragon death at KBSAgence France-Presse

SURABAYA) - A Komodo dragon was found dead Thursday at Kebun Binatang Surabaya (KBS) infamous for hundreds of animal deaths, the third of the giant lizards to perish there this year, a zoo official said.

The statement, along with Hamas’ earlier threats, signals that both sides are digging in their positions — pre-sumably to secure best terms for a deal — as negotiations continue in Cairo on a lasting truce and recon-struction for the war-battered coastal territory.

However, the two sides remain far apart and far from anything re-sembling an agreement. Israel wants the Islamic militant group, which runs the Gaza Strip, to disarm, or at least ensure it cannot re-arm, before considering Hamas’ demand to lift a crippling blockade that was imposed by Israel in 2007 and later enforced by Egypt as well.

The temporary 72-hour truce, agreed to by both sides, went into effect on Tuesday morning, which helped launch the talks in Cairo. Israel and Hamas are under heavy

international pressure to extend the cease-fire to allow more time for negotiations.

“We are preparing for any situ-ation and if they resume fire, the military will resume operations,” Israeli Cabinet minister Gilad Erdan told Israel Radio. He said that, in principle, Israel does not oppose Gaza’s “economic rehabilitation,” but said the strip’s demilitarization was a key priority for Israel.

Hamas has also dug in, sending warnings that the cease-fire may not be extended unless there is progress on its demands.

Hamas leader Moussa Abu Mar-zouk said Wednesday evening that so far, there has been no deal on extending the truce. Izzat al-Rishq, a senior Hamas member, told the Palestinian news agency that Hamas would condition any extension to the

cease-fire on progress in the talks.Highlighting the wide gap be-

tween the sides, a Palestinian official briefed on the talks in Cairo said he did not expect Israel’s demand for disarming Hamas to be accepted.

“Nobody accepts demilitariza-tion of the weapons in Gaza while the Israeli occupation is continuing and the siege on Gaza is continuing, and the crimes against our people are continuing,” said Wasel Abu Yousef, stressing that he was expressing his personal view.

Palestinian officials say nearly 1,900 Palestinians have been killed in the month-long fighting, three-quarters of them civilians, according to the United Nations. Israel says some 900 Palestinian militants were among the dead. Sixty-four Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel have also been killed.

Associated Press

WELLINGTON — The crew aboard a New Zealand fishing boat on Thursday hauled up a surprising and gruesome catch: a small plane with a body inside. Authorities suspect the plane is a 19-foot (5.7 meter) aerobatic biplane that was home-assembled from a kit and flown by missing Auckland pilot Daroish Kraidy.

The crew of the San Kawhai was trawling for fish when they brought up the wreckage in the boat’s nets at about 10 a.m., said Trish Sherson, a spokeswoman for fishing company Sanford.

The wreckage was later hoisted aboard a police boat which late Thursday was headed back to Auckland. Police said the plane was severely damaged and that a detailed inspection of it will be carried out Friday by officials that include a victim identification expert.

Typically, trawl nets are dragged in a wide arc along the ocean floor to ensnare fish. Buoyancy can make it easier to lift heavy objects in the water than on land. The 61-foot (18.5 meter) fishing vessel is one of Sanford’s smaller boats and typically catches tarakihi, orange roughy and other fish that live near the coast.

Kraidy’s Acro Sport plane is the only plane listed as missing by New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority. Authority spokesman Mike Richards said the Acro is relatively lightweight and is made with a metal and wood frame that’s covered by fabric.

Kraidy, 53, took off March 25 from Ardmore airfield near Auckland. Minutes later, his plane disappeared from radar screens, leading authorities to conclude he either switched off the plane’s transponder or was flying at a very low altitude.

Associated Press

MOSCOW — Edward Snowden’s lawyer says the NSA whistleblower has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years. Snowden last year was granted temporary asylum of one year in Russia, but that ran out on Aug. 1. His lawyer, Analtoly Kucherena, was quoted by Russian news agencies on Thursday as saying Snowden now has been granted residency for three more years, but that he had not been granted political asylum. That status, which would allow him to stay in Russia permanently, must be decided by a separate procedure, Kucherena said, but didn’t say whether Snowden is seeking it.

Snowden was stranded in a Moscow airport last year en route from Hong Kong to Cuba, shortly after he released extensive documentation about Na-tional Security Agency’s surveillance programs. He reportedly spent a month in the airport before receiving the temporary asylum, but was seen only at one tightly restricted meeting with human rights representatives. Since receiving the temporary asylum, his whereabouts have not been made public.

The case has been significant contributor to the tensions between Russia and the United States.

“I don’t think there’s ever been any question that I’d like to go home,” Snowden said in a television interview in May. “Now, whether amnesty or clemency ever becomes a possibility is not for me to say. That’s a debate for the public and the government to decide. But, if I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.”

AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points at a video screen showing Hamas militants firing rockets into Israel from areas near schools and Hamas deploying civilians as human shields, as he gives a press conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.

Israel, Hamas dig in as Gaza talks go on in Cairo

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — An Israeli Cabinet minister warned Thursday that Israel will respond if Hamas resumes fire after a temporary truce expires in the Gaza Strip.

Lawyer: Snowden gets 3 more years in Russia

New Zealand fishing boat hauls in plane with body

AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Chris Gorman

The wreckage of a plane is hauled onto a boat off the southern point of Great Barrier Island near Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.

of US$211.7 million up from US$10.7 million recorded in the same period last year.

The comprehensive loss that can be distributed to owners of the parent company meanwhile was at US$200.38 million, up from US$11.39 million recorded in the same period last year.

One of the causes of the loss was the exchange rate margin that soared to US$12.86 million from US$1.41 million in the first semester last year.

The company’s business bur-den has also increased by 14.75 percent to US$1.9 billion from US$1.7 billion before.

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GIANYAR - Simply come to Nyuh Kuning, one of the villages in the Ubud subdistrict remaining to offer a real Balinese life. Its location is very strategic as standing directly behind the Monkey Forest tourist attraction. Precisely, it is located at Nyuh Kun-ing customary village, Mas, or about 25 km from Denpasar and 15 km from the town of Gianyar.

When compared to other villages, the village of Nyuh Kuning is superior. Other than offering clean and beautiful environment, open and friendly com-munity, sustainable culture, it is also supported by tourism facilities such as hotels and restaurants. Existing hotels have been designed in such a way so as not to disrupt the uniqueness of the village. Even, they seem to perfectly blend into the surrounding environ-ment.

Community of Nyuh Kuning un-derstands very well in maintaining the sustainable environment, so it has special team engaged in environmental matters. With the encouragement of this team, the community is aware of maintaining the plants and always does re-greening. For instance, they make a movement by planting 5,000 frangipani trees at roadside or house courtyard.

Nyuh Kuning tourism village

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Monfils pulled out all the stops by hitting a between-the-legs shot and throwing his racket to hit the ball, and each player tried to ignite the crowd to get louder.

“He’s probably the only guy in the world, tennis player, that I would pay a ticket to watch the match,” Djokovic said of Monfils. “He’s really fun to watch but not so much fun to play against. ... He loves jumping around, sliding, he’s very unpredictable. You don’t know what his next move is, so that’s why he’s so interesting.”

Monfils didn’t endear himself to fans by arguing with chair umpire Gerry Armstrong after receiving a time violation, even as they were captivated by his dazzling play on the court. As a result, Djokovic had support behind him as he came back from a 3-1 deficit in the third set.

“In a way it was fun, of course, and entertaining to be part of this match,” said Djokovic, who will face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the next round. “I enjoyed it.” By avoiding

what would’ve been the biggest upset of the tournament thus far, Djokovic kept alive the possibility of facing eighth-seeded Andy Mur-ray in the quarterfinals.

Murray had little trouble win-ning his opener, defeating 19-year-old Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-2, 6-2 in the first match of the day on center court. “He outclassed me, he did everything better than me,” said Kyrgios, who upset Ra-fael Nadal to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals.

Murray, the 2013 Wimbledon champion who had back surgery last autumn, was pleased with the match.

“I thought I did most things like pretty solid,” the Scot said. “I didn’t make too many errors. I moved well, (had a) high first-serve percentage.” Murray will face either Ivo Kalovic or Richard Gasquet in the next round.

“It’s a tough draw, but it’s also good to play against someone like a Novak if you get that opportunity

in the buildup to the U.S. Open,” Murray said. “You really see where your game is at.”

Milos Raonic had his serve going amid some erratic shots as he came back to beat American Jack Sock 4-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4) on center court. Fans chanted “Let’s go Milos! Let’s go Milos!” between points, cheer-ing on the last Canadian left in the field. On Tuesday, all four men who played singles were eliminated.

Raonic stunted that momentum with 15 aces that helped offset some struggles to return Sock’s serve. He won 79 percent of his first-serve points but was broken in the first set. In the second set, Raonic held serve before blowing out Sock in the tiebreaker. The Canadian needed another tiebreak to finish off the match. Raonic will face Julien Benneteau of France on Thursday. Benneteau upset 11th-seeded Er-nests Gulbis on Wednesday after beating Lleyton Hewitt in the first round.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat fellow Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 7-6 (4), 6-4 to set up a match with Djok-ovic. Last week, Nadal withdrew from tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati because of a right wrist injury.

Associated Press

TOKYO — Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are consid-ering moving the sailing venue as part of a widening review into plans for the games.

In Tokyo’s winning bid for the games, sailing was to take part at the Wakasu Olympic Marina. But because the marina is within the approach zone for a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, those plans will likely need to change.

Helicopters will need to fly above the venue to film the races and that would disrupt flights at the country’s busiest airport.

The problem with the sailing venue is the latest in growing list of concerns for Tokyo organizers. Other venues that are under review include those for basketball and triathlon.

Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe has said the overall venue plans need to be revised because of concerns over rising costs.

Associated Press

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Olympic bronze medalist Jock Paget has been cleared by the In-ternational Equestrian Federation after his horse tested positive for a banned sedative when winning an international event in England last year.

The FEI’s ruling, which came two weeks before the World Equestrian Games start in France, says the positive test was caused by a contaminated medication and that the New Zealand rider could not be blamed.

However, Paget and his horse Clifton Promise remain disquali-fied from their victory at Burghley because of the presence of reser-pine.

The governing body’s tri-bunal says Paget “succeeded in establishing that he bears no fault or negligence for the rule violat ion.” The ruling says Paget “had the right to rely on the product” known as LesstressE.

Paget and Clifton Promise helped New Zealand win event-ing team bronze at the London Olympics.

Olympic medalist Paget wins horse doping case

AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan DenetteNovak Djokovic of Serbia reacts after defeating Gael Monfils of France at the Rogers Cup tennis tourna-ment in Toronto on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.

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TORONTO — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic edged Gael Monfils 6-2, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2) on Wednesday in the second round of the Rogers Cup. After a lopsided tiebreaker, Djokovic fist-pumped and yelled at the end of the match that lasted 2 hours, 40 minutes.

Sailing venue for Tokyo Games under review

AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, FileFILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, the Tokyo skyline is seen above the vacant land adjacent to Tokyo’s Harumi Pier where Tokyo plans to build the Athlete’s Village for the 2020 Olympics.

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Scotland’s Celtic, who reached the last 16 two seasons ago and beat Barcelona on the way, were humbled 6-1 on aggregate by Legia Warsaw after losing the second leg 2-0 at home. Michal Zyro and Mi-chal Kucharczyk scored in each half to take the Polish champions within two games of their first group stage appearance since 1995-96.

Moldova, Azerbaijan and Ka-zakhstan’s hopes of being repre-sented in the group stage for the first time ended as their champions were all eliminated. Azerbaijan’s Qarabag Agdam took a 2-1 lead

to Salzburg, only to be sunk by two-first half goals from Martin Hinteregger as they lost 2-0 to the Austrians in the third qualifying round, secondleg tie.

Moldova’s Sheriff Tiraspol lost 2-1 on aggregate to Slovan Bratis-lava after a goalless draw at home to the Slovakians and Kazakhstan’s Aktobe were beaten 2-1 at former champions Steaua Bucharest, going out 4-3 on aggregate. Napoli, Porto, Athletic Bilbao, Bayer Leverkusen and Arsenal enter the fray in the final qualifying round with the draw at UEFA headquarters in Nyon on

Friday.Besiktas, who finished third in

the Turkish Super League last sea-son, only qualified in a knock-on ef-fect because champions Fenerbahce are serving the second of a two-year ban over domestic match-fixing in 2011. Leading 2-1 from the first leg, Besiktas extended their lead after 28 minutes when Mustafa Pektemek raced clear down the left and played in former Hoffenheim, Newcastle and Chelsea forward Ba, who slotted into the net with his right foot.

Elvis Manu lobbed an equaliser for Feyenoord in the 74th minute

but Senegalese forward Ba replied with two goals in the last 10 minutes as the Turks won 3-1 to complete a 5-2 aggregate win. Cypriot league runners-up AEL, who took a 1-0 lead to Russia, had Danielzinho sent off in the 27th minute but held out until 10 minutes into the second half when Venezuelan Jose Rondon headed in for Zenit.

The Russians avoided extra time when Danny and Aleksandr Kerzha-kov, from a penalty, scored in the last three minutes to give them a 3-1 aggregate win. Cypriot champions APOEL Nicosia qualified, however, when Cillian Sheridan and Tomas De Vincenti’s penalty gave them a 2-0 win over HJK Helsinki for a 4-2 aggregate win.

Bulgarian champions Ludog-orets, under new coach Georgi Dermendzhiev, knocked out Parti-zan for the second season running.

Brazilian Marcelinho gave them a 2-0 lead with a quickfire brace midway through the first half, only for Partizan to hit back with a Petar Skuletic double in the space of five minutes. The Serbs lost momentum, however, after their centre back Branislav Trajkovic was shown a red card for slapping an opponent in the face shortly before halftime.

Danish champions Aalborg BK stunned Dinamo Zagreb when Anders Jacosben scored twice, the second a thunderbolt from the edge of the penalty area, to give them a 2-0 away win to overturn the Croa-tians’ 1-0 opening victory.

Other teams to qualify were FC Copenhagen, who beat Dnipro Dni-propetrovsk 2-0 after a goalless draw in the first leg, and 1979 runners-up Malmo, who qualified on away goals after beating Sparta Prague 2-0 for a 4-4 aggregate draw.

Associated Press

HOUSTON — Mario Balotelli bent in a free kick from long range in AC Milan’s 3-0 victory over Mexico’s Guadalajara in a rugged friendly match on Wednesday. Mbaye Niang got to a cross inside the box against two defenders and

his left-footed finish gave AC Mi-lan a 1-0 lead in the 20th minute. Balotelli’s goal in the 38th minute doubled the advantage and an un-marked Giampaolo Pazzini buried a Michael Essien cross in the 72nd minute.

Chivas’ Fernando Arce had a close-range shot hit the crossbar in

the second minute. His chip from distance in the 13th needed a lung-ing save by goalkeeper Christian Abbiati.

The match was marred by poor field conditions at NRG Stadium. The temporary grass and sand placed on top of the artificial surface created many unpredictable bounces.

Reuters

ASUNCION - Substitute Julio Santa Cruz threw Nacional a lifeline when he equalised in the third minute of added time to give the Paraguayans a 1-1 draw with San Lorenzo in the first leg of the Libertadores Cup final on Wednesday.Striker Mauro Matos had put the Argentine favourites ahead midway through the second half at the Defensores del Chaco stadium in Paraguay’s capital.

But Santa Cruz, younger brother of Paraguay international Roque, snatched a late equaliser to deny the visitors a deserved victory. “I think we were domi-nated by a San Lorenzo side that played very well, that played more calmly than us,” Nacional coach Gustavo Morinigo said.

“Our players were very nervous (but) we got a draw at the end that allows to go and fight for the Cup (in Buenos Aires),” he told reporters.

San Lorenzo took the game to Nacional, dominating the midfield and bring-ing danger to the home side’s goal where keeper Ignacio Don made several saves and also saw a shot from left back Emmanuel Mas hit the post.

The visitors took a deserved lead in the 65th minute with Matos’s right-footed shot from striker partner Hector Villalba’s pass.

It was one of six shots on target for the Saints compared to one for Nacional, but that was all the Paraguayans needed with Santa Cruz, who came on for the final 20 minutes for Ramon Coronel, putting away an effort after a pass from striker Fredy Bareiro.

Creative midfielder Ignacio Piatti led the Argentine side’s attacks and set up their best chances as Nacional were largely limited to defending. “It’s a shame because we had the match won. We’d played a perfect match, but I’ve got no doubts we’ll win there (at home),” Piatti said.

However, Piatti looks set to miss the second leg due to his transfer to MLS side Montreal Impact during a two-month interruption in the competition because of the World Cup.

“It’s difficult. I’ve done everything to get (permission) to play. Let’s hope it gets resolved but it looks complicated,” he said.

Nacional missed suspended central midfielder Marcos Riveros and will look forward to having him back for the second leg next Wednesday at San Lorenzo’s Nuevo Gasometro in Buenos Aires.

The two sides are both looking to lift South America’s top club trophy for the first time with the victors going through to the Club World Cup in Morocco in December.

Reuters

SEOUL - Bert van Marwijk, who led the Netherlands to the 2010 World Cup final, is interested in tak-ing over as coach of South Korea’s national team and negotiations are set to conclude next week, the head of the KFA’s technical committee said on Thursday.

Lee Yong-soo told reporters in Seoul he had flown to the Nether-lands earlier this week and held a meeting with Van Marwijk, who has also managed Dutch side Feyenoord and German teams Borussia Dort-mund and Hamburg SV.

Hong Myung-bo resigned as coach in July after South Korea’s woeful World Cup campaign in Brazil, where they earned only one point and finished bottom of their group.

“I met with coach Van Marwijk and heard from him that he is interest-

ed in South Korea’s football team,” said Lee, who also headed the com-mittee in 2002 when Guus Hiddink coached the Koreans to fourth place at the World Cup on home soil.

“We talked for an hour and 50 minutes .... There was no concrete result but we’ve confirmed his interest.” Lee, who said last week the committee had narrowed their shortlist to three foreign coaches, added that Van Marwijk was the only candidate they had spoken to so far. “Negotiations with Van Marwijk will be finishing up in a week,” said Lee.

If appointed, Van Marwijk would become South Korea’s fifth Dutch coach following Hiddink, Jo Bon-frere, Dick Advocaat and Pim Ver-beek. Verbeek was the last foreigner to coach Korea, resigning after lead-ing them to third place at the 2007 Asian Cup.

South Korea hope to have the

new coach in place for September friendlies against Venezuela and Uruguay and he will have little time to make his mark on the team before the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia in January. Van Marwijk has the kind of experience deemed the number one priority by the KFA.

In addition to taking the Nether-lands to the final of the World Cup in South Africa four years ago, where they lost 1-0 to Spain, he has also coached in the Dutch top flight as well as the Bundesliga in Germany.

However, things have not going smoothly since 2010. The 62-year-old left the Dutch job after they lost all three of their games at Euro 2012 and he was sacked by Hamburg in Febru-ary after just 143 days in charge.

Van Marwijk had taken over last September when Hamburg were already struggling in 16th place but was fired after a run of seven league defeats.

Legia Warszawa’s Michal Zyro, center, scores a goal against St Patrick’s Athletic during the Champions League second qualifying round

soccer match at Tallaght Stadium, Dublin, Ire-land, Wednesday, July 23, 2014.

Ba hat-trick fires Besiktas, Celtic humbled

Reuters

BERNE - A Demba Ba hat-trick sent Besiktas into the Champions League playoff round at the expense of former winners Feyenoord and past champions Celtic were humiliated 6-1 on aggregate by Legia Warsaw on Wednesday. Ludogorets Razgrad went through on away goals after a dramatic 2-2 draw at 10-man Partizan Belgrade and Zenit St Petersburg scored three second-half goals to end a brave challenge from AEL Limassol

AP Photo/Nial Carson, PA Wire

AP Photo/Cesar Olmedo

Julio Santa Cruz of Paraguay’s Nacional celebrates after scoring against Argentina’s San Lorenzo during the first leg of the Copa Libertadores soccer final in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.

Santa Cruz hits last-gasp equaliser in final first leg

South Korea await Van Marwijk decision on coaching job

Milan beats Mexico’s Guadalajara 3-0

AP Photo/Bob Levey

AC Milan forward Mbaye Niang (19) celebrates with Philippe Mexes after scoring in the first half a soccer match against Chivas Guadalajara at NRG Stadium Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 in Houston.

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Scotland’s Celtic, who reached the last 16 two seasons ago and beat Barcelona on the way, were humbled 6-1 on aggregate by Legia Warsaw after losing the second leg 2-0 at home. Michal Zyro and Mi-chal Kucharczyk scored in each half to take the Polish champions within two games of their first group stage appearance since 1995-96.

Moldova, Azerbaijan and Ka-zakhstan’s hopes of being repre-sented in the group stage for the first time ended as their champions were all eliminated. Azerbaijan’s Qarabag Agdam took a 2-1 lead

to Salzburg, only to be sunk by two-first half goals from Martin Hinteregger as they lost 2-0 to the Austrians in the third qualifying round, secondleg tie.

Moldova’s Sheriff Tiraspol lost 2-1 on aggregate to Slovan Bratis-lava after a goalless draw at home to the Slovakians and Kazakhstan’s Aktobe were beaten 2-1 at former champions Steaua Bucharest, going out 4-3 on aggregate. Napoli, Porto, Athletic Bilbao, Bayer Leverkusen and Arsenal enter the fray in the final qualifying round with the draw at UEFA headquarters in Nyon on

Friday.Besiktas, who finished third in

the Turkish Super League last sea-son, only qualified in a knock-on ef-fect because champions Fenerbahce are serving the second of a two-year ban over domestic match-fixing in 2011. Leading 2-1 from the first leg, Besiktas extended their lead after 28 minutes when Mustafa Pektemek raced clear down the left and played in former Hoffenheim, Newcastle and Chelsea forward Ba, who slotted into the net with his right foot.

Elvis Manu lobbed an equaliser for Feyenoord in the 74th minute

but Senegalese forward Ba replied with two goals in the last 10 minutes as the Turks won 3-1 to complete a 5-2 aggregate win. Cypriot league runners-up AEL, who took a 1-0 lead to Russia, had Danielzinho sent off in the 27th minute but held out until 10 minutes into the second half when Venezuelan Jose Rondon headed in for Zenit.

The Russians avoided extra time when Danny and Aleksandr Kerzha-kov, from a penalty, scored in the last three minutes to give them a 3-1 aggregate win. Cypriot champions APOEL Nicosia qualified, however, when Cillian Sheridan and Tomas De Vincenti’s penalty gave them a 2-0 win over HJK Helsinki for a 4-2 aggregate win.

Bulgarian champions Ludog-orets, under new coach Georgi Dermendzhiev, knocked out Parti-zan for the second season running.

Brazilian Marcelinho gave them a 2-0 lead with a quickfire brace midway through the first half, only for Partizan to hit back with a Petar Skuletic double in the space of five minutes. The Serbs lost momentum, however, after their centre back Branislav Trajkovic was shown a red card for slapping an opponent in the face shortly before halftime.

Danish champions Aalborg BK stunned Dinamo Zagreb when Anders Jacosben scored twice, the second a thunderbolt from the edge of the penalty area, to give them a 2-0 away win to overturn the Croa-tians’ 1-0 opening victory.

Other teams to qualify were FC Copenhagen, who beat Dnipro Dni-propetrovsk 2-0 after a goalless draw in the first leg, and 1979 runners-up Malmo, who qualified on away goals after beating Sparta Prague 2-0 for a 4-4 aggregate draw.

Associated Press

HOUSTON — Mario Balotelli bent in a free kick from long range in AC Milan’s 3-0 victory over Mexico’s Guadalajara in a rugged friendly match on Wednesday. Mbaye Niang got to a cross inside the box against two defenders and

his left-footed finish gave AC Mi-lan a 1-0 lead in the 20th minute. Balotelli’s goal in the 38th minute doubled the advantage and an un-marked Giampaolo Pazzini buried a Michael Essien cross in the 72nd minute.

Chivas’ Fernando Arce had a close-range shot hit the crossbar in

the second minute. His chip from distance in the 13th needed a lung-ing save by goalkeeper Christian Abbiati.

The match was marred by poor field conditions at NRG Stadium. The temporary grass and sand placed on top of the artificial surface created many unpredictable bounces.

Reuters

ASUNCION - Substitute Julio Santa Cruz threw Nacional a lifeline when he equalised in the third minute of added time to give the Paraguayans a 1-1 draw with San Lorenzo in the first leg of the Libertadores Cup final on Wednesday.Striker Mauro Matos had put the Argentine favourites ahead midway through the second half at the Defensores del Chaco stadium in Paraguay’s capital.

But Santa Cruz, younger brother of Paraguay international Roque, snatched a late equaliser to deny the visitors a deserved victory. “I think we were domi-nated by a San Lorenzo side that played very well, that played more calmly than us,” Nacional coach Gustavo Morinigo said.

“Our players were very nervous (but) we got a draw at the end that allows to go and fight for the Cup (in Buenos Aires),” he told reporters.

San Lorenzo took the game to Nacional, dominating the midfield and bring-ing danger to the home side’s goal where keeper Ignacio Don made several saves and also saw a shot from left back Emmanuel Mas hit the post.

The visitors took a deserved lead in the 65th minute with Matos’s right-footed shot from striker partner Hector Villalba’s pass.

It was one of six shots on target for the Saints compared to one for Nacional, but that was all the Paraguayans needed with Santa Cruz, who came on for the final 20 minutes for Ramon Coronel, putting away an effort after a pass from striker Fredy Bareiro.

Creative midfielder Ignacio Piatti led the Argentine side’s attacks and set up their best chances as Nacional were largely limited to defending. “It’s a shame because we had the match won. We’d played a perfect match, but I’ve got no doubts we’ll win there (at home),” Piatti said.

However, Piatti looks set to miss the second leg due to his transfer to MLS side Montreal Impact during a two-month interruption in the competition because of the World Cup.

“It’s difficult. I’ve done everything to get (permission) to play. Let’s hope it gets resolved but it looks complicated,” he said.

Nacional missed suspended central midfielder Marcos Riveros and will look forward to having him back for the second leg next Wednesday at San Lorenzo’s Nuevo Gasometro in Buenos Aires.

The two sides are both looking to lift South America’s top club trophy for the first time with the victors going through to the Club World Cup in Morocco in December.

Reuters

SEOUL - Bert van Marwijk, who led the Netherlands to the 2010 World Cup final, is interested in tak-ing over as coach of South Korea’s national team and negotiations are set to conclude next week, the head of the KFA’s technical committee said on Thursday.

Lee Yong-soo told reporters in Seoul he had flown to the Nether-lands earlier this week and held a meeting with Van Marwijk, who has also managed Dutch side Feyenoord and German teams Borussia Dort-mund and Hamburg SV.

Hong Myung-bo resigned as coach in July after South Korea’s woeful World Cup campaign in Brazil, where they earned only one point and finished bottom of their group.

“I met with coach Van Marwijk and heard from him that he is interest-

ed in South Korea’s football team,” said Lee, who also headed the com-mittee in 2002 when Guus Hiddink coached the Koreans to fourth place at the World Cup on home soil.

“We talked for an hour and 50 minutes .... There was no concrete result but we’ve confirmed his interest.” Lee, who said last week the committee had narrowed their shortlist to three foreign coaches, added that Van Marwijk was the only candidate they had spoken to so far. “Negotiations with Van Marwijk will be finishing up in a week,” said Lee.

If appointed, Van Marwijk would become South Korea’s fifth Dutch coach following Hiddink, Jo Bon-frere, Dick Advocaat and Pim Ver-beek. Verbeek was the last foreigner to coach Korea, resigning after lead-ing them to third place at the 2007 Asian Cup.

South Korea hope to have the

new coach in place for September friendlies against Venezuela and Uruguay and he will have little time to make his mark on the team before the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia in January. Van Marwijk has the kind of experience deemed the number one priority by the KFA.

In addition to taking the Nether-lands to the final of the World Cup in South Africa four years ago, where they lost 1-0 to Spain, he has also coached in the Dutch top flight as well as the Bundesliga in Germany.

However, things have not going smoothly since 2010. The 62-year-old left the Dutch job after they lost all three of their games at Euro 2012 and he was sacked by Hamburg in Febru-ary after just 143 days in charge.

Van Marwijk had taken over last September when Hamburg were already struggling in 16th place but was fired after a run of seven league defeats.

Legia Warszawa’s Michal Zyro, center, scores a goal against St Patrick’s Athletic during the Champions League second qualifying round

soccer match at Tallaght Stadium, Dublin, Ire-land, Wednesday, July 23, 2014.

Ba hat-trick fires Besiktas, Celtic humbled

Reuters

BERNE - A Demba Ba hat-trick sent Besiktas into the Champions League playoff round at the expense of former winners Feyenoord and past champions Celtic were humiliated 6-1 on aggregate by Legia Warsaw on Wednesday. Ludogorets Razgrad went through on away goals after a dramatic 2-2 draw at 10-man Partizan Belgrade and Zenit St Petersburg scored three second-half goals to end a brave challenge from AEL Limassol

AP Photo/Nial Carson, PA Wire

AP Photo/Cesar Olmedo

Julio Santa Cruz of Paraguay’s Nacional celebrates after scoring against Argentina’s San Lorenzo during the first leg of the Copa Libertadores soccer final in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.

Santa Cruz hits last-gasp equaliser in final first leg

South Korea await Van Marwijk decision on coaching job

Milan beats Mexico’s Guadalajara 3-0

AP Photo/Bob Levey

AC Milan forward Mbaye Niang (19) celebrates with Philippe Mexes after scoring in the first half a soccer match against Chivas Guadalajara at NRG Stadium Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014 in Houston.

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GIANYAR - Simply come to Nyuh Kuning, one of the villages in the Ubud subdistrict remaining to offer a real Balinese life. Its location is very strategic as standing directly behind the Monkey Forest tourist attraction. Precisely, it is located at Nyuh Kun-ing customary village, Mas, or about 25 km from Denpasar and 15 km from the town of Gianyar.

When compared to other villages, the village of Nyuh Kuning is superior. Other than offering clean and beautiful environment, open and friendly com-munity, sustainable culture, it is also supported by tourism facilities such as hotels and restaurants. Existing hotels have been designed in such a way so as not to disrupt the uniqueness of the village. Even, they seem to perfectly blend into the surrounding environ-ment.

Community of Nyuh Kuning un-derstands very well in maintaining the sustainable environment, so it has special team engaged in environmental matters. With the encouragement of this team, the community is aware of maintaining the plants and always does re-greening. For instance, they make a movement by planting 5,000 frangipani trees at roadside or house courtyard.

Nyuh Kuning tourism village

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Monfils pulled out all the stops by hitting a between-the-legs shot and throwing his racket to hit the ball, and each player tried to ignite the crowd to get louder.

“He’s probably the only guy in the world, tennis player, that I would pay a ticket to watch the match,” Djokovic said of Monfils. “He’s really fun to watch but not so much fun to play against. ... He loves jumping around, sliding, he’s very unpredictable. You don’t know what his next move is, so that’s why he’s so interesting.”

Monfils didn’t endear himself to fans by arguing with chair umpire Gerry Armstrong after receiving a time violation, even as they were captivated by his dazzling play on the court. As a result, Djokovic had support behind him as he came back from a 3-1 deficit in the third set.

“In a way it was fun, of course, and entertaining to be part of this match,” said Djokovic, who will face Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the next round. “I enjoyed it.” By avoiding

what would’ve been the biggest upset of the tournament thus far, Djokovic kept alive the possibility of facing eighth-seeded Andy Mur-ray in the quarterfinals.

Murray had little trouble win-ning his opener, defeating 19-year-old Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-2, 6-2 in the first match of the day on center court. “He outclassed me, he did everything better than me,” said Kyrgios, who upset Ra-fael Nadal to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals.

Murray, the 2013 Wimbledon champion who had back surgery last autumn, was pleased with the match.

“I thought I did most things like pretty solid,” the Scot said. “I didn’t make too many errors. I moved well, (had a) high first-serve percentage.” Murray will face either Ivo Kalovic or Richard Gasquet in the next round.

“It’s a tough draw, but it’s also good to play against someone like a Novak if you get that opportunity

in the buildup to the U.S. Open,” Murray said. “You really see where your game is at.”

Milos Raonic had his serve going amid some erratic shots as he came back to beat American Jack Sock 4-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4) on center court. Fans chanted “Let’s go Milos! Let’s go Milos!” between points, cheer-ing on the last Canadian left in the field. On Tuesday, all four men who played singles were eliminated.

Raonic stunted that momentum with 15 aces that helped offset some struggles to return Sock’s serve. He won 79 percent of his first-serve points but was broken in the first set. In the second set, Raonic held serve before blowing out Sock in the tiebreaker. The Canadian needed another tiebreak to finish off the match. Raonic will face Julien Benneteau of France on Thursday. Benneteau upset 11th-seeded Er-nests Gulbis on Wednesday after beating Lleyton Hewitt in the first round.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat fellow Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 7-6 (4), 6-4 to set up a match with Djok-ovic. Last week, Nadal withdrew from tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati because of a right wrist injury.

Associated Press

TOKYO — Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are consid-ering moving the sailing venue as part of a widening review into plans for the games.

In Tokyo’s winning bid for the games, sailing was to take part at the Wakasu Olympic Marina. But because the marina is within the approach zone for a runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, those plans will likely need to change.

Helicopters will need to fly above the venue to film the races and that would disrupt flights at the country’s busiest airport.

The problem with the sailing venue is the latest in growing list of concerns for Tokyo organizers. Other venues that are under review include those for basketball and triathlon.

Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe has said the overall venue plans need to be revised because of concerns over rising costs.

Associated Press

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Olympic bronze medalist Jock Paget has been cleared by the In-ternational Equestrian Federation after his horse tested positive for a banned sedative when winning an international event in England last year.

The FEI’s ruling, which came two weeks before the World Equestrian Games start in France, says the positive test was caused by a contaminated medication and that the New Zealand rider could not be blamed.

However, Paget and his horse Clifton Promise remain disquali-fied from their victory at Burghley because of the presence of reser-pine.

The governing body’s tri-bunal says Paget “succeeded in establishing that he bears no fault or negligence for the rule violat ion.” The ruling says Paget “had the right to rely on the product” known as LesstressE.

Paget and Clifton Promise helped New Zealand win event-ing team bronze at the London Olympics.

Olympic medalist Paget wins horse doping case

AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan DenetteNovak Djokovic of Serbia reacts after defeating Gael Monfils of France at the Rogers Cup tennis tourna-ment in Toronto on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.

Djokovic, Murray advance in TorontoAssociated Press

TORONTO — Top-ranked Novak Djokovic edged Gael Monfils 6-2, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (2) on Wednesday in the second round of the Rogers Cup. After a lopsided tiebreaker, Djokovic fist-pumped and yelled at the end of the match that lasted 2 hours, 40 minutes.

Sailing venue for Tokyo Games under review

AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, FileFILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, the Tokyo skyline is seen above the vacant land adjacent to Tokyo’s Harumi Pier where Tokyo plans to build the Athlete’s Village for the 2020 Olympics.

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The 11-year-old male Komodo dragon died in its cage at Sura-baya zoo, on the main island of Java, said Liang Kaspe, the park’s veterinary surgeon.

Two of the Komodos, which

are the world’s largest living lizards and have a venomous bite, died in February and June at the zoo, which is Indonesia’s biggest.

An initial autopsy indicated

that the latest death was caused by intest inal problems, said Kaspe, but further laboratory tests will be carried out over the next month to check for other problems.

The zoo now has seven male, six female and 59 baby Komodos. More than 30 eggs have also been laid since the end of July, Kaspe said.

Surabaya zoo has been dubbed the “death zoo” because so many animals have died there prema-turely in recent years owing to neglect, including several orang-utans, a tiger and a giraffe.

The management of the zoo

has been taken over by the Sura-baya city administration, but the deaths have not stopped and animal welfare groups continue to call for the zoo’s closure.

Komodo dragons, which are native to several islands in central Indonesia, can grow up to three metres (10 feet) long and weigh up to 70 kilograms (154 pounds). They are classified as a vulner-able species.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - An Indonesian bombmaker convicted of helping to or-chestrate terror attacks on the resort island of Bali in 2005 which killed 20 people was released on parole Wednesday, an official said.

Muhammad Cholili, 36, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in Sep-tember 2006 for assisting slain ringleaders Noordin Mohammad Top and Azahari Husin to assemble the explosives used in the blasts.

The attacks on restaurants on October 1, 2005 left 20 people dead and over 100 injured.

Noordin and Azahari were key members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah extremist network blamed for a string of deadly attacks in Indonesia, including the 2002 Bali bombing which killed 202 people, mostly Western holidaymakers.

“Muhammad Cholili has been released on parole today after several remissions which he received for good behaviour. He has never broken any prison regulations,” the justice ministry’s prisons spokeswoman Ika Yusanti told AFP.

Sentences are routinely cut in Indonesia to mark major religious celebrations such as Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday and the country’s independence day on August 17.

This meant that Cholili served only around half of his term, but Yusanti said that his release has “received the recommen-dation from the Detachment 88 and the National Anti-Terror Agency”, which are responsible for tracking terror activities in the country.

Yusanti also added that the authorities would continue to monitor Cholili’s activities and he will not be able to leave Indonesia without the justice minister’s approval.

“If he commits any crime or creates any problems in the com-munity, he will be sent back to prison,” she added.

Indonesia’s English daily The Jakarta Globe reported that Cholili was surprised to learn of his release from the Lowokwaru Prison in Malang, East Java, but was happy to leave prison.

“The most important thing is to go home and meet my family,” he was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation, has long struggled with terrorism but a successful clampdown in recent years has prevented major deadly attacks.

However, recent reports of Indonesians joining the procession of jihadists to Syria and Iraq have sparked fears that they will revive sophisticated militant networks.

AntaraJAKARTA - PT Garuda Indone-

sia’s President Director Emirsyah Satar will be replaced following the end of his second office term in October this year, State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan revealed.

Dahlan stated here on Thurs-day that his office, which has been bestowed the power to run the state-owned company by its shareholders, is currently looking for the right person to replace Satar. With regard to the requirements, he elaborated that the person concerned must have strong integrity and the requisite skills to improve the company’s performance.

“He must have integrity and must not be corrupt. He should not be involved in favoritism. The new president director must also have a sound knowledge of finance because there are a lot of financial problems in Garuda,” Dahlan emphasized following a state-owned company leaders’ meeting.

The would-be number-one fig-ure in the company must have full capabilities, he stressed.

Dahlan noted that his office is currently also conducting a fit and proper test on candidates.

“Emirsyah’s replacement can come from inside or outside Garuda. Only those who come from outside the company will have to undergo the test,” he pointed out.

Dahlan declined to divulge the names of candidates, but two names that have so far been ru-mored as the strongest contenders are Garuda’s Marketing Director Elisa Lumbantoruan and former president director of PT Telkom Rinaldi Firmansyah.

In the f i rs t semester this year, Garuda booked a net loss

2005 Bali bombing convict release from jail

Emirsyah Satar to end tenure at Garuda Indonesia

New Komodo dragon death at KBSAgence France-Presse

SURABAYA) - A Komodo dragon was found dead Thursday at Kebun Binatang Surabaya (KBS) infamous for hundreds of animal deaths, the third of the giant lizards to perish there this year, a zoo official said.

The statement, along with Hamas’ earlier threats, signals that both sides are digging in their positions — pre-sumably to secure best terms for a deal — as negotiations continue in Cairo on a lasting truce and recon-struction for the war-battered coastal territory.

However, the two sides remain far apart and far from anything re-sembling an agreement. Israel wants the Islamic militant group, which runs the Gaza Strip, to disarm, or at least ensure it cannot re-arm, before considering Hamas’ demand to lift a crippling blockade that was imposed by Israel in 2007 and later enforced by Egypt as well.

The temporary 72-hour truce, agreed to by both sides, went into effect on Tuesday morning, which helped launch the talks in Cairo. Israel and Hamas are under heavy

international pressure to extend the cease-fire to allow more time for negotiations.

“We are preparing for any situ-ation and if they resume fire, the military will resume operations,” Israeli Cabinet minister Gilad Erdan told Israel Radio. He said that, in principle, Israel does not oppose Gaza’s “economic rehabilitation,” but said the strip’s demilitarization was a key priority for Israel.

Hamas has also dug in, sending warnings that the cease-fire may not be extended unless there is progress on its demands.

Hamas leader Moussa Abu Mar-zouk said Wednesday evening that so far, there has been no deal on extending the truce. Izzat al-Rishq, a senior Hamas member, told the Palestinian news agency that Hamas would condition any extension to the

cease-fire on progress in the talks.Highlighting the wide gap be-

tween the sides, a Palestinian official briefed on the talks in Cairo said he did not expect Israel’s demand for disarming Hamas to be accepted.

“Nobody accepts demilitariza-tion of the weapons in Gaza while the Israeli occupation is continuing and the siege on Gaza is continuing, and the crimes against our people are continuing,” said Wasel Abu Yousef, stressing that he was expressing his personal view.

Palestinian officials say nearly 1,900 Palestinians have been killed in the month-long fighting, three-quarters of them civilians, according to the United Nations. Israel says some 900 Palestinian militants were among the dead. Sixty-four Israeli soldiers and three civilians in Israel have also been killed.

Associated Press

WELLINGTON — The crew aboard a New Zealand fishing boat on Thursday hauled up a surprising and gruesome catch: a small plane with a body inside. Authorities suspect the plane is a 19-foot (5.7 meter) aerobatic biplane that was home-assembled from a kit and flown by missing Auckland pilot Daroish Kraidy.

The crew of the San Kawhai was trawling for fish when they brought up the wreckage in the boat’s nets at about 10 a.m., said Trish Sherson, a spokeswoman for fishing company Sanford.

The wreckage was later hoisted aboard a police boat which late Thursday was headed back to Auckland. Police said the plane was severely damaged and that a detailed inspection of it will be carried out Friday by officials that include a victim identification expert.

Typically, trawl nets are dragged in a wide arc along the ocean floor to ensnare fish. Buoyancy can make it easier to lift heavy objects in the water than on land. The 61-foot (18.5 meter) fishing vessel is one of Sanford’s smaller boats and typically catches tarakihi, orange roughy and other fish that live near the coast.

Kraidy’s Acro Sport plane is the only plane listed as missing by New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority. Authority spokesman Mike Richards said the Acro is relatively lightweight and is made with a metal and wood frame that’s covered by fabric.

Kraidy, 53, took off March 25 from Ardmore airfield near Auckland. Minutes later, his plane disappeared from radar screens, leading authorities to conclude he either switched off the plane’s transponder or was flying at a very low altitude.

Associated Press

MOSCOW — Edward Snowden’s lawyer says the NSA whistleblower has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years. Snowden last year was granted temporary asylum of one year in Russia, but that ran out on Aug. 1. His lawyer, Analtoly Kucherena, was quoted by Russian news agencies on Thursday as saying Snowden now has been granted residency for three more years, but that he had not been granted political asylum. That status, which would allow him to stay in Russia permanently, must be decided by a separate procedure, Kucherena said, but didn’t say whether Snowden is seeking it.

Snowden was stranded in a Moscow airport last year en route from Hong Kong to Cuba, shortly after he released extensive documentation about Na-tional Security Agency’s surveillance programs. He reportedly spent a month in the airport before receiving the temporary asylum, but was seen only at one tightly restricted meeting with human rights representatives. Since receiving the temporary asylum, his whereabouts have not been made public.

The case has been significant contributor to the tensions between Russia and the United States.

“I don’t think there’s ever been any question that I’d like to go home,” Snowden said in a television interview in May. “Now, whether amnesty or clemency ever becomes a possibility is not for me to say. That’s a debate for the public and the government to decide. But, if I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.”

AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points at a video screen showing Hamas militants firing rockets into Israel from areas near schools and Hamas deploying civilians as human shields, as he gives a press conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.

Israel, Hamas dig in as Gaza talks go on in Cairo

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — An Israeli Cabinet minister warned Thursday that Israel will respond if Hamas resumes fire after a temporary truce expires in the Gaza Strip.

Lawyer: Snowden gets 3 more years in Russia

New Zealand fishing boat hauls in plane with body

AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Chris Gorman

The wreckage of a plane is hauled onto a boat off the southern point of Great Barrier Island near Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.

of US$211.7 million up from US$10.7 million recorded in the same period last year.

The comprehensive loss that can be distributed to owners of the parent company meanwhile was at US$200.38 million, up from US$11.39 million recorded in the same period last year.

One of the causes of the loss was the exchange rate margin that soared to US$12.86 million from US$1.41 million in the first semester last year.

The company’s business bur-den has also increased by 14.75 percent to US$1.9 billion from US$1.7 billion before.

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SEOUL - Arch-rivals Samsung and Apple decided Wednesday to drop all patent disputes outside the United States, marking a partial ceasefire in a long-running legal war between the world’s two largest smartphone makers.

Both companies have been locked in a three-year battle of litigative attrition in close to a dozen coun-tries, with each accusing the other of infringing on various patents related to their flagship smartphone and tablet products.

But neither has managed to deliver a knock-out blow with a number of rulings going different ways, and Wednesday’s announcement suggested a line was finally being drawn.

“Samsung and Apple have agreed to drop all litiga-tion between the two companies outside the United States,” Samsung said in a statement.

However, the agreement came with one key caveat, with the two giants stressing that they would continue “to pursue the existing cases in US courts.”

The patent row kicked off in earnest back in 2011, when Apple sued Samsung in a US court, and swiftly went trans-continental with cases being heard in South Korea, Germany, Japan, Italia, the Netherlands, Eng-land, France and Australia among others.

Apple has accused its South Korean rival of mas-sive and wilful copying of its designs and technology for smartphones and tablets, and has asked for a bar on US sales of Samsung smartphones and tablet computers.

Samsung has counter-claimed that Apple had used some of its technology without permission.

The two firms had been pushed into talks in early February by a US court order that saw Apple CEO Tim Cook and his Samsung mobile communications counterpart JK Shin attend a full-day negotiation ses-sion, along with their advisors and legal teams.

But despite several follow-ups, the mediator’s settlement proposal was not taken up and the litiga-tion continued.

In the latest development in May, a jury in fed-eral court in California awarded Apple close to $120 million in damages in one of its patent suits with Samsung.

The award was only a fraction of the more than $2 billion Apple had sought at the outset of the trial, and the result was seen as partial victory for both sides.

Daishin Securities analyst Claire Kim said the two companies appeared to have tired of a lengthy, costly process that was producing no tangible dividends.

“They now realise there is no reason to continue their battle outside the US, because their lawsuits have produced so little results,” Kim told AFP.

When the lawsuits first started flying Samsung and Apple were the undisputed kings of the global smart-phone market and their legal wrangles were seen as a fight for supremacy.

But that situation has changed, as developed mar-kets have become increasingly saturated and emerging markets more competitive with the rise of Chinese manufacturers like Lenovo, Xiaomi and Huawei.

Western officials warn that a Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s border could herald a major incursion to pro-tect the pro-Moscow separatists fighting Ukrainian forces. Despite bipartisan pressure from lawmakers to send U.S. military aid to Ukraine, however, the Obama administration thus far has said it doesn’t believe U.S. military assistance is needed.

“Keep in mind that the Russian army is a lot bigger than the Ukrainian army,” Obama said at a news conference Wednesday. “So the issue here is not whether the Ukrainian army has some additional weaponry.”

The U.S. and the European Union have accused Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March,

of fomenting tensions in eastern Ukraine by supplying arms and expertise to the pro-Moscow insurgency.

“At least up until this point, they’ve been fighting a group of separatists who have engaged in some terrible violence, but who can’t match the Ukrainian army,” Obama said. “Now if you start seeing an invasion by Russia, that’s obviously a different set of questions. We’re not there yet.”

Obama was asked about the impact of sanctions on the same day that Russian President Vladimir Putin hit back hard against the U.S. for imposing sanctions against Moscow’s moves in Ukraine. Russian state news agency RIA Novosti quoted a Russian official as saying all agricultural products produced in the U.S. won’t be allowed into Russia.

According to USDA’s Foreign Agri-cultural Service, U.S. exporters shipped $1.2 billion worth of food and agricul-tural products to Russia in 2013, which represents less than 1 percent of all U.S. agricultural exports. U.S. poultry exports make up the largest portion of the total, with a little more than $300 million in exports to Russia last year.

“Sanctions are working as intended in putting enormous pressure and strain on the Russian economy,” Obama said.

“That’s not my estimation. If you look at the markets and you look at estimates in terms of capital flight, if you look at projections for Russian growth, what you’re seeing is that the economy has ground to a halt.

“It has presented the choice to Presi-dent Putin as to whether he is going to try to resolve the issues in eastern Ukraine through diplomacy and peaceful means ... or alternatively continue on the course he’s on, in which case he’s going to be hurting his economy, and hurting his own people over the long term.”

Samsung, Apple call truce in patent war outside US

AP Photo, Yuri Snegirev, Rossiyiskaya Gazeta, FileThis July 14, 2014 file photo shows black smoke billowing following a mortar attack during fighting between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian fighters in Luhansk, Ukraine. President Barack Obama says that U.S. sanctions levied against Russia over its actions in Ukraine are working but that Washington would face a much different set of questions about how to respond if Moscow invaded eastern Ukraine.

US sanctions are straining Russian economyAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says that U.S. sanctions levied against Russia over its actions in Ukraine are working but that Washington would face a much different set of questions about how to respond if Moscow invaded eastern Ukraine.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Related to the Regulation of Minister of Trade No.70/2013, the management of modern stores is expected to provide guidance to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) so that their products can meet the quality standards. It was revealed by an MSME observer, Dr. Putu Saroyini Piartrini.

He added that for the advancement and growth of the MSMEs it was needed an adequate distribution network to distribute the products to market. Meanwhile, the market or modern store visited by com-munity was one of the potential retailers in the product distribution due to easy access, product diversity and brand options compared to traditional markets.

On the other hand, said Saroyini, modern markets had a policy on standard quality that needed to be accommodated by their suppliers. Thus, if there was rejection of modern markets against the MSME products it happened due to a product or service quality gap. Then, the management of modern market should provide guidance and direction in the implementation of the MSME business. It was intended in order the MSMEs were able to meet the quality standards to be displayed and sold in modern markets.

“The modern market is a part of complex system of goods and ser-vice exchange where the MSME community becomes an inseparable element,” he said.

On that account, the modern market needed to consider social re-sponsibility to provide enough space for domestic MSMEs products. It was meant for the empowerment of the MSMEs so that they could survive in the face of global suppliers that would be definitely more efficient. (kmb36)

Bali Post

GIANYAR - Clean water services provided by mu-nicipal waterworks (PDAM) of Gianyar County got many complaints recently. At least ten villages has been facing water crisis from the municipal waterworks. Such condition made people difficult to run their day-to-day activities.

As field observation on Wednesday (Aug 6), the water crisis condition was undergone by ten villages in Gianyar subdistrict. From the search, the village facing the water crisis in the past few weeks included the Siangan, Purna, Suwat, Mulung, Sumita, Benawah, Penyembahan, Man-tring, Papadan and Madangan. Against such condition, the Municipal Waterworks should provide tank truck to the region. As a result, people should scramble to get clean water from the tank truck brought in by the Gianyar Municipality Waterworks.

In addition to drinking water, residents should also throng the local river. Jero Lisnawati, one of the local resi-dents, highly regretted and complained about the service provided by the Gianyar Municipality Waterworks. “It’s very difficult, almost a week I have to work hard to get clean water. Just to wash clothes, I have to look for water to the river at neighboring village,” said the resident of Benawah.

Meanwhile, the clean water crisis was caused by pipe damage of the Municipal Waterworks at Petak village. Today, the company still continued to repair the clogged drains. Di-rector of the Gianyar Municipal Waterworks, I Made Sastra Kencana, said the 12-kilometer long pipeline was broken after being filled by air. The water discharge would run nor-mally if the air in the pipeline could be taken up. “Hopefully, in relatively short time the air suctioning processes can be completed,” he told media crews. (kmb16)

Management of modern markets expected to foster MSMEs

ANTARA FOTO/Adhitya HendraRelated to the Regulation of Minister of Trade No.70/2013, the management of modern stores is expected to provide guidance to Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) so that their products can meet the quality standards.

IBP/File PhotoClean water services provided by municipal waterworks (PDAM) of Gianyar County got many complaints recently. At least ten villages has been facing water crisis from the municipal waterworks.

Ten villages face municipal waterworks supply crisis

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The commemorations were cen-tered on St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, capital of Victoria state where 16 of the victims lived.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott told the multi-faith service that hundreds of Australian police and military personnel had been working around the clock to retrieve human remains and belongings from the war zone where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed on July 17 with 298 people aboard.

“There will be a time to judge the guilty, but today we honor the dead and we grieve with the living,” Abbott said.

“We do rededicate ourselves today to supporting the bereaved, to obtaining justice for the dead and for their families, and to working for a better world,” he added. Flags flew at half-mast and church bells chimed around Australia in honor of the dead.

The West has accused Russia of most likely providing Ukrainian

insurgents with surface-to-air mis-siles that may have been used to shoot down the Boeing 777 over rebel-held territory.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte of The Netherlands, whose nation-als made up more than half of the victims, said Wednesday that the search involving Dutch and Aus-tralian police for victims’ remains is being halted because fighting in the area of the crash site makes it too dangerous to continue.

Australia sponsored a United Nations Security Council Resolu-tion that demanded that separatists allow the dead to be retrieved and international investigators free ac-cess to the crash site.

Australia’s first priority is re-trieving its dead, followed by establishing who shot the Boeing 777 down and bringing the culprits before the courts.

“We cannot bring them back, but we will bring them home, as far as we humanly can,” Abbott said.

Associated Press

LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian authorities rushed to obtain isolation tents Wednesday in anticipation of more Ebola infections as they dis-closed five more cases of the virus and a death in Africa’s most populous nation, where officials were racing to keep the gruesome disease confined to a small group of patients.

The five new Nigerian cases were all in Lagos, a megacity of 21 million people in a country already beset with poor health care infrastructure and widespread corruption, and all five were reported to have had direct contact with one infected man.

Meanwhile, the World Health Or-ganization began a meeting to decide whether the crisis, the worst recorded outbreak of its kind, amounts to an in-ternational public health emergency. At least 932 deaths in four countries have been blamed on the illness, with 1,711 reported cases.

In recent years, the WHO has declared an emergency only twice, for swine flu in 2009 and polio in May. The declaration would prob-ably come with recommendations on travel and trade restrictions and wider

Ebola screening. It also would be an acknowledgment that the situation is critical and could worsen without a fast global response.

The group did not immediately confirm the new cases reported in Nigeria. And Nigerian authorities did not release any details on the latest infections, except to say they all had come into direct contact with the sick man who arrived by plane in Lagos late last month.

With the death toll mounting in the region, Liberia’s president an-nounced a state of emergency late Wednesday and said it may result in the suspension of some citizens’ rights. She lamented that fear and panic had kept many family members from sending sick relatives to isola-tion centers.

“Ignorance and poverty, as well as entrenched religious and cultural practices, continue to exacerbate the spread of the disease,” President El-len Johnson Sirleaf said.

And in Sierra Leone, where en-forcing quarantines of sick patients also has been met with resistance, some 750 soldiers deployed to the Ebola-ravaged east as part of “Opera-tion Octopus.”

Australians mourn victims of downed Malaysian jet

AP Photo/Mark Dadswell, PoolMourners console each other during a national memorial service for the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Autralia Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.

Associated Press

CANBERRA — Australia’s prime minister said Thursday that those responsible for shooting down the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine will face justice, as his nation marked a day of mourning for the 38 Australian citizens and residents who died in the crash.

Nigeria rushes to get isolation tents for Ebola

AP Photo/ Michael DuffA man and woman taking part in a Ebola prevention campaign holds a placard with an Ebola preven-tion information message in the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The development of HIV cases in Indonesia and Bali in particular starts worrying. The discovery of case is not only about people with high risk factor but also those with low risk factor such as housewives, children and adolescents. To address these issues, several new programs are then applied.

The Head of Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suar-jaya, described on Wednesday (Aug 6) that one of the programs implemented was not only the expansion of HIV test in people with high risk factor such as the injection drug users (IDU) and sex workers, but also pregnant women, young people, migrant workers, miners and prisoners. “It is also collaborated with tuberculosis, syphilis and hepatitis test,” said Suarjaya.

For pregnant women, added Suarjaya, the HIV and syphilis were incorporated in maternal and child health check up when mothers underwent regular antenatal care. For teens, they would be given facilitating access when they wanted to have HIV test in health care with voluntary testing and counseling (VCT) services.

According to Suarjaya, the Ministry of Health had launched a Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PPIA) service. In the ser-vice, every woman coming to the maternal and child health-family planning services and teenag-ers should be informed about the PPIA. He added the PPIA policy also listed the widespread and concentrated HIV epidemic area and required the officers in health care facilities to offer HIV testing to all pregnant women inclusively on other regular laboratory tests at antenatal period. “The PPIA ser-vices are integrated on Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning and Adolescent Counseling at every level of health care,” said Suarjaya.

Any teenager wishing to undergo HIV test was recommended to be accompanied by parent, but in fact some of them came on their own initiative. Suarjaya explained that teenagers overseas could undergo an HIV test without having been accom-panied by family. However, in Indonesia, based on the Constitution, teenager still needed parental guidance when undergoing HIV test.

When teenagers came alone and the results were positive, according to Suarjaya, the health care officer would provide counseling on the im-portance of status delivery to their parent. “But in general, the treatment to teenager HIV patients is the same as other HIV patients. Confidentiality is preserved and they are given the same treatment,” said Suarjaya.

Other program to prevent HIV was direct ad-ministration of antiretroviral drugs to patients who tested positive. According to Suarjaya, formerly the antiretroviral was granted in case of CD4 or pa-tient endurance cell reached a certain value. How-ever, at this time it had been directly given when immediately known to be HIV positive regardless of the value of CD4. “Antiretroviral administration has showed a good result since the beginning in suppressing the virus and maintaining the quality of life of patients with HIV,” said Suarjaya.

So far, the HIV case in Bali is recorded to reach 9,477. In terms of age, most of the HIV patients be-long to the age range of 20-29 years (3,646 cases) and 30-39 years (3,433 cases). (kmb24)

Based on information, a very strong current occurred to the south around 10:00 a.m. and tidal waves even started in the Bali Strait. When the LCT Tanu Pratama sailed from Ketapang to Gilimanuk, it floated off and was swept away. Few minutes later at 10:45 a.m., another vessel, the Nusa Makmur pas-senger motor vessel, driven by Sugeng from Banyuwangi floated off. The vessel held a large truck, three medium trucks, 22 small vehicles, 84 motorcycles and

250 people. The vessel heavily loaded with freight was swept away to the south.

Such condition caused the vessel to swerve and come out of the way south-wardly passing the yellow light that marked the position of submarine cable lines. An officer said the Nusa Makmur passenger motor vessel departed from Ketapang to Gilimanuk Harbor around 09:30 in the morning. Amidst the voyage, the sea currents were very strong so the

captain was unable to go up against it and just attempted to get away from the current sweeping away the vessel.

Once the situation was getting safer and back to normal, both vessels at-tempted to moor at Gilimanuk quay. Ultimately, the vessels were able to moor at 12:30 a.m.

Harbormaster of Gilimanuk, Nyo-man Delon, confirmed the incident. The vessels were swept away by strong cur-rents, but they could finally moor. The harbormaster had warned all the captains to be more careful. Though having made coordination with the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), bad weather could suddenly occur and should be anticipated and alerted. (kmb26)

HIV testing expanded, teenagers also targeted

IBP/FileThed boat which was stranded a few weeks ago in Bali Strait. The current weather condition create big waves and it is very dangerous for the vessel to travel in the sea.

Two vessels swept away by sea currentsBali Post

NEGARA - Due to bad weather, two vessels serving the crossing in the Bali Strait were swept away, Wednesday (Aug 6). The LCT Tanu Pratama and Nusa Makmur passenger motor vessel were full charge when swept away.

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DENPASAR - Restriction of service

time to the sale of subsidized diesel fuel resulted in a dilemma for Bali tourism transportation companies. The circular of the Downstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (BPH Migas) setting out the sale at 08:00 to 18:00 local time disrupted their operations.

Bagus Soediana, a tourism transport entrepreneur in Denpasar, admitted on Wednesday (Aug 6) that his party could still survive. However, since the sales hours were restricted, his party got a trouble because the sales hours of subsi-dized fuel were only opened during tour or operational hours.

“Now, we must set a strategy smartly in order that we can purchase subsidized fuel. However, when our vehicles are transporting guests it seems less elegant for us to queue for fuel at petrol station.

Perhaps, we’ll reap a complaint from tour guide or travel agencies,” said the advisor to Bali Tourism Transportation Association (Pawiba).

According to him, the tourism trans-port consuming diesel fuel reached around 5,000 units, so that the new policy applied to eight petrol stations in Den-pasar would have an impact on vehicle operation. “The government (policy) is clever and applies politely, but tastes bitter,” he complained.

Similar opinion was revealed by Chairman of the Land Transportation Organization (Organda) of Bali Chapter, Eddy Dharma Putra. He expected the government policy should be adjusted to the conditions in the field. For instance, inter-provincial bus transportation could not be refueled only once. In Bali, there were about 139 units of inter-provincial bus coalesced into the Organda.

“Public transport may operate for 24 hours, especially the inter-provincial transportation. Probably, the enactment of such policy can lead to stagnant move-ment of transportation,” he said.

He gave an example, if a bus departed from Bali to Yogyakarta, for instance, it could refuel twice. “If it got difficulty regarding the diesel sales having been closed, the bus giving out of fuel will not be able to run, what to do in this situa-tion? It is impossible to overnight on the way,” he said.

Eddy stated the inter-provincial trans-portation indeed reaped a dilemma. How-ever, if the transportation only operated in Bali province, it could still be tricked because the distance to each county was not too far away.

“Such policy does not have an impact on the inter-city transportation. It can still be tricked as the distance is not too

far away. Different case will happen when leaving out of the province as it is adapted to the tank capacity of the transport,” he said while adding that the policy restricting the diesel fuel was as-sessed to raise new concern and issues for land transportation.

As reported earlier, eight petrol sta-tions such as on Jalan Hayam Wuruk, Gunung Sanghyang, Sesetan, Raya Pupu-tan, Ahmad Yani, Pulau Bungin and Jalan Buana Raya were imposed with such restriction policy. People could easily identify the petrol stations imposed with time restriction through stickers, posters and banners posted in the station area. To anticipate the needs of consumers who made purchase of diesel fuel beyond the time restriction, Pertamina increased the availability of Pertamina Dex and non-subsidized diesel fuel at those petrol stations. (kmb27)

Not only that, the matter of punctuality was highlighted. Relevant agency had promised the arrival time of Trans Sarbagita from post 1 to post 2 would only take five minutes. However in reality, many service users were complaining because the waiting time did not match the promise. Even, some service users should wait until thirty minutes.

The Head of Bali Transportation, Communication and Informatics Agency, I Ketut Artika, when asked for his confirmation on Wednesday (Aug 6) denied all the rumors. He said that his party had operated the entire units. “That is not true. We have operated the entire unit, but some units are indeed still under repair. Maybe 1 or 2, I do not know exactly,” he explained.

Regarding the matter of punctuality, he did not deny. The government had promised the arrival time was 5 minutes, but admittedly it could not been reached yet. However, for the time being, the average time was 15 minutes. Further, he explained that of the entire fleet, 15 units were operated in corridor two, while the remaining ones in corridor one. Artika said the interest of people to use Trans Sarbagita from year to year had increased. The increase in passenger reached 5 percent. “Every year, the number of passengers increased, especially for the route to GWK, reaching 5 percent,” he said, Wednesday (Aug 6).

In addition, he also explained regarding the assistance of 30 units from central government through the Ministry of Transportation of the RI. The assistance, he said, there was no certainty so far. “There is no certainty about it (assistance of 30 buses—Ed) because we still have two options,” he said but did not explain in detail the relevant option. (kmb21)

Subsidized diesel fuel restriction dilemmatic

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Existence of Trans Sarbagita is criticized again. At least, there are 25 fleets operating in the predetermined route. However, there are rumors if the bus in operation today is only half of them.

Trans Sarbagita operated only half of its fleetsBali Post

DENPASAR - Existence of Trans Sarbagita is criticized again. At least, there are 25 fleets oper-ating in the predetermined route. However, there are rumors if the bus in operation today is only half of them. More severely, the daily operating cost is touted for the whole number of fleets.

Reuters

ROME - Italian designer label Tod’s is edging away from its comfortable driving shoes, bal-

It is Blanchett’s second appear-ance and the first for Nyong’o on the annual list, which does not rank its fashion stars. The style setters list is dominated by actors, but it also includes European roy-als, sports stars and artists.

Princess Mary of Denmark, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and “Downton Abbey” actress Michelle Dockery were noted for their style, along with artist Jeff Koons, New York Giant football wide receiver Victor Cruz and Grammy-winning musician Phar-rell Williams.

Williams, on the list for a second time, named actor Johnny Depp as his style icon, while Cruz said he admired Williams for his style.

Although Nyong’o has been praised for her fashion flair, when asked to name her favorite places to shop she told the magazine, “nowhere. I dislike shopping.”

Tony award winner Neil Patrick Harris was another first-timer on the list, along with actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Idris Elba, Emmy Rossum and “Harry Potter” star Emma Watson, who said her fa-vorite place to shop was British retail chain Topshop.

The Duchess of Cambridge, a fixture of the list for four years, will be joined in the magazine’s best-dressed Hall of Fame by German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, the creative force be-hind Chanel. REUTERS/Mike Blake/Files

Cate Blanchett, Lupita Nyong’o make Vanity Fair’s best dressed list

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NEW YORK - Cate Blanchett and Lupita Nyong’o, both Oscar-winning actresses and favorites on Hollywood’s red carpet, made Vanity Fair’s 2014 international best dressed list on Wednesday and Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, was named to its Hall of Fame.

REUTERS/Max Rossi/Files

A pair of wooden shoe forms, made for Princess Diana, hangs on the wall at the Italian luxury shoemaker Tod’s in Sant’Elpidio a Mare, in this April 17, 2014 file photo.

Tod’s moves on from cosy loaferslerina flats and platform sandals in an attempt to diversify its busi-ness and revive flagging sales.

The company hired former Gucci designer Alessandra Fac-

chinetti last year to create a limited collection of clothes and accessories, and just last June appointed a new creative chief, Andrea Incontri, for its mens-wear line.

The strategy is to find new areas of growth after focusing too long on its well-known footwear - and on Thursday the company will offer a look at whether it’s starting to work when it releases six-month financial results.

“We are trying to send the message that Tod’s is not any longer simply a great producer of high-quality shoes, but also that it is more and more becom-ing a ‘maison’,” Chief Financial officer Emilio Macellari told Reuters.

For luxury goods companies, handbags, wallets and other ac-cessories are easier to sell because they don’t require a particular fit. A clothes line helps drive those accessory sales by giving the la-bel - and the shop window - the allure of a collection and ensuring magazine spreads.

Lately a slowdown in China, once the sector’s growth engine, has hit profits across the luxury goods business. But Tod’s high reliance on lower-margin shoes is

widely seen as being to blame for sharper falls in sales and profits than its peers have seen.

Footwear, such as its driving shoe which retails at $400-$920, makes up 75 percent of total sales at Tod’s Group, of which the Tod’s label represents 60 percent of the business. Acces-sories - which can add around 10 percentage points more to a company’s gross margin than footwear or clothing - make up around 16 percent. That compares to more than 30 percent and 60 percent at Salvatore Ferragamo and Prada.

Analysts say that narrow defi-nition contributed to a slump in same-store sales growth, which slowed to 2.3 percent last year from 7.2 percent the year earlier, and a 6.7 percent fall in sales in the first five months of this year.

That in turn has hit the com-pany’s bottom line: Net profit dropped to 134 million euros ($179.5 million) last year from 145.5 million euros in 2012, com-pared with a jump at Salvatore Ferragamo and incremental an-nual rises at Prada and Gucci.

Tod’s share price has led a fall in Italian luxury goods stocks

over the past year, down 35 percent while Ferragamo’s stock lost 24 percent and Prada’s 26 percent.

Armand Hadida, founder of French shop chain L’Eclaireur which was the first multibrand store to sell Tod’s and sister brand Hogan shoes in Paris in the 1980s said Tod’s had not offered as many new products as rival brands in recent years.

“There is a lack of innovation at Tod’s, a lack of differentiation. Everywhere you find the same image, the same presentation in the boutiques. It is not logical in the world in which we live. Consumers need new experi-ences. Brands need to constantly surprise them,” said Hadida.

Its struggle to convince people to buy a wider range of its prod-ucts suggests Tod’s may have fallen victim to the success of its signature item.

“Tod’s makes driving shoes. If you’ve been telling people you make great loafers for decades, it’s very hard to change their minds,” said Mary-Ellen Field, an intellectual property manage-ment and licensing expert, and director at Vintage Asset Man-agement in London.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014

9 Aug Tumpek Kandang Pura Puseh GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal Tegalalang

10 Aug Purnama Sasih Karo Pura Gelap BesakihPura Dangkahyangan TabananPura Candi Goro Tianyar Kubu Karangasem

13 Aug Buda Cemeng Menail Pura Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Ida Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Kaja GianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan Tembuku BangliPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Kapal MengwiPura Taman Limut Mas Ubud

14 Aug Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 15 Aug Hari Bhatara Sri 19 Aug Hari Anggara Kasih Prebakat Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa KlungkungPura Tirtha Sudamala Bebalang BangliPura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sawan BulelengPura Gunung Pengsong LombokPura Dalem Benawah GianyarPura Tengah TegalalangPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Pupuan TabananPira Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Pagan DenpasarPura Hyanghaluh/Jenggala BesakihPura Tengkulak Siyut Tulikup GianyarPura Taman Sari UbudPura Batu Sari UbudPura Penataran Dalem Guliang BangliPura Pasek Dangka Guwang SukawatiPura Hyang Ayung Pabean Ketewel

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem

20 Aug Pura Kawitan Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak SiringPura Rambut Siwi JembranaPura Batu Bolong Canggu KutaPura Pasek Marga Klaci TabananPura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru NegaraPura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan BulelengPira Pasek Tangkas Dharma Reang Gede TabananPura Desa Banyuning BulelengPura Srijong TabananPura Pucak Mundi Nusa PenidaPura Kahyangan Jagat Kancing Gumi Bali Petang Serongga Kelod GianyarPura Penataran Dalem Pencar Mas Ubud

21 Aug Pura Ida Bhatara Sakti Wawu Rauh Kali Anget Seririt Buleleng

3 Sep Buda Kliwon Ugu Pura Dalem Tarukan Pulasari Peninjoan BangliPura Pasek Gelgel Kaba-Kaba TabananPura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah BulelengPura Desa Kahyangan Tiga Seririt BulelengPura Agung Gunung Taro Tegalalang

9 Sep Purnama Sasih Ketiga Pura Gunung Sari Lombok NTBPura Kawitan Gajah Arya Para Tianyar kubu KarangasemPura Padharman Arya Telabah BesakihPura Bukit Mentik Batur KintamaniPura Dadya Agung Pasek Salahin Suwat Gianyar

10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

13 Sep Tumpek Wayang dan Kajengkliwon Uwudan Pura Majapahit JembranaBhatara Ratu Gede Celuk GianyarPura Bhatara Ratu Widyadari Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Sesetan DenpasarBhatara Ratu Alit dan Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarman Dalem Bakas BesakihPura Pamerajan Agung Dawan Klung-kungPura Padarman Dinasti Dalem Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwo Tegal Delimo BanyuwangiPura Jala Shidi Amerta Juanda Surabaya

17 Sep Buda Cemeng Klawu Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Cemenggaon GianyarPura Penataran Ped Nusa PenidaPura Pasek Gelgel Bongkasa AbiansemalPura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Jawa Tengah BulelengPura Gaduhan Jagat Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Tegeh Sanding Tampak SiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPura Guwa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihPura Ida Ratu Puncak Pameneh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Sad Kahyangan Penida Nusa PenidaPura Jati Ubud GianyarPura Melanting Ubud GianyarPura Dalem Ped Nusa PenidaPura Penataran Agung Karangasem

19 Sep Hari Bhatara Sri 23 Sep Tilem Sasih Ketiga Dan Anggara

Each menu is offered at very cheap price. It is not much different from the existing Angkringan at street side, the origin of this dining site. The price ranges from IDR 2,000 to IDR 15,000. These menus include fried rice, a variety of satay items, toast, grilled bananas, sausages and various fries.

Although it is presented in an open space, the sanitation and hygiene of those menus remain to be well maintained, so that visitors can enjoy the menus comfortably. The Angkringan is opened every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 6:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m.

Visitors can place the food order to professional chef of Ibis Styles. While enjoying the food, visitors will be accompanied by Balinese and Javanese traditional music. If visitors want a more relaxing atmosphere, they can also chat with friends, girlfriend and family by taking advantage of free Wi-Fi facilities.

General Manager of Ibis Styles, Tantiarini Hidayati, said, though it was located at hotel the Angkringan of Ibis Styles Bali Kuta was opened to public and in-house guests. “On Monday through Thursday, we serve tapas menus of the restaurant,” said Tantiarini Hidayati amidst

the launching of the Angkringan.Excellence of the Angkringan at Ibis Styles Bali Kuta,

explained Tantriarini, was that visitors could enjoy their meal in the open space on the second floor directly facing the Kuta atmosphere. The atmosphere was cool because it took place in the evening. “Nevertheless, visitors can still choose the lobby area and sTREATs Lounge & Bar,” she said.

Waiters dressed in typical uniform present a variety of distinctive, delicious and cheap foods, yet they are still qualifying five-star hotel. Visitors will be served with traditional drinks, Wedang Jahe and Beer Pletok at free of charge. This offer lasts during the first 2 hours. “The Angkringan from Yogyakarta normally existing at street side is brought to hotel environment with unique setting,” she added.

The presence of the Angkringan, hoped Tantiarini, would become one of the right choices for traditional foodies. “To introduce this Angkringan, we also invite colleagues and motorcycle community to try it. In addi-tion, we are also promoting it through print and electronic media,” she concluded. (ocha)

Angkringan of Ibis Styles Bali

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KUTA - Do you want to dine in a traditional setting? Simply come to Angkringan at Ibis Styles Bali Kuta Dewi Sri. This unique dining place situated in a three-star hotel and managed by Accor offers a variety of traditional Indonesian menus. Aside from unique menus, the setting of this dining area is also arranged in classical style, so the atmosphere becomes more attractive and convenient.

Bali Post

SEMArAPUrA - Tourism development on the islands of Lembongan, Klungkung, begins to result in a negative impact. Drug syndicate, for instance, is mentioned to have been operat-ing in the region in order to meet the needs of foreign travelers. Even, the syndicate is driven by local people.

It was delivered by the Head of the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) of Bali, I Gusti Ketut Budiartha, when speak-ing in advocacy activities in the meeting hall of the Klungkung Cooperatives, SMEs and Industry Agency, Wednesday (Aug 6). He said the syndicate had started to be built since the beginning of 2013. Target market of the syndicate was foreign travelers. Rapid growth of tourism in the region drew more and more foreign travelers to come to this place. Unfortunately, he was reluctant to explain how the syndicate worked to reach Lembon-gan and how to appoint local people as the main players of the syndicate. However, he mentioned it had been established with the help of another syndicate on Bali Island. “In addition, there are also drugs coming into Lembongan through Gili Trawangan, Lombok,” he said.

Most drugs distributed by the syndicate to foreign travelers were in the form of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, crystal meth and other drug types. Despite knowing the syndicate, his party had not taken action. Currently, his party just made surveillance. Nevertheless, he asserted to seriously address the threat of the syndicate in eradicating drug abuse in Bali. He confirmed that drug abuse in Bali had made a lot of local people into the new rich. However, in the end they slowly fall into the negative effects of the drug abuse. Ultimately it only left a misery in the family.

He claimed that lately many Balinese people came to his of-fice. On average they complained about their family members that could not get out of drug influence. “It’s a pity to see their family facing difficulty to get out of drug influence. They should be rehabilitated,” he said. He asked Balinese people to remain vigilant against illicit trafficking and the smuggling of illicit goods by drug syndicate in Bali. Results of the latest research showed an estimation number of drug abuse in Bali reaching 50,535 or 1.8 percent of the total population of Bali reaching some 4 million. Currently, Bali was ranked 17th among other provinces related to the estimation number of drug abuse in Indonesia.

Until July 2014, he mentioned that Bali had revealed 367 cases. Meanwhile, in 2013 it reached 842 cases, in 2012 (866 cases), in 2011 (887 cases) and in 2010 (790 cases). Bali had become a strategic location for drug trafficking. “Many cases have been revealed when the culprits entered the Ngurah Rai Airport. They applied manifold modes. In most cases, they transited in Malaysia,” he said. For Bali, the most vulnerable areas to drug trafficking were around Denpasar and Badung. However, recently it was mentioned to have started moving up to Klungkung to Karangasem. For Karangasem, the rampant drug distribution was triggered by the increasing quarry activities.

Mitigation Division Head of the BNN Bali, Ketut Lisdiani, said for the time being the county narcotics agency was only established in Denpasar, Badung and Gianyar. She urged this vertical agency could be established in other counties. Thus, the preventive efforts could be more massive and reduced the number of drug abuse in order to achieve a drug-free Indonesia in 2015. (kmb31)

It was admitted by Regent Suwir-ta when met in the office of Public Works, Wednesday (Aug 6). He said that Klungkung got the recruitment quota for 45 employees this year. Of this amount, the required applicants were teacher and health worker. As planned, those filling the position would be placed in the region of Nusa Penida. “On the island, we lack of many teachers and health workers,” he said. However, lately he admitted to be frequently visited at his official residence by people intending to become a civil servant instantly. Virtually every day, there were always people coming up with similar aims.

He admitted to be surprised. They came to him while bringing cash ranging from IDR 100 million to IDR 300 million. “I’ve just told them to go home. Now, we attempt to do the recruitment transparently. Let the process run properly. Hence, those who qualify are actually yielded from the normal process and competent candidate,” he said.

Aside from the residents of Klungkung, people from other coun-ties such as Karangasem, Bangli and Gianyar also came to his residence. Even, there were also many middle-men coming to his office and official residence. However, he constantly emphasized that such habit was no longer applicable in the era of his reign. He said that he did not want to tarnish the public trust by profiting in such a way.

Related to the rampant middle-men, the regent called for people participating in this year’s quota of civil servant not to easily believe in such practice. When having promised something and ensured to pass without selection, it was clearly an attempt to seek personal

gains. He asserted that he would oversee the recruitment process rigorously, starting from the grant-ing of quota, quota determination to the announcement of the selection process. Klungkung would apply a Computer Assisted Test (CAT) system.

Unfortunately, he had not been able to explain about the way how the system worked. However, the system was believed to yield competent people that would fill in the quotas of the prospective civil servant in Klungkung.

Meanwhile, the Head of Klung-kung Regional Recruitment Agency (BKD), Nengah Sudiarta, said on Wednesday after receiving the quota

from the Ministry of State Appa-ratus Utilization and Bureaucratic Reform that it had been determined to get 45 quotas, where 20 quotas were allocated for teachers and 25 others for health professionals. He said the letter had been delivered back to the ministry. Currently, his party just needed to wait for a reply from the ministry for selec-tion process. Additionally, he also emphasized the selection process of prospective civil servant would take place transparently. So, people were expected not to easily believe in the presence of middlemen promising to qualify for civil servants with an easy way without going through the existing process. (kmb31)

Monitoring of BNN Bali, drug syndicates haunt Lembongan

Want to be civil servant

People bribe regent at IDR 300 millionBali Post

SEMARAPURA - Ahead of the prospective civil servant (CPNS) recruitment, the official residence of the regent of Klungkung, Nyoman Suwirta, is more frequently visited by residents and brokers of prospective civil servants. They wanted to bribe the regent with the hope they could fill in the job opportunities instantly without passing though regular selection process. No half-heartedly, some of them even brought the cash up to IDr 300 million.

It’s a good question. It’s now been five years since Cameron’s last feature film (a little independent movie called “Avatar”), and in that time, the priorities of the most bankable director in Hollywood have sometimes been as murky as the deep sea. He has spent those years producing a fleet of documentaries about ocean exploration and deep-water life forms. His biggest project hasn’t been a mega blockbuster but building a deep-diving sub and piloting it more than 35,000 feet down into the Challenger Deep, the deep-est part of the Mariana Trench.

“I make the Hollywood movies to pay for the exploration,” Cameron said in a recent phone interview from Cali-fornia.

Certainly, many moviegoers are ea-ger for Cameron to get back on a film set. After some earlier postponements, he’s on his way, currently finishing the scripts and design work for three planned “Avatar” sequels.

But for now, on Friday, he’s releas-ing in theaters a 3-D film for National Geographic that chronicles his 2012 dive into another alien world, “the last great frontier,” as he calls the ocean. For Cameron, the movie is a testament to the spirit of exploration, which he feels is flagging in America.

Cameron’s dive, nearly seven miles deep, was only the second manned-dive to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest known point of the seabed. Some 68 new species were iden-tified from the sub, which was equipped with 3-D cameras.

“I think explorers feel a sense of the sacred,” said Cameron of descending into such a remote abyss. “Something that’s beyond themselves, when they go to a place that’s never been witnessed before and bare witness for the first time.”

“Deepsea” co-director John Bruno had to capture it all in stormy conditions and while coordinating 3-D cameras that

each took two men to operate.“The ocean hasn’t read the script, so

it’s not going to cooperate,” says Cam-eron. “And the sub is a bit like a diva movie actress. You’re not always going to get it on camera when you want it.”

The similarities of leading an expedi-tion team and a feature film crew are, to Cameron, identical. Ever the taskmaster, the documentary shows him prodding his scientists on their time tables. In Cam-eron’s day job, the interaction would be the same.

Speaking of time tables, there is the pace of work on the “Avatar” films,

which are scheduled for release in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Though Cameron earlier said the screenplays (which he’s writing with Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Shane Salerno) would be finished by the end of the spring, they’re still being completed.

“It’s going to be another couple months, I would say, at least,” said Cam-eron. “We will serve no wine before it’s time, and I would be pretty stupid to run off and start shooting ‘Avatar’ until the scripts are perfect. Whether that com-promises our announced release date of Christmas ‘16, at this point I can’t really say until we break down the budget and schedule.”

Cameron said he’s working seven days a week on “Avatar” as the pages “pour in,” but with one exception. He’s taking an upcoming vacation to Tahiti for — what else? — a little scuba diving.

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LONDON — U.S. action star Wesley Snipes is back on the big screen for the first time since his release from prison as he joins Sylvester Stallone and the cast of “The Expendables 3.”

Speaking ahead of the movie’s world premiere Monday, Snipes joked that Stallone had him in mind for the first “Expendables” movie but he was “just a little occupied at the time.”

“They reserved a spot for me and

when the opportunity came along he reached out again and said come join us, we would like you to be a part of this.”

Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 after failing to file income tax returns. He began his jail term in De-cember 2010.The movie makes reference to Snipes’ time behind bars with a tax-evasion joke in the opening scenes.

“Whether I do something really funny or really stupid, it is okay with me,” says Snipes. “I think that is what life is about. You can’t take life itself too seriously.”

“At the end of the day, nobody really cares. You’re going to be forgotten any-way. The issues and problems that you think are like mountains that you have to deal with now, after time goes by, nobody cares,” he continues. “Might as well have a good time with it.”

The 52-year-old actor is currently looking for new action projects, with a return to the blood-soaked universe of vampire “Blade” at the top of his list.

“A lot of people are calling for it and I would like to do it,” he says.

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Cameron dives into an abyssAssociated Press

In the documentary of his record-breaking deep-sea dive, “Deepsea Challenge 3D,” James Cameron asks, “Am I a filmmaker who does exploration work on the side, or am I an explorer who does filming on the side?”

“Looking ahead, the tourism in-dustry continues to grow, but to Bali, I have confidence that cultural tourism remains excellent. Cultural tourism and the beauty of nature are fixed price,” said a tourism practitioner, Dewa Gde Ngurah Byomantara.

He added the beauty of nature could be found in some countries. Even, some provinces in Indonesia also offered tremendous beauty of

nature. Meanwhile, Bali had added value namely cultural tourism that did not exist in other regions or countries. Other than maintaining and preserving nature, the main pri-ority should be given to culture.

“I do hope that religious-based culture of Bali should always be fostered. Then, educational insti-tutions should also contribute. For example, we are encouraging the

students of the Bali Tourism Insti-tute (STP) Nusa Dua Bali through their extra-curricular activities to live and practice our culture. It is an extraordinary grace of God to Ba-linese people becoming prominent in the tourism sector,” said Director of the STPND Bali.

The challenge of tourism in the future, according to Byomantara, was that tourism players should aggressively prepare themselves for the ASEAN Economic Com-munity (AEC) 2015. Meanwhile, his party had made various prepa-rations since 20 years ago. “We must prepare ourselves as well as possible to face the AEC. Even, we can become the center of excellence

in Asia-Pacific,” he said.He was confident the graduates

of tourism school in Bali, chiefly the STPND, had been well prepared for the AEC. It happened because many graduates of tourism school worked and even became the citi-zens of the ASEAN countries, in-cluding in Singapore and Malaysia. “In those countries they can com-pete. I am very confident we can compete in the AEC,” he said.

When asked whether the number of hotels and villas, especially in Southern Badung, had been saturat-ed, Byomantara claimed that he did not dare to make such a conclusion. No studies were made to ascertain whether the number of hotels still

lacked or had surpassed. “Without a benchmark, we cannot conclude that way. Actually in 2014, I have sug-gested making a study so that people will not talk nonsense but must be based on data,” said Byomantara.

Most importantly, the tourism development should be carried out equally in the future. An effort should be made to stimulate or encourage young people to attend schools in the field of tourism. After graduating, they were expected to build tourism in their respective region. “Thus, the even distribution of tourism in Bali can be reached and will not only be dominated by the people of Southern Badung,” he said. (kmb36)

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Balinese culture must be nurturedBali Post

NUSA DUA - Bali remains to become a favorite tourist destination in the world. Aside from the beauty of nature, Bali becomes an international tourist destination due to the ances-tral heritage, namely its sublime culture. On that account, the Balinese community has to maintain and preserve it.

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The file photo shows Balinese children performed Kecak Dance during the opening of Bali Art Festival. Bali remains to become a favorite tourist destination in the world. Aside from the beauty of nature, Bali becomes an international tourist destination due to the ancestral heritage, namely its sublime culture.

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