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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lady Antebellum singer Charles Kelley and his wife, Cassie, are expecting their first child in February.

Cassie McConnell Kelley made the announcement on her Womani-sta.com website Friday.

She wrote that after years of try-ing to get pregnant, the couple was

told they had a 1 percent chance of conceiving a child naturally. She said they were going to explore other op-tions later this year, but discovered in June that she was pregnant.

They have been married for six years. The seven-time Grammy-winning country band is currently on its Wheels Up tour. (ap)

According to witnesses in the area, the quarrying is being done illegally as the developer’s license expired 8 months ago.

“The developer had in fact ob-tained a license but it expired in January, and apparently they are in the process of having it renewed. There is a possibility however, that their request for a license will not be approved because the cliff

-from they are quarrying stone, is part of the coast line,” affirmed the unnamed source.

The anonymous bystander went on to explain that cutting into the cliff has obvious economic ad-vantages for the developer given that the vertical excavation of the cliff would result in an expanded area of land below. As a result the borderline of the land the company

presently owns, would actually cut into state owned land. The bound-ary marker for this company’s land is now on the cliff, while the lime-stone is being quarried from below, along the coast.

“The price of land in the area can reach as much as IDR 1.5 billion per 100 square meters, so it is easy to see how much they have to gain by expanding their land,” he added.

Made Sukearsana, Division Head of Mining at the Badung Human Settlements Agency, when contacted told reporters that the authority to deal with the matter

of the legality and licensing of the quarrying, lies with the Badung In-tegrated Licensing Office (BPPT). According to Sukearsana, his office had in fact issued a license to the de-veloper to conduct such activities, but since the establishment of the BPPT, licensing affairs have been transferred to the new agency.

Now, it is up to the new agency to deal with whether or not this developer is abiding by the regula-tions or not. When asked to confirm whether or not the developer at Pandawa Beach is in violation of existing regulations or not, Head of

the BPPT Badung, Made Sutama, said that he could not comment because relevant documents are still be processed by his staff. “Let me check with my staff first so that I don’t give incorrect information,” he said. (kmb36)

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Passangers wait for the resumption of their flights canceled by volcanic eruptions at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. The eruption of Mount Raung has affected the tourism industry of Bali, as volcanic ashes blowing towards the island’s airport forced it to shut down operations several times.

THE eruption of Mount Raung has affected the tourism industry of

Bali, as volcanic ashes blowing towards the island’s airport forced it to shut down

operations several times. On Friday, Australian air-lines, Virgin Australia has cancelled its 2 flights due to Mt. Raung ashes, although I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport remains open.

Bali tourism industry hit by Mt. Raung eruption

Land developer dredges cliff on Pandawa BeachDENPASAR - Once again limestone is being quarried in

South Badung. This time a developer is dredging about 10 me-ters of Pandawa’s Beache’s eastern cliff, to (allegedly) expand the company’s privately owned land above the beach.

News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http://globalfmbali.listen2my-

radio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http://ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.

He stars in the upcoming Fox sitcom “Grandfathered,” playing a freewheeling bachelor who discov-ers he has a son and infant grand-daughter he never knew about.

Meanwhile, he’s shooting “Full-er House,” the much-awaited reboot of his enduring 1990s comedy that centered on three single men raising kids. It’s being revived by Netflix.

Speaking to TV critics Thursday,

Stamos said his dual roles are two sides of the same coin: unconven-tional family life.

He cited “Full House” as an early example of a comedy built around an unconventional homestead. And now, on “Grandfathered,” he plays a man who, at age 50, must come to terms with two generations of a family he never imagined. “It’s ‘family first’ on this show,” de-

clared Stamos, who turns 52 later this month.

His co-stars include Josh Peck as his grown son, along with Paget Brewster, who plays the mother of Stamos’ son, conceived during a long-ago one-night-stand.

Meanwhile, Stamos is producing and starring in a 13-episode cycle of “Fuller House,” a spin-off where Candace Cameron-Bure stars as a pregnant and recently widowed mother of two. Jodie Sweetin, who played her sister in the original, and Andrea Barber, who played her friend, move in to help her.

The series originally aired on ABC from 1987 to 1995.

Bob Saget, who played the widowed father of the three girls in the original series, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, are also being courted to be in the new series.

Netflix has said “Fuller House” will debut next year on the stream-ing television service.

“Grandfathered” premieres on Fox Sept. 29. (ap)

LOS ANGELES - Reality TV diva Kim Kardashian had better things to do Thursday than tune in to the Republican presidential debate -- like snaring a selfie with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

“Excited to be meeting our next President tonight!! Maybe she’ll take a selfie with me,” she said on Twitter before setting off to a celebrity-rich Clinton fundraiser in Los Angeles hosted by Justin Bieber manager Scooter Braun.

Two and a half hours later, she delivered the goods to her 34.2 million Twitter followers -- a selfie with Clinton, with rapper husband

Kanye West leaning into the frame in the background.

“I got my selfie!!! I really loved hearing her speak and hearing her goals for our country #HillaryFor-President,” Kardashian wrote.

By midday (1600 GMT) Fri-day, the photo had 20,000 likes on Twitter and another 773,000 on Instagram.

It was Clinton’s third event ap-pealing to Hollywood for contribu-tions in the run-up to the November 2016 election, the Hollywood Reporter said.

Among the 250 guests at the exclusive $2,700-per-ticket event -- which Braun hosted at his Holly-

wood mansion -- were Tom Hanks, Jessica Alba and Kris Jenner, the showbiz trade journal said.

Kardashian is no stranger when it comes to rubbing shoulders with politicos, being a regular on the red carpet at the White House Correspondents’ Association gala in Washington for several years running.

Hollywood is widely perceived as having Democratic leanings -- but billionaire Republican front-runner Donald Trump is as well-known to Americans as the outspoken host of his own reality TV show “The Ap-prentice” as he is for his real estate wheeling and dealing. (afp)

WASHINGTON - A faulty carburetor was to blame for the California crash of a vintage World War II training aircraft piloted by “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” star Harrison Ford, the National Trans-portation Safety Board (NTSB) said Thursday.

Ford, 73, a seasoned private pilot, sustained injuries when the Ryan PT-22 trainer that he was flying solo lost power on takeoff from Santa Monica airport on March 5, prompting him to make an emergency landing on a nearby golf course.

In a statement of probable cause, the NTSB said the two-seat aircraft suffered “a total loss of engine power during initial climb when the carburetor main metering jet became

unsealed, which led to an extremely rich fuel-to-air ratio.”

The NTSB also pointed to the cockpit shoulder harness, saying its improper installation contributed to the severity of Ford’s injuries, which were not life-threatening.

A longtime aviation enthusiast, Ford owns several aircraft and claims more than 5,200 hours in his log book. He is certified to fly land planes, seaplanes and helicopters, according to an earlier NTSB factual report on the accident.

Ford has bounced back from his injuries, appearing at the Comic-Con festival in San Diego, California last month to promote the forthcoming “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” due out this December. (afp)

Kim Kardashian keeps up with Clinton at Hollywood fundraiser

Carburetor blamed for Harrison Ford plane crash

Lady A’s Charles Kelley, wife announce pregnancy

Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File

Charles Kelley, of Lady Antebellum, and his wife Cassie McCo-nnell attend the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York.

John Stamos is all about family in his 2 upcoming comedies

Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Two shows at the same time playing a member of two families: that’s what John Stamos is up to these days.

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Bali News Monday, August 10, 2015

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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 considered 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, deco-rations 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 umbrel-las 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

Every Sunday, 8am - 12 noon: Sunday Market and craft delights8 August, 7pm: Ubud Style Balinese Painting exhibition opening16 August, 9am - 4pm: Live painting by Balinese master painters15 August, 7pm: Film screening of Balinese movies22 August, 7pm: India-Bali music concert with Sinta Wulur and friends29 August: Indian/gamelan vocal exploration workshop with Sinta2 Septembe: Interior Decor exhibition opening3-4 September, 9 am-5pm: Interior Decor expo15 September, 7pm: Human is Alien video and bamboo instalation

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Expanding its international fitness program, the resort has appointed a resident Jim Cou-rier Tennis (JCT) international coaching professional , Ling Chan, to cater for the needs of all levels from amateur to elite. Bringing more than five years’ experience coaching both adults and juniors in the US and Hong Kong, Chan will be in-residence until January 2016 offering daily clinics including Adults Tennis, Kids Tennis, and the dynamic and energetic Cardio Tennis for a high-intensity work-out that is just as popular with non-players. Private sessions, social match-ups and ‘sparring’ with a hitting partner are also available, and the resort’s synthetic grass court is lit for night play.

The Jim Courier Tennis pro-gram is the latest enhancement to the resort’s fitness offerings.

Guests enjoy a variety of sports-related activities following the launch of AntiGravity® or ‘fly-ing’ yoga as well as a Visiting Practitioners (VP) program. The VP program features a different international professional each month with sessions ranging from beach boot camps to kettle bell weight training. In-house guests enjoy a selection of complimen-tary VP activities and tennis clin-ics, while non-resident guests are also welcome to join.

“As a beachfront resort, Jim-baran is the perfect location for guests seekingan active beach holiday, perhaps to catch up on recreational pursuits that they struggle to find time for in nor-mal daily life,” said Uday Rao, General Manager of Four Sea-sons Resorts Bali. “The new Jim Courier Tennis program adds to our existing fitness services and

community events, and guests tell us that they enjoy keeping active on holiday as much as they enjoy the relaxation and massages and great cuisine that Bali has to offer. They return home feeling reenergized and better-than-ever, and that’s exactly how a holiday should end.”

Four Seasons Jimbaran Bay has also played a key role in community-based fitness events such as the Bali International Triathlon, of which it has been an annual major sponsor since its inception eight years ago. This year’s triathlon in October is expected to attract hundreds of athletes from across the globe, participating in the Olympic-distance and short courses as individuals or teams.

Meanwhile, the resort’s stylish beach-club and restaurant, Sun-dara, is sponsoring the inaugural

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Four Seasons launches Jim Courier Tennis Clinics

JIMBArAN - Bali may be renowned for its culture, hospitality and exotic charms, but it’s also becoming a destination for active travelers with an Olympic distance triathlon, marathon, beach boot camps and yoga retreats. The latest step in this direction is a new Jim Courier Tennis program launched exclusively at Four Seasons resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay.

Roxy #runsupyoga event on 15 August. Some 200 women and girls are expected to join Roxy’s global athletes – including Olym-pic champion snowboarder To-rah Bright, 2x world longboard

champion Kelia Moniz and pro surfers Monyca Eleogram, Bruna Schmitz and Bianca Buitendag – for a social and fun fitness event comprising a beach jog, stand-up paddle boarding and yoga.

However, the number of passengers rose 6.82 percent to 370,231 in June from 346,605 in May, the head of the Bali branch of the Central Statistics Agency, Panusunan Siregar, said.

The volume of cargo car-ried by international flights increased 2.87 percent to 5,736 tons in June from 5,575 tons a month earlier, he added.

Moreover, Ngurah Rai Air-

port has been named the third best among the 30 airports in the world that have a passenger capacity of 15 to 25 million per year, according to Airports Council International.

One of the busiest airports in Indonesia, Ngurah Rai Air-port was also ranked seventh in terms of services in the fourth quarter of 2014, the presi-dent director of state airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I

(Persero), Tommy Soetomo, stated recently.

Bali is one of the main tourist destinations in Indo-nesia. In June 2015, the num-ber of tourist arrivals in this world-renowned resort island reached 359,702. This marked an 8.87 percent rise from that in the same month last year, or a 21.53 percent increase as compared to that recorded the previous month. (ant)

According to the Bali branch of the Central Bureau of Statistics, there was a drop in the number of airplanes departing from the island. In June, 2,133 flights took off from I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, a decline from 2,130 flights the previ-ous month. Their destinations were Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and China.

However, the number of passen-gers taking international flights out of Bali rose from 346,605 people in May to 370,231 in June. Also, the number of international passengers in the January-June period increased to 2,043,451 from 1,962,345 in the same period last year.

“Air transportation was majorly affected because airlines did not want to take risks,” I Dewa Nyoman Putra, an observer of tourism affairs.

He believes that tourists had also canceled their planned vacations in Bali because they did not want to be stranded on the island with the airport closed due to the volcano’s eruption. In addition, Putra predicted that room occupancy rate will also drop from 90 percent to 60 percent due to the impact of the natural disaster.

Virgin Australia, according to Co-General Manager of the Ngurah Rai Airport’s Angkasa Pura I airport management I Gusti Ngurah Ardita, cancelled six flights to Bali from Mel-bourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, and Perth. The other six flights were from Bali to Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney.

In the meantime, the management of I Gusti Ngurah Rai international air-port has lost US$40 thousand per day due to Mount Raung’s eruption that has frequently forced temporary closures of the airport, Tourism Minister Arief Yahya stated.

“As the Ngurah Rai airport has been closed several times, 10 thousand foreign tourists failed to arrive in Bali per day. Moreover, on a weekend day, around 14 thousand foreign tourists could not land on the Island of Gods (Bali). In total, there were 41 thousand foreign tourists,” Arief noted while inspecting the Crisis Center Command Post of Mount Raung Eruption at the airport, recently.

He urged the airport’s manage-ment to focus on two crucial aspects when the airport is temporarily closed again.

First, the management must im-mediately announce the revised ar-rival and departure schedules of flights when the airport resumes operations after any temporary closure.

Second, the airport management must provide information on the al-ternative means of transportation for passengers to reach their destinations through the nearest cities whose air-ports are not affected by the volcanic eruption.

The airport management must provide comprehensive information concerning the certainty of the tourists’ departures.

Economic fundamental Senior Deputy Governor of Bank

Indonesia Mirza Adityaswara predicted that the tourism sector could be de-veloped into one of the most potential fundamentals of the country’s economy in the future. “Let us just reflect on the economy of Bali, which has continued to grow . Now it even recorded a growth of more than 6 percent thanks mainly to tourism,” Mirza pointed out.

What happened was the contrary in other provinces which rely on the min-ing and plantation sectors, recorded a growth of less than three percent, he said.

“Java still posted a growth of more than 5 percent but Sumatra and Kalim-antan which rely more on commodities grew only 2.8 percent and 1.3 percent respectively,” he said.

Whereas Indonesia’s tourism sector is highly potential with typical char-acteristics to draw both domestic and foreign tourists, he said.

“The question is how the regional administrations would exploit the potentials and draw tourists through unique promotional drives,” he said.

He suggested hiring experienced event organizers to organize events that would draw visitors.

He said promotions with attractive activities, however, is not enough, adding, adequate infrastructure is vital to guarantee that tourists feel convenient.

“Regional administrations need to simplify licensing procedure and create favorable investment climate to accelerate tourism development in their respective areas.

Meanwhile, the central government is set to boost development of the tourism industry such as by offering visa free visits for visitors from more countries.

“Now visa free visits are offered for visitors from 45 countries and the number should be increased to 75 countries,” he said.

He said Malaysia and Singapore are more successful in drawing foreign visi-tors because they offer visa free visit to tourists from 100 countries. (iah/ant)

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The number of flights that departed from Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport to other countries fell slightly by 0.80 percent to 2,130 in June from 2,133 in May this year.

Flights from Bali to other countries declined

DENPASAR - The number of flights that departed from Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport to other countries fell slightly by 0.80 percent to 2,130 in June from 2,133 in May this year.

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The Nantucket Lightship, billed as America’s oldest and larg-est floating lighthouse, switches on its powerful beacon for the first time in 40 years in Boston Harbor on Friday evening.

The Gay Head Light on Martha’s Vineyard is expected to follow suit Tuesday, with supporters holding a ceremony after the 160-year-old lighthouse completed its painstaking move from the edge of eroding cliff on May 30.

“It’s always exciting to hear about the relighting of a light-house,” said James Hyland, president of the New Hampshire-based advocacy group the Lighthouse Preservation Society. “To relight a darkened lighthouse tower is rather like breathing life into a human body that needs to be resuscitated. The glow comes back, and once again, all is well.”

Friday’s lighting in Boston Harbor is expected to be brief. The beacon is to be lit for about two minutes and the foghorn sounded before it’s all powered down again. The ship’s 500,000-candlepower main beam is designed to be seen for 23 miles (37 kilometers) and affects nearby Logan International Airport.

Robert Mannino Jr., head of the nonprofit that’s restoring the Nantucket Lightship, says the lightship, which is no longer a navigational aid and operates as a museum, received special permission for the one-time event, which marks a $250,000 in-vestment by American Express to bring the ship’s light, foghorn and radio beacon back to working order.

Built in 1936 and decommissioned in 1975, the Nantucket Lightship stood sentry about 100 miles (160 kilometers) off mainland Massachusetts, warning ships of the treacherous shoals off Nantucket island.

Mannino says the lightship, one of a dozen that served along Nantucket Shoals over the years, was nicknamed the “Statue of Liberty of the Sea” because it was the first landmark seen by ships coming from Europe to the east coast of the United States.

It was one of 179 lightships the U.S. Coast Guard stationed in places it was impractical or infeasible to build a permanent beacon. Lightships operated from 1820 to 1983 and were even-tually replaced by more basic navigational aids as onboard ship technology improved. Just 17 remain in existence; nine of them operate as museums, like the Nantucket Lightship.

Mannino’s all-volunteer nonprofit took ownership in 2009 and has been restoring the over 1,000-ton ship since. The resto-ration is about 50 percent done, he said, but will require another $1.2 million to complete.

In contrast to Friday’s brief illumination, Tuesday’s lighting on Martha’s Vineyard is hoped to be permanent.

The Gay Head lighthouse, which remains an important navi-gational tool along the resort island’s famous coastline, had been considered one of the most endangered historic sites in the country because it sat just 46 feet from the cliff’s edge.

Advocates raised over $3 million to move the structure about 135 feet (40 meters) back. The process involved raising the structure a few feet off the ground and pushing it along steel rails using powerful hydraulic pistons. The move took three days.

Tuesday’s celebration features live music and speeches from local dignitaries. Organizers are even hoping to invite President Barack Obama, who arrives with his family on the island for their annual summer vacation Friday. (ap)

In this Jan. 30, 2006 file photo, Nantucket

Lightship sits anchored at Rowes

Wharf in Boston. Its powerful beacon litted for about two minutes for the first

time in 40 years Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, then powered down

again.

2 iconic US lighthouses are back in the spotlight

BOSTON — Two beacons that guided mariners past treacherous shoals near Boston for generations are back in the spotlight. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File

In this Oct. 13, 2013 file photo, Gay Head Light flashes a white signal in Aquinnah, Mass., on the island

of Martha’s Vineyard.

In this May 28, 2015 file photo, workers move the Gay Head Light from its

original footing (at center between the rails) in Aquinnah, Mass., on the island of

Martha’s Vineyard. The 160-year-old lighthouse was slowly moved on rails to a new home about 135 feet further

inland,away from a rapidly-eroding cliffside. A

re-lighting ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, after lighthouse

was anchored at its new location.

AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File

AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File

Of the IDR 26,134,745,008 sub-mitted, the approved amount is IDR 22,072,716,632. Later, the fund will be managed by each County Police. “Bali Police do not manage funds be-cause security of the regional election is carried out by each county police. If there is personnel assistance from Bali Police, it will also use the fund,” said Spokesman of Bali Police, Hery Wiranto.

In details, Denpasar Police get bud-get allocation worth IDR3,034,890,000 for security of Denpasar City and IDR2,187,380,000 for security of Kuta and South Kuta area. In the meantime, Badung Police get security fund worth IDR 2.5 billion, Tabanan Police (IDR 3,069,985,000), Bangli Police (IDR 2,597,084,000), Karangasem Police (IDR4,180,649,632) and Jembrana Police (IDR 4,502,728,000).

“The funds are not included for the handling of riots. In case there is a riot, it will use special fund, namely contingency fund from Bali Police,” he said.

The budget is used for pre-operative exercise activities, deploying troops, security of campaign, quiet period, polling,vote counting, determination

of results and the inauguration. Re-lated to deployment of personnel, said Hery, each stage will have different numbers. During the campaign will deploy 1,702 personnel, quiet period (1,600 personnel), polling (4,363 per-sonnel), vote counting (1,790 person-nel), determination of results (1,550 personnel) and the inauguration (1,759 personnel). “Total personnel involved amount to 12,764 people, excluding the Indonesian Military (TNI), peca-lang (customary security guard) and public protection,” said Hery.

According to the Spokesman, the personnel involved in securing the regional elections have been given guidance on how to act, start the stage of regional leader candidate registration and secure campaign, quiet period, voting and post-voting. Security pattern has been prepared and just needs to be implemented in the field.

In addition, Bali Police has also mapped out the areas considered vulnerable. From the experiences of previous years, Tabanan is indicated to be prone to conflict. “It is based on previous experiences. Possibly, it will also happen in other regions,” said

FROM a number of buildings pos-ing the heritages of Dutch colonial era, there is an area that has now become a tourist attraction in the heart of the historical town of Singaraja. It is the former Buleleng Harbor. During the colonial period and when Buleleng was the capital of Lesser Sunda, this area was the center of economic activities. As evidence, so far in this area there is a harbor office building established by Dutch colonialism. In addition, shop buildings and ware-houses solidly stand in this area. A warehouse is forced to be dismantled and to be replaced with Mr. I Ketut Pudja Building.

To reach this object, it will take visitors about fifteen minutes by car. In the meantime, if from Lovina Beach area visitors can ride eastwards with a traveling time of approximately 25 minutes.

The former Buleleng Harbor is located at Kampung Bugis, Singaraja, with a total area of about 1,025 square meters. In this area, visitors can enjoy

the atmosphere of the beach with calm waves. In the vicinity there is a building of the former harbor office established by Dutch colonialism in Buleleng. The building stands rigidly and the architecture still looks original. One of the characteristics indicating the authenticity of the building is the signage in front of the building that reads SOCIETIET BOLELENG. In front of the harbor office building stands the Yudha Mandala Tama statue with a height of about 12 meters.

Another evidence of Dutch colo-nial heritage is located in the east of the former Buleleng Harbor, precisely at the entrance in the form of a bridge with a curved construction. No one knows for sure when the bridge con-necting the East Buleleng to Singaraja town was built. Based on the existing sources, the bridge is estimated to have been built by Dutch in 1935.

In the meantime, in line with the effort to develop this area into a tour-ist attraction, the local government has built a floating restaurant in the

middle of the sea. It is said the loca-tion of the current floating restaurant was formerly a dock built by Dutch colonial government. On the pier the vessels from China and other countries anchored to conduct trading activities at that time.

Aside from being a historical tour-ist attraction, the former Buleleng Harbor is developed into a family tourist attraction and children play-ground in the town of Singaraja. This venue has been equipped with children playground, fast food outlet, toilet, security guard station, and facilities of the authority office managing this former Buleleng Harbor. Today the tourist accommodation facilities have started to be built around this region. Thus, travelers spending holidays in the town of Singaraja can easily reach this area for a vacation while learning history.

The Head of the former Buleleng Harbor Authority, I Ketut Arsana, said that according to local government policy, currently the management of

the region is only limited to the col-lection of parking ticket, rental of the buildings and levy of playground and street vendors. In the meantime, the admission of visitor remains to be free of charge because the region is still dominantly visited by local travelers.

In the meantime, the visit of for-eign travelers in particular situations reached 90 people. Foreign travelers visit it because they want to see the heritage of the ancestors invaded Buleleng. In addition, travelers also make the Yudha Mandala Tama Monument the background of their photograph and taste the flavor of local food and drinks at the floating restaurant.

“Under the leadership policy, we have not collected admission ticket, but only collect parking ticket as well as rental of the buildings, levy of trader and children playground. Foreign tourist arrivals cannot be calculated because sometimes it is crowded while the other time is too quiet,” he said. (mud)

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Bali Police and its ranks have made a variety of security preparations related to simultaneous regional leader electionin six counties and municipality on December 9.

Buleleng Harbor Historical attraction in the heart of Singaraja

Security of regional leader election budgeted at IDR22 billion

DENPASAR - Bali Police and its ranks have made a variety of security preparations related to simultaneous regional leader electionin six counties and municipality on December 9. The budget for the security of the simultaneous election has been decided by County and Municipal House.

the former Spokesman of Bengkulu Police.

During the security of the demo-cratic event, Bali Police isbacked-up by Indonesian Military (TNI) and publicprotection. “The composition is still being coordinated with the military authority. Personnel of mo-

bile brigade are also deployed and the number will be adjusted to the vulner-ability of the region,” he said.

He called and invited all the people of Bali to make the simultaneous regional leader election a success as well asmaintain the security and order. Moreover, Bali becomes atourist des-

tination of the world so that security must bemaintained as much as pos-sible. “If the simultaneous regional leader election in Bali can take place safely and smoothly, it can become an example for other provinces. The security of Bali should be equally maintained,” said Hery. (kmb36)

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“We cannot accept this,” 86-year-old Sumiteru Taniguchi said, after de-scribing in graphic detail his traumatic injuries and how others died in the Aug. 9, 1945, attack on Nagasaki.

Representatives from 75 countries, including U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, were among those gathered under a tall white canopy to shade them from the sun on a 31-degree-Celsius (88-degree Fahrenheit) morn-ing at Nagasaki Peace Park.

As a bell tolled, they observed a minute of silence at 11:02 a.m., the time when the a U.S. B-29 plane dropped the atomic bomb, killing more than 70,000 people and help-ing to prompt Japan’s World War II surrender. The first atomic bomb in Hiroshima three days earlier killed an estimated 140,000.

Abe’s security bills, which he says are needed to increase Japan’s deter-rence capabilities in the face of grow-ing threats in the region, have run into stiff public opposition. The legislation would ease constitutional limits that

restrict the military to self-defense, allowing Japanese forces to defend allies in limited circumstances.

Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue, addressing the same ceremony, noted the “widespread unease” about the legislation, which has passed the lower house of parliament and is now before the upper house. “I urge the government of Japan to listen to these voices of unease and concern,” Taue said. A message from U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon echoed calls by Taue and others to abolish nuclear weapons.

“I wholeheartedly join you in sounding a global rallying cry: No more Nagasakis. No more Hiroshi-mas,” Ban said in a message read by Kim Won-soo, the acting U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs.

Abe, in brief remarks, said that Japan, as the only country to experi-ence nuclear attacks, would seek to play a leading role in realizing a world without such weapons. (ap)

SANTIAGO, Chile — The remains of Gen. Manuel Contre-ras, the spy chief responsible for kidnappings, torture and killings during Chile’s military dictator-ship have been interred during a private ceremony. Contreras’ body was cremated Saturday, one day after his death at the age of 86.

After Gen. Augusto Pinochet ousted the socialist government of President Salvador Allende in 1973, Contreras formed and commanded

the DINA spy agency and went on to become the regime’s second most powerful and feared figure after Pinochet.

He died at a military hospital while serving a combined sentence of more than 500 years for crimes against humanity.

A statement issued by the govern-ment Saturday described Contreras as “one of the darkest characters in our history, responsible for crimes and grave human rights violations in our country.” (ap)

MANAMA, Bahrain — Bah-raini authorities say they will allow an independent newspaper in the Gulf kingdom to resume publishing days after ordering it temporarily suspended.

The Information Affairs Author-ity announced the lifting of the suspension against Al-Wasat late Saturday following discussions

with the paper’s management. The official Bahrain News Agency says the talks were “to rectify past legal and regulatory failings” and to secure commitments to “meet the necessary standards” in the future.

Authorities suspended the pa-per’s publication late Thursday after finding it violated the law and spread information that affects

national unity and the kingdom’s international relations.

The paper was forced to tem-porarily halt operations in 2011 following anti-government pro-tests dominated by the country’s Shiite majority against the Sunni monarchy. Its co-founder, Karim Fakhrawy, died in police custody in April 2011. (ap)

Notorious former Chilean spy chief Manuel Contreras buried

Bahrain allows independent newspaper

to resume publishing

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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, right, and his wife Siti Hasmah, left, bring a wreath during a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki, southern Japan Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015.

Calls to abolish nukes on Nagasaki bombing 70th anniversary

NAGASAKI, Japan — The city of Nagasaki marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing Sunday with calls to abolish nuclear weapons and halt the Japanese government’s push to loosen restrictions on what its military can do. With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the audience, a representative of Nagasaki bomb survivors told an annual ceremony that security legislation introduced by Abe’s government goes against the wishes of the survivors and “will lead to war.”

A number of the Penyaringan paddy fields have become parched and although the farmers were able to plant, the results of their harvests were far from satisfactory. 30 year old, I Kadek Agus Mahendra, a farmer in this area, said that the lack of water means that the ears of his grain are not full. “It is hard for us to get water as the river is dry,” he complained.

Allegedly, one of the reasons for this are the rampant encroach-ments being made on the forested area of Penyaringan. Some of the subak members went upriver to see for themselves what was going on around Bangsal forest. They found that in fact there were considerably less trees and more alarming still, was that much of the land had been made into farm plots. Many of

the lush perennial tress had been replaced with banana tress and the like. This severe encroachment on the forest is allegedly caused by weak supervision on the part of the authorities. Those who encroach on the forest never face any reprimands, so the situation only gets worse over time. The subak farmers expect there to be a crackdown on such encroach-ments. A formal complaint was submitted to Commander of the 1617/Jembrana Military District, Sansan Iskandar.

Following up on the complaints of the farmers, the commander and his team, made a brief inspection of the forest area was reportedly bar-

ren, and found that in fact many of the large tress that function a water absorbers had been replaced with banana tress.

“We did not however encoun-ter any people there. The subak officials hope that this problem can be resolved,” said Sansan Iskandar.

The impact of the limited avail-ability of irrigation waster in also being experienced by members of Subak Telepus, where farmers are reported to have faced crop failure in a 5 to 6 hectare area. The water discharge at the dam there is very low now. Before rampant encroachments onto the forest, the water discharge was 250 centime-

ters, but now it only reached 50 centimeters.

Apart from forest preservation, reforestation is another effort be-ing made though the Commader of the Military District and the Bali Forestry Agency as an way to find the best solution. In order to avoid any conflict, related par-ties need to discuss the matter together. Satya Bhakti Wirottama Battalion 741 Commander and Susanto Lastua Manurung are also involved in discussions on the matter and are planning to establish a truing camp in the forest that would also function to supervise the activities of en-croachers. (kmb26)

MANGUPURA - Kuta Police investigators have named Oscar Bar bartender G.M. as the primary suspect in the case of the methanol tainted alcohol that claimed the lives of three tourists last month. G.M is being charged under the Law on Consumer Protection.

Chief of Kuta Police, I.B. Dedy Januartha, said that G.M has been named as suspect based on the results of the liquor samples that were tested by the National Police Headquarters Forensic Labora-tory - Denpasar Branch, and other experts, as well incriminating testi-

monies made by witnesses. “The re-sults of the laboratory test indicated that the liquor positively contained methanol,” he said.

Januartha’s questioning of the suspect, revealed that the liquor was ordered from a supplier in Surabaya and that it was already mixed on

arrival. “The suspect claims that he did not know that the liquor from Surabaya contained methanol. We are still investigating the veracity of his statement,” said the police chief.

The methanol tainted liquor that was served at Oscar Bar located on

Jalan Benesari, Legian, claimed the lives of 28 year old Bulgakova from Russia who died on Monday July 13, as well as Villa Kaudrow and Kevin Odang from Menado, North Sulawesi who breathed their last on Satruday July 18th and Thursday July 23rd respectively. (kmb36)

Deadly methanol-laced liquorBartender named as suspect

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The damage forrest in Penyaringan, mendoyo, Gianyar is seen in the picture

Farmers complain about encroachment on forest

NEGARA - Farmers at Penyaringan, Mendoyo, are frus-trated by the increasing lack of water available to irrigate their fields, and suspect that the lack of water flow is being caused by encroachments on the nearby forest. Many of the paddy fields at Subak Penyaringan, previously did not have any problems with their supply of water that comes from the forest, but now it seems to be drying out.

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BUSINESS

The latest figures from firms reporting during the current results season in Europe, the United States and Japan paint a picture of over-seas firms facing a worsening of operating conditions in China.

Volkswagen, which has invested heavily in China and has just dis-placed Toyota as the world’s lead-ing car manufacturer, saw sales in the country -- which it describes as its “second home market” -- fall 3.9 percent in the first half, its first drop in a decade.

“We are keeping a very close watch on global macroeconomic trends,” chief executive Martin Winterkorn said in a statement, “especially where there are un-certainties such as in the Chinese, Brazilian and Russian markets”.

The appeal of nearly 1.4 billion consumers and an economy regu-larly growing in double digits has brought more than $1.5 trillion of foreign investment to China over the last three decades.

But the economic expansion is slowing -- gross domestic product grew 7.0 percent year-on-year in April-June, matching the worst quarterly result since the first three months of 2009 during the global financial crisis.

Some investors have long seen China as a high risk destination.

Rising costs for labour and more competitive markets as domestic brands gain stature have troubled

foreign companies in recent years, as well as a series of anti-monopo-ly probes which appeared to target

overseas firms.“The industrial competitive-

ness of Chinese enterprises has improved, making it harder for foreign companies to compete,” Li Daxiao, an analyst at Yingda Securities, told AFP.

Such challenges have been com-pounded by the country’s slowing economy.

Japan’s second-biggest steel-maker JFE Holdings lowered its annual profit forecast in late July because of “the economic slow-

down in China and the overpro-duction of steel” in the country, the world’s largest consumer of the metal.

In the United States, industrial giant UTC, the maker of Otis lifts, revised down its earnings forecast for 2015 partly on the back of what it described as “a slowing China”.

As well as lifts, the firm makes heating and cooling systems for buildings, leaving it exposed to a broad slowdown in the real estate sector, which its chief execu-tive Gregory Hayes described as “worse than we had expected”.

Retail sales are still growing in China -- they were up 10.6 percent year-on-year in June, according to the government -- but some foreign firms are struggling to maintain their slice of the cake.

Apple’s iPhone sales surged 85 percent in Greater China -- which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan -- with revenue from the region more than doubling to $13 billion for the latest quarter ended June 27, according to the company.

But independent analysts Canalys said this week it had been pushed into third place in the quarter by local manufacturers Xi-aomi and Huawei, which produce cheaper products, while South Korea’s Samsung was relegated to fourth.

Sales of luxury watches and spirits have already been battered by an extended austerity and anti-corruption campaign under Presi-dent Xi Jinping. (afp)

WASHINGTON - They drive for Uber, deliver groceries for In-stacart, run errands for TaskRabbit, and rent spare rooms on Airbnb. Are these the new, empowered participants in the “sharing econ-omy,” or workers being exploited by well-funded technology com-panies?

That is an open question as mil-lions of people shift from traditional employment to freelance “gig” work, giving them more indepen-dence, but without the social safety net of employees.

Some 18 million US workers now earn a significant portion or all of their income outside of traditional employment, and another 12.5 mil-lion took on part-time independent work, according to MBO Partners, a firm which providers services for

independent contractors.A separate study by financial

software group Intuit found 25 to 30 percent of the US workforce is “contingent” and that 80 percent of large corporations plan to increase their use of a “flexible workforce” in coming years.

Inuit said that by 2020, more than 40 percent of the labor force will be “contingent.”

But cracks have begun to appear in the model developed by Uber and other peer-to-peer services. Law-suits in several jurisdictions argue that on-demand workers are not independent contractors, but em-ployees entitled to unemployment insurance, workers compensation and other benefits.

“These firms have ignored the issue because they view themselves

as a marketplace, not as an em-ployer, and now it is biting them in the back,” said MBO founder and chief executive Gene Zaino.

Politicians are taking notice. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said recently she would “crack down on bosses who exploit employees by misclas-sifying them as contractors.”

“This on-demand, or so-called gig economy is creating exciting economies and unleashing innova-tion,” she said in June. “But it is also raising hard questions about work-place protections and what a good job will look like in the future.”

Yet without a flexible workforce of independent contractors, “the sharing economy could be stopped in its tracks,” said Christopher

Koopman, a research fellow at George Mason University’s Mer-catus Center.

“We would not see the dynamic, innovative environment we have today.”

Koopman said those choosing to work on these platforms “are get-ting a ton of flexibility, so there are tradeoffs. They can work when they want and how they want.”

But he acknowledged that poli-cymakers need to set clear rules to avoid disputes and uncertainty.

This uncertainty led to the shut-down in July of Homejoy, an online platform for home cleaning services which faced litigation from workers claiming they should be classified as employees.

Some analysts say current laws are not adapted to these new models

where people earn money through shopping services like Postmates, meal preparation like Feastly and pet-sitting like DogVacay.

Simon Rothman at venture capi-tal firm Greylock Partners says a key to helping this thriving sector is “unbundling” benefits such as health care, insurance and retire-ment from the workplace.

“Gone are the days of a social contract with employers for lifetime employment? -- ?it’s an old model it doesn’t exist anymore. This is a secular shift that will impact every-one,” Rothman said in a blog post.

Rothman said this new sector is likely to be worth some $10 billion in the United States this year, and if allowed to grow, “offers a viable new path to sustaining the middle class.” (afp)

‘Sharing economy’ surge creates labor conundrum

AP Photo/Andy Wong

In this Thursday, July 23, 2015 photo, a woman reads a paper near the fashion clothes hanging for sale at the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China in Beijing. The once irresistible allure of the Chinese market to foreign multinationals is losing some of its lustre as slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy hits their sales.

Chinese dragon losing its shine for foreign firmsBEIJING - The once irresistible allure of the Chinese market

to foreign multinationals is losing some of its lustre as slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy hits their sales.

According to Head of Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Nyoman Sutrisna, this giant hun-dred year old mammal was a long-

finned whale that normally lives in the waters of Maluku, Papua and the Arafura Sea.

A similar whale was found off

the coast of Temukus village, Ban-jar subdistrict by fishermen who pulled it further out to sea where it was finally released.

A third whale, this time four-me-ters long, that had suffered inures to its mouth was found still breathing on Penimbangan Beach. Fishermen were able to pull the whale back out to sea where it was released.

Sutrisna said that based on their assessment, the whales became stranded after having been dragged astray by sea currents while looking

for food. The whales suffered inju-ries from having been dragged onto reefs by the strong currents.

This analysis is supported by the confirmation of the national weath-er service (BMKG) that there have in fact been fairly swifts westward ocean currents recently. “Possibly this whale got lost and eventually stranded, after being pushed by the moderately strong westward cur-rents, as confirmed by the BMKG,” said Sutrisna.

As for the giant whale that

was found near Tumukus Beach, Sutrisna said that -as of Saturday, they had not received any reports from residents or official institu-tions. Therefor, his officers will be approaching the fishermen who discovered the elderly whale and pulled it out to sea, to find out more information. “We are still conduct-ing investigations at Temukus and have not received any reports. Hopefully the fishermen can pro-vide accurate information regarding this matter,” he added. (kmb38)

MANGUPURA - On Monday, July 3rd, 54 year old Scottish traveler with the initials AS, along with 79 year old N.R. from Aus-tralis got into a fisticuffs in one of the bars on Jalan Bakung Sari, Kuta. As a result of the quarrel, A.S. suffered stab wound to his right arm.

“The alleged perpetrator (Nr—Ed) was arrested. We are still probing into the motives for the

stabbing,” said Police Chief , I.B. Dedy Januartha, on Thursday (Aug. 6).

Januartha was reluctant to make any comments, particu-larly regarding the chronology of events which are still under investigation. “We are still inves-tigating whether the incident was caused by personal problems or old problems,” he said.

Meanwhile, according to one

source, the victim and the suspect were having a meal at the bar. It is not known for sure who started first, but they ended up taunting each other.

Neither of the tourists would budge from their position so the quarrel eventually turned into a fist-fight. The unrest between the two parties became worse as they both became more emotional. Allegedly due to feeling that the

situation was urgent, the suspect reached for a knife and tried to stab the victim in the chest. The victim then blocked the attack and thus suffered injuries to his right arm. “Ultimately bar employees and other customers stepped in to break up the fight. That’s all I know. The victim did not want to make peace, so the suspect was ar-rested,” said the source who asked to remain anonymous.

The victim who was staying on Jalan Bhineka Jati Jaya, Kubu An-yar, Kuta, was rushed to hospital. After receiving a report about the incident, the Police immediately rushed down to the scene and arrested the suspect based on the evidence that they encountered. The victim who was staying on Jalan Bhineka Jati Jaya, Kubu Anyar, Kuta, was rushed to hos-pital. (kmb36)

Bar room brawl, one tourist injured

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The fish that cast away in Lovina was burried by the locals

Hundred year old long-finned whales stranded in Buleleng waters

SINGARAJA – Marine tour guides, fishermen and foreign travellers at the coastal hamlet of Banyualit, Kalibukbuk vil-lage, Lovina, were surprised to discover that a giant, hundred year old whale was stranded off-shore. The people who first encountered the stranded whale, tried to rescue it by pushing it further out to sea, but because the whale had already suffered injuries to its abdomen, it soon died (at about 150 meters out to sea) and was then dragged to shore. The burial of the whale was witnessed by a number of tourists.

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Mauk Moruk, widely considered a symbol of resistance against the independent government of the gas-rich but poor half-island nation, was killed in a joint police and military operation in the Fatulia area.

“Every effort was made during the operation to avoid this out-come,” a government spokesman said in a statement, calling for calm.

“Regrettably the operation was unable to avoid a confrontation re-sulting in an exchange of gunfire.”

After decades under harsh In-donesian rule, when rag-tag rebels battled Indonesian forces from the hills, the former Portuguese colony has struggled to develop economi-cally since independence in 2002.

Moruk often confronted another old guerrilla leader, Xanana Gus-mao, the country’s first president and later prime minister, challeng-

ing the government to do more about poverty and unemployment.

Despite gas production worth billions of dollars, about half the 1.2 million population live in poverty, according to the World Bank.

Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, after Portugal abruptly pulled out of a colony it had ruled for three centuries, and annexed the territory later that year, maintaining a heavy and at times brutal military presence.

Indonesia later allowed a vote and East Timor opted for indepen-dence in a violence-plagued poll in 1999.

Independence hero Gusmao stepped down as prime minister this year.

The government spokesman said the country’s security commission was due to meet on Monday to discuss the situation. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Indonesia which has geographical and demographi-cal excellence can properly serve as the world’s maritime axis as what President Joko Widodo has announced, an official said.

“Geographically and demo-graphically, Indonesia which is situated between two continents and two oceans, can serve as the world’s maritime axis. It plays an important role in the development of global economy and industry,” Achmad Poernomo, the head of the Marine and Fisheries Research and Development Center of the Ministry of Marines and Fisheries, said on Sunday.

Moreover, he said, Indonesia has marine and fisheries annual potential worth US$800 million dollars.

The economic potential of Indo-nesia’s marine sector can provide jobs for 40 million people, Poer-nomo said.

Based on the United Nations Convention of Law of the Sea (UN-CLOS), Indonesia has 5.8 million square kilometers of waters, much wider than its land which is only 1.9 million square kilometers.

However, the extraordinary po-tentials have not yet been optimally exploited.

Marine Affairs and Fisheries

Minister Susi Pudjiastuti has ear-lier said that Indonesia and France had established cooperation on sea observation infrastructure develop-ment.

The cooperation is held through an infrastructure development for oceanography program to strength-en Indonesia as a maritime state.

She said that the infrastructure is supported by a radar, optics and meteorological satellite technol-ogy and a regional sea observation system. It will begin operation in 2014.

Its operation will fully be han-dled by the Indonesian government in 2016. (ant)

JAKARTA - The maritime affairs and fisheries minister has said that around 70 percent of coral reefs in Indonesia are dam-aged and need to be restored.

“Currently, only 30 percent of coral reefs are in good condition, while the remaining 70 percents are damaged,” Maritime Af-fairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said in a statement on Sunday.

Coral reefs have been damaged mostly due to human activities

such as fishing using explosives and potassium and marine litter, she stated.

Save coral reef action is ex-pected to help preserve and protect coral reefs sustainably, according to her.

Indonesia, as a founder of the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI), is known as a mega biodiversity nation.

Its rich marine biodiversity is also called the “Amazon of the Sea”. (ant)

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

In this late Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 photo, Burmese fishermen, part of a group of 45 men who were rescued by Indonesian Police, have their dinner among their belongings at the National Police headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia. The police rescued the fishermen, believed to be trafficking victims, from a hotel in central Jakarta where they were taken after traveling on fake documents, officials and the men said.

Government forces in East Timor kill ex-guerrilla leader in clash

JAKARTA - A former guerrilla leader in East Timor has been killed in a security operation, the government said on Sunday, raising concern about unrest in Asia’s youngest nation.

70 percent of Indonesia’s coral reefs damaged

Indonesia fit to serve as world maritime axis

In some places, only the roofs of homes could be seen. International aid is on the way following appeals by the government, but so far, most of the help has come from volunteers ferrying noodles, rice and clean water door-to-door in small boats. Heavy monsoon rains that began in late June — compounded more recently by Cyclone Komen — have triggered some of Myanmar’s worst flash floods and landslides in recent memory. All but two of the country’s 14 states have been affected.

The death toll reached 99 on Sun-day and more than 900,000 people

have been affected — a third of them in the Irrawaddy Delta, said Phyu Lei Lei Tun, director of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettle-ment.

It is here — in a desperately poor region known as the Rice Bowl — that several mighty rivers meet before feeding into the sea. Downstream wa-ters have caused banks to burst, swal-lowing up rice paddies and homes.

Zin Mar Htun was seeking refuge in a school with six family members, including her 11-month-old son, after their house was flushed away in the raging waters. “We had our own raft,

so we sought refuge here,” she said.The United Nations pledged $9

million in assistance this past week, but so far most help has come from private citizens and non-governmental organizations. Myanmar’s appeal was in sharp contrast to its response following Cyclone Nargis in 2008, when the nation’s then-military rulers refused international aid and largely downplayed the destruction — though more than 100,000 people were killed. A nominally civilian government now runs the country, but critics say it’s not moving quickly enough to help those in need. (ap)

JERUSALEM — The family of a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel says his health is dire after waging a hunger strike for the last 56 days.

Naser Allan says Israel arrested his son, Mohammed, in Novem-ber 2014 and placed him under administrative detention for two

six-month periods. He says his son was imprisoned from 2006-2009 for affiliation with the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.

The younger Allan is on hunger strike to protest his administrative detention, a controversial measure that allows Israel to detain suspects without charge for long periods.

Allan’s father said Sunday that Israeli authorities are threatening to force-feed his son. Allan has refused medicine or vitamins, only drinking water.

A contentious Israeli law passed last month permits the force-feed-ing of inmates on a life-threatening hunger strike. (ap)

HOUSTON — U.S. authorities say five children and three adults have been found dead inside a Texas home following the arrest of a man who exchanged gunfire with police.

Harris County Sheriff spokes-man Thomas Gilliland tells KHOU-TV that deputies were called to a home in the Houston area Saturday. He says deputies subsequently re-ceived information indicating that a man inside the home was wanted on

an aggravated assault warrant.Gilliland says while waiting for

a High Risk Operations Unit, depu-ties spotted the body of a juvenile through a window. Four deputies forced themselves inside, prompt-ing the 49-year-old suspect to begin shooting.

Deputies pulled back, and the man surrendered about an hour later. The relationship between the suspect and victims wasn’t imme-diately known. (ap)

BEIJING — A typhoon that lashed Taiwan dumped heavy rain and winds on the Chinese mainland on Sunday, leaving a total of 22 people dead or missing, collapsing homes and trees and cutting power to more than a million homes.

Typhoon Soudelor made land-fall in China’s Fujian province late Saturday night and was down-graded into a tropical storm as it moved across the region.

Rains from the typhoon trig-gered mudslides in mountainous Pingyang county in Zhejiang prov-ince, north of Fujian, killing nine people and leaving three others missing, the county government said.

The Fujian Civil Affairs Depart-ment said that the storm collapsed 36 houses and damaged 281 others. Authorities had evacuated more than 370,000 people and ordered around 32,000 boats back to port before the typhoon struck land.

State broadcaster showed peo-ple wading in knee-deep water in the provincial capital of Fuzhou and said that some streets were

submerged under 80 centimeters (30 inches).

In Taiwan, where the typhoon made landfall Saturday, the Na-tional Fire Agency said five people died, five were missing, and a further 185 were injured. The dead or missing included an 8-year-old girl, her twin sister and their mother who were swept out to sea, a firefighter who was killed while another was injured after being hit by a drunken driver as they at-tempted to move a fallen tree.

The storm downed trees, traf-fic lights and power lines on the island, causing more than 4 mil-lion households to lose electric-ity. More than 500 flights were canceled or delayed.

In Fujian, strong winds caused power outages to more than 1.41 million households before the storm made landfall, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Three airports were closed and more than 530 flights canceled, while more than 7,000 soldiers and police were on standby, provincial authorities said. (ap)

Health of Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike at risk

AP Photo/Khin Maung Win

In this photo taken on Friday, Aug.7, 2015, a boy swimming in water receives foods from private donors near half-submerged residences in Nyaung Tone, in the Irrawaddy Delta, southwest of Yangon, Myanmar.

Nearly 1 million affected by Myanmar floods; 99 dead

NYAUNG KON VILLAGE, Myanmar — The number of people affected by flooding across Myanmar was approaching 1 million on Sunday, with waters in the low-lying southwestern delta inundating homes and forcing villagers into temporary shelters, the government said. The death toll was on the verge of topping 100.

Typhoon weakens over China after leaving 22 dead, missing

US police: 5 children, 3 adults found dead inside Texas home

Photo via AP Video

In this image made from a video, authorities investigate after reports of an active shooter in a home Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Houston.

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GIANYAR - When having a closer look at white heron, our mind will immediately refer to a quiet and cool village. It is the Petulu village located in Ubud subdistrict, Gianyar, or about 25 km from Denpasar. The village is a

breeding place of the white heron. Thousands of white herons live and mingle with local people amicably. The birds are never afraid of the behavior of local people. They live freely as if they have become a part of the local community. They look

for food at the space in front of the house, yard, and fields as well as play on the branches or twigs of tree. Interestingly, people also feel comfortable and do not dare expel, let alone kill them.

Foreign tourists love intimacy. Even, a few of those tourists come specifically to watch and immortal-ize them through electronic media. Moreover, it is accompanied with the life story on the white heron

at Petulu categorized to be unique and unbelievable. The visit should be made in November, Decem-ber, January and April because in these months the herons will be crowded. Unlike during May to August, they are only perching on the trees because they are going out to look for food and come back in the afternoon. Their existence will be different in September and October. At that time, those herons

are estimated to have a desire, so that they should go out to the beach and marshes.

Ubud as a tourist destination located in close proximity to Petulu gradually had an impact on Petulu. Many tourists had a promenade to Petulu village. Besides, the infor-mation about the village charms was also disseminated through mass media and worked with tour-ist guides.

“I feel pretty good,” Hosszu said. “Of course it’s going to be really tough this afternoon. There are some swimmers that have been basically preparing for this day and haven’t really been racing.” Olym-pic champion and world-record holder Ye Shiwen of China contin-ued to struggle, failing to advance in 15th — more than 10 seconds slower than Hosszu.

The final was scheduled for later, one of nine sets of medals to be handed out on the final night of the eight-day meet. Hosszu already won the 200 IM, setting a world record in the process. And she swept the medleys at the last worlds in Barcelona two years ago.

She’s aiming for Ye’s record of 4:28.43. “That’s really the ultimate goal,” Hosszu said. “We’ll see how close I can get tonight.” Hosszu ar-rived at this meet entered in seven individual events. Beside gold in the 200 IM, she also won a bronze in the 200 back.

Hosszu said she had no plans to enter fewer events in the future, adding that her program was “defi-nitely” the right one. Emily Over-holt of Canada qualified third, while British contender Hannah Miley tied for fourth with Maya Di Rado of the United States.

Elizabeth Beisel of the U.S., the 2011 champion and Olympic silver medalist, failed to advance in 12th. In the men’s 400 IM, Chase Kalisz topped the heats in 4:11.83. David Verraszto of Hungary was second, defending champion Daiya Seto of Japan was third and Tyler Clary of the U.S. was fourth.

“I would like to go a best time overall,” said Kalisz, who took silver in 2013. “I would definitely like to compete for a title. That’s always in the back of everyone’s head, so I’m just going to go out there and race as hard as I can.” Olympic champion Ryan Lochte wasn’t entered in the 400 IM but he anchored a U.S. team also featuring Matt Grevers, Cody

Miller and Tim Phillips to the top qualifying spot in the 4x100 medley relay.

It’s been a tough meet for the U.S. men in the relays, having failed to reach the final in the 4x100 free and having surrendered a large lead in the anchor leg to settle for silver behind Britain in the 4x200. “We all had great splits there and got done what we needed to get done,” Grevers said. “After the 400 free-style relay, we didn’t want to leave anything up to chance, so we were in the game this time.”

Australia advanced second, 0.80 behind, and France was third. Hungary was disqualified for a false start by Daniel Gyurta in the second leg.

“For the U.S., hopefully it doesn’t matter who else is around, because when our four guys are on, no one’s going to beat us any-way,” Grevers said. China led the women’s 4x100 medley relay heats by a small margin ahead of the U.S and Sweden. (ap)

KeI NIshIKoRI exacted a measure of revenge against Marin Cilic when the Japanese world number five overcame the Croat in the semi-finals of the Citi Open tennis tournament on Saturday in Washington D.C.

Eleven months ago Cilic beat Nishkori in the U.S. Open final in straight sets at Flushing Mead-ows, but after a dismal start the Japanese prevailed 3-6 6-1 6-4 in their hardcourt tune-up ahead of this year’s U.S. championships in New York.

Nishikori will meet the winner of Saturday’s later semi-final be-tween Americans John Isner and Steve Johnson.

The 25-year-old Nishikori will be chasing his third win of the year and and is already assured of

moving up a notch to fourth in the world rankings.

Nishikori fell behind 3-0 in the opening set and could not recover, but rebounded with a dominant sec-ond set to level the match against the eighth-ranked Cilic.

In the final set, Nishikori led 3-1 and 4-2 lead but Cilic battled back to draw level at 4-4 before the Japanese rose up to win the final two games and close out the towering Croat in their first meeting since the Open final.

Nishikori, who has now beaten Cilic in six of their nine head-to-head matches, improved his match record this year to 42-9. Only Novak Djokovic (48-3) and Andy Murray (48-8) have more match wins on the 2015 ATP World Tour. (rtr)

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KAZAN, Russia — The “Iron Lady” from hungary is poised for another medley sweep at the swimming world championships. Katinka hosszu led the 400 individual medley heats by a huge margin on sunday, completing the grueling event in 4 minutes, 32.78 seconds, nearly three seconds ahead of second-placed Barbora Zavadova of the Czech Republic.

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Kei Nishikori gestures to his player’s box after match point against Marin Cilic (not pictured) in a men’s singles semi-final during day six of the 2015 Citi Open at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center. Nishikori won 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.

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Referee Michael Oliver had no hesitation in producing a straight red card and pointing to the spot, allowing Gomis to beat substitute keeper Asmir Begovic from the spot and make it 2-2. Manchester United needed an own goal to beat Tottenham 1-0 in the day’s early kickoff, while Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester beat Sunderland 4-2, and Crystal Palace earned a con-troversial 3-1 win at Norwich.

There was no fairytale start to Bournemouth’s first ever season in the topflight, as the team slumped to a 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa at its 11,700-capacity seaside stadium. Watford, promoted along with Bournemouth, was twice in front against Everton before having to settle for 2-2 at Goodison Park. The biggest game of the day was saved for last, though, as Chelsea came out for what was expected to be a routine victory in west London.

In a hectic spell midway through the first half, Oscar put the hosts ahead in the 23rd minute, Andre Ayew leveled in the 29th, and Chelsea’s lead was restored with an own goal by Swansea defender Federico Fernandez.

However, everything changed within 10 minutes of the restart, when Courtois felled Gomis as the France striker burst into the area on the break.

Gomis easily converted the penalty in the 55th, and had the ball in the back of the Blues’ net in the 68th, but the strike was ruled out for offside. Mourinho would not be drawn on the send-ing off, saying only, “after that, everything is different.”

“We played very well in the first half, the game was under con-trol and the players were playing with more and more confidence,” he said. “To play 35 minutes with one player less in the first match of the season where the condition and the sharpness is not at the top is even more difficult.” Swansea

coach Garry Monk was clearly delighted with his side.

“We were magnificent,” he said. “Everyone contributed for 90 minutes - to come to a very dif-ficult place, to an excellent side, and play the way we played, and have the chances that we had.” Chelsea was not the only side that had to rely on an own goal.

At Old Trafford, Spurs de-fender Kyle Walker handed all three points to United by steering the ball into his own net in the 22nd minute as he tried to tackle United captain Wayne Rooney. It was one of very few chances in a scrappy match, which Louis van Gaal’s new-look United started with four preseason signings.

Sergio Romero was in goal after Van Gaal decided that Real Madrid target David de Gea was not in the right frame of mind to play. Fullback Matteo Darmain, along with midfielders Morgan Schneiderlin and Memphis De-pay, all made convincing debuts, and Romero improved after some early signs of nerves. Another of new United’s new signings, mid-fielder Bastian Schweinsteiger, replaced Michael Carrick on the hour.

“It was a very difficult game because you have seen two teams that want to press, so every player at the ball had a very small (amount of) time to play,” Van Gaal said. The place to go for goals was Leicester, where for-mer Chelsea coach Ranieri made an ideal start to his return to the league after an 11-year absence.

Jamie Vardy struck first with a header after 11 minutes and Riyad Mahrez scored in the 18th and from the penalty spot in the 25th. Jermain Defoe and Steven Fletcher grabbed second-half goals for Sunderland, while Marc Albrigh-ton got Leicester’s fourth to seal the points. Nothing went right for Norwich, which had a potential equalizer disallowed in what be-

MANCHESTER — Manchester United coach Louis van Gaal made it clear on Saturday that David De Gea will command a big transfer fee if the goalkeeper targeted by Real

Madrid is to leave Old Trafford.De Gea was rested for the

opening day victory over Totten-ham as Van Gaal said the 24-year-old Spain international was not in

MARSEILLE, France — Mar-seille coach Marcelo Bielsa re-signed over a contract dispute after his players lost to Caen 1-0 in their opening French league match on Saturday.

The former Argentina coach, widely credited for Marseille’s return to prominence last season, was out of contract but said this week that he had found an agree-ment with club president Vincent Labrune to extend his tenure.

Bielsa, who took over in 2014, backpedalled on Saturday and gave his resignation letter to Labrune before speaking at the post-match news conference.

“I cannot accept this situation of instability. I’ve given every-thing that I have to this team. I have finished my work here, I will return to my home country,” said Bielsa, who has been linked with a move to Mexico as a possible replacement for sacked national coach Miguel Herrera. “I’m not leaving to go somewhere else.” Bielsa claimed he had made up his mind before Saturday’s game.

“After three months of discus-sions, I could not accept that there were continual changes in the terms of my contract,” he said. Marseille goalkeeper Steve Man-danda was stunned.

“It’s a very big surprise, we did not expect it at all,” Mandanda said. “It feels like a heavy blow, he was important to both the club and the team, we are disappointed.”

Bielsa impressed at times with his brand of attacking football, and Marseille was in contention for the league title last season be-fore a run of four straight defeats in April ended those hopes.

Marseille ultimately finished fourth, and allowed Andre-Pierre Gignac, Andre Ayew, Dimitri Payet, and Jeremy Morel to leave. The departures angered the fans, but Marseille compensated their loss with the signings of talented young players, and the arrival of veterans Lassana Diarra and Abou Diaby.

Bielsa, who criticized Labrune for keeping him away from the recruitment process when he took his job, said this week he was “satisfied with the squad.” Bielsa’s assistant coach, Franck Passi, is expected to be appointed as interim coach.

Bielsa led Argentina to the Olympic title, and to runner-up in the Copa America in 2004. He also helped Chile qualify for the 2010 World Cup. At club level, Bielsa guided Athletic Bilbao to the 2012 Europa League final. (ap)

DONCASTER — Sportsmanship was the winner when players with English third-tier team Doncaster stood by and allowed their opponents to walk in a late equalizer from the restart after the home side scored by mistake on Saturday.

Following an injury to a player, Doncaster midfielder Harry Forrester tried to follow England’s unwritten sporting code by returning the ball to Bury goalkeeper Christian Walton, who knocked the ball out of play.

Unfortunately, Forrester’s pass sent the ball bouncing over Walton’s head and into the Bury net in stoppage time.

Rovers manager Paul Dickov then instructed his players to clear a path for Bury to score, and they duly allowed Leon Clarke to amble half the length of the pitch unchallenged before tapping home to make it 1-1 just before the final whistle.

“I didn’t really think twice about allowing them to equalize,” Dickov said. “It just wouldn’t have been right for us to take three points in the circumstances ... you can’t win a game like that.” (ap)

BERLIN — German Cup-holder Wolfsburg began its title defense with a 4-1 win at third-division Stuttgarter Kickers, while Schalke and Bayer Leverkusen also easily progressed from the first round on Saturday.

Wolfsburg strikers Max Kruse and Bas Dost scored in the first half, and Kevin de Bruyne made it 3-0 two minutes into the second. Striker Lh-adji Badiane pulled one back for the Kickers in the 79th, before Nicklas Bendtner completed the scoring.

Schalke routed second-division local rival Duisburg 5-0, and Le-verkusen won 3-0 at fourth-tier Sportfreunde Lotte.

Leverkusen won thanks to Stefan Kiessling’s 15th-minute strike, and second-half penalties from Hakan Calhanoglu and Lars Bender. Lotte finished with 10 men.

Klaas Jan Huntelaar got Schalke

off the mark before the 2011 title winners’ task was made easier with the sending off of Duisburg captain Branimir Bajic midway through the half. Michael Ratajczak saved the re-sulting penalty from Franco Di Santo, but goals from Matija Nastasic and Johannes Geis put Schalke 3-0 up at the break. Di Santo scored with a fine volley, and Leon Goretzka wrapped it up in the 85th.

Eintracht Frankfurt defeated fifth-tier Bremer SV 3-0, while Cologne won 4-0 at fourth-tier side Meppen, which saw its goalkeeper sent off in the first half.

Werder Bremen needed goals in extra time from Anthony Ujah and Fin Bartels to overcome third-tier side Wuerzburger Kickers 2-0.

Hoffenheim became the first top-division side to be knocked out in the opening round, losing 2-0 at second-

division 1860 Munich. Midfielder Daylon Claasen struck in the 51st, and striker Fejsal Mulic sealed 1860’s deserved win in injury time.

Fifth-tier Reutlingen overcame second-division Karlsruher SC 3-1 at home with captain Giuseppe Ric-ciardi scoring a hat trick through pen-alties. It was the biggest upset of the day. Referee Robert Kempter handed red cards to three Karlsruhe players, and sent visiting coach Markus Kauc-zinski to the stands. Stuttgart came from behind to defeat third-division Holstein Kiel 2-1. Fourth-tier Vikto-ria Cologne upset second-division Union Berlin 2-1.

Also, there were 1-0 wins for third-tier Erzgebirge Aue over sec-ond-division Greuther Fuerth, and second-division Eintracht Braun-schweig over third-tier Hallescher FC. (ap)

BARCELONA, Spain — Barce-lona says Brazil striker Neymar has the mumps and will be unable to play for 15 days.

Barcelona says on its club website that Neymar has been diagnosed “de-

spite the fact that he had previously been vaccinated against the disease.”

Neymar will miss both the Euro-pean and Spanish Super Cups and is doubtful for the Spanish league opener.

Barcelona plays Sevilla in the Eu-ropean Super Cup on Tuesday. It then faces Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish Super Cup on Aug. 14 and 17 before visiting Bilbao again on Aug. 23 to start the Spanish league. (ap)

Wolfsburg, Schalke, Leverkusen all through in German Cup

United wants big transfer fee if De Gea leaves for Madrid

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Manchester United’s David de Gea (L) in the stands before the match

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FILE - In this May 10, 2015 file photo, Marseille’s coach Marcelo Bielsa, of Argentina, shouts instructions at his players during a League One soccer match between Marseille and Monaco in Marseille, France. Bielsa resigned as coach after the team’s 1-0 loss to Caen on Aug. 8.

Marseille coach Bielsa resigns after French league opener

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Chelsea’s goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois leaves he pitch during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Swansea City at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015.

10-man Chelsea held 2-2 by Swansea, Man United edges Spurs

LONDON — Chelsea began its English Premier League title defense with a red card for goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and a 2-2 draw at home to Swansea on a frustrating opening Saturday at Stamford Bridge. Jose Mourinho’s side twice had the lead, but paid the price for Courtois’ rash challenge on Swansea striker Bafetimbi Gomis as the France international raced through on the counterattack.

English team lets opponent through to score from kickoff

Neymar diagnosed with mumps, out 15 days for Barca

the right frame of mind.Asked if he hoped the transfer

saga will end soon, Van Gaal told BT Sport: “I’m not the most impor-tant part. The most important part is the player and of course the club who wants to buy him. He is our best player for two or three years already, chosen by the fans, so we cannot let him go so easily.”

But he added that “we have to pay a lot of money for all the players we want, and we want to sell at the same level.”

He wouldn’t be drawn on de-tails of a Madrid offer, saying “it’s not the place and I think it’s not of your business neither.”

Speculation that the Madrid-born keeper could be heading home has been heightened by the fact that De Gea has only one year left his contract — and can leave for free at the end of the season.

Sergio Romero was between the posts for United in Saturday’s 1-0 victory over Spurs at Old Traf-ford. (ap)

came a heavy home defeat.Substitute Cameron Jerome

thought he’d made it 2-2 when he stretched his boot up for an acrobatic overhead shot that flew into the net in the 74th — only for referee Simon Hooper to whistle for his foot being too high. Norwich also appealed for a penalty when Sebastien Bas-song was pushed over by Connor Wickham in the area in the 89th. New signing Yohan Cabaye netted Palace’s third on a counterattack in stoppage time.

“Unfortunately, we didn’t get the rub of the green today,” Nor-wich coach Alex Neil said. Wil-fried Zaha and Damien Delaney gave Palace a 2-0 lead before Nathan Redmond pulled one back in the 69th.

Bournemouth’s much-awaited game at Vitality Stadium was decided by Villa substitute Rudy Gestede’s header in the 72nd for last season’s FA Cup finalists. (ap)

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Referee Michael Oliver had no hesitation in producing a straight red card and pointing to the spot, allowing Gomis to beat substitute keeper Asmir Begovic from the spot and make it 2-2. Manchester United needed an own goal to beat Tottenham 1-0 in the day’s early kickoff, while Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester beat Sunderland 4-2, and Crystal Palace earned a con-troversial 3-1 win at Norwich.

There was no fairytale start to Bournemouth’s first ever season in the topflight, as the team slumped to a 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa at its 11,700-capacity seaside stadium. Watford, promoted along with Bournemouth, was twice in front against Everton before having to settle for 2-2 at Goodison Park. The biggest game of the day was saved for last, though, as Chelsea came out for what was expected to be a routine victory in west London.

In a hectic spell midway through the first half, Oscar put the hosts ahead in the 23rd minute, Andre Ayew leveled in the 29th, and Chelsea’s lead was restored with an own goal by Swansea defender Federico Fernandez.

However, everything changed within 10 minutes of the restart, when Courtois felled Gomis as the France striker burst into the area on the break.

Gomis easily converted the penalty in the 55th, and had the ball in the back of the Blues’ net in the 68th, but the strike was ruled out for offside. Mourinho would not be drawn on the send-ing off, saying only, “after that, everything is different.”

“We played very well in the first half, the game was under con-trol and the players were playing with more and more confidence,” he said. “To play 35 minutes with one player less in the first match of the season where the condition and the sharpness is not at the top is even more difficult.” Swansea

coach Garry Monk was clearly delighted with his side.

“We were magnificent,” he said. “Everyone contributed for 90 minutes - to come to a very dif-ficult place, to an excellent side, and play the way we played, and have the chances that we had.” Chelsea was not the only side that had to rely on an own goal.

At Old Trafford, Spurs de-fender Kyle Walker handed all three points to United by steering the ball into his own net in the 22nd minute as he tried to tackle United captain Wayne Rooney. It was one of very few chances in a scrappy match, which Louis van Gaal’s new-look United started with four preseason signings.

Sergio Romero was in goal after Van Gaal decided that Real Madrid target David de Gea was not in the right frame of mind to play. Fullback Matteo Darmain, along with midfielders Morgan Schneiderlin and Memphis De-pay, all made convincing debuts, and Romero improved after some early signs of nerves. Another of new United’s new signings, mid-fielder Bastian Schweinsteiger, replaced Michael Carrick on the hour.

“It was a very difficult game because you have seen two teams that want to press, so every player at the ball had a very small (amount of) time to play,” Van Gaal said. The place to go for goals was Leicester, where for-mer Chelsea coach Ranieri made an ideal start to his return to the league after an 11-year absence.

Jamie Vardy struck first with a header after 11 minutes and Riyad Mahrez scored in the 18th and from the penalty spot in the 25th. Jermain Defoe and Steven Fletcher grabbed second-half goals for Sunderland, while Marc Albrigh-ton got Leicester’s fourth to seal the points. Nothing went right for Norwich, which had a potential equalizer disallowed in what be-

MANCHESTER — Manchester United coach Louis van Gaal made it clear on Saturday that David De Gea will command a big transfer fee if the goalkeeper targeted by Real

Madrid is to leave Old Trafford.De Gea was rested for the

opening day victory over Totten-ham as Van Gaal said the 24-year-old Spain international was not in

MARSEILLE, France — Mar-seille coach Marcelo Bielsa re-signed over a contract dispute after his players lost to Caen 1-0 in their opening French league match on Saturday.

The former Argentina coach, widely credited for Marseille’s return to prominence last season, was out of contract but said this week that he had found an agree-ment with club president Vincent Labrune to extend his tenure.

Bielsa, who took over in 2014, backpedalled on Saturday and gave his resignation letter to Labrune before speaking at the post-match news conference.

“I cannot accept this situation of instability. I’ve given every-thing that I have to this team. I have finished my work here, I will return to my home country,” said Bielsa, who has been linked with a move to Mexico as a possible replacement for sacked national coach Miguel Herrera. “I’m not leaving to go somewhere else.” Bielsa claimed he had made up his mind before Saturday’s game.

“After three months of discus-sions, I could not accept that there were continual changes in the terms of my contract,” he said. Marseille goalkeeper Steve Man-danda was stunned.

“It’s a very big surprise, we did not expect it at all,” Mandanda said. “It feels like a heavy blow, he was important to both the club and the team, we are disappointed.”

Bielsa impressed at times with his brand of attacking football, and Marseille was in contention for the league title last season be-fore a run of four straight defeats in April ended those hopes.

Marseille ultimately finished fourth, and allowed Andre-Pierre Gignac, Andre Ayew, Dimitri Payet, and Jeremy Morel to leave. The departures angered the fans, but Marseille compensated their loss with the signings of talented young players, and the arrival of veterans Lassana Diarra and Abou Diaby.

Bielsa, who criticized Labrune for keeping him away from the recruitment process when he took his job, said this week he was “satisfied with the squad.” Bielsa’s assistant coach, Franck Passi, is expected to be appointed as interim coach.

Bielsa led Argentina to the Olympic title, and to runner-up in the Copa America in 2004. He also helped Chile qualify for the 2010 World Cup. At club level, Bielsa guided Athletic Bilbao to the 2012 Europa League final. (ap)

DONCASTER — Sportsmanship was the winner when players with English third-tier team Doncaster stood by and allowed their opponents to walk in a late equalizer from the restart after the home side scored by mistake on Saturday.

Following an injury to a player, Doncaster midfielder Harry Forrester tried to follow England’s unwritten sporting code by returning the ball to Bury goalkeeper Christian Walton, who knocked the ball out of play.

Unfortunately, Forrester’s pass sent the ball bouncing over Walton’s head and into the Bury net in stoppage time.

Rovers manager Paul Dickov then instructed his players to clear a path for Bury to score, and they duly allowed Leon Clarke to amble half the length of the pitch unchallenged before tapping home to make it 1-1 just before the final whistle.

“I didn’t really think twice about allowing them to equalize,” Dickov said. “It just wouldn’t have been right for us to take three points in the circumstances ... you can’t win a game like that.” (ap)

BERLIN — German Cup-holder Wolfsburg began its title defense with a 4-1 win at third-division Stuttgarter Kickers, while Schalke and Bayer Leverkusen also easily progressed from the first round on Saturday.

Wolfsburg strikers Max Kruse and Bas Dost scored in the first half, and Kevin de Bruyne made it 3-0 two minutes into the second. Striker Lh-adji Badiane pulled one back for the Kickers in the 79th, before Nicklas Bendtner completed the scoring.

Schalke routed second-division local rival Duisburg 5-0, and Le-verkusen won 3-0 at fourth-tier Sportfreunde Lotte.

Leverkusen won thanks to Stefan Kiessling’s 15th-minute strike, and second-half penalties from Hakan Calhanoglu and Lars Bender. Lotte finished with 10 men.

Klaas Jan Huntelaar got Schalke

off the mark before the 2011 title winners’ task was made easier with the sending off of Duisburg captain Branimir Bajic midway through the half. Michael Ratajczak saved the re-sulting penalty from Franco Di Santo, but goals from Matija Nastasic and Johannes Geis put Schalke 3-0 up at the break. Di Santo scored with a fine volley, and Leon Goretzka wrapped it up in the 85th.

Eintracht Frankfurt defeated fifth-tier Bremer SV 3-0, while Cologne won 4-0 at fourth-tier side Meppen, which saw its goalkeeper sent off in the first half.

Werder Bremen needed goals in extra time from Anthony Ujah and Fin Bartels to overcome third-tier side Wuerzburger Kickers 2-0.

Hoffenheim became the first top-division side to be knocked out in the opening round, losing 2-0 at second-

division 1860 Munich. Midfielder Daylon Claasen struck in the 51st, and striker Fejsal Mulic sealed 1860’s deserved win in injury time.

Fifth-tier Reutlingen overcame second-division Karlsruher SC 3-1 at home with captain Giuseppe Ric-ciardi scoring a hat trick through pen-alties. It was the biggest upset of the day. Referee Robert Kempter handed red cards to three Karlsruhe players, and sent visiting coach Markus Kauc-zinski to the stands. Stuttgart came from behind to defeat third-division Holstein Kiel 2-1. Fourth-tier Vikto-ria Cologne upset second-division Union Berlin 2-1.

Also, there were 1-0 wins for third-tier Erzgebirge Aue over sec-ond-division Greuther Fuerth, and second-division Eintracht Braun-schweig over third-tier Hallescher FC. (ap)

BARCELONA, Spain — Barce-lona says Brazil striker Neymar has the mumps and will be unable to play for 15 days.

Barcelona says on its club website that Neymar has been diagnosed “de-

spite the fact that he had previously been vaccinated against the disease.”

Neymar will miss both the Euro-pean and Spanish Super Cups and is doubtful for the Spanish league opener.

Barcelona plays Sevilla in the Eu-ropean Super Cup on Tuesday. It then faces Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish Super Cup on Aug. 14 and 17 before visiting Bilbao again on Aug. 23 to start the Spanish league. (ap)

Wolfsburg, Schalke, Leverkusen all through in German Cup

United wants big transfer fee if De Gea leaves for Madrid

Reuters / Darren Staples Livepic

Manchester United’s David de Gea (L) in the stands before the match

AP Photo/Claude Paris, File

FILE - In this May 10, 2015 file photo, Marseille’s coach Marcelo Bielsa, of Argentina, shouts instructions at his players during a League One soccer match between Marseille and Monaco in Marseille, France. Bielsa resigned as coach after the team’s 1-0 loss to Caen on Aug. 8.

Marseille coach Bielsa resigns after French league opener

AP Photo/Frank Augstein

Chelsea’s goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois leaves he pitch during the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Swansea City at Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015.

10-man Chelsea held 2-2 by Swansea, Man United edges Spurs

LONDON — Chelsea began its English Premier League title defense with a red card for goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and a 2-2 draw at home to Swansea on a frustrating opening Saturday at Stamford Bridge. Jose Mourinho’s side twice had the lead, but paid the price for Courtois’ rash challenge on Swansea striker Bafetimbi Gomis as the France international raced through on the counterattack.

English team lets opponent through to score from kickoff

Neymar diagnosed with mumps, out 15 days for Barca

the right frame of mind.Asked if he hoped the transfer

saga will end soon, Van Gaal told BT Sport: “I’m not the most impor-tant part. The most important part is the player and of course the club who wants to buy him. He is our best player for two or three years already, chosen by the fans, so we cannot let him go so easily.”

But he added that “we have to pay a lot of money for all the players we want, and we want to sell at the same level.”

He wouldn’t be drawn on de-tails of a Madrid offer, saying “it’s not the place and I think it’s not of your business neither.”

Speculation that the Madrid-born keeper could be heading home has been heightened by the fact that De Gea has only one year left his contract — and can leave for free at the end of the season.

Sergio Romero was between the posts for United in Saturday’s 1-0 victory over Spurs at Old Traf-ford. (ap)

came a heavy home defeat.Substitute Cameron Jerome

thought he’d made it 2-2 when he stretched his boot up for an acrobatic overhead shot that flew into the net in the 74th — only for referee Simon Hooper to whistle for his foot being too high. Norwich also appealed for a penalty when Sebastien Bas-song was pushed over by Connor Wickham in the area in the 89th. New signing Yohan Cabaye netted Palace’s third on a counterattack in stoppage time.

“Unfortunately, we didn’t get the rub of the green today,” Nor-wich coach Alex Neil said. Wil-fried Zaha and Damien Delaney gave Palace a 2-0 lead before Nathan Redmond pulled one back in the 69th.

Bournemouth’s much-awaited game at Vitality Stadium was decided by Villa substitute Rudy Gestede’s header in the 72nd for last season’s FA Cup finalists. (ap)

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GIANYAR - When having a closer look at white heron, our mind will immediately refer to a quiet and cool village. It is the Petulu village located in Ubud subdistrict, Gianyar, or about 25 km from Denpasar. The village is a

breeding place of the white heron. Thousands of white herons live and mingle with local people amicably. The birds are never afraid of the behavior of local people. They live freely as if they have become a part of the local community. They look

for food at the space in front of the house, yard, and fields as well as play on the branches or twigs of tree. Interestingly, people also feel comfortable and do not dare expel, let alone kill them.

Foreign tourists love intimacy. Even, a few of those tourists come specifically to watch and immortal-ize them through electronic media. Moreover, it is accompanied with the life story on the white heron

at Petulu categorized to be unique and unbelievable. The visit should be made in November, Decem-ber, January and April because in these months the herons will be crowded. Unlike during May to August, they are only perching on the trees because they are going out to look for food and come back in the afternoon. Their existence will be different in September and October. At that time, those herons

are estimated to have a desire, so that they should go out to the beach and marshes.

Ubud as a tourist destination located in close proximity to Petulu gradually had an impact on Petulu. Many tourists had a promenade to Petulu village. Besides, the infor-mation about the village charms was also disseminated through mass media and worked with tour-ist guides.

“I feel pretty good,” Hosszu said. “Of course it’s going to be really tough this afternoon. There are some swimmers that have been basically preparing for this day and haven’t really been racing.” Olym-pic champion and world-record holder Ye Shiwen of China contin-ued to struggle, failing to advance in 15th — more than 10 seconds slower than Hosszu.

The final was scheduled for later, one of nine sets of medals to be handed out on the final night of the eight-day meet. Hosszu already won the 200 IM, setting a world record in the process. And she swept the medleys at the last worlds in Barcelona two years ago.

She’s aiming for Ye’s record of 4:28.43. “That’s really the ultimate goal,” Hosszu said. “We’ll see how close I can get tonight.” Hosszu ar-rived at this meet entered in seven individual events. Beside gold in the 200 IM, she also won a bronze in the 200 back.

Hosszu said she had no plans to enter fewer events in the future, adding that her program was “defi-nitely” the right one. Emily Over-holt of Canada qualified third, while British contender Hannah Miley tied for fourth with Maya Di Rado of the United States.

Elizabeth Beisel of the U.S., the 2011 champion and Olympic silver medalist, failed to advance in 12th. In the men’s 400 IM, Chase Kalisz topped the heats in 4:11.83. David Verraszto of Hungary was second, defending champion Daiya Seto of Japan was third and Tyler Clary of the U.S. was fourth.

“I would like to go a best time overall,” said Kalisz, who took silver in 2013. “I would definitely like to compete for a title. That’s always in the back of everyone’s head, so I’m just going to go out there and race as hard as I can.” Olympic champion Ryan Lochte wasn’t entered in the 400 IM but he anchored a U.S. team also featuring Matt Grevers, Cody

Miller and Tim Phillips to the top qualifying spot in the 4x100 medley relay.

It’s been a tough meet for the U.S. men in the relays, having failed to reach the final in the 4x100 free and having surrendered a large lead in the anchor leg to settle for silver behind Britain in the 4x200. “We all had great splits there and got done what we needed to get done,” Grevers said. “After the 400 free-style relay, we didn’t want to leave anything up to chance, so we were in the game this time.”

Australia advanced second, 0.80 behind, and France was third. Hungary was disqualified for a false start by Daniel Gyurta in the second leg.

“For the U.S., hopefully it doesn’t matter who else is around, because when our four guys are on, no one’s going to beat us any-way,” Grevers said. China led the women’s 4x100 medley relay heats by a small margin ahead of the U.S and Sweden. (ap)

KeI NIshIKoRI exacted a measure of revenge against Marin Cilic when the Japanese world number five overcame the Croat in the semi-finals of the Citi Open tennis tournament on Saturday in Washington D.C.

Eleven months ago Cilic beat Nishkori in the U.S. Open final in straight sets at Flushing Mead-ows, but after a dismal start the Japanese prevailed 3-6 6-1 6-4 in their hardcourt tune-up ahead of this year’s U.S. championships in New York.

Nishikori will meet the winner of Saturday’s later semi-final be-tween Americans John Isner and Steve Johnson.

The 25-year-old Nishikori will be chasing his third win of the year and and is already assured of

moving up a notch to fourth in the world rankings.

Nishikori fell behind 3-0 in the opening set and could not recover, but rebounded with a dominant sec-ond set to level the match against the eighth-ranked Cilic.

In the final set, Nishikori led 3-1 and 4-2 lead but Cilic battled back to draw level at 4-4 before the Japanese rose up to win the final two games and close out the towering Croat in their first meeting since the Open final.

Nishikori, who has now beaten Cilic in six of their nine head-to-head matches, improved his match record this year to 42-9. Only Novak Djokovic (48-3) and Andy Murray (48-8) have more match wins on the 2015 ATP World Tour. (rtr)

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Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu competes in the breaststroke sec-tion of the women’s 400m individual medley heats at the Aquat-ics World Championships in Kazan, Russia August 9, 2015.

KAZAN, Russia — The “Iron Lady” from hungary is poised for another medley sweep at the swimming world championships. Katinka hosszu led the 400 individual medley heats by a huge margin on sunday, completing the grueling event in 4 minutes, 32.78 seconds, nearly three seconds ahead of second-placed Barbora Zavadova of the Czech Republic.

Nishikori gets the better of Cilic in U.S. Open rematch

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Kei Nishikori gestures to his player’s box after match point against Marin Cilic (not pictured) in a men’s singles semi-final during day six of the 2015 Citi Open at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center. Nishikori won 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.

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Mauk Moruk, widely considered a symbol of resistance against the independent government of the gas-rich but poor half-island nation, was killed in a joint police and military operation in the Fatulia area.

“Every effort was made during the operation to avoid this out-come,” a government spokesman said in a statement, calling for calm.

“Regrettably the operation was unable to avoid a confrontation re-sulting in an exchange of gunfire.”

After decades under harsh In-donesian rule, when rag-tag rebels battled Indonesian forces from the hills, the former Portuguese colony has struggled to develop economi-cally since independence in 2002.

Moruk often confronted another old guerrilla leader, Xanana Gus-mao, the country’s first president and later prime minister, challeng-

ing the government to do more about poverty and unemployment.

Despite gas production worth billions of dollars, about half the 1.2 million population live in poverty, according to the World Bank.

Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, after Portugal abruptly pulled out of a colony it had ruled for three centuries, and annexed the territory later that year, maintaining a heavy and at times brutal military presence.

Indonesia later allowed a vote and East Timor opted for indepen-dence in a violence-plagued poll in 1999.

Independence hero Gusmao stepped down as prime minister this year.

The government spokesman said the country’s security commission was due to meet on Monday to discuss the situation. (rtr)

JAKARTA - Indonesia which has geographical and demographi-cal excellence can properly serve as the world’s maritime axis as what President Joko Widodo has announced, an official said.

“Geographically and demo-graphically, Indonesia which is situated between two continents and two oceans, can serve as the world’s maritime axis. It plays an important role in the development of global economy and industry,” Achmad Poernomo, the head of the Marine and Fisheries Research and Development Center of the Ministry of Marines and Fisheries, said on Sunday.

Moreover, he said, Indonesia has marine and fisheries annual potential worth US$800 million dollars.

The economic potential of Indo-nesia’s marine sector can provide jobs for 40 million people, Poer-nomo said.

Based on the United Nations Convention of Law of the Sea (UN-CLOS), Indonesia has 5.8 million square kilometers of waters, much wider than its land which is only 1.9 million square kilometers.

However, the extraordinary po-tentials have not yet been optimally exploited.

Marine Affairs and Fisheries

Minister Susi Pudjiastuti has ear-lier said that Indonesia and France had established cooperation on sea observation infrastructure develop-ment.

The cooperation is held through an infrastructure development for oceanography program to strength-en Indonesia as a maritime state.

She said that the infrastructure is supported by a radar, optics and meteorological satellite technol-ogy and a regional sea observation system. It will begin operation in 2014.

Its operation will fully be han-dled by the Indonesian government in 2016. (ant)

JAKARTA - The maritime affairs and fisheries minister has said that around 70 percent of coral reefs in Indonesia are dam-aged and need to be restored.

“Currently, only 30 percent of coral reefs are in good condition, while the remaining 70 percents are damaged,” Maritime Af-fairs and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti said in a statement on Sunday.

Coral reefs have been damaged mostly due to human activities

such as fishing using explosives and potassium and marine litter, she stated.

Save coral reef action is ex-pected to help preserve and protect coral reefs sustainably, according to her.

Indonesia, as a founder of the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI), is known as a mega biodiversity nation.

Its rich marine biodiversity is also called the “Amazon of the Sea”. (ant)

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In this late Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015 photo, Burmese fishermen, part of a group of 45 men who were rescued by Indonesian Police, have their dinner among their belongings at the National Police headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia. The police rescued the fishermen, believed to be trafficking victims, from a hotel in central Jakarta where they were taken after traveling on fake documents, officials and the men said.

Government forces in East Timor kill ex-guerrilla leader in clash

JAKARTA - A former guerrilla leader in East Timor has been killed in a security operation, the government said on Sunday, raising concern about unrest in Asia’s youngest nation.

70 percent of Indonesia’s coral reefs damaged

Indonesia fit to serve as world maritime axis

In some places, only the roofs of homes could be seen. International aid is on the way following appeals by the government, but so far, most of the help has come from volunteers ferrying noodles, rice and clean water door-to-door in small boats. Heavy monsoon rains that began in late June — compounded more recently by Cyclone Komen — have triggered some of Myanmar’s worst flash floods and landslides in recent memory. All but two of the country’s 14 states have been affected.

The death toll reached 99 on Sun-day and more than 900,000 people

have been affected — a third of them in the Irrawaddy Delta, said Phyu Lei Lei Tun, director of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettle-ment.

It is here — in a desperately poor region known as the Rice Bowl — that several mighty rivers meet before feeding into the sea. Downstream wa-ters have caused banks to burst, swal-lowing up rice paddies and homes.

Zin Mar Htun was seeking refuge in a school with six family members, including her 11-month-old son, after their house was flushed away in the raging waters. “We had our own raft,

so we sought refuge here,” she said.The United Nations pledged $9

million in assistance this past week, but so far most help has come from private citizens and non-governmental organizations. Myanmar’s appeal was in sharp contrast to its response following Cyclone Nargis in 2008, when the nation’s then-military rulers refused international aid and largely downplayed the destruction — though more than 100,000 people were killed. A nominally civilian government now runs the country, but critics say it’s not moving quickly enough to help those in need. (ap)

JERUSALEM — The family of a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel says his health is dire after waging a hunger strike for the last 56 days.

Naser Allan says Israel arrested his son, Mohammed, in Novem-ber 2014 and placed him under administrative detention for two

six-month periods. He says his son was imprisoned from 2006-2009 for affiliation with the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.

The younger Allan is on hunger strike to protest his administrative detention, a controversial measure that allows Israel to detain suspects without charge for long periods.

Allan’s father said Sunday that Israeli authorities are threatening to force-feed his son. Allan has refused medicine or vitamins, only drinking water.

A contentious Israeli law passed last month permits the force-feed-ing of inmates on a life-threatening hunger strike. (ap)

HOUSTON — U.S. authorities say five children and three adults have been found dead inside a Texas home following the arrest of a man who exchanged gunfire with police.

Harris County Sheriff spokes-man Thomas Gilliland tells KHOU-TV that deputies were called to a home in the Houston area Saturday. He says deputies subsequently re-ceived information indicating that a man inside the home was wanted on

an aggravated assault warrant.Gilliland says while waiting for

a High Risk Operations Unit, depu-ties spotted the body of a juvenile through a window. Four deputies forced themselves inside, prompt-ing the 49-year-old suspect to begin shooting.

Deputies pulled back, and the man surrendered about an hour later. The relationship between the suspect and victims wasn’t imme-diately known. (ap)

BEIJING — A typhoon that lashed Taiwan dumped heavy rain and winds on the Chinese mainland on Sunday, leaving a total of 22 people dead or missing, collapsing homes and trees and cutting power to more than a million homes.

Typhoon Soudelor made land-fall in China’s Fujian province late Saturday night and was down-graded into a tropical storm as it moved across the region.

Rains from the typhoon trig-gered mudslides in mountainous Pingyang county in Zhejiang prov-ince, north of Fujian, killing nine people and leaving three others missing, the county government said.

The Fujian Civil Affairs Depart-ment said that the storm collapsed 36 houses and damaged 281 others. Authorities had evacuated more than 370,000 people and ordered around 32,000 boats back to port before the typhoon struck land.

State broadcaster showed peo-ple wading in knee-deep water in the provincial capital of Fuzhou and said that some streets were

submerged under 80 centimeters (30 inches).

In Taiwan, where the typhoon made landfall Saturday, the Na-tional Fire Agency said five people died, five were missing, and a further 185 were injured. The dead or missing included an 8-year-old girl, her twin sister and their mother who were swept out to sea, a firefighter who was killed while another was injured after being hit by a drunken driver as they at-tempted to move a fallen tree.

The storm downed trees, traf-fic lights and power lines on the island, causing more than 4 mil-lion households to lose electric-ity. More than 500 flights were canceled or delayed.

In Fujian, strong winds caused power outages to more than 1.41 million households before the storm made landfall, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Three airports were closed and more than 530 flights canceled, while more than 7,000 soldiers and police were on standby, provincial authorities said. (ap)

Health of Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike at risk

AP Photo/Khin Maung Win

In this photo taken on Friday, Aug.7, 2015, a boy swimming in water receives foods from private donors near half-submerged residences in Nyaung Tone, in the Irrawaddy Delta, southwest of Yangon, Myanmar.

Nearly 1 million affected by Myanmar floods; 99 dead

NYAUNG KON VILLAGE, Myanmar — The number of people affected by flooding across Myanmar was approaching 1 million on Sunday, with waters in the low-lying southwestern delta inundating homes and forcing villagers into temporary shelters, the government said. The death toll was on the verge of topping 100.

Typhoon weakens over China after leaving 22 dead, missing

US police: 5 children, 3 adults found dead inside Texas home

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In this image made from a video, authorities investigate after reports of an active shooter in a home Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, in Houston.

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The latest figures from firms reporting during the current results season in Europe, the United States and Japan paint a picture of over-seas firms facing a worsening of operating conditions in China.

Volkswagen, which has invested heavily in China and has just dis-placed Toyota as the world’s lead-ing car manufacturer, saw sales in the country -- which it describes as its “second home market” -- fall 3.9 percent in the first half, its first drop in a decade.

“We are keeping a very close watch on global macroeconomic trends,” chief executive Martin Winterkorn said in a statement, “especially where there are un-certainties such as in the Chinese, Brazilian and Russian markets”.

The appeal of nearly 1.4 billion consumers and an economy regu-larly growing in double digits has brought more than $1.5 trillion of foreign investment to China over the last three decades.

But the economic expansion is slowing -- gross domestic product grew 7.0 percent year-on-year in April-June, matching the worst quarterly result since the first three months of 2009 during the global financial crisis.

Some investors have long seen China as a high risk destination.

Rising costs for labour and more competitive markets as domestic brands gain stature have troubled

foreign companies in recent years, as well as a series of anti-monopo-ly probes which appeared to target

overseas firms.“The industrial competitive-

ness of Chinese enterprises has improved, making it harder for foreign companies to compete,” Li Daxiao, an analyst at Yingda Securities, told AFP.

Such challenges have been com-pounded by the country’s slowing economy.

Japan’s second-biggest steel-maker JFE Holdings lowered its annual profit forecast in late July because of “the economic slow-

down in China and the overpro-duction of steel” in the country, the world’s largest consumer of the metal.

In the United States, industrial giant UTC, the maker of Otis lifts, revised down its earnings forecast for 2015 partly on the back of what it described as “a slowing China”.

As well as lifts, the firm makes heating and cooling systems for buildings, leaving it exposed to a broad slowdown in the real estate sector, which its chief execu-tive Gregory Hayes described as “worse than we had expected”.

Retail sales are still growing in China -- they were up 10.6 percent year-on-year in June, according to the government -- but some foreign firms are struggling to maintain their slice of the cake.

Apple’s iPhone sales surged 85 percent in Greater China -- which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan -- with revenue from the region more than doubling to $13 billion for the latest quarter ended June 27, according to the company.

But independent analysts Canalys said this week it had been pushed into third place in the quarter by local manufacturers Xi-aomi and Huawei, which produce cheaper products, while South Korea’s Samsung was relegated to fourth.

Sales of luxury watches and spirits have already been battered by an extended austerity and anti-corruption campaign under Presi-dent Xi Jinping. (afp)

WASHINGTON - They drive for Uber, deliver groceries for In-stacart, run errands for TaskRabbit, and rent spare rooms on Airbnb. Are these the new, empowered participants in the “sharing econ-omy,” or workers being exploited by well-funded technology com-panies?

That is an open question as mil-lions of people shift from traditional employment to freelance “gig” work, giving them more indepen-dence, but without the social safety net of employees.

Some 18 million US workers now earn a significant portion or all of their income outside of traditional employment, and another 12.5 mil-lion took on part-time independent work, according to MBO Partners, a firm which providers services for

independent contractors.A separate study by financial

software group Intuit found 25 to 30 percent of the US workforce is “contingent” and that 80 percent of large corporations plan to increase their use of a “flexible workforce” in coming years.

Inuit said that by 2020, more than 40 percent of the labor force will be “contingent.”

But cracks have begun to appear in the model developed by Uber and other peer-to-peer services. Law-suits in several jurisdictions argue that on-demand workers are not independent contractors, but em-ployees entitled to unemployment insurance, workers compensation and other benefits.

“These firms have ignored the issue because they view themselves

as a marketplace, not as an em-ployer, and now it is biting them in the back,” said MBO founder and chief executive Gene Zaino.

Politicians are taking notice. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said recently she would “crack down on bosses who exploit employees by misclas-sifying them as contractors.”

“This on-demand, or so-called gig economy is creating exciting economies and unleashing innova-tion,” she said in June. “But it is also raising hard questions about work-place protections and what a good job will look like in the future.”

Yet without a flexible workforce of independent contractors, “the sharing economy could be stopped in its tracks,” said Christopher

Koopman, a research fellow at George Mason University’s Mer-catus Center.

“We would not see the dynamic, innovative environment we have today.”

Koopman said those choosing to work on these platforms “are get-ting a ton of flexibility, so there are tradeoffs. They can work when they want and how they want.”

But he acknowledged that poli-cymakers need to set clear rules to avoid disputes and uncertainty.

This uncertainty led to the shut-down in July of Homejoy, an online platform for home cleaning services which faced litigation from workers claiming they should be classified as employees.

Some analysts say current laws are not adapted to these new models

where people earn money through shopping services like Postmates, meal preparation like Feastly and pet-sitting like DogVacay.

Simon Rothman at venture capi-tal firm Greylock Partners says a key to helping this thriving sector is “unbundling” benefits such as health care, insurance and retire-ment from the workplace.

“Gone are the days of a social contract with employers for lifetime employment? -- ?it’s an old model it doesn’t exist anymore. This is a secular shift that will impact every-one,” Rothman said in a blog post.

Rothman said this new sector is likely to be worth some $10 billion in the United States this year, and if allowed to grow, “offers a viable new path to sustaining the middle class.” (afp)

‘Sharing economy’ surge creates labor conundrum

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In this Thursday, July 23, 2015 photo, a woman reads a paper near the fashion clothes hanging for sale at the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China in Beijing. The once irresistible allure of the Chinese market to foreign multinationals is losing some of its lustre as slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy hits their sales.

Chinese dragon losing its shine for foreign firmsBEIJING - The once irresistible allure of the Chinese market

to foreign multinationals is losing some of its lustre as slowing growth in the world’s second-largest economy hits their sales.

According to Head of Buleleng Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, Nyoman Sutrisna, this giant hun-dred year old mammal was a long-

finned whale that normally lives in the waters of Maluku, Papua and the Arafura Sea.

A similar whale was found off

the coast of Temukus village, Ban-jar subdistrict by fishermen who pulled it further out to sea where it was finally released.

A third whale, this time four-me-ters long, that had suffered inures to its mouth was found still breathing on Penimbangan Beach. Fishermen were able to pull the whale back out to sea where it was released.

Sutrisna said that based on their assessment, the whales became stranded after having been dragged astray by sea currents while looking

for food. The whales suffered inju-ries from having been dragged onto reefs by the strong currents.

This analysis is supported by the confirmation of the national weath-er service (BMKG) that there have in fact been fairly swifts westward ocean currents recently. “Possibly this whale got lost and eventually stranded, after being pushed by the moderately strong westward cur-rents, as confirmed by the BMKG,” said Sutrisna.

As for the giant whale that

was found near Tumukus Beach, Sutrisna said that -as of Saturday, they had not received any reports from residents or official institu-tions. Therefor, his officers will be approaching the fishermen who discovered the elderly whale and pulled it out to sea, to find out more information. “We are still conduct-ing investigations at Temukus and have not received any reports. Hopefully the fishermen can pro-vide accurate information regarding this matter,” he added. (kmb38)

MANGUPURA - On Monday, July 3rd, 54 year old Scottish traveler with the initials AS, along with 79 year old N.R. from Aus-tralis got into a fisticuffs in one of the bars on Jalan Bakung Sari, Kuta. As a result of the quarrel, A.S. suffered stab wound to his right arm.

“The alleged perpetrator (Nr—Ed) was arrested. We are still probing into the motives for the

stabbing,” said Police Chief , I.B. Dedy Januartha, on Thursday (Aug. 6).

Januartha was reluctant to make any comments, particu-larly regarding the chronology of events which are still under investigation. “We are still inves-tigating whether the incident was caused by personal problems or old problems,” he said.

Meanwhile, according to one

source, the victim and the suspect were having a meal at the bar. It is not known for sure who started first, but they ended up taunting each other.

Neither of the tourists would budge from their position so the quarrel eventually turned into a fist-fight. The unrest between the two parties became worse as they both became more emotional. Allegedly due to feeling that the

situation was urgent, the suspect reached for a knife and tried to stab the victim in the chest. The victim then blocked the attack and thus suffered injuries to his right arm. “Ultimately bar employees and other customers stepped in to break up the fight. That’s all I know. The victim did not want to make peace, so the suspect was ar-rested,” said the source who asked to remain anonymous.

The victim who was staying on Jalan Bhineka Jati Jaya, Kubu An-yar, Kuta, was rushed to hospital. After receiving a report about the incident, the Police immediately rushed down to the scene and arrested the suspect based on the evidence that they encountered. The victim who was staying on Jalan Bhineka Jati Jaya, Kubu Anyar, Kuta, was rushed to hos-pital. (kmb36)

Bar room brawl, one tourist injured

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The fish that cast away in Lovina was burried by the locals

Hundred year old long-finned whales stranded in Buleleng waters

SINGARAJA – Marine tour guides, fishermen and foreign travellers at the coastal hamlet of Banyualit, Kalibukbuk vil-lage, Lovina, were surprised to discover that a giant, hundred year old whale was stranded off-shore. The people who first encountered the stranded whale, tried to rescue it by pushing it further out to sea, but because the whale had already suffered injuries to its abdomen, it soon died (at about 150 meters out to sea) and was then dragged to shore. The burial of the whale was witnessed by a number of tourists.

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“We cannot accept this,” 86-year-old Sumiteru Taniguchi said, after de-scribing in graphic detail his traumatic injuries and how others died in the Aug. 9, 1945, attack on Nagasaki.

Representatives from 75 countries, including U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, were among those gathered under a tall white canopy to shade them from the sun on a 31-degree-Celsius (88-degree Fahrenheit) morn-ing at Nagasaki Peace Park.

As a bell tolled, they observed a minute of silence at 11:02 a.m., the time when the a U.S. B-29 plane dropped the atomic bomb, killing more than 70,000 people and help-ing to prompt Japan’s World War II surrender. The first atomic bomb in Hiroshima three days earlier killed an estimated 140,000.

Abe’s security bills, which he says are needed to increase Japan’s deter-rence capabilities in the face of grow-ing threats in the region, have run into stiff public opposition. The legislation would ease constitutional limits that

restrict the military to self-defense, allowing Japanese forces to defend allies in limited circumstances.

Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue, addressing the same ceremony, noted the “widespread unease” about the legislation, which has passed the lower house of parliament and is now before the upper house. “I urge the government of Japan to listen to these voices of unease and concern,” Taue said. A message from U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon echoed calls by Taue and others to abolish nuclear weapons.

“I wholeheartedly join you in sounding a global rallying cry: No more Nagasakis. No more Hiroshi-mas,” Ban said in a message read by Kim Won-soo, the acting U.N. high representative for disarmament affairs.

Abe, in brief remarks, said that Japan, as the only country to experi-ence nuclear attacks, would seek to play a leading role in realizing a world without such weapons. (ap)

SANTIAGO, Chile — The remains of Gen. Manuel Contre-ras, the spy chief responsible for kidnappings, torture and killings during Chile’s military dictator-ship have been interred during a private ceremony. Contreras’ body was cremated Saturday, one day after his death at the age of 86.

After Gen. Augusto Pinochet ousted the socialist government of President Salvador Allende in 1973, Contreras formed and commanded

the DINA spy agency and went on to become the regime’s second most powerful and feared figure after Pinochet.

He died at a military hospital while serving a combined sentence of more than 500 years for crimes against humanity.

A statement issued by the govern-ment Saturday described Contreras as “one of the darkest characters in our history, responsible for crimes and grave human rights violations in our country.” (ap)

MANAMA, Bahrain — Bah-raini authorities say they will allow an independent newspaper in the Gulf kingdom to resume publishing days after ordering it temporarily suspended.

The Information Affairs Author-ity announced the lifting of the suspension against Al-Wasat late Saturday following discussions

with the paper’s management. The official Bahrain News Agency says the talks were “to rectify past legal and regulatory failings” and to secure commitments to “meet the necessary standards” in the future.

Authorities suspended the pa-per’s publication late Thursday after finding it violated the law and spread information that affects

national unity and the kingdom’s international relations.

The paper was forced to tem-porarily halt operations in 2011 following anti-government pro-tests dominated by the country’s Shiite majority against the Sunni monarchy. Its co-founder, Karim Fakhrawy, died in police custody in April 2011. (ap)

Notorious former Chilean spy chief Manuel Contreras buried

Bahrain allows independent newspaper

to resume publishing

AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, right, and his wife Siti Hasmah, left, bring a wreath during a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki, southern Japan Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015.

Calls to abolish nukes on Nagasaki bombing 70th anniversary

NAGASAKI, Japan — The city of Nagasaki marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing Sunday with calls to abolish nuclear weapons and halt the Japanese government’s push to loosen restrictions on what its military can do. With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the audience, a representative of Nagasaki bomb survivors told an annual ceremony that security legislation introduced by Abe’s government goes against the wishes of the survivors and “will lead to war.”

A number of the Penyaringan paddy fields have become parched and although the farmers were able to plant, the results of their harvests were far from satisfactory. 30 year old, I Kadek Agus Mahendra, a farmer in this area, said that the lack of water means that the ears of his grain are not full. “It is hard for us to get water as the river is dry,” he complained.

Allegedly, one of the reasons for this are the rampant encroach-ments being made on the forested area of Penyaringan. Some of the subak members went upriver to see for themselves what was going on around Bangsal forest. They found that in fact there were considerably less trees and more alarming still, was that much of the land had been made into farm plots. Many of

the lush perennial tress had been replaced with banana tress and the like. This severe encroachment on the forest is allegedly caused by weak supervision on the part of the authorities. Those who encroach on the forest never face any reprimands, so the situation only gets worse over time. The subak farmers expect there to be a crackdown on such encroach-ments. A formal complaint was submitted to Commander of the 1617/Jembrana Military District, Sansan Iskandar.

Following up on the complaints of the farmers, the commander and his team, made a brief inspection of the forest area was reportedly bar-

ren, and found that in fact many of the large tress that function a water absorbers had been replaced with banana tress.

“We did not however encoun-ter any people there. The subak officials hope that this problem can be resolved,” said Sansan Iskandar.

The impact of the limited avail-ability of irrigation waster in also being experienced by members of Subak Telepus, where farmers are reported to have faced crop failure in a 5 to 6 hectare area. The water discharge at the dam there is very low now. Before rampant encroachments onto the forest, the water discharge was 250 centime-

ters, but now it only reached 50 centimeters.

Apart from forest preservation, reforestation is another effort be-ing made though the Commader of the Military District and the Bali Forestry Agency as an way to find the best solution. In order to avoid any conflict, related par-ties need to discuss the matter together. Satya Bhakti Wirottama Battalion 741 Commander and Susanto Lastua Manurung are also involved in discussions on the matter and are planning to establish a truing camp in the forest that would also function to supervise the activities of en-croachers. (kmb26)

MANGUPURA - Kuta Police investigators have named Oscar Bar bartender G.M. as the primary suspect in the case of the methanol tainted alcohol that claimed the lives of three tourists last month. G.M is being charged under the Law on Consumer Protection.

Chief of Kuta Police, I.B. Dedy Januartha, said that G.M has been named as suspect based on the results of the liquor samples that were tested by the National Police Headquarters Forensic Labora-tory - Denpasar Branch, and other experts, as well incriminating testi-

monies made by witnesses. “The re-sults of the laboratory test indicated that the liquor positively contained methanol,” he said.

Januartha’s questioning of the suspect, revealed that the liquor was ordered from a supplier in Surabaya and that it was already mixed on

arrival. “The suspect claims that he did not know that the liquor from Surabaya contained methanol. We are still investigating the veracity of his statement,” said the police chief.

The methanol tainted liquor that was served at Oscar Bar located on

Jalan Benesari, Legian, claimed the lives of 28 year old Bulgakova from Russia who died on Monday July 13, as well as Villa Kaudrow and Kevin Odang from Menado, North Sulawesi who breathed their last on Satruday July 18th and Thursday July 23rd respectively. (kmb36)

Deadly methanol-laced liquorBartender named as suspect

IBP/Olo

The damage forrest in Penyaringan, mendoyo, Gianyar is seen in the picture

Farmers complain about encroachment on forest

NEGARA - Farmers at Penyaringan, Mendoyo, are frus-trated by the increasing lack of water available to irrigate their fields, and suspect that the lack of water flow is being caused by encroachments on the nearby forest. Many of the paddy fields at Subak Penyaringan, previously did not have any problems with their supply of water that comes from the forest, but now it seems to be drying out.

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The Nantucket Lightship, billed as America’s oldest and larg-est floating lighthouse, switches on its powerful beacon for the first time in 40 years in Boston Harbor on Friday evening.

The Gay Head Light on Martha’s Vineyard is expected to follow suit Tuesday, with supporters holding a ceremony after the 160-year-old lighthouse completed its painstaking move from the edge of eroding cliff on May 30.

“It’s always exciting to hear about the relighting of a light-house,” said James Hyland, president of the New Hampshire-based advocacy group the Lighthouse Preservation Society. “To relight a darkened lighthouse tower is rather like breathing life into a human body that needs to be resuscitated. The glow comes back, and once again, all is well.”

Friday’s lighting in Boston Harbor is expected to be brief. The beacon is to be lit for about two minutes and the foghorn sounded before it’s all powered down again. The ship’s 500,000-candlepower main beam is designed to be seen for 23 miles (37 kilometers) and affects nearby Logan International Airport.

Robert Mannino Jr., head of the nonprofit that’s restoring the Nantucket Lightship, says the lightship, which is no longer a navigational aid and operates as a museum, received special permission for the one-time event, which marks a $250,000 in-vestment by American Express to bring the ship’s light, foghorn and radio beacon back to working order.

Built in 1936 and decommissioned in 1975, the Nantucket Lightship stood sentry about 100 miles (160 kilometers) off mainland Massachusetts, warning ships of the treacherous shoals off Nantucket island.

Mannino says the lightship, one of a dozen that served along Nantucket Shoals over the years, was nicknamed the “Statue of Liberty of the Sea” because it was the first landmark seen by ships coming from Europe to the east coast of the United States.

It was one of 179 lightships the U.S. Coast Guard stationed in places it was impractical or infeasible to build a permanent beacon. Lightships operated from 1820 to 1983 and were even-tually replaced by more basic navigational aids as onboard ship technology improved. Just 17 remain in existence; nine of them operate as museums, like the Nantucket Lightship.

Mannino’s all-volunteer nonprofit took ownership in 2009 and has been restoring the over 1,000-ton ship since. The resto-ration is about 50 percent done, he said, but will require another $1.2 million to complete.

In contrast to Friday’s brief illumination, Tuesday’s lighting on Martha’s Vineyard is hoped to be permanent.

The Gay Head lighthouse, which remains an important navi-gational tool along the resort island’s famous coastline, had been considered one of the most endangered historic sites in the country because it sat just 46 feet from the cliff’s edge.

Advocates raised over $3 million to move the structure about 135 feet (40 meters) back. The process involved raising the structure a few feet off the ground and pushing it along steel rails using powerful hydraulic pistons. The move took three days.

Tuesday’s celebration features live music and speeches from local dignitaries. Organizers are even hoping to invite President Barack Obama, who arrives with his family on the island for their annual summer vacation Friday. (ap)

In this Jan. 30, 2006 file photo, Nantucket

Lightship sits anchored at Rowes

Wharf in Boston. Its powerful beacon litted for about two minutes for the first

time in 40 years Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, then powered down

again.

2 iconic US lighthouses are back in the spotlight

BOSTON — Two beacons that guided mariners past treacherous shoals near Boston for generations are back in the spotlight. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File

In this Oct. 13, 2013 file photo, Gay Head Light flashes a white signal in Aquinnah, Mass., on the island

of Martha’s Vineyard.

In this May 28, 2015 file photo, workers move the Gay Head Light from its

original footing (at center between the rails) in Aquinnah, Mass., on the island of

Martha’s Vineyard. The 160-year-old lighthouse was slowly moved on rails to a new home about 135 feet further

inland,away from a rapidly-eroding cliffside. A

re-lighting ceremony is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, after lighthouse

was anchored at its new location.

AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File

AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File

Of the IDR 26,134,745,008 sub-mitted, the approved amount is IDR 22,072,716,632. Later, the fund will be managed by each County Police. “Bali Police do not manage funds be-cause security of the regional election is carried out by each county police. If there is personnel assistance from Bali Police, it will also use the fund,” said Spokesman of Bali Police, Hery Wiranto.

In details, Denpasar Police get bud-get allocation worth IDR3,034,890,000 for security of Denpasar City and IDR2,187,380,000 for security of Kuta and South Kuta area. In the meantime, Badung Police get security fund worth IDR 2.5 billion, Tabanan Police (IDR 3,069,985,000), Bangli Police (IDR 2,597,084,000), Karangasem Police (IDR4,180,649,632) and Jembrana Police (IDR 4,502,728,000).

“The funds are not included for the handling of riots. In case there is a riot, it will use special fund, namely contingency fund from Bali Police,” he said.

The budget is used for pre-operative exercise activities, deploying troops, security of campaign, quiet period, polling,vote counting, determination

of results and the inauguration. Re-lated to deployment of personnel, said Hery, each stage will have different numbers. During the campaign will deploy 1,702 personnel, quiet period (1,600 personnel), polling (4,363 per-sonnel), vote counting (1,790 person-nel), determination of results (1,550 personnel) and the inauguration (1,759 personnel). “Total personnel involved amount to 12,764 people, excluding the Indonesian Military (TNI), peca-lang (customary security guard) and public protection,” said Hery.

According to the Spokesman, the personnel involved in securing the regional elections have been given guidance on how to act, start the stage of regional leader candidate registration and secure campaign, quiet period, voting and post-voting. Security pattern has been prepared and just needs to be implemented in the field.

In addition, Bali Police has also mapped out the areas considered vulnerable. From the experiences of previous years, Tabanan is indicated to be prone to conflict. “It is based on previous experiences. Possibly, it will also happen in other regions,” said

FROM a number of buildings pos-ing the heritages of Dutch colonial era, there is an area that has now become a tourist attraction in the heart of the historical town of Singaraja. It is the former Buleleng Harbor. During the colonial period and when Buleleng was the capital of Lesser Sunda, this area was the center of economic activities. As evidence, so far in this area there is a harbor office building established by Dutch colonialism. In addition, shop buildings and ware-houses solidly stand in this area. A warehouse is forced to be dismantled and to be replaced with Mr. I Ketut Pudja Building.

To reach this object, it will take visitors about fifteen minutes by car. In the meantime, if from Lovina Beach area visitors can ride eastwards with a traveling time of approximately 25 minutes.

The former Buleleng Harbor is located at Kampung Bugis, Singaraja, with a total area of about 1,025 square meters. In this area, visitors can enjoy

the atmosphere of the beach with calm waves. In the vicinity there is a building of the former harbor office established by Dutch colonialism in Buleleng. The building stands rigidly and the architecture still looks original. One of the characteristics indicating the authenticity of the building is the signage in front of the building that reads SOCIETIET BOLELENG. In front of the harbor office building stands the Yudha Mandala Tama statue with a height of about 12 meters.

Another evidence of Dutch colo-nial heritage is located in the east of the former Buleleng Harbor, precisely at the entrance in the form of a bridge with a curved construction. No one knows for sure when the bridge con-necting the East Buleleng to Singaraja town was built. Based on the existing sources, the bridge is estimated to have been built by Dutch in 1935.

In the meantime, in line with the effort to develop this area into a tour-ist attraction, the local government has built a floating restaurant in the

middle of the sea. It is said the loca-tion of the current floating restaurant was formerly a dock built by Dutch colonial government. On the pier the vessels from China and other countries anchored to conduct trading activities at that time.

Aside from being a historical tour-ist attraction, the former Buleleng Harbor is developed into a family tourist attraction and children play-ground in the town of Singaraja. This venue has been equipped with children playground, fast food outlet, toilet, security guard station, and facilities of the authority office managing this former Buleleng Harbor. Today the tourist accommodation facilities have started to be built around this region. Thus, travelers spending holidays in the town of Singaraja can easily reach this area for a vacation while learning history.

The Head of the former Buleleng Harbor Authority, I Ketut Arsana, said that according to local government policy, currently the management of

the region is only limited to the col-lection of parking ticket, rental of the buildings and levy of playground and street vendors. In the meantime, the admission of visitor remains to be free of charge because the region is still dominantly visited by local travelers.

In the meantime, the visit of for-eign travelers in particular situations reached 90 people. Foreign travelers visit it because they want to see the heritage of the ancestors invaded Buleleng. In addition, travelers also make the Yudha Mandala Tama Monument the background of their photograph and taste the flavor of local food and drinks at the floating restaurant.

“Under the leadership policy, we have not collected admission ticket, but only collect parking ticket as well as rental of the buildings, levy of trader and children playground. Foreign tourist arrivals cannot be calculated because sometimes it is crowded while the other time is too quiet,” he said. (mud)

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Bali Police and its ranks have made a variety of security preparations related to simultaneous regional leader electionin six counties and municipality on December 9.

Buleleng Harbor Historical attraction in the heart of Singaraja

Security of regional leader election budgeted at IDR22 billion

DENPASAR - Bali Police and its ranks have made a variety of security preparations related to simultaneous regional leader electionin six counties and municipality on December 9. The budget for the security of the simultaneous election has been decided by County and Municipal House.

the former Spokesman of Bengkulu Police.

During the security of the demo-cratic event, Bali Police isbacked-up by Indonesian Military (TNI) and publicprotection. “The composition is still being coordinated with the military authority. Personnel of mo-

bile brigade are also deployed and the number will be adjusted to the vulner-ability of the region,” he said.

He called and invited all the people of Bali to make the simultaneous regional leader election a success as well asmaintain the security and order. Moreover, Bali becomes atourist des-

tination of the world so that security must bemaintained as much as pos-sible. “If the simultaneous regional leader election in Bali can take place safely and smoothly, it can become an example for other provinces. The security of Bali should be equally maintained,” said Hery. (kmb36)

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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 considered 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, deco-rations 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 umbrel-las 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.

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Expanding its international fitness program, the resort has appointed a resident Jim Cou-rier Tennis (JCT) international coaching professional , Ling Chan, to cater for the needs of all levels from amateur to elite. Bringing more than five years’ experience coaching both adults and juniors in the US and Hong Kong, Chan will be in-residence until January 2016 offering daily clinics including Adults Tennis, Kids Tennis, and the dynamic and energetic Cardio Tennis for a high-intensity work-out that is just as popular with non-players. Private sessions, social match-ups and ‘sparring’ with a hitting partner are also available, and the resort’s synthetic grass court is lit for night play.

The Jim Courier Tennis pro-gram is the latest enhancement to the resort’s fitness offerings.

Guests enjoy a variety of sports-related activities following the launch of AntiGravity® or ‘fly-ing’ yoga as well as a Visiting Practitioners (VP) program. The VP program features a different international professional each month with sessions ranging from beach boot camps to kettle bell weight training. In-house guests enjoy a selection of complimen-tary VP activities and tennis clin-ics, while non-resident guests are also welcome to join.

“As a beachfront resort, Jim-baran is the perfect location for guests seekingan active beach holiday, perhaps to catch up on recreational pursuits that they struggle to find time for in nor-mal daily life,” said Uday Rao, General Manager of Four Sea-sons Resorts Bali. “The new Jim Courier Tennis program adds to our existing fitness services and

community events, and guests tell us that they enjoy keeping active on holiday as much as they enjoy the relaxation and massages and great cuisine that Bali has to offer. They return home feeling reenergized and better-than-ever, and that’s exactly how a holiday should end.”

Four Seasons Jimbaran Bay has also played a key role in community-based fitness events such as the Bali International Triathlon, of which it has been an annual major sponsor since its inception eight years ago. This year’s triathlon in October is expected to attract hundreds of athletes from across the globe, participating in the Olympic-distance and short courses as individuals or teams.

Meanwhile, the resort’s stylish beach-club and restaurant, Sun-dara, is sponsoring the inaugural

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Four Seasons launches Jim Courier Tennis Clinics

JIMBArAN - Bali may be renowned for its culture, hospitality and exotic charms, but it’s also becoming a destination for active travelers with an Olympic distance triathlon, marathon, beach boot camps and yoga retreats. The latest step in this direction is a new Jim Courier Tennis program launched exclusively at Four Seasons resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay.

Roxy #runsupyoga event on 15 August. Some 200 women and girls are expected to join Roxy’s global athletes – including Olym-pic champion snowboarder To-rah Bright, 2x world longboard

champion Kelia Moniz and pro surfers Monyca Eleogram, Bruna Schmitz and Bianca Buitendag – for a social and fun fitness event comprising a beach jog, stand-up paddle boarding and yoga.

However, the number of passengers rose 6.82 percent to 370,231 in June from 346,605 in May, the head of the Bali branch of the Central Statistics Agency, Panusunan Siregar, said.

The volume of cargo car-ried by international flights increased 2.87 percent to 5,736 tons in June from 5,575 tons a month earlier, he added.

Moreover, Ngurah Rai Air-

port has been named the third best among the 30 airports in the world that have a passenger capacity of 15 to 25 million per year, according to Airports Council International.

One of the busiest airports in Indonesia, Ngurah Rai Air-port was also ranked seventh in terms of services in the fourth quarter of 2014, the presi-dent director of state airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I

(Persero), Tommy Soetomo, stated recently.

Bali is one of the main tourist destinations in Indo-nesia. In June 2015, the num-ber of tourist arrivals in this world-renowned resort island reached 359,702. This marked an 8.87 percent rise from that in the same month last year, or a 21.53 percent increase as compared to that recorded the previous month. (ant)

According to the Bali branch of the Central Bureau of Statistics, there was a drop in the number of airplanes departing from the island. In June, 2,133 flights took off from I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, a decline from 2,130 flights the previ-ous month. Their destinations were Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and China.

However, the number of passen-gers taking international flights out of Bali rose from 346,605 people in May to 370,231 in June. Also, the number of international passengers in the January-June period increased to 2,043,451 from 1,962,345 in the same period last year.

“Air transportation was majorly affected because airlines did not want to take risks,” I Dewa Nyoman Putra, an observer of tourism affairs.

He believes that tourists had also canceled their planned vacations in Bali because they did not want to be stranded on the island with the airport closed due to the volcano’s eruption. In addition, Putra predicted that room occupancy rate will also drop from 90 percent to 60 percent due to the impact of the natural disaster.

Virgin Australia, according to Co-General Manager of the Ngurah Rai Airport’s Angkasa Pura I airport management I Gusti Ngurah Ardita, cancelled six flights to Bali from Mel-bourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, and Perth. The other six flights were from Bali to Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney.

In the meantime, the management of I Gusti Ngurah Rai international air-port has lost US$40 thousand per day due to Mount Raung’s eruption that has frequently forced temporary closures of the airport, Tourism Minister Arief Yahya stated.

“As the Ngurah Rai airport has been closed several times, 10 thousand foreign tourists failed to arrive in Bali per day. Moreover, on a weekend day, around 14 thousand foreign tourists could not land on the Island of Gods (Bali). In total, there were 41 thousand foreign tourists,” Arief noted while inspecting the Crisis Center Command Post of Mount Raung Eruption at the airport, recently.

He urged the airport’s manage-ment to focus on two crucial aspects when the airport is temporarily closed again.

First, the management must im-mediately announce the revised ar-rival and departure schedules of flights when the airport resumes operations after any temporary closure.

Second, the airport management must provide information on the al-ternative means of transportation for passengers to reach their destinations through the nearest cities whose air-ports are not affected by the volcanic eruption.

The airport management must provide comprehensive information concerning the certainty of the tourists’ departures.

Economic fundamental Senior Deputy Governor of Bank

Indonesia Mirza Adityaswara predicted that the tourism sector could be de-veloped into one of the most potential fundamentals of the country’s economy in the future. “Let us just reflect on the economy of Bali, which has continued to grow . Now it even recorded a growth of more than 6 percent thanks mainly to tourism,” Mirza pointed out.

What happened was the contrary in other provinces which rely on the min-ing and plantation sectors, recorded a growth of less than three percent, he said.

“Java still posted a growth of more than 5 percent but Sumatra and Kalim-antan which rely more on commodities grew only 2.8 percent and 1.3 percent respectively,” he said.

Whereas Indonesia’s tourism sector is highly potential with typical char-acteristics to draw both domestic and foreign tourists, he said.

“The question is how the regional administrations would exploit the potentials and draw tourists through unique promotional drives,” he said.

He suggested hiring experienced event organizers to organize events that would draw visitors.

He said promotions with attractive activities, however, is not enough, adding, adequate infrastructure is vital to guarantee that tourists feel convenient.

“Regional administrations need to simplify licensing procedure and create favorable investment climate to accelerate tourism development in their respective areas.

Meanwhile, the central government is set to boost development of the tourism industry such as by offering visa free visits for visitors from more countries.

“Now visa free visits are offered for visitors from 45 countries and the number should be increased to 75 countries,” he said.

He said Malaysia and Singapore are more successful in drawing foreign visi-tors because they offer visa free visit to tourists from 100 countries. (iah/ant)

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DENPASAR - The number of flights that departed from Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport to other countries fell slightly by 0.80 percent to 2,130 in June from 2,133 in May this year.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lady Antebellum singer Charles Kelley and his wife, Cassie, are expecting their first child in February.

Cassie McConnell Kelley made the announcement on her Womani-sta.com website Friday.

She wrote that after years of try-ing to get pregnant, the couple was

told they had a 1 percent chance of conceiving a child naturally. She said they were going to explore other op-tions later this year, but discovered in June that she was pregnant.

They have been married for six years. The seven-time Grammy-winning country band is currently on its Wheels Up tour. (ap)

According to witnesses in the area, the quarrying is being done illegally as the developer’s license expired 8 months ago.

“The developer had in fact ob-tained a license but it expired in January, and apparently they are in the process of having it renewed. There is a possibility however, that their request for a license will not be approved because the cliff

-from they are quarrying stone, is part of the coast line,” affirmed the unnamed source.

The anonymous bystander went on to explain that cutting into the cliff has obvious economic ad-vantages for the developer given that the vertical excavation of the cliff would result in an expanded area of land below. As a result the borderline of the land the company

presently owns, would actually cut into state owned land. The bound-ary marker for this company’s land is now on the cliff, while the lime-stone is being quarried from below, along the coast.

“The price of land in the area can reach as much as IDR 1.5 billion per 100 square meters, so it is easy to see how much they have to gain by expanding their land,” he added.

Made Sukearsana, Division Head of Mining at the Badung Human Settlements Agency, when contacted told reporters that the authority to deal with the matter

of the legality and licensing of the quarrying, lies with the Badung In-tegrated Licensing Office (BPPT). According to Sukearsana, his office had in fact issued a license to the de-veloper to conduct such activities, but since the establishment of the BPPT, licensing affairs have been transferred to the new agency.

Now, it is up to the new agency to deal with whether or not this developer is abiding by the regula-tions or not. When asked to confirm whether or not the developer at Pandawa Beach is in violation of existing regulations or not, Head of

the BPPT Badung, Made Sutama, said that he could not comment because relevant documents are still be processed by his staff. “Let me check with my staff first so that I don’t give incorrect information,” he said. (kmb36)

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Passangers wait for the resumption of their flights canceled by volcanic eruptions at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. The eruption of Mount Raung has affected the tourism industry of Bali, as volcanic ashes blowing towards the island’s airport forced it to shut down operations several times.

THE eruption of Mount Raung has affected the tourism industry of

Bali, as volcanic ashes blowing towards the island’s airport forced it to shut down

operations several times. On Friday, Australian air-lines, Virgin Australia has cancelled its 2 flights due to Mt. Raung ashes, although I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport remains open.

Bali tourism industry hit by Mt. Raung eruption

Land developer dredges cliff on Pandawa BeachDENPASAR - Once again limestone is being quarried in

South Badung. This time a developer is dredging about 10 me-ters of Pandawa’s Beache’s eastern cliff, to (allegedly) expand the company’s privately owned land above the beach.

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He stars in the upcoming Fox sitcom “Grandfathered,” playing a freewheeling bachelor who discov-ers he has a son and infant grand-daughter he never knew about.

Meanwhile, he’s shooting “Full-er House,” the much-awaited reboot of his enduring 1990s comedy that centered on three single men raising kids. It’s being revived by Netflix.

Speaking to TV critics Thursday,

Stamos said his dual roles are two sides of the same coin: unconven-tional family life.

He cited “Full House” as an early example of a comedy built around an unconventional homestead. And now, on “Grandfathered,” he plays a man who, at age 50, must come to terms with two generations of a family he never imagined. “It’s ‘family first’ on this show,” de-

clared Stamos, who turns 52 later this month.

His co-stars include Josh Peck as his grown son, along with Paget Brewster, who plays the mother of Stamos’ son, conceived during a long-ago one-night-stand.

Meanwhile, Stamos is producing and starring in a 13-episode cycle of “Fuller House,” a spin-off where Candace Cameron-Bure stars as a pregnant and recently widowed mother of two. Jodie Sweetin, who played her sister in the original, and Andrea Barber, who played her friend, move in to help her.

The series originally aired on ABC from 1987 to 1995.

Bob Saget, who played the widowed father of the three girls in the original series, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, are also being courted to be in the new series.

Netflix has said “Fuller House” will debut next year on the stream-ing television service.

“Grandfathered” premieres on Fox Sept. 29. (ap)

LOS ANGELES - Reality TV diva Kim Kardashian had better things to do Thursday than tune in to the Republican presidential debate -- like snaring a selfie with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

“Excited to be meeting our next President tonight!! Maybe she’ll take a selfie with me,” she said on Twitter before setting off to a celebrity-rich Clinton fundraiser in Los Angeles hosted by Justin Bieber manager Scooter Braun.

Two and a half hours later, she delivered the goods to her 34.2 million Twitter followers -- a selfie with Clinton, with rapper husband

Kanye West leaning into the frame in the background.

“I got my selfie!!! I really loved hearing her speak and hearing her goals for our country #HillaryFor-President,” Kardashian wrote.

By midday (1600 GMT) Fri-day, the photo had 20,000 likes on Twitter and another 773,000 on Instagram.

It was Clinton’s third event ap-pealing to Hollywood for contribu-tions in the run-up to the November 2016 election, the Hollywood Reporter said.

Among the 250 guests at the exclusive $2,700-per-ticket event -- which Braun hosted at his Holly-

wood mansion -- were Tom Hanks, Jessica Alba and Kris Jenner, the showbiz trade journal said.

Kardashian is no stranger when it comes to rubbing shoulders with politicos, being a regular on the red carpet at the White House Correspondents’ Association gala in Washington for several years running.

Hollywood is widely perceived as having Democratic leanings -- but billionaire Republican front-runner Donald Trump is as well-known to Americans as the outspoken host of his own reality TV show “The Ap-prentice” as he is for his real estate wheeling and dealing. (afp)

WASHINGTON - A faulty carburetor was to blame for the California crash of a vintage World War II training aircraft piloted by “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” star Harrison Ford, the National Trans-portation Safety Board (NTSB) said Thursday.

Ford, 73, a seasoned private pilot, sustained injuries when the Ryan PT-22 trainer that he was flying solo lost power on takeoff from Santa Monica airport on March 5, prompting him to make an emergency landing on a nearby golf course.

In a statement of probable cause, the NTSB said the two-seat aircraft suffered “a total loss of engine power during initial climb when the carburetor main metering jet became

unsealed, which led to an extremely rich fuel-to-air ratio.”

The NTSB also pointed to the cockpit shoulder harness, saying its improper installation contributed to the severity of Ford’s injuries, which were not life-threatening.

A longtime aviation enthusiast, Ford owns several aircraft and claims more than 5,200 hours in his log book. He is certified to fly land planes, seaplanes and helicopters, according to an earlier NTSB factual report on the accident.

Ford has bounced back from his injuries, appearing at the Comic-Con festival in San Diego, California last month to promote the forthcoming “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” due out this December. (afp)

Kim Kardashian keeps up with Clinton at Hollywood fundraiser

Carburetor blamed for Harrison Ford plane crash

Lady A’s Charles Kelley, wife announce pregnancy

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Charles Kelley, of Lady Antebellum, and his wife Cassie McCo-nnell attend the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York.

John Stamos is all about family in his 2 upcoming comedies

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Two shows at the same time playing a member of two families: that’s what John Stamos is up to these days.