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Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - More nude ce-lebrity photos, purportedly including reality star Kim Kardashian, circu-lated social media Saturday, in what appeared to be the second massive hacking-related leak in less than a month, US media reported.

The pictures, which also included nude shots of actress Vanessa Hudgens and US soccer star Hope Solo, appeared briefly on 4chan and Reddit, before

being removed, celebrity gossip site TMZ reported.

BuzzFeed said that personal videos and photos belonging to actresses Au-brey Plaza, Mary-Kate Olsen, Hayden Panettiere and Leelee Sobieski were posted, in addition to previously unseen pictures of Jennifer Lawrence.

Hackers first released a trove of nude starlets’ photos on September 1, after snatching them from Apple’s iCloud in what the tech giant has called a “targeted attack.”

The company has denied its cloud storage system was breached, suggesting that the celebrities had their accounts hacked by using easy-to-guess pass-words, or by giving up their personal data to cybercriminals posing as Apple, a technique known as “phishing.”

In addition to Lawrence, celebrities whose pictures were allegedly stolen and posted online in early September included model Kate Upton, singer Avril Lavigne and actress Gabrielle Union.

The Oscar-winning actress -- whose latest film as director, “Unbroken,” is out in December -- will go behind the camera once again for “Africa,” with a screenplay by another Oscar winner, Eric Roth.

“I’ve felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life,” Jolie said, praising “Forrest Gump” writer Roth’s “beautiful” script.

The film is about “a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers, who emerged with a deeper understanding of man’s footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him,” she said.

Leakey, 69, former head of the gov-ernment’s Kenya Wildlife Service, was key in stemming the rampant poaching of the late 1980s, using extreme measures including sending helicopter gunships into national parks.

Kenya’s elephant and rhino popula-

tions recovered from the brink of disas-ter, but more than two decades later, the east African nation is once again facing soaring levels of poaching.

The new movie for Skydance Produc-tions will be produced by Jolie, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Jon Peters. She will team up again with renowned cinematographer Roger Deakins, who also shot “Unbroken.”

Ellison called Leakey “inspi-rational,” saying: “’Africa’ is a story that deserves to be told.

“I know that it will exceed my expec-tations in Angelina’s hands,” he added.

Jolie is currently directing “By the Sea,” based on her own screenplay and in which she co-stars with her husband Brad Pitt, as well as Melanie Laurent and Niels Arestrup.

“Unbroken” is about Olympian and World War II POW survivor Louis Zam-perini. It will be released on December 25 in the United States.

Jolie’s directorial debut feature, 2011’s “In the Land of Blood and Honey” set against the background of the early 1990s Bosnian war, was nomi-nated for a Golden Globe award for best

foreign language film.

REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Vanessa Hudgens

Second apparent leak of hacked celebrity nude pictures

Jolie to direct film about Kenya conservationistAgence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Angelina Jolie is to direct a “sweeping epic” film about veteran Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey’s fight with ivory poachers, the studio behind the movie said Friday.

Penimbangan Beach is one of the alternative cheap family at-tractions. Late in the afternoon, a number of visitors often come with family just to unwind. Though, it shows the increase in the number of tourist visit, particularly at week-

end and holiday season, the area of Penimbangan Beach offering black sand still looks dirty as filled with rubbish.

Clean-up activities are still rare-ly done in the area of Penimbangan Beach. The rubbish consisting of

plastic food packs, plastic bags, twigs of trees and used offerings pile up and scatter on the beach sand are ascertained to have come from the high seas and visitors in confusion to dispose of rubbish around the beach. “Yes, we want to dispose of rubbish because there is no trash and janitor here. As a result, the beach becomes dirty, sir, whereas visitors are crowded here,” said Agus, one of the visitors.

An observer doubling as a mem-ber of the Sari Segara fishermen group of Baktiseraga, Buleleng

subdistrict, Kadek Wisata, said that coastal sanitation had not got opti-mal attention from local govern-ments. In addition, the dirty beach was caused by people’s behavior littering in middle of the ocean and the lack of trash bin. “There are a number of traders in the coastal areas of Penimbangan deliberately throwing trash into the sea. Then, the winds and sea currents carried the rubbish ashore and polluted the Penimbangan Beach,” he said.

The dirty Penimbangan Beach area was feared to reduce the tourist

visit. A simple system that could be done was by applying mutual assis-tance. He said that since fishermen were busy catching fish, they could not routinely do cleanup activities. It was complained because the rub-bish piled up along the shoreline. “The rubbish comes every day from the sea. Even, few foreign visitors often sunbathe here. Actually, the Penimbangan Beach has very high potential, so the coastal sanitation must be given a priority in order to keep the tourism image of Bule-leng,” he said. (kmb34)

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Penimbangan Beach filled with marine debris

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Along the coastal area of Penimbangan Beach at Baktiseraga village, Buleleng, marine debris looked to scatter and was estimated to originate from the open sea.

Bali Post

BULELENG - Along the coastal area of Penimbangan Beach at Baktiseraga village, Buleleng, marine debris looked to scatter and was estimated to originate from the open sea. Such dirty shoreline has occurred over the past few months and has not got any handling from the sanitation agency.

Jakarta – Continuing to expand the suc-cessful favehotel brand in the Indonesian capital, Archipelago International will be opening the latest favehotel property in Cen-tral Jakarta soon in this year.

Home to over 10 million people, Jakarta is a huge megalopolis and one of the world’s largest cities. It is a city of contrasts; the tra-ditional and the modern, the sacred and the worldly. Its population comprises of all ethnic groups in the Indonesian archipelago, living under the national motto: Bhineka Tunggal Ika, meaning “Unity in Diversity”.

Whether it be business or leisure, Jakarta’s central Zainul Arifin area offers access to the North and Central business districts, China-town and is within close proximity to the government offices around the Presidential Palace. Soekarno Hatta International Airport is just 35 to 45 minutes away by car.

With this convenient location, favehotel Zainul Arifin is a prime choice for long and short term leisure travelers, businessmen and families. The 84 super clean and contempo-rary budget hotel rooms feature top of the line beds with a plush mattress, down pillows, a

cozy duvet and crisp 250 thread-count sheets – together with smart touches that contribute to a comfortable and enjoyable stay.

Free high speed WiFi throughout the hotel keeps guests connected while the flat LED TVs in the rooms offer great entertainment options. The hotel’s eclectic café-shop serves a simple but hearty breakfast and many light and healthy choices throughout the day. Elsewhere in the hotel, there is also a selection of top-class meet-ing facilities for business travelers.

With a tagline of “Fun, Fresh and Friend-ly”, favehotel Zainul Arifin is committed to ensuring guests a comfortable stay. The friendly and attentive staff will be on hand to assist guests throughout their stay, and they will even offer assistance with guests’ excur-sions by sharing their knowledge and experi-ence of the surrounding area and its sights, including the nearby National Museum and National Monument.

“Jakarta is such a diverse capital city, with locals and tourists from across the world exploring its culture, doing business in the financial district and enjoying the plethora of dining, shopping and entertainment options.

favehotel Zainul Arifin caters to these differ-ent types of travelers, with its great central location, friendly staff and premium facili-ties. We are very excited to be adding this

new favehotel to Archipelago International’s ever-growing portfolio in the capital”. Said Norbert Vas, Archipelago International’s VP Sales & Marketing.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Monday, September 22, 2014Monday, September 22, 2014

Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014

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

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

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

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

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem

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

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

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

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

10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

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

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

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

Archipelago International Launches New Favehotel in Central Jakarta

Bali Post

BANGLI - Breakdown to the irrigation tunnel owned by Subak Uma Aya happened some time ago has caused dozens of hectares of paddy fields around the area to get eroded. Local farmers remarkably felt the aftermath. As a result, farmers, especially those having farmland at downstream area are still unable to plant due to drought. They are still confused what variety of plants to grow after the harvest.

As expressed by one of the local farmers, Ketut Tempo, Saturday (Sep 20), he could not work on his paddy field as it already dried up. Moreover, the break-down of the irrigation tunnel also eroded 300 square meters of his farmland occurred during dry season. “As it is dry like this, I do not know what to plant in my paddy fields,” said Tempo when met after harvesting at his paddy field.

However, since the paddy field was currently dry, according to him, the most appropriate plant to be planted was soybeans. “Probably, I will later plant it with soybeans or other kinds of crops,” he added.

He admitted the irrigation tunnel breakdown at the beginning of this September had disrupted the water flow to his paddy field. It happened because the breakdown occurred at the upstream of his paddy field. Luckily, the breakdown happened when his paddy plants no longer needed plenty of water.

As previously reported, the breakdown of the ir-rigation tunnel was alleged to have been kindled by unstable soil condition. All this time, the tunnel posed the irrigation channel for from the Sangsang River to Subak Sidawa. Breakdown of the tunnel caused a number of farmlands above the tunnel to collapse and left a large gaping sinkhole with a depth of tens of meters. (ina)

From the search, for the income in August 2014, one of the legisla-tors in the Badung House received IDR 25,268,950. Such amount is derived from the component of representation, package, position, family, rice allowance, housing allowance and telecommunica-tions incentive. Component of the biggest income sources from the housing allowance reaching IDR 14,500,000.

The amount of such income had not been maximal because in Au-gust, the income component of the

legislators was not in full amount. They have not got any allowance of the parliamentary leadership in-come component. Even, according to information from the Secretary of the Badung House, I Made Wira Dharmajaya, there would be a rise in income for the legislators. How-ever, he claimed if the magnitude and time could not be ascertained.

Of the total income, there were still some deductions. Components of the deduction consisted of in-come tax, levy to political party, faction deduction and Gatriwara

(association of legislators’ spouse) levy. Interestingly, some legislators brought home net salaries reaching hundreds of thousands of rupiahs only because their salaries had been deducted for certain matters, primarily for personal expenses.

From a number of talks to some legislators of the Badung House, most of them admitted to get inad-equate income and it was unable to meet the monthly needs. Not a few of them complained because their income as a legislator was insufficient.

Other than for meeting personal or family needs, most of them had debt in relatively high amount to finance the previous legislative campaign. Not only that, the politi-cal cost to maintain the constituents each month was also quite large. Even, at certain moments, they had to spend up to tens of millions of rupiahs on a day.

Such inadequate income was recognized by a legislator of the Ba-dung House, Putu Alit Yandinata. However, he did not want that his service in the House was considered to seek wealth. He mentioned that as the people’s representative, each legislator should be required to pay devotional works for public inter-est. “In essence, being a people’s representative is devotion, not mak-ing money,” he said while adding

that he had no business outside his capacity as a legislator to meet his political costs.

Similar opinion was expressed by another legislator of the Badung House, I Made Duama, Saturday (Sep 20). According to him, being a legislator was not as easy as esti-mated. A legislator should be able to carry out the task of defending the public interest over personal interests. So, he said, representing people in parliament was not a place to look for wealth but to serve the community.

“A legislator has the primary task to struggle for the poor first. Indeed, it’s hard but it should be undertaken. Each legislator may not ignore the public interests,” said the PDI-P politician from Ungasan. (kmb25)

High political cost, salary inadequateBali Post

MANGUPUrA - A legislator of the Badung House can get income reaching tens of millions of rupiahs. The greatest income sources from housing allowance. Although relatively high-paying, in fact a number of the legislators complain because their income during their service as a member of the House is still unable to meet the needs, especially the political costs.

Irrigation tunnel breakdownFarmers unable to cultivate paddy field

IBP/Suasrina

The damage irrigation tunnel of Subak Uma Aya is seen in the picture.

314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsTraveling Monday, September 22, 2014Monday, September 22, 2014

Agence France-Presse

PARIS - Paris officials have put up plastic panels on an iconic pedestrian bridge spanning the Seine river in front of the Louvre in an attempt to stop lovers sealing their passion with padlocks attached to the bridge.

City hall authorities are des-perately trying to save the world-famous Pont des Arts and other bridges from damage from the thousands of padlocks left there by tourists and some locals as a pledge to their eternal devotion.

Since 2008, when the craze first

began, thousands of couples from across the world have visited the Pont des Arts every year and sealed their love by attaching a padlock carrying their names to its railing and throwing the key in the Seine.

But too much love can be a dan-gerous thing and the city authorities have been wrestling with the prob-lem of how to halt the phenomenon, which is beginning to take its toll.

In June, police hurriedly ushered tourists off the Pont des Arts when a section of the footbridge collapsed under the weight of the padlocks, which now completely cover the

155-metre-(509-foot-)long bridge.City official Bruno Julliard said

Friday the city had decided “to ex-periment by placing Perspex panels to replace the metal grills” to which visitors attach their “love locks”.

“Two have been installed, a third will be fixed in the coming days,” he said.

Over Paris’s busy summer period this year, romantic tourists to the world’s most-visited city attached more than 700,000 love lock on several Paris bridges, say City Hall authorities.

This has resulting in “a last-

ing deterioration for our cultural heritage and a risk for visitors’ security”.

“On the Pont des Arts alone, 15 grills have had to be removed for safety reasons. Each of these panels were carrying nearly 500 kilo-grammes (1,100 pounds), more than four times the maximum weight,” city hall said.

In a desperate bid to stop the phenomenon, Paris city hall of-ficials in August urged lovers to upload “selfies” instead of attaching a love lock.

Javiera Pacheco, a tourist from

Chile, who was visiting the city with her Italian boyfriend Mar-co, was not impressed with the new initiative as she placed their “Marco and Javiera” padlock on the bridge.

“You have to keep the love locks. It’s very romantic and Paris is known for that,” she said.

For a different reason, the new measures were not welcome for Singh Sharry. The 19-year-old In-dian sells padlocks to love-struck couples hoping to leave a lasting monument to their passion in the City of Light.

Chocolate is a national treasure in Belgium. It is home to such illustrious brands as Godiva, Neuhaus, Leonidas and Cote d’Or. And the museum open-ing Saturday, in a former chocolate factory in the capital Brussels, will showcase its love of the brown stuff.

“The Belgian passion for choco-late has never been denied and we

have become ‘the country of choco-late,’” the museum’s designer Henri Dupuis said.

At the heart of the Belgian Chocolate Village, as the museum is called, cocoa trees and other tropical plants grow in a lush green-house.

Visitors to the museum in the

northwest Brussels neighbourhood of Koekelberg can learn how the cocoa bean is harvested abroad, usually in west Africa where it was introduced by the Europeans, and then refined into chocolate in northern countries.

They are told the history of choco-late from its origin in central America

where the Maya and Aztec Indians consumed cocoa in the form of a drink, to its arrival in Europe with the Spanish before it was mass produced in the industrial revolution.

It shows how chocolate sparked religious debates -- about whether it could be eaten during periods of fasting -- and children in Europe were often forbidden from hav-ing it.

Visitors are also shown how con-fectioners cater to different tastes in different countries: the Dutch like to sip hot chocolate drinks, the

Belgians adore pralines and favor dark chocolate while the Swiss like milk chocolate.

The visitor can not only see how different chocolates are made in what used to be the former Victoria chocolate and biscuit factory, which closed in 1969, but taste a whole variety of them.

Chocolate is one of Belgium’s main consumer products, with the small EU nation manufacturing around 172,000 tonnes of chocolate products a year, according to the Belgian tourist office.

Agence France-Presse

ROME - Want to discover Rome and keep fit in the process? Jogger guides in the eternal city are taking tourists from around the world on a trot from the Colosseum to the Vatican. For those worried what all those pizzas and ice-creams are do-ing to their waistline, taking to the streets of the historic centre at dawn not only lets visitors stay trim but gives them an experience of Italy’s capital when the tourist crowds are still tucked up in bed.

Kristin Karstensdotter, a young Swedish expat, founded her jog-ging guide company in 2012 to fill a gap in the market after training for the Rome marathon. “I was out all the time, running the city, and I saw all these tourists walking in groups or running by themselves and I thought it would be very cool to be able to show them the same side of Rome I see when I’m out running,” she told AFP during a morning sprint.

From nine o’clock in the morn-ing (0700 GMT), a small group of maximum six people meets in front of the imposing Castle of the Holy

Angel on the banks of the Tiber river and sets off on a tour which takes in the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon.

With Romans busy sipping espressos or already at work at that hour, the cobbled streets are rela-tively empty and the group can take time to stop and hear all about the history of the city’s prized monu-ments from their guide.

From Americans to Japanese, Lithuanians and Swedes, the run-ners come from across the world.

The groups cover about seven kilometres (just over four miles) in an hour, and don’t need to be particularly athletic. While most who take part describe themselves as “sporty”, Karstensdotter said she also welcomes beginners.

Karla, a Salvadorian student taking part in one of the tours, said she had been attracted by the idea of seeing the city in a different way.

“You discover things at a more leisurely pace walking, but running is more fun, particularly in a group,” she said.

Finally, a trip to the spaghetti heartland of Italy can actually be good for your figure.

The battered body of Sheila von Wiese Mack, 62, was found in the case in the boot of a taxi in front of an exclusive hotel in the upscale Nusa Dua resort area on August 12.

Her teenage daughter, Heather Mack, and daughter’s boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, had been staying with her at the St Regis hotel but fled to another part of the island after the killing. They were caught the following day.

They are in custody in Bali while police investigate and could face the death penalty if found guilty of premeditated murder.

Authorities previously claimed

they have strong evidence against the pair and on Friday Djoko Heru Utomo, police chief in the Balinese capital Denpasar, said they had ad-mitted their involvement in the case during questioning in recent days.

“Both suspects have confessed,” he said, adding that Schaefer, 21, had admitted to carrying out the killing after an argument with the victim.

The daughter, 19, claimed she watched Schaefer kill her mother and then helped to stuff the body into the suitcase, said Utomo.

“The interrogation is continuing in order to get the full account,” he added.

Heather Mack, who is pregnant, had previously refused to talk to Indonesian police without Ameri-can legal representation present, and this week her lawyer from the United States arrived in Bali to as-sist her locally-hired lawyers.

The pair are yet to be charged with any crime, as under the Indo-nesian legal system suspects are not formally charged until they appear in court at the start of a trial.

A trial will only begin once police have completed their inves-tigations and passed the evidence to prosecutors. The victim and the suspects are all from the Chicago area.

Bali Post

SEMARAPURA - Since the implementation of the renovation, the tourist visit to Kertagosa tour-ist attraction decreased drastical-ly. Many travelers canceled their visit after knowing the renovation. Meanwhile, the renovation work cannot be accelerated because the Kamasan paintings on the ceiling of the pavilion were vulnerable to damage.

Renovation workmanship in the floating pavilion (Bale Kam-bang) has started re-installing the Kamasan paintings. Special treatment is given to the paint-ings made from asbestos material as they are vulnerable to damage when handled carelessly.

“As needing high accuracy, the workers can only install 5 meters of the paintings pursuant to its sequence each day,” said field su-pervisor of PT Suri Mas Perkasa, Wayan Rustawan, 29.

Renovation work to floating pavilion was estimated to be completed in two weeks, while the Kertagosa pavilion in a month. “For Kertagosa pavilion, we are still awaiting the installation of palm fiber,” he explained.

His party revealed that during the construction of the pavilion, visitors were not allowed to see the paintings becoming the main object of the Kertagosa. In addition, the project was also installed with rope so that visitors would not pass the path to the renovation area. This condition caused a decrease in the number of tourist visits to Kertagosa at-traction.

In accordance with the number of tourist visits to Kertagosa, a decline has happened since the renovation project was started on August 1. Previously, the visits could reach 323 people, but later decreased to no more than 200 people. Many visitors arriving at location even canceled the visit after seeing the renovation works.

One of the renovation work-ers, Kadek Wijaya, 30, claimed to have been carefully removing and re-installing the paintings. It required a high accuracy to put back the paintings in order to be appropriate with the original position and sequence. “When removing, the paintings must be done in sequence as well as when putting them back,” he said.

According to him, the wooden construction of the pavilion build-ing remained sturdy and feasible for reuse. Only a few needed to be replaced because they were no longer feasible. While the bamboo, palm fiber and zinc were replaced in whole. “Condition of the zinc sheets has been dam-aged and rusty and so as the palm fibers, so they must be replaced,” he added.

During the renovation works, the supervision continued to be done by the Klungkung govern-ment, royal family and the officers of the project contractor. The Klungkung Culture and Tourism Agency had instructed to pay great attention to the existing paintings. After removal, the paintings were stored in a special place to prevent any damage due to moisture. (dwa)

Tourist visit slumps due to Kertagosa renovation

IBP/Dewa Farend

Workers worked on the renovation site at Kerta Gosa. Since the implementation of the renovation, the tourist visit to Kertagosa tourist attraction decreased drastically.

IBP/File Photo

Tommy Schaefer (left) confessed to killing his girlfriend’s mother at a luxury resort on the In-donesian island of Bali, while the girlfriend has admitted helping stuff the body into a suitcase, police said Friday.

US man confesses to Bali suitcase killing

Agence France-Presse

DENPASAR - An American man has confessed to killing his girlfriend’s mother at a luxury resort on the Indonesian island of Bali, while the girlfriend has admitted helping stuff the body into a suitcase, police said Friday.

Brussels chocolate museum opens to sweeten sensesAgence France-Presse

BRUSSELS - It likes to call itself the “country of chocolate” and now Belgium has a new treat for visitors: a museum dedicated to the confectionary featuring a Willy Wonka-style factory and cocoa tree jungle.

Paris puts up panels to prevent ‘love-locks’

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A street performer tries to attract passers-by attention, in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. In background is St. Peter’s Basilica.

Discover Rome at a run with jogger

guide tours

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VILNIUS, Lithuania — NATO’s top general said Saturday the two-week-old truce between Ukraine and pro-Russian militants fighting in the country’s east is a “cease-fire in name only,” and he said that by enabling a free flow of weapons and fighters across the border Russia has made it nearly impossible to determine how many of its troops are operating inside Ukraine.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told a news conference after meeting with NATO military chiefs that he is hopeful about Saturday’s announced agreement for creation of a buffer zone between Ukrainian and pro-Russian forces.

The deal reached by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the Moscow-backed reb-els and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe marks an effort to add substance to the Sept. 5 cease-fire agreement that has been frequently broken by clashes.

Breedlove has put the main blame on Russia for the continuing conflict. “So the situation in Ukraine is not good right now,” he said. “Basically we have a cease-fire in name only.”

Breedlove said violence levels in

Ukraine, including the number of artillery rounds fired in the past few days, are as high as prior to the cease-fire.

Asked about prospects for an ac-ceptable end Sunday to the prolonged stalemate in Kabul over Afghanistan’s presidential election, Breedlove sounded an optimistic note, saying NATO officials have spoken with both candidates, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and former finance minister and World Bank official Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.

“We believe they are very, very close to forming that unity government (which) we think is very important,” Breedlove said.

He said both Abdullah and Ghani Ah-madzai have promised a “quick signature” to a U.S.-Afghan security agreement that would provide the basis for nearly 10,000 American troops to remain in the country after the U.S. and NATO combat missions end in December. The current president, Hamid Karzai, negotiated the deal last year but refused to sign it.

“I wouldn’t want to speculate on how fast, but we’re hoping for very fast signa-tures,” Breedlove said, because it would open the way not only for U.S. troops to remain but also for NATO to begin a training mission dubbed Resolute Support starting in January.

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Despite these setbacks, officials said most of Sierra Leone’s 6 mil-lion people were complying with orders to stay at home as nearly 30,000 volunteers and health care workers fanned out across the coun-try to distribute soap and informa-tion on how to prevent Ebola.

The virus, spread by contact with bodily fluids, has killed than 560 people in Sierra Leone and more than 2,600 in West Africa since the outbreak began last December, according to the World Health Or-ganization. It is killing about half of the people it infects.

The streets of the capital, Free-town, were empty Saturday except for the four-person teams going door to door with kits bearing soap, cards listing Ebola symp-toms, stickers to mark houses visited and a tally to record sus-pected cases.

Among the volunteers was Id-rissa Kargbo, a well-known mara-

thoner who has qualified for races on three continents but whose train-ing and career have been stymied by the outbreak.

Although early responses to the disease have been marred by suspicion of health workers, Free-town residents on Saturday seemed grateful for any information they could get, Kargbo told The Associ-ated Press.

“Some people are still denying, but now when you go to almost any house they say, ‘Come inside, come and teach us what we need to do to prevent,’” Kargbo said. “Nobody is annoyed by us.”

Sierra Leone’s government is clearly hoping the lockdown will help turn the tide against the disease which the U.N. health agency estimates will take many months to eradicate in the country. In a speech before the lockdown, President Ernest Bai Koroma said “the survival and dignity of each

and every Sierra Leonean” was at stake.

The strategy has drawn criticism, however. The charity group Doctors

Without Borders warned it would be “extremely difficult for health workers to accurately identify cases through door-to-door screening.”

Even if suspected cases are identified during the lockdown, the group said Sierra Leone doesn’t have enough beds to treat them.

Sierra Leone staggers in Ebola isolation effort Associated Press

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Some in Sierra Leone ran away from their homes Saturday and others clashed with health workers trying to bury dead Ebola victims as the country struggled through the second day of an unprecedented lockdown to combat the deadly disease.

AP Photo/Michael DuffA health worker volunteer marks a home with chalk to identify that it has been visited, as they distribute bars of soap and information about Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.

NATO chief: Ukraine has cease-fire ‘in name only’

AP Photo/Mindaugas KulbisNATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) U.S. Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, left, U.S. Army Commander for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Gen. John F. Campbell, center, and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) Gen. Jean-Paul Pal-omeros, right, attend a NATO Military Committee Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.

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AMLAPURA - The Ritual Committee of Panca Wali Krama, Wana Kertih and pujawali or temple anniversary with the peak on Thurs-day (Oct 23) at Pasar Agung Temple at Sebudi, Selat, Karangasem dithered. According to Spokesperson of the ritual committee, Wayan Suara Arsana, his party faced water crisis at Sebudi, Friday (Sep 19).

He said the temple had some toilets at the courtyard but the water was in crisis. It hap-pened because all the cisterns had dried up. Meanwhile, the water in the reservoir at the bottom of the temple had also dried up.

He worried that without the help of clean water supply from the Karangasem County many pilgrims were feared to complain. Thousands of pilgrims would come and wor-ship each day. After a long journey by riding vehicle, what they looked for after dropping off the vehicle was toilet. Especially female pilgrims could not urinate arbitrarily in the bush, but had to go to toilet. “When they found no water in the toilet and it is less clean, the committee will reap a complaint. It is impos-sible for such a big temple having no water,” said Suara mimicking the complaints of pil-grims all this time.

Suara said that the committee had been trying for buying water from tank truck with the capacity of 5,000 liters at IDR 200,000 each tank. With the donation collected from toilet users at IDR 200 per person, his party could only get IDR 100,000. As a result, the committee should subsidize as much as IDR 100,000 per tank. “If we charge at higher amount at IDR 5,000 per toilet user for the price of water at IDR 200,000 each tank, it seems too high. So, we ask the understanding of pilgrims related to the condition of Pasar Agung temple located in the barren ridge and faces clean water crisis,” he said. He also expected the Karangasem government to help with the water supply. Most of the water was needed to flush toilet.

A ritual committee, I Gusti Bagus Suteja, conveyed similar thing. Related to the clean water crisis, his party had prayed and invoked so that it could rain ahead of ritual events, so the rainwater could be collected in cistern. He added that a cistern of rainwater from Mount Agung had been made above the Pasar Agung temple. However, the water stock had run thin. The water of cistern on the left and right side of the temples already diminished. Without an immediate rain ahead of the ritual, it was feared the water would dry up. “The water in the reservoir under the Pasar Agung Temple has also run thin. If the water remains in the reservoir, it is actually supplied to the popula-tion at the bottom,” he said.

Gusti Suteja from Jero Selat expected the help of the Karangasem government if there was no heavy rain ahead of the ritual. “We have proposed the help request to local govern-ment, so that we can be helped occasionally with the water supply by using tank truck,” he said. (013)

“We’re just uncovering this case. The funder in the case will surely be traced. Moreover, the precursor prepared is in very large number,” said the Chief of Denpasar Police Narcotics Unit, Gede Ganefo.

Chief of Denpasar Police, Djoko Har-iutomo, accompanied by Gede Ganefo affirmed to hold the disclosure of the case. In addition to revealing the four suspects, namely Wayan Artawa alias Tawok, 46, Donisius S., 27, I Gusti Ngurah Surya Wibawa, 34, and Nyoman Sudarmawan, 36, he also demonstrated the raw materials and equipment used to make the crystal meth and ecstasy, the results of raid in the house used as ecstasy factory on Jalan Buana Kubu Gang Asem, Denpasar, a villa at Kaliasem, Banjar, Buleleng and villa Jalan Daman, Kayu Putih, Sukasada, Buleleng. Both the villas were used to produce crystal meth.

According to Denpasar Police Chief accompanied by the Spokesperson of Bali Police Hery Wiyanto, the evidence secured in the house of the suspect Surya Wibawa on Jalan Buana Kubu Gang Asem, Tuesday (Sep 16) included 1,130 colored tablets of ecstasy material, precursor in the form of white powder weighing 101.19 grams,

a bottle of 10-mg codeine weighing 61 grams and other materials. “When the search was made, the friend of the sus-pect named Sudarmawan came in. When searched, an ecstasy pill press machine was found in his pocket,” he said.

From testimony of the two suspects, the personnel of Ganefo then searched the dorm room of the suspect Dion denoting the crystal meth and ecstasy maker on Jalan Tukad Ba-tanghari, Denpasar. In the room of the suspect from Medan, North Sumatra, was secured the ecstasy fragment weighing 0.21 gram, posing the rest of production some time ago. “The three suspects have produced 50 ecstasy pills but have been sold out,” said Djoko.

When checking the Tab of the suspect Dion, the officers shocked as finding the photographs of crystal meth factory. Hav-ing been questioned, the suspect Dion fi-nally uncovered the factory of crystal meth in Buleleng. He admitted to make it with the suspect Artawa aka Tawok at one of the villas at Kaliasem area, Buleleng. The team led in person by the Chief of Narcotics Unit headed for the villa to conduct a search. As a result, the officers could secure a few grams of powder precursors and several

bottles of chemicals along with heating tool and electric scale. The villa was used as location to produce crystal meth.

After arrested in the area of Seririt, Buleleng, Tawok was taken to location of the villa on Jalan Daman, Kayu Putih, Su-kasada, Buleleng. At the villa, the officers could secure the crystal meth making tools in the form of glass bottles, measuring cup, hose, heating device, scales and thermom-eter. Among the evidences, there was also a precursor powder weighing 27 kilograms, a dozen bottles of chemicals, 5 jerrycans of chemical and some sacks of ingredients used to make other crystal meth.

“Having been checked in forensic labo-ratory in Denpasar, the materials belong to the category of precursors related to methamphetamine,” said Subdivision Head of the Forensic Biochemistry of Denpasar Forensic Laboratory, Ngurah Wijaya Putra, while accompanying the police chief.

Djoko Hariutomo asserted the crystal meth materials were predominantly sup-plied from Jakarta and Malang. With the materials the suspect could be produce about 6 kilograms of crystal meth worth IDR 10 billion more. When running smoothly, the factory could produce 15 grams of crystal meth every 3 days. Meanwhile, the produc-tion of ecstasy at the home of Surya funded by Sudarmawan at IDR 20 million could yield 1,000 ecstasy pills worth IDR 450 mil-lion. “When combined, both factories can produce narcotics worth IDR 11 billion,” said Djoko. (kmb36)

Ahead of Panca Wali KramaCommittee gets confused due to water crisis

IBP/’Eka AdyaksaThe police is diplaying the evidences confiscated during the raid of a meth factory

Funder of drug factory mysteriousBali Post

DENPASAR - Denpasar Police still doubted if the suspect Wayan Artawa alias Tawok was the mastermind of the drug factory raided at Villa Lumbung at Kaliasem, Banjar, Buleleng and a villa located on Jalan Daman, Kayu Putih, Sukasada, Buleleng. Allegedly, the funder has disbursed IDR 300 million for the factory belonging to the home industry.

Tambahan Cliff Temple is located at quite challenging position, namely on the verge of Geredeg cliff. To reach the site, visitors must pass through a very inadequate path, namely dirt footpath. Seeing from the condition, it indicates if the path has not got any attention from local government and the other par-ties to improve the footpath heading for the site.

A custodian of the Tam-bahan Cliff Temple, Dewa Agung Made Tirta, when met on Tuesday (Sep 16) said the cliff temple had been declared a national cultural heritage so that the existence had been protected by Law No.5/1992 on the preservation of historical and archaeologi-cal heritage in Bali and NTB. Nevertheless, he did not know exactly when the temple was first found. It measured about 2 meters x 2.5 meters and had existed since long time before he was in charge of preserv-ing the site. “I do not know exactly when it was found. Even, the previous officers

claimed not to know,” he explained.

According to his estima-tion, the cliff temple had existed since the eleventh century. The Tambahan Cliff Temple relief, said Dewa Tirta, resembled to the relics of Gunung Kawi Temple, Gianyar. Some local residents frequently put the offerings on the temple such as in the form of cigarette. “When people wishing to invoke water of lo-cal spring, they usually deliver cigarettes here,” he said.

All this time, the Tamba-han Cliff Temple was admit-ted to be very rarely visited by travelers. Travelers hardly ever visited this heritage site. Lastly, the cliff temple was visited by the students of the Department of Archaeology, Udayana University in 2012.

Even though rarely visited by travelers, he remained to preserve the sanitation of the ancient heritage. Leaves and moss around the site were always cleaned up so that it could always look like the original condition. (ina)

Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey, who hosted the Group of 20 meeting in the northern Australian city of Cairns, said the G-20 finance minis-ters and central bankers had agreed to more than 900 policy initiatives to meet the goal they set in February during a gathering in Sydney.

The G-20, which represents about 85 percent of the global economy, said an analysis of those initiatives show they should boost the combined gross domestic product of member countries by 1.8 percent above levels expected for the next five years — just short of the group’s target of 2 percent.

In July, the International Mone-tary Fund downgraded its economic forecast, estimating the world economy would expand 3.4 percent this year, rather than the 3.7 percent it had previously predicted, due to weaker growth in the U.S., Russia and developing economies.

Last week, the lending organiza-

tion amped up pressure on the G-20 to take action on its global growth commitment, calling for decisive structural reforms. On Sunday, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the G-20 would need to concentrate on labor market measures and infrastructure in order to reach its 2 percent growth goal by 2018.

“They are almost done, but need to do a bit more,” Lagarde told re-porters after the meeting.

Hockey said the group had agreed to shift its focus from government-led growth to private sector-led growth, particular from additional investment in infrastructure. In a communique issued after the meet-ing, the G-20 outlined a Global Infrastructure Initiative, which would include the development of a database to help match potential investors with projects.

The group also warned that while economic conditions had improved in some key economies, global

growth remained uneven and below the pace necessary to generate criti-cally needed jobs.

Hockey said the group would deliver “concrete outcomes” by the time the main G-20 summit is held in November in the Australian city

of Brisbane.“We will now redouble efforts

and hold each other to account on meeting this target as we go for-ward,” he said.

The G-20 represents the world’s major industrialized and developing

countries. Its members are Argen-tina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Can-ada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union.

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MUMBAI - They were famed for their jet-set lifestyles and the names of their companies were emblazoned on airplanes, Formula One cars and the shirtfronts of cricket teams. But now the debt-laden empires of three of India’s best-known tycoons -- Vijay Mallya, Subrata Roy and T. Venkattram Reddy -- are crumbling before their eyes, downfalls that observers say stem from a climate of weak regulation and deference to conspicuous wealth.

“All too often, the banks are dazzled by the halo of personal fortunes,” said Vishwas Utagi, a veteran campaigner for banking regulation.

Some of India’s most successful businesses, such as the family-run Tata and Reliance conglom-erates, have been led for years by men with little appetite for publicity and who prefer to operate in the shadows.

But Kingfisher boss Mallya and Sahara supremo Roy came to epitomise a new breed of tycoon, unafraid of trumpeting their achievements when they started making a name for themselves in the early 2000s.

Mallya -- the self-styled “King of Good Times” -- became something of an icon as he turned the United Breweries Group which he inherited from his father into one of the world’s largest spirit makers.

As his core business flourished, Mallya branched out by launching the Kingfisher airline, named after his company’s best-known beer. His profile rose

further when he acquired a stake in the Force India F1 team and ownership of the Royal Challengers Bangalore cricket team.

But as the Indian economy began to slow sharply at the turn of the decade, with the aviation industry becoming one of the sectors to be worst hit, Mallya’s fortunes nosedived too. After selling the liquor busi-ness to Diageo in a bid to shore up his airline, Mallya looked on helplessly as Kingfisher continued to haem-orrhage cash. The airline never took to the skies again after a pilots’ strike over unpaid wages in 2012.

Having run out of patience over Mallya’s failure to clear debts said to be in excess of $60 million, the United Bank of India this month declared him a “wilful defaulter”, making it nigh impossible to access fresh loans.

While Mallya is fighting to keep his properties from creditors, Roy is trying to sell his portfolio of luxury hotels -- including New York’s Plaza Hotel and the Grosvenor House in London -- to raise the $1.6 billion he needs to secure bail from Delhi’s Tihar Prison.

While he has several media interests, including a Hindi TV channel and newspaper, Roy’s profile was heightened by his co-ownership with Mallya of Force India and involvement in cricket.

Things dramatically worsened in March when Roy was detained after failing to meet a demand by regulators to pay back millions of small savers the $3.2 billion that Sahara raised via an illegal bond scheme.

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CAIRNS - US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Sunday called on the eu-rozone to do more to boost demand and make the structural changes needed to kick-start its stuttering economy.

“The discussions over the weekend have shown a growing recognition that Europe is going to need to do more to get its economy to where it should be,” he said in Cairns after a G20 meeting of finance ministers.

“What is clear from the US experi-ence is that the combination of taking action to boost demand in the short run and making structural changes for the long run is a important combination and it shouldn’t be a choice between the two. “You really need to pursue both.”

Last week the OECD said the sickly eurozone recovery was acting as drag on the outlook for the global economy.

It chopped by a third its 2014 fore-cast to 0.8 percent from the 1.2 percent expansion it had projected in May, warning the sluggish recovery was also at risk from increased tension over con-

flicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.Lew, speaking at a press conference,

said the principal of both growing de-mand and making structural reforms was “actually consistent with many of the ideas that are being discussed in Europe”.

“The challenge in Europe is to get an agreement on how to bring those pieces together.

“The concern I have is that if the ef-forts to boost demand are deferred for too long, there are risks that headwinds get stronger,” he added.

“And what I think Europe needs is more tailwinds in the economy. That’s what boosting demand in the short run would do.

“At the same time it is clear of the great need for structural reform in Europe. It is a question of finding the right balance.”

Lew added that while there were “philosophical differences” with some European countries on how to drive growth, “I think the notion that there needs to be a balance between the two, there is a growing consensus.”

G-20 says close to goal of $2 trillion in growthAssociated Press

SYDNEY — Finance chiefs from the 20 largest economies said on Sunday they are close to reaching their goal of boosting world GDP by more than $2 trillion over the next five years, and will focus on infrastructure investment to help reach the target.

Reuters Finance chiefs from the 20 largest economies said on Sunday they are close to reaching their goal of boosting world GDP by more than $2 trillion over the next five years, and will focus on infrastructure investment to help reach the target.

Europe needs to do more to boost growth: US

India’s jet-set tycoons crash to earth

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DENPASAR - At a National semi-nar held on 19 September 2014 by the Faculty of Health, Universitas Hindu Indonesia (UNHI) in Denpasar, two Indian experts – Ayurvedacharya Dr. Parveen Kumar and Yoga Instructor Ms. Mallika Savalkar – gave detailed powerpoint presentations on the benefits of Ayurveda & Yoga for managing obesity.

While narrating the causes and symptoms of obesity, Dr. Kumar elaborated on the management of obesity as detailed in Ayurveda through therapy, herbs, food items

which help to reduce obesity and herbal medicines. Ms. Mallika gave lecture-demonstration on Yoga asanas, Surya Namaskar & pranayama, among others.

As per a study reported by one of magazines in April 2014, as many as 15 Indonesian provinces have prevalence of obesity above the national rate, including Bali. Regular practice of yoga and bal-anced nutritional diet intake, with focus on foods & herbs beneficial for the health & body, helps to ward off the excess fat/weight on the body leading to an active mind & body.

Cliff Temple at Tambahan similar to relief at Gunung KawiBali Post

BANGLI - Evidently Bangli is rich in archaeological heritage site. Aside from the cliff temple at Jehem Kaja hamlet, Jehem village, Tembuku, another similar ancient relic can also be found at Tambahan hamlet, at local village. Slightly different from the existing site at Jehem Kaja, the heritage known as the Tambahan Cliff Temple remains to strongly adhere to the cliff wall. It has a relief looking like the relics as found at Gunung Kawi, Gianyar.

Yoga & Ayurveda effectively prevent obesity

IBP/Courtesy of India ConsulateMs. Mallika gave lecture-demonstration on Yoga asanas, Surya Namaskar & pranayama, among others.

IBP/SwasrinaEvidently Bangli is rich in archaeological heritage site. Aside from the cliff temple at Jehem Kaja hamlet, Jehem village, Tembuku, another similar ancient relic can also be found at Tambahan hamlet, at local village.

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The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader has lived in exile for decades in India’s Himalayan foothill city of Dharamsala, after fleeing China following a failed 1959 uprising. The arrangement has irritated Bei-jing, which has long accused the Dalai Lama of fomenting unrest and encouraging Buddhist monks to self-immolate in demanding more autonomy for Tibet, a Himalayan region in western China that borders India, Bhutan and Nepal.

However, Beijing’s attitude ap-pears to be shifting, the Dalai Lama said, noting that China’s Communist leaders, who officially are atheist, are now “mentioning the importance of spiritualism.” “There are a lot of changes,” the Dalai Lama told reporters.

He said that since becoming president in March 2013, Xi has dem-onstrated “through his handling of problems, he is comparatively more realistic and with more principles” than his predecessors.

The remarks brought no immediate comment from China’s government or state media. However, Beijing has previously denounced the Dalai Lama as a separatist traitor and warned that any of his moderate comments are deceptive. China says the Himalayan region has been part of Chinese terri-tory for centuries, while Tibetans say it was virtually independent until China

occupied it in 1950.India is home to a large Tibetan

community as well as Tibet’s gov-ernment-in-exile. During Xi’s visit to New Delhi this past week, doz-ens of Tibetan protesters shouting “Hands off Tibet!” staged a noisy demonstration outside the building where he was meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Dalai Lama also said Saturday on the sidelines of an interfaith meeting in New Delhi that India and China should put aside any animosities they harbor over a long-festering border dispute and “remain peaceful on the basis of mutual trust,” according to Press Trust of India.

The border dispute, over which the two nations fought a bloody monthlong war in 1962, has com-plicated relations for decades, with the two militaries in a tense standoff even last week while Xi was in New Delhi. Both Xi and Modi vowed special efforts in resolving the dis-pute as they work to boost economic cooperation.

The Dalai Lama also praised India for proving that communities can live peacefully together, and said India must show its example of religious harmony to the rest of the world.

“India is the only country where all major world religions live to-gether, not only in modern time but over 1,000 years,” he said in opening

the two-day interfaith meeting he had organized for leaders from nine reli-gious communities to mull some of India’s most pressing and seemingly endemic problems — from gender violence and widespread poverty to environmental degradation and com-munal violence.

India has been soul-searching somewhat, since national elections stirred up questions about the na-tion’s identity and ambitions for the future as it pushes for rapid economic growth and 21st century technologies even as three-fourths of its 1.2 bil-lion population still live on less than $1.25 a day. The landslide victory by Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party left some wor-ried that his association with Hindu hardliners could encourage violence between Muslims and Hindus, who make up 80 percent of the country’s population.

The Dalai Lama urged the reli-gious leaders to more actively pro-mote tolerance, saying there was no justification for violence carried out in the name of religion or extremist ideology.

“Some people (are) killing in the name of religion,” he said. “For economy reasons or political power, of course it’s very sad but under-standable. But killing in the name of faith, for different religious faith, (is) unthinkable.”

Associated Press

NAIROBI — Kenya is mark-ing one year since four gunmen stormed the upscale Westgate Mall in Nairobi, killing 67 people. A memorial plaque with names of the victims has been unveiled at a forest on the edge of the city where people hike. Later, a candlelight vigil will be held at a museum.

Police have increased their presence in public places such as churches, supermarkets and malls.

Police chief David Kimaiyo asked residents Saturday to be “extra vigilant” of attacks in the coming week. Kimaiyo said police had doubled patrols.

Al-Shabab militants from Soma-lia claimed responsibility for the mall attack saying it was retribu-tion for Kenya’s troop presence in Somalia.

More recently, al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab vowed to avenge the death of their leader killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this month.

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JAKARTA - KPK regretted that corruption convicts could easily win parole from the Justice and Human Rights Ministry, Johan Budi, the spokesman of the anti graft agency, said.

The KPK leaders have sent a let-ter to the Justice and Human Right Ministry protesting parole for cor-ruption convicts, KPK spokesman Johan Budi said here on Friday.

“The policy is not in line with the spirit to eradicate corruption,” Johan Budi said.

He said according to a govern-ment regulation recommendation from KPK is needed to release a corruption convict on parole.

“Unfortunately KPKs recommen-dations are often neglected by the decision maker,” he said, adding, “if this is allowed to go on fear of prison punishment would no longer deter people from committing corruption.

Earlier, a former high ranking of-ficial of the ruling party convicted on graft was released on parole without fulfilling certain requirements.

Johan Budi said only convicts who have become justice collabora-tors are entitled to parole after serv-ing two third of their jail terms.

Therefore, KPK hopes that the next government of Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla is consistent in car-rying out their pre election campaign to stamp out corruption from the country, he said.

“KPK will continue to remind the two leaders of their promise to the people,” he added.

KPK has strongly rejected pro-posal to release on parole Anggodo Widjojo, a convict trying to bribe

KPK leaders.The Sukamiskin prison has rec-

ommended parole for Anggodo, who was convicted for 10 years, but he has been granted a remission of 29 months and 10 days.

With the remission Anggodo has served two third of his jail term and he is entitled to parole, an official of the justice and human rights ministry said.

However, KPK, who described the remission of 29 months and 10 days as “extraordinary”, said Anggodo is not a justice collabora-tor, therefore, he is not entitled to parole.

The proposal to release Anggodo on parole is being processed at the directorate general of correctional institution amid strong public protest including from KPK.

“Parole for corruption convicts hurts the public sense of justice and it is against our attempts to create a deterrent effect,” observers said.

Anggodo was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment by the Jakarta anti cor-ruption court for trying to bribe KPK in a bid to release his brother Anggoro Widjojo facing corruption case. Later the Supreme Court doubled his jail term to 10 years.

Information and Communications Director of the directorate general of correctional institutions Ibnu Chul-dun said the parole proposal is still being studied.

“No approval is given yet,” Ibnu said.

Ibnu also said the reason given for the remission is that Anggodo is suffering chronic illness.

“A convict suffering chronic illness is entitled to remission,” he said.

Kenya marks 1 year since Westgate mall attack

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 file photo, a candle is lit in front of a banner listing some of the names of those who died, at the opening of an exhibition of “video portraits” of some of those closely affected by last year’s terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall, at the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya.

Dalai Lama praises China’s leader as ‘realistic’

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks during an in-ter-faith meet-ing in New Delhi, India, S a t u r d a y , S e p t . 2 0 , 2014 . The Dalai Lama brought re-ligious lead-ers together Saturday to mull some of

India’s most pressing prob-

lems, from gen-der violence to

widespread pov-erty, while prais-

ing the country’s reli-gious harmony as proof

to the world that different communities can live peace-fully together.

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NEW DELHI — The Dalai Lama praised Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday for being “more realistic” and principled than his predecessors, a day after Xi’s three-day visit to India ended.

Police are also investigating whether the men have links to the Islamic State group that has seized control over parts of Syria and Iraq, but say their motives for seeking training are so far unknown.

Santoso’s Eastern Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT) network hides out in the central mountains of Su-lawesi island, a known hotbed for

militancy, and is blamed for a spate of police killings in the area.

This is the first known case in recent years of foreigners coming to Indonesia for training.

Authorities have been more concerned with the dozens of In-donesians joining jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, fearing they may return with networks and skills

to carry our deadly attacks in the country.

Police initially thought the men were Turkish nationals but later said their Turkish passports were discovered to be fakes and had been obtained for around $1,000 from a broker in Bangkok.

They now believe the men are from China’s Xinjiang province and

are Uighur, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority, but have not officially confirmed their identities.

“Today we have been working with officials at the Turkish embas-sy to investigate their background,” national police spokesman Ronny Sompie told AFP.

“On Sunday, officials from the Chinese embassy will coordinate with counter-terrorism police to help determine their identities and nationalities,” he said.

Three Indonesians were also for-mally arrested and named suspects for aiding the foreign men. Under Indonesia’s legal system, suspects are only formally charged once they

face court.Indonesia has in the past strug-

gled to quell Islamist militant groups, which carried out a string of deadly attacks last decade, in-cluding the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreigners.

A successful clampdown in re-cent years has seen the end of major lethal attacks, but has given rise to smaller splinter groups.

Indonesia is home to the world’s biggest Muslim population. It is also the world’s third-biggest democracy, where the vast major-ity practise a moderate form of Islam.

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BANDA ACEH - Gay sex could be punishable by 100 lashes of the cane in Indonesia’s staunchly con-servative Aceh province if parlia-ment passes a draft law that critics say violates basic human rights.

Aceh is the only part of the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation to enforce Islamic sharia law and has been slowly implementing it since 2001, when it gained some powers of autonomy.

A draft bylaw sent to AFP on Saturday outlaws anal sex between men and “the rubbing of body parts between women for stimula-tion”, and for the first time applies Islamic laws and punishments to non-Muslims.

The bylaw also punishes adul-tery with 100 lashes of the cane.

The bylaw reinforces previous sharia legislation that bans alcohol consumption, gambling, fraternis-

ing between unmarried men and women, and physical displays of affection outside of marriage, such as touching and kissing.

Canings in Aceh are often carried out with a long thin rattan stick and are aimed at humiliating, rather than causing pain. The bylaw allows for fines paid in gold or jail time as an alternative to the lashes.

Eight men on Friday were caned for gambling in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, as around 1,000 watched, some filming and cheering.

The draft is a watered-down version of a bylaw that prompted international outrage when it was passed by Aceh’s parliament in 2009 as it included stoning to death as punishment for adultery. It was later overturned by the provincial governor.

Aceh Party’s Ramli Sulaiman, who heads the commission that drafted the law, said the majority of

members in the parliament appeared to support the draft and that it could be passed as early as Monday.

“We have studied the implemen-tation of sharia in countries like Saudi Arabia, Brunei Darussalam and Jordan to draft this law and we are happy with it,” he said.

But the director general of re-gional autotomy at the ministry of home affairs, Djohermansyah Djohan, said earlier that his depart-ment could shoot the law down if it violated human rights.

Amnesty International has ex-pressed concern over the bylaw and has called for an end to caning in Aceh, saying it goes against international laws on torture and rights, as well as Indonesia’s own constitution.

The province, which is often referred to as the veranda of Mecca, gained special autonomy in a pact with Jakarta aimed at quelling a de-cades-long separatist movement.

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

Visitors view cars on display at the Indonesian International Motor Show in Jakarta Sep-tember 19, 2014.

Indonesia names four foreigners as terror suspectsAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Four foreign men detained in Indonesia for allegedly planning to take part in militant training were officially named suspects for breaking counter-terrorism and immigra-tion laws, police said Saturday. The men, who police believe to be ethnic Uighur from China, are suspected of arranging to meet the country’s most wanted militant, Santoso, for training. They were formally arrested on Friday night after a week in custody.

Government accused of being too generous on parole

Aceh proposes 100 lashes for gay sex

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AMLAPURA - Taman Ujung is the water pleasure garden built in the early 1900’s by the king as a component of the royal palace to recive important guests and visiting foreign dignitaries. Located just 5 km out of Amlapura, this serene garden setting was inspired by a combination of classic Balinese and European architectural styles and incorporates three extensive ponds. From this elevated vantage point guests can appreciate sweeping views of the ocean towards the south, the tranquil beauty of the volcanic Mount Agung and surrounding rice terraces. Taman Sukasada Ujung is considered the structural mascot of the Karangasem kingdom.

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Taman Sukasada Ujung

Once a favorite kids’ game that was largely forgotten in adulthood, kabaddi has had a surge of serious money and Bollywood glamour since the launch of the Pro-Kabaddi League in July. “This is the In-dian soul game,” said Prashant Khandekar, a chef, minutes after watching the first league final in Mumbai last month.

Since the league’s launch, 396 million viewers have watched the live televised matches according to TAM Media Research, which monitors viewing figures nationally — more than double the number of Indians who watched this year’s soccer World Cup.

In the space of a month, ka-baddi became India’s second most-watched sport, leap-frogging field hockey to trail only the obsessively-followed Indian Premier League in cricket. The 12 teams touring five cities across India attracted sell-out crowds, and 22 million tuned in to the semifinals.

Versions of kabaddi have been played in India for thousands of years, mostly on dusty patches of land. The pro league has launched a version supported by lasers, glitter explosions and techno music. With players in slick uniforms and hawk-ers throwing out Kabaddi T-shirts, it unabashedly attempts recreate the atmosphere of games in the NBA or Major League Baseball. And it

seems Indians like it.“It’s our own sport,” said Ronnie

Screwvala, a kabaddi commenta-tor who founded the league. “But it’s not buried under some ancient mound. It’s a new, modern interna-tional sport.”

On paper, kabaddi would seem a peculiar game to be played profes-sionally. Essentially, it resembles Red Rover: Two teams of seven score points through “raids,” where a player darts into the opponents’ half and tries to cross a line on the far side of the court.

The opposing team’s job is to stop him. Defenders can tackle the raider anytime he’s moving, result-ing in spectacular jumping dodges as the attacking player tries to fly over the typically wrestler-sized opponents looking to slam him to the ground.

The game’s most unusual fea-ture also lends the sport its name: Whenever attacking, a player must chant the word “kabaddi” repeat-edly without drawing breath. If he stops before returning to his own half, he forfeits any points gained in the attack.

The word “kabaddi” has no obvious meaning. One fan’s expla-nation summed it up well enough: “Kabaddi is called kabaddi because of the kabaddi.”

Alternative words can be chanted in place of “kabaddi”, including

“huta huta,” although the Pro-Kabaddi League has chosen to prescribe the former. The act of repeating the word is said to be connected to the yoga practice of controlled breathing.

Kabaddi has always been popu-lar in India — Mumbai alone has 200 amateur clubs — but Indians never seemed to consider it worthy of major league attention. Although played at the Asian Games, where India has won every kabaddi com-petition since it was introduced and is again the favorite when the event kicks off in Incheon, South Korea,

this week, there has never been a commercial outlet for it. “The sport had gone, if I can use the term, underground,” said Screwvala. “In fact, there was a fair amount of prejudice, where a lot of people thought, ‘Yes, it’s our game but it’s probably more of a rural game than anything else.’”

Screwvala has built his league from scratch, inviting tycoons from India’s business and showbiz elites to found teams. Squads were then created from an auction of 96 players, ranked by the national ka-baddi federation which has formally

endorsed the league. Like India’s $3 billion IPL cricket competition before it, people are scenting money around kabaddi, conscious of the country’s huge audiences.

Each team owner has paid around $10 million for franchising rights, with initial investments coming to roughly $50-60 million each. Although still minuscule by cricket-ing standards, player salaries have rocketed, making in a month in the league almost double what they’d ordinarily make in a year. Several teams are already founding kabaddi academies.

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BEIJING - A teary-eyed Li Na said on Sunday she has no regrets about her retirement and the Chi-

nese trailblazer was confident her country will produce more grand slam winners in future. In a letter posted on her Facebook page, the 32-year-old Li, Asia’s only

grand slam singles champion, an-nounced her retirement on Friday, succumbing to her chronic knee injuries.

The former French Open winner

and the reigning Australian Open champion said she had given her best during her career and that was what mattered to her.

“I’m very happy with my whole career and feel very proud. Now is the perfect time to walk away. I don’t have any regrets,” Li told reporters.

“After I made the decision I asked myself several times, ‘will I regret it in the future?’ But another voice told me, ‘no’, and I tried my best on court, so I won’t regret it.” Li, known affectionately as ‘Big Sister Na’ and ‘Golden Flower’ in China, skipped this year’s U.S. Open, triggering speculation her dazzling career was drawing to a close.

For many youngsters in China, she is a role model, with her steely

determination, broad smile and English language skills emblematic of a confident and rising country. Li said tennis in China has undergone vast change since she started and predicted more grand slam cham-pions from her country.

“I’ve always watched the devel-opment of Chinese tennis closely. The young girls now have chances to come into contact with the world’s top players face to face, and have a bright future,” she said.

“In terms of successors, there’s no comparison, everyone has their own features. I believe they’ll work hard for their dreams.

“Keep an eye out - they’ll be coming. Maybe even better than me,” said Li, who wants to do her part by opening tennis school in the future.

Emotional Li Na says has no regrets over retirement

REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic A combination of pictures shows tennis player Li Na of China crying during a news conference announc-ing her retirement in Beijing September 21, 2014.

Ancient Indian sport of kabaddi gains popularity Associated Press

NEW DELHI — An ancient Indian sport that looks like a mixture of tag, dodgeball and wrestling has barreled back into the Indian national consciousness to become one of the country’s most popular sports, trailing only cricket.

AP Photo/Rafiq MaqboolIn this Aug. 31, 2014 photo, players of Patna Pirates try to grab a Bengaluru Bulls player during a the Pro Kabaddi League in Mumbai, India.

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Atletico and Granada are one point behind Barcelona before the leader visits Levante on Sunday. Ronaldo scored his first two goals on either side of James Rodriguez’s superb long strike to decide the match at Riazor Stadium before half-time, and send Madrid on its way to its biggest away goal total in league play.

Rodriguez then helped the Ballon d’Or holder score his eighth goal in as many matches across all competit ions in the second half as Deportivo completely crumbled. After

back-to-back losses to Real Sociedad and Atletico Madrid, Madrid rebounded by routing Basel 5-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday. This latest lopsided victory will go a long way to satisfying its fans, who turned on the team recently and directed jeers at captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas.

“After two losses we have scored 13 goals in two games, that’s a sign we have respond-ed well,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. Madrid’s sec-ond win in four rounds left it two points behind Atletico,

and three points behind Barce-lona before its match. Ronaldo combined physical prowess and fine touch for Madrid’s opening goal in the 22nd min-ute. He jumped and hung in the air before gently heading Alvaro Arbeloa’s cross over goalkeeper German Lux.

Four minutes later, Lux could only watch again as Rodriguez curled an exquisite left-foot shot from outside the area over his head and just inside the corner of the goal. Helpless to stop Madrid’s first two goals, Lux was largely to

blame for the third. The goalie rashly rushed out of his area when Karim Benzema ran onto Marcelo’s long pass, even though two defenders were in place to dispute the ball. His mistake left Ronaldo alone to get his second in the 41st.

“We have shown the talent we have in attack,” Ancelotti said. “We have a phenomenal player and others with a lot of talent. They looked for one another and that’s what stood out.” Deportivo’s Haris Medunjanin pulled one back from the penalty spot after Sergio Ramos used his hand to block Isaac Cuenca’s header in the 51st.

But Marcelo spotted Bale’s run across the box and the Welshman used one touch to turn the ball beyond Lux, who grazed it but not enough to stop it from going in off the post in the 66th. Bale’s second goal was similar, except this time it was substitute Francisco “Isco” Alarcon who slipped the ball through for Bale to lift over Lux in the 74th.

Ronaldo fired in his third in the 78th after Rodriguez stole the ball and set him up. Jose “Toche” Verdu scored a header for the hosts 10 minutes later. Hernandez went on for Bale in the 75th and the striker scored in the 88th with a long strike for his first goal since arriving this offseason from Manchester United. He added another goal in stoppage time against a ravaged defense.

Madrid’s eight goals were well taken, but none compared to Pedro Hernandez’s exquisite score to give Celta the lead in the 19th minute at Atletico. With Diego Godin draped all over him, the Chilean forward used a flick of his left heel with his back to the goal and the ball out of sight to redirect a long pass beyond stunned goalkeeper Miguel Moya.

Atletico struck back with goals by center backs Miranda and Godin from set-pieces in

t h e 3 1 s t and 41st. But Celta subs t i t u t e M a n u e l “ N o l i t o ” A g u d o converted a penalty in the 53rd af-ter Miranda fouled Car-les Planas, to secure the draw.

G r a n a -d a f o r w a r d J h o n C o r -doba scored the winne r in the 40th m i n u t e a t Sam Mames after Bilbao’s Ander I tu r-raspe lost the ball. Bilbao’s de fea t c ame three days af-ter the Basque side was held to 0-0 at home by Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League.

A l s o , S e r g i o “ D u d a ” B a r b o s a scored a free kick in stoppage time to secure Malaga’s 2-2 draw at Espanyol. Christian Stuani scored a header in the 88th to put Espanyol on the cusp of victory, only for it to remain winless under new coach Sergio Gonzalez.

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MILAN - Juventus striker Car-los Tevez struck to give the Serie A champions a 1-0 win over AC Milan on Saturday, handing coach Massimiliano Allegri a winning return to San Siro where he was shown the door eight months ago. Tevez, who scored both goals in Tuesday’s 2-0 Champions League win over Malmo, played an exquisite one-two with Paul Pogba before flicking the ball past Christian Abbiati midway through the second half.

The Argentine celebrated by pulling a baby’s dummy from his shorts and putting it in his mouth. Milan, who had won their first two games under new coach Filippo Inzaghi, rarely threatened Gianluigi Buffon in the Juventus goal.

Fernando Torres came on for his Milan debut in the 76th minute but his only contributions were a yellow card for a foul on Gior-gio Chiellini and a half-hearted penalty appeal when he went down in the area. Juventus have a maximum nine points from three games and have yet to concede a goal this season. Milan are in third place level on six points with AS Roma who host Cagliari on Sunday.

“It would have been impos-sible to consider this a normal match after three-and-a-half years

at Milan sharing emotions, intense moments and victories,” Allegri told Sky Sport Italia.

“But it was absolutely not a chance for revenge. Milan was an important stage in my career and I am still very fond of this club,” added the phlegmatic coach who won the Serie A title in his first season at Milan. “Now, I’m at Juventus and I’m focused on win-ning with Juventus.”

Early ChanceMilan had an early chance

when Keisuke Honda’s header forced a superb save from Buffon but that was about as good as it got for the seven-times European champions. Milan fans displayed a banner which read “A year of rage to become great again”, referring to last season’s dismal campaign when they finished eighth, but hopes of a revival this term appeared premature as they failed their first real test.

Juventus, despite missing play-maker Andrea Pirlo and with the dynamic Arturo Vidal starting on the bench after injury, dominated most of the game, and Claudio Marchisio struck the post late in the first half. Their big problem was again in the final third of the field, just as it was against Malmo who they eventually beat 2-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday, and the game threatened to peter out into a goalless draw as

the final pass went missing.Tevez came up with the an-

swer, however, after a superbly-executed one-two, just like his first goal against Malmo. He collected the ball on the edge of the area and, despite slipping, played it into Paul Pogba in the penalty area.

Although the Frenchman was surrounded by a wall of defend-ers and had his back to goal, he managed to turn and flick the ball through a gap into the path of Tevez, who slotted it past Christian Abbiati. Milan had no answer apart from a couple of weak penalty appeals and Ju-ventus comfortably held out for another win.

“I think we did well and played a good match,” Tevez told touchline reporters. “I knew I wasn’t going to be able to do much because Nigel de Jong was following me everywhere, but the goal arrived and I’m very happy.” In Saturday’s other game, Empoli fought back from two goals be-hind to draw 2-2 at Cesena in a meeting of two promoted sides.

Guido Marilungo and Andre Defrel scored in a three-minute spell to put the Sea Horses in con-trol at halftime. However, Fran-cesco Tavano pulled one back with a penalty ten minutes after halftime -- Empoli’s first goal of the season -- and Daniele Rugani equalised following a corner.

Associated Press

PARIS — Marseille striker Andre-Pierre Gignac scored twice more in a 3-0 win over Rennes that

provisionally lifted his club to the top of the French league on Saturday.

Gignac, now the league’s top scorer with six goals ahead of Paris Saint-Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, opened with a spectacular scissors-kick in the 50th minute before doubling his team’s lead with a well-taken shot from the edge of the box past Rennes goalkeeper Benoit

Costil in the 63rd. Substitute Romain Alessan-drini sealed Marseille’s win in added time with a

superb free kick.Marseille’s fourth straight league win put it level

with Bordeaux but with a better goal difference after six rounds.

“After four consecutive wins, people are going to start talking about us,” said Gignac, enjoying his best start to a season.

The France international, who missed out on the World Cup, brushed off comparisons with Ibrahimovic,

and instead praised the work ethic implemented by coach Marcelo Bielsa.

“I can’t compare myself with Ibrahimovic, he is a world-class player,” Gignac said. “But we are working very hard at training dur-ing the week and, come the weekend, we just want to enjoy.” Third-place Lille can overtake Marseille with a win against Montpellier on Sunday.

Making his debut for Metz, former France international Florent Malouda showed flashes of his heyday as the newly promoted side beat Bastia 3-1.

Nantes moved up to fifth place, three points behind Marseille, after beating Nice 2-1. Toulouse drew 3-3 at home with Caen, and Reims posted its first away win, beating Lorient 1-0 courtesy of Benjamin Moukandjo’s winner.

Reuters

SOFIA - Ten Lokomotiv Plovdiv fans have been detained for violence before the team’s domestic league match against Beroe Stara Zagora on Sat-urday, Bulgarian police said on Sunday.

Police in the southern city of Plovdiv said in a statement that Lokomotiv supporters clashed with riot police outside the stadium in Plovdiv’s district of Lauta, throwing stones and other objects

at them.A police officer has been injured when trying to

restore order and taken to hospital, they said. Beroe won the game 3-0 to climb to second place in the standings with 18 points from nine matches, two points behind leaders CSKA Sofia. Lokomotiv are 10th with six points.

Violence inside and outside stadiums has plagued Bulgarian football in recent seasons, en-dangering the safety of players and fans.

Associated Press

LONDON — Mesut Ozil an-swered his critics to lift Arsenal out of its slump, while Liverpool slumped to a second successive English Premier League loss on Saturday. Ozil, Arsenal’s record $70 million signing, ended an eight-match scoring drought stretching back into last season, and also set up Danny Welbeck’s first goal for the club in a 3-0 victory over Aston Villa.

The playmaker’s influential performance came after manager Arsene Wenger said he should not be a “scapegoat” for a trio of domestic draws and Champions League loss. The emphatic win ended Villa’s unbeaten start to the season, a week after the team stunned Liverpool at Anfield. West Ham inflicted Liverpool’s third loss in five rounds, beating last season’s runner-up 3-1.

There were late goals in three of Saturday’s games. Under-pressure Newcastle manager Alan Pardew saw his side stage a late comeback to draw 2-2 with Hull. Queens Park Rangers twice came from behind to also draw 2-2 with Stoke, and Victor Wanyama’s 80th-minute goal gave Southampton a 1-0 win at Swansea that moved the south-coast club to second place.

Villa started brightly against

Arsenal, with American owner Randy Lerner at his first home game in almost two years, before collapsing and conceding three goals in four minutes.

Welbeck, who joined from Manchester United this month, teed up Ozil to run through and roll past goalkeeper Brad Guzan in the 32nd minute. Ozil turned provider by crossing from the left flank and Welbeck powered in the ball from close range. Villa’s capitulation was capped by de-fender Aly Cissokho sliding in to turn a cross from Kieran Gibbs into his own net in the 36th.

At St. James’ Park, Newcastle fans displayed banners against manager Alan Pardew, with the team without a league win after five matches. What will encourage Pardew, though, is Papiss Cisse making an instant impact on his return from knee surgery. When Cisse went on in the 69th, New-castle was 2-0 down to Hull after conceding from Nikica Jelavic and Mohamed Diame. The Senegal forward, who had been sidelined since April, scored after four min-utes on the pitch, and stabbed in the equalizer in the 87th.

“He shouldn’t have played today, really,” Pardew said. “My medical staff didn’t agree that he should be included today — I think he has trained five days.” At Upton Park, Liverpool showed

again just how much it is miss-ing Luis Suarez, who was sold to Barcelona in the offseason. West Ham took less than two minutes, through Winston Reid’s header, to breach Liverpool’s defense, and Diafro Sakho chipped the ball into the net five minutes later.

Although Raheem Sterling pulled one back for Liverpool in the 26th, Morgan Amalfitano latched onto Stewart Downing’s pass to score in the 88th to secure West Ham’s first home win of the campaign. Liverpool took until December last season to lose three matches before finishing second, but matching that league position seems a far tougher proposition.

But Burnley and Sunderland are still searching for their first wins after drawing 0-0. QPR and Stoke have just one win each after their draw at Loftus Road. Mame Biram Diouf headed Stoke in front from close range in the 11th minute after Peter Crouch held off defender Rio Ferdinand to nod the ball to his strike partner.

After Steven Caulker leveled just before halftime, Crouch re-stored Stoke’s lead six minutes into the second half, but Niko Kranjcar curled a free kick into the net in the 88th to secure the point.

Ozil inspires Arsenal win

Ronaldo scores 3 as Madrid thrashes Deportivo 8-2Associated Press

BARCELONA — Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick and Gareth Bale and Javier Hernandez added braces as Real Madrid rolled past Deportivo La Coruna 8-2 to emphatically end its two-game losing skid in the Spanish league on Saturday. After Madrid romped, defending champion Atletico Madrid slipped to a 2-2 draw with Celta Vigo, while Granada quietly rose into a provisional share of second place with Atletico after a 1-0 win at Athletic Bilbao.

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo scores his

side’s third goal during the Champions League Group B soccer match between Real Madrid

and Basel at the Santia-go Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday

Sept. 16, 2014.

Gignac scores twice as Marseille goes top

AP Photo/Claude Paris

Marseille’s French forward Andre-Pierre Gignac, left, reacts with Marseille’s Congolese goalkeeper Brice Samba, after scoring against Rennes, during their League One soccer match, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.

Juventus’s Carlos Tevez celebrates after scoring

during the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Juventus at the San Siro sta-dium in Milan, Italy, Saturday,

Sept. 20, 2014.AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

Tevez strikes again as Juve beat toothless Milan

Lokomotiv fans detained for violence, policeman injured

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Atletico and Granada are one point behind Barcelona before the leader visits Levante on Sunday. Ronaldo scored his first two goals on either side of James Rodriguez’s superb long strike to decide the match at Riazor Stadium before half-time, and send Madrid on its way to its biggest away goal total in league play.

Rodriguez then helped the Ballon d’Or holder score his eighth goal in as many matches across all competit ions in the second half as Deportivo completely crumbled. After

back-to-back losses to Real Sociedad and Atletico Madrid, Madrid rebounded by routing Basel 5-1 in the Champions League on Tuesday. This latest lopsided victory will go a long way to satisfying its fans, who turned on the team recently and directed jeers at captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas.

“After two losses we have scored 13 goals in two games, that’s a sign we have respond-ed well,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. Madrid’s sec-ond win in four rounds left it two points behind Atletico,

and three points behind Barce-lona before its match. Ronaldo combined physical prowess and fine touch for Madrid’s opening goal in the 22nd min-ute. He jumped and hung in the air before gently heading Alvaro Arbeloa’s cross over goalkeeper German Lux.

Four minutes later, Lux could only watch again as Rodriguez curled an exquisite left-foot shot from outside the area over his head and just inside the corner of the goal. Helpless to stop Madrid’s first two goals, Lux was largely to

blame for the third. The goalie rashly rushed out of his area when Karim Benzema ran onto Marcelo’s long pass, even though two defenders were in place to dispute the ball. His mistake left Ronaldo alone to get his second in the 41st.

“We have shown the talent we have in attack,” Ancelotti said. “We have a phenomenal player and others with a lot of talent. They looked for one another and that’s what stood out.” Deportivo’s Haris Medunjanin pulled one back from the penalty spot after Sergio Ramos used his hand to block Isaac Cuenca’s header in the 51st.

But Marcelo spotted Bale’s run across the box and the Welshman used one touch to turn the ball beyond Lux, who grazed it but not enough to stop it from going in off the post in the 66th. Bale’s second goal was similar, except this time it was substitute Francisco “Isco” Alarcon who slipped the ball through for Bale to lift over Lux in the 74th.

Ronaldo fired in his third in the 78th after Rodriguez stole the ball and set him up. Jose “Toche” Verdu scored a header for the hosts 10 minutes later. Hernandez went on for Bale in the 75th and the striker scored in the 88th with a long strike for his first goal since arriving this offseason from Manchester United. He added another goal in stoppage time against a ravaged defense.

Madrid’s eight goals were well taken, but none compared to Pedro Hernandez’s exquisite score to give Celta the lead in the 19th minute at Atletico. With Diego Godin draped all over him, the Chilean forward used a flick of his left heel with his back to the goal and the ball out of sight to redirect a long pass beyond stunned goalkeeper Miguel Moya.

Atletico struck back with goals by center backs Miranda and Godin from set-pieces in

t h e 3 1 s t and 41st. But Celta subs t i t u t e M a n u e l “ N o l i t o ” A g u d o converted a penalty in the 53rd af-ter Miranda fouled Car-les Planas, to secure the draw.

G r a n a -d a f o r w a r d J h o n C o r -doba scored the winne r in the 40th m i n u t e a t Sam Mames after Bilbao’s Ander I tu r-raspe lost the ball. Bilbao’s de fea t c ame three days af-ter the Basque side was held to 0-0 at home by Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League.

A l s o , S e r g i o “ D u d a ” B a r b o s a scored a free kick in stoppage time to secure Malaga’s 2-2 draw at Espanyol. Christian Stuani scored a header in the 88th to put Espanyol on the cusp of victory, only for it to remain winless under new coach Sergio Gonzalez.

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MILAN - Juventus striker Car-los Tevez struck to give the Serie A champions a 1-0 win over AC Milan on Saturday, handing coach Massimiliano Allegri a winning return to San Siro where he was shown the door eight months ago. Tevez, who scored both goals in Tuesday’s 2-0 Champions League win over Malmo, played an exquisite one-two with Paul Pogba before flicking the ball past Christian Abbiati midway through the second half.

The Argentine celebrated by pulling a baby’s dummy from his shorts and putting it in his mouth. Milan, who had won their first two games under new coach Filippo Inzaghi, rarely threatened Gianluigi Buffon in the Juventus goal.

Fernando Torres came on for his Milan debut in the 76th minute but his only contributions were a yellow card for a foul on Gior-gio Chiellini and a half-hearted penalty appeal when he went down in the area. Juventus have a maximum nine points from three games and have yet to concede a goal this season. Milan are in third place level on six points with AS Roma who host Cagliari on Sunday.

“It would have been impos-sible to consider this a normal match after three-and-a-half years

at Milan sharing emotions, intense moments and victories,” Allegri told Sky Sport Italia.

“But it was absolutely not a chance for revenge. Milan was an important stage in my career and I am still very fond of this club,” added the phlegmatic coach who won the Serie A title in his first season at Milan. “Now, I’m at Juventus and I’m focused on win-ning with Juventus.”

Early ChanceMilan had an early chance

when Keisuke Honda’s header forced a superb save from Buffon but that was about as good as it got for the seven-times European champions. Milan fans displayed a banner which read “A year of rage to become great again”, referring to last season’s dismal campaign when they finished eighth, but hopes of a revival this term appeared premature as they failed their first real test.

Juventus, despite missing play-maker Andrea Pirlo and with the dynamic Arturo Vidal starting on the bench after injury, dominated most of the game, and Claudio Marchisio struck the post late in the first half. Their big problem was again in the final third of the field, just as it was against Malmo who they eventually beat 2-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday, and the game threatened to peter out into a goalless draw as

the final pass went missing.Tevez came up with the an-

swer, however, after a superbly-executed one-two, just like his first goal against Malmo. He collected the ball on the edge of the area and, despite slipping, played it into Paul Pogba in the penalty area.

Although the Frenchman was surrounded by a wall of defend-ers and had his back to goal, he managed to turn and flick the ball through a gap into the path of Tevez, who slotted it past Christian Abbiati. Milan had no answer apart from a couple of weak penalty appeals and Ju-ventus comfortably held out for another win.

“I think we did well and played a good match,” Tevez told touchline reporters. “I knew I wasn’t going to be able to do much because Nigel de Jong was following me everywhere, but the goal arrived and I’m very happy.” In Saturday’s other game, Empoli fought back from two goals be-hind to draw 2-2 at Cesena in a meeting of two promoted sides.

Guido Marilungo and Andre Defrel scored in a three-minute spell to put the Sea Horses in con-trol at halftime. However, Fran-cesco Tavano pulled one back with a penalty ten minutes after halftime -- Empoli’s first goal of the season -- and Daniele Rugani equalised following a corner.

Associated Press

PARIS — Marseille striker Andre-Pierre Gignac scored twice more in a 3-0 win over Rennes that

provisionally lifted his club to the top of the French league on Saturday.

Gignac, now the league’s top scorer with six goals ahead of Paris Saint-Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic, opened with a spectacular scissors-kick in the 50th minute before doubling his team’s lead with a well-taken shot from the edge of the box past Rennes goalkeeper Benoit

Costil in the 63rd. Substitute Romain Alessan-drini sealed Marseille’s win in added time with a

superb free kick.Marseille’s fourth straight league win put it level

with Bordeaux but with a better goal difference after six rounds.

“After four consecutive wins, people are going to start talking about us,” said Gignac, enjoying his best start to a season.

The France international, who missed out on the World Cup, brushed off comparisons with Ibrahimovic,

and instead praised the work ethic implemented by coach Marcelo Bielsa.

“I can’t compare myself with Ibrahimovic, he is a world-class player,” Gignac said. “But we are working very hard at training dur-ing the week and, come the weekend, we just want to enjoy.” Third-place Lille can overtake Marseille with a win against Montpellier on Sunday.

Making his debut for Metz, former France international Florent Malouda showed flashes of his heyday as the newly promoted side beat Bastia 3-1.

Nantes moved up to fifth place, three points behind Marseille, after beating Nice 2-1. Toulouse drew 3-3 at home with Caen, and Reims posted its first away win, beating Lorient 1-0 courtesy of Benjamin Moukandjo’s winner.

Reuters

SOFIA - Ten Lokomotiv Plovdiv fans have been detained for violence before the team’s domestic league match against Beroe Stara Zagora on Sat-urday, Bulgarian police said on Sunday.

Police in the southern city of Plovdiv said in a statement that Lokomotiv supporters clashed with riot police outside the stadium in Plovdiv’s district of Lauta, throwing stones and other objects

at them.A police officer has been injured when trying to

restore order and taken to hospital, they said. Beroe won the game 3-0 to climb to second place in the standings with 18 points from nine matches, two points behind leaders CSKA Sofia. Lokomotiv are 10th with six points.

Violence inside and outside stadiums has plagued Bulgarian football in recent seasons, en-dangering the safety of players and fans.

Associated Press

LONDON — Mesut Ozil an-swered his critics to lift Arsenal out of its slump, while Liverpool slumped to a second successive English Premier League loss on Saturday. Ozil, Arsenal’s record $70 million signing, ended an eight-match scoring drought stretching back into last season, and also set up Danny Welbeck’s first goal for the club in a 3-0 victory over Aston Villa.

The playmaker’s influential performance came after manager Arsene Wenger said he should not be a “scapegoat” for a trio of domestic draws and Champions League loss. The emphatic win ended Villa’s unbeaten start to the season, a week after the team stunned Liverpool at Anfield. West Ham inflicted Liverpool’s third loss in five rounds, beating last season’s runner-up 3-1.

There were late goals in three of Saturday’s games. Under-pressure Newcastle manager Alan Pardew saw his side stage a late comeback to draw 2-2 with Hull. Queens Park Rangers twice came from behind to also draw 2-2 with Stoke, and Victor Wanyama’s 80th-minute goal gave Southampton a 1-0 win at Swansea that moved the south-coast club to second place.

Villa started brightly against

Arsenal, with American owner Randy Lerner at his first home game in almost two years, before collapsing and conceding three goals in four minutes.

Welbeck, who joined from Manchester United this month, teed up Ozil to run through and roll past goalkeeper Brad Guzan in the 32nd minute. Ozil turned provider by crossing from the left flank and Welbeck powered in the ball from close range. Villa’s capitulation was capped by de-fender Aly Cissokho sliding in to turn a cross from Kieran Gibbs into his own net in the 36th.

At St. James’ Park, Newcastle fans displayed banners against manager Alan Pardew, with the team without a league win after five matches. What will encourage Pardew, though, is Papiss Cisse making an instant impact on his return from knee surgery. When Cisse went on in the 69th, New-castle was 2-0 down to Hull after conceding from Nikica Jelavic and Mohamed Diame. The Senegal forward, who had been sidelined since April, scored after four min-utes on the pitch, and stabbed in the equalizer in the 87th.

“He shouldn’t have played today, really,” Pardew said. “My medical staff didn’t agree that he should be included today — I think he has trained five days.” At Upton Park, Liverpool showed

again just how much it is miss-ing Luis Suarez, who was sold to Barcelona in the offseason. West Ham took less than two minutes, through Winston Reid’s header, to breach Liverpool’s defense, and Diafro Sakho chipped the ball into the net five minutes later.

Although Raheem Sterling pulled one back for Liverpool in the 26th, Morgan Amalfitano latched onto Stewart Downing’s pass to score in the 88th to secure West Ham’s first home win of the campaign. Liverpool took until December last season to lose three matches before finishing second, but matching that league position seems a far tougher proposition.

But Burnley and Sunderland are still searching for their first wins after drawing 0-0. QPR and Stoke have just one win each after their draw at Loftus Road. Mame Biram Diouf headed Stoke in front from close range in the 11th minute after Peter Crouch held off defender Rio Ferdinand to nod the ball to his strike partner.

After Steven Caulker leveled just before halftime, Crouch re-stored Stoke’s lead six minutes into the second half, but Niko Kranjcar curled a free kick into the net in the 88th to secure the point.

Ozil inspires Arsenal win

Ronaldo scores 3 as Madrid thrashes Deportivo 8-2Associated Press

BARCELONA — Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick and Gareth Bale and Javier Hernandez added braces as Real Madrid rolled past Deportivo La Coruna 8-2 to emphatically end its two-game losing skid in the Spanish league on Saturday. After Madrid romped, defending champion Atletico Madrid slipped to a 2-2 draw with Celta Vigo, while Granada quietly rose into a provisional share of second place with Atletico after a 1-0 win at Athletic Bilbao.

Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo scores his

side’s third goal during the Champions League Group B soccer match between Real Madrid

and Basel at the Santia-go Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday

Sept. 16, 2014.

Gignac scores twice as Marseille goes top

AP Photo/Claude Paris

Marseille’s French forward Andre-Pierre Gignac, left, reacts with Marseille’s Congolese goalkeeper Brice Samba, after scoring against Rennes, during their League One soccer match, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.

Juventus’s Carlos Tevez celebrates after scoring

during the Serie A soccer match between AC Milan and Juventus at the San Siro sta-dium in Milan, Italy, Saturday,

Sept. 20, 2014.AP Photo/Antonio Calanni

Tevez strikes again as Juve beat toothless Milan

Lokomotiv fans detained for violence, policeman injured

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AMLAPURA - Taman Ujung is the water pleasure garden built in the early 1900’s by the king as a component of the royal palace to recive important guests and visiting foreign dignitaries. Located just 5 km out of Amlapura, this serene garden setting was inspired by a combination of classic Balinese and European architectural styles and incorporates three extensive ponds. From this elevated vantage point guests can appreciate sweeping views of the ocean towards the south, the tranquil beauty of the volcanic Mount Agung and surrounding rice terraces. Taman Sukasada Ujung is considered the structural mascot of the Karangasem kingdom.

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Taman Sukasada Ujung

Once a favorite kids’ game that was largely forgotten in adulthood, kabaddi has had a surge of serious money and Bollywood glamour since the launch of the Pro-Kabaddi League in July. “This is the In-dian soul game,” said Prashant Khandekar, a chef, minutes after watching the first league final in Mumbai last month.

Since the league’s launch, 396 million viewers have watched the live televised matches according to TAM Media Research, which monitors viewing figures nationally — more than double the number of Indians who watched this year’s soccer World Cup.

In the space of a month, ka-baddi became India’s second most-watched sport, leap-frogging field hockey to trail only the obsessively-followed Indian Premier League in cricket. The 12 teams touring five cities across India attracted sell-out crowds, and 22 million tuned in to the semifinals.

Versions of kabaddi have been played in India for thousands of years, mostly on dusty patches of land. The pro league has launched a version supported by lasers, glitter explosions and techno music. With players in slick uniforms and hawk-ers throwing out Kabaddi T-shirts, it unabashedly attempts recreate the atmosphere of games in the NBA or Major League Baseball. And it

seems Indians like it.“It’s our own sport,” said Ronnie

Screwvala, a kabaddi commenta-tor who founded the league. “But it’s not buried under some ancient mound. It’s a new, modern interna-tional sport.”

On paper, kabaddi would seem a peculiar game to be played profes-sionally. Essentially, it resembles Red Rover: Two teams of seven score points through “raids,” where a player darts into the opponents’ half and tries to cross a line on the far side of the court.

The opposing team’s job is to stop him. Defenders can tackle the raider anytime he’s moving, result-ing in spectacular jumping dodges as the attacking player tries to fly over the typically wrestler-sized opponents looking to slam him to the ground.

The game’s most unusual fea-ture also lends the sport its name: Whenever attacking, a player must chant the word “kabaddi” repeat-edly without drawing breath. If he stops before returning to his own half, he forfeits any points gained in the attack.

The word “kabaddi” has no obvious meaning. One fan’s expla-nation summed it up well enough: “Kabaddi is called kabaddi because of the kabaddi.”

Alternative words can be chanted in place of “kabaddi”, including

“huta huta,” although the Pro-Kabaddi League has chosen to prescribe the former. The act of repeating the word is said to be connected to the yoga practice of controlled breathing.

Kabaddi has always been popu-lar in India — Mumbai alone has 200 amateur clubs — but Indians never seemed to consider it worthy of major league attention. Although played at the Asian Games, where India has won every kabaddi com-petition since it was introduced and is again the favorite when the event kicks off in Incheon, South Korea,

this week, there has never been a commercial outlet for it. “The sport had gone, if I can use the term, underground,” said Screwvala. “In fact, there was a fair amount of prejudice, where a lot of people thought, ‘Yes, it’s our game but it’s probably more of a rural game than anything else.’”

Screwvala has built his league from scratch, inviting tycoons from India’s business and showbiz elites to found teams. Squads were then created from an auction of 96 players, ranked by the national ka-baddi federation which has formally

endorsed the league. Like India’s $3 billion IPL cricket competition before it, people are scenting money around kabaddi, conscious of the country’s huge audiences.

Each team owner has paid around $10 million for franchising rights, with initial investments coming to roughly $50-60 million each. Although still minuscule by cricket-ing standards, player salaries have rocketed, making in a month in the league almost double what they’d ordinarily make in a year. Several teams are already founding kabaddi academies.

Reuters

BEIJING - A teary-eyed Li Na said on Sunday she has no regrets about her retirement and the Chi-

nese trailblazer was confident her country will produce more grand slam winners in future. In a letter posted on her Facebook page, the 32-year-old Li, Asia’s only

grand slam singles champion, an-nounced her retirement on Friday, succumbing to her chronic knee injuries.

The former French Open winner

and the reigning Australian Open champion said she had given her best during her career and that was what mattered to her.

“I’m very happy with my whole career and feel very proud. Now is the perfect time to walk away. I don’t have any regrets,” Li told reporters.

“After I made the decision I asked myself several times, ‘will I regret it in the future?’ But another voice told me, ‘no’, and I tried my best on court, so I won’t regret it.” Li, known affectionately as ‘Big Sister Na’ and ‘Golden Flower’ in China, skipped this year’s U.S. Open, triggering speculation her dazzling career was drawing to a close.

For many youngsters in China, she is a role model, with her steely

determination, broad smile and English language skills emblematic of a confident and rising country. Li said tennis in China has undergone vast change since she started and predicted more grand slam cham-pions from her country.

“I’ve always watched the devel-opment of Chinese tennis closely. The young girls now have chances to come into contact with the world’s top players face to face, and have a bright future,” she said.

“In terms of successors, there’s no comparison, everyone has their own features. I believe they’ll work hard for their dreams.

“Keep an eye out - they’ll be coming. Maybe even better than me,” said Li, who wants to do her part by opening tennis school in the future.

Emotional Li Na says has no regrets over retirement

REUTERS/Petar Kujundzic A combination of pictures shows tennis player Li Na of China crying during a news conference announc-ing her retirement in Beijing September 21, 2014.

Ancient Indian sport of kabaddi gains popularity Associated Press

NEW DELHI — An ancient Indian sport that looks like a mixture of tag, dodgeball and wrestling has barreled back into the Indian national consciousness to become one of the country’s most popular sports, trailing only cricket.

AP Photo/Rafiq MaqboolIn this Aug. 31, 2014 photo, players of Patna Pirates try to grab a Bengaluru Bulls player during a the Pro Kabaddi League in Mumbai, India.

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The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader has lived in exile for decades in India’s Himalayan foothill city of Dharamsala, after fleeing China following a failed 1959 uprising. The arrangement has irritated Bei-jing, which has long accused the Dalai Lama of fomenting unrest and encouraging Buddhist monks to self-immolate in demanding more autonomy for Tibet, a Himalayan region in western China that borders India, Bhutan and Nepal.

However, Beijing’s attitude ap-pears to be shifting, the Dalai Lama said, noting that China’s Communist leaders, who officially are atheist, are now “mentioning the importance of spiritualism.” “There are a lot of changes,” the Dalai Lama told reporters.

He said that since becoming president in March 2013, Xi has dem-onstrated “through his handling of problems, he is comparatively more realistic and with more principles” than his predecessors.

The remarks brought no immediate comment from China’s government or state media. However, Beijing has previously denounced the Dalai Lama as a separatist traitor and warned that any of his moderate comments are deceptive. China says the Himalayan region has been part of Chinese terri-tory for centuries, while Tibetans say it was virtually independent until China

occupied it in 1950.India is home to a large Tibetan

community as well as Tibet’s gov-ernment-in-exile. During Xi’s visit to New Delhi this past week, doz-ens of Tibetan protesters shouting “Hands off Tibet!” staged a noisy demonstration outside the building where he was meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Dalai Lama also said Saturday on the sidelines of an interfaith meeting in New Delhi that India and China should put aside any animosities they harbor over a long-festering border dispute and “remain peaceful on the basis of mutual trust,” according to Press Trust of India.

The border dispute, over which the two nations fought a bloody monthlong war in 1962, has com-plicated relations for decades, with the two militaries in a tense standoff even last week while Xi was in New Delhi. Both Xi and Modi vowed special efforts in resolving the dis-pute as they work to boost economic cooperation.

The Dalai Lama also praised India for proving that communities can live peacefully together, and said India must show its example of religious harmony to the rest of the world.

“India is the only country where all major world religions live to-gether, not only in modern time but over 1,000 years,” he said in opening

the two-day interfaith meeting he had organized for leaders from nine reli-gious communities to mull some of India’s most pressing and seemingly endemic problems — from gender violence and widespread poverty to environmental degradation and com-munal violence.

India has been soul-searching somewhat, since national elections stirred up questions about the na-tion’s identity and ambitions for the future as it pushes for rapid economic growth and 21st century technologies even as three-fourths of its 1.2 bil-lion population still live on less than $1.25 a day. The landslide victory by Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party left some wor-ried that his association with Hindu hardliners could encourage violence between Muslims and Hindus, who make up 80 percent of the country’s population.

The Dalai Lama urged the reli-gious leaders to more actively pro-mote tolerance, saying there was no justification for violence carried out in the name of religion or extremist ideology.

“Some people (are) killing in the name of religion,” he said. “For economy reasons or political power, of course it’s very sad but under-standable. But killing in the name of faith, for different religious faith, (is) unthinkable.”

Associated Press

NAIROBI — Kenya is mark-ing one year since four gunmen stormed the upscale Westgate Mall in Nairobi, killing 67 people. A memorial plaque with names of the victims has been unveiled at a forest on the edge of the city where people hike. Later, a candlelight vigil will be held at a museum.

Police have increased their presence in public places such as churches, supermarkets and malls.

Police chief David Kimaiyo asked residents Saturday to be “extra vigilant” of attacks in the coming week. Kimaiyo said police had doubled patrols.

Al-Shabab militants from Soma-lia claimed responsibility for the mall attack saying it was retribu-tion for Kenya’s troop presence in Somalia.

More recently, al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab vowed to avenge the death of their leader killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this month.

Antara

JAKARTA - KPK regretted that corruption convicts could easily win parole from the Justice and Human Rights Ministry, Johan Budi, the spokesman of the anti graft agency, said.

The KPK leaders have sent a let-ter to the Justice and Human Right Ministry protesting parole for cor-ruption convicts, KPK spokesman Johan Budi said here on Friday.

“The policy is not in line with the spirit to eradicate corruption,” Johan Budi said.

He said according to a govern-ment regulation recommendation from KPK is needed to release a corruption convict on parole.

“Unfortunately KPKs recommen-dations are often neglected by the decision maker,” he said, adding, “if this is allowed to go on fear of prison punishment would no longer deter people from committing corruption.

Earlier, a former high ranking of-ficial of the ruling party convicted on graft was released on parole without fulfilling certain requirements.

Johan Budi said only convicts who have become justice collabora-tors are entitled to parole after serv-ing two third of their jail terms.

Therefore, KPK hopes that the next government of Joko Widodo and Jusuf Kalla is consistent in car-rying out their pre election campaign to stamp out corruption from the country, he said.

“KPK will continue to remind the two leaders of their promise to the people,” he added.

KPK has strongly rejected pro-posal to release on parole Anggodo Widjojo, a convict trying to bribe

KPK leaders.The Sukamiskin prison has rec-

ommended parole for Anggodo, who was convicted for 10 years, but he has been granted a remission of 29 months and 10 days.

With the remission Anggodo has served two third of his jail term and he is entitled to parole, an official of the justice and human rights ministry said.

However, KPK, who described the remission of 29 months and 10 days as “extraordinary”, said Anggodo is not a justice collabora-tor, therefore, he is not entitled to parole.

The proposal to release Anggodo on parole is being processed at the directorate general of correctional institution amid strong public protest including from KPK.

“Parole for corruption convicts hurts the public sense of justice and it is against our attempts to create a deterrent effect,” observers said.

Anggodo was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment by the Jakarta anti cor-ruption court for trying to bribe KPK in a bid to release his brother Anggoro Widjojo facing corruption case. Later the Supreme Court doubled his jail term to 10 years.

Information and Communications Director of the directorate general of correctional institutions Ibnu Chul-dun said the parole proposal is still being studied.

“No approval is given yet,” Ibnu said.

Ibnu also said the reason given for the remission is that Anggodo is suffering chronic illness.

“A convict suffering chronic illness is entitled to remission,” he said.

Kenya marks 1 year since Westgate mall attack

AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 file photo, a candle is lit in front of a banner listing some of the names of those who died, at the opening of an exhibition of “video portraits” of some of those closely affected by last year’s terrorist attack on the Westgate Mall, at the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya.

Dalai Lama praises China’s leader as ‘realistic’

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama speaks during an in-ter-faith meet-ing in New Delhi, India, S a t u r d a y , S e p t . 2 0 , 2014 . The Dalai Lama brought re-ligious lead-ers together Saturday to mull some of

India’s most pressing prob-

lems, from gen-der violence to

widespread pov-erty, while prais-

ing the country’s reli-gious harmony as proof

to the world that different communities can live peace-fully together.

AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal

Associated Press

NEW DELHI — The Dalai Lama praised Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday for being “more realistic” and principled than his predecessors, a day after Xi’s three-day visit to India ended.

Police are also investigating whether the men have links to the Islamic State group that has seized control over parts of Syria and Iraq, but say their motives for seeking training are so far unknown.

Santoso’s Eastern Indonesia Mujahidin (MIT) network hides out in the central mountains of Su-lawesi island, a known hotbed for

militancy, and is blamed for a spate of police killings in the area.

This is the first known case in recent years of foreigners coming to Indonesia for training.

Authorities have been more concerned with the dozens of In-donesians joining jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq, fearing they may return with networks and skills

to carry our deadly attacks in the country.

Police initially thought the men were Turkish nationals but later said their Turkish passports were discovered to be fakes and had been obtained for around $1,000 from a broker in Bangkok.

They now believe the men are from China’s Xinjiang province and

are Uighur, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority, but have not officially confirmed their identities.

“Today we have been working with officials at the Turkish embas-sy to investigate their background,” national police spokesman Ronny Sompie told AFP.

“On Sunday, officials from the Chinese embassy will coordinate with counter-terrorism police to help determine their identities and nationalities,” he said.

Three Indonesians were also for-mally arrested and named suspects for aiding the foreign men. Under Indonesia’s legal system, suspects are only formally charged once they

face court.Indonesia has in the past strug-

gled to quell Islamist militant groups, which carried out a string of deadly attacks last decade, in-cluding the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreigners.

A successful clampdown in re-cent years has seen the end of major lethal attacks, but has given rise to smaller splinter groups.

Indonesia is home to the world’s biggest Muslim population. It is also the world’s third-biggest democracy, where the vast major-ity practise a moderate form of Islam.

Agence France-Presse

BANDA ACEH - Gay sex could be punishable by 100 lashes of the cane in Indonesia’s staunchly con-servative Aceh province if parlia-ment passes a draft law that critics say violates basic human rights.

Aceh is the only part of the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation to enforce Islamic sharia law and has been slowly implementing it since 2001, when it gained some powers of autonomy.

A draft bylaw sent to AFP on Saturday outlaws anal sex between men and “the rubbing of body parts between women for stimula-tion”, and for the first time applies Islamic laws and punishments to non-Muslims.

The bylaw also punishes adul-tery with 100 lashes of the cane.

The bylaw reinforces previous sharia legislation that bans alcohol consumption, gambling, fraternis-

ing between unmarried men and women, and physical displays of affection outside of marriage, such as touching and kissing.

Canings in Aceh are often carried out with a long thin rattan stick and are aimed at humiliating, rather than causing pain. The bylaw allows for fines paid in gold or jail time as an alternative to the lashes.

Eight men on Friday were caned for gambling in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, as around 1,000 watched, some filming and cheering.

The draft is a watered-down version of a bylaw that prompted international outrage when it was passed by Aceh’s parliament in 2009 as it included stoning to death as punishment for adultery. It was later overturned by the provincial governor.

Aceh Party’s Ramli Sulaiman, who heads the commission that drafted the law, said the majority of

members in the parliament appeared to support the draft and that it could be passed as early as Monday.

“We have studied the implemen-tation of sharia in countries like Saudi Arabia, Brunei Darussalam and Jordan to draft this law and we are happy with it,” he said.

But the director general of re-gional autotomy at the ministry of home affairs, Djohermansyah Djohan, said earlier that his depart-ment could shoot the law down if it violated human rights.

Amnesty International has ex-pressed concern over the bylaw and has called for an end to caning in Aceh, saying it goes against international laws on torture and rights, as well as Indonesia’s own constitution.

The province, which is often referred to as the veranda of Mecca, gained special autonomy in a pact with Jakarta aimed at quelling a de-cades-long separatist movement.

REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

Visitors view cars on display at the Indonesian International Motor Show in Jakarta Sep-tember 19, 2014.

Indonesia names four foreigners as terror suspectsAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Four foreign men detained in Indonesia for allegedly planning to take part in militant training were officially named suspects for breaking counter-terrorism and immigra-tion laws, police said Saturday. The men, who police believe to be ethnic Uighur from China, are suspected of arranging to meet the country’s most wanted militant, Santoso, for training. They were formally arrested on Friday night after a week in custody.

Government accused of being too generous on parole

Aceh proposes 100 lashes for gay sex

Tambahan Cliff Temple is located at quite challenging position, namely on the verge of Geredeg cliff. To reach the site, visitors must pass through a very inadequate path, namely dirt footpath. Seeing from the condition, it indicates if the path has not got any attention from local government and the other par-ties to improve the footpath heading for the site.

A custodian of the Tam-bahan Cliff Temple, Dewa Agung Made Tirta, when met on Tuesday (Sep 16) said the cliff temple had been declared a national cultural heritage so that the existence had been protected by Law No.5/1992 on the preservation of historical and archaeologi-cal heritage in Bali and NTB. Nevertheless, he did not know exactly when the temple was first found. It measured about 2 meters x 2.5 meters and had existed since long time before he was in charge of preserv-ing the site. “I do not know exactly when it was found. Even, the previous officers

claimed not to know,” he explained.

According to his estima-tion, the cliff temple had existed since the eleventh century. The Tambahan Cliff Temple relief, said Dewa Tirta, resembled to the relics of Gunung Kawi Temple, Gianyar. Some local residents frequently put the offerings on the temple such as in the form of cigarette. “When people wishing to invoke water of lo-cal spring, they usually deliver cigarettes here,” he said.

All this time, the Tamba-han Cliff Temple was admit-ted to be very rarely visited by travelers. Travelers hardly ever visited this heritage site. Lastly, the cliff temple was visited by the students of the Department of Archaeology, Udayana University in 2012.

Even though rarely visited by travelers, he remained to preserve the sanitation of the ancient heritage. Leaves and moss around the site were always cleaned up so that it could always look like the original condition. (ina)

Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey, who hosted the Group of 20 meeting in the northern Australian city of Cairns, said the G-20 finance minis-ters and central bankers had agreed to more than 900 policy initiatives to meet the goal they set in February during a gathering in Sydney.

The G-20, which represents about 85 percent of the global economy, said an analysis of those initiatives show they should boost the combined gross domestic product of member countries by 1.8 percent above levels expected for the next five years — just short of the group’s target of 2 percent.

In July, the International Mone-tary Fund downgraded its economic forecast, estimating the world economy would expand 3.4 percent this year, rather than the 3.7 percent it had previously predicted, due to weaker growth in the U.S., Russia and developing economies.

Last week, the lending organiza-

tion amped up pressure on the G-20 to take action on its global growth commitment, calling for decisive structural reforms. On Sunday, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the G-20 would need to concentrate on labor market measures and infrastructure in order to reach its 2 percent growth goal by 2018.

“They are almost done, but need to do a bit more,” Lagarde told re-porters after the meeting.

Hockey said the group had agreed to shift its focus from government-led growth to private sector-led growth, particular from additional investment in infrastructure. In a communique issued after the meet-ing, the G-20 outlined a Global Infrastructure Initiative, which would include the development of a database to help match potential investors with projects.

The group also warned that while economic conditions had improved in some key economies, global

growth remained uneven and below the pace necessary to generate criti-cally needed jobs.

Hockey said the group would deliver “concrete outcomes” by the time the main G-20 summit is held in November in the Australian city

of Brisbane.“We will now redouble efforts

and hold each other to account on meeting this target as we go for-ward,” he said.

The G-20 represents the world’s major industrialized and developing

countries. Its members are Argen-tina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Can-ada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union.

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MUMBAI - They were famed for their jet-set lifestyles and the names of their companies were emblazoned on airplanes, Formula One cars and the shirtfronts of cricket teams. But now the debt-laden empires of three of India’s best-known tycoons -- Vijay Mallya, Subrata Roy and T. Venkattram Reddy -- are crumbling before their eyes, downfalls that observers say stem from a climate of weak regulation and deference to conspicuous wealth.

“All too often, the banks are dazzled by the halo of personal fortunes,” said Vishwas Utagi, a veteran campaigner for banking regulation.

Some of India’s most successful businesses, such as the family-run Tata and Reliance conglom-erates, have been led for years by men with little appetite for publicity and who prefer to operate in the shadows.

But Kingfisher boss Mallya and Sahara supremo Roy came to epitomise a new breed of tycoon, unafraid of trumpeting their achievements when they started making a name for themselves in the early 2000s.

Mallya -- the self-styled “King of Good Times” -- became something of an icon as he turned the United Breweries Group which he inherited from his father into one of the world’s largest spirit makers.

As his core business flourished, Mallya branched out by launching the Kingfisher airline, named after his company’s best-known beer. His profile rose

further when he acquired a stake in the Force India F1 team and ownership of the Royal Challengers Bangalore cricket team.

But as the Indian economy began to slow sharply at the turn of the decade, with the aviation industry becoming one of the sectors to be worst hit, Mallya’s fortunes nosedived too. After selling the liquor busi-ness to Diageo in a bid to shore up his airline, Mallya looked on helplessly as Kingfisher continued to haem-orrhage cash. The airline never took to the skies again after a pilots’ strike over unpaid wages in 2012.

Having run out of patience over Mallya’s failure to clear debts said to be in excess of $60 million, the United Bank of India this month declared him a “wilful defaulter”, making it nigh impossible to access fresh loans.

While Mallya is fighting to keep his properties from creditors, Roy is trying to sell his portfolio of luxury hotels -- including New York’s Plaza Hotel and the Grosvenor House in London -- to raise the $1.6 billion he needs to secure bail from Delhi’s Tihar Prison.

While he has several media interests, including a Hindi TV channel and newspaper, Roy’s profile was heightened by his co-ownership with Mallya of Force India and involvement in cricket.

Things dramatically worsened in March when Roy was detained after failing to meet a demand by regulators to pay back millions of small savers the $3.2 billion that Sahara raised via an illegal bond scheme.

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CAIRNS - US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Sunday called on the eu-rozone to do more to boost demand and make the structural changes needed to kick-start its stuttering economy.

“The discussions over the weekend have shown a growing recognition that Europe is going to need to do more to get its economy to where it should be,” he said in Cairns after a G20 meeting of finance ministers.

“What is clear from the US experi-ence is that the combination of taking action to boost demand in the short run and making structural changes for the long run is a important combination and it shouldn’t be a choice between the two. “You really need to pursue both.”

Last week the OECD said the sickly eurozone recovery was acting as drag on the outlook for the global economy.

It chopped by a third its 2014 fore-cast to 0.8 percent from the 1.2 percent expansion it had projected in May, warning the sluggish recovery was also at risk from increased tension over con-

flicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.Lew, speaking at a press conference,

said the principal of both growing de-mand and making structural reforms was “actually consistent with many of the ideas that are being discussed in Europe”.

“The challenge in Europe is to get an agreement on how to bring those pieces together.

“The concern I have is that if the ef-forts to boost demand are deferred for too long, there are risks that headwinds get stronger,” he added.

“And what I think Europe needs is more tailwinds in the economy. That’s what boosting demand in the short run would do.

“At the same time it is clear of the great need for structural reform in Europe. It is a question of finding the right balance.”

Lew added that while there were “philosophical differences” with some European countries on how to drive growth, “I think the notion that there needs to be a balance between the two, there is a growing consensus.”

G-20 says close to goal of $2 trillion in growthAssociated Press

SYDNEY — Finance chiefs from the 20 largest economies said on Sunday they are close to reaching their goal of boosting world GDP by more than $2 trillion over the next five years, and will focus on infrastructure investment to help reach the target.

Reuters Finance chiefs from the 20 largest economies said on Sunday they are close to reaching their goal of boosting world GDP by more than $2 trillion over the next five years, and will focus on infrastructure investment to help reach the target.

Europe needs to do more to boost growth: US

India’s jet-set tycoons crash to earth

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DENPASAR - At a National semi-nar held on 19 September 2014 by the Faculty of Health, Universitas Hindu Indonesia (UNHI) in Denpasar, two Indian experts – Ayurvedacharya Dr. Parveen Kumar and Yoga Instructor Ms. Mallika Savalkar – gave detailed powerpoint presentations on the benefits of Ayurveda & Yoga for managing obesity.

While narrating the causes and symptoms of obesity, Dr. Kumar elaborated on the management of obesity as detailed in Ayurveda through therapy, herbs, food items

which help to reduce obesity and herbal medicines. Ms. Mallika gave lecture-demonstration on Yoga asanas, Surya Namaskar & pranayama, among others.

As per a study reported by one of magazines in April 2014, as many as 15 Indonesian provinces have prevalence of obesity above the national rate, including Bali. Regular practice of yoga and bal-anced nutritional diet intake, with focus on foods & herbs beneficial for the health & body, helps to ward off the excess fat/weight on the body leading to an active mind & body.

Cliff Temple at Tambahan similar to relief at Gunung KawiBali Post

BANGLI - Evidently Bangli is rich in archaeological heritage site. Aside from the cliff temple at Jehem Kaja hamlet, Jehem village, Tembuku, another similar ancient relic can also be found at Tambahan hamlet, at local village. Slightly different from the existing site at Jehem Kaja, the heritage known as the Tambahan Cliff Temple remains to strongly adhere to the cliff wall. It has a relief looking like the relics as found at Gunung Kawi, Gianyar.

Yoga & Ayurveda effectively prevent obesity

IBP/Courtesy of India ConsulateMs. Mallika gave lecture-demonstration on Yoga asanas, Surya Namaskar & pranayama, among others.

IBP/SwasrinaEvidently Bangli is rich in archaeological heritage site. Aside from the cliff temple at Jehem Kaja hamlet, Jehem village, Tembuku, another similar ancient relic can also be found at Tambahan hamlet, at local village.

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VILNIUS, Lithuania — NATO’s top general said Saturday the two-week-old truce between Ukraine and pro-Russian militants fighting in the country’s east is a “cease-fire in name only,” and he said that by enabling a free flow of weapons and fighters across the border Russia has made it nearly impossible to determine how many of its troops are operating inside Ukraine.

U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told a news conference after meeting with NATO military chiefs that he is hopeful about Saturday’s announced agreement for creation of a buffer zone between Ukrainian and pro-Russian forces.

The deal reached by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the Moscow-backed reb-els and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe marks an effort to add substance to the Sept. 5 cease-fire agreement that has been frequently broken by clashes.

Breedlove has put the main blame on Russia for the continuing conflict. “So the situation in Ukraine is not good right now,” he said. “Basically we have a cease-fire in name only.”

Breedlove said violence levels in

Ukraine, including the number of artillery rounds fired in the past few days, are as high as prior to the cease-fire.

Asked about prospects for an ac-ceptable end Sunday to the prolonged stalemate in Kabul over Afghanistan’s presidential election, Breedlove sounded an optimistic note, saying NATO officials have spoken with both candidates, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and former finance minister and World Bank official Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.

“We believe they are very, very close to forming that unity government (which) we think is very important,” Breedlove said.

He said both Abdullah and Ghani Ah-madzai have promised a “quick signature” to a U.S.-Afghan security agreement that would provide the basis for nearly 10,000 American troops to remain in the country after the U.S. and NATO combat missions end in December. The current president, Hamid Karzai, negotiated the deal last year but refused to sign it.

“I wouldn’t want to speculate on how fast, but we’re hoping for very fast signa-tures,” Breedlove said, because it would open the way not only for U.S. troops to remain but also for NATO to begin a training mission dubbed Resolute Support starting in January.

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Despite these setbacks, officials said most of Sierra Leone’s 6 mil-lion people were complying with orders to stay at home as nearly 30,000 volunteers and health care workers fanned out across the coun-try to distribute soap and informa-tion on how to prevent Ebola.

The virus, spread by contact with bodily fluids, has killed than 560 people in Sierra Leone and more than 2,600 in West Africa since the outbreak began last December, according to the World Health Or-ganization. It is killing about half of the people it infects.

The streets of the capital, Free-town, were empty Saturday except for the four-person teams going door to door with kits bearing soap, cards listing Ebola symp-toms, stickers to mark houses visited and a tally to record sus-pected cases.

Among the volunteers was Id-rissa Kargbo, a well-known mara-

thoner who has qualified for races on three continents but whose train-ing and career have been stymied by the outbreak.

Although early responses to the disease have been marred by suspicion of health workers, Free-town residents on Saturday seemed grateful for any information they could get, Kargbo told The Associ-ated Press.

“Some people are still denying, but now when you go to almost any house they say, ‘Come inside, come and teach us what we need to do to prevent,’” Kargbo said. “Nobody is annoyed by us.”

Sierra Leone’s government is clearly hoping the lockdown will help turn the tide against the disease which the U.N. health agency estimates will take many months to eradicate in the country. In a speech before the lockdown, President Ernest Bai Koroma said “the survival and dignity of each

and every Sierra Leonean” was at stake.

The strategy has drawn criticism, however. The charity group Doctors

Without Borders warned it would be “extremely difficult for health workers to accurately identify cases through door-to-door screening.”

Even if suspected cases are identified during the lockdown, the group said Sierra Leone doesn’t have enough beds to treat them.

Sierra Leone staggers in Ebola isolation effort Associated Press

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Some in Sierra Leone ran away from their homes Saturday and others clashed with health workers trying to bury dead Ebola victims as the country struggled through the second day of an unprecedented lockdown to combat the deadly disease.

AP Photo/Michael DuffA health worker volunteer marks a home with chalk to identify that it has been visited, as they distribute bars of soap and information about Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.

NATO chief: Ukraine has cease-fire ‘in name only’

AP Photo/Mindaugas KulbisNATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) U.S. Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, left, U.S. Army Commander for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Gen. John F. Campbell, center, and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) Gen. Jean-Paul Pal-omeros, right, attend a NATO Military Committee Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.

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AMLAPURA - The Ritual Committee of Panca Wali Krama, Wana Kertih and pujawali or temple anniversary with the peak on Thurs-day (Oct 23) at Pasar Agung Temple at Sebudi, Selat, Karangasem dithered. According to Spokesperson of the ritual committee, Wayan Suara Arsana, his party faced water crisis at Sebudi, Friday (Sep 19).

He said the temple had some toilets at the courtyard but the water was in crisis. It hap-pened because all the cisterns had dried up. Meanwhile, the water in the reservoir at the bottom of the temple had also dried up.

He worried that without the help of clean water supply from the Karangasem County many pilgrims were feared to complain. Thousands of pilgrims would come and wor-ship each day. After a long journey by riding vehicle, what they looked for after dropping off the vehicle was toilet. Especially female pilgrims could not urinate arbitrarily in the bush, but had to go to toilet. “When they found no water in the toilet and it is less clean, the committee will reap a complaint. It is impos-sible for such a big temple having no water,” said Suara mimicking the complaints of pil-grims all this time.

Suara said that the committee had been trying for buying water from tank truck with the capacity of 5,000 liters at IDR 200,000 each tank. With the donation collected from toilet users at IDR 200 per person, his party could only get IDR 100,000. As a result, the committee should subsidize as much as IDR 100,000 per tank. “If we charge at higher amount at IDR 5,000 per toilet user for the price of water at IDR 200,000 each tank, it seems too high. So, we ask the understanding of pilgrims related to the condition of Pasar Agung temple located in the barren ridge and faces clean water crisis,” he said. He also expected the Karangasem government to help with the water supply. Most of the water was needed to flush toilet.

A ritual committee, I Gusti Bagus Suteja, conveyed similar thing. Related to the clean water crisis, his party had prayed and invoked so that it could rain ahead of ritual events, so the rainwater could be collected in cistern. He added that a cistern of rainwater from Mount Agung had been made above the Pasar Agung temple. However, the water stock had run thin. The water of cistern on the left and right side of the temples already diminished. Without an immediate rain ahead of the ritual, it was feared the water would dry up. “The water in the reservoir under the Pasar Agung Temple has also run thin. If the water remains in the reservoir, it is actually supplied to the popula-tion at the bottom,” he said.

Gusti Suteja from Jero Selat expected the help of the Karangasem government if there was no heavy rain ahead of the ritual. “We have proposed the help request to local govern-ment, so that we can be helped occasionally with the water supply by using tank truck,” he said. (013)

“We’re just uncovering this case. The funder in the case will surely be traced. Moreover, the precursor prepared is in very large number,” said the Chief of Denpasar Police Narcotics Unit, Gede Ganefo.

Chief of Denpasar Police, Djoko Har-iutomo, accompanied by Gede Ganefo affirmed to hold the disclosure of the case. In addition to revealing the four suspects, namely Wayan Artawa alias Tawok, 46, Donisius S., 27, I Gusti Ngurah Surya Wibawa, 34, and Nyoman Sudarmawan, 36, he also demonstrated the raw materials and equipment used to make the crystal meth and ecstasy, the results of raid in the house used as ecstasy factory on Jalan Buana Kubu Gang Asem, Denpasar, a villa at Kaliasem, Banjar, Buleleng and villa Jalan Daman, Kayu Putih, Sukasada, Buleleng. Both the villas were used to produce crystal meth.

According to Denpasar Police Chief accompanied by the Spokesperson of Bali Police Hery Wiyanto, the evidence secured in the house of the suspect Surya Wibawa on Jalan Buana Kubu Gang Asem, Tuesday (Sep 16) included 1,130 colored tablets of ecstasy material, precursor in the form of white powder weighing 101.19 grams,

a bottle of 10-mg codeine weighing 61 grams and other materials. “When the search was made, the friend of the sus-pect named Sudarmawan came in. When searched, an ecstasy pill press machine was found in his pocket,” he said.

From testimony of the two suspects, the personnel of Ganefo then searched the dorm room of the suspect Dion denoting the crystal meth and ecstasy maker on Jalan Tukad Ba-tanghari, Denpasar. In the room of the suspect from Medan, North Sumatra, was secured the ecstasy fragment weighing 0.21 gram, posing the rest of production some time ago. “The three suspects have produced 50 ecstasy pills but have been sold out,” said Djoko.

When checking the Tab of the suspect Dion, the officers shocked as finding the photographs of crystal meth factory. Hav-ing been questioned, the suspect Dion fi-nally uncovered the factory of crystal meth in Buleleng. He admitted to make it with the suspect Artawa aka Tawok at one of the villas at Kaliasem area, Buleleng. The team led in person by the Chief of Narcotics Unit headed for the villa to conduct a search. As a result, the officers could secure a few grams of powder precursors and several

bottles of chemicals along with heating tool and electric scale. The villa was used as location to produce crystal meth.

After arrested in the area of Seririt, Buleleng, Tawok was taken to location of the villa on Jalan Daman, Kayu Putih, Su-kasada, Buleleng. At the villa, the officers could secure the crystal meth making tools in the form of glass bottles, measuring cup, hose, heating device, scales and thermom-eter. Among the evidences, there was also a precursor powder weighing 27 kilograms, a dozen bottles of chemicals, 5 jerrycans of chemical and some sacks of ingredients used to make other crystal meth.

“Having been checked in forensic labo-ratory in Denpasar, the materials belong to the category of precursors related to methamphetamine,” said Subdivision Head of the Forensic Biochemistry of Denpasar Forensic Laboratory, Ngurah Wijaya Putra, while accompanying the police chief.

Djoko Hariutomo asserted the crystal meth materials were predominantly sup-plied from Jakarta and Malang. With the materials the suspect could be produce about 6 kilograms of crystal meth worth IDR 10 billion more. When running smoothly, the factory could produce 15 grams of crystal meth every 3 days. Meanwhile, the produc-tion of ecstasy at the home of Surya funded by Sudarmawan at IDR 20 million could yield 1,000 ecstasy pills worth IDR 450 mil-lion. “When combined, both factories can produce narcotics worth IDR 11 billion,” said Djoko. (kmb36)

Ahead of Panca Wali KramaCommittee gets confused due to water crisis

IBP/’Eka AdyaksaThe police is diplaying the evidences confiscated during the raid of a meth factory

Funder of drug factory mysteriousBali Post

DENPASAR - Denpasar Police still doubted if the suspect Wayan Artawa alias Tawok was the mastermind of the drug factory raided at Villa Lumbung at Kaliasem, Banjar, Buleleng and a villa located on Jalan Daman, Kayu Putih, Sukasada, Buleleng. Allegedly, the funder has disbursed IDR 300 million for the factory belonging to the home industry.

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PARIS - Paris officials have put up plastic panels on an iconic pedestrian bridge spanning the Seine river in front of the Louvre in an attempt to stop lovers sealing their passion with padlocks attached to the bridge.

City hall authorities are des-perately trying to save the world-famous Pont des Arts and other bridges from damage from the thousands of padlocks left there by tourists and some locals as a pledge to their eternal devotion.

Since 2008, when the craze first

began, thousands of couples from across the world have visited the Pont des Arts every year and sealed their love by attaching a padlock carrying their names to its railing and throwing the key in the Seine.

But too much love can be a dan-gerous thing and the city authorities have been wrestling with the prob-lem of how to halt the phenomenon, which is beginning to take its toll.

In June, police hurriedly ushered tourists off the Pont des Arts when a section of the footbridge collapsed under the weight of the padlocks, which now completely cover the

155-metre-(509-foot-)long bridge.City official Bruno Julliard said

Friday the city had decided “to ex-periment by placing Perspex panels to replace the metal grills” to which visitors attach their “love locks”.

“Two have been installed, a third will be fixed in the coming days,” he said.

Over Paris’s busy summer period this year, romantic tourists to the world’s most-visited city attached more than 700,000 love lock on several Paris bridges, say City Hall authorities.

This has resulting in “a last-

ing deterioration for our cultural heritage and a risk for visitors’ security”.

“On the Pont des Arts alone, 15 grills have had to be removed for safety reasons. Each of these panels were carrying nearly 500 kilo-grammes (1,100 pounds), more than four times the maximum weight,” city hall said.

In a desperate bid to stop the phenomenon, Paris city hall of-ficials in August urged lovers to upload “selfies” instead of attaching a love lock.

Javiera Pacheco, a tourist from

Chile, who was visiting the city with her Italian boyfriend Mar-co, was not impressed with the new initiative as she placed their “Marco and Javiera” padlock on the bridge.

“You have to keep the love locks. It’s very romantic and Paris is known for that,” she said.

For a different reason, the new measures were not welcome for Singh Sharry. The 19-year-old In-dian sells padlocks to love-struck couples hoping to leave a lasting monument to their passion in the City of Light.

Chocolate is a national treasure in Belgium. It is home to such illustrious brands as Godiva, Neuhaus, Leonidas and Cote d’Or. And the museum open-ing Saturday, in a former chocolate factory in the capital Brussels, will showcase its love of the brown stuff.

“The Belgian passion for choco-late has never been denied and we

have become ‘the country of choco-late,’” the museum’s designer Henri Dupuis said.

At the heart of the Belgian Chocolate Village, as the museum is called, cocoa trees and other tropical plants grow in a lush green-house.

Visitors to the museum in the

northwest Brussels neighbourhood of Koekelberg can learn how the cocoa bean is harvested abroad, usually in west Africa where it was introduced by the Europeans, and then refined into chocolate in northern countries.

They are told the history of choco-late from its origin in central America

where the Maya and Aztec Indians consumed cocoa in the form of a drink, to its arrival in Europe with the Spanish before it was mass produced in the industrial revolution.

It shows how chocolate sparked religious debates -- about whether it could be eaten during periods of fasting -- and children in Europe were often forbidden from hav-ing it.

Visitors are also shown how con-fectioners cater to different tastes in different countries: the Dutch like to sip hot chocolate drinks, the

Belgians adore pralines and favor dark chocolate while the Swiss like milk chocolate.

The visitor can not only see how different chocolates are made in what used to be the former Victoria chocolate and biscuit factory, which closed in 1969, but taste a whole variety of them.

Chocolate is one of Belgium’s main consumer products, with the small EU nation manufacturing around 172,000 tonnes of chocolate products a year, according to the Belgian tourist office.

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ROME - Want to discover Rome and keep fit in the process? Jogger guides in the eternal city are taking tourists from around the world on a trot from the Colosseum to the Vatican. For those worried what all those pizzas and ice-creams are do-ing to their waistline, taking to the streets of the historic centre at dawn not only lets visitors stay trim but gives them an experience of Italy’s capital when the tourist crowds are still tucked up in bed.

Kristin Karstensdotter, a young Swedish expat, founded her jog-ging guide company in 2012 to fill a gap in the market after training for the Rome marathon. “I was out all the time, running the city, and I saw all these tourists walking in groups or running by themselves and I thought it would be very cool to be able to show them the same side of Rome I see when I’m out running,” she told AFP during a morning sprint.

From nine o’clock in the morn-ing (0700 GMT), a small group of maximum six people meets in front of the imposing Castle of the Holy

Angel on the banks of the Tiber river and sets off on a tour which takes in the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain and the Pantheon.

With Romans busy sipping espressos or already at work at that hour, the cobbled streets are rela-tively empty and the group can take time to stop and hear all about the history of the city’s prized monu-ments from their guide.

From Americans to Japanese, Lithuanians and Swedes, the run-ners come from across the world.

The groups cover about seven kilometres (just over four miles) in an hour, and don’t need to be particularly athletic. While most who take part describe themselves as “sporty”, Karstensdotter said she also welcomes beginners.

Karla, a Salvadorian student taking part in one of the tours, said she had been attracted by the idea of seeing the city in a different way.

“You discover things at a more leisurely pace walking, but running is more fun, particularly in a group,” she said.

Finally, a trip to the spaghetti heartland of Italy can actually be good for your figure.

The battered body of Sheila von Wiese Mack, 62, was found in the case in the boot of a taxi in front of an exclusive hotel in the upscale Nusa Dua resort area on August 12.

Her teenage daughter, Heather Mack, and daughter’s boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, had been staying with her at the St Regis hotel but fled to another part of the island after the killing. They were caught the following day.

They are in custody in Bali while police investigate and could face the death penalty if found guilty of premeditated murder.

Authorities previously claimed

they have strong evidence against the pair and on Friday Djoko Heru Utomo, police chief in the Balinese capital Denpasar, said they had ad-mitted their involvement in the case during questioning in recent days.

“Both suspects have confessed,” he said, adding that Schaefer, 21, had admitted to carrying out the killing after an argument with the victim.

The daughter, 19, claimed she watched Schaefer kill her mother and then helped to stuff the body into the suitcase, said Utomo.

“The interrogation is continuing in order to get the full account,” he added.

Heather Mack, who is pregnant, had previously refused to talk to Indonesian police without Ameri-can legal representation present, and this week her lawyer from the United States arrived in Bali to as-sist her locally-hired lawyers.

The pair are yet to be charged with any crime, as under the Indo-nesian legal system suspects are not formally charged until they appear in court at the start of a trial.

A trial will only begin once police have completed their inves-tigations and passed the evidence to prosecutors. The victim and the suspects are all from the Chicago area.

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SEMARAPURA - Since the implementation of the renovation, the tourist visit to Kertagosa tour-ist attraction decreased drastical-ly. Many travelers canceled their visit after knowing the renovation. Meanwhile, the renovation work cannot be accelerated because the Kamasan paintings on the ceiling of the pavilion were vulnerable to damage.

Renovation workmanship in the floating pavilion (Bale Kam-bang) has started re-installing the Kamasan paintings. Special treatment is given to the paint-ings made from asbestos material as they are vulnerable to damage when handled carelessly.

“As needing high accuracy, the workers can only install 5 meters of the paintings pursuant to its sequence each day,” said field su-pervisor of PT Suri Mas Perkasa, Wayan Rustawan, 29.

Renovation work to floating pavilion was estimated to be completed in two weeks, while the Kertagosa pavilion in a month. “For Kertagosa pavilion, we are still awaiting the installation of palm fiber,” he explained.

His party revealed that during the construction of the pavilion, visitors were not allowed to see the paintings becoming the main object of the Kertagosa. In addition, the project was also installed with rope so that visitors would not pass the path to the renovation area. This condition caused a decrease in the number of tourist visits to Kertagosa at-traction.

In accordance with the number of tourist visits to Kertagosa, a decline has happened since the renovation project was started on August 1. Previously, the visits could reach 323 people, but later decreased to no more than 200 people. Many visitors arriving at location even canceled the visit after seeing the renovation works.

One of the renovation work-ers, Kadek Wijaya, 30, claimed to have been carefully removing and re-installing the paintings. It required a high accuracy to put back the paintings in order to be appropriate with the original position and sequence. “When removing, the paintings must be done in sequence as well as when putting them back,” he said.

According to him, the wooden construction of the pavilion build-ing remained sturdy and feasible for reuse. Only a few needed to be replaced because they were no longer feasible. While the bamboo, palm fiber and zinc were replaced in whole. “Condition of the zinc sheets has been dam-aged and rusty and so as the palm fibers, so they must be replaced,” he added.

During the renovation works, the supervision continued to be done by the Klungkung govern-ment, royal family and the officers of the project contractor. The Klungkung Culture and Tourism Agency had instructed to pay great attention to the existing paintings. After removal, the paintings were stored in a special place to prevent any damage due to moisture. (dwa)

Tourist visit slumps due to Kertagosa renovation

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Workers worked on the renovation site at Kerta Gosa. Since the implementation of the renovation, the tourist visit to Kertagosa tourist attraction decreased drastically.

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Tommy Schaefer (left) confessed to killing his girlfriend’s mother at a luxury resort on the In-donesian island of Bali, while the girlfriend has admitted helping stuff the body into a suitcase, police said Friday.

US man confesses to Bali suitcase killing

Agence France-Presse

DENPASAR - An American man has confessed to killing his girlfriend’s mother at a luxury resort on the Indonesian island of Bali, while the girlfriend has admitted helping stuff the body into a suitcase, police said Friday.

Brussels chocolate museum opens to sweeten sensesAgence France-Presse

BRUSSELS - It likes to call itself the “country of chocolate” and now Belgium has a new treat for visitors: a museum dedicated to the confectionary featuring a Willy Wonka-style factory and cocoa tree jungle.

Paris puts up panels to prevent ‘love-locks’

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

A street performer tries to attract passers-by attention, in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. In background is St. Peter’s Basilica.

Discover Rome at a run with jogger

guide tours

Jakarta – Continuing to expand the suc-cessful favehotel brand in the Indonesian capital, Archipelago International will be opening the latest favehotel property in Cen-tral Jakarta soon in this year.

Home to over 10 million people, Jakarta is a huge megalopolis and one of the world’s largest cities. It is a city of contrasts; the tra-ditional and the modern, the sacred and the worldly. Its population comprises of all ethnic groups in the Indonesian archipelago, living under the national motto: Bhineka Tunggal Ika, meaning “Unity in Diversity”.

Whether it be business or leisure, Jakarta’s central Zainul Arifin area offers access to the North and Central business districts, China-town and is within close proximity to the government offices around the Presidential Palace. Soekarno Hatta International Airport is just 35 to 45 minutes away by car.

With this convenient location, favehotel Zainul Arifin is a prime choice for long and short term leisure travelers, businessmen and families. The 84 super clean and contempo-rary budget hotel rooms feature top of the line beds with a plush mattress, down pillows, a

cozy duvet and crisp 250 thread-count sheets – together with smart touches that contribute to a comfortable and enjoyable stay.

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

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

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

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

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Calendar Event for August 9 through September 23, 2014

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

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

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

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

Pura Penataran Badung Muntig Karangasem

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

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

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

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

10 Sep Pura Dangkahyangan Dalem Dukuh Kuda Sekaan Bangli

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

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

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

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BANGLI - Breakdown to the irrigation tunnel owned by Subak Uma Aya happened some time ago has caused dozens of hectares of paddy fields around the area to get eroded. Local farmers remarkably felt the aftermath. As a result, farmers, especially those having farmland at downstream area are still unable to plant due to drought. They are still confused what variety of plants to grow after the harvest.

As expressed by one of the local farmers, Ketut Tempo, Saturday (Sep 20), he could not work on his paddy field as it already dried up. Moreover, the break-down of the irrigation tunnel also eroded 300 square meters of his farmland occurred during dry season. “As it is dry like this, I do not know what to plant in my paddy fields,” said Tempo when met after harvesting at his paddy field.

However, since the paddy field was currently dry, according to him, the most appropriate plant to be planted was soybeans. “Probably, I will later plant it with soybeans or other kinds of crops,” he added.

He admitted the irrigation tunnel breakdown at the beginning of this September had disrupted the water flow to his paddy field. It happened because the breakdown occurred at the upstream of his paddy field. Luckily, the breakdown happened when his paddy plants no longer needed plenty of water.

As previously reported, the breakdown of the ir-rigation tunnel was alleged to have been kindled by unstable soil condition. All this time, the tunnel posed the irrigation channel for from the Sangsang River to Subak Sidawa. Breakdown of the tunnel caused a number of farmlands above the tunnel to collapse and left a large gaping sinkhole with a depth of tens of meters. (ina)

From the search, for the income in August 2014, one of the legisla-tors in the Badung House received IDR 25,268,950. Such amount is derived from the component of representation, package, position, family, rice allowance, housing allowance and telecommunica-tions incentive. Component of the biggest income sources from the housing allowance reaching IDR 14,500,000.

The amount of such income had not been maximal because in Au-gust, the income component of the

legislators was not in full amount. They have not got any allowance of the parliamentary leadership in-come component. Even, according to information from the Secretary of the Badung House, I Made Wira Dharmajaya, there would be a rise in income for the legislators. How-ever, he claimed if the magnitude and time could not be ascertained.

Of the total income, there were still some deductions. Components of the deduction consisted of in-come tax, levy to political party, faction deduction and Gatriwara

(association of legislators’ spouse) levy. Interestingly, some legislators brought home net salaries reaching hundreds of thousands of rupiahs only because their salaries had been deducted for certain matters, primarily for personal expenses.

From a number of talks to some legislators of the Badung House, most of them admitted to get inad-equate income and it was unable to meet the monthly needs. Not a few of them complained because their income as a legislator was insufficient.

Other than for meeting personal or family needs, most of them had debt in relatively high amount to finance the previous legislative campaign. Not only that, the politi-cal cost to maintain the constituents each month was also quite large. Even, at certain moments, they had to spend up to tens of millions of rupiahs on a day.

Such inadequate income was recognized by a legislator of the Ba-dung House, Putu Alit Yandinata. However, he did not want that his service in the House was considered to seek wealth. He mentioned that as the people’s representative, each legislator should be required to pay devotional works for public inter-est. “In essence, being a people’s representative is devotion, not mak-ing money,” he said while adding

that he had no business outside his capacity as a legislator to meet his political costs.

Similar opinion was expressed by another legislator of the Badung House, I Made Duama, Saturday (Sep 20). According to him, being a legislator was not as easy as esti-mated. A legislator should be able to carry out the task of defending the public interest over personal interests. So, he said, representing people in parliament was not a place to look for wealth but to serve the community.

“A legislator has the primary task to struggle for the poor first. Indeed, it’s hard but it should be undertaken. Each legislator may not ignore the public interests,” said the PDI-P politician from Ungasan. (kmb25)

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MANGUPUrA - A legislator of the Badung House can get income reaching tens of millions of rupiahs. The greatest income sources from housing allowance. Although relatively high-paying, in fact a number of the legislators complain because their income during their service as a member of the House is still unable to meet the needs, especially the political costs.

Irrigation tunnel breakdownFarmers unable to cultivate paddy field

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The damage irrigation tunnel of Subak Uma Aya is seen in the picture.

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LOS ANGELES - More nude ce-lebrity photos, purportedly including reality star Kim Kardashian, circu-lated social media Saturday, in what appeared to be the second massive hacking-related leak in less than a month, US media reported.

The pictures, which also included nude shots of actress Vanessa Hudgens and US soccer star Hope Solo, appeared briefly on 4chan and Reddit, before

being removed, celebrity gossip site TMZ reported.

BuzzFeed said that personal videos and photos belonging to actresses Au-brey Plaza, Mary-Kate Olsen, Hayden Panettiere and Leelee Sobieski were posted, in addition to previously unseen pictures of Jennifer Lawrence.

Hackers first released a trove of nude starlets’ photos on September 1, after snatching them from Apple’s iCloud in what the tech giant has called a “targeted attack.”

The company has denied its cloud storage system was breached, suggesting that the celebrities had their accounts hacked by using easy-to-guess pass-words, or by giving up their personal data to cybercriminals posing as Apple, a technique known as “phishing.”

In addition to Lawrence, celebrities whose pictures were allegedly stolen and posted online in early September included model Kate Upton, singer Avril Lavigne and actress Gabrielle Union.

The Oscar-winning actress -- whose latest film as director, “Unbroken,” is out in December -- will go behind the camera once again for “Africa,” with a screenplay by another Oscar winner, Eric Roth.

“I’ve felt a deep connection to Africa and its culture for much of my life,” Jolie said, praising “Forrest Gump” writer Roth’s “beautiful” script.

The film is about “a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers, who emerged with a deeper understanding of man’s footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him,” she said.

Leakey, 69, former head of the gov-ernment’s Kenya Wildlife Service, was key in stemming the rampant poaching of the late 1980s, using extreme measures including sending helicopter gunships into national parks.

Kenya’s elephant and rhino popula-

tions recovered from the brink of disas-ter, but more than two decades later, the east African nation is once again facing soaring levels of poaching.

The new movie for Skydance Produc-tions will be produced by Jolie, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Jon Peters. She will team up again with renowned cinematographer Roger Deakins, who also shot “Unbroken.”

Ellison called Leakey “inspi-rational,” saying: “’Africa’ is a story that deserves to be told.

“I know that it will exceed my expec-tations in Angelina’s hands,” he added.

Jolie is currently directing “By the Sea,” based on her own screenplay and in which she co-stars with her husband Brad Pitt, as well as Melanie Laurent and Niels Arestrup.

“Unbroken” is about Olympian and World War II POW survivor Louis Zam-perini. It will be released on December 25 in the United States.

Jolie’s directorial debut feature, 2011’s “In the Land of Blood and Honey” set against the background of the early 1990s Bosnian war, was nomi-nated for a Golden Globe award for best

foreign language film.

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Vanessa Hudgens

Second apparent leak of hacked celebrity nude pictures

Jolie to direct film about Kenya conservationistAgence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Angelina Jolie is to direct a “sweeping epic” film about veteran Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey’s fight with ivory poachers, the studio behind the movie said Friday.

Penimbangan Beach is one of the alternative cheap family at-tractions. Late in the afternoon, a number of visitors often come with family just to unwind. Though, it shows the increase in the number of tourist visit, particularly at week-

end and holiday season, the area of Penimbangan Beach offering black sand still looks dirty as filled with rubbish.

Clean-up activities are still rare-ly done in the area of Penimbangan Beach. The rubbish consisting of

plastic food packs, plastic bags, twigs of trees and used offerings pile up and scatter on the beach sand are ascertained to have come from the high seas and visitors in confusion to dispose of rubbish around the beach. “Yes, we want to dispose of rubbish because there is no trash and janitor here. As a result, the beach becomes dirty, sir, whereas visitors are crowded here,” said Agus, one of the visitors.

An observer doubling as a mem-ber of the Sari Segara fishermen group of Baktiseraga, Buleleng

subdistrict, Kadek Wisata, said that coastal sanitation had not got opti-mal attention from local govern-ments. In addition, the dirty beach was caused by people’s behavior littering in middle of the ocean and the lack of trash bin. “There are a number of traders in the coastal areas of Penimbangan deliberately throwing trash into the sea. Then, the winds and sea currents carried the rubbish ashore and polluted the Penimbangan Beach,” he said.

The dirty Penimbangan Beach area was feared to reduce the tourist

visit. A simple system that could be done was by applying mutual assis-tance. He said that since fishermen were busy catching fish, they could not routinely do cleanup activities. It was complained because the rub-bish piled up along the shoreline. “The rubbish comes every day from the sea. Even, few foreign visitors often sunbathe here. Actually, the Penimbangan Beach has very high potential, so the coastal sanitation must be given a priority in order to keep the tourism image of Bule-leng,” he said. (kmb34)

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Penimbangan Beach filled with marine debris

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Along the coastal area of Penimbangan Beach at Baktiseraga village, Buleleng, marine debris looked to scatter and was estimated to originate from the open sea.

Bali Post

BULELENG - Along the coastal area of Penimbangan Beach at Baktiseraga village, Buleleng, marine debris looked to scatter and was estimated to originate from the open sea. Such dirty shoreline has occurred over the past few months and has not got any handling from the sanitation agency.