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“Safe and smooth conditions un-til July 22 and thereafter have been in accordance with the decision of the Electoral Commission. Then,

the economy will be very excited and ascertained to rebound,” said the Secretary of the ISEI Bali, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana.

He said the smooth implementation of the presidential election would affect both the economy and the business sec-tor, including triggering a positive effect on the capital market. It was marked by the increased stock purchase ahead of the recent presidential election, so the increase in stock price index (IHSG) on the stock market would increasingly strengthen.

“It proves if the market puts high reliance on each presidential candidate. Such condition is likely

to continue as long as the failing candidate is graceful and uncom-plicated,” he said.

He also stated the safe and peace-ful election resulted in a strengthen-ing exchange of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar. Exchange rate and stock index indirectly strengthening would affect the businesses to get improved. Foreign funds would go to developing countries, including Indonesia, as long as there was no post-election unrest.

Meanwhile, the Representative Office Head of Bank Indonesia (BI) for Region III Bali-Nusa Teng-gara, Benny Siswanto, said that in the second quarter of 2014, the BI estimated the economic growth of Bali would be higher than the first quarter of 2014 showing a slow down. Bank Indonesia predicted the economic growth in the second quarter of 2014 would be in the range of 5.2 to 5.8 percent.

CLOSING CEREMONY - Dance and

musical drama from students of

Gianyar’s vo-cational high

school per-formed during

the closing ceremony of Bali Art

Festival on Saturday, July

12, 2014.

Indonesia’s economy predicted to reboundBali Post

DENPASAR - The Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter predicted the economy of Indonesia after the presidential election on July 9 would be experiencing a rebound. The surge leading to strengthening with significant percentage was caused by the democratic event having run safely and smoothly.

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Shakira says she “will never forget that I met the love of my life at the

World Cup.”She and Spain defender Gerard Pique

met when promoting her 2010 World Cup anthem, “Waka Waka — Time for Africa,” and the couple have an 18-month-old son.

Speaking ahead of Sunday’s closing ceremony concert, Shakira says “if it wasn’t for the World Cup my son Milan

would not be here.”In Maracana Stadium before the

Argentina vs. Germany final she will perform “La La La (Brazil 2014)” with Brazilian musician Carlinhos Brown.

Shakira says though Pique was af-fected by defending champion Spain’s early exit, “I have a way of consoling him.”

Shakira thanks World Cup for changing her lifeAssociated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — Preparing to perform at her third World Cup, pop star Shakira says she thanks football for changing her life.

AP Photo/Leo Correa

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LOS ANGELES - Hollywood star George Clooney on Friday rejected an apology from Britain’s Daily Mail over a story claiming his fiancee’s mother opposes the couple’s upcoming marriage, accusing the tabloid of cover-up.

The paper reported earlier this week that the US actor’s soon-to-be Lebanese mother-in-law had been telling “half of Beirut” that she opposes the union between the heartthrob and her daughter Amal Alamuddin due to her supposed Druze faith.

The daily removed the piece from its widely read website and apologized following an initial protest by Clooney, who said it got many key facts wrong.

The publication however maintained that its story was “not a fabrication, but supplied in good faith” by a reputable journalist.

A clearly incensed Clooney is not letting the matter go, issuing a second USA Today opinion piece Friday in as many days.

“There is one constant when a person or company is caught doing something wrong. The coverup is always worse,” Clooney wrote.

“In the apology, managing editor Charles Garside claims that the article was ‘not a fabrication,’ but ‘based the story on conversa-tions with senior members of the Lebanese community,’” he added.

“The problem is that none of that is true... So either they were lying originally, or they’re lying now.”

Word that Alamuddin, a Beirut-based London lawyer, had stolen the heart of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated bachelors caused an international media frenzy back in April.

No official details have been released on when the high-profile pair will say “I do.”

On marriage storyClooney rejects Daily Mail apology

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Israel calls for north Gaza evacuation after raid

Kerry: extensionof nuclear talks likely

Brazil pay heavy price for tactical naivety, immaturity

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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, July 14, 2014

Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi

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

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

27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati

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

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

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

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

Travellers’ Choice award winners were deter-mined based on the reviews and opinions of mil-lions of TripAdvisor travellers around the globe. Yoga Iswara, General Manager, Maca Villas & Spa Bali said, “It was truly an honor for us to re-ceive the Award, our dedication and commitment to Service Excellence brought these Prestigious Awards to Maca Villas & Spa Bali. Being awarded as Travelers’ Choice Winner 2014 in the categories of Top Luxury, Top Romance and Top Small hotel indicates that the villa is on the right track to achieve its mission to be recognized as the preferred villas destination in Bali.

“These awards are testaments to our Team ef-forts to consistently deliver their best and encourage

them to continue provide Service Excellence as our standard everyday for every guest. We would like to thank our guests who have played a major roles in making this possible and assure them that every ac-tion and decision made at Maca is based on consumer satisfaction, hopefully you will continue to support us till the years to come and make Maca Villas & Spa Bali your “home away from home” every time your travels bring you to our great island,” he added.

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Maca Villas & Spa Bali named Tripadvisor Traveler’s Choice Winner

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Victory of Jokowi-JK in Bali is like a kind of remedy and the awak-ening moment of the PDI-P after its candidates suffered a successive defeat in the Bali gubernatorial election and regent election 2013 in Klungkung. Jokowi-JK’s victory in Bali was also judged to show how the people loved and longed for the presence of the figure of future lead-er who was clean, honest, simple and populist. Besides, the victory of Jokowi-JK in Bali was assessed by a number of political observers as a severe blow to Prabowo-Hatta Campaign Team for Bali Province headed by the Deputy Governor of Bali Ketut Sudikerta, while Gover-nor of Bali Mangku Pastika served as the Steering Committee.

In fact, the support of the two regional leaders in Bali was not in-fluential enough to rally support and win Prabowo-Hatta in Bali with the target of 55 percent of votes because for the time being the achievement was in the range of 28 percent more. Severe defeat of Prabowo-Hatta in Bali resulted in an assessment if the Prabowo-Hatta Campaign Team for Bali Province and counties /municipality in Bali is not solid and has not been working optimally. Moreover, the Golkar Party itself has internal disunity.

A political observer doubling as an academician, Dr. Luh Riniti, revealed on Saturday (Jul 12) that severe victory of Jokowi-JK over Prabowo-Hatta in Bali showed off the great interest of Balinese community to change. “In fact, the majority of voters in Bali have set their preference for Jokowi figure that brings in novelty,” she said.

This Chairperson of Bali Sruti NGO assessed the support of Gov-ernor Pastika and Deputy Governor Sudikerta to Prabowo-Hatta did not affect much to gain support. In fact,

the victory of Pastika and Sudikerta in the Bali gubernatorial election could not be converted into victory of votes for Prabowo-Hatta in this presidential election. “The result of Bali gubernatorial election was not in line with the presidential election, even though the governor and his deputy served as the winning team. Once again, the figure factor highly determines the people’s choice. Massive and progressive campaign strategy, even with the involve-ment of governor in the campaign, was still unable to influence of the choice of Balinese people getting more intelligent,” said Riniti.

She added the rampant black and negative campaign conducted in each campaign had made people think. It was the thinking process that had caused the political intelli-gence of the community to increase and they could make a choice ra-tionally. On the other hand, added the former Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Science at the Ngurah Rai University Denpasar, the severe victory of Jokowi-JK in Bali had a very significant meaning for the PDI-P Bali. “Jokowi man-aged to restore the people’s votes to the PDI-P Bali that previously dropped from election to election and lost out in the Bali gubernato-rial election and regent election in Klungkung though nationally the contribution of vote of Bali was relatively small compared to the provinces on the Island of Java. However, the significance of Bali to PDI-P was very important. Bali as the basis symbol to PDI-P could have been taken back,” said the for-mer commissioner of the Electoral Commission.

Separately, the Jokowi-JK Cam-paign Team Leader for Bali Prov-ince, Wayan Koster, said the victory of Jokowi-JK in Bali was not only

the result of hard work of the cam-paign team for the province and county/municipality and a group of volunteers, but also the great support and trust given by Balinese people. “It’s very encouraging be-cause we in fact got severe victory in Bali, including in Karangasem and Klungkung County that since the beginning we predicted to be quite difficult,” said the PDI-P politician from Buleleng.

Related to the maximum results, Koster specifically expressed his gratitude to all the Balinese people who had come to the polling sta-tions and gave a mandate to Jokowi-JK as president and vice president. “I’m also grateful to the organizers that so far we considered to have been working well according to the existing rules,” he said. Despite winning for a while, Koster asked all the supporting political par-ties and the team of volunteers to keep waiting for the official results announced by the Electoral Com-mission.

When contacted separately, the Deputy Chairman of the Prabowo-Hatta Campaign Team for Bali Province, Ida Bagus Sukarta, re-jected if his party was not solid in winning Prabowo-Hatta in Bali despite in fact the votes of Prabowo-Hatta in Bali was away from 55 percent as the target set.

Meanwhile, the votes gained by Prabowo-Hatta in Bali based on data owned by Jokowi-JK Cam-paign Team for Bali Province was only 28.55 percent, while Jokowi-JK got 71.45 percent. “Our team worked solidly. No matter how many votes obtained in Bali, it posed the maximal struggle having been attempted by the Prabowo-Hatta Campaign Team for Bali Province. It is the choice of Bali-nese people that we must respect

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo, popularly known as “Jokowi” delivers his victory speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednes-day, July 9, 2014.

Jokowi-JK win big in BaliBali Post

DENPASAR - Briefly, presidential candidate Joko Widodo and his running mate Jusuf Kalla absolutely won in Bali over the presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto-Hatta rajasa (Prabowo-Hatta). Based on the latest data owned by Jokowi-JK Campaign Team for Bali Province, the Jokowi-JK coalition carried by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), National Democrat (NasDem), National Awakening Party (PKB), People’s Conscience (Hanura) Party and the Indonesian Justice and Unity Party (PKPI) got 71.45 percent or 1,535,203 votes, while Prabowo-Hatta supported by Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, Golkar Party, Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), United De-velopment Party (PPP) and the Crescent Star Party (PBB) only achieved 28.55 percent or 613,533 votes.

and honor. Now, we just need to guard the tiered vote recapitulation,” said Chairman of the Gerindra Party of Bali Chapter.

However, Sukarta admitted the victory of Jokowi-JK in Bali was caused by the figure factor and Bali remained the basis of the PDI-P so it took a hard struggle for Prabowo-Hatta to win in Bali. “In terms of the strength mapping, Bali is still held by the PDI-P,” he said.

Related to the recapitulation process of vote at village level, and then resumed to subdistrict, county, provincial and central level, Sukarta hoped the witnesses could militantly keep the votes of Prabowo-Hatta and anticipate any fraud. “We’ve asked the witnesses to escort the votes carefully and militantly. No matter how many votes gained by Prabowo-Hatta in Bali, they must be guarded well to avoid any problems in the future. Do not get

complacent,” he said while adding that he had also collected all the Form C-1s from all polling stations.

“If there is a problem in the tiered recapitulation, we expect it could be resolved then and there will be no prob-lem at the next level,” added Sukarta doubling as the Deputy Chairman of the Bali House.

Regarding the sudden arrival of Prabo-wo in Bali on Friday (Jul 11) who visited a number of places such as Besakih (Karan-gasem) and Batuan (Gianyar), Sukarta mentioned that it had nothing to do at all with political agenda of the presidential election. “Formerly, he was invited to be present in an event. Since he was unable to attend at the time, he then could attend after the presidential election. The visit had no political agenda,” said the Gerindra politician from Sanur. (wid)

3Monday, July 14, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsLifestyle Monday, July 14, 2014

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The digital age has created a host of new etiquette dilemmas. What should you do when your boss sends a Facebook friend re-quest? Is it OK to take and share smartphone pictures at a friend’s wedding? When should you take off Google Glass, rather than just turn it off?

Etiquette mavens say the book on manners must be rewritten, literally, to take into account new technologies and social media. “Technology is such an area of anxiety for people,” says Steven Petrow, an author of etiquette books who last month began a digital manners column for USA Today.

In recent columns, Petrow addressed the question of mass emails that reveal the names of all recipients (not OK, he says), and how to deal with wedding guests who want to share smartphone pictures before the official photos are available (he urges the couple to make their wishes clear in the invitation).

“Fundamentally, I come back to my core values, which are about respect, kindness and civility,” Petrow told AFP.

Social media such as Facebook pose particular etiquette problems: if users post news about a death, birth or engagement before relatives are notified, that creates tensions among family members.

“On Facebook, even if you have privacy protection, someone else can grab your message and send it along,” said Emily Yoffe, who pens the “Dear Prudence” column on Slate.

“Once you post it, you don’t control that information anymore,” said Yoffe, advising people to treat all social media posts as public.

Petrow sees other quandaries -- for example, whether it is appro-priate to “like” a Facebook post about sad news.

“I believe that liking means you acknowledge it,” he said. “So you can like something sad but you should add a note to say what you mean.”

Social media is also used to break off, or to announce a new rela-tionship, which can be a surprise to the other person.

“It’s always best to take your time, to discuss this with the other person,” Petrow said.

As for the boss’s friend request, Petrow advised managers to steer clear of this to avoid potential conflicts.

Employees should not ignore the request, but offer instead to con-nect on the professional network LinkedIn, he said.

Digital technology has forced a reboot at the Emily Post Institute, which grew out of the work of the noted etiquette author.

Her great-great-grandson Daniel Post Senning released a book last year on digital etiquette after realizing the topic merited more than just a chapter in the updated Emily Post book.

“New technology is changing every major aspect of people’s lives for which they would come to Emily Post looking for advice,” Sen-ning said.

A longstanding digital etiquette issue is when people should turn off or silence their smartphones.

“The biggest challenge is that these devices take our attention from the people we’re with,” Senning told AFP.

While smartphones are enormously useful tools, “If you’re with other people, your attention should be there,” Senning said. “Most people know that intuitively.”

Social networks are great places for sharing, but sometimes people go overboard. A 2012 survey by Intel found that in several countries, a majority said they were put off by “oversharing” of pictures and personal information.

Senning said the Post Institute often follows what is accepted by the public but that sometimes it takes the opposite view “if it’s a question of our fundamental principles of consideration, respect and honesty.”

Trouble with ‘Glassholes’Etiquette may see more changes with devices such as the Internet-

connected eyewear Google Glass. Google has preemptively offered tips to avoid becoming a “Glasshole,” such as turning off the eyewear in many situations.

Wearable electronics like Google Glass create fears about being spied on. “I don’t think turning it off will be sufficient to quell those concerns,” Petrow said.

“Every new device seems to spawn its own chapter of etiquette dilemmas.”

From a historical perspective, “every generation perceives the state of manners in decline,” said Senning of the Post Institute.

“People thought that when the telephone moved to the home it would destroy home life, and it didn’t.”

Associated Press

WACO, Texas — The out-fit Lone Ranger actor Clayton Moore wore when making ap-pearances as the character after retiring from television has sold for $195,000 at a Texas auction.

Waco-based A & S Auction

Co. said the outfit was sold Sat-urday.

Moore, who died in 1999, played the masked lawman on the ABC television series “The Lone Ranger” from 1949 to 1957.

The auction house says that after retiring from television, Moore made appearances in char-

acter at events including fairs. His outfit included a powder-blue shirt and pants, red kerchief, Stetson hat, boots, gun belt and Colt pistols.

The outfit spent more than a decade in the collection of a late Texas businessman whose family offered it at auction.

The 30th annual Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival, held at Looe Key Reef along the con-tinental United States’ only living coral barrier reef, featured four hours of commercial-free music piped below the surface via a se-ries of underwater speakers.

“We started this as an arts and cultural event 30 years ago (and) thought it would be a one-time thing,” said event co-founder and coordinator Bill Becker. “It’s the only place we know of where mu-sic is put underwater for divers, snorkelers and the marine life.”

The water-themed playlist included such tunes as the Beat-les’ “Octopus’s Garden” and

the themes from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” and television’s classic “Flipper” about a dolphin at a marine preserve in southern Florida. Participants described the music as clear and ethereal, with underwater visibility of about 50 feet (15 meters).

Snorkeler Uli Clef from Mu-nich, Germany, said he was par-ticularly impressed with the vivid colors and tropical fish he saw underwater.

“I’ve seen colors from red to blue to white, and even the shades of the sun coming from the water line,” Clef said when he surfaced. “All these colorful fishes — that’s perfect.”

Some divers were costumed and pretended to play quirky metal instruments sculpted by Florida Keys artist August Pow-ers. As well as offering an un-usual experience for dive and snorkel enthusiasts, the broadcast included diver awareness an-nouncements promoting coral reef protection.

“We try to get divers to be aware of their impact on the coral reef so that they lessen that impact and this reef can be here for gen-erations to come,” said Becker.

The event was staged by radio station WWUS in partnership with the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce.

Etiquette gets reboot for digital age

AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Bob Care

In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, participants Nancy Barta, left, Samantha Langsdale center, and Fernando Barta pretend to play mock musical instruments and enjoy the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival on Saturday, July 12, 2014.

Divers, snorkelers converge for undersea ‘concert’Associated Press

BIG PINE KEY, Florida — Nearly 500 divers and snorkelers submerged in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary on Saturday for a “concert” beneath the sea broadcast by a local radio station.

Lone Ranger actor’s outfit sells for $195,000

AntaraDENPASAR - Tens of Balinese

youths came together to form the Bali Youth Alliance, to raise funds for victims of the Gaza strip con-flict following Israeli air strikes in Palestine.

“We are concerned about the victims in Gaza from the ongoing Israeli air strikes in this prolonged conflict,” said alliance coordinator Komang Eka Suardana.

The fund-raising event was held at the intersection of Dewi Sartika and Puputan Niti Mandala Renon Road in Denpasar as a humanitarian gesture to support those who had suffered in Gaza.

Several motorists passing the

intersection donated towards the fund.

“As Balinese youth, this is the only way we can help the victims, even though it has hap-pened in Palestine, which is far away from Indonesia, “ said Eka Suardana.

“What has happened there has violated human rights,¿ he added.

Besides raising funds, the alliance also condemned the Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.

The entire fund collected would be sent to the Indonesian Emer-gency Rescue Committee (MER-C)’s bank account, to be used as humanitarian aid for violence relief in the Gaza Strip.

Emiko who was born in Yoko-hama, Japan, also has a Balinese iden-tity, Ni Putu Sulasmi. She along with 14 other Japanese women from the Wyarihita Dance Studio are showcas-ing their expertise in Balinese dance during the 36 Bali Arts Festival held in the Denpasar Culture Park.

Her interest in Balinese arts has evoked her love for the arts and cul-ture of Dewata Island.

The leader of Wyarihita Dance Studio, Ni Wayan Deni Inaba, has a Japanese husband, Takahisa Inaba.

Emiko, who owns a beauty salon in Japan, has mastered at least five Balinese dances after studying at the dance studio.

During the festival, Emiko show-cased her swaying movements while performing Candra Metu and Tarum Butterfly dances in Wantilan Den-pasar Culture Park. Though she once lived in Jakarta, but she has in-depth knowledge of Balinese dances.

After her return to Sakura country, Emiko signed up to learn Balinese dance in the Wyarihita Dance Studio in Yokohama as she lived in proxim-ity to the place.

Although she knew a lot about the Balinese culture in Jakarta, but she had yet to learn the dance in the Indonesian capital.

Youth raise funds for Gaza victims

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Tens of Balinese youths came together to form the Bali Youth Alliance, to raise funds for victims of the Gaza strip conflict following Israeli air strikes in Palestine.

Japanese enthralled by Balinese artsAntara

DENPASAR - During her foremost visit, 25-year-old Japa-nese citizen, Emiko Nakai, was interested in Balinese arts and culture alike any other tourist visiting Dewata Island for the first time. However, her love for Balinese arts and culture has deepened over the course of time. “After I learnt about Balinese arts and culture in detail, I found happiness and tranquility,” Emiko said.

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Tarum Butterfly dance philosophy depicts a group of butterflies flying around a flowery garden. They move in a dynamic and agile manner in tune to the music, that represents merriment of the performers.

Emiko stated that she has been learning Balinese dance for the past three years, and she is keen to learn other Balinese dances.

She was also interested in learning Balinese traditional musical instru-ments such as gamelan, which is played during dance performances.

“I am still learning Balinese dance and gamelan music in Japan. How-ever, when I visit Bali, I directly learn about them from the local artist,” Emiko remarked here after performing at the Bali Art Festival in collaboration with the Mekar Sari Ubud Dance Studio.

The senior Balinese artist I. Nyo-man Cerita remarked that he is delighted by the visit of Japanese artists and has proudly facilitated their necessities during the festival.

Cerita also supported and guided the foreign artists regarding dance and traditional percussion of Bali. He sur-mised that all the Japanese artists had successfully performed the Balinese dances during the festival.

All 15 Japanese artists performed their dances accompanied by 32 tra-ditional Balinese percussion artists. Cerita revealed that many people came to watch the performance that lasted for 2.5 hours in the Denpasar Culture Park.

Two performancesEmiko, who can speak Bahasa

passively, has performed twice on stage in Denpasar Culture Park along with five other Japanese dancers: Yumi Takashi, Midori Kadooka, Ma-sako, Kimura, and Fumiko Komatsu during their Tarum Butterfly dance performance.

The Tarum Butterfly dance phi-losophy depicts a group of butterflies

flying around a flowery garden. They move in a dynamic and agile manner in tune to the music, that represents merriment of the performers.

During the second performance, the group performed Candra Metu dance, which depicts the moon in its first emersion in the night. Emiko along with Yumi Takahashi, Fumiko Komatsu, Deni Inaba, and Ni Putu Masrapini delivered the final perfor-

mance of the festival that night.The Candra Metu dance describes

the beauty of the moon, in all its splendor, emerging in the night and spreading magnificence to the world.

It is difficult to compare the performance of Japanese artists to those by the Balinese women as their movements are really smooth akin to a butterfly in a flowery garden.

The five dances symbolize har-mony, beauty, and peace. Ni Wayan Deni said she supports and teaches all the dancers in Japan so that they can perform gracefully.

The dancing team has conducted “Ngayah” or a traditional ceremony in two villages in Dewata Island to ensure success in the big event.

They have conducted “Ngayah” in the front yard of the temple in Pekrawan Mawang Village in Gianyar District on Wednesday evening. The second “Ngayah” was conducted in Pekraman Puaya Vil-lage in Gianyar District on Friday evening.

Ni Wayan Deni accompanies students keen to learn Balinese dance in Sakura Country to Bali in a bi-annual trip to conduct the performance. The current visit of 15 Japanese artists was the seventh since 2000.

They hope the Balinese Arts Festival can enhance the relation-ship between Japan and Indonesia through promoting the arts and culture sector, which has been well-established before.

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Neither Israel nor Palestinian militants show signs of agreeing to a cease-fire, despite calls by the United Nations Security Council and others to end the increasingly bloody six-day offensive. With Israel massing tanks and soldiers at Gaza’s borders, some fear that could signal a wider ground of-

fensive that would cause heavy casualties.

“We don’t know when the op-eration will end,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu told a Cabinet meeting Sunday. “It might take a long time.”

Early Sunday, Israeli troops launched a brief raid into north-

ern Gaza to destroy what i t described as a rocket-launching site, an operation the military said left four soldiers slightly wounded.

The Israeli air force later dropped leaflets warning residents to evacu-ate their homes ahead of what Israel’s military spokesman de-scribed as a “short and temporary” campaign against northern Gaza to begin sometime after 12 p.m. (0900 GMT). The area is home to at least 100,000 people.

It was not clear whether the at-tack would be confined to stepped-

up airstrikes or whether it might include a sizeable ground offensive — something that Israel has so far been reluctant to undertake.

As the ultimatum drew near, hundreds fled Beit Lahiya, one of the communities the Israeli an-nouncement affected. Some raced by in pickup trucks, waving white flags.

“They are sending warning mes-sages,” resident Mohammad Abu Halemah said. “Once we received the message, we felt scared to stay in our homes. We want to leave.”

Ignoring international appeals

for a cease-fire, Israel widened its range of Gaza bombing tar-gets Saturday to include civilian institutions with suspected Hamas ties.

One strike hit a center for the disabled, killing two patients and wounding four people. In a second attack, an Israeli warplane flattened the home of Gaza police chief Tay-sir al-Batsh and damaged a nearby mosque as evening prayers ended, killing at least 18 people, 17 of whom were al-Batsh family mem-bers. Fifty were wounded, including al-Batsh himself.

Associated Press Writer

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Armed gunmen fatally shot a Ma-laysian policeman and kidnapped another during a shootout at a resort on Borneo island, a security official said Sunday.

It was the latest in a spate of kid-nappings in Sabah, highlighting per-

sistent security threats in the state. Sabah is a short boat ride from the southern Philippines, home to Mus-lim militants and kidnap gangs.

Eight gunmen wearing army fa-tigues barged into the Mabul Water Bungalow Resort late Saturday and ambushed marine police officers on guard there, said Abdul Rashid Ha-ron, who heads the Eastern Sabah

Security Command.A marine policeman was killed

in the shootout and the gunmen, who had their faces covered, fled on a boat with another officer, Abdul Rashid said, adding that the boat was seen heading toward the southern Philippines.

He said the gunmen may either have been planning to kidnap some-

one at the resort or were targeting marine police after recent increased security on the island helped to curb their activities.

“We don’t know their motive. Maybe they were retaliating be-cause we have tightened security in the area. I cannot rule that out,” Abdul Rashid said.

It was not clear who was behind

the attack, but previous kidnappings are believed to have been carried out by Abu Sayyaf militants.

The kidnappings have ham-pered tourism in Sabah, a popular destination for foreigners and a diving haven. Sabah’s government has announced a curfew and travel restrictions in high-risk areas to bolster security.

Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya — A Kenyan official says unknown gunmen have killed a promi-nent businessman, who was facing terrorism related charges.

The murder in the coastal city of Mombasa comes amid a string of killings nearby of people associated with Islamic extremism. Human rights activists are accusing the government of being behind the assassinations, since few have been resolved.

Mombasa County police chief Richard Kitur said Saturday that two gunmen shot Mohamed Shahid Butt dead after their car blocked his vehicle. Kitur said the busi-nessman had just picked up his son at the airport.

Butt was in court in last year over al-legations by authorities of incitement and funding terror related activities. In the past two years, three other well-known Muslims, who have been publicly linked to extremism, have also been killed.

Malaysian cop killed, another kidnapped in Sabah

AP Photo/Hatem MoussaPalestinians flee their homes to take shelter at the United Nations school in Gaza City, Sunday, July 13, 2014.

Israel calls for north Gaza evacuation after raidAssociated Press

JERUSALEM — Israel briefly deployed ground troops inside the Gaza Strip for the first time early Sunday as its military warned northern Gaza residents to evacuate their homes, part of a widening offensive that’s killed more than 160 Palestinians.

Businessman linked to terror killed on Kenya coast

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Two Swiss minor travel-ers should be languishing in prison cell. They were respectively with the initials AH, 16, and FJ, 16, and arrested because of stealing in one of fashion stores in Kuta, Thursday afternoon (Jul 10). Then, both culprits should undergo an examination in Kuta Police station.

A resource person at police station said on Friday (Jul 11) the incident began when both Swiss teenagers made a visit to Top Man Shop located at Beach Walk Shop-ping Center on Jalan Kartika Plaza, Kuta, around 12:00 a.m. “They were on vacation in Bali and then had a promenade to the largest shopping mall in Bali,” he said

Originally, the shop attendant of Top Man did not suspect the gestures of both foreign travelers. However, when arriving on the second floor of the mall, AH and FJ

were seen taking a few pieces of clothes and pants hidden behind their shirt and bag. “After stealing, they left the store with a calm appearance,” added the source.

However, the shop attendant witnessing the action of the culprits secretly reported the case to the security guards. Then, while in front of the store, the officers and shop attendant directly arrested the culprits. From the results of examination, it was found two pieces of ladies tops, one pair of shorts and a piece of T-shirt with a total price of IDR 1.2 million. Both culprits were then taken to Kuta Police station to account for their act.

Chief of Kuta Police, Nyoman Sebudi, when asked for his confirmation justified the arrest to both Swiss travelers. After that, the two travelers from Switzerland, namely AH and FJ as well as the evidence had been secured at Kuta Police station. “Both culprits are still being interrogated,” he said. (kmb35)

Bali Post

NEGARA - The rapid development of the re-gion in Jembrana County drew the reaction of the Jembrana House. Two big factions in the Jembrana House, namely the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and Golkar Party Faction asked the government to protect the agricultural land from the invasion of the housing.

In the public expose delivered in the recent Plenary Session, the PDI-P through its legislator, Ni Made Sri Sutharmi, asked the government to prepare a strategic move to protect farmland. Farmer’s welfare remained to become a big challenge so that it was needed an immediate handling for the agricultural land gradually reducing as converted into housing.

Golkar Faction also considered the importance to assess the existing housing arrangement, especially in urban areas such as at the land consolidation (LC) locat-ed at Dauhwaru and Banjar Tengah hamlet. These two densely populated areas should improve its drainage to avoid flooding and shabby impression. Arrangement for the former prosecutor’s office located on the main road should be attempted to avoid from the impression of being neglected by the government. Golkar Faction also requested the access to Jalan Hassanudin should be arranged and equipped with sidewalks.

Still related to the urban arrangement, the PDI-P Faction agreed to the implementation of pavement to the lanes in urban areas as the follow up of embodiment of the aspirations developing in the community.

Similarly, the Single Goal Faction agreed the pav-ing in urban lanes to equalize the development and improvement of the economic access of the community. However, it should be balanced with the expenditure for the economic group development of other com-munity. (kmb26)

IBPDenpasar – The unique idea of brain

gym came from James Ralio, the man who held the record for playing drum for 40 hours in Indonesia. He got the record in 2011. James thinks that not only the body needs exercise but also the brain.

“There are many benefits in doing the exercise such as increasing memory and concentration. The IQ, EQ, and SQ will be balance and many more,” he explained. James also said that the brain gym is not difficult and everybody can do it.

He would like to share his knowl-edge on the exercise to the people in Bali by carrying out a seminar. James believes that the brain exercise will give many benefits in daily life such as in working. He stated that the brain gym will also increase the creativity of someone. James invites anyone who wants to get benefit from brain gym to join his seminar.

Housing proliferates

Jembrana House urges to protect farmland

IBP/FileThe ricefield is now turning into housing evreywhere.

Two Swiss teenagers arrested in Kuta

Brain Gym Seminar held in Bali

IBP/ochaJames Ralio

Data received from the local electoral committee indicated that the Jokowi-JK pair, supported by the PDIP, Nasdem, PKB, Hanura, and PKPI parties, won 15,579 votes, but the Prabowo-Hatta duo who are supported by Gerindra, PAN, Golkar, PKS, PPP, PBB, and the Demokrat parties only gained 12,085 votes. Nusa Penida is the stronghold of Gerindra, which was established by Prabowo Subianto.

During the legislative election in April 2014, Gerindra had secured a landslide victory in Nusa Penida and contributed the highest number of seats in the Klungkung district legislative assembly (DPRD) for the 2014-2019 period.

But ironically, the Jokowi-JK pair won the presidential election in ten of the 16 villages in the district, while the Prabowo-Hatta duo only managed to win in six villages.

In the West Papua province, the Jokowi-JK pair also gained a landslide victory over the Prabowo-Hatta duo in the presidential elec-tion on Wednesday.

Spokesman of the Optimis-tic Papua Movement’s team of volunteers Jimmy Demianus Ijie stated in Sorong on Thursday that a total of 713,902 voters cast their ballots at 2,616 polling stations in

11 districts across the province on Wednesday.

According to Ijie, the Jokowi-JK pair garnered 72 percent of the total votes and the Prabowo-Hatta duo only got 28 percent votes.

Ijie noted that Jokowi and Kalla

were nominated as the presidential and vice presidential candidates by the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP), but their landslide victory came as a surprise as it hap-pened in those districts, which were known to be the stronghold of the

Golkar Party. By and large, the 2014 presiden-

tial election in West Papua went smoothly, orderly, and peacefully, although there are several irregu-larities, he remarked.

Ijie reported that before the

election, some security personnel had tried to persuade the people in Sorong district to vote in favor of a certain pair of presidential and vice presidential candidates, but the Jokowi-JK pair emerged as the winner.

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The average forecast for growth in the second quarter has fallen to 3 percent, according to a survey released Friday by the National Association for Business Econom-ics. That’s down from 3.5 percent in a June survey. Growth in 2014 as a whole will be just 1.6 percent, they project, sharply below a pre-vious forecast of 2.5 percent. If accurate, this year’s growth would be the weakest since the Great Recession.

The lower 2014 forecast largely reflects the impact of a sharp con-traction in the first quarter. The economy shrank 2.9 percent at an annual rate, the biggest drop in five years. That decline will weigh heavily on the economy this year, even if growth resumes and stays at 3 percent or above, as most economists expect.

The economists reduced their second-quarter forecast largely because they expect consumers spent at a much more modest pace. They now expect spending will grow just 2.3 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter, down from a 2.9 percent estimate in June. Spending rose just 1 percent in the first quarter, the smallest increase in four years, a sign consumers are still reluctant to spend freely.

Many retail chains are feeling the pain. The Container Store said Tuesday that sales at stores open

for at least a year slipped 0.8 per-cent in the first quarter.

“We are experiencing a retail ‘funk’,” Kip Tindell, chief execu-tive of The Container Store, said Tuesday. “While consumers are buying homes and automobiles and even high ticket furniture, most segments of retail are, like us, see-ing more challenging sales than we had hoped early in 2014.”

Family Dollar Stores and cloth-ing retailer the Gap also reported lower sales this week.

Another factor weighed heavily on the first quarter: A big drop in exports widened the nation’s trade deficit and accounted for about half the contraction. Exports picked up in May and trade is unlikely to be as big a drag in the second quarter. But the NABE survey found that economists expect exports will now rise just 2.5 percent this year, down from June’s estimate of 3 percent. The weaker figures reflect sluggish economies in Europe and slower growth in China.

The NABE did a special survey after the government announced the dismal figures at the end of June. The group typically surveys economists quarterly.

Despite the downgrades, the survey underscores that econo-mists are mostly optimistic about the rest of this year. Analysts largely blame the first quarter

shrinkage on temporary factors, such as harsh winter weather and a sharp slowdown in inventory re-stocking. When companies restock their inventories at a weaker pace, it slows demand for factory goods and lowers production.

Jack Kleinhenz, president of the association and chief economist at the National Retail Federation, said that most other recent economic data, particularly regarding hiring,

has been positive. Employers have added an average of 230,000 jobs a month this year, one of the best stretches since the recession.

In addition, consumers are more confident and government spending cuts and tax increases are exerting less of a drag. In 2013, a Social Security tax cut expired and government spending cuts were implemented. The combined ef-fects slowed growth by 1.5 percent-

age points, economists estimate.“Many of the fundamentals

are there for growth,” Kleinhenz said.

As a result, the 50 economists who responded to the survey see the chances of a recession this year or next as pretty low. Sixty percent said the odds were 10 percent or lower, and more than 90 percent said they were 25 percent or lower.

Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japan’s SoftBank and Deutsche Telekom of Germany have reached a basic agreement for a merger between their US af-filiates Sprint and T-Mobile US, the business daily Nikkei reported Saturday.

Eight financial institutions, including Japan’s top three megabanks Mizuho, Mitsubishi UFJ and Sumitomo Mitsui, will provide a credit line of around four trillion

yen ($39 billion) for SoftBank’s purchase of T-Mobile through Sprint, according to the report.

The combined customer base of Sprint, ranked third among US mobile phone firms, and fourth-ranked T-Mobile roughly equals those of the sector’s two leaders -- top-ranked Verizon Wireless and AT&T, the daily said.

The US Federal Communications Com-mission will examine the proposed merger

from a communications policy standpoint while the Department of Justice will scru-tinise it for antitrust issues.

SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son has been actively lobbying in Washington to win over regulators, who appear content to keep the market dominated by four players, the daily said.

Sprint, acquired by SoftBank for $21.6 billion in July last year, was the only one of the top four US carriers to log a net

decrease in subscribers over the January-March quarter.

Having been less aggressive to invest in its wireless network, the company has not been able to shed the perception that its network is slow and has poor coverage, the Nikkei said.

T-Mobile, owned 67 percent by Deutsche Telekom, enjoyed the largest net increase in subscribers over the three-month period.

Softbank in deal to merge Sprint, T-Mobile

Economists lower forecasts for US growthAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — U.S. business economists have sharply cut their growth forecasts for the April-June quarter and 2014, though they remain optimistic that the economy will rebound from a dismal first quarter.

AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, FileIn this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a cashier rings up a sale at a Sears store, in Las Vegas. U.S. busi-ness economists have sharply cut their growth forecasts for the April-June quarter and 2014, though they remain optimistic that the economy will rebound from a dismal first quarter.

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DENPASAR - Nangluk merana ritual involving hundreds or even thousands of Hindu devotees was held at sea. It was intended to rid the universe ranging from the sea to mountains as the source of life. Through the ritual, devotees invoked to God in order they were bestowed with graces for the sake of entire universe and protected from danger.

The Head of the Institute for Community Service (LPM) of Hin-du University of Indonesia (Unhi) Denpasar, IB Sutama, said the nan-gluk merana ritual was the term of

agricultural culture in Bali in real-izing the green culture. Through the ritual, farmers tried to stem all the plant diseases and pests attacking their crop, either in irrigated field or non-irrigated field.

In the Usada Wrespati Tatwa manuscript, explained this waidika (Hindu doctor), merana was the disease in plants. In animal it was called sasab, while in human was called gering. “The nangluk merana ritual was used to neutralize the nature, so that it can stem all kinds of diseases such as gering, sasab and merana and they will not come to mainland or to human nature,” he said.

The ritual was focused on invok-ing welfare and safety to Lord Var-una as the ruler of the sea. He had the power to clean up all the existing diseases. The universe was derived from water or thalesia. Similarly, human also began and ended with water. “The whole universe was purified by him at sea. As evidence, whatever discharged into the sea does not cause any odor. Therefore, the holy water or tirtha is centered at sea,” he explained.

This humanist and religious observer explained that 65-70 percent of macrocosm (universe) and microcosm (human body) con-tained water. When, we were in the

womb, 90 percent of our protector was water and at the meeting of heaven and earth or kama bang (sperm) and kama petak (ovum) or intercourse of mother and father we are composed of 100 percent of water. “That’s why we end the ritual with water of Lord Varuna,” he convinced.

In the nangluk merana was always accompanied with animal sacrifice by slaughtering or floating animal into the sea. It was affected by bhairava leading to Shaktism. Sacred animal sacrifice was in-tended to neutralize nature and as a substitute for human sacrifice, so that it did not sacrifice human.

Nangluk merana ritual was regu-larly held towards year end because a very extreme weather change took place in December. It was before the

seventh month in Balinese calendar being prone to natural disasters and disease outbreaks. “Sickness in the seventh month is not affected by leak or Balinese black magic, but pure sickness as a result of climate change. It is a sickness caused by one of the daiweika dhuka namely sickness due to deity, ourselves and our inadvertency,” he said.

Hindu community in Bali drove away global warming by nangluk marana ritual in which in Hinduism it was called detya (effect of feral solar heat). This Detya was por-trayed as a great giant with promi-nence. The poorly maintained envi-ronment would trigger Denawa or great flooding disaster. “Organizing the nangluk merana ritual should be accompanied with environmental conservation,” he added.

Nangluk Merana Ritual

Jokowi-JK storms to victory in KlungkungAntara

SEMARAPURA - The pair of presidential candidates, Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla (Jokowi-JK), emerged victorious in Nusa Penida, the only Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) stronghold in Klungkung district, Bali province.

IBP/BagiartaThe pair of presidential candidates, Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla (Jokowi-JK), emerged victorious in Nusa Penida, the only Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) stronghold in Klungkung district, Bali province.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s president on Friday urged the election chief to ensure a transpar-ent vote count following this week’s disputed presidential poll, after both sides raised fears the other may tamper with the ballots.

Political tensions are rising after the tight election in the world’s third-biggest democracy ended with both Jakarta governor Joko Widodo and his rival, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, declaring victory on Wednesday.

Most credible pollsters gave Widodo a lead in unofficial tallies, but Prabowo said that other polling institutes followed by his team showed he was the winner.

Vote tallying is a long, complex process in the world’s biggest archipelago nation, and results are not expected until July 22.

On Thursday Widodo, known by his nick-name Jokowi, expressed fears that the vote count could be manipulated in one of the world’s most-graft ridden countries, and urged his supporters to monitor the process.

But Prabowo hit back, saying he thought his side was being targeted.

“There are reports that some election boxes

have been stolen, our witnesses are being intimi-dated,” he told journalists, after addressing a huge crowd of devout Muslims at a rally in Jakarta protesting Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

Outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stepped into the row Friday, saying the role of the elec-tion commission was now “important and critical” and that he had spoken to the head of the body.

“I suggested that the (commission) invite both candidates and their teams to monitor the counting process so they can see the counting on a day-by-day basis,” he said.

This means that “when it is announced, they know that the process has been carried out careful-ly”, he said, talking to journalists at the presidential palace in Jakarta before a cabinet meeting.

He added the election chief had welcomed the suggestion.

Widodo, 53, is the first serious presidential contender without deep roots in the era of dic-tator Suharto, and he has won huge popularity with his common touch.

Prabowo, 63, was a top military figure in the time of Suharto. He has admitted ordering the abduction of democracy activists before the strongman’s downfall, and was formerly married to one of his daughters.

After a bitterly-fought campaign, Jakarta governor Joko Widodo and his rival, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, both used different unofficial tallies to claim they had won on Wednesday.

Most credible counts showed Widodo in the lead, sparking a rally in stocks and the rupiah Thursday on the expectation that he will be declared the winner when official results are announced later this month.

But the initial euphoria quickly wore off. The Jakarta stock market slumped as much as two percent the following day, and was 1.3 percent down at the close as investors grew nervous about the potential for a pro-longed deadlock.

“Given the conspicuous absence of a concession, the market still can-not rid itself of the spectre of draggy

AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

A Muslim student waves a Palestinian flag during a rally to protest against Israeli attack on Gaza, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, July 12, 2014.

Uncertainty for Indonesia after disputed vote

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia faces a long period of uncertainty after last week’s disputed presiden-tial election, analysts warn -- raising fears for Southeast Asia’s top economy as growth sits at four-year lows, foreign investment slows and corruption remains rife.

uncertainty for a while more,” said economist Wellian Wiranto, from Singapore’s OCBC Bank.

Investors favour Widodo, known by his nickname Jokowi, as he is seen as a potential reformer and a clean leader in one of the world’s most cor-rupt countries.

Prabowo, a top military figure in the era of dictator Suharto, has struck a fiercely nationalistic tone on the campaign trail, and is looked at warily by markets.

Fears of violenceThe election commission is ex-

pected to announce the official results on July 22 but the loser may contest them in the Constitutional Court, which has until the end of August to make a ruling.

It is not a good time for Indonesia to be hit by uncertainty that could scare off investors, as it undergoes a painful transition from a decade of rapid growth fuelled by high global prices for its abundant commodities.

Falling commodity prices, as well as a series of protectionist policies, have hit the economy, which expand-ed at 5.21 percent in the first quarter -- its slowest pace since late 2009.

Foreign investment has also slowed steeply, with investors wary of the uncertain business environment. Corruption, seen as a major obstacle to operating in Indonesia, remains rampant.

The political uncertainty caused by the election deadlock can only add to the gloomy picture, observers warn.

The Jakarta Post newspaper, which

has backed Widodo, warned in an edi-torial that taking the battle all the way to the Constitutional Court “would prolong the political stalemate and uncertainty until late August”.

“The prospect of violence would dramatically increase unless leaders of political parties work to control their bases of support. The market would roil in response to these destabilising developments,” it said.

Indonesia was rocked by violence before the downfall of Suharto in 1998 following his three-decade dictator-ship, with many killed in the capital Jakarta during rioting and looting.

The country has enjoyed a decade of relative peace and stability under the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, helping to transform it into one of the world’s fastest-growing economies and a major investment destination.

But fears are growing that the ris-ing political tensions could spark fresh unrest, and Yudhoyono has called on both sides to restrain their supporters.

Analysts warn that the uncertainty

could also hit domestic demand in the rapidly growing middle class, a key driver of growth in recent years.

“A disputed result will not just have market implications, but also likely a dampening impact on sentiment,” said Australia’s ANZ Bank in a note.

“A Jokowi presidency is likely to be aligned with more optimistic consumers whereas a Prabowo chal-lenge could dampen sentiment and spending.”

Investors are hopeful for a quick end to the stalemate, with Widodo being declared the official winner later this month and Prabowo graciously conceding defeat.

But it is still far from clear how the crisis will play out, and most analysts think it is likely that Prabowo -- who has been seeking the presidency for the past decade -- will challenge the result in court if he loses.

“As much as the market is hopeful that the political drama has ended, we note that there are still alternative final episode scripts that cannot be totally ruled out,” said OCBC’s Wiranto.

President urges fair count after disputed poll

Deep differences separate the two sides and six world powers and Iran appear set to extend their talks past July 20. That would give more time to negotiate a deal that would limit the scope of such programs in exchange for a full lifting of nuclear-related sanc-tions imposed on Tehran.

“Obviously we have some very significant gaps still, so we need to see if we can make some progress,” Kerry told reporters before a meet-ing with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is convening the talks.

“It is vital to make certain that Iran is not going to develop nuclear weapons, that their pro-gram is peaceful. That’s what we are here trying to achieve.”

French Foreign Minister Lau-rent Fabius said “positions are

still far apart,” and the ministers had come to “try and narrow dif-ferences.”

Kerry arrived Sunday. Britain and Germany also sent their for-eign ministers to Austria’s capital for talks over the next few days, as has Iran. But the top diplomats from China and Russia are send-ing lower-ranking officials in-stead. That may reflect their view that an extension is unavoidable.

Still, the most important dis-putes over how deeply Iran must cut its nuclear program are be-tween Washington and Tehran, so Kerry’s presence is crucial. He will be able to talk directly to Ira-nian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is at the Vienna negotiations.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Min-ister Abbas Araghchi spoke Sat-

urday of “huge and deep” differ-ences. But he told Iranian TV that “if no breakthrough is achieved, it doesn’t mean that (the) talks have failed.”

Kerry arrived in Vienna after diplomatic success in Afghanistan, where he persuaded rival presiden-tial candidates to agree to a full audit of their recent runoff elec-tion. They also agreed to a power-sharing arrangement. In Austria’s capital, the top American diplomat has perhaps a harder task.

Discussions center on impos-ing long-term restrictions on Iran’s uranium enrichment and against plutonium production — materials usable in nuclear warheads. In exchange, the U.S. and other powers would scrap a series of trade and oil sanctions against Tehran.

Associated Press

REDDING, California — A 27-year-old man who was allegedly at an illegal marijuana plot is suspected of starting a wildfire that has burned more than 4 1/2 square miles of forested land in northern California.

Freddie Alexander Smoke III was arrested Saturday and accused of reck-lessly causing a fire and with marijuana cultivation, both felonies, fire officials said Saturday.

They said he was delivering material to the pot site in Shasta County when the exhaust from his truck ignited dry grass.

The so-called Bully fire has since grown to nearly 3,000 acres, officials said. More than 1,000 personnel are involved in fighting the blaze, which was just 10 percent contained Saturday night.

The wildfire had prompted evacuations and road closures, but fire of-ficials said all residents have been allowed to return home and all roads have been open to them. Still, the fire is threatening 15 homes and about 50 other structures.

In Central California, a wildfire has burned nearly two square miles (1,200 acres) of a remote wilderness area of the Sequoia National Forest and was just 5 percent contained as of Saturday night.

Officials said more than 600 personnel are involved in fighting the Nicolls fire, which broke out Friday afternoon south of Sequoia National Park. No homes were evacuated or in danger.

The forest where the fire started is south of and separate from the Sequoia National Park east of Fresno, which is famous for its giant Sequoia trees.

AP Photo/Ronald Zak

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he arrives in front of a hotel where closed-door nuclear talks on Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, July 13, 2014.

Kerry in Vienna; extension of nuclear talks likelyAssociated Press Writer

VIENNA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and fellow foreign ministers are adding their diplomatic muscle to try and advance troubled nuclear talks with Iran, with a target date only a week away for a pact meant to curb programs Tehran could turn to making atomic arms.

The economic growth of Bali in the second quarter within the next three months would also be imbued by optimism of entrepreneurs based on a survey conducted by his party to business sector and retail traders. The increase in economic growth of Bali was also contributed by the agricultural sector with relatively good weather conditions.

Benny continued to say that in terms of economic data on the Island of the Gods in the first quarter showed a slowdown with the growth of 5.43 percent or slowed down compared to the fourth quarter in 2013.

“Initially, Bank Indonesia predicted the growth was in the range of 5.5-6.0 percent, but the realization was 5.43 percent,” he said. The slowdown of Bali’s economy in the first quarter was estimated to happen due to the slowdown of large-scale infrastructure development and slowing demand for residential property of the small-scale property companies. (kmb27)

Man accused of starting North California wildfire

Indonesia’s economy...

AP photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Casey Christie

The Shirley Fire kicks up lots of smoke with the sun in the center, as seen in Wofford Heights, Calif., Sunday, June 15, 2014.

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James has come back home to do something bigger, to do some-thing no one has done for nearly 50 years. He wants to do some-thing that would stamp his legacy and just maybe separate him from basketball’s immortals. He wants to deliver a championship — to Cleveland, the city where sports heartbreak is as predictable as cold winters.

“Our city,” the Akron native said, “hasn’t had that feeling in a long, long, long time. My goal is still to win as many titles as possible, no question. But what’s most impor-tant for me is bringing one trophy back to Northeast Ohio.”

Four years after he announced his decision to leave Cleveland on a poorly conceived, hour-long national TV special, James told the world he was going home in an es-say for Sports Illustrated. It wasn’t about “taking his talents” anywhere

this time. It was from the heart. James said it all in three words. “I’m coming home,” he said.

And with that, the balance of power shifted in the Eastern Con-ference, other free agents started looking for new teams, and Cleve-land, without a U.S. pro sports title since the NFL’s Browns won it all in 1964, is again home to the best basketballer on the planet. “My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn’t real-ize that four years ago. I do now,” he said. “I looked at other teams, but I wasn’t going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.”

James knows the Cavaliers have a long way to go before they can challenge for a crown. But he’s join-ing a young team with an All-Star in Kyrie Irving, No. 1 overall picks

Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wig-gins, and plenty of potential.

The Cavs, too, might look to add another star and have had preliminary discussions with Min-nesota about forward Kevin Love, who played with James on the U.S. Olympic team in London two years ago, and has just one more year on his contract with the Timberwolves. Love can be bought, but it might take Wiggins to get him. Cleveland also may try to land sharpshooters like free agents Ray Allen and Mike Miller, who both played with James in Miami. However the roster ends ups, James needs to help the Cavs grow up.

“I see myself as a mentor now and I’m excited to lead some of these talented young guys,” he said. “I can help Kyrie Irving become one of the best point guards in our league. I can help elevate Tristan Thompson and Dion Waiters. And I can’t wait to reunite with Anderson Varejao, one of my favorite teammates.”

REUTERS/Thomas Peter Mahindra Moto3 rider Bryan Schouten of the Netherlands fights with compatriot Kalex KTM Moto3 rider Scott Deroue (R) after they crashed during the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit in the eastern German town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal July 13, 2014.

Reuters

Three-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one Lindsay Davenport was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday, saying she fell in love with the sport the first time she picked up a racquet.

“I was five years old when I first hit a tennis ball and a racquet was put in my hand,” the American said at her enshrinement along with legendary tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, five time Paralympic medallist Chantal Vandierendonck, tennis executive Jane Brown Grimes and British broadcaster John Barrett in ceremonies at Newport, Rhode Island.

“It was the third sport that my parents tried with me to get me out of the house clearly at a young age after school. I never wanted to learn another sport and I still don’t.

“Hitting the ball and making contact was always something that came very natural to me. Everything else about the game took work and was a struggle. But that was the reason why I fell in love with it.”

Davenport, now 38, said it took her 20 years of practice and competition to reach her peak.

The Californian was rewarded with Grand Slam victories at the 1998 U.S. Open, 1999 Wimbledon and 2000 Australian Open. She also won an Olympic gold medal in 1996 during a career stretch-ing from 1991 through 2011. She was ranked number one in the world for 98 weeks.

Lindsay Davenport inducted into Hall of Fame

The Return: James goes home to Cavaliers

FILE - IN this April 22, 2010, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers’

LeBron James dunks against the Chicago Bulls during the second quarter of Game 3 of a first-round NBA basketball

playoff series in Chicago.

Associated Press

CLEVELAND — LeBron James returns older, more mature, a polished champion. He’s got a little less hair, and a ton more experi-ence. Like anyone, he changed in four years. The NBA’s biggest star left four summers ago on poor terms, despised by fans who burned his jersey and scorned by an owner who felt betrayed. Cast as a villain, James was on a mission to win an NBA title — “not just one, not two, not three ... “ — in Miami with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and he got two championship rings.

AP Photo/Charles Cherney, File

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IBP

CANGGU - Almost similar with Echo Beach, Batu Bolong Beach that located in

Canggu Village, Kerobokan District, Badung or about 200 meters adjacent to Echo Beach presents a big and dazzling waves for surf-ing. The magnificent sunset also support this

beach become more fascinating. Even, this beach has been the one of famous destination after Kuta that visited by foreign tourists who want surfing. It is also suitable for recreation or relax while enjoying the fresh atmosphere that flows from the Indian ocean.

To reach this place the tourists have to enter Batu Bolong street or about 35 km

from Ngurah Rai Airport. Besides Surfing, this beach is usually used as Hinduism Cer-emony where in front of the beach there are two temples namely Batu Bolong Temple and Luhur Bhujangga Waisnawa Temple. This is the reason this beach has been well known by foreign tourists as the best surfing spot with interesting Hinduism activities.

Batu Bolong Beach

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Having gone 39 years without a competitive home defeat, they suf-fered two in five days, the 7-1 semi-final loss by Germany their heaviest ever at the World Cup.

They followed up with a feeble 3-0 defeat by the Netherlands in the third-place playoff on Saturday. “After the 7-1 today’s game was very difficult psychologically,” captain Thiago Silva said after the Dutch game.

“But we need to look at what we did wrong so we don’t make the same mistakes again. Especially when we lose a goal it’s like the world has ended and that’s not the way it should be. Football changes every minute and you can’t fall apart when you lose goals. That’s normal, it’s natural in football.”

The Dutch defeat was bad but it was the humiliation by Germany that will forever scar the Brazilian players and their memories of this World Cup, the first to be played in the country since 1950.

The defence was all at sea, unable to mark, cover or tackle, and a midfield that had looked ponderous throughout the tournament was over-run, with Fernandinho and Luiz Gustavo out-numbered and outsmarted.

Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari aimed to attack but left his midfield vulnerable and with Neymar out injured, there was no one to create. “We forgot how to play as a team,” former World Cup winner Tostao said in his newspaper column.

“For Felipao (Scolari) and the ma-jority of coaches exchanging passes in midfield is fancy, nicey nice, unpro-ductive. Brazilian football is all about running, lunging, and balls into the air. Because of the contempt we have for midfield we have no great players in that sector.” The result shocked the

Reuters

The Netherlands far exceeded expectation in finishing third at the World Cup in Brazil, tearing up not only up the formbook but their own rules on how best to play the game as their coach provided a talismanic touch. They also set a new record for themselves by going through the entire tournament without losing a match in regulation time.

A relatively young and inexperienced squad were given little chance of emulating the achievement of four years ago when they reached the final in South Africa. But with the canny coaching of Louis van Gaal they came mighty close once again, missing out after a semi-final penalty shootout defeat by Argentina and comfortably beating hosts Brazil 3-0 in the third-place playoff.

“It was a big honour for us to be here and a once in a lifetime experience,” Dutch winger Arjen Robben said. “Today’s match I think for us was the best way to end this tournament. We also fully deserved this third place the way we played. Nobody expected us to be in the last four.”

Van Gaal raised the wrath of footballing purists in the home of “total football” when he said he was dispensing with the 4-3-3 for-mation which had taken the Dutch successfully through qualifica-tion for a more conservative approach, with an emphasis on quick counter-attacks.

The reason, Van Gaal insisted, was that he had lost the balance in his midfield because of the long-term injury suffered by hard man Kevin Strootman a few months before the tournament. It was a virtu-ally untested approach which looked set to backfire in the opening half of their first game against Spain in Salvador.

The Dutch were trailing 1-0 and struggling until a swift counter led to wingback Daley Blind hitting a long cross from the left which Robin van Persie leapt salmon-like to head home the equaliser. The delight shared by coach and captain in a sideline high-five spoke volumes of the satisfaction of a plan coming together.

The subsequent mauling of the defending champions left the Dutch oozing with confidence and they topped their first-round group, al-though not in a very fluent style.

Van Gaal proved the talisman on several more occasions with tacti-cal switches that kept the Dutch on a winning path. The Manchester United-bound coach brought on 20-year-old Memphis Depay to score the come-from-behind winner against Australia.

Associated Press

IRAJA, Brazil — The protest-ers who many feared would wreck Brazil’s World Cup party failed to show up. While the national team fell short of claiming the coveted cham-pionship, the country at least can say the tournament that wraps up with Sunday’s title game has gone off with only scattered demonstrations.

Brazil avoided a repeat of last year’s Confederations Cup when violent protests broke out in several cities and more than a million people took to the streets on just one night to demand the government spend on improvements for education and other public services instead of soccer. But the absence of conflict during the World Cup came less from dissipated anger than atten-tion being glued to the games and police cracking down on even small demonstrations.

Paulo Cavalcante, a 50-year-old public servant, shouted himself hoarse during last year’s protests, even bringing his teenage daughter along on the marches. But during the World Cup, like many other Brazil-ians, he chose to stay home.

“The police had orders to break the demonstrators,” he said, referring to the early days of the monthlong tour-nament when officers turned tear gas and powerful stun guns on even small crowds of protesters. “I couldn’t put my family in harm’s way.”

For Sunday’s final between Argen-tina and Germany in Rio de Janeiro, authorities ordered the deployment of more than 25,000 officers and soldiers, the largest security detail in Brazil’s history. On Saturday, police arrested 19 people suspected of vandalism and seized gas masks, fireworks and firearms, according to local media reports.

President Dilma Rousseff, who

bore the brunt of criticism over spending on World Cup stadiums and projects, rejoiced in having created a festive and welcoming atmosphere for fans that proved doubters wrong. “We competently maintained peace and order,” she told a group of foreign journalists Friday night.

Whether such celebration will serve her in the campaign for her re-election in October’s election remains to be seen. Anger continues to sim-mer over inflation, gripping poverty and allegations of corruption.

“The average Brazilian citizen has deep grievances against the govern-ment and is sympathetic to the unified demand of the street — namely that the government funnels the same resources they put into organizing the World Cup into education, health and housing,” said Guillermo Trejo, a political scientist at Notre Dame University who focuses on social unrest in Latin America.

When France faced off against Mexico, and the United States met Belgium in matches at different venues in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo in 1930, few people could imagine what had been un-leashed on the world. A quarter of a century or so after the idea of a global footballing tournament was first mooted, 13 teams, including the host, gathered in Uruguay.

Many European countries, includ-ing Italy and Spain, opted against making the multi-week boat trip, while the four British associations had withdrawn from FIFA. Uru-guay, which won the gold medal in the 1924 and 1928 Olympic Games, was given the right to host the competition for the Jules Rimet Trophy, the World Cup’s original name, and termed in honor of the

then FIFA president who had done so much to make the tournament a reality. For the record, France beat Mexico 4-1, while the U.S. defeated Belgium 3-0. France’s Lucien Laurent scored the first goal in World Cup history. On July 30, Uruguay became the first World Cup champion when it beat Argentina 4-2 at Centenario Stadium.

AP Photo/Bruno Magalhaes, File

FILE - In this June 14, 2014, file photo, a demonstrator films a line of police during a protest against the World Cup in Belo Horizonte.

On this day, first ever tournament started

Brazil protests fizzled, but roots of anger remain

REUTERS/Ruben Sprich

Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal reacts in the sidelines during the 2014 World Cup third-place playoff between Brazil and Netherlands at the Brasilia national stadium in Brasilia July 12, 2014.

Dutch exceed expectations under talismanic Van Gaal

Brazil’s Thiago Silva (L), Wil-lian and David Luiz react after the 2014 World Cup third-place playoff between Brazil and the Netherlands at the Brasilia na-tional stadium in Brasilia July 12, 2014.

Brazil pay heavy price for tactical naivety, immaturityReuters

SAO PAULO - Brazil came into the World Cup expect-ing nothing less than victory but tactical naivety, a lack of emotional preparation and an inability to overcome the loss of two leading players cost them the chance of winning a sixth title.

footballing world.Brazil were pre-tournament fa-

vourites and not just as they were hosts and because no European team have ever won the World Cup in the Americas.

They arrived having won their previous nine matches, with a settled squad and an experienced manager who led them to the World Cup in 2002.

Just one year ago, they won the Confederations Cup in style, winning all five games and handing world and European champions Spain a 3-0 drubbing in the final.

Brazil, though, never really con-vinced from the moment they went behind to an own goal after 11 minutes of the opening match against Croatia. They won the game 3-1, but needed a suspiciously soft penalty decision to give them the lead.

Defensively VulnerableThey could not score against a

resolute Mexico side in their second game and although they trounced Cameroon 4-1 in the final group match they looked defensively vulnerable against one of the tourna-ment’s weakest sides.

They only qualified for the quar-ter-finals by beating Chile on penal-ties after a thrillingly close game. Even the 2-1 win over Colombia in the quarter-finals was fraught.

The decisive factor came in that game with the loss through in-jury and suspension of Neymar and Thiago Silva. Silva got a needless yellow card and that kept him out the semi-final and Neymar’s injury, a fractured vertebra, shattered the team’s confidence and highlighted their emotional fragility.

Several players had cried uncon-

trollably after they beat Chile on penalties and they looked visibly shaky at facing the Germans with-out their biggest asset.

Captain in Thiago Silva’s ab-sence, an emotional David Luiz even held aloft Neymar’s jersey before the national anthems.

In contrast, the Germans looked cool and collected and when asked why they did not celebrate the 7-1 mauling more expansively, they replied that there was a time and place to show emotions.

Their performance also high-lighted Brazil’s lack of top-quality players. Unlike the Germans, the Dutch and to a lesser extent Ar-gentina, several of the Brazilian players who started the match were not regular starters for top European sides.

Goalkeeper Julio Cesar plays in

Canada, Paulinho struggled last sea-son at Tottenham Hotspur, Bernard and Hulk play in eastern Europe, Luiz Gustavo is at Wolfsburg and centre forward Fred is at Fluminense.

If there is a silver lining it is that unlike four years ago, when defeat by the Netherlands prompted a purge of the old guard, Brazil still have a young team and this experience, while bitter, could serve them well in the future.

Neymar is still only 22, midfield-ers Oscar and Willian are 23 and 25, respectively, and first-choice players Hulk, Luiz Gustavo and Marcelo will still only be 30 or 31 by the time the next World Cup comes around.

Central defensive pairing David Luiz, 27 and Thiago Silva, 30, will have a chance to deepen their under-standing by playing together at Paris St Germain starting next season.

REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

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Having gone 39 years without a competitive home defeat, they suf-fered two in five days, the 7-1 semi-final loss by Germany their heaviest ever at the World Cup.

They followed up with a feeble 3-0 defeat by the Netherlands in the third-place playoff on Saturday. “After the 7-1 today’s game was very difficult psychologically,” captain Thiago Silva said after the Dutch game.

“But we need to look at what we did wrong so we don’t make the same mistakes again. Especially when we lose a goal it’s like the world has ended and that’s not the way it should be. Football changes every minute and you can’t fall apart when you lose goals. That’s normal, it’s natural in football.”

The Dutch defeat was bad but it was the humiliation by Germany that will forever scar the Brazilian players and their memories of this World Cup, the first to be played in the country since 1950.

The defence was all at sea, unable to mark, cover or tackle, and a midfield that had looked ponderous throughout the tournament was over-run, with Fernandinho and Luiz Gustavo out-numbered and outsmarted.

Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari aimed to attack but left his midfield vulnerable and with Neymar out injured, there was no one to create. “We forgot how to play as a team,” former World Cup winner Tostao said in his newspaper column.

“For Felipao (Scolari) and the ma-jority of coaches exchanging passes in midfield is fancy, nicey nice, unpro-ductive. Brazilian football is all about running, lunging, and balls into the air. Because of the contempt we have for midfield we have no great players in that sector.” The result shocked the

Reuters

The Netherlands far exceeded expectation in finishing third at the World Cup in Brazil, tearing up not only up the formbook but their own rules on how best to play the game as their coach provided a talismanic touch. They also set a new record for themselves by going through the entire tournament without losing a match in regulation time.

A relatively young and inexperienced squad were given little chance of emulating the achievement of four years ago when they reached the final in South Africa. But with the canny coaching of Louis van Gaal they came mighty close once again, missing out after a semi-final penalty shootout defeat by Argentina and comfortably beating hosts Brazil 3-0 in the third-place playoff.

“It was a big honour for us to be here and a once in a lifetime experience,” Dutch winger Arjen Robben said. “Today’s match I think for us was the best way to end this tournament. We also fully deserved this third place the way we played. Nobody expected us to be in the last four.”

Van Gaal raised the wrath of footballing purists in the home of “total football” when he said he was dispensing with the 4-3-3 for-mation which had taken the Dutch successfully through qualifica-tion for a more conservative approach, with an emphasis on quick counter-attacks.

The reason, Van Gaal insisted, was that he had lost the balance in his midfield because of the long-term injury suffered by hard man Kevin Strootman a few months before the tournament. It was a virtu-ally untested approach which looked set to backfire in the opening half of their first game against Spain in Salvador.

The Dutch were trailing 1-0 and struggling until a swift counter led to wingback Daley Blind hitting a long cross from the left which Robin van Persie leapt salmon-like to head home the equaliser. The delight shared by coach and captain in a sideline high-five spoke volumes of the satisfaction of a plan coming together.

The subsequent mauling of the defending champions left the Dutch oozing with confidence and they topped their first-round group, al-though not in a very fluent style.

Van Gaal proved the talisman on several more occasions with tacti-cal switches that kept the Dutch on a winning path. The Manchester United-bound coach brought on 20-year-old Memphis Depay to score the come-from-behind winner against Australia.

Associated Press

IRAJA, Brazil — The protest-ers who many feared would wreck Brazil’s World Cup party failed to show up. While the national team fell short of claiming the coveted cham-pionship, the country at least can say the tournament that wraps up with Sunday’s title game has gone off with only scattered demonstrations.

Brazil avoided a repeat of last year’s Confederations Cup when violent protests broke out in several cities and more than a million people took to the streets on just one night to demand the government spend on improvements for education and other public services instead of soccer. But the absence of conflict during the World Cup came less from dissipated anger than atten-tion being glued to the games and police cracking down on even small demonstrations.

Paulo Cavalcante, a 50-year-old public servant, shouted himself hoarse during last year’s protests, even bringing his teenage daughter along on the marches. But during the World Cup, like many other Brazil-ians, he chose to stay home.

“The police had orders to break the demonstrators,” he said, referring to the early days of the monthlong tour-nament when officers turned tear gas and powerful stun guns on even small crowds of protesters. “I couldn’t put my family in harm’s way.”

For Sunday’s final between Argen-tina and Germany in Rio de Janeiro, authorities ordered the deployment of more than 25,000 officers and soldiers, the largest security detail in Brazil’s history. On Saturday, police arrested 19 people suspected of vandalism and seized gas masks, fireworks and firearms, according to local media reports.

President Dilma Rousseff, who

bore the brunt of criticism over spending on World Cup stadiums and projects, rejoiced in having created a festive and welcoming atmosphere for fans that proved doubters wrong. “We competently maintained peace and order,” she told a group of foreign journalists Friday night.

Whether such celebration will serve her in the campaign for her re-election in October’s election remains to be seen. Anger continues to sim-mer over inflation, gripping poverty and allegations of corruption.

“The average Brazilian citizen has deep grievances against the govern-ment and is sympathetic to the unified demand of the street — namely that the government funnels the same resources they put into organizing the World Cup into education, health and housing,” said Guillermo Trejo, a political scientist at Notre Dame University who focuses on social unrest in Latin America.

When France faced off against Mexico, and the United States met Belgium in matches at different venues in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo in 1930, few people could imagine what had been un-leashed on the world. A quarter of a century or so after the idea of a global footballing tournament was first mooted, 13 teams, including the host, gathered in Uruguay.

Many European countries, includ-ing Italy and Spain, opted against making the multi-week boat trip, while the four British associations had withdrawn from FIFA. Uru-guay, which won the gold medal in the 1924 and 1928 Olympic Games, was given the right to host the competition for the Jules Rimet Trophy, the World Cup’s original name, and termed in honor of the

then FIFA president who had done so much to make the tournament a reality. For the record, France beat Mexico 4-1, while the U.S. defeated Belgium 3-0. France’s Lucien Laurent scored the first goal in World Cup history. On July 30, Uruguay became the first World Cup champion when it beat Argentina 4-2 at Centenario Stadium.

AP Photo/Bruno Magalhaes, File

FILE - In this June 14, 2014, file photo, a demonstrator films a line of police during a protest against the World Cup in Belo Horizonte.

On this day, first ever tournament started

Brazil protests fizzled, but roots of anger remain

REUTERS/Ruben Sprich

Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal reacts in the sidelines during the 2014 World Cup third-place playoff between Brazil and Netherlands at the Brasilia national stadium in Brasilia July 12, 2014.

Dutch exceed expectations under talismanic Van Gaal

Brazil’s Thiago Silva (L), Wil-lian and David Luiz react after the 2014 World Cup third-place playoff between Brazil and the Netherlands at the Brasilia na-tional stadium in Brasilia July 12, 2014.

Brazil pay heavy price for tactical naivety, immaturityReuters

SAO PAULO - Brazil came into the World Cup expect-ing nothing less than victory but tactical naivety, a lack of emotional preparation and an inability to overcome the loss of two leading players cost them the chance of winning a sixth title.

footballing world.Brazil were pre-tournament fa-

vourites and not just as they were hosts and because no European team have ever won the World Cup in the Americas.

They arrived having won their previous nine matches, with a settled squad and an experienced manager who led them to the World Cup in 2002.

Just one year ago, they won the Confederations Cup in style, winning all five games and handing world and European champions Spain a 3-0 drubbing in the final.

Brazil, though, never really con-vinced from the moment they went behind to an own goal after 11 minutes of the opening match against Croatia. They won the game 3-1, but needed a suspiciously soft penalty decision to give them the lead.

Defensively VulnerableThey could not score against a

resolute Mexico side in their second game and although they trounced Cameroon 4-1 in the final group match they looked defensively vulnerable against one of the tourna-ment’s weakest sides.

They only qualified for the quar-ter-finals by beating Chile on penal-ties after a thrillingly close game. Even the 2-1 win over Colombia in the quarter-finals was fraught.

The decisive factor came in that game with the loss through in-jury and suspension of Neymar and Thiago Silva. Silva got a needless yellow card and that kept him out the semi-final and Neymar’s injury, a fractured vertebra, shattered the team’s confidence and highlighted their emotional fragility.

Several players had cried uncon-

trollably after they beat Chile on penalties and they looked visibly shaky at facing the Germans with-out their biggest asset.

Captain in Thiago Silva’s ab-sence, an emotional David Luiz even held aloft Neymar’s jersey before the national anthems.

In contrast, the Germans looked cool and collected and when asked why they did not celebrate the 7-1 mauling more expansively, they replied that there was a time and place to show emotions.

Their performance also high-lighted Brazil’s lack of top-quality players. Unlike the Germans, the Dutch and to a lesser extent Ar-gentina, several of the Brazilian players who started the match were not regular starters for top European sides.

Goalkeeper Julio Cesar plays in

Canada, Paulinho struggled last sea-son at Tottenham Hotspur, Bernard and Hulk play in eastern Europe, Luiz Gustavo is at Wolfsburg and centre forward Fred is at Fluminense.

If there is a silver lining it is that unlike four years ago, when defeat by the Netherlands prompted a purge of the old guard, Brazil still have a young team and this experience, while bitter, could serve them well in the future.

Neymar is still only 22, midfield-ers Oscar and Willian are 23 and 25, respectively, and first-choice players Hulk, Luiz Gustavo and Marcelo will still only be 30 or 31 by the time the next World Cup comes around.

Central defensive pairing David Luiz, 27 and Thiago Silva, 30, will have a chance to deepen their under-standing by playing together at Paris St Germain starting next season.

REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

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James has come back home to do something bigger, to do some-thing no one has done for nearly 50 years. He wants to do some-thing that would stamp his legacy and just maybe separate him from basketball’s immortals. He wants to deliver a championship — to Cleveland, the city where sports heartbreak is as predictable as cold winters.

“Our city,” the Akron native said, “hasn’t had that feeling in a long, long, long time. My goal is still to win as many titles as possible, no question. But what’s most impor-tant for me is bringing one trophy back to Northeast Ohio.”

Four years after he announced his decision to leave Cleveland on a poorly conceived, hour-long national TV special, James told the world he was going home in an es-say for Sports Illustrated. It wasn’t about “taking his talents” anywhere

this time. It was from the heart. James said it all in three words. “I’m coming home,” he said.

And with that, the balance of power shifted in the Eastern Con-ference, other free agents started looking for new teams, and Cleve-land, without a U.S. pro sports title since the NFL’s Browns won it all in 1964, is again home to the best basketballer on the planet. “My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn’t real-ize that four years ago. I do now,” he said. “I looked at other teams, but I wasn’t going to leave Miami for anywhere except Cleveland. The more time passed, the more it felt right. This is what makes me happy.”

James knows the Cavaliers have a long way to go before they can challenge for a crown. But he’s join-ing a young team with an All-Star in Kyrie Irving, No. 1 overall picks

Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wig-gins, and plenty of potential.

The Cavs, too, might look to add another star and have had preliminary discussions with Min-nesota about forward Kevin Love, who played with James on the U.S. Olympic team in London two years ago, and has just one more year on his contract with the Timberwolves. Love can be bought, but it might take Wiggins to get him. Cleveland also may try to land sharpshooters like free agents Ray Allen and Mike Miller, who both played with James in Miami. However the roster ends ups, James needs to help the Cavs grow up.

“I see myself as a mentor now and I’m excited to lead some of these talented young guys,” he said. “I can help Kyrie Irving become one of the best point guards in our league. I can help elevate Tristan Thompson and Dion Waiters. And I can’t wait to reunite with Anderson Varejao, one of my favorite teammates.”

REUTERS/Thomas Peter Mahindra Moto3 rider Bryan Schouten of the Netherlands fights with compatriot Kalex KTM Moto3 rider Scott Deroue (R) after they crashed during the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit in the eastern German town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal July 13, 2014.

Reuters

Three-time Grand Slam champion and former world number one Lindsay Davenport was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday, saying she fell in love with the sport the first time she picked up a racquet.

“I was five years old when I first hit a tennis ball and a racquet was put in my hand,” the American said at her enshrinement along with legendary tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, five time Paralympic medallist Chantal Vandierendonck, tennis executive Jane Brown Grimes and British broadcaster John Barrett in ceremonies at Newport, Rhode Island.

“It was the third sport that my parents tried with me to get me out of the house clearly at a young age after school. I never wanted to learn another sport and I still don’t.

“Hitting the ball and making contact was always something that came very natural to me. Everything else about the game took work and was a struggle. But that was the reason why I fell in love with it.”

Davenport, now 38, said it took her 20 years of practice and competition to reach her peak.

The Californian was rewarded with Grand Slam victories at the 1998 U.S. Open, 1999 Wimbledon and 2000 Australian Open. She also won an Olympic gold medal in 1996 during a career stretch-ing from 1991 through 2011. She was ranked number one in the world for 98 weeks.

Lindsay Davenport inducted into Hall of Fame

The Return: James goes home to Cavaliers

FILE - IN this April 22, 2010, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers’

LeBron James dunks against the Chicago Bulls during the second quarter of Game 3 of a first-round NBA basketball

playoff series in Chicago.

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CLEVELAND — LeBron James returns older, more mature, a polished champion. He’s got a little less hair, and a ton more experi-ence. Like anyone, he changed in four years. The NBA’s biggest star left four summers ago on poor terms, despised by fans who burned his jersey and scorned by an owner who felt betrayed. Cast as a villain, James was on a mission to win an NBA title — “not just one, not two, not three ... “ — in Miami with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and he got two championship rings.

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CANGGU - Almost similar with Echo Beach, Batu Bolong Beach that located in

Canggu Village, Kerobokan District, Badung or about 200 meters adjacent to Echo Beach presents a big and dazzling waves for surf-ing. The magnificent sunset also support this

beach become more fascinating. Even, this beach has been the one of famous destination after Kuta that visited by foreign tourists who want surfing. It is also suitable for recreation or relax while enjoying the fresh atmosphere that flows from the Indian ocean.

To reach this place the tourists have to enter Batu Bolong street or about 35 km

from Ngurah Rai Airport. Besides Surfing, this beach is usually used as Hinduism Cer-emony where in front of the beach there are two temples namely Batu Bolong Temple and Luhur Bhujangga Waisnawa Temple. This is the reason this beach has been well known by foreign tourists as the best surfing spot with interesting Hinduism activities.

Batu Bolong Beach

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s president on Friday urged the election chief to ensure a transpar-ent vote count following this week’s disputed presidential poll, after both sides raised fears the other may tamper with the ballots.

Political tensions are rising after the tight election in the world’s third-biggest democracy ended with both Jakarta governor Joko Widodo and his rival, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, declaring victory on Wednesday.

Most credible pollsters gave Widodo a lead in unofficial tallies, but Prabowo said that other polling institutes followed by his team showed he was the winner.

Vote tallying is a long, complex process in the world’s biggest archipelago nation, and results are not expected until July 22.

On Thursday Widodo, known by his nick-name Jokowi, expressed fears that the vote count could be manipulated in one of the world’s most-graft ridden countries, and urged his supporters to monitor the process.

But Prabowo hit back, saying he thought his side was being targeted.

“There are reports that some election boxes

have been stolen, our witnesses are being intimi-dated,” he told journalists, after addressing a huge crowd of devout Muslims at a rally in Jakarta protesting Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

Outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stepped into the row Friday, saying the role of the elec-tion commission was now “important and critical” and that he had spoken to the head of the body.

“I suggested that the (commission) invite both candidates and their teams to monitor the counting process so they can see the counting on a day-by-day basis,” he said.

This means that “when it is announced, they know that the process has been carried out careful-ly”, he said, talking to journalists at the presidential palace in Jakarta before a cabinet meeting.

He added the election chief had welcomed the suggestion.

Widodo, 53, is the first serious presidential contender without deep roots in the era of dic-tator Suharto, and he has won huge popularity with his common touch.

Prabowo, 63, was a top military figure in the time of Suharto. He has admitted ordering the abduction of democracy activists before the strongman’s downfall, and was formerly married to one of his daughters.

After a bitterly-fought campaign, Jakarta governor Joko Widodo and his rival, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, both used different unofficial tallies to claim they had won on Wednesday.

Most credible counts showed Widodo in the lead, sparking a rally in stocks and the rupiah Thursday on the expectation that he will be declared the winner when official results are announced later this month.

But the initial euphoria quickly wore off. The Jakarta stock market slumped as much as two percent the following day, and was 1.3 percent down at the close as investors grew nervous about the potential for a pro-longed deadlock.

“Given the conspicuous absence of a concession, the market still can-not rid itself of the spectre of draggy

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A Muslim student waves a Palestinian flag during a rally to protest against Israeli attack on Gaza, in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, July 12, 2014.

Uncertainty for Indonesia after disputed vote

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia faces a long period of uncertainty after last week’s disputed presiden-tial election, analysts warn -- raising fears for Southeast Asia’s top economy as growth sits at four-year lows, foreign investment slows and corruption remains rife.

uncertainty for a while more,” said economist Wellian Wiranto, from Singapore’s OCBC Bank.

Investors favour Widodo, known by his nickname Jokowi, as he is seen as a potential reformer and a clean leader in one of the world’s most cor-rupt countries.

Prabowo, a top military figure in the era of dictator Suharto, has struck a fiercely nationalistic tone on the campaign trail, and is looked at warily by markets.

Fears of violenceThe election commission is ex-

pected to announce the official results on July 22 but the loser may contest them in the Constitutional Court, which has until the end of August to make a ruling.

It is not a good time for Indonesia to be hit by uncertainty that could scare off investors, as it undergoes a painful transition from a decade of rapid growth fuelled by high global prices for its abundant commodities.

Falling commodity prices, as well as a series of protectionist policies, have hit the economy, which expand-ed at 5.21 percent in the first quarter -- its slowest pace since late 2009.

Foreign investment has also slowed steeply, with investors wary of the uncertain business environment. Corruption, seen as a major obstacle to operating in Indonesia, remains rampant.

The political uncertainty caused by the election deadlock can only add to the gloomy picture, observers warn.

The Jakarta Post newspaper, which

has backed Widodo, warned in an edi-torial that taking the battle all the way to the Constitutional Court “would prolong the political stalemate and uncertainty until late August”.

“The prospect of violence would dramatically increase unless leaders of political parties work to control their bases of support. The market would roil in response to these destabilising developments,” it said.

Indonesia was rocked by violence before the downfall of Suharto in 1998 following his three-decade dictator-ship, with many killed in the capital Jakarta during rioting and looting.

The country has enjoyed a decade of relative peace and stability under the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, helping to transform it into one of the world’s fastest-growing economies and a major investment destination.

But fears are growing that the ris-ing political tensions could spark fresh unrest, and Yudhoyono has called on both sides to restrain their supporters.

Analysts warn that the uncertainty

could also hit domestic demand in the rapidly growing middle class, a key driver of growth in recent years.

“A disputed result will not just have market implications, but also likely a dampening impact on sentiment,” said Australia’s ANZ Bank in a note.

“A Jokowi presidency is likely to be aligned with more optimistic consumers whereas a Prabowo chal-lenge could dampen sentiment and spending.”

Investors are hopeful for a quick end to the stalemate, with Widodo being declared the official winner later this month and Prabowo graciously conceding defeat.

But it is still far from clear how the crisis will play out, and most analysts think it is likely that Prabowo -- who has been seeking the presidency for the past decade -- will challenge the result in court if he loses.

“As much as the market is hopeful that the political drama has ended, we note that there are still alternative final episode scripts that cannot be totally ruled out,” said OCBC’s Wiranto.

President urges fair count after disputed poll

Deep differences separate the two sides and six world powers and Iran appear set to extend their talks past July 20. That would give more time to negotiate a deal that would limit the scope of such programs in exchange for a full lifting of nuclear-related sanc-tions imposed on Tehran.

“Obviously we have some very significant gaps still, so we need to see if we can make some progress,” Kerry told reporters before a meet-ing with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is convening the talks.

“It is vital to make certain that Iran is not going to develop nuclear weapons, that their pro-gram is peaceful. That’s what we are here trying to achieve.”

French Foreign Minister Lau-rent Fabius said “positions are

still far apart,” and the ministers had come to “try and narrow dif-ferences.”

Kerry arrived Sunday. Britain and Germany also sent their for-eign ministers to Austria’s capital for talks over the next few days, as has Iran. But the top diplomats from China and Russia are send-ing lower-ranking officials in-stead. That may reflect their view that an extension is unavoidable.

Still, the most important dis-putes over how deeply Iran must cut its nuclear program are be-tween Washington and Tehran, so Kerry’s presence is crucial. He will be able to talk directly to Ira-nian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is at the Vienna negotiations.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Min-ister Abbas Araghchi spoke Sat-

urday of “huge and deep” differ-ences. But he told Iranian TV that “if no breakthrough is achieved, it doesn’t mean that (the) talks have failed.”

Kerry arrived in Vienna after diplomatic success in Afghanistan, where he persuaded rival presiden-tial candidates to agree to a full audit of their recent runoff elec-tion. They also agreed to a power-sharing arrangement. In Austria’s capital, the top American diplomat has perhaps a harder task.

Discussions center on impos-ing long-term restrictions on Iran’s uranium enrichment and against plutonium production — materials usable in nuclear warheads. In exchange, the U.S. and other powers would scrap a series of trade and oil sanctions against Tehran.

Associated Press

REDDING, California — A 27-year-old man who was allegedly at an illegal marijuana plot is suspected of starting a wildfire that has burned more than 4 1/2 square miles of forested land in northern California.

Freddie Alexander Smoke III was arrested Saturday and accused of reck-lessly causing a fire and with marijuana cultivation, both felonies, fire officials said Saturday.

They said he was delivering material to the pot site in Shasta County when the exhaust from his truck ignited dry grass.

The so-called Bully fire has since grown to nearly 3,000 acres, officials said. More than 1,000 personnel are involved in fighting the blaze, which was just 10 percent contained Saturday night.

The wildfire had prompted evacuations and road closures, but fire of-ficials said all residents have been allowed to return home and all roads have been open to them. Still, the fire is threatening 15 homes and about 50 other structures.

In Central California, a wildfire has burned nearly two square miles (1,200 acres) of a remote wilderness area of the Sequoia National Forest and was just 5 percent contained as of Saturday night.

Officials said more than 600 personnel are involved in fighting the Nicolls fire, which broke out Friday afternoon south of Sequoia National Park. No homes were evacuated or in danger.

The forest where the fire started is south of and separate from the Sequoia National Park east of Fresno, which is famous for its giant Sequoia trees.

AP Photo/Ronald Zak

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he arrives in front of a hotel where closed-door nuclear talks on Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, July 13, 2014.

Kerry in Vienna; extension of nuclear talks likelyAssociated Press Writer

VIENNA — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and fellow foreign ministers are adding their diplomatic muscle to try and advance troubled nuclear talks with Iran, with a target date only a week away for a pact meant to curb programs Tehran could turn to making atomic arms.

The economic growth of Bali in the second quarter within the next three months would also be imbued by optimism of entrepreneurs based on a survey conducted by his party to business sector and retail traders. The increase in economic growth of Bali was also contributed by the agricultural sector with relatively good weather conditions.

Benny continued to say that in terms of economic data on the Island of the Gods in the first quarter showed a slowdown with the growth of 5.43 percent or slowed down compared to the fourth quarter in 2013.

“Initially, Bank Indonesia predicted the growth was in the range of 5.5-6.0 percent, but the realization was 5.43 percent,” he said. The slowdown of Bali’s economy in the first quarter was estimated to happen due to the slowdown of large-scale infrastructure development and slowing demand for residential property of the small-scale property companies. (kmb27)

Man accused of starting North California wildfire

Indonesia’s economy...

AP photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Casey Christie

The Shirley Fire kicks up lots of smoke with the sun in the center, as seen in Wofford Heights, Calif., Sunday, June 15, 2014.

Data received from the local electoral committee indicated that the Jokowi-JK pair, supported by the PDIP, Nasdem, PKB, Hanura, and PKPI parties, won 15,579 votes, but the Prabowo-Hatta duo who are supported by Gerindra, PAN, Golkar, PKS, PPP, PBB, and the Demokrat parties only gained 12,085 votes. Nusa Penida is the stronghold of Gerindra, which was established by Prabowo Subianto.

During the legislative election in April 2014, Gerindra had secured a landslide victory in Nusa Penida and contributed the highest number of seats in the Klungkung district legislative assembly (DPRD) for the 2014-2019 period.

But ironically, the Jokowi-JK pair won the presidential election in ten of the 16 villages in the district, while the Prabowo-Hatta duo only managed to win in six villages.

In the West Papua province, the Jokowi-JK pair also gained a landslide victory over the Prabowo-Hatta duo in the presidential elec-tion on Wednesday.

Spokesman of the Optimis-tic Papua Movement’s team of volunteers Jimmy Demianus Ijie stated in Sorong on Thursday that a total of 713,902 voters cast their ballots at 2,616 polling stations in

11 districts across the province on Wednesday.

According to Ijie, the Jokowi-JK pair garnered 72 percent of the total votes and the Prabowo-Hatta duo only got 28 percent votes.

Ijie noted that Jokowi and Kalla

were nominated as the presidential and vice presidential candidates by the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle (PDIP), but their landslide victory came as a surprise as it hap-pened in those districts, which were known to be the stronghold of the

Golkar Party. By and large, the 2014 presiden-

tial election in West Papua went smoothly, orderly, and peacefully, although there are several irregu-larities, he remarked.

Ijie reported that before the

election, some security personnel had tried to persuade the people in Sorong district to vote in favor of a certain pair of presidential and vice presidential candidates, but the Jokowi-JK pair emerged as the winner.

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The average forecast for growth in the second quarter has fallen to 3 percent, according to a survey released Friday by the National Association for Business Econom-ics. That’s down from 3.5 percent in a June survey. Growth in 2014 as a whole will be just 1.6 percent, they project, sharply below a pre-vious forecast of 2.5 percent. If accurate, this year’s growth would be the weakest since the Great Recession.

The lower 2014 forecast largely reflects the impact of a sharp con-traction in the first quarter. The economy shrank 2.9 percent at an annual rate, the biggest drop in five years. That decline will weigh heavily on the economy this year, even if growth resumes and stays at 3 percent or above, as most economists expect.

The economists reduced their second-quarter forecast largely because they expect consumers spent at a much more modest pace. They now expect spending will grow just 2.3 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter, down from a 2.9 percent estimate in June. Spending rose just 1 percent in the first quarter, the smallest increase in four years, a sign consumers are still reluctant to spend freely.

Many retail chains are feeling the pain. The Container Store said Tuesday that sales at stores open

for at least a year slipped 0.8 per-cent in the first quarter.

“We are experiencing a retail ‘funk’,” Kip Tindell, chief execu-tive of The Container Store, said Tuesday. “While consumers are buying homes and automobiles and even high ticket furniture, most segments of retail are, like us, see-ing more challenging sales than we had hoped early in 2014.”

Family Dollar Stores and cloth-ing retailer the Gap also reported lower sales this week.

Another factor weighed heavily on the first quarter: A big drop in exports widened the nation’s trade deficit and accounted for about half the contraction. Exports picked up in May and trade is unlikely to be as big a drag in the second quarter. But the NABE survey found that economists expect exports will now rise just 2.5 percent this year, down from June’s estimate of 3 percent. The weaker figures reflect sluggish economies in Europe and slower growth in China.

The NABE did a special survey after the government announced the dismal figures at the end of June. The group typically surveys economists quarterly.

Despite the downgrades, the survey underscores that econo-mists are mostly optimistic about the rest of this year. Analysts largely blame the first quarter

shrinkage on temporary factors, such as harsh winter weather and a sharp slowdown in inventory re-stocking. When companies restock their inventories at a weaker pace, it slows demand for factory goods and lowers production.

Jack Kleinhenz, president of the association and chief economist at the National Retail Federation, said that most other recent economic data, particularly regarding hiring,

has been positive. Employers have added an average of 230,000 jobs a month this year, one of the best stretches since the recession.

In addition, consumers are more confident and government spending cuts and tax increases are exerting less of a drag. In 2013, a Social Security tax cut expired and government spending cuts were implemented. The combined ef-fects slowed growth by 1.5 percent-

age points, economists estimate.“Many of the fundamentals

are there for growth,” Kleinhenz said.

As a result, the 50 economists who responded to the survey see the chances of a recession this year or next as pretty low. Sixty percent said the odds were 10 percent or lower, and more than 90 percent said they were 25 percent or lower.

Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japan’s SoftBank and Deutsche Telekom of Germany have reached a basic agreement for a merger between their US af-filiates Sprint and T-Mobile US, the business daily Nikkei reported Saturday.

Eight financial institutions, including Japan’s top three megabanks Mizuho, Mitsubishi UFJ and Sumitomo Mitsui, will provide a credit line of around four trillion

yen ($39 billion) for SoftBank’s purchase of T-Mobile through Sprint, according to the report.

The combined customer base of Sprint, ranked third among US mobile phone firms, and fourth-ranked T-Mobile roughly equals those of the sector’s two leaders -- top-ranked Verizon Wireless and AT&T, the daily said.

The US Federal Communications Com-mission will examine the proposed merger

from a communications policy standpoint while the Department of Justice will scru-tinise it for antitrust issues.

SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son has been actively lobbying in Washington to win over regulators, who appear content to keep the market dominated by four players, the daily said.

Sprint, acquired by SoftBank for $21.6 billion in July last year, was the only one of the top four US carriers to log a net

decrease in subscribers over the January-March quarter.

Having been less aggressive to invest in its wireless network, the company has not been able to shed the perception that its network is slow and has poor coverage, the Nikkei said.

T-Mobile, owned 67 percent by Deutsche Telekom, enjoyed the largest net increase in subscribers over the three-month period.

Softbank in deal to merge Sprint, T-Mobile

Economists lower forecasts for US growthAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — U.S. business economists have sharply cut their growth forecasts for the April-June quarter and 2014, though they remain optimistic that the economy will rebound from a dismal first quarter.

AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, FileIn this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a cashier rings up a sale at a Sears store, in Las Vegas. U.S. busi-ness economists have sharply cut their growth forecasts for the April-June quarter and 2014, though they remain optimistic that the economy will rebound from a dismal first quarter.

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DENPASAR - Nangluk merana ritual involving hundreds or even thousands of Hindu devotees was held at sea. It was intended to rid the universe ranging from the sea to mountains as the source of life. Through the ritual, devotees invoked to God in order they were bestowed with graces for the sake of entire universe and protected from danger.

The Head of the Institute for Community Service (LPM) of Hin-du University of Indonesia (Unhi) Denpasar, IB Sutama, said the nan-gluk merana ritual was the term of

agricultural culture in Bali in real-izing the green culture. Through the ritual, farmers tried to stem all the plant diseases and pests attacking their crop, either in irrigated field or non-irrigated field.

In the Usada Wrespati Tatwa manuscript, explained this waidika (Hindu doctor), merana was the disease in plants. In animal it was called sasab, while in human was called gering. “The nangluk merana ritual was used to neutralize the nature, so that it can stem all kinds of diseases such as gering, sasab and merana and they will not come to mainland or to human nature,” he said.

The ritual was focused on invok-ing welfare and safety to Lord Var-una as the ruler of the sea. He had the power to clean up all the existing diseases. The universe was derived from water or thalesia. Similarly, human also began and ended with water. “The whole universe was purified by him at sea. As evidence, whatever discharged into the sea does not cause any odor. Therefore, the holy water or tirtha is centered at sea,” he explained.

This humanist and religious observer explained that 65-70 percent of macrocosm (universe) and microcosm (human body) con-tained water. When, we were in the

womb, 90 percent of our protector was water and at the meeting of heaven and earth or kama bang (sperm) and kama petak (ovum) or intercourse of mother and father we are composed of 100 percent of water. “That’s why we end the ritual with water of Lord Varuna,” he convinced.

In the nangluk merana was always accompanied with animal sacrifice by slaughtering or floating animal into the sea. It was affected by bhairava leading to Shaktism. Sacred animal sacrifice was in-tended to neutralize nature and as a substitute for human sacrifice, so that it did not sacrifice human.

Nangluk merana ritual was regu-larly held towards year end because a very extreme weather change took place in December. It was before the

seventh month in Balinese calendar being prone to natural disasters and disease outbreaks. “Sickness in the seventh month is not affected by leak or Balinese black magic, but pure sickness as a result of climate change. It is a sickness caused by one of the daiweika dhuka namely sickness due to deity, ourselves and our inadvertency,” he said.

Hindu community in Bali drove away global warming by nangluk marana ritual in which in Hinduism it was called detya (effect of feral solar heat). This Detya was por-trayed as a great giant with promi-nence. The poorly maintained envi-ronment would trigger Denawa or great flooding disaster. “Organizing the nangluk merana ritual should be accompanied with environmental conservation,” he added.

Nangluk Merana Ritual

Jokowi-JK storms to victory in KlungkungAntara

SEMARAPURA - The pair of presidential candidates, Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla (Jokowi-JK), emerged victorious in Nusa Penida, the only Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) stronghold in Klungkung district, Bali province.

IBP/BagiartaThe pair of presidential candidates, Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla (Jokowi-JK), emerged victorious in Nusa Penida, the only Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) stronghold in Klungkung district, Bali province.

BUSINESS

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Neither Israel nor Palestinian militants show signs of agreeing to a cease-fire, despite calls by the United Nations Security Council and others to end the increasingly bloody six-day offensive. With Israel massing tanks and soldiers at Gaza’s borders, some fear that could signal a wider ground of-

fensive that would cause heavy casualties.

“We don’t know when the op-eration will end,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu told a Cabinet meeting Sunday. “It might take a long time.”

Early Sunday, Israeli troops launched a brief raid into north-

ern Gaza to destroy what i t described as a rocket-launching site, an operation the military said left four soldiers slightly wounded.

The Israeli air force later dropped leaflets warning residents to evacu-ate their homes ahead of what Israel’s military spokesman de-scribed as a “short and temporary” campaign against northern Gaza to begin sometime after 12 p.m. (0900 GMT). The area is home to at least 100,000 people.

It was not clear whether the at-tack would be confined to stepped-

up airstrikes or whether it might include a sizeable ground offensive — something that Israel has so far been reluctant to undertake.

As the ultimatum drew near, hundreds fled Beit Lahiya, one of the communities the Israeli an-nouncement affected. Some raced by in pickup trucks, waving white flags.

“They are sending warning mes-sages,” resident Mohammad Abu Halemah said. “Once we received the message, we felt scared to stay in our homes. We want to leave.”

Ignoring international appeals

for a cease-fire, Israel widened its range of Gaza bombing tar-gets Saturday to include civilian institutions with suspected Hamas ties.

One strike hit a center for the disabled, killing two patients and wounding four people. In a second attack, an Israeli warplane flattened the home of Gaza police chief Tay-sir al-Batsh and damaged a nearby mosque as evening prayers ended, killing at least 18 people, 17 of whom were al-Batsh family mem-bers. Fifty were wounded, including al-Batsh himself.

Associated Press Writer

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Armed gunmen fatally shot a Ma-laysian policeman and kidnapped another during a shootout at a resort on Borneo island, a security official said Sunday.

It was the latest in a spate of kid-nappings in Sabah, highlighting per-

sistent security threats in the state. Sabah is a short boat ride from the southern Philippines, home to Mus-lim militants and kidnap gangs.

Eight gunmen wearing army fa-tigues barged into the Mabul Water Bungalow Resort late Saturday and ambushed marine police officers on guard there, said Abdul Rashid Ha-ron, who heads the Eastern Sabah

Security Command.A marine policeman was killed

in the shootout and the gunmen, who had their faces covered, fled on a boat with another officer, Abdul Rashid said, adding that the boat was seen heading toward the southern Philippines.

He said the gunmen may either have been planning to kidnap some-

one at the resort or were targeting marine police after recent increased security on the island helped to curb their activities.

“We don’t know their motive. Maybe they were retaliating be-cause we have tightened security in the area. I cannot rule that out,” Abdul Rashid said.

It was not clear who was behind

the attack, but previous kidnappings are believed to have been carried out by Abu Sayyaf militants.

The kidnappings have ham-pered tourism in Sabah, a popular destination for foreigners and a diving haven. Sabah’s government has announced a curfew and travel restrictions in high-risk areas to bolster security.

Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya — A Kenyan official says unknown gunmen have killed a promi-nent businessman, who was facing terrorism related charges.

The murder in the coastal city of Mombasa comes amid a string of killings nearby of people associated with Islamic extremism. Human rights activists are accusing the government of being behind the assassinations, since few have been resolved.

Mombasa County police chief Richard Kitur said Saturday that two gunmen shot Mohamed Shahid Butt dead after their car blocked his vehicle. Kitur said the busi-nessman had just picked up his son at the airport.

Butt was in court in last year over al-legations by authorities of incitement and funding terror related activities. In the past two years, three other well-known Muslims, who have been publicly linked to extremism, have also been killed.

Malaysian cop killed, another kidnapped in Sabah

AP Photo/Hatem MoussaPalestinians flee their homes to take shelter at the United Nations school in Gaza City, Sunday, July 13, 2014.

Israel calls for north Gaza evacuation after raidAssociated Press

JERUSALEM — Israel briefly deployed ground troops inside the Gaza Strip for the first time early Sunday as its military warned northern Gaza residents to evacuate their homes, part of a widening offensive that’s killed more than 160 Palestinians.

Businessman linked to terror killed on Kenya coast

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Two Swiss minor travel-ers should be languishing in prison cell. They were respectively with the initials AH, 16, and FJ, 16, and arrested because of stealing in one of fashion stores in Kuta, Thursday afternoon (Jul 10). Then, both culprits should undergo an examination in Kuta Police station.

A resource person at police station said on Friday (Jul 11) the incident began when both Swiss teenagers made a visit to Top Man Shop located at Beach Walk Shop-ping Center on Jalan Kartika Plaza, Kuta, around 12:00 a.m. “They were on vacation in Bali and then had a promenade to the largest shopping mall in Bali,” he said

Originally, the shop attendant of Top Man did not suspect the gestures of both foreign travelers. However, when arriving on the second floor of the mall, AH and FJ

were seen taking a few pieces of clothes and pants hidden behind their shirt and bag. “After stealing, they left the store with a calm appearance,” added the source.

However, the shop attendant witnessing the action of the culprits secretly reported the case to the security guards. Then, while in front of the store, the officers and shop attendant directly arrested the culprits. From the results of examination, it was found two pieces of ladies tops, one pair of shorts and a piece of T-shirt with a total price of IDR 1.2 million. Both culprits were then taken to Kuta Police station to account for their act.

Chief of Kuta Police, Nyoman Sebudi, when asked for his confirmation justified the arrest to both Swiss travelers. After that, the two travelers from Switzerland, namely AH and FJ as well as the evidence had been secured at Kuta Police station. “Both culprits are still being interrogated,” he said. (kmb35)

Bali Post

NEGARA - The rapid development of the re-gion in Jembrana County drew the reaction of the Jembrana House. Two big factions in the Jembrana House, namely the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and Golkar Party Faction asked the government to protect the agricultural land from the invasion of the housing.

In the public expose delivered in the recent Plenary Session, the PDI-P through its legislator, Ni Made Sri Sutharmi, asked the government to prepare a strategic move to protect farmland. Farmer’s welfare remained to become a big challenge so that it was needed an immediate handling for the agricultural land gradually reducing as converted into housing.

Golkar Faction also considered the importance to assess the existing housing arrangement, especially in urban areas such as at the land consolidation (LC) locat-ed at Dauhwaru and Banjar Tengah hamlet. These two densely populated areas should improve its drainage to avoid flooding and shabby impression. Arrangement for the former prosecutor’s office located on the main road should be attempted to avoid from the impression of being neglected by the government. Golkar Faction also requested the access to Jalan Hassanudin should be arranged and equipped with sidewalks.

Still related to the urban arrangement, the PDI-P Faction agreed to the implementation of pavement to the lanes in urban areas as the follow up of embodiment of the aspirations developing in the community.

Similarly, the Single Goal Faction agreed the pav-ing in urban lanes to equalize the development and improvement of the economic access of the community. However, it should be balanced with the expenditure for the economic group development of other com-munity. (kmb26)

IBPDenpasar – The unique idea of brain

gym came from James Ralio, the man who held the record for playing drum for 40 hours in Indonesia. He got the record in 2011. James thinks that not only the body needs exercise but also the brain.

“There are many benefits in doing the exercise such as increasing memory and concentration. The IQ, EQ, and SQ will be balance and many more,” he explained. James also said that the brain gym is not difficult and everybody can do it.

He would like to share his knowl-edge on the exercise to the people in Bali by carrying out a seminar. James believes that the brain exercise will give many benefits in daily life such as in working. He stated that the brain gym will also increase the creativity of someone. James invites anyone who wants to get benefit from brain gym to join his seminar.

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WASHINGTON - The digital age has created a host of new etiquette dilemmas. What should you do when your boss sends a Facebook friend re-quest? Is it OK to take and share smartphone pictures at a friend’s wedding? When should you take off Google Glass, rather than just turn it off?

Etiquette mavens say the book on manners must be rewritten, literally, to take into account new technologies and social media. “Technology is such an area of anxiety for people,” says Steven Petrow, an author of etiquette books who last month began a digital manners column for USA Today.

In recent columns, Petrow addressed the question of mass emails that reveal the names of all recipients (not OK, he says), and how to deal with wedding guests who want to share smartphone pictures before the official photos are available (he urges the couple to make their wishes clear in the invitation).

“Fundamentally, I come back to my core values, which are about respect, kindness and civility,” Petrow told AFP.

Social media such as Facebook pose particular etiquette problems: if users post news about a death, birth or engagement before relatives are notified, that creates tensions among family members.

“On Facebook, even if you have privacy protection, someone else can grab your message and send it along,” said Emily Yoffe, who pens the “Dear Prudence” column on Slate.

“Once you post it, you don’t control that information anymore,” said Yoffe, advising people to treat all social media posts as public.

Petrow sees other quandaries -- for example, whether it is appro-priate to “like” a Facebook post about sad news.

“I believe that liking means you acknowledge it,” he said. “So you can like something sad but you should add a note to say what you mean.”

Social media is also used to break off, or to announce a new rela-tionship, which can be a surprise to the other person.

“It’s always best to take your time, to discuss this with the other person,” Petrow said.

As for the boss’s friend request, Petrow advised managers to steer clear of this to avoid potential conflicts.

Employees should not ignore the request, but offer instead to con-nect on the professional network LinkedIn, he said.

Digital technology has forced a reboot at the Emily Post Institute, which grew out of the work of the noted etiquette author.

Her great-great-grandson Daniel Post Senning released a book last year on digital etiquette after realizing the topic merited more than just a chapter in the updated Emily Post book.

“New technology is changing every major aspect of people’s lives for which they would come to Emily Post looking for advice,” Sen-ning said.

A longstanding digital etiquette issue is when people should turn off or silence their smartphones.

“The biggest challenge is that these devices take our attention from the people we’re with,” Senning told AFP.

While smartphones are enormously useful tools, “If you’re with other people, your attention should be there,” Senning said. “Most people know that intuitively.”

Social networks are great places for sharing, but sometimes people go overboard. A 2012 survey by Intel found that in several countries, a majority said they were put off by “oversharing” of pictures and personal information.

Senning said the Post Institute often follows what is accepted by the public but that sometimes it takes the opposite view “if it’s a question of our fundamental principles of consideration, respect and honesty.”

Trouble with ‘Glassholes’Etiquette may see more changes with devices such as the Internet-

connected eyewear Google Glass. Google has preemptively offered tips to avoid becoming a “Glasshole,” such as turning off the eyewear in many situations.

Wearable electronics like Google Glass create fears about being spied on. “I don’t think turning it off will be sufficient to quell those concerns,” Petrow said.

“Every new device seems to spawn its own chapter of etiquette dilemmas.”

From a historical perspective, “every generation perceives the state of manners in decline,” said Senning of the Post Institute.

“People thought that when the telephone moved to the home it would destroy home life, and it didn’t.”

Associated Press

WACO, Texas — The out-fit Lone Ranger actor Clayton Moore wore when making ap-pearances as the character after retiring from television has sold for $195,000 at a Texas auction.

Waco-based A & S Auction

Co. said the outfit was sold Sat-urday.

Moore, who died in 1999, played the masked lawman on the ABC television series “The Lone Ranger” from 1949 to 1957.

The auction house says that after retiring from television, Moore made appearances in char-

acter at events including fairs. His outfit included a powder-blue shirt and pants, red kerchief, Stetson hat, boots, gun belt and Colt pistols.

The outfit spent more than a decade in the collection of a late Texas businessman whose family offered it at auction.

The 30th annual Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival, held at Looe Key Reef along the con-tinental United States’ only living coral barrier reef, featured four hours of commercial-free music piped below the surface via a se-ries of underwater speakers.

“We started this as an arts and cultural event 30 years ago (and) thought it would be a one-time thing,” said event co-founder and coordinator Bill Becker. “It’s the only place we know of where mu-sic is put underwater for divers, snorkelers and the marine life.”

The water-themed playlist included such tunes as the Beat-les’ “Octopus’s Garden” and

the themes from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” and television’s classic “Flipper” about a dolphin at a marine preserve in southern Florida. Participants described the music as clear and ethereal, with underwater visibility of about 50 feet (15 meters).

Snorkeler Uli Clef from Mu-nich, Germany, said he was par-ticularly impressed with the vivid colors and tropical fish he saw underwater.

“I’ve seen colors from red to blue to white, and even the shades of the sun coming from the water line,” Clef said when he surfaced. “All these colorful fishes — that’s perfect.”

Some divers were costumed and pretended to play quirky metal instruments sculpted by Florida Keys artist August Pow-ers. As well as offering an un-usual experience for dive and snorkel enthusiasts, the broadcast included diver awareness an-nouncements promoting coral reef protection.

“We try to get divers to be aware of their impact on the coral reef so that they lessen that impact and this reef can be here for gen-erations to come,” said Becker.

The event was staged by radio station WWUS in partnership with the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce.

Etiquette gets reboot for digital age

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In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, participants Nancy Barta, left, Samantha Langsdale center, and Fernando Barta pretend to play mock musical instruments and enjoy the Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival on Saturday, July 12, 2014.

Divers, snorkelers converge for undersea ‘concert’Associated Press

BIG PINE KEY, Florida — Nearly 500 divers and snorkelers submerged in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary on Saturday for a “concert” beneath the sea broadcast by a local radio station.

Lone Ranger actor’s outfit sells for $195,000

AntaraDENPASAR - Tens of Balinese

youths came together to form the Bali Youth Alliance, to raise funds for victims of the Gaza strip con-flict following Israeli air strikes in Palestine.

“We are concerned about the victims in Gaza from the ongoing Israeli air strikes in this prolonged conflict,” said alliance coordinator Komang Eka Suardana.

The fund-raising event was held at the intersection of Dewi Sartika and Puputan Niti Mandala Renon Road in Denpasar as a humanitarian gesture to support those who had suffered in Gaza.

Several motorists passing the

intersection donated towards the fund.

“As Balinese youth, this is the only way we can help the victims, even though it has hap-pened in Palestine, which is far away from Indonesia, “ said Eka Suardana.

“What has happened there has violated human rights,¿ he added.

Besides raising funds, the alliance also condemned the Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.

The entire fund collected would be sent to the Indonesian Emer-gency Rescue Committee (MER-C)’s bank account, to be used as humanitarian aid for violence relief in the Gaza Strip.

Emiko who was born in Yoko-hama, Japan, also has a Balinese iden-tity, Ni Putu Sulasmi. She along with 14 other Japanese women from the Wyarihita Dance Studio are showcas-ing their expertise in Balinese dance during the 36 Bali Arts Festival held in the Denpasar Culture Park.

Her interest in Balinese arts has evoked her love for the arts and cul-ture of Dewata Island.

The leader of Wyarihita Dance Studio, Ni Wayan Deni Inaba, has a Japanese husband, Takahisa Inaba.

Emiko, who owns a beauty salon in Japan, has mastered at least five Balinese dances after studying at the dance studio.

During the festival, Emiko show-cased her swaying movements while performing Candra Metu and Tarum Butterfly dances in Wantilan Den-pasar Culture Park. Though she once lived in Jakarta, but she has in-depth knowledge of Balinese dances.

After her return to Sakura country, Emiko signed up to learn Balinese dance in the Wyarihita Dance Studio in Yokohama as she lived in proxim-ity to the place.

Although she knew a lot about the Balinese culture in Jakarta, but she had yet to learn the dance in the Indonesian capital.

Youth raise funds for Gaza victims

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Tens of Balinese youths came together to form the Bali Youth Alliance, to raise funds for victims of the Gaza strip conflict following Israeli air strikes in Palestine.

Japanese enthralled by Balinese artsAntara

DENPASAR - During her foremost visit, 25-year-old Japa-nese citizen, Emiko Nakai, was interested in Balinese arts and culture alike any other tourist visiting Dewata Island for the first time. However, her love for Balinese arts and culture has deepened over the course of time. “After I learnt about Balinese arts and culture in detail, I found happiness and tranquility,” Emiko said.

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Tarum Butterfly dance philosophy depicts a group of butterflies flying around a flowery garden. They move in a dynamic and agile manner in tune to the music, that represents merriment of the performers.

Emiko stated that she has been learning Balinese dance for the past three years, and she is keen to learn other Balinese dances.

She was also interested in learning Balinese traditional musical instru-ments such as gamelan, which is played during dance performances.

“I am still learning Balinese dance and gamelan music in Japan. How-ever, when I visit Bali, I directly learn about them from the local artist,” Emiko remarked here after performing at the Bali Art Festival in collaboration with the Mekar Sari Ubud Dance Studio.

The senior Balinese artist I. Nyo-man Cerita remarked that he is delighted by the visit of Japanese artists and has proudly facilitated their necessities during the festival.

Cerita also supported and guided the foreign artists regarding dance and traditional percussion of Bali. He sur-mised that all the Japanese artists had successfully performed the Balinese dances during the festival.

All 15 Japanese artists performed their dances accompanied by 32 tra-ditional Balinese percussion artists. Cerita revealed that many people came to watch the performance that lasted for 2.5 hours in the Denpasar Culture Park.

Two performancesEmiko, who can speak Bahasa

passively, has performed twice on stage in Denpasar Culture Park along with five other Japanese dancers: Yumi Takashi, Midori Kadooka, Ma-sako, Kimura, and Fumiko Komatsu during their Tarum Butterfly dance performance.

The Tarum Butterfly dance phi-losophy depicts a group of butterflies

flying around a flowery garden. They move in a dynamic and agile manner in tune to the music, that represents merriment of the performers.

During the second performance, the group performed Candra Metu dance, which depicts the moon in its first emersion in the night. Emiko along with Yumi Takahashi, Fumiko Komatsu, Deni Inaba, and Ni Putu Masrapini delivered the final perfor-

mance of the festival that night.The Candra Metu dance describes

the beauty of the moon, in all its splendor, emerging in the night and spreading magnificence to the world.

It is difficult to compare the performance of Japanese artists to those by the Balinese women as their movements are really smooth akin to a butterfly in a flowery garden.

The five dances symbolize har-mony, beauty, and peace. Ni Wayan Deni said she supports and teaches all the dancers in Japan so that they can perform gracefully.

The dancing team has conducted “Ngayah” or a traditional ceremony in two villages in Dewata Island to ensure success in the big event.

They have conducted “Ngayah” in the front yard of the temple in Pekrawan Mawang Village in Gianyar District on Wednesday evening. The second “Ngayah” was conducted in Pekraman Puaya Vil-lage in Gianyar District on Friday evening.

Ni Wayan Deni accompanies students keen to learn Balinese dance in Sakura Country to Bali in a bi-annual trip to conduct the performance. The current visit of 15 Japanese artists was the seventh since 2000.

They hope the Balinese Arts Festival can enhance the relation-ship between Japan and Indonesia through promoting the arts and culture sector, which has been well-established before.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

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Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi

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

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

27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati

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

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

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

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

Travellers’ Choice award winners were deter-mined based on the reviews and opinions of mil-lions of TripAdvisor travellers around the globe. Yoga Iswara, General Manager, Maca Villas & Spa Bali said, “It was truly an honor for us to re-ceive the Award, our dedication and commitment to Service Excellence brought these Prestigious Awards to Maca Villas & Spa Bali. Being awarded as Travelers’ Choice Winner 2014 in the categories of Top Luxury, Top Romance and Top Small hotel indicates that the villa is on the right track to achieve its mission to be recognized as the preferred villas destination in Bali.

“These awards are testaments to our Team ef-forts to consistently deliver their best and encourage

them to continue provide Service Excellence as our standard everyday for every guest. We would like to thank our guests who have played a major roles in making this possible and assure them that every ac-tion and decision made at Maca is based on consumer satisfaction, hopefully you will continue to support us till the years to come and make Maca Villas & Spa Bali your “home away from home” every time your travels bring you to our great island,” he added.

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Victory of Jokowi-JK in Bali is like a kind of remedy and the awak-ening moment of the PDI-P after its candidates suffered a successive defeat in the Bali gubernatorial election and regent election 2013 in Klungkung. Jokowi-JK’s victory in Bali was also judged to show how the people loved and longed for the presence of the figure of future lead-er who was clean, honest, simple and populist. Besides, the victory of Jokowi-JK in Bali was assessed by a number of political observers as a severe blow to Prabowo-Hatta Campaign Team for Bali Province headed by the Deputy Governor of Bali Ketut Sudikerta, while Gover-nor of Bali Mangku Pastika served as the Steering Committee.

In fact, the support of the two regional leaders in Bali was not in-fluential enough to rally support and win Prabowo-Hatta in Bali with the target of 55 percent of votes because for the time being the achievement was in the range of 28 percent more. Severe defeat of Prabowo-Hatta in Bali resulted in an assessment if the Prabowo-Hatta Campaign Team for Bali Province and counties /municipality in Bali is not solid and has not been working optimally. Moreover, the Golkar Party itself has internal disunity.

A political observer doubling as an academician, Dr. Luh Riniti, revealed on Saturday (Jul 12) that severe victory of Jokowi-JK over Prabowo-Hatta in Bali showed off the great interest of Balinese community to change. “In fact, the majority of voters in Bali have set their preference for Jokowi figure that brings in novelty,” she said.

This Chairperson of Bali Sruti NGO assessed the support of Gov-ernor Pastika and Deputy Governor Sudikerta to Prabowo-Hatta did not affect much to gain support. In fact,

the victory of Pastika and Sudikerta in the Bali gubernatorial election could not be converted into victory of votes for Prabowo-Hatta in this presidential election. “The result of Bali gubernatorial election was not in line with the presidential election, even though the governor and his deputy served as the winning team. Once again, the figure factor highly determines the people’s choice. Massive and progressive campaign strategy, even with the involve-ment of governor in the campaign, was still unable to influence of the choice of Balinese people getting more intelligent,” said Riniti.

She added the rampant black and negative campaign conducted in each campaign had made people think. It was the thinking process that had caused the political intelli-gence of the community to increase and they could make a choice ra-tionally. On the other hand, added the former Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Science at the Ngurah Rai University Denpasar, the severe victory of Jokowi-JK in Bali had a very significant meaning for the PDI-P Bali. “Jokowi man-aged to restore the people’s votes to the PDI-P Bali that previously dropped from election to election and lost out in the Bali gubernato-rial election and regent election in Klungkung though nationally the contribution of vote of Bali was relatively small compared to the provinces on the Island of Java. However, the significance of Bali to PDI-P was very important. Bali as the basis symbol to PDI-P could have been taken back,” said the for-mer commissioner of the Electoral Commission.

Separately, the Jokowi-JK Cam-paign Team Leader for Bali Prov-ince, Wayan Koster, said the victory of Jokowi-JK in Bali was not only

the result of hard work of the cam-paign team for the province and county/municipality and a group of volunteers, but also the great support and trust given by Balinese people. “It’s very encouraging be-cause we in fact got severe victory in Bali, including in Karangasem and Klungkung County that since the beginning we predicted to be quite difficult,” said the PDI-P politician from Buleleng.

Related to the maximum results, Koster specifically expressed his gratitude to all the Balinese people who had come to the polling sta-tions and gave a mandate to Jokowi-JK as president and vice president. “I’m also grateful to the organizers that so far we considered to have been working well according to the existing rules,” he said. Despite winning for a while, Koster asked all the supporting political par-ties and the team of volunteers to keep waiting for the official results announced by the Electoral Com-mission.

When contacted separately, the Deputy Chairman of the Prabowo-Hatta Campaign Team for Bali Province, Ida Bagus Sukarta, re-jected if his party was not solid in winning Prabowo-Hatta in Bali despite in fact the votes of Prabowo-Hatta in Bali was away from 55 percent as the target set.

Meanwhile, the votes gained by Prabowo-Hatta in Bali based on data owned by Jokowi-JK Cam-paign Team for Bali Province was only 28.55 percent, while Jokowi-JK got 71.45 percent. “Our team worked solidly. No matter how many votes obtained in Bali, it posed the maximal struggle having been attempted by the Prabowo-Hatta Campaign Team for Bali Province. It is the choice of Bali-nese people that we must respect

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Indonesian presidential candidate Joko Widodo, popularly known as “Jokowi” delivers his victory speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednes-day, July 9, 2014.

Jokowi-JK win big in BaliBali Post

DENPASAR - Briefly, presidential candidate Joko Widodo and his running mate Jusuf Kalla absolutely won in Bali over the presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto-Hatta rajasa (Prabowo-Hatta). Based on the latest data owned by Jokowi-JK Campaign Team for Bali Province, the Jokowi-JK coalition carried by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), National Democrat (NasDem), National Awakening Party (PKB), People’s Conscience (Hanura) Party and the Indonesian Justice and Unity Party (PKPI) got 71.45 percent or 1,535,203 votes, while Prabowo-Hatta supported by Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, Golkar Party, Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), United De-velopment Party (PPP) and the Crescent Star Party (PBB) only achieved 28.55 percent or 613,533 votes.

and honor. Now, we just need to guard the tiered vote recapitulation,” said Chairman of the Gerindra Party of Bali Chapter.

However, Sukarta admitted the victory of Jokowi-JK in Bali was caused by the figure factor and Bali remained the basis of the PDI-P so it took a hard struggle for Prabowo-Hatta to win in Bali. “In terms of the strength mapping, Bali is still held by the PDI-P,” he said.

Related to the recapitulation process of vote at village level, and then resumed to subdistrict, county, provincial and central level, Sukarta hoped the witnesses could militantly keep the votes of Prabowo-Hatta and anticipate any fraud. “We’ve asked the witnesses to escort the votes carefully and militantly. No matter how many votes gained by Prabowo-Hatta in Bali, they must be guarded well to avoid any problems in the future. Do not get

complacent,” he said while adding that he had also collected all the Form C-1s from all polling stations.

“If there is a problem in the tiered recapitulation, we expect it could be resolved then and there will be no prob-lem at the next level,” added Sukarta doubling as the Deputy Chairman of the Bali House.

Regarding the sudden arrival of Prabo-wo in Bali on Friday (Jul 11) who visited a number of places such as Besakih (Karan-gasem) and Batuan (Gianyar), Sukarta mentioned that it had nothing to do at all with political agenda of the presidential election. “Formerly, he was invited to be present in an event. Since he was unable to attend at the time, he then could attend after the presidential election. The visit had no political agenda,” said the Gerindra politician from Sanur. (wid)

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“Safe and smooth conditions un-til July 22 and thereafter have been in accordance with the decision of the Electoral Commission. Then,

the economy will be very excited and ascertained to rebound,” said the Secretary of the ISEI Bali, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana.

He said the smooth implementation of the presidential election would affect both the economy and the business sec-tor, including triggering a positive effect on the capital market. It was marked by the increased stock purchase ahead of the recent presidential election, so the increase in stock price index (IHSG) on the stock market would increasingly strengthen.

“It proves if the market puts high reliance on each presidential candidate. Such condition is likely

to continue as long as the failing candidate is graceful and uncom-plicated,” he said.

He also stated the safe and peace-ful election resulted in a strengthen-ing exchange of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar. Exchange rate and stock index indirectly strengthening would affect the businesses to get improved. Foreign funds would go to developing countries, including Indonesia, as long as there was no post-election unrest.

Meanwhile, the Representative Office Head of Bank Indonesia (BI) for Region III Bali-Nusa Teng-gara, Benny Siswanto, said that in the second quarter of 2014, the BI estimated the economic growth of Bali would be higher than the first quarter of 2014 showing a slow down. Bank Indonesia predicted the economic growth in the second quarter of 2014 would be in the range of 5.2 to 5.8 percent.

CLOSING CEREMONY - Dance and

musical drama from students of

Gianyar’s vo-cational high

school per-formed during

the closing ceremony of Bali Art

Festival on Saturday, July

12, 2014.

Indonesia’s economy predicted to reboundBali Post

DENPASAR - The Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter predicted the economy of Indonesia after the presidential election on July 9 would be experiencing a rebound. The surge leading to strengthening with significant percentage was caused by the democratic event having run safely and smoothly.

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Shakira says she “will never forget that I met the love of my life at the

World Cup.”She and Spain defender Gerard Pique

met when promoting her 2010 World Cup anthem, “Waka Waka — Time for Africa,” and the couple have an 18-month-old son.

Speaking ahead of Sunday’s closing ceremony concert, Shakira says “if it wasn’t for the World Cup my son Milan

would not be here.”In Maracana Stadium before the

Argentina vs. Germany final she will perform “La La La (Brazil 2014)” with Brazilian musician Carlinhos Brown.

Shakira says though Pique was af-fected by defending champion Spain’s early exit, “I have a way of consoling him.”

Shakira thanks World Cup for changing her lifeAssociated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — Preparing to perform at her third World Cup, pop star Shakira says she thanks football for changing her life.

AP Photo/Leo Correa

Agence France-Presse

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood star George Clooney on Friday rejected an apology from Britain’s Daily Mail over a story claiming his fiancee’s mother opposes the couple’s upcoming marriage, accusing the tabloid of cover-up.

The paper reported earlier this week that the US actor’s soon-to-be Lebanese mother-in-law had been telling “half of Beirut” that she opposes the union between the heartthrob and her daughter Amal Alamuddin due to her supposed Druze faith.

The daily removed the piece from its widely read website and apologized following an initial protest by Clooney, who said it got many key facts wrong.

The publication however maintained that its story was “not a fabrication, but supplied in good faith” by a reputable journalist.

A clearly incensed Clooney is not letting the matter go, issuing a second USA Today opinion piece Friday in as many days.

“There is one constant when a person or company is caught doing something wrong. The coverup is always worse,” Clooney wrote.

“In the apology, managing editor Charles Garside claims that the article was ‘not a fabrication,’ but ‘based the story on conversa-tions with senior members of the Lebanese community,’” he added.

“The problem is that none of that is true... So either they were lying originally, or they’re lying now.”

Word that Alamuddin, a Beirut-based London lawyer, had stolen the heart of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated bachelors caused an international media frenzy back in April.

No official details have been released on when the high-profile pair will say “I do.”

On marriage storyClooney rejects Daily Mail apology

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Israel calls for north Gaza evacuation after raid

Kerry: extensionof nuclear talks likely

Brazil pay heavy price for tactical naivety, immaturity