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The 25-year-old singer-actress revealed on her social media accounts Monday that she’s helming the Aug. 30 ceremony.

Cyrus announced the gig by post-ing a photo of herself in an alien cos-tume with sandwich boards that read “MTV won’t let me perform” and “so I’m hosting this year’s VMAs.”

A scantily clad Cyrus shocked au-diences with a rump-shaking perfor-mance alongside Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.

Cyrus won the video of the year trophy at last year’s show and invited a young homeless man named Jesse Helt on stage to accept the trophy on her behalf.

The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards will air live on MTV from the Microsoft Theater in Los Ange-les. (ap)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After years of tabloid gossip claiming marital troubles, country music’s top couple Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert announced their divorce after four years of marriage.

The news was confirmed in a statement by the couple to The Associated Press, issued by their representatives Monday.

“This is not the future we en-visioned,” the former couple said in the statement.

“And it is with heavy hearts that we move forward separately. We are real people, with real lives, with real families, friends and colleagues. Therefore, we kindly ask for privacy and compassion concerning this very personal matter.”

The two multiplatinum stars came together just as their careers were hitting their peak, but the couple had to constantly deny rumors that their superstar careers were taking a toll on their mar-riage. Although sometimes they joked about competing against each other for awards, publicly they were constantly champion-ing each other’s successes and there were no obvious signs of trouble when the couple appeared at the Academy of Country Music Awards together in April.

Grammy-winning native Tex-

an Lambert, 31, is one of coun-try’s music most lauded female singers with her fiery brand of sass and sincerity on songs like “Gunpowder & Lead” and “The House That Built Me.”

“Boys ‘Round Here” singer Shelton, with his cheeky humor and easy likability, became a ubiquitous star as he juggled his musical and television career, as a judge on “The Voice” and a co-host of the ACMs. The 39-year-old Shelton first marriage of three years ended in divorce.

“We’re a really normal cou-ple,” Lambert told The Associ-ated Press in 2010. “We like to back road and hunt and fish. When we’re home, we’re not in that mode. We’re not in work mode, but it’s so great to have suc-cess together. Our careers have both taken a really good step in a good direction at the same time. I just think we have a really good relationship. It’s really strong. We’re best friends, and I can’t see myself with anybody else.”

But tabloids hounded the cou-ple, in particularly focusing on their personal lives and Lambert’s weight. “There are people who literally, their only job is to make other people miserable, and that’s a terrible way to live your life,” Lambert told The Associated Press in 2014. (ap)

Miley Cyrus to host MTV Video Music Awards

LOS ANGELES — Miley Cyrus is twerking back to the MTV Video Music Awards as the show’s host.

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Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert divorce after 4 years

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He said if there is a political will to provide such support, local entrepreneurs could benefit from investments in the region, instead of being mere spectators. “The local government should be will-ing to support local entrepreneurs beyond the creation of consor-tiums. In other words, if outsiders win construction project auctions, then the government should be approaching them to ensure ties to the local community,” said Ra-mantha, Tuesday.

Ramantha added that in any country, construction projects must abide by certain rules. In Bali one such rule is that new building must have Balinese ornamentation that has to be created by a Balinese craftsmen. “In such a case, who-ever the investor may be, they need to team up with local colleagues which should be facilitated by the government. The government has an obligation to promote local people,” he said.

Professor Ramantha acknowl-

edged that many local entrepre-neurs are hampered from working on large scale projects that require advanced technical equipment, which is often a requirement for the tender. On that account, the government needs to create bridges between local entrepreneurs those who win the bids.

According to him, government involvement is also needed in the agricultural sector given rampant land conversions. “Farmers who are essentially forced to convert their agricultural land into buildings, also need to be protected, so that after they sell their land they are not destitute,” he said.

He went on to say that by apply-ing the Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) system many problems can be avoided. In the case of farmers, they can offer the use of their land

to the private sector for the build-ing a business facility. Farmers give permission to build, manage and operate the facility for a spe-cific period of time after which the project or facility will be owned by the farmers who remain the landowners.

“Even in the case of agricultural land being converted into buildings, the land itself should be included in the cooperation though BOT, so that facilities are built and operated by the entrepreneurs for a speci-fied period of time -say 20 years. Once the contract has expired, the land is returned to the landowners /farmers, ensuring that farmers do not become even poorer after sell-ing off their land, but instead can become entrepreneurs themselves,” he explained.

Indeed, the government is not

obliged to create such a system, but according to Prof, Ramantha, if the government were to provide training to farmers about how to navigate such situations, and help bridge the gap between outside in-vestors and local people, the entire economy would be lifted out of the sluggishness. “The government obviously does not want people to be facing troubles, therefore people should be helped,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Political will needed to support local entrepreneurs

DENPASAR - Prof. Dr. Wayan Ramantha, Academic from the Faculty of Economics at Udayana University, stated that the local government needs to be playing a more active role to ensure that local entrepreneurs and farmers are given the support they need to face present conditions. Local entrepreneurs he said, should not only be creating consortiums to finance their own projects, but should also be supported in getting involved in mega projects.

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Tourists passed local entrepre-neurs stores at Gajah Mada Street,

Denpasar City on Bali Island. The local government needs to be

playing a more active role to en-sure that local entrepreneurs and

farmers are given the support they need to face present conditions.

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

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, 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 beauti-fully 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

Wednesday, July 22, 2015Wednesday, July 22, 2015

CANGGU – On Monday July 13th, Cocoon Medical Spa and Body Temple Spa Canggu are hosting their second Beauty Talks event, this time focusing on one of the most advanced fat blast-ing technologies currently on the beauty & wellness scene.

Hosted at Body Temple Canggu Club and in collaboration with the experts at Cocoon Medical Spa,

each Beauty Talks event features a free demo, refreshments and door prizes. The event is then followed by one-on-one consultations and available treatments for those who wish to try it for themselves.

This month’s feature uses the four most effective cellulite-fighting, skin firming and body slimming technologies simultane-ously for maximum results.

The treatment starts by treating the fat with very high-powered fat cavitation, combined with ultrasound to dislodge the fat and disperse it into the body. After the fats are dissolved, radio frequency is used to tighten and firm the skin. Finally, a cellulite massage is administered to stimulate fat cells, dissolve cellulite, increase blood circulation and release the trapped fluids and toxins.

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Demonstration of the most advanced fat blasting technology

The option is offered, said the Minister of Tourism said that such options are being offered as alter-natives to passengers who would otherwise be stranded in airports as a result of the volcanic ash that is considered a safety hazard for

flying. “The Ministry of Tourism will be assisting with communica-tion and cooperation with relevant agencies such as PT KAI and PT Pelni who have fleets of vessels so that passengers can reach their destinations,” said Arief.

The Ministry had already es-tablished a Crisis Center for air passengers to contact related in-stitutions such as airport manage-ment, airlines and hotels. “For air passengers waiting to fly overseas, they will probably be retained longer and therefore require ac-commodations. The Crisis Center

can help them to find hotels near the airport as they wait until it is safe to fly,” said Arief.

The Crisis Center, offers con-siderable tariff discounts for room rates for stranded passengers and continues to coordinate with tour-ism businesses so as to provide facilities for travellers” he said.

The Minister of Tourism said that Bali is a strategic destination because 40 percent of foreign trav-elers in Indonesia fly out from Den-pasar. On that account, whenever there is any small incident imped-ing or affecting the performance of Bali’s airport, there is an obligation to handle it immediately. Even a slight delay can have a direct and immediate impact on the volume of national traffic.

Though unable to stop the volca-nic activity of Mt. Raung and Mt. Gamalama, Arief said that there are measures that can be taken to fa-cilitate the movement of travelers, allowing them to be assisted and feel cared for despite the forces of nature. “This is the main function of the Crisis Center, that can be useful and provide concrete solu-tions to travelers,” said the former president director of PT Telkom.

Arief Yahya ascerted that his party will continue to strengthen the Tourism Crisis Center team that was established on July 10. Ash and volcanic debris that have reached the counties of Banyu-wangi, Bondowoso and Jember have been increasingly affecting flight activities at Ngurah Rai Airport (Bali), Lombok Interna-tional Airport, Selaparang Airport Mataram, Blimbingsari Airport (Banyuwangi), Notohadinegoro Airport (Jember) and Juanda Air-port (Surabaya).

“We have established crisis centers in those regions that have had flight delays which affect both foreign and domestic travellers. We also urge all tourism offices in these regions to seek to overcome this crisis,” said Arief. (010)

SINGArAJA - So far the construction of an international airport in Buleleng remains a mear plan. Nevertheless, more and more people, are questioning the certainty of this project, especially people in the community of Kubutambahan village in Kubutambahan subdistrict, which is touted as the location for the airport project.

Ever since the central government announced that the interna-tional airport would be built there, land prices have been skyrock-eting as brokers or land speculators have inevitably started looking to buy land from local residents. Many people in Kubutambahan now talk about the proposed airport on a daily basis and the airport is used as a determining factor for land prices.

Currently land goes for about IDR 60 million IDR 90 million per 100 square meters, whereas before news of the new airport, the most expensive land was sold for IDR 50 million per 100 square meters.

Desite soaring prices, land brokers and speculators from Den-pasar and outside of Bali seem to be around every corner waiting for an opportunity to grab some land here. It is rumoured that a lot of land has already changed hands based on the notion that there is already an investor ready to build the airport which will require 1,000 hectares of land.

If conditions in Kubutambahan do not receive serious atten-tion many worry that the situation will get worse with more and more land being sold off to outsiders and when the airport is finally built, local residents will not enjoy any of the advantages, but rather only people from outside Buleleng or outside Bali will reap the benefits.

Subdistrict head of Kubutambahan, I Nyoman Sumertajaya, when contacted via phone on Monday (Jul. 20) confirmed that land prices have been skyrocketing. He also admitted that more and more land brokers or speculators have been hunting down land owned by locals but added that he and his office can do little about the situation as it is up to each resident whether they sell their land or not. He did however add that he hopes that residents will not sell their land carelessly nor immediately. Moreover, according to government data most of the land here is productive paddy fields and plantations. So, before the airport project is confirmed to be built here, residents should postpone selling their land.

“There was an announcement, but there has been no clarity about when the construction will begin. The price of land here, slowly started going up as soon as discussions started about the possibility of an airport here. We’d like to urge people not to sell the land in a hurry, certainly not before the construction of the airport in our region is certain,” he said.

Sumertajaya added that Kubutambahan region consists of seven hamlets but there has been no information about which hamlet will become home to the new airport. “We do not know exactly where the airport will be located, and residents are also still waiting for definite information,” he said.

All seven hamlets in Kubutambahan have a lot of potential for agricultural development including paddy field, the cultivation of mangos, coffee and cloves.

In addition, there are also a number of temples venerated by the residents of Kubutambahan and people from throughout Buleleng and beyond. The Madue Karang Temple is one of the greatest temples for Balinese Hindus. There are other six temples located along the beach: Segara, Dalem Puri, Dalem Temaja, Negara Gamburanglayang, Puseh Penegil Dharma and Braban Temple. (kmb38)

Airport’s plan in Buleleng causes

land prices to soar

Volcanic eruptions: Ministry of Tourism

creates contingency plansJAKArTA - The Ministry of Tourism has created contingency

plan for airline passenger disrupted by the eruption of Mount raung and Mount Gamalama, allowing people to travel via land and sea. “This applies to domestic air passengers returning to nearby towns because the land transportation modes (rail) and sea line (ship) are undisturbed,” said Minister of Tourism, Arif yahya, in Jakarta, Monday (Jul. 20).

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File

FILE - In this Sunday, July 12, 2015 file photo, a ferry boat crosses the Bali Strait to carry Indonesians to Ketapang port, East Java, from Gilimanuk port, West Bali, Indonesia as Mount Raung spews volcanic smoke.

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Combining unprecedented com-puting capacity with the world’s most powerful telescopes, Hawk-ing and the Russian-born Milner seek to intensify the so far fruitless search for life beyond the planet Earth.

It is a coordinated plan to use the latest scientific methods to solve one of mankind’s enduring riddles: Are we alone?

Hawking, who speaks using a computer-generated voice due to the effects of motor neuron disease, explained the reason for the project: “We are alive. We are intelligent. We must know.”

Milner, who made a fortune through investments in companies like Facebook, said the power of Silicon Valley technology and in-novation would be used.

“The scope of our search will be unprecedented: a million nearby stars, the galactic center, the entire plane of the Milky Way and 100 nearby galaxies,” Milner told a packed press conference at the Royal Society in London.

Organizers say the “Break-through Initiatives” project, also endorsed by other prominent British scientists, is the biggest ever scientific search for alien life. It includes a “listening” program — the effort to analyze vast amounts of radio signals in search of signs of life — and a “messaging” program that will include $1 million in prizes for

digital messages that best repre-sent the planet Earth.

The messages will not be sent,

however, in part because some scientists — including Hawking — fear messages sent into space could possibly spur aggressive actions by alien races.

It will be supported by the 100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia in the

United States and the 64-meter Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia.

In addition, the Lick Observa-tory in California will conduct a deeper-than-ever search for optical laser transmissions.

The project will be 50 times

more sensitive than earlier search-es, and will cover 10 times more of the sky, organizers say.

It will also make use of SETI@home, a University of California, Berkeley project that uses some 9 million volunteers throughout the world who donate computer power to search astronomical data for signs of life.

Milner said the search will be entirely transparent and will rely on open-source software so find-ings can be shared throughout the world.

“Our approach to data will be open and taking advantage of the problem-solving power of social networks,” he said.

The researchers say the focused computing power and the use of some of the world’s most powerful telescopes will allow them to col-lect in one day the same amount of data that would have taken one year to collect before the program began.

Milner plans to back the pro-gram for at least 10 years although scientists agree it may take longer to find proof that alien life exists.

Hawking said the new program should succeed because it has ample resources: access to time on major telescopes, a huge data capacity, and a long-term finan-cial commitment that will not be withdrawn.

“If a search of this sophistication finds no proof, that is an interesting result,” he said. “It will not prove that we are alone but it will narrow the possibilities and it is likely to produce data that is fascinating in its own right.” (ap)

BOSTON — With its thumb raised skyward and a grin on its digital face, the ro-botic creation of two researchers in Canada embarked on a hitchhiking journey across the U.S. on Friday.

The humanoid robot named hitchBOT has already caught rides across Canada and in Europe, relying on the kindness and curiosity of strangers. But this is its first U.S. tour, setting out from Massachusetts with dreams of San Francisco ahead.

Along the way, it hopes to see some quintessential American sites, including Times Square, Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon.

To start the journey, its creators set it alongside a road in Marblehead with tape wrapped around its cylindrical head that read “San Francisco or bust.” Not long after, a group of German tourists picked it up and strapped it into their SUV with plans to take it to Boston or New York.

The kid-size robot is immobile on its own, so it gets from place to place by being schlepped around by strangers. Travelers can pass it off to others they meet, or leave it at a gas station or shop. They just leave it seated on its kickstand with its thumb raised.

Ideally, the creators hope, drivers won’t leave the bot along busy roads and will charge the battery when it runs low. Other-wise, there are no rules.

“We want to see what people do with this kind of technology when we leave it up to them,” said Frauke Zeller, one of the creators and an assistant professor in professional communication at Toronto’s Ryerson University.

On the outside, hitchBOT looks like it’s built for play rather than performance. It has a bucket for a body and bendy foam limbs capped by yellow gardening gloves and matching rubber boots. The whimsi-

cal attire is intentional, its makers said, to make it approachable and to deter potential thieves.

“It has a really low-tech look to it, some-thing we dubbed the ‘yard-sale aesthetic,’” said David Harris Smith, the other creator and an assistant professor in communication studies at McMaster University in Hamil-ton, Ontario.

Designed to be a talking travel compan-ion, the robot can toss out factoids and carry limited conversation. It can be charming and cheeky, its makers said.

So far, there are no signs of anything nefarious done to the robot, but there’s also no proof. Its creators intentionally cast their gaze aside.

“We want to be very careful to avoid sur-veillance technologies with this; that’s not what we’re trying to do here,” Smith said.

A GPS in the robot can track its location, and a camera randomly snaps photos about

every 20 minutes to document its travels. But the team behind the robot seeks permis-sion from people in the photos before post-ing them to social media, where hitchBOT has built a devoted fan base.

More than 30,000 people follow the robot on Twitter, and dozens have posted their own selfies with it. Researchers are culling data from social media to study how people interact with a robot that needs their help, unlike traditional robots designed to help them.

During last travels, the robot has attended a comic convention and a wedding, and it had its portrait painted in the Netherlands. It once spent a week with a heavy metal band.

The cross-country tour of Canada took 26 days, spanning more than 6,000 miles. As for the U.S. trip, researchers don’t know how long it will take or what will happen along the way. (ap)

Hitchhiking robot embarks on coast-to-coast tour across US

Searching for ET: Hawking to look for extraterrestrial life

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking sits in front of a presentation image during a press conference in London, Monday, July 20, 2015. Hawking and Russian tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner are pushing the search for extraterrestrial life into higher gear.

LONDON — The search for extraterrestrial life received a major boost Monday with the launch of an ambitious $100 million program, backed by famed physicist Stephen Hawking and tech billionaire Yuri Milner.

Thousands of foreign and do-mestic tourists crowded Pandawa Beach, which is surrounded by cliffs, in Nusa Dua to swim, play in the sand, and make a variety of sand carvings.

Besides enjoying the natural

beauty around the beach, do-mestic tourists visiting with their families posed for photographs, as well.

Those from Surabaya, Bandung, and numerous cities in East Java said that they were greatly im-

pressed by the beauty of the beach and the Pandawa statue.

Danis, a woman from Bandung who was visiting Pandawa Beach with her children, stated that she liked the beach tremendously and wanted to stay longer.

“This is the most beautiful beach I have ever seen. We would like to stay longer,” she remarked.

In addition to Pandawa Beach,

Lovina Beach in Buleleng district in Bali has also been packed with foreign tourists and local holiday-makers this week, on the occasions of the Balinese public holiday of Galungan and the Muslim holi-day of Idul Fitri, also known as Lebaran.

“This week, thousands of foreign and domestic tourists have been flocking to Lovina Beach to enjoy

the amusing attraction of hundreds of dolphins,” Nyoman Budiasa, a tour guide, noted in Singaraja on Monday.

He added that the number of tourists swarming the beach, situ-ated some 90 kilometers from Denpasar, rose 100 to 150 percent during the Galungan and Lebaran holidays this year from that seen on usual days. (ant)

GIANYAR - The natural, cul-tural and socio-religious life of Pejeng villagers has become an attraction that has the potential to be endlessly explored. Pejeng is one of Bali’s oldest villages and is rich with temples, archeologi-cal heritage as well as a beautiful landscape. Archaeological sites can be found on many people’s land. Such heritages have inspired an Indonesian film production house to feature the potential of Pejeng village in a documentary film.

While filming at Penataran Sasih on Monday (Jul. 20), the director of Pejeng village documentary film, El Nino Irawan, said that he is very interested in the potential of Pejeng village which he said is very unusual and can nicely be immortalized in the form of a documentary film.

The film will explain about the

ancient heritage of Penjeng as well as explore, the existence of the Pejeng painting studio of departed master painter (late) Dullah as well the many organic gardens located in this beau-tiful village. Locations for the film shoots include the Somanegara Palace Pejeng, the residence of Dullah, Pe-nataran Sasih, Kelebutan Temple and organic gardens at Panglan hamlet.

According to Cok Raka, one of Dullah’s students, the making of this documentary film will help to revive Pejeng. Moreover, the fil-ing of this documentary is in line with the the planned “Pejeng vil-lage biodiversart” which will take place in October. Such activities will help the public and especially the younger generations to better know and love their customs and the cultural richness of Bali, found in Pejeng village. (kmb25)

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As one of the ancient villages in Bali, Pejeng village is rich in temples with various archaeological heritages and beautiful landscape.

Documentary film about Pejeng village being made

Holidaymakers are likely to lose interest in the well-known beaches of Kuta and Sanur and turn to the less popu-lar Pandawa Beach in the Indonesian island

resort of Bali.

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Holidaymakers throng Pandawa BeachNUSA DUA - Holidaymakers are likely to lose interest in

the well-known beaches of Kuta and Sanur and turn to the less popular Pandawa Beach in the Indonesian island resort of Bali.

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The North’s nuclear deterrent is “not a plaything to be put on the negotiating table,” an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the offi-cial Korean Central News Agency. It was the country’s first official response to the Iran nuclear accord reached earlier this month.

North Korea’s nuclear program is a major regional concern, with the country having conducted atomic weapons tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013. International nuclear dis-armament talks have been stalled since early 2009, and outside ana-lysts believe the North has built a small but growing nuclear bomb arsenal.

The Foreign Ministry spokes-man said North Korea is different from Iran because it already has nuclear weapons. He said the North faces constant military and nuclear threats from the U.S., citing its regular military exercises with South Korea.

North Korea “is not interested at all in the dialogue to discuss the is-sue of making it freeze or dismantle its nukes unilaterally first,” he said, adding that the North “remains unchanged in the mission of its nuclear force as long as the U.S. continues pursuing its hostile policy toward” the country.

The U.S. stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea as deter-rence against potential aggression from North Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.

Under the Iranian nuclear deal reached by Tehran, Washington and others, Iran’s nuclear program will be curbed for a decade in exchange for potentially hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of relief from international sanctions. Many key penalties on the Iranian economy, such as those related to the energy and financial sectors, could be lifted by the end of the year. (ap)

BUJUMBURA — Burundi began voting in its disputed presidential election Tuesday with a low turnout in several polling stations in the capital fol-lowing a night of explosions and

gunfire in opposition strongholds where residents oppose President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term.

The body of a man identified as an opposition official lay on

the road in the largely opposi-tion Nyakabiga district, where residents alleged that police and intelligence officials exploded grenades and fired guns most of the night to frighten them from

demonstrating against the presi-dent’s candidacy. Nyakabiga administrator Eric Nkurunziza confirmed that the man was an opposition official.

Presidential adviser for In-formation and Media Willy Nyamitwe refuted claims that police were responsible for the shooting.

“Police were ordered not to shoot at night. It was the civil-ians with firearms who were shooting,” he said. He said the shooting and explosions were in Nyakabiga, Musaga and Jabe areas of Bujumbura.

A spot check of polling sta-tions in the three districts showed few voters except some mili-tary men from a barracks in Musaga.

Honore Niyomukiza, who is in charge of voting centers in Kamenge District, said the gunshots and explosions have kept away voters, though most polling stations opened around 6 a.m. or 7 a.m.

Unlike the capital city a high turn-out was reported in Nku-runziza’s hometown of Ngozi in northern Burundi. (ap)

NICE, France — Family, friends and colleagues paid homage to Jules Bianchi in his French hometown on Tuesday, as tributes mount for the Formula One driver who died of head injuries from a crash during last year’s Japanese Grand Prix.

Bianchi died Friday after being in a coma for nine months. Solemn applause resonated as the family took the casket inside Sainte Reparate Ca-thedral. Church bells sounded during the funeral.

Attendees included executives from the Manor-Marussia team, FIA President Jean Todt and his son Nicolas, Bianchi’s manager. For-mula One drivers including Romain Grosjean and Felipe Massa were also present.

Bianchi was the first driver to die of injuries sustained in an F1 race since Ayrton Senna was killed at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. (ap)

N. Korea: No interest in something like Iranian nuclear deal

AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, FileFILE - This Sept. 1, 2014 file photo, shows a nuclear research reactor at the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, which went online with American help in 1967 - before Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution strained ties between the two countries, in Tehran, Iran.

SEOUL — North Korea said Tuesday that it’s not interested in an Iran-type nuclear disarmament deal, saying it won’t abandon its atomic weapons as long as the United States maintains hostile policies toward the country.

Funeral for F1 driver Bianchi in France as tributes mount

Burundi votes in disputed presidential elections

AP Photo/Jerome DelayElection observers sit in an empty polling station for the presidential elections in Bujumbura, Bu-rundi, Tuesday, July 21, 2015.

DENPASAR - Sanglah Hospital’s Forensic Medicine depart-ment, once again received the body of an alleged victim of alcohol poisoning. The 28 year Russian resident named T Bulgakova Iuliia had received treatment in the Emergency Room of Sanglah Hospital before being declared dead on Tuesday (Jul. 14).

Ida Bagus Putu Alit, a forensic installation officer, said that the body has already undergone an external examination. “There are no specific signs and no signs of violence,” he said on Monday (Jul. 20)

Meanwhile, the allegation that Bulgakova suffered alcohol poison-ing is still under investigation and there is a request for an autopsy from police authorities. “The autopsy is still awaiting permission from the victim’s family,” he said. For now, the body remains at Sanglah Hospital. (kmb42)

“One bucket of water can take up to 21/2 hours which may include time washing clothes at the water source,” recalled Wayan Merta, a resident of Bukian hamlet, Pelaga subdistrict, northern Badung.

Merta is tired of this situation and says that the government has done nothing to assist local resi-dents in accessing water. In 2013, a bottled water company provided some assistance in the form of a hydrant water pump through its CSR program.

“I have only been able to enjoy water at home after the aid in the form of a hydrant. Before that all the water flowed to the south so that we could not access any of it. Actually a proposal has been submitted (to the government—Ed) but there has been no response,” said Merta, who has been appointed as the Chief of the Clean Water Facility Manage-ment Group (KPSAB).

According to Merta, approxi-mately 220 families now have access to water after they indepen-dantly built two large reservoirs from which water now flows to their homes. Every house has a holding tank because the water flow is not

constant - people take turns. It is distributed every four days to four or five families and so on.

“The water in the house tank is enough for 10 days at most and is drinkable even before being boiled,” he said.

Another resident, Wayan Debet, said that the water that now flows to peoples homes, comes from the springs at Penataran Agung Temple is located about 1.5 km from the residential area and it said to be the legacy of deputy regent Kebo Iwa.

“There are 11 spouts at the spring, but it cannot flow up to the residential area. The water must first flow down through a pipeline (hydrant machine—Ed) before being it can be pumped upwards. There must be a boost first before it can flow upwards,” he explained.

Extravagant use of waterWhile residents around the buf-

fer zone in the northern area have trouble accessing water, water is extravagantly wasted in the south. The water is primarily used to sup-port tourism activities in Southern Bali. Based on the data compiled by PHRI Bali in 2014, the number

of hotel rooms in Bali had reached 77,496.

“If the occupancy rate of these 77,000 rooms reaches 50 percent, that means that 13,900,000 litters of water are needed every year,” said Chairman of PHRI Bali, Dr. Cok Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati or Cok Ace in a discussion not long ago.

Cok Ace, added that tourism operators cannot be entirely blamed for the water crisis that is occurring however, because Balinese people in the south also use water extrava-gantly. Ideally the daily water need per capita amounts to 50 to 60 liters for consumption, bathing and so on. However, people are infact using up to 183 liters per person per day.

“That is three times more than usual consumption because in the past there was no shortage of water. While there has been a shift from agrarian to industrial culture, we are still using our old habits,” said Cok Ace.

This former regent of Gianyar invited all stakeholders, including members of the local community, to work together to control de-velopment. “Apart form zoning regulations, we must also pay at-tention to the carrying capacity and supporting capacity of the island. Otherwisesooner or later Bali will be abandoned by travelers,” said Cok Ace. (kmb32)

DENPASAR - The Eid had a significant impact on the activities of Denpasar residents. As evidence, the flea market at Kreneng Terminal usually filled with traders has now changed drastically. The number of active traders decreases by 80 percent because only a few traders are still selling.

“Many traders are homecoming. Since a few days ago the number of traders selling has declined,” said one of the parking attendants at the flea market, Kreneng. In the meantime, the board of the Kreneng Flea Market is not in place. “The board is homecoming, maybe he will be back on Wednesday,” said an employee at the Kreneng Terminal, Monday (Jul. 20).

On the other hand, some Denpasar residents complained as the carts of the Asoka night market traders have started to occupy the area around the market since 10:30 a.m. Carts of the traders have lined up on Jalan Rijasa and Jalan Cempaka, Kreneng, taking up to half of the road body.

One of the car drivers, Putu Gede Diatmika, said that he can usually pass easily from Jalan Kamboja to Jalan Rijasa. However, suddenly half of the road body is taken for parking the night market trader carts. As a result, vehicles from the west get difficulty to pass. “I appeal to management of the Asoka Market Kreneng not to allow traders to park their carts haphazardly as it has an impact on the beauty of Denpasar and disrupts the traffic,” said Diatmika.

Similar opinion is also delivered by another Denpasar resident, Komang Ari. According to him, the carts of the Asoka night market traders should be found a solution so as not to disturb the traffic. Moreover, the carts are parked in the middle of city road so that it can be highlighted by the public as well as foreign travelers when making a visit to Denpasar. “We hope that relevant agencies, espe-cially the Transportation Agency and Denpasar Municipal Police, can take decisive action. If this is allowed to be protracted without being handled, it will result in a bad precedent for the enforcement of regulation against the offenders,” said Ari.

Chief of Denpasar Municipal Police, I.B. Alit Wiradana, when asked for his confirmation related to the carts parked on the street said that his party will coordinate with the Transportation Agency, management of the Asoka night market and headman of Sumerta Kauh to discuss about the issue. Previously, there is agreement where the carts may only enter the Kreneng market area from one o’clock in the afternoon. “If currently there are traders carrying their cart before one o’clock in the afternoon, it means they have violated the existing agreement,” said Alit Wiradana.

In the meantime, the Division Head of the Operations Control at the Denpasar Transportation Agency, I Ketut Sriawan, revealed that solution to the issue on the carts of Asoka traders parked haphazardly must be resolved by cross-sectoral discussion. “We will make coor-dination with municipal police and Asoka night market management to find solutions for traders so that their cart will no longer be parked on the road,” said Sriawan. (kmb12)

People in mountainous face water shortages

MANGUPURA - Despite living in mountainous areas with abundant water, there is no guarantee that local residents have access to it. Many have to walk several kilometres, down a steep cliff every morning and evening just to get a bucket of water to meet their basic needs.

IBP/FileThe water shortage make the rice paddy dry

Russian dies, allegedly form alcohol poisoning.

After Eid, traders at Kreneng flea market diminish

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NEW YORK (AP) — Investors are running out of reasons to own gold. The price of the metal, which is often seen as a hedge against inflation and a weak dollar, slumped to its lowest in five years on Monday.

The dollar has rallied in recent months, diminish-ing the allure of holding gold. The U.S. economy has been on firmer footing, and tumult in China’s markets and Greece’s debt crisis have failed to restore the metal’s appeal as a haven from global turmoil.

The price of gold had surged in the years imme-diately after the 2008 financial crisis, topping out at nearly $1,900 an ounce in August 2011, as investors anticipated that the Federal Reserve’s ultra-low inter-est rate policy and huge bond-buying program would undermine the dollar and lead to inflation.

That scenario didn’t pan out. Instead, inflation has remained subdued and the economy maintained its recovery, albeit at an uneven pace. That has boosted demand for the dollar.

On Monday the price of gold sank another $25 to $1,106 an ounce. That’s about 40 percent below its recent peak and the lowest price since March 2010.

“It’s the strength of the dollar, that’s what’s been drilling gold down this year,” said Jim Steel, chief precious metals analyst at HSBC in New York.

The dollar is strengthening as the Fed moves closer to raising interest rates for the first time in almost a decade. The prospect of rising interest rates and higher yielding U.S. assets has boosted the allure of the U.S. currency against other major currencies such as the euro and the Japanese yen. (ap)

The Federal Reserve’s action Monday means the eight banks together will be required to shore up their financial bases with about $200 billion in additional capital. The requirements also are aimed at encouraging the Wall Street mega-banks to shrink so they pose less risk to the financial system. The banks include JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America.

Most of the banks have already put away the additional capital. JP-Morgan is the only one that doesn’t

already meet the requirements, which will be phased in from 2016 through 2018 and take full effect on Jan. 1, 2019. It currently falls about $12.5 billion short, according to Fed officials.

The Fed governors led by Chair Janet Yellen voted 5-0 at a public meeting to impose the so-called “capital surcharges” on the eight banks.

The extra capital requirements will increase in proportion to how risky the regulators deem a bank to

be. A key risk factor will be how much a bank relies on short-term funding markets to borrow from other banks. Those markets seized up during the 2008 financial crisis.

The government stepped in during the crisis with hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts of the big Wall Street banks as well as hundreds of smaller U.S. banks.

In recent years, the Fed and other regulators have put into effect a series of rules for banks to increase their capital buffers, as required by the 2010 financial overhaul law. The new additional layer of requirements for the biggest banks also exceeds the levels mandated by international regulators.

Banking industry groups say the Fed requirements could limit access to loans for businesses and con-sumers, by reducing the amounts that banks would have available to lend. The Fed governors also unani-mously adopted standards for new supervision by the Fed of General Electric Co.’s finance arm, which will be subject to rules similar to those governing big banks. Most of the rules wouldn’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2018. GE Capital Corp. was labeled two years ago as a potential threat to the financial system by a special council of regulators.

That label of a “systemically important” nonbank financial com-pany meant that GE Capital had to

increase its capital cushion, limit its use of borrowed money and submit to inspections by examiners. The company came under the Fed’s supervision.

The government guaranteed up to $139 billion of GE Capital’s debt during the crisis. GE Capital issued about $51 billion in long-term debt and $17 billion in short-term debt with government backing. The company, based in Norwalk, Con-necticut, issues a range of loans for consumers and companies. It had struggled during the crisis due to mounting defaults and losses on loans in areas like credit cards, commercial real estate and heavy equipment. (ap)

Fed directs 8 biggest US banks to hold extra capital

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are directing the eight big-gest U.S. banks to hold capital at levels above industry requirements to cushion against unexpected losses and reduce the chances of future taxpayer bailouts.

Gold falls to lowest level in five years on dollar strength

AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File In this Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012 file photo, a technician prepares 1 Kg gold bars of 995.0 purity to pack for delivery at the Emir-ates Gold company in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The price of gold, which is often seen as a hedge against inflation and a weak dollar, slumped to its lowest in five years on Monday, July 20, 2015.

“Indonesia is a great nation that has matured,” Charliyan stated on Tuesday.

According to Charliyan, the incident could improve solidar-ity, tolerance, and unity among all elements of the nation without creating any further divisions in the society.

He also urged the people to demonstrate to the international community that Indonesia is a na-tion that has been able to mature

and evolve. The Indonesian society is a religious society that upholds interfaith tolerance.

“Indonesia is not a nation that promotes mutual revenge. Indo-nesia is a nation that cannot be provoked easily,” he affirmed.

Earlier, the Tolikara Resort Po-lice Station investigated 29 people related to the incident that occurred in Tolikara Region, Papua, Chief Directorate General of Criminal Investigation of Papua Police Com-

mand Senior Commissioner Dwi Riyanto stated.

Conversing with journalists, Riyanto revealed that the 29 people who were investigated were only witnesses, and no one has been named as a suspect.

The witnesses who had been questioned were the victims of a stone-pelting incident while per-forming Eid prayers at Karubaga sub-district military command field.

Riyanto pointed out that the police are still investigating and collecting evidence and state-ments from the witnesses for both the victim and those who saw the

incident.The Directorate General of

Criminal Investigation of Papua Police Command has also de-ployed 12 investigators to assist Tolikara Resort Police Station to solve the case related to the at-tacks by members of the Evangeli-cal Christians in Indonesia (GIDI) on Muslims performing prayers during Eid and the burning down of kiosks and houses belonging to Muslims. The fire also razed a mosque (Islamic house of prayer) located around the stalls catch-ing fire.

Meanwhile, the case of civilians being shot during the attacks is now

being investigated by the police’s Profession and Security Division of Papua Police Command, Riyanto remarked.

Several people were shot and wounded when the police tried to stop a mob from attacking Mus-lims performing their Eid al-Fitr morning prayers at a mosque in Karubaga, the capital of the To-likara district in Papua. One person died, and 54 kiosks, houses, and a mosque were burnt down during the incident.

However, the situation in Tolika-ra is now conducive, and the gov-ernment is rebuilding the mosque and kiosks. (ant)

BANDUNG - The prices of staple foods continue to be stable following the Islamic festival of Eid Fitr, according to Trade Minister Rachmat Gobel.

“Neither before nor after Eid Fitr was there any volatility in the prices. They rose within the normal limits, in line with the in-creasing market demand,” Min-ister Gobel said while visiting Gedebage Market on Tuesday.

The Trade Ministry has de-ployed teams to monitor the prices of foodstuff in regions that are prone to price hikes.

So far, they have not found any instability in prices, with the current hikes in the rates of commodities such as beef, chicken, eggs, and chili consid-ered normal.

In addition, to help stabilize the prices, the National Logistics Agency (Bulog) has carried out a number of market operations to supply rice, sugar, cooking oil, and chili.

“Yes, Bulog has to do that. It has to be present in the markets directly to shorten the long distri-bution chain,” Gobel explained.

Moreover, the trade minister received firsthand information about a fire that razed Gedebage Market recently.

He also visited Caringin Mar-ket in Bandung city to check the prices of food there. (ant)

TIMIKA - Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa has symbolically handed over assistance for the victims of hailstorms in Papua Province.

The assistance was received by Head of the Timika social affairs office Ribka at Mozes Kilangin Airport, on Tuesday.

The aid comprises 15 tons of rice, 300 blan-kets, 600 boxes of instant noodles, 600 packs of side dish, and 600 others for Duga and Lani Jaya districts.

Minister Parawansa and Minister for Wom-en’s Empowerment and Child Protection Yo-hana Yembise had initially planned to visit Lani Jaya District from Timika. However, the plan was cancelled due to bad weather.

The social affairs minister was also sched-uled to visit Tolikara District to get a first-hand glimpse of the condition of the victims of the mosque-burning incident on Wednesday, (July 22).

Hailstorms also hit the districts of Nduga,

Lani Jaya, and Puncak in Papua Province and caused a failure in the paddy harvest.

The natural disaster affected six sub-districts and 21 kampongs in three districts, with a total population of 20,160 families.

Several cattle and 11 people were killed due to the hailstorms.

The residents living in regions located at 2.7 thousand meters above sea level are in need of food and medicines, including for infants. (ant)

Tolikara incident should increase awareness

JAKARTA - The Tolikara incident should serve to increase awareness at both the individual and national level, according to the National Police’s Head of the Public Relations Division, Insp. Gen. Anton Charliyan.

Prices of staple foods stable

ANTARA FOTO/HO/TrisnadiSocial Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa has symbolically handed over assistance for the victims of hailstorms in Papua Province.

Minister hands over aid for hailstorm victims

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More than 100 members of the Save Andaman from Coal Network this week staged a march and sit-in outside the prime minister’s office in the nation’s capital against plans to build the plant near southern Thailand’s Andaman coast about 650 kilometers (400 miles) south of Bangkok.

The tranquil Krabi province and its islands are famed for picturesque limestone cliffs and white sand beach-es, one of which was the centerpiece of the Leonardo DiCaprio film “The Beach.”

“If this power plant happens, south-ern Thailand will lose a lot,” said Kra-bi resident Akradej Chakjinda, who has fasted since July 10 in protest.

Protesters say the Electricity Gen-erating Authority of Thailand, or EGAT, is pushing ahead with a bidding process for the plant and a seaport that would receive overseas shipments of coal before an environ-

mental impact assessment has been completed. Plans to launch the bid-ding process were delayed until next month, which EGAT says is unrelated to the ongoing protests.

The coal plant is part of a critical energy infrastructure that will provide Thailand with energy security as natu-ral gas reserves in the Gulf of Thailand dry up within 10 years, EGAT says. The state power authority has said it envisions building nine coal power plants in the south over the next two decades.

It had planned to begin the bidding process on this one in advance of the environmental review to save time, a government official said.

“I want to emphasize that this is totally legal and we will not sign any contract with the constructor who wins the bid process until we pass” the environmental assessment, Anuchart Palakawong Na Autthaya, head of

environmental management for the project, told The Nation newspaper Monday.

Krabi remains Thailand’s second-largest area of sea grass beds, which provide a feeding ground for the near extinct dugongs, a manatee-like marine mammal. It is also one of Thailand’s major tourist draws. Tourism to the provinces along the Andaman coast generated more than 376 billion baht ($11 billion) in 2015, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

Krabi and some of the islands off its coast are known as Thailand’s most beautiful beaches, including Koh Phi Phi, which rose to international prominence after being featured in DiCaprio’s film.

The Save Andaman from Coal Network, a loose collaboration of environmental, agricultural, tour-ist and other groups from southern provinces, began demonstrations July 10 but say their demands — which include a 3-year waiting period to see if the province can produce 100 percent renewable energy — have been ignored. (ap)

WARSAW, Poland — Polish officials say a Lufthansa plane that was approaching Warsaw’s international airport nearly collided with a drone.

The spokesman for Warsaw’s airport, Przemyslaw Przy-bylski, said Tuesday that the incident happened Monday afternoon around 4 p.m., and the drone was within 100 meters (300 feet) of the plane arriving from Munich. He said the near-collision occurred about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the airport.

He added that police are investigating the incident to determine who operated the drone, which should not have been where it was.

Mikolaj Karpinski, with the Polish Air Navigation Ser-vices Agency, told the TVN24 broadcaster that the pilots immediately reported the drone to air traffic controllers, who redirected the plane’s path. Karpinski said he considered the incident serious. (ap)

Lufthansa plane nearly collides with drone near Warsaw

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani local govern-ment spokesman says this week’s flash floods triggered by monsoon rains in the country’s north have killed at least two people and damaged several homes, roads and bridges.

Latif-ur-Rehman Khan from the provincial disaster management authority says the floods in the northern city of Chitral also damaged a main power station.

He says rescuers were working to move those stranded to safer places in Chitral, which is located in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday expressed his grief and sorrow for the victims and all the flood-related damages.

According to a government statement, Sharif wanted to visit the flood-affected area in Chitral but could not fly due to bad weather. Floods triggered by monsoon rains kill scores of people often in Pakistan. (ap)

Flash floods in northern Pakistan

kill at least 2 people

SARAJEVO — Firefighters and villagers are struggling to keep raging wildfires away from homes in southern Bosnia and on the Croatian coast as temperatures reach 42 Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit).

Since the early morning hours Tuesday, residents of Bosansko Grahovo and Bileca are fighting the flames and have requested the help of the Bosnian Army.

In Croatia, authorities have evacuated a village on the Adriatic peninsula of Peljesac where a fire advancing along a 2-kilometer (mile) front has engulfed pine forests, vineyards and several houses.

Dozens of people from the village of Pijavicino have found shelter in a school, but the area is without electricity. On the island of Korcula — another wine-making area — a fire swept through olive groves and vineyards, but has not yet forced evacuation of villages. (ap)

Wildfires threaten villages in Bosnia

and Croatia

AP Photo/Ted Andersen

In this Monday July 20, 2015 photo, Dadodin Patavatto a Buddhist monk, leads a silent march to the Prime Minister’s office in Bangkok to demonstrate against a proposed coal power plant in southern Thailand.

Coal plant proposed for pristine Thai

coast sparks outcryBANGKOK — Plans to build an 800-megawatt coal power plant

near some of Thailand’s most popular beaches have sparked protests and a hunger strike by activists who say officials aren’t consider-ing its impact on the pristine environment that makes the area an international tourist destination.

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Tomic was arrested in Miami last week after holding a noisy party at a penthouse suite in his hotel and the 22-year-old later said he was still “in a fight” with TA and had no intention of making peace. However, TA president Steve Healy said the governing body hoped to contact him soon to hammer out their issues.

“We want to offer Bernard the oppor-tunity to raise the issues he has raised, so we can address those with him,” Healy told local media in Canberra on Tuesday.

“We think (Tomic’s) criticisms are unjustified -- he needs to hear that. He needs to get some detail, and we want to bring him back into the fold. “I think the important thing to understand is he’s had fantastic support from Tennis Australia and we want him to understand and ap-preciate that and then welcome him back into Davis Cup.”

Australia rallied to win their quarter-final 3-2 on Sunday, setting up a last four encounter away to Britain at a yet-to-be confirmed venue on Sept. 18-20 as the 28-time winners seek to lift the trophy for the first time since 2003.

TA’s high performance chief Pat Rafter announced last month that fund-

ing would be cut to Tomic and his sister Sara, who plays mostly second-tier events on the ITF circuit, in part because of their father John Tomic’s uncoopera-tive attitude. Bernard Tomic responded by accusing TA of neglecting he and his sister’s development during his Wimbledon rant.

Relations plumbed a new depth last week when TA said Tomic was playing a “Hall of Shame” event in a media release, rather than the Hall of Fame championships in Newport. The govern-ing body quickly apologised for what it said was a “clerical error” but the Tomic family threatened to sue.

Tomic is in Bogota, Colombia prepar-ing to defend his Claro Open title. Healy also said TA would invite applicants for the captaincy of the Davis Cup team af-ter previously anointing Lleyton Hewitt for the role. The retiring Hewitt was to take over after playing his last tourna-ment at the Australian Open in January. Wally Masur has been the team’s interim coach since Rafter quit earlier this year to take the high performance role.

“We want to give everyone a chance to not only apply, but tell us their vision for Davis Cup,” Healy said. “But Lley-ton’s a pretty fantastic candidate.” (rtr)

SAN FRANCISCO — Two Spanish racers were killed in a chain-reaction crash on the first lap of a World Super-bike race. The deaths occurred Sunday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey County sheriff’s spokesman Cmdr. John Thornburg said.

MotoAmerica spokesman Paul Car-ruthers said there were 28 riders in the race and thousands of spectators in the stands when five competitors collided on the first lap. Riders were tossed into the dirt to the side of the track. The sheriff’s office is not investigating the crash at the MotoAmerica Superbike/

Superstock 1000 race, which appeared to be an accident, he said.

The track was dry during the race, Carruthers said. “If there’s ever an is-sue with the track, we don’t hold the race,” he said.

Carruthers declined to comment on whether MotoAmerica, which organizes the race, will investigate. MotoAmerica identified the riders killed as 35-year-old Bernat Martinez, 35, of Alberic, Valencia, Spain; and Daniel Rivas Fernandez, 27, of Moana Galicia, Spain. Both were taken to hospitals, where they died.

Track spokesman David Hart said four other riders were treated at the track and released. Their names were not released. It was not immediately clear what led to the crash, Hart said, adding that Laguna Seca will conduct an investigation.

MotoAmerica president Wayne Rainey sent condolences to the fami-lies. “I really don’t have any words to describe what we all feel,” Rainey said in a statement. “First and foremost, is the loss to the families and loved ones.” (ap)

Australia offer Davis Cup olive branch to Tomic

MELBOURNE - Australian tennis officials want to clear the air with Ber-nard Tomic and reinstate the country’s estranged number one into the Davis Cup team for the semi-final against Britain. The controversial world number 29 was booted off the team before the quarter-final win over Kazakhstan on Sunday for publicly criticising Tennis Australia (TA) officials in an extraordi-nary tirade at Wimbledon.

REUTERS/Suzanne PlunkettBernard Tomic of Australia leaves the court after losing his match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 3, 2015.

2 Spanish riders killed in California motorcycle race

In this Sunday, July 19, 2015, photo, medical and track personnel attend to downed riders after a chain reac-tion crash on the first lap of a World Superbike race at Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif. Two Spanish racers were killed in the crash. Race organizers MotoAmeri-ca identified the dead as 35-year-old Bernat Martinez and 27-year-old Daniel Rivas Fernandez. Nic Coury/Monterey County Weekly via AP

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Hulk, the most expensive sign-ing in Russian Premier League history, has repeatedly faced monkey chants in Russia and also accused a referee of racially abusing him.

“If (racism) happens in the World Cup, it will be really gross and really ugly. Usually it happens when Russian clubs play and it doesn’t come out to the world and the world doesn’t know about this,” he said through a translator.

“I must say that almost every game I see this happening. I used to get angry, but now I see this doesn’t help, so I just send

a kiss to our fans and try not to get angry.”

When asked about Hulk’s com-ments, World Cup organizing com-mittee CEO Alexei Sorokin told journalists: “We quite naturally acknowledge the problem that clearly does not exist only in Rus-sia, but many other countries.”

He added that it was wrong to “just take individual outbreaks in the Russian Premier League and automatically extrapolate them on the World Cup, because the World Cup is a different atmo-sphere, it’s a different public, if you will, so it doesn’t reflect au-tomatically on the World Cup.”

In the first game of the new Russian league season Friday, Ghanaian player Emmanuel Frimpong, formerly of Arsenal, said he was racially abused by the crowd while playing for FC Ufa against Spartak Moscow. Monkey chants were audible in TV broadcasts.

Frimpong was sent off for an offensive gesture to Spartak fans and faces a ban of between two and four games. Frimpong said on Twitter that he had been “racially abused for the game that I love.”

He added: “I’m going to serve a sentence for being abused ... and yet we (are) going to hold a World Cup in this country.” The Ghanaian Football Association said in a statement that it con-demned the “vile racist abuse”

suffered by Frimpong and called for the Russian Football Union, UEFA and FIFA to send “a strong sig-nal” to the perpetrators.

Last season, two Mos-cow clubs, Spartak and Torpedo, were punished after their fans abused Hulk with monkey chants. The Russian capital will host the 2018 World Cup final.

After the Torpedo in-cident, Zenit coach Andre Villas-Boas branded the abuse of Hulk a “disaster” for Russian football, add-ing: “The insults, the racist insults to Hulk, they go around the world, and this is the image of the Russian Premier League.” (ap)

LONDON - Wayne Rooney has set himself a target of 20 goals this season, which would break Bobby Charlton’s long-standing record as Manchester United’s highest scorer of all time. Rooney is already within one goal of United legend Charlton’s England scor-

ing record of 49.Now, having been told by United man-

ager Louis Van Gaal that he will be used in his favourite position as an out-and-out attacker, he is hoping to score 20 in all competitions to reach 250, overhauling Charlton’s tally of 249 for the club from

1956 to 1973.“My best position -- and I’ve always

said it -- is as a striker, getting into the box,” Rooney told reporters from British media on United’s tour of the United States.

“The two seasons I’ve really done that as a lone striker are my two best goal scoring seasons,” he added.

“I hope to score 20 or more goals again. If I’m playing as a striker, then I will be disappointed if I can’t do that again.

“I’ve played different roles over the years for United but you only have to look when I play for England as a striker, I score goals.”

Rooney’s 230 goals have come in 473 games, as opposed to Charlton’s 748 matches. Denis Law, who scored 237 times in only 404 games, is currently second on United’s all-time list.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has hinted the club may be pursu-ing Real Madrid’s Spain defender Sergio Ramos and could also sign a “surprise” striker.

There has been media speculation in recent weeks that the 29-year-old Ra-mos, who has two years left on his Real contract, could join United as part of a swap deal, with his Spain team mate and goalkeeper David De Gea, 24, going the other way.

United have also been linked with a bid for Barcelona’s Spain forward Pedro and Bayern Munich’s Germany forward Thomas Mueller as Van Gaal looks to revitalise the squad after a disappointing

2014-15 campaign.Pedro, 27, no longer

commands a regular spot in Barca’s starting lineup following the ar-rival of Uruguay striker Luis Suarez, while the 25-year-old Mueller is said to be unhappy with Bayern coach Pep Guar-diola’s working meth-ods.

“I cannot talk about these rumours,” Van Gaal said when asked about Ra-mos at a news conference on the club’s North American tour.

“I have said in a lot of press conferences that it’s a process,” added the Dutchman. “Maybe Mr Ramos is in the process... you never know.”

Van Gaal said the club could buy a striker but cau-tioned that it was not a player that had been written about in the me-dia.

“You have to wait and see,” he to ld repor te r s . “The transfer pe-riod is open until Sept. 1 so we have to wait.” (rtr)

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean powerbroker Chung Mong-joon is leaning toward running for the FIFA presidency as a replacement for Sepp Blatter, telling The Associ-ated Press that a non-European leader would help breathe “new wind’ into soccer’s international governing body.

A former FIFA vice president, Chung also criticized the deci-sion this week to allow Blatter to remain as president until the election on Feb. 26, despite calls for him to immediately step down amid mounting pressure to reform as U.S. and Swiss authori-ties investigate allegations of corruption.

“Blatter has been doing what-ever he wants with FIFA for 40 years since his days as general secretary, and while he said he’s going out, it doesn’t seem he really is,” Chung told the AP in a telephone interview Tuesday. “Letting Blatter manage FIFA

and design reform plans before the February vote is comedy.”

Chung, who was a key figure in helping South Korea land the right to co-host the 2002 World Cup with Japan, has been a long-time critic of Blatter, whom he described as a dictatorial “little brat” in a memoir published in 2011.

Chung was a FIFA vice presi-dent for 17 years and was once considered a candidate to succeed Blatter before losing his seat in 2011. The billionaire scion of the Hyundai business group has also been a South Korean lawmaker and presidential candidate.

Chung said he plans to consult leaders of regional confedera-tions and other key figures before he finalizes his decision whether to run for FIFA’s top job. If he be-comes president, Chung said he would aim to eliminate corrup-tion and improve its accounting transparency. He said he would also try to strengthen football in

Asia and other regions where the sport has most room to grow. “I am positively considering run-ning for the presidency and will be able to reveal my decision soon,” he said.

The Feb. 26 date agreed by FIFA’s executive committee on Monday was a political victory for Blatter over European gov-erning body UEFA and its sup-porters in other continents who wanted a December ballot.

UEFA President Michel Pla-tini, Brazil great Zico and Liberia federation president Musa Bility are among the likely contenders to run for the FIFA presidency. When asked about his potential chances, Chung said “there is no such thing as an easy election.”

“I have tried several times to become FIFA president, expe-rienced parliamentary elections and also tried to become South Korean president,” he said, “so you could trust me on that.” (ap)

LONDON - Newcastle United have signed Serbian forward Aleksandar Mitrovic from Belgian side Anderlecht, subject to a work permit, the Premier League club announced on Tuesday. The prolific 20-year-old scored 44 goals in 90 appearances during two seasons in Belgium and arrives at St James’ Park for a figure reported to be in the region of 13 million pounds ($20.28 million).

Newcastle’s official website (www.nufc.co.uk) said the fee for Mitrovic was the fourth highest in club history. “I have played in a lot of impressive stadiums in my career but St James’ Park is so big, I can’t wait to play my first game here,” he told the site.

“I know how passionate the fans are. This is a club with a very big history and the fans are a big part of that. There will be pressure here, for sure, but I like pressure.”

Mitrovic, who scored a dramatic late equaliser in a 3-3 Champi-ons League draw against Arsenal last season, has represented Serbia 14 times, scoring once. The forward broke into Partizan Belgrade’s first team as a 17-year old, scoring 15 goals in 36 games in his only full season with the Serbian champions in 2012-13.

Impressive performances for the under-19 national team that won the 2013 European Championship earned him a move to Anderlecht, where he continued to flourish.

He helped the Brussels club win the league title in his first season and was particularly impressive last term, scoring 20 league goals in 37 appearances as they finished third.

Mitrovic’s physical strength, aerial power and clinical finish-ing should ensure that he copes well with the demands of the

Premier League.He becomes new manager Steve McClaren’s second signing, fol-

lowing the acquisition of Netherlands playmaker Georgino Wijnaldum from PSV Eindhoven earlier this month. “This is a fantastic signing for us,” former England manager McClaren said.

“We have fought off a lot of competition to secure a top young talent in Europe. It is another demonstration that we are wanting to push on.”

After a horrific run of form towards the end of last season under temporary manager John Carver, Newcastle narrowly avoided relega-tion from the Premier League when they finishing 15th, just four points above the drop zone. (rtr)

MEXICO CITY - Coach Miguel Herrera claims Mexico are the biggest draw at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States but have not been given the treatment he feels they deserve at the tournament.

Herrera criticised the conditions under which his team were forced to travel from New York to Atlanta for Wednesday’s semi-final

against Panama at the Georgia Dome.“Mexico is the team that fills the stadiums and we are not

being treated well... We should be getting more consider-ation,” Herrera told reporters. “We had to wait three

hours, then they packed two teams (into the plane) and CONCACAF people, I don’t know why. We were all squashed,” he added of Monday’s arduous trip.

“Our luggage had to go by land because of too much weight on the plane... They say we’re car-rying too much but we’re the ones who put most fans in the stadiums.

“During the flight, the players were squeezed in and that can’t be. We played extra time and the players

shouldn’t have to wait so long (at the airport) and travel in those conditions.”

Mexico beat Costa Rica 1-0 after extra time at the MetLife in New Jersey on Sunday to reach the last four.

Hosts and title holders the United States face Jamaica in the other semi-final, also in Atlanta on Wednesday. (rtr)

Mexico coach Herrera slams Gold Cup travel conditions

Newcastle sign Serbia forward Mitrovic

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 3, 2015, former FIFA Vice President Chung Mong-joon arrives to hold a press conference in Seoul, South Korea. Chung said Tuesday, July 21 he is leaning toward running for president of football’s governing body at the Feb. 26 election to replace Sepp Blatter.

Former FIFA VP Chung leaning toward running for top job

ABIDJAN - Michel Dussuyer has taken over as the new coach of African champions Ivory Coast, the country’s football fed-eration announced on Tuesday.

It is yet another stint in Afri-can football for the 56-year-old-Frenchman, who has worked previously as national coach of Guinea in two separate spells be-

sides being in charge of Benin.He has signed a two-year deal

with the option for another two years, the federation said in a statement.

Dussuyer replaces compatriot Herve Renard, who left soon after winning the African Na-tions Cup with the Elephants in Equatorial Guinea in February to

take over Ligue 1 club Lille.Dussuyer was Ivoria’s assis-

tant coach, under Henri Michel, when they lost in the final of the 2006 Nations Cup to hosts Egypt on post-match penalties.

Dussuyer’s first assignment will be an African Nations Cup qualifier in Sierra Leone on Sept 5. (rtr)

Ivory Coast name Dussuyer as new coach

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, left, looks to pass against Club America during the first half of an international friendly soccer match, Friday, July 17, 2015, in Seattle.

Rooney targets Bobby Charlton’s scoring record

Hulk blasts Russia over racism in ‘almost every game’

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Zenit St. Petersburg’s star striker Hulk says he encounters racism in “almost every game” in Russia and the Brazil international fears it could tarnish the country when it hosts the 2018 World Cup.

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Zenit St. Peters-burg’s Hulk poses

for pictures at Zenit’s training center in St. Petersburg, Russia,

July 20, 2015. St. Petersburg is one of

the Russian cities which will host the 2018 World Cup.

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Hulk, the most expensive sign-ing in Russian Premier League history, has repeatedly faced monkey chants in Russia and also accused a referee of racially abusing him.

“If (racism) happens in the World Cup, it will be really gross and really ugly. Usually it happens when Russian clubs play and it doesn’t come out to the world and the world doesn’t know about this,” he said through a translator.

“I must say that almost every game I see this happening. I used to get angry, but now I see this doesn’t help, so I just send

a kiss to our fans and try not to get angry.”

When asked about Hulk’s com-ments, World Cup organizing com-mittee CEO Alexei Sorokin told journalists: “We quite naturally acknowledge the problem that clearly does not exist only in Rus-sia, but many other countries.”

He added that it was wrong to “just take individual outbreaks in the Russian Premier League and automatically extrapolate them on the World Cup, because the World Cup is a different atmo-sphere, it’s a different public, if you will, so it doesn’t reflect au-tomatically on the World Cup.”

In the first game of the new Russian league season Friday, Ghanaian player Emmanuel Frimpong, formerly of Arsenal, said he was racially abused by the crowd while playing for FC Ufa against Spartak Moscow. Monkey chants were audible in TV broadcasts.

Frimpong was sent off for an offensive gesture to Spartak fans and faces a ban of between two and four games. Frimpong said on Twitter that he had been “racially abused for the game that I love.”

He added: “I’m going to serve a sentence for being abused ... and yet we (are) going to hold a World Cup in this country.” The Ghanaian Football Association said in a statement that it con-demned the “vile racist abuse”

suffered by Frimpong and called for the Russian Football Union, UEFA and FIFA to send “a strong sig-nal” to the perpetrators.

Last season, two Mos-cow clubs, Spartak and Torpedo, were punished after their fans abused Hulk with monkey chants. The Russian capital will host the 2018 World Cup final.

After the Torpedo in-cident, Zenit coach Andre Villas-Boas branded the abuse of Hulk a “disaster” for Russian football, add-ing: “The insults, the racist insults to Hulk, they go around the world, and this is the image of the Russian Premier League.” (ap)

LONDON - Wayne Rooney has set himself a target of 20 goals this season, which would break Bobby Charlton’s long-standing record as Manchester United’s highest scorer of all time. Rooney is already within one goal of United legend Charlton’s England scor-

ing record of 49.Now, having been told by United man-

ager Louis Van Gaal that he will be used in his favourite position as an out-and-out attacker, he is hoping to score 20 in all competitions to reach 250, overhauling Charlton’s tally of 249 for the club from

1956 to 1973.“My best position -- and I’ve always

said it -- is as a striker, getting into the box,” Rooney told reporters from British media on United’s tour of the United States.

“The two seasons I’ve really done that as a lone striker are my two best goal scoring seasons,” he added.

“I hope to score 20 or more goals again. If I’m playing as a striker, then I will be disappointed if I can’t do that again.

“I’ve played different roles over the years for United but you only have to look when I play for England as a striker, I score goals.”

Rooney’s 230 goals have come in 473 games, as opposed to Charlton’s 748 matches. Denis Law, who scored 237 times in only 404 games, is currently second on United’s all-time list.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has hinted the club may be pursu-ing Real Madrid’s Spain defender Sergio Ramos and could also sign a “surprise” striker.

There has been media speculation in recent weeks that the 29-year-old Ra-mos, who has two years left on his Real contract, could join United as part of a swap deal, with his Spain team mate and goalkeeper David De Gea, 24, going the other way.

United have also been linked with a bid for Barcelona’s Spain forward Pedro and Bayern Munich’s Germany forward Thomas Mueller as Van Gaal looks to revitalise the squad after a disappointing

2014-15 campaign.Pedro, 27, no longer

commands a regular spot in Barca’s starting lineup following the ar-rival of Uruguay striker Luis Suarez, while the 25-year-old Mueller is said to be unhappy with Bayern coach Pep Guar-diola’s working meth-ods.

“I cannot talk about these rumours,” Van Gaal said when asked about Ra-mos at a news conference on the club’s North American tour.

“I have said in a lot of press conferences that it’s a process,” added the Dutchman. “Maybe Mr Ramos is in the process... you never know.”

Van Gaal said the club could buy a striker but cau-tioned that it was not a player that had been written about in the me-dia.

“You have to wait and see,” he to ld repor te r s . “The transfer pe-riod is open until Sept. 1 so we have to wait.” (rtr)

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean powerbroker Chung Mong-joon is leaning toward running for the FIFA presidency as a replacement for Sepp Blatter, telling The Associ-ated Press that a non-European leader would help breathe “new wind’ into soccer’s international governing body.

A former FIFA vice president, Chung also criticized the deci-sion this week to allow Blatter to remain as president until the election on Feb. 26, despite calls for him to immediately step down amid mounting pressure to reform as U.S. and Swiss authori-ties investigate allegations of corruption.

“Blatter has been doing what-ever he wants with FIFA for 40 years since his days as general secretary, and while he said he’s going out, it doesn’t seem he really is,” Chung told the AP in a telephone interview Tuesday. “Letting Blatter manage FIFA

and design reform plans before the February vote is comedy.”

Chung, who was a key figure in helping South Korea land the right to co-host the 2002 World Cup with Japan, has been a long-time critic of Blatter, whom he described as a dictatorial “little brat” in a memoir published in 2011.

Chung was a FIFA vice presi-dent for 17 years and was once considered a candidate to succeed Blatter before losing his seat in 2011. The billionaire scion of the Hyundai business group has also been a South Korean lawmaker and presidential candidate.

Chung said he plans to consult leaders of regional confedera-tions and other key figures before he finalizes his decision whether to run for FIFA’s top job. If he be-comes president, Chung said he would aim to eliminate corrup-tion and improve its accounting transparency. He said he would also try to strengthen football in

Asia and other regions where the sport has most room to grow. “I am positively considering run-ning for the presidency and will be able to reveal my decision soon,” he said.

The Feb. 26 date agreed by FIFA’s executive committee on Monday was a political victory for Blatter over European gov-erning body UEFA and its sup-porters in other continents who wanted a December ballot.

UEFA President Michel Pla-tini, Brazil great Zico and Liberia federation president Musa Bility are among the likely contenders to run for the FIFA presidency. When asked about his potential chances, Chung said “there is no such thing as an easy election.”

“I have tried several times to become FIFA president, expe-rienced parliamentary elections and also tried to become South Korean president,” he said, “so you could trust me on that.” (ap)

LONDON - Newcastle United have signed Serbian forward Aleksandar Mitrovic from Belgian side Anderlecht, subject to a work permit, the Premier League club announced on Tuesday. The prolific 20-year-old scored 44 goals in 90 appearances during two seasons in Belgium and arrives at St James’ Park for a figure reported to be in the region of 13 million pounds ($20.28 million).

Newcastle’s official website (www.nufc.co.uk) said the fee for Mitrovic was the fourth highest in club history. “I have played in a lot of impressive stadiums in my career but St James’ Park is so big, I can’t wait to play my first game here,” he told the site.

“I know how passionate the fans are. This is a club with a very big history and the fans are a big part of that. There will be pressure here, for sure, but I like pressure.”

Mitrovic, who scored a dramatic late equaliser in a 3-3 Champi-ons League draw against Arsenal last season, has represented Serbia 14 times, scoring once. The forward broke into Partizan Belgrade’s first team as a 17-year old, scoring 15 goals in 36 games in his only full season with the Serbian champions in 2012-13.

Impressive performances for the under-19 national team that won the 2013 European Championship earned him a move to Anderlecht, where he continued to flourish.

He helped the Brussels club win the league title in his first season and was particularly impressive last term, scoring 20 league goals in 37 appearances as they finished third.

Mitrovic’s physical strength, aerial power and clinical finish-ing should ensure that he copes well with the demands of the

Premier League.He becomes new manager Steve McClaren’s second signing, fol-

lowing the acquisition of Netherlands playmaker Georgino Wijnaldum from PSV Eindhoven earlier this month. “This is a fantastic signing for us,” former England manager McClaren said.

“We have fought off a lot of competition to secure a top young talent in Europe. It is another demonstration that we are wanting to push on.”

After a horrific run of form towards the end of last season under temporary manager John Carver, Newcastle narrowly avoided relega-tion from the Premier League when they finishing 15th, just four points above the drop zone. (rtr)

MEXICO CITY - Coach Miguel Herrera claims Mexico are the biggest draw at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States but have not been given the treatment he feels they deserve at the tournament.

Herrera criticised the conditions under which his team were forced to travel from New York to Atlanta for Wednesday’s semi-final

against Panama at the Georgia Dome.“Mexico is the team that fills the stadiums and we are not

being treated well... We should be getting more consider-ation,” Herrera told reporters. “We had to wait three

hours, then they packed two teams (into the plane) and CONCACAF people, I don’t know why. We were all squashed,” he added of Monday’s arduous trip.

“Our luggage had to go by land because of too much weight on the plane... They say we’re car-rying too much but we’re the ones who put most fans in the stadiums.

“During the flight, the players were squeezed in and that can’t be. We played extra time and the players

shouldn’t have to wait so long (at the airport) and travel in those conditions.”

Mexico beat Costa Rica 1-0 after extra time at the MetLife in New Jersey on Sunday to reach the last four.

Hosts and title holders the United States face Jamaica in the other semi-final, also in Atlanta on Wednesday. (rtr)

Mexico coach Herrera slams Gold Cup travel conditions

Newcastle sign Serbia forward Mitrovic

AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 3, 2015, former FIFA Vice President Chung Mong-joon arrives to hold a press conference in Seoul, South Korea. Chung said Tuesday, July 21 he is leaning toward running for president of football’s governing body at the Feb. 26 election to replace Sepp Blatter.

Former FIFA VP Chung leaning toward running for top job

ABIDJAN - Michel Dussuyer has taken over as the new coach of African champions Ivory Coast, the country’s football fed-eration announced on Tuesday.

It is yet another stint in Afri-can football for the 56-year-old-Frenchman, who has worked previously as national coach of Guinea in two separate spells be-

sides being in charge of Benin.He has signed a two-year deal

with the option for another two years, the federation said in a statement.

Dussuyer replaces compatriot Herve Renard, who left soon after winning the African Na-tions Cup with the Elephants in Equatorial Guinea in February to

take over Ligue 1 club Lille.Dussuyer was Ivoria’s assis-

tant coach, under Henri Michel, when they lost in the final of the 2006 Nations Cup to hosts Egypt on post-match penalties.

Dussuyer’s first assignment will be an African Nations Cup qualifier in Sierra Leone on Sept 5. (rtr)

Ivory Coast name Dussuyer as new coach

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney, left, looks to pass against Club America during the first half of an international friendly soccer match, Friday, July 17, 2015, in Seattle.

Rooney targets Bobby Charlton’s scoring record

Hulk blasts Russia over racism in ‘almost every game’

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Zenit St. Petersburg’s star striker Hulk says he encounters racism in “almost every game” in Russia and the Brazil international fears it could tarnish the country when it hosts the 2018 World Cup.

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Tomic was arrested in Miami last week after holding a noisy party at a penthouse suite in his hotel and the 22-year-old later said he was still “in a fight” with TA and had no intention of making peace. However, TA president Steve Healy said the governing body hoped to contact him soon to hammer out their issues.

“We want to offer Bernard the oppor-tunity to raise the issues he has raised, so we can address those with him,” Healy told local media in Canberra on Tuesday.

“We think (Tomic’s) criticisms are unjustified -- he needs to hear that. He needs to get some detail, and we want to bring him back into the fold. “I think the important thing to understand is he’s had fantastic support from Tennis Australia and we want him to understand and ap-preciate that and then welcome him back into Davis Cup.”

Australia rallied to win their quarter-final 3-2 on Sunday, setting up a last four encounter away to Britain at a yet-to-be confirmed venue on Sept. 18-20 as the 28-time winners seek to lift the trophy for the first time since 2003.

TA’s high performance chief Pat Rafter announced last month that fund-

ing would be cut to Tomic and his sister Sara, who plays mostly second-tier events on the ITF circuit, in part because of their father John Tomic’s uncoopera-tive attitude. Bernard Tomic responded by accusing TA of neglecting he and his sister’s development during his Wimbledon rant.

Relations plumbed a new depth last week when TA said Tomic was playing a “Hall of Shame” event in a media release, rather than the Hall of Fame championships in Newport. The govern-ing body quickly apologised for what it said was a “clerical error” but the Tomic family threatened to sue.

Tomic is in Bogota, Colombia prepar-ing to defend his Claro Open title. Healy also said TA would invite applicants for the captaincy of the Davis Cup team af-ter previously anointing Lleyton Hewitt for the role. The retiring Hewitt was to take over after playing his last tourna-ment at the Australian Open in January. Wally Masur has been the team’s interim coach since Rafter quit earlier this year to take the high performance role.

“We want to give everyone a chance to not only apply, but tell us their vision for Davis Cup,” Healy said. “But Lley-ton’s a pretty fantastic candidate.” (rtr)

SAN FRANCISCO — Two Spanish racers were killed in a chain-reaction crash on the first lap of a World Super-bike race. The deaths occurred Sunday at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey County sheriff’s spokesman Cmdr. John Thornburg said.

MotoAmerica spokesman Paul Car-ruthers said there were 28 riders in the race and thousands of spectators in the stands when five competitors collided on the first lap. Riders were tossed into the dirt to the side of the track. The sheriff’s office is not investigating the crash at the MotoAmerica Superbike/

Superstock 1000 race, which appeared to be an accident, he said.

The track was dry during the race, Carruthers said. “If there’s ever an is-sue with the track, we don’t hold the race,” he said.

Carruthers declined to comment on whether MotoAmerica, which organizes the race, will investigate. MotoAmerica identified the riders killed as 35-year-old Bernat Martinez, 35, of Alberic, Valencia, Spain; and Daniel Rivas Fernandez, 27, of Moana Galicia, Spain. Both were taken to hospitals, where they died.

Track spokesman David Hart said four other riders were treated at the track and released. Their names were not released. It was not immediately clear what led to the crash, Hart said, adding that Laguna Seca will conduct an investigation.

MotoAmerica president Wayne Rainey sent condolences to the fami-lies. “I really don’t have any words to describe what we all feel,” Rainey said in a statement. “First and foremost, is the loss to the families and loved ones.” (ap)

Australia offer Davis Cup olive branch to Tomic

MELBOURNE - Australian tennis officials want to clear the air with Ber-nard Tomic and reinstate the country’s estranged number one into the Davis Cup team for the semi-final against Britain. The controversial world number 29 was booted off the team before the quarter-final win over Kazakhstan on Sunday for publicly criticising Tennis Australia (TA) officials in an extraordi-nary tirade at Wimbledon.

REUTERS/Suzanne PlunkettBernard Tomic of Australia leaves the court after losing his match against Novak Djokovic of Serbia at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, July 3, 2015.

2 Spanish riders killed in California motorcycle race

In this Sunday, July 19, 2015, photo, medical and track personnel attend to downed riders after a chain reac-tion crash on the first lap of a World Superbike race at Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif. Two Spanish racers were killed in the crash. Race organizers MotoAmeri-ca identified the dead as 35-year-old Bernat Martinez and 27-year-old Daniel Rivas Fernandez. Nic Coury/Monterey County Weekly via AP

BANGLI - Batur Temple nestles 900 meters above sea level. It is located pre-cisely in Kalanganyar Village, Kintamani District, on the right side of the main road Denpasar-Singaraja, from the South. It faces

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More than 100 members of the Save Andaman from Coal Network this week staged a march and sit-in outside the prime minister’s office in the nation’s capital against plans to build the plant near southern Thailand’s Andaman coast about 650 kilometers (400 miles) south of Bangkok.

The tranquil Krabi province and its islands are famed for picturesque limestone cliffs and white sand beach-es, one of which was the centerpiece of the Leonardo DiCaprio film “The Beach.”

“If this power plant happens, south-ern Thailand will lose a lot,” said Kra-bi resident Akradej Chakjinda, who has fasted since July 10 in protest.

Protesters say the Electricity Gen-erating Authority of Thailand, or EGAT, is pushing ahead with a bidding process for the plant and a seaport that would receive overseas shipments of coal before an environ-

mental impact assessment has been completed. Plans to launch the bid-ding process were delayed until next month, which EGAT says is unrelated to the ongoing protests.

The coal plant is part of a critical energy infrastructure that will provide Thailand with energy security as natu-ral gas reserves in the Gulf of Thailand dry up within 10 years, EGAT says. The state power authority has said it envisions building nine coal power plants in the south over the next two decades.

It had planned to begin the bidding process on this one in advance of the environmental review to save time, a government official said.

“I want to emphasize that this is totally legal and we will not sign any contract with the constructor who wins the bid process until we pass” the environmental assessment, Anuchart Palakawong Na Autthaya, head of

environmental management for the project, told The Nation newspaper Monday.

Krabi remains Thailand’s second-largest area of sea grass beds, which provide a feeding ground for the near extinct dugongs, a manatee-like marine mammal. It is also one of Thailand’s major tourist draws. Tourism to the provinces along the Andaman coast generated more than 376 billion baht ($11 billion) in 2015, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

Krabi and some of the islands off its coast are known as Thailand’s most beautiful beaches, including Koh Phi Phi, which rose to international prominence after being featured in DiCaprio’s film.

The Save Andaman from Coal Network, a loose collaboration of environmental, agricultural, tour-ist and other groups from southern provinces, began demonstrations July 10 but say their demands — which include a 3-year waiting period to see if the province can produce 100 percent renewable energy — have been ignored. (ap)

WARSAW, Poland — Polish officials say a Lufthansa plane that was approaching Warsaw’s international airport nearly collided with a drone.

The spokesman for Warsaw’s airport, Przemyslaw Przy-bylski, said Tuesday that the incident happened Monday afternoon around 4 p.m., and the drone was within 100 meters (300 feet) of the plane arriving from Munich. He said the near-collision occurred about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the airport.

He added that police are investigating the incident to determine who operated the drone, which should not have been where it was.

Mikolaj Karpinski, with the Polish Air Navigation Ser-vices Agency, told the TVN24 broadcaster that the pilots immediately reported the drone to air traffic controllers, who redirected the plane’s path. Karpinski said he considered the incident serious. (ap)

Lufthansa plane nearly collides with drone near Warsaw

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani local govern-ment spokesman says this week’s flash floods triggered by monsoon rains in the country’s north have killed at least two people and damaged several homes, roads and bridges.

Latif-ur-Rehman Khan from the provincial disaster management authority says the floods in the northern city of Chitral also damaged a main power station.

He says rescuers were working to move those stranded to safer places in Chitral, which is located in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday expressed his grief and sorrow for the victims and all the flood-related damages.

According to a government statement, Sharif wanted to visit the flood-affected area in Chitral but could not fly due to bad weather. Floods triggered by monsoon rains kill scores of people often in Pakistan. (ap)

Flash floods in northern Pakistan

kill at least 2 people

SARAJEVO — Firefighters and villagers are struggling to keep raging wildfires away from homes in southern Bosnia and on the Croatian coast as temperatures reach 42 Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit).

Since the early morning hours Tuesday, residents of Bosansko Grahovo and Bileca are fighting the flames and have requested the help of the Bosnian Army.

In Croatia, authorities have evacuated a village on the Adriatic peninsula of Peljesac where a fire advancing along a 2-kilometer (mile) front has engulfed pine forests, vineyards and several houses.

Dozens of people from the village of Pijavicino have found shelter in a school, but the area is without electricity. On the island of Korcula — another wine-making area — a fire swept through olive groves and vineyards, but has not yet forced evacuation of villages. (ap)

Wildfires threaten villages in Bosnia

and Croatia

AP Photo/Ted Andersen

In this Monday July 20, 2015 photo, Dadodin Patavatto a Buddhist monk, leads a silent march to the Prime Minister’s office in Bangkok to demonstrate against a proposed coal power plant in southern Thailand.

Coal plant proposed for pristine Thai

coast sparks outcryBANGKOK — Plans to build an 800-megawatt coal power plant

near some of Thailand’s most popular beaches have sparked protests and a hunger strike by activists who say officials aren’t consider-ing its impact on the pristine environment that makes the area an international tourist destination.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Investors are running out of reasons to own gold. The price of the metal, which is often seen as a hedge against inflation and a weak dollar, slumped to its lowest in five years on Monday.

The dollar has rallied in recent months, diminish-ing the allure of holding gold. The U.S. economy has been on firmer footing, and tumult in China’s markets and Greece’s debt crisis have failed to restore the metal’s appeal as a haven from global turmoil.

The price of gold had surged in the years imme-diately after the 2008 financial crisis, topping out at nearly $1,900 an ounce in August 2011, as investors anticipated that the Federal Reserve’s ultra-low inter-est rate policy and huge bond-buying program would undermine the dollar and lead to inflation.

That scenario didn’t pan out. Instead, inflation has remained subdued and the economy maintained its recovery, albeit at an uneven pace. That has boosted demand for the dollar.

On Monday the price of gold sank another $25 to $1,106 an ounce. That’s about 40 percent below its recent peak and the lowest price since March 2010.

“It’s the strength of the dollar, that’s what’s been drilling gold down this year,” said Jim Steel, chief precious metals analyst at HSBC in New York.

The dollar is strengthening as the Fed moves closer to raising interest rates for the first time in almost a decade. The prospect of rising interest rates and higher yielding U.S. assets has boosted the allure of the U.S. currency against other major currencies such as the euro and the Japanese yen. (ap)

The Federal Reserve’s action Monday means the eight banks together will be required to shore up their financial bases with about $200 billion in additional capital. The requirements also are aimed at encouraging the Wall Street mega-banks to shrink so they pose less risk to the financial system. The banks include JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America.

Most of the banks have already put away the additional capital. JP-Morgan is the only one that doesn’t

already meet the requirements, which will be phased in from 2016 through 2018 and take full effect on Jan. 1, 2019. It currently falls about $12.5 billion short, according to Fed officials.

The Fed governors led by Chair Janet Yellen voted 5-0 at a public meeting to impose the so-called “capital surcharges” on the eight banks.

The extra capital requirements will increase in proportion to how risky the regulators deem a bank to

be. A key risk factor will be how much a bank relies on short-term funding markets to borrow from other banks. Those markets seized up during the 2008 financial crisis.

The government stepped in during the crisis with hundreds of billions of dollars in bailouts of the big Wall Street banks as well as hundreds of smaller U.S. banks.

In recent years, the Fed and other regulators have put into effect a series of rules for banks to increase their capital buffers, as required by the 2010 financial overhaul law. The new additional layer of requirements for the biggest banks also exceeds the levels mandated by international regulators.

Banking industry groups say the Fed requirements could limit access to loans for businesses and con-sumers, by reducing the amounts that banks would have available to lend. The Fed governors also unani-mously adopted standards for new supervision by the Fed of General Electric Co.’s finance arm, which will be subject to rules similar to those governing big banks. Most of the rules wouldn’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2018. GE Capital Corp. was labeled two years ago as a potential threat to the financial system by a special council of regulators.

That label of a “systemically important” nonbank financial com-pany meant that GE Capital had to

increase its capital cushion, limit its use of borrowed money and submit to inspections by examiners. The company came under the Fed’s supervision.

The government guaranteed up to $139 billion of GE Capital’s debt during the crisis. GE Capital issued about $51 billion in long-term debt and $17 billion in short-term debt with government backing. The company, based in Norwalk, Con-necticut, issues a range of loans for consumers and companies. It had struggled during the crisis due to mounting defaults and losses on loans in areas like credit cards, commercial real estate and heavy equipment. (ap)

Fed directs 8 biggest US banks to hold extra capital

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are directing the eight big-gest U.S. banks to hold capital at levels above industry requirements to cushion against unexpected losses and reduce the chances of future taxpayer bailouts.

Gold falls to lowest level in five years on dollar strength

AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File In this Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012 file photo, a technician prepares 1 Kg gold bars of 995.0 purity to pack for delivery at the Emir-ates Gold company in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The price of gold, which is often seen as a hedge against inflation and a weak dollar, slumped to its lowest in five years on Monday, July 20, 2015.

“Indonesia is a great nation that has matured,” Charliyan stated on Tuesday.

According to Charliyan, the incident could improve solidar-ity, tolerance, and unity among all elements of the nation without creating any further divisions in the society.

He also urged the people to demonstrate to the international community that Indonesia is a na-tion that has been able to mature

and evolve. The Indonesian society is a religious society that upholds interfaith tolerance.

“Indonesia is not a nation that promotes mutual revenge. Indo-nesia is a nation that cannot be provoked easily,” he affirmed.

Earlier, the Tolikara Resort Po-lice Station investigated 29 people related to the incident that occurred in Tolikara Region, Papua, Chief Directorate General of Criminal Investigation of Papua Police Com-

mand Senior Commissioner Dwi Riyanto stated.

Conversing with journalists, Riyanto revealed that the 29 people who were investigated were only witnesses, and no one has been named as a suspect.

The witnesses who had been questioned were the victims of a stone-pelting incident while per-forming Eid prayers at Karubaga sub-district military command field.

Riyanto pointed out that the police are still investigating and collecting evidence and state-ments from the witnesses for both the victim and those who saw the

incident.The Directorate General of

Criminal Investigation of Papua Police Command has also de-ployed 12 investigators to assist Tolikara Resort Police Station to solve the case related to the at-tacks by members of the Evangeli-cal Christians in Indonesia (GIDI) on Muslims performing prayers during Eid and the burning down of kiosks and houses belonging to Muslims. The fire also razed a mosque (Islamic house of prayer) located around the stalls catch-ing fire.

Meanwhile, the case of civilians being shot during the attacks is now

being investigated by the police’s Profession and Security Division of Papua Police Command, Riyanto remarked.

Several people were shot and wounded when the police tried to stop a mob from attacking Mus-lims performing their Eid al-Fitr morning prayers at a mosque in Karubaga, the capital of the To-likara district in Papua. One person died, and 54 kiosks, houses, and a mosque were burnt down during the incident.

However, the situation in Tolika-ra is now conducive, and the gov-ernment is rebuilding the mosque and kiosks. (ant)

BANDUNG - The prices of staple foods continue to be stable following the Islamic festival of Eid Fitr, according to Trade Minister Rachmat Gobel.

“Neither before nor after Eid Fitr was there any volatility in the prices. They rose within the normal limits, in line with the in-creasing market demand,” Min-ister Gobel said while visiting Gedebage Market on Tuesday.

The Trade Ministry has de-ployed teams to monitor the prices of foodstuff in regions that are prone to price hikes.

So far, they have not found any instability in prices, with the current hikes in the rates of commodities such as beef, chicken, eggs, and chili consid-ered normal.

In addition, to help stabilize the prices, the National Logistics Agency (Bulog) has carried out a number of market operations to supply rice, sugar, cooking oil, and chili.

“Yes, Bulog has to do that. It has to be present in the markets directly to shorten the long distri-bution chain,” Gobel explained.

Moreover, the trade minister received firsthand information about a fire that razed Gedebage Market recently.

He also visited Caringin Mar-ket in Bandung city to check the prices of food there. (ant)

TIMIKA - Social Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa has symbolically handed over assistance for the victims of hailstorms in Papua Province.

The assistance was received by Head of the Timika social affairs office Ribka at Mozes Kilangin Airport, on Tuesday.

The aid comprises 15 tons of rice, 300 blan-kets, 600 boxes of instant noodles, 600 packs of side dish, and 600 others for Duga and Lani Jaya districts.

Minister Parawansa and Minister for Wom-en’s Empowerment and Child Protection Yo-hana Yembise had initially planned to visit Lani Jaya District from Timika. However, the plan was cancelled due to bad weather.

The social affairs minister was also sched-uled to visit Tolikara District to get a first-hand glimpse of the condition of the victims of the mosque-burning incident on Wednesday, (July 22).

Hailstorms also hit the districts of Nduga,

Lani Jaya, and Puncak in Papua Province and caused a failure in the paddy harvest.

The natural disaster affected six sub-districts and 21 kampongs in three districts, with a total population of 20,160 families.

Several cattle and 11 people were killed due to the hailstorms.

The residents living in regions located at 2.7 thousand meters above sea level are in need of food and medicines, including for infants. (ant)

Tolikara incident should increase awareness

JAKARTA - The Tolikara incident should serve to increase awareness at both the individual and national level, according to the National Police’s Head of the Public Relations Division, Insp. Gen. Anton Charliyan.

Prices of staple foods stable

ANTARA FOTO/HO/TrisnadiSocial Affairs Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa has symbolically handed over assistance for the victims of hailstorms in Papua Province.

Minister hands over aid for hailstorm victims

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The North’s nuclear deterrent is “not a plaything to be put on the negotiating table,” an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement carried by the offi-cial Korean Central News Agency. It was the country’s first official response to the Iran nuclear accord reached earlier this month.

North Korea’s nuclear program is a major regional concern, with the country having conducted atomic weapons tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013. International nuclear dis-armament talks have been stalled since early 2009, and outside ana-lysts believe the North has built a small but growing nuclear bomb arsenal.

The Foreign Ministry spokes-man said North Korea is different from Iran because it already has nuclear weapons. He said the North faces constant military and nuclear threats from the U.S., citing its regular military exercises with South Korea.

North Korea “is not interested at all in the dialogue to discuss the is-sue of making it freeze or dismantle its nukes unilaterally first,” he said, adding that the North “remains unchanged in the mission of its nuclear force as long as the U.S. continues pursuing its hostile policy toward” the country.

The U.S. stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea as deter-rence against potential aggression from North Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.

Under the Iranian nuclear deal reached by Tehran, Washington and others, Iran’s nuclear program will be curbed for a decade in exchange for potentially hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of relief from international sanctions. Many key penalties on the Iranian economy, such as those related to the energy and financial sectors, could be lifted by the end of the year. (ap)

BUJUMBURA — Burundi began voting in its disputed presidential election Tuesday with a low turnout in several polling stations in the capital fol-lowing a night of explosions and

gunfire in opposition strongholds where residents oppose President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term.

The body of a man identified as an opposition official lay on

the road in the largely opposi-tion Nyakabiga district, where residents alleged that police and intelligence officials exploded grenades and fired guns most of the night to frighten them from

demonstrating against the presi-dent’s candidacy. Nyakabiga administrator Eric Nkurunziza confirmed that the man was an opposition official.

Presidential adviser for In-formation and Media Willy Nyamitwe refuted claims that police were responsible for the shooting.

“Police were ordered not to shoot at night. It was the civil-ians with firearms who were shooting,” he said. He said the shooting and explosions were in Nyakabiga, Musaga and Jabe areas of Bujumbura.

A spot check of polling sta-tions in the three districts showed few voters except some mili-tary men from a barracks in Musaga.

Honore Niyomukiza, who is in charge of voting centers in Kamenge District, said the gunshots and explosions have kept away voters, though most polling stations opened around 6 a.m. or 7 a.m.

Unlike the capital city a high turn-out was reported in Nku-runziza’s hometown of Ngozi in northern Burundi. (ap)

NICE, France — Family, friends and colleagues paid homage to Jules Bianchi in his French hometown on Tuesday, as tributes mount for the Formula One driver who died of head injuries from a crash during last year’s Japanese Grand Prix.

Bianchi died Friday after being in a coma for nine months. Solemn applause resonated as the family took the casket inside Sainte Reparate Ca-thedral. Church bells sounded during the funeral.

Attendees included executives from the Manor-Marussia team, FIA President Jean Todt and his son Nicolas, Bianchi’s manager. For-mula One drivers including Romain Grosjean and Felipe Massa were also present.

Bianchi was the first driver to die of injuries sustained in an F1 race since Ayrton Senna was killed at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. (ap)

N. Korea: No interest in something like Iranian nuclear deal

AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, FileFILE - This Sept. 1, 2014 file photo, shows a nuclear research reactor at the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, which went online with American help in 1967 - before Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution strained ties between the two countries, in Tehran, Iran.

SEOUL — North Korea said Tuesday that it’s not interested in an Iran-type nuclear disarmament deal, saying it won’t abandon its atomic weapons as long as the United States maintains hostile policies toward the country.

Funeral for F1 driver Bianchi in France as tributes mount

Burundi votes in disputed presidential elections

AP Photo/Jerome DelayElection observers sit in an empty polling station for the presidential elections in Bujumbura, Bu-rundi, Tuesday, July 21, 2015.

DENPASAR - Sanglah Hospital’s Forensic Medicine depart-ment, once again received the body of an alleged victim of alcohol poisoning. The 28 year Russian resident named T Bulgakova Iuliia had received treatment in the Emergency Room of Sanglah Hospital before being declared dead on Tuesday (Jul. 14).

Ida Bagus Putu Alit, a forensic installation officer, said that the body has already undergone an external examination. “There are no specific signs and no signs of violence,” he said on Monday (Jul. 20)

Meanwhile, the allegation that Bulgakova suffered alcohol poison-ing is still under investigation and there is a request for an autopsy from police authorities. “The autopsy is still awaiting permission from the victim’s family,” he said. For now, the body remains at Sanglah Hospital. (kmb42)

“One bucket of water can take up to 21/2 hours which may include time washing clothes at the water source,” recalled Wayan Merta, a resident of Bukian hamlet, Pelaga subdistrict, northern Badung.

Merta is tired of this situation and says that the government has done nothing to assist local resi-dents in accessing water. In 2013, a bottled water company provided some assistance in the form of a hydrant water pump through its CSR program.

“I have only been able to enjoy water at home after the aid in the form of a hydrant. Before that all the water flowed to the south so that we could not access any of it. Actually a proposal has been submitted (to the government—Ed) but there has been no response,” said Merta, who has been appointed as the Chief of the Clean Water Facility Manage-ment Group (KPSAB).

According to Merta, approxi-mately 220 families now have access to water after they indepen-dantly built two large reservoirs from which water now flows to their homes. Every house has a holding tank because the water flow is not

constant - people take turns. It is distributed every four days to four or five families and so on.

“The water in the house tank is enough for 10 days at most and is drinkable even before being boiled,” he said.

Another resident, Wayan Debet, said that the water that now flows to peoples homes, comes from the springs at Penataran Agung Temple is located about 1.5 km from the residential area and it said to be the legacy of deputy regent Kebo Iwa.

“There are 11 spouts at the spring, but it cannot flow up to the residential area. The water must first flow down through a pipeline (hydrant machine—Ed) before being it can be pumped upwards. There must be a boost first before it can flow upwards,” he explained.

Extravagant use of waterWhile residents around the buf-

fer zone in the northern area have trouble accessing water, water is extravagantly wasted in the south. The water is primarily used to sup-port tourism activities in Southern Bali. Based on the data compiled by PHRI Bali in 2014, the number

of hotel rooms in Bali had reached 77,496.

“If the occupancy rate of these 77,000 rooms reaches 50 percent, that means that 13,900,000 litters of water are needed every year,” said Chairman of PHRI Bali, Dr. Cok Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati or Cok Ace in a discussion not long ago.

Cok Ace, added that tourism operators cannot be entirely blamed for the water crisis that is occurring however, because Balinese people in the south also use water extrava-gantly. Ideally the daily water need per capita amounts to 50 to 60 liters for consumption, bathing and so on. However, people are infact using up to 183 liters per person per day.

“That is three times more than usual consumption because in the past there was no shortage of water. While there has been a shift from agrarian to industrial culture, we are still using our old habits,” said Cok Ace.

This former regent of Gianyar invited all stakeholders, including members of the local community, to work together to control de-velopment. “Apart form zoning regulations, we must also pay at-tention to the carrying capacity and supporting capacity of the island. Otherwisesooner or later Bali will be abandoned by travelers,” said Cok Ace. (kmb32)

DENPASAR - The Eid had a significant impact on the activities of Denpasar residents. As evidence, the flea market at Kreneng Terminal usually filled with traders has now changed drastically. The number of active traders decreases by 80 percent because only a few traders are still selling.

“Many traders are homecoming. Since a few days ago the number of traders selling has declined,” said one of the parking attendants at the flea market, Kreneng. In the meantime, the board of the Kreneng Flea Market is not in place. “The board is homecoming, maybe he will be back on Wednesday,” said an employee at the Kreneng Terminal, Monday (Jul. 20).

On the other hand, some Denpasar residents complained as the carts of the Asoka night market traders have started to occupy the area around the market since 10:30 a.m. Carts of the traders have lined up on Jalan Rijasa and Jalan Cempaka, Kreneng, taking up to half of the road body.

One of the car drivers, Putu Gede Diatmika, said that he can usually pass easily from Jalan Kamboja to Jalan Rijasa. However, suddenly half of the road body is taken for parking the night market trader carts. As a result, vehicles from the west get difficulty to pass. “I appeal to management of the Asoka Market Kreneng not to allow traders to park their carts haphazardly as it has an impact on the beauty of Denpasar and disrupts the traffic,” said Diatmika.

Similar opinion is also delivered by another Denpasar resident, Komang Ari. According to him, the carts of the Asoka night market traders should be found a solution so as not to disturb the traffic. Moreover, the carts are parked in the middle of city road so that it can be highlighted by the public as well as foreign travelers when making a visit to Denpasar. “We hope that relevant agencies, espe-cially the Transportation Agency and Denpasar Municipal Police, can take decisive action. If this is allowed to be protracted without being handled, it will result in a bad precedent for the enforcement of regulation against the offenders,” said Ari.

Chief of Denpasar Municipal Police, I.B. Alit Wiradana, when asked for his confirmation related to the carts parked on the street said that his party will coordinate with the Transportation Agency, management of the Asoka night market and headman of Sumerta Kauh to discuss about the issue. Previously, there is agreement where the carts may only enter the Kreneng market area from one o’clock in the afternoon. “If currently there are traders carrying their cart before one o’clock in the afternoon, it means they have violated the existing agreement,” said Alit Wiradana.

In the meantime, the Division Head of the Operations Control at the Denpasar Transportation Agency, I Ketut Sriawan, revealed that solution to the issue on the carts of Asoka traders parked haphazardly must be resolved by cross-sectoral discussion. “We will make coor-dination with municipal police and Asoka night market management to find solutions for traders so that their cart will no longer be parked on the road,” said Sriawan. (kmb12)

People in mountainous face water shortages

MANGUPURA - Despite living in mountainous areas with abundant water, there is no guarantee that local residents have access to it. Many have to walk several kilometres, down a steep cliff every morning and evening just to get a bucket of water to meet their basic needs.

IBP/FileThe water shortage make the rice paddy dry

Russian dies, allegedly form alcohol poisoning.

After Eid, traders at Kreneng flea market diminish

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Combining unprecedented com-puting capacity with the world’s most powerful telescopes, Hawk-ing and the Russian-born Milner seek to intensify the so far fruitless search for life beyond the planet Earth.

It is a coordinated plan to use the latest scientific methods to solve one of mankind’s enduring riddles: Are we alone?

Hawking, who speaks using a computer-generated voice due to the effects of motor neuron disease, explained the reason for the project: “We are alive. We are intelligent. We must know.”

Milner, who made a fortune through investments in companies like Facebook, said the power of Silicon Valley technology and in-novation would be used.

“The scope of our search will be unprecedented: a million nearby stars, the galactic center, the entire plane of the Milky Way and 100 nearby galaxies,” Milner told a packed press conference at the Royal Society in London.

Organizers say the “Break-through Initiatives” project, also endorsed by other prominent British scientists, is the biggest ever scientific search for alien life. It includes a “listening” program — the effort to analyze vast amounts of radio signals in search of signs of life — and a “messaging” program that will include $1 million in prizes for

digital messages that best repre-sent the planet Earth.

The messages will not be sent,

however, in part because some scientists — including Hawking — fear messages sent into space could possibly spur aggressive actions by alien races.

It will be supported by the 100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia in the

United States and the 64-meter Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia.

In addition, the Lick Observa-tory in California will conduct a deeper-than-ever search for optical laser transmissions.

The project will be 50 times

more sensitive than earlier search-es, and will cover 10 times more of the sky, organizers say.

It will also make use of SETI@home, a University of California, Berkeley project that uses some 9 million volunteers throughout the world who donate computer power to search astronomical data for signs of life.

Milner said the search will be entirely transparent and will rely on open-source software so find-ings can be shared throughout the world.

“Our approach to data will be open and taking advantage of the problem-solving power of social networks,” he said.

The researchers say the focused computing power and the use of some of the world’s most powerful telescopes will allow them to col-lect in one day the same amount of data that would have taken one year to collect before the program began.

Milner plans to back the pro-gram for at least 10 years although scientists agree it may take longer to find proof that alien life exists.

Hawking said the new program should succeed because it has ample resources: access to time on major telescopes, a huge data capacity, and a long-term finan-cial commitment that will not be withdrawn.

“If a search of this sophistication finds no proof, that is an interesting result,” he said. “It will not prove that we are alone but it will narrow the possibilities and it is likely to produce data that is fascinating in its own right.” (ap)

BOSTON — With its thumb raised skyward and a grin on its digital face, the ro-botic creation of two researchers in Canada embarked on a hitchhiking journey across the U.S. on Friday.

The humanoid robot named hitchBOT has already caught rides across Canada and in Europe, relying on the kindness and curiosity of strangers. But this is its first U.S. tour, setting out from Massachusetts with dreams of San Francisco ahead.

Along the way, it hopes to see some quintessential American sites, including Times Square, Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon.

To start the journey, its creators set it alongside a road in Marblehead with tape wrapped around its cylindrical head that read “San Francisco or bust.” Not long after, a group of German tourists picked it up and strapped it into their SUV with plans to take it to Boston or New York.

The kid-size robot is immobile on its own, so it gets from place to place by being schlepped around by strangers. Travelers can pass it off to others they meet, or leave it at a gas station or shop. They just leave it seated on its kickstand with its thumb raised.

Ideally, the creators hope, drivers won’t leave the bot along busy roads and will charge the battery when it runs low. Other-wise, there are no rules.

“We want to see what people do with this kind of technology when we leave it up to them,” said Frauke Zeller, one of the creators and an assistant professor in professional communication at Toronto’s Ryerson University.

On the outside, hitchBOT looks like it’s built for play rather than performance. It has a bucket for a body and bendy foam limbs capped by yellow gardening gloves and matching rubber boots. The whimsi-

cal attire is intentional, its makers said, to make it approachable and to deter potential thieves.

“It has a really low-tech look to it, some-thing we dubbed the ‘yard-sale aesthetic,’” said David Harris Smith, the other creator and an assistant professor in communication studies at McMaster University in Hamil-ton, Ontario.

Designed to be a talking travel compan-ion, the robot can toss out factoids and carry limited conversation. It can be charming and cheeky, its makers said.

So far, there are no signs of anything nefarious done to the robot, but there’s also no proof. Its creators intentionally cast their gaze aside.

“We want to be very careful to avoid sur-veillance technologies with this; that’s not what we’re trying to do here,” Smith said.

A GPS in the robot can track its location, and a camera randomly snaps photos about

every 20 minutes to document its travels. But the team behind the robot seeks permis-sion from people in the photos before post-ing them to social media, where hitchBOT has built a devoted fan base.

More than 30,000 people follow the robot on Twitter, and dozens have posted their own selfies with it. Researchers are culling data from social media to study how people interact with a robot that needs their help, unlike traditional robots designed to help them.

During last travels, the robot has attended a comic convention and a wedding, and it had its portrait painted in the Netherlands. It once spent a week with a heavy metal band.

The cross-country tour of Canada took 26 days, spanning more than 6,000 miles. As for the U.S. trip, researchers don’t know how long it will take or what will happen along the way. (ap)

Hitchhiking robot embarks on coast-to-coast tour across US

Searching for ET: Hawking to look for extraterrestrial life

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Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking sits in front of a presentation image during a press conference in London, Monday, July 20, 2015. Hawking and Russian tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner are pushing the search for extraterrestrial life into higher gear.

LONDON — The search for extraterrestrial life received a major boost Monday with the launch of an ambitious $100 million program, backed by famed physicist Stephen Hawking and tech billionaire Yuri Milner.

Thousands of foreign and do-mestic tourists crowded Pandawa Beach, which is surrounded by cliffs, in Nusa Dua to swim, play in the sand, and make a variety of sand carvings.

Besides enjoying the natural

beauty around the beach, do-mestic tourists visiting with their families posed for photographs, as well.

Those from Surabaya, Bandung, and numerous cities in East Java said that they were greatly im-

pressed by the beauty of the beach and the Pandawa statue.

Danis, a woman from Bandung who was visiting Pandawa Beach with her children, stated that she liked the beach tremendously and wanted to stay longer.

“This is the most beautiful beach I have ever seen. We would like to stay longer,” she remarked.

In addition to Pandawa Beach,

Lovina Beach in Buleleng district in Bali has also been packed with foreign tourists and local holiday-makers this week, on the occasions of the Balinese public holiday of Galungan and the Muslim holi-day of Idul Fitri, also known as Lebaran.

“This week, thousands of foreign and domestic tourists have been flocking to Lovina Beach to enjoy

the amusing attraction of hundreds of dolphins,” Nyoman Budiasa, a tour guide, noted in Singaraja on Monday.

He added that the number of tourists swarming the beach, situ-ated some 90 kilometers from Denpasar, rose 100 to 150 percent during the Galungan and Lebaran holidays this year from that seen on usual days. (ant)

GIANYAR - The natural, cul-tural and socio-religious life of Pejeng villagers has become an attraction that has the potential to be endlessly explored. Pejeng is one of Bali’s oldest villages and is rich with temples, archeologi-cal heritage as well as a beautiful landscape. Archaeological sites can be found on many people’s land. Such heritages have inspired an Indonesian film production house to feature the potential of Pejeng village in a documentary film.

While filming at Penataran Sasih on Monday (Jul. 20), the director of Pejeng village documentary film, El Nino Irawan, said that he is very interested in the potential of Pejeng village which he said is very unusual and can nicely be immortalized in the form of a documentary film.

The film will explain about the

ancient heritage of Penjeng as well as explore, the existence of the Pejeng painting studio of departed master painter (late) Dullah as well the many organic gardens located in this beau-tiful village. Locations for the film shoots include the Somanegara Palace Pejeng, the residence of Dullah, Pe-nataran Sasih, Kelebutan Temple and organic gardens at Panglan hamlet.

According to Cok Raka, one of Dullah’s students, the making of this documentary film will help to revive Pejeng. Moreover, the fil-ing of this documentary is in line with the the planned “Pejeng vil-lage biodiversart” which will take place in October. Such activities will help the public and especially the younger generations to better know and love their customs and the cultural richness of Bali, found in Pejeng village. (kmb25)

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As one of the ancient villages in Bali, Pejeng village is rich in temples with various archaeological heritages and beautiful landscape.

Documentary film about Pejeng village being made

Holidaymakers are likely to lose interest in the well-known beaches of Kuta and Sanur and turn to the less popu-lar Pandawa Beach in the Indonesian island

resort of Bali.

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Holidaymakers throng Pandawa BeachNUSA DUA - Holidaymakers are likely to lose interest in

the well-known beaches of Kuta and Sanur and turn to the less popular Pandawa Beach in the Indonesian island resort of Bali.

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

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

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, 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 beauti-fully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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CANGGU – On Monday July 13th, Cocoon Medical Spa and Body Temple Spa Canggu are hosting their second Beauty Talks event, this time focusing on one of the most advanced fat blast-ing technologies currently on the beauty & wellness scene.

Hosted at Body Temple Canggu Club and in collaboration with the experts at Cocoon Medical Spa,

each Beauty Talks event features a free demo, refreshments and door prizes. The event is then followed by one-on-one consultations and available treatments for those who wish to try it for themselves.

This month’s feature uses the four most effective cellulite-fighting, skin firming and body slimming technologies simultane-ously for maximum results.

The treatment starts by treating the fat with very high-powered fat cavitation, combined with ultrasound to dislodge the fat and disperse it into the body. After the fats are dissolved, radio frequency is used to tighten and firm the skin. Finally, a cellulite massage is administered to stimulate fat cells, dissolve cellulite, increase blood circulation and release the trapped fluids and toxins.

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Demonstration of the most advanced fat blasting technology

The option is offered, said the Minister of Tourism said that such options are being offered as alter-natives to passengers who would otherwise be stranded in airports as a result of the volcanic ash that is considered a safety hazard for

flying. “The Ministry of Tourism will be assisting with communica-tion and cooperation with relevant agencies such as PT KAI and PT Pelni who have fleets of vessels so that passengers can reach their destinations,” said Arief.

The Ministry had already es-tablished a Crisis Center for air passengers to contact related in-stitutions such as airport manage-ment, airlines and hotels. “For air passengers waiting to fly overseas, they will probably be retained longer and therefore require ac-commodations. The Crisis Center

can help them to find hotels near the airport as they wait until it is safe to fly,” said Arief.

The Crisis Center, offers con-siderable tariff discounts for room rates for stranded passengers and continues to coordinate with tour-ism businesses so as to provide facilities for travellers” he said.

The Minister of Tourism said that Bali is a strategic destination because 40 percent of foreign trav-elers in Indonesia fly out from Den-pasar. On that account, whenever there is any small incident imped-ing or affecting the performance of Bali’s airport, there is an obligation to handle it immediately. Even a slight delay can have a direct and immediate impact on the volume of national traffic.

Though unable to stop the volca-nic activity of Mt. Raung and Mt. Gamalama, Arief said that there are measures that can be taken to fa-cilitate the movement of travelers, allowing them to be assisted and feel cared for despite the forces of nature. “This is the main function of the Crisis Center, that can be useful and provide concrete solu-tions to travelers,” said the former president director of PT Telkom.

Arief Yahya ascerted that his party will continue to strengthen the Tourism Crisis Center team that was established on July 10. Ash and volcanic debris that have reached the counties of Banyu-wangi, Bondowoso and Jember have been increasingly affecting flight activities at Ngurah Rai Airport (Bali), Lombok Interna-tional Airport, Selaparang Airport Mataram, Blimbingsari Airport (Banyuwangi), Notohadinegoro Airport (Jember) and Juanda Air-port (Surabaya).

“We have established crisis centers in those regions that have had flight delays which affect both foreign and domestic travellers. We also urge all tourism offices in these regions to seek to overcome this crisis,” said Arief. (010)

SINGArAJA - So far the construction of an international airport in Buleleng remains a mear plan. Nevertheless, more and more people, are questioning the certainty of this project, especially people in the community of Kubutambahan village in Kubutambahan subdistrict, which is touted as the location for the airport project.

Ever since the central government announced that the interna-tional airport would be built there, land prices have been skyrock-eting as brokers or land speculators have inevitably started looking to buy land from local residents. Many people in Kubutambahan now talk about the proposed airport on a daily basis and the airport is used as a determining factor for land prices.

Currently land goes for about IDR 60 million IDR 90 million per 100 square meters, whereas before news of the new airport, the most expensive land was sold for IDR 50 million per 100 square meters.

Desite soaring prices, land brokers and speculators from Den-pasar and outside of Bali seem to be around every corner waiting for an opportunity to grab some land here. It is rumoured that a lot of land has already changed hands based on the notion that there is already an investor ready to build the airport which will require 1,000 hectares of land.

If conditions in Kubutambahan do not receive serious atten-tion many worry that the situation will get worse with more and more land being sold off to outsiders and when the airport is finally built, local residents will not enjoy any of the advantages, but rather only people from outside Buleleng or outside Bali will reap the benefits.

Subdistrict head of Kubutambahan, I Nyoman Sumertajaya, when contacted via phone on Monday (Jul. 20) confirmed that land prices have been skyrocketing. He also admitted that more and more land brokers or speculators have been hunting down land owned by locals but added that he and his office can do little about the situation as it is up to each resident whether they sell their land or not. He did however add that he hopes that residents will not sell their land carelessly nor immediately. Moreover, according to government data most of the land here is productive paddy fields and plantations. So, before the airport project is confirmed to be built here, residents should postpone selling their land.

“There was an announcement, but there has been no clarity about when the construction will begin. The price of land here, slowly started going up as soon as discussions started about the possibility of an airport here. We’d like to urge people not to sell the land in a hurry, certainly not before the construction of the airport in our region is certain,” he said.

Sumertajaya added that Kubutambahan region consists of seven hamlets but there has been no information about which hamlet will become home to the new airport. “We do not know exactly where the airport will be located, and residents are also still waiting for definite information,” he said.

All seven hamlets in Kubutambahan have a lot of potential for agricultural development including paddy field, the cultivation of mangos, coffee and cloves.

In addition, there are also a number of temples venerated by the residents of Kubutambahan and people from throughout Buleleng and beyond. The Madue Karang Temple is one of the greatest temples for Balinese Hindus. There are other six temples located along the beach: Segara, Dalem Puri, Dalem Temaja, Negara Gamburanglayang, Puseh Penegil Dharma and Braban Temple. (kmb38)

Airport’s plan in Buleleng causes

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Volcanic eruptions: Ministry of Tourism

creates contingency plansJAKArTA - The Ministry of Tourism has created contingency

plan for airline passenger disrupted by the eruption of Mount raung and Mount Gamalama, allowing people to travel via land and sea. “This applies to domestic air passengers returning to nearby towns because the land transportation modes (rail) and sea line (ship) are undisturbed,” said Minister of Tourism, Arif yahya, in Jakarta, Monday (Jul. 20).

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The 25-year-old singer-actress revealed on her social media accounts Monday that she’s helming the Aug. 30 ceremony.

Cyrus announced the gig by post-ing a photo of herself in an alien cos-tume with sandwich boards that read “MTV won’t let me perform” and “so I’m hosting this year’s VMAs.”

A scantily clad Cyrus shocked au-diences with a rump-shaking perfor-mance alongside Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.

Cyrus won the video of the year trophy at last year’s show and invited a young homeless man named Jesse Helt on stage to accept the trophy on her behalf.

The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards will air live on MTV from the Microsoft Theater in Los Ange-les. (ap)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After years of tabloid gossip claiming marital troubles, country music’s top couple Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert announced their divorce after four years of marriage.

The news was confirmed in a statement by the couple to The Associated Press, issued by their representatives Monday.

“This is not the future we en-visioned,” the former couple said in the statement.

“And it is with heavy hearts that we move forward separately. We are real people, with real lives, with real families, friends and colleagues. Therefore, we kindly ask for privacy and compassion concerning this very personal matter.”

The two multiplatinum stars came together just as their careers were hitting their peak, but the couple had to constantly deny rumors that their superstar careers were taking a toll on their mar-riage. Although sometimes they joked about competing against each other for awards, publicly they were constantly champion-ing each other’s successes and there were no obvious signs of trouble when the couple appeared at the Academy of Country Music Awards together in April.

Grammy-winning native Tex-

an Lambert, 31, is one of coun-try’s music most lauded female singers with her fiery brand of sass and sincerity on songs like “Gunpowder & Lead” and “The House That Built Me.”

“Boys ‘Round Here” singer Shelton, with his cheeky humor and easy likability, became a ubiquitous star as he juggled his musical and television career, as a judge on “The Voice” and a co-host of the ACMs. The 39-year-old Shelton first marriage of three years ended in divorce.

“We’re a really normal cou-ple,” Lambert told The Associ-ated Press in 2010. “We like to back road and hunt and fish. When we’re home, we’re not in that mode. We’re not in work mode, but it’s so great to have suc-cess together. Our careers have both taken a really good step in a good direction at the same time. I just think we have a really good relationship. It’s really strong. We’re best friends, and I can’t see myself with anybody else.”

But tabloids hounded the cou-ple, in particularly focusing on their personal lives and Lambert’s weight. “There are people who literally, their only job is to make other people miserable, and that’s a terrible way to live your life,” Lambert told The Associated Press in 2014. (ap)

Miley Cyrus to host MTV Video Music Awards

LOS ANGELES — Miley Cyrus is twerking back to the MTV Video Music Awards as the show’s host.

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Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert divorce after 4 years

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He said if there is a political will to provide such support, local entrepreneurs could benefit from investments in the region, instead of being mere spectators. “The local government should be will-ing to support local entrepreneurs beyond the creation of consor-tiums. In other words, if outsiders win construction project auctions, then the government should be approaching them to ensure ties to the local community,” said Ra-mantha, Tuesday.

Ramantha added that in any country, construction projects must abide by certain rules. In Bali one such rule is that new building must have Balinese ornamentation that has to be created by a Balinese craftsmen. “In such a case, who-ever the investor may be, they need to team up with local colleagues which should be facilitated by the government. The government has an obligation to promote local people,” he said.

Professor Ramantha acknowl-

edged that many local entrepre-neurs are hampered from working on large scale projects that require advanced technical equipment, which is often a requirement for the tender. On that account, the government needs to create bridges between local entrepreneurs those who win the bids.

According to him, government involvement is also needed in the agricultural sector given rampant land conversions. “Farmers who are essentially forced to convert their agricultural land into buildings, also need to be protected, so that after they sell their land they are not destitute,” he said.

He went on to say that by apply-ing the Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) system many problems can be avoided. In the case of farmers, they can offer the use of their land

to the private sector for the build-ing a business facility. Farmers give permission to build, manage and operate the facility for a spe-cific period of time after which the project or facility will be owned by the farmers who remain the landowners.

“Even in the case of agricultural land being converted into buildings, the land itself should be included in the cooperation though BOT, so that facilities are built and operated by the entrepreneurs for a speci-fied period of time -say 20 years. Once the contract has expired, the land is returned to the landowners /farmers, ensuring that farmers do not become even poorer after sell-ing off their land, but instead can become entrepreneurs themselves,” he explained.

Indeed, the government is not

obliged to create such a system, but according to Prof, Ramantha, if the government were to provide training to farmers about how to navigate such situations, and help bridge the gap between outside in-vestors and local people, the entire economy would be lifted out of the sluggishness. “The government obviously does not want people to be facing troubles, therefore people should be helped,” he concluded. (kmb27)

Political will needed to support local entrepreneurs

DENPASAR - Prof. Dr. Wayan Ramantha, Academic from the Faculty of Economics at Udayana University, stated that the local government needs to be playing a more active role to ensure that local entrepreneurs and farmers are given the support they need to face present conditions. Local entrepreneurs he said, should not only be creating consortiums to finance their own projects, but should also be supported in getting involved in mega projects.

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Tourists passed local entrepre-neurs stores at Gajah Mada Street,

Denpasar City on Bali Island. The local government needs to be

playing a more active role to en-sure that local entrepreneurs and

farmers are given the support they need to face present conditions.

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