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Vendors sell food for Muslims to break their fast on the third day of Ramadan in Jakarta on August 3, 2011. Like millions of Muslim around the world, Indonesians celebrated the month of Ramadan by abstaining from eating, drinking, and smoking as well as sexual activities from dawn to dusk.

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DENPASAR - Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali Province recorded that during the first half of 2011 the visit of Australian tourists reached 348,489 people. Such amount increased by 25.33 percent if compared to the same period in the previous year reaching 278,049 people.

Head of BPS Bali, Gede Suarsa, said in Denpasar on Tuesday (Aug 2) that Australia ranked first in the top ten countries supplying tourists to the Island of the Gods. Most of them entered Bali through the Ngurah Rai Airport.

“Australian people are getting more excited to travel to Bali because they regard this region as their ‘second home’ aside from the flight mileage is not so far as well as the economy of the kangaroo country has been getting better and the security situation of Bali is getting more stable,” he said.

He said the kangaroo country

was able to contribute 26.73 percent of the total foreign tourists to Bali amounting to 1.30 million people during the six month period in January-June 2011. The condition increased by 10.46 percent over the same period in the previous year that only reached 1.18 million tourists.

“During the period of 2010, the Australian society visiting Bali increased by 43.67 percent or reached 641,588 tourists, compared to the previous year was recorded to reach 446,570 tourists,” he observed.

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Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali Province recorded that during the first half of 2011 the visit of Australian tourists reached 348,489 people.

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Bali News Fail ATM Robbery, Malaysian Captured, Skimmer and Spy cam Found Denpasar (Bali Post) –

ATM robbery almost happened again as a spy cam and skimmer was found after a report from a resident stating a number of suspicious people were around the ATM received by Kuta Police Criminal Research. Accused Lee Y.S. (23) and witness girlfeiend Wan Y. from Malaysia who’s staying at Subak Hotel, Double Six Street, Seminyak, Kuta, Badung were then captured.

Even so, according to Police there are still those who are not captured.

One of them Lee’s partner, Deco also from Malaysia, managed to escape as Head of Kuta Police, APC I Gede Ganefo, explained last Tuesday (2/ 8). “Our officers are still hunting for him,” he explained.

It was explained Lee was captured when about to commit crime at Mandiri Bank ATM in front of Puri Naga Hotel, Arjuna Street, Legian, Kuta, Badung. Last Wednesday around 10 pm, police received reports there are three foreigners seemed suspicious. “We followed them for the while before we captured them,” Ganefo continued.

Before brought to Headquarters, Police searched on Lee and Wan for evidences which then alteko glue, small ruler, a white ATM card and skimmer were found. Then police develop further their investigation to their staying place (Subak Hotel) and found a spy cam, pin pad shield that was forcedly taken, plastic to close CCTV camera, memory card, phone card, scissors, electricity solder, duck tape and more.

From the investigation, accused admitted to have just acted on one ATM and was actually just about to put on the equipments such as the skimmer on the card place and spy cam for the pin numbers. Ganefo added the accused are convicted to have tried robbery and damaging, violating Criminal Code Section 363, 53 and 406. (kmb21)

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The suspect from Malaysia, Lee YS, was arrested by the police because he was trying to steal from an ATM machine.

Unknown Cause, Tegallinggah Almost 66 Years of Independence, Paddy Fields Fail Harvest Some Roads Still No Tar Almapura (Bali Post) –

Hundred hectares of paddy fields in four subak (irrigation) at Tegallinggah Village, Karangasem, failed for harvest. No rice was produced from 90 percent of the plants caused all still green stems taken off so it can be cow’s food, resulting IDR 600 million losses.

Two farmers met at subak Bale Punduk, Tegallinggah, last Tuesday (2/ 8) stated the farmers did not know what have caused it. Farmer I Gede Suta (47) explained during the first two to three weeks it seems growing well yet when there’s suppose to be filled with rice it became white like moulded and dying with no rice in it. Farmer Mangku Raka Kusuma stated the same, not only those at subak bale punduk reaching 50 hectares but also on the other four subak there is in here totalling up to hundreds of hectares could be damaged. It was said farmers have followed the suggestions of the Field Socialisation Workers (PPL)

for Agriculture in plantation and manure usage. They suspect it could be due to the year’s season.

In the other hand, Head of Karangasem Agriculture, Food and Horticulture Plantation Agency, Komang Subratayasa, S.P. explained the rice plants did not fail its harvest but only got its production down due to the nature’s situation besides its way of planting including manure usage.

He said he didn’t think all farmers did it as suggested by PPL where unggul paddies need complete manure products to be produced maximally. Yet, farmers tend to only use one which is urea as they tend to not have the money to buy complete manure products.Besides that, observation from Karangasem markets such as in Abang traditional market, rice price has gone higher as customers will have to pay IDR 10,000 per kg for best quality rice while IDR 8,000 per kg for C4 type causing those who are middle class seemed burdened by it. (013)

Semarapura (Bali Post)

With the coming Independence Day this 17th August remembered for its 66 years, government keep on stating the development of construction and technology has rapidly grew. The truth, in Klungkung a number of families until now couldn’t enjoy a road that is tarred such as in Banjar Penarukan, Bumbungan, Banjarangkan.

One of the residents, Sang Ketut Gampil, last Tuesday (2/8) stated there are 13 families living here with only one soil surfaced way to their houses. During dry season it would be so dusty while in the rainy time it goes really muddy, not yet with the water that’s overload on the damaged irrigation. And so, residents have helped each other in repairing the irrigation to avoid the over running waters. “The road was first made during an Army Goes to Village (AMD) programme around 1985,” Gampil stated. (kmb20)

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Pedestrian walkway of Gajah Mada starts to be worked on Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Having been delayed for long time, the arrangement project of Denpasar City hub in the form pedestrian walkway on Jalan Gajah Mada has now been resumed. Arrangement of the fifth phase will include the repair of Tukad Badung Bridge, sidewalks, planter, garden and store name uniformity. The arrangement will commence from the Tukad Badung Bridge until the west end of Jalan Gajah Mada. However, this project does not include the installment of paving blocks.

Technical executive officer (PPTK) of the project, Putu Sukardja, when met in the office of Denpasar Mayor on Tuesday (Aug 2) said the heritage arrangement project of Denpasar City area had started to be worked on. However, the project could not be entirely accomplished because of insufficient fund. “For a while, the fifth phase includes the arrangement of sidewalks, park as well as the store name,” he said.

He mentioned that installation of paving blocks would be resumed in the project of the upcoming year 2012. After the sixth phase ended, it would be continued with the arrangement of other areas downtown Denpasar such as Jalan Thamrin as well as other roads within the center of the city. “Due to restricted budget, the project is undertaken in stages,” said Sukardja who is also the Division Head of Spatial Planning in the Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP) of Denpasar.

Sukardja said the fifth phase project was worked on by PT Wahyu Prima with the budget of over IDR 800 million. Arrangement of this phase would end in December 2011. His party expected that after the arrangement, face of the city would be more picturesque pursuant to the existing design plan.

However, during the project under progress, his party did hope the

community could understand about the impact of the project implementation. “We are asking for the awareness of the community because they will be disturbed during the project implementation,” he hoped.

Sukardja admitted though the project had been delayed for long time, the increasing amount of the arrangement project fund was not too large. Additionally, provision of the funds was realized in stages, so it did not undergo any changes.

“Amount of the budget in use is depending on the price set when the tender was stipulated,” he said.

As known, the arrangement of road along 800 meters was begun from the intention of Denpasar Municipality to improve the existence of function, visual and physic of Jalan Gajah Mada area. Since the presence of a number of modern shopping centers within the culturebased city, Jalan Gajah Mada started to be left by consumers. Denpasar dwellers preferred shopping in malls or supermarkets to stores located along the Jalan Gajah Mada.

Jalan Gajah Mada Denpasar starting to be abandoned by city dwellers got attention from Denpasar Municipality to be further arranged. Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency was assigned to arrange the area. Having been researched by a team of planning consultant the arrangement had been eventually undertaken since February 2007. Arrangement of Jalan Gajah Mada’s corridor of the first stage spent IDR 422 million of total budgets worth IDR 6.6 billion.

Meanwhile, for the second stage was allocated a budget up to IDR 551 million and had been worked on since September 2007. After accomplishing the second phase, the project was continued with the arrangement of space next to the village/puseh temple of Denpasar. Arrangement in the area included the making of wall and garden. (kmb12)

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One of the worker is carrying sugar to be distributed to several markets in Denpasar.

Price of sugar and cooking oil increases Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Entering the first week in August, the price of a number of basic needs such as sugar and cooking oil rose between IDR 200 to IDR 500 per kilogram following the surge in the price of rice. Based on observation in a number of traditional markets, the average price of commodity remained to show an increase. Mainly the price of rice tended to increase because the supply from Java was declining.

Division Head of Home Trade Affairs, Bali Trade and Industry Agency, Bagus Ketut Wijaya, said on Tuesday (Aug 2) the price of nine basic needs were relatively stable, while the increase and decline only occurred to one to two other commodities such as the price of sugar from IDR 10,500 to IDR 11,000 per kilogram, or increased by IDR 500.

Similarly, palm oil showed an increase as much as IDR 500 rupiah, to IDR 10,500 from the previous price at IDR 10,000. On the other hand, the price hike also happened to chicken egg namely in the price range of IDR 18.500 per kilogram and the price of kampong chicken egg was IDR 28,500 per kilogram.

Previously, the price hike also occurred to super local rice of IR 64 sold around IDR 8,000 per kilogram from price range of IDR 7,800

per kilogram and the rice brought in from outside Bali like Putri Sejati was sold at IDR 8,500 from IDR 8,400 per kilogram, Putri Agung at IDR 8,000 per kilogram and Ratu at IDR 8,000 per kilogram. Bagus Wijaya said the price hike to some commodities was caused by high demand in early fasting month as well as declining supply due to inter-island trade.

“People and restaurateurs need not worry if the stock of basic needs will disappear in the market because Bali Trade and Industry Agency has taken a policy to secure the basic food stock in Bali,” he said. According to him, based on experience in the previous year, in the midst of surging demand for basic food all people were still able to get their need. On that account, entering the fasting month and by

the Eid festivity this year the situation was predicted the same even though there was a price hike due to the law of business behind the high demand of community.

“The hike of selling prices of some basic needs is not caused by reducing stock, but genuinely caused by the law of business to look for profits in the middle of feast situation,” he said. Meanwhile, a number of basic food traders in Badung market recognized the existence of price hike to some basic commodities.

“Within the past few days, the two basic commodities such as sugar and cooking oil underwent price surge. By and large, the cooking oil will tend to continuously experience a price surge,” explained Putu Wardi, a trader in Badung market. (bit)

Shortage of teacher remains a dilemma Singaraja (Bali Post)—

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Workers are working on the project of pedestrian in Gajah Mada area.

Shortage of elementary school teachers in Buleleng Regency seems to have not been resolved so that it kindles repeated complaints. Even, in some primary schools there are only three or four teachers. As consequence, the learning and teaching activities are unable to run properly.

Head of Buleleng Education Agency, Gede Suyasa, said on Monday (Aug 1) there were 488 primary schools in Buleleng. Ideally, every primary school had ten teachers so there should be totally 4,880 primary school teachers in Buleleng. However, at the moment there were only 3,875 primary

school teachers. “On that account, the shortage is more than one thousand teachers,” he said.

If the overall primary school teachers were inadequate, Suyasa said, no matter where those teachers would be moved in Buleleng they would remain inadequate. Last year, a number of civil servant teachers were recruited through a regular recruitment (CPNS). However, the number of teachers recruited apparently was not balanced with the number of teachers entering their retirement period. “The recruited teachers are fewer than the retired teachers, so the teachers in Buleleng continue to decrease,” he said. (kmb15)

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In Nordics, ethnic tensions beneath placid surface Associated Press Writer

STOCKHOLM — He feared immigrants, kept a victims’ list that included a famous black hiphop artist, and allegedly stalked his targets with a gun.

The case carries echoes of Anders Behring Breivik — a lone gunman unleashing xenophobic fury in a shocking explosion of violence. And although the shooter who terrified the Swedish city of Malmo last year was less lethal than the Norway killer, new revelations provide a daunting reminder of the current of ethnic enmity beneath the Nordic countries’ placid and tolerant surface.

Sweden, Denmark and Norway have won world renown for efforts to build peaceful and egalitarian societies, with generous immigration programs enshrined in government policy. In Stockholm, where every subway car gets a name as if it were a child’s toy, rush-hour becomes a multiethnic, multi-faith parade.

Norway, home to the Nobel

peace prize, and Sweden have been proud lands of refuge to asylum seekers from conflict zones, taking in tens of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis in recent years, as well as Somalis and people fleeing the 1990s Balkan conflicts.

Overt expressions of racism are a rarely breached taboo.

Yet in a region that prizes social harmony as one of its greatest values, there are roiling racial tensions that threaten to destabilize this carefully nurtured balance.

Far-right and anti-immigrant parties have made astonishing gains in Scandinavia in recent years. Last year, the far-right Sweden Democrats entered Parliament for the first time with 6 percent of the vote.

Norway’s once fringe Progress Party is now the nation’s second biggest, grabbing 22.9 percent of the vote in 2009. Denmark’s People’s Party has nearly doubled its parliamentary presence since 1998, shooting from 13 seats to 25.

Finland’s True Finns this year stunned Europe by winning 41 seats, up from their previous 6.

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An Egyptian man loyal to the former president throws a stone at a foe on the opening day of the trial of officials from the ousted government outside the police academy where the trial is taking place on the outskirts of Cairo on August 3, 2011.

Egypt puts Mubarak on trial, transfixing Arab world Reuters

CAIRO - Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into a courtroom cage in a hospital bed on Wednesday to face trial for killing protesters — an image that thrilled those who overthrew him and must have chilled other Arab autocrats facing popular uprisings.

AP Photo/Fredrik Persson, file

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2010 file photo, neo-nazis, rightwing extremists and white supremacists march under police supervision on their annual march in memory of a young skinhead who was killed, in Salem, Sweden, in 2000.

If convicted, Mubarak could face the death penalty. Judge Ahmed Refaat called for quiet as he opened the trial of the former president, his two sons Alaa and Gamal, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli and six senior ex-officers. A business executive and Mubarak confidant, Hussein Salem, is being tried in absentia.

“We need people to keep order and stay seated in order for us to perform our job and for justice to take its course,” the judge said at the start of

the trial. “All of us will face God with sound hearts and this is what we hope. May God help us.” Mubarak, 83, was toppled in February after 18 tumultuous days of popular protest.

A military council took over, promising a transition to democracy — a process far from complete.

Lawyers for Adli asked for the head of the council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and other political, military and security officials to be summoned as

witnesses in the trial, shortly before the judge called a recess. Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, in the white outfits of defendants, stood next to their father in the iron cage customarily used in criminal trials in Egypt.

Gamal, once viewed as being groomed for the presidency, leaned over to speak to his father, who had a stand with a drip beside him. Alaa, a businessman, seemed to be holding a Koran. Charges range from conspiring to kill protesters to abusing office to amass wealth.

The trial, televised around the world, transfixed Egyptians and other Arabs, most of whom have spent their lives under authoritarian systems shaken by this year’s wave of unrest.

Tropical Storm Emily on path toward Haiti Associated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Tropical Storm Emily brushed past Puerto Rico and set its sights on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year’s earthquake. A “steady shield of rain” should reach the island of Hispaniola shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti around noon Wednesday and the rainfall should worsen by late afternoon, said John Dlugoenski, senior meteorologist with Accuweather.com.

“The biggest threat to lives is probably the flooding,” Dlugoenski said. Civil defense of-

ficials and the military in the Dominican Republic have already begun moving people out of high-risk zones ahead of the storm. Haitian authorities urged people to conserve food and safeguard their belongings.

In Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, Jislaine Jean-Julien, a 37-year-old street merchant displaced by the January 2010 earthquake, said she was praying the storm would pass her flimsy tent without knocking it over.

“For now, God is the only savior for me,” Jean-Julien said at the edge of a crowded encampment facing the quake-destroyed National Palace. “I would go some place else if I could but I have no place else to go.”

Haitian emergency authorities set

aside a fleet of 22 large white buses in the event they needed to evacuate people from flooded areas. Emergency workers would then bus the people to dozens of schools, churches and other buildings that will serve as shelters.

“We’re working day and night to be able to respond quickly in case we have any disasters,” said Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency.

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain could fall in some parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which could cause life-threatening flash floods and mud slides in areas of mountainoust terrain.

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This image provided by NASA taken at 2:32 a.m. EDT Wednesday morning Aug. 3, 2011 shows tropical storm Emily, lower right.

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Golden Lotus restaurant present Bali Scallops Promotion IBP

KUTA - From 1st August to 31st October Golden Lotus Restaurant at Bali Dynasty Resort present ‘Bali Scallops Promotion’.

For seafood lovers, oriental style sea scallops are a light flavourful seafood dish making a great example of an authentic Chinese seafood dish that just melt in your mouth.

Caught fresh daily, and at only Rp.80,000 net/dish, we offer four different preparations.

You can chose from Sauteed Scallops with Szechuan sauce, Steamed Scallops on Japanese tofu with Black bean sauce, Battered Scallops with Lemon sauce & Sesame seed sauce or Sauteed Scallops with Garlic butter sauce. Why not try them all on your next visit to Golden Lotus.

Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for July 9 through August 6, 2011 09 Jul Pura Catur Buana Sanding, Tampaksiring - Gianyar 10 Jul Pura Peninjoan

26 Jul Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Batua, Sukawati - Gianyar Pura Pasek Bendesa Kekeran Mengwi - badung Pura Manik Mas Besakih - Karangasem

Besakih - Karangasem

16 Jul Pura pasek Gelgel Kukuh,Marga - Tabanan Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg - Tabanan Pasek Gelgel Mambang Selemadeg - Tabanan Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Guwang, Sukawati - Gianyar Pura Dalem Setra Batununggul Sewana,Nusa Penida Klungkung Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Ketewel - Gianyar 17 Jul Aci-aci Penaung Taluh di Penataran Besakih Karangasem Pura Gunung Kuripan Lombok Pura Tirta Besakih - Karangasem Pura Purnama Camenggaon,Sukawati - Gianyar Pura Amerta Jati Komplek ALRI, Cinere - Jakarta Sel. Pura Jagatnatha Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Apuan,Susut - Bangli Pura Jagathitha Selong - Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Gobleg,Banjar - Buleleng Pura Desa, Pura Puseh Batur, Kitamani - Bangli Pura Asah (Alas Arum) Batur,Kintamani - Bangli Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk,Sukawati - Gianyar Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru - Lumajang, Jatim Pura Pengubengan Besakih - Karangasem Penataran Agung Sukawati - Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah,Batur,Kintamani Bangli Merajan A. Puser Jagat Meranting Batukandik,Nusa Penida - Klungkung 23 Jul Merajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi - Bangli

30 Jul Pura Kepisah Sumerta - Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel Gerih, Abiansemal - Badung Pura Puncaksari Penarukan, Peninjoan- Bangli Pura Anteg Sari Br Dangin Pangkung, Kediri-Tabanan Pura Bangun Sakti Besakih - Karangasem Pura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Dangin Pangkung, Kediri Tabanan 01 Aug Odalan Ida Ratu Geng PenataranBesakih - Karangasem Ida Ratu Raja Puraus Mr. Saloding Besakih - Karangasem 03 Aug Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Kayuputih,Banjar Buleleng 05 Aug Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi - Bangli Pura Beratan Baturiti - Tabanan Pura Batu Klotok Lepang - Klungkung Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari - Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel - Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit,Sawan - Buleleng Pura Dalem Waturenggong Tarokaja,Tegallalang - Gianyar Pura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanagiri Selemadeg - Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Tulikup - Gianyar Pura Mnik Bingin Ds Dukuh,Sidemen - Karangasem 06 Aug Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang - Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande - Bangli Pura Puncak Sari Abiansemal - Badung Pasek Dadia A. Sanak Sapta Resi Peteluan,Sidan - Gianyar Pura Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan - Buleleng Pura Dalem Maya Br Teruna,Blahbatuh - Gianyar

Balinese Temple Ceremony 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 “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Italy recalls ambassador to Syria Associated Press Writer

ROME — Italy has recalled its ambassador to Syria to protest the repression of anti-government demonstrations, urging other European nations do the same, and Russia said it would not oppose a U.N. resolution to condemn the violence.

Italy is the first European Union country to withdraw its ambassador, although the EU has been tightening sanctions, imposing asset freezes and travel bans against five additional Syrian military and government officials on Monday.

At U.N. headquarters in New York, the Security Council began negotiating a text Tuesday after failing for more than three months to make any statement on the Syrian violence — except to condemn the attacks on the U.S. and French embassies in Damascus.During talks that dragged into the evening Tuesday, the council was negotiating on the wording of a European-drafted resolution that was updated with proposals from Brazil and others in what several ambassadors called a positive step.

India’s U.N. Ambassador Hardeep

Singh Puri, the current council president, had said the goal was to reach tentative agreement on a text that could be sent to capitals overnight and then tackle the divisive issue of whether it should be adopted as a legally binding resolution or a weaker presidential statement.

After lengthy discussions, the ambassadors broke for the evening and agreed to resume negotiations on Wednesday morning after getting guidance from their capitals.

“Unfortunately no final agreement was possible today,” said Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin. He said he hoped the overnight break would allow members “to see whether common ground is possible.”

Lesser-ranking diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because the talks were private, said one key unresolved issue was how to address the violence against unarmed civilians and attacks on Syrian security forces.

The Europeans and the U.S. insist that the Syrian government’s violence against unarmed civilians, which account for the vast number of casualties, cannot be equated with the attacks on security forces, the diplomats said.

S. Korea offers N. Korea flood aid South Korea offered aid worth 5 billion won ($4.7 million) to flood-hit North Korea on Wednesday, its first such proposal since Pyongyang’s deadly island attack last November sent relations into deep freeze. The North, which even in normal times struggles to feed its people, has reported dozens of casualties, thousands homeless and large areas of farmland flooded following a storm and torrential rain this summer.

The South’s offer came amid signs of an easing of high cross-border tensions. Nuclear negotiators from the two sides held rare talks last month on the sidelines of a regional security meeting in Bali. Seoul’s unification ministry said the offer of medicine and daily necessities was made through the South’s Red Cross. If the North accepted it, talks would be held on shipping arrangements across the tense border.

Ministry officials said the new aid

package would not include rice and cement. Official media in the communist state has said a tropical storm and heavy rain in June and July left dozens either dead, injured or missing, destroyed 2,900 homes and flooded more than 60,000 hectares (148,200 acres) of farmland.

Floods are common in North Korea, mainly because of its lack of disaster-control infrastructure and severe deforestation of hillsides. Ties have been icy since the South accused its neighbour of sinking a warship in March 2010 with the loss of 46 lives.

Despite that incident, for which the North denied responsibility, the South in September 2010 promised a 10 billion won flood aid package. But it suspended shipments after the North killed four South Koreans in a bombardment of a border island last November. A global relief agency said separately it has allocated more than $590,000 to help the flood victims.

Eleventh arrest in UK tabloid hacking scandal Reuters

LONDON - Stuart Kuttner, managing editor of the News of the World for 22 years, was arrested and later freed on bail on Tuesday over a phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct tabloid that has rattled Britain’s establishment, a source close to the case said.

Police said a 71-year-old man had been released on bail to an unspecified date later this month after being arrested on suspicion of corruption and conspiring to intercept communications. The source said the man was Kuttner. News International, the British newspaper arm of News Corp, declined to comment.

A flood of revelations in the last month has generated a furor that has shaken Rupert Murdoch’s media empire as well as Britain’s press, police and political leaders. Kuttner was responsible for authorizing payments from the paper, which was part of Murdoch’s News Corp.

Lawmakers have been told that his office would have been responsible for any payments to private detectives.

He stepped down unexpectedly in 2009 just before the Guardian

newspaper began to publish a series of stories that phone-hacking activity at the News of the World was far more widespread than had so far been investigated.

Tuesday’s arrest was made by detectives conducting an inquiry into whether journalists and private investigators, seeking gossip for stories, illegally intercepted voicemail messages on mobile phones of people ranging from celebrities and politicians to murder victims and the families of dead soldiers.

ELEVEN ARRESTED OVER SCANDAL

Eleven people have now been arrested this year in connection with the escalating scandal, which has forced the resignations of ex-News of the World editor and Murdoch favorite Rebekah

Brooks, and Britain’s top two policemen. Kuttner’s arrest may increase pressure on Rupert Murdoch’s son James, News International’s chairman and until recently considered the heir apparent to the aging mogul’s media realm, who has pleaded ignorance of the hacking at the time.

Lawmakers have already indicated they want to recall James Murdoch to clarify evidence he provided to a parliamentary committee, after two ex-senior News International executives called it into question.

Murdoch told the committee he did not know the extent of phone-hacking at the tabloid when he approved a large payoff to one of the victims, but the former executives say they showed him evidence it was not limited to one “rogue” reporter.

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From page 1 According to him, among the ten largest countries supplying tourists to Bali, eight of them experienced adequately significant increase and only two countries showing a decrease. Other than Australia, the eight countries were China (8.29 percent) from 98,258 to 106,400 tourists, Malaysia (20.56 percent) from 69,251 to 83,491 tourists and South Korea (0.99 percent) from 59,384 to 59,971 tourists.

“Meanwhile, one of the two countries whose tourist visits show

a decrease to the Island of the Gods is Japan (26 percent) from 119,731 in the first six months of 2010 to 88,605 tourists in the first six months of 2011,” he said.

In the meantime, the increased arrival was also indicated by Singaporean tourists by 34.19 percent from 41,483 to 55,666 tourists, England (25.86 percent) from 38,526 to 48,489 tourists, France (7.73 percent) from 42,211 to 45,473 tourists and the United States (24.15 percent) from 33,268 to 41,303 tourists. (par)

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The last edition of News of the World newspaper goes on sale alongside other British Sunday newspapers in London July 9, 2011.

14 die in another Zimbabwe bus crash Associated Press Writer

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Police say another 14 people have died in the second minibus crash in Zimbabwe in three days. State radio reported Wednesday that a bus burst a rear tire on Tuesday and overturned twice about 120 miles

(195 kilometers) east of Harare.

Police spokesman Oliver Mandipaka said the minibus carried nine more passengers than its licensed capacity. Tuesday’s crash brings to 33 the number of passengers killed in the two bus wrecks.

On Saturday, 19 people died

when a rear wheel of their 16seater bus broke off. Police reported 29 people had crammed into that vehicle.

Bus accidents are common in Zimbabwe, blamed mostly on poor maintenance in the troubled economy, worn tires, speeding and overcrowding.

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Thick smog causes flights transfer at Dumai Airport Antara

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Operational chief of Pinang Kampai airport at Dumai Riau Irvan said that thick smog has caused flights to be transferred to nearby airports.

DUMAI - Operational chief of Pinang Kampai airport at Dumai Riau Irvan said that thick smog has caused flights to be transferred to nearby airports.

The smog that covers Dumai airport was very thick and the worst ever, especially after it caused flights transfer, Irvan said here Tuesday.

Irvan said that the airport will be reopening for flights when the smog is thinning or until more than 200 meters visibility range achieved.

Meanwhile, there is a flight transferred to airport in Pekanbaru which then be resumed to Dumai airport, a chartered Fokker 100 Pelita Air departed from Jakarta‘s Halim Perdana Kusuma at 09.00 am.

The heavy smog is expected to

clear out on the afternoon considering the strong wind that blows the smog wisp, and flights resumed, said Irvan.“Fortunately the chartered Pelita Air was the only flight schedule for today, there is no schedule for any commercial flight such as Sky Aviation and Merpati,” he said.

On separate occasion, Head of Forestry Department of Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Hadiono said that the institution had received reports on peat land burn and bushfire which led the thick smog occurred on Tuesday.

“The local forest and land fires management team has also been deployed to track the hotspots locations,” he said. The team is focusing on Medang Kampai and Sungai Sembilan districts known as land and forest fire prone areas.

TNI needs access to terrorism fight: Commander Antara

JAKARTA - Access is needed for the military (TNI) to be able to be involved in fighting terrorism, the chief of the army’s Special Forces (Kopassus) said.

“TNI has seven anti-terror units but regretfully no access is available for them to be able to be used for it,” Major General Lodewijk Paulus said in a seminar on fighting terrorism held by the National Defense Institute (Lemhanas) here on Wednesday.

He said the access would be opened if legally terrorist actions could no longer be overcome by the police or the police were unable to carry out their task or upon a politi-

cal decision. Some of the anti-terror units are Combat Platoon from the army strategic reserve command (Kostrad), Bravo 90 from the airforce‘s special force (Paskhas) and Gultor from Kopassus.

He said terrorist actions in Indonesia were fluctuative but based on Kopassus’ study their intensity has continued to drop from 2000 to 2008.

“Perhaps only 40 percent of radical actions are left,” he said.

He said he saw TNI could play a role in the fight in view of the cases.

Among activities that could be categorized as terrorist actions are bombing, hijacking, killing, ambushes, kidnapping, hostage taking, robbery and intimidation.

“TNI has often been involved in dealing with hostage taking,” he said.

He said TNI‘s involvement in terrorism fight is limited and must be based on Law Number 2 of 2002 on police and Law Number 15 of 2003 on terrorism. Based on the laws TNI‘s involvement is also limited, he said.

Article 7 of Law Number 34 of 2004 meanwhile states that TNI helps police overcome terrorism but in real-

Australia’s commitment to reduce poverty in Indonesia Antara

JAKARTA - The Director General of the Australian Government‘s aid program (AusAID), Peter Baxter, is in Indonesia to strengthen Australia‘s development cooperation with the archipelago and to see firsthand results from Australia‘s largest bilateral program.

This financial year, 2011-12, Australia has allocated A$558.1 million to improving poverty outcomes for the 110 million Indonesians living on or under US$2 a day, the Australian Embassy here said in media release on Tuesday.

During his visit, Baxter will meet senior government officials including Indonesia’s Minister for National Development Planning, Prof. Dr

Armida Alisjahbana. He will also travel to Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, to view activities supported by the Australian aid program.

“As a neighbour and partner Indonesia will remain one of our largest programs. Australia is committed to increasing aid to Indonesia to help accelerate progress against the Millennium Development Goals,” Baxter said.

“I am looking forward to my visit to Kalimantan and seeing the real outcomes Australian aid is achieving in Indonesia,” added Baxter.

In Kalimantan, Baxter plans to visit a number of village projects supported by Indonesia’s National Community Empowerment Program (PNPM). Australia has committed A$215 million over five

years to this program.

“I am looking forward to seeing Australia`s work with communities to create jobs and improve access to health, education and infrastructure,” said Baxter.

The Director General also plans to visit households that now have access to clean piped water and better sewerage connections thanks to Australia’s help. This is part of Australia’s support to provide 77,000 water and 5,000 sewerage connections for poor urban households in Indonesia.

“Australia is proud to work with Indonesia to help achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving, by 2015, the proportion of Indonesians without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation,” Baxter said.

ization this has created polemic, he said. He said if a terrorism case could not be overcome legally and the police with all their capability could not carry out their duty through a political decision TNI could be involved in dealing with the case.

He said terrorism is dealt with by three institutions namely TNI, the police and the ministry of home affairs. They all have intelligence agencies down to village levels.

The army has apparatus from provincial to sub district military commands and so do the police and the ministry of home affairs.

“Their synergy may be developed and so no new institution will be

needed,” he said. He said preventive measures were needed to avoid cases of shooting or arresting wrong persons or human rights violations.

Jakarta Senior Asia Program adviser of the International Crisis Group, Sidney Jones, meanwhile said Indonesia has relatively been successful in the fight against terrorism without necessarily having to enact laws such as Internal Security Act in Malaysia or Patriot Act in the US. She said she was glad Indonesia could bring the terrorists to justice.

Even in the US they were tried in special courts with no clear justice. She referred to the case of tortures in Guantanamo prison.

New party to nominate Sri Mulyani for president Antara

JAKARTA - A new political party that will support former finance minister Sri Mulyani as president plans to register itself with the ministry of law and human rights on Wednesday.

“The SRI Party leaders will come to the law and human rights ministry at 2pm on Wednesday (to register),” head of public relations of the Partai Serikat Rakyat (United People`s Party-SRI), Efika Rosmerie, said in a press statement received by ANTARA here on Tuesday.

Efika said SRI Party already had executive committees in all 33 provinces in the country and was continuing to prepare itself to meet all the requirements for the verifi-

cation process until August 22, 2011 at the latest.

The new party‘s chief, D Taufan, expressed optimism the party would pass the verification process which he considered as very tight.

“With all the limitations that we have we are convinced we can fulfill all the requirements,” he said.

He said the desire of the public for a change and its interest in Sri Mulyani Indrawati had made his optimism not dwindling.

The party‘s national secretary post is held by Yoshi Erlina while its treasurer is Susy Rizky Wiyantini.

Among the members of the advisory board are A Rahman Toleng, Arbi Sanit, Fikri Jufri, Rocky Gerung and Dana Iswara.

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Bali Today Occupancy rate up 7.57 percent Antara

DENPASAR - The occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali on June 2011 reached around 70.47 percent on average. This percentage was increase 7.57 percent compare to May period that only reached 62.90 percent.

“The increase was cause by the numbers of tourists that visiting Bali on month of June,” explained the Head of Bali’s Statistic Agency I Gede Suarsa.

He stated that on the first semester of 2011, Bali received around

1.30 million peoples from overseas or increase 10.46 percent compare to the same period last year.

On June, the numbers of tourists that visit Bali were 245,652 people, increase 7.72 percent comparing the month before.

Gede Suarsa continued the highest occupancy rate of hotels are in Badung area that reached 73.88 percent, the second place is Denpasar 63.01 percent, Gianyar 57,11 percent, Karangasem 44.36 percent, Tabanan 44.20 percent and Buleleng 28.85 percent.

Darmaputra Tonjo

Takes First Contest Victory at Billabong Pro Junior Bali’s Darmaputra Tonjo took his first-ever Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championship victory yesterday at the inaugural allIndonesian Billabong Pro Junior event, held at the surfing destination known as Shipwrecks on the small island of Nusa Lembongan, just a short boat ride away from the island of Bali.

Besting Indonesia’s top pro junior (under 21 years of age) surfers including Oney Anwar, Putra Hermawan, Jeren Kiring, Sandi Selamat, Dewa Ardika and others during the three day contest, Tonjo capped of his stellar performance by barreling, blasting and boosting to the highest single wave score of the entire event in the final, an almost perfect score of 9.5 points out of a possible 10, in his man-on-man final dual against Sumbawa’s Gazali Hamzah. He ended the final with the highest heat score of the competition as well, 16.25 out of a possible 20 points.

Tonjo was elated with his win, and his trademark grin was bigger than life as he climbed aboard the boat after the final, saying, “This is my first time to win a contest, so I’m so stoked! I’ve only ever come in third until now, so to win here is so great. I love this wave and I love this place, so big thanks to Billabong and especially to all the locals for sharing it with us.”

Tonjo hails from Legian and his home break is Padma Beach. He receives Rp 5 million in cash, a Nixon watch and Von Zipper sunglasses for his win, as well as additional Nixon watch for his Nixon

Top Scoring Wave Award.

Runner up Gazali Hamzah was also happy to be on the podium after being off the Coca-Cola ISC tour circuit this year, saying “I haven’t been competing on the tour this year, so do this well is very satisfying, so I’m really happy even with second place.” Gazali was a clear standout and surfing aggressively, besting younger brother Oney Anwar in semifinal two where he put up first a massive 8 point ride to take the lead and then sealed it with an excellent 6.5 point effort for a 14.50 total heat score, which Anwar failed to best. Hamzah receives Rp 3 million in cash in addition to a Nixon watch and Von Zipper sunglasses.

In Saturday’s session, Oney Anwar showed off a brilliant aerial performance and looked to be the in form surfer to beat, but seemed a bit out of rhythm against his brother in both the quarterfinal and the semifinals yesterday. Anwar did however receive the Von Zipper Best Aerial Award for having the best air of the event. Gazali and Oney are both from Lakey Peak in Sumbawa, but Oney currently lives and goes to school on the Gold Coast of Australia.

Nusa Lembongan local Ediana Putra shared equal third place with Anwar, and was also the winner of the Under 16 Division competition that was held on Saturday, competing in both the Under 16 and Pro Junior Divisions.

The Under 16 finalists all received a trophy, certificate, Nixon watch and Von Zipper sunglasses

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Balinese people trying to fly a kite during the Kite Festival on Padanggalak, Bali Island.

Kite as Integral Part of Balinese Culture Kite does not only pose a game being able to make fun and happy, but also becomes a culture of Bali. In the folklore Rare Angon, it is narrated about the proximity of kite to the life of Hindu community in Bali. Rare Angon describes a child who was often riding a cow while playing a kite in the rice fields after harvest season.

Kite as an expression of gratitude and happiness of peasants on their successful harvest to Goddess Sri (manifestation of God in Hindu belief). In addition, kiteflying is also done by farmers as a means to drive out pest birds.

However, its material and design is very simple as it is made from large-size leaves, where its tail is made of reeds and the rope made of banana fiber.

In its function to dispel birds, a kite is usually combined with a scarecrow to scare birds. It is the way how farmers attempt to maintain the ecosystems on earth. It is also believed that every living being on earth must have its own role.

Later on, kite turns more popular and is even played by various circles, ranging from children, teens to parents. For them, the kite is not made to be pitted. Enjoying the beauty of design and motion in the air can meet their satisfaction as every single curve emits specific impression for lovers of

this game.

Kite lovers in Bali are very sensitive to the design and proportion of kites they have made. Therefore, a kite with the right shape and proportions will lead to a prolonged admiration for them.

Moreover, if the kite has a large size and matching color they will enjoy it like a high prestigious work of art.

In the matter of color, Balinese people are using four colors for their traditional kites, such as black, red, white and yellow. If the four colors arranged appropriately, when the kite is flying with the background of blue sky will look very beautiful. In addition, beauty of the kite can also be seen from its beautiful movement like a lively Balinese dancer.

Even, if the fish-style (bebean) kite is unable to sway to left and right side will not be interesting.

However, it will become less attractive or elegant, if the swaying is imbalance. Unlike the type of Janggan and Pecuk, they will be

considered beautiful if they fly in a stable position because people enjoy the undulating movements of their tail resembling the movement of water.

Pecukan kite (resembling a stingray) is categorized into the type of kite whose the making has high level of difficulty because it requires expertise and experience.

In addition, there is also another type of kite known as pere-perean having square shape. Kite of this type will look attractive if the rope is played and the kite will spin in the air. At particular time, the kite can be settled in a stable position.

Furthermore, there are some other kites namely Dedari (angel), Kedis-Kedisan (bird-like), dragonflies and some animal species.

All kites are usually played at harvest time during high winds.

Therefore, it is not surprising if many groups or association of kite aficionados appearing during this season that make large kites to be flown together or put into kite competition. (BTN/015)

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Balinese Culture BASE GEDE (Basic Spice Paste)

Spiritual Farming:

From One Green to Some other Greens Advancement of science of technology does not answer all problems encountered by human life. In agriculture, for instance, modern farmers can now have boosted the quantity of production, even in multiple amounts. On the one had, it’s a great success but on the other hand it still leaves a problem on the decline of environmental and human health quality.

Green revolution occurred between 1943 and 1970s through the implementation of chemical fertilizer and good irrigation system has conjured up the rice production. In short term, it became an efficacious medicine to resolve the famine in tropical countries. Few decades later, it had an impact on the reduction of environmental quality, like pollution in water, land and others.

Apart from the impact on the environment, it was also had an impact on human health like the rise of some new cancers.

Realizing these facts, now Bali has an initiative to become a green province and implement the integrated farming system (Simantri).

Hopefully, implementation of the system could realize the Bali Organic plan and consequently minimize the environmental destruction.

Green province campaign includes some aspects, namely green culture, green economy and Bali green and clean. Green culture is intended to

change the societal behavior in managing their waste management and environment. Green economy hints that all economic activities should be in the eco-friendly orientation. These two aspects will empty out into the initiative of Bali Organic.

One of the aspects is applied in the agricultural field. Socialization has been intensified while establishing farmer groups. Through breeding local cows, for instance, farmers are expected to get maximal benefits. Other than increasing the number of cows, they will be able to take advantage the cow dung and urine for organic fertilizers. In the long run, it will reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Of course, this endeavor will reduce the production cost that should be spent by farmers and at the same time increase the quality of rice as well as improve the environmental quality.

As a matter of fact, simple practice of this concept could have been seen around 1970s. Farmers using cows to cultivate their land could also take advantage of their cow dung. It was spread out onto the rice field and its efficacy could last for at least for two planting seasons. In terraced rice field, it could uniquely be managed by establishing a cowshed in the upper stream. Later on, the collected dry cow dung was

channeled to rice field through the water gutter.

However, since being urged by the demand to multiple the rice production, farmers left the method. Introduction of hand tractor and chemical fertilizers gradually replaced the role of cows. The new method was expected to accelerate the land cultivation process. As consequence, cows were only serving as ‘family saving’ for farmers.

Simple eco-friendly pest control actually has been proposed in the palm-leaf manuscript entitled “Shri Tattwa or Darmaning Pemaculan.”

It has been applied by subak community in Bali from generation to generation until today. However, it seems to put more emphasis on the ritual aspect only, while herbal pesticide or other means of the oblation is only applied symbolically.

For instance, bird raids are managed by offering two pieces of ketupat sidayu together with oblation and side dish of yellow dragonfly.

Meanwhile, Subash Palekar from India claimed to have developed the vedic-based farming. He has initiated his ‘spiritual farming’ since 1988. In essence he said that God or nature has provided human with everything required to grow plants. So implementing the chemical fertilizers and pesticide means to oppose God and will result in bad impact to human. (BTN/punia)

INGREDIENTS: 300 gr large red chili halved, seeded and chopped 100 gr garlic, peeled and chopped 75 gr ginger, peeled and chopped 500 gr shallot, peeled and chopped 75 gr laos, peeled and chopped 100 gr kencur root, peeled and chopped 175 gr fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped 2½ tbsp dried shrimp paste, roasted 2½ tbsp coriander seed crushed 75 gr candlenut 1¼ tbsp black pepper corn crushed 2½ pinch nutmeg, freshly grated 8 cloves 150 ml coconut oil 250 water ¾ tbsp salt PREPARATION: Combine all ingredients except water in food processor and grind coarsely. Place in heavy sauce pan, add all remaining ingredients and cook over medium heat for approximately 60 minutes or until all water is evaporated and marinade changes to golden color. (http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)

BASE JUKUT (Spice Paste For Vegetables) INGREDIENTS: 175 gr shallots, peeled and chopped 150 gr cloves garlic, peeled & chopped 450 gr laos, peeled and thinly sliced 4 tsp coriander seeds 175 gr fresh turmeric, peeled and sliced 250 gr large red chilies, seeded & chopped 40 gr bird’s-eye chilies 100 gr kencur roots, peeled and chopped 5 tsp dried shrimp paste 150 ml Coconut oil 1 tsp salt 1¼ tsp black pepper ground 4 ea salam leaf, whole 3 ea stalk lemon grass, bruised PREPARATION: 1. Combine all ingredients except salam leafs and Lemon grass, salt and water in food processor and grind coarsely.

2. Place ground ingredients in heavy saucepan, add remaining ingredients and simmer over medium heat for approximately 60 minutes or until water is evaporated and marinade changes to golden color. (http://www.baliguide.com/balifood)

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Tenganan Village is one of the oldest Balinese Traditional located in Karangasem Regency, east part of Bali. This village is much referred by cultural literature science of Tenganan Pegringsingan, which is very famous in the island. It own very unique local community life pattern which is one example of Bali Aga Village cultures (Hindu Prehistoric) and different with other countryside in plain of Bali. Nowadays, this village has been appointed as a place for tourist destination which can present the attractive and unique matters which able to add the variation of object and fascination for tourist to come.

Tenganan village is geographically situated among the hill in west and east part of this village. This village is located in Manggis sub district and Karangasem Regency or about 1 hour drive from Denpasar

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Town. It is a small village consisted of three Banjars (group of local community) those are Banjar Kauh, Banjar Tengah and Banjar Pande.

The regional of this village is consisted of three complexes those are resident, plantation and rice field complex. The history of Tenganan village is expressed in a few versions. The first version is mentioned that the resident of Tenganan village are come from Paneges Village, a village is located near with Bedahulu Village that is located Gianyar Regency. The second version is expressed that word of Tenganan recognized in one of Bali inscription that was written by the word of Tranganan. The third version is expressed that the Tenganan Village Resident prays to the Bukit Lempuyang Temple. The word of Tenganan is ascribed by a Tengah root word which can mean to aim to middle of Pegringsingan, the fasten cloth type weave that is typically

produce by Tenganan village resident. The structure of resident in Tenganan village is built in linear consisted of six rays. Each of ray consisted of some lawn broadly, the building form where the local community use it to present the handicraft for tourists. All the tradition existences of the human being are harmoniously with the God, human and environment as according to Tri Hita Karana concept. The Tourism Destination of Tenganan remains to draw during the time, goodness as tourism cultural object, tourism nature and agriculture tourism.

It is a very famous village throughout Bali where most of the local people knows where it is located. It is located in Karangasem Regency and close to Candidasa. You can find many travel agencies serve the tour to visit this village and you may join Karangasem Tour which you will discover places of interest in east part of Bali including this village.

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BUSINESS China urges US to handle debt responsibly Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — China’s central bank governor urged Washington to handle its debt responsibly, warning Wednesday that uncertainty in the market for Treasury debt might harm a global economic recovery.

China is the biggest foreign owner of Treasury debt and had appealed to U.S. leaders to protect its $1.1 billion in holdings during last week’s debate over raising Washington’s borrowing limit and avoiding a possible default.

In a statement, Zhou Xiaochuan welcomed the deal by American leaders to raise the limit but also called for Washington to avoid further steps that might hurt investors.

“Large fluctuations and uncertainties in this market would undermine the stability of the international financial system and hinder global recovery,” Zhou said. The central bank took the unusual step of posting his comments in both English and Chinese on its website, clearly aiming to reach a foreign audience.

Treasury debt is among the most widely held assets and often is used as the benchmark for interest rates on commercial credit.

Any changes due to uncertainty about U.S. finances could have global repercussions by pushing up borrowing costs.

“China hopes the U.S. administration and the Congress would take responsible policy measures to handle its debt issue in light with the interests of the whole world including those of the United States,” Zhou said.

He gave no details of possible measures China wants to see.

The statement came after Presi-

dent Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday to raise Washington’s $14.3 trillion borrowing limit just hours before a midnight deadline.

Beijing is believed to be diversifying its foreign currency reserves but Treasurys are expected to remain a big part of its portfolio. Few other asset markets are big enough to absorb the tens of billions of dollars China’s central bank adds to its reserves each year.

Also Wednesday, a Chinese rating agency said it has downgraded Washington’s credit rating from A+ to A. The move by Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., which is littleknown abroad, is unlikely to affect

U.S. borrowing rates but reflects the pessimism Washington’s debt battle has generated worldwide.

Dagong said the debt deal doesn’t change the fact that U.S. debt growth has outpaced its economy and fiscal revenue. It warned earlier of a possible downgrade if the United States didn’t show it had the ability and willingness to repay its debt.

Dagong hopes to compete with global ratings agencies Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch.

Moody’s Investors Service said Tuesday the United States would retain the agency’s highest AAA rating. But it put a “negative” outlook on the rating, raising the possibly of a future downgrade.

Debt relief replaced with recession fear Reuters

SINGAPORE - In a matter of days, investor relief that the United States avoided default has been replaced by fears Europe’s debt crisis is deepening and the world’s biggest economy may be slipping back into recession.

Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said in a Reuters column there is a one in three chance of a U.S. recession. According to number crunching by Goldman Sachs, history suggests the economy is perilously close to tipping over the edge.

Signs are little better elsewhere. Italy and Spain are edging closer to the euro area debt danger zone, China’s economy is slowing and Japan is mired in recession after the March earthquake.

The gloom is hitting the corporate world as analysts cut earnings forecasts globally, especially in export-led economies, and big banks have announced tens of thousands of job cuts.

“The odds of the economy going back into recession are at least one in three if nothing new is done to raise demand and spur growth,” Summers said of the United States in his column.

“If these judgments are close to correct, relief will soon give way to alarm about the United States’s economic and fiscal future.”

The alarm bells may already be ringing. Most worryingly for financial markets, the U.S. administration’s commitment to fiscal spending cuts could make any U.S. downturn worse.

“The slide in U.S. growth expectations clearly comes with very poor timing,” said Commerzbank strategist Rainer Guntermann.

The bellwether S&P 500 index dropped more than 2.5 percent on Tuesday to wipe out 2011 gains after data showed U.S. consumer spending fell in June for the first time in nearly two years.

The figures underlined the frail state of the U.S. economy, which grew at less than a 1 percent annualized rate in the first half of 2011 in what Deutsche Bank describes as a growth recession, not recovery.

Worryingly for investors, the S&P index crashed through its 200-day moving average, pointing to further weakness ahead.

“I think the conditions have completely changed this week,” said Koichi Ono, senior strategist at Daiwa Securities Capital Markets in Tokyo.

“Until last week, people have been saying the U.S. debt ceiling was the problem. Now they talk about worries about the health of the economy.”

Asian shares followed suit on Wednesday, falling more than 2 percent. Worried investors returned to the safe havens they used during the U.S. debt talks, pushing gold to a fresh record

high and keeping the Swiss franc close to a record high against the dollar.

Financial market pressure increased on Italy and Spain, pushing their borrowing costs to 14year highs and sparking emergency talks among EU policymakers.

The economies of Spain and Italy are much bigger than Ireland, Portugal and Greece that have been bailed out so far in the euro area debt crisis.

The rise in yields is the latest sign investors feel policymakers have not done enough to resolve the debt crisis.

“The fear of the market is that the world is going into recession ... and in the euro zone the peripheral markets are the ones that will suffer most,” said Alessandro Giansanti, a strategist at ING Amsterdam.

Views on the economic outlook were rapidly being revised, with JPMorgan cutting its forecast on 2012 U.S. growth to 1 percent and markets reflecting expectations of more than 80 basis points of rate cuts in commodity exporter Australia — 60 basis points more than a day ago.

If the U.S. unemployment rate keeps rising, it would be a strong warning signal that the U.S. economy is close to another recession, Goldman Sachs says.

Its examination of unemployment figures dating back to 1948 shows there is a 76 percent chance the U.S. economy is either in recession or will be within

six months when the jobless rate rises by a little over three-tenths of a percentage point over a three-month period.

If data on Friday shows a jobless rate of 9.3 percent for July, and it stays at that level in August, those conditions will have been met.

Friday’s report is expected to show the unemployment rate held steady in July at 9.2 percent.

Carmakers such as Chrysler and General Motors Co are feeling the impact of the weak consumer spending. The U.S. market is “tougher than a cheap steak,” said Chrysler ’s head of U.S. sales, Reid Bigland.

Washington’s agreement to cut future spending leaves the administration with no room to loosen its fiscal belt to support the stumbling economy, especially with the threat of a ratings downgrade.

That puts more pressure on the Federal Reserve, which meets next Tuesday to review policy, to strengthen its commitment to rock-bottom interest rates or even consider a third round of quantitative easing.

“It’s too soon to go to something like full scale QE3, but it’s not too soon to signal concern,” said John Richards, head of strategy at RBS Americas.

Although America dominates the world economy, there are signs of a slowdown globally.

The world’s manufacturing sector came close to stalling in July, expanding at its shallowest pace in two years. New orders

fell for the first time since major economies were recovering from the global financial crisis, a report by JP Morgan showed.

A purchasing managers’ index from HSBC showed China’s factory sector shrank in July, although a government measure showed it maintained weak growth.

Many economists say China’s slowdown this year is modest and not a sign of an impending slump. But some say Beijing is treading a fine line between fostering growth and fighting inflation as its tightening campaign runs into its 10th month.

Sensitive to the ups and downs of the global economic cycle, banks have announced close to 50,000 job cuts, starting now and continuing in coming years. HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group have announced the biggest cuts.

Analysts are cutting earnings forecasts globally, with those in export-dependent economies such as Taiwan, Singapore and Australia bearing the biggest cuts.

Out of 22,000 stocks tracked over the past 30 days, analysts have downgraded their earnings estimates by 0.5 percent on a mean basis.

Nearly 75 percent of changes in estimates in Taiwan have been downgrades. In Australia, 65 percent were downgrades and in Switzerland it was nearly 80 percent.

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Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones to receive Oscars Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith have been picked to receive honorary Oscars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says the three will be honored with Oscar statuettes at the Governors Awards in November. The academy’s Board of Governors voted Tuesday to recognize the entertainment industry veterans.

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In this publicity image released by Knopf, Kyung-Sook Shin, author of “Please Look After Mom,” is shown.

Korean author debuts in English with popular novel Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — There’s a big difference between “mother” and “mom.” “Mother” is someone to be respected, perhaps held at arm’s length. But “mom” is an intimate name. It’s the woman on the floor playing with her child, wisps of hair falling around her face, instead of the woman in the starched dress sitting in the parlor.

The distinction made all the difference for novelist KyungSook Shin, whose book “Please Look After Mom” has made a splash in the United States and is a best-seller in her native South Korea.

On a recent day in New York, Shin discussed, through her translator, the popularity of the novel and its universal themes of mother and child, and the gradual realization that all our moms actually have a life outside the family and are women with thoughts and desires.

The book centers on a modernday family coping with grief when their mother, known only as Mom, vanishes in a busy city train station. The story tracks the woman’s disappearance through the eyes of her children, her husband and, ultimately, through her own words. The first line reads: “It’s been one week since Mom went missing.”

As a teenager, Shin had taken the night train to Seoul with her

mother and thought to herself that when she became a writer she would write an ode to her mom.

Shin contemplated the book for years, thinking of the character as “Mother,” but was unable to set anything on the page.

Then one day, the first line suddenly came to her, and the use of “mom” changed everything. “It surprised me,” she said. “Everything flowed very naturally ... as though a door had opened.”

Shin is one of South Korea’s most widely read and acclaimed authors. She was honored with the Manhae Literature Prize, the Dong-in Literature Prize and the Yi Sang Literary Prize, as well as France’s Prix de l’Inapercu. She had dreamed for years of becoming a writer and published her first work of fiction in a Korean literary journal at 22. Shin grew up on a farm with many brothers and sisters. She was an avid reader, even though there weren’t many books available.

“As my older brothers would borrow books and bring them into our house, I would read the books and find out about a world I didn’t know,” she said. “I would just take them away to into my space, and they would come look for me or the books.”

She papered the windows of her room so that she could focus, reading entire anthologies, history books, whatever she could get her hands on. “My mother was very happy to see me read,” she said.

Winfrey will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, which honors philanthropic and humanitarian contributions. The 57-year-old media mogul, who was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for 1985’s “The Color Purple,” supports various charitable and educational causes, including her own namesake foundations and Academy for Girls in South Africa. Jones and Smith will receive honorary Oscars for their outstanding careers.

Jones has appeared in more than 50 films.

The 80-year-old actor — voice of Darth Vader — was nominated for an Academy Award in 1971 for “The Great White Hope.” His other credits include “Field of Dreams,” ‘’Patriot Games” and “The Hunt for Red October.”

Smith was NBC’s first makeup man when he started his career in 1945. He won an Oscar in 1984 for his work on “Amadeus” and was nominated again in 1989 for “Dad.” Known as the “godfather of makeup,” he also worked on “The Godfather,” ‘’The Exorcist” and “Taxi Driver.” Smith also helped train many of today’s top movie makeup artists.

Smith, Jones and Winfrey will receive their statuettes on Nov. 12 at the 3rd annual Governors Awards dinner at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center, just above the Kodak Theatre, where the Academy Awards are presented.

Sheen withdraws lawsuit over NY hotel incident Associated Press Writer

SANTA MONICA, California — Court records show a judge has granted Charlie Sheen’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed against a woman who locked herself in the bathroom of an upscale New York hotel room that the actor left in tatters.

Sheen claimed Capri Anderson locked herself in the bathroom of the Plaza Hotel because she had taken one of his watches valued at $165,000. His lawsuit sought reimbursement.

Anderson told police the actor put his hands around her throat during the raucous evening in late October, but she managed to slip away. Sheen sued Anderson for attempted extortion in November after she recounted her version of events on “Good Morning America.” Court records show Sheen’s attorney were granted a dismissal of the case without prejudice on Friday, which means the actor could re-file.

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In this Nov. 22, 2010 publicity image released by ABC, Capri Anderson, the woman who was found locked in a bathroom of actor Charlie Sheen’s hotel room on Oct. 25, 2010 is shown during an interview on “Good Morning America,” in New York.

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Suicide, mental health linked to sex abuse: study

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Aerial view of a sector of the Jamanxim National Forest in the Amazon state of Para, nothern Brazil, in 2009. Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon accelerated in June, with more than 300 square kilometers destroyed, a 17 percent increase over the previous month, government researchers said Tuesday

Amazon deforestation on the rise again in Brazil Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon accelerated in June, with more than 300 square kilometers destroyed, a 17 percent increase over the previous month, government researchers said Tuesday.

The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said 312.6 square kilometers (120 square miles) were destroyed in June, based on the preliminary analysis of satellite photos of the vast South American rainforest.

May had seen a decrease in deforestation to 268 square kilometers (100 square miles) from 477 square kilometers (180 square miles) in April.

In April, more than 400 square kilometers (150 square miles) of forests were destroyed in a single

state, Mato Grosso, which is seen as a major agricultural frontier and is used for cattle ranches and soybean farming.

At the 2009 UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, Brazil committed itself to reducing Amazon deforestation by 80 percent by 2020.

Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country by area, has 5.3 million square kilometers of jungle and forests — mostly in the Amazon river basin — of which only 1.7 million are under state protection. The rest

is in private hands, or its ownership is undefined.

Massive deforestation has made Brazil one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, and the pace of deforestation peaked in 2004 at 27,000 square kilometers (10,000 square miles) a year.

By 2010, however, it had dropped to 6,500 square kilometers, thanks in part to the INPE’s RealTime Deforestation Detection System (DETER), which allows researchers to collect new satellite images on a daily basis.

However, the system can only monitor areas of 25 hectares (60 acres) or more, so its results are not considered definitive.

WOMEN who have experienced rape or other abuse have far higher rates of mental disorders and are up to 20 times more likely to attempt suicide than other females, an Australian study showed Wednesday. The findings, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed a very strong association between exposure to genderbased violence and mental disorder, said study leader Susan Rees.

“Based on other studies, we expected there to be a correlation and an association, but the strength of it was particularly concerning,” said Rees, from the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. “Not only was there a higher rate (of mental disorder) but there was also a greater severity.”

Researchers analysed the results of a national survey of 4,451 women aged 16 to 85 conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2007. They looked at the four more common types of abuse — physical violence by an intimate partner, rape, other sexual assault and stalking — and the rate of mental disorders such as

anxiety and depression, and substance abuse.

“For women exposed to two types of gender-based violence the lifetime rate of mental disorder was 69 percent and for three or more types of gender-based violence, it was 89.4 percent,” Rees said. “This compares with a rate of 28 percent for women who have not experienced violence.”

Attempted suicide figures were alarming with a 1.6 percent attempted suicide rate for women never exposed to gender-based violence rising to six percent for women who had experienced one type and 34 percent for those enduring three or four types. Rees, a senior research fellow at UNSW’s Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, said the analysis was the most comprehensive done in a nationally representative sample and would therefore have relevance to other countries.

The data, which showed about 15 percent of Australian women had reported sexual assault of some sort and eight percent had reported being raped, was comparable with other countries, she added.

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Women who have experienced rape or other abuse have far higher rates of mental disorders and are up to 20 times more likely to attempt suicide than other females, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association

Ban turtle eggs trade in Malaysia: WWF Agence France Presse

Conservationists Wednesday urged Malaysia to impose a national ban on the trade and consumption of turtle eggs to ensure the survival

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A handler holds up a green sea turtle at the Turtle and Marine Ecosystem Centre in Rantau Abang in eastern Terengganu state, 2007.

of the marine creatures. Turtles once arrived in their thousands to lay eggs on Malaysian beaches but are now increasingly rare due to poaching and coastal development.

“WWF-Malaysia continues its call for a comprehensive ban on the consumption and trade of turtle eggs of all marine turtle species to ensure the survival of these majestic creatures,” Environmental group WWFMalaysia said in statement.

With no national ban on eating

turtle eggs, they are sold openly in eastern Terengganu state where only the sale of leatherback turtle eggs is not permitted, the group said. Turtle eggs are are also available elsewhere in the country.

WWF said contrary to popular belief most people consider the eggs a “delicacy” and eat them for pleasure, not as a source of protein or for their reputed medicinal or aphrodisiac effects.

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Pele warns Neymar against early move to Europe Reuters

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Juventus’ supporters celebrate during their team’s Italian Serie A match against Atalanta at Azzuri d’Italia Stadium in Bergamo, 2008. Juventus fans have been flocking in their thousands to snap up season tickets for the upcoming campaign in the club’s new stadium

New Juve stadium inspires fans to sign up Agence France Presse

Juventus fans have been flocking in their thousands to snap up season tickets for the upcoming campaign in the club’s new stadium. Juve spent the last five years playing at the Stadio Olympico in Turin since leaving their former Stadio delle Alpi home, which they bought from the local council in 2003, in order to rebuild a stadium on that site.

And now 23,000 people have bought season tickets for the 41,000-capacity stadium, an increase of 56 percent on last season’s figure of 14,600 season ticket holders.

The new stadium will be inaugurated on September 8, when it’s

official name will be revealed, just three days before its first Serie A match when Parma will be the visitors. Despite being the best-supported club in Italy, on average Juve only filled one third of the 67,000capacity Stadio delle Alpi.

The Stadio Olympico wasn’t much more popular with Juve rarely filling out the 28,000-seater stadium which they shared with city neighbours Torino, who will remain there.

But the new stadium is more intimate than the old Stadio delle Alpi as there is no running track, meaning fans will be closer to the action.

It also has improved facilities, such as a shopping complex built into it and parking space for 4,000 vehicles.

LONDON - Brazil great Pele says in-demand compatriot Neymar should follow his example and stay with Santos rather than move to Europe. The striker’s performances for Santos have drawn comparisons with Pele at the same age and the 19-year-old has been linked to both Chelsea and Manchester City in the English Premier League.

However, the 70-year-old Pele, who won three World Cups and spent virtually all his career at Santos, thinks Neymar would be best served by developing at home.

“He can be a great player, he can be like (Lionel) Messi or Ronaldo, no doubt,” Pele told reporters at an event in London to launch an opus for the New York Cosmos, where he ended his career. “But I think it’s a little complicated for him to move to a club in England or Italy at the moment. The marking is very tight there.

“He would find that a little difficult because he’s very young. The game is very physical in England and Italy. Maybe in Holland or France or even Spain it would be better for him.”

With Brazil hosting the World Cup in 2014, Pele believes it would be good for his country’s chances to keep Neymar away from the clutches of Europe’s biggest clubs.

“I think it is very difficult to keep him in Brazil,” Pele said. “Santos is my team and he started there with us. I hope he stays there until more or less the 2014 World Cup but it will be a little difficult to keep him here. “He hasn’t reached his potential yet, but he is already an excellent player.”

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Brazilian striker Neymar shows Rwanda during the Preliminary Draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, on July 30, 2011, at the Marina da Gloria, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Real Madrid agree tie-up with China’s Evergrande Agence France Presse

Real Madrid and Chinese Super League leaders Guangzhou Evergrande have agreed to a tie-up that could see player exchanges and the Spanish giants opening an academy in China. Madrid, who play Evergrande later Wednesday in a pre-season friendly in Guangzhou, are striving to promote their brand in fast-developing China, as are a host of other top European sides.

The two sides on Tuesday signed what Chinese state media called “a letter of intent”, with an eye on cooperation on player exchanges, brand promotion and the opening of the largest football academy in China.

“We are building a close relationship with Guangzhou Evergrande (which) we believe will be closer as time goes by,” Florentino Perez, president of Real Madrid, was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency. “We are working together to establish a football academy in China, which I think is the first step of our cooperation.”

Real play their second and final game in China on Saturday in Tianjin, which is close to Beijing. Evergrande have taken the resurgent Super League by storm this season and recently splashed out $10 million on the Argentinian midfielder Dario Conca.

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Real Madrid players (from L) Xabi Alonso, Kaka, Sergio Ramos, Iker Casillias, Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema are pictured here during a donation ceremony for the Guangzhou Real Madrid Foundation Football School in Guangzhou, southern China’s Guangdong province, on August 1.

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National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern answers questions from the media regarding failed contract negotiations between the NBA and the players association in New York June 30, 2011.

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NBA sues players’ union over labor dispute Reuters

NEW YORK - The National Basketball Association filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the players’ union seeking a ruling that the lockout of players does not violate antitrust laws. The NBA said the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, arises from the union’s threatened use of antitrust litigation to extract a more favorable contract in ongoing negotiations.

“The union’s improper threats of antitrust litigation are having a direct, immediate and harmful effect upon the ability of the parties to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement,” the lawsuit said. The NBA also said on Tuesday that it had filed an unfair labor practice charge against the union before the National Labor Relations Board, saying the players have failed to bargain in good

faith.

William Hunter, executive director of the players’ association, said in a statement that the NBA’s actions “are just another example of their bad-faith bargaining, and we will seek the complete dismissal of the actions as they are totally without merit.” Throughout the negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement, the NBA said, the players’ union has

repeatedly threatened to renounce its role as the bargaining representative of the NBA players.

In its lawsuit, the NBA called the threat “an impermissible negotiating tactic” designed only to commence an antitrust challenge to the lockout and gain leverage in contract negotiations. The NBA contended that the same tactic was pursued by the National Football League players’ union in its most

recent collective bargaining negotiations.

In his statement, Hunter said the union has not made any decision about renouncing its role as the collective bargaining representative of the players.

“We urge the NBA to engage with us at the bargaining table and to use more productively the short time we have left before the 20112012 season is seriously jeopardized,” he said. In its lawsuit, the NBA also said it is seeking a ruling that federal courts lack jurisdiction to block the lockout. The lawsuit comes a day after NBA officials and players’ representatives met for the first time since

the league declared a lockout on July 1.

The dispute involves how to split some $4.3 billion in total revenues. The NBA says an overhaul of the pay structure is needed after 22 of the 30 NBA teams lost money last year.

If the dispute is not resolved before the beginning of the season this fall, it could result in the league’s first work stoppage since 1998, when a lockout shortened the season to 50 games from 82.

The case is National Basketball Association v. National Basketball Players Association, et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-5369.

Matsuda still in Sharapova unchallenged as world’s top earning female athlete danger a day after cardiac arrest Reuters

Associated Press Writer

TOKYO — Former Japan captain Yuji Nakazawa says he is still in shock after ex-teammate Naoki Matsuda suffered a cardiac arrest during training.

Matsuda collapsed after finishing a 15minute warmup run during training for J-League club Matsumoto Yamaga on Tuesday and was rushed to a hospital.

Matsumoto Yamaga officials said Wednesday that he is still unconscious and remains in serious condition.

Nakazawa says “I can’t believe it” and “I hope he recovers consciousness quickly and we can hear his voice again soon.”

The 34-year-old Matsuda played 40 times for Japan, including at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.

He played a total of 385 J-League games for the Yokohama F Marinos from 1995 to 2010.

NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova may not have won a grand slam title since 2008, but the Russian tennis player remains unchallenged as the world’s highest paid woman in professional sports. For the seventh straight year, Sharapova topped the annual list provided by Forbes magazine, despite failing to add to her three grand slam titles, although she did make the Wimbledon final in July.

Sharapova’s earnings, mostly off-court endorsements, were estimated at $25 million, twice as much as her nearest rival, Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki, the current women’s world number one.

American racing driver Danica Patrick was third with $12 million followed by tennis players Venus Williams, Belgium’s Kim Clijsters and Serena Williams.

Seven of the top nine female earners were tennis players, including China’s Li Na, who made $8 million last year but was expected to soar up the rankings and challenge Sharapova for the top spot after her breakthrough win at the French Open.

Maria Sharapova of Russia examines her racquet between points while playing Serena Williams during the Bank of the West Classic at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium on July 29, 2011 in Stanford, California.

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Ferrari expects more wins this year Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says he can now see the “right spirit” in the Italian squad following a difficult start to the season.

The Maranello squad has turned its fortunes around after a poor first part of the year, and now Ferrari has been fighting in front, with Fernando Alonso having won the British Grand Prix and having finished second in Valencia and Nurburgring and third in Hungary.

Montezemolo is adamant Ferrari will be a “key player” in the second part of the season, the Italian expecting there are more wins to come. “I can see the right spirit in the team after a very difficult start to the season,” Montezemolo said on Ferrari’s website.

“Domenicali and his crew seem very determined, concentrating fully on their tasks for the second part of the year which I am sure will feature Ferrari in the role of a key player.

“I expect we will pick up wins to add to the important and

historically very significant victory achieved at Silverstone.”

Ferrari said Montezemolo met with team boss Stefano Domenicali, as well as Pat Fry and Luca Marmorini, to discuss the state of the design of the 2012 car and also look at the overal situation in F1, which the team said is now entering a “delicate phase”.

“There is no doubt the sport is approaching a delicate phase, featuring important deadlines and new horizons,” said the team on its website.

“Ferrari will be keen to look in depth at certain issues in the most appropriate way, aware of its historically central role in the world of motor sport.”

Ferrari’s Brazilian driver Felipe Massa and Red Bull Racing’s Australian driver Mark Webber drive at the Hungaroring circuit on July 31, 2011 in Budapest after the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix.

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Pirelli reveals new tyre choices PIRELLI has revealed the tyre compounds that it will take to the the next three races in Belgium, Italy and Singapore.

For the Spa and Monza races, the Italian manufacturer will take the medium and the soft compounds, while the Singapore night event will see the return of the soft and super soft combination.

The soft and the super soft were the tyres used in Monaco, Canada and Hungary, while the soft/medium combination has been the most common in recent races like Britain.

“We’re learning more and more with every race in our first year of Formula 1, and fine-tuning our compound choices to benefit from the valuable information that we are accumulating,” said Pirelli’s Paul Hembery.

“We’ve got three of the most thrilling races on the entire calendar coming up, and we believe that we’ve arrived at some tyre nominations that are very well-suited to the characteristics of these very different but equally exciting circuits.

“Of course there will always be some unknown factors - such as the weather but the choices we have made are designed to help teams maximise both their performance and their race strategy.”