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Rihanna honored for style Associated Press

NEW YORK — Rihanna, an undisputed fashion star of the moment, was the big draw Monday at the annual Council of Fashion Designers of America awards, which also honor the year’s top designers. The singer and pop culture star, dressed in a see-through fishnet dress, gloves and headscarf embellished with thousands of crystals, was awarded the group’s 2014 Fashion Icon Award. Previous honorees have been Lady Gaga, Kate Moss, Nicole Kidman and Johnny Depp.

Also being honored at the glamorous ceremony at New York’s Lincoln Center was designer Tom Ford, who won the CFDA’s lifetime achievement award. The prestigious Founder’s Award went to Bethann Hardison, a former model and modeling agent who has been a vocal champion for diversity on runways.

Joseph Altuzarra won CFDA’s womenswear award while the menswear award went to designers Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, the duo behind the label Public School. Sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen won the accessories award. CFDA’s international award went to Raf Simons, of Dior.

The annual show, hosted this year by director and screenwriter John Waters, draws a mix of fashion insiders and Hollywood.

This year, Rihanna was clearly the big name, along with an even newer fashion star: Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o, who presented the womenswear award.

Others in attendance included Marion Cotillard, Blake Lively, Naomi Campbell, Coco Rocha, Jennifer Hudson, Anna Wintour and Emmy Rossum.

Speaking of Rihanna before the show, designer Zac Posen called the pop star a fashion risk-taker, who skillfully melds red-carpet glamour with a rebellious streak.

Rihanna’s choice for Monday’s event of a sparkling, revealing, body-hugging gown, designed by Adam Selman, epitomized Posen’s description. “ S h e takes risks and she marches to her own drum and she knows what she likes,” Posen told The

Associated Press in an interview.

He recalled meeting the singer at his studio before she launched her first album.

“She was a fashion world novice then,” he said, “but obviously she had looks and confidence and little-girl charm. All the ingredients were there for her to be a huge superstar: ambition, strength, and also vulnerability.” Rihanna’s occasional use of shock value, he said, “has kept her current, and balanced how classically beautiful she is.” Rihanna also has a great appreciation for designers, Posen added: “That’s why people love to dress her.”

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Coastal territories owned by investors

Bali feared to be surrounded by concretes

Oliver Stone to write, direct Edward Snowden film

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Oliver Stone will write and direct a film about Edward Snowden, one of two high-profile films in the works about the National Security Agency leaker.

Stone announced Monday that he plans to adapt “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man,” a book by Guardian journalist Luke Harding. The project pairs one of cinema’s most controversial directors with one of the most explosive news events in recent years — one that is ongoing.

“This is one of the greatest stories of our time,” Stone said in a statement. He added that making such a film is “a real challenge.”

He will have some deep-pocketed competition. Sony Pictures last month purchased the big-screen rights to Glenn Greenwald’s “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. Surveillance State.” The film is being produced

by James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.

Stone has advocated for the former NSA contract systems analyst, who is

living in Russia on a temporary grant of asylum after leaking massive amounts of NSA documents to the media.

“To me, Snowden is a hero because he revealed secrets that we should all

know, that the United States has repeatedly violated the Fourth Amendment,” Stone said in a press conference at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

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The photo shows Bali Island taken from above. For long time, the coastal territories of Bali have been owned by investors or conglomerates. In the future, the Bali Island is feared to be surrounded by condotels or villas.

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DENPASAR - For long time, the coastal territories of Bali have been owned by investors or conglomerates. For instance, in the area of Cemagi (Badung) and Kerambitan (Tabanan) the coastal areas have become the property of investors and so has the coastal territory of Nusa Penida subdistrict. In the future, the Bali Island is feared to be surrounded by condotels or villas.

“For example, dozens of hectares of land in the coastal region of Kerambitan (Tabanan) have been owned by one of the owners of tobacco companies. They are productive lands. Bali has many strategic locations so that many investors are interested to own them,” said a property analyst, John Sahadewa.

In addition, from the coastal regions of Buleleng to Amed (Karan-

gasem) were no longer owned by local residents. Since long time ago, they had been divided by investors into lots. When the entire coastal territories were owned by investors, Balinese community was feared to be isolated, especially during melasti procession because such a case often emerged.

“If it has been dominated by investors, of course they have total right over the land. Here, the com-

munity must be attentive and unite to maintain their rights. The public and hotel management must work together in order to get win-win solution,” affirmed John.

According to John, Bali was famous in the world due to its customs and culture. On the other hand, the development would continue because it essentially created or improved something. On that account, the owner or management of a condotel or hotel should also be concerned with the surrounding communities. In addition, they should work together so as to give strength to each other. Communities gave local power to attract tourists, like ceremony, for instance.

Meanwhile, hotels should provide flexibility to communities to per-

form their customs and culture. “It needs regulating and firmness of both sides,” he said.

John said that in Kuta, any price of land would be definitely purchased by investors because the prospect of the area was very good so the land prices were crazy, but there were still people purchasing it. On that account, he hoped the community and local government should seriously keep Bali and was not limited to a discourse. Global spatial planning should be designed and published as soon as possible so that investors knew the rules prevailing in Bali. “It aims at giving protection against Bali. When left unchecked, the condition is very worrying,” he said.

A community leader of Cemagi,

Mengwi, Putu Suyantha, asserted that coastal territories of Cemagi no longer belonged to the local people. According to him, the constitutional violations persisted if the government did not strictly enforce the rules. “Due to a lot of interests, the rules are usually unable to be enforced. Moreover, to be an official people must pay quite a few, so such capital should be returned later on,” he said.

Suyantha hoped the local government officials and customary village apparatus should be compact and commit to keep Bali from investor invasion. “Do not only be wise and enforce the rules at first, but then change the mind when facing money. We surely do not expect this,” said Suyantha. (kmb36)

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Bali News The farmer of seaweed in Nusa Penida

Poor environmental management, dozens suffer cikungunya Bali Post

Nusa Penida lacks of dozens of health officers

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NUSA PENIDA - Nusa Penida subdistrict in Klungkung still lacks of dozens of health workers. It poses the impact of careless mutation in the end of 2013. It happened because more than 50 health workers on the island were transferred to Klungkung mainland. However, so far there has been no replacement. As a result, the Health Agency is in confusion.

This problem has long been complained by people of Nusa Penida. As consequence, public services in the three public health centers were not optimal. The Head of Klungkung Health Agency, Agung Suwastika, when visited at his office on Monday (Jun 2) did not dismiss the condition.

However, his party refused to explain the motive of mutations considered not to take into account the aspect of balance in the health services to community.

Clearly, the mutation sufficiently disrupted the activities of health services in Nusa Penida. When asked about the mutation, he rejected to give explanation if it was alleged to have something to do with the kinship because certain officials wanted their family or relative to serve in Klungkung mainland.

He admitted the Health Agency was currently quite distraught. Besides, his party had also reported this situation to the Bali Health Agency. Thus, the provincial government once provided the assistance of 13 health workers serving in Nusa Penida. However, the amount was not enough to cover the shortage of health workers after 50 mutations. “Before the mutation, we still lack of health workers. Now, we clearly still lack quite a lot of health workers,” he said. Responding to the shortage, his party had been proposed hiring 47 temporary or

contracted health workers to be assigned at the Nusa Penida public health center I at Sampalan, Nusa Penida health center II at Jungut Batu and Nusa Penida health center III at Klumpu village.

Of the 47 health workers, they consisted of three doctors at the Nusa Penida health center I, 13 midwives and five nurses. Then, three midwives at the Nusa Penida health center II, two nurses and five undergraduate nurses.

Meanwhile, the Nusa Penida health center III was proposed to get four nurses. The proposal was submitted to the Regent Nyoman Suwirta on January 23, after the mutation made at the end of 2013 in order the implementation of the national health insurance could be realized.

Unfortunately, so far the proposal had not been addressed by the regent. Suwastika asserted that the 47 health workers were almost entirely the residents of Nusa Penida. Thus, as the natives to Nusa Penida, they were expected to work optimally in providing health services for the Nusa Penida community.

This problem had also been expressed by local community when the regent organized an interactive meeting at Semaya hamlet, Suana village late last month. At that time, the regent revealed if Nusa Penida lacked of health officers

and this should be promptly addressed.

At the moment, pursuant to the data on particular functional position in the Health Agency as per January 2014, the number of health officers reached 362 people. In details, the number of general practitioners reached 21 people (lacked of 15 officers), 14 dentists (lacked of 1 officer), 118 nurses (lacked of 34 officers), 140 midwives (lacked of 14 officers), 19 dental nurse (lacked of 2 officers), 11 nutritionists (lacked of 4 officers), 11 pharmacists (lacked of 9 officers), 4 public health officers (lacked of 2 officers), 1 radiographer, 10 health analysts (lacked of 3 officers) and 13 sanitarians (lacked of 2 officers). So, the Health Agency lacked of totally 86 health workers.

Previously, the mutation made by the incumbent Regent Tjokorde Gede Agung drew criticism from various circles. A total of 73 civil servants did not think to receive a decree of mutation two days before Tjok Agung ended his office. Interestingly, of the totally 73 civil servants, 21 civil servants were mostly serving as health workers at Nusa Penida public health centers and then transferred to Klungkung Hospital and Health Agency. Meanwhile, some other officers of the Education Agency of Nusa Penida were transferred to other agencies. (kmb31)

SEMARAPURA - Cikungunya virus began to spread in a number of areas in Klungkung. Lately, the virus carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito attacked dozens of residents in Banjarangkan subdistrict. They suddenly got high fever and pain in the joints. Even, some people could not walk.

Cikungunya virus was known to spread in two hamlets in the Banjarangkan subdistrict, including Penasan and Tihingan hamlet, Tihingan village. A local resident, Nengah Arianta, said on Monday (Jun 2) the virus had begun to spread since the past two weeks. Suddenly his relatives were suffering from the symptoms of the virus such as a sudden fever with temperature of 39 degrees Celsius, pain in the joints, especially the knee joints, ankles, toes and hands and spine with rash (a collection of red spots) on the skin to headaches and unable to walk. “Initially, I think only one or two people were hit by the virus, but in fact outside there a dozen of people experiencing it. Sadly, some residents are even unable to walk,” he said.

When contacted on Monday (Jun 2), the Klungkung Health Agency confirmed the outbreak of the virus. The Division Head of Disease Control and Health Problems, the Health Agency, Wayan Putra Jaya, said in his office that his party had received the report from local residents. Having been surveyed by the officers, in fact the cikungunya virus had spread to dozens of residents. At Penasan hamlet, it had spread to at least to 21 people. Among them, there were I Wayan Suwastika, 52, Made Sutama, 45, Wayan Ariada, 40, Nengah Ariawan, 37, and Nengah Elawati, 60. Even, the virus also attacked a child of seven years old, Made Rai. On that account, his party immediately performed a fogging for a week on May 19-26.

Similar incident also occurred at Tihingan hamlet. Even, a total of 25 residents were attacked by cikungunya virus. They were Komang Suyasa, 45, Ni Wayan Seniasih, 45, Ketut Sutra, 60, Ni Ketut Artani, 16, and Ketut Merta Jiwa, 9. Even, two toddlers at the hamlet namely Made Bayu Putra Sentana, 3, and Dewa Ketut Putra, 4, were also infected by similar virus. Putra Jaya said that his party had directly performed fogging at Penasan hamlet since May 28. Having observed the neighborhood, he assessed the environmental management was still not good. Around the village, there were two piles of garbage exuding stanch. In addition, there was also a pool of water becoming a good habitat for development of Aedes aegypti mosquito spreading the cikungunya virus.

“The virus is evolving sporadically. So, after receiving the conclusion from the survey team, we immediately did the mosquito nest eradication by fogging,” he said. His party invited people of Klungkung to pay attention to the quality of environment. The Aedes aegypti mosquito should not be let increasingly spread to other areas. Moreover, other than spreading cikungunya virus, the mosquito bite also caused the highly lethal dengue fever. The Head of Klungkung Health Agency, Agung Suwastika, added that before spreading at both villages, similar virus also spread at Kusamba and Paksebali village, Dawan subdistrict. Likewise, the victim also reached dozens of people where the cause was almost the same, namely the poor environmental management.

“Public awareness is highly required. If the management of surrounding environment is poor, people are very susceptible to cikungunya and even dengue fever,” said Agung Suwastika.

Moreover, in this transitional season, his party hoped the residents to be more concerned with the environment, such as waste management and environmental sanitary to avoid puddles that potentially became the mosquito breeding. (kmb31)

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

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5 Star all suites hotel opens in Jakarta IBP

JAKARTA - Archipelago International has opened “The Grove Suites by Grand Aston”, the groups latest 5 star flagship hotel and Archipelago’s 20th hotel in the Indonesian capital.

Located in the core of the Rasuna Epicentrum, downtown Jakarta’s newest billion dollar mixed used development, the new residential hotel is next door to the Bakrie Tower , one of Jakarta’s most spectacular office towers, several high end residential towers and a lifestyle mall with an abundance of dining, entertaining and shopping options.

Jakarta’s Golden Triangle between Rasuna Said, Mega Kuningan and Jalan Sudirman is in the hotels direct vicinity.

The all-suites hotel blends a sophisticated design and sumptuous comforts with touches of Asian elegance and the exemplary service for which Aston is renowned. It consists of 151 one-and two-bedroom suite rooms especially geared towards discerning business travelers on long and short term assignments, while the Restaurant, two lounges and a swimming pool with pool bar will keep guests entertained outside of their suites. There will also be a well-equipped mini gym and a spa, as well as two meeting rooms and of course the many facilities of the Rasuna Epicentrum mall which are just outside the hotels main lobby.

“The Grove Suites by Grand Aston was conceptualized to be our Jakarta flagship and stands out from our other properties not only through its luxurious offerings but by affording a boutique like and residential feel , pan Asian interior design and very distinguished suite layout which is anything else but cookie cutter. “ Says Norbert Vas, VP Sales & Marketing.

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Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014 1 Jun

Pura Sakenan Serangan Denpasar Pura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar Timur Pura Alas Harum Batur Kintamani Pura Alas Angker Munduk Kintamani Pura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung 4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi Batuan Pura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang Kapal Dalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida 8 Jun

Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesiman Denpasar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan 10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung Selatan Pura Luhur Uluwatu Pura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badung Pura Penataran Agung Singakerta Ubud Pura Andakasa Karangasem Pura Gua Lawah Klungkung Pura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkung Pura Taman Ayun Mengwi Pura Suralaya Banda klungkung Pura Dalem Senapati Bebalang Bangli Pura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

Gianyar Pura Gerya Sakti Tulikup Gianyar Pura Dalem Dauh Ubud Pura Segara Ketewel Sukawati Pura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud 11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak Jembrana Pura Dalem Dauma Batuan Sukawati Pura Nataran Kacang Dawa Klungkung Pura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung Denpasar Pura Puseh Brahmana Klungkung Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan Pura Dalem Sukahet Klungkung Pura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Dukuh Tegallalang Pura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah Kesiman Pura Sahab Nusa penida Pura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar 12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja Denpasar Pura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta Selatan Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar 15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi 25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai Karangasem Pura Aer jeruk Sukawati Gianyar Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel Gianyar Pura Pasek Bendesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem Karangasem Pura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Batur Sari Ubud 27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati 30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi 5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan Klungkung Pura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Penebel Tabanan Pura Benua Tarukan Besakih 9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah Pedungan Pura Natih Kalah Batubulan Pura Desa Silakarang Singapadu Pura Dalem Petitenget Kuta Badung Pura Dalem Pulasari Gianyar Pura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar Selatan Pura Paibon Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Lumintang Denpasar Pura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Pasar Agung Kediri Tabanan Pura Puaya Batuan Sukawati 11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri

12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

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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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Science

NASA to test giant Mars parachute on Earth Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File

FILE - This Nov. 1, 2012 file photo shows a pile of sand and debris sitting near a house that was damaged by superstorm Sandy in Brant Beach, N.J. A new psychology study shows that people are wrongly less prone to flee from hurricanes with feminine names.

Study: People fear male-named hurricanes more

LOS ANGELES — The skies off the Hawaiian island of Kauai will be a stand-in for Mars as NASA prepares to launch a saucer-shaped vehicle in an experimental flight designed to land heavy loads on the red planet.

For decades, robotic landers and rovers have hitched a ride to Earth’s planetary neighbor using the same parachute design. But NASA needs a bigger and stronger parachute if it wants to send astronauts there.

Weather permitting, the space agency will conduct a test flight Tuesday high in Earth’s atmosphere that’s supposed to simulate the thin Martian air. Cameras rigged aboard the vehicle will capture the action as it accelerates to four times the speed of sound and falls back to Earth. Viewers with an Internet connection can follow along live.

Engineers cautioned that they may not succeed on the first try. “As long as I get data, I’ll be very happy,” said project manager Mark Adler of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The search for a way to land massive payloads on Mars predates the existence of NASA. Back then, engineers toyed with sending a winged spacecraft that would land like an airplane, but the idea was not feasible, space historians say. Landing has always been “one of the big technology challenges for a human Mars mission,” American University space policy professor Howard McCurdy said in an email.

When the twin Viking landers became the first spacecraft to set down on Mars in 1976, they relied on parachutes to slow down after punching through the Martian atmosphere. The basic design has been used since including during the Curiosity rover’s hair-raising landing in 2012.

With plans to land heavier spacecraft and eventually humans, NASA needed a heftier solution. So it designed a supersonic parachute that’s 110 feet (33.5 meters) in diameter — twice as big as the one that carried the 1-ton Curiosity. It’s so gigantic that it can’t fit into the wind tunnels that NASA typically uses to test parachutes. Since it’s impractical to test unproven technology on Mars, NASA looked to Earth as a substitute.

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — People are slightly less likely to flee an oncoming storm with a feminine name than a masculine one, a new study finds. But hurricanes with feminine names turn out to be deadlier in the United States than their more macho-sounding counterparts, probably because their monikers make people underestimate their danger, the researchers conclude.

In fact, the two deadliest storms to make landfall in the U.S. since 1979, when male names were introduced, were named Katrina and Sandy.

The study, which didn’t involve any experts in meteorology or disaster science, is published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Atlantic hurricane season started Sunday.

In six different experiments, more than 1,000 test subjects told behavioral scientists at the University of Illinois in Champaign that they were slightly more likely to evacuate from an oncoming storm named Christopher than Christina, Victor than Victoria, Alexander than Alexandra and Danny than Kate. They found female names less frightening.

“People are looking for meaning in any information that they receive,” said study co-author Sharon Shavitt, a professor of marketing.

“The name of the storm is providing people with irrelevant information that they actually use.”

Shavitt said both men and women rated female storms less scary and they both “are likely to believe that women are milder and less aggressive.” It fits with other research about gender perception differences, she said. Sandy, while it can also be a male name, was chosen as a female name by weather authorities in 2012. Shavitt said it also ranked as rather feminine when she asked a small group of people to assess names on a masculinefeminine scale.

Hurricane and disaster science experts, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Kerry Emanuel, were skeptical at first. Then after more consideration some but not all found merit in the work, noting that it is more about psychology rather than physical science.

Emanuel said confusion over whether 2012’s Sandy was called a hurricane or post-tropical storm did cause confusion, so maybe names could make a difference too. He

joked that maybe names matter and perhaps meteorologists should start using scarier-sounding ones like Jack-the-Ripper or King Kong.

But Susan Cutter, director of the University of South Carolina’s Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, dismissed the idea that female-named storms are deadlier.

She considered the study results just coincidence.

To examine past death rates, Shavitt and doctoral student Kiju Jung used Shavitt’s scale that rated names from 1 to 11 in terms of masculinity and femininity. They looked at death rates going back to 1950 and found that, in general, the deadlier storms were more feminine.

However, male-named storms weren’t introduced until 1979. Only female names were used for storms from 1953 to 1978. From 1950 to 1952, military-style phonetic names (like Able, Baker, Charlie) were used and before that, there were no official names for storms.

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AEC 2015

Foreign advertising companies besiege Bali Bali Post

DENPASAR - Implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 is around the corner. In general, the readiness of Indonesia, especially Bali, to face the threats and seize the opportunities of the AEC remained weak. Many local entrepreneurs are worried because so far the protection and defense of government for them was still weak. Employers coalesced into the members of the Indonesian Advertising Company Association (P3I) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) of Bali also felt similar concerns. The advertising employers from other countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand could invade Bali. Therefore, the P3I Bali and Chamber of Commerce and Industry urged the government to favor and protect local businesses with a variety of instruments of protection.

“If we want to see local interest, the government must protect local businesses. Without the protection and alignment on local entrepreneurs, it will eventually harm the economic situation of Bali and drives the economic disparity and marginalizes local businesses,” said Chairman of Kadin Bali, Gede Sumarjaya Linggih alias Demer, in Denpasar.

“In 2015, we are dealing with the AEC. We have to defend ourselves. Alignment and protection of local entrepreneurs should be strengthened,” said the Head of Out of Home Division of Central P3I, Roy G. Wicaksono, separately.

Roy said the contradictory conditions all this time happened in which it was very difficult for the Indonesian entrepreneurs to penetrate the advertising business in the ASEAN countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. On the country, the entrepreneurs from those countries were easily entering Indonesia amidst the weak defense of government to local entrepreneurs.

“For example, our advertising business is not easy to get into Malaysia, is not as easy as the other countries to enter Indonesia. Similarly, we’re difficult to get into Thailand and Singapore to propose the opening of branch office, but to enter Indonesia is so

easy. Government must favor and protect local businesses. Please prioritize local businesses and local entrepreneurs,” he said.

Meanwhile, Demer added that the free market of AEC 2015 was unlike to incite an elephant with a deer freely, or incite professional businessmen from other countries with local entrepreneurs freely.

“Then, we will lose out. Our local entrepreneurs do not have good networking and less experience.

So, here is the role of government protection. If the government cannot do it, ultimately it’s the same as the absence of government,” he said.

For example, in advertising business, he added, the government should prioritize local entrepreneurs. “In the field of advertising, for example, do not let all the Singaporean businessmen come into Bali uncontrollably that ultimately will cause the emerging local entrepreneurs to lose competitiveness and become spectators.”

Even, added Demer, the local entrepreneurs should be given tax discounts so that they got facilities and real protection from the government. “But, does the government dare do it? It should have dared. Why? The fund or profits obtained by local entrepreneurs can be ascertained that one hundred percent will be invested back in Bali and give multiplier effect

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optimization,” a spokesperson from the Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, R Sukhyar, said after opening the 2014 CoalTrans Asia conference on Monday.

Sukhyar said the rise in income is not from an increase in production, and it is taking place when the world’s coal price is experiencing a declining trend.

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Employers coalesced into the members of the Indonesian Advertising Company Association (P3I) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) of Bali also felt similar concerns.

The advertising employers from other countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand could invade Bali. on the economy of Bali, so there is no capital flight. They also pay taxes in Bali, so it can generate the strength of Bali’s economy,” he said.

Related to readiness of Bali in general to face the AEC 2015, Demer assessed the most well prepared was the tourism sector.

Meanwhile, the most unready sectors were the industry, commerce, agriculture and livestock.

“Some sectors are ready, but many other sectors are not ready for the AEC 2015. Our tourism sector is ready, but our industry is still weak,” he said.

In terms of employment rate, Demer assessed the salary of local labor of Bali was cheaper than that of other ASEAN countries.

So, he did not worry if there would be tremendous invasion of foreign labor to Bali if they would only be paid cheaply in Bali.

Most local businessmen were unready for the AEC 2015, added Demer, because they were weak in marketing, networking and capital, especially in the field of trading services. “We are left behind compared to Malaysia and Singapore,” said Demer denoting

a member of the House of Representatives from Bali.

To prepare the entrepreneurs, according to Demer, the government should develop human resources and labor of local entrepreneurs as well as increased the research and development efforts. “There must be human resource training and development to improve the quality of entrepreneurship and foster new business players. Provide convenience for local businesses and it is not mistaken if the regulatory alignment is added,” he concluded. (wid)

This hike is an impact from the change in mining companies’ behavior in following the regulation more, Sukhyar said.

“Two years ago, many mining companies had arrears in paying their royalties to the government, but that was improving,” Sukhyar said.

If the government receives consistent royalty income as in

the last three months, Indonesia will receive at least 44 trillion rupiah from coal royalty, which is higher than the government’s target of 37.6 trillion rupiah.

Indonesia’s coal royalty in 2013 was 24.4 trillion rupiah, while the coal production for the January-April period was as much as 147 million tons.

Overall, Indonesian income

from the mineral and coal tax was 140 trillion rupiah, with coal royalty contributing 24.4 trillion rupiah and mineral royalty generating 3.9 trillion rupiah.

Meanwhile, the government is targeting an income of 156 trillion rupiah from tax income, 37.6 trillion rupiah from coal royalty and two trillion rupiah from mineral royalty in 2014.

Indonesia’s coal royalty doubled to 11 trillion

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This April 23, 2014 image provided by NASA shows NASA’s saucer-shaped experimental flight vehicle being prepared for a Range Compatibility Test at the at the U.S Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kekaha on the island of Kaua‘i in Hawaii.

NUSA DUA - Indonesian government’s revenue from coal royalty in the first three months of 2014 doubled from the same period last year to 11 trillion rupiah, from only five trillion rupiah.

“The increase in the income from coal royalty is an impact of mining companies’ payment

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DAMASCUS, Syria — Waving photos of their leader and dancing with flags, thousands of Syrians pledged renewed allegiance to President Bashar Assad as they voted Tuesday in the country’s presidential election decried by the opposition as a charade. Some stamped their ballots with blood after pricking their fingers with pins supplied by the government in a symbolic act of allegiance and patriotism.

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TABANAN - Tanah Lot Temple at Beraban village, Kediri, will hold pujawali jelih or grandiose temple anniversary. Peak of the ceremony will take place on Wednesday (Jun 4). Ahead of the peak of the ritual, a number of residents were already busy with devotional works to prepare all ritual means to be used as seen on Monday (Jun 2).

Tanah Lot did not let the moment go by capturing the atmosphere of the residents of Beraban customary village paying devotional works.

The temple anniversary after the Kuningan feast is a regular one

held every 6 months (210 days).

Pilgrims from all over Bali thronged the temple for saying prayers taking place for 3 days. One of the priests of the Tanah Lot Temple said that every anniversary was always flooded by pilgrims. They were not only from Tabanan, but also from other counties/municipality in Bali.

By and large, the most crowded pilgrims came on the second day.

Even, as the previous experiences, the pilgrims who could not perform prayers directly at the Tanah Lot

Temple in the sea due to high tides they could do it at the representative temple on the beach. Conversely, when the tide went down, the pilgrims could directly say prayers at Tanah Lot Temple.

Based on information from the management of Tanah Lot tourist attraction, the procession of temple anniversary began at 12:00 a.m., and would be officiated over by Ida Pedanda Taman Sari and Cokorda Tabanan. Meanwhile, the deities would be ready to receive the wor-

ship for 3 days and ended on Saturday (Jun 7) at 2:00 p.m. Before the peak of the temple anniversary, the deities would be escorted to make purificatory rite at the spring in the north of the temple, Tuesday (Jun 3) at 3:00 p.m. Related to the ceremony, on Wednesday (Jun 4) the sea water was predicted to recede at 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., on Thursday (Jun 5) at 06:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., on Friday (Jun 6) at 07:00 a.m.-12:00 a.m. and on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (kmb28)

Illegal private lessons proliferate

Public schools asked to improve quality Bali Post

NEGARA - In recent years, many private lesson activities outside schools emerge in Jembrana.

However, some of them have yet owned a permit alias illegal. Private lesson providers outside school hours do not simply give the key subjects to students, but also pose business opportunity because the tuition charged to join it reaches millions of rupiahs.

Such phenomenon drew the attention of the Regent of Jembrana,

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The villagers of Beraban make preparation for Tanah Lot Temple anniversary

A number of devotional workers had come from the morning to prepare a variety of ritual means for the anniversary at the very famous temple in the world. Even, travelers who were enjoying the view of

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I Putu Artha. In front of the ranks of civil servants of Jembrana government on Monday morning (Jun 2), Regent Artha asked the institution to better improve the quality of education at schools.

Private lessons mostly followed by the rich as if had caused the national educational institutions to be no longer believed to make children smart and intelligent. As a result, many students preferred to take private lessons. “For the rich, perhaps it does not matter, but for the poor it results in jealousy,” said

the regent.

According to him, private lesson was necessary, especially when going to continue the education to a higher level such as when searching for a college exam. “Private lesson must not be provided from kindergarten through high school.

In other words, it means there is no trust to school teachers,” said Artha.

Based on information, a number of private lesson providers operating in Jembrana did not have a permit. In front of the Jembrana

government officials and civil servants the Regent Artha invited chiefly the officials to help the poor in continuing their education. He regretted various levies charged at school such as those of books and other payments. According to him, it was useless when the regency had organized a free education program, but there was still a lot to pay. “Do not let the reason of being unable to buy school uniform causes students to drop out of school,” he said. Artha invited all the civil servants if they had a

neighbor who was about to drop out of school due to being unable to buy school uniforms to report and help. According to him, buying a new set of uniforms was not so difficult.

Separately, Spokesperson of Jembrana government, Made Gede Budhiarta, admitted there were indeed illegal private lessons. He said the municipal police should check and provide coaching. “The municipal police have provided coaching related to the non-existence of permit,” he explained. (kmb26)

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Others chose to vote in full sight of other voters and television cameras — rather than go behind a partition curtain for privacy.

Men and women wore lapel pins with Assad’s picture and said re-electing him would give the Syrian leader more legitimacy to find a solution to the devastating three-year conflict that activists say has killed more than 160,000 people, about a third of whom were civilians. The balloting is only taking place in government-controlled areas and Assad’s win — all but a foregone conclusion — would give him a third seven-year term in office, tighten his hold on power and likely further strengthen his determination to crush the insurgency against his rule.

The opposition’s Western and regional allies, including the U.S., Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, have called the vote a sham. The so-called internal Syrian opposition groups seen as more lenient are also boycotting the vote, Syrian soldiers walks past a bus with President Bashar Assad’s portrait in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday June 3, 2014.

while many activists around the country are referring to it as “blood elections” for the horrific toll the country has suffered.

The vote is also Syria’s first multicandidate presidential election in more than 40 years and is being touted by the government as a referendum measuring Syrians’ support for Assad.

He faces two government-approved challengers in the race, Maher Hajjar and Hassan al-Nouri, both of whom were little known in Syria before declaring their candidacy for the country’s top post in April.

In government strongholds of Damascus and Lattakia, the voting took on a carnival-like atmosphere, with voters singing and dancing, all the while declaring undying loyalty to Assad. In Homs, people stood in long lines waiting to vote.

The government has presented the election as the solution to the conflict, but there is no indication it will halt the violence or mend a bitterly divided nation. The stagemanaged balloting also will likely put to rest any illusions that the man who has led Syria since 2000 has any intention of relinquishing power or compromising to reach a political solution.

Security tight on eve of Tiananmen anniversary

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — Beijing put additional police on the streets and detained government critics Tuesday as part of a security crackdown on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy protests centered on the capital’s Tiananmen Square. Police manned checkpoints, and officers and paramilitary troops patrolled pedestrian overpasses and streets surrounding the square.

The increased security comes on top of heightened restrictions on political activists, artists, lawyers and other government critics. Dozens have been taken into detention, forced out of Beijing or confined to their homes in other parts of the country.

“June 4 has come again and the plainclothes officers are here to protect us. I can’t leave the house to travel or lecture,” Jiangsu province-based environmental activist Wu Lihong said in a text message.

Artist and former activist Guo Jian was also taken away by authorities on Sunday night, shortly after a profile of him appeared in the Financial Times newspaper in commemoration of the crackdown’s anniversary.

As he was being detained, Guo, an Australian citizen, told an Associated Press reporter he would be held until June 15.

A writer and officer of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, who writes under the

name Ye Du, was also taken from his home in the southern city of Guangzhou to join a forced “tour trip,” his wife, Wan Haitao, said by phone. Such compulsory trips are a common method of keeping government critics under 24-hour watch without the need to initiate legal proceedings.

In an apparent sign of government nervousness, connections to the global Internet appeared to have been disrupted, with Google’s mail and other services mostly inaccessible. China already routinely blocks popular overseas social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube and heavily censors Chinese sites for politically sensitive content.

China allows no public discussion of the events of June 3-4, 1989, when soldiers accompanied by tanks and armored personnel carriers fought their way into the heart of the city, killing hundreds of unarmed protesters and onlookers. The government has never issued a complete, formal accounting of the crackdown and the number of casualties.

A woman and child pass by uniformed and plainclothes security personnel with umbrellas and security cameras near a portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing Tuesday, June 3, 2014.

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Sampian War in Penataran Sasih Temple IBP

Foreign banks sign up to help US battle tax evasion

GIANYAR - The Padudusan ritual held in the Penataran Sasih Temple was resumed with a unique procession named sampian war.

Such ritual was performed at the same time of the farewell to Lord Manca followed by hundreds of female and male pilgrims. The

whole set of rituals was prepared from the morning.

Before the series of sampian war was commenced, the female and male pilgrims surrounded the temple area of Penataran Sasih while dancing. Subsequently, it was followed by mabete-betean and dancing beautifully like waves. The whole procession was

carried out around the area Penataran Sasih for three times.

After the procession, the female and male pilgrims commenced the sampian war tradition. It was begun by shouting and praying directly in front of the Pengaruman and Ratu Sanghyang shrine. After saying prayers and being sprinkled with holy water, all the participating

pilgrims looked like a possessed men. They immediately took sampian previously provided in the temple courtyard. Afterwards, they looked to hit each other by using sampian with friends. However, none of them felt painful after the war tradition.

The sampian war tradition should always be carried out every

anniversary in the Penataran Sasih Temple annually. According to Chief of Jero Kuta Pejeng customary village, the tradition depicted the struggle of dharma (truth) over adharma (untruth) where it was ultimately won by dharma. The tradition was a regular agenda held every year on the temple anniversary of Penataran Sasih. (kmb)

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WASHINGTON - US officials said Monday that more than 77,000 banks and other financial institutions worldwide have joined its fight against tax evasion.

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In this April 27, 2014 file picture Swiss flags fly at the entrance of of Swiss bank Credit Suisse in Zurich, Switzerland. On May 19 Credit Suisse was fined $2.6 billion for actively helping Americans hide money to avoid taxes over many years. US officials said Monday that more than 77,000 banks and other financial institutions worldwide have joined its fight against tax evasion.

EU asks Italy, France to do more to tackle debt Associated Press

BRUSSELS — The European Commission, acting as the 28-nation bloc’s economic watchdog, is urging Italy and France to do more to bring their debt under control and push ahead with structural reforms to promote growth.

Monday’s recommendations come just a week after the European Parliament elections, in which Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s center-left party mustered strong support partly by calling for more leeway from Brussels’-dictated economic policies.

France’s governing Socialists took a beating in the elections and

are now facing the balancing act of complying with tough economic policy constraints while restoring the government’s popularity.

The Commission called on Italy to “reinforce budgetary measures” this year to reduce its debt pile and urged France to detail its measures to ensure “the correction of the excessive deficit” this and next year.

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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso answers questions from journalists during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels Monday, June 2, 2014.

That many institutions in nearly 70 countries have registered to work under the rules of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which will be implemented beginning on July 1.

The law demands that the foreign banks, investment houses and others provide information to US authorities on accounts held by US citizens and firms.

If they do not do so, the US Treasury says it could institute a 30 percent withholding tax on payments made from the United States to the financial institution, essentially a stiff tax on its US business.

Three years after initiating the FATCA program, the US Treasury says most institutions in most major economies have signed on.

“The strong international support for FATCA is clear, and this success will help us in our goal of stopping tax evasion and narrowing the tax gap,” said Robert Stack, the Treasury’s deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs.

Looking for ways to close its

budget deficit and clamp down on tax avoidance, Washington has particularly aimed the FATCA effort at traditional tax havens like Switzerland.

On May 19 Credit Suisse was fined $2.6 billion for actively helping Americans hide money to avoid taxes over many years.

Credit Suisse was one of 14 Swiss banks under criminal investigation by the US Justice Department on suspicion they helped wealthy US clients hide billions of dollars in assets from tax authorities.

Countries continue to sign up to FATCA. Last month Liechtenstein, the small European tax haven, sealed an anti-tax fraud pact with Washington that requires banks in the principality to provide information about accounts held by US taxpayers.

“The unhampered access to US capital markets, which has been secured by the agreement, is essential for Liechtenstein providers of financial services,” said Prime Minister Adrian Hasler.

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All this time Bangli is known as one of the central producers of quality coffee in Bali. Even, the quality of coffee produced by Bangli, especially by farmers in Kintamani region, has been well known in a number of countries in the world.

Bangli’s coffee

Known for its quality, demands low Bali Post

BANGLI - All this time Bangli is known as one of the central producers of quality coffee in Bali. Even, the quality of coffee produced by Bangli, especially by farmers in Kintamani region, has been well known in a number of countries in the world. However, the good quality of Kintamanian coffee is still not in line with the culture of the people in loving local products. All this time, more local people consume processed coffee products brought in from outside the region.

According to a coffee entrepreneur from Susut, Ida Bagus Santosa, nearly 90 percent of people in Bali, especially in Bangli, were coffee lovers. For them, coffee was usually considered one of the basic needs that should be met. However, amidst the high consumption and cultivation of quality coffee in Bali, many communities still enjoyed coffee processed outside Bali. “Sometimes the condition looks ironic.

We have quality coffee products such as the Banyuatis, Pupuan and

Kintamani. But, why 90 percent of the coffee in circulation in Bali is of outside brand. That’s ironic,” he said.

Even, according to him, the more saddening was the promotion of Bali coffee commodity by the government was often not in line with the realization. Based on his experience so far, when talking about coffee many officials would aggressively promote the coffee and would say that Bali coffee was the best. However, when presenting coffee to their

guests, they mostly preferred to choose the processed coffee products from outside the region.

“There are officials in the offices when talking about coffee will say if the Bali coffee is the most delicious. But when presenting to their guests, they will choose coffee product from outside the region, it is ironic. Why did they promote Bali coffee if they serve coffee products from outside?

The government should make consistent promotion,” said the businessman doubling as legisla-

tor of Bangli.

According to him, all this time the government had lacked of educating the people of Bali to love their local products. In addition, the public so far was only educated to be able to produce goods without being able to process and sell whereas the community should be guided and protected by the government in order to come into the market competition. “We’re even told to freefall, without protection and subsidies into the war,” he said. Santosa expected the Bali coffee could become the host at home region in future. Similarly, residents of Bali were expected to much love their own local products.

Meanwhile, based on the data owned by the Bangli Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Agency,

of the 12,000 hectares of coffee plantation in Bangli, a total of 5,300 hectares had been filled.

Other than in Kintamani subdistrict, the coffee plantations also widely spread in Bangli subdistrict such as at Landih and Pengotan village. The variety of coffee cultivated by local farmers included the arabica and robusta.

“All this time, the arabica variety in Kintamani is known to have its own advantages having somewhat acidic flavor,” said the Head of Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Agency, AA Samba. Due to its peculiarities, many people wanted to research it. According to Samba, the presence of sour flavor in the Kintamanian arabica coffee was likely influenced by the temperature and topography of Bangli. (ina)

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Arrest shows Europe’s challenge to track jihadists Associated Press Writer

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FILE- In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photograph, an Indian boy defecates in the open in a poor neighborhood of New Delhi, India, U.N.

India gang rape case highlights lack of toilets Associated Press Writer

LUCKNOW, India — The two teenage girls had walked out together at night, as they did every night, into the wild bamboo fields 10 or 15 minutes from their mud-and-straw huts to relieve themselves. Like millions of families across India, they had no toilet at home. In the dark, they were attacked, gang-raped and killed. The assailants then hung their bodies from a mango tree in their village.

Beyond highlighting the rampant sexual violence in India, last week’s horrific crime is drawing attention to a glaring problem across the country that threatens women’s safety: the lack of toilets.

U.N. figures show of India’s 1.2 billion people, 665 million of them — mostly those in the countryside — don’t have access to a private toilet or latrine, something taken for granted in developed nations. Some villages have public bathrooms, but many women avoid using them because they are usually in a state of disrepair and because men often hang around and harass the women.

“Around 65 percent of the rural population in India defecates in the open and women and girls are expected to go out at night. This does not only threaten their dignity, but their safety as well,” Louis-Georges Arsenault, UNICEF’s Representative to India said in a statement.

Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the Sulabh Sanitation and Social Reform Movement — a group that helps build low-cost toilets across India — estimates the country needs about 120 million more latrines. Since the attack, his group has decided to construct toilets in 108 houses in the girls’ village of Katra Sadatganj in the northern, densely populated state of Uttar Pradesh.

The 14- and 15-year-old cousins were Dalits, at the bottom of Hinduism’s caste hierarchy — making them even more vulnerable to attacks from men, particularly of higher castes.

They did not go out alone, but there were just two of them. Women generally gather in groups to go to the fields to relieve themselves. To avoid embarrassment they usually go at dawn and late at night. Male family members usually don’t go with the women since modesty is a major consideration.

After the girls had left, an uncle

went out to make sure the cows hadn’t trampled his patch of mint, The Indian Express newspaper reported. He heard some screams and shone his flashlight toward four men dragging the girls away across the fields, Baburam, who uses one name, told the newspaper.

They threatened him with a gun.

“I was scared and I fled,” he said. “I now wish I hadn’t.” The state’s top police official made a clear link between rape and the lack of toilets.

“More than 60 percent of the rapes in the state occur when the victims step out to relieve themselves because they do not have toilets at their homes,” Ashish Gupta told reporters in state capital Lucknow. “It is difficult to give protection to every woman who goes out in the open to relieve herself.”

The lack of toilets is also a problem in urban slums, but the dangers are greater in rural areas because girls and women must go out into the fields, where they are more vulnerable.

PARIS — The suspect in the recent killings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels provides a textbook example of a longstanding fear in the West — the threat posed by radicalized citizens returning from the battlefields of Syria.

Since Syria became a magnet for Westerners, European nations have been slowly fortifying themselves with measures to detect potential jihadists and counter any plots. But French-born Mehdi Nemmouche — the first Western citizen returning from Syria to be implicated in a major attack — was caught by chance, in a spot check for drugs by a customs official, making a mockery of efforts to counter the threat.

The suspect had slipped through a handful of countries from Asia to Europe in the three months after leaving Syria, a French prosecutor said, a clear sign of the difficulties of tracking returnees.

Whether or not he was the Brussels shooter, the portrait provided by authorities of Nemmouche, 29, is of a dangerous man. They say when he was arrested Friday at the Marseille bus station he was heavily armed, carrying a large supply of ammunition and a banner of Syria’s most notorious fighting group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

They added that his camera contained a video showing weapons and clothes appearing to match those of the killer in the furious minute-long May 24 museum attack, which left three people dead and one seriously injured. A voice said the video was made because a camera to broadcast the killings live failed to function. Nemmouche, who has spent seven years behind bars, had been radicalized in prison, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said in announcing the arrest.

Between 1,000 and 1,500 Europeans may currently be fighting in Syria against President Bashar Assad, according to Charles Lister, an analyst with Brookings Doha Center, who drew the estimate from governments and other sources. Each one who returns represents a potential threat, according to official European thinking, and the challenge to track them all is huge. The arrest of the French suspect in the Belgian attack also opens the possibility that a returnee could choose to attack a country other than his homeland.

Thomas Hegghammer, an expert on foreign fighters at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, says that attacks by one person are far harder to thwart than large-scale operations.

European governments “are quite well positioned to thwart larger plots involving several people,” Hegghammer said. “They’re not able to stop all the smaller, simpler attacks like the one in Brussels, with one person and a gun.”

Thieves take 13,000 diapers from US nonprofit

Associated Press Writer

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Authorities in North Carolina are searching for whoever made a massive, unauthorized withdrawal from a diaper bank. The Diaper Bank of North Carolina says 13,000 diapers were stolen last weekend. The Durham-based nonprofit provides diapers to struggling families.

Founder and executive director Michelle Old said she went Monday to pick up an order to be distributed to a homeless shelter. She found the order had been strewn across the floor, and various sizes of diapers were missing. Old said losing the sizes 4 and 5 diapers was especially difficult because babies can stay in them for up to a year and they are hard to keep in stock.

“We already struggle and usually are low on those, but they completely took every diaper,” Old said. In addition, Old said thieves stole all the diapers from a reserve room that holds extra diapers and that no one outside the organization knows about. A group of volunteers from a church had been in the building last Saturday helping to re-wrap 6,000 packaged diapers for distribution in the community, Old said, adding that the shelves were full on Saturday.

Old said some people told her the diapers have turned up at local yard sales, and were being sold on the street. “A couple of people, since hearing about this, have contacted us and say they have been approached in the downtown area with people selling our diapers. Our tags are still on them,” she said, adding that one woman told her they were going for $4 a package.

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INDONESIA Newmont halts production

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JAKARTA - US mining giant Newmont said Tuesday it has ceased production at its Indonesian gold and copper mine due to controversial new rules governing the sector in Southeast Asia’s top economy.

Newmont has not shipped copper concentrate overseas since the rules were introduced in January. They include a ban on the export of some unprocessed minerals and higher taxes for some commodities that can still be shipped out of the country.

Copper concentrate, a major export for Newmont and its US peer Freeport McMoRan, was exempt from the ban but the companies still faced paying the new, higher taxes on shipments of the product.

But Newmont has refused -- and stopped shipments -- as it says the new levies conflict with its original agreements in Indonesia. It has been engaged in talks with the government to try and reach agreement.

The miner said that the stores at its Batu Hijau mine, in central Indonesia, were now full as it had not been exporting, and as a result it would have to stop production. “(Newmont’s) copper concentrate storage facilities at Batu Hijau are now full, forcing the operation to halt processing activities and cease production of copper concentrate,” the company said in a statement.

Zaenuddin Wanden, the head of a union representing Newmont workers, confirmed to AFP that machines at the mine that process ore -- the raw rocks dug out of the ground -- into concentrate had been shut down.

However Newmont added that it had decided not to go ahead with an earlier plan to send employees home on paid leave, as the company is waiting to see what will happen in talks with the government this week.

The new rules governing the mining sector are aimed at forcing foreign companies to smelt raw minerals in resource-rich Indonesia and keep more profits from the sector in the country.

But the industry has criticised their introduction as badly planned and analysts say the move has added to increased business uncertainty.

67 survive building colapse in Samarinda Antara

SAMARINDA - The join rescue team has evacuated at least 67 victims who survived the collapse of a building with shops in the Cendrawasih Complex of Samarinda, East Kalimantan Province, on Tuesday morning.

According to Andri, a volunteer from the Indonesian Red Cross for Samarinda, at least five survivors have been evacuated to the nearest hospital as they suffered injuries and needed immediate medical attention.

“I am not sure about the latest condition of the victims in the hospital.

We are still focusing on the rescue at the site as many victims are still buried under the debris,” Andri noted.

The victims who suffered minor injuries are being treated at the nearest health post in the complex.

According to preliminary data furnished by the Indonesian Red Cross, 14 victims have not yet been found since they are still buried under the building debris.

However, Andri claimed that the data was yet to be validated as the witnesses are not sure of the last location of the victims when the building collapsed.

“The preliminary report from witnesses said there were 84 people working at the construction site. However, we have rescued 67 of the victims,” Andri added.

The workers are mostly from cities in the East Java Province, such as Trenggalek, Kediri, Tulung Agung, and Ponorogo.

The join rescue teams that evacuated the victims comprise the Samarinda Police, Samarinda Civil Service Officer, Indonesian Red Cross personnel, and Samarinda Fire Fighter team.

The team is also operating heavy machinery to lift the building debris and rescue the buried victims at the location.

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The General Elections Commission (KPU) held meeting on socialization of declaration of integrity and peace of presidential election on Tuesday.

KPU holds declaration for peaceful presidential election

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JAKARTA - The General Elections Commission (KPU) will hold the Declaration of Integrity and Peace of Presidential Election, which is scheduled to be attended by the two pairs of Indonesian presidential and vice presidential candidates.

According to KPU Commissioner Arief Budiman, the declaration for a peaceful presidential election indicates that both pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates are allowed to start their official campaigning on Wednesday (June 4), until three days before the quiet period.

“We will hold a declaration for peaceful campaigning. Then, each candidate will be allowed to start their official campaign for 32 days,” Arief noted on Tuesday.

The declaration is scheduled to take place at the

Bidakara building on Tuesday evening and will be attended by representatives of the Supervisory Board of Election (Bawaslu) and the Honorary Council of Indonesia Election (DKPP).

The declaration will be read out and then signed by the election management body and the two pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates.

At the end of the event, each candidate will be offered an opportunity to deliver a speech.

“Being offensive and maligning others are our prime concerns during the campaign period and should be avoided. We hope that there will be no black campaigning,” he emphasized.

The presidential election is scheduled to be held on July 9 and will be contested by Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa and Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates.

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Petang Village

MANGUPURA - Petang Village is situated on an altitude of 800 meters above sea level, approximately 32 kilometers north of Denpasar. This village offers a countryside atmosphere remaining beautiful and original with horticultural plants that include various kinds of vegetable and fruit. Additionally, it also has terraced rice field and winding Ayung River that will bring the rafters to enjoy the natural beauty of the countryside.

Enjoying the rafting adventure on the Ayung River is truly challenging.

The fairly high level of difficulty starts

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from the confluence of two rivers’ flow named Campuhan. Then, the nearby waterfall makes the atmosphere of start point more naturally magnificent.

Other than the presence of several waterfalls along the river, the canyon of about 300 meters will also provide special memories, where thousands of fruit bats are flying around looking for food.

Meanwhile, other rare birds as well as gray and black monkeys sometimes appear among the shrubs. Following the rafting activities from here will explore further into the natural beauty of the whole rural area accompanied by trained professionals from Petang Village Cooperative.

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Nadal shows no sign of relinquishing King of Clay crown Reuters

PARIS - Concerns that Rafa Nadal’s reign as king of Roland Garros might be in jeopardy due to an aching back proved wide of the mark on Monday as the world number one led a mini Spanish charge into the French Open quarter-finals. On the day that Spanish King Juan Carlos abdicated his throne, there was no danger of his compatriot doing the same in Paris as the eight-times champion produced a 6-1 6-2 6-1 demolition job on Serbian Dusan Lajovic.

Next up will be a man who beat Nadal the last time they faced each other across a net - fellow Spaniard David Ferrer. Ferrer stalled Kevin Anderson’s bid to become the first South African man in 47 years to reach the last eight of the claycourt major with a 6-3 6-3 6-7(5) 6-1 win.

The top half of the men’s draw could have become an all-Spanish affair if Wimbledon champion Andy Murray and elastic-limbed Gael Monfils had not played spoilsport.

Seventh seed Murray and Fernando Verdasco walked out under sunny skies looking like clones - both kitted out in near identical canary yellow shirts and black shorts. Both players turned the air blue during a heated third set but it was Murray who buzzed around

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Court Suzanne Lenglen, stinging Verdasco with vicious winners for a 6-4 7-5 7-6(3) triumph.

While the linecall dispute was over in a flash after Murray gamely conceded the point, Verdasco blamed umpire Pascal Maria for fanning the flames. “Pascal is very peculiar.

Several times I had a bad experience with Pascal Maria. He’s not the kind of umpire I get along with. I can tell you that,” Verdasco said.

“He is an umpire that many players remember vividly and not because of his qualities.” Frenchman Monfils kept the home fires burning with a 6-0 6-2 7-5 win over yet another Spaniard, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.

But no one feels more at home at Roland Garros than Nadal. The top seed, who said he had to slow

Spain’s Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Monday, June 2, 2014. Nadal won 6-1, 6-2, 6-1.

down his serve in his previous match after being troubled by back pain, left Lajovic with a sore head and aching joints as he went on a rampage to go 5-0 up in the first set before rattling off 17 straight points at the start of the second.

The winners flying off Nadal’s racket appeared to leave everyone in such a trance that the umpire even fluffed his lines at one stage - telling the players ‘to replay the point’ in English before sheepishly repeating the instruction in French - drawing a rare smile from Lajovic.

With enigmatic American pop singer Prince watching from the stands, it did not take 83rd-ranked Lajovic too long to discover why beating Nadal at Roland Garros is one of the hardest riddles to crack.

On the eve of his 28th birthday, a screaming forehand winner allowed Nadal to take his formidable French Open win-loss record to 63-1 and just three wins away from again sinking his teeth into the Musketeers’ Cup.

Lorenzo feels Marc Marquez had more top speed

Jorge Lorenzo believes he would have beaten Marc Marquez to victory in MotoGP’s Italian Grand Prix if his Yamaha had just a little more straightline speed. Lorenzo came very close to inflicting Marquez’s first defeat of 2014 at Mugello, as they overtook each other 11 times over the final seven laps before the Honda rider secured the win by just 0.121 seconds.

Although Marquez was able to secure a sixth consecutive triumph, Lorenzo believes he was the faster man on Sunday and only lost out because the Honda was able to pass him on the main straight. “The only thing was probably the top speed,” said Lorenzo. “Maybe with higher top speed I could’ve got away. I think I was a little bit faster than Marc this time, but he could follow me when I was pushing.

“When he passed me, it seemed he was a little bit slower.

But on top speed he gained a lot of metres.” Marquez said after the race that Honda’s gear ratio choice for Mugello had been

slanted towards helping him slipstream for overtaking moves into the first corner.

While Lorenzo feels Yamaha still lacks straightline pace, he reckons the team has made big strides in closing on Honda for braking performance. “We’ve made some modifications to the bike that improved the braking so much,” he said. “I couldn’t fight with Marc in all the braking points, but maybe 60 per cent of them - much more than last year.

“Last year it was very difficult for me to fight with Marc.

I couldn’t pass him under braking, but had more corner speed.

“I had to try to see all the little areas where he opened his line.

“Now finally I feel stronger on braking. We still have more margin to improve, but if we can do it, we can fight with him on the brakes.

“I want to congratulate Yamaha for the effort they are making. It has been hard, but finally it seems we’ve found something.”

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Honda rider Marc Marquez, left, of Spain, crosses the finish line as he wins the Italian Moto GP followed by second placed Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo, of Spain, at the Mugello race circuit, in Scarperia, Italy, Sunday, June 1, 2014.

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England goalkeeper Ben Foster in action during a training session at George’s Park in Burton on Trent, England, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. England play an international soccer friendly against Peru at Wembley on Friday May 30th.

After quitting for kids, Foster heads to World Cup

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MIAMI — Even for a goalkeeper, Ben Foster’s brothers thought he was crazy. Foster walked away from the England team in 2011 to spend time with his young children between club matches rather than traveling the world. In a sport where players are reluctant to show any weaknesses, it was a surprising decision by one of the country’s leading goalkeepers.

“A few thought I was barmy; a few could understand it,” the 31year-old Foster recalled Monday.

“My mum and dad were supportive, my sister too, but my brothers said, ‘What are you doing? What are you thinking?’”

Three years on, though, the West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper is back with England and thousands of miles away from home in Miami en route to the

World Cup. He was persuaded to return to the international scene last year by coach Roy Hodgson, who previously managed him at West Brom.

“When he gave me the call to ask me to come back to the team it was a very easy decision,” said Foster, who will start Wednesday’s World Cup warm-up match against Ecuador on Wednesday in Miami.

“The kids were a bit older, four and

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five now, and it’s a lot easier to be away from them. It was an easy decision to get back in.”

But it wasn’t so easy to walk away in 2011. “I had a new born baby and another child under a year old. Family is a very important thing for me, and it felt like I was missing on them growing up,” Foster said in a hotel overlooking Biscayne Bay. “Everyone is entitled to give

that criticism because most of the people back in England would give their right arm to be at a World Cup. I’m no different. For me at the time it was a huge deal and a big decision to make. Even now I’d stick by the decision and it’s something I’d do again.” It’s wasn’t due to frustration at being behind Joe Hart in the pecking order, as he will be in the competitive games at the World Cup barring injury.

“When I was away from home with the team it was all I was thinking about was,” Foster said of his children. “It was kind of taking away from my football, all I thought was I wanted to be back at home with my family. ... It’s

almost like home sickness, really.

That was the overriding feeling whenever I was away.”

He said his England teammates aren’t afraid to open up about the potential struggles of spending almost two months on the road.

“We’re quite good at talking about things like that,” said Foster, a former Manchester United goalkeeper. “The good thing for this team at the minute, there are probably four or five teams with four or five players from each of those teams. “So you are lucky to have a close friend near to you to talk through things like that. It’s not like a taboo when it’s hard to talk about it.”

BUENOS AIRES - Central defender Martin Demichelis was named on Monday in Argentina’s 23-man World Cup squad while regular reserve midfielder Ever Banega was left out.

Coach Alejandro Sabella recalled Demichelis to his provisional squad last month after his title-winning season with English Premier League side Manchester City following more than two years out of the Argentina reckoning.

The defender who made way for Demichelis is another veteran of the 2010 finals in South Africa, Nicolas Otamendi, who was on loan at Brazil’s Atletico Mineiro and had also only recently been recalled by Sabella.

Benfica winger Enzo Perez also found a place in the squad for the Brazil finals starting on June 12 but Banega, who joined Newell’s Old Boys from Valencia this season, missed the cut after illness and loss of form.

Argentina, captained by Lionel Messi, will be looking to win their third world crown. They face Bosnia, Iran and Nigeria in Group F.

Squad: Goalkeepers: Sergio Romero (Sampdoria), Mariano Andujar (Catania), Agustin Orion (Boca Juniors) Defenders: Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City), Federico Fernandez (Napoli), Ezequiel Garay (Benfica), Marcos Rojo (Sporting Lisbon), Hugo Campagnaro (Inter Milan), Martin Demichelis (Manchester City), Jose Basanta (Monterrey) Midfielders: Javier Mascherano (Barcelona), Fernando Gago (Boca Juniors), Lucas Biglia (Lazio), Ricardo Alvarez (Inter Milan), Augusto Fernandez (Celta Vigo), Angel Di Maria (Real Madrid), Maxi Rodriguez (Newell’s Old Boys), Enzo Perez (Benfica) Forwards: Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli), Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Rodrigo Palacio (Inter Milan), Ezequiel Lavezzi (Paris St Germain) REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

Argentina’s national soccer team head coach Alejandro Sabella (R) talks to player Martin Demichelis during a training session at the squad’s camp ahead of the 2014 World Cup, in Buenos Aires May 31, 2014.

Doctor: Suarez will play Colombia’s Falcao to in Uruguay’s WCup opener miss World Cup with injury

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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay striker Luis Suarez is recovering well from knee surgery and will be able to play in its World Cup opener against Costa Rica on June 14, the national team’s doctor said on Monday.

Suarez had keyhole surgery on his left knee just 10 days ago, but Dr. Alberto Pan said the Liverpool forward is already training twice a day with the rest of the team, stretching his muscles and running without pain.

“We can confirm right now that Suarez is on the final team roster,” Pan said, adding that he should be able to play from the start of the tournament.

He credited Suarez’s positive attitude and tremendous desire to play for his quick recovery.

“He’s working on his muscles without feeling any pain,” Pan told reporters. “Today, he had a more demanding schedule and he’s going to work double from now on with even more demanding training.”

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Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez leaves the hospital in a wheel chair after surgery due to a knee injury in Montevideo May 22, 2014.

June 19 and Italy on June 24. Suarez is widely seen as his team’s top scoring threat, having led the Premier League with 31 goals for Liverpool this past season and getting voted player of the

year in England.

Suarez scored three goals at the 2010 World Cup, and added four when Uruguay won the 2011 Copa America in Argentina.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Monaco striker Radamel Falcao has been left off Colombia’s squad for the World Cup after failing to recover from a knee injury.

Coach Jose Pekerman made the announcement at a news conference Monday from the team’s training facility in Buenos Aires, Argentina, dealing a serious blow to the team’s chances at the tournament.

Falcao’s presence had been in doubt ever since he underwent knee surgery in January. But Colombians had been hoping for a miracle recovery in time for the World Cup as Falcao posted on social inspirational messages and photos of himself taking nine-kilometer (six-mile) runs.

“We can say to all of Colombia that he did more than was within his power to play,” said Pekerman. “He deserved the right for us to wait and keep the hope alive.”

The 28-year-old said that as he lacks match fitness, “the smartest thing to do” is to stay on the sidelines. He said he still plans to travel to Brazil to cheer on his teammates.

“I had great hope to play but, well, one has to support the team from outside and wish it the best,” Falcao said.

Falcao’s nine goals in the South American qualifiers paved the way for Colombia’s return to the World Cup for the first time since 1998. The team makes its debut in Group C June 14 in Belo Horizonte against Greece.

Colombia was a favorite to win the group, which includes Japan, Greece and Ivory Coast.

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Demichelis secures place in Argentina World Cup squad Reuters

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England goalkeeper Ben Foster in action during a training session at George’s Park in Burton on Trent, England, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. England play an international soccer friendly against Peru at Wembley on Friday May 30th.

After quitting for kids, Foster heads to World Cup

Associated Press Writer

MIAMI — Even for a goalkeeper, Ben Foster’s brothers thought he was crazy. Foster walked away from the England team in 2011 to spend time with his young children between club matches rather than traveling the world. In a sport where players are reluctant to show any weaknesses, it was a surprising decision by one of the country’s leading goalkeepers.

“A few thought I was barmy; a few could understand it,” the 31year-old Foster recalled Monday.

“My mum and dad were supportive, my sister too, but my brothers said, ‘What are you doing? What are you thinking?’”

Three years on, though, the West Bromwich Albion goalkeeper is back with England and thousands of miles away from home in Miami en route to the

World Cup. He was persuaded to return to the international scene last year by coach Roy Hodgson, who previously managed him at West Brom.

“When he gave me the call to ask me to come back to the team it was a very easy decision,” said Foster, who will start Wednesday’s World Cup warm-up match against Ecuador on Wednesday in Miami.

“The kids were a bit older, four and

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five now, and it’s a lot easier to be away from them. It was an easy decision to get back in.”

But it wasn’t so easy to walk away in 2011. “I had a new born baby and another child under a year old. Family is a very important thing for me, and it felt like I was missing on them growing up,” Foster said in a hotel overlooking Biscayne Bay. “Everyone is entitled to give

that criticism because most of the people back in England would give their right arm to be at a World Cup. I’m no different. For me at the time it was a huge deal and a big decision to make. Even now I’d stick by the decision and it’s something I’d do again.” It’s wasn’t due to frustration at being behind Joe Hart in the pecking order, as he will be in the competitive games at the World Cup barring injury.

“When I was away from home with the team it was all I was thinking about was,” Foster said of his children. “It was kind of taking away from my football, all I thought was I wanted to be back at home with my family. ... It’s

almost like home sickness, really.

That was the overriding feeling whenever I was away.”

He said his England teammates aren’t afraid to open up about the potential struggles of spending almost two months on the road.

“We’re quite good at talking about things like that,” said Foster, a former Manchester United goalkeeper. “The good thing for this team at the minute, there are probably four or five teams with four or five players from each of those teams. “So you are lucky to have a close friend near to you to talk through things like that. It’s not like a taboo when it’s hard to talk about it.”

BUENOS AIRES - Central defender Martin Demichelis was named on Monday in Argentina’s 23-man World Cup squad while regular reserve midfielder Ever Banega was left out.

Coach Alejandro Sabella recalled Demichelis to his provisional squad last month after his title-winning season with English Premier League side Manchester City following more than two years out of the Argentina reckoning.

The defender who made way for Demichelis is another veteran of the 2010 finals in South Africa, Nicolas Otamendi, who was on loan at Brazil’s Atletico Mineiro and had also only recently been recalled by Sabella.

Benfica winger Enzo Perez also found a place in the squad for the Brazil finals starting on June 12 but Banega, who joined Newell’s Old Boys from Valencia this season, missed the cut after illness and loss of form.

Argentina, captained by Lionel Messi, will be looking to win their third world crown. They face Bosnia, Iran and Nigeria in Group F.

Squad: Goalkeepers: Sergio Romero (Sampdoria), Mariano Andujar (Catania), Agustin Orion (Boca Juniors) Defenders: Pablo Zabaleta (Manchester City), Federico Fernandez (Napoli), Ezequiel Garay (Benfica), Marcos Rojo (Sporting Lisbon), Hugo Campagnaro (Inter Milan), Martin Demichelis (Manchester City), Jose Basanta (Monterrey) Midfielders: Javier Mascherano (Barcelona), Fernando Gago (Boca Juniors), Lucas Biglia (Lazio), Ricardo Alvarez (Inter Milan), Augusto Fernandez (Celta Vigo), Angel Di Maria (Real Madrid), Maxi Rodriguez (Newell’s Old Boys), Enzo Perez (Benfica) Forwards: Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Gonzalo Higuain (Napoli), Sergio Aguero (Manchester City), Rodrigo Palacio (Inter Milan), Ezequiel Lavezzi (Paris St Germain) REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci

Argentina’s national soccer team head coach Alejandro Sabella (R) talks to player Martin Demichelis during a training session at the squad’s camp ahead of the 2014 World Cup, in Buenos Aires May 31, 2014.

Doctor: Suarez will play Colombia’s Falcao to in Uruguay’s WCup opener miss World Cup with injury

Associated Press Writer

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay striker Luis Suarez is recovering well from knee surgery and will be able to play in its World Cup opener against Costa Rica on June 14, the national team’s doctor said on Monday.

Suarez had keyhole surgery on his left knee just 10 days ago, but Dr. Alberto Pan said the Liverpool forward is already training twice a day with the rest of the team, stretching his muscles and running without pain.

“We can confirm right now that Suarez is on the final team roster,” Pan said, adding that he should be able to play from the start of the tournament.

He credited Suarez’s positive attitude and tremendous desire to play for his quick recovery.

“He’s working on his muscles without feeling any pain,” Pan told reporters. “Today, he had a more demanding schedule and he’s going to work double from now on with even more demanding training.”

Uruguay also faces England on

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REUTERS/Andres Stapff

Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez leaves the hospital in a wheel chair after surgery due to a knee injury in Montevideo May 22, 2014.

June 19 and Italy on June 24. Suarez is widely seen as his team’s top scoring threat, having led the Premier League with 31 goals for Liverpool this past season and getting voted player of the

year in England.

Suarez scored three goals at the 2010 World Cup, and added four when Uruguay won the 2011 Copa America in Argentina.

BOGOTA, Colombia — Monaco striker Radamel Falcao has been left off Colombia’s squad for the World Cup after failing to recover from a knee injury.

Coach Jose Pekerman made the announcement at a news conference Monday from the team’s training facility in Buenos Aires, Argentina, dealing a serious blow to the team’s chances at the tournament.

Falcao’s presence had been in doubt ever since he underwent knee surgery in January. But Colombians had been hoping for a miracle recovery in time for the World Cup as Falcao posted on social inspirational messages and photos of himself taking nine-kilometer (six-mile) runs.

“We can say to all of Colombia that he did more than was within his power to play,” said Pekerman. “He deserved the right for us to wait and keep the hope alive.”

The 28-year-old said that as he lacks match fitness, “the smartest thing to do” is to stay on the sidelines. He said he still plans to travel to Brazil to cheer on his teammates.

“I had great hope to play but, well, one has to support the team from outside and wish it the best,” Falcao said.

Falcao’s nine goals in the South American qualifiers paved the way for Colombia’s return to the World Cup for the first time since 1998. The team makes its debut in Group C June 14 in Belo Horizonte against Greece.

Colombia was a favorite to win the group, which includes Japan, Greece and Ivory Coast.

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Petang Village

MANGUPURA - Petang Village is situated on an altitude of 800 meters above sea level, approximately 32 kilometers north of Denpasar. This village offers a countryside atmosphere remaining beautiful and original with horticultural plants that include various kinds of vegetable and fruit. Additionally, it also has terraced rice field and winding Ayung River that will bring the rafters to enjoy the natural beauty of the countryside.

Enjoying the rafting adventure on the Ayung River is truly challenging.

The fairly high level of difficulty starts

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from the confluence of two rivers’ flow named Campuhan. Then, the nearby waterfall makes the atmosphere of start point more naturally magnificent.

Other than the presence of several waterfalls along the river, the canyon of about 300 meters will also provide special memories, where thousands of fruit bats are flying around looking for food.

Meanwhile, other rare birds as well as gray and black monkeys sometimes appear among the shrubs. Following the rafting activities from here will explore further into the natural beauty of the whole rural area accompanied by trained professionals from Petang Village Cooperative.

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Nadal shows no sign of relinquishing King of Clay crown Reuters

PARIS - Concerns that Rafa Nadal’s reign as king of Roland Garros might be in jeopardy due to an aching back proved wide of the mark on Monday as the world number one led a mini Spanish charge into the French Open quarter-finals. On the day that Spanish King Juan Carlos abdicated his throne, there was no danger of his compatriot doing the same in Paris as the eight-times champion produced a 6-1 6-2 6-1 demolition job on Serbian Dusan Lajovic.

Next up will be a man who beat Nadal the last time they faced each other across a net - fellow Spaniard David Ferrer. Ferrer stalled Kevin Anderson’s bid to become the first South African man in 47 years to reach the last eight of the claycourt major with a 6-3 6-3 6-7(5) 6-1 win.

The top half of the men’s draw could have become an all-Spanish affair if Wimbledon champion Andy Murray and elastic-limbed Gael Monfils had not played spoilsport.

Seventh seed Murray and Fernando Verdasco walked out under sunny skies looking like clones - both kitted out in near identical canary yellow shirts and black shorts. Both players turned the air blue during a heated third set but it was Murray who buzzed around

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Court Suzanne Lenglen, stinging Verdasco with vicious winners for a 6-4 7-5 7-6(3) triumph.

While the linecall dispute was over in a flash after Murray gamely conceded the point, Verdasco blamed umpire Pascal Maria for fanning the flames. “Pascal is very peculiar.

Several times I had a bad experience with Pascal Maria. He’s not the kind of umpire I get along with. I can tell you that,” Verdasco said.

“He is an umpire that many players remember vividly and not because of his qualities.” Frenchman Monfils kept the home fires burning with a 6-0 6-2 7-5 win over yet another Spaniard, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.

But no one feels more at home at Roland Garros than Nadal. The top seed, who said he had to slow

Spain’s Rafael Nadal returns the ball to Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic during their fourth round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Monday, June 2, 2014. Nadal won 6-1, 6-2, 6-1.

down his serve in his previous match after being troubled by back pain, left Lajovic with a sore head and aching joints as he went on a rampage to go 5-0 up in the first set before rattling off 17 straight points at the start of the second.

The winners flying off Nadal’s racket appeared to leave everyone in such a trance that the umpire even fluffed his lines at one stage - telling the players ‘to replay the point’ in English before sheepishly repeating the instruction in French - drawing a rare smile from Lajovic.

With enigmatic American pop singer Prince watching from the stands, it did not take 83rd-ranked Lajovic too long to discover why beating Nadal at Roland Garros is one of the hardest riddles to crack.

On the eve of his 28th birthday, a screaming forehand winner allowed Nadal to take his formidable French Open win-loss record to 63-1 and just three wins away from again sinking his teeth into the Musketeers’ Cup.

Lorenzo feels Marc Marquez had more top speed

Jorge Lorenzo believes he would have beaten Marc Marquez to victory in MotoGP’s Italian Grand Prix if his Yamaha had just a little more straightline speed. Lorenzo came very close to inflicting Marquez’s first defeat of 2014 at Mugello, as they overtook each other 11 times over the final seven laps before the Honda rider secured the win by just 0.121 seconds.

Although Marquez was able to secure a sixth consecutive triumph, Lorenzo believes he was the faster man on Sunday and only lost out because the Honda was able to pass him on the main straight. “The only thing was probably the top speed,” said Lorenzo. “Maybe with higher top speed I could’ve got away. I think I was a little bit faster than Marc this time, but he could follow me when I was pushing.

“When he passed me, it seemed he was a little bit slower.

But on top speed he gained a lot of metres.” Marquez said after the race that Honda’s gear ratio choice for Mugello had been

slanted towards helping him slipstream for overtaking moves into the first corner.

While Lorenzo feels Yamaha still lacks straightline pace, he reckons the team has made big strides in closing on Honda for braking performance. “We’ve made some modifications to the bike that improved the braking so much,” he said. “I couldn’t fight with Marc in all the braking points, but maybe 60 per cent of them - much more than last year.

“Last year it was very difficult for me to fight with Marc.

I couldn’t pass him under braking, but had more corner speed.

“I had to try to see all the little areas where he opened his line.

“Now finally I feel stronger on braking. We still have more margin to improve, but if we can do it, we can fight with him on the brakes.

“I want to congratulate Yamaha for the effort they are making. It has been hard, but finally it seems we’ve found something.”

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Honda rider Marc Marquez, left, of Spain, crosses the finish line as he wins the Italian Moto GP followed by second placed Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo, of Spain, at the Mugello race circuit, in Scarperia, Italy, Sunday, June 1, 2014.

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FILE- In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photograph, an Indian boy defecates in the open in a poor neighborhood of New Delhi, India, U.N.

India gang rape case highlights lack of toilets Associated Press Writer

LUCKNOW, India — The two teenage girls had walked out together at night, as they did every night, into the wild bamboo fields 10 or 15 minutes from their mud-and-straw huts to relieve themselves. Like millions of families across India, they had no toilet at home. In the dark, they were attacked, gang-raped and killed. The assailants then hung their bodies from a mango tree in their village.

Beyond highlighting the rampant sexual violence in India, last week’s horrific crime is drawing attention to a glaring problem across the country that threatens women’s safety: the lack of toilets.

U.N. figures show of India’s 1.2 billion people, 665 million of them — mostly those in the countryside — don’t have access to a private toilet or latrine, something taken for granted in developed nations. Some villages have public bathrooms, but many women avoid using them because they are usually in a state of disrepair and because men often hang around and harass the women.

“Around 65 percent of the rural population in India defecates in the open and women and girls are expected to go out at night. This does not only threaten their dignity, but their safety as well,” Louis-Georges Arsenault, UNICEF’s Representative to India said in a statement.

Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the Sulabh Sanitation and Social Reform Movement — a group that helps build low-cost toilets across India — estimates the country needs about 120 million more latrines. Since the attack, his group has decided to construct toilets in 108 houses in the girls’ village of Katra Sadatganj in the northern, densely populated state of Uttar Pradesh.

The 14- and 15-year-old cousins were Dalits, at the bottom of Hinduism’s caste hierarchy — making them even more vulnerable to attacks from men, particularly of higher castes.

They did not go out alone, but there were just two of them. Women generally gather in groups to go to the fields to relieve themselves. To avoid embarrassment they usually go at dawn and late at night. Male family members usually don’t go with the women since modesty is a major consideration.

After the girls had left, an uncle

went out to make sure the cows hadn’t trampled his patch of mint, The Indian Express newspaper reported. He heard some screams and shone his flashlight toward four men dragging the girls away across the fields, Baburam, who uses one name, told the newspaper.

They threatened him with a gun.

“I was scared and I fled,” he said. “I now wish I hadn’t.” The state’s top police official made a clear link between rape and the lack of toilets.

“More than 60 percent of the rapes in the state occur when the victims step out to relieve themselves because they do not have toilets at their homes,” Ashish Gupta told reporters in state capital Lucknow. “It is difficult to give protection to every woman who goes out in the open to relieve herself.”

The lack of toilets is also a problem in urban slums, but the dangers are greater in rural areas because girls and women must go out into the fields, where they are more vulnerable.

PARIS — The suspect in the recent killings at the Jewish Museum in Brussels provides a textbook example of a longstanding fear in the West — the threat posed by radicalized citizens returning from the battlefields of Syria.

Since Syria became a magnet for Westerners, European nations have been slowly fortifying themselves with measures to detect potential jihadists and counter any plots. But French-born Mehdi Nemmouche — the first Western citizen returning from Syria to be implicated in a major attack — was caught by chance, in a spot check for drugs by a customs official, making a mockery of efforts to counter the threat.

The suspect had slipped through a handful of countries from Asia to Europe in the three months after leaving Syria, a French prosecutor said, a clear sign of the difficulties of tracking returnees.

Whether or not he was the Brussels shooter, the portrait provided by authorities of Nemmouche, 29, is of a dangerous man. They say when he was arrested Friday at the Marseille bus station he was heavily armed, carrying a large supply of ammunition and a banner of Syria’s most notorious fighting group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

They added that his camera contained a video showing weapons and clothes appearing to match those of the killer in the furious minute-long May 24 museum attack, which left three people dead and one seriously injured. A voice said the video was made because a camera to broadcast the killings live failed to function. Nemmouche, who has spent seven years behind bars, had been radicalized in prison, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said in announcing the arrest.

Between 1,000 and 1,500 Europeans may currently be fighting in Syria against President Bashar Assad, according to Charles Lister, an analyst with Brookings Doha Center, who drew the estimate from governments and other sources. Each one who returns represents a potential threat, according to official European thinking, and the challenge to track them all is huge. The arrest of the French suspect in the Belgian attack also opens the possibility that a returnee could choose to attack a country other than his homeland.

Thomas Hegghammer, an expert on foreign fighters at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, says that attacks by one person are far harder to thwart than large-scale operations.

European governments “are quite well positioned to thwart larger plots involving several people,” Hegghammer said. “They’re not able to stop all the smaller, simpler attacks like the one in Brussels, with one person and a gun.”

Thieves take 13,000 diapers from US nonprofit

Associated Press Writer

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Authorities in North Carolina are searching for whoever made a massive, unauthorized withdrawal from a diaper bank. The Diaper Bank of North Carolina says 13,000 diapers were stolen last weekend. The Durham-based nonprofit provides diapers to struggling families.

Founder and executive director Michelle Old said she went Monday to pick up an order to be distributed to a homeless shelter. She found the order had been strewn across the floor, and various sizes of diapers were missing. Old said losing the sizes 4 and 5 diapers was especially difficult because babies can stay in them for up to a year and they are hard to keep in stock.

“We already struggle and usually are low on those, but they completely took every diaper,” Old said. In addition, Old said thieves stole all the diapers from a reserve room that holds extra diapers and that no one outside the organization knows about. A group of volunteers from a church had been in the building last Saturday helping to re-wrap 6,000 packaged diapers for distribution in the community, Old said, adding that the shelves were full on Saturday.

Old said some people told her the diapers have turned up at local yard sales, and were being sold on the street. “A couple of people, since hearing about this, have contacted us and say they have been approached in the downtown area with people selling our diapers. Our tags are still on them,” she said, adding that one woman told her they were going for $4 a package.

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INDONESIA Newmont halts production

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - US mining giant Newmont said Tuesday it has ceased production at its Indonesian gold and copper mine due to controversial new rules governing the sector in Southeast Asia’s top economy.

Newmont has not shipped copper concentrate overseas since the rules were introduced in January. They include a ban on the export of some unprocessed minerals and higher taxes for some commodities that can still be shipped out of the country.

Copper concentrate, a major export for Newmont and its US peer Freeport McMoRan, was exempt from the ban but the companies still faced paying the new, higher taxes on shipments of the product.

But Newmont has refused -- and stopped shipments -- as it says the new levies conflict with its original agreements in Indonesia. It has been engaged in talks with the government to try and reach agreement.

The miner said that the stores at its Batu Hijau mine, in central Indonesia, were now full as it had not been exporting, and as a result it would have to stop production. “(Newmont’s) copper concentrate storage facilities at Batu Hijau are now full, forcing the operation to halt processing activities and cease production of copper concentrate,” the company said in a statement.

Zaenuddin Wanden, the head of a union representing Newmont workers, confirmed to AFP that machines at the mine that process ore -- the raw rocks dug out of the ground -- into concentrate had been shut down.

However Newmont added that it had decided not to go ahead with an earlier plan to send employees home on paid leave, as the company is waiting to see what will happen in talks with the government this week.

The new rules governing the mining sector are aimed at forcing foreign companies to smelt raw minerals in resource-rich Indonesia and keep more profits from the sector in the country.

But the industry has criticised their introduction as badly planned and analysts say the move has added to increased business uncertainty.

67 survive building colapse in Samarinda Antara

SAMARINDA - The join rescue team has evacuated at least 67 victims who survived the collapse of a building with shops in the Cendrawasih Complex of Samarinda, East Kalimantan Province, on Tuesday morning.

According to Andri, a volunteer from the Indonesian Red Cross for Samarinda, at least five survivors have been evacuated to the nearest hospital as they suffered injuries and needed immediate medical attention.

“I am not sure about the latest condition of the victims in the hospital.

We are still focusing on the rescue at the site as many victims are still buried under the debris,” Andri noted.

The victims who suffered minor injuries are being treated at the nearest health post in the complex.

According to preliminary data furnished by the Indonesian Red Cross, 14 victims have not yet been found since they are still buried under the building debris.

However, Andri claimed that the data was yet to be validated as the witnesses are not sure of the last location of the victims when the building collapsed.

“The preliminary report from witnesses said there were 84 people working at the construction site. However, we have rescued 67 of the victims,” Andri added.

The workers are mostly from cities in the East Java Province, such as Trenggalek, Kediri, Tulung Agung, and Ponorogo.

The join rescue teams that evacuated the victims comprise the Samarinda Police, Samarinda Civil Service Officer, Indonesian Red Cross personnel, and Samarinda Fire Fighter team.

The team is also operating heavy machinery to lift the building debris and rescue the buried victims at the location.

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The General Elections Commission (KPU) held meeting on socialization of declaration of integrity and peace of presidential election on Tuesday.

KPU holds declaration for peaceful presidential election

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JAKARTA - The General Elections Commission (KPU) will hold the Declaration of Integrity and Peace of Presidential Election, which is scheduled to be attended by the two pairs of Indonesian presidential and vice presidential candidates.

According to KPU Commissioner Arief Budiman, the declaration for a peaceful presidential election indicates that both pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates are allowed to start their official campaigning on Wednesday (June 4), until three days before the quiet period.

“We will hold a declaration for peaceful campaigning. Then, each candidate will be allowed to start their official campaign for 32 days,” Arief noted on Tuesday.

The declaration is scheduled to take place at the

Bidakara building on Tuesday evening and will be attended by representatives of the Supervisory Board of Election (Bawaslu) and the Honorary Council of Indonesia Election (DKPP).

The declaration will be read out and then signed by the election management body and the two pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates.

At the end of the event, each candidate will be offered an opportunity to deliver a speech.

“Being offensive and maligning others are our prime concerns during the campaign period and should be avoided. We hope that there will be no black campaigning,” he emphasized.

The presidential election is scheduled to be held on July 9 and will be contested by Prabowo-Hatta Rajasa and Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla pairs of presidential and vice presidential candidates.

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Sampian War in Penataran Sasih Temple IBP

Foreign banks sign up to help US battle tax evasion

GIANYAR - The Padudusan ritual held in the Penataran Sasih Temple was resumed with a unique procession named sampian war.

Such ritual was performed at the same time of the farewell to Lord Manca followed by hundreds of female and male pilgrims. The

whole set of rituals was prepared from the morning.

Before the series of sampian war was commenced, the female and male pilgrims surrounded the temple area of Penataran Sasih while dancing. Subsequently, it was followed by mabete-betean and dancing beautifully like waves. The whole procession was

carried out around the area Penataran Sasih for three times.

After the procession, the female and male pilgrims commenced the sampian war tradition. It was begun by shouting and praying directly in front of the Pengaruman and Ratu Sanghyang shrine. After saying prayers and being sprinkled with holy water, all the participating

pilgrims looked like a possessed men. They immediately took sampian previously provided in the temple courtyard. Afterwards, they looked to hit each other by using sampian with friends. However, none of them felt painful after the war tradition.

The sampian war tradition should always be carried out every

anniversary in the Penataran Sasih Temple annually. According to Chief of Jero Kuta Pejeng customary village, the tradition depicted the struggle of dharma (truth) over adharma (untruth) where it was ultimately won by dharma. The tradition was a regular agenda held every year on the temple anniversary of Penataran Sasih. (kmb)

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US officials said Monday that more than 77,000 banks and other financial institutions worldwide have joined its fight against tax evasion.

AP Photo/Keystone,Patrick B. Kraemer

In this April 27, 2014 file picture Swiss flags fly at the entrance of of Swiss bank Credit Suisse in Zurich, Switzerland. On May 19 Credit Suisse was fined $2.6 billion for actively helping Americans hide money to avoid taxes over many years. US officials said Monday that more than 77,000 banks and other financial institutions worldwide have joined its fight against tax evasion.

EU asks Italy, France to do more to tackle debt Associated Press

BRUSSELS — The European Commission, acting as the 28-nation bloc’s economic watchdog, is urging Italy and France to do more to bring their debt under control and push ahead with structural reforms to promote growth.

Monday’s recommendations come just a week after the European Parliament elections, in which Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s center-left party mustered strong support partly by calling for more leeway from Brussels’-dictated economic policies.

France’s governing Socialists took a beating in the elections and

are now facing the balancing act of complying with tough economic policy constraints while restoring the government’s popularity.

The Commission called on Italy to “reinforce budgetary measures” this year to reduce its debt pile and urged France to detail its measures to ensure “the correction of the excessive deficit” this and next year.

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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso answers questions from journalists during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels Monday, June 2, 2014.

That many institutions in nearly 70 countries have registered to work under the rules of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which will be implemented beginning on July 1.

The law demands that the foreign banks, investment houses and others provide information to US authorities on accounts held by US citizens and firms.

If they do not do so, the US Treasury says it could institute a 30 percent withholding tax on payments made from the United States to the financial institution, essentially a stiff tax on its US business.

Three years after initiating the FATCA program, the US Treasury says most institutions in most major economies have signed on.

“The strong international support for FATCA is clear, and this success will help us in our goal of stopping tax evasion and narrowing the tax gap,” said Robert Stack, the Treasury’s deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs.

Looking for ways to close its

budget deficit and clamp down on tax avoidance, Washington has particularly aimed the FATCA effort at traditional tax havens like Switzerland.

On May 19 Credit Suisse was fined $2.6 billion for actively helping Americans hide money to avoid taxes over many years.

Credit Suisse was one of 14 Swiss banks under criminal investigation by the US Justice Department on suspicion they helped wealthy US clients hide billions of dollars in assets from tax authorities.

Countries continue to sign up to FATCA. Last month Liechtenstein, the small European tax haven, sealed an anti-tax fraud pact with Washington that requires banks in the principality to provide information about accounts held by US taxpayers.

“The unhampered access to US capital markets, which has been secured by the agreement, is essential for Liechtenstein providers of financial services,” said Prime Minister Adrian Hasler.

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All this time Bangli is known as one of the central producers of quality coffee in Bali. Even, the quality of coffee produced by Bangli, especially by farmers in Kintamani region, has been well known in a number of countries in the world.

Bangli’s coffee

Known for its quality, demands low Bali Post

BANGLI - All this time Bangli is known as one of the central producers of quality coffee in Bali. Even, the quality of coffee produced by Bangli, especially by farmers in Kintamani region, has been well known in a number of countries in the world. However, the good quality of Kintamanian coffee is still not in line with the culture of the people in loving local products. All this time, more local people consume processed coffee products brought in from outside the region.

According to a coffee entrepreneur from Susut, Ida Bagus Santosa, nearly 90 percent of people in Bali, especially in Bangli, were coffee lovers. For them, coffee was usually considered one of the basic needs that should be met. However, amidst the high consumption and cultivation of quality coffee in Bali, many communities still enjoyed coffee processed outside Bali. “Sometimes the condition looks ironic.

We have quality coffee products such as the Banyuatis, Pupuan and

Kintamani. But, why 90 percent of the coffee in circulation in Bali is of outside brand. That’s ironic,” he said.

Even, according to him, the more saddening was the promotion of Bali coffee commodity by the government was often not in line with the realization. Based on his experience so far, when talking about coffee many officials would aggressively promote the coffee and would say that Bali coffee was the best. However, when presenting coffee to their

guests, they mostly preferred to choose the processed coffee products from outside the region.

“There are officials in the offices when talking about coffee will say if the Bali coffee is the most delicious. But when presenting to their guests, they will choose coffee product from outside the region, it is ironic. Why did they promote Bali coffee if they serve coffee products from outside?

The government should make consistent promotion,” said the businessman doubling as legisla-

tor of Bangli.

According to him, all this time the government had lacked of educating the people of Bali to love their local products. In addition, the public so far was only educated to be able to produce goods without being able to process and sell whereas the community should be guided and protected by the government in order to come into the market competition. “We’re even told to freefall, without protection and subsidies into the war,” he said. Santosa expected the Bali coffee could become the host at home region in future. Similarly, residents of Bali were expected to much love their own local products.

Meanwhile, based on the data owned by the Bangli Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Agency,

of the 12,000 hectares of coffee plantation in Bangli, a total of 5,300 hectares had been filled.

Other than in Kintamani subdistrict, the coffee plantations also widely spread in Bangli subdistrict such as at Landih and Pengotan village. The variety of coffee cultivated by local farmers included the arabica and robusta.

“All this time, the arabica variety in Kintamani is known to have its own advantages having somewhat acidic flavor,” said the Head of Agriculture, Plantation and Forestry Agency, AA Samba. Due to its peculiarities, many people wanted to research it. According to Samba, the presence of sour flavor in the Kintamanian arabica coffee was likely influenced by the temperature and topography of Bangli. (ina)

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Associated Press Writer

DAMASCUS, Syria — Waving photos of their leader and dancing with flags, thousands of Syrians pledged renewed allegiance to President Bashar Assad as they voted Tuesday in the country’s presidential election decried by the opposition as a charade. Some stamped their ballots with blood after pricking their fingers with pins supplied by the government in a symbolic act of allegiance and patriotism.

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Ahead of temple anniversary

Beraban villagers pay devotional work Bali Post

TABANAN - Tanah Lot Temple at Beraban village, Kediri, will hold pujawali jelih or grandiose temple anniversary. Peak of the ceremony will take place on Wednesday (Jun 4). Ahead of the peak of the ritual, a number of residents were already busy with devotional works to prepare all ritual means to be used as seen on Monday (Jun 2).

Tanah Lot did not let the moment go by capturing the atmosphere of the residents of Beraban customary village paying devotional works.

The temple anniversary after the Kuningan feast is a regular one

held every 6 months (210 days).

Pilgrims from all over Bali thronged the temple for saying prayers taking place for 3 days. One of the priests of the Tanah Lot Temple said that every anniversary was always flooded by pilgrims. They were not only from Tabanan, but also from other counties/municipality in Bali.

By and large, the most crowded pilgrims came on the second day.

Even, as the previous experiences, the pilgrims who could not perform prayers directly at the Tanah Lot

Temple in the sea due to high tides they could do it at the representative temple on the beach. Conversely, when the tide went down, the pilgrims could directly say prayers at Tanah Lot Temple.

Based on information from the management of Tanah Lot tourist attraction, the procession of temple anniversary began at 12:00 a.m., and would be officiated over by Ida Pedanda Taman Sari and Cokorda Tabanan. Meanwhile, the deities would be ready to receive the wor-

ship for 3 days and ended on Saturday (Jun 7) at 2:00 p.m. Before the peak of the temple anniversary, the deities would be escorted to make purificatory rite at the spring in the north of the temple, Tuesday (Jun 3) at 3:00 p.m. Related to the ceremony, on Wednesday (Jun 4) the sea water was predicted to recede at 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., on Thursday (Jun 5) at 06:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., on Friday (Jun 6) at 07:00 a.m.-12:00 a.m. and on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (kmb28)

Illegal private lessons proliferate

Public schools asked to improve quality Bali Post

NEGARA - In recent years, many private lesson activities outside schools emerge in Jembrana.

However, some of them have yet owned a permit alias illegal. Private lesson providers outside school hours do not simply give the key subjects to students, but also pose business opportunity because the tuition charged to join it reaches millions of rupiahs.

Such phenomenon drew the attention of the Regent of Jembrana,

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Syrians line up to vote in presidential election

The villagers of Beraban make preparation for Tanah Lot Temple anniversary

A number of devotional workers had come from the morning to prepare a variety of ritual means for the anniversary at the very famous temple in the world. Even, travelers who were enjoying the view of

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I Putu Artha. In front of the ranks of civil servants of Jembrana government on Monday morning (Jun 2), Regent Artha asked the institution to better improve the quality of education at schools.

Private lessons mostly followed by the rich as if had caused the national educational institutions to be no longer believed to make children smart and intelligent. As a result, many students preferred to take private lessons. “For the rich, perhaps it does not matter, but for the poor it results in jealousy,” said

the regent.

According to him, private lesson was necessary, especially when going to continue the education to a higher level such as when searching for a college exam. “Private lesson must not be provided from kindergarten through high school.

In other words, it means there is no trust to school teachers,” said Artha.

Based on information, a number of private lesson providers operating in Jembrana did not have a permit. In front of the Jembrana

government officials and civil servants the Regent Artha invited chiefly the officials to help the poor in continuing their education. He regretted various levies charged at school such as those of books and other payments. According to him, it was useless when the regency had organized a free education program, but there was still a lot to pay. “Do not let the reason of being unable to buy school uniform causes students to drop out of school,” he said. Artha invited all the civil servants if they had a

neighbor who was about to drop out of school due to being unable to buy school uniforms to report and help. According to him, buying a new set of uniforms was not so difficult.

Separately, Spokesperson of Jembrana government, Made Gede Budhiarta, admitted there were indeed illegal private lessons. He said the municipal police should check and provide coaching. “The municipal police have provided coaching related to the non-existence of permit,” he explained. (kmb26)

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Others chose to vote in full sight of other voters and television cameras — rather than go behind a partition curtain for privacy.

Men and women wore lapel pins with Assad’s picture and said re-electing him would give the Syrian leader more legitimacy to find a solution to the devastating three-year conflict that activists say has killed more than 160,000 people, about a third of whom were civilians. The balloting is only taking place in government-controlled areas and Assad’s win — all but a foregone conclusion — would give him a third seven-year term in office, tighten his hold on power and likely further strengthen his determination to crush the insurgency against his rule.

The opposition’s Western and regional allies, including the U.S., Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, have called the vote a sham. The so-called internal Syrian opposition groups seen as more lenient are also boycotting the vote, Syrian soldiers walks past a bus with President Bashar Assad’s portrait in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday June 3, 2014.

while many activists around the country are referring to it as “blood elections” for the horrific toll the country has suffered.

The vote is also Syria’s first multicandidate presidential election in more than 40 years and is being touted by the government as a referendum measuring Syrians’ support for Assad.

He faces two government-approved challengers in the race, Maher Hajjar and Hassan al-Nouri, both of whom were little known in Syria before declaring their candidacy for the country’s top post in April.

In government strongholds of Damascus and Lattakia, the voting took on a carnival-like atmosphere, with voters singing and dancing, all the while declaring undying loyalty to Assad. In Homs, people stood in long lines waiting to vote.

The government has presented the election as the solution to the conflict, but there is no indication it will halt the violence or mend a bitterly divided nation. The stagemanaged balloting also will likely put to rest any illusions that the man who has led Syria since 2000 has any intention of relinquishing power or compromising to reach a political solution.

Security tight on eve of Tiananmen anniversary

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING — Beijing put additional police on the streets and detained government critics Tuesday as part of a security crackdown on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the crushing of pro-democracy protests centered on the capital’s Tiananmen Square. Police manned checkpoints, and officers and paramilitary troops patrolled pedestrian overpasses and streets surrounding the square.

The increased security comes on top of heightened restrictions on political activists, artists, lawyers and other government critics. Dozens have been taken into detention, forced out of Beijing or confined to their homes in other parts of the country.

“June 4 has come again and the plainclothes officers are here to protect us. I can’t leave the house to travel or lecture,” Jiangsu province-based environmental activist Wu Lihong said in a text message.

Artist and former activist Guo Jian was also taken away by authorities on Sunday night, shortly after a profile of him appeared in the Financial Times newspaper in commemoration of the crackdown’s anniversary.

As he was being detained, Guo, an Australian citizen, told an Associated Press reporter he would be held until June 15.

A writer and officer of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, who writes under the

name Ye Du, was also taken from his home in the southern city of Guangzhou to join a forced “tour trip,” his wife, Wan Haitao, said by phone. Such compulsory trips are a common method of keeping government critics under 24-hour watch without the need to initiate legal proceedings.

In an apparent sign of government nervousness, connections to the global Internet appeared to have been disrupted, with Google’s mail and other services mostly inaccessible. China already routinely blocks popular overseas social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube and heavily censors Chinese sites for politically sensitive content.

China allows no public discussion of the events of June 3-4, 1989, when soldiers accompanied by tanks and armored personnel carriers fought their way into the heart of the city, killing hundreds of unarmed protesters and onlookers. The government has never issued a complete, formal accounting of the crackdown and the number of casualties.

A woman and child pass by uniformed and plainclothes security personnel with umbrellas and security cameras near a portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate in Beijing Tuesday, June 3, 2014.

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NASA to test giant Mars parachute on Earth Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File

FILE - This Nov. 1, 2012 file photo shows a pile of sand and debris sitting near a house that was damaged by superstorm Sandy in Brant Beach, N.J. A new psychology study shows that people are wrongly less prone to flee from hurricanes with feminine names.

Study: People fear male-named hurricanes more

LOS ANGELES — The skies off the Hawaiian island of Kauai will be a stand-in for Mars as NASA prepares to launch a saucer-shaped vehicle in an experimental flight designed to land heavy loads on the red planet.

For decades, robotic landers and rovers have hitched a ride to Earth’s planetary neighbor using the same parachute design. But NASA needs a bigger and stronger parachute if it wants to send astronauts there.

Weather permitting, the space agency will conduct a test flight Tuesday high in Earth’s atmosphere that’s supposed to simulate the thin Martian air. Cameras rigged aboard the vehicle will capture the action as it accelerates to four times the speed of sound and falls back to Earth. Viewers with an Internet connection can follow along live.

Engineers cautioned that they may not succeed on the first try. “As long as I get data, I’ll be very happy,” said project manager Mark Adler of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The search for a way to land massive payloads on Mars predates the existence of NASA. Back then, engineers toyed with sending a winged spacecraft that would land like an airplane, but the idea was not feasible, space historians say. Landing has always been “one of the big technology challenges for a human Mars mission,” American University space policy professor Howard McCurdy said in an email.

When the twin Viking landers became the first spacecraft to set down on Mars in 1976, they relied on parachutes to slow down after punching through the Martian atmosphere. The basic design has been used since including during the Curiosity rover’s hair-raising landing in 2012.

With plans to land heavier spacecraft and eventually humans, NASA needed a heftier solution. So it designed a supersonic parachute that’s 110 feet (33.5 meters) in diameter — twice as big as the one that carried the 1-ton Curiosity. It’s so gigantic that it can’t fit into the wind tunnels that NASA typically uses to test parachutes. Since it’s impractical to test unproven technology on Mars, NASA looked to Earth as a substitute.

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — People are slightly less likely to flee an oncoming storm with a feminine name than a masculine one, a new study finds. But hurricanes with feminine names turn out to be deadlier in the United States than their more macho-sounding counterparts, probably because their monikers make people underestimate their danger, the researchers conclude.

In fact, the two deadliest storms to make landfall in the U.S. since 1979, when male names were introduced, were named Katrina and Sandy.

The study, which didn’t involve any experts in meteorology or disaster science, is published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Atlantic hurricane season started Sunday.

In six different experiments, more than 1,000 test subjects told behavioral scientists at the University of Illinois in Champaign that they were slightly more likely to evacuate from an oncoming storm named Christopher than Christina, Victor than Victoria, Alexander than Alexandra and Danny than Kate. They found female names less frightening.

“People are looking for meaning in any information that they receive,” said study co-author Sharon Shavitt, a professor of marketing.

“The name of the storm is providing people with irrelevant information that they actually use.”

Shavitt said both men and women rated female storms less scary and they both “are likely to believe that women are milder and less aggressive.” It fits with other research about gender perception differences, she said. Sandy, while it can also be a male name, was chosen as a female name by weather authorities in 2012. Shavitt said it also ranked as rather feminine when she asked a small group of people to assess names on a masculinefeminine scale.

Hurricane and disaster science experts, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Kerry Emanuel, were skeptical at first. Then after more consideration some but not all found merit in the work, noting that it is more about psychology rather than physical science.

Emanuel said confusion over whether 2012’s Sandy was called a hurricane or post-tropical storm did cause confusion, so maybe names could make a difference too. He

joked that maybe names matter and perhaps meteorologists should start using scarier-sounding ones like Jack-the-Ripper or King Kong.

But Susan Cutter, director of the University of South Carolina’s Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, dismissed the idea that female-named storms are deadlier.

She considered the study results just coincidence.

To examine past death rates, Shavitt and doctoral student Kiju Jung used Shavitt’s scale that rated names from 1 to 11 in terms of masculinity and femininity. They looked at death rates going back to 1950 and found that, in general, the deadlier storms were more feminine.

However, male-named storms weren’t introduced until 1979. Only female names were used for storms from 1953 to 1978. From 1950 to 1952, military-style phonetic names (like Able, Baker, Charlie) were used and before that, there were no official names for storms.

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AEC 2015

Foreign advertising companies besiege Bali Bali Post

DENPASAR - Implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 is around the corner. In general, the readiness of Indonesia, especially Bali, to face the threats and seize the opportunities of the AEC remained weak. Many local entrepreneurs are worried because so far the protection and defense of government for them was still weak. Employers coalesced into the members of the Indonesian Advertising Company Association (P3I) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) of Bali also felt similar concerns. The advertising employers from other countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand could invade Bali. Therefore, the P3I Bali and Chamber of Commerce and Industry urged the government to favor and protect local businesses with a variety of instruments of protection.

“If we want to see local interest, the government must protect local businesses. Without the protection and alignment on local entrepreneurs, it will eventually harm the economic situation of Bali and drives the economic disparity and marginalizes local businesses,” said Chairman of Kadin Bali, Gede Sumarjaya Linggih alias Demer, in Denpasar.

“In 2015, we are dealing with the AEC. We have to defend ourselves. Alignment and protection of local entrepreneurs should be strengthened,” said the Head of Out of Home Division of Central P3I, Roy G. Wicaksono, separately.

Roy said the contradictory conditions all this time happened in which it was very difficult for the Indonesian entrepreneurs to penetrate the advertising business in the ASEAN countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. On the country, the entrepreneurs from those countries were easily entering Indonesia amidst the weak defense of government to local entrepreneurs.

“For example, our advertising business is not easy to get into Malaysia, is not as easy as the other countries to enter Indonesia. Similarly, we’re difficult to get into Thailand and Singapore to propose the opening of branch office, but to enter Indonesia is so

easy. Government must favor and protect local businesses. Please prioritize local businesses and local entrepreneurs,” he said.

Meanwhile, Demer added that the free market of AEC 2015 was unlike to incite an elephant with a deer freely, or incite professional businessmen from other countries with local entrepreneurs freely.

“Then, we will lose out. Our local entrepreneurs do not have good networking and less experience.

So, here is the role of government protection. If the government cannot do it, ultimately it’s the same as the absence of government,” he said.

For example, in advertising business, he added, the government should prioritize local entrepreneurs. “In the field of advertising, for example, do not let all the Singaporean businessmen come into Bali uncontrollably that ultimately will cause the emerging local entrepreneurs to lose competitiveness and become spectators.”

Even, added Demer, the local entrepreneurs should be given tax discounts so that they got facilities and real protection from the government. “But, does the government dare do it? It should have dared. Why? The fund or profits obtained by local entrepreneurs can be ascertained that one hundred percent will be invested back in Bali and give multiplier effect

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optimization,” a spokesperson from the Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, R Sukhyar, said after opening the 2014 CoalTrans Asia conference on Monday.

Sukhyar said the rise in income is not from an increase in production, and it is taking place when the world’s coal price is experiencing a declining trend.

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Employers coalesced into the members of the Indonesian Advertising Company Association (P3I) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) of Bali also felt similar concerns.

The advertising employers from other countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand could invade Bali. on the economy of Bali, so there is no capital flight. They also pay taxes in Bali, so it can generate the strength of Bali’s economy,” he said.

Related to readiness of Bali in general to face the AEC 2015, Demer assessed the most well prepared was the tourism sector.

Meanwhile, the most unready sectors were the industry, commerce, agriculture and livestock.

“Some sectors are ready, but many other sectors are not ready for the AEC 2015. Our tourism sector is ready, but our industry is still weak,” he said.

In terms of employment rate, Demer assessed the salary of local labor of Bali was cheaper than that of other ASEAN countries.

So, he did not worry if there would be tremendous invasion of foreign labor to Bali if they would only be paid cheaply in Bali.

Most local businessmen were unready for the AEC 2015, added Demer, because they were weak in marketing, networking and capital, especially in the field of trading services. “We are left behind compared to Malaysia and Singapore,” said Demer denoting

a member of the House of Representatives from Bali.

To prepare the entrepreneurs, according to Demer, the government should develop human resources and labor of local entrepreneurs as well as increased the research and development efforts. “There must be human resource training and development to improve the quality of entrepreneurship and foster new business players. Provide convenience for local businesses and it is not mistaken if the regulatory alignment is added,” he concluded. (wid)

This hike is an impact from the change in mining companies’ behavior in following the regulation more, Sukhyar said.

“Two years ago, many mining companies had arrears in paying their royalties to the government, but that was improving,” Sukhyar said.

If the government receives consistent royalty income as in

the last three months, Indonesia will receive at least 44 trillion rupiah from coal royalty, which is higher than the government’s target of 37.6 trillion rupiah.

Indonesia’s coal royalty in 2013 was 24.4 trillion rupiah, while the coal production for the January-April period was as much as 147 million tons.

Overall, Indonesian income

from the mineral and coal tax was 140 trillion rupiah, with coal royalty contributing 24.4 trillion rupiah and mineral royalty generating 3.9 trillion rupiah.

Meanwhile, the government is targeting an income of 156 trillion rupiah from tax income, 37.6 trillion rupiah from coal royalty and two trillion rupiah from mineral royalty in 2014.

Indonesia’s coal royalty doubled to 11 trillion

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This April 23, 2014 image provided by NASA shows NASA’s saucer-shaped experimental flight vehicle being prepared for a Range Compatibility Test at the at the U.S Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kekaha on the island of Kaua‘i in Hawaii.

NUSA DUA - Indonesian government’s revenue from coal royalty in the first three months of 2014 doubled from the same period last year to 11 trillion rupiah, from only five trillion rupiah.

“The increase in the income from coal royalty is an impact of mining companies’ payment

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Bali News The farmer of seaweed in Nusa Penida

Poor environmental management, dozens suffer cikungunya Bali Post

Nusa Penida lacks of dozens of health officers

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NUSA PENIDA - Nusa Penida subdistrict in Klungkung still lacks of dozens of health workers. It poses the impact of careless mutation in the end of 2013. It happened because more than 50 health workers on the island were transferred to Klungkung mainland. However, so far there has been no replacement. As a result, the Health Agency is in confusion.

This problem has long been complained by people of Nusa Penida. As consequence, public services in the three public health centers were not optimal. The Head of Klungkung Health Agency, Agung Suwastika, when visited at his office on Monday (Jun 2) did not dismiss the condition.

However, his party refused to explain the motive of mutations considered not to take into account the aspect of balance in the health services to community.

Clearly, the mutation sufficiently disrupted the activities of health services in Nusa Penida. When asked about the mutation, he rejected to give explanation if it was alleged to have something to do with the kinship because certain officials wanted their family or relative to serve in Klungkung mainland.

He admitted the Health Agency was currently quite distraught. Besides, his party had also reported this situation to the Bali Health Agency. Thus, the provincial government once provided the assistance of 13 health workers serving in Nusa Penida. However, the amount was not enough to cover the shortage of health workers after 50 mutations. “Before the mutation, we still lack of health workers. Now, we clearly still lack quite a lot of health workers,” he said. Responding to the shortage, his party had been proposed hiring 47 temporary or

contracted health workers to be assigned at the Nusa Penida public health center I at Sampalan, Nusa Penida health center II at Jungut Batu and Nusa Penida health center III at Klumpu village.

Of the 47 health workers, they consisted of three doctors at the Nusa Penida health center I, 13 midwives and five nurses. Then, three midwives at the Nusa Penida health center II, two nurses and five undergraduate nurses.

Meanwhile, the Nusa Penida health center III was proposed to get four nurses. The proposal was submitted to the Regent Nyoman Suwirta on January 23, after the mutation made at the end of 2013 in order the implementation of the national health insurance could be realized.

Unfortunately, so far the proposal had not been addressed by the regent. Suwastika asserted that the 47 health workers were almost entirely the residents of Nusa Penida. Thus, as the natives to Nusa Penida, they were expected to work optimally in providing health services for the Nusa Penida community.

This problem had also been expressed by local community when the regent organized an interactive meeting at Semaya hamlet, Suana village late last month. At that time, the regent revealed if Nusa Penida lacked of health officers

and this should be promptly addressed.

At the moment, pursuant to the data on particular functional position in the Health Agency as per January 2014, the number of health officers reached 362 people. In details, the number of general practitioners reached 21 people (lacked of 15 officers), 14 dentists (lacked of 1 officer), 118 nurses (lacked of 34 officers), 140 midwives (lacked of 14 officers), 19 dental nurse (lacked of 2 officers), 11 nutritionists (lacked of 4 officers), 11 pharmacists (lacked of 9 officers), 4 public health officers (lacked of 2 officers), 1 radiographer, 10 health analysts (lacked of 3 officers) and 13 sanitarians (lacked of 2 officers). So, the Health Agency lacked of totally 86 health workers.

Previously, the mutation made by the incumbent Regent Tjokorde Gede Agung drew criticism from various circles. A total of 73 civil servants did not think to receive a decree of mutation two days before Tjok Agung ended his office. Interestingly, of the totally 73 civil servants, 21 civil servants were mostly serving as health workers at Nusa Penida public health centers and then transferred to Klungkung Hospital and Health Agency. Meanwhile, some other officers of the Education Agency of Nusa Penida were transferred to other agencies. (kmb31)

SEMARAPURA - Cikungunya virus began to spread in a number of areas in Klungkung. Lately, the virus carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito attacked dozens of residents in Banjarangkan subdistrict. They suddenly got high fever and pain in the joints. Even, some people could not walk.

Cikungunya virus was known to spread in two hamlets in the Banjarangkan subdistrict, including Penasan and Tihingan hamlet, Tihingan village. A local resident, Nengah Arianta, said on Monday (Jun 2) the virus had begun to spread since the past two weeks. Suddenly his relatives were suffering from the symptoms of the virus such as a sudden fever with temperature of 39 degrees Celsius, pain in the joints, especially the knee joints, ankles, toes and hands and spine with rash (a collection of red spots) on the skin to headaches and unable to walk. “Initially, I think only one or two people were hit by the virus, but in fact outside there a dozen of people experiencing it. Sadly, some residents are even unable to walk,” he said.

When contacted on Monday (Jun 2), the Klungkung Health Agency confirmed the outbreak of the virus. The Division Head of Disease Control and Health Problems, the Health Agency, Wayan Putra Jaya, said in his office that his party had received the report from local residents. Having been surveyed by the officers, in fact the cikungunya virus had spread to dozens of residents. At Penasan hamlet, it had spread to at least to 21 people. Among them, there were I Wayan Suwastika, 52, Made Sutama, 45, Wayan Ariada, 40, Nengah Ariawan, 37, and Nengah Elawati, 60. Even, the virus also attacked a child of seven years old, Made Rai. On that account, his party immediately performed a fogging for a week on May 19-26.

Similar incident also occurred at Tihingan hamlet. Even, a total of 25 residents were attacked by cikungunya virus. They were Komang Suyasa, 45, Ni Wayan Seniasih, 45, Ketut Sutra, 60, Ni Ketut Artani, 16, and Ketut Merta Jiwa, 9. Even, two toddlers at the hamlet namely Made Bayu Putra Sentana, 3, and Dewa Ketut Putra, 4, were also infected by similar virus. Putra Jaya said that his party had directly performed fogging at Penasan hamlet since May 28. Having observed the neighborhood, he assessed the environmental management was still not good. Around the village, there were two piles of garbage exuding stanch. In addition, there was also a pool of water becoming a good habitat for development of Aedes aegypti mosquito spreading the cikungunya virus.

“The virus is evolving sporadically. So, after receiving the conclusion from the survey team, we immediately did the mosquito nest eradication by fogging,” he said. His party invited people of Klungkung to pay attention to the quality of environment. The Aedes aegypti mosquito should not be let increasingly spread to other areas. Moreover, other than spreading cikungunya virus, the mosquito bite also caused the highly lethal dengue fever. The Head of Klungkung Health Agency, Agung Suwastika, added that before spreading at both villages, similar virus also spread at Kusamba and Paksebali village, Dawan subdistrict. Likewise, the victim also reached dozens of people where the cause was almost the same, namely the poor environmental management.

“Public awareness is highly required. If the management of surrounding environment is poor, people are very susceptible to cikungunya and even dengue fever,” said Agung Suwastika.

Moreover, in this transitional season, his party hoped the residents to be more concerned with the environment, such as waste management and environmental sanitary to avoid puddles that potentially became the mosquito breeding. (kmb31)

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5 Star all suites hotel opens in Jakarta IBP

JAKARTA - Archipelago International has opened “The Grove Suites by Grand Aston”, the groups latest 5 star flagship hotel and Archipelago’s 20th hotel in the Indonesian capital.

Located in the core of the Rasuna Epicentrum, downtown Jakarta’s newest billion dollar mixed used development, the new residential hotel is next door to the Bakrie Tower , one of Jakarta’s most spectacular office towers, several high end residential towers and a lifestyle mall with an abundance of dining, entertaining and shopping options.

Jakarta’s Golden Triangle between Rasuna Said, Mega Kuningan and Jalan Sudirman is in the hotels direct vicinity.

The all-suites hotel blends a sophisticated design and sumptuous comforts with touches of Asian elegance and the exemplary service for which Aston is renowned. It consists of 151 one-and two-bedroom suite rooms especially geared towards discerning business travelers on long and short term assignments, while the Restaurant, two lounges and a swimming pool with pool bar will keep guests entertained outside of their suites. There will also be a well-equipped mini gym and a spa, as well as two meeting rooms and of course the many facilities of the Rasuna Epicentrum mall which are just outside the hotels main lobby.

“The Grove Suites by Grand Aston was conceptualized to be our Jakarta flagship and stands out from our other properties not only through its luxurious offerings but by affording a boutique like and residential feel , pan Asian interior design and very distinguished suite layout which is anything else but cookie cutter. “ Says Norbert Vas, VP Sales & Marketing.

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Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014 1 Jun

Pura Sakenan Serangan Denpasar Pura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar Timur Pura Alas Harum Batur Kintamani Pura Alas Angker Munduk Kintamani Pura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung 4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi Batuan Pura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Sukawati Pura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang Kapal Dalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida 8 Jun

Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesiman Denpasar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan 10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung Selatan Pura Luhur Uluwatu Pura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badung Pura Penataran Agung Singakerta Ubud Pura Andakasa Karangasem Pura Gua Lawah Klungkung Pura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkung Pura Taman Ayun Mengwi Pura Suralaya Banda klungkung Pura Dalem Senapati Bebalang Bangli Pura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

Gianyar Pura Gerya Sakti Tulikup Gianyar Pura Dalem Dauh Ubud Pura Segara Ketewel Sukawati Pura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud 11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak Jembrana Pura Dalem Dauma Batuan Sukawati Pura Nataran Kacang Dawa Klungkung Pura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung Denpasar Pura Puseh Brahmana Klungkung Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan Pura Dalem Sukahet Klungkung Pura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Dukuh Tegallalang Pura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah Kesiman Pura Sahab Nusa penida Pura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar 12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja Denpasar Pura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta Selatan Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar 15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi 25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai Karangasem Pura Aer jeruk Sukawati Gianyar Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel Gianyar Pura Pasek Bendesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem Karangasem Pura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Batur Sari Ubud 27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati 30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi 5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan Klungkung Pura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Penebel Tabanan Pura Benua Tarukan Besakih 9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah Pedungan Pura Natih Kalah Batubulan Pura Desa Silakarang Singapadu Pura Dalem Petitenget Kuta Badung Pura Dalem Pulasari Gianyar Pura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar Selatan Pura Paibon Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Lumintang Denpasar Pura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak Siring Pura Pasar Agung Kediri Tabanan Pura Puaya Batuan Sukawati 11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri

12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

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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Rihanna honored for style Associated Press

NEW YORK — Rihanna, an undisputed fashion star of the moment, was the big draw Monday at the annual Council of Fashion Designers of America awards, which also honor the year’s top designers. The singer and pop culture star, dressed in a see-through fishnet dress, gloves and headscarf embellished with thousands of crystals, was awarded the group’s 2014 Fashion Icon Award. Previous honorees have been Lady Gaga, Kate Moss, Nicole Kidman and Johnny Depp.

Also being honored at the glamorous ceremony at New York’s Lincoln Center was designer Tom Ford, who won the CFDA’s lifetime achievement award. The prestigious Founder’s Award went to Bethann Hardison, a former model and modeling agent who has been a vocal champion for diversity on runways.

Joseph Altuzarra won CFDA’s womenswear award while the menswear award went to designers Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, the duo behind the label Public School. Sisters Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen won the accessories award. CFDA’s international award went to Raf Simons, of Dior.

The annual show, hosted this year by director and screenwriter John Waters, draws a mix of fashion insiders and Hollywood.

This year, Rihanna was clearly the big name, along with an even newer fashion star: Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o, who presented the womenswear award.

Others in attendance included Marion Cotillard, Blake Lively, Naomi Campbell, Coco Rocha, Jennifer Hudson, Anna Wintour and Emmy Rossum.

Speaking of Rihanna before the show, designer Zac Posen called the pop star a fashion risk-taker, who skillfully melds red-carpet glamour with a rebellious streak.

Rihanna’s choice for Monday’s event of a sparkling, revealing, body-hugging gown, designed by Adam Selman, epitomized Posen’s description. “ S h e takes risks and she marches to her own drum and she knows what she likes,” Posen told The

Associated Press in an interview.

He recalled meeting the singer at his studio before she launched her first album.

“She was a fashion world novice then,” he said, “but obviously she had looks and confidence and little-girl charm. All the ingredients were there for her to be a huge superstar: ambition, strength, and also vulnerability.” Rihanna’s occasional use of shock value, he said, “has kept her current, and balanced how classically beautiful she is.” Rihanna also has a great appreciation for designers, Posen added: “That’s why people love to dress her.”

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Coastal territories owned by investors

Bali feared to be surrounded by concretes

Oliver Stone to write, direct Edward Snowden film

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NEW YORK — Oliver Stone will write and direct a film about Edward Snowden, one of two high-profile films in the works about the National Security Agency leaker.

Stone announced Monday that he plans to adapt “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man,” a book by Guardian journalist Luke Harding. The project pairs one of cinema’s most controversial directors with one of the most explosive news events in recent years — one that is ongoing.

“This is one of the greatest stories of our time,” Stone said in a statement. He added that making such a film is “a real challenge.”

He will have some deep-pocketed competition. Sony Pictures last month purchased the big-screen rights to Glenn Greenwald’s “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. Surveillance State.” The film is being produced

by James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.

Stone has advocated for the former NSA contract systems analyst, who is

living in Russia on a temporary grant of asylum after leaking massive amounts of NSA documents to the media.

“To me, Snowden is a hero because he revealed secrets that we should all

know, that the United States has repeatedly violated the Fourth Amendment,” Stone said in a press conference at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

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The photo shows Bali Island taken from above. For long time, the coastal territories of Bali have been owned by investors or conglomerates. In the future, the Bali Island is feared to be surrounded by condotels or villas.

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DENPASAR - For long time, the coastal territories of Bali have been owned by investors or conglomerates. For instance, in the area of Cemagi (Badung) and Kerambitan (Tabanan) the coastal areas have become the property of investors and so has the coastal territory of Nusa Penida subdistrict. In the future, the Bali Island is feared to be surrounded by condotels or villas.

“For example, dozens of hectares of land in the coastal region of Kerambitan (Tabanan) have been owned by one of the owners of tobacco companies. They are productive lands. Bali has many strategic locations so that many investors are interested to own them,” said a property analyst, John Sahadewa.

In addition, from the coastal regions of Buleleng to Amed (Karan-

gasem) were no longer owned by local residents. Since long time ago, they had been divided by investors into lots. When the entire coastal territories were owned by investors, Balinese community was feared to be isolated, especially during melasti procession because such a case often emerged.

“If it has been dominated by investors, of course they have total right over the land. Here, the com-

munity must be attentive and unite to maintain their rights. The public and hotel management must work together in order to get win-win solution,” affirmed John.

According to John, Bali was famous in the world due to its customs and culture. On the other hand, the development would continue because it essentially created or improved something. On that account, the owner or management of a condotel or hotel should also be concerned with the surrounding communities. In addition, they should work together so as to give strength to each other. Communities gave local power to attract tourists, like ceremony, for instance.

Meanwhile, hotels should provide flexibility to communities to per-

form their customs and culture. “It needs regulating and firmness of both sides,” he said.

John said that in Kuta, any price of land would be definitely purchased by investors because the prospect of the area was very good so the land prices were crazy, but there were still people purchasing it. On that account, he hoped the community and local government should seriously keep Bali and was not limited to a discourse. Global spatial planning should be designed and published as soon as possible so that investors knew the rules prevailing in Bali. “It aims at giving protection against Bali. When left unchecked, the condition is very worrying,” he said.

A community leader of Cemagi,

Mengwi, Putu Suyantha, asserted that coastal territories of Cemagi no longer belonged to the local people. According to him, the constitutional violations persisted if the government did not strictly enforce the rules. “Due to a lot of interests, the rules are usually unable to be enforced. Moreover, to be an official people must pay quite a few, so such capital should be returned later on,” he said.

Suyantha hoped the local government officials and customary village apparatus should be compact and commit to keep Bali from investor invasion. “Do not only be wise and enforce the rules at first, but then change the mind when facing money. We surely do not expect this,” said Suyantha. (kmb36)