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Pop singer Katy Perry fearless in “warts and all” film portrayal Reuters

LOS ANGELES - It started as just another concert film, but as Katy Perry’s marriage to comedian Russell Brand unraveled, her new documentary transformed into what she called a “warts and all” depiction the pop star is happy to show her fans.

Katy Perry

“Katy Perry: Part of Me,” which debuts in 3D on Thursday, is anything but standard fare. Most performers wouldn’t dare show fans what they look like first thing in the morning without makeup, or worse, doubled over bawling backstage in costume. But Perry insisted that everyone see.

“I’m OK with showing what’s behind the curtain,” Perry, 27, told Reuters in a recent interview.

“I’m OK with showing that side of me because it helps people relate (to me) better and think of me as a human being.”

On its face, the movie chronicles the singer on her first world tour in 2011, but as the year played out, “Katy Perry: Part of Me” chronicled the demise of her marriage to Brand, whom she wed in 2010. By December 2011, they had split and in February, they divorced.

The film shows Brand early on, happily visiting Perry backstage and picking her up in his car. But soon he disappears from the story, and Perry begins to suffer emotional breakdowns and fits of crying while her team of handlers seems helpless.

The movie humanizes Perry in a way that is rare in Hollywood where the star-

Avon taps Bon Jovi for new Unplugged fragrances

making machinery cranks out performers who, seemingly, live glamorous, carefree lifestyles of which others only dream.

In fact, Perry’s success has been based mostly on a larger-than-life, almost cartoonish image of herself with ever-changing hair color and overthe-top outfits featuring cupcakes and lollipops.

She sings pop songs such as “California Gurls,” “Hot N Cold,” “Teenage Dream” and “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” Her third studio album, “Teenage Dream,” saw five singles hit No. 1 on music charts - a first for a female. She has sold 11 million albums worldwide and earned 8 Grammy nominations.

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Poverty in Bali reaches 168,780 people

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A boy taking water from the river to be use as drinking water. Prestige as a favorite tourist destination in the world does not have an impact on the social life of Balinese community.

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DENPASAR - Prestige as a favorite tourist destination in the world does not have an impact on the social life of Balinese community.

Based on data in the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, the rate of poor people on the Island of the Gods until March 2012 reached 168,780 people, consisting of 91,440 people living in urban areas and 77,340 people in rural areas.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Jon Bon Jovi is going Unplugged in a bottle. Avon Products Inc. announced Monday that the 50-year-old rock star is the company’s newest celebrity fragrance partner. He’ll appear in ads for both Unplugged for Her and Unplugged for Him. The company said the inspiration for both scents is the unique feeling one has listening to a favorite song.

The goal is “an emotional connection.”

The women’s version, which will be available through Avon representatives and online in October, is a floral oriental perfume, and the men’s is a woody floral musk fragrance. It will go on sale in November. Both Avon and Bon Jovi said admiration for each other’s involvement in philanthropy largely drew them together as partners.

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Situation in the court room during Bali Post vs Governor Bali trial on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The verdict of this trial will be announce on July 17.

The Head of BPS Bali, Gede Suarsa, said that percentage of poor people in Bali in March 2012 reached 4.18 percent or slightly decrease 0.02 percent if compared to March 2011 reaching 4.20 percent. “With the adequately high economic growth, Bali has managed to reduce the rate of poor people even though relatively a few,” said Gede Suarsa in Denpasar.

He said that food commodities had the lion’s share namely 70.05 percent compared to non-food commodities only reaching 29.95 percent toward the formation of poverty line in Bali.

Meanwhile, the poverty line in Bali in March 2012 increased by 7.22 percent, from IDR 233, 172 in March 2011 to IDR 249,997 in March 2012.

“Poverty line in urban and rural

areas increased in that period. Urban increased 6.99 percent, while the poverty line in rural areas increased 7.66 per cent,” he explained.

Government programs implemented during the development so far had paid a great attention to the fight against the poverty eradication. However, Suarsa said that poverty issue was still a longdrawn problem. Even, Bali known as a world tourist destination had not yet been able to escape from the issue.

Chairman of the Indonesian Economist Association (ISEI) of Bali, Prof.

Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, said the economic growth of Bali was shored up by consumption sector, both domestic and government consumption, triggered the high rate of poverty.

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Great job opportunities as nurse and homecare worker in Japan Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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The traffic jam happened on Gajah Mada Street due to the project of pedesterian.

After the closure of Jalan Gajah Mada

Traders of Badung Market protest Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Closure of Jalan Gajah Mada due to paving block installation project did not only cause severe congestion. It also reaped a protest from traders in Kumbasari Market. Since the closure of some road sections on Friday night (Jun 29), more and more complaints were coming.

Such condition was confirmed

by Director of PD Pasar Denpasar, Made Westra, when met at the sidelines of the preparation for the inauguration ceremony of the Gunung Agung Market, Monday (Jul 2). Since the closure of the road section a few days ago, Westra admitted to receive many complaints from the traders.

“Almost all the traders complained to us. They complain about the difficulty to supply goods to the traders in the market. We understand about their complaints because such condition surely had an impact on their activities and sales,” he said.

According to him, perishable goods like vegetables, fruits and flowers potentially caused huge loss because they quickly turned rotten if they were too long exposed to the sunlight. His party had passed the issues to Transportation Agency as well as Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP) of Denpasar.

“If the traffic congestion problem cannot be immediately resolved, it

will surely result in greater losses,” he said.

Complaints of the traders and residents about the congestion were also responded by the Head of Denpasar Transportation Agency, Gde Astika. His party would reverse the traffic flow on Jalan Gunung Kawi.

The change of traffic flow on Jalan Gunung Kawi was the first solution that would be tried. “Motorists from Jalan Gajah Mada will be directed southwards to Jalan Hassanudin,” he said.

Related to traffic lights that did not work properly, Astika said that to regulate the traffic flow in the area, his party did not need to turn them on. “We do not need to turn on the traffic lights in the intersection of Jalan Gunung Kawi-Jalan Hassanudin because we will assign an officer until the night. Likewise, we will also be assisted by police officer,” he said.

His party would arrange the flow on Jalan Thamrin from one-way traffic to two-way traffic. “We will

do so if the traffic shows an increase in the flow of vehicles, depending on the real situation in the field,” he said.

Regarding the many vegetable traders narrowing the road body, Astika had not had a definitive answer. The official from Buleleng would maximize the officers on duty in the field. He said although the Jalan Thamrin was still opened, it remained to result in consequence, namely congestion at the intersection in front of the Pemecutan Palace.

Division Head of Spatial Planning in the Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP), Cipta Sudewa, previously claimed to have made coordination with the Denpasar Transportation Agency.

“We have coordinated it. We do not deny if the crowdedness was unavoidable. Without the project works, it has been crowded let alone with the project. But, we do ask for the acknowledgement of the community using the roads in relation to this condition,” he said. (kmb27)

The opportunities of Balinese people to work overseas as a nurse and homecare worker (taking care of the elderly) especially in Japan are widely open. However, due to language constraint many job seekers from Bali ultimately failed while undergoing the tests.

Division Head of Placement Preparation of BNP2TKI, Alimansur Harahap, Monday (Jul 2) in Denpasar said the opportunity to work as nurse and homecare worker in Japan was getting more widely open with the presence of Government to Government (G to G) program between Indonesia and Japan.

Alimansur presented that from 2008 to 2012, there had been 396 nurses and 503 homecare workers from Indonesia sent to Japan. A nurse and homecare worker in Japan would receive a salary around IDR 10 million to IDR 20 million. Explained, the requirements to work as a nurse and homecare worker in Japan the applicant should be at least graduated from Diploma 3 in nursing, had two-year experience and mastered Japanese language.

Alimansur added that job opportunities in Japan were getting more widely open but could not be optimized by workers from Indonesia. It was caused by the language factor so that job seekers often failed when tested. According to him, nursing school or health academy rarely provided the subject of Japanese language to their students. “Therefore, we expect the nursing school and health academy in Bali can provide Japanese language subject to their students,” he said. He also asked the local governments to intensively disseminate the program because it was also an effort to reduce the rate of educated unemployment.

Meanwhile, the Head of Bali Work Force Agency, Wayan Wiratha, recognized that nurses from Bali who had been working in Japan remained minimal. Up to 2011, only 11 people could be sent to Japan. According to him, it was not caused by the lack of interest or poor technical quality of the job seekers but because of language barriers so that they did not pass the test. To that end, he also expected the nursing and health academy in Bali could provide the students with the curriculum of sufficient Japanese language education considering the high job opportunities in Japan. “It’s time to adjust the curriculum to the demand of job market,” he said.

Furthermore, he said the job opportunity in the field of paramedic in Bali was indeed still adequate. However, in line with the increase of students majoring in nursing and healthcare, it was worried that in few years to come it would be difficult to accommodate them in the local job market. On that account, the nursing and health academy were encouraged to prepare their graduates with international qualification so that they could compete in foreign job market such as in Japan. Wiratha also expected the data collection and recruitment of migrant workers from Bali could be organized in the regency/municipality so that the Bali Work Force Agency had valid data.

The Head of BP3TKI Denpasar, Wayan Pageh, said that in the recruitment and placement of the Bali’s workers overseas in the future should be established a synergy between the central government, in this case the BP3TKI Denpasar, Bali Work Force Agency as well as the regency/municipality to anticipate the problems that might occur. According to him, the data collection and recruitment should indeed be carried out by the regency/ municipality government so that it just needed to send the data to central government. “Regency/municipality government should aggressively inform the public about the procedures and requirements of working overseas, along with their rights and obligations,” he said. (kmb29)

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Furama Vilas & Spa IBP

The Furama Vilas & Spa, Bali is nestled amidst padi fields in the Banjar Bindu district in mountainous Ubud, covering over 2000m2 verdant lands. Accessible to the popular Ubud market via the resort’s free shuttle service, the Concierge can also arrange for transportation to other tourist attractions based on guest’s needs.

19 Deluxe Pool Villas (265m) exude an idyllic appeal in the tranquil surroundings. Soft furnishings in a simple yet tasteful style create an atmosphere of warmth and cosines. The private plunge pool and gazebo for in-villa massage treatments are added luxuries for guests’ daily indulgence.

The 5 Royal Pool Villa are fashioned like the Deluxe Pool Villas and the 480m compound houses two villas instead of one. A common patio area encourages relaxing evening chats and in-villa dining.

All villas are well equipped with modern conveniences, ideal for discerning executive types and vacationing couples to lounge around and unwind in maximum comfort, inviting you into a memorable holiday experience.

Calendar Event for June 30 through July 25, 2012 30 Jun Tumpek Landep.

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Selatan.

Pura Agung Pasek Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Silamadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Sengguan Singapadu.

Pura Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana.

Pura taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Br, Taro Kaje Tegalalang Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Ida ratu Pande Besakih Mr. Pasek Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba Klungkung Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Desa Tulikup Gianyar.

1 Jul Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar.

3 Jul Purnama Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Gunung Kuripan Lombok.

Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Cinere Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Nuansa Udayana, Kori Nuansa Jimbaran Pura Tianyar Pikat, Dawan Klungkung 4 Jul Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pasar Agung Besakih

Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Perancak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung.

Pura Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi 10 Jul Anggar Kasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang 11 Jul Buda Umanis Kulantir.

Pura Pasek Tangkas kaler Tabanan.

Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 15 Jul Redite Keliwon Tolu.

Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh 16 Jul Soma Umanis Tolu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra, Pasung Grigih Pura Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Banjar Ceningan Kangin Pura Batu Madeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih.

18 Jul Buda Pon Tolu Pura Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring 19 Jul Wraspati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih.

25 Jul Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan Sading Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida

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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Evidence of ‘God particle’ found

Associated Press Writer

GENEVA — Physicists say they have all but proven that the “God particle” exists. They have a footprint and a shadow, and the only thing left is to see for themselves the elusive subatomic particle believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape.

Scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher plan to announce Wednesday that they have nearly confirmed the primary plank of a theory that could restructure the understanding of why matter has mass, which combines with gravity to give an object weight.

The idea is much like gravity and Isaac Newton’s discovery: It was there all the time before Newton explained it. But now scientists know what it is and can put that knowledge to further use. The focus of the excitement is the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle long sought by physicists.

Researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, say that they have compiled vast amounts of data that show the footprint and shadow of the particle, even though it has never actually been glimpsed.

But two independent teams of

physicists are cautious after decades of work and billions of dollars spent. They don’t plan to use the word “discovery.” They say they will come as close as possible to a “eureka” announcement without overstating their findings.

“I agree that any reasonable outside observer would say, ‘It looks like a discovery,’” said British theoretical physicist John Ellis, a professor at King’s College London who has worked at CERN since the 1970s. “We’ve discovered something which is consistent with being a Higgs.”

CERN’s atom smasher, the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border, has been creating high-energy collisions of protons to investigate dark matter, antimatter and the creation of the universe, which many theorize occurred in a massive explosion known as the Big Bang.

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Tourists visit to Bali increase

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DENPASAR - Bali receives 1.15 million foreign tourists visit on January to May 2012. This numbers increasing around 9.31 percent compare to the same period last year.

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FILE - In this May 20, 2011 file photo, a physicist explains the ATLAS experiment on a board at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, outside Geneva, Switzerland.

Australia bans sleeping School Lunch Makeover pills at London Games Requires Whole Grains Agence France Presse

Australia’s Olympic athletes will be banned from using sleeping pills, officials said Tuesday, after ex-swimming star Grant Hackett admitted to a heavy use of the sedatives while he was still competing. Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates said prescription medications such as the powerful sleeping pill Stilnox would be banned for the first time at London after Hackett said he had developed a “heavy reliance” on the drug.

The AOC on Monday decided to amend its team medical manual “to make it absolutely unequivocal that we do not condone and indeed we prohibit the use of Stilnox by our athletes”, Coates said. In North America the drug is marketed as Ambien.

Team doctors are being advised about the changes, which will also emphasise potential problems with caffeine use, and each discipline’s squad will be briefed as they enter the Olympic village, Coates added. “We are very worried about the vicious cycle of athletes taking caffeine as a performance enhancer and then needing to take drugs such as Stilnox to get to sleep,” he told reporters in Sydney.

“We’ve done this because our primary obligation, our overriding obligation, is to protect the health of our athletes.” Officials will also have the power to search athletes’ belongings if they are suspected of using sleeping pills and disciplinary action including suspension or early return to Australia could follow.

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Australia’s Olympic athletes will be banned from using sleeping pills, officials said Tuesday, after ex-swimming star Grant Hackett (pictured in 2002) admitted to a sedative addiction when he was still competing Coates said the changes were triggered by revelations from Hackett, dual gold medallist in the 1500m freestyle, that by the end of his career he had a “heavy reliance” on Stilnox, first prescribed to him by team doctors.

“I do not know the extent of it across the other sports and we’re not going to conduct some sort of witch-hunt over this,” the Australian official said.

At least 50 percent of the grains served in U.S. public school lunches must now be whole grains, according to legislation that went into effect Sunday (July 1). In fact, school lunches are in the midst of a makeover — real fruit is replacing frozen fruit bars, pizza is being made with whole wheat crust and sweet potato fries are being substituted for tater tots — all part of an effort aimed at lowering rates of childhood obesity.

The changes to school lunch menus grew out of a joint effort by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and first lady Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity, and were passed as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which became law in January. Implementation of the changes, which include limits on fat and salt and heftier servings of fruits and veggies, will continue into 2014.

Increasing the amount of whole grains in lunches will help ensure that kids get more nutrients than they would from refined-grain foods, which often contain added sugar and salt, said Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on nutrition. These additives can make children constantly crave these flavors.

“If you’re just eating the natural fruits and veggies, then you’re less likely to add salt to your French fries,” Bhatia said.

Whole grains have also been linked with lower amounts of visceral fat, also known

According to Head of Bali’s Statistic Center Gede Suarsa, majority tourists that came to Bali using aircraft and only around 31,432 people that using cruise ship.

He said that especialy on May, tourists that came to Bali recorded around 220,700 people or increase 5,57 percent compare to same month last year.

On 2011, Bali received tourists visit around 2.82 million people or rise 9,72 percent compare to the same period on the year before.

He explained that from the top ten countries that visits Bali, there are six countries that showing significant rise, meanwhile four of them showing downturn.

The six countries that on the rise are Australia, China, Malaysia, South Korea, Britain, and Singapore. While the four

countries that declining are Japan, Taiwan, France, and United States.

Suarsa explained that Australia still a big market for Bali because Australian that came to Bali on January to May period increase, from 275,957 people to 299,360 people. China also still a potential market which grow steadily over the same period, from 87,038 tourists to 143,382 tourists.

Tourists sunbathing and watching the ritual ceremony that performed

by Balinese in Kuta Beach, Bali Island. Bali receives 1.15 million foreign tourists visit on January to May 2012. This numbers increasing around 9.31 percent compare to the same period last year.

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Entering clove harvest

Residents get seasonal job opportunity IBP

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School Lunch Makeover Requires Whole Grains as belly fat. This type of fat is thought to be particularly unhealthy, and has been linked a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes.

Last year, school lunch might have been pizza sticks with marinara sauce, a banana, raisins and whole milk, but now with the changes, lunch could be a salad of veggies, cheese and chicken with low-fat dressing, a whole-wheat pretzel, corn, baby carrots, a banana and skim chocolate milk.

Before the legislation, lunches included a total of 1/2 to 3/4 cup of fruit and vegetables, but now they are required to have between 3/4 and 1 cup of vegetables, and 1/2 and 1 cup of fruit is now required every day. A larger variety of vegetables will be offered, including dark leafy greens, and red or orange veggies.

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Clove harvest season this year adequately encourages the economy of villages producing cloves in Buleleng. As evidence, since the beginning of harvest season, many residents got seasonal job opportunity by becoming a harvester of clove flower.

BULELENG - Clove harvest season this year adequately encourages the economy of villages producing cloves in Buleleng. As evidence, since the beginning of harvest season, many residents got seasonal job opportunity by becoming a harvester of clove flower. Aside from the adults, school children also filled in their long holiday this year by becoming a clove flower harvester. The money earned would be used to purchase their school supplies.

Kekeran village, Busungbiu subdistrict, is one of the villages in Buleleng becoming the center of clove producer. This village has a number of Subak Abian (non-irrigated farmer group) with commodities dominated by clove, coffee and cacao. When entering the clove harvest season, many people get a seasonal job opportunity as a worker to pick clove flower or to separate clove stems that have been harvested. Price of the service is quite expensive compared to other chores. A worker of clove picker with equipment of bamboo ladder will be paid IDR70,000 and without a bamboo ladder will be IDR 60,000 per day. On average, a seasonal worker can pick maximally 30 kg.

It highly depends on the condition of plants or density of flowers. Meanwhile, the rate of worker separating the clove flower from its stem is IDR 1,000 per kilogram.

One of the local farmers, Wayan Mutra, when met in his garden on Monday (Jul 2) said

he just entered the beginning of harvest season. He usually picked the older clove flowers first so that they would not fall out. While the younger flowers should be waited until they were old enough to be harvested. “It is just the beginning. Probably, early in August we will reach the peak season. By all means, it will absorb more seasonal employment,” he said.

According to Mutra, the clove price at the beginning of harvest season was pretty expensive. Today, the raw clove was sold for IDR 30,000 per kilogram. At his village, most farmers sold their clove in raw condition.

It was based on various reasons such as the farmers did not have adequate drying floor.

Additionally, immediate need of money also forced them to sell cloves in raw condition.

“Moreover, now it’s time for children to enroll their school, so the freshly harvested cloves are immediately sold. By doing so, we can have cash for the preparation of school children,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the information gathered in the secretariat of the Indonesia Clove Growers Association (APCI) of Bali mentioned that harvest season of this month belonged to the relatively small harvest. With this condition, the clove production remained small and did not show an increase. By all means, this condition would affect the price of clove. On that account, the APCI hoped that farmers would not sell their cloves in a hurry so that they could get a reasonable price. (kmb)

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YANGON, Myanmar — Back from her triumphant tour of Europe, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi stepped up calls Tuesday for the release of hundreds of political prisoners still behind bars.

The soil which will be use to build on the side of Denpasar-Gilimanuk roadside.

Rice field land filling on green belt discontinued

Land filling activity on the rice field at the Denpasar-Gilimanuk roadside, precisely at Sebual hamlet, Dangin Tukadaya village is alleged to convert its function into a building. Actually, it belongs to the green belt.

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Alleged to switch function

Negara (Bali Post)—

Tukad Unda in Klungkung

Information compiled on Monday (Jul 2) indicated if the land filling in the rice field had begun to be carried out within the past few weeks. Local people claimed not to know about the use of such rice field area. In terms of the land filling activity, it would apparently be used to establish a building like warehouse. However, the work had just reached a half, right over the ditch alongside the road. Some time ago, the public order officers (Satpol PP) inspected the land filling location.

Since then, the land filling activity was discontinued. According to the information, although the land

was a private property, but since it was located in the green belt, the land filling activity was then discontinued.

From the observation on Monday, the land filling had not annexed yet the entire area of the rice field. It only covered partially the roadside leading to the rice field. Besides, a road had also been made over the ditch. Probably, it would be used to access the location that would be filled. Allegedly, in the north side of the Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section would be established a building.

Head of Jembrana public order

officer, Putu Widarta, when asked for his confirmation last Monday justified if his party received a report if there had been an activity of land filling. As planned, the location would be used to establish a building. Further, the officers responded the report by making a visit to location. According to the information, the rice field would be planted with trees. However, since belonging to the green belt, it was not allowed for any development, including the planting of trees. According to him, such activity should be coordinated with the Jembrana Environment, Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (LHKP).

“The reason is that it will be planted with trees. However, as we have seen the filling land there, probably it would be intended for a building. Since it belongs to green belt, we then terminated the activities,” explained Widarta. (kmb26)

Overloaded elementary school buildings at Kesiman Kertalangu damage

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

The infrastructure of elementary school at Kesiman Kertalangu Village, East Denpasar, seemed worrying as from the six elementary state schools there are in the village all of them are in no good condition due to its age knowing most of them built during the Impres era, the 1980s.

Besides its condition, its pupils total has gone overload such as at SDN 3 Tohpati, SDN 7 Tanggun Titi, SDN 10 Kesiman Kertalangu, SDN 12 Kesambi, SDN 16 Kertha Jiwa and SDN 17 Biaung Denpasar.

According to the Head Village, IB Bima Putra, all principals of the schools have been met and for sure they don’t want to put their pupils

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Three rivers at Klungkung E Coli polluted, residents warned The people living around Tukad Unda, Tukad Jinah and Tukad Bubuh, Klungkung have to be aware in consuming the waters straight away from those rivers as they have been polluted by E Coli bacteria as proved after Living Environment Agency of Klungkung took a water sample from each river which shows the waters can’t be consumed without being cooked first as confirmed by Head of Planning Control of the Agency, Wayan Agus Eka Putra, last Monday (2/7).

The sample was taken last March during the rainy season where it resulted up to 100 ml water of the rivers contains thousands of E Coli bacteria. For the famous Unda River itself, on its source it contains 35 thousands, in the middle 72 thousand while on the end 92 thousand. For Bubuh River at its source 39 thousands, its middle part 110 thousand while at the end 110 thousand bacteria. The worse occurred at Jinah River where 140 thousand can be found on 110 ml of its water tested while the best water to be consumed straight away is not to contain any of that bacteria in it.

This condition can’t be mended properly as its source is not at Klungkung and so the Agency will do socialization to the people to defecate in the river also now the water will cause diarrhea if not cooked at first. The Agency does this sampling twice a year, rainy season and dry season, yet the bacteria gets higher by the time its plantation time due to the pollution caused by pesticide used also other anti insects spray. (119)

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in danger. Putra thinks there will be three of them renovated: SDN 3 Tohpati, SDN 16 Kertha Jiwa and SDN 12 Kesambi, as those were the ones that got a budget to renovate from the City Council yet it is not enough. “The condition is that all these schools have not enough land with the rising pupils’ number. One solution to it is to make it two level

building. The schools and village have stated this aspiration to Denpasar Representatives, I Wayan Warka and Kadek Ari Suchitha whose origin are in this village,” Putra stated.

Warka and Sucitha confirmed they have been approached and promised to act for it by stating it to their party fractions which then

discussed further. The Education Budget in Denpasar is actually the biggest reaching 30 percent compared to other budgets in this city.

Only just most were not straight away used and for this it will be cross checked in the 2013 budget which it is hope the council will pay more attention on this infrastructure. (kmb13)

Suu Kyi’s comments came in response to a state newspaper’s report that President Thein Sein has granted amnesty to 46 prisoners who were expected to be freed from prisons later Tuesday.

More than 20 of those receiving amnesty are prisoners of conscience, said Ko Ko Gyi, a prominent former political prisoner.

Among them are former student activist Aye Aung, who was serving a 59-year sentence for distributing pamphlets and taking part in a protest during a 1998 pro-democracy uprising.

“We are very happy that our fellow political prisoners are being released,” Ko Ko Gyi told The Associated Press. “However, we will continue to work for the release of all political prisoners.”

Human Rights Watch says at least 659 political prisoners, many of them well known, have been released over the past year

as part of Myanmar’s startling series of reforms.

Estimates by human rights groups of the number of political prisoners who remain in Myanmar government custody range from about 200 to about 600. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy opposition party says the number is 330.

“We will call for the release of all 330 political prisoners,” Suu Kyi, the country’s most famous former political prisoner, said at a news conference. It was her first public appearance since returning from her two-week tour of Europe, her first overseas journey in 24 years.

The state-run New Light of Myanmar reported Tuesday that 37 men and nine women were being freed. It said the decision had been made on humanitarian grounds “with a view to ensuring the stability of the state and making eternal peace (and) national reconciliation.”

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to journalists during a press conference at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy Party in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, July 3, 2012.

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Mexico’s next president faces uphill fight

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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev rides on the airport rail link to Vladivostok airport July 3, 2012.

Russia’s Medvedev lands on disputed Far East island Reuters

MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev landed on Tuesday on a remote island chain seized by the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two, Russian news agencies reported, in a trip likely to renew a territorial dispute with Japan.

Medvedev caused uproar in Japan in 2010 when he became the first Russian leader to visit the disputed island chain known as the Southern Kuriles in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan.

After that visit, he promised

to send more modern arms to an artillery division deployed on the windswept archipelago.

The islands lie off Russia’s eastern coast, some 7,000 km (4,350 miles) away from Moscow. The island of Kunashir, the last in the chain, where Medvedev landed, is only about 15 km from Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.

Russia is raising its profile on its vast but sparsely populated eastern seaboard in advance of an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok in September.

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coming years.”

Pena Nieto’s account of the talk suggested his MEXICO CITY — The apparent victor of party has left behind the touchy nationalism of the Mexico’s presidential race, Enrique Pena Nieto, past. He expressed interest in cooperation in security, struggled Monday with the sticky bonds of his commerce and infrastructure, but didn’t bring up the party’s notorious past, the limitation of his election traditional Mexican issue of U.S. immigration reform mandate and an opponent who refused to concede to help the 12 million Mexicans who live in the Unitdefeat. His long-ruling and ed States. Pena Nieto said now-returned Institutional he wanted “a relationship Revolutionary Party, the that will allow the producPRI, won only about 38 tive integration of North percent of the vote and is America.” unlikely to get a majority In Sunday’s elections, in Congress. In fact, it may Mexicans voted above lose seats. all for a known quantity, He faces an old guard in the camera-friendly canthe PRI that still exercises didate of the party that considerable power, a war ruled Mexico without with fierce drug cartels and interruption from 1929 a still sluggish economy. to 2000.

His closest rival, leftist But the PRI returns to Andres Manuel Lopez Obpower in unknown politirador, who polled a highercal terrain, where Mexico than-expected vote of about is more divided, more vio32 percent, refused to aclent and less tightly concept the loss, and many of trolled, raising the potenhis militant followers were tial for political disputes suspicious of the results. on top of the drug war.

President Barack Obama The battle against drug called Pena Nieto on Moncartels has already cost day to congratulate him. more than 47,500 lives The U.S. Embassy in and may have contributed Mexico City said Obama to the decline of President told him the United States Felipe Calderon’s conser“looks forward to advancAP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo vative National Action ing common goals, includ- Enrique Pena Nieto, candidate of the Institution- Party, whose candidate ing promoting democracy, al Revolutionary Party (PRI) and apparent win- dropped to third place economic prosperity, and ner of Mexico’s presidential election, gestures with about 25 percent security in the region and while speaking with foreign correspondents in of the preliminary vote around the globe, in the Mexico City, Monday, July 2, 2012. count.

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BUSINESS As eurozone crisis bites, jobless rate hits record 11.1%

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New World Bank chief warns on eurozone crisis

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BRUSSELS - The eurozone debt crisis delivered more bad news on Monday with data showing record high unemployment of 11.1 percent and a manufacturing outlook at its lowest levels for three years.

Unemployment hit its highest point since the eurozone was created in 1999 and analysts warned that job queues would likely continue to lengthen in coming months.

“It now looks odds-on that the eurozone unemployment rate will reach 11.5 percent by the end of the year, although the situation will vary markedly between countries,” forecast Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Global Insight.

More than 17.5 million people were jobless in the 17-nation eurozone in May, as 88,000 more men and women lined up for benefits.

Spain was the hardest hit with almost one in four unemployed, according to Eurostat data agency.

Youth unemployment surged again, with 3.4 million people under 25 looking for work, an increase of 254,000 from 12 months earlier.

“It was of little real comfort that May’s rise in unemployment was actually the smallest for 11 months,” Archer noted.

Capital Economics economist Mark Miller noted that “the labour market is a lagging indicator of overall economic conditions.

So it is of particular concern that recent business surveys have pointed to renewed recession across the euro-zone,” he said.

Both the employment data and bleak manufacturing PMI figures raised the risk of eurozone unemployment reaching 12 percent, van Vliet commented.

The eurozone unemployment rate has stayed above 10 percent for 13 months as the bloc struggles to revive economies undermined by a debt crisis now in its third year and threatening major economies in Spain and Italy.

In the wider 27-nation European Union, unemployment rose to 10.3 percent against 10.2 in April, the same level as in March.

About 24.86 million men and women were jobless in the EU as unemployment increased by 151,000 people.

Spain posted once again the worst unemployment rate at 24.6 percent, with more than one in two people under 25 without work.

Greece was next at 21.9 percent in March, the latest available figures for that country, followed by Latvia at 15.3 percent in the first quarter and Portugal at 15.2 percent in May. Austria has the lowest rate at 4.1 percent, followed by the Netherlands at 5.1 percent, Luxembourg at 5.4 percent and Germany at 5.6 percent.

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Tourists learn to surf in Kuta Beach, Bali Island. Quiksilver will open the bidding on exact replica surfboards from five of Quiksilver’s greatest surfing legends, Mark Richards, Tom Carroll, Martin Potter, Matt Hoy, and Jake Paterson, in their on-going efforts to raise money to help clean up Bali’s beaches.

Help clean up Bali’s beaches Incoming World Bank President Jim Yong Kim speaks to the press outside the World Bank July 2, 2012 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - New World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim warned Monday that the eurozone financial crisis poses a deep risk for the global economy and said it was urgent that European countries act to restore stability.

In a statement marking his first day on the job, Kim said the world’s economy “remains highly vulnerable.”

The World Bank has “an economic and moral imperative to help address risks to global growth, no matter where they emerge,” he said.

“A strong global economy benefits all countries; a weak global economy makes all countries vulnerable.

“It is urgent that European countries take all necessary measures to restore stability because their actions will impact growth in

all regions of the world.

Kim, a physician and global health specialist who was chosen over two respected economists for the position, said his immediate priority leading the global lender would be “to help developing countries maintain progress against poverty in these volatile times.”

“I will work with our clients and partners to ensure that we are creating a new economic firewall: one that protects people in developing countries against shocks.”

“I know from my work in poor communities around the world that, when a crisis

hits, and no safety net is in place, the effects can be devastating.”

His focus on threats spilling out of the eurozone echoed his predecessor, Robert Zoellick, who repeatedly in recent months stressed the danger posed by the euro crisis and indecisiveness by European leaders to the rest of the world.

“We’re waiting for Europe to tell us what it is going to do,” Zoellick said during the Group of 20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, in mid-June, which was focused on getting concrete action in Europe.

“Markets can manage risks that they’re well aware of. The danger we’re creating is that the pattern of policy making is increasing uncertainty and making markets more nervous, which has a negative feedback,” he warned.

Google touts economic impact in US of ad efforts

Agence France-Presse

SAN FRANCISCO - Google said Monday its search and advertising operations generated $80 billion for 1.8 million US businesses in 2011.

The annual report from the Internet search giant comes as it faces a US government probe of lucrative search and advertising business, in which it holds an estimated 65 percent market share.

“It’s a fact that the Internet is creating jobs and helping the American economy grow.

And we’re proud to be a part of that process,” Margo Georgiadis, vice president of Ameri-

cas sales at Google, said in a blog post.

“The growth of our Internet use has naturally helped the ecommerce industry to expand rapidly over the past decade.

But the web is also positively impacting brick-and-mortar businesses.”

Google said its estimate of economic impact is conservative, and is only one portion of its overall business impact.

“Our estimate is comprised of a limited part of our business and relies on conservative calculations,” Google said in a page explaining its report.

“For example, it doesn’t include the economic benefits of search results for consum-

ers, the impact of our hiring or employees, or the impact of products like Google Maps or YouTube. We hope to be able to include these sources in future reports.”

Google said businesses generally make an average of $2 in revenue for every $1 they spend on AdWords, the sponsored links next to search results.

According to some reports, Google could face scrutiny by US regulators for abusing its dominant position in search and advertising.

EU officials have also begun a probe, and have asked Google for “remedies” to satisfy Brussels.

History-making surfboards on auction

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KUTA - At Nirwana Golf Resort, on Friday July 6th, Quiksilver will open the bidding on exact replica surfboards from five of Quiksilver’s greatest surfing legends, Mark Richards, Tom Carroll, Martin Potter, Matt Hoy, and Jake Paterson, in their on-going efforts to raise money to help clean up Bali’s beaches.

This is a once-in-a-life time opportunity to own a piece of history, with the money going towards the on-going corporate social responsibility efforts

by Quiksilver and Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia to create a cleaner and healthier Bali for everyone to enjoy.

Up for auction are 5 legendary and game changing exact replica surfboards that have been hand made and personally signed, along with a signed canvas image, each of which has a short story written about the surfer and the surfboard by Vaughan Blakey, the editor of Surfing World in Australia.

Four-time world champion and Newcastle’s own Mark Richards has created a replica of the single fin board that he won his first Hawaiian events on, which was originally shaped by Reno Abellira. “It was a single fin wing pin which for its time was cutting edge in terms of rocker, rail shape, and outline.

I recreated the replica from memory as a tribute to this board and the influence Reno had on my shaping and competitive success,” says Richards.

Two-time world champion Tom Car-

roll, the first pro surfer to sign a million dollar contract, chose the hot pink 7’8” Pat Rawson with which he did “The Snap” during one of his famous Pipeline wins on 12 foot bomb as his contribution. The superbly fit and powerful Carroll aboard this hot pink board snapping under the lip of that awesome wave is a truly iconic scene.

1989 world champion Martin “Pottz” Potter’s chosen surfboard is his title-winning 6’2” Blue Flame shaped

by Glen Minami of Blue Hawaii. Pottz is known as the pioneer of progressive surfing, the man who revolutionized surfing with aerial maneuvers; free surfing during competitions to everyone’s amazement. Pottz with his blueflamed board beneath his feet, speeding across the water before taking to the air…this board was indeed the portent of today’s surfing style.

And who could forget the all black Pacific Dreams 6’3 of Matt Hoy with the white Maltese Cross? The neversay-die party legend who can take waves apart like few others living much cleaner lives can, has 5 world tour event

wins to his credit, and is still admired for his ability to live life his own way.

This black “outlaw” board is a testament to the free spirit in all of us.

The fifth surfboard is from Western Australia’s Jake Paterson, whose all guts for all the glory charge in the dying seconds at Backdoor won him the Pipeline Masters and the admiration and respect of the world’s best surfers.

Each of these replica surfboards is essentially a piece of history, something that every surfer or surfboard collector would be very lucky to bring home and hang up as a centerpiece. And knowing that the money received from the sale of the boards goes towards keeping Bali’s beaches and ocean, makes for an even more compelling reason.

This live surfboard auction is part of the second annual Bali’s Big Eco Weekend from July 6-8, a Quiksilver and Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia sponsored event that is focused on raising the awareness of the importance of caring for Bali’s environment, to the local community, the government, tourism stakeholders, and the tourists who visit the “Island of the Gods.”

The Bali’s Big Eco Weekend will include a golf tournament at the Pan Pacific Nirwana Resort on July 6th, the annual Quiksilver King of the Groms junior surfing competition on July 7 and 8, as well as beach cleaning programs, turtle releases, and more.

HINDU possesses a medical science that has been very renowned from time immemorial, namely Ayurvedic medicine.

Ayurvedic medicine refers to the contents of the scripture Ayurveda born thousands of years ago. Ayurvedic scripture denotes a part of Upaweda in the group of Smriti Vedas. However, the Ayurvedic scripture is often confused with Yajur Veda, the scripture containing sacrificial formula that also belongs to Smriti Veda. Yajur Veda itself is a scripture discussing about Yajña or ceremony.

Author of the book Usada Bali (Balinese Traditional Healing), the late Prof. IGN Nala, once said that to help the healing, the Ayurvedic healers usually provided natural herbal medicine having few side effects. Almost all plants existing around us could be eaten, they were medicine. On that account, all plants having efficacy for healing were necessary to be inventoried and developed.

In the meantime, the Dean of Faculty of Health Science, Hindu University of Indonesia (Unhi), I Nyoman Prastika, said that based Taru Premana palm-manuscript there were a number of beneficial herbs having the efficacy to cure diseases. Parts of those plants taken advantage consisted of its leaf, flower, fruit, bark or roots. Each herb had different quality such as cool, warm and mild.

To know whether a particular plant had a cold, warm or mild quality, it could be observed from the color of its flower and flavor. For instance, white, yellow and green flower had warm quality. If their flowers were red and blue, these plants had cool efficacy. Meanwhile, if the flower was multi-colors, they could be ensured to have mild efficacy.

Likewise, if they tasted sweet and sour, its quality might be warm. However, if they tasted bitter and hot, they had cool efficacy. Then, if they were tasteless, they belonged to mild plant.

In herbal medicine system, added Prastika, people would be healthy if they consumed (ahara) nutritious healthy foods regularly, had adequate rest or sleep (nidra), and behaved (vihara) healthy. If the three aspects had been committed well, but it was still found health disturbances, then a herbal treatment (ausadhi) was required. Preparation method of herbal medicine could be divided into three kinds, namely grinding, spraying and boiled. Its healing method could be performed by drinking and dropping for internal healing, while the spraying or applying the paste for external use.

Then, what kinds of plant could be used to cure diseases?

Prastika said that virtually all edible plants by animals could be eaten by humans. Whether the herbs had medicinal quality, they could be observed from the color of their flowers and flavor as mentioned above. Similarly, the plants frequently used for spices in the cooking contained drug efficacy.

Red ginger for example, was good to increase warmth of the body as well as to stimulate or maintain immunity. If red ginger added with the flowers of carambola, bark of tamarind and kalmegh leaves, they could be used to accelerate breathing and relieve cough.

Meanwhile, to break up kidney stones and cure colic, people could also use herbal medicine. Its ingredients consisted of roots of reed, roots of palm tree, root of areca nut tree and added with palm sugar. All materials were thoroughly boiled.

Afterward, its decoction water was drunk in the morning and afternoon.

Herbal remedies could also cope with cardiac palpitations.

Its ingredients comprised the soy beans, green beans, ginger, cumin, fennel, bidara upas (Merremia mammosa) leaf, coriander and pulasari (Alyxia Stellata). All ingredients should be boiled and then water of its decoction was drunk regularly.

Meanwhile, Balinese traditional healing used several palmleaf manuscripts as reference. One of them was Lontar Usada Tiwang. This manuscript described about various types of diseases along with their treatments. Tiwang conveyed numerous symptoms in the form of disorder on the function of organ.

There were several types of tiwang presented in the manuscripts such as tiwang utara, tiwang tojos, tiwang wedul, tiwang pemali pepasangan, tiwang wong, and tiwang rajasa.

Prastika added that tiwang pemali pepasangan had symptoms like prickling pain in the chest and on the back. Being no resistant to the pain, the sufferers often groaned. The disease itself could be treated by means of bark of rauvolfia, temu tis (Curcuma purpurascens), grilled coconut, hazelnut and fennel.

It was applied by spraying its paste. (BTN/kmb)

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INDONESIA Indonesia pulls out of Dutch tanks deal

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This aerial photo shows a flooded area of Jorhat in Assam state, India, Monday, July 2, 2012.

The floods from monsoon rains in northeastern India killed dozens of people, with more than 2,000 villages inundated as rivers breached their banks, an official said Sunday.

Monsoon floods kill 81 in India, force 2M to flee Associated Press Writer

GAUHATI, India — The worst monsoon floods in a decade to hit a remote northeastern Indian state have killed more than 80 people and forced around 2 million to leave their homes.

Nearly half a million people are living in relief camps that have been set up across Assam state, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told journalists Monday in Gauhati, Assam’s capital. The rest of the 2 million displaced are living with relatives or sheltering under tarpaulin sheets.

Assam officials say 81 people have been killed over the past four days. Most were swept away when the mighty Brahmaputra River overflowed and flooded villages.

Sixteen people were buried in landslides triggered by the rains.

At least 11 people were missing in six districts, the state disaster management agency said.

Air force helicopters were dropping food packets and drinking water to marooned people, Singh said after surveying the flood-hit districts.

Army soldiers used boats to rescue villagers from rooftops of flooded homes.

Teams of doctors have opened health clinics in the 770 relief camps that had been set up across Assam, one of India’s main teagrowing states. The hilly tea growing areas have not been affected, but lower rice fields have been washed away.

Thousands of cattle have perished after being swept away by the raging water or getting stuck in the mud. The stench of rotting animal carcasses was adding to the woes of the people in tents at the relief camps, officials said.

In the worst-hit Dhemaji district, raging waters of the Brahmaputra River swept away entire villages.

Officials said the entire Majuli island, one of the world’s largest river islands, was awash as

the Brahmaputra rose above the danger level.

“This is one of the worst floods to hit Assam,” Singh said. He announced the national government would give immediate assistance of 5 billion rupees ($90 million) to the state.

Railway workers were working round the clock to restore train services disrupted after railway tracks became submerged.

“Restoration of the railway line is a priority,” Singh said.

The situation was expected to improve over the next few days as the rain was tapering off and water was beginning to recede.

Monsoon floods hit Assam, with a population of 26 million people, almost every year, with heavy rains swelling the Brahmaputra and its innumerable tributaries that crisscross the state.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI fired a 52-year-old Slovak bishop for apparently mismanaging his diocese in a rare show of papal power over bishops that could have implications for U.S. sex abuse cases.

Usually when bishops run into trouble — either for alleged moral lapses or management problems — they are persuaded by the Vatican to resign. But Benedict has become increasingly willing to forcibly remove bishops who refuse to step down, sacking three others in the past year alone.

His willingness to do so raises questions about whether he would take the same measures against bishops who covered up for sexually abusive priests. So far he has not.

In the most notable case to date, Benedict fired Bishop William Morris of Toowoomba, Australia, last year after he called for the church to consider ordaining women and married men. He also removed a Congolese bishop for management problems in his diocese and an Italian one in May for similar reasons.

On Monday, the Vatican said Benedict had “relieved from pastoral care” Bishop Robert Bezak of Trnava, Slovakia. No reason was given, but Italian news reports suggested administrative problems were to blame, and Slovak news reports quoted Bezak as saying he thought his criticism of his predecessor may have had a role.

Bishops normally hand in their resignation when they turn 75 years old, their customary retirement age.

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Taiwan court clears ex-vice president of graft Agence France Presse

Taiwan’s ex-vice president Annette Lu and a former top presidential aide have been cleared of corruption and forgery charges after prosecutors failed to prove the case against them, a court said.

Lu and Yu Shyi-kun, former secretary-general to then president Chen Shui-bian, were indicted in 2007 for allegedly abusing their positions to claim millions of Taiwan dollars in expenses with false receipts.

“Lu and Yu are found not guilty as prosecutors failed to prove that they had used their positions to swindle money or commit forgery,” the Taipei district court said in a statement issued late Monday.

Lu was Chen’s deputy during his 2000-2008 terms in office, the most senior government post ever held by a woman in Taiwan.

A former political prisoner and human rights advocate, Lu briefly stood for the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party nomination in the 2012 presidential race, but withdrew early in the process.

Taiwan has been rocked by a string of high-profile corruption cases in recent years, with those involved ranging from ex-president Chen to top officials in President Ma Ying-jeou’s government.

On Tuesday Lin Yi-shih, previously a rising star in Ma’s Kuomintang party, was taken into custody after he admitted taking millions of US dollars in bribes from a businessman while he was a lawmaker two years ago.

Chen is currently serving a prison term of 17 years and six months for two bribery convictions. He has insisted he is a victim of a political witchhunt.

Poverty...

From page 1 Therefore, the government had to boost the real sector, including backing up the agricultural sector.

“Economic growth that is more sustained by consumer sector has resulted in restricted ability to create new job opportunities and unemployment leading to poverty,” he said.

Ketut Rahyuda also assessed the presence of investors in Bali so far was still dominated by those from outside Bali and overseas. As a result, the economic growth of Bali was dominantly enjoyed by those from outside Bali without resulting in multiplier effect. “We should not reject the presence of foreign or outside investors who want to invest in Bali. However, the government should regulate their contribution to Bali,” he said. (kmb27)

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A 172 Cessna Skyhawk of the Aero Flyer Institute crashed in Sukadana village, Ciawigebang Sub District, Kuningan District, West Java, on Monday, killing its pilot, police said.

Cessna plane crashes killing one Antara

BANDUNG - A 172 Cessna Skyhawk of the Aero Flyer Institute crashed in Sukadana village, Ciawigebang Sub District, Kuningan District, West Java, on Monday, killing its pilot, police said.

“The ill-fated Cessna Skyhawk belongs to the Aero Flyer Institute. Its pilot was killed and two other flight students were seriously injured,” Spokesman of West Java Police Senior Commissioner Martinus Sitompul said when contacted here on Monday.

The dead victim is pilot Captain Heru, and two flight students who were seriously injured are Rara and Fitri.

All victims have been taken to the Kuningan Hospital. Martinus said that based on the report he

had received, the plane with registration number PK-HAL took off Cirebon airbase at 1.35 pm with three people on board, namely the pilot and the two flight students.

The Cirebon air tower lost contact with the airplane at 3.15 pm. At that time the ill-fated aircraft was estimated to have reached the Kuningan area.

The tower officials contacted security officers in Kuningan and informed them that they had lost contact with the aircraft.

Martinus said that the plane was discovered with its pilot and passengers at 5.50 pm in Sukadana village, Ciawigebang Sub District, Kuningan District.

The victims were soon rushed to the nearest hospital.

“Police and military command of Kuningan immediately deploy their personnel to search and evacuate the victims. The crashed Cessna is a civil trainer aircraft.

It did not cause casualties to the local people,” the police spokesman said.

JAKARTA - Indonesia said Tuesday it had pulled out of a $280 million deal to buy 100 Leopard battle tanks from the Netherlands after waiting several months for the Dutch parliament to approve the sale.

The Netherlands’ minority government planned to sell the tanks to raise money for unmanned drones, but the majority of parties in parliament opposed the deal because of Jakarta’s poor human rights record, Dutch media reported.

“We are disappointed because we were serious in wanting to buy the Dutch tanks,” defence ministry spokesman Hartind Asrin told AFP. “We had gone to the warehouse to look at them and they were good.

The price was also right, at around $280 million.”

“The Dutch government was agreeable to the deal, but the Dutch parliament kept us waiting. There was still no approval after eight to nine months of waiting, so last week we called off the deal,” he said.

Indonesia -- much of which was a Dutch colony until 1945 -- would now buy the 100 tanks from Germany for around the same price, he added. “Around 15 units are expected to arrive in Indonesia by October this year,” Asrin said.

The concerns over Indonesia’s rights record stem from the rule of then-dictator Suharto in the 1990s, when special forces were accused of committing abuses in East Timor and Aceh.

Indonesian troops have also been accused of rights violations as they seek to snuff out support for a low-level separatist insurgency in the country’s far-flung Papua province.

Indonesia has earmarked 99 trillion rupiah ($10.6 billion) from 2010 to 2014 to modernise its defense systems, according to local media reports quoting National Development Planning Minister Armida Alisjahbana.

One third of the budget has been set aside for maintenance with the remaining two thirds for purchasing defense systems and weapons, she was quoted as saying.

Alleged peoplesmuggler arrested Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesian police have arrested a suspected people-smuggler from Afghanistan accused of arranging a boat trip in which 90 people drowned off Australia’s Christmas Island, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Rescuers managed to save 110 asylum-seekers after the boat sank in the Indian Ocean off the remote Australian territory on June 21 with an estimated 200 people on board, but the accident left about 90 dead.

The 19-year-old suspect, who was arrested Friday and was identified only by his initials D.A, had been living in Indonesia for two years, national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar told AFP. “We arrested him on suspicion of people-smuggling and cooperation with a smuggling syndicate in Pakistan,” Amar said.

“His role was to organise the migrants’ trip (which resulted) in the accident on June 21.”

Amar said the the suspect had confessed to successfully sending three other boats of asylum-seekers to Australia.

Canberra is struggling to deal with a steady influx of asylum-seekers coming to Australia by boat, many of whom use Indonesia as a transit hub, boarding leaky wooden vessels after fleeing states such as Afghanistan and Iran.

In a second sinking just days after after the June 21 incident, 130 people were rescued and four were lost.

Although they travel in relatively small numbers by global standards, asylum-seekers are a sensitive political issue in Australia, dominating 2010 elections due to a record 6,555 arrivals.

Australia and Indonesia Tuesday agreed to work more closely to crack down on people-smuggling, with visiting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saying Indonesians were also victims of the trade.

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Besakih Temple IBP

Besakih Temple is the biggest Hindu temple in Bali which the local people call Pura Besakih. It owns beautiful view from the top of temple area where we can see the wide nature panorama until to the ocean so that way this temple is many visited by tourists from all over the world. Besakih Temple is located in Besakih countryside, Rendang sub district, Karangasem regency, east part of the island. It is located in southwest side bevel of mount Agung, the biggest mounts in Bali. It is because pursuant to

Destinations

Agung Mount confidence is holiest and highest mount in Bali Island.

The Besakih’s name is come from the word of Basuki, the old language from Sanskrit Wasuki, and then it become the Ancient Java Language. In this Sanskrit, the Basuki means congratulation.

In mythology of Samudramanthana has mentioned that Basuki is a dragon that twines the Mount Mandara. The omission has come from tradition megalithic which had been indicated that it had to be sanctified place. It seems, the Besakih is coming from very old era which is far before the existence of Hinduism

influence. Hereinafter, an Ancient Bali king of Sri Kesari Warmadewa found the Merajan Selonding Temple in this temple complex area. He also commands to build the Blanjong Monument that is located in Sanur Village. The Besakih Temple complex is built pursuant to cosmos balance. It is based on the nature conception which is disseminating the fundamental temple complex that is arranged to pursuant of the way direction. So, this building can deputize nature as symbolic of the world balance existence.

As we familiarize, that the point direction way like East, South, West,

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North, and middle as center point and each direction is named by Mandala.

In Hindu philosophy, Panca Dewata is manifestation of Siwa God. Like Penataran Agung Temple as center, we find in its courtyard conception show the solidarity conception between the original Indonesia culture namely tradition megalithic in form of Punden Berundak-undak with the Hinduism concept. The ancient omissions which is existing in Besakih Temple complex can be classified into 2 types those are omission pertained by megalithic tradition and classic era. Besakih Temple beside as the altar for Hindu people in Bali,

it is also as tourist destination which is a lot of visited by tourists.

Besakih Temple is located in the plateau area which is covered by the cool atmosphere and Mount Agung as a back drop. From the top of temple building, we can see the beautiful panorama of nature from the temple area to the ocean. It is situated in cool area with the light breeze and unique temple buildings spread out in the temple complex will create the peaceful atmosphere.

It is ideally for the people who did the meditation and now, the Besakih Temple is opened for tourist and it is the great place to visit in Bali.

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Bad day for Sharapova, Federer grits teeth Reuters

LONDON - Maria Sharapova has had better days, Roger Federer more mobile ones and local sun-hat sellers more profitable ones as Wimbledon’s manic Monday turned into a bit of a damp squib after several days of nerve-shredding drama. Beaten comfortably by Germany’s Sabine Lisicki, top seed Sharapova’s dream of a French Open/Wimbledon double ended in tatters under miserable grey skies and her world No.1 ranking looks almost certain to follow.

At least Federer is still standing, although for a while against erratic Belgian Xavier Malisse that seemed an effort in itself for the six-times champion. Struggling with a bad back in chilly conditions on Centre Court, the king of cool needed two undignified injury time-outs during a 7-6 6-1 4-6 6-3 victory that continued his remarkable run of grand slam quarter-final appearances.

He remained on course for a semi-final against defending champion Novak Djokovic who thrashed fellow Serb Viktor Troicki 6-3 6-1 6-3. The pigeons were again looking nervously about after the safe return of Rufus, the club’s harrier hawk employed to scare them away who was stolen last week.

Feathers fluttering down from the Centre Court roof during sec-

ond seed Victoria Azarenka’s 6-1 6-0 win over Ana Ivanovic may have been proof that Rufus, who resumes work on Tuesday, had been missed. While the women’s quarter-final line-up is complete, five men’s fourth-round matches were unfinished due to persistent rain in south west London.

Home favourite Andy Murray must try to finish off Marin Cilic on Tuesday after taking a one-set lead and fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will resume a set down against Mardy Fish. Serena Williams and Petra Kvitova also beat the rain to set up a juicy last-eight clash in the women’s singles.

Williams, seeking a fifth Wimbledon singles title to equal the total of her sister Venus, scrambled through to the quarter-finals for the

10th time with a 6-1 2-6 7-5 win over powerful Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova.

FEARSOME ROAR

Stretched to the limit, the 30year-old Williams produced a sensational backhand top-spin lob from deep in the corner at 6-5, 30-30 in the second set and sealed victory with a pummelled winner before letting out a fearsome roar. “I don’t know if that was luck, per se, but it was definitely - unintentional I think is a better word,” Williams said of the contender for shot of the tournament.

Sharapova gave a performance on Court One as grey as the weather in a 6-4 6-3 defeat by Lisicki who will face fellow German Angelique Kerber in the quarter-finals.

AP Photo/Sang Tan

Maria Sharapova of Russia reacts during a fourth round singles match against Sabine Lisicki of Germany at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Monday, July 2, 2012.

Tarmoh concedes Olympic Female F1 driver fighting spot in 100 to Felix for life after crash

Associated Press Writer

EUGENE, Ore. — Jeneba Tarmoh changed her mind after listening to her heart. Choosing inner peace over a shot at Olympic glory, the 22-year-old sprinter withdrew from a runoff for the final Olympic spot in the 100 meters, deciding to concede it rather than meet training partner Allyson Felix at the starting line to break a third-place tie.

With that, the U.S. track trials were over. The final spot determined before the highly anticipated race was run. Tarmoh notified USA Track and Field early in the day of her intention to withdraw from the Monday night race. Her heart, she explained, wasn’t into competing again.

Not after already securing what she thought was the third spot in the event at the trials on June 23. In that race, Tarmoh crossed the finish line and looked up to see her name on the scoreboard in the third spot behind winner Carmelita Jeter and runner-up Tianna Madison. And then came all the rewards of making the Olympic team — a celebratory lap around the track and a medal.

Understandably, she was caught off guard when she was informed that she hadn’t earned the third spot after all. The race was being ruled a dead

heat and USATF — with no tiebreaking procedure in place — was looking at ways to break the deadlock.

For days, Tarmoh thought about earning a spot and having it yanked away. For days, she wondered what she was going to do, when USATF gave the sprinters an option of a coin flip, runoff or conceding the spot.

On Sunday, they settled on a runoff to be held at Hayward Field the following day. But Tarmoh had trepidation from the start, not wanting to run for a spot she felt she had already attained.

“Running in this (runoff) came down to how I felt internally.

Would my heart be at peace running or would I not be at peace? If I was at peace, I would have run,” Tarmoh told The Associated Press on Monday night. “My heart was not at peace with running.”

The winner-take-all race was scheduled to be shown in prime time on NBC in conjunction with the network’s coverage of the swimming trials. It would’ve been a big hit for track fans and those only marginally interested the sport. They could spare 11 seconds to watch a race with so much riding on it. Only now, it’s turned into another blow for a sport that’s taken its lumps lately.

Agence France Presse

Spanish Formula One driver Maria De Villota was fighting for her life on Tuesday after suffering serious injuries during a crash in

testing for the Marussia team, it was confirmed. A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service told the BBC De Villota had sustained “life-threatening injuries” in the early morning crash at Duxford

AFP Photo/Paul Crock

Maria de Villota at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne in March.

Spanish Formula One driver Maria De Villota is fighting for her life on Tuesday after suffering serious injuries during a crash in testing for the Marussia team, it was confirmed.

Airfield in Cambridgeshire.

Marussia confirmed in a statement that the 32-year-old test driver from Madrid had been transferred to hospital after her car collided with a support vehicle during a test lap.

“At approximately 9.15am (0815 GMT) this morning, the Marussia F1 Team’s Test Driver Maria De Villota had an accident in the team’s MR-01 race car at Duxford Airfield where she was testing the car for the first time,” Marussia said.

“The accident happened at the end of her first installation run and involved an impact with the team’s support truck. “Maria has been transferred to hospital. Once her medical condition has been assessed a further statement will be issued.”

De Villota, the daughter of former Spanish Formula One driver Emilio De Villota, was given a test drive by Renault last year and has previously raced in Spanish Formula Three and the Daytona 24 Hours.

Marussia began racing in 2010 under the Virgin banner. The team rebranded as Marussia in 2012, with Charles Pic driving alongside Timo Glock. The team has struggled to make any impression on the championship however, failing to score any points this season.

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Beaten but unbowed, Italy squad returns home Agence France Presse

Italy’s footballers were welcomed back by a small group of just a few dozen fans on Monday after defeat by Spain in the Euro 2012 final but said they were already looking forward to the World Cup in 2014. Arriving on a flight from Krakow in Poland at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, the footballers dressed in suits and ties were greeted with shouts of encouragement and later attended a high-pomp ceremony with President Giorgio Napolitano.

Fans chanted the national anthem and asked the players to autograph a placard reading “Go Italy” before the footballers boarded their buses.

One player, Leonardo Bonucci, admitted to AFP before getting on that there was an overwhelming feel-

ing of disappointment among his team mates.

“There is always sadness because we were there -- one step away from the dream, from realising something important,” he sighed.

“Unfortunately we did not manage to impose ourselves against a great team. Now we are leaving this Euro with the will to put into practice the tactics that (coach) Cesare Prandelli taught us,” he said.

“We’ll prepare well for the World Cup” he added, as focus turns towards the qualifiers for the 2014 tournament in Brazil. At the ceremony in the president’s Quirinale palace, Prandelli said he was grateful to Napolitano for coming to support the team in its first match against Spain in Gdansk and for inviting them over “whatever the result”.

Napolitano was Italy’s “biggest fan” and had helped the team get over their crushing 4-0 defeat, Prandelli said. The coach added the players were proud to have represented Italy and handed the president the silver medal they brought back.

Team captain and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon later presented the other members of the team to the 87-year-old president, who stood up one by one as a sign of respect.

Andrea Pirlo and Mario Balotelli also gifted Napolitano a football.

Napolitano expressed his gratitude “on behalf of the institutions and millions of Italians” saying the team’s achievement had been “extraordinary.” “I could see the passion that fired you up and your love for Italy, which were the best presents you could have given us,” he said. “This team which has just been rebuilt with so much wisdom still has a long way to go and we will see each other again.”

AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli

Italian national team football striker Andrea Pirlo arrives with his team from Kiev at Rome’s Fiumicino airport.

Giggs in British squad for London Games

Reuters

AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

Gerard Pique, third right, holds the trophy with teammates during the celebration of the Euro 2012 soccer championship in Madrid, Spain, Monday, July 2, 2012. Spain won the Euro 2012 soccer championship final against Italy in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday.

Spain’s victory restores national pride Reuters

INVINCIBLE SPAIN

MADRID - Spaniards seized on their European Championship triumph as a source of restored national pride after months of economic anxieties, as celebrations reached fever pitch on Monday with a victory parade in the capital. Across the country many were looking forward to another night of revelry after Spain thrashed Italy 4-0 on Sunday, becoming the first team to win two Euro titles in a row, with a World Cup in between.

The team arrived back in Madrid on Monday afternoon. After visiting King Juan Carlos I, the players were cheered by tens of thousands of fans during a lap of the capital and a party near the central fountain of Cibeles, the scene of euphoric celebrations on Sunday that stretched into the early hours. The game also drew a record television audience of nearly 15.5 million people, broadcaster Telecinco said.

However, even amid the car

honking and chants of “Yo soy Espanol” (I am Spanish) filling the streets of Madrid and other cities, worries about Spain’s recessionhit economy were never far from people’s minds. Several of the players dedicated the victory to Spaniards suffering from the economic crisis. National morale took a beating when Spain was forced to ask for a European rescue for its ailing banks last month.

Many were now looking to the historic achievement of the na-

tional soccer team as a source of inspiration for the tough months ahead, with lessons to be drawn from the squad’s performance for Spaniards and their politicians.

“Let us mature amid the complexity of these difficult days we’re living in and let us learn from yesterday’s resounding victory everything that makes us stronger, better, freer, more just and, even, happier,” wrote one commentator in the right-leaning newspaper ABC.

Like many of the leading dailies, it dedicated the first 10 pages of Monday’s edition to coverage of the game and celebrations, under the headline “Invincible Spain”.

Others waxed lyrical, about everything from the ethics to the style displayed by the players, with special editions drowned in red and yellow lettering and pictures of the Spanish flag.

“Spain is eternal, like the songs that stay with us when love passes,” wrote El Mundo, likening Spain’s goals to the beats in a melody.

But it also took a shot at politicians, with a cartoon showing the soccer team lined up for an official photo on the steps of the Moncloa, the prime minister’s residence, above the caption: “The solution

to our problems: the government of (coach) Del Bosque and his ministers.”

Spain has had to ask for up to 100 billion euros ($127 billion) in European Union support for its banks and the right-wing government of Mariano Rajoy is also struggling to rein in a gaping deficit.

Deep spending cuts and the handling of the country’s banking turmoil - with big bailouts for lenders linked to politicians - has sparked public anger, while the European rescue and economic worries left many anxious.

WEMBLEY, England - Manchester United’s Welsh winger Ryan Giggs was included on Monday as one of three over-age players in the British Olympic soccer squad announced by manager Stuart Pearce. Wales striker Craig Bellamy of Liverpool and Manchester City defender Micah Richards are the other two in an 18-man squad predominantly made up of Premier League players.

The omission of Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham was purely a footballing decision, Pearce told reporters.

“I’ve got a vast amount of respect for David and what he’s done for the bid process and bringing the Olympics here,” said Pearce.

“But I’ve also got a duty of care to everybody within the squad to pick, in my

mind, the best possible squad. The only relevance I really have is footballing terms. “I know he had a real burning passion to be part of this squad (but) I don’t think there’s a manager around who picks on sentiment,” added Pearce.

“With regards to ticket sales, merchandise, whatever ... I’m a football man. I pick solely on football ability and my opinion and I have to back my opinion.”

Pearce said no pressure was ever put on him to include 37-year-old former England captain Beckham for non-footballing reasons.

“I have to be comfortable when I get into my bed at night I’ve made decisions that are solely on footballing grounds,” said the former Nottingham Forest and England defender. “Nothing else. Not on personality, not on who I like as individuals.

David would feature very, very highly on individuals I like.

“I sat down with the FA chairman (David Bernstein) sometime before Christmas ... if at that stage he would have said to me certain individuals must be in your squad I probably would not have done the job,” added Pearce.

Lavezzi joins Paris St Germain from Napoli

they look to build a competitive team for next season’s Champions League after PARIS - Argentine forward Ezequiel finishing second in Ligue 1.

“He is a very very important player,” Lavezzi has joined Paris St Germain from Napoli on a four-year deal, the general manager Leonardo told a news Ligue 1 club said on Monday. Lavezzi, conference at the Parc des Princes. “He 27, is PSG’s first recruit this summer as will mark the club’s history.”

Lavezzi, one of the crowd favourites at San Paolo, hopes he will find the same AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan connection with the demanding PSG Argentina’s Lionel Messi, right, fans. “I will do what I can to enjoy the greets teammate Ez equiel same relationship with the Paris crowd,” Lavezzi, from Argentina, after he said.

No financial details on the deal were he scored during a charity exdisclosed but media reports suggested the hibition soccer match between transfer fee was about 30 million euros.

Lavezzi joined Napoli from San LorenMessi’s Friends and the Rest zo in 2007 and scored nine goals in 30 of the World in Bogota, ColomSerie A appearances last season. He has 16 bia, Thursday, June 21, 2012. caps for Argentina and three goals.

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Beaten but unbowed, Italy squad returns home Agence France Presse

Italy’s footballers were welcomed back by a small group of just a few dozen fans on Monday after defeat by Spain in the Euro 2012 final but said they were already looking forward to the World Cup in 2014. Arriving on a flight from Krakow in Poland at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, the footballers dressed in suits and ties were greeted with shouts of encouragement and later attended a high-pomp ceremony with President Giorgio Napolitano.

Fans chanted the national anthem and asked the players to autograph a placard reading “Go Italy” before the footballers boarded their buses.

One player, Leonardo Bonucci, admitted to AFP before getting on that there was an overwhelming feel-

ing of disappointment among his team mates.

“There is always sadness because we were there -- one step away from the dream, from realising something important,” he sighed.

“Unfortunately we did not manage to impose ourselves against a great team. Now we are leaving this Euro with the will to put into practice the tactics that (coach) Cesare Prandelli taught us,” he said.

“We’ll prepare well for the World Cup” he added, as focus turns towards the qualifiers for the 2014 tournament in Brazil. At the ceremony in the president’s Quirinale palace, Prandelli said he was grateful to Napolitano for coming to support the team in its first match against Spain in Gdansk and for inviting them over “whatever the result”.

Napolitano was Italy’s “biggest fan” and had helped the team get over their crushing 4-0 defeat, Prandelli said. The coach added the players were proud to have represented Italy and handed the president the silver medal they brought back.

Team captain and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon later presented the other members of the team to the 87-year-old president, who stood up one by one as a sign of respect.

Andrea Pirlo and Mario Balotelli also gifted Napolitano a football.

Napolitano expressed his gratitude “on behalf of the institutions and millions of Italians” saying the team’s achievement had been “extraordinary.” “I could see the passion that fired you up and your love for Italy, which were the best presents you could have given us,” he said. “This team which has just been rebuilt with so much wisdom still has a long way to go and we will see each other again.”

AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli

Italian national team football striker Andrea Pirlo arrives with his team from Kiev at Rome’s Fiumicino airport.

Giggs in British squad for London Games

Reuters

AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

Gerard Pique, third right, holds the trophy with teammates during the celebration of the Euro 2012 soccer championship in Madrid, Spain, Monday, July 2, 2012. Spain won the Euro 2012 soccer championship final against Italy in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday.

Spain’s victory restores national pride Reuters

INVINCIBLE SPAIN

MADRID - Spaniards seized on their European Championship triumph as a source of restored national pride after months of economic anxieties, as celebrations reached fever pitch on Monday with a victory parade in the capital. Across the country many were looking forward to another night of revelry after Spain thrashed Italy 4-0 on Sunday, becoming the first team to win two Euro titles in a row, with a World Cup in between.

The team arrived back in Madrid on Monday afternoon. After visiting King Juan Carlos I, the players were cheered by tens of thousands of fans during a lap of the capital and a party near the central fountain of Cibeles, the scene of euphoric celebrations on Sunday that stretched into the early hours. The game also drew a record television audience of nearly 15.5 million people, broadcaster Telecinco said.

However, even amid the car

honking and chants of “Yo soy Espanol” (I am Spanish) filling the streets of Madrid and other cities, worries about Spain’s recessionhit economy were never far from people’s minds. Several of the players dedicated the victory to Spaniards suffering from the economic crisis. National morale took a beating when Spain was forced to ask for a European rescue for its ailing banks last month.

Many were now looking to the historic achievement of the na-

tional soccer team as a source of inspiration for the tough months ahead, with lessons to be drawn from the squad’s performance for Spaniards and their politicians.

“Let us mature amid the complexity of these difficult days we’re living in and let us learn from yesterday’s resounding victory everything that makes us stronger, better, freer, more just and, even, happier,” wrote one commentator in the right-leaning newspaper ABC.

Like many of the leading dailies, it dedicated the first 10 pages of Monday’s edition to coverage of the game and celebrations, under the headline “Invincible Spain”.

Others waxed lyrical, about everything from the ethics to the style displayed by the players, with special editions drowned in red and yellow lettering and pictures of the Spanish flag.

“Spain is eternal, like the songs that stay with us when love passes,” wrote El Mundo, likening Spain’s goals to the beats in a melody.

But it also took a shot at politicians, with a cartoon showing the soccer team lined up for an official photo on the steps of the Moncloa, the prime minister’s residence, above the caption: “The solution

to our problems: the government of (coach) Del Bosque and his ministers.”

Spain has had to ask for up to 100 billion euros ($127 billion) in European Union support for its banks and the right-wing government of Mariano Rajoy is also struggling to rein in a gaping deficit.

Deep spending cuts and the handling of the country’s banking turmoil - with big bailouts for lenders linked to politicians - has sparked public anger, while the European rescue and economic worries left many anxious.

WEMBLEY, England - Manchester United’s Welsh winger Ryan Giggs was included on Monday as one of three over-age players in the British Olympic soccer squad announced by manager Stuart Pearce. Wales striker Craig Bellamy of Liverpool and Manchester City defender Micah Richards are the other two in an 18-man squad predominantly made up of Premier League players.

The omission of Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham was purely a footballing decision, Pearce told reporters.

“I’ve got a vast amount of respect for David and what he’s done for the bid process and bringing the Olympics here,” said Pearce.

“But I’ve also got a duty of care to everybody within the squad to pick, in my

mind, the best possible squad. The only relevance I really have is footballing terms. “I know he had a real burning passion to be part of this squad (but) I don’t think there’s a manager around who picks on sentiment,” added Pearce.

“With regards to ticket sales, merchandise, whatever ... I’m a football man. I pick solely on football ability and my opinion and I have to back my opinion.”

Pearce said no pressure was ever put on him to include 37-year-old former England captain Beckham for non-footballing reasons.

“I have to be comfortable when I get into my bed at night I’ve made decisions that are solely on footballing grounds,” said the former Nottingham Forest and England defender. “Nothing else. Not on personality, not on who I like as individuals.

David would feature very, very highly on individuals I like.

“I sat down with the FA chairman (David Bernstein) sometime before Christmas ... if at that stage he would have said to me certain individuals must be in your squad I probably would not have done the job,” added Pearce.

Lavezzi joins Paris St Germain from Napoli

they look to build a competitive team for next season’s Champions League after PARIS - Argentine forward Ezequiel finishing second in Ligue 1.

“He is a very very important player,” Lavezzi has joined Paris St Germain from Napoli on a four-year deal, the general manager Leonardo told a news Ligue 1 club said on Monday. Lavezzi, conference at the Parc des Princes. “He 27, is PSG’s first recruit this summer as will mark the club’s history.”

Lavezzi, one of the crowd favourites at San Paolo, hopes he will find the same AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan connection with the demanding PSG Argentina’s Lionel Messi, right, fans. “I will do what I can to enjoy the greets teammate Ez equiel same relationship with the Paris crowd,” Lavezzi, from Argentina, after he said.

No financial details on the deal were he scored during a charity exdisclosed but media reports suggested the hibition soccer match between transfer fee was about 30 million euros.

Lavezzi joined Napoli from San LorenMessi’s Friends and the Rest zo in 2007 and scored nine goals in 30 of the World in Bogota, ColomSerie A appearances last season. He has 16 bia, Thursday, June 21, 2012. caps for Argentina and three goals.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Besakih Temple IBP

Besakih Temple is the biggest Hindu temple in Bali which the local people call Pura Besakih. It owns beautiful view from the top of temple area where we can see the wide nature panorama until to the ocean so that way this temple is many visited by tourists from all over the world. Besakih Temple is located in Besakih countryside, Rendang sub district, Karangasem regency, east part of the island. It is located in southwest side bevel of mount Agung, the biggest mounts in Bali. It is because pursuant to

Destinations

Agung Mount confidence is holiest and highest mount in Bali Island.

The Besakih’s name is come from the word of Basuki, the old language from Sanskrit Wasuki, and then it become the Ancient Java Language. In this Sanskrit, the Basuki means congratulation.

In mythology of Samudramanthana has mentioned that Basuki is a dragon that twines the Mount Mandara. The omission has come from tradition megalithic which had been indicated that it had to be sanctified place. It seems, the Besakih is coming from very old era which is far before the existence of Hinduism

influence. Hereinafter, an Ancient Bali king of Sri Kesari Warmadewa found the Merajan Selonding Temple in this temple complex area. He also commands to build the Blanjong Monument that is located in Sanur Village. The Besakih Temple complex is built pursuant to cosmos balance. It is based on the nature conception which is disseminating the fundamental temple complex that is arranged to pursuant of the way direction. So, this building can deputize nature as symbolic of the world balance existence.

As we familiarize, that the point direction way like East, South, West,

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North, and middle as center point and each direction is named by Mandala.

In Hindu philosophy, Panca Dewata is manifestation of Siwa God. Like Penataran Agung Temple as center, we find in its courtyard conception show the solidarity conception between the original Indonesia culture namely tradition megalithic in form of Punden Berundak-undak with the Hinduism concept. The ancient omissions which is existing in Besakih Temple complex can be classified into 2 types those are omission pertained by megalithic tradition and classic era. Besakih Temple beside as the altar for Hindu people in Bali,

it is also as tourist destination which is a lot of visited by tourists.

Besakih Temple is located in the plateau area which is covered by the cool atmosphere and Mount Agung as a back drop. From the top of temple building, we can see the beautiful panorama of nature from the temple area to the ocean. It is situated in cool area with the light breeze and unique temple buildings spread out in the temple complex will create the peaceful atmosphere.

It is ideally for the people who did the meditation and now, the Besakih Temple is opened for tourist and it is the great place to visit in Bali.

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Bad day for Sharapova, Federer grits teeth Reuters

LONDON - Maria Sharapova has had better days, Roger Federer more mobile ones and local sun-hat sellers more profitable ones as Wimbledon’s manic Monday turned into a bit of a damp squib after several days of nerve-shredding drama. Beaten comfortably by Germany’s Sabine Lisicki, top seed Sharapova’s dream of a French Open/Wimbledon double ended in tatters under miserable grey skies and her world No.1 ranking looks almost certain to follow.

At least Federer is still standing, although for a while against erratic Belgian Xavier Malisse that seemed an effort in itself for the six-times champion. Struggling with a bad back in chilly conditions on Centre Court, the king of cool needed two undignified injury time-outs during a 7-6 6-1 4-6 6-3 victory that continued his remarkable run of grand slam quarter-final appearances.

He remained on course for a semi-final against defending champion Novak Djokovic who thrashed fellow Serb Viktor Troicki 6-3 6-1 6-3. The pigeons were again looking nervously about after the safe return of Rufus, the club’s harrier hawk employed to scare them away who was stolen last week.

Feathers fluttering down from the Centre Court roof during sec-

ond seed Victoria Azarenka’s 6-1 6-0 win over Ana Ivanovic may have been proof that Rufus, who resumes work on Tuesday, had been missed. While the women’s quarter-final line-up is complete, five men’s fourth-round matches were unfinished due to persistent rain in south west London.

Home favourite Andy Murray must try to finish off Marin Cilic on Tuesday after taking a one-set lead and fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will resume a set down against Mardy Fish. Serena Williams and Petra Kvitova also beat the rain to set up a juicy last-eight clash in the women’s singles.

Williams, seeking a fifth Wimbledon singles title to equal the total of her sister Venus, scrambled through to the quarter-finals for the

10th time with a 6-1 2-6 7-5 win over powerful Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova.

FEARSOME ROAR

Stretched to the limit, the 30year-old Williams produced a sensational backhand top-spin lob from deep in the corner at 6-5, 30-30 in the second set and sealed victory with a pummelled winner before letting out a fearsome roar. “I don’t know if that was luck, per se, but it was definitely - unintentional I think is a better word,” Williams said of the contender for shot of the tournament.

Sharapova gave a performance on Court One as grey as the weather in a 6-4 6-3 defeat by Lisicki who will face fellow German Angelique Kerber in the quarter-finals.

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Maria Sharapova of Russia reacts during a fourth round singles match against Sabine Lisicki of Germany at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon, England, Monday, July 2, 2012.

Tarmoh concedes Olympic Female F1 driver fighting spot in 100 to Felix for life after crash

Associated Press Writer

EUGENE, Ore. — Jeneba Tarmoh changed her mind after listening to her heart. Choosing inner peace over a shot at Olympic glory, the 22-year-old sprinter withdrew from a runoff for the final Olympic spot in the 100 meters, deciding to concede it rather than meet training partner Allyson Felix at the starting line to break a third-place tie.

With that, the U.S. track trials were over. The final spot determined before the highly anticipated race was run. Tarmoh notified USA Track and Field early in the day of her intention to withdraw from the Monday night race. Her heart, she explained, wasn’t into competing again.

Not after already securing what she thought was the third spot in the event at the trials on June 23. In that race, Tarmoh crossed the finish line and looked up to see her name on the scoreboard in the third spot behind winner Carmelita Jeter and runner-up Tianna Madison. And then came all the rewards of making the Olympic team — a celebratory lap around the track and a medal.

Understandably, she was caught off guard when she was informed that she hadn’t earned the third spot after all. The race was being ruled a dead

heat and USATF — with no tiebreaking procedure in place — was looking at ways to break the deadlock.

For days, Tarmoh thought about earning a spot and having it yanked away. For days, she wondered what she was going to do, when USATF gave the sprinters an option of a coin flip, runoff or conceding the spot.

On Sunday, they settled on a runoff to be held at Hayward Field the following day. But Tarmoh had trepidation from the start, not wanting to run for a spot she felt she had already attained.

“Running in this (runoff) came down to how I felt internally.

Would my heart be at peace running or would I not be at peace? If I was at peace, I would have run,” Tarmoh told The Associated Press on Monday night. “My heart was not at peace with running.”

The winner-take-all race was scheduled to be shown in prime time on NBC in conjunction with the network’s coverage of the swimming trials. It would’ve been a big hit for track fans and those only marginally interested the sport. They could spare 11 seconds to watch a race with so much riding on it. Only now, it’s turned into another blow for a sport that’s taken its lumps lately.

Agence France Presse

Spanish Formula One driver Maria De Villota was fighting for her life on Tuesday after suffering serious injuries during a crash in

testing for the Marussia team, it was confirmed. A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service told the BBC De Villota had sustained “life-threatening injuries” in the early morning crash at Duxford

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Maria de Villota at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne in March.

Spanish Formula One driver Maria De Villota is fighting for her life on Tuesday after suffering serious injuries during a crash in testing for the Marussia team, it was confirmed.

Airfield in Cambridgeshire.

Marussia confirmed in a statement that the 32-year-old test driver from Madrid had been transferred to hospital after her car collided with a support vehicle during a test lap.

“At approximately 9.15am (0815 GMT) this morning, the Marussia F1 Team’s Test Driver Maria De Villota had an accident in the team’s MR-01 race car at Duxford Airfield where she was testing the car for the first time,” Marussia said.

“The accident happened at the end of her first installation run and involved an impact with the team’s support truck. “Maria has been transferred to hospital. Once her medical condition has been assessed a further statement will be issued.”

De Villota, the daughter of former Spanish Formula One driver Emilio De Villota, was given a test drive by Renault last year and has previously raced in Spanish Formula Three and the Daytona 24 Hours.

Marussia began racing in 2010 under the Virgin banner. The team rebranded as Marussia in 2012, with Charles Pic driving alongside Timo Glock. The team has struggled to make any impression on the championship however, failing to score any points this season.

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INDONESIA Indonesia pulls out of Dutch tanks deal

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This aerial photo shows a flooded area of Jorhat in Assam state, India, Monday, July 2, 2012.

The floods from monsoon rains in northeastern India killed dozens of people, with more than 2,000 villages inundated as rivers breached their banks, an official said Sunday.

Monsoon floods kill 81 in India, force 2M to flee Associated Press Writer

GAUHATI, India — The worst monsoon floods in a decade to hit a remote northeastern Indian state have killed more than 80 people and forced around 2 million to leave their homes.

Nearly half a million people are living in relief camps that have been set up across Assam state, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told journalists Monday in Gauhati, Assam’s capital. The rest of the 2 million displaced are living with relatives or sheltering under tarpaulin sheets.

Assam officials say 81 people have been killed over the past four days. Most were swept away when the mighty Brahmaputra River overflowed and flooded villages.

Sixteen people were buried in landslides triggered by the rains.

At least 11 people were missing in six districts, the state disaster management agency said.

Air force helicopters were dropping food packets and drinking water to marooned people, Singh said after surveying the flood-hit districts.

Army soldiers used boats to rescue villagers from rooftops of flooded homes.

Teams of doctors have opened health clinics in the 770 relief camps that had been set up across Assam, one of India’s main teagrowing states. The hilly tea growing areas have not been affected, but lower rice fields have been washed away.

Thousands of cattle have perished after being swept away by the raging water or getting stuck in the mud. The stench of rotting animal carcasses was adding to the woes of the people in tents at the relief camps, officials said.

In the worst-hit Dhemaji district, raging waters of the Brahmaputra River swept away entire villages.

Officials said the entire Majuli island, one of the world’s largest river islands, was awash as

the Brahmaputra rose above the danger level.

“This is one of the worst floods to hit Assam,” Singh said. He announced the national government would give immediate assistance of 5 billion rupees ($90 million) to the state.

Railway workers were working round the clock to restore train services disrupted after railway tracks became submerged.

“Restoration of the railway line is a priority,” Singh said.

The situation was expected to improve over the next few days as the rain was tapering off and water was beginning to recede.

Monsoon floods hit Assam, with a population of 26 million people, almost every year, with heavy rains swelling the Brahmaputra and its innumerable tributaries that crisscross the state.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI fired a 52-year-old Slovak bishop for apparently mismanaging his diocese in a rare show of papal power over bishops that could have implications for U.S. sex abuse cases.

Usually when bishops run into trouble — either for alleged moral lapses or management problems — they are persuaded by the Vatican to resign. But Benedict has become increasingly willing to forcibly remove bishops who refuse to step down, sacking three others in the past year alone.

His willingness to do so raises questions about whether he would take the same measures against bishops who covered up for sexually abusive priests. So far he has not.

In the most notable case to date, Benedict fired Bishop William Morris of Toowoomba, Australia, last year after he called for the church to consider ordaining women and married men. He also removed a Congolese bishop for management problems in his diocese and an Italian one in May for similar reasons.

On Monday, the Vatican said Benedict had “relieved from pastoral care” Bishop Robert Bezak of Trnava, Slovakia. No reason was given, but Italian news reports suggested administrative problems were to blame, and Slovak news reports quoted Bezak as saying he thought his criticism of his predecessor may have had a role.

Bishops normally hand in their resignation when they turn 75 years old, their customary retirement age.

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Taiwan court clears ex-vice president of graft Agence France Presse

Taiwan’s ex-vice president Annette Lu and a former top presidential aide have been cleared of corruption and forgery charges after prosecutors failed to prove the case against them, a court said.

Lu and Yu Shyi-kun, former secretary-general to then president Chen Shui-bian, were indicted in 2007 for allegedly abusing their positions to claim millions of Taiwan dollars in expenses with false receipts.

“Lu and Yu are found not guilty as prosecutors failed to prove that they had used their positions to swindle money or commit forgery,” the Taipei district court said in a statement issued late Monday.

Lu was Chen’s deputy during his 2000-2008 terms in office, the most senior government post ever held by a woman in Taiwan.

A former political prisoner and human rights advocate, Lu briefly stood for the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party nomination in the 2012 presidential race, but withdrew early in the process.

Taiwan has been rocked by a string of high-profile corruption cases in recent years, with those involved ranging from ex-president Chen to top officials in President Ma Ying-jeou’s government.

On Tuesday Lin Yi-shih, previously a rising star in Ma’s Kuomintang party, was taken into custody after he admitted taking millions of US dollars in bribes from a businessman while he was a lawmaker two years ago.

Chen is currently serving a prison term of 17 years and six months for two bribery convictions. He has insisted he is a victim of a political witchhunt.

Poverty...

From page 1 Therefore, the government had to boost the real sector, including backing up the agricultural sector.

“Economic growth that is more sustained by consumer sector has resulted in restricted ability to create new job opportunities and unemployment leading to poverty,” he said.

Ketut Rahyuda also assessed the presence of investors in Bali so far was still dominated by those from outside Bali and overseas. As a result, the economic growth of Bali was dominantly enjoyed by those from outside Bali without resulting in multiplier effect. “We should not reject the presence of foreign or outside investors who want to invest in Bali. However, the government should regulate their contribution to Bali,” he said. (kmb27)

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A 172 Cessna Skyhawk of the Aero Flyer Institute crashed in Sukadana village, Ciawigebang Sub District, Kuningan District, West Java, on Monday, killing its pilot, police said.

Cessna plane crashes killing one Antara

BANDUNG - A 172 Cessna Skyhawk of the Aero Flyer Institute crashed in Sukadana village, Ciawigebang Sub District, Kuningan District, West Java, on Monday, killing its pilot, police said.

“The ill-fated Cessna Skyhawk belongs to the Aero Flyer Institute. Its pilot was killed and two other flight students were seriously injured,” Spokesman of West Java Police Senior Commissioner Martinus Sitompul said when contacted here on Monday.

The dead victim is pilot Captain Heru, and two flight students who were seriously injured are Rara and Fitri.

All victims have been taken to the Kuningan Hospital. Martinus said that based on the report he

had received, the plane with registration number PK-HAL took off Cirebon airbase at 1.35 pm with three people on board, namely the pilot and the two flight students.

The Cirebon air tower lost contact with the airplane at 3.15 pm. At that time the ill-fated aircraft was estimated to have reached the Kuningan area.

The tower officials contacted security officers in Kuningan and informed them that they had lost contact with the aircraft.

Martinus said that the plane was discovered with its pilot and passengers at 5.50 pm in Sukadana village, Ciawigebang Sub District, Kuningan District.

The victims were soon rushed to the nearest hospital.

“Police and military command of Kuningan immediately deploy their personnel to search and evacuate the victims. The crashed Cessna is a civil trainer aircraft.

It did not cause casualties to the local people,” the police spokesman said.

JAKARTA - Indonesia said Tuesday it had pulled out of a $280 million deal to buy 100 Leopard battle tanks from the Netherlands after waiting several months for the Dutch parliament to approve the sale.

The Netherlands’ minority government planned to sell the tanks to raise money for unmanned drones, but the majority of parties in parliament opposed the deal because of Jakarta’s poor human rights record, Dutch media reported.

“We are disappointed because we were serious in wanting to buy the Dutch tanks,” defence ministry spokesman Hartind Asrin told AFP. “We had gone to the warehouse to look at them and they were good.

The price was also right, at around $280 million.”

“The Dutch government was agreeable to the deal, but the Dutch parliament kept us waiting. There was still no approval after eight to nine months of waiting, so last week we called off the deal,” he said.

Indonesia -- much of which was a Dutch colony until 1945 -- would now buy the 100 tanks from Germany for around the same price, he added. “Around 15 units are expected to arrive in Indonesia by October this year,” Asrin said.

The concerns over Indonesia’s rights record stem from the rule of then-dictator Suharto in the 1990s, when special forces were accused of committing abuses in East Timor and Aceh.

Indonesian troops have also been accused of rights violations as they seek to snuff out support for a low-level separatist insurgency in the country’s far-flung Papua province.

Indonesia has earmarked 99 trillion rupiah ($10.6 billion) from 2010 to 2014 to modernise its defense systems, according to local media reports quoting National Development Planning Minister Armida Alisjahbana.

One third of the budget has been set aside for maintenance with the remaining two thirds for purchasing defense systems and weapons, she was quoted as saying.

Alleged peoplesmuggler arrested Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesian police have arrested a suspected people-smuggler from Afghanistan accused of arranging a boat trip in which 90 people drowned off Australia’s Christmas Island, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Rescuers managed to save 110 asylum-seekers after the boat sank in the Indian Ocean off the remote Australian territory on June 21 with an estimated 200 people on board, but the accident left about 90 dead.

The 19-year-old suspect, who was arrested Friday and was identified only by his initials D.A, had been living in Indonesia for two years, national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar told AFP. “We arrested him on suspicion of people-smuggling and cooperation with a smuggling syndicate in Pakistan,” Amar said.

“His role was to organise the migrants’ trip (which resulted) in the accident on June 21.”

Amar said the the suspect had confessed to successfully sending three other boats of asylum-seekers to Australia.

Canberra is struggling to deal with a steady influx of asylum-seekers coming to Australia by boat, many of whom use Indonesia as a transit hub, boarding leaky wooden vessels after fleeing states such as Afghanistan and Iran.

In a second sinking just days after after the June 21 incident, 130 people were rescued and four were lost.

Although they travel in relatively small numbers by global standards, asylum-seekers are a sensitive political issue in Australia, dominating 2010 elections due to a record 6,555 arrivals.

Australia and Indonesia Tuesday agreed to work more closely to crack down on people-smuggling, with visiting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saying Indonesians were also victims of the trade.

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BUSINESS As eurozone crisis bites, jobless rate hits record 11.1%

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New World Bank chief warns on eurozone crisis

Agence France-Presse

BRUSSELS - The eurozone debt crisis delivered more bad news on Monday with data showing record high unemployment of 11.1 percent and a manufacturing outlook at its lowest levels for three years.

Unemployment hit its highest point since the eurozone was created in 1999 and analysts warned that job queues would likely continue to lengthen in coming months.

“It now looks odds-on that the eurozone unemployment rate will reach 11.5 percent by the end of the year, although the situation will vary markedly between countries,” forecast Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Global Insight.

More than 17.5 million people were jobless in the 17-nation eurozone in May, as 88,000 more men and women lined up for benefits.

Spain was the hardest hit with almost one in four unemployed, according to Eurostat data agency.

Youth unemployment surged again, with 3.4 million people under 25 looking for work, an increase of 254,000 from 12 months earlier.

“It was of little real comfort that May’s rise in unemployment was actually the smallest for 11 months,” Archer noted.

Capital Economics economist Mark Miller noted that “the labour market is a lagging indicator of overall economic conditions.

So it is of particular concern that recent business surveys have pointed to renewed recession across the euro-zone,” he said.

Both the employment data and bleak manufacturing PMI figures raised the risk of eurozone unemployment reaching 12 percent, van Vliet commented.

The eurozone unemployment rate has stayed above 10 percent for 13 months as the bloc struggles to revive economies undermined by a debt crisis now in its third year and threatening major economies in Spain and Italy.

In the wider 27-nation European Union, unemployment rose to 10.3 percent against 10.2 in April, the same level as in March.

About 24.86 million men and women were jobless in the EU as unemployment increased by 151,000 people.

Spain posted once again the worst unemployment rate at 24.6 percent, with more than one in two people under 25 without work.

Greece was next at 21.9 percent in March, the latest available figures for that country, followed by Latvia at 15.3 percent in the first quarter and Portugal at 15.2 percent in May. Austria has the lowest rate at 4.1 percent, followed by the Netherlands at 5.1 percent, Luxembourg at 5.4 percent and Germany at 5.6 percent.

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Tourists learn to surf in Kuta Beach, Bali Island. Quiksilver will open the bidding on exact replica surfboards from five of Quiksilver’s greatest surfing legends, Mark Richards, Tom Carroll, Martin Potter, Matt Hoy, and Jake Paterson, in their on-going efforts to raise money to help clean up Bali’s beaches.

Help clean up Bali’s beaches Incoming World Bank President Jim Yong Kim speaks to the press outside the World Bank July 2, 2012 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - New World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim warned Monday that the eurozone financial crisis poses a deep risk for the global economy and said it was urgent that European countries act to restore stability.

In a statement marking his first day on the job, Kim said the world’s economy “remains highly vulnerable.”

The World Bank has “an economic and moral imperative to help address risks to global growth, no matter where they emerge,” he said.

“A strong global economy benefits all countries; a weak global economy makes all countries vulnerable.

“It is urgent that European countries take all necessary measures to restore stability because their actions will impact growth in

all regions of the world.

Kim, a physician and global health specialist who was chosen over two respected economists for the position, said his immediate priority leading the global lender would be “to help developing countries maintain progress against poverty in these volatile times.”

“I will work with our clients and partners to ensure that we are creating a new economic firewall: one that protects people in developing countries against shocks.”

“I know from my work in poor communities around the world that, when a crisis

hits, and no safety net is in place, the effects can be devastating.”

His focus on threats spilling out of the eurozone echoed his predecessor, Robert Zoellick, who repeatedly in recent months stressed the danger posed by the euro crisis and indecisiveness by European leaders to the rest of the world.

“We’re waiting for Europe to tell us what it is going to do,” Zoellick said during the Group of 20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, in mid-June, which was focused on getting concrete action in Europe.

“Markets can manage risks that they’re well aware of. The danger we’re creating is that the pattern of policy making is increasing uncertainty and making markets more nervous, which has a negative feedback,” he warned.

Google touts economic impact in US of ad efforts

Agence France-Presse

SAN FRANCISCO - Google said Monday its search and advertising operations generated $80 billion for 1.8 million US businesses in 2011.

The annual report from the Internet search giant comes as it faces a US government probe of lucrative search and advertising business, in which it holds an estimated 65 percent market share.

“It’s a fact that the Internet is creating jobs and helping the American economy grow.

And we’re proud to be a part of that process,” Margo Georgiadis, vice president of Ameri-

cas sales at Google, said in a blog post.

“The growth of our Internet use has naturally helped the ecommerce industry to expand rapidly over the past decade.

But the web is also positively impacting brick-and-mortar businesses.”

Google said its estimate of economic impact is conservative, and is only one portion of its overall business impact.

“Our estimate is comprised of a limited part of our business and relies on conservative calculations,” Google said in a page explaining its report.

“For example, it doesn’t include the economic benefits of search results for consum-

ers, the impact of our hiring or employees, or the impact of products like Google Maps or YouTube. We hope to be able to include these sources in future reports.”

Google said businesses generally make an average of $2 in revenue for every $1 they spend on AdWords, the sponsored links next to search results.

According to some reports, Google could face scrutiny by US regulators for abusing its dominant position in search and advertising.

EU officials have also begun a probe, and have asked Google for “remedies” to satisfy Brussels.

History-making surfboards on auction

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KUTA - At Nirwana Golf Resort, on Friday July 6th, Quiksilver will open the bidding on exact replica surfboards from five of Quiksilver’s greatest surfing legends, Mark Richards, Tom Carroll, Martin Potter, Matt Hoy, and Jake Paterson, in their on-going efforts to raise money to help clean up Bali’s beaches.

This is a once-in-a-life time opportunity to own a piece of history, with the money going towards the on-going corporate social responsibility efforts

by Quiksilver and Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia to create a cleaner and healthier Bali for everyone to enjoy.

Up for auction are 5 legendary and game changing exact replica surfboards that have been hand made and personally signed, along with a signed canvas image, each of which has a short story written about the surfer and the surfboard by Vaughan Blakey, the editor of Surfing World in Australia.

Four-time world champion and Newcastle’s own Mark Richards has created a replica of the single fin board that he won his first Hawaiian events on, which was originally shaped by Reno Abellira. “It was a single fin wing pin which for its time was cutting edge in terms of rocker, rail shape, and outline.

I recreated the replica from memory as a tribute to this board and the influence Reno had on my shaping and competitive success,” says Richards.

Two-time world champion Tom Car-

roll, the first pro surfer to sign a million dollar contract, chose the hot pink 7’8” Pat Rawson with which he did “The Snap” during one of his famous Pipeline wins on 12 foot bomb as his contribution. The superbly fit and powerful Carroll aboard this hot pink board snapping under the lip of that awesome wave is a truly iconic scene.

1989 world champion Martin “Pottz” Potter’s chosen surfboard is his title-winning 6’2” Blue Flame shaped

by Glen Minami of Blue Hawaii. Pottz is known as the pioneer of progressive surfing, the man who revolutionized surfing with aerial maneuvers; free surfing during competitions to everyone’s amazement. Pottz with his blueflamed board beneath his feet, speeding across the water before taking to the air…this board was indeed the portent of today’s surfing style.

And who could forget the all black Pacific Dreams 6’3 of Matt Hoy with the white Maltese Cross? The neversay-die party legend who can take waves apart like few others living much cleaner lives can, has 5 world tour event

wins to his credit, and is still admired for his ability to live life his own way.

This black “outlaw” board is a testament to the free spirit in all of us.

The fifth surfboard is from Western Australia’s Jake Paterson, whose all guts for all the glory charge in the dying seconds at Backdoor won him the Pipeline Masters and the admiration and respect of the world’s best surfers.

Each of these replica surfboards is essentially a piece of history, something that every surfer or surfboard collector would be very lucky to bring home and hang up as a centerpiece. And knowing that the money received from the sale of the boards goes towards keeping Bali’s beaches and ocean, makes for an even more compelling reason.

This live surfboard auction is part of the second annual Bali’s Big Eco Weekend from July 6-8, a Quiksilver and Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia sponsored event that is focused on raising the awareness of the importance of caring for Bali’s environment, to the local community, the government, tourism stakeholders, and the tourists who visit the “Island of the Gods.”

The Bali’s Big Eco Weekend will include a golf tournament at the Pan Pacific Nirwana Resort on July 6th, the annual Quiksilver King of the Groms junior surfing competition on July 7 and 8, as well as beach cleaning programs, turtle releases, and more.

HINDU possesses a medical science that has been very renowned from time immemorial, namely Ayurvedic medicine.

Ayurvedic medicine refers to the contents of the scripture Ayurveda born thousands of years ago. Ayurvedic scripture denotes a part of Upaweda in the group of Smriti Vedas. However, the Ayurvedic scripture is often confused with Yajur Veda, the scripture containing sacrificial formula that also belongs to Smriti Veda. Yajur Veda itself is a scripture discussing about Yajña or ceremony.

Author of the book Usada Bali (Balinese Traditional Healing), the late Prof. IGN Nala, once said that to help the healing, the Ayurvedic healers usually provided natural herbal medicine having few side effects. Almost all plants existing around us could be eaten, they were medicine. On that account, all plants having efficacy for healing were necessary to be inventoried and developed.

In the meantime, the Dean of Faculty of Health Science, Hindu University of Indonesia (Unhi), I Nyoman Prastika, said that based Taru Premana palm-manuscript there were a number of beneficial herbs having the efficacy to cure diseases. Parts of those plants taken advantage consisted of its leaf, flower, fruit, bark or roots. Each herb had different quality such as cool, warm and mild.

To know whether a particular plant had a cold, warm or mild quality, it could be observed from the color of its flower and flavor. For instance, white, yellow and green flower had warm quality. If their flowers were red and blue, these plants had cool efficacy. Meanwhile, if the flower was multi-colors, they could be ensured to have mild efficacy.

Likewise, if they tasted sweet and sour, its quality might be warm. However, if they tasted bitter and hot, they had cool efficacy. Then, if they were tasteless, they belonged to mild plant.

In herbal medicine system, added Prastika, people would be healthy if they consumed (ahara) nutritious healthy foods regularly, had adequate rest or sleep (nidra), and behaved (vihara) healthy. If the three aspects had been committed well, but it was still found health disturbances, then a herbal treatment (ausadhi) was required. Preparation method of herbal medicine could be divided into three kinds, namely grinding, spraying and boiled. Its healing method could be performed by drinking and dropping for internal healing, while the spraying or applying the paste for external use.

Then, what kinds of plant could be used to cure diseases?

Prastika said that virtually all edible plants by animals could be eaten by humans. Whether the herbs had medicinal quality, they could be observed from the color of their flowers and flavor as mentioned above. Similarly, the plants frequently used for spices in the cooking contained drug efficacy.

Red ginger for example, was good to increase warmth of the body as well as to stimulate or maintain immunity. If red ginger added with the flowers of carambola, bark of tamarind and kalmegh leaves, they could be used to accelerate breathing and relieve cough.

Meanwhile, to break up kidney stones and cure colic, people could also use herbal medicine. Its ingredients consisted of roots of reed, roots of palm tree, root of areca nut tree and added with palm sugar. All materials were thoroughly boiled.

Afterward, its decoction water was drunk in the morning and afternoon.

Herbal remedies could also cope with cardiac palpitations.

Its ingredients comprised the soy beans, green beans, ginger, cumin, fennel, bidara upas (Merremia mammosa) leaf, coriander and pulasari (Alyxia Stellata). All ingredients should be boiled and then water of its decoction was drunk regularly.

Meanwhile, Balinese traditional healing used several palmleaf manuscripts as reference. One of them was Lontar Usada Tiwang. This manuscript described about various types of diseases along with their treatments. Tiwang conveyed numerous symptoms in the form of disorder on the function of organ.

There were several types of tiwang presented in the manuscripts such as tiwang utara, tiwang tojos, tiwang wedul, tiwang pemali pepasangan, tiwang wong, and tiwang rajasa.

Prastika added that tiwang pemali pepasangan had symptoms like prickling pain in the chest and on the back. Being no resistant to the pain, the sufferers often groaned. The disease itself could be treated by means of bark of rauvolfia, temu tis (Curcuma purpurascens), grilled coconut, hazelnut and fennel.

It was applied by spraying its paste. (BTN/kmb)

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Semarapura (Bali Post) –

Associated Press Writer

YANGON, Myanmar — Back from her triumphant tour of Europe, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi stepped up calls Tuesday for the release of hundreds of political prisoners still behind bars.

The soil which will be use to build on the side of Denpasar-Gilimanuk roadside.

Rice field land filling on green belt discontinued

Land filling activity on the rice field at the Denpasar-Gilimanuk roadside, precisely at Sebual hamlet, Dangin Tukadaya village is alleged to convert its function into a building. Actually, it belongs to the green belt.

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Alleged to switch function

Negara (Bali Post)—

Tukad Unda in Klungkung

Information compiled on Monday (Jul 2) indicated if the land filling in the rice field had begun to be carried out within the past few weeks. Local people claimed not to know about the use of such rice field area. In terms of the land filling activity, it would apparently be used to establish a building like warehouse. However, the work had just reached a half, right over the ditch alongside the road. Some time ago, the public order officers (Satpol PP) inspected the land filling location.

Since then, the land filling activity was discontinued. According to the information, although the land

was a private property, but since it was located in the green belt, the land filling activity was then discontinued.

From the observation on Monday, the land filling had not annexed yet the entire area of the rice field. It only covered partially the roadside leading to the rice field. Besides, a road had also been made over the ditch. Probably, it would be used to access the location that would be filled. Allegedly, in the north side of the Denpasar-Gilimanuk road section would be established a building.

Head of Jembrana public order

officer, Putu Widarta, when asked for his confirmation last Monday justified if his party received a report if there had been an activity of land filling. As planned, the location would be used to establish a building. Further, the officers responded the report by making a visit to location. According to the information, the rice field would be planted with trees. However, since belonging to the green belt, it was not allowed for any development, including the planting of trees. According to him, such activity should be coordinated with the Jembrana Environment, Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (LHKP).

“The reason is that it will be planted with trees. However, as we have seen the filling land there, probably it would be intended for a building. Since it belongs to green belt, we then terminated the activities,” explained Widarta. (kmb26)

Overloaded elementary school buildings at Kesiman Kertalangu damage

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

The infrastructure of elementary school at Kesiman Kertalangu Village, East Denpasar, seemed worrying as from the six elementary state schools there are in the village all of them are in no good condition due to its age knowing most of them built during the Impres era, the 1980s.

Besides its condition, its pupils total has gone overload such as at SDN 3 Tohpati, SDN 7 Tanggun Titi, SDN 10 Kesiman Kertalangu, SDN 12 Kesambi, SDN 16 Kertha Jiwa and SDN 17 Biaung Denpasar.

According to the Head Village, IB Bima Putra, all principals of the schools have been met and for sure they don’t want to put their pupils

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Myanmar freeing 46 prisoners; Suu Kyi wants more

Three rivers at Klungkung E Coli polluted, residents warned The people living around Tukad Unda, Tukad Jinah and Tukad Bubuh, Klungkung have to be aware in consuming the waters straight away from those rivers as they have been polluted by E Coli bacteria as proved after Living Environment Agency of Klungkung took a water sample from each river which shows the waters can’t be consumed without being cooked first as confirmed by Head of Planning Control of the Agency, Wayan Agus Eka Putra, last Monday (2/7).

The sample was taken last March during the rainy season where it resulted up to 100 ml water of the rivers contains thousands of E Coli bacteria. For the famous Unda River itself, on its source it contains 35 thousands, in the middle 72 thousand while on the end 92 thousand. For Bubuh River at its source 39 thousands, its middle part 110 thousand while at the end 110 thousand bacteria. The worse occurred at Jinah River where 140 thousand can be found on 110 ml of its water tested while the best water to be consumed straight away is not to contain any of that bacteria in it.

This condition can’t be mended properly as its source is not at Klungkung and so the Agency will do socialization to the people to defecate in the river also now the water will cause diarrhea if not cooked at first. The Agency does this sampling twice a year, rainy season and dry season, yet the bacteria gets higher by the time its plantation time due to the pollution caused by pesticide used also other anti insects spray. (119)

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in danger. Putra thinks there will be three of them renovated: SDN 3 Tohpati, SDN 16 Kertha Jiwa and SDN 12 Kesambi, as those were the ones that got a budget to renovate from the City Council yet it is not enough. “The condition is that all these schools have not enough land with the rising pupils’ number. One solution to it is to make it two level

building. The schools and village have stated this aspiration to Denpasar Representatives, I Wayan Warka and Kadek Ari Suchitha whose origin are in this village,” Putra stated.

Warka and Sucitha confirmed they have been approached and promised to act for it by stating it to their party fractions which then

discussed further. The Education Budget in Denpasar is actually the biggest reaching 30 percent compared to other budgets in this city.

Only just most were not straight away used and for this it will be cross checked in the 2013 budget which it is hope the council will pay more attention on this infrastructure. (kmb13)

Suu Kyi’s comments came in response to a state newspaper’s report that President Thein Sein has granted amnesty to 46 prisoners who were expected to be freed from prisons later Tuesday.

More than 20 of those receiving amnesty are prisoners of conscience, said Ko Ko Gyi, a prominent former political prisoner.

Among them are former student activist Aye Aung, who was serving a 59-year sentence for distributing pamphlets and taking part in a protest during a 1998 pro-democracy uprising.

“We are very happy that our fellow political prisoners are being released,” Ko Ko Gyi told The Associated Press. “However, we will continue to work for the release of all political prisoners.”

Human Rights Watch says at least 659 political prisoners, many of them well known, have been released over the past year

as part of Myanmar’s startling series of reforms.

Estimates by human rights groups of the number of political prisoners who remain in Myanmar government custody range from about 200 to about 600. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy opposition party says the number is 330.

“We will call for the release of all 330 political prisoners,” Suu Kyi, the country’s most famous former political prisoner, said at a news conference. It was her first public appearance since returning from her two-week tour of Europe, her first overseas journey in 24 years.

The state-run New Light of Myanmar reported Tuesday that 37 men and nine women were being freed. It said the decision had been made on humanitarian grounds “with a view to ensuring the stability of the state and making eternal peace (and) national reconciliation.”

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to journalists during a press conference at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy Party in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, July 3, 2012.

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Mexico’s next president faces uphill fight

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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev rides on the airport rail link to Vladivostok airport July 3, 2012.

Russia’s Medvedev lands on disputed Far East island Reuters

MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev landed on Tuesday on a remote island chain seized by the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two, Russian news agencies reported, in a trip likely to renew a territorial dispute with Japan.

Medvedev caused uproar in Japan in 2010 when he became the first Russian leader to visit the disputed island chain known as the Southern Kuriles in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan.

After that visit, he promised

to send more modern arms to an artillery division deployed on the windswept archipelago.

The islands lie off Russia’s eastern coast, some 7,000 km (4,350 miles) away from Moscow. The island of Kunashir, the last in the chain, where Medvedev landed, is only about 15 km from Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.

Russia is raising its profile on its vast but sparsely populated eastern seaboard in advance of an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok in September.

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coming years.”

Pena Nieto’s account of the talk suggested his MEXICO CITY — The apparent victor of party has left behind the touchy nationalism of the Mexico’s presidential race, Enrique Pena Nieto, past. He expressed interest in cooperation in security, struggled Monday with the sticky bonds of his commerce and infrastructure, but didn’t bring up the party’s notorious past, the limitation of his election traditional Mexican issue of U.S. immigration reform mandate and an opponent who refused to concede to help the 12 million Mexicans who live in the Unitdefeat. His long-ruling and ed States. Pena Nieto said now-returned Institutional he wanted “a relationship Revolutionary Party, the that will allow the producPRI, won only about 38 tive integration of North percent of the vote and is America.” unlikely to get a majority In Sunday’s elections, in Congress. In fact, it may Mexicans voted above lose seats. all for a known quantity, He faces an old guard in the camera-friendly canthe PRI that still exercises didate of the party that considerable power, a war ruled Mexico without with fierce drug cartels and interruption from 1929 a still sluggish economy. to 2000.

His closest rival, leftist But the PRI returns to Andres Manuel Lopez Obpower in unknown politirador, who polled a highercal terrain, where Mexico than-expected vote of about is more divided, more vio32 percent, refused to aclent and less tightly concept the loss, and many of trolled, raising the potenhis militant followers were tial for political disputes suspicious of the results. on top of the drug war.

President Barack Obama The battle against drug called Pena Nieto on Moncartels has already cost day to congratulate him. more than 47,500 lives The U.S. Embassy in and may have contributed Mexico City said Obama to the decline of President told him the United States Felipe Calderon’s conser“looks forward to advancAP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo vative National Action ing common goals, includ- Enrique Pena Nieto, candidate of the Institution- Party, whose candidate ing promoting democracy, al Revolutionary Party (PRI) and apparent win- dropped to third place economic prosperity, and ner of Mexico’s presidential election, gestures with about 25 percent security in the region and while speaking with foreign correspondents in of the preliminary vote around the globe, in the Mexico City, Monday, July 2, 2012. count.

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Evidence of ‘God particle’ found

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GENEVA — Physicists say they have all but proven that the “God particle” exists. They have a footprint and a shadow, and the only thing left is to see for themselves the elusive subatomic particle believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape.

Scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher plan to announce Wednesday that they have nearly confirmed the primary plank of a theory that could restructure the understanding of why matter has mass, which combines with gravity to give an object weight.

The idea is much like gravity and Isaac Newton’s discovery: It was there all the time before Newton explained it. But now scientists know what it is and can put that knowledge to further use. The focus of the excitement is the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle long sought by physicists.

Researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, say that they have compiled vast amounts of data that show the footprint and shadow of the particle, even though it has never actually been glimpsed.

But two independent teams of

physicists are cautious after decades of work and billions of dollars spent. They don’t plan to use the word “discovery.” They say they will come as close as possible to a “eureka” announcement without overstating their findings.

“I agree that any reasonable outside observer would say, ‘It looks like a discovery,’” said British theoretical physicist John Ellis, a professor at King’s College London who has worked at CERN since the 1970s. “We’ve discovered something which is consistent with being a Higgs.”

CERN’s atom smasher, the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border, has been creating high-energy collisions of protons to investigate dark matter, antimatter and the creation of the universe, which many theorize occurred in a massive explosion known as the Big Bang.

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Tourists visit to Bali increase

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DENPASAR - Bali receives 1.15 million foreign tourists visit on January to May 2012. This numbers increasing around 9.31 percent compare to the same period last year.

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FILE - In this May 20, 2011 file photo, a physicist explains the ATLAS experiment on a board at the European Center for Nuclear Research, CERN, outside Geneva, Switzerland.

Australia bans sleeping School Lunch Makeover pills at London Games Requires Whole Grains Agence France Presse

Australia’s Olympic athletes will be banned from using sleeping pills, officials said Tuesday, after ex-swimming star Grant Hackett admitted to a heavy use of the sedatives while he was still competing. Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates said prescription medications such as the powerful sleeping pill Stilnox would be banned for the first time at London after Hackett said he had developed a “heavy reliance” on the drug.

The AOC on Monday decided to amend its team medical manual “to make it absolutely unequivocal that we do not condone and indeed we prohibit the use of Stilnox by our athletes”, Coates said. In North America the drug is marketed as Ambien.

Team doctors are being advised about the changes, which will also emphasise potential problems with caffeine use, and each discipline’s squad will be briefed as they enter the Olympic village, Coates added. “We are very worried about the vicious cycle of athletes taking caffeine as a performance enhancer and then needing to take drugs such as Stilnox to get to sleep,” he told reporters in Sydney.

“We’ve done this because our primary obligation, our overriding obligation, is to protect the health of our athletes.” Officials will also have the power to search athletes’ belongings if they are suspected of using sleeping pills and disciplinary action including suspension or early return to Australia could follow.

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Australia’s Olympic athletes will be banned from using sleeping pills, officials said Tuesday, after ex-swimming star Grant Hackett (pictured in 2002) admitted to a sedative addiction when he was still competing Coates said the changes were triggered by revelations from Hackett, dual gold medallist in the 1500m freestyle, that by the end of his career he had a “heavy reliance” on Stilnox, first prescribed to him by team doctors.

“I do not know the extent of it across the other sports and we’re not going to conduct some sort of witch-hunt over this,” the Australian official said.

At least 50 percent of the grains served in U.S. public school lunches must now be whole grains, according to legislation that went into effect Sunday (July 1). In fact, school lunches are in the midst of a makeover — real fruit is replacing frozen fruit bars, pizza is being made with whole wheat crust and sweet potato fries are being substituted for tater tots — all part of an effort aimed at lowering rates of childhood obesity.

The changes to school lunch menus grew out of a joint effort by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and first lady Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity, and were passed as part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which became law in January. Implementation of the changes, which include limits on fat and salt and heftier servings of fruits and veggies, will continue into 2014.

Increasing the amount of whole grains in lunches will help ensure that kids get more nutrients than they would from refined-grain foods, which often contain added sugar and salt, said Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on nutrition. These additives can make children constantly crave these flavors.

“If you’re just eating the natural fruits and veggies, then you’re less likely to add salt to your French fries,” Bhatia said.

Whole grains have also been linked with lower amounts of visceral fat, also known

According to Head of Bali’s Statistic Center Gede Suarsa, majority tourists that came to Bali using aircraft and only around 31,432 people that using cruise ship.

He said that especialy on May, tourists that came to Bali recorded around 220,700 people or increase 5,57 percent compare to same month last year.

On 2011, Bali received tourists visit around 2.82 million people or rise 9,72 percent compare to the same period on the year before.

He explained that from the top ten countries that visits Bali, there are six countries that showing significant rise, meanwhile four of them showing downturn.

The six countries that on the rise are Australia, China, Malaysia, South Korea, Britain, and Singapore. While the four

countries that declining are Japan, Taiwan, France, and United States.

Suarsa explained that Australia still a big market for Bali because Australian that came to Bali on January to May period increase, from 275,957 people to 299,360 people. China also still a potential market which grow steadily over the same period, from 87,038 tourists to 143,382 tourists.

Tourists sunbathing and watching the ritual ceremony that performed

by Balinese in Kuta Beach, Bali Island. Bali receives 1.15 million foreign tourists visit on January to May 2012. This numbers increasing around 9.31 percent compare to the same period last year.

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Entering clove harvest

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School Lunch Makeover Requires Whole Grains as belly fat. This type of fat is thought to be particularly unhealthy, and has been linked a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes.

Last year, school lunch might have been pizza sticks with marinara sauce, a banana, raisins and whole milk, but now with the changes, lunch could be a salad of veggies, cheese and chicken with low-fat dressing, a whole-wheat pretzel, corn, baby carrots, a banana and skim chocolate milk.

Before the legislation, lunches included a total of 1/2 to 3/4 cup of fruit and vegetables, but now they are required to have between 3/4 and 1 cup of vegetables, and 1/2 and 1 cup of fruit is now required every day. A larger variety of vegetables will be offered, including dark leafy greens, and red or orange veggies.

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Clove harvest season this year adequately encourages the economy of villages producing cloves in Buleleng. As evidence, since the beginning of harvest season, many residents got seasonal job opportunity by becoming a harvester of clove flower.

BULELENG - Clove harvest season this year adequately encourages the economy of villages producing cloves in Buleleng. As evidence, since the beginning of harvest season, many residents got seasonal job opportunity by becoming a harvester of clove flower. Aside from the adults, school children also filled in their long holiday this year by becoming a clove flower harvester. The money earned would be used to purchase their school supplies.

Kekeran village, Busungbiu subdistrict, is one of the villages in Buleleng becoming the center of clove producer. This village has a number of Subak Abian (non-irrigated farmer group) with commodities dominated by clove, coffee and cacao. When entering the clove harvest season, many people get a seasonal job opportunity as a worker to pick clove flower or to separate clove stems that have been harvested. Price of the service is quite expensive compared to other chores. A worker of clove picker with equipment of bamboo ladder will be paid IDR70,000 and without a bamboo ladder will be IDR 60,000 per day. On average, a seasonal worker can pick maximally 30 kg.

It highly depends on the condition of plants or density of flowers. Meanwhile, the rate of worker separating the clove flower from its stem is IDR 1,000 per kilogram.

One of the local farmers, Wayan Mutra, when met in his garden on Monday (Jul 2) said

he just entered the beginning of harvest season. He usually picked the older clove flowers first so that they would not fall out. While the younger flowers should be waited until they were old enough to be harvested. “It is just the beginning. Probably, early in August we will reach the peak season. By all means, it will absorb more seasonal employment,” he said.

According to Mutra, the clove price at the beginning of harvest season was pretty expensive. Today, the raw clove was sold for IDR 30,000 per kilogram. At his village, most farmers sold their clove in raw condition.

It was based on various reasons such as the farmers did not have adequate drying floor.

Additionally, immediate need of money also forced them to sell cloves in raw condition.

“Moreover, now it’s time for children to enroll their school, so the freshly harvested cloves are immediately sold. By doing so, we can have cash for the preparation of school children,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the information gathered in the secretariat of the Indonesia Clove Growers Association (APCI) of Bali mentioned that harvest season of this month belonged to the relatively small harvest. With this condition, the clove production remained small and did not show an increase. By all means, this condition would affect the price of clove. On that account, the APCI hoped that farmers would not sell their cloves in a hurry so that they could get a reasonable price. (kmb)

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Great job opportunities as nurse and homecare worker in Japan Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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The traffic jam happened on Gajah Mada Street due to the project of pedesterian.

After the closure of Jalan Gajah Mada

Traders of Badung Market protest Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Closure of Jalan Gajah Mada due to paving block installation project did not only cause severe congestion. It also reaped a protest from traders in Kumbasari Market. Since the closure of some road sections on Friday night (Jun 29), more and more complaints were coming.

Such condition was confirmed

by Director of PD Pasar Denpasar, Made Westra, when met at the sidelines of the preparation for the inauguration ceremony of the Gunung Agung Market, Monday (Jul 2). Since the closure of the road section a few days ago, Westra admitted to receive many complaints from the traders.

“Almost all the traders complained to us. They complain about the difficulty to supply goods to the traders in the market. We understand about their complaints because such condition surely had an impact on their activities and sales,” he said.

According to him, perishable goods like vegetables, fruits and flowers potentially caused huge loss because they quickly turned rotten if they were too long exposed to the sunlight. His party had passed the issues to Transportation Agency as well as Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP) of Denpasar.

“If the traffic congestion problem cannot be immediately resolved, it

will surely result in greater losses,” he said.

Complaints of the traders and residents about the congestion were also responded by the Head of Denpasar Transportation Agency, Gde Astika. His party would reverse the traffic flow on Jalan Gunung Kawi.

The change of traffic flow on Jalan Gunung Kawi was the first solution that would be tried. “Motorists from Jalan Gajah Mada will be directed southwards to Jalan Hassanudin,” he said.

Related to traffic lights that did not work properly, Astika said that to regulate the traffic flow in the area, his party did not need to turn them on. “We do not need to turn on the traffic lights in the intersection of Jalan Gunung Kawi-Jalan Hassanudin because we will assign an officer until the night. Likewise, we will also be assisted by police officer,” he said.

His party would arrange the flow on Jalan Thamrin from one-way traffic to two-way traffic. “We will

do so if the traffic shows an increase in the flow of vehicles, depending on the real situation in the field,” he said.

Regarding the many vegetable traders narrowing the road body, Astika had not had a definitive answer. The official from Buleleng would maximize the officers on duty in the field. He said although the Jalan Thamrin was still opened, it remained to result in consequence, namely congestion at the intersection in front of the Pemecutan Palace.

Division Head of Spatial Planning in the Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP), Cipta Sudewa, previously claimed to have made coordination with the Denpasar Transportation Agency.

“We have coordinated it. We do not deny if the crowdedness was unavoidable. Without the project works, it has been crowded let alone with the project. But, we do ask for the acknowledgement of the community using the roads in relation to this condition,” he said. (kmb27)

The opportunities of Balinese people to work overseas as a nurse and homecare worker (taking care of the elderly) especially in Japan are widely open. However, due to language constraint many job seekers from Bali ultimately failed while undergoing the tests.

Division Head of Placement Preparation of BNP2TKI, Alimansur Harahap, Monday (Jul 2) in Denpasar said the opportunity to work as nurse and homecare worker in Japan was getting more widely open with the presence of Government to Government (G to G) program between Indonesia and Japan.

Alimansur presented that from 2008 to 2012, there had been 396 nurses and 503 homecare workers from Indonesia sent to Japan. A nurse and homecare worker in Japan would receive a salary around IDR 10 million to IDR 20 million. Explained, the requirements to work as a nurse and homecare worker in Japan the applicant should be at least graduated from Diploma 3 in nursing, had two-year experience and mastered Japanese language.

Alimansur added that job opportunities in Japan were getting more widely open but could not be optimized by workers from Indonesia. It was caused by the language factor so that job seekers often failed when tested. According to him, nursing school or health academy rarely provided the subject of Japanese language to their students. “Therefore, we expect the nursing school and health academy in Bali can provide Japanese language subject to their students,” he said. He also asked the local governments to intensively disseminate the program because it was also an effort to reduce the rate of educated unemployment.

Meanwhile, the Head of Bali Work Force Agency, Wayan Wiratha, recognized that nurses from Bali who had been working in Japan remained minimal. Up to 2011, only 11 people could be sent to Japan. According to him, it was not caused by the lack of interest or poor technical quality of the job seekers but because of language barriers so that they did not pass the test. To that end, he also expected the nursing and health academy in Bali could provide the students with the curriculum of sufficient Japanese language education considering the high job opportunities in Japan. “It’s time to adjust the curriculum to the demand of job market,” he said.

Furthermore, he said the job opportunity in the field of paramedic in Bali was indeed still adequate. However, in line with the increase of students majoring in nursing and healthcare, it was worried that in few years to come it would be difficult to accommodate them in the local job market. On that account, the nursing and health academy were encouraged to prepare their graduates with international qualification so that they could compete in foreign job market such as in Japan. Wiratha also expected the data collection and recruitment of migrant workers from Bali could be organized in the regency/municipality so that the Bali Work Force Agency had valid data.

The Head of BP3TKI Denpasar, Wayan Pageh, said that in the recruitment and placement of the Bali’s workers overseas in the future should be established a synergy between the central government, in this case the BP3TKI Denpasar, Bali Work Force Agency as well as the regency/municipality to anticipate the problems that might occur. According to him, the data collection and recruitment should indeed be carried out by the regency/ municipality government so that it just needed to send the data to central government. “Regency/municipality government should aggressively inform the public about the procedures and requirements of working overseas, along with their rights and obligations,” he said. (kmb29)

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Calendar Event for June 30 through July 25, 2012 30 Jun Tumpek Landep.

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Selatan.

Pura Agung Pasek Tangun Titi kaler Tabanan Pura Agung Pasek Silamadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Kediri Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Barat Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Sengguan Singapadu.

Pura Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan Singaraja Pura Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana.

Pura taman Desa Bubunan Seririt Buleleng Pura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean Mengwi Pura Dalem Pingit Br, Taro Kaje Tegalalang Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada Buleleng Pura Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara Tabanan Pura Ida ratu Pande Besakih Mr. Pasek Toh Jiwa Tangungtiti Pura Penataran Pande Kusamba Klungkung Pura Penataran Agung Pinatih Desa Tulikup Gianyar.

1 Jul Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar.

3 Jul Purnama Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Gunung Kuripan Lombok.

Pura Tirta Besakih Pura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati Pura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Cinere Jakarta Selatan Pura Jagatnatha Kota Singaraja Pura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-Susut-Bangli Pura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok Timur Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar Buleleng Pura Puseh Batur Kintamani Pr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur Kintamani Pura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-Sukawati Pura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-Lumajang Jawa Timur Pura Pengubengan Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur Kintamani Mr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa Penida Pura Nuansa Udayana, Kori Nuansa Jimbaran Pura Tianyar Pikat, Dawan Klungkung 4 Jul Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pasar Agung Besakih

Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian Kuta Pura Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu Badung Hyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari Tegal Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Perancak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung.

Pura Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi 10 Jul Anggar Kasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas Sukawati Pura Dalem Lagan Bebalang Bangli Pura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel Sukawati Pura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Gaduh Sanding Pura Dalem Gandamayu Klungkung Pura Sanghyang Tegal Banjar Taro Kaja Tegalalang 11 Jul Buda Umanis Kulantir.

Pura Pasek Tangkas kaler Tabanan.

Pura Gaduh Benoh Ubung Denpasar 15 Jul Redite Keliwon Tolu.

Pura Dalem Alas Harum Banjar Tegal Kepuh 16 Jul Soma Umanis Tolu Pura Puseh/Balai Agung Ubung Kupang Penebel Tabanan Pura Kawitan Sakula Gotra, Pasung Grigih Pura Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Banjar Ceningan Kangin Pura Batu Madeg Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Penatih Banjar Saba Penatih.

18 Jul Buda Pon Tolu Pura Catur, Buwana Sanding Tampaksiring 19 Jul Wraspati Wage Tolu Pura Peninjoan Besakih.

25 Jul Buda Keliwon Gumbreg Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Desa Guwang Sukawati Merajan Pasek Ketewel Ketewel Merajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan Sading Pura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida

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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Pop singer Katy Perry fearless in “warts and all” film portrayal Reuters

LOS ANGELES - It started as just another concert film, but as Katy Perry’s marriage to comedian Russell Brand unraveled, her new documentary transformed into what she called a “warts and all” depiction the pop star is happy to show her fans.

Katy Perry

“Katy Perry: Part of Me,” which debuts in 3D on Thursday, is anything but standard fare. Most performers wouldn’t dare show fans what they look like first thing in the morning without makeup, or worse, doubled over bawling backstage in costume. But Perry insisted that everyone see.

“I’m OK with showing what’s behind the curtain,” Perry, 27, told Reuters in a recent interview.

“I’m OK with showing that side of me because it helps people relate (to me) better and think of me as a human being.”

On its face, the movie chronicles the singer on her first world tour in 2011, but as the year played out, “Katy Perry: Part of Me” chronicled the demise of her marriage to Brand, whom she wed in 2010. By December 2011, they had split and in February, they divorced.

The film shows Brand early on, happily visiting Perry backstage and picking her up in his car. But soon he disappears from the story, and Perry begins to suffer emotional breakdowns and fits of crying while her team of handlers seems helpless.

The movie humanizes Perry in a way that is rare in Hollywood where the star-

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making machinery cranks out performers who, seemingly, live glamorous, carefree lifestyles of which others only dream.

In fact, Perry’s success has been based mostly on a larger-than-life, almost cartoonish image of herself with ever-changing hair color and overthe-top outfits featuring cupcakes and lollipops.

She sings pop songs such as “California Gurls,” “Hot N Cold,” “Teenage Dream” and “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” Her third studio album, “Teenage Dream,” saw five singles hit No. 1 on music charts - a first for a female. She has sold 11 million albums worldwide and earned 8 Grammy nominations.

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Poverty in Bali reaches 168,780 people

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A boy taking water from the river to be use as drinking water. Prestige as a favorite tourist destination in the world does not have an impact on the social life of Balinese community.

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DENPASAR - Prestige as a favorite tourist destination in the world does not have an impact on the social life of Balinese community.

Based on data in the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, the rate of poor people on the Island of the Gods until March 2012 reached 168,780 people, consisting of 91,440 people living in urban areas and 77,340 people in rural areas.

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NEW YORK — Jon Bon Jovi is going Unplugged in a bottle. Avon Products Inc. announced Monday that the 50-year-old rock star is the company’s newest celebrity fragrance partner. He’ll appear in ads for both Unplugged for Her and Unplugged for Him. The company said the inspiration for both scents is the unique feeling one has listening to a favorite song.

The goal is “an emotional connection.”

The women’s version, which will be available through Avon representatives and online in October, is a floral oriental perfume, and the men’s is a woody floral musk fragrance. It will go on sale in November. Both Avon and Bon Jovi said admiration for each other’s involvement in philanthropy largely drew them together as partners.

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Situation in the court room during Bali Post vs Governor Bali trial on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The verdict of this trial will be announce on July 17.

The Head of BPS Bali, Gede Suarsa, said that percentage of poor people in Bali in March 2012 reached 4.18 percent or slightly decrease 0.02 percent if compared to March 2011 reaching 4.20 percent. “With the adequately high economic growth, Bali has managed to reduce the rate of poor people even though relatively a few,” said Gede Suarsa in Denpasar.

He said that food commodities had the lion’s share namely 70.05 percent compared to non-food commodities only reaching 29.95 percent toward the formation of poverty line in Bali.

Meanwhile, the poverty line in Bali in March 2012 increased by 7.22 percent, from IDR 233, 172 in March 2011 to IDR 249,997 in March 2012.

“Poverty line in urban and rural

areas increased in that period. Urban increased 6.99 percent, while the poverty line in rural areas increased 7.66 per cent,” he explained.

Government programs implemented during the development so far had paid a great attention to the fight against the poverty eradication. However, Suarsa said that poverty issue was still a longdrawn problem. Even, Bali known as a world tourist destination had not yet been able to escape from the issue.

Chairman of the Indonesian Economist Association (ISEI) of Bali, Prof.

Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, said the economic growth of Bali was shored up by consumption sector, both domestic and government consumption, triggered the high rate of poverty.

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