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UNIONDALE, N.Y. — WWE superstar John Cena granted his 300th wish to a 7-yearold Pennsylvania boy with a spinal condition, continuing his streak as the most popular celebrity granter in Make-A-Wish Foundation history. Jonny Littman wanted to meet his hero, and the WWE accommodated that wish Monday night before an episode of “Raw” live from New York’s Long Island. But Jonny got a bonus to his wish.

On Wednesday morning, Jonny was being interviewed on “Good Morning America” when Sam Champion asked him about his green Tshirt. After Jonny told him it was John Cena, Champion asked if anyone knew the WWE Superstar. The pro wrestler and actor walked out to Jonny’s surprise and presented him with another gift. This time it was tickets for him and his family to attend the 1,000th episode of the WWE show.

To put Cena’s 300 granted wishes in perspective, Michael Jordan has granted around 200 and Kobe Bryant is in the 100-wish range. “I truly give hats off to Make-A-Wish for keeping statistics,” Cena said Monday before the show.

“They had a nice little celebration for me at 200, and I humbly said we should do it at 1,000.

“We’re just getting started,” he said enthusi-

astically. But Cena was clearly touched by the latest one. “I’m just flattered completely that I could be the wish,” he said. Jonny, from Hop Bottom, Pa., has severe congenital malformation and spina bifida and uses a wheelchair. He spoke to his hero for a few minutes and took some pictures with him.

He even put on his WWE Championship belt. His mother, Ruth, says his surgeons wore it during his last surgery. After signing T-shirts and WWE merchandise and presenting him with a videogame system, the superstar graciously walked out of the room. Cena prepared for his featured match, and Jonny and his family waited to go into the Nassau Coliseum for a live televised weekly show, “Raw.” After he left the room, Jonny chanted: “Cena. John Cena.

Cena.”

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Jonny Littman, poses with WWE superstar, John Cena.

Sonny Rollins is triple winner at Jazz Awards Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Tenor sax legend Sonny Rollins was a triple winner Wednesday at the annual Jazz Awards, garnering musician of the year honors for the second straight year.

Rollins also repeated as the top tenor saxophonist. His latest CD, “Road

Shows, Vol. 2,” consisting of live recordings from concerts in Japan and his September 2010 80th birthday concert in New York highlighted by a first-ever public performance with free jazz visionary and alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, was chosen the year’s best jazz recording.

“I was born with some talent for

AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, File

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2010 photo, jazz great Sonny Rollins performs during a concert in Tokyo. Rollins was a triple winner Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at the annual Jazz Awards, garnering musician of the year honors for the second straight year.

which I am grateful,” Rollins said in a statement read from the stage at the Blue Note jazz club by emcee Josh Jackson, host of WBGO’s jazz music magazine “The Checkout.” “I copied and learned from my predecessors and I’m grateful to them, and I gratefully accept this award,” said Rollins, who could not attend the ceremony because he was moving to a new home in upstate New York.

Saxophonist Joe Lovano’s Us Five, featuring Grammy-winner Esperanza Spalding on bass and James Weidman on piano, was chosen the best small ensemble for the third consecutive year.

The large ensemble honors went to the Mingus Big Band, dedicated to playing the compositions of the late bassist Charles Mingus.

Israeli-born Anat Cohen was a double winner as top clarinetist and multi-reeds player. Cohen said, “It’s an immense pleasure and a never-ending journey to be making music with some of the most adventurous, creative, passionate people we call jazz musicians.”

Two Indian-American musicians also took home awards in their instrumental categories — pianist Vijay Iyer and alto saxophonist Rudresh Manhanthappa.

Bassist Ben Williams, who released his debut album “State of Art” last year after winning the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Competition, was honored as the top up-and-coming artist.

Plane crashes in housing complex FOTO ANTARA/M Agung Rajasa

An Indonesian military aircraft crashed into a military housing complex in the capital Jakarta on Thursday, killing six of the seven crew members on board, an air force spokesman said.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - An Indonesian military aircraft crashed into a military housing complex in the capital Jakarta on Thursday, killing six of the seven crew members on board, an air force spokesman said.

“Six out of the seven crew were killed and one was critically injured. That’s all we know so far,” spokesman Asman Yunus told AFP. “We’ve found no civilian victims so far.”

The Fokker-27 crashed into a housing complex within the Halim Perdanakusuma military airport compound at 2:45 pm (0745 GMT) after taking off from the same airport at 1:10 pm.

“The aircraft was conducting training and there were no passengers aboard,” Yunus said.

“The plane crashed on eight houses,” Yunus told Metro TV, which showed footage of houses ablaze and what appeared to be the plane’s wing sticking out from the roof of a brick house.

Yunus said the injured crew member had been taken to hospital and added that the military would look into the cause of the crash.

Indonesia has one of the world’s poorest aviation safety records, and military aircraft crashes are relatively common.

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EURO 2012 NEWS SEE P8-9

Patient Germany plan to outrun Greeks Reuters

GDANSK - Germany are planning to bide their time and eventually wear down defensive-minded Greece when they meet in the Euro 2012 quarter-finals on Friday.

The Germans advanced through Group B with three wins from three games but are bracing for a much tougher defence than what they faced against Portugal, Netherlands and Denmark.

Greece conceded only five goals in 10 qualifiers, though they also let in three goals in three Group A games, advancing as runners-up behind the Czech Republic. “We got a small taste of what we can expect when

we faced the Danes,” said Germany holding midfielder Sami Khedira of their 2-1 victory on Sunday.

“Greece are a very compact team, tactically very strong, well organised and aggressive. They are also fast on the breaks and if you see that they had three or four chances in the tournament so far and scored three goals you can tell they are masters of efficiency.

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Friday, June 22, 2012

Bali News

Fishermen facing hard time to catch lobster Tabanan (Bali Post) –

The Tabanan fishermen lately got worried as their lobster production didn’t go well and so to avoid any further disadvantages, they chose to take a break, park their boats along the beach. The rarity has occurred this past three weeks where maximum they would only capture half kilogram while fighting the great sea current. The high fee needed to go to the sea also has caused them to take the break as stated by Head of Indonesian Fishermen Group (HNSI) for Tabanan, Ketut Arsana Yasa alias Sadam, last Wednesday (20/6).

He added the fishermen usually use 30-40 unit bubu to capture 1-3 kg per day. It seemed this rarity was caused by the weather and the sea current which caused lobsters to breed ont eh bottom of the ocean. Besides rarity, its price also

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The Hindus in Singaraja are eating at cemetary to celebrate Pagerwesi Day

Pagerwesi in Singaraja

Residents have lunch together at cemetery ENDLESS tradition on the celebration of Pagerwesi Day is a crowd at cemetery. As happened on the Pagerwesi Day, Wednesday (Jun 20), residents came to cemetery and presented food oblation (punjung). Having presented the offering, people then ate together in the cemetery area. As consequence, the cemetery turned crowded just like a city park.

At the cemetery of Buleleng customary village, for instance, people whose family member had died began to flock the cemetery. They came with a variety of ritual means such as oblation, canang and incense. In the face of their family’s tomb, the residents coming in groups seemed to pray solemnly. Then, it was resumed with having meals together. “We regularly perform this kind of ritual on

Pagerwesi Day. Together with our families, we come to the tomb of our parents who have died for offering oblation,” said Ketut Wirta, a resident from Kaliuntu village.

According to him, the ritual was routinely carried out through generations. By and large, the ritual was performed by residents whose ancestors had died but could not have been made a cremation cer-

emony. As an apology for being unable to make cremation ceremony for them, people presented food oblation and other offerings. Having presented them, residents would take the opportunity to eat together at the cemetery. “If body of the dead family member has been made ngaben cremation ceremony, family will no longer need to bring offerings to cemetery,” he said. (kmb15)

have gone down to IDR 150,000 per kg when usually more then IDR 200,000 per kg. This caused burden as its food actually reached to IDR 12,000 per kg.

“If there’s not much caught, it will cause loss and so it is better to take the break first. The 2 meters tide is not helping either,” Sadam stated.

During the break, the fishermen chose to prepare their capturing device for the coming harvest time this August. Sadam predicted the price of the lobster can keep going up to IDR 350,000 per kg like last year. What’s peculiar to Sadam, is the fact that lobster is still highly priced in restaurants such as up to IDR 450,000 per kilogram. “This is too harsh, why when buying from us so low? This indicates there is a game from the supplier side,” Sadam criticized. (kmb30)

Water crisis, farmers choose to plant vegetables Tabanan (Bali Post)—

The drought haunting Tabanan made a number of farmers change their profession. Some chose to grow vegetables to avoid losses. This was also carried out by farmers at Sudimara village, Tabanan, Wednesday (Jun 20). Water crisis was taken advantage to grow vegetables belonging to goose weed species. Aside from saving water, its maintenance was easy. Lucratively, farmers could harvest earlier than growing rice. “If growing rice, we have to wait for a little longer,” said Men Giri, one of the local farmers.

She told that growing vegetables did not take her much time. Vegetable seeds were planted and then watered for several times. If they set to dry up, farmers would only need to drain water. Likewise, tts fertilization process was not too complicated. By and large, the vegetable could be harvested after a month old. After that it could be harvested almost every day.

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“It’s fair to middling, our daily harvest can increase the income,” she said. The vegetable was marketed to Denpasar through collectors. According to Men Giri, in the harvest season, she could produce 10 kilograms of vegetable a day and the price was not bad.

She added that her party deliberately grew vegetables in several lots of her rice field because if she grew rice it would take her three months to wait for harvest. Meanwhile, vegetable only took one month and the operational cost was relatively cheap. Farmers only required seeds and few kilograms of fertilizer.

Its maintenance process was also easy.

More lucratively, vegetable was rarely attacked by pests. Unlike growing rice, it might be attacked by various types of pests such as mice, tungro and grasshoppers. Other than goose weed, some local farmers also grew other vegetables like water spinach. (kmb30)

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The farmer choose to plant vegetables due to the lack of water in Tabanan Regency.

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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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Friday, June 22, 2012

International

Experts say science lacking on 9/11 and cancer

Bali News

International

Friday, June 22, 2012

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The 34th Bali Art Festival

Gianyar and Buleleng artists performed Gong Kebyar in BAF Antara

DENPASAR - Women Gong Kebyar parade will show ‘’battle’’ between women troupe from Buleleng and Gianyar. They will show their ability and skill in performance on Friday night.

According to BAF’s Committee I Wayan Dauh, Gong Kebyar attracts many audiences. Dauh said the show always packed with audiences.

The troupe from Gianyar will represent by Gong Bhawari Padmanari Group from Blahbatuh.

Meanhwile Gong Srikandi Petak Group will be representing Bule-

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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2001 file photo, rescue workers examine the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks in New York.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Call it compassionate, even political. But ... scientific? Several experts say there’s no hard evidence to support the federal government’s declaration this month that 50 kinds of cancer could be caused by exposure to World Trade Center dust.

The decision could help hundreds of people get payouts from a multibillion-dollar World Trade Center health fund to repay those ailing after they breathed in toxic dust created by the collapsing twin towers on Sept.

11, 2001.

But scientists say there is little research to prove that exposure to the toxic dust plume caused even one kind of cancer. And many acknowledge the payouts to cancer patients could take money away from those suffering from illnesses more definitively linked

to Sept. 11, like asthma and some types of lung disease.

“To imagine that there is strong evidence about any cancer resulting from 9/11 is naive in the extreme,” said Donald Berry, a biostatistics professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Yet this month, Dr. John Howard, who heads the federal agency that researches workplace illnesses, added scores of common and rare cancers to a list that had previously

included just 12 ailments caused by dust exposure.

Lung, skin, breast and thyroid cancer were among those added; of the most common types of cancer, only prostate cancer was excluded.

“We recognize how personal the issue of cancer and all of the health conditions related to the World Trade Center tragedy are to 9/11 responders, survivors and their loved ones,” Howard said in a June 8 statement.

NY judge: US can seize dinosaur skeleton

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — One of the more unusual arrest warrants in U.S. history was issued Tuesday when a federal judge authorized the Department of Homeland Security to seize a dinosaur from an art storage company. There’s no need for handcuffs though. It’s been dead for 70 million years.

U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel signed the warrant

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An image from documents released from the U.S. Attorney’s office, Monday, June 18, 2012 shows the fossil of a Tyrannosaurus bataar dinosaur at the center of a lawsuit demanding its return to Mongolia.

after finding there was “probable cause to believe” that the nearly complete Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton is subject to forfeiture under U.S. laws. The U.S. filed a lawsuit against the skeletal property a day earlier, seeking to seize it for an eventual return to Mongolia.

It is typical in government seizure cases for the object to be seized to be named as a defendant. But it’s not so common for an object to have an alias, in this instance “One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton” is also known as “LOT 49315 listed on Page 92 of The Heritage Auctions May 20, 2012 Natural History Auction Catalog.”

The 8-foot-tall, 24-foot-long skeleton was described in the catalog as being “a stupendous, museum-quality specimen of one of the most emblematic dinosaurs ever to have stalked this Earth.” It is currently held at a Cadogan Tate Fine Art property in Queens. A message left with the company Tuesday was not immediately returned.

The lawsuit said the Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton was brought in March 2010 from Great Britain to Gainesville, Fla., with erroneous claims that it had originated in Great Britain and was worth only $15,000.

It sold at auction on May 20 for more than $1 million, though the sale was contingent upon the outcome of court proceedings.

Jim Halperin, cofounder of the The Heritage Auctions, the dinosaur’s Dallas-based custodian, has said a consignor bought the fossils in good faith and spent a year and considerable expense restoring them.

Killings of environmentalists appear to be on rise

leng Regency.

Each group consists of 45 women that able to play traditional instrument of Bali. They will also perform dances during the show.

Tens of women that compete on this event will showing their best performance and audiences be the judge of their skills.

IBP/File

Women Gong Kebyar parade will show ‘’battle’’ between women troupe from Buleleng and Gianyar. They will show their ability and skill in performance on Friday night.

Associated Press Writer

BANGKOK — The eulogies called Chut Wutty one of the few remaining activists in Cambodia brave enough to fight massive illegal deforestation by the powerful. The environmental watchdog was shot by a military policeman in April as he probed logging operations in one of the country’s last great forests.

Nisio Gomes was the chief of a Brazilian tribe struggling to protect its land from ranchers. Masked men gunned him down in November; his body, quickly dragged into a pickup, has not been seen since. Around the world, sticking up for the environment can be deadly, and it appears to be getting deadlier.

People who track killings of environmental activists say the numbers have risen dramatically in the last three years. Improved reporting may be one reason, they caution, but they also believe the rising death toll is a consequence of intensifying battles over dwindling supplies of natural resources, particularly in Latin America and Asia.

Killings have occurred in at least 34 countries, from Brazil to Egypt, and in both developing and developed nations, according to an Associated Press review of data and interviews.

A report released Tuesday by the London-based Global Witness said more than 700 people — more than one a week — died in the decade ending 2011 “defending their human rights or the rights of others related to the environment, specifically land and forests.”

They were killed, the environmental investigation group says, during protests or investigations into mining, logging, intensive agriculture, hydropower dams, urban development and wildlife poaching.

The death toll reached 96 in 2010 and 106 last year, said the report, which was released as world leaders gathered in Rio de Janeiro for a conference on sustainable development. The report’s annual totals for the six prior years range from 37 in 2004 to 64 in 2008.

More than three-quarters of the killings Global Witness tallied were in three South American countries: Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Another 50 deaths occurred in the Philippines. All have bloody land-rights struggles between indigenous groups and powerful industries.

Friday, June 22, 2012 Time

Place

Activity

11.00 WITA

Angsoka Stage

Bumbung Krepyak Reconstruction

11.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Bondres Performance

16.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Developed Arts Performance

20.00 WITA

In front of Kriya Building

Traditional Wayang Kulit Exhibition

20.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Arja Exhibition

20.00 WITA

Ardha Chandra

Women’s Gong Kebyar

Saturday, June 23, 2012 Time

Place

Activity

10.00 WITA

Angsoka Stage

Nyastra (Traditional Balinese Writing)

Contest

11.00 WITA

In front of

Kriya Building

Painting and Coloring Contest

16.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Joged Bumbung Exhibition

20.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Arja Exhibition

20.00 WITA

In front of

Traditional Shadow Puppet Exhibition

Kriya Building

20.00 WITA

Natya Mandala

Documentary Film Review

20.00 WITA

Ardha Chandra

Fusion Music Performance

Sunday, June 24, 2012 Time

Place

Activity

10.00 WITA

Ksirarnawa

Teenager Fashion Show

11.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Dance and Music Performance

16.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Joged Bumbung Performance

20.00 WITA

Ksirarnawa

Music Performance

20.00 WITA

Open Stage ISI

Shinto Music

IBP/Courtesy of Denpasar Government PR

The Balinese song parade that showing performance of various artists from regencies and city in Bali lose their shine because of poor sound system.

Balinese song parade disappointed by poor sound system IBP

DENPASAR - The Balinese song parade that showing performance of various artists from regencies and city in Bali lose their shine because of poor sound system. Audiences upset because they can’t hear clearly what the artists sang. Not only regular audiences that feel disappointed by those performances, Mayor of Denpasar, IB Rai D. Mantra and Wife of vice Governor Bali, Bintang Puspayoga, also felt the same.

According to release by Denpasar Government PR, audiences felt sorry for the un-well prepared sound system and blamed committee of Bali Art Festival for the wrong doing.

Artists that performed on the stage have to repeat their song over and over again because their voice can’t be heard by audiences.

Not only the sound system, according to journalists that covered the event, back light on the stage also bothering because it made them uncomfortable and hard to find good angles for pictures.

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Friday, June 22, 2012

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For not having a legal permit, a permanent building at Pebuahan, Banyubiru Village, Negara cause Police Civil Service to take action.

The high rise house construction on the side of little restaurants of fish culinary was temporary stopped.

It was explained that this house was built above a stated owned land yet lately there are a lot of little restaurants with only a few of them permanent built. This operation was taken under Head of the Services Peace and Order section, Gede Nyoman Suda Asmara, stat-

ing there will be an action taken to the permit section as this building doesn’t have a building permit moreover it is high rise which is forbidden.

It is still unsure if it will be a house or another little restaurant but for sure it has to get its permit first before building it. The owner was not in place then it was said he’s on the west side’s little restaurant, when officers went there the owner wasn’t there either, a verbal warning was then given and owner was asked to come to the Services Office soon to give explanation. (kmb26)

A week, two luxury cars crowbarred Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Security situation of Denpasar sets to turn unsafe again. Not only home burglary, motor theft and grabbing, but car crowbarring seems more ubiquitous as well.

Evidently, within the past a week, two residents reported if their car was crowbarred by criminals. The culprits targeted at their tape and speedometer.

Both victims respectively named I Ketut Sudiksa and Sapto. Honda Jazz of Sudiksa was crowbarred when parked on Jalan Kebo Iwa Utara, Denpasar, precisely beside the gas station at 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday (Jun 19). A set of tape and speedometer of his car was taken out by culprit. “The crime scene was crowded, but no one saw if the victim’s car was crowbarred,” a police source said on Wednesday (Jun 20).

Allegedly, the culprit originally crowbarred the car door and after being successful the culprit took

the tape and speedometer. It could be seen from the traces of crowbarring on the door. Even, the action of culprit was committed very neatly, chiefly when removing the tape and speedometer. “The way to cut the cord was very nice. Probably, the culprit was a specialist in door crowbarring and targeting at tape and speedometer,” said the source.

The source refusing to be named said due to such incident the victim suffered a loss of IDR 10 million.

Meanwhile, a few days earlier a similar action also afflicted a KIA car belonging to Sapto. His car was parked in the parking lot around Buana hamlet, Padang Sambian village, Denpasar, Monday (Jun 11).

It was crowbarred and the culprit took away its tape and speedometer.

“Their mode is the same, namely by crowbarring and taking out the tape and speedometer. Due to such incident, the victim claimed to suffer a loss worth IDR 4 million,” the source added. (kmb21)

Regional Government planned a statue for Mengwi Terminal Mangupura (Bali Post) –

The areal of Mangupura as Badung’s Capital City keep on improved such as one of them Badung Regency planned a statue, a road and arrangement for Mengwi Terminal.

Head of Badung Cleanliness and Grounds (DKP) Putu Eka Merthawan stated last Wednesday (20/6) that the project will have a high value with Rama and Sita characters will be there completed with its cart and four horses standing on the east side of Mengwi Terminal. The height will be 8 meters and is part of building up a Ramayana story across the regency.

“In South Badung the concept is Mahabharata which now has Dewa Ruci statue placed,” Merthawan added.

Mangupura will have this pair of statue in showing a unity between the road and areal of the terminal. Detail Engineering Design (DED) for the whole project will be suggested in the 2012 amended Regional Budget although its total expenses can’t be stated yet. Besides the road in the terminal there will be also a garden arrangement in supporting Mangupura’s grounds yet until now it is still waiting for Mengwi’s drainage part completion to be done. (kmb25)

Agence France Presse

Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will on Thursday address both houses of the British parliament -- a rare honour bestowed on only four foreign dignitaries since World War II.

A mother must walk for kilometers just to find water.

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Chairman of Karangasem House asks to complete pipeline project Amlapura (Bali Post)—

At a number of barren villages in the mountainous region of Karangasem like Kubu, the residents set to face clean water crisis at the beginning of this season. In response to this condition, Chairman of the Karangasem House, I Gede Dana, on Wednesday (Jun 20) in Karangasem asked the owner of the water pipeline project to quickly accomplish the work so that rural communities could utilize it immediately.

Gede Dana said the Telaga Waja clean water pipeline project with budgetary assistance from central government reaching hundreds of billions of rupiahs had not completed yet up to now. He said the project just completed the installation of the main and secondary pipeline to the point of Abang. “Hopefully, the project spending a large amount of the state budget should be completed faster, so that it could be exploited by people in need of clean water. The project was started two years ago,” he said.

Gede Dana from Datah village also said the clean water pipeline from the spring at Kesian, Ban village, Kubu, should be managed properly. Therefore, the project denoting the assistance from non-government organization and regional budget worth more than IDR 300 million could be utilized by residents of Ban and surrounding villages in the long term.

According to him, without proper

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management or handed over to village, it was feared to kindle a conflict of water struggle among the communities. He said based on the publication in mass media it was known if the water pipeline at Kesian had led to a conflict due to struggle for the water utilization.

“The existing clean water pipeline network should be utilized and managed properly, so that all residents in need can enjoy the water project,” he said.

On the other hand, Chairman of Commission B of the Karangasem House, Nyoman Oka Antara, said that many residents at dry villages such as the mountainous Kubu that remained to need the procurement of water supply whether through pipeline from springs or development of reservoir in group.

“Residents at Munti Gunung, Pedahan, Padangsari, Batumeyeh and Bongli Batudawa, as well as those generally living in the barren hills and mountain remained to face the

crisis of clean water. Moreover, in dry season, the Kubu region had not been showered by rain for a few months. Rain water supply of residents in their reservoir has run thin, even some have dry out,” he said.

Such condition was confirmed

by Chief of Batudawa customary village, I Gede Siden. His residents living on the upper region such as Lebah Bongli and Batudawa Kaja had faced the crisis of clean water. Residents at Lebah Bongli like I Wayan Ngetis, a poor family, should purchase water numbering 3,000 liters per tank at IDR 150,000. A tank of water was just enough for the need of a week, namely for drinking water of human and cattle, cooking and washing face. Even, due to facing water crisis and the water was very expensive, the grey water was not disposed, but taken advantage for drinking water of cattle.

Gede Siden said at the foot of Mount Agung, precisely at Batudawa Kaja, there had been a levee project. However, it currently could not be drained for the purposes of residents because it was planned to make another one at the foot of the mountain.

“Our residents are in need of clean water,” said Siden. (013)

Suu Kyi will follow in the footsteps of US President Barack Obama and Pope Benedict XVI when she speaks in the 11th-century Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the parliament complex.

The prestigious engagement is part of Suu Kyi’s week-long trip to Britain, part of her first trip to Europe since 1988. The democracy leader will also meet with prime minister David Cameron.

The pair previously met in Myanmar in April when Cameron announced moves to lift sanctions on the Southeast Asian nation in recognition of its moves towards democracy.

Suu Kyi said she was deeply moved Wednes-

day as she was honoured by Oxford University, in the city where she studied and brought up the family she would later leave behind.

“Today has been very moving,” Suu Kyi, 67, said in a speech after she was presented with an honorary doctorate in civil law in the grand surroundings of Oxford’s 17th century Sheldonian Theatre.

“During those difficult years I spent under house arrest I was upheld by my memories of Oxford. They helped me cope with the challenges I had to face,” she said.

After her speech she received a standing ovation from an audience of more than 1,000 dons and students from the university where she studied politics, philosophy and economics in the mid-1960s.

She was awarded the doctorate in 1993 but, like the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 1991, she was unable to pick it up at the time, fearing that if she left Myanmar she would not be allowed to return.

Egypt delays poll results, ousted president in coma

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A local newspaper featuring a photo of Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the front page, is displayed on a tree for sale by a vendor, not pictured, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 20, 2012.

Pakistan’s government nominates new PM

Associated Press Writer

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s ruling party has confirmed that it will choose front-runner Makhdoom Shahabuddin as its candidate for the vacant spot of prime minister.

Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said Shahabuddin, considered a Pakistan People’s Party loyalist, will file nomination papers in parliament later Thursday.

The PPP’s coalition has a majority in parliament and barring last minute surprises

is expected to be able to vote him into office in a session scheduled for Friday.

Outgoing premier Yousuf Raza Gilani was dismissed by the Supreme Court on Tuesday for contempt of court.

The decision to nominate a replacement quickly means that the government is not defying the court order as some had predicted it might.

General elections must be held before March 2013, so the new premier will not have long in office.

Egypt’s election commission delayed the announcement of presidential results scheduled for Thursday, as tension spiked over who will succeed ailing ousted president Hosni Mubarak after moves by the ruling military to extend powers.

“Egypt’s election commission, headed by Judge Faruq Sultan... has decided to delay the announcement of the presidential election runoff,” the official MENA news agency said late on Wednesday, without giving a new date.

The run-off, which took place on June 16 and 17 pitted Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi against Mubarak’s last prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, with both candidates claiming victory.

The election commission said it was looking into appeals from lawyers of both candidates into alleged campaign violations and disputed vote counting.

The commission said it would “continue examining the appeals... which will require more time before the final results are announced.”

The announcement came amid uncertainty over the health of Mubarak, following a flurry of reports about his condition.

Mubarak “is not clinically dead,” a medical source told AFP. “He is in a coma and the doctors are trying to revive him.”

“He has been placed on an artificial respirator,” the source added, in an account confirmed by a member of Egypt’s ruling military council, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity.

Egypt’s state television carried a ticker item saying Mubarak was in “a coma and is not clinically dead.”

State news agency MENA had earlier said the ousted strongman, 84, had been declared clinically dead after suffering a stroke in prison and being transferred to hospital.

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Egyptians read local newspapers with front page news on the health situation of ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt’s election commission delayed the announcement of presidential results scheduled for Thursday, as tension spiked over who will succeed Mubarak after moves by the ruling military to extend powers.

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1,800 British firms to report greenhousegas emissions

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RIO DE JANEIRO - All 1,800 firms listed on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market will be required to list their greenhouse-gas emissions from next April, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said at the Rio+20 summit on Wednesday.

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Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Atsushi Niimi gives a speech at the Design Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions Expo in Tokyo Thursday, June 21, 2012. Niimi said Toyota has been hammered by the strong yen, putting extra pressure on the automaker to stay lean and come up with new innovations, but it is determined to ride out the challenge.

Toyota stays lean to ride out strong yen and grow Associated Press

TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. has been hammered by the strong yen, putting extra pressure on the automaker to stay lean and come up with new innovations to ride out the challenge, a senior executive said Thursday.

Toyota Executive Vice President Atsushi Niimi acknowledged competition was growing extremely tough with South Korean makers, including Hyundai Motor Co., which have the advantage of a weaker currency.

A strong yen the value of overseas earnings for Japanese automakers, making it harder to offer products at cheaper prices abroad. The dollar has traded at 79-yen levels recently, down from about 100 yen in 2009.

Niimi said cost cuts, innovations and worker training will

allow Toyota to export lean production to new markets, where Toyota can still grow.

“We can win against ‘yendaka,’ and we must win,” Niimi told a packed hall at a manufacturing conference, using the phrase for “rising yen,” Niimi said the key was “a total elimination of waste,” such as making assembly lines shorter and more flexible so that profit is generated, even at small volumes.

He showed a time-lapse video, in which a line was extended in just 78 minutes by moving chunks of it and putting it together differently as though they were Lego parts.

Another example was welding without sparks called “sputterless.” Sparks can lead to defects on car bodies and slow production.

Toyota, founded in 1937, has long believed scale can backfire and has relied on “just in time” production, or manufacturing only as much as there is demand for. When it still lacked money and technology to compete against the more powerful U.S. automakers, it resorted to raising the efficiency of, and empowering each worker.

Toyota was on a steady growth path through 2007, but stumbled with the financial crisis and its massive global recalls three years ago. The earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan last year followed by flooding in Thailand, which disrupted supplies, added to its woes.

Niimi acknowledged Japanese manufacturing faces tough times.

Along with the strong yen, Japan fell behind Korea in promoting free trade, he said.

The move means that Britain will become the first country to make it compulsory for companies to include emissions data for their entire organizations in their annual reports.

At a side event at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Clegg said that the reporting would help corporations and investors identify potential areas of savings that can be made through energy efficiency.

“Counting your business costs while hiding your greenhouse gas emissions is a false economy,” he was quoted as saying in a statement issued by Britain’s environment department.

“British companies need to reduce

their harmful emissions for the benefit of the planet, but many back our plans because being energy-efficient makes good business sense, too.

“It saves companies money on energy bills, improves their reputation with customers and helps them manage their long-term costs, too.”

The regulations have been under discussion between government and business for months.

They will be introduced from the start of the next financial year in April and be reviewed in 2015, pending a decision whether the requirement should be extended to all large companies from 2016.

China mulls cut in asset requirement for foreign investors Agence France-Presse

SHANGHAI - China is proposing to slash the asset requirements for foreign institutions wanting to invest in its stock markets as it seeks to boost foreign investment and open up its capital markets.

Foreign individuals are barred from investing directly in China’s markets, but the country allows certain institutions to buy shares under the so-called Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) scheme. A proposal released by the securities regulator on Wednesday would see the amount of assets foreign institutions must hold to gain access to China’s markets reduced from $5 billion to $500 million.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission also plans to raise the maximum stake foreign institutions can hold in a listed Chinese company to 30 percent from 20 percent, and allow them

to enter the interbank bond market.

The latest moves to relax restrictions came after Beijing in April nearly tripled the amount of money selected foreign institutions can invest in Chinese stocks, bonds and bank deposits to $80 billion.

“This move is part of the securities regulator’s long-term programme of opening up China’s capital markets,” Jiang Shiqing, an analyst at Industrial Securities, told AFP, adding that lowering the qualifications would “definitely attract new overseas investors”.

Foreign investment under the QFII scheme currently accounts for only around 1.1 percent of the total market value of Chinese stock markets, compared to a regional average of around 30 percent in regional markets, the regulator said. Investment quotas have risen steadily since the scheme was first launched in 2002 on a trial basis. The total currently stands at $27.3 billion.

Foreing tourists visit a monument of the 2002 Bali bombing that killed 202 people in Kuta on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on June 21, 2012. An Indonesia court hand down its verdict on June 21 against Umar Patek, dubbed “Demolition Man”, for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings, bringing a 10-year probe into the nation’s deadliest act of terror to a close.

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A few tourism workers have certificate of competence Bali Post

DENPASAR - The Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association of Bali records that until the mid of 2012 a number of 6,000 tourism workers on the Island of Gods had owned a certificate of competence.

Such amount is still far compared to the total workforce existing in tourism sector reaching 150,000 people.

Secretary of the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association, Perry Markus, said the certificate of competence for tourism workforce was essential to provide protection for workforce in the face of free trade between ASEAN and China in 2015.

“If free trade has set to be taken effect, uncertified workforce will be excluded because foreign workers from Southeast Asian countries will be allowed to freely work in our country as long as having a certificate of competency and our society can also work in those countries,” said Perry Markus in Denpasar.

He said the certification of competence was an appropriate measure for the improvement of human resources in tourism sector.

Certificate holders would make it easier to compete in domestic and foreign tourism sector because they had owned certificate of com-

petence. By degrees every tourism worker would be required to have a standard of competence because the tourism currently required the handling by reliable, standardized and internationally certified tourism professionals to ensure the fulfillment of the demands of standard tourist service.

“We do expect the government in the regency or municipality to participate in this program, particularly in the matter of funding. Similarly, we also urge hotels to participate by utilizing the fund from 2 percent deduction of service earned by employees,” he said.

According to him, the association had teamed up with several certification institutions to boost the number of certified workforce.

The Government Regulation No. 52/2012 concerning with certification of competence and certification of tourism businesses required the

tourism workforce in Bali to take competence test.

Chairman of the Tourism Labor Union Federation (FSP-Par) of Bali, Putu Satyawira Marhaendra, said the Bali tourism workforce was difficult to take the competence test if they were charged with the cost of certification. Bali tourism workforce could take part in the certification process if it was free of charge.

“With the income of Bali tourism labor being equal to regency or provincial minimum wage, it is impossible for them to pay for the certification. Moreover, there is no certainty from the company whether the income of labor can further increase after they get certificate of competence,” he said.

He expected the company could help finance the certification so that it would not fully be charged to the labor. Beside, the government was also expected to organize the competence test at workplace of the tourism workers such as at hotel.

Meanwhile, Chairman of LPS Parindo, Ketut Putra Suarthana, revealed that percentage of certified labor in Indonesia, including Bali, was relatively small, even below 5

percent of the total tourism workers in Bali. It was partially caused by the workers’ understanding that

certification did not have positive correlation to the increase in their income. (kmb27)

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The Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association of Bali records that until the mid of 2012 a number of 6,000 tourism workers on the Island of Gods had owned a certificate of competence. Such amount is still far compared to the total workforce existing in tourism sector reaching 150,000 people.

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Uruguay mulls government marijuana sales Associated Press Writer

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Peaceful Uruguay is planning a novel approach to fighting its rising crime: having its government sell marijuana to take drug profits out of the hands of dealers. Under the plan backed by President Jose Mujica’s leftist administration, only the government would be allowed to sell marijuana and only to adults who register on a government database, letting officials keep track of their purchases over time. Profits would reportedly go toward rehabilitating drug addicts.

“It’s a fight on both fronts: against consumption and drug trafficking. We think the prohibition of some drugs is creating more problems to society than the drug itself,” Defense Minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro told reporters late Wednesday.

Fernandez said the bill would soon be sent to Congress, which is dominated by Mujica’s party, but that an exact date had not been set. If approved, Uruguay’s national government would be the first in the world to directly sell marijuana to its citizens.

Some local governments do so. The proposed measure elicited responses ranging from support to criticism to humor.

“People who consume are not going to buy it from the state,” said Natalia Pereira, 28, adding that she smokes marijuana occasionally. “There is going to be mistrust buying it from a place where you have to register and they can typecast you.”

Media reports have said that people who use more than a limited number of marijuana cigarettes would have to undergo drug rehabilitation. “I can now imagine you going down to the kiosk to buy bread, milk and a little box of marijuana!” one person in Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, wrote on their Twitter account.

Behind the move is a series of recent gang shootouts and rising cocaine seizures have raised security concerns in one of Latin America’s safest countries and taken a toll on Mujiica’s already dipping popularity.

BEIJING - Chinese police told dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Thursday he could face bigamy and pornography charges and barred him from travel, despite lifting strict bail conditions imposed after his detention.

Ai, who left his house on Thursday for the first time in a year without having to report his whereabouts to police, was held for 81 days without charge in April 2011 mainly in solitary confinement until his conditional

U.S. to slap “terrorist” label on Nigerian militants

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The ‘Demolition man’

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is expected to formally apply a “foreign terrorist” label on Thursday to three alleged leading figures of the violent Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, officials said.

The action by the State and Treasury departments follows growing pressure on the Obama Administration to take stronger action against Boko Haram. The group, which says it wants to establish an Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria, has stepped up attacks on Christian places of worship this year.

Thursday’s anticipated action, officials said, involves applying the “terrorist” designation to three men presumed to be central figures in the group.

The three individuals, an official said, are Abubakar Shekau, aged around 43, described as a Boko Haram leader who allegedly aligned himself with al Qaeda in a video message; Abubakar Adam Kambar, aged roughly 35; and Khalid al Barnawi, aged approximately 36. All three are native Nigerians.

The expected action will freeze any assets they have in the United States, and bar U.S. persons from any transactions with them.

It is among the first such action the U.S. government has taken against Boko Haram, but falls short of demands from some U.S. lawmakers and the Justice Department to designate the entire group as a “foreign terrorist organization.”

An Indonesian court is set to rule on bombmaker for his role in the 2002 Bali attacks

Umar Patek

Suspected member of Al-Qaedalinked terror network Jemaah Islamiyah Was the most-wanted Islamic extremist in Southest Asia Arrested in Abbottabad, Pakistan in January 2011

Bali bombing October 12, 2002 3 bombs in succession at popular tourist spots Killed 164 foreigners, as well as 38 Indonesians

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FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2011 file photo, Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica attends a press conference at the presidential residence in Montevideo, Uruguay. Mujica’s government plans to take a step beyond legalizing marijuana.

The Interior Ministry says from January to May, the number of homicides jumped to 133 from 76 in the same period last year.

The crime figures are small compared to its neighbors Argentina and Brazil but huge for this tiny South American country where many still take pride in its safety leaving their doors open and gathering in the streets late at night to sip on tradi-

tional mate tea.

To combat rising criminality, the government also announced a series of measures that include compensation for victims of violent crime and longer jail terms for traffickers of crack-like drugs. The idea behind the marijuana proposal is to weaken crime by removing profits from drug dealers and diverting users from harder drugs, according to government officials.

release last year.

“If getting back half of my freedom means I’m free, then I’m a free person,” Ai said. “But they’re restricting my ability to travel and still trying to fabricate crimes.”

The threats against Ai underscore Beijing’s efforts to muzzle China’s most prominent critic and are likely to spark an outcry among his supporters and the international community, which has taken a close interest in his case.

China is sensitive to any threat to

Communist Party rule and clamps down on all dissent, illustrated by the recent furor over the flight from house arrest by blind activist Chen Guangcheng.

Ai told Reuters that the restrictions of his bail, linked to suspected economic crimes, were lifted on Thursday but police said he could not travel as he is “suspected of other crimes” including pornography, bigamy and illicit exchange of foreign currency. Police in Beijing were not immediately available for comment.

Patient...

From page 1 “So patience will be necessary from our side. We have to move because if we remain static it will be very difficult against them. We have to wear them out, tire them out and keep moving.” Germany have yet to find the form that took them to third place in the World Cup two years ago but they have shown they have matured into a team who may lack spark but can be equally effective when it comes to winning games.

“We are calmer now, more clever and we keep our composure for longer,” said Khedira when asked to compare this team with that of two years ago. “We are more concentrated over 90 minutes,” he said.

BOATENG BACK

The Germans, who will have defender Jerome Boateng back after missing the last game through suspension, will meet either England or Italy in the last four should they advance against the seemingly weaker Greeks. Asked whether he was happy to have avoided a potential match-up with world and European champions Spain in the semi-finals

if they beat Greece, Khedira refused to speculate.

“Our focus is only on Greece because you know surprises happen in football.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a fervent supporter of the team, will be hoping there are none as she attends the game but her presence could trigger the ire of Greek fans, angered by Berlin’s backing of an austerity plan for the debt-ridden nation.

Both teams have played down the political connotations of the game and Greece will be looking to cause an upset only on the pitch, even without suspended captain Giorgos Karagounis.

Greece coach Fernando Santos has yet to reveal who will replace the inspirational midfielder but it is likely to be Grigoris Makos, a more defensive player, who will try to break up German attacks early.

“There is an atmosphere of selfsacrifice in this team,” said midfielder Kostas Katsouranis. “All 11 players will give it all we have got. We have been successful as a team where each one player plays for the team, and that is what we will do again.”

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Indonesian militant Umar Patek enters the courtroom for his hearing at West Jakarta district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, June 21, 2012.

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Umar Patek convicted life sentences in jail Associated Press

JAKARTA - Umar Patek convicted on life sentences in jail according to the verdict that read on Thursday, June 21, 2012. Patek that known as “demolition man” has been proved helping to build the car bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks.

Patek, who was arrested last year in Pakistan in the same northwestern town where Osama bin Laden was killed several months later, was the last main suspect to be tried in the attacks.He has argued that he did not play a major part in building the car bomb, which was the biggest explosive used in the attacks. Instead, he said bomb-making masterminds Azahari bin Husin and Dulmatin were in charge of that job. Both have since died in police raids.

Patek, whose real name is Hisyam bin Alizein, has apologized to the victims’ families, Christians and to the government, saying he was not in favor of going through with the attack against partying tourists, but that he could

SAR: 60 victims of sunken vessel still missing Antara

Alleged coordinator of 2002 Bali bombing

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In early May, a Russian Sukhoi jet on a promotional demonstration flight slammed into a dormant volcano in Java, killing all 45 aboard.

A New Zealand pilot and two Indonesians were killed in March after a helicopter chartered by the Indonesian arm of US mining company Freeport-McMoRan crashed in remote Papua province.

Indonesia is in the process of updating its ageing military aircraft and equipment, procuring Russian and American warplanes, boats for its navy and parts for its transport planes.

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not speak out against other senior members of the group. The mission was supposedly meant to avenge Western policies in the Palestinian territories, but Patek has argued that he never saw the connection.

But the Bali bombings marked Indonesia’s deadliest terror strike.

On Saturday, Oct. 12, 2002, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a nightclub jammed with tourists at popular Kuta beach, killing many instantly and forcing others to run outside. Another suicide bomber detonated the massive bomb loaded in the car parked on the street in front of two clubs.

Patek has admitted he helped make the bombs, but said he did not know how they would be used.

Prosecutors argued he helped assemble the suicide vests as well as detonating cords and boosters connected to the explosives.

He left Bali just before the attacks and spent nine years running from the law, traveling in the Philippines and Pakistan. He had a $1 million bounty on his head and was considered one of Asia’s most wanted terror suspects.

Since the Bali bombings, Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim nation — has been rocked by other attacks targeting restaurants, luxury hotels and a Western embassy. Security experts say those have all been less deadly partly because a crackdown on Jemaah Islamiyah has crushed its ranks.

AMBON - Sixty passengers from the MV Putri Ayu, which capsized on its way from Ambon to Namrolle in the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku on Sunday, are still missing, chief of the Ambon Search and Rescue office, Doddy Haryanto, said.

“The ill-fated vessel carried 72 people, including 12 crew members,” he said.

According to the manifest issued by Slamet Riyadi port in Ambon, the vessel carried 27 passengers, 12 crew members, and 39 tons of cargoes, or 50 percent of its carrying capacity, he said.

The vessel left Ambon, capital of Maluku province, on Saturday (June 16) at 09.30 p.m. and sank in the waters of Tiga Island, Maluku Tengah district, early on Sunday (June 17).

“So the number of passengers has been reported to the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), the Maluku governor, the commander of the Ambon naval base IX, the chief of the Pattimura regional military command, the chief of the Maluku provincial police and the director of water police at the Maluku provincial police,” he said.

He said the Search and Rescue team had expanded the search for victims of the capsized ship to North Seram in Maluku Tengah district, Buru, Manipa and Kelang islands in Seram Bagian Barat district. However, the search did not find any survivors.

“We are still intensifying our search as a large number of victims have not been found,” he said.

Secretary of the Maluku Provincial Disaster Mitigation Board (BPBD) Kifly Wakanno said the Buru Selatan district administration was also mobilizing a number of fishing boats to search for victims.

Justice ministry to ban Greenpeace Indonesia to conduct demonstrations Antara

JAKARTA - The ministry of justice and human rights will ban Greenpeace Indonesia to conduct demonstrations to protest government policies or companies in the country which are legal public domain, a ministry official said.

“Greenpeace as an association may not conduct a demonstration. It may only convey ideas social or cultural,” the Head of the Social Legal Entities Section of the Sub-Directorate of Legal Entities, Abriana Kusuma Dewi, said here on Wednesday when receiving the coordinator of anti-foreign non-governmental organizations student alliance, Rudy Gani.

The students alliance has earlier also met with the ministry`s secretary general, Bambang Ranta, and minister`s expert staff Widi Asmoro for consultations with regard to the status of Greenpeace SEA Indonesia Chapter.

As has been known Greenpeace Indonesia has often criticized the government and companies in Indonesia through demonstrations such as against the coal-fired power plant belonging to state-owned electricity company PT PLN and against oil palm plantations that had led to a boycott of Indonesian CPO products by the US and occupied Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets in various regions.

Sharing Abriana former director general of public law administration of the ministry, Prof Dr Romli Atmasasmita said Greenpeace has violated Law Number 9 of 1998 on freedom of speech with its demonstrations before the public so far.

“It is only an organization that is allowed to conduct a demonstration.

Everyone in Indonesia is free to express opinion before the public but has to report first to the police. With regard to an association there are certain regulations. An association also has to be registered and the registration is effective for life,” he said.

He said Greenpeace Indonesia has broken the law by receiving foreign funds without a government permit. “Foreign funds may not enter the country without permits from Bank Indonesia, the foreign ministry and the home affairs ministry. So, they cannot do anything at will,” he said.

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CAPE TOWN - Caster Semenya’s overriding priority this year is to leave three years of controversy behind her by adding the Olympic 800 metres gold medal to her 2009 world title. The South African’s emphatic victory in Berlin raised questions about her gender and started a verification process that still clouds her achievement.

She had emerged from obscurity to win gold in one minute 55.45 seconds, the fastest time of the year and a remarkable improvement on the times she had been clocking only months earlier.

The strength and power of the unknown 18-year-old as she destroyed the field down the final stretch prompted the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to order an investigation into possible drug use and ask for a gender test.

The inquiry set off a long-running controversy, marked by media leaks, accusations and insults that enraged

Enjoy the uniqueness of Nusa Lembongan IBP

Like the water flows, myriad of foreign tourists throng the island of Nusa Lem bongan. So, it is not mistaken if this bijou island becomes one of the most popular marine tourist attractions. Every day, they come to the tiny island located in the Klungkung Regency. Even, during peak season the number of tourists coming can reach 1,500 people.

Sweetness of honey belongs to Nusa Lembongan makes a number of cruise companies selling holiday package over there. One of them

is Bounty Cruise based at Benoa Harbor. In the morning at around 9:30 am Local Time, Bounty Cruise has started its voyage to Nusa Lembongan. Passengers are just like a king because they are served by the crews amicably. Like the facility on a luxury cruise, breakfast is available aboard.

The voyage from Benoa to Nusa Lembongan Island takes approximately one hour by speed at 20-25 knots or 45 kilometers per hour. During the voyage, we get to enjoy some entertainment, ranging from watching films to sing along

on the boat deck. Songs played by the bands are adjusted to the tourist market. On Monday, for example, is specifically serving tourists from China, so the song played is a Mandarin song.

Nusa Lembongan is a small island of calcareous land. The life of local people seems to give isolated impression considering there has no adequate transportation service.

A number of villas and hotels have been established on steep hills and the beach. Even, on the narrow roadside measuring 2.5 meters has already existed a number of art

shops and Internet cafes.

To go to a number of objects on the island, we use tarpaulin-roofed pickups. After driving about five miles, we arrive at the center of seaweed village. At this place, we will find farmers who are cleaning the seaweed and also process it.

An attractive place to visit here is the unique underground house located in the cave known as GalaGala house. To enter this house, we have to go down the stairs, because this house is located 10 meters under ground of limestone. The height of the cave varies from about 1 to

1.75 meters. Sometimes, we have to duck and crouch to reach the existing rooms.

Gala-Gala house was made in 1961 until 1976 by a village resident named Made Byasa who worked as a puppeteer. Such a unique work of Byasa was inspired by the life story of the Pandavas during their living in the forest. For 17 years Byasa had worked day and night to realize such monumental work. Since the age of 75 years, his old body kept on digging and when he was 93 years old he stopped, then he died at the age of 96 years.

her home country and severely affected a shy girl from a rural village.

Semenya’s sexuality became the subject of widespread debate and kept her off the track for almost a year before the IAAF cleared her to run again. South Africa’s sports minister threatened “a third world war” if the world athletics governing body tried to ban her.

The results of the gender tests have never been published. But Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported in late 2009 that they showed that, while she had female genitalia, she was also born with undescended testes which provided her with three times the amount of testosterone present in an average female. Fellow runners branded her a man and said it was unfair they had to compete against her.

“God made me that way I am and I accept myself,” she countered in a rare interview. A statement through her lawyers added: “I’ve been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.”

AP Photo/Alan Diaz

Miami Heat small forward LeBron James, left, and shooting guard Dwyane Wade joke during practice, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Miami. The Heat play Game 5 against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday.

James, Heat on brink of a title Associated Press Writer

MIAMI — The only thing that can stop LeBron James’ championship coronation is another Thunder comeback. LeBron is on LeBrink, a victory from winning his first NBA title. Appearing relaxed Wednesday, he said he has recovered well from the cramping issues that knocked him out of Game 4.

He apologized for his performance in last year’s NBA Finals and what he called his immaturity toward fans and media afterward. He appears completely different now, more comfortable on and off the court and seeming to have figured out everything it takes to become a champion. He’s almost there, but won’t think about it until his Miami Heat have picked up one more victory.

“As crazy as it sounds, I haven’t got caught up in it,” James said. “I won’t get caught up in it because I’m not going to let, you know — the human nature is to automatically think about after we win it, what are we going to do. I’m not there. I won’t get there until those zeros hit and I see that we won.

“I’m the leader of this team, and I’m not comfortable right now. I’m comfortable in my game, but I’m not going to be comfortable until we seal this thing.”

The Heat have three cracks at, starting with Game 5 on Thursday on their home floor. No team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals, but the Thunder already wiped out one big hole just one round ago in

the Western Conference finals.

“I’ve been down 0-2 against San Antonio and everybody said it was over then, and we won,” Kevin Durant said. “But it’s over with. That’s old. It’s a new series. We’ve got to be ready to come out here and try to get this Game 5 tomorrow. We’ll see what happens. We’re not going to give up. We’re going to keep fighting to the end and hopefully we can take this thing back to the crib.”

The series was hyped as a James-Durant matchup, the league’s MVP against its runner-up and scoring champion, the winner earning the right to be called best player in the game. They are fairly even in the box score but James is far ahead in the only place that matters to them: the scoreboard.

And somewhat surprisingly, he’s gotten more help from supporting players, from Shane Battier’s 17 points in Game 2 to Mario Chalmers’ 25 points in Game 4, including a huge basket after James was forced from the game for good. Meanwhile, Durant has watched Sixth Man of the Year James Harden miss 16 of his 20 shots in Miami.

REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won

Caster Semenya of South Africa runs through a corner during her women’s 800 metres semi-final heat at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, September 2, 2011.

Pacquiao wins WBO review, re-match recommended Reuters

The World Boxing Organization (WBO) ruled Wednesday that Manny Pacquiao should have won his controversial defeat to Timothy Bradley and has recommended a re-match between the fighters.

American Bradley won a split decision at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on June 10 that prompted disbelief from the sporting world and had many

calling the outcome corrupt.

The WBO met with five international judges to evaluate video of the match and they unanimously scored the fight in favor of Pacquiao, though they do not have power to overturn the initial ruling and the result will still stand.

Pacquiao has indicated that he would prefer a rematch over Bradley forfeiting the belt, according to Bob Arum, the promoter for both fighters.

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International

Friday, June 22, 2012

International

Americans tuning into Euros in record numbers

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numbers so far at the weekend when Spain face France and England take on Italy.

The games from the tournament staged in Poland and Ukraine are being broadcast during the afternoon on the U.S. East Coast and the biggest audiences have been in New York and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area. ESPN said figures for their digital and Spanishlanguage products had also risen sharply.

The network’s coverage of the World Cup two years ago set new highs including a 15.5 million audience for the final between Spain and the Netherlands in South Africa.

The U.S. has traditionally been one of the weakest markets for international soccer but the game is increasingly popular among a young demographic and in the growing Hispanic community.

Reuters

Almost twice as many Americans are watching soccer’s European Championship compared to four years ago according to data released by tournament broadcaster ESPN. The 24 games in the group stage of Euro 2012 averaged just over one million viewers compared to 552,000 for Euro 2008 - the latest sign of the impressive growth of interest in international soccer in the U.S. The most-watched match in the group stage was the 1-1 draw between Spain and Italy on Sunday, June 10 which pulled in an average audience of 2.113 million viewers, bigger than for any game four years ago except the final. The quarterfinals begin on Thursday with the Czech Republic v Portugal but ESPN will hope for their biggest

Ukraine’s woes dominate rest day

EURO 2012 QUARTER-FINAL 1 PREVIEW 1845 GMT, June 21 National Stadium, Warsaw, Poland

CZECH REPUBLIC*

Reuters

GDANSK, Poland - Players, officials and fans took a breather on the first blank day of the European soccer Championship on Wednesday but the rumblings of discontent surrounding co-hosts Ukraine continued. They joined fellow hosts Poland on the tournament’s scrap-heap after losing 1-0 to England the previous night when the major talking point was Marco Devic’s ‘goal’ which was ruled not to have crossed the line.

When asked if any United Kingdom politicians would be present, a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said: “No. They’re not. It reflects ministers’ busy schedules ahead of the Olympics and widespread concerns about selective justice and the rule of law in Ukraine.”

German chancellor Angela Merkel, an avid supporter of the national team, stayed away from all of Germany’s three group matches in Ukraine but will attend their quarter-final against Greece in Poland’s Gdansk on Friday. Players and coaches from Germany and Greece have sought to play down the importance of a game which has

turned minds at the tournament to the economic crisis affecting many of the nations involved.

Greek media though are relishing the chance of sending a fancied German team home in front of their leader, who is unpopular in Greece for the tough austerity she has imposed on the eurozone country in exchange for its international bailout.

QUARTER-FINALS BEGIN

Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai and his goalline assistant are certainly unpopular with Ukraine fans after not awarding the Devic goal, which in itself would not have put

PORTUGAL vs

World ranking: 27 Europe ranking: 16

AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani

France’ players run in front of journalists during a training session of France prior to the Euro 2012 soccer quarterfinal match between France and Spain in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 20, 2012.

The sense of injustice in Ukraine would have hardly been diluted by Pierluigi Collina, head of referees at European soccer governing body UEFA, admitting that the goal should have been allowed.

Ukraine is also still dealing with continued protests about the jailing of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko with the British government saying it would boycott England’s quarter-final with Italy in Kiev on Sunday by not sending any ministers.

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Friday, June 22, 2012

the co-hosts into the quarter-finals but would have made life difficult for England. “(At Euro 2012) we had three goalline situations. Two of them were absolutely correct, the third was unfortunately wrong,” the bald-headed Collina told reporters in Warsaw. “Being wrong is one thing, saying that the ball was half a metre over is another and you know it. The ball was centimetres (over),” he added, defending the use of officials stationed behind the goals to make close calls on goalline decisions.

Kassai will take no further part in the tournament but Collina said the officials should not be blamed.

“This was a human mistake made by a human being,” he said, aware that world governing body FIFA is trialing goalline technology.

With the tournament now trimmed to eight teams and the trophy suddenly in sight after a fascinating group phase, action starts again on Thursday when the

quarter-finals begin in Warsaw with the Czech Republic facing Portugal.

Czech captain Tomas Rosicky hopes to be fit for the match after his Achilles tendon injury improved.

Germany face Greece in Gdansk on Friday, with holders Spain battling France in Donetsk on Saturday and England taking on Italy in the final last-eight tie on Sunday in Kiev.

Croatia faced a second racism charge on Wednesday over crowd banners displayed in the 1-0 defeat by Spain on Monday which knocked them out of the tournament.

They were also charged over the flares let off by fans and UEFA said the disciplinary case also involved the “improper conduct” of the six players who were booked.

Croatia had already been fined 80,000 euros ($101,600) after fans directed racist abuse at Italy striker Mario Balotelli and set off fireworks in Croatia’s second group game in Poznan. They were also fined 25,000 euros for “spectator incidents” in their opening match.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

Czech Republic’s Tomas Rosicky eyes a ball during the official training session on the eve of the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group A match between Greece and Czech Republic in Wroclaw, Poland, Monday, June 11, 2012.

Rosicky won’t start against Portugal - Czech team Reuters

WARSAW - Injured Czech Republic captain Tomas Rosicky will not start the Euro 2012 quarter-final against Portugal on Thursday but may play a part later in the match, Czech team manager Vladimir Smicer said.

The influential playmaker, who

missed his side’s final Group A match against Poland, has been having intensive treatment since injuring his Achilles tendon in the second group game against Greece.

“Tomas will certainly not play from the beginning,” Smicer told reporters.

“But if we are down toward the end he could perhaps try to help us.”

Rosicky, whose precise passing and

ability to take on defenders makes the Czech side tick, said he was hit in the same spot where he had experienced pain at the end of his club season with Arsenal but a scan showed no damage to the tendon.

The Czechs reached the last eight as Group A winners, rebounding from an opening 4-1 defeat by Russia to beat Greece and co-hosts Poland.

World ranking: 10 Europe ranking: 7

4 / 10

Head-to-head wins / meetings

3 / 10

4-2-3-1

Probable formation

4-3-3

CZE

POR

Group stage results/standings

(Group A)

Lost to Russia 1 - 4 Beat Greece 2 - 1 Beat Poland 1 - 0 P 3

W 2

D 0

L 1

F 4

A 5

Winner

+/- Pt -1 6

P 3

(Group B)

Lost to Germany 0 - 1 Beat Denmark 3 - 2 Beat Netherlands 2 - 1

Matchday 1 Matchday 2 Matchday 3

W 2

D 0

L 1

F 5

A 4

+/- Pt 1 6

Runner-up

Final group standing

Past European championship participations CZE POR

’60

’64

’68

’72

’76

’80

’84

’88

’92

’96

’00

’04

’08

S Q

P R

P P

P P

W P

S P

P S

P P

P P

F Q

G S

S F

G Q

Stage reached:

Preliminary round

Replay

Sources: Reuters, UEFA, FIFA

Group stage

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

* Competed as Czechoslovakia up till 1992

Final

Winner

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International

Friday, June 22, 2012

International

Americans tuning into Euros in record numbers

Euro 2 12

numbers so far at the weekend when Spain face France and England take on Italy.

The games from the tournament staged in Poland and Ukraine are being broadcast during the afternoon on the U.S. East Coast and the biggest audiences have been in New York and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area. ESPN said figures for their digital and Spanishlanguage products had also risen sharply.

The network’s coverage of the World Cup two years ago set new highs including a 15.5 million audience for the final between Spain and the Netherlands in South Africa.

The U.S. has traditionally been one of the weakest markets for international soccer but the game is increasingly popular among a young demographic and in the growing Hispanic community.

Reuters

Almost twice as many Americans are watching soccer’s European Championship compared to four years ago according to data released by tournament broadcaster ESPN. The 24 games in the group stage of Euro 2012 averaged just over one million viewers compared to 552,000 for Euro 2008 - the latest sign of the impressive growth of interest in international soccer in the U.S. The most-watched match in the group stage was the 1-1 draw between Spain and Italy on Sunday, June 10 which pulled in an average audience of 2.113 million viewers, bigger than for any game four years ago except the final. The quarterfinals begin on Thursday with the Czech Republic v Portugal but ESPN will hope for their biggest

Ukraine’s woes dominate rest day

EURO 2012 QUARTER-FINAL 1 PREVIEW 1845 GMT, June 21 National Stadium, Warsaw, Poland

CZECH REPUBLIC*

Reuters

GDANSK, Poland - Players, officials and fans took a breather on the first blank day of the European soccer Championship on Wednesday but the rumblings of discontent surrounding co-hosts Ukraine continued. They joined fellow hosts Poland on the tournament’s scrap-heap after losing 1-0 to England the previous night when the major talking point was Marco Devic’s ‘goal’ which was ruled not to have crossed the line.

When asked if any United Kingdom politicians would be present, a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said: “No. They’re not. It reflects ministers’ busy schedules ahead of the Olympics and widespread concerns about selective justice and the rule of law in Ukraine.”

German chancellor Angela Merkel, an avid supporter of the national team, stayed away from all of Germany’s three group matches in Ukraine but will attend their quarter-final against Greece in Poland’s Gdansk on Friday. Players and coaches from Germany and Greece have sought to play down the importance of a game which has

turned minds at the tournament to the economic crisis affecting many of the nations involved.

Greek media though are relishing the chance of sending a fancied German team home in front of their leader, who is unpopular in Greece for the tough austerity she has imposed on the eurozone country in exchange for its international bailout.

QUARTER-FINALS BEGIN

Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai and his goalline assistant are certainly unpopular with Ukraine fans after not awarding the Devic goal, which in itself would not have put

PORTUGAL vs

World ranking: 27 Europe ranking: 16

AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani

France’ players run in front of journalists during a training session of France prior to the Euro 2012 soccer quarterfinal match between France and Spain in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 20, 2012.

The sense of injustice in Ukraine would have hardly been diluted by Pierluigi Collina, head of referees at European soccer governing body UEFA, admitting that the goal should have been allowed.

Ukraine is also still dealing with continued protests about the jailing of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko with the British government saying it would boycott England’s quarter-final with Italy in Kiev on Sunday by not sending any ministers.

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Friday, June 22, 2012

the co-hosts into the quarter-finals but would have made life difficult for England. “(At Euro 2012) we had three goalline situations. Two of them were absolutely correct, the third was unfortunately wrong,” the bald-headed Collina told reporters in Warsaw. “Being wrong is one thing, saying that the ball was half a metre over is another and you know it. The ball was centimetres (over),” he added, defending the use of officials stationed behind the goals to make close calls on goalline decisions.

Kassai will take no further part in the tournament but Collina said the officials should not be blamed.

“This was a human mistake made by a human being,” he said, aware that world governing body FIFA is trialing goalline technology.

With the tournament now trimmed to eight teams and the trophy suddenly in sight after a fascinating group phase, action starts again on Thursday when the

quarter-finals begin in Warsaw with the Czech Republic facing Portugal.

Czech captain Tomas Rosicky hopes to be fit for the match after his Achilles tendon injury improved.

Germany face Greece in Gdansk on Friday, with holders Spain battling France in Donetsk on Saturday and England taking on Italy in the final last-eight tie on Sunday in Kiev.

Croatia faced a second racism charge on Wednesday over crowd banners displayed in the 1-0 defeat by Spain on Monday which knocked them out of the tournament.

They were also charged over the flares let off by fans and UEFA said the disciplinary case also involved the “improper conduct” of the six players who were booked.

Croatia had already been fined 80,000 euros ($101,600) after fans directed racist abuse at Italy striker Mario Balotelli and set off fireworks in Croatia’s second group game in Poznan. They were also fined 25,000 euros for “spectator incidents” in their opening match.

AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus

Czech Republic’s Tomas Rosicky eyes a ball during the official training session on the eve of the Euro 2012 soccer championship Group A match between Greece and Czech Republic in Wroclaw, Poland, Monday, June 11, 2012.

Rosicky won’t start against Portugal - Czech team Reuters

WARSAW - Injured Czech Republic captain Tomas Rosicky will not start the Euro 2012 quarter-final against Portugal on Thursday but may play a part later in the match, Czech team manager Vladimir Smicer said.

The influential playmaker, who

missed his side’s final Group A match against Poland, has been having intensive treatment since injuring his Achilles tendon in the second group game against Greece.

“Tomas will certainly not play from the beginning,” Smicer told reporters.

“But if we are down toward the end he could perhaps try to help us.”

Rosicky, whose precise passing and

ability to take on defenders makes the Czech side tick, said he was hit in the same spot where he had experienced pain at the end of his club season with Arsenal but a scan showed no damage to the tendon.

The Czechs reached the last eight as Group A winners, rebounding from an opening 4-1 defeat by Russia to beat Greece and co-hosts Poland.

World ranking: 10 Europe ranking: 7

4 / 10

Head-to-head wins / meetings

3 / 10

4-2-3-1

Probable formation

4-3-3

CZE

POR

Group stage results/standings

(Group A)

Lost to Russia 1 - 4 Beat Greece 2 - 1 Beat Poland 1 - 0 P 3

W 2

D 0

L 1

F 4

A 5

Winner

+/- Pt -1 6

P 3

(Group B)

Lost to Germany 0 - 1 Beat Denmark 3 - 2 Beat Netherlands 2 - 1

Matchday 1 Matchday 2 Matchday 3

W 2

D 0

L 1

F 5

A 4

+/- Pt 1 6

Runner-up

Final group standing

Past European championship participations CZE POR

’60

’64

’68

’72

’76

’80

’84

’88

’92

’96

’00

’04

’08

S Q

P R

P P

P P

W P

S P

P S

P P

P P

F Q

G S

S F

G Q

Stage reached:

Preliminary round

Replay

Sources: Reuters, UEFA, FIFA

Group stage

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

* Competed as Czechoslovakia up till 1992

Final

Winner

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Friday, June 22, 2012

Destinations

International

International

Sports

Friday, June 22, 2012

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Semenya seeks to shrug off suspicion

Reuters

CAPE TOWN - Caster Semenya’s overriding priority this year is to leave three years of controversy behind her by adding the Olympic 800 metres gold medal to her 2009 world title. The South African’s emphatic victory in Berlin raised questions about her gender and started a verification process that still clouds her achievement.

She had emerged from obscurity to win gold in one minute 55.45 seconds, the fastest time of the year and a remarkable improvement on the times she had been clocking only months earlier.

The strength and power of the unknown 18-year-old as she destroyed the field down the final stretch prompted the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to order an investigation into possible drug use and ask for a gender test.

The inquiry set off a long-running controversy, marked by media leaks, accusations and insults that enraged

Enjoy the uniqueness of Nusa Lembongan IBP

Like the water flows, myriad of foreign tourists throng the island of Nusa Lem bongan. So, it is not mistaken if this bijou island becomes one of the most popular marine tourist attractions. Every day, they come to the tiny island located in the Klungkung Regency. Even, during peak season the number of tourists coming can reach 1,500 people.

Sweetness of honey belongs to Nusa Lembongan makes a number of cruise companies selling holiday package over there. One of them

is Bounty Cruise based at Benoa Harbor. In the morning at around 9:30 am Local Time, Bounty Cruise has started its voyage to Nusa Lembongan. Passengers are just like a king because they are served by the crews amicably. Like the facility on a luxury cruise, breakfast is available aboard.

The voyage from Benoa to Nusa Lembongan Island takes approximately one hour by speed at 20-25 knots or 45 kilometers per hour. During the voyage, we get to enjoy some entertainment, ranging from watching films to sing along

on the boat deck. Songs played by the bands are adjusted to the tourist market. On Monday, for example, is specifically serving tourists from China, so the song played is a Mandarin song.

Nusa Lembongan is a small island of calcareous land. The life of local people seems to give isolated impression considering there has no adequate transportation service.

A number of villas and hotels have been established on steep hills and the beach. Even, on the narrow roadside measuring 2.5 meters has already existed a number of art

shops and Internet cafes.

To go to a number of objects on the island, we use tarpaulin-roofed pickups. After driving about five miles, we arrive at the center of seaweed village. At this place, we will find farmers who are cleaning the seaweed and also process it.

An attractive place to visit here is the unique underground house located in the cave known as GalaGala house. To enter this house, we have to go down the stairs, because this house is located 10 meters under ground of limestone. The height of the cave varies from about 1 to

1.75 meters. Sometimes, we have to duck and crouch to reach the existing rooms.

Gala-Gala house was made in 1961 until 1976 by a village resident named Made Byasa who worked as a puppeteer. Such a unique work of Byasa was inspired by the life story of the Pandavas during their living in the forest. For 17 years Byasa had worked day and night to realize such monumental work. Since the age of 75 years, his old body kept on digging and when he was 93 years old he stopped, then he died at the age of 96 years.

her home country and severely affected a shy girl from a rural village.

Semenya’s sexuality became the subject of widespread debate and kept her off the track for almost a year before the IAAF cleared her to run again. South Africa’s sports minister threatened “a third world war” if the world athletics governing body tried to ban her.

The results of the gender tests have never been published. But Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported in late 2009 that they showed that, while she had female genitalia, she was also born with undescended testes which provided her with three times the amount of testosterone present in an average female. Fellow runners branded her a man and said it was unfair they had to compete against her.

“God made me that way I am and I accept myself,” she countered in a rare interview. A statement through her lawyers added: “I’ve been subjected to unwarranted and invasive scrutiny of the most intimate and private details of my being.”

AP Photo/Alan Diaz

Miami Heat small forward LeBron James, left, and shooting guard Dwyane Wade joke during practice, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, in Miami. The Heat play Game 5 against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday.

James, Heat on brink of a title Associated Press Writer

MIAMI — The only thing that can stop LeBron James’ championship coronation is another Thunder comeback. LeBron is on LeBrink, a victory from winning his first NBA title. Appearing relaxed Wednesday, he said he has recovered well from the cramping issues that knocked him out of Game 4.

He apologized for his performance in last year’s NBA Finals and what he called his immaturity toward fans and media afterward. He appears completely different now, more comfortable on and off the court and seeming to have figured out everything it takes to become a champion. He’s almost there, but won’t think about it until his Miami Heat have picked up one more victory.

“As crazy as it sounds, I haven’t got caught up in it,” James said. “I won’t get caught up in it because I’m not going to let, you know — the human nature is to automatically think about after we win it, what are we going to do. I’m not there. I won’t get there until those zeros hit and I see that we won.

“I’m the leader of this team, and I’m not comfortable right now. I’m comfortable in my game, but I’m not going to be comfortable until we seal this thing.”

The Heat have three cracks at, starting with Game 5 on Thursday on their home floor. No team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals, but the Thunder already wiped out one big hole just one round ago in

the Western Conference finals.

“I’ve been down 0-2 against San Antonio and everybody said it was over then, and we won,” Kevin Durant said. “But it’s over with. That’s old. It’s a new series. We’ve got to be ready to come out here and try to get this Game 5 tomorrow. We’ll see what happens. We’re not going to give up. We’re going to keep fighting to the end and hopefully we can take this thing back to the crib.”

The series was hyped as a James-Durant matchup, the league’s MVP against its runner-up and scoring champion, the winner earning the right to be called best player in the game. They are fairly even in the box score but James is far ahead in the only place that matters to them: the scoreboard.

And somewhat surprisingly, he’s gotten more help from supporting players, from Shane Battier’s 17 points in Game 2 to Mario Chalmers’ 25 points in Game 4, including a huge basket after James was forced from the game for good. Meanwhile, Durant has watched Sixth Man of the Year James Harden miss 16 of his 20 shots in Miami.

REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won

Caster Semenya of South Africa runs through a corner during her women’s 800 metres semi-final heat at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, September 2, 2011.

Pacquiao wins WBO review, re-match recommended Reuters

The World Boxing Organization (WBO) ruled Wednesday that Manny Pacquiao should have won his controversial defeat to Timothy Bradley and has recommended a re-match between the fighters.

American Bradley won a split decision at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on June 10 that prompted disbelief from the sporting world and had many

calling the outcome corrupt.

The WBO met with five international judges to evaluate video of the match and they unanimously scored the fight in favor of Pacquiao, though they do not have power to overturn the initial ruling and the result will still stand.

Pacquiao has indicated that he would prefer a rematch over Bradley forfeiting the belt, according to Bob Arum, the promoter for both fighters.

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LRD

Uruguay mulls government marijuana sales Associated Press Writer

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Peaceful Uruguay is planning a novel approach to fighting its rising crime: having its government sell marijuana to take drug profits out of the hands of dealers. Under the plan backed by President Jose Mujica’s leftist administration, only the government would be allowed to sell marijuana and only to adults who register on a government database, letting officials keep track of their purchases over time. Profits would reportedly go toward rehabilitating drug addicts.

“It’s a fight on both fronts: against consumption and drug trafficking. We think the prohibition of some drugs is creating more problems to society than the drug itself,” Defense Minister Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro told reporters late Wednesday.

Fernandez said the bill would soon be sent to Congress, which is dominated by Mujica’s party, but that an exact date had not been set. If approved, Uruguay’s national government would be the first in the world to directly sell marijuana to its citizens.

Some local governments do so. The proposed measure elicited responses ranging from support to criticism to humor.

“People who consume are not going to buy it from the state,” said Natalia Pereira, 28, adding that she smokes marijuana occasionally. “There is going to be mistrust buying it from a place where you have to register and they can typecast you.”

Media reports have said that people who use more than a limited number of marijuana cigarettes would have to undergo drug rehabilitation. “I can now imagine you going down to the kiosk to buy bread, milk and a little box of marijuana!” one person in Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, wrote on their Twitter account.

Behind the move is a series of recent gang shootouts and rising cocaine seizures have raised security concerns in one of Latin America’s safest countries and taken a toll on Mujiica’s already dipping popularity.

BEIJING - Chinese police told dissident artist Ai Weiwei on Thursday he could face bigamy and pornography charges and barred him from travel, despite lifting strict bail conditions imposed after his detention.

Ai, who left his house on Thursday for the first time in a year without having to report his whereabouts to police, was held for 81 days without charge in April 2011 mainly in solitary confinement until his conditional

U.S. to slap “terrorist” label on Nigerian militants

International

Friday, June 22, 2012

Reuters

The ‘Demolition man’

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government is expected to formally apply a “foreign terrorist” label on Thursday to three alleged leading figures of the violent Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, officials said.

The action by the State and Treasury departments follows growing pressure on the Obama Administration to take stronger action against Boko Haram. The group, which says it wants to establish an Islamic caliphate in northern Nigeria, has stepped up attacks on Christian places of worship this year.

Thursday’s anticipated action, officials said, involves applying the “terrorist” designation to three men presumed to be central figures in the group.

The three individuals, an official said, are Abubakar Shekau, aged around 43, described as a Boko Haram leader who allegedly aligned himself with al Qaeda in a video message; Abubakar Adam Kambar, aged roughly 35; and Khalid al Barnawi, aged approximately 36. All three are native Nigerians.

The expected action will freeze any assets they have in the United States, and bar U.S. persons from any transactions with them.

It is among the first such action the U.S. government has taken against Boko Haram, but falls short of demands from some U.S. lawmakers and the Justice Department to designate the entire group as a “foreign terrorist organization.”

An Indonesian court is set to rule on bombmaker for his role in the 2002 Bali attacks

Umar Patek

Suspected member of Al-Qaedalinked terror network Jemaah Islamiyah Was the most-wanted Islamic extremist in Southest Asia Arrested in Abbottabad, Pakistan in January 2011

Bali bombing October 12, 2002 3 bombs in succession at popular tourist spots Killed 164 foreigners, as well as 38 Indonesians

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FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2011 file photo, Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica attends a press conference at the presidential residence in Montevideo, Uruguay. Mujica’s government plans to take a step beyond legalizing marijuana.

The Interior Ministry says from January to May, the number of homicides jumped to 133 from 76 in the same period last year.

The crime figures are small compared to its neighbors Argentina and Brazil but huge for this tiny South American country where many still take pride in its safety leaving their doors open and gathering in the streets late at night to sip on tradi-

tional mate tea.

To combat rising criminality, the government also announced a series of measures that include compensation for victims of violent crime and longer jail terms for traffickers of crack-like drugs. The idea behind the marijuana proposal is to weaken crime by removing profits from drug dealers and diverting users from harder drugs, according to government officials.

release last year.

“If getting back half of my freedom means I’m free, then I’m a free person,” Ai said. “But they’re restricting my ability to travel and still trying to fabricate crimes.”

The threats against Ai underscore Beijing’s efforts to muzzle China’s most prominent critic and are likely to spark an outcry among his supporters and the international community, which has taken a close interest in his case.

China is sensitive to any threat to

Communist Party rule and clamps down on all dissent, illustrated by the recent furor over the flight from house arrest by blind activist Chen Guangcheng.

Ai told Reuters that the restrictions of his bail, linked to suspected economic crimes, were lifted on Thursday but police said he could not travel as he is “suspected of other crimes” including pornography, bigamy and illicit exchange of foreign currency. Police in Beijing were not immediately available for comment.

Patient...

From page 1 “So patience will be necessary from our side. We have to move because if we remain static it will be very difficult against them. We have to wear them out, tire them out and keep moving.” Germany have yet to find the form that took them to third place in the World Cup two years ago but they have shown they have matured into a team who may lack spark but can be equally effective when it comes to winning games.

“We are calmer now, more clever and we keep our composure for longer,” said Khedira when asked to compare this team with that of two years ago. “We are more concentrated over 90 minutes,” he said.

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The Germans, who will have defender Jerome Boateng back after missing the last game through suspension, will meet either England or Italy in the last four should they advance against the seemingly weaker Greeks. Asked whether he was happy to have avoided a potential match-up with world and European champions Spain in the semi-finals

if they beat Greece, Khedira refused to speculate.

“Our focus is only on Greece because you know surprises happen in football.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a fervent supporter of the team, will be hoping there are none as she attends the game but her presence could trigger the ire of Greek fans, angered by Berlin’s backing of an austerity plan for the debt-ridden nation.

Both teams have played down the political connotations of the game and Greece will be looking to cause an upset only on the pitch, even without suspended captain Giorgos Karagounis.

Greece coach Fernando Santos has yet to reveal who will replace the inspirational midfielder but it is likely to be Grigoris Makos, a more defensive player, who will try to break up German attacks early.

“There is an atmosphere of selfsacrifice in this team,” said midfielder Kostas Katsouranis. “All 11 players will give it all we have got. We have been successful as a team where each one player plays for the team, and that is what we will do again.”

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Indonesian militant Umar Patek enters the courtroom for his hearing at West Jakarta district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, June 21, 2012.

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Umar Patek convicted life sentences in jail Associated Press

JAKARTA - Umar Patek convicted on life sentences in jail according to the verdict that read on Thursday, June 21, 2012. Patek that known as “demolition man” has been proved helping to build the car bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks.

Patek, who was arrested last year in Pakistan in the same northwestern town where Osama bin Laden was killed several months later, was the last main suspect to be tried in the attacks.He has argued that he did not play a major part in building the car bomb, which was the biggest explosive used in the attacks. Instead, he said bomb-making masterminds Azahari bin Husin and Dulmatin were in charge of that job. Both have since died in police raids.

Patek, whose real name is Hisyam bin Alizein, has apologized to the victims’ families, Christians and to the government, saying he was not in favor of going through with the attack against partying tourists, but that he could

SAR: 60 victims of sunken vessel still missing Antara

Alleged coordinator of 2002 Bali bombing

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In early May, a Russian Sukhoi jet on a promotional demonstration flight slammed into a dormant volcano in Java, killing all 45 aboard.

A New Zealand pilot and two Indonesians were killed in March after a helicopter chartered by the Indonesian arm of US mining company Freeport-McMoRan crashed in remote Papua province.

Indonesia is in the process of updating its ageing military aircraft and equipment, procuring Russian and American warplanes, boats for its navy and parts for its transport planes.

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not speak out against other senior members of the group. The mission was supposedly meant to avenge Western policies in the Palestinian territories, but Patek has argued that he never saw the connection.

But the Bali bombings marked Indonesia’s deadliest terror strike.

On Saturday, Oct. 12, 2002, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a nightclub jammed with tourists at popular Kuta beach, killing many instantly and forcing others to run outside. Another suicide bomber detonated the massive bomb loaded in the car parked on the street in front of two clubs.

Patek has admitted he helped make the bombs, but said he did not know how they would be used.

Prosecutors argued he helped assemble the suicide vests as well as detonating cords and boosters connected to the explosives.

He left Bali just before the attacks and spent nine years running from the law, traveling in the Philippines and Pakistan. He had a $1 million bounty on his head and was considered one of Asia’s most wanted terror suspects.

Since the Bali bombings, Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim nation — has been rocked by other attacks targeting restaurants, luxury hotels and a Western embassy. Security experts say those have all been less deadly partly because a crackdown on Jemaah Islamiyah has crushed its ranks.

AMBON - Sixty passengers from the MV Putri Ayu, which capsized on its way from Ambon to Namrolle in the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku on Sunday, are still missing, chief of the Ambon Search and Rescue office, Doddy Haryanto, said.

“The ill-fated vessel carried 72 people, including 12 crew members,” he said.

According to the manifest issued by Slamet Riyadi port in Ambon, the vessel carried 27 passengers, 12 crew members, and 39 tons of cargoes, or 50 percent of its carrying capacity, he said.

The vessel left Ambon, capital of Maluku province, on Saturday (June 16) at 09.30 p.m. and sank in the waters of Tiga Island, Maluku Tengah district, early on Sunday (June 17).

“So the number of passengers has been reported to the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), the Maluku governor, the commander of the Ambon naval base IX, the chief of the Pattimura regional military command, the chief of the Maluku provincial police and the director of water police at the Maluku provincial police,” he said.

He said the Search and Rescue team had expanded the search for victims of the capsized ship to North Seram in Maluku Tengah district, Buru, Manipa and Kelang islands in Seram Bagian Barat district. However, the search did not find any survivors.

“We are still intensifying our search as a large number of victims have not been found,” he said.

Secretary of the Maluku Provincial Disaster Mitigation Board (BPBD) Kifly Wakanno said the Buru Selatan district administration was also mobilizing a number of fishing boats to search for victims.

Justice ministry to ban Greenpeace Indonesia to conduct demonstrations Antara

JAKARTA - The ministry of justice and human rights will ban Greenpeace Indonesia to conduct demonstrations to protest government policies or companies in the country which are legal public domain, a ministry official said.

“Greenpeace as an association may not conduct a demonstration. It may only convey ideas social or cultural,” the Head of the Social Legal Entities Section of the Sub-Directorate of Legal Entities, Abriana Kusuma Dewi, said here on Wednesday when receiving the coordinator of anti-foreign non-governmental organizations student alliance, Rudy Gani.

The students alliance has earlier also met with the ministry`s secretary general, Bambang Ranta, and minister`s expert staff Widi Asmoro for consultations with regard to the status of Greenpeace SEA Indonesia Chapter.

As has been known Greenpeace Indonesia has often criticized the government and companies in Indonesia through demonstrations such as against the coal-fired power plant belonging to state-owned electricity company PT PLN and against oil palm plantations that had led to a boycott of Indonesian CPO products by the US and occupied Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets in various regions.

Sharing Abriana former director general of public law administration of the ministry, Prof Dr Romli Atmasasmita said Greenpeace has violated Law Number 9 of 1998 on freedom of speech with its demonstrations before the public so far.

“It is only an organization that is allowed to conduct a demonstration.

Everyone in Indonesia is free to express opinion before the public but has to report first to the police. With regard to an association there are certain regulations. An association also has to be registered and the registration is effective for life,” he said.

He said Greenpeace Indonesia has broken the law by receiving foreign funds without a government permit. “Foreign funds may not enter the country without permits from Bank Indonesia, the foreign ministry and the home affairs ministry. So, they cannot do anything at will,” he said.

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1,800 British firms to report greenhousegas emissions

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RIO DE JANEIRO - All 1,800 firms listed on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market will be required to list their greenhouse-gas emissions from next April, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said at the Rio+20 summit on Wednesday.

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Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Atsushi Niimi gives a speech at the Design Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions Expo in Tokyo Thursday, June 21, 2012. Niimi said Toyota has been hammered by the strong yen, putting extra pressure on the automaker to stay lean and come up with new innovations, but it is determined to ride out the challenge.

Toyota stays lean to ride out strong yen and grow Associated Press

TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp. has been hammered by the strong yen, putting extra pressure on the automaker to stay lean and come up with new innovations to ride out the challenge, a senior executive said Thursday.

Toyota Executive Vice President Atsushi Niimi acknowledged competition was growing extremely tough with South Korean makers, including Hyundai Motor Co., which have the advantage of a weaker currency.

A strong yen the value of overseas earnings for Japanese automakers, making it harder to offer products at cheaper prices abroad. The dollar has traded at 79-yen levels recently, down from about 100 yen in 2009.

Niimi said cost cuts, innovations and worker training will

allow Toyota to export lean production to new markets, where Toyota can still grow.

“We can win against ‘yendaka,’ and we must win,” Niimi told a packed hall at a manufacturing conference, using the phrase for “rising yen,” Niimi said the key was “a total elimination of waste,” such as making assembly lines shorter and more flexible so that profit is generated, even at small volumes.

He showed a time-lapse video, in which a line was extended in just 78 minutes by moving chunks of it and putting it together differently as though they were Lego parts.

Another example was welding without sparks called “sputterless.” Sparks can lead to defects on car bodies and slow production.

Toyota, founded in 1937, has long believed scale can backfire and has relied on “just in time” production, or manufacturing only as much as there is demand for. When it still lacked money and technology to compete against the more powerful U.S. automakers, it resorted to raising the efficiency of, and empowering each worker.

Toyota was on a steady growth path through 2007, but stumbled with the financial crisis and its massive global recalls three years ago. The earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan last year followed by flooding in Thailand, which disrupted supplies, added to its woes.

Niimi acknowledged Japanese manufacturing faces tough times.

Along with the strong yen, Japan fell behind Korea in promoting free trade, he said.

The move means that Britain will become the first country to make it compulsory for companies to include emissions data for their entire organizations in their annual reports.

At a side event at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Clegg said that the reporting would help corporations and investors identify potential areas of savings that can be made through energy efficiency.

“Counting your business costs while hiding your greenhouse gas emissions is a false economy,” he was quoted as saying in a statement issued by Britain’s environment department.

“British companies need to reduce

their harmful emissions for the benefit of the planet, but many back our plans because being energy-efficient makes good business sense, too.

“It saves companies money on energy bills, improves their reputation with customers and helps them manage their long-term costs, too.”

The regulations have been under discussion between government and business for months.

They will be introduced from the start of the next financial year in April and be reviewed in 2015, pending a decision whether the requirement should be extended to all large companies from 2016.

China mulls cut in asset requirement for foreign investors Agence France-Presse

SHANGHAI - China is proposing to slash the asset requirements for foreign institutions wanting to invest in its stock markets as it seeks to boost foreign investment and open up its capital markets.

Foreign individuals are barred from investing directly in China’s markets, but the country allows certain institutions to buy shares under the so-called Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) scheme. A proposal released by the securities regulator on Wednesday would see the amount of assets foreign institutions must hold to gain access to China’s markets reduced from $5 billion to $500 million.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission also plans to raise the maximum stake foreign institutions can hold in a listed Chinese company to 30 percent from 20 percent, and allow them

to enter the interbank bond market.

The latest moves to relax restrictions came after Beijing in April nearly tripled the amount of money selected foreign institutions can invest in Chinese stocks, bonds and bank deposits to $80 billion.

“This move is part of the securities regulator’s long-term programme of opening up China’s capital markets,” Jiang Shiqing, an analyst at Industrial Securities, told AFP, adding that lowering the qualifications would “definitely attract new overseas investors”.

Foreign investment under the QFII scheme currently accounts for only around 1.1 percent of the total market value of Chinese stock markets, compared to a regional average of around 30 percent in regional markets, the regulator said. Investment quotas have risen steadily since the scheme was first launched in 2002 on a trial basis. The total currently stands at $27.3 billion.

Foreing tourists visit a monument of the 2002 Bali bombing that killed 202 people in Kuta on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on June 21, 2012. An Indonesia court hand down its verdict on June 21 against Umar Patek, dubbed “Demolition Man”, for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings, bringing a 10-year probe into the nation’s deadliest act of terror to a close.

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A few tourism workers have certificate of competence Bali Post

DENPASAR - The Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association of Bali records that until the mid of 2012 a number of 6,000 tourism workers on the Island of Gods had owned a certificate of competence.

Such amount is still far compared to the total workforce existing in tourism sector reaching 150,000 people.

Secretary of the Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association, Perry Markus, said the certificate of competence for tourism workforce was essential to provide protection for workforce in the face of free trade between ASEAN and China in 2015.

“If free trade has set to be taken effect, uncertified workforce will be excluded because foreign workers from Southeast Asian countries will be allowed to freely work in our country as long as having a certificate of competency and our society can also work in those countries,” said Perry Markus in Denpasar.

He said the certification of competence was an appropriate measure for the improvement of human resources in tourism sector.

Certificate holders would make it easier to compete in domestic and foreign tourism sector because they had owned certificate of com-

petence. By degrees every tourism worker would be required to have a standard of competence because the tourism currently required the handling by reliable, standardized and internationally certified tourism professionals to ensure the fulfillment of the demands of standard tourist service.

“We do expect the government in the regency or municipality to participate in this program, particularly in the matter of funding. Similarly, we also urge hotels to participate by utilizing the fund from 2 percent deduction of service earned by employees,” he said.

According to him, the association had teamed up with several certification institutions to boost the number of certified workforce.

The Government Regulation No. 52/2012 concerning with certification of competence and certification of tourism businesses required the

tourism workforce in Bali to take competence test.

Chairman of the Tourism Labor Union Federation (FSP-Par) of Bali, Putu Satyawira Marhaendra, said the Bali tourism workforce was difficult to take the competence test if they were charged with the cost of certification. Bali tourism workforce could take part in the certification process if it was free of charge.

“With the income of Bali tourism labor being equal to regency or provincial minimum wage, it is impossible for them to pay for the certification. Moreover, there is no certainty from the company whether the income of labor can further increase after they get certificate of competence,” he said.

He expected the company could help finance the certification so that it would not fully be charged to the labor. Beside, the government was also expected to organize the competence test at workplace of the tourism workers such as at hotel.

Meanwhile, Chairman of LPS Parindo, Ketut Putra Suarthana, revealed that percentage of certified labor in Indonesia, including Bali, was relatively small, even below 5

percent of the total tourism workers in Bali. It was partially caused by the workers’ understanding that

certification did not have positive correlation to the increase in their income. (kmb27)

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The Indonesia Hotels and Restaurants Association of Bali records that until the mid of 2012 a number of 6,000 tourism workers on the Island of Gods had owned a certificate of competence. Such amount is still far compared to the total workforce existing in tourism sector reaching 150,000 people.

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For not having a legal permit, a permanent building at Pebuahan, Banyubiru Village, Negara cause Police Civil Service to take action.

The high rise house construction on the side of little restaurants of fish culinary was temporary stopped.

It was explained that this house was built above a stated owned land yet lately there are a lot of little restaurants with only a few of them permanent built. This operation was taken under Head of the Services Peace and Order section, Gede Nyoman Suda Asmara, stat-

ing there will be an action taken to the permit section as this building doesn’t have a building permit moreover it is high rise which is forbidden.

It is still unsure if it will be a house or another little restaurant but for sure it has to get its permit first before building it. The owner was not in place then it was said he’s on the west side’s little restaurant, when officers went there the owner wasn’t there either, a verbal warning was then given and owner was asked to come to the Services Office soon to give explanation. (kmb26)

A week, two luxury cars crowbarred Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Security situation of Denpasar sets to turn unsafe again. Not only home burglary, motor theft and grabbing, but car crowbarring seems more ubiquitous as well.

Evidently, within the past a week, two residents reported if their car was crowbarred by criminals. The culprits targeted at their tape and speedometer.

Both victims respectively named I Ketut Sudiksa and Sapto. Honda Jazz of Sudiksa was crowbarred when parked on Jalan Kebo Iwa Utara, Denpasar, precisely beside the gas station at 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday (Jun 19). A set of tape and speedometer of his car was taken out by culprit. “The crime scene was crowded, but no one saw if the victim’s car was crowbarred,” a police source said on Wednesday (Jun 20).

Allegedly, the culprit originally crowbarred the car door and after being successful the culprit took

the tape and speedometer. It could be seen from the traces of crowbarring on the door. Even, the action of culprit was committed very neatly, chiefly when removing the tape and speedometer. “The way to cut the cord was very nice. Probably, the culprit was a specialist in door crowbarring and targeting at tape and speedometer,” said the source.

The source refusing to be named said due to such incident the victim suffered a loss of IDR 10 million.

Meanwhile, a few days earlier a similar action also afflicted a KIA car belonging to Sapto. His car was parked in the parking lot around Buana hamlet, Padang Sambian village, Denpasar, Monday (Jun 11).

It was crowbarred and the culprit took away its tape and speedometer.

“Their mode is the same, namely by crowbarring and taking out the tape and speedometer. Due to such incident, the victim claimed to suffer a loss worth IDR 4 million,” the source added. (kmb21)

Regional Government planned a statue for Mengwi Terminal Mangupura (Bali Post) –

The areal of Mangupura as Badung’s Capital City keep on improved such as one of them Badung Regency planned a statue, a road and arrangement for Mengwi Terminal.

Head of Badung Cleanliness and Grounds (DKP) Putu Eka Merthawan stated last Wednesday (20/6) that the project will have a high value with Rama and Sita characters will be there completed with its cart and four horses standing on the east side of Mengwi Terminal. The height will be 8 meters and is part of building up a Ramayana story across the regency.

“In South Badung the concept is Mahabharata which now has Dewa Ruci statue placed,” Merthawan added.

Mangupura will have this pair of statue in showing a unity between the road and areal of the terminal. Detail Engineering Design (DED) for the whole project will be suggested in the 2012 amended Regional Budget although its total expenses can’t be stated yet. Besides the road in the terminal there will be also a garden arrangement in supporting Mangupura’s grounds yet until now it is still waiting for Mengwi’s drainage part completion to be done. (kmb25)

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Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will on Thursday address both houses of the British parliament -- a rare honour bestowed on only four foreign dignitaries since World War II.

A mother must walk for kilometers just to find water.

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Chairman of Karangasem House asks to complete pipeline project Amlapura (Bali Post)—

At a number of barren villages in the mountainous region of Karangasem like Kubu, the residents set to face clean water crisis at the beginning of this season. In response to this condition, Chairman of the Karangasem House, I Gede Dana, on Wednesday (Jun 20) in Karangasem asked the owner of the water pipeline project to quickly accomplish the work so that rural communities could utilize it immediately.

Gede Dana said the Telaga Waja clean water pipeline project with budgetary assistance from central government reaching hundreds of billions of rupiahs had not completed yet up to now. He said the project just completed the installation of the main and secondary pipeline to the point of Abang. “Hopefully, the project spending a large amount of the state budget should be completed faster, so that it could be exploited by people in need of clean water. The project was started two years ago,” he said.

Gede Dana from Datah village also said the clean water pipeline from the spring at Kesian, Ban village, Kubu, should be managed properly. Therefore, the project denoting the assistance from non-government organization and regional budget worth more than IDR 300 million could be utilized by residents of Ban and surrounding villages in the long term.

According to him, without proper

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management or handed over to village, it was feared to kindle a conflict of water struggle among the communities. He said based on the publication in mass media it was known if the water pipeline at Kesian had led to a conflict due to struggle for the water utilization.

“The existing clean water pipeline network should be utilized and managed properly, so that all residents in need can enjoy the water project,” he said.

On the other hand, Chairman of Commission B of the Karangasem House, Nyoman Oka Antara, said that many residents at dry villages such as the mountainous Kubu that remained to need the procurement of water supply whether through pipeline from springs or development of reservoir in group.

“Residents at Munti Gunung, Pedahan, Padangsari, Batumeyeh and Bongli Batudawa, as well as those generally living in the barren hills and mountain remained to face the

crisis of clean water. Moreover, in dry season, the Kubu region had not been showered by rain for a few months. Rain water supply of residents in their reservoir has run thin, even some have dry out,” he said.

Such condition was confirmed

by Chief of Batudawa customary village, I Gede Siden. His residents living on the upper region such as Lebah Bongli and Batudawa Kaja had faced the crisis of clean water. Residents at Lebah Bongli like I Wayan Ngetis, a poor family, should purchase water numbering 3,000 liters per tank at IDR 150,000. A tank of water was just enough for the need of a week, namely for drinking water of human and cattle, cooking and washing face. Even, due to facing water crisis and the water was very expensive, the grey water was not disposed, but taken advantage for drinking water of cattle.

Gede Siden said at the foot of Mount Agung, precisely at Batudawa Kaja, there had been a levee project. However, it currently could not be drained for the purposes of residents because it was planned to make another one at the foot of the mountain.

“Our residents are in need of clean water,” said Siden. (013)

Suu Kyi will follow in the footsteps of US President Barack Obama and Pope Benedict XVI when she speaks in the 11th-century Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the parliament complex.

The prestigious engagement is part of Suu Kyi’s week-long trip to Britain, part of her first trip to Europe since 1988. The democracy leader will also meet with prime minister David Cameron.

The pair previously met in Myanmar in April when Cameron announced moves to lift sanctions on the Southeast Asian nation in recognition of its moves towards democracy.

Suu Kyi said she was deeply moved Wednes-

day as she was honoured by Oxford University, in the city where she studied and brought up the family she would later leave behind.

“Today has been very moving,” Suu Kyi, 67, said in a speech after she was presented with an honorary doctorate in civil law in the grand surroundings of Oxford’s 17th century Sheldonian Theatre.

“During those difficult years I spent under house arrest I was upheld by my memories of Oxford. They helped me cope with the challenges I had to face,” she said.

After her speech she received a standing ovation from an audience of more than 1,000 dons and students from the university where she studied politics, philosophy and economics in the mid-1960s.

She was awarded the doctorate in 1993 but, like the Nobel Peace Prize she won in 1991, she was unable to pick it up at the time, fearing that if she left Myanmar she would not be allowed to return.

Egypt delays poll results, ousted president in coma

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A local newspaper featuring a photo of Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the front page, is displayed on a tree for sale by a vendor, not pictured, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 20, 2012.

Pakistan’s government nominates new PM

Associated Press Writer

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s ruling party has confirmed that it will choose front-runner Makhdoom Shahabuddin as its candidate for the vacant spot of prime minister.

Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said Shahabuddin, considered a Pakistan People’s Party loyalist, will file nomination papers in parliament later Thursday.

The PPP’s coalition has a majority in parliament and barring last minute surprises

is expected to be able to vote him into office in a session scheduled for Friday.

Outgoing premier Yousuf Raza Gilani was dismissed by the Supreme Court on Tuesday for contempt of court.

The decision to nominate a replacement quickly means that the government is not defying the court order as some had predicted it might.

General elections must be held before March 2013, so the new premier will not have long in office.

Egypt’s election commission delayed the announcement of presidential results scheduled for Thursday, as tension spiked over who will succeed ailing ousted president Hosni Mubarak after moves by the ruling military to extend powers.

“Egypt’s election commission, headed by Judge Faruq Sultan... has decided to delay the announcement of the presidential election runoff,” the official MENA news agency said late on Wednesday, without giving a new date.

The run-off, which took place on June 16 and 17 pitted Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi against Mubarak’s last prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, with both candidates claiming victory.

The election commission said it was looking into appeals from lawyers of both candidates into alleged campaign violations and disputed vote counting.

The commission said it would “continue examining the appeals... which will require more time before the final results are announced.”

The announcement came amid uncertainty over the health of Mubarak, following a flurry of reports about his condition.

Mubarak “is not clinically dead,” a medical source told AFP. “He is in a coma and the doctors are trying to revive him.”

“He has been placed on an artificial respirator,” the source added, in an account confirmed by a member of Egypt’s ruling military council, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity.

Egypt’s state television carried a ticker item saying Mubarak was in “a coma and is not clinically dead.”

State news agency MENA had earlier said the ousted strongman, 84, had been declared clinically dead after suffering a stroke in prison and being transferred to hospital.

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Egyptians read local newspapers with front page news on the health situation of ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt’s election commission delayed the announcement of presidential results scheduled for Thursday, as tension spiked over who will succeed Mubarak after moves by the ruling military to extend powers.

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Gianyar and Buleleng artists performed Gong Kebyar in BAF Antara

DENPASAR - Women Gong Kebyar parade will show ‘’battle’’ between women troupe from Buleleng and Gianyar. They will show their ability and skill in performance on Friday night.

According to BAF’s Committee I Wayan Dauh, Gong Kebyar attracts many audiences. Dauh said the show always packed with audiences.

The troupe from Gianyar will represent by Gong Bhawari Padmanari Group from Blahbatuh.

Meanhwile Gong Srikandi Petak Group will be representing Bule-

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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2001 file photo, rescue workers examine the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks in New York.

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NEW YORK — Call it compassionate, even political. But ... scientific? Several experts say there’s no hard evidence to support the federal government’s declaration this month that 50 kinds of cancer could be caused by exposure to World Trade Center dust.

The decision could help hundreds of people get payouts from a multibillion-dollar World Trade Center health fund to repay those ailing after they breathed in toxic dust created by the collapsing twin towers on Sept.

11, 2001.

But scientists say there is little research to prove that exposure to the toxic dust plume caused even one kind of cancer. And many acknowledge the payouts to cancer patients could take money away from those suffering from illnesses more definitively linked

to Sept. 11, like asthma and some types of lung disease.

“To imagine that there is strong evidence about any cancer resulting from 9/11 is naive in the extreme,” said Donald Berry, a biostatistics professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Yet this month, Dr. John Howard, who heads the federal agency that researches workplace illnesses, added scores of common and rare cancers to a list that had previously

included just 12 ailments caused by dust exposure.

Lung, skin, breast and thyroid cancer were among those added; of the most common types of cancer, only prostate cancer was excluded.

“We recognize how personal the issue of cancer and all of the health conditions related to the World Trade Center tragedy are to 9/11 responders, survivors and their loved ones,” Howard said in a June 8 statement.

NY judge: US can seize dinosaur skeleton

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NEW YORK — One of the more unusual arrest warrants in U.S. history was issued Tuesday when a federal judge authorized the Department of Homeland Security to seize a dinosaur from an art storage company. There’s no need for handcuffs though. It’s been dead for 70 million years.

U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel signed the warrant

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An image from documents released from the U.S. Attorney’s office, Monday, June 18, 2012 shows the fossil of a Tyrannosaurus bataar dinosaur at the center of a lawsuit demanding its return to Mongolia.

after finding there was “probable cause to believe” that the nearly complete Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton is subject to forfeiture under U.S. laws. The U.S. filed a lawsuit against the skeletal property a day earlier, seeking to seize it for an eventual return to Mongolia.

It is typical in government seizure cases for the object to be seized to be named as a defendant. But it’s not so common for an object to have an alias, in this instance “One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton” is also known as “LOT 49315 listed on Page 92 of The Heritage Auctions May 20, 2012 Natural History Auction Catalog.”

The 8-foot-tall, 24-foot-long skeleton was described in the catalog as being “a stupendous, museum-quality specimen of one of the most emblematic dinosaurs ever to have stalked this Earth.” It is currently held at a Cadogan Tate Fine Art property in Queens. A message left with the company Tuesday was not immediately returned.

The lawsuit said the Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton was brought in March 2010 from Great Britain to Gainesville, Fla., with erroneous claims that it had originated in Great Britain and was worth only $15,000.

It sold at auction on May 20 for more than $1 million, though the sale was contingent upon the outcome of court proceedings.

Jim Halperin, cofounder of the The Heritage Auctions, the dinosaur’s Dallas-based custodian, has said a consignor bought the fossils in good faith and spent a year and considerable expense restoring them.

Killings of environmentalists appear to be on rise

leng Regency.

Each group consists of 45 women that able to play traditional instrument of Bali. They will also perform dances during the show.

Tens of women that compete on this event will showing their best performance and audiences be the judge of their skills.

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Women Gong Kebyar parade will show ‘’battle’’ between women troupe from Buleleng and Gianyar. They will show their ability and skill in performance on Friday night.

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BANGKOK — The eulogies called Chut Wutty one of the few remaining activists in Cambodia brave enough to fight massive illegal deforestation by the powerful. The environmental watchdog was shot by a military policeman in April as he probed logging operations in one of the country’s last great forests.

Nisio Gomes was the chief of a Brazilian tribe struggling to protect its land from ranchers. Masked men gunned him down in November; his body, quickly dragged into a pickup, has not been seen since. Around the world, sticking up for the environment can be deadly, and it appears to be getting deadlier.

People who track killings of environmental activists say the numbers have risen dramatically in the last three years. Improved reporting may be one reason, they caution, but they also believe the rising death toll is a consequence of intensifying battles over dwindling supplies of natural resources, particularly in Latin America and Asia.

Killings have occurred in at least 34 countries, from Brazil to Egypt, and in both developing and developed nations, according to an Associated Press review of data and interviews.

A report released Tuesday by the London-based Global Witness said more than 700 people — more than one a week — died in the decade ending 2011 “defending their human rights or the rights of others related to the environment, specifically land and forests.”

They were killed, the environmental investigation group says, during protests or investigations into mining, logging, intensive agriculture, hydropower dams, urban development and wildlife poaching.

The death toll reached 96 in 2010 and 106 last year, said the report, which was released as world leaders gathered in Rio de Janeiro for a conference on sustainable development. The report’s annual totals for the six prior years range from 37 in 2004 to 64 in 2008.

More than three-quarters of the killings Global Witness tallied were in three South American countries: Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Another 50 deaths occurred in the Philippines. All have bloody land-rights struggles between indigenous groups and powerful industries.

Friday, June 22, 2012 Time

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Activity

11.00 WITA

Angsoka Stage

Bumbung Krepyak Reconstruction

11.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Bondres Performance

16.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Developed Arts Performance

20.00 WITA

In front of Kriya Building

Traditional Wayang Kulit Exhibition

20.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Arja Exhibition

20.00 WITA

Ardha Chandra

Women’s Gong Kebyar

Saturday, June 23, 2012 Time

Place

Activity

10.00 WITA

Angsoka Stage

Nyastra (Traditional Balinese Writing)

Contest

11.00 WITA

In front of

Kriya Building

Painting and Coloring Contest

16.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Joged Bumbung Exhibition

20.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Arja Exhibition

20.00 WITA

In front of

Traditional Shadow Puppet Exhibition

Kriya Building

20.00 WITA

Natya Mandala

Documentary Film Review

20.00 WITA

Ardha Chandra

Fusion Music Performance

Sunday, June 24, 2012 Time

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Activity

10.00 WITA

Ksirarnawa

Teenager Fashion Show

11.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Dance and Music Performance

16.00 WITA

Ayodya Stage

Joged Bumbung Performance

20.00 WITA

Ksirarnawa

Music Performance

20.00 WITA

Open Stage ISI

Shinto Music

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The Balinese song parade that showing performance of various artists from regencies and city in Bali lose their shine because of poor sound system.

Balinese song parade disappointed by poor sound system IBP

DENPASAR - The Balinese song parade that showing performance of various artists from regencies and city in Bali lose their shine because of poor sound system. Audiences upset because they can’t hear clearly what the artists sang. Not only regular audiences that feel disappointed by those performances, Mayor of Denpasar, IB Rai D. Mantra and Wife of vice Governor Bali, Bintang Puspayoga, also felt the same.

According to release by Denpasar Government PR, audiences felt sorry for the un-well prepared sound system and blamed committee of Bali Art Festival for the wrong doing.

Artists that performed on the stage have to repeat their song over and over again because their voice can’t be heard by audiences.

Not only the sound system, according to journalists that covered the event, back light on the stage also bothering because it made them uncomfortable and hard to find good angles for pictures.

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Fishermen facing hard time to catch lobster Tabanan (Bali Post) –

The Tabanan fishermen lately got worried as their lobster production didn’t go well and so to avoid any further disadvantages, they chose to take a break, park their boats along the beach. The rarity has occurred this past three weeks where maximum they would only capture half kilogram while fighting the great sea current. The high fee needed to go to the sea also has caused them to take the break as stated by Head of Indonesian Fishermen Group (HNSI) for Tabanan, Ketut Arsana Yasa alias Sadam, last Wednesday (20/6).

He added the fishermen usually use 30-40 unit bubu to capture 1-3 kg per day. It seemed this rarity was caused by the weather and the sea current which caused lobsters to breed ont eh bottom of the ocean. Besides rarity, its price also

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The Hindus in Singaraja are eating at cemetary to celebrate Pagerwesi Day

Pagerwesi in Singaraja

Residents have lunch together at cemetery

ENDLESS tradition on the celebration of Pagerwesi Day is a crowd at cemetery. As happened on the Pagerwesi Day, Wednesday (Jun 20), residents came to cemetery and presented food oblation (punjung). Having presented the offering, people then ate together in the cemetery area. As consequence, the cemetery turned crowded just like a city park.

At the cemetery of Buleleng customary village, for instance, people whose family member had died began to flock the cemetery. They came with a variety of ritual means such as oblation, canang and incense. In the face of their family’s tomb, the residents coming in groups seemed to pray solemnly. Then, it was resumed with having meals together. “We regularly perform this kind of ritual on

Pagerwesi Day. Together with our families, we come to the tomb of our parents who have died for offering oblation,” said Ketut Wirta, a resident from Kaliuntu village.

According to him, the ritual was routinely carried out through generations. By and large, the ritual was performed by residents whose ancestors had died but could not have been made a cremation cer-

emony. As an apology for being unable to make cremation ceremony for them, people presented food oblation and other offerings. Having presented them, residents would take the opportunity to eat together at the cemetery. “If body of the dead family member has been made ngaben cremation ceremony, family will no longer need to bring offerings to cemetery,” he said. (kmb15)

have gone down to IDR 150,000 per kg when usually more then IDR 200,000 per kg. This caused burden as its food actually reached to IDR 12,000 per kg.

“If there’s not much caught, it will cause loss and so it is better to take the break first. The 2 meters tide is not helping either,” Sadam stated.

During the break, the fishermen chose to prepare their capturing device for the coming harvest time this August. Sadam predicted the price of the lobster can keep going up to IDR 350,000 per kg like last year. What’s peculiar to Sadam, is the fact that lobster is still highly priced in restaurants such as up to IDR 450,000 per kilogram. “This is too harsh, why when buying from us so low? This indicates there is a game from the supplier side,” Sadam criticized. (kmb30)

Water crisis, farmers choose to plant vegetables Tabanan (Bali Post)—

The drought haunting Tabanan made a number of farmers change their profession. Some chose to grow vegetables to avoid losses. This was also carried out by farmers at Sudimara village, Tabanan, Wednesday (Jun 20). Water crisis was taken advantage to grow vegetables belonging to goose weed species. Aside from saving water, its maintenance was easy. Lucratively, farmers could harvest earlier than growing rice. “If growing rice, we have to wait for a little longer,” said Men Giri, one of the local farmers.

She told that growing vegetables did not take her much time. Vegetable seeds were planted and then watered for several times. If they set to dry up, farmers would only need to drain water. Likewise, tts fertilization process was not too complicated. By and large, the vegetable could be harvested after a month old. After that it could be harvested almost every day.

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“It’s fair to middling, our daily harvest can increase the income,” she said. The vegetable was marketed to Denpasar through collectors. According to Men Giri, in the harvest season, she could produce 10 kilograms of vegetable a day and the price was not bad.

She added that her party deliberately grew vegetables in several lots of her rice field because if she grew rice it would take her three months to wait for harvest. Meanwhile, vegetable only took one month and the operational cost was relatively cheap. Farmers only required seeds and few kilograms of fertilizer.

Its maintenance process was also easy.

More lucratively, vegetable was rarely attacked by pests. Unlike growing rice, it might be attacked by various types of pests such as mice, tungro and grasshoppers. Other than goose weed, some local farmers also grew other vegetables like water spinach. (kmb30)

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The farmer choose to plant vegetables due to the lack of water in Tabanan Regency.

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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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UNIONDALE, N.Y. — WWE superstar John Cena granted his 300th wish to a 7-yearold Pennsylvania boy with a spinal condition, continuing his streak as the most popular celebrity granter in Make-A-Wish Foundation history. Jonny Littman wanted to meet his hero, and the WWE accommodated that wish Monday night before an episode of “Raw” live from New York’s Long Island. But Jonny got a bonus to his wish.

On Wednesday morning, Jonny was being interviewed on “Good Morning America” when Sam Champion asked him about his green Tshirt. After Jonny told him it was John Cena, Champion asked if anyone knew the WWE Superstar. The pro wrestler and actor walked out to Jonny’s surprise and presented him with another gift. This time it was tickets for him and his family to attend the 1,000th episode of the WWE show.

To put Cena’s 300 granted wishes in perspective, Michael Jordan has granted around 200 and Kobe Bryant is in the 100-wish range. “I truly give hats off to Make-A-Wish for keeping statistics,” Cena said Monday before the show.

“They had a nice little celebration for me at 200, and I humbly said we should do it at 1,000.

“We’re just getting started,” he said enthusi-

astically. But Cena was clearly touched by the latest one. “I’m just flattered completely that I could be the wish,” he said. Jonny, from Hop Bottom, Pa., has severe congenital malformation and spina bifida and uses a wheelchair. He spoke to his hero for a few minutes and took some pictures with him.

He even put on his WWE Championship belt. His mother, Ruth, says his surgeons wore it during his last surgery. After signing T-shirts and WWE merchandise and presenting him with a videogame system, the superstar graciously walked out of the room. Cena prepared for his featured match, and Jonny and his family waited to go into the Nassau Coliseum for a live televised weekly show, “Raw.” After he left the room, Jonny chanted: “Cena. John Cena.

Cena.”

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Jonny Littman, poses with WWE superstar, John Cena.

Sonny Rollins is triple winner at Jazz Awards Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Tenor sax legend Sonny Rollins was a triple winner Wednesday at the annual Jazz Awards, garnering musician of the year honors for the second straight year.

Rollins also repeated as the top tenor saxophonist. His latest CD, “Road

Shows, Vol. 2,” consisting of live recordings from concerts in Japan and his September 2010 80th birthday concert in New York highlighted by a first-ever public performance with free jazz visionary and alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman, was chosen the year’s best jazz recording.

“I was born with some talent for

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FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2010 photo, jazz great Sonny Rollins performs during a concert in Tokyo. Rollins was a triple winner Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at the annual Jazz Awards, garnering musician of the year honors for the second straight year.

which I am grateful,” Rollins said in a statement read from the stage at the Blue Note jazz club by emcee Josh Jackson, host of WBGO’s jazz music magazine “The Checkout.” “I copied and learned from my predecessors and I’m grateful to them, and I gratefully accept this award,” said Rollins, who could not attend the ceremony because he was moving to a new home in upstate New York.

Saxophonist Joe Lovano’s Us Five, featuring Grammy-winner Esperanza Spalding on bass and James Weidman on piano, was chosen the best small ensemble for the third consecutive year.

The large ensemble honors went to the Mingus Big Band, dedicated to playing the compositions of the late bassist Charles Mingus.

Israeli-born Anat Cohen was a double winner as top clarinetist and multi-reeds player. Cohen said, “It’s an immense pleasure and a never-ending journey to be making music with some of the most adventurous, creative, passionate people we call jazz musicians.”

Two Indian-American musicians also took home awards in their instrumental categories — pianist Vijay Iyer and alto saxophonist Rudresh Manhanthappa.

Bassist Ben Williams, who released his debut album “State of Art” last year after winning the 2009 Thelonious Monk International Competition, was honored as the top up-and-coming artist.

Plane crashes in housing complex FOTO ANTARA/M Agung Rajasa

An Indonesian military aircraft crashed into a military housing complex in the capital Jakarta on Thursday, killing six of the seven crew members on board, an air force spokesman said.

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JAKARTA - An Indonesian military aircraft crashed into a military housing complex in the capital Jakarta on Thursday, killing six of the seven crew members on board, an air force spokesman said.

“Six out of the seven crew were killed and one was critically injured. That’s all we know so far,” spokesman Asman Yunus told AFP. “We’ve found no civilian victims so far.”

The Fokker-27 crashed into a housing complex within the Halim Perdanakusuma military airport compound at 2:45 pm (0745 GMT) after taking off from the same airport at 1:10 pm.

“The aircraft was conducting training and there were no passengers aboard,” Yunus said.

“The plane crashed on eight houses,” Yunus told Metro TV, which showed footage of houses ablaze and what appeared to be the plane’s wing sticking out from the roof of a brick house.

Yunus said the injured crew member had been taken to hospital and added that the military would look into the cause of the crash.

Indonesia has one of the world’s poorest aviation safety records, and military aircraft crashes are relatively common.

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Patient Germany plan to outrun Greeks Reuters

GDANSK - Germany are planning to bide their time and eventually wear down defensive-minded Greece when they meet in the Euro 2012 quarter-finals on Friday.

The Germans advanced through Group B with three wins from three games but are bracing for a much tougher defence than what they faced against Portugal, Netherlands and Denmark.

Greece conceded only five goals in 10 qualifiers, though they also let in three goals in three Group A games, advancing as runners-up behind the Czech Republic. “We got a small taste of what we can expect when

we faced the Danes,” said Germany holding midfielder Sami Khedira of their 2-1 victory on Sunday.

“Greece are a very compact team, tactically very strong, well organised and aggressive. They are also fast on the breaks and if you see that they had three or four chances in the tournament so far and scored three goals you can tell they are masters of efficiency.

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