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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

‘Dark Knight’ earns $160.9M in wake of tragedy Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — “The Dark Knight Rises” earned a sizeable $160.9 million over the weekend, making it the biggest 2-D opening ever, but falling slightly below expectations following the mass shooting at a Colorado screening of the Batman film. Warner Bros. said Monday that the final installment of director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy earned $160,887,295.

The debut makes “The Dark Knight Rises” the biggest 2-D opening ever ahead of its 2008 predecessor, “The Dark Knight.” It also gives the movie the third-largest opening after the 3-D films “The Avengers” with $207.4 million and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2” with $169.2 million.

Despite the impressive $160.9 million opening, “The Dark Knight Rises” fell somewhat below box office expectations going into the weekend, which ranged from $170 million to $200 million.

“Clearly, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ was on everyone’s minds,” said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for Hollywood.com

who specializes in box office. “I think the American public showed they were not going to be sacred away from the movie theater by the actions of a lunatic.”

Dergarabedian called the film’s opening “extremely impressive given the tragic events that unfolded on Friday.”

“Dark Knight Rises” earned $19.1 million alone from IMAX screenings.

Tickets for 3-D and IMAX films cost a few more dollars than 2-D screenings, netting extra cash at the box office. Movies released in 3-D typically earn under half of their income in 3-D screenings, sometimes as little as a third.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Questions linger in wake of Batman massacre

Messi injured for Hamburg friendly

Peugeot head meets French PM ahead of car sector shake-up

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versal and Lionsgate joined “Dark Knight Rises” distributor Warner Bros. in publicly withholding their usual revenue reports this weekend until Monday. They did so out of respect for the victims and their families after the mass shooting that left 12 dead and 58 wounded at a midnight screening of the movie in Aurora, Colo.

Following behind “Dark Knight Rises” in the No. 2 spot was “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” the animated Fox film which dropped 56 percent in its second weekend to $20.4 million, and the Sony superhero reboot “The Amazing SpiderMan,” which earned $10.9 million during its third weekend at the box office, in the No. 3 position.

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This undated film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Tom Hardy as Bane in a scene from the action thriller “The Dark Knight Rises.

Mariah Carey joins ‘American Idol’ as new judge

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Mariah Carey will join “American Idol” as a judge next season, Fox announced Monday, bringing her star power to the show that remains a ratings leader but has seen its viewership and pop culture status diminish. “I am so excited to be joining ‘Idol,’” said Carey, addressing the Television Critics Association via Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly’s cellphone, which he put on speakerphone for the hotel ballroom meeting.

She couldn’t be on hand with the group because “this kind of all just happened really quickly,” Carey said in her brief remarks. “I can’t wait to get started in the fall ... and I will see you in January.” The show, which saw judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez exit at the end of last season, will be back on the air for season 12 in January.

Reilly called Carey “the biggest recording artist that any of these (talent) shows has ever had,” adding that she was the “artist that many of these contestants have tried to emulate, have tried some of the songs, have tried to hit the notes.”

Playing the drama up, Reilly placed a call to Carey and put her on speaker. “Hi, Mariah. How are you? It’s Kevin,” he said.

“We do have a deal, don’t we? Yes!” Reilly said he was “thrilled” to confirm reports that Carey was being courted by Fox and said the deal was freshly signed within the last few hours.

The Grammy-winning pop star is receiving just shy of $18 million a year for a one-year contract with a renewal option,

according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The person, lacking authority to discuss the matter publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity.

The exit of Tyler and Lopez left original judge Randy Jackson and started a guessing game about potential replacements, with Carey at the top of the list.

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Population of Bali starling in the forest of West Bali National Park (TNBB) has been increasingly alarming lately. Estimated, the bird population in their habitat now only consists of 115 adult birds and 62 squealers.

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Residents breed Bali starling Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Population of Bali starling in the forest of West Bali National Park (TNBB) has been increasingly alarming lately. Estimated, the bird population in their habitat now only consists of 115 adult birds and 62 squealers.

Amidst such condition, the villagers of Sumberklampok, Gerokgak subdistrict, bordering with the area of TNBB breed the Bali starling.

The endeavor of residents coalesced into the Manuk Jegeg group got per-

mission from the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) of Bali in March 2011.

Secretary of the Manuk Jegeg group, Istiyarto Ismu, on Monday (Jul 23) told that after the BKSDA

issued the breeding license his members made a simple cage.

To build the cage, he spent some IDR 2 million to IDR 7 million.

Afterward, the Manuk Jegeg group proposed to borrow the parents of Bali starling to the Association of Bali Starling Conserver (APCB) and Surabaya Zoo. As planned, the group borrowed 30 parents, but only 15 pairs of brood stock were approved and they were commended in the captivity of TNBB.

Armed with those brood stocks, they could produce 13 young birds.

The first babies hatched on July 26, 2011. The babies were first looked after on August 7, 2011 or exactly 12 days after hatching. “When the first squealers hatched, we did not have any experience in caring for the squealers of Bali starling. So, we attempted to take care of them in a way we got from a number of references,” he said.

Istiyarto added the baby birds just taken from their parents were

transferred into a cage finely made of coconut fibers arranged in such a way so as to resemble a bird nest.

Babies of the Bali starling were then placed in a box with five-watt light bulb serving as a warmer.

Every morning, at about 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. local time, they were put under sunlight. Meanwhile, they were fed with raw tofu, weaver ant’s egg and additional wood worm every two hours.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Bali News

Recipients of rice for the poor in Bali increase

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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The cowded Legian Street in Kuta where many night clubs located.

Complained, a discotheque on Jalan Dewi Sri Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Pyramid Discotheque on Jalan Dewi Sri, Legian, was complained by residents. It happened because since the first operation in early 2012, it was frequently opened until 4:00 a.m. local time. Not only that, it was also alleged to have no permits. A number of residents complained to the legislator of Badung regarding this issue.

“Pyramid Discotheque is very disturbing the neighborhood because the pounding music is audible everywhere, even it is open up to 04:00 in the morning every day. It is extremely disturbing the residents living around Jalan Dewi Sri and Legian LC denoting a residential area. Complaint of the residents has taken place since it was opened. Some people even came to my home to ask for clarity about the discotheque such as Mr. Sukadegeng and Mr. Angrok. They complained because their house was adjacent to the discotheque,” said a Badung legislator from Legian, I Wayan Puspa Negara, on

Monday (Jul 23).

In response to the complaint of the residents, Puspa Negara claimed to have contacted the Badung Government Tourism Office. Based on the explanation of the Tourism Office it was known if the discotheque had not held any licenses, such as the building permit, disturbance permit, business location permit, environmental impact analysis permit as well as operational permit.

He said further, the area on Jalan Dewi Sri and its surroundings belonged to the area of service industry, trade and settlement. In

other words, in terms of Regional Spatial Planning (RTRW), it was not intended for discotheque area.

“On that account, normatively the discotheque business does not comply with the provisions of law and socio-culture of the community. Therefore, it is very worth closing for the sake of public order,” he said.

To confirm the licensing of the discotheque, Bali Post attempted to contact the Head of Badung Government Tourism Office, Tjok Raka Darmawan. Unfortunately, he could not be contacted via his cell phone until Monday night. (kmb25)

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In June 2012, recipient of the rice for the poor (raskin) in Bali showed an increase up to 46,058 households. The Bali Logistic Agency recorded the number of household target (RTS) of the rice recipient in that period reached 180,862 households from 134,804 households previously.

Secretary of the Bali Logistic Agency working unit, Nyoman Karta, said the increasing number of poor households was based on the result of data adjustment by Central Statistics Agency (BPS) on the poor households. It was then used as a basic reference by the government to establish the residents that were eligible to receive rice for the poor.

“We got the data from BPS Bali. We in the Logistic Agency only see service to distribute the rice for the poor. With the increasing number of recipients, the allocation of rice to poor household will also increase from 2,022 tons to 2,712 tons per month,” Nyoman Karta said on Monday (Jul 23).

According to him, the data indicated that only two regencies in Bali whose number of the poor household decreasing, namely the Bangli and Karangasem Regency. In Bangli Regency, the poor household amounted to 13,451, and then decreased to 11,889.

“Then, Karangasem Regency showed a decrease to 26,787 households from 35,921 households. Other than these regencies, all showed an increase in the number of poor household,” he said.

He said the increase in the number of poor household in Bali happened because there was a target expansion by the central government and it should be re-classified. Based on the rules, the people targeted to receive the rice for the poor were classified into four, namely very poor, poor, almost poor and vulnerable to be poor.

“Previously, there was no category of vulnerable to be poor. On that account, recipient of the rice for the poor showed an increase,” he affirmed. Nyoman Karta explained the rice distribution had not run perfectly because it was still in adjustment phase, though it was enacted in June 2012. Besides, there were regencies showing an increase and decrease.

“In this July, the rice for the poor is still experiencing difficulty in terms of its distribution. It still requires further adjustment because there are families who no longer get the rice for the poor,” he said.

He added that each household was eligible to receive as much as 15 kg of rice for the poor at the price of IDR 1,600 per kg. Meanwhile, the number rice distributed to poor households in June 2012 reached 1,553 tons. However, of the amount distributed, the Logistic Agency still had receivables amounting to IDR 1.8 billion.

“We still have arrears, but will not last long. I have confidence it can be settled before this yearend,” said Nyoman Karta while adding the rice stock was still enough and reaching 19,313 tons in December. (kmb27)

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Grand Opening of Ananta Legian Hotel

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The four-star Ananta Hotel Legian was officially inaugurated on Wednesday night (Jul 18). Grand Opening of the hotel located at Jalan Werkudara 539 Legian Bali was characterized by the beating of gong and the signing of inscription by the Regent of Badung represented by the Head of Badung Government Tourism Office, Cok Raka Darmawan.

In his speech, Raka Darmawan stated that existence of Ananta Legian Hotel would offer an alternative for tourists who wanted to spend holidays in Bali comfortably. Moreover, the tourist visit to the Island of the Gods would increase in 2015, so that it would be required the adequate supporting and accommodation facilities.

General Manager of Ananta Legian Hotel, Christian Gumala, on the occasion said that Ananta Legian Hotel put a great emphasis on the harmony of traditional aesthetics, philosophy of classical Balinese life style and modern facilities. The hotel with 175 rooms featured a different concept of warm, exciting and relaxing hideaway in the center of Legian, Bali.

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.

The woker is moving the rice to the warehouse.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

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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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Life Style

Yves Saint Laurent rebranding unveiled online

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The Saint Laurent Paris box shown on Facebook

Cancer-causing toxin found 1st US spacewoman, in Chinese baby formula Sally Ride, pushed frontiers Agence France Presse

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A Chinese dairy has been ordered to suspend production after a cancercausing toxin was found in its infant formula, China’s quality watchdog said Monday, in the country’s latest milk scare. Ava Dairy Co. Ltd has started a recall after high levels of aflatoxin, which is caused by mould, was found in products made between July and December, the watchdog said, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

The affected formula was mainly sold to supermarkets in Hunan and Guangdong, said Li Yuanping, spokesman for China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. China is trying to crack down on product safety violations to reassure citizens and restore faith in the government after a series of high-profile scandals.

The latest case comes just a month after dairy maker Yili began recalling batches of baby formula when authorities found they contained high levels of mercury. And in December, aflatoxin was found in milk produced by another leading dairy company, Mengniu Dairy Group.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Sally Ride loved everything about space. What she didn’t like was being the first American woman to experience it.

It took years — if not decades — for her to get comfortable with her galactic status.

What drew her out was her San Diego-based education company, Sally Ride Science, which promotes science and math careers for girls and young women. She was determined to give back and she did, a thousand times over before her death of pancreatic cancer on Monday at age 61.

Ride burst onto the public stage when NASA chose her to be the nation’s first woman in space.

With her catchy space-flying name and rock-solid science credentials, Ride inspired females the world over with her historic shuttle flight in 1983, five years after she and five other women gained entry to NASA’s exclusively male astronaut club.

Some of those girls who looked up to Ride, way back when, went on to become astronauts themselves. Ride, a physicist, proved that women could be equal partners in space and that they, too, could aspire to such heights. Ride was intensely private, though, and spurned the news media.

Her astronaut ex-husband, Steve Hawley, recalled Monday how she found herself “a very public persona,” and “it was a role in which she was never fully comfortable.”

“While she never enjoyed being a celebrity, she recognized that it gave her the opportunity to encourage children, particularly young girls, to reach their full potential,” Hawley said in a statement.

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A Chinese baby drinks coconut milk mixed with water instead of baby formula in Shanghai. na’s biggest food safety scandal in 2008 when the industrial chemical melamine was found to have been illegally added to dairy products to give the appearance of higher protein content. At least six babies died and another 300,000 became ill after drinking milk tainted with melamine.

Aflatoxins can be found in milk after cows consume feed contaminated by mould and can increase the risk of cancer, including liver cancer, according to the World Health Organisation.

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Surf memorabilia and art auction raises over $12,000

Last month Hedi Slimane made the headlines when it was announced he would rename Yves Saint Laurent’s ready-to-wear line as Saint Laurent Paris, and now the first images of the rebranding have emerged online.

The new name is a nod to Saint Laurent’s move into ready-to-wear in 1966 with the collection Saint Laurent Rive Gauche.

Meanwhile, just last week Slimane revealed he may bring couture back to the label, which closed its illustrious couture house back in 2002. “Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day,” he said in an interview with the August issue of French Vogue.

Slimane will make his first big statement to the international press this September during Paris Fashion Week when he showcases his debut Spring 2013 womenswear designs for the iconic French fashion house.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Preserving Uluwatu

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A picture of a black product box with the new branding on it appeared on the label’s official Facebook page this weekend. The box has ‘Saint Laurent’ written on it, with Paris appearing in smaller type beneath, surrounded by a simple square black frame.

Facebook fans’ reactions to the design have been mixed, with some commentators lamenting the loss of the word Yves and others showing their support for new designer Slimane. Pierre Bergé, who founded the label in 1962 along with the late Saint Laurent, previously applauded the decision as it comes alongside a series of moves to return the fashion house to its origins.

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ULUWATU - On a historic night, Rip Curl and Uluwatu Surf Villas successfully raised over $12,000 for local environmental organization Eco Surf Rescue Uluwatu (ESRU) during their surfing art and memorabilia auction on Saturday.

Over 350 guests attended the auction fundraiser, expertly hosted by SurfTime Magazine Editor-In-Chief Matt George, and held at the beautiful Uluwatu Surf Villas overlooking the Indian Ocean. All proceeds from the auction will help fund ESRU clean-up projects and environmental initiatives at world-famous Uluwatu beach, one of the greatest surf spots in the world.

Among the prized items auctioned off Saturday night was original artwork by American artist Kevin Walsh, rare collectable surfboards, and historic surfing memorabilia. The two items fetching the highest bids of the evening were the Dream Sessions, where the winning bidders get to surf the worldfamous waves at Uluwatu and Padang Padang for one hour with just a few friends. The Uluwatu surf session with

lifeguard-enforced crowd control sold for an impressive 9.1 million IDR (over $1,200 US).

The one-hour empty Padang Padang dream session fetched an impressive 15 million IDR. “We are proud to be part of such a successful event to help preserve the Island’s most famous surf spot - Uluwatu,” said Rip Curl Southeast Asia’s James Hendy. “The auction was a smashing success, both in raising money and in raising awareness about the work ESRU is doing to protect this spot.

A portion of proceeds from the sale of the Rip Curl Cup event merchandise will also be donated to ESRU, ‘Were really excited and looking forward to seeing how many T-shirts and other event merchandise we can sell during the Padang Cup,” Hendy said, “so we can add to our total contribution to ESRU. Curtis Lowe ESRU Project Manager commented - We were all there for the same reason and together we made big progress in raising the funds needed to make Uluwatu a cleaner place. We’d like to thank all the great people who came out and made it such a successful and fun night.

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Dozens of contraband dogs were successfully secured by the officers of Gilimanuk Quarantine Office on Monday (Jul 23). One of the residents from Surabaya, J. Filips, was desperate to go to Bali via Gilimanuk Harbor with a dozen of breed dogs.

Contraband dogs secured Bali Post

NEGARA - Dozens of contraband dogs were successfully secured by the officers of Gilimanuk Quarantine Office on Monday (Jul 23). One of the residents from Surabaya, J. Filips, was desperate to go to Bali via Gilimanuk Harbor with a dozen of breed dogs.

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FILE - In this Aug. 29, 1983 file photo, astronaut Sally Ride poses at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Caneveral, Fla. Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday, July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

In all, Ride flew just twice in space, both times aboard Challenger. A third shot at orbit vanished when the Challenger blew up. She found herself investigating the 1986 launch accident and in 2003 was back on a presidential panel looking into Columbia’s destruction during its trip back to Earth, the echoes, as she put it, coming in loud and clear.

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Kevin Walsh and one of his artwork that created during the evening of fund raised to preserve Uluwatu.

Those dogs were secured shortly after a black Daihatsu with license plate B 1558 SFW was going out of the vessel from Ketapang Harbor.

The officers who had been previously informed on the existence of illegal luggage then stopped the car together with relevant authorities.

Coordinator of the Gilimanuk Quarantine Office, Nyoman Budiarta, said on Monday that around 04:00 a.m. local time the car carrying the dogs entered into the Gilimanuk Harbor. Then, the officers stopped the car in front of identity card checkpoint and examined it.

The officers found the car carrying

seven plastic boxes with a breed dog. When the owner was asked to present the document, he could not do it.

Aside from having no document, since the beginning the entry of dogs and rabies carrier animals (HPR) to Bali had been banned. Subsequently, the dogs along with the owner were taken to the Quarantine Office. Having been examined, it was known the dogs totally amounted to 13 heads of different types. Seven of them were female dogs.

The dog carrier said he was just a driver and asked to take the dog

to the address listed on the box.

Budiarta said it was a smuggling and infringed the Article 6 of letter a and c as well as Article 9 of Law No. 16/1992, and Article 3 letter a and d of the Government Regulation No. 82/2003 on the quarantine and prohibitions against the entry of rabies carrier animals into Bali.

Until last Monday, the authority of Quarantine Office was still tracing the dog owners and checking up the dog health. “We continue the process, and then we will be able to decide whether the dogs will be eliminated or rejected,” he concluded. (kmb26)

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Due to irrigation project

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Hectares of paddy field at risk of drought at Nyangelan

One of the farmers in the Subak Nyanglan, Mangku Pageh, when met at location on Monday (Jul 23) admitted the farmland at Subak Nyanglan consisting of three sub-groups (Buduk, Linmas and Tagtag) had not been getting any water since a week. According to him, it was the impact of irrigation project in the upstream area. More seriously, of the 79 hectares of farmland at Subak Nyanglan, 8 hectares did not get water at all. “The water does not reach the southern area of Subak Bukbuk whereas the area is also in need of water,” he said.

Accompanied by Nyoman Karuk, Mangku Pageh said if he had crop failures for three times. However, there was no attention at all from the subak chief.

Moreover, so far the assistance obtained was not explained transparently. The farmers were even asked to buy the seed assistance, including the organic fertilizer whereas the seed and fertilizer assistance were given by the government. “So far, we are consistently asked to buy seeds and fertilizer,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the Subak Chief, Nyoman Karca, when asked for his confirmation he did not deny if the water had not flowed into the subak area for a week. He also added if there was an irrigation project under progress in the upstream area.

But, Karca denied if there was no notice to subak members related to the project.

Even, Karca had socialized it through a meeting with the subak members. “As a matter of fact, the irrigation project set to be worked on since June 20. We have informed the farmers if we are difficult to get water. However, the farmers were desperate to plant rice,” he said.

How about the assistance assumed not transparent? According to Karca, his party even had told the farmers about the assistance from the government like the assistance of crop failure given by the regency government worth IDR 60 million in 2011. According to Karca, the assistance had been handed over to farmers to finance the establishment of subak temple. “It has also been agreed by the farmers. If distributed to each member, it would be uneven. Therefore, it was used for the construction of subak temple,” he said.

Meanwhile, related to the fertilizers and seed assistance, Karca explained that Subak Nyanglan was only helped for some 25 hectares by regency government.

He said the assistance was not sufficient for all members, either. Therefore, he as the subak chief with the members had an initiative to sell it at half the price so that other farmers could get it. “Likewise, the fertilizer assistance was also given double subsidy. Therefore, to cover the financing, it was also sold so that all the farmers got it,” he said. (119)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hosts a small-business roundtable during a campaign stop at Endural LLC, Monday, July 23, 2012, in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Romney focusing on military and foreign policy

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RENO, Nev. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is moving away from his preferred issue — the economy — and into military and foreign policy, a realm usually viewed as the home turf of the incumbent.

The farmer is working on his rice field in Subak Nyangelan

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Fraud case increasing at Sanglah Hospital Robbery caught on CCTV Loss reach IDR 10 million Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Fraud cases seem to keep happening at Sanglah Hospital on Monday (27/3) as securities admitted to have received seven cases of fraud with the same motive. The seven panic victims came one by one to ask if their family member is critically ill treated in Sanglah Hospital and needed fund transferred. The case were many such as traffic accidents up to school incidents. One of the victim was Sunarno family who lives at Gunung Agung Street who received their father was in a car accident. According to their son, Denot, he works as a screen print person who goes around to clients and never brought a phone with him.

Denot admitted that the man who called his mother stated the father is critically ill and needs IDR 14 million to be transferred. Luckily they didn’t believe it and went to Sanglah Hospital to check it first. Turns out there was no patient named Sunarno then when family tried to contact the person again it was no longer active.

“Even though they panicked they didn’t transfer the money straight away and checked it first to Sanglah Hospital,” the worker stated.

Director of Medical and Treatment Services of Sanglah Hospital, A.A.N. Jaya Kusuma, Sp.OG. when met on Monday (23/7) admitted that their side have received reports of people that got fraud using Sanglah Hospital’s name. For that, Sanglah

Hospital confirms again that Sanglah Hospital never asked for payment in the beginning of treatment as patients are treated first then administration is taken care when patients are allowed to go home. Kusuma suggested if there are any phone calls saying that their family member was being treated at Sanglah Hospital and asked to transfer an amount of money, public shouldn’t respond to it. “Better check it first to Sanglah Hospital and not to transfer the money straight away. Before we did a system of phoning the patient’s family to give information that their family member is being treated and asked the family to come to the hospital but not transferring the fee of treatment,” Kusuma clarified. (san)

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Shop robbery is happening again with this time at Jaya Mart II, Glogor Carik Street No. 24, South Denpasar, last Monday (23/7). The robbers went in by breaking the ceiling and caught in CCTV yet their faces can’t be seen as the lights inside and outside the shop got off.

Due to it, owner of shop Kadek Sari Primawati (30) is experiencing loss IDR 10 million.

The robbery case has been reported to South Denpasar Police which the identification police have investigated the crime scene

and checked witnesses although it is still unknown who have done it. The CCTV has also been confiscated even though it is blurry.

From the recording it is shown that the robber acts alone by 2.38 am local time by breaking the ceiling three times. Robber then went to the saving cupboard and took IDR 5 million. Not only had that robber also taken some shop’s goods such as vouchers and cigarettes totaling loss of IDR 10 million. Primawati only knew it by 7 am local time and was shocked by the cupboard key damaged. (kmb21)

Romney’s address Tuesday to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars comes on the eve of an overseas visit to key allies. Aides say the former Massachusetts governor will outline to veterans his view that President Barack Obama has relinquished U.S. leadership around the world.

Obama sought to raise the stakes for Romney’s speech with remarks

Monday at the VFW convention, casting himself as a steady commander in chief tested by two wars and the successful raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. The president was continuing a Western campaign swing with appearances Tuesday in Oregon and Washington.

While raising money in California on Monday, Romney offered

a preview of his latest critique of Obama, telling about 400 supporters at a hotel in Irvine that “the consequence of American weakness is seen around us in the world.”

However, Obama touted his record as one of promises kept: End the war in Iraq, wind down the conflict in Afghanistan and go after the al-Qaida leader behind the 9/11 attacks.

Without naming Romney, Obama indirectly suggested his opponent would have kept troops in Iraq indefinitely and criticized him for opposing the president’s 2014 timeline for withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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China’s Hu calls for party unity as succession looms Reuters

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Farmers of Subak Nyangelan in Banjarangkan, Klungkung, now start to scream. It occurs because their land planted with rice has not been getting any water since a week. Moreover, it is also triggered by condition of discontinuous water supply to their farmland due to the irrigation project under progress in the upstream area. As a result, dozens of hectares of paddy plants of 41 days old belonging to farmers are at risk of facing crop failure due to the drought.

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BEIJING - Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for unity in the ruling Communist Party and unflinching backing for economic reforms in the face of “unprecedented challenges”, as Beijing struggles with a scandal-hit leadership transition and economic slowdown.

Hu’s speech to dozens of top officials dominated the front pages of China’s major state-run newspapers on Tuesday, a sign of its importance in setting the themes for a party congress late this year that will install a new generation of leaders.

Using jargon-laden political slogans, Hu laid out two themes likely to dominate the congress: a call for conformity after the contentious dismissal of one-time leadership contender Bo Xilai; and a defense of Hu’s efforts to shift the economy to more balanced, equitable growth driven by domestic consumption.

“We confront unprecedented opportunities and also confront unprecedented challenges,” Hu said in the speech given to officials on Monday.

“We must unwaveringly take the correct course pioneered by the party and the people over a long period, and neither flinch in the face of any dangers nor be distracted by any interference,” he said.

Hu did not mention the downfall of Bo, the ambitious party chief of Chongqing in southwest China who was ousted in March over a scandal centered on accusations that Bo’s wife killed a British businessman. Nor did Hu lay out new policies.

But Hu, 69, made clear that he sees keeping up economic growth and sharing more gains from that growth with workers and farmers -- a theme he has labeled his “scientific outlook on development” -- as his major political legacy and a policy that his successors must also follow.

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China’s President Hu Jintao waves upon arrival for a group photo session during the opening ceremony for the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing July 19, 2012.

US warns Syria against using chemical weapons Agence France Presse

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Syrian rebels hunt for snipers after attacking the municipality building in the city center of Selehattin, near Aleppo, during fights between rebels and Syrian troops.

US President Barack Obama has warned Syrian strongman Bashar alAssad it would be a “tragic mistake” to unleash chemical weapons, after Damascus admits it has a stockpile and will use them if attacked.

The warning, a first admission by the Syrian regime that it has weapons of mass destruction, came as regime troops reclaimed to control most of Damascus after a week of heavy clashes.

Fighting was still raging in the country’s second city of Aleppo where rebels claimed to have captured several districts, and activists said at least 52 people, including

24 civilians, were killed in violence across Syria.

At a Damascus news conference Monday, foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said Syria has chemical weapons and will use them if attacked by outsiders, though not against its own civilians.

Makdissi’s remarks came amid growing international concern that Damascus is preparing to deploy its chemical arsenal in the repression of a 16-month uprising against the Assad regime.

“Syria will not use any chemical or other unconventional weapons against its civilians, and will only use them in case of external aggression,” Makdissi told reporters.

“Any stocks of chemical weapons that may exist, will never, ever be used against the Syrian people,” he said, adding that in the event of foreign attack, “the generals will be deciding when and how we use them.”

President Obama responded swiftly, warning Assad not to make the “tragic mistake” of deciding to unleash his stockpile of chemical weapons.

“Given the regime’s stockpile of chemical weapons, we will continue to make it clear to Assad and those around him that the world is watching,” Obama told an audience of US veterans in the western US state of Nevada.

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The agency lowered the outlook for the German economy to “negative” from “stable” -- along with a similar move for the Netherlands and Luxembourg -- sending a stark warning that no economy is immune from the eurozone crisis.

Moody’s said that the three AAA-rated countries faced risks from the increased prospect of Greece leaving the eurozone and from the possible need to bail out Spain and Italy.

“The level of uncertainty about the outlook for the euro area, and the potential impact of plausible scenarios on member states, are no longer consistent with stable outlooks,” it said.

The ratings agency pointed to a “reactive and gradualist policy response” by European leaders as one cause for continued concern.

But even if Greece survives, Moody’s warned that richer nations would likely shoulder more burdens going forward, including the possibility of bailing out large eurozone members.

“The continued deterioration in Spain and Italy’s macroeconomic and funding environment has increased the risk that they will require some kind of external support.”

That would send the eurozone crisis to a different level.

“Spain’s economy and government bond market is around double the combined size of those of Greece, Portugal and Ireland,” Moody’s said referring to the three already bailed-out eurozone nations. Moody’s also announced that Finland’s AAA rating and outlook were unchanged.

When releasing the Bali regional economic report, Deputy BI in Denpasar Sunarto said the reduction in tuna exports to Japan had a significant impact on foreign exchange earnings in the fisheries sector.

The export of fish and lobsters to Japan has also decreased by 14.67 percent.

Therefore, Bali’s non-oil foreign exchange earnings in the first quarter has declined 3.3 percent year-on-year, reaching only US$143.55 million, with export volume at 30,500 tonnes.

Meanwhile, Putu Bagiada of Bali Trade and Industry confirmed a decline of 7.59 percent in foreign exchange earnings during the January-May 2012 period.

Fish seller waiting for buyer in Kedonganan market.

The Bank of Indonesia’s representative office in Denpasar has reported that Bali’s in the first half of 2012 have declined due to diminishing catch from the high seas.

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French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen Chairman, Philippe Varin, answers journalists’ questions after a meeting with French Prime Minister at the Hotel Matignon on July, 23, 2012 in Paris, two days before the presentation of a government plan to support the automotive industry.

Peugeot head meets French PM ahead of car sector shake-up

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PARIS - The head of struggling carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen met with Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Monday ahead of the government’s announcement of a major shake-up of France’s car sector.

Phillipe Varin repeated his promise that the firm would do its best to find alternatives for the 8,000 workers it plans to lay off and to save its historic Aulnay plant north of Paris.

Varin told reporters after the meeting that he had “made the commitment that each worker finds a solution to his employment

problem” and said none would be brutally let go.

Peugeot, the biggest French carmaker and second in Europe to Germany’s Volkswagen, came under fire after announcing this month plans to cut the 8,000 jobs and to possibly close the Aulnay plant because of falling European sales.

The job cuts dealt a blow to President Francois Hollande’s efforts to get France’s economy back on track amid concerns the country could be heading for a recession after an expected contraction in the second quarter.

The government has named an

expert to look at Peugeot’s finances and will on Wednesday announce a programme to reboot the automobile sector -- including “massive support” for high-tech and environmentally friendly vehicles.

Earlier Monday, Peugeot said it had reached a deal to provide Japan’s Toyota with light commercial vehicles for sale in Europe.

The two firms said in a statement that PSA will provide Toyota with medium-sized vans derived from its existing vehicles and the two companies will then work together on developing a new generation of vehicles.

Rich Latin Americans hid ‘$2 trillion’ in tax havens

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SAO PAULO - The wealthiest people in 33 Latin American and Caribbean nations stashed more than $2 trillion of assets in offshore tax havens between 1970 and 2010, an independent tax-transparency group has said.

The British-based Tax Justice Network (TJN) said in a report released Sunday that the exact figure, $2.058 trillion, compares with a combined foreign debt of $1.01 tril-

lion for those countries.

The report, written James Henry, former chief economist at McKinsey & Company, the global management consulting firm, estimated that $21$32 trillion in unrecorded wealth is stashed in such tax havens as Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.

The survey notably looked at the unrecorded capital flows, offshore assets and offshore earnings of wealthy individuals in 33 of the 40 countries that make up the Latin American and Caribbean region,

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DENPASAR - The Bank of Indonesia’s representative office in Denpasar has reported that Bali’s in the first half of 2012 have declined due to diminishing catch from the high seas.

Outlook for German economy ‘negative’: Moody’s WASHINGTON - Moody’s lowered its assessment of the German economy on Monday, taking a first step toward a full credit rating downgrade for Europe’s largest and most pivotal market.

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during the 1970-2010 period.

Rich Brazilians were found to have placed $519.5 billion in offshore tax havens, ranking fourth in the world after their counterparts from China ($1.2 trillion), Russia and South Korea (each with $779 billion).

In Latin America, the Brazilians were followed by Mexicans ($417.5 billion), Venezuelans ($405 billion), Argentinians (399.1 billion) while counterparts from 29 other regional countries stashed a combined $316.4 billion.

Those offshore assets compared with 2010 foreign debts of $324.5 billion for Brazil, $186.4 billion for Mexico, $129.6 billion for Argentina, $55.7 billion for Venezuela and a total of $317.3 billion for the 29 other countries.

According to Henry, those assets are “protected by a highly paid, industrious bevy of professional enablers in the private banking, legal, accounting and investment industries taking advantage of the increasingly borderless, frictionless

global economy”.

The report, titled “Inequality: You don’t know the half of it: Or why inequality is worse then we thought”, found that the top 10 private banks managed more than $6 trillion in 2010, up from $2.3 trillion five years earlier.

Henry based his findings on data from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Bank of International Settlements, a body which coordinates financial services regulations.

Labuan Aji Temple

Having Relation to Majapahit Kingdom

Indeed, Buleleng Regency retains many ancient temples which constantly exude strong vibration and magical nuance amidst the modern times. One of the temples is the Labuan Aji located at Temukus customary village, Banjar subdistrict. Almost every day, the temple situated on the edge of SeriritSingaraja road section is visited by Hindus from different parts of Bali and beyond Bali to perform prayers whereas the temple anniversary falls on the full moon of the fourth month (Kapat) in Balinese calendar.

The age and magical power of Labuan Aji Temple can be seen from its distinctive architecture and carvings. Its walls are still made of ancient stones engraved with carving style of Northern Bali. Big trees such as banyan tree and other coastal trees still look well maintained and shade the temple area.

Meanwhile, the overlay of swamps and vacant land stretches next to the temple to the north down to the sea sand.

Jero Mangku Made Mantra who is almost in charge in the temple every day said pujawali or anniversary of the temple fell on full moon of the fourth month in Balinese calendar (around SeptemberOctober). However, there were Hindus saying prayers every day, especially on Pagerwesi, Galungan and Kuningan. As consequence, it resulted in long queue in the temple.

To facilitate the Hindus performing the prayers, the supporting devotees then established a representative

shrine on the road side. On that account, people passing through on the Singaraja-Seririt road section usually stopped there to worship for safety in their journey.

For devotees who wanted to say prayers more solemnly, they usually came into the temple area not far from the road. In the temple, Jero Mangku Made Mantra was ready to provide guidance and lead them to say prayers. “Every day, there are people worshipping here. Some of them usually invoke safety, while others pray for specific request like recovery from illness or job opportunity,” said Jero Mangku Made Mantra in a very fine Balinese language.

According to Jero Mantra, the innermost courtyard of the temple had a number of shrines like that of Lord Shakti, Lord Tulak Sanjata and Lord Taksu. Interestingly, in the outermost courtyard could also be found some shrines so that it gave impression if the temple was surrounded by many small shrines.

“The temple has three main shrines in the innermost courtyard, while in the outermost courtyard there are a number of auxiliary shrines,” he said.

Only few people knew in detail about the history of the Labuan Aji Temple. However, based on the records in the profile of Temukus Village was known if the establishment of Labuan Aji Temple had association with the establishment of Melanting Temple in West Buleleng. Mentioned, when the

deity from Majapahit traveled to Bali, he dropped by at Temukus after making his time to stop in Pulaki. When resuming the journey eastwards, the deity of Majapahit reached the Karang Kripit (Karang Upit). There, he was picked up by Teja Kukus. He was invited to have a promenade to see the situation of the village. Teja Kukus was then

sought by his father and was found to unwind with the son of the deity.

Then the son of the deity named the village Temukus and worshipped a temple, the Labuan Aji Temple.

Spiritually, the Labuan Aji Temple also related to temples located in the vicinity of Lake Tamblingan venerated by four customary villages (namely the Munduk, Gobleg,

Gesing and Umajero). As evidence, when the four villages held a series of ceremony in the temple at Lake Tamblingan, they usually ended with melasti procession to Labuan Aji Temple. By and large, devotees of the four villages performed the ceremony for about three days in the temple and on the beach around the temple. (BTN/kmb)

Indeed, Buleleng Regency retains many ancient temples which constantly exude strong vibration and magical nuance amidst the modern times. One of the temples is the Labuan Aji located at Temukus customary village, Banjar subdistrict

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South Korean president apologises over graft cases Agence France Presse

South Korea’s President Lee Myung-Bak apologised to the nation Tuesday for corruption cases allegedly involving his elder brother and close aides.

“I bow my head and apologise for causing concern to the people with these incidents,” a solemn Lee said in brief televised remarks.

“It breaks my heart... that such regrettable things have happened among people so close to me.”

The incidents are seen as a setback for Lee’s conservative ruling party before a presidential election in December. He himself is barred from serving a second five-year term due to constitutional limits.

Lee’s elder brother Lee Sang-Deuk was arrested and detained earlier this month pending a corruption trial.

Prosecutors allege the 76-year-old former lawmaker took 600 million won ($525,000) from the chairmen of two troubled savings banks between 2007 and 2011 in return for helping them avoid audits and punishment.

The scandal was the latest in a series of corruption cases involving people close to the president, whose term ends in February 2013.

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James Holmes appears in court at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in Centennial, Colorado. Holmes, 24, is accused of shooting dead 12 people and wounding 58 others at a cinema Friday in Aurora, outside Denver, as young moviegoers packed the midnight screening of the latest Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Questions linger in wake of Batman massacre Agence France Presse

Of the many questions left in the wake of Friday’s shooting rampage in Colorado during a Batman movie premiere, one stands out: why did the presumed perpetrator choose not to take his own life? Suicide is often the final act in a mass killing like the one John Holmes is presumed to have carried out. It’s what happened in Montreal in 1989, Dunblane, Scotland in 1996, Columbine in 1999 and Virginia Tech in 2007, among others.

Yet after 12 people were killed and 58 wounded at a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises,” Holmes, 24, put up no resistance when he was arrested -clad in body armor -- in the cinema parking lot in Aurora city. “You have to wonder, was it redemption?

Or 11th-hour remorse? Or does he need a platform” to espouse some kind of manifesto, Frank Farley, a psychologist and professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, told AFP. The fact that Holmes chose not to kill himself, or to engage in a desperate shoot-out with police, “does seem an odd component of this particular case,” added Allen McConnell, a psychology professor at Miami University in Ohio. “His being alive might provide some insights” into the complicated web of factors and circumstances that can potentially lead someone to carry out a mass killing, he told AFP. Dressed in a maroon prison jumpsuit, and with a shock of dyed orange hair, Holmes appeared

vacant Monday at his first court appearance, his eyes in turns staring blankly or drooping shut as if he was about to sleep. Profiles in US media described Holmes, a native of San Diego, California, as a loner who rarely if ever exchanged hellos with neighbors in his apartment building in Aurora.

If there were any points of friction with his parents, family lawyer Lisa Damiani refused to discuss them. “The family has elected not to discuss James or a relationship with James at this time,” she told reporters in San Diego. Jessica Cade, 23, an undergraduate with Holmes at the University of California in Riverside, remembered Holmes as “a very nice guy... very, very smart; a little weird, kind of like you’d expect a really smart guy to be.”

But a graduate student who oversaw Holmes’ internship at a Salk Institute computer laboratory at the University of California in San Diego disagreed that he was especially intelligent.

“His grades were mediocre. I’ve

heard him described as brilliant.

This is extremely inaccurate,” doctoral candidate John Jacobson told the Los Angeles Times. Holmes was enrolled as a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado, living on a $26,000 a year grant from the National Institutes of Health for promising neuroscientists, university officials said.

But in June he inexplicably withdrew from his demanding fouryear program after facing a panel of professors for an oral exam and reportedly failing, Denver television station KMGH-TV said.

“I think his college experience is very important for us to analyze,” said Farley, a former president of the American Psychological Association who knew one of four scholars slain at the University of Iowa in 1991 by a student who then committed suicide.

“It could be an ingredient (among many contributing factors) that he began to feel rejected,” he said, noting the intense pressure that any doctoral program involves.

Australia drops Guantanamo memoirs case Agence France Presse

Australia on Tuesday dropped a case against ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks over a memoir about his time in the US-run jail, which it had launched under laws that ban people profiting from crime.

Federal prosecutors launched proceedings against Hicks, 36, in the Supreme Court last year seeking to have the earnings from his autobiography, “Guantanamo: My Journey” declared criminal proceeds seizable by the state.

But government counsel Lionel Robberds said the director of public prosecutions had decided to withdraw the case which reportedly centred on Aus$10,000 (US$10,200) from the sale of 30,000 books. “The director considered that advice and other advice and yesterday decided that he should not continue with these proceedings,” Robberds told the court.

Hicks was returned to Australia in April 2007 following a plea deal which saw him serve a nine-month sentence on home soil for providing material support for terrorism, after five-and-a-half years in Guantanamo.

The former cattleman, once dubbed the “Aussie Taliban”, told reporters outside court that the withdrawal of the case showed that prosecutors “have no evidence that I’ve committed any crime”.

“In a way I feel that this has cleared my name and I hope now that the Australian government acknowledges that Guantanamo Bay and everything connected with it is illegal,” he said.

“I’ve always felt that it’s always been political -- whether back in the days of Guantanamo Bay, and now I’ve been out for four years and we’re still going -- and there’s been some closure to that today.”

Hicks had welcomed the case as a chance to challenge his conviction by the US Military Commission “in a real court”, and legal watchers had seen it as a potential test of the quasi-judicial Guantanamo system.

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Unfortunately, the first babies died a few days after given a ring on August 25, 2011 at 4:26 p.m. Although it was difficult to keep the baby birds, the breeders were not discouraged. Even, the experience had made them more careful to take care of the babies. So far, the Manuk Jegeg group could have bred 13 squealers scattered through 12 breeders. Those birds had added the population of Bali starling in the captivity and the wild. “It is really difficult to take care of them. But due to hard work of our members, we continue to learn and can look after the squealers. Now, the development is very good,” he explained.

On the other hand, Istiyarto said the recent population of Bali starling in the breeding was estimated to reach thousand birds. Meanwhile, in the wild their number attained 115 adults and 62 squealers. These populations lived in their natural habitat in the West Bali National Park and Nusa Penida.

Having successfully bred the Bali starling, the Manuk Jegeg group then planned to file a distribution license to KSDA Bali. “If there is no obstacle, we will submit the proposal this month. Hopefully, we can get the license,” he explained. (kmb)

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INDONESIA Freeport Indonesia agrees partial IPO: minister Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia said Monday the local subsidiary of US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan was willing to sell a stake on Jakarta’s stock market, but had not agreed to divest the majority share the government sought.

Indonesian authorities announced a new law in March cutting maximum foreign ownership in mining companies from 80 percent to less than half, in a bid to keep a larger portion of revenues from the country’s vast natural resources.

Freeport Indonesia’s Grasberg project in the restive province of Papua is the world’s biggest gold and second-biggest copper mine, employing more than 20,000 people.

“They (Freeport Indonesia) agreed to divest a stake, but there’s no agreement on the 51 percent that we requested,” Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa told reporters.

“I have asked them to divest via an initial public offering (IPO) in Indonesia and they agreed.”

Freeport Indonesia said it has agreed to sell 9.36 percent of its share.

“We agree to sell a stake, but at the moment we only agreed to 9.36 percent,” a Freeport Indonesia spokesman told AFP. “Freeport-McMoRan have offered 9.36 percent of Freeport Indonesia’s shares in Indocopper Investama to the Indonesian government.” Indocopper Investama is the Freeport subsidiary that owns and operates Grasberg mine.

“The government has offered them to the local government

of Papua which has showed interest. IPO is an option,” the spokesman added.

Freeport Indonesia’s US parent company owns the vast majority of the firm.

Earlier this month, Freeport Indonesia president Rozik Soetjipto was quoted saying an IPO was being “considered” by the company.

“The IPO would be good for Freeport Indonesia,” he told the Jakarta Globe newspaper, adding that it would make the company “more accountable and transparent”.

The new regulation obliges foreigners to reduce their holdings to below 50 percent by selling shares to Indonesians over a 10-year period, but only applies to new mining concessions.

Rajasa said he “cannot force” Freeport to sell such a stake in its local subsidiary as there was no requirement to do so in its original contract.

Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, has some of the world’s biggest untapped mineral reserves, including tin, nickel, copper and gold.

A three-month strike over wages and work conditions a t t h e G r a s b e rg m i n e l a s t year turned violent, with at least eight people killed in ambush attacks and clashes with police. The strike ended in December.

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The government is urged to provide incentives for development of electric cars to be included in the policy of “low carbon emission project” (LCEP).

Incentives called for electric car Antara

JAKARTA - The government is urged to provide incentives for development of electric cars to be included in the policy of “low carbon emission project” (LCEP).

Minister for state enterprises Dahlan Iskan has said the country will launch its first electric cars next year.

Leading automotive observer Suhari Sargo said in order to attract investors, the government needs to offer attractive incentives .

“If successful, the national car product will be the trend setter for development of cars with low emission to support the LCEP program,” Suhari said here on Monday.

He said the success in the implementation of the project will depend much on the availability of components locally.

In addition, there should be after sales service to be provided by producers, he said.

Marketing is not easy as most people still favor conventional cars

with the availability of supporting facilities , he added.

Electric cars could be the second alternative especially for use for city transport, he said.

The opportunity for electric cars in the market is open with more expensive fuel for conventional cars, he said.

Dahlan said earlier mass production of electric cars will need new regulation to be ready this year including on motor vehicle license, certificate of ownership and tax.

The Olympic delegation from Indonesia arrives for the a flag raising ceremony at the Olympic Village in east London on July 23, 2012 four days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

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Gua Lawah Temple History

* According to the chronicle of Bendesa Mas, it mentions that the elaborations of Mpu Kuturan (a Hindu priest who come from Java) then he live in Bali which has been hosted in Silayukti, Padang Bai. He also builds some temple like Gua Lawah Temple. * According to the Papyrus of Dwijendra Tattwa, it narrates that after Danghyang Nirartha stay some nights at Goa Lawah, then he build a Kahyangan Temple on the ground. It means that Danghyang Nirartha extends the Palinggih or temple building existing at Gua Lawah Temple.

Temple festival at Gua Lawah is basically divided into 2 types that is Piodalan ceremony, and Ngusaba ceremony. On this event, many Hindu people from entire of the island come and pray. Gua Lawah is a place of interest in Bali and opened for visitors who wish to see the temple closely.

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Gua Lawah or Bat Cave is one of favorite places of interest in Bali and it is located near of hilly bank so it is called reef of Middle hill.

Thousands of VIPs including some 120 national leaders will jet into London for Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony, with guests ranging from Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama to the king of Swaziland.

The expected record number of heads of state and government will watch the Olympic cauldron lit by a mystery personality in a £27 million ($42 million, 35 million euros) extravaganza of music, dancing and pyrotechnics, amid a flurry of A-list parties in the British capital.

Germany’s Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda are among the leaders set to attend what will be a suitably British and eccentric show, featuring live sheep and dancing surgeons from the National Health Service.

Britain’s 86-year-old monarch Queen Elizabeth II will officially open the Games at the ceremony, whose exact contents are a secret -- but which is also said to include a scene in which magical fictional nan-

ny Mary Poppins vanquishes Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort.

First Lady Michelle Obama will head the US delegation, and while there are no plans for her husband President Barack Obama to attend, his electoral rival Mitt Romney will be in the crowd wooing foreign leaders ahead of November’s election.

Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, credited with breathing new life into the country’s monarchy, will appear along with a flock of European royals including Prince Albert of Monaco.

Russia’s delegation will be led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, while strongman President Vladimir Putin has indicated he may fly in later purely to watch the judo, in which he is himself a black belt.

British football legend David Beckham is expected to appear at the ceremony despite not being selected for Team GB -- his nonselection drew public anger.

The contingent of heads of state and government, which the Foreign Office says will peak at about 120 for the ceremony, outstrips about 80 who attended the Beijing ceremony in 2008 and about half that number in Athens four years earlier. They will also be invited to a reception at Buckingham Palace beforehand.

But even glitzier will be the series of celebrity parties taking place around the fringes of the Games, above all a charity gala at the Victoria and Albert Museum Wednesday in aid of Sports for Peace, honouring boxing great Muhammad Ali. Hollywood mega-couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are helping host the soiree, leading it to be dubbed “Brangelina’s party” by British newspapers agog with the influx of stars.

Malaysian Islamic and Olympic officials said athletes from the predominantly Muslim country are excused from fasting for Ramadan while competing at the London Games. The London Olympics which open Friday mark the first time the Games will be held during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan since the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Malaysia’s New Straits Times newspaper said.

During Ramadan, which began last weekend, Muslims are expected to abstain from food, drink and sex from dawn until sunset, when they break their fast with a meal known as Iftar. But a senior member of the National Fatwa Council, Malaysia’s top religious authority, said athletes can postpone their fast until after the Games as they are competing at an international event for the nation’s honour.

“They are going to the Olympics to bring fame for the country.

They can fast when they return to Malaysia,” Mufti Harussani Zakaria, the top religious official for the Malaysian state of Perak, told AFP on Monday.

“The Quran says if you have a mission to complete, you can postpone the fasting but you must replace the number of days you did not fast.” Eleven out of the 30 Malaysian athletes going to London are Muslim. One of Malaysia’s top medal prospects, cyclist Azizulhasni Awang, who won silver at the 2009 track cycling world championships, is among the athletes who will put off fasting, Malaysian media reported this week.

Sieh Kok Chi, secretary of the Olympic Council of Malaysia, also said Olympic athletes should not fast while competing. “It is a once in their lifetime chance to participate in the Olympics. They should opt out from fasting for one or two days so that they stand a chance of winning a medal,” he told AFP. Malaysia will compete in nine sports in London, with Muslims taking part in archery, cycling, shooting, sailing and track and field. Shooter Nur Suryani Mohamad Taibi, who will compete in London despite being eight months pregnant, is excused from fasting since she is expecting, but said all Muslims should be excused from fasting during competition.

AFP Photo/William West

File photo shows cyclist Azizulhasni Awang (C), Malaysia’s flag bearer, parading with his delegation at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony.

Emmert hopes Penn State penalties send message Associated Press Writer

INDIANAPOLIS — Slow.

Toothless. Tone deaf to the real problems in college sports. The NCAA has heard such criticisms for years. In punishing the Penn State football program with an unprecedented series of sanctions, President Mark Emmert said he hopes the NCAA has served notice

that a win-at-all-costs mentality in major college football won’t be tolerated.

This has been a theme for the former University of Washington president since he got the job in October 2010 and scandal after scandal hit the headlines, from Auburn to Miami and State College, Pa. Yet the NCAA does not plan

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US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at an Independence Day celebration in Washington, DC on July 4.

Gua Lawah or Bat Cave is one of favorite places of interest in Bali and it is located near of hilly bank so it is called reef of Middle hill. This cave is located in Pasinggahan countryside, Dawan sub district, Klungkung Regency, east part of Bali and about 1,5 hours from Denpasar Town. There is a nature cave dwelt by thousands of tail bat located at north side from Jeroan/ center of Gua Lawah Temple . Meanwhile the main road from Klungkung to Amlapura is just in front of the temple. This cave is apposite to the beautiful beach with black sand along the coastal area.

Pursuant to the papyrus of Dwi Jendra Tattwa, the Gua Lawah’s name is Gua Lelawah, the name which is given by Danghyang Nirartha (a priest overspread the Hindu teaching in Bali) when he stop in this place on his Tirtha Yatra trips. He arrive at a cave which is a lot of bats hang on and its unbroken voice clamor as hymn to add the beauty of the cave. Therefore this cave is named by Gua Lawah/Bat Cave. On the above cave is growth by the flower trees with it’s smelt fragrance and stimulus the peace mind of Danghyang Nirartha, so that he overnight stay for some nights in this place. From the cave we see also the beautiful coast with the blue ocean with Nusa Penida Island as a backdrop.

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to overhaul its procedures for handling potential infractions.

Emmert made it clear that the $60 million fine, four-year bowl ban, scholarship reductions and more were put together largely by himself and a handful of NCAA leaders because Penn State and serial child molester Jerry Sandusky presented a unique situation.

In other words, few can imagine

anything like this happening again.

“This is a statement about this case,” Emmert said.

There was no need for the NCAA to investigate what rules were broken, a process that can take months or years. Penn State handed over the results of its investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and didn’t dispute the facts. Emmert said the decision to

bypass the infractions committee and let the NCAA Executive Committee and its Division I Board of Directors decide on the penalties was not a sign of a change in the way future proceedings will go, but a sign that no investigation was necessary. “This was just a singular case that we all hope we don’t face again,” he said.

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The skipper of Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala and Cameroon star striker Samuel Eto’o said Monday he was pleased with his team’s winning start into the league’s new season. “It was very important to win the opening match,” the forward, who fulfilled a promise to Makhachkala fans he would score in Sunday’s match with Kuban Krasnodar which Anzhi won 2-1.

“I promised I would score on Sunday and I did it. But our team’s win is much more important than any of my individual achievements.”

Anzhi -- by far the biggest spenders in the Russian Premier League, who are managed by Dutch guru Guus Hiddink -- are hoping that their bulging wallet will help them win glory this season and a place in the lucrative Champions’ League.

On Sunday Anzhi were trailing 1-0 after their Brazilian full back Joao Carlos sent the ball into his own net attempting to clear Kuban’s Ivory Coast defender Igor Lolo’s pass into the area in the opening minute. “It’s football,” commented Eto’o, who is reportedly the world’s best-paid footballer with an annual salary of 20 million euros (£15.5 million, $24.3 million).

“This blunder is just a part of what makes football a beautiful and interesting sight. It was hard but we managed to battle back and grab all three points to take the winning start into new season.”

“The season-opening matches are often hard and Sunday’s showdown was not an exception. I hope we will play better in the next matches.” Eto’o and Ivory Coast forward Lacina Traore netted one apiece before the break to give Anzhi a morale-boosting 2-1 win, setting themselves up for a return Europa League second qualifying round match with Hungarian outfit Honved on Thursday.

Anzhi won 1-0 their home encounter with Honved with Brazilian midfielder Jucilei da Silva scoring the winning goal.

Barcelona striker Lionel Messi has suffered an injury during training and will not travel to play Hamburg for the German club’s 125th anniversary celebrations, the Spanish giants announced on Tuesday.

Puyol’s team mate Dani Alves added at a post-training news conference: “I am very happy that Puyi is back, that’s he’s in good shape and he is recovering.

“I think that with Puyi you don’t need to look at his age, because it’s irrelevant. For me, he’s like a two-yearold kid.”

AFP Photo/Cristina Quicler

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, seen here in May 2012, has suffered a calf injury and will not travel to play Hamburg for the German club’s 125th anniversary celebrations.

Villas-Boas blasts ‘unprofessional’ Modric

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Andre Villas-Boas has launched a fresh attack on Luka Modric after branding the Tottenham midfielder as unprofessional following his summer revolt. Modric, a target for Real Madrid, is desperate to force through a summer move and has angered Spurs by going on strike.

The Croatian has been hit with an £80,000 ($124,000) fine for refusing to train and missing the club’s pre-season tour of America, where they play a friendly against LA Galaxy on Tuesday and the New York Red Bulls on July 31. And with Spurs refusing to move on their £40 million ($62 million) asking price, new Tottenham boss Villas-Boas has condemned Modric’s stance.

“We understand this type of player revolt is

Controversial QPR midfielder Joey Barton is to train with Football League newcomers Fleetwood after being handed a 12-game suspension.

Barton elbowed Carlos Tevez and kicked Sergio Aguero before attempting to headbutt Vincent Kompany in the club’s 3-2 defeat to Manchester City on the final day of the Premier League season.

But as his QPR team-mates continue their pre-season preparations ahead of the 2012-13 campaign, Barton will work on his fitness with the Lancashire club.

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nothing new,” said the Portuguese coach. “But the club has to protect themselves. We have to hold onto our values and rights. “Last year he behaved professionally. Unfortunately this is the first time Luka has taken these actions.

“The situation as it stands is he is under club discipline for not being present. “We don’t know what advice he is receiving. As far as I know he is back in London. “There is a sense of respect for what he has done, but the chairman feels that the fact he is not present is not common professional behaviour.

“Hopefully this situation will be solved in two ways - that the clubs interested meet the demands of Tottenham regarding his value or the player continues to club duty. “Hopefully this won’t drag on too long as it doesn’t help Luka or us.”

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for the first time since a knee operation in May, the La Liga club said on Monday.

The 34-year-old Spain international had arthroscopic surgery and was ruled out for the final weeks of the season, meaning he missed the nation’s triumphant Euro 2012 campaign in Poland and Ukraine.

“The captain trained apart from the rest of the squad in the group’s penultimate session before they fly out to Germany on Tuesday for their first pre-season friendly against Hamburg,” Barca said in a statement on their website (www.fcbarcelona. com).

“Puyol will undergo further medical tests next Monday, July 30th, to confirm his fitness to return to full training - the same day that the team’s Spanish internationals resume training,” the statement said.

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Eto’o hails Anzhi’s winning start in Russia

Messi injured for Hamburg friendly “During training yesterday (Monday), the player suffered bruising to his right calf,” the club said on its website.

“This morning (Tuesday), he underwent an ultrasound that showed he has intramuscular haematoma.”

Messi had been due to be one of the main attractions for Tuesday’s game in the continued absence of Spain forward David Villa, still recovering from a broken leg that forced him to miss La Roja’s successful defence of their European title.

Barca said last week that he was “close to full form”. The game at the Imtech Arena will be Tito Vilanova’s first in charge after taking over from Pep Guardiola. Barca are due to play five friendlies before the start of the season.

Meanwhile Barcelona defender Carles Puyol has returned to training

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Barton to train with Football League newcomers The 29-year-old said, via Twitter, on Monday: “Looking forward to training with Fleetwood Town for the week. Will get a much needed sweat on...

“Still have 3 years left at QPR. Exciting times for the club, which I intended to be a part of.

Need to get some fitness in the meantime...

“Fleetwood are a young club going places. 5 promotions already in the last few years. If I help some of their young players, great. “Training with them will certainly help me with my short term fitness and my plan on being as fit as possible during my 12-game ban.”

The skipper of Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala and Cameroon star striker Samuel Eto’o, pictured in May 2012, said Monday he was pleased with his team’s winning start into the league’s new season.

AFP Photo/Andrew Yates

Brazilian midfielder Lucas Moura controls the ball during the London 2012 Olympic games warm up football match between Great Britain and Brazil at the Riverside stadium in Middlesbrough, north-east England on July 20.

United target Brazil’s Moura

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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed his interest in Brazil international Lucas Moura. But Ferguson denied a deal, reported to be £26million ($40.3m), had been agreed for the 19-year-old Sao Paulo winger, who is a member of Brazil’s Olympics squad.

“It’s not correct. We haven’t reached an agreement for the player,” Ferguson was quoted on Man United’s website as telling a press conference in Shanghai on Monday. “We’ve shown an interest but until such time as we get a deal agreed we can’t

say he’s our player.”

United have already boosted their squad this summer with 23-year-old Japan international midfielder Shinji Kagawa and teenager Nick Powell.

And Ferguson confirmed that the club are hoping to bring in more than one player before the start of the season. “We’ve signed two players in the summer: Kagawa and Powell,” he said. “We think they both have fantastic potential.

“At this moment we’re looking at other options in terms of bringing other players in. We’re not lying on our backsides doing nothing. We’re trying hard to bring other players to the club.”

Everton’s Cahill set for Red Bulls move Reuters

AFP Photo/Odd Andersen

Everton have agreed terms with the New York Red Bulls for the transfer of Australia midfielder Tim Cahill to the Major League Soccer team, the Premier League club said on Monday.

“Tim will move to the Red Bulls for a nominal fee, subject to agreeing personal terms and passing a medical. He will travel to the U.S. in the next few

days,” Everton said on their website (www.evertonfc. com).

British media reported the transfer fee would be about one million pounds ($1.55 million). The 32-year-old attacking midfielder scored 68 goals in 278 games for Everton after joining the club from Millwall in 2004.

He has also scored 24 goals in 55 games for Australia and played at the last two World Cups in Germany and South Africa.

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The skipper of Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala and Cameroon star striker Samuel Eto’o said Monday he was pleased with his team’s winning start into the league’s new season. “It was very important to win the opening match,” the forward, who fulfilled a promise to Makhachkala fans he would score in Sunday’s match with Kuban Krasnodar which Anzhi won 2-1.

“I promised I would score on Sunday and I did it. But our team’s win is much more important than any of my individual achievements.”

Anzhi -- by far the biggest spenders in the Russian Premier League, who are managed by Dutch guru Guus Hiddink -- are hoping that their bulging wallet will help them win glory this season and a place in the lucrative Champions’ League.

On Sunday Anzhi were trailing 1-0 after their Brazilian full back Joao Carlos sent the ball into his own net attempting to clear Kuban’s Ivory Coast defender Igor Lolo’s pass into the area in the opening minute. “It’s football,” commented Eto’o, who is reportedly the world’s best-paid footballer with an annual salary of 20 million euros (£15.5 million, $24.3 million).

“This blunder is just a part of what makes football a beautiful and interesting sight. It was hard but we managed to battle back and grab all three points to take the winning start into new season.”

“The season-opening matches are often hard and Sunday’s showdown was not an exception. I hope we will play better in the next matches.” Eto’o and Ivory Coast forward Lacina Traore netted one apiece before the break to give Anzhi a morale-boosting 2-1 win, setting themselves up for a return Europa League second qualifying round match with Hungarian outfit Honved on Thursday.

Anzhi won 1-0 their home encounter with Honved with Brazilian midfielder Jucilei da Silva scoring the winning goal.

Barcelona striker Lionel Messi has suffered an injury during training and will not travel to play Hamburg for the German club’s 125th anniversary celebrations, the Spanish giants announced on Tuesday.

Puyol’s team mate Dani Alves added at a post-training news conference: “I am very happy that Puyi is back, that’s he’s in good shape and he is recovering.

“I think that with Puyi you don’t need to look at his age, because it’s irrelevant. For me, he’s like a two-yearold kid.”

AFP Photo/Cristina Quicler

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, seen here in May 2012, has suffered a calf injury and will not travel to play Hamburg for the German club’s 125th anniversary celebrations.

Villas-Boas blasts ‘unprofessional’ Modric

Agence France Presse

Andre Villas-Boas has launched a fresh attack on Luka Modric after branding the Tottenham midfielder as unprofessional following his summer revolt. Modric, a target for Real Madrid, is desperate to force through a summer move and has angered Spurs by going on strike.

The Croatian has been hit with an £80,000 ($124,000) fine for refusing to train and missing the club’s pre-season tour of America, where they play a friendly against LA Galaxy on Tuesday and the New York Red Bulls on July 31. And with Spurs refusing to move on their £40 million ($62 million) asking price, new Tottenham boss Villas-Boas has condemned Modric’s stance.

“We understand this type of player revolt is

Controversial QPR midfielder Joey Barton is to train with Football League newcomers Fleetwood after being handed a 12-game suspension.

Barton elbowed Carlos Tevez and kicked Sergio Aguero before attempting to headbutt Vincent Kompany in the club’s 3-2 defeat to Manchester City on the final day of the Premier League season.

But as his QPR team-mates continue their pre-season preparations ahead of the 2012-13 campaign, Barton will work on his fitness with the Lancashire club.

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nothing new,” said the Portuguese coach. “But the club has to protect themselves. We have to hold onto our values and rights. “Last year he behaved professionally. Unfortunately this is the first time Luka has taken these actions.

“The situation as it stands is he is under club discipline for not being present. “We don’t know what advice he is receiving. As far as I know he is back in London. “There is a sense of respect for what he has done, but the chairman feels that the fact he is not present is not common professional behaviour.

“Hopefully this situation will be solved in two ways - that the clubs interested meet the demands of Tottenham regarding his value or the player continues to club duty. “Hopefully this won’t drag on too long as it doesn’t help Luka or us.”

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for the first time since a knee operation in May, the La Liga club said on Monday.

The 34-year-old Spain international had arthroscopic surgery and was ruled out for the final weeks of the season, meaning he missed the nation’s triumphant Euro 2012 campaign in Poland and Ukraine.

“The captain trained apart from the rest of the squad in the group’s penultimate session before they fly out to Germany on Tuesday for their first pre-season friendly against Hamburg,” Barca said in a statement on their website (www.fcbarcelona. com).

“Puyol will undergo further medical tests next Monday, July 30th, to confirm his fitness to return to full training - the same day that the team’s Spanish internationals resume training,” the statement said.

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Eto’o hails Anzhi’s winning start in Russia

Messi injured for Hamburg friendly “During training yesterday (Monday), the player suffered bruising to his right calf,” the club said on its website.

“This morning (Tuesday), he underwent an ultrasound that showed he has intramuscular haematoma.”

Messi had been due to be one of the main attractions for Tuesday’s game in the continued absence of Spain forward David Villa, still recovering from a broken leg that forced him to miss La Roja’s successful defence of their European title.

Barca said last week that he was “close to full form”. The game at the Imtech Arena will be Tito Vilanova’s first in charge after taking over from Pep Guardiola. Barca are due to play five friendlies before the start of the season.

Meanwhile Barcelona defender Carles Puyol has returned to training

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Barton to train with Football League newcomers The 29-year-old said, via Twitter, on Monday: “Looking forward to training with Fleetwood Town for the week. Will get a much needed sweat on...

“Still have 3 years left at QPR. Exciting times for the club, which I intended to be a part of.

Need to get some fitness in the meantime...

“Fleetwood are a young club going places. 5 promotions already in the last few years. If I help some of their young players, great. “Training with them will certainly help me with my short term fitness and my plan on being as fit as possible during my 12-game ban.”

The skipper of Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala and Cameroon star striker Samuel Eto’o, pictured in May 2012, said Monday he was pleased with his team’s winning start into the league’s new season.

AFP Photo/Andrew Yates

Brazilian midfielder Lucas Moura controls the ball during the London 2012 Olympic games warm up football match between Great Britain and Brazil at the Riverside stadium in Middlesbrough, north-east England on July 20.

United target Brazil’s Moura

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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed his interest in Brazil international Lucas Moura. But Ferguson denied a deal, reported to be £26million ($40.3m), had been agreed for the 19-year-old Sao Paulo winger, who is a member of Brazil’s Olympics squad.

“It’s not correct. We haven’t reached an agreement for the player,” Ferguson was quoted on Man United’s website as telling a press conference in Shanghai on Monday. “We’ve shown an interest but until such time as we get a deal agreed we can’t

say he’s our player.”

United have already boosted their squad this summer with 23-year-old Japan international midfielder Shinji Kagawa and teenager Nick Powell.

And Ferguson confirmed that the club are hoping to bring in more than one player before the start of the season. “We’ve signed two players in the summer: Kagawa and Powell,” he said. “We think they both have fantastic potential.

“At this moment we’re looking at other options in terms of bringing other players in. We’re not lying on our backsides doing nothing. We’re trying hard to bring other players to the club.”

Everton’s Cahill set for Red Bulls move Reuters

AFP Photo/Odd Andersen

Everton have agreed terms with the New York Red Bulls for the transfer of Australia midfielder Tim Cahill to the Major League Soccer team, the Premier League club said on Monday.

“Tim will move to the Red Bulls for a nominal fee, subject to agreeing personal terms and passing a medical. He will travel to the U.S. in the next few

days,” Everton said on their website (www.evertonfc. com).

British media reported the transfer fee would be about one million pounds ($1.55 million). The 32-year-old attacking midfielder scored 68 goals in 278 games for Everton after joining the club from Millwall in 2004.

He has also scored 24 goals in 55 games for Australia and played at the last two World Cups in Germany and South Africa.

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World leaders, VIPS flock to London for ceremony

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Gua Lawah Temple History

* According to the chronicle of Bendesa Mas, it mentions that the elaborations of Mpu Kuturan (a Hindu priest who come from Java) then he live in Bali which has been hosted in Silayukti, Padang Bai. He also builds some temple like Gua Lawah Temple. * According to the Papyrus of Dwijendra Tattwa, it narrates that after Danghyang Nirartha stay some nights at Goa Lawah, then he build a Kahyangan Temple on the ground. It means that Danghyang Nirartha extends the Palinggih or temple building existing at Gua Lawah Temple.

Temple festival at Gua Lawah is basically divided into 2 types that is Piodalan ceremony, and Ngusaba ceremony. On this event, many Hindu people from entire of the island come and pray. Gua Lawah is a place of interest in Bali and opened for visitors who wish to see the temple closely.

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Gua Lawah or Bat Cave is one of favorite places of interest in Bali and it is located near of hilly bank so it is called reef of Middle hill.

Thousands of VIPs including some 120 national leaders will jet into London for Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony, with guests ranging from Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama to the king of Swaziland.

The expected record number of heads of state and government will watch the Olympic cauldron lit by a mystery personality in a £27 million ($42 million, 35 million euros) extravaganza of music, dancing and pyrotechnics, amid a flurry of A-list parties in the British capital.

Germany’s Angela Merkel and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda are among the leaders set to attend what will be a suitably British and eccentric show, featuring live sheep and dancing surgeons from the National Health Service.

Britain’s 86-year-old monarch Queen Elizabeth II will officially open the Games at the ceremony, whose exact contents are a secret -- but which is also said to include a scene in which magical fictional nan-

ny Mary Poppins vanquishes Harry Potter villain Lord Voldemort.

First Lady Michelle Obama will head the US delegation, and while there are no plans for her husband President Barack Obama to attend, his electoral rival Mitt Romney will be in the crowd wooing foreign leaders ahead of November’s election.

Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, credited with breathing new life into the country’s monarchy, will appear along with a flock of European royals including Prince Albert of Monaco.

Russia’s delegation will be led by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, while strongman President Vladimir Putin has indicated he may fly in later purely to watch the judo, in which he is himself a black belt.

British football legend David Beckham is expected to appear at the ceremony despite not being selected for Team GB -- his nonselection drew public anger.

The contingent of heads of state and government, which the Foreign Office says will peak at about 120 for the ceremony, outstrips about 80 who attended the Beijing ceremony in 2008 and about half that number in Athens four years earlier. They will also be invited to a reception at Buckingham Palace beforehand.

But even glitzier will be the series of celebrity parties taking place around the fringes of the Games, above all a charity gala at the Victoria and Albert Museum Wednesday in aid of Sports for Peace, honouring boxing great Muhammad Ali. Hollywood mega-couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are helping host the soiree, leading it to be dubbed “Brangelina’s party” by British newspapers agog with the influx of stars.

Malaysian Islamic and Olympic officials said athletes from the predominantly Muslim country are excused from fasting for Ramadan while competing at the London Games. The London Olympics which open Friday mark the first time the Games will be held during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan since the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Malaysia’s New Straits Times newspaper said.

During Ramadan, which began last weekend, Muslims are expected to abstain from food, drink and sex from dawn until sunset, when they break their fast with a meal known as Iftar. But a senior member of the National Fatwa Council, Malaysia’s top religious authority, said athletes can postpone their fast until after the Games as they are competing at an international event for the nation’s honour.

“They are going to the Olympics to bring fame for the country.

They can fast when they return to Malaysia,” Mufti Harussani Zakaria, the top religious official for the Malaysian state of Perak, told AFP on Monday.

“The Quran says if you have a mission to complete, you can postpone the fasting but you must replace the number of days you did not fast.” Eleven out of the 30 Malaysian athletes going to London are Muslim. One of Malaysia’s top medal prospects, cyclist Azizulhasni Awang, who won silver at the 2009 track cycling world championships, is among the athletes who will put off fasting, Malaysian media reported this week.

Sieh Kok Chi, secretary of the Olympic Council of Malaysia, also said Olympic athletes should not fast while competing. “It is a once in their lifetime chance to participate in the Olympics. They should opt out from fasting for one or two days so that they stand a chance of winning a medal,” he told AFP. Malaysia will compete in nine sports in London, with Muslims taking part in archery, cycling, shooting, sailing and track and field. Shooter Nur Suryani Mohamad Taibi, who will compete in London despite being eight months pregnant, is excused from fasting since she is expecting, but said all Muslims should be excused from fasting during competition.

AFP Photo/William West

File photo shows cyclist Azizulhasni Awang (C), Malaysia’s flag bearer, parading with his delegation at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening ceremony.

Emmert hopes Penn State penalties send message Associated Press Writer

INDIANAPOLIS — Slow.

Toothless. Tone deaf to the real problems in college sports. The NCAA has heard such criticisms for years. In punishing the Penn State football program with an unprecedented series of sanctions, President Mark Emmert said he hopes the NCAA has served notice

that a win-at-all-costs mentality in major college football won’t be tolerated.

This has been a theme for the former University of Washington president since he got the job in October 2010 and scandal after scandal hit the headlines, from Auburn to Miami and State College, Pa. Yet the NCAA does not plan

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US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at an Independence Day celebration in Washington, DC on July 4.

Gua Lawah or Bat Cave is one of favorite places of interest in Bali and it is located near of hilly bank so it is called reef of Middle hill. This cave is located in Pasinggahan countryside, Dawan sub district, Klungkung Regency, east part of Bali and about 1,5 hours from Denpasar Town. There is a nature cave dwelt by thousands of tail bat located at north side from Jeroan/ center of Gua Lawah Temple . Meanwhile the main road from Klungkung to Amlapura is just in front of the temple. This cave is apposite to the beautiful beach with black sand along the coastal area.

Pursuant to the papyrus of Dwi Jendra Tattwa, the Gua Lawah’s name is Gua Lelawah, the name which is given by Danghyang Nirartha (a priest overspread the Hindu teaching in Bali) when he stop in this place on his Tirtha Yatra trips. He arrive at a cave which is a lot of bats hang on and its unbroken voice clamor as hymn to add the beauty of the cave. Therefore this cave is named by Gua Lawah/Bat Cave. On the above cave is growth by the flower trees with it’s smelt fragrance and stimulus the peace mind of Danghyang Nirartha, so that he overnight stay for some nights in this place. From the cave we see also the beautiful coast with the blue ocean with Nusa Penida Island as a backdrop.

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to overhaul its procedures for handling potential infractions.

Emmert made it clear that the $60 million fine, four-year bowl ban, scholarship reductions and more were put together largely by himself and a handful of NCAA leaders because Penn State and serial child molester Jerry Sandusky presented a unique situation.

In other words, few can imagine

anything like this happening again.

“This is a statement about this case,” Emmert said.

There was no need for the NCAA to investigate what rules were broken, a process that can take months or years. Penn State handed over the results of its investigation by former FBI Director Louis Freeh and didn’t dispute the facts. Emmert said the decision to

bypass the infractions committee and let the NCAA Executive Committee and its Division I Board of Directors decide on the penalties was not a sign of a change in the way future proceedings will go, but a sign that no investigation was necessary. “This was just a singular case that we all hope we don’t face again,” he said.

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South Korean president apologises over graft cases Agence France Presse

South Korea’s President Lee Myung-Bak apologised to the nation Tuesday for corruption cases allegedly involving his elder brother and close aides.

“I bow my head and apologise for causing concern to the people with these incidents,” a solemn Lee said in brief televised remarks.

“It breaks my heart... that such regrettable things have happened among people so close to me.”

The incidents are seen as a setback for Lee’s conservative ruling party before a presidential election in December. He himself is barred from serving a second five-year term due to constitutional limits.

Lee’s elder brother Lee Sang-Deuk was arrested and detained earlier this month pending a corruption trial.

Prosecutors allege the 76-year-old former lawmaker took 600 million won ($525,000) from the chairmen of two troubled savings banks between 2007 and 2011 in return for helping them avoid audits and punishment.

The scandal was the latest in a series of corruption cases involving people close to the president, whose term ends in February 2013.

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James Holmes appears in court at the Arapahoe County Justice Center in Centennial, Colorado. Holmes, 24, is accused of shooting dead 12 people and wounding 58 others at a cinema Friday in Aurora, outside Denver, as young moviegoers packed the midnight screening of the latest Batman film, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Questions linger in wake of Batman massacre Agence France Presse

Of the many questions left in the wake of Friday’s shooting rampage in Colorado during a Batman movie premiere, one stands out: why did the presumed perpetrator choose not to take his own life? Suicide is often the final act in a mass killing like the one John Holmes is presumed to have carried out. It’s what happened in Montreal in 1989, Dunblane, Scotland in 1996, Columbine in 1999 and Virginia Tech in 2007, among others.

Yet after 12 people were killed and 58 wounded at a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises,” Holmes, 24, put up no resistance when he was arrested -clad in body armor -- in the cinema parking lot in Aurora city. “You have to wonder, was it redemption?

Or 11th-hour remorse? Or does he need a platform” to espouse some kind of manifesto, Frank Farley, a psychologist and professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, told AFP. The fact that Holmes chose not to kill himself, or to engage in a desperate shoot-out with police, “does seem an odd component of this particular case,” added Allen McConnell, a psychology professor at Miami University in Ohio. “His being alive might provide some insights” into the complicated web of factors and circumstances that can potentially lead someone to carry out a mass killing, he told AFP. Dressed in a maroon prison jumpsuit, and with a shock of dyed orange hair, Holmes appeared

vacant Monday at his first court appearance, his eyes in turns staring blankly or drooping shut as if he was about to sleep. Profiles in US media described Holmes, a native of San Diego, California, as a loner who rarely if ever exchanged hellos with neighbors in his apartment building in Aurora.

If there were any points of friction with his parents, family lawyer Lisa Damiani refused to discuss them. “The family has elected not to discuss James or a relationship with James at this time,” she told reporters in San Diego. Jessica Cade, 23, an undergraduate with Holmes at the University of California in Riverside, remembered Holmes as “a very nice guy... very, very smart; a little weird, kind of like you’d expect a really smart guy to be.”

But a graduate student who oversaw Holmes’ internship at a Salk Institute computer laboratory at the University of California in San Diego disagreed that he was especially intelligent.

“His grades were mediocre. I’ve

heard him described as brilliant.

This is extremely inaccurate,” doctoral candidate John Jacobson told the Los Angeles Times. Holmes was enrolled as a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado, living on a $26,000 a year grant from the National Institutes of Health for promising neuroscientists, university officials said.

But in June he inexplicably withdrew from his demanding fouryear program after facing a panel of professors for an oral exam and reportedly failing, Denver television station KMGH-TV said.

“I think his college experience is very important for us to analyze,” said Farley, a former president of the American Psychological Association who knew one of four scholars slain at the University of Iowa in 1991 by a student who then committed suicide.

“It could be an ingredient (among many contributing factors) that he began to feel rejected,” he said, noting the intense pressure that any doctoral program involves.

Australia drops Guantanamo memoirs case Agence France Presse

Australia on Tuesday dropped a case against ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks over a memoir about his time in the US-run jail, which it had launched under laws that ban people profiting from crime.

Federal prosecutors launched proceedings against Hicks, 36, in the Supreme Court last year seeking to have the earnings from his autobiography, “Guantanamo: My Journey” declared criminal proceeds seizable by the state.

But government counsel Lionel Robberds said the director of public prosecutions had decided to withdraw the case which reportedly centred on Aus$10,000 (US$10,200) from the sale of 30,000 books. “The director considered that advice and other advice and yesterday decided that he should not continue with these proceedings,” Robberds told the court.

Hicks was returned to Australia in April 2007 following a plea deal which saw him serve a nine-month sentence on home soil for providing material support for terrorism, after five-and-a-half years in Guantanamo.

The former cattleman, once dubbed the “Aussie Taliban”, told reporters outside court that the withdrawal of the case showed that prosecutors “have no evidence that I’ve committed any crime”.

“In a way I feel that this has cleared my name and I hope now that the Australian government acknowledges that Guantanamo Bay and everything connected with it is illegal,” he said.

“I’ve always felt that it’s always been political -- whether back in the days of Guantanamo Bay, and now I’ve been out for four years and we’re still going -- and there’s been some closure to that today.”

Hicks had welcomed the case as a chance to challenge his conviction by the US Military Commission “in a real court”, and legal watchers had seen it as a potential test of the quasi-judicial Guantanamo system.

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Unfortunately, the first babies died a few days after given a ring on August 25, 2011 at 4:26 p.m. Although it was difficult to keep the baby birds, the breeders were not discouraged. Even, the experience had made them more careful to take care of the babies. So far, the Manuk Jegeg group could have bred 13 squealers scattered through 12 breeders. Those birds had added the population of Bali starling in the captivity and the wild. “It is really difficult to take care of them. But due to hard work of our members, we continue to learn and can look after the squealers. Now, the development is very good,” he explained.

On the other hand, Istiyarto said the recent population of Bali starling in the breeding was estimated to reach thousand birds. Meanwhile, in the wild their number attained 115 adults and 62 squealers. These populations lived in their natural habitat in the West Bali National Park and Nusa Penida.

Having successfully bred the Bali starling, the Manuk Jegeg group then planned to file a distribution license to KSDA Bali. “If there is no obstacle, we will submit the proposal this month. Hopefully, we can get the license,” he explained. (kmb)

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INDONESIA Freeport Indonesia agrees partial IPO: minister Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia said Monday the local subsidiary of US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan was willing to sell a stake on Jakarta’s stock market, but had not agreed to divest the majority share the government sought.

Indonesian authorities announced a new law in March cutting maximum foreign ownership in mining companies from 80 percent to less than half, in a bid to keep a larger portion of revenues from the country’s vast natural resources.

Freeport Indonesia’s Grasberg project in the restive province of Papua is the world’s biggest gold and second-biggest copper mine, employing more than 20,000 people.

“They (Freeport Indonesia) agreed to divest a stake, but there’s no agreement on the 51 percent that we requested,” Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa told reporters.

“I have asked them to divest via an initial public offering (IPO) in Indonesia and they agreed.”

Freeport Indonesia said it has agreed to sell 9.36 percent of its share.

“We agree to sell a stake, but at the moment we only agreed to 9.36 percent,” a Freeport Indonesia spokesman told AFP. “Freeport-McMoRan have offered 9.36 percent of Freeport Indonesia’s shares in Indocopper Investama to the Indonesian government.” Indocopper Investama is the Freeport subsidiary that owns and operates Grasberg mine.

“The government has offered them to the local government

of Papua which has showed interest. IPO is an option,” the spokesman added.

Freeport Indonesia’s US parent company owns the vast majority of the firm.

Earlier this month, Freeport Indonesia president Rozik Soetjipto was quoted saying an IPO was being “considered” by the company.

“The IPO would be good for Freeport Indonesia,” he told the Jakarta Globe newspaper, adding that it would make the company “more accountable and transparent”.

The new regulation obliges foreigners to reduce their holdings to below 50 percent by selling shares to Indonesians over a 10-year period, but only applies to new mining concessions.

Rajasa said he “cannot force” Freeport to sell such a stake in its local subsidiary as there was no requirement to do so in its original contract.

Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, has some of the world’s biggest untapped mineral reserves, including tin, nickel, copper and gold.

A three-month strike over wages and work conditions a t t h e G r a s b e rg m i n e l a s t year turned violent, with at least eight people killed in ambush attacks and clashes with police. The strike ended in December.

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The government is urged to provide incentives for development of electric cars to be included in the policy of “low carbon emission project” (LCEP).

Incentives called for electric car Antara

JAKARTA - The government is urged to provide incentives for development of electric cars to be included in the policy of “low carbon emission project” (LCEP).

Minister for state enterprises Dahlan Iskan has said the country will launch its first electric cars next year.

Leading automotive observer Suhari Sargo said in order to attract investors, the government needs to offer attractive incentives .

“If successful, the national car product will be the trend setter for development of cars with low emission to support the LCEP program,” Suhari said here on Monday.

He said the success in the implementation of the project will depend much on the availability of components locally.

In addition, there should be after sales service to be provided by producers, he said.

Marketing is not easy as most people still favor conventional cars

with the availability of supporting facilities , he added.

Electric cars could be the second alternative especially for use for city transport, he said.

The opportunity for electric cars in the market is open with more expensive fuel for conventional cars, he said.

Dahlan said earlier mass production of electric cars will need new regulation to be ready this year including on motor vehicle license, certificate of ownership and tax.

The Olympic delegation from Indonesia arrives for the a flag raising ceremony at the Olympic Village in east London on July 23, 2012 four days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

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The agency lowered the outlook for the German economy to “negative” from “stable” -- along with a similar move for the Netherlands and Luxembourg -- sending a stark warning that no economy is immune from the eurozone crisis.

Moody’s said that the three AAA-rated countries faced risks from the increased prospect of Greece leaving the eurozone and from the possible need to bail out Spain and Italy.

“The level of uncertainty about the outlook for the euro area, and the potential impact of plausible scenarios on member states, are no longer consistent with stable outlooks,” it said.

The ratings agency pointed to a “reactive and gradualist policy response” by European leaders as one cause for continued concern.

But even if Greece survives, Moody’s warned that richer nations would likely shoulder more burdens going forward, including the possibility of bailing out large eurozone members.

“The continued deterioration in Spain and Italy’s macroeconomic and funding environment has increased the risk that they will require some kind of external support.”

That would send the eurozone crisis to a different level.

“Spain’s economy and government bond market is around double the combined size of those of Greece, Portugal and Ireland,” Moody’s said referring to the three already bailed-out eurozone nations. Moody’s also announced that Finland’s AAA rating and outlook were unchanged.

When releasing the Bali regional economic report, Deputy BI in Denpasar Sunarto said the reduction in tuna exports to Japan had a significant impact on foreign exchange earnings in the fisheries sector.

The export of fish and lobsters to Japan has also decreased by 14.67 percent.

Therefore, Bali’s non-oil foreign exchange earnings in the first quarter has declined 3.3 percent year-on-year, reaching only US$143.55 million, with export volume at 30,500 tonnes.

Meanwhile, Putu Bagiada of Bali Trade and Industry confirmed a decline of 7.59 percent in foreign exchange earnings during the January-May 2012 period.

Fish seller waiting for buyer in Kedonganan market.

The Bank of Indonesia’s representative office in Denpasar has reported that Bali’s in the first half of 2012 have declined due to diminishing catch from the high seas.

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French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen Chairman, Philippe Varin, answers journalists’ questions after a meeting with French Prime Minister at the Hotel Matignon on July, 23, 2012 in Paris, two days before the presentation of a government plan to support the automotive industry.

Peugeot head meets French PM ahead of car sector shake-up

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PARIS - The head of struggling carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen met with Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Monday ahead of the government’s announcement of a major shake-up of France’s car sector.

Phillipe Varin repeated his promise that the firm would do its best to find alternatives for the 8,000 workers it plans to lay off and to save its historic Aulnay plant north of Paris.

Varin told reporters after the meeting that he had “made the commitment that each worker finds a solution to his employment

problem” and said none would be brutally let go.

Peugeot, the biggest French carmaker and second in Europe to Germany’s Volkswagen, came under fire after announcing this month plans to cut the 8,000 jobs and to possibly close the Aulnay plant because of falling European sales.

The job cuts dealt a blow to President Francois Hollande’s efforts to get France’s economy back on track amid concerns the country could be heading for a recession after an expected contraction in the second quarter.

The government has named an

expert to look at Peugeot’s finances and will on Wednesday announce a programme to reboot the automobile sector -- including “massive support” for high-tech and environmentally friendly vehicles.

Earlier Monday, Peugeot said it had reached a deal to provide Japan’s Toyota with light commercial vehicles for sale in Europe.

The two firms said in a statement that PSA will provide Toyota with medium-sized vans derived from its existing vehicles and the two companies will then work together on developing a new generation of vehicles.

Rich Latin Americans hid ‘$2 trillion’ in tax havens

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SAO PAULO - The wealthiest people in 33 Latin American and Caribbean nations stashed more than $2 trillion of assets in offshore tax havens between 1970 and 2010, an independent tax-transparency group has said.

The British-based Tax Justice Network (TJN) said in a report released Sunday that the exact figure, $2.058 trillion, compares with a combined foreign debt of $1.01 tril-

lion for those countries.

The report, written James Henry, former chief economist at McKinsey & Company, the global management consulting firm, estimated that $21$32 trillion in unrecorded wealth is stashed in such tax havens as Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.

The survey notably looked at the unrecorded capital flows, offshore assets and offshore earnings of wealthy individuals in 33 of the 40 countries that make up the Latin American and Caribbean region,

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DENPASAR - The Bank of Indonesia’s representative office in Denpasar has reported that Bali’s in the first half of 2012 have declined due to diminishing catch from the high seas.

Outlook for German economy ‘negative’: Moody’s WASHINGTON - Moody’s lowered its assessment of the German economy on Monday, taking a first step toward a full credit rating downgrade for Europe’s largest and most pivotal market.

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during the 1970-2010 period.

Rich Brazilians were found to have placed $519.5 billion in offshore tax havens, ranking fourth in the world after their counterparts from China ($1.2 trillion), Russia and South Korea (each with $779 billion).

In Latin America, the Brazilians were followed by Mexicans ($417.5 billion), Venezuelans ($405 billion), Argentinians (399.1 billion) while counterparts from 29 other regional countries stashed a combined $316.4 billion.

Those offshore assets compared with 2010 foreign debts of $324.5 billion for Brazil, $186.4 billion for Mexico, $129.6 billion for Argentina, $55.7 billion for Venezuela and a total of $317.3 billion for the 29 other countries.

According to Henry, those assets are “protected by a highly paid, industrious bevy of professional enablers in the private banking, legal, accounting and investment industries taking advantage of the increasingly borderless, frictionless

global economy”.

The report, titled “Inequality: You don’t know the half of it: Or why inequality is worse then we thought”, found that the top 10 private banks managed more than $6 trillion in 2010, up from $2.3 trillion five years earlier.

Henry based his findings on data from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Bank of International Settlements, a body which coordinates financial services regulations.

Labuan Aji Temple

Having Relation to Majapahit Kingdom

Indeed, Buleleng Regency retains many ancient temples which constantly exude strong vibration and magical nuance amidst the modern times. One of the temples is the Labuan Aji located at Temukus customary village, Banjar subdistrict. Almost every day, the temple situated on the edge of SeriritSingaraja road section is visited by Hindus from different parts of Bali and beyond Bali to perform prayers whereas the temple anniversary falls on the full moon of the fourth month (Kapat) in Balinese calendar.

The age and magical power of Labuan Aji Temple can be seen from its distinctive architecture and carvings. Its walls are still made of ancient stones engraved with carving style of Northern Bali. Big trees such as banyan tree and other coastal trees still look well maintained and shade the temple area.

Meanwhile, the overlay of swamps and vacant land stretches next to the temple to the north down to the sea sand.

Jero Mangku Made Mantra who is almost in charge in the temple every day said pujawali or anniversary of the temple fell on full moon of the fourth month in Balinese calendar (around SeptemberOctober). However, there were Hindus saying prayers every day, especially on Pagerwesi, Galungan and Kuningan. As consequence, it resulted in long queue in the temple.

To facilitate the Hindus performing the prayers, the supporting devotees then established a representative

shrine on the road side. On that account, people passing through on the Singaraja-Seririt road section usually stopped there to worship for safety in their journey.

For devotees who wanted to say prayers more solemnly, they usually came into the temple area not far from the road. In the temple, Jero Mangku Made Mantra was ready to provide guidance and lead them to say prayers. “Every day, there are people worshipping here. Some of them usually invoke safety, while others pray for specific request like recovery from illness or job opportunity,” said Jero Mangku Made Mantra in a very fine Balinese language.

According to Jero Mantra, the innermost courtyard of the temple had a number of shrines like that of Lord Shakti, Lord Tulak Sanjata and Lord Taksu. Interestingly, in the outermost courtyard could also be found some shrines so that it gave impression if the temple was surrounded by many small shrines.

“The temple has three main shrines in the innermost courtyard, while in the outermost courtyard there are a number of auxiliary shrines,” he said.

Only few people knew in detail about the history of the Labuan Aji Temple. However, based on the records in the profile of Temukus Village was known if the establishment of Labuan Aji Temple had association with the establishment of Melanting Temple in West Buleleng. Mentioned, when the

deity from Majapahit traveled to Bali, he dropped by at Temukus after making his time to stop in Pulaki. When resuming the journey eastwards, the deity of Majapahit reached the Karang Kripit (Karang Upit). There, he was picked up by Teja Kukus. He was invited to have a promenade to see the situation of the village. Teja Kukus was then

sought by his father and was found to unwind with the son of the deity.

Then the son of the deity named the village Temukus and worshipped a temple, the Labuan Aji Temple.

Spiritually, the Labuan Aji Temple also related to temples located in the vicinity of Lake Tamblingan venerated by four customary villages (namely the Munduk, Gobleg,

Gesing and Umajero). As evidence, when the four villages held a series of ceremony in the temple at Lake Tamblingan, they usually ended with melasti procession to Labuan Aji Temple. By and large, devotees of the four villages performed the ceremony for about three days in the temple and on the beach around the temple. (BTN/kmb)

Indeed, Buleleng Regency retains many ancient temples which constantly exude strong vibration and magical nuance amidst the modern times. One of the temples is the Labuan Aji located at Temukus customary village, Banjar subdistrict

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One of the farmers in the Subak Nyanglan, Mangku Pageh, when met at location on Monday (Jul 23) admitted the farmland at Subak Nyanglan consisting of three sub-groups (Buduk, Linmas and Tagtag) had not been getting any water since a week. According to him, it was the impact of irrigation project in the upstream area. More seriously, of the 79 hectares of farmland at Subak Nyanglan, 8 hectares did not get water at all. “The water does not reach the southern area of Subak Bukbuk whereas the area is also in need of water,” he said.

Accompanied by Nyoman Karuk, Mangku Pageh said if he had crop failures for three times. However, there was no attention at all from the subak chief.

Moreover, so far the assistance obtained was not explained transparently. The farmers were even asked to buy the seed assistance, including the organic fertilizer whereas the seed and fertilizer assistance were given by the government. “So far, we are consistently asked to buy seeds and fertilizer,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the Subak Chief, Nyoman Karca, when asked for his confirmation he did not deny if the water had not flowed into the subak area for a week. He also added if there was an irrigation project under progress in the upstream area.

But, Karca denied if there was no notice to subak members related to the project.

Even, Karca had socialized it through a meeting with the subak members. “As a matter of fact, the irrigation project set to be worked on since June 20. We have informed the farmers if we are difficult to get water. However, the farmers were desperate to plant rice,” he said.

How about the assistance assumed not transparent? According to Karca, his party even had told the farmers about the assistance from the government like the assistance of crop failure given by the regency government worth IDR 60 million in 2011. According to Karca, the assistance had been handed over to farmers to finance the establishment of subak temple. “It has also been agreed by the farmers. If distributed to each member, it would be uneven. Therefore, it was used for the construction of subak temple,” he said.

Meanwhile, related to the fertilizers and seed assistance, Karca explained that Subak Nyanglan was only helped for some 25 hectares by regency government.

He said the assistance was not sufficient for all members, either. Therefore, he as the subak chief with the members had an initiative to sell it at half the price so that other farmers could get it. “Likewise, the fertilizer assistance was also given double subsidy. Therefore, to cover the financing, it was also sold so that all the farmers got it,” he said. (119)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney hosts a small-business roundtable during a campaign stop at Endural LLC, Monday, July 23, 2012, in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Romney focusing on military and foreign policy

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RENO, Nev. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is moving away from his preferred issue — the economy — and into military and foreign policy, a realm usually viewed as the home turf of the incumbent.

The farmer is working on his rice field in Subak Nyangelan

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Fraud case increasing at Sanglah Hospital Robbery caught on CCTV Loss reach IDR 10 million Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Fraud cases seem to keep happening at Sanglah Hospital on Monday (27/3) as securities admitted to have received seven cases of fraud with the same motive. The seven panic victims came one by one to ask if their family member is critically ill treated in Sanglah Hospital and needed fund transferred. The case were many such as traffic accidents up to school incidents. One of the victim was Sunarno family who lives at Gunung Agung Street who received their father was in a car accident. According to their son, Denot, he works as a screen print person who goes around to clients and never brought a phone with him.

Denot admitted that the man who called his mother stated the father is critically ill and needs IDR 14 million to be transferred. Luckily they didn’t believe it and went to Sanglah Hospital to check it first. Turns out there was no patient named Sunarno then when family tried to contact the person again it was no longer active.

“Even though they panicked they didn’t transfer the money straight away and checked it first to Sanglah Hospital,” the worker stated.

Director of Medical and Treatment Services of Sanglah Hospital, A.A.N. Jaya Kusuma, Sp.OG. when met on Monday (23/7) admitted that their side have received reports of people that got fraud using Sanglah Hospital’s name. For that, Sanglah

Hospital confirms again that Sanglah Hospital never asked for payment in the beginning of treatment as patients are treated first then administration is taken care when patients are allowed to go home. Kusuma suggested if there are any phone calls saying that their family member was being treated at Sanglah Hospital and asked to transfer an amount of money, public shouldn’t respond to it. “Better check it first to Sanglah Hospital and not to transfer the money straight away. Before we did a system of phoning the patient’s family to give information that their family member is being treated and asked the family to come to the hospital but not transferring the fee of treatment,” Kusuma clarified. (san)

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

Shop robbery is happening again with this time at Jaya Mart II, Glogor Carik Street No. 24, South Denpasar, last Monday (23/7). The robbers went in by breaking the ceiling and caught in CCTV yet their faces can’t be seen as the lights inside and outside the shop got off.

Due to it, owner of shop Kadek Sari Primawati (30) is experiencing loss IDR 10 million.

The robbery case has been reported to South Denpasar Police which the identification police have investigated the crime scene

and checked witnesses although it is still unknown who have done it. The CCTV has also been confiscated even though it is blurry.

From the recording it is shown that the robber acts alone by 2.38 am local time by breaking the ceiling three times. Robber then went to the saving cupboard and took IDR 5 million. Not only had that robber also taken some shop’s goods such as vouchers and cigarettes totaling loss of IDR 10 million. Primawati only knew it by 7 am local time and was shocked by the cupboard key damaged. (kmb21)

Romney’s address Tuesday to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars comes on the eve of an overseas visit to key allies. Aides say the former Massachusetts governor will outline to veterans his view that President Barack Obama has relinquished U.S. leadership around the world.

Obama sought to raise the stakes for Romney’s speech with remarks

Monday at the VFW convention, casting himself as a steady commander in chief tested by two wars and the successful raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. The president was continuing a Western campaign swing with appearances Tuesday in Oregon and Washington.

While raising money in California on Monday, Romney offered

a preview of his latest critique of Obama, telling about 400 supporters at a hotel in Irvine that “the consequence of American weakness is seen around us in the world.”

However, Obama touted his record as one of promises kept: End the war in Iraq, wind down the conflict in Afghanistan and go after the al-Qaida leader behind the 9/11 attacks.

Without naming Romney, Obama indirectly suggested his opponent would have kept troops in Iraq indefinitely and criticized him for opposing the president’s 2014 timeline for withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Farmers of Subak Nyangelan in Banjarangkan, Klungkung, now start to scream. It occurs because their land planted with rice has not been getting any water since a week. Moreover, it is also triggered by condition of discontinuous water supply to their farmland due to the irrigation project under progress in the upstream area. As a result, dozens of hectares of paddy plants of 41 days old belonging to farmers are at risk of facing crop failure due to the drought.

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BEIJING - Chinese President Hu Jintao has called for unity in the ruling Communist Party and unflinching backing for economic reforms in the face of “unprecedented challenges”, as Beijing struggles with a scandal-hit leadership transition and economic slowdown.

Hu’s speech to dozens of top officials dominated the front pages of China’s major state-run newspapers on Tuesday, a sign of its importance in setting the themes for a party congress late this year that will install a new generation of leaders.

Using jargon-laden political slogans, Hu laid out two themes likely to dominate the congress: a call for conformity after the contentious dismissal of one-time leadership contender Bo Xilai; and a defense of Hu’s efforts to shift the economy to more balanced, equitable growth driven by domestic consumption.

“We confront unprecedented opportunities and also confront unprecedented challenges,” Hu said in the speech given to officials on Monday.

“We must unwaveringly take the correct course pioneered by the party and the people over a long period, and neither flinch in the face of any dangers nor be distracted by any interference,” he said.

Hu did not mention the downfall of Bo, the ambitious party chief of Chongqing in southwest China who was ousted in March over a scandal centered on accusations that Bo’s wife killed a British businessman. Nor did Hu lay out new policies.

But Hu, 69, made clear that he sees keeping up economic growth and sharing more gains from that growth with workers and farmers -- a theme he has labeled his “scientific outlook on development” -- as his major political legacy and a policy that his successors must also follow.

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China’s President Hu Jintao waves upon arrival for a group photo session during the opening ceremony for the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing July 19, 2012.

US warns Syria against using chemical weapons Agence France Presse

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Syrian rebels hunt for snipers after attacking the municipality building in the city center of Selehattin, near Aleppo, during fights between rebels and Syrian troops.

US President Barack Obama has warned Syrian strongman Bashar alAssad it would be a “tragic mistake” to unleash chemical weapons, after Damascus admits it has a stockpile and will use them if attacked.

The warning, a first admission by the Syrian regime that it has weapons of mass destruction, came as regime troops reclaimed to control most of Damascus after a week of heavy clashes.

Fighting was still raging in the country’s second city of Aleppo where rebels claimed to have captured several districts, and activists said at least 52 people, including

24 civilians, were killed in violence across Syria.

At a Damascus news conference Monday, foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said Syria has chemical weapons and will use them if attacked by outsiders, though not against its own civilians.

Makdissi’s remarks came amid growing international concern that Damascus is preparing to deploy its chemical arsenal in the repression of a 16-month uprising against the Assad regime.

“Syria will not use any chemical or other unconventional weapons against its civilians, and will only use them in case of external aggression,” Makdissi told reporters.

“Any stocks of chemical weapons that may exist, will never, ever be used against the Syrian people,” he said, adding that in the event of foreign attack, “the generals will be deciding when and how we use them.”

President Obama responded swiftly, warning Assad not to make the “tragic mistake” of deciding to unleash his stockpile of chemical weapons.

“Given the regime’s stockpile of chemical weapons, we will continue to make it clear to Assad and those around him that the world is watching,” Obama told an audience of US veterans in the western US state of Nevada.

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Yves Saint Laurent rebranding unveiled online

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Cancer-causing toxin found 1st US spacewoman, in Chinese baby formula Sally Ride, pushed frontiers Agence France Presse

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A Chinese dairy has been ordered to suspend production after a cancercausing toxin was found in its infant formula, China’s quality watchdog said Monday, in the country’s latest milk scare. Ava Dairy Co. Ltd has started a recall after high levels of aflatoxin, which is caused by mould, was found in products made between July and December, the watchdog said, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

The affected formula was mainly sold to supermarkets in Hunan and Guangdong, said Li Yuanping, spokesman for China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. China is trying to crack down on product safety violations to reassure citizens and restore faith in the government after a series of high-profile scandals.

The latest case comes just a month after dairy maker Yili began recalling batches of baby formula when authorities found they contained high levels of mercury. And in December, aflatoxin was found in milk produced by another leading dairy company, Mengniu Dairy Group.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Sally Ride loved everything about space. What she didn’t like was being the first American woman to experience it.

It took years — if not decades — for her to get comfortable with her galactic status.

What drew her out was her San Diego-based education company, Sally Ride Science, which promotes science and math careers for girls and young women. She was determined to give back and she did, a thousand times over before her death of pancreatic cancer on Monday at age 61.

Ride burst onto the public stage when NASA chose her to be the nation’s first woman in space.

With her catchy space-flying name and rock-solid science credentials, Ride inspired females the world over with her historic shuttle flight in 1983, five years after she and five other women gained entry to NASA’s exclusively male astronaut club.

Some of those girls who looked up to Ride, way back when, went on to become astronauts themselves. Ride, a physicist, proved that women could be equal partners in space and that they, too, could aspire to such heights. Ride was intensely private, though, and spurned the news media.

Her astronaut ex-husband, Steve Hawley, recalled Monday how she found herself “a very public persona,” and “it was a role in which she was never fully comfortable.”

“While she never enjoyed being a celebrity, she recognized that it gave her the opportunity to encourage children, particularly young girls, to reach their full potential,” Hawley said in a statement.

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A Chinese baby drinks coconut milk mixed with water instead of baby formula in Shanghai. na’s biggest food safety scandal in 2008 when the industrial chemical melamine was found to have been illegally added to dairy products to give the appearance of higher protein content. At least six babies died and another 300,000 became ill after drinking milk tainted with melamine.

Aflatoxins can be found in milk after cows consume feed contaminated by mould and can increase the risk of cancer, including liver cancer, according to the World Health Organisation.

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Surf memorabilia and art auction raises over $12,000

Last month Hedi Slimane made the headlines when it was announced he would rename Yves Saint Laurent’s ready-to-wear line as Saint Laurent Paris, and now the first images of the rebranding have emerged online.

The new name is a nod to Saint Laurent’s move into ready-to-wear in 1966 with the collection Saint Laurent Rive Gauche.

Meanwhile, just last week Slimane revealed he may bring couture back to the label, which closed its illustrious couture house back in 2002. “Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day,” he said in an interview with the August issue of French Vogue.

Slimane will make his first big statement to the international press this September during Paris Fashion Week when he showcases his debut Spring 2013 womenswear designs for the iconic French fashion house.

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Preserving Uluwatu

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A picture of a black product box with the new branding on it appeared on the label’s official Facebook page this weekend. The box has ‘Saint Laurent’ written on it, with Paris appearing in smaller type beneath, surrounded by a simple square black frame.

Facebook fans’ reactions to the design have been mixed, with some commentators lamenting the loss of the word Yves and others showing their support for new designer Slimane. Pierre Bergé, who founded the label in 1962 along with the late Saint Laurent, previously applauded the decision as it comes alongside a series of moves to return the fashion house to its origins.

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ULUWATU - On a historic night, Rip Curl and Uluwatu Surf Villas successfully raised over $12,000 for local environmental organization Eco Surf Rescue Uluwatu (ESRU) during their surfing art and memorabilia auction on Saturday.

Over 350 guests attended the auction fundraiser, expertly hosted by SurfTime Magazine Editor-In-Chief Matt George, and held at the beautiful Uluwatu Surf Villas overlooking the Indian Ocean. All proceeds from the auction will help fund ESRU clean-up projects and environmental initiatives at world-famous Uluwatu beach, one of the greatest surf spots in the world.

Among the prized items auctioned off Saturday night was original artwork by American artist Kevin Walsh, rare collectable surfboards, and historic surfing memorabilia. The two items fetching the highest bids of the evening were the Dream Sessions, where the winning bidders get to surf the worldfamous waves at Uluwatu and Padang Padang for one hour with just a few friends. The Uluwatu surf session with

lifeguard-enforced crowd control sold for an impressive 9.1 million IDR (over $1,200 US).

The one-hour empty Padang Padang dream session fetched an impressive 15 million IDR. “We are proud to be part of such a successful event to help preserve the Island’s most famous surf spot - Uluwatu,” said Rip Curl Southeast Asia’s James Hendy. “The auction was a smashing success, both in raising money and in raising awareness about the work ESRU is doing to protect this spot.

A portion of proceeds from the sale of the Rip Curl Cup event merchandise will also be donated to ESRU, ‘Were really excited and looking forward to seeing how many T-shirts and other event merchandise we can sell during the Padang Cup,” Hendy said, “so we can add to our total contribution to ESRU. Curtis Lowe ESRU Project Manager commented - We were all there for the same reason and together we made big progress in raising the funds needed to make Uluwatu a cleaner place. We’d like to thank all the great people who came out and made it such a successful and fun night.

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Dozens of contraband dogs were successfully secured by the officers of Gilimanuk Quarantine Office on Monday (Jul 23). One of the residents from Surabaya, J. Filips, was desperate to go to Bali via Gilimanuk Harbor with a dozen of breed dogs.

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NEGARA - Dozens of contraband dogs were successfully secured by the officers of Gilimanuk Quarantine Office on Monday (Jul 23). One of the residents from Surabaya, J. Filips, was desperate to go to Bali via Gilimanuk Harbor with a dozen of breed dogs.

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FILE - In this Aug. 29, 1983 file photo, astronaut Sally Ride poses at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Caneveral, Fla. Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday, July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

In all, Ride flew just twice in space, both times aboard Challenger. A third shot at orbit vanished when the Challenger blew up. She found herself investigating the 1986 launch accident and in 2003 was back on a presidential panel looking into Columbia’s destruction during its trip back to Earth, the echoes, as she put it, coming in loud and clear.

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Kevin Walsh and one of his artwork that created during the evening of fund raised to preserve Uluwatu.

Those dogs were secured shortly after a black Daihatsu with license plate B 1558 SFW was going out of the vessel from Ketapang Harbor.

The officers who had been previously informed on the existence of illegal luggage then stopped the car together with relevant authorities.

Coordinator of the Gilimanuk Quarantine Office, Nyoman Budiarta, said on Monday that around 04:00 a.m. local time the car carrying the dogs entered into the Gilimanuk Harbor. Then, the officers stopped the car in front of identity card checkpoint and examined it.

The officers found the car carrying

seven plastic boxes with a breed dog. When the owner was asked to present the document, he could not do it.

Aside from having no document, since the beginning the entry of dogs and rabies carrier animals (HPR) to Bali had been banned. Subsequently, the dogs along with the owner were taken to the Quarantine Office. Having been examined, it was known the dogs totally amounted to 13 heads of different types. Seven of them were female dogs.

The dog carrier said he was just a driver and asked to take the dog

to the address listed on the box.

Budiarta said it was a smuggling and infringed the Article 6 of letter a and c as well as Article 9 of Law No. 16/1992, and Article 3 letter a and d of the Government Regulation No. 82/2003 on the quarantine and prohibitions against the entry of rabies carrier animals into Bali.

Until last Monday, the authority of Quarantine Office was still tracing the dog owners and checking up the dog health. “We continue the process, and then we will be able to decide whether the dogs will be eliminated or rejected,” he concluded. (kmb26)

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Recipients of rice for the poor in Bali increase

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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The cowded Legian Street in Kuta where many night clubs located.

Complained, a discotheque on Jalan Dewi Sri Mangupura (Bali Post)—

Pyramid Discotheque on Jalan Dewi Sri, Legian, was complained by residents. It happened because since the first operation in early 2012, it was frequently opened until 4:00 a.m. local time. Not only that, it was also alleged to have no permits. A number of residents complained to the legislator of Badung regarding this issue.

“Pyramid Discotheque is very disturbing the neighborhood because the pounding music is audible everywhere, even it is open up to 04:00 in the morning every day. It is extremely disturbing the residents living around Jalan Dewi Sri and Legian LC denoting a residential area. Complaint of the residents has taken place since it was opened. Some people even came to my home to ask for clarity about the discotheque such as Mr. Sukadegeng and Mr. Angrok. They complained because their house was adjacent to the discotheque,” said a Badung legislator from Legian, I Wayan Puspa Negara, on

Monday (Jul 23).

In response to the complaint of the residents, Puspa Negara claimed to have contacted the Badung Government Tourism Office. Based on the explanation of the Tourism Office it was known if the discotheque had not held any licenses, such as the building permit, disturbance permit, business location permit, environmental impact analysis permit as well as operational permit.

He said further, the area on Jalan Dewi Sri and its surroundings belonged to the area of service industry, trade and settlement. In

other words, in terms of Regional Spatial Planning (RTRW), it was not intended for discotheque area.

“On that account, normatively the discotheque business does not comply with the provisions of law and socio-culture of the community. Therefore, it is very worth closing for the sake of public order,” he said.

To confirm the licensing of the discotheque, Bali Post attempted to contact the Head of Badung Government Tourism Office, Tjok Raka Darmawan. Unfortunately, he could not be contacted via his cell phone until Monday night. (kmb25)

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In June 2012, recipient of the rice for the poor (raskin) in Bali showed an increase up to 46,058 households. The Bali Logistic Agency recorded the number of household target (RTS) of the rice recipient in that period reached 180,862 households from 134,804 households previously.

Secretary of the Bali Logistic Agency working unit, Nyoman Karta, said the increasing number of poor households was based on the result of data adjustment by Central Statistics Agency (BPS) on the poor households. It was then used as a basic reference by the government to establish the residents that were eligible to receive rice for the poor.

“We got the data from BPS Bali. We in the Logistic Agency only see service to distribute the rice for the poor. With the increasing number of recipients, the allocation of rice to poor household will also increase from 2,022 tons to 2,712 tons per month,” Nyoman Karta said on Monday (Jul 23).

According to him, the data indicated that only two regencies in Bali whose number of the poor household decreasing, namely the Bangli and Karangasem Regency. In Bangli Regency, the poor household amounted to 13,451, and then decreased to 11,889.

“Then, Karangasem Regency showed a decrease to 26,787 households from 35,921 households. Other than these regencies, all showed an increase in the number of poor household,” he said.

He said the increase in the number of poor household in Bali happened because there was a target expansion by the central government and it should be re-classified. Based on the rules, the people targeted to receive the rice for the poor were classified into four, namely very poor, poor, almost poor and vulnerable to be poor.

“Previously, there was no category of vulnerable to be poor. On that account, recipient of the rice for the poor showed an increase,” he affirmed. Nyoman Karta explained the rice distribution had not run perfectly because it was still in adjustment phase, though it was enacted in June 2012. Besides, there were regencies showing an increase and decrease.

“In this July, the rice for the poor is still experiencing difficulty in terms of its distribution. It still requires further adjustment because there are families who no longer get the rice for the poor,” he said.

He added that each household was eligible to receive as much as 15 kg of rice for the poor at the price of IDR 1,600 per kg. Meanwhile, the number rice distributed to poor households in June 2012 reached 1,553 tons. However, of the amount distributed, the Logistic Agency still had receivables amounting to IDR 1.8 billion.

“We still have arrears, but will not last long. I have confidence it can be settled before this yearend,” said Nyoman Karta while adding the rice stock was still enough and reaching 19,313 tons in December. (kmb27)

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Grand Opening of Ananta Legian Hotel

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The four-star Ananta Hotel Legian was officially inaugurated on Wednesday night (Jul 18). Grand Opening of the hotel located at Jalan Werkudara 539 Legian Bali was characterized by the beating of gong and the signing of inscription by the Regent of Badung represented by the Head of Badung Government Tourism Office, Cok Raka Darmawan.

In his speech, Raka Darmawan stated that existence of Ananta Legian Hotel would offer an alternative for tourists who wanted to spend holidays in Bali comfortably. Moreover, the tourist visit to the Island of the Gods would increase in 2015, so that it would be required the adequate supporting and accommodation facilities.

General Manager of Ananta Legian Hotel, Christian Gumala, on the occasion said that Ananta Legian Hotel put a great emphasis on the harmony of traditional aesthetics, philosophy of classical Balinese life style and modern facilities. The hotel with 175 rooms featured a different concept of warm, exciting and relaxing hideaway in the center of Legian, Bali.

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.

The woker is moving the rice to the warehouse.

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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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‘Dark Knight’ earns $160.9M in wake of tragedy Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — “The Dark Knight Rises” earned a sizeable $160.9 million over the weekend, making it the biggest 2-D opening ever, but falling slightly below expectations following the mass shooting at a Colorado screening of the Batman film. Warner Bros. said Monday that the final installment of director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy earned $160,887,295.

The debut makes “The Dark Knight Rises” the biggest 2-D opening ever ahead of its 2008 predecessor, “The Dark Knight.” It also gives the movie the third-largest opening after the 3-D films “The Avengers” with $207.4 million and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2” with $169.2 million.

Despite the impressive $160.9 million opening, “The Dark Knight Rises” fell somewhat below box office expectations going into the weekend, which ranged from $170 million to $200 million.

“Clearly, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ was on everyone’s minds,” said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for Hollywood.com

who specializes in box office. “I think the American public showed they were not going to be sacred away from the movie theater by the actions of a lunatic.”

Dergarabedian called the film’s opening “extremely impressive given the tragic events that unfolded on Friday.”

“Dark Knight Rises” earned $19.1 million alone from IMAX screenings.

Tickets for 3-D and IMAX films cost a few more dollars than 2-D screenings, netting extra cash at the box office. Movies released in 3-D typically earn under half of their income in 3-D screenings, sometimes as little as a third.

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versal and Lionsgate joined “Dark Knight Rises” distributor Warner Bros. in publicly withholding their usual revenue reports this weekend until Monday. They did so out of respect for the victims and their families after the mass shooting that left 12 dead and 58 wounded at a midnight screening of the movie in Aurora, Colo.

Following behind “Dark Knight Rises” in the No. 2 spot was “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” the animated Fox film which dropped 56 percent in its second weekend to $20.4 million, and the Sony superhero reboot “The Amazing SpiderMan,” which earned $10.9 million during its third weekend at the box office, in the No. 3 position.

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This undated film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Tom Hardy as Bane in a scene from the action thriller “The Dark Knight Rises.

Mariah Carey joins ‘American Idol’ as new judge

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Mariah Carey will join “American Idol” as a judge next season, Fox announced Monday, bringing her star power to the show that remains a ratings leader but has seen its viewership and pop culture status diminish. “I am so excited to be joining ‘Idol,’” said Carey, addressing the Television Critics Association via Fox entertainment chief Kevin Reilly’s cellphone, which he put on speakerphone for the hotel ballroom meeting.

She couldn’t be on hand with the group because “this kind of all just happened really quickly,” Carey said in her brief remarks. “I can’t wait to get started in the fall ... and I will see you in January.” The show, which saw judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez exit at the end of last season, will be back on the air for season 12 in January.

Reilly called Carey “the biggest recording artist that any of these (talent) shows has ever had,” adding that she was the “artist that many of these contestants have tried to emulate, have tried some of the songs, have tried to hit the notes.”

Playing the drama up, Reilly placed a call to Carey and put her on speaker. “Hi, Mariah. How are you? It’s Kevin,” he said.

“We do have a deal, don’t we? Yes!” Reilly said he was “thrilled” to confirm reports that Carey was being courted by Fox and said the deal was freshly signed within the last few hours.

The Grammy-winning pop star is receiving just shy of $18 million a year for a one-year contract with a renewal option,

according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The person, lacking authority to discuss the matter publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity.

The exit of Tyler and Lopez left original judge Randy Jackson and started a guessing game about potential replacements, with Carey at the top of the list.

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Population of Bali starling in the forest of West Bali National Park (TNBB) has been increasingly alarming lately. Estimated, the bird population in their habitat now only consists of 115 adult birds and 62 squealers.

Apprehensive condition

Residents breed Bali starling Bali Post

SINGARAJA - Population of Bali starling in the forest of West Bali National Park (TNBB) has been increasingly alarming lately. Estimated, the bird population in their habitat now only consists of 115 adult birds and 62 squealers.

Amidst such condition, the villagers of Sumberklampok, Gerokgak subdistrict, bordering with the area of TNBB breed the Bali starling.

The endeavor of residents coalesced into the Manuk Jegeg group got per-

mission from the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) of Bali in March 2011.

Secretary of the Manuk Jegeg group, Istiyarto Ismu, on Monday (Jul 23) told that after the BKSDA

issued the breeding license his members made a simple cage.

To build the cage, he spent some IDR 2 million to IDR 7 million.

Afterward, the Manuk Jegeg group proposed to borrow the parents of Bali starling to the Association of Bali Starling Conserver (APCB) and Surabaya Zoo. As planned, the group borrowed 30 parents, but only 15 pairs of brood stock were approved and they were commended in the captivity of TNBB.

Armed with those brood stocks, they could produce 13 young birds.

The first babies hatched on July 26, 2011. The babies were first looked after on August 7, 2011 or exactly 12 days after hatching. “When the first squealers hatched, we did not have any experience in caring for the squealers of Bali starling. So, we attempted to take care of them in a way we got from a number of references,” he said.

Istiyarto added the baby birds just taken from their parents were

transferred into a cage finely made of coconut fibers arranged in such a way so as to resemble a bird nest.

Babies of the Bali starling were then placed in a box with five-watt light bulb serving as a warmer.

Every morning, at about 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. local time, they were put under sunlight. Meanwhile, they were fed with raw tofu, weaver ant’s egg and additional wood worm every two hours.

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