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EU gives Spain more time on deficit, sets bank aid

Drogba to arrive in China on Saturday

4 hurt at Pamplona’s running of the bulls

The surprise announcement Monday that Hol-mes and Cruise had settled their divorce in less than two weeks ended what many expected to be a contentious breakup spanning both coasts.

Details of the agreement remain confidential and the pair released a joint statement indicating they intend to keep it that way.

“We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other’s commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other’s roles as parents,” their statement said.

Had the divorce taken longer to resolve, many expected Cruise to try to move the case from New York to California, where he has ended his marriages to actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman. Neither of those cases lasted very long, with Cruise finalizing his divorce from Rogers within 45 days; his divorce from Kidman took less than six months.

If Holmes and Cruise have a significant dispute about Suri’s care or custody, a fam-ily law judge may have to resolve the dis-pute. Their divorce settlement could dictate that the dispute be heard in Los Angeles or it could remain in New York, said Steve

Mindel, a divorce lawyer and partner in the Los Angeles firm Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt and Klein who has handled bi-coastal divorce cases.

“No doubt the settlement terms took into con-sideration where disputes are going to be settled,” said Michael Kelly, a Santa Monica, California-based divorce attorney who has handled numerous high-profile divorces and custody disputes.

He said, however, that settlements increasingly call for parties to go to mediation or appear before a private judge.

NBC says “The Voice” is teaming a crooner and a country singer for the show’s new season.

The network said Monday that Michael Buble will serve as adviser to coach Blake Shelton’s team of contestants when the singing contest returns in September.

Buble, who described himself as a “big Blake fan,” said he’s having a terrific time working with Shelton and his singers. Buble started taping his appearances on “The Voice” Monday in Los Angeles.

NBC has yet to announce advisers for the show’s three other coaches, Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green and Adam Levine. Kelly Clarkson, Jewel and Baby Face were among last season’s advisers, guiding contestants in their choice of songs. “The Voice” is back for its third season Sept. 10.

Blake Shelton, left, and Michael Buble on the set of NBC’s “The Voice,” on Monday,

July 9, 2012, in Los Angeles.

Michael Buble joins Blake Shelton’s ‘Voice’ team

AP Photo/NBC, Tyler Golden

Settlement highlights Cruise-Holmes privacy wishes

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File

In this June 27, 2005 file photo, Tom Cruise, star of the new film “War of the Worlds,” arrives with his fiancee Katie Holmes on motorcycle for a screening of the film at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes’ attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family.

Only time will tell if the quick divorce settlement reached be-tween Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise lasts longer than their five-year marriage. It will need to, since the agreement will guide how the actors raise their 6-year-old daughter Suri for years to come. Yet major disputes could put the pair back in lawyers’ offices and force them to enter a place they have successfully avoided so far — a courtroom.

Agence France-Presse

DENPASAR - An Australian drug smuggler on death row in Indonesia has appealed for presi-dential clemency, a court official said Monday.

A member of the “Bali Nine” smuggling gang, Myuran Suku-maran, 31, through his lawyers submitted a request for clemency to the Denpasar district court on the island of Bali on Friday, the court’s spokesman Amser Simanjuntak told reporters.

“We received the clemency re-quest on July 6, and we will process it as soon as possible and send it to the Supreme Court, which will hand it over to the president,” he said.

“The letter states that the convict has repented and has been working to better himself while in prison. He is pleading to the president to spare him the death penalty.”

Sukumaran was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in an attempt to smuggle eight kilograms (18 pounds) of heroin into Australia from Bali in 2005.

He is being held in Kerobokan prison on the resort island, along with Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, who was granted a five-year cut in her 20-year jail term in May.

Witnesses in the prison have pro-vided testimony to support Sukuma-

ran’s case, Simanjuntak said.Sukumaran is one of the two

“Bali Nine” gang on death row. The rest are serving lengthy sentences, including life terms.

Indonesia enforces stiff penalties for drug trafficking, including life imprisonment and death.

Chairman o f Spec i a l Committee of the Regional Regula t ion D r a f t o n subak in the Bali House,

Cokorda Raka Kerthiyasa, admit-ted if the discussion on the regu-lation ran quite slowly. According to him, before being passed as regional regulation, there should be thorough and in-depth discus-sion against the existing articles so that after the issuance and approval the regulation could provide a comprehensive protec-

tion to subak and run in harmony with the environment and local communities.

He further said that substantial element in the discussion on the regional regulation draft of subak was regarding the incentives for farmers. Without the alignment to farmers, the conversion of farmland function would possibly take place more quickly. “This matter needs the attention of all parties, both central and local governments (province, regency/municipality), so that subak can be preserved,” said the politician who is fondly called Cok Ibah.

Avoid to be issued prematurely

Discussion on subak legislation draft runs slowly

Australian on death row seeks clemency

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA / FILES

In this February 24, 2012 Australian drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran on death row is seen in Kerobokan prison in

Indonesia’s Bali island. Sukumaran, 31, is one of the “Bali Nine” smuggling gang has appealed for presidential clem-

ency a court official said on July 9, 2012.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Regional regulation draft on subak is still being discussed by the Bali House with the executive. Preparation and discussion of the regulation draft ran pretty slowly because there were a number of articles that should live through in-depth discussion so that the regulation would not be issued prematurely in protecting the subak against various threats, chiefly the conversion of land function.

Regional regulation draft on subak is still being dis-cussed by the Bali House with the executive. Prepara-

tion and discussion of the regulation draft ran pretty slowly because there were a number of articles that

should live through in-depth discussion.IBP/File

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Calendar Event for June 30 through July 25, 2012

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 con-sidered 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 “umbul-umbul”, 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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

30 Jun Tumpek Landep. Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Selatan.Pura Agung Pasek Tangun Titi kaler TabananPura Agung Pasek Silamadeg TabananPura Pasek Tangkas Kediri TabananPura Kerta Banyuning Barat BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling Sengguan Singapadu.Pura Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan SingarajaPura Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana.Pura taman Desa Bubunan Seririt BulelengPura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean MengwiPura Dalem Pingit Br, Taro Kaje TegalalangPura dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada BulelengPura Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara TabananPura Ida ratu Pande BesakihMr. Pasek Toh Jiwa TangungtitiPura Penataran Pande Kusamba KlungkungPura Penataran Agung Pinatih Desa Tulikup Gianyar. 1 Jul Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar.

3 Jul Purnama Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Gunung Kuripan Lombok.Pura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon SukawatiPura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Cinere Jakarta SelatanPura Jagatnatha Kota SingarajaPura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-Susut-BangliPura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok TimurPura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar BulelengPura Puseh Batur KintamaniPr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur KintamaniPura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-SukawatiPura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-Lumajang Jawa TimurPura Pengubengan BesakihPura Penataran Agung SukawatiPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur KintamaniMr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa PenidaPura Nuansa Udayana, Kori Nuansa JimbaranPura Tianyar Pikat, Dawan Klungkung

4 Jul Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pasar Agung Besakih

Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian KutaPura Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu BadungHyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari TegalPura Puseh/Pura Desa Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Perancak BadungPura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung.Pura Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi

10 Jul Anggar Kasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas SukawatiPura Dalem Lagan Bebalang BangliPura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan TabananPura Gaduh SandingPura Dalem Gandamayu KlungkungPura 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 TabananPura Kawitan Sakula Gotra, Pasung Grigih Pura Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Banjar Ceningan KanginPura Batu Madeg BesakihPura 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 TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg TabananPura Puseh/Pura Desa Desa Guwang SukawatiMerajan Pasek Ketewel KetewelMerajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan SadingPura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida

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The new honeymoon celebration comes shortly after AYANA was voted amongst the World’s Best Wedding Venues by CNN, highlighting the exclusive setting and service of its signature wedding venues including two glass chapels perched over the Indian Ocean. With The Ultimate Honeymoon, couples can now celebrate their wedding, reception and honeymoon in one spectacular location, to cherish for the rest of their lives.

The Ultimate Honeymoon is priced from US$334++/room/night for a newly-renovated room or US$834++/villa/night for a private pool villa, inclusive of the romantic dining, spa and couple experiences.

Ayana launches honeymoon packagesIBP

JIMBArAN - To those who want to have special honeymoon in the Island of God, Ayana resort and Spa Bali, which recently completed a renovation of 270 rooms and suites, has launched a new honeymoon package. A unique and memorable celebration for couples to begin their new life together.

IBP/Courtesy of Ayana Resort

Bali PostDENPASAR - After three days

of Patuh Operation, Bali Traffic Police Directorate networked 90 vehicles violating where 4 cars and 14 motorcycles have no Vehicle Registration License (STNK) then confiscated, around 59 STNK and 13 Driving License (SIM) were confiscated. The operation took

place at different times and different places as stated by Head of Police, GPC Syamsul Bahri last Monday (9/7). This operation was to ask the people of Bali to obey (patuh) the regulations applied knowing that traffic accidents happened coming from a violation.

The operation took place 14 days (6-20 July 2012) and targets

everyone with no exception. Of course, those who have violated got fined or reminded. Violations hap-pening besides on SIM and STNK were also on parking violating no parking signs or other road signs, not turning on lights on day time or safety riding, not using safety belt and other riding regulations unapplied. (kmb21)

So far, Bali remains to have tens of thousands of poor families and dozens of thousands of people living in uninhabitable homes. Government program intended for poor people does not fully touch them. Many poor people are ne-glected and completely untouched by government assistance.

Ni Wayan Sari, 30, is one of them. She is a resident of Kawan Hamlet, Besakih village, Rendang subdistrict, Karangasem. Her life constantly suffers.

Sari and her three children should live a displaced life be-cause these poor residents have no land and the home to stay in. “We do not know where to stay because we have no land and home,” said Sari while clutching her children when the house refurbishment team of Wirasa BaliTV Charity Program and Hamlet Chief of Be-sakih Kawan, Nyoman Benya and Chief of Besakih customary village, Wayan Gunantra, visited them on Monday (Jul 9).

This thin-boned woman wel-comed her guests convivially. However, she could not hide the sad look on her face mixed with affection. “Sorry, we have no place to sit,” she said when greeting the team with teary eyes. At first, Sari seemed awkward and hesitant to tell about her miseries. Her expression hided away such a deep sorrow. But over time she told the painful life she lived.

Since getting married 14 years ago, Sari and her husband (late) Ketut Rupet should live beyond their home village, namely at Ba-turiti, Tabanan, because they had nothing at home. The couple was blessed with three children namely Ni Wayan Budiastini, 13, now in junior high school, Ni Kadek Sri Juliastini, 11, in the fifth grade of el-ementary school, and the youngest was Ni Komang Trisna Yanti, 4.

After getting tired of wandering

Poverty, a ‘hell’ portrait on Paradise IslandBali Post

KArANGASEM - Bali is often touted as a Paradise Island. Behind the sweet nickname of Bali, there are many people that still feel like in the ‘hell’ on the Paradise Island wallowing with dollars.

about, Sari and family ultimately came back to their home village and set up a shack on a borrowed land from her brother-in-law. Her husband worked as a sand and stone seeker with an average income of IDR 25,000 per day. Meanwhile, she helped him by selling porridge around the village. Unluckily, her convenience of living in the shack did not last longer because she had to leave the borrowed land.

Sari eventually moved not far from the previous location and contracted a piece of land from her neighbor for 30 years at IDR 3 mil-lion. There she established a shack of 4 x 3 m and a kitchen of 3 x 3 m. Both buildings were surrounded with distantly plaited bamboo wall so that it was easy for wind and cold temperature to come in.

Sari told that in the cold season as today her children’s body often shivered. Suffering of the family did not stop at that point. Her husband died a year ago because of hanging himself kindled by severe depres-sion. Burden of this poor family was also getting heavier. “After my hus-band died, I must fight alone to feed our three children,” she said tearful-ly. To that end, Sari had to work as a housemaid in Tabanan and bring along the youngest daughter by force. Meanwhile, the first daughter was entrusted to her grandfather, while the second should live alone at her home village.

She had to work hard alone to feed her three children and bear the cost of their school. Unfortunately, due to her poverty, she and family never received any help either in the form of rice for the poor or the others like the house refurbishment assistance from the Bali Govern-ment. “We never get any assistance from the government. In my mind, the assistance of the government is just like a dream,” she said while regretting that government paid less attention whereas Bali was known

as the mining of abundant dollars.Similarly, Sari was eager to have

a livable home. “We are eager to get home refurbishment program so that my children can sleep soundly. Even, if the government cannot lend a hand, we hope the viewers of BaliTV will be willing to help us,” he said hopefully.

Similar expectation was also con-veyed by the Hamlet Chief of Besakih

IBP/File

Ni Wayan Sari, 30, is one of them. She is a resident of Kawan Hamlet, Besakih village, Rendang subdistrict, Karangasem. Her life constantly suffers.

Kawan, Nyoman Benya. He said that Wayan Sari and family belonged to the poorest family among the 17 poor families at the hamlet. He hoped Sari and her children could obtain an atten-tion from the government, at least she could get the assistance of home refur-bishment and education. “We do hope Wayan Sari and other poor residents can receive the attention of government or

BaliTV viewers at least with the home refurbishment program,” he said.

Similar hope was also delivered of Chief of Besakih customary village, Wayan Gunantra. “With the attention of BaliTV, we do expect our poor people can gradually get attention,” he said while adding that the customary village perched at the foot of Mount Agung had totally 370 poor families. (kmb29)

Patuh OperationTraffic police found tens of violations

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Agence France-PresseWASHINGTON - Two new scientific

papers have disproved a controversial claim made by NASA-funded scientists in 2010 that a new form of bacterial life had been discovered that could thrive on arsenic.

“Contrary to an original report, the new research clearly shows that the bacterium, GFAJ-1, cannot substitute arsenic for phos-phorus to survive,” said a statement by the US journal Science, a prestigious, peer-reviewed magazine.

Science published Sunday the much-hyped initial study in December 2010, with lead researcher Felisa Wolfe-Simon, then a fellow in NASA’s astrobiology program, announcing that a new form of life had been scooped from a California lake.

The bacterium in arsenic-rich Mono Lake was said to redefine the building blocks of life, surviving and growing by swapping phosphorus for arsenic in its DNA and cell membranes.

Biologists consider these six elements as necessary for life: carbon, hydrogen, nitro-gen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.

Arsenic is similar to phosphorus but is typically poisonous to living organisms.

The original study needed to be confirmed in order to be considered a true discovery, and two separate teams found that indeed, the bacterium needed some phosphate to survive, and could not fully substitute arsenic to live.

Two separate Science articles “now reveal that, in fact, her medium did contain enough phosphate contamination to support GFAJ-1’s growth,” said a statement by the magazine issued late Sunday.

One paper was written by Marshall Louis Reaves and colleagues at Princeton Univer-sity, Rosemary Redfield at the University of British Columbia, and Leonid Kruglyak of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The other paper to refute the findings was written by Tobias Erb and colleagues at the Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, and found that the bacterium, while able to live in a high-arsenic environment, still needed phosphorus to survive and grow.

Rather than being a new form of life that thrives on arsenic, Science’s state-ment summed up the latest studies by de-scribing the bacterium as “a well-adapted extremophile that lives in a high-arsenic environment.”

The consensus statement at the Interna-tional Coral Reef Symposium, being held in the northeastern Australian city of Cairns, stressed that the livelihoods of millions of people were at risk.

Coral reefs provide food and work for countless coastal inhabitants globally, gener-ate significant revenues through tourism and function as a natural breakwater for waves and storms, they said.

The statement, endorsed by the forum attendees and other marine scientists, called for measures to head off escalating damage caused by rising sea temperatures, ocean acidification, overfishing and pollution from the land.

“There is a window of opportunity for the world to act on climate change, but it is clos-ing rapidly,” said Terry Hughes, convener of the symposium, held every four years, which attracted some 2,000 scientists from 80 countries.

Jeremy Jackson, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution in the United States, said reefs around the world have seen severe declines in coral cover over the last several decades.

In the Caribbean, for example, 75-85 percent of the coral cover has been lost in

the last 35 years.Even the Great Barrier Reef in Australia,

the best-protected reef ecosystem on the planet, has witnessed a 50 percent decline in the last 50 years.

Jackson said while climate change was exacerbating the problem, it was also causing increased droughts, agricultural failure and sea level rises at increasingly faster rates, which implied huge problems for society.

“That means what’s good for reefs is also critically important for people and we should wake up to that fact,” he said.

Stephen Palumbi, director of Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, said addressing local threats, such as poor land development and unsustainable fishing prac-tices, was also critical.

More than 85 percent of reefs in Asia’s “Coral Triangle” are directly threatened by human activities such as coastal develop-ment, pollution, and overfishing, according to a report launched at the forum earlier Monday.

The Coral Triangle covers Indonesia, Ma-laysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, The Solomon Islands, and East Timor and contains nearly 30 percent of the world’s reefs and more than 3,000 species of fish.

Agence France-PresseNEW YORK - New York City Mayor Mi-

chael Bloomberg on Monday launched a ten-der for the construction of “micro-apartments” in the Big Apple, where rents are exorbitant and the number of singles is on the rise.

A pilot project slated for construction in Manhattan’s Kips Bay section will feature rental apartments ranging from 275 to 300 square feet (26-28 square meters) with kitch-ens and bathrooms, the mayor’s office said in a statement.

Bloomberg explained it was “critical to the city’s continued growth, future competi-tiveness and long-term economic success” to develop “housing that matches how New Yorkers live.”

“People from all over the world want to live in New York City, and we must develop a new, scalable housing model that is safe, affordable and innovative to meet their needs.”

The project is slated to respond to the changing demographics of a city where 1.8 million households are composed of one or two people, but there are only one million studios and one-room apartments, the mayor’s office said.

Current standards in New York require that most new apartments be at least 400 square feet.

But rental costs in the Big Apple are in-creasingly expensive.

In Manhattan, a studio cost an average $2,243 per month in May in a building without concierge, up 7.9 percent from the previous year, and $2,657 in a building with concierge, up 4.4 percent, according to the Manhattan Rental Market Report.

A one-room apartment cost about $2,959 without concierge, up 6.2 percent from 2011, and $3,777 with concierge, up 6.8 percent in a year.

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The Coral TriangleContains 30 percent of the world’s reefs and more than3,000 species of fish

Coral Triangle Region

Source: WWF/WRI

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Core Reefs

Top marine scientists warn reefs in rapid decline

Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY - More than 2,600 of the world’s top marine scientists Monday warned coral reefs around the world were in rapid decline and urged immedi-ate global action on climate change to save what remains.

Scientists say NASA’s ‘new form of life’ was untrue

New York City mayor promotes ‘micro’ apartments

Bali PostSEMARAPURA - Condition

of Tegal Besar Beach, Negari vil-lage, Klungkung, is getting more apprehensive. At least, the beach area is now starting to look shabby. Organic and inorganic wastes are seen to scatter along the shoreline whereas the beach belongs to a tourist attraction. However, the coastal area mostly favored for the establishment of many villas even looks dirty.

As observation made on Mon-day, other than scattered wastes, the beach was also polluted by sewerage of local residents chan-neled through a ditch. Additionally, the domestic waste flowing on the beach also caused stench. More seriously, the scattered wastes virtu-ally covered up the sand beach.

One of the local residents, Dewa Aji Gading, when met at location last Monday said if the wastes came from the home of local residents. Their wastes were discharged into the sewer line and drifted to beach.

“Formerly, the currents of sewer flowed directly to the sea. But, due to flooding, the channel or estuary diverted to beachside so that the wastes finally accumulated on the beach,” said Dewa Aji Gading.

According to Dewa Aji Gading, so far the condition of Tegal Besar Beach was clean and free from wastes. Even, there were people in charge of cleaning up the wastes around the beach. However, be-cause the coming waste was abun-dant, the people paid to do so then carried it out by degrees. “At the

village, mutual cleanup activity is carried out once a month, covering the entire village and beach area,” he admitted.

Obviously, said Dewa Aji, more and more wastes came to Tegal Be-sar Beach. He hoped the villa own-ers also paid attention to condition of Tegal Besar Beach filled with wastes. In addition, the abrasion on the Tegal Besar Beach was pro-gressively threatening. A pathway previously used for the venue of melasti procession had been eroded out by waves. On the other hand, the collection of mosaic stones was also rampant around the beach. People took the mosaic stones directly on the sea by diving by means of sack. After the sack had been fully filled, the stones acquired were then sorted on the beach. (kmb)

His party admitted that building permit of the project was still under process. “Its building permit has been processed. The document has been submitted to the officer of Mr.

Construction project of the underground parking on Jalan Sulawesi, Denpasar, does not have building permit (IMB) and the environ-mental impact assessment (Amdal).

Basement parking project

Not yet have building permit, environmental assessmentBali Post

DENPASAR - Construction project of the underground parking on Jalan Sulawesi, Denpasar, does not have building permit (IMB) and the environmental impact assessment (Amdal). It was recognized by the Head of Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP), Kadek Kusuma Diputra.

Sukardja (Project Director—Ed),” said Kusuma Diputra when asked for his confirmation.

The former Head of Denpasar Population and Civil Registry Agency

also recognized to have no permit of environmental impact assessment. However, he said, the environmental impact assessment of the project, worked on by PT Sekar Kedaton

Nusantara, was the responsibility of the Denpasar Environment Agency (BLH). Kusuma Diputra seemed hesitant to respond to the need for such permit in the construction of basement parking. “As usual, the Am-dal is only required by larger projects like a market project. Whether the basement parking needs it or not, let me check first to the Environment Agency,” he said.

The absence of building permit and environmental impact assess-ment on the government project itself seems odd. So far, the municipal government has been very diligent in arranging the buildings in Denpasar by disciplining the buildings having no building permit, such as residential building, supermarket, hotel, modern store and other entertainment venues. But ironically, the government project that using the fund of regional budget even does not have several compul-sory permits. Inevitably, this condition is highlighted by legislators.

Not only that, previously when Commission B of Denpasar House raided a number of building projects worked on by local government, almost all of them had no permit, but the projects had been worked on and were almost accomplished. “All

building projects, if they are intended for the public, must have IMB and Amdal. Amdal is not only for waste, but everything that has a potential effect on the environment. For ex-ample, the recent landslide disaster was an environmental impact,” said a member of Commission B of the Denpasar House, I Wayan Mariyana Wandhira.

According to the Chairman of Denpasar Golkar Party, the project situated in the heart of the city, espe-cially in crowded market and motorist area, it really required both permits meaning if the project was supervised. “Amdal does not only have anything to do with waste or pollution, but also with the impact on traffic, condition of the surrounding traffic, vibration of the excavation and whether the piling installed had an impact on the other buildings. So, it is very neces-sary. It has been a bad example to the community why the government project even does not have a permit,” he satirized.

The projects worth over IDR 6 billion already claimed two fa-talities. As planned, the Municipal Government would conduct purifi-catory rite in accordance with Hindu religious belief. Spokesperson of Denpasar Municipality, IB Rahoela, said his party was still waiting for an auspicious day chosen by high priest. “Just now, the priest made a visit to location. According to him, the pecaruan ritual needed is ngeru-wak and caru resigana, while the time has not been determined yet,” he said. (kmb27)

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Condition of Tegal Besar Beach, Negari village, Klungkung, is getting more apprehensive. At least, the beach area is now starting to look shabby. Organic and inorganic wastes are seen to scatter along the shoreline whereas the beach belongs to a tourist attraction.

Tegal Besar Beach polluted by wastes

Non-Crew ship burnt and stranded at Jasri Beach

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Agence France-Presse

SEOUL - Park Geun-Hye, the daughter of an assassinated dictator, officially launched her bid Tuesday to become South Korea’s first female president, with polls placing her as frontrunner in December’s election.

The veteran politician, who is expected to secure the ruling conserva-tive New Frontier Party’s nomination at its primary next month, softened her message in a speech apparently intended to broaden her appeal beyond conservatives.

Pledging to work for a fair and transparent market economy, Park, 60, vowed to expand welfare and push for “economic democratisation” amid a widening wealth gap and high youth unemployment in Asia’s fourth largest economy.

“Our economy has excessively emphasised efficiency and disregarded the importance of fairness, resulting in an increased income gap and imbal-ances,” she told cheering supporters at a shopping plaza in western Seoul.

Huge conglomerates fostered by her father Park Chung-Hee in the 1960s and 1970s still dominate the economy, sparking resentment at their omnipresence.

About 1,000 supporters -- mostly middle-aged or older and clad in the party’s trademark red -- chanted her

name and waved national flags, bal-loons and banners reading “The nation loves you”.

South Korea is at a “crucial junc-ture” faced with an ageing society, a low birthrate and jobless woes for youth, she said, promising to increase investment in the service sectors and in science and technology to help create jobs.

“I will devote my everything to make the Republic of Korea (South Korea) a country in which everybody can achieve their dreams,” she said.

Park’s father seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled until his as-sassination in 1979 by his spy chief. Her mother was shot dead by a pro-North Korean assassin in 1974. She said Tuesday the death of her parents caused her “unbearable pain” at an young age and called the nation “my mother, my family”.

Park narrowly lost the conservative party’s nomination to Lee Myung-Bak in 2007. He went on to become president but is constitutionally barred from standing again. Recent opinion polls show Park beating potential presidential rivals by a wide margin in the December 19 poll.

A Realmeter survey published last week gave her 42.4 percent, followed by 19.6 percent for left-leaning soft-ware mogul Ahn Cheol-Soo who has not officially declared his candidacy.

Agence France-Presse

MYANMAR - Aung San Suu Kyi’s iconic allure has helped train the eyes of the world on Myanmar’s democracy struggle, but some experts say her star appeal could thwart the rise of a new generation of leaders.

The Nobel laureate, who has come to personify Myanmar’s efforts to shrug off the yoke of decades of dictator-ship, made her parliamentary debut on Monday in the latest chapter in her transformation from renowned political prisoner to MP.

The 67-year-old has suggested she is willing to accept the mantle of president if, as expected, her party wins 2015 elec-tions seen as the apex of recent reforms. But many are already asking who could follow in the footsteps of “The Lady”.

Western governments showed great in-terest in finding “political alternatives” to Suu Kyi when she was under house arrest before controversial November 2010 elec-tions, said Renaud Egreteau, a Myanmar expert at the University Hong Kong.

“Two years later, idolatry is back. Alternatives within the democratic op-position are again marginalised.”

Suu Kyi has said she has tried shun-ning the “icon” label since being pro-pelled into Myanmar’s political scene

during a failed student uprising against the junta in 1988.

But as the daughter of independence hero Aung San she has failed to escape cult status both at home and abroad.

Some observers argue that a simplis-tic portrayal of Myanmar’s politics as a battle between a charismatic woman and a cabal of murderous generals could un-dercut efforts to bring a new generation of democracy leaders to the fore.

That narrative is particularly strong in the West, which has focused on her entrance into mainstream politics as a benchmark for easing strict sanctions.

But lavish welcomes during her first major trip abroad in nearly a quarter century have also threatened to strain re-lations with President Thein Sein, largely acknowledged as the architect of sweeping political changes since he took the helm of a quasi-civilian government last year.

“It is a bit unusual for somebody who is the leader of the opposition to receive such high level treatment,” said Trevor Wilson, former Australian Ambassador to the country.

While the NLD has become the largest opposition group, parliament remains dominated by the military and army-backed ruling party and with only 43 seats, Suu Kyi’s party is likely to have to form alliances to affect legislation.

Splits over City regulation, the Euro crisis and high-income taxa-tion are set to dominate the talks with Cameron, who apparently snubbed Hollande when he made an election-campaign visit to London in February.

The pair held their first bilateral meeting before the G8 summit in Washington in May, and Cameron’s Downing Street office insisted the two would also discuss more con-sensual issues during Tuesday’s 90-minute working lunch.

“The agenda will focus on the range of bilateral issues,” said a Downing Street spokesman.

“I would expect them to cover the economy, the situation in the eu-rozone, a number of foreign policy

issues and our ongoing cooperation on defence.”

Cameron raised French hackles last month when he made a contro-versial promise to “roll out the red carpet” for any French tax exiles.

Britain later insisted the com-ment was meant to be taken in jest, and the French leader shrugged off the comments as “of no impor-tance”.

Taxation in France, however, is also being closely scrutinized by the British government on another point: a proposed hike in the levy on foreign-owned second homes.

Cameron continues to urge members of the eurozone -- of which Britain is not a part -- to take action to resolve the economic

crisis that is severely affecting his country’s economy.

But under heavy pressure from the Eurosceptic wing of his party, he recently called for “less Eu-rope”, and has not ruled out a referendum on whether Britain should redefine its relationship with Brussels.

He also refused to back the Euro-pean Pact on fiscal discipline, which he fears may compromise the City of London’s position as Europe’s leading financial center, and has regularly voiced his fierce opposi-tion to a financial transactions tax (FTT) desired by Paris.

Last November, he speculated in front of Britain’s parliament whether the French would accept “a tax on cheese.”

Downing Street said it expected the two leaders to “cover the full range of economic issues and the situation in the eurozone” when asked if the FTT would be up for discussion on Tuesday.

Suu Kyi’s fame risks eclipsing new Myanmar stars

AFP PHOTO / Soe Than WIN

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to the media as she leave the lower house of parliament in Naypyidaw on July 10, 2012.

Hollande set for royalty and wrangles on British visitAgence France-Presse

PARIS - French President Francois Hollande will hold potentially combustible talks with Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday before meeting with Queen Elizabeth II during a one-day visit to Britain.

Dictator’s daughter runs for South Korea Presidency

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The case investigation on a 84 tons solar tank ship owned by PT Sembi-lan Pilar (SP) company have been going on for a week yet it seemed still going on. Even though the captain, Sutrisno, and six crews of it have been named as accused, owner of SP, I Made Wirata, still untouched as accused are still silent on where the solar came from and where it is going. Sea Commander, Wayan Suarjaya, last Monday (9/7) admitted the investigation got stuck meanwhile Wirata himself when confirmed admitted to be ready to be investigated if needed yet there hasn’t been any request.

When asked about his ship being captured, Wirata who lives at Sesetan Road, Denpasar, admitted did not know what it has violated. He explained that the tank ship is a deliver order ship.

Sadly he did not explain what the real status of the ship is and where the solar will go as the ship seemed still being an evidence of the same case at year 2003 so this con-fiscation was done with Indonesian Police Criminal Research.

Meanwhile Head of Bali Police Public Relation, PC Hariadi, did not comment a lot on this case as this don’t need to be explained by him knowing it is the Sea Army who takes care of it. (kmb21)

In Petang subdistrict, for ex-ample, Badung Government is undertaking an arrangement and enhancement of the infrastructure. A number of projects worth billions of rupiahs are being rolled out, including the corridor arrangement of the Tukad Bangkung Bridge, arrangement of drainage and pave-ment in Plaga and development

of Pangsan and Pelaga as tourism village. Though the projects worth billions of rupiahs are under prog-ress, there are still a number of key infrastructures and potential of the village that need addressing. It was revealed by Deputy Regent of Badung, I Ketut Sudikerta, when making a site inspection to those projects last weekend.

Nyoman Juta, a resident of Pelaga tourism village, said the infrastructure of pathway at his village still needed to be addressed. Condition of the pathway frequently passed through by trekking activity remained cha-otic and hazardous, especially the pathway near steep cliffs. He asked in order it could be immediately resolved so as not to affect the image

of the tourism village.“The pathway at our village

needs to be fixed. Our community asks in order the steep pathway can be repaired so as not to harm,” said Nyoman Juta while mentioning the length of such hazardous pathway was about 300 meters.

Other than infrastructure, he also mentioned that some of the agri-cultural potentials at the village had vanished or not yet developed maxi-mally. Around in 1990s, the tangerine commodity of his village had been so popular. Unfortunately, such popular-ity began to fade and vanished by de-grees. Local community was intensely cultivating the Arabica coffee having a

high economic value at the moment. However, the community could not take advantage of the existing niche as facing the problem of facility used to process the product. “The existing machine is an old one so that it often produces defective or damaged coffee products,” he complained.

Meanwhile, Deputy Regent Sudikerta stated the aspirations would become an input to be fol-lowed up later on. He added the problems of infrastructure and agricultural potential that could not have been developed by the community should be promptly ad-dressed so the tourism village could run properly. (kmb25)

Bali Post

KARANGASEM - A fiber ship got burnt in the middle of Indonesia Sea then the non crew and unidentified ship since Monday (9/7) got stranded at Jasri Beach, Karangasem. It is not known if there are any casualties or not in this incident as none was found so far. Karangasem Po-lice seemed confused seeing it as it has no name at all on the ship. Above the ship only burnt papers were found. SAR team with fishermen of Jafri then put the ship to a safer place by rope pulled towards a tree in front of Pura Mastima, Jasri.

Police then continued by asking locals about the 28 meters long and 8 meters wide ship. The ship was found first by

Nengah Kerta, a fisherman from Banjar Ramia Saba Jasri, who reported to Head of Village, Ir. Komang Sutirtayasa, who then forwarded to police. Other witness, I Made Adi Rismapramana alias Apel (11) saw the ship was burnt around 1 am local time in the mid ocean. A solar smell seemed to be disturbing them and with the strong tide, the ship was then stranded as seen in the morning. It is suspected that this ship is a fishing ship that usually harbored at Benoa Harbor, Denpasar, yet it is not known if its burnt purposely or other causer. Meanwhile Karangasem Water Police, APC Made Wartama, stated until then there hasn’t been any report of missing ship or sort. Remains can be seen located above the ship including rooms made of plastic sheets. (013)

84 tons solar illegal CaseInvestigators found dead end

Infrastructure and potential of tourism village in North Badung need improving

Development of tour-ism village in Ba-dung Regency has a strategic value. Aside from increasing the diversity of tourist destination, it is also considered capable of developing the economic potential of a village and society.

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Development of tourism village in Badung Regency has a strategic value. Aside from increasing the diversity of tourist destination, it is also considered capable of developing the economic potential of a village and society. To that end, the Badung Government should be able to provide ad-equate infrastructure and facilities, so that tourism village can really develop and does not only become a promotion or discourse.

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

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Reuters

NEW YORK - Stocks slipped in light trading, weighed down by weak economic data from Asia and signs of economic trouble in Europe, underscored by higher Spanish and Italian bond yields.

Monday’s decline, the third in a row for the S&P 500 index, comes as quarterly earnings reports get under way. Investors are anxious to see what impact weak demand in Europe and slowing growth in Asia have had on corporate America.

“We think 2Q earnings for the S&P 500 will be OK this quarter ... we’re calling for a small 2 per-cent beat. That said, we expect the tone of earnings season to be quite negative,” said Jonathan Golub, chief strategist at UBS in New York.

Stocks pared losses late in the session, leaving indexes with just slight losses.

Alcoa Inc’s (AA) stock fluctu-ated throughout the day, ending up 0.3 percent at $8.76 in the reg-ular session. Alcoa’s shares rose 2 percent in extended trading after the largest U.S. aluminum company and Dow component released its results, marking the start of the earnings season.

Alcoa posted a second-quarter loss but results, excluding items, beat Wall Street estimates.

Corporate outlooks are at their most negative in nearly four years, and companies that have already reported have shown lackluster growth. Nearly two

dozen S&P firms have already cited Europe’s woes - which seem to be worsening - as a concern.

While a majority of corpora-tions may beat lowered analyst expectations, investors will be fo-cused on how well companies are handling weakness overseas.

Based on “where we are today, we may see muted to a slightly downward reaction to earnings,” said Natalie Trunow, chief in-vestment officer of equities at Calvert Investment Management in Bethesda, Maryland, whose firm manages about $13 billion in assets.

The Dow Jones industrial average (^DJI) ended down 36.18 points, or 0.28 percent, at 12,736.29. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (^GSPC) was down 2.22 points, or 0.16 per-cent, at 1,352.46. The Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC) was down 5.56 points, or 0.19 per-cent, at 2,931.77.

Volume was among the light-est of the year. About 5.1 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nas-daq and Amex, compared with the year-to-date daily average of 6.85 billion shares.

Italian borrowing costs con-tinued to rise on Monday while Spanish 10-year yields rose above 7 percent. That level is seen as unsustainable in the longer-term and reflecting doubts over how measures agreed last month to stem the euro zone debt crisis will be implemented.

The decisions were aimed at pre-venting the currency area’s fourth largest economy, mired in a worsen-ing recession, from needing a full state bailout which would stretch the limits of Europe’s rescue fund and plunge it deeper into a debt crisis.

“The Eurogroup supports the recently adopted Commission rec-ommendation to extend the deadline for the correction of the excessive deficit in Spain by one year to 2014,” ministers said in a statement.

No final figure was agreed for aid to ailing Spanish lenders, weighed down by bad debts due to a housing crash and recession, but the EU has set a maximum of 100 billion euros ($123 billion) and some 30 billion euros would be available by the end of July if there was an urgent need.

A final loan agreement will be signed on or around July 20, Euro-

group chairman Jean-Claude Juncker told a news conference.

In one key decision closely watched by investors, ministers agreed that once a single European banking su-pervisor is set up next year, Spanish banks could be directly recapitalized from the euro zone rescue fund with-out requiring a state guarantee.

That fulfils an EU summit man-date to try to break a so-called “doom loop” of mutual dependency between weak banks and over in-debted sovereigns, but represented a climb-down for hard-line north European creditor countries.

In a nine-hour marathon meeting ministers of the 17-nation euro zone also settled a series of long delayed appointments.

But they made no apparent progress on activating the bloc’s rescue funds to intervene in bond markets to bring

down the spiraling borrowing costs of Spain and Italy, which threaten to drive them out of the market.

The ministers reappointed Junck-er as their chairman for a further term of up to 2-1/2 years, though Europe’s longest-serving govern-ment leader said he intended to step down from the position at the end of this year or early in 2013.

They nominated another Lux-embourger, inflation hawk Yves Mersch, to the vacant position on the European Central Bank’s six-member executive board, and picked German Klaus Regling to head their permanent bailout fund, the Euro-pean Stability Mechanism, due to come into force this month.

Regling had already set up and run the temporary European Fi-nancial Stability Facility which has funded rescues for Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

As ministers were meeting, a top ECB policymaker warned that Europe’s debt crisis was now more acute than the 2008 financial turmoil that felled U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers.

EU gives Spain more time on deficit, sets bank aidReuters

BRUSSELS - Euro zone ministers agreed early on Tuesday to grant Spain an extra year until 2014 to reach its deficit reduction targets in exchange for further budget savings and set the parameters of an aid package for Madrid’s ailing banks.

AP Photo/Yves Logghe

Italian Finance Minister Mario Monti, right, talks to Spanish Finance Minister Luis de Guindos Jurado, during the EU finance ministerial meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Euro area finance ministers agreed early Tuesday on the terms of a bailout for Spain’s troubled banks, saying that 30 billion euro ($36.88 billion) can be ready by the end of this month.

Wall Street slips on global economic worries

AP Photo/Richard Drew, File

In this July 3, 2012 photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks slipped in light trading on Monday, weighed down by weak economic data from Asia and signs of economic trouble in Europe, underscored by higher Spanish and Italian bond yields.

Bali Post

GIANYAR - German tourist, Mr. Kabey Manfred (75), was found dead at his bed where he is staying at Anni House, Sweta Street, Bentuyung, Ubud, last Monday (9/7) around 10.45 am local time. Witness Susi Fitriani (37) told police said she was called by victim that morning and said that he hasn’t been feeling well also his asthma attacks which so asked witness to come there. When Fitriani got to location, victim and witness did have a chat where victim also asked for an ambulance.

Yet due to the ambulance from Ubud Klinik couldn’t, Kabey then asked neighbor

to help although victim did not want to go to hospital as there is no ambulance. In the end, he rather sleeps. “Not reaching 10 minutes later, Kabey wasn’t breathing anymore,” Head of Ubud Police PC Gde Redastra stated wit-ness’ statement, “We asked doctors to check on the room and on the medicines around. It is stated from the examination done at scene victim died due to heart disease.” (kmb16)

Chairman of the Indonesia Tourism Industry Association (GIPI) of Bali, IB Ngurah Wijaya, said that tourism workers includ-ing the tourist guides of Bali were asked to be professional and improve their skills to face the competition in 2015. In the era of globalization, the government could not prevent foreign workers from working in Bali. “Against the tight labor competition, the tourism perpetrators must improve their capabilities, including in the field of guiding. When they are expert in their field, foreign labor will be difficult to take on the role of local workers in Bali,” said Ngurah Wijaya, Monday (Jul 9).

He said the skill enhancement of tourism workers was also aimed at improving the quality of tourism in Bali. For instance, if the service quality of tourist guides could be improved it would enable the Bali destination to compete against destinations in other countries. The advantage of tourist guides in Indonesia was that their under-standing about the culture in each tourism region in Indonesia.

“For example, tourist guides in Bali have understanding about the local culture so that they can give an explanation to tourists spending holidays in Bali. Understanding of Balinese culture is an advantage of tourist guides in Bali compared to foreign tourist guides,” he said.

The Head of Tourism Resourc-es and the Creative Economy Development, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, I Gede Pitana, explained the rule of the

ASEAN Community in 2015 was pursuant to the World Trade Organization (WTO) containing four movements namely goods, services, capital and people that could no longer be restricted. “The agreement also states that in 2015 there will be no restrictions that prevent the movement of human resources, particularly the tourism workers of the ASEAN countries. As consequence, they can work in Indonesia and vice versa,” he said.

He said the tourism workers were then required to prepare themselves because the tourism workers of the ASEAN countries would be allowed to work in In-donesia. To win the quality in the future competition, all the tourism workers in the country, according to Government Regulation No. 52/2012 on the Certification of Competency and Certification of Tourism Business, were required to have a certificate of competency which measured the ability of a worker, without exception for tourist guides.

“Although tourist guides have a license or permit, they are also required to take a certification,” he said. According to him, the certification is valid internationally that currently was only applied to the ASEAN region. By degrees until 2014, the government would facilitate the workers to be certified so that they would be independent later. His party expected the service users of tourism workers could bet-ter appreciate those who had certifi-cation in terms of salary. (kmb27)

German tourist found dead

German tourist, Mr. Kabey Manfred (75), was found dead at his bed where he is

staying at Anni House, Sweta Street, Ben-tuyung, Ubud, last Monday (9/7) around

10.45 am local time. IBP/Agung Dharmada

2015, tourism workers of ASEAN compete freely

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Agreement of the ASEAN Community related to competency standards opens a competition among the workers in the tourism sector of ASEAN countries in 2015. It is a great chal-lenge for local tourism perpetrators.

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Agreement of the ASEAN Community related to competency standards opens a competition among the workers in the tourism sector of ASEAN countries in 2015. It is a great challenge for local tourism perpetrators.

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A local hos-pital said those daredevils sus-tained injuries to the head, legs or arm in the rela-tively clean and fast run through the old quarter

of the city. None of the injuries was serious.

The six fighting bulls weigh-ing as much 620 kilos (1,360 lbs) stayed together in a pack for much of the dash, which was good because an isolated bull is more likely to get disoriented and charge at people. They run with steer that

Agence France-Presse

A damning report on the Australian military on Tuesday detailed 24 allegations of rape that never went to trial and other claims that Defence Minister Stephen Smith admitted would “shock” people.

The report was commissioned by the government last year follow-ing the so-called Skype scandal, when footage of a young male recruit having sex with an unwitting female classmate was streamed online to cadets in another room.

Some of the allegations had already been revealed through the media but Smith Tuesday released the entire 1,500-page document detailing 847 alleged incidents of sexual or other abuse dating back to the 1950s.

“It does raise very serious allegations and does raise matters that are deeply sensitive and they will shock some people,” Smith said of the report.

As well as the rape claims, it said that “from the 1950s through to the early 1980s, many boys aged 13, 14, 15 and 16 years of age in the defence force suffered abuse including serious sexual and other physical abuse”.

Until the 1960s, boys as young as 13 were recruited into the Navy and 15-year-olds were accepted into all three services up until the early 1980s, although the minimum joining age is now 17.

It also said: “It is certain that many young females in the defence force have been subjected to serious sexual and physical assault and other serious abuse inflicted.”

The report suggested paedophiles in the past joined the military to access young people in the same way they sought out positions in orphanages, schools and churches.

Documents previously released detailed “horrific” child sex as-saults and brutal initiation ceremonies and painted a culture of cover-up, failure to punish perpetrators and hostility towards victims who complained.

The report said some of the accused may now hold positions in the top ranks, adding that many alleged victims never reported the abuse because of concerns they would not be believed.

The government has yet to settle on a mechanism to deal with the allegations but a full public inquiry has been suggested.

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Revelers run in front of a pack of six El Pilar’s ranch fighting bulls during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Tuesday, July 10, 2012.

4 hurt at Pamplona’s running of the bullsAssociated Press

PAMPLONA — Four people suffered bumps and bruises but no one was gored in the fourth day of the running of the bulls at Pamplona on Tuesday.

are supposed to keep the bulls in a tight pack.

Four more runs remain at Spain’s most famous summer festival. Three people — an American and two Britons — were gored in Monday’s run but none was seri-ously hurt.

The festival became world fa-mous after Ernest Hemingway wrote about it in his novel “The Sun Also Rises.”

Tuesday was the third anni-versary of the last death at the so-called San Fermin festival, that of a young Madrid-area Spaniard, Daniel Jimeno, who was gored in the neck as he tried to slide under a

fence feet-first to escape a bull. He almost made it.

His father, Juan Antonio Jimeno, placed a wreath of flowers wrapped in a red kerchief — the garment that perhaps best symbolizes the dress code for San Fermin run-ners — at the precise spot where his son died in 2009. That was the 15th death since record keeping began in 1924.

The father’s voice quivered as he remembered his son. He said the flowers were for him and the other 14 as well. “I was to pay tribute to all of them, not just my son,” Jimeno told Spanish National Television. “This is a hard day.”

Probe finds ‘shocking’ abuse in Australian military

Merkel, who took office in 2005, will also meet rights activists and the chief justice of the constitutional court in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

She is due to visit the site of the country’s tsunami early-warning system, which was built with Ger-man assistance, as well as a Protes-tant church and a mosque.

German government sources have described Indonesia as a com-parably stable developing country with robust prospects, but expressed concerns about frequent human rights violations in the resources-

rich province of West Papua.During the trip Merkel also

aims to take up issues of regional security such as the fight against piracy in the Strait of Malacca linking the Indian Ocean with the Pacific, German officials said ahead of the visit.

Indonesia said earlier this month it would turn to Germany for a tank deal, after a $280 million bid to buy 100 Leopard battle tanks from the Netherlands fell through.

But a senior Merkel aide said before her departure from Germany that “talks on arms deals are not on

the agenda”, adding that no specific trade pacts or business contracts were expected to be signed.

The aide said there were no plans for her to hold talks with visiting International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, who is in Jakarta at the same time as the German leader.

Bilateral trade relations have developed briskly in recent years with Germany exporting 3.4 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in goods and services to Indonesia in 2011. Im-ports from the country were valued at 3.3 billion euros.

Antara

YOGYAKARTA - The ruling Democrat Party is ready to name a professional as its presidential candidate in the election in 2014, according to party`s advisory board member Marzuki Alie.

“We are ready to name not only a candidate from political parties but also from among professionals,” he said after open-ing the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly meeting here on Monday.

He said Indonesia actually has a lot of potential candidates but they have so far been covered by political party oligarchy.

So, accusations that Indonesia is currently suffering from a leadership crisis are not true, he said while referring to China as an example for the country to determine its leader.

He said the Chinese leader came from among pure profession-als that has no personal interest in business which is an important factor because usually it would be difficult for leaders who have been involved in business to separate business from leadership affairs while leading.

Citing examples of leaders from among professionals Marzuki referred to among others Zulkifli Zaini, current president director of state-owned Bank Mandiri, finance minister Agus Martowar-dojo and Emirsyah Satar, current president director PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk.

He said the chairman of the advisory board, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has also said that the party`s presidential candidate must not always come from political parties but can also come from among professionals. “We are an open party,” Marzuki said.

The Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting agency in its release on the results of a survey on challenges to be faced by presidential candidates in the 2014 election has said that a lot of popular figures have won no public favor because they have been considered not meeting national quality criteria.

Antara

JAKARTA - Executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christhine Lagarde met President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the presidential palace here on Tuesday.

Lagarde, on a three-day visit ending today, was accompanied by a number of other IMF leaders including Asia Pacific director Anoop Singh and senior representative of IMF for Indonesia Milan Zavadjil.

The Yudhoyono-Lagarde meeting came following the recent meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico of the G-20 countries which pledged assistance to cope with the European crisis.

Indonesia announce a US$1 billion loan aid which has drawn strong criticism in at home.

The loan is to be provided via the IMF, which said it needs US$430 billion to forestall the European crisis.

Lagarde already had a meeting earlier with Vice President Bo-ediono discussing global economic issue and Indonesian economic condition.

“No discussion on money . We talked about fiscal issue and global slowdown . We already met before and we share the same view on the present economic condition,” she said.

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

German Chancellor Angela Merkel steps down the stairs of her plane upon arrival at Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, July 10, 2012.

Merkel arrives for first official Indonesia visitAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Indonesia Tuesday for her first official visit to Southeast Asia’s largest economy for talks with President Susilo Bambang Yud-hoyono and business leaders.

Democrat Party ready to name professional as presidential candidate

IMF chief meets President Yudhoyono

He added the regency and municipality should be able to preserve the existence of subak members. On that account, his party needed to get input from the regency and municipality because they knew best about the real condition of the area. Besides, the executive and legislative should also get input from a team of experts and circles of academician. Therefore, issuance of the regulation could provide legal protection to the organization and the farmers themselves. “Such legal instrument must be capable of binding the components existing in the community so the presence of subak can remain to exist amidst the customary village,” he said.

This Golkar Party politician expected the existence of subak should be able to synergize with local customary village so that subak could be preserved by the community. Moreover, subak had now become one of the world cultural heritages (WBD) stipulated by UNESCO. Regarding the time of ratification, he said, his party was still mak-ing further discussion by involving all parties. “Having been totally discussed, it will be ratified as quickly as possible. It will be better if discussed more comprehensively, so that implementation in the field can be synergized with other organization at customary village,” added the royal figure of Campuhan Palace, Ubud. (kmb29)

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Serena Williams, who seized her 14th Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday, was preparing for a change of scene this week with her hard-court WTA title defence at Stanford.

Organizers said top-seed-ed Williams would launch her Stanford campaign on Wednesday, giving her a bit of time to catch her breath after defeating Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska in the women’s singles final on the grass courts of the All England Club.

Williams, who also teamed with sister Venus to win the Wimbledon women’s doubles title, suffered through two foot surgeries and blood clots on her lungs in 2010-2011 before returning to tennis just over a year ago.

And she seemed eager to ride the momentum of her Wimbledon triumph at the famed Californian university.

“Just let me do a little bit at a time,” she said. “I have never felt better.”

Williams, who has a first-round bye as one of the top four seeds, will face either US wild card Nicole Gibbs or Thai qualifier Noppawan Lertcheewakarn in her second-round opener.

The 30-year-old Ameri-can, who has risen to number

four in the world rankings, was booked for her first practice ses-sion early Tuesday as she makes a brief switch from grass to hard courts.

Later this month she will return

to London where the 2012 Olym-pic tennis competition will be held at Wimbledon starting on July 28 -- one day after the Games’ open-ing ceremony.

Sandwiched this season be-

tween Wimbledon and the Summer Games, Stanford has suffered a rash of withdrawals.

France’s Marion Bartoli, the 2009 winner, is the second seed, followed by Slovakia’s Dominika

Cibulkova and Serbian Jelena Jankovic.

Williams beat Bartoli 7-5, 6-1 in last year’s Stanford final.

Wimbledon semi-finalist Angel-ique Kerber pulled out with a lower

back complaint and fellow German Sabine Lisicki -- a Wimbledon quarter-finalist, withdrew citing an abdominal strain.

Russians Svetlana Kuz-netsova with a knee injury and Nadia Petrova with a problematic right wrist also opted out.

China’s Peng Shuai, Ro-manian Monica Niculescu, Wimbledon semi-finalist Tamira Paszek and Americans Christina McHale and Varvara Lepchenko also pulled out cit-ing injuries or illness.

In early action on Mon-day, Belgian fifth seed Yanina Wickmayer reached the sec-ond round with a 7-5, 2-6, 7-5 victory over Chang Kai-Chen of Taiwan.

South African sixth seed Chanelle Scheepers beat American Grace Min 6-4, 6-4.

Wild card Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal beat Aus-tralian Jarmila Gajdosova 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. The win came despite 11 aces from the Australian and 10 double-faults from the winner, who next faces Scheepers.

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Penelokan is situated on the southern part of Batur Tengah Vil-lage of Kintamani District, around 20 kms from the town of Bangli or some 63 km from Denpasar, the capital of Bali Province.

Many guests, domestic or for-eign choose this place so they can enjoy the cold but refreshing air of the mountainous land. Of course, while they taste the stun-ning views of the solid black lavas of Mount Batur’s eruption in 1917 that devastated the surrounding

village.Batur has scenic views and is

part of Kintamani that is in the northern side of Bangli Regency. Penelokan (Look Out Point) is the best ppalce to see the drooping jaws sceneries offered by Mount and Lake Batur. It is about 1,500 meters

above sea level. Its temperature is at the average 22 degress Celcius at noo and 16 degress Celcius during the night.

And we invite those adventurous to climb the mountain until reach-ing the peak. The crater seems to be a beautiful painting carved to

the mountain.In addition to seeing the moun-

tain, Batur also offers the charming Lake Batur with its clean water and the unique graveyard and Barong Brutuk of Trunyan Village that cannot be found anywhere else in Bali.

Penelokan

Britain’s Olympic track cham-pion Wiggins was widely expected to increase his overnight lead of 10sec on his Australian rival on the first of two long time trials to feature in the 99th edition of the race.

But by the end of Monday’s 41.5 km solo ride that had seen former four-time world champion Fabian Cancellara finish 57sec in arrears, Wiggins had pushed his advantage over the Australian to 1min 53sec.

The icing on the cake for Team Sky was Chris Froome’s second place at 35sec, two days after the Kenyan-born Briton claimed his maiden stage at the first hilltop fin-ish at La Planche des Belles Filles.

Evans’s American teammate Tejay Van Garderen was fourth at 1:06, just ahead of French time trial champion Sylvain Chavanel in sixth at 1:24.

Evans, who finished sixth at 1:43,

admitted his surprise that Wiggins and Froome had “got first and sec-ond in the time trial”.

But he added: “They were ex-ceptional.

“When you’re out there on your own, there’s not much you can do, you do what you can. But there’s still a lot more racing to be done before Paris.”

Wiggins’ priority had been to distance his rivals for the yellow jersey.

But soon after turning on the turbos from the start of the slightly technical rolling course, it was clear he would be giving Evans a small mountain to climb ahead of two days in the high Alps Wednesday and Thursday.

“I knew from the first pedal turn that I felt fantastic,” said the 32-year-old Londoner.

“But to go from that to winning

the stage, it’s just fantastic.“We came here and did a good

reconnaissance of the course, which has lots of little bends and is quite technical at the finish.

“But today wasn’t about win-ning. I was thinking more about the GC (general classification) battle with (Vincenzo) Nibali and Cadel. The stage wasn’t my priority.”

Italian Nibali, an aggressive racer who could become a key ally of Evans’ in the mountains, did well to finish at 2:07 and is now fourth overall at 2:23.

Having raced against Froome and Wiggins at last year’s Tour of Spain, where the English pair finished around a minute ahead of him on a 47 km time trial in Salamanca, the Italian was not surprised.

“I expected to lose as much time to Froome and Wiggins after the Tour of Spain result last year,” said Nibali, who rides for Liquigas.

Russian Denis Menchov, a for-mer winner of the Tour of Spain and Giro d’Italia, is in fifth at 3:02.

Despite getting the job done, Wiggins is not celebrating yet.

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Bradley Wiggins tightened his grip on the yellow jersey with a maiden Tour de France stage victory that heaped the pressure on defending champion Cadel Evans.

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Bradley Wiggins of Britain

Non-stop Serena set to go at Stanford

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A pool picture released on July 9, 2012, by the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) shows Switzerland’s Roger Federer (L) and Serena Williams of US posing for pictures on July 8, 2012, with their respective Wimbledon winners trophies at the Champions Dinner in London.

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MANCHESTER - Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has agreed a new five-year contract with the Premier League champions, the club announced on Mon-day.

“Manchester City Football Club today are pleased to announce that a new contract has been agreed with manager Roberto Mancini,” City said on their website (www.mcfc.co.uk).

“The deal, which runs until the summer of 2017, follows the club’s most successful season in more than four decades, which concluded in the most

dramatic of circumstances in the team’s thrilling 3-2 win over Queens Park Rangers in May this year.”

City won the title in the most dramatic circumstances with added-time goals from Edin Dzeko and Sergio

Aguero securing a last-gasp victory over Queens Park Rangers in their final game.

Mancini replaced Mark Hughes in December 2009 and led City to FA Cup success in 2011 before

last season’s title triumph when they lifted their first top-flight crown since 1968.

The 47-year-old Italian’s success has been rewarded after a deal was reached following

discussions between the parties which began as their triumphant league season ended.

“Manchester City is a fantastic football club, from the owner, chairman, board

and the executive team, through to the players, staff and fans,” said

Mancini. “I am very much look-ing forward to the challenges and excitement ahead.”

“I am delighted to be able to give all of my efforts to Man-

chester City for a further five years. The opportunity which exists to build on our recent success is enormous,” said Mancini.

While City pipped arch rivals Manchester United on goal difference to claim the league title, their first Champions League campaign ended with a group-stage exit.

However, City have tied Mancini to a long-term contract in the hope that he can build on domestic success and deliver a first European trophy since the Cup Winners’ Cup triumph of 1970.

City interim chief executive John MacBeath added: “This new agreement allows Roberto to focus on the challenge of guiding a team which is capable not only of defending the Premier League title, but one which can compete for European hon-ours.”

Mancini, who played for Bologna, Sampdoria and Lazio as well as representing Italy, has also managed Fiorentina, Lazio and Inter Milan and had recently been linked with the va- cant Russia job.

Drogba announced last month he had signed with the big-spending Chinese club until 2014, joining his former Chelsea teammate Nicolas Anelka who started with the team in January.

The Ivory Coast international will arrive on Saturday morning and meet fans at a match against third-ranked Beijing Guoan that evening, Shenhua said in a statement on Tuesday.

A Shenhua official told AFP that Drogba would not play on Saturday.

Shenhua has an away game against Guangzhou Fuli on July 21 but there is speculation Drogba might only take to the field for the first time in a friendly match against Manchester United on July 25.

Shenhua is reportedly paying 200,000 pounds ($314,000) a week to Drogba, 34, who is fresh from leading Chel-sea to their long-awaited victory in the Champions League.

However neither side has confirmed his salary.

Despite having Anelka, Shenhua has won just three matches out of 16 in the Chi-nese Super League, which has 16 clubs.

Shenhua are one of several Chinese foot-ball clubs to have gone on a spending spree on foreign players and managers in a bid to raise their game, as the league attempts to shrug off years of damaging cor-ruption scandals.

After a poor start to the season, however, Shenhua sacked French coach Jean Tigana and replaced him with former Argentina national man-ager Sergio Batista, after briefly naming Anelka as “player-coach”.

Batista said shortly after Drogba’s signing was an-nounced that he was hopeful Shenhua could climb into the top three by season’s end in November.

Associated Press

Is manmade material superior to muscle? Are those blades better than real legs?

Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee runner, is taking the issue of disabled vs. able-bodied competition into new territory as he prepares for the London Olympics.

His inclusion on South Africa’s team clears the way for him to become the first amputee runner to compete in the Olympics. And because it’s the sporting world’s biggest stage, his participation is likely to fire up the long-running debate over whether his flexible, carbon-fiber blades give him an unfair advantage.

Pistorius, 25, runs on Cheetah Flex-Foot blades, J-shaped limbs that are 16 inches (41 centime-ters) long and weigh a little over a pound each.

Pistorius, whose lower legs were amputated when he was a baby after he was born without the fibula bones in his shins, has a personal best in the 400 meters of 45.07 seconds — almost two sec-onds off Michael Johnson’s world record — and ran a 45.20 this year, both inside the top Olympic qualifying time.

Never before has a disabled person been such a threat to the able-bodied in a sports event.

“There are tens of thousands of people with the same prosthet-ics I use, but there’s no one run-ning the same times,” Pistorius wrote in a column in a British newspaper last week after he was chosen to run both the individual 400 meters and the 4x400 relay in London. “You’ll always get people who have their opinions on whether I should be competing in London, but they can’t explain my times.”

The Blade Runner doesn’t just want to show up at the London Games, flash his photogenic smile and wave, and then retire gra-ciously and let the top runners get on with it. Pistorius wants to be on the track among the eight finest runners in the world when the gold medal is decided on Aug. 6.

“It’s a personal dream of his to run in the final at the Olympic Games,” Pistorius’ coach for all his career, Ampie Louw, told The Associated Press. “It’s not quali-fying only.”

Pistorius told the AP: “My goals are just to be able to look back at my career and know that I didn’t let my talent go to waste. I’m just trying to prove to myself that I can be the best that I want to be.”

Sports engineer David James, a senior lecturer at England’s Shef-field Hallam University, disagrees with Pistorius’ inclusion in the

Olympics on both scientific and ethical grounds.

“Sport is hard-nosed and brutal and bloody and has no place for sob stories. People want Oscar to run and do well. However, will they think the same if he wins?” James said. “I predict a backlash if he wins anything. They will attribute that performance to the blades. I think there would be real implications if he won.”

Pistorius’ case was settled — legally anyway — in 2008 when sports’ highest court lifted the ban from able-bodied events imposed on him by the International Asso-ciation of Athletics Federations.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport said that Pistorius probably gets some advantages from the springy, curved blades, but also suffers some disadvantages, and they even out in the end.

James doesn’t agree.“To say he doesn’t have an ad-

vantage is stretching it,” the sports engineer said. “When he’s up to speed, he is more efficient than someone with muscle and bone. He can relocate his legs faster because they are lighter.”

Hugh Herr, an associate profes-sor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert in biomechanics and bionics who has conducted studies on Pistorius, agreed with the decision to reinstate Pistorius, saying there is no evidence the blades give Pistorius an edge.

Pistorius’ leg speed is quicker than that of some other athletes but not all of them, Herr said, meaning he’s “not abnormal.” And in terms of the energy he uses and the way he tires, there is, crucially, no difference, Herr said. Pistorius is probably at a disadvantage because he cannot hit the ground as hard as other athletes, the professor said.

Herr said Pistorius was forced to come up with a different run-ning style from a young age be-cause he had no lower legs, and developed bigger hips as a result. Those hips, and to a lesser extent his knee joints, are the key to his running, Herr said.

“The view that he’s a robot that doesn’t fatigue is nonsense,” Herr said. “The science is immature. We don’t know very much, but what we do know says there’s no overall advantage for Pistorius in a 400-meter race.”

Sports ethicist and philosopher Ivo van Hilvoorde of Free Univer-sity in Amsterdam said the South African athlete represents the shifting boundaries between able and disabled sport.

“We are used to thinking of disabled as less,” Van Hilvoorde said, “but it could be the other way round. Oscar Pistorius is a nice example of this.”

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McLaren are relying on major upgrades scheduled for the Ger-man Grand Prix to reignite their world title chances after failing to match the pace of rival teams at Sunday’s British Grand Prix.

McLaren duo Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button could only manage eighth and tenth respec-tively at Silverstone and were a long way off matching the lap times set by frontrunners Red Bull and Ferrari.

McLaren boss Martin Whit-marsh admitted it was now left to the team to react positively and pinned the team’s hopes on a significant upgrade package scheduled for Hockenheim in two weeks time to get them back on track.

“We weren’t quick enough, period,” said Whitmarsh.

“It is always disappointing if you are not competitive and certainly at the end of the race we were not, and through no fault of the drivers - both of them did

a good job.“We’ve got a decent, bigger,

more visible upgrade package for Germany and we’ve got to deliver that and make that stick. It’s the same old game, we have got to develop the car, and we have got to make sure we use the tyres better.”

Whitmarsh added that he was happier with the team’s im-proved consistency and pit stops, which have blighted their race chances on several occasions this season, but underlined that ultimately their car was just not fast enough.

“The average of all three pit stops was sub three seconds, which is something we have been working on,” he said.

“But fundamentally, good pit stops, a good couple of drivers, solid drives, bad qualifying, but no events upon which we could capitalise. Just not quick enough is the school report.”

The 54-year-old also played down rumours that 2008 champion Hamilton, whose contract is up for

renewal at the end of the season, had been affected by the team’s slump in form and was considering a move to a rival team.

Whitmarsh suggested that the 27-year-old, now fourth in the title-race and 37 points behind champi-onship leader Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, would be able to overlook the team’s current slump.

“I think he is smarter than that” said Whitmarsh, “and he knows that racing is highs and lows.

“This hasn’t been one of the highs this weekend, four weeks ago it was a different situation, two weeks’ time it could be a dif-ferent situation again. He knows that, I know that.

“We are disciplined enough and battle hardened enough these days to know that you’ve got to take stock and learn from these weekends. Sometimes you learn more from these weekends than successful ones. We will continue to develop the car and make sure we do a better job in two weeks’ time.”

AP Photo/ Waldrin Xhemaj, pool

Spanish Formula One driver Fernando Alonso, bottom, of Scuderia Ferrari overtakes British McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton while he is in the pit stop during the European Formula One Grand Prix at Valencia street circuit, Spain, Sunday, June 24, 2012. McLaren are relying on major upgrades scheduled for the German Grand Prix to reignite their world title chances after failing to match the pace of rival teams at Sunday’s British Grand Prix.

Manmade vs. natural: Oscar Pistorius stokes debate

McLaren put faith in Hockenheim upgrades

Manchester City manager Mancini agrees new five-year

Drogba to arrive in China on Saturday

Didier Drogba

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SHANGHAI - Football star Didier Drogba will arrive in China on Saturday to take up his new role at Shanghai Shenhua, his club said, amid high hopes he can reignite the 13th-placed team’s season.

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MANCHESTER - Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has agreed a new five-year contract with the Premier League champions, the club announced on Mon-day.

“Manchester City Football Club today are pleased to announce that a new contract has been agreed with manager Roberto Mancini,” City said on their website (www.mcfc.co.uk).

“The deal, which runs until the summer of 2017, follows the club’s most successful season in more than four decades, which concluded in the most

dramatic of circumstances in the team’s thrilling 3-2 win over Queens Park Rangers in May this year.”

City won the title in the most dramatic circumstances with added-time goals from Edin Dzeko and Sergio

Aguero securing a last-gasp victory over Queens Park Rangers in their final game.

Mancini replaced Mark Hughes in December 2009 and led City to FA Cup success in 2011 before

last season’s title triumph when they lifted their first top-flight crown since 1968.

The 47-year-old Italian’s success has been rewarded after a deal was reached following

discussions between the parties which began as their triumphant league season ended.

“Manchester City is a fantastic football club, from the owner, chairman, board

and the executive team, through to the players, staff and fans,” said

Mancini. “I am very much look-ing forward to the challenges and excitement ahead.”

“I am delighted to be able to give all of my efforts to Man-

chester City for a further five years. The opportunity which exists to build on our recent success is enormous,” said Mancini.

While City pipped arch rivals Manchester United on goal difference to claim the league title, their first Champions League campaign ended with a group-stage exit.

However, City have tied Mancini to a long-term contract in the hope that he can build on domestic success and deliver a first European trophy since the Cup Winners’ Cup triumph of 1970.

City interim chief executive John MacBeath added: “This new agreement allows Roberto to focus on the challenge of guiding a team which is capable not only of defending the Premier League title, but one which can compete for European hon-ours.”

Mancini, who played for Bologna, Sampdoria and Lazio as well as representing Italy, has also managed Fiorentina, Lazio and Inter Milan and had recently been linked with the va- cant Russia job.

Drogba announced last month he had signed with the big-spending Chinese club until 2014, joining his former Chelsea teammate Nicolas Anelka who started with the team in January.

The Ivory Coast international will arrive on Saturday morning and meet fans at a match against third-ranked Beijing Guoan that evening, Shenhua said in a statement on Tuesday.

A Shenhua official told AFP that Drogba would not play on Saturday.

Shenhua has an away game against Guangzhou Fuli on July 21 but there is speculation Drogba might only take to the field for the first time in a friendly match against Manchester United on July 25.

Shenhua is reportedly paying 200,000 pounds ($314,000) a week to Drogba, 34, who is fresh from leading Chel-sea to their long-awaited victory in the Champions League.

However neither side has confirmed his salary.

Despite having Anelka, Shenhua has won just three matches out of 16 in the Chi-nese Super League, which has 16 clubs.

Shenhua are one of several Chinese foot-ball clubs to have gone on a spending spree on foreign players and managers in a bid to raise their game, as the league attempts to shrug off years of damaging cor-ruption scandals.

After a poor start to the season, however, Shenhua sacked French coach Jean Tigana and replaced him with former Argentina national man-ager Sergio Batista, after briefly naming Anelka as “player-coach”.

Batista said shortly after Drogba’s signing was an-nounced that he was hopeful Shenhua could climb into the top three by season’s end in November.

Associated Press

Is manmade material superior to muscle? Are those blades better than real legs?

Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee runner, is taking the issue of disabled vs. able-bodied competition into new territory as he prepares for the London Olympics.

His inclusion on South Africa’s team clears the way for him to become the first amputee runner to compete in the Olympics. And because it’s the sporting world’s biggest stage, his participation is likely to fire up the long-running debate over whether his flexible, carbon-fiber blades give him an unfair advantage.

Pistorius, 25, runs on Cheetah Flex-Foot blades, J-shaped limbs that are 16 inches (41 centime-ters) long and weigh a little over a pound each.

Pistorius, whose lower legs were amputated when he was a baby after he was born without the fibula bones in his shins, has a personal best in the 400 meters of 45.07 seconds — almost two sec-onds off Michael Johnson’s world record — and ran a 45.20 this year, both inside the top Olympic qualifying time.

Never before has a disabled person been such a threat to the able-bodied in a sports event.

“There are tens of thousands of people with the same prosthet-ics I use, but there’s no one run-ning the same times,” Pistorius wrote in a column in a British newspaper last week after he was chosen to run both the individual 400 meters and the 4x400 relay in London. “You’ll always get people who have their opinions on whether I should be competing in London, but they can’t explain my times.”

The Blade Runner doesn’t just want to show up at the London Games, flash his photogenic smile and wave, and then retire gra-ciously and let the top runners get on with it. Pistorius wants to be on the track among the eight finest runners in the world when the gold medal is decided on Aug. 6.

“It’s a personal dream of his to run in the final at the Olympic Games,” Pistorius’ coach for all his career, Ampie Louw, told The Associated Press. “It’s not quali-fying only.”

Pistorius told the AP: “My goals are just to be able to look back at my career and know that I didn’t let my talent go to waste. I’m just trying to prove to myself that I can be the best that I want to be.”

Sports engineer David James, a senior lecturer at England’s Shef-field Hallam University, disagrees with Pistorius’ inclusion in the

Olympics on both scientific and ethical grounds.

“Sport is hard-nosed and brutal and bloody and has no place for sob stories. People want Oscar to run and do well. However, will they think the same if he wins?” James said. “I predict a backlash if he wins anything. They will attribute that performance to the blades. I think there would be real implications if he won.”

Pistorius’ case was settled — legally anyway — in 2008 when sports’ highest court lifted the ban from able-bodied events imposed on him by the International Asso-ciation of Athletics Federations.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport said that Pistorius probably gets some advantages from the springy, curved blades, but also suffers some disadvantages, and they even out in the end.

James doesn’t agree.“To say he doesn’t have an ad-

vantage is stretching it,” the sports engineer said. “When he’s up to speed, he is more efficient than someone with muscle and bone. He can relocate his legs faster because they are lighter.”

Hugh Herr, an associate profes-sor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert in biomechanics and bionics who has conducted studies on Pistorius, agreed with the decision to reinstate Pistorius, saying there is no evidence the blades give Pistorius an edge.

Pistorius’ leg speed is quicker than that of some other athletes but not all of them, Herr said, meaning he’s “not abnormal.” And in terms of the energy he uses and the way he tires, there is, crucially, no difference, Herr said. Pistorius is probably at a disadvantage because he cannot hit the ground as hard as other athletes, the professor said.

Herr said Pistorius was forced to come up with a different run-ning style from a young age be-cause he had no lower legs, and developed bigger hips as a result. Those hips, and to a lesser extent his knee joints, are the key to his running, Herr said.

“The view that he’s a robot that doesn’t fatigue is nonsense,” Herr said. “The science is immature. We don’t know very much, but what we do know says there’s no overall advantage for Pistorius in a 400-meter race.”

Sports ethicist and philosopher Ivo van Hilvoorde of Free Univer-sity in Amsterdam said the South African athlete represents the shifting boundaries between able and disabled sport.

“We are used to thinking of disabled as less,” Van Hilvoorde said, “but it could be the other way round. Oscar Pistorius is a nice example of this.”

Agence France-Presse

McLaren are relying on major upgrades scheduled for the Ger-man Grand Prix to reignite their world title chances after failing to match the pace of rival teams at Sunday’s British Grand Prix.

McLaren duo Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button could only manage eighth and tenth respec-tively at Silverstone and were a long way off matching the lap times set by frontrunners Red Bull and Ferrari.

McLaren boss Martin Whit-marsh admitted it was now left to the team to react positively and pinned the team’s hopes on a significant upgrade package scheduled for Hockenheim in two weeks time to get them back on track.

“We weren’t quick enough, period,” said Whitmarsh.

“It is always disappointing if you are not competitive and certainly at the end of the race we were not, and through no fault of the drivers - both of them did

a good job.“We’ve got a decent, bigger,

more visible upgrade package for Germany and we’ve got to deliver that and make that stick. It’s the same old game, we have got to develop the car, and we have got to make sure we use the tyres better.”

Whitmarsh added that he was happier with the team’s im-proved consistency and pit stops, which have blighted their race chances on several occasions this season, but underlined that ultimately their car was just not fast enough.

“The average of all three pit stops was sub three seconds, which is something we have been working on,” he said.

“But fundamentally, good pit stops, a good couple of drivers, solid drives, bad qualifying, but no events upon which we could capitalise. Just not quick enough is the school report.”

The 54-year-old also played down rumours that 2008 champion Hamilton, whose contract is up for

renewal at the end of the season, had been affected by the team’s slump in form and was considering a move to a rival team.

Whitmarsh suggested that the 27-year-old, now fourth in the title-race and 37 points behind champi-onship leader Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, would be able to overlook the team’s current slump.

“I think he is smarter than that” said Whitmarsh, “and he knows that racing is highs and lows.

“This hasn’t been one of the highs this weekend, four weeks ago it was a different situation, two weeks’ time it could be a dif-ferent situation again. He knows that, I know that.

“We are disciplined enough and battle hardened enough these days to know that you’ve got to take stock and learn from these weekends. Sometimes you learn more from these weekends than successful ones. We will continue to develop the car and make sure we do a better job in two weeks’ time.”

AP Photo/ Waldrin Xhemaj, pool

Spanish Formula One driver Fernando Alonso, bottom, of Scuderia Ferrari overtakes British McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton while he is in the pit stop during the European Formula One Grand Prix at Valencia street circuit, Spain, Sunday, June 24, 2012. McLaren are relying on major upgrades scheduled for the German Grand Prix to reignite their world title chances after failing to match the pace of rival teams at Sunday’s British Grand Prix.

Manmade vs. natural: Oscar Pistorius stokes debate

McLaren put faith in Hockenheim upgrades

Manchester City manager Mancini agrees new five-year

Drogba to arrive in China on Saturday

Didier Drogba

Agence France-Presse

SHANGHAI - Football star Didier Drogba will arrive in China on Saturday to take up his new role at Shanghai Shenhua, his club said, amid high hopes he can reignite the 13th-placed team’s season.

IBP/Net

Agence France-Presse

Serena Williams, who seized her 14th Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon on Saturday, was preparing for a change of scene this week with her hard-court WTA title defence at Stanford.

Organizers said top-seed-ed Williams would launch her Stanford campaign on Wednesday, giving her a bit of time to catch her breath after defeating Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska in the women’s singles final on the grass courts of the All England Club.

Williams, who also teamed with sister Venus to win the Wimbledon women’s doubles title, suffered through two foot surgeries and blood clots on her lungs in 2010-2011 before returning to tennis just over a year ago.

And she seemed eager to ride the momentum of her Wimbledon triumph at the famed Californian university.

“Just let me do a little bit at a time,” she said. “I have never felt better.”

Williams, who has a first-round bye as one of the top four seeds, will face either US wild card Nicole Gibbs or Thai qualifier Noppawan Lertcheewakarn in her second-round opener.

The 30-year-old Ameri-can, who has risen to number

four in the world rankings, was booked for her first practice ses-sion early Tuesday as she makes a brief switch from grass to hard courts.

Later this month she will return

to London where the 2012 Olym-pic tennis competition will be held at Wimbledon starting on July 28 -- one day after the Games’ open-ing ceremony.

Sandwiched this season be-

tween Wimbledon and the Summer Games, Stanford has suffered a rash of withdrawals.

France’s Marion Bartoli, the 2009 winner, is the second seed, followed by Slovakia’s Dominika

Cibulkova and Serbian Jelena Jankovic.

Williams beat Bartoli 7-5, 6-1 in last year’s Stanford final.

Wimbledon semi-finalist Angel-ique Kerber pulled out with a lower

back complaint and fellow German Sabine Lisicki -- a Wimbledon quarter-finalist, withdrew citing an abdominal strain.

Russians Svetlana Kuz-netsova with a knee injury and Nadia Petrova with a problematic right wrist also opted out.

China’s Peng Shuai, Ro-manian Monica Niculescu, Wimbledon semi-finalist Tamira Paszek and Americans Christina McHale and Varvara Lepchenko also pulled out cit-ing injuries or illness.

In early action on Mon-day, Belgian fifth seed Yanina Wickmayer reached the sec-ond round with a 7-5, 2-6, 7-5 victory over Chang Kai-Chen of Taiwan.

South African sixth seed Chanelle Scheepers beat American Grace Min 6-4, 6-4.

Wild card Michelle Larcher de Brito of Portugal beat Aus-tralian Jarmila Gajdosova 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. The win came despite 11 aces from the Australian and 10 double-faults from the winner, who next faces Scheepers.

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Penelokan is situated on the southern part of Batur Tengah Vil-lage of Kintamani District, around 20 kms from the town of Bangli or some 63 km from Denpasar, the capital of Bali Province.

Many guests, domestic or for-eign choose this place so they can enjoy the cold but refreshing air of the mountainous land. Of course, while they taste the stun-ning views of the solid black lavas of Mount Batur’s eruption in 1917 that devastated the surrounding

village.Batur has scenic views and is

part of Kintamani that is in the northern side of Bangli Regency. Penelokan (Look Out Point) is the best ppalce to see the drooping jaws sceneries offered by Mount and Lake Batur. It is about 1,500 meters

above sea level. Its temperature is at the average 22 degress Celcius at noo and 16 degress Celcius during the night.

And we invite those adventurous to climb the mountain until reach-ing the peak. The crater seems to be a beautiful painting carved to

the mountain.In addition to seeing the moun-

tain, Batur also offers the charming Lake Batur with its clean water and the unique graveyard and Barong Brutuk of Trunyan Village that cannot be found anywhere else in Bali.

Penelokan

Britain’s Olympic track cham-pion Wiggins was widely expected to increase his overnight lead of 10sec on his Australian rival on the first of two long time trials to feature in the 99th edition of the race.

But by the end of Monday’s 41.5 km solo ride that had seen former four-time world champion Fabian Cancellara finish 57sec in arrears, Wiggins had pushed his advantage over the Australian to 1min 53sec.

The icing on the cake for Team Sky was Chris Froome’s second place at 35sec, two days after the Kenyan-born Briton claimed his maiden stage at the first hilltop fin-ish at La Planche des Belles Filles.

Evans’s American teammate Tejay Van Garderen was fourth at 1:06, just ahead of French time trial champion Sylvain Chavanel in sixth at 1:24.

Evans, who finished sixth at 1:43,

admitted his surprise that Wiggins and Froome had “got first and sec-ond in the time trial”.

But he added: “They were ex-ceptional.

“When you’re out there on your own, there’s not much you can do, you do what you can. But there’s still a lot more racing to be done before Paris.”

Wiggins’ priority had been to distance his rivals for the yellow jersey.

But soon after turning on the turbos from the start of the slightly technical rolling course, it was clear he would be giving Evans a small mountain to climb ahead of two days in the high Alps Wednesday and Thursday.

“I knew from the first pedal turn that I felt fantastic,” said the 32-year-old Londoner.

“But to go from that to winning

the stage, it’s just fantastic.“We came here and did a good

reconnaissance of the course, which has lots of little bends and is quite technical at the finish.

“But today wasn’t about win-ning. I was thinking more about the GC (general classification) battle with (Vincenzo) Nibali and Cadel. The stage wasn’t my priority.”

Italian Nibali, an aggressive racer who could become a key ally of Evans’ in the mountains, did well to finish at 2:07 and is now fourth overall at 2:23.

Having raced against Froome and Wiggins at last year’s Tour of Spain, where the English pair finished around a minute ahead of him on a 47 km time trial in Salamanca, the Italian was not surprised.

“I expected to lose as much time to Froome and Wiggins after the Tour of Spain result last year,” said Nibali, who rides for Liquigas.

Russian Denis Menchov, a for-mer winner of the Tour of Spain and Giro d’Italia, is in fifth at 3:02.

Despite getting the job done, Wiggins is not celebrating yet.

Wiggins extends Tour de France leadAgence France-Presse

Bradley Wiggins tightened his grip on the yellow jersey with a maiden Tour de France stage victory that heaped the pressure on defending champion Cadel Evans.

AP Photo/Laurent Rebours

Bradley Wiggins of Britain

Non-stop Serena set to go at Stanford

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A pool picture released on July 9, 2012, by the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) shows Switzerland’s Roger Federer (L) and Serena Williams of US posing for pictures on July 8, 2012, with their respective Wimbledon winners trophies at the Champions Dinner in London.

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A local hos-pital said those daredevils sus-tained injuries to the head, legs or arm in the rela-tively clean and fast run through the old quarter

of the city. None of the injuries was serious.

The six fighting bulls weigh-ing as much 620 kilos (1,360 lbs) stayed together in a pack for much of the dash, which was good because an isolated bull is more likely to get disoriented and charge at people. They run with steer that

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A damning report on the Australian military on Tuesday detailed 24 allegations of rape that never went to trial and other claims that Defence Minister Stephen Smith admitted would “shock” people.

The report was commissioned by the government last year follow-ing the so-called Skype scandal, when footage of a young male recruit having sex with an unwitting female classmate was streamed online to cadets in another room.

Some of the allegations had already been revealed through the media but Smith Tuesday released the entire 1,500-page document detailing 847 alleged incidents of sexual or other abuse dating back to the 1950s.

“It does raise very serious allegations and does raise matters that are deeply sensitive and they will shock some people,” Smith said of the report.

As well as the rape claims, it said that “from the 1950s through to the early 1980s, many boys aged 13, 14, 15 and 16 years of age in the defence force suffered abuse including serious sexual and other physical abuse”.

Until the 1960s, boys as young as 13 were recruited into the Navy and 15-year-olds were accepted into all three services up until the early 1980s, although the minimum joining age is now 17.

It also said: “It is certain that many young females in the defence force have been subjected to serious sexual and physical assault and other serious abuse inflicted.”

The report suggested paedophiles in the past joined the military to access young people in the same way they sought out positions in orphanages, schools and churches.

Documents previously released detailed “horrific” child sex as-saults and brutal initiation ceremonies and painted a culture of cover-up, failure to punish perpetrators and hostility towards victims who complained.

The report said some of the accused may now hold positions in the top ranks, adding that many alleged victims never reported the abuse because of concerns they would not be believed.

The government has yet to settle on a mechanism to deal with the allegations but a full public inquiry has been suggested.

AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza

Revelers run in front of a pack of six El Pilar’s ranch fighting bulls during the running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Tuesday, July 10, 2012.

4 hurt at Pamplona’s running of the bullsAssociated Press

PAMPLONA — Four people suffered bumps and bruises but no one was gored in the fourth day of the running of the bulls at Pamplona on Tuesday.

are supposed to keep the bulls in a tight pack.

Four more runs remain at Spain’s most famous summer festival. Three people — an American and two Britons — were gored in Monday’s run but none was seri-ously hurt.

The festival became world fa-mous after Ernest Hemingway wrote about it in his novel “The Sun Also Rises.”

Tuesday was the third anni-versary of the last death at the so-called San Fermin festival, that of a young Madrid-area Spaniard, Daniel Jimeno, who was gored in the neck as he tried to slide under a

fence feet-first to escape a bull. He almost made it.

His father, Juan Antonio Jimeno, placed a wreath of flowers wrapped in a red kerchief — the garment that perhaps best symbolizes the dress code for San Fermin run-ners — at the precise spot where his son died in 2009. That was the 15th death since record keeping began in 1924.

The father’s voice quivered as he remembered his son. He said the flowers were for him and the other 14 as well. “I was to pay tribute to all of them, not just my son,” Jimeno told Spanish National Television. “This is a hard day.”

Probe finds ‘shocking’ abuse in Australian military

Merkel, who took office in 2005, will also meet rights activists and the chief justice of the constitutional court in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.

She is due to visit the site of the country’s tsunami early-warning system, which was built with Ger-man assistance, as well as a Protes-tant church and a mosque.

German government sources have described Indonesia as a com-parably stable developing country with robust prospects, but expressed concerns about frequent human rights violations in the resources-

rich province of West Papua.During the trip Merkel also

aims to take up issues of regional security such as the fight against piracy in the Strait of Malacca linking the Indian Ocean with the Pacific, German officials said ahead of the visit.

Indonesia said earlier this month it would turn to Germany for a tank deal, after a $280 million bid to buy 100 Leopard battle tanks from the Netherlands fell through.

But a senior Merkel aide said before her departure from Germany that “talks on arms deals are not on

the agenda”, adding that no specific trade pacts or business contracts were expected to be signed.

The aide said there were no plans for her to hold talks with visiting International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, who is in Jakarta at the same time as the German leader.

Bilateral trade relations have developed briskly in recent years with Germany exporting 3.4 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in goods and services to Indonesia in 2011. Im-ports from the country were valued at 3.3 billion euros.

Antara

YOGYAKARTA - The ruling Democrat Party is ready to name a professional as its presidential candidate in the election in 2014, according to party`s advisory board member Marzuki Alie.

“We are ready to name not only a candidate from political parties but also from among professionals,” he said after open-ing the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly meeting here on Monday.

He said Indonesia actually has a lot of potential candidates but they have so far been covered by political party oligarchy.

So, accusations that Indonesia is currently suffering from a leadership crisis are not true, he said while referring to China as an example for the country to determine its leader.

He said the Chinese leader came from among pure profession-als that has no personal interest in business which is an important factor because usually it would be difficult for leaders who have been involved in business to separate business from leadership affairs while leading.

Citing examples of leaders from among professionals Marzuki referred to among others Zulkifli Zaini, current president director of state-owned Bank Mandiri, finance minister Agus Martowar-dojo and Emirsyah Satar, current president director PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk.

He said the chairman of the advisory board, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has also said that the party`s presidential candidate must not always come from political parties but can also come from among professionals. “We are an open party,” Marzuki said.

The Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting agency in its release on the results of a survey on challenges to be faced by presidential candidates in the 2014 election has said that a lot of popular figures have won no public favor because they have been considered not meeting national quality criteria.

Antara

JAKARTA - Executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christhine Lagarde met President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the presidential palace here on Tuesday.

Lagarde, on a three-day visit ending today, was accompanied by a number of other IMF leaders including Asia Pacific director Anoop Singh and senior representative of IMF for Indonesia Milan Zavadjil.

The Yudhoyono-Lagarde meeting came following the recent meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico of the G-20 countries which pledged assistance to cope with the European crisis.

Indonesia announce a US$1 billion loan aid which has drawn strong criticism in at home.

The loan is to be provided via the IMF, which said it needs US$430 billion to forestall the European crisis.

Lagarde already had a meeting earlier with Vice President Bo-ediono discussing global economic issue and Indonesian economic condition.

“No discussion on money . We talked about fiscal issue and global slowdown . We already met before and we share the same view on the present economic condition,” she said.

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

German Chancellor Angela Merkel steps down the stairs of her plane upon arrival at Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, July 10, 2012.

Merkel arrives for first official Indonesia visitAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Indonesia Tuesday for her first official visit to Southeast Asia’s largest economy for talks with President Susilo Bambang Yud-hoyono and business leaders.

Democrat Party ready to name professional as presidential candidate

IMF chief meets President Yudhoyono

He added the regency and municipality should be able to preserve the existence of subak members. On that account, his party needed to get input from the regency and municipality because they knew best about the real condition of the area. Besides, the executive and legislative should also get input from a team of experts and circles of academician. Therefore, issuance of the regulation could provide legal protection to the organization and the farmers themselves. “Such legal instrument must be capable of binding the components existing in the community so the presence of subak can remain to exist amidst the customary village,” he said.

This Golkar Party politician expected the existence of subak should be able to synergize with local customary village so that subak could be preserved by the community. Moreover, subak had now become one of the world cultural heritages (WBD) stipulated by UNESCO. Regarding the time of ratification, he said, his party was still mak-ing further discussion by involving all parties. “Having been totally discussed, it will be ratified as quickly as possible. It will be better if discussed more comprehensively, so that implementation in the field can be synergized with other organization at customary village,” added the royal figure of Campuhan Palace, Ubud. (kmb29)

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Reuters

NEW YORK - Stocks slipped in light trading, weighed down by weak economic data from Asia and signs of economic trouble in Europe, underscored by higher Spanish and Italian bond yields.

Monday’s decline, the third in a row for the S&P 500 index, comes as quarterly earnings reports get under way. Investors are anxious to see what impact weak demand in Europe and slowing growth in Asia have had on corporate America.

“We think 2Q earnings for the S&P 500 will be OK this quarter ... we’re calling for a small 2 per-cent beat. That said, we expect the tone of earnings season to be quite negative,” said Jonathan Golub, chief strategist at UBS in New York.

Stocks pared losses late in the session, leaving indexes with just slight losses.

Alcoa Inc’s (AA) stock fluctu-ated throughout the day, ending up 0.3 percent at $8.76 in the reg-ular session. Alcoa’s shares rose 2 percent in extended trading after the largest U.S. aluminum company and Dow component released its results, marking the start of the earnings season.

Alcoa posted a second-quarter loss but results, excluding items, beat Wall Street estimates.

Corporate outlooks are at their most negative in nearly four years, and companies that have already reported have shown lackluster growth. Nearly two

dozen S&P firms have already cited Europe’s woes - which seem to be worsening - as a concern.

While a majority of corpora-tions may beat lowered analyst expectations, investors will be fo-cused on how well companies are handling weakness overseas.

Based on “where we are today, we may see muted to a slightly downward reaction to earnings,” said Natalie Trunow, chief in-vestment officer of equities at Calvert Investment Management in Bethesda, Maryland, whose firm manages about $13 billion in assets.

The Dow Jones industrial average (^DJI) ended down 36.18 points, or 0.28 percent, at 12,736.29. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (^GSPC) was down 2.22 points, or 0.16 per-cent, at 1,352.46. The Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC) was down 5.56 points, or 0.19 per-cent, at 2,931.77.

Volume was among the light-est of the year. About 5.1 billion shares changed hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nas-daq and Amex, compared with the year-to-date daily average of 6.85 billion shares.

Italian borrowing costs con-tinued to rise on Monday while Spanish 10-year yields rose above 7 percent. That level is seen as unsustainable in the longer-term and reflecting doubts over how measures agreed last month to stem the euro zone debt crisis will be implemented.

The decisions were aimed at pre-venting the currency area’s fourth largest economy, mired in a worsen-ing recession, from needing a full state bailout which would stretch the limits of Europe’s rescue fund and plunge it deeper into a debt crisis.

“The Eurogroup supports the recently adopted Commission rec-ommendation to extend the deadline for the correction of the excessive deficit in Spain by one year to 2014,” ministers said in a statement.

No final figure was agreed for aid to ailing Spanish lenders, weighed down by bad debts due to a housing crash and recession, but the EU has set a maximum of 100 billion euros ($123 billion) and some 30 billion euros would be available by the end of July if there was an urgent need.

A final loan agreement will be signed on or around July 20, Euro-

group chairman Jean-Claude Juncker told a news conference.

In one key decision closely watched by investors, ministers agreed that once a single European banking su-pervisor is set up next year, Spanish banks could be directly recapitalized from the euro zone rescue fund with-out requiring a state guarantee.

That fulfils an EU summit man-date to try to break a so-called “doom loop” of mutual dependency between weak banks and over in-debted sovereigns, but represented a climb-down for hard-line north European creditor countries.

In a nine-hour marathon meeting ministers of the 17-nation euro zone also settled a series of long delayed appointments.

But they made no apparent progress on activating the bloc’s rescue funds to intervene in bond markets to bring

down the spiraling borrowing costs of Spain and Italy, which threaten to drive them out of the market.

The ministers reappointed Junck-er as their chairman for a further term of up to 2-1/2 years, though Europe’s longest-serving govern-ment leader said he intended to step down from the position at the end of this year or early in 2013.

They nominated another Lux-embourger, inflation hawk Yves Mersch, to the vacant position on the European Central Bank’s six-member executive board, and picked German Klaus Regling to head their permanent bailout fund, the Euro-pean Stability Mechanism, due to come into force this month.

Regling had already set up and run the temporary European Fi-nancial Stability Facility which has funded rescues for Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

As ministers were meeting, a top ECB policymaker warned that Europe’s debt crisis was now more acute than the 2008 financial turmoil that felled U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers.

EU gives Spain more time on deficit, sets bank aidReuters

BRUSSELS - Euro zone ministers agreed early on Tuesday to grant Spain an extra year until 2014 to reach its deficit reduction targets in exchange for further budget savings and set the parameters of an aid package for Madrid’s ailing banks.

AP Photo/Yves Logghe

Italian Finance Minister Mario Monti, right, talks to Spanish Finance Minister Luis de Guindos Jurado, during the EU finance ministerial meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Euro area finance ministers agreed early Tuesday on the terms of a bailout for Spain’s troubled banks, saying that 30 billion euro ($36.88 billion) can be ready by the end of this month.

Wall Street slips on global economic worries

AP Photo/Richard Drew, File

In this July 3, 2012 photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks slipped in light trading on Monday, weighed down by weak economic data from Asia and signs of economic trouble in Europe, underscored by higher Spanish and Italian bond yields.

Bali Post

GIANYAR - German tourist, Mr. Kabey Manfred (75), was found dead at his bed where he is staying at Anni House, Sweta Street, Bentuyung, Ubud, last Monday (9/7) around 10.45 am local time. Witness Susi Fitriani (37) told police said she was called by victim that morning and said that he hasn’t been feeling well also his asthma attacks which so asked witness to come there. When Fitriani got to location, victim and witness did have a chat where victim also asked for an ambulance.

Yet due to the ambulance from Ubud Klinik couldn’t, Kabey then asked neighbor

to help although victim did not want to go to hospital as there is no ambulance. In the end, he rather sleeps. “Not reaching 10 minutes later, Kabey wasn’t breathing anymore,” Head of Ubud Police PC Gde Redastra stated wit-ness’ statement, “We asked doctors to check on the room and on the medicines around. It is stated from the examination done at scene victim died due to heart disease.” (kmb16)

Chairman of the Indonesia Tourism Industry Association (GIPI) of Bali, IB Ngurah Wijaya, said that tourism workers includ-ing the tourist guides of Bali were asked to be professional and improve their skills to face the competition in 2015. In the era of globalization, the government could not prevent foreign workers from working in Bali. “Against the tight labor competition, the tourism perpetrators must improve their capabilities, including in the field of guiding. When they are expert in their field, foreign labor will be difficult to take on the role of local workers in Bali,” said Ngurah Wijaya, Monday (Jul 9).

He said the skill enhancement of tourism workers was also aimed at improving the quality of tourism in Bali. For instance, if the service quality of tourist guides could be improved it would enable the Bali destination to compete against destinations in other countries. The advantage of tourist guides in Indonesia was that their under-standing about the culture in each tourism region in Indonesia.

“For example, tourist guides in Bali have understanding about the local culture so that they can give an explanation to tourists spending holidays in Bali. Understanding of Balinese culture is an advantage of tourist guides in Bali compared to foreign tourist guides,” he said.

The Head of Tourism Resourc-es and the Creative Economy Development, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, I Gede Pitana, explained the rule of the

ASEAN Community in 2015 was pursuant to the World Trade Organization (WTO) containing four movements namely goods, services, capital and people that could no longer be restricted. “The agreement also states that in 2015 there will be no restrictions that prevent the movement of human resources, particularly the tourism workers of the ASEAN countries. As consequence, they can work in Indonesia and vice versa,” he said.

He said the tourism workers were then required to prepare themselves because the tourism workers of the ASEAN countries would be allowed to work in In-donesia. To win the quality in the future competition, all the tourism workers in the country, according to Government Regulation No. 52/2012 on the Certification of Competency and Certification of Tourism Business, were required to have a certificate of competency which measured the ability of a worker, without exception for tourist guides.

“Although tourist guides have a license or permit, they are also required to take a certification,” he said. According to him, the certification is valid internationally that currently was only applied to the ASEAN region. By degrees until 2014, the government would facilitate the workers to be certified so that they would be independent later. His party expected the service users of tourism workers could bet-ter appreciate those who had certifi-cation in terms of salary. (kmb27)

German tourist found dead

German tourist, Mr. Kabey Manfred (75), was found dead at his bed where he is

staying at Anni House, Sweta Street, Ben-tuyung, Ubud, last Monday (9/7) around

10.45 am local time. IBP/Agung Dharmada

2015, tourism workers of ASEAN compete freely

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DENPASAR - Agreement of the ASEAN Community related to competency standards opens a competition among the workers in the tourism sector of ASEAN countries in 2015. It is a great chal-lenge for local tourism perpetrators.

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Agreement of the ASEAN Community related to competency standards opens a competition among the workers in the tourism sector of ASEAN countries in 2015. It is a great challenge for local tourism perpetrators.

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SEOUL - Park Geun-Hye, the daughter of an assassinated dictator, officially launched her bid Tuesday to become South Korea’s first female president, with polls placing her as frontrunner in December’s election.

The veteran politician, who is expected to secure the ruling conserva-tive New Frontier Party’s nomination at its primary next month, softened her message in a speech apparently intended to broaden her appeal beyond conservatives.

Pledging to work for a fair and transparent market economy, Park, 60, vowed to expand welfare and push for “economic democratisation” amid a widening wealth gap and high youth unemployment in Asia’s fourth largest economy.

“Our economy has excessively emphasised efficiency and disregarded the importance of fairness, resulting in an increased income gap and imbal-ances,” she told cheering supporters at a shopping plaza in western Seoul.

Huge conglomerates fostered by her father Park Chung-Hee in the 1960s and 1970s still dominate the economy, sparking resentment at their omnipresence.

About 1,000 supporters -- mostly middle-aged or older and clad in the party’s trademark red -- chanted her

name and waved national flags, bal-loons and banners reading “The nation loves you”.

South Korea is at a “crucial junc-ture” faced with an ageing society, a low birthrate and jobless woes for youth, she said, promising to increase investment in the service sectors and in science and technology to help create jobs.

“I will devote my everything to make the Republic of Korea (South Korea) a country in which everybody can achieve their dreams,” she said.

Park’s father seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled until his as-sassination in 1979 by his spy chief. Her mother was shot dead by a pro-North Korean assassin in 1974. She said Tuesday the death of her parents caused her “unbearable pain” at an young age and called the nation “my mother, my family”.

Park narrowly lost the conservative party’s nomination to Lee Myung-Bak in 2007. He went on to become president but is constitutionally barred from standing again. Recent opinion polls show Park beating potential presidential rivals by a wide margin in the December 19 poll.

A Realmeter survey published last week gave her 42.4 percent, followed by 19.6 percent for left-leaning soft-ware mogul Ahn Cheol-Soo who has not officially declared his candidacy.

Agence France-Presse

MYANMAR - Aung San Suu Kyi’s iconic allure has helped train the eyes of the world on Myanmar’s democracy struggle, but some experts say her star appeal could thwart the rise of a new generation of leaders.

The Nobel laureate, who has come to personify Myanmar’s efforts to shrug off the yoke of decades of dictator-ship, made her parliamentary debut on Monday in the latest chapter in her transformation from renowned political prisoner to MP.

The 67-year-old has suggested she is willing to accept the mantle of president if, as expected, her party wins 2015 elec-tions seen as the apex of recent reforms. But many are already asking who could follow in the footsteps of “The Lady”.

Western governments showed great in-terest in finding “political alternatives” to Suu Kyi when she was under house arrest before controversial November 2010 elec-tions, said Renaud Egreteau, a Myanmar expert at the University Hong Kong.

“Two years later, idolatry is back. Alternatives within the democratic op-position are again marginalised.”

Suu Kyi has said she has tried shun-ning the “icon” label since being pro-pelled into Myanmar’s political scene

during a failed student uprising against the junta in 1988.

But as the daughter of independence hero Aung San she has failed to escape cult status both at home and abroad.

Some observers argue that a simplis-tic portrayal of Myanmar’s politics as a battle between a charismatic woman and a cabal of murderous generals could un-dercut efforts to bring a new generation of democracy leaders to the fore.

That narrative is particularly strong in the West, which has focused on her entrance into mainstream politics as a benchmark for easing strict sanctions.

But lavish welcomes during her first major trip abroad in nearly a quarter century have also threatened to strain re-lations with President Thein Sein, largely acknowledged as the architect of sweeping political changes since he took the helm of a quasi-civilian government last year.

“It is a bit unusual for somebody who is the leader of the opposition to receive such high level treatment,” said Trevor Wilson, former Australian Ambassador to the country.

While the NLD has become the largest opposition group, parliament remains dominated by the military and army-backed ruling party and with only 43 seats, Suu Kyi’s party is likely to have to form alliances to affect legislation.

Splits over City regulation, the Euro crisis and high-income taxa-tion are set to dominate the talks with Cameron, who apparently snubbed Hollande when he made an election-campaign visit to London in February.

The pair held their first bilateral meeting before the G8 summit in Washington in May, and Cameron’s Downing Street office insisted the two would also discuss more con-sensual issues during Tuesday’s 90-minute working lunch.

“The agenda will focus on the range of bilateral issues,” said a Downing Street spokesman.

“I would expect them to cover the economy, the situation in the eu-rozone, a number of foreign policy

issues and our ongoing cooperation on defence.”

Cameron raised French hackles last month when he made a contro-versial promise to “roll out the red carpet” for any French tax exiles.

Britain later insisted the com-ment was meant to be taken in jest, and the French leader shrugged off the comments as “of no impor-tance”.

Taxation in France, however, is also being closely scrutinized by the British government on another point: a proposed hike in the levy on foreign-owned second homes.

Cameron continues to urge members of the eurozone -- of which Britain is not a part -- to take action to resolve the economic

crisis that is severely affecting his country’s economy.

But under heavy pressure from the Eurosceptic wing of his party, he recently called for “less Eu-rope”, and has not ruled out a referendum on whether Britain should redefine its relationship with Brussels.

He also refused to back the Euro-pean Pact on fiscal discipline, which he fears may compromise the City of London’s position as Europe’s leading financial center, and has regularly voiced his fierce opposi-tion to a financial transactions tax (FTT) desired by Paris.

Last November, he speculated in front of Britain’s parliament whether the French would accept “a tax on cheese.”

Downing Street said it expected the two leaders to “cover the full range of economic issues and the situation in the eurozone” when asked if the FTT would be up for discussion on Tuesday.

Suu Kyi’s fame risks eclipsing new Myanmar stars

AFP PHOTO / Soe Than WIN

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to the media as she leave the lower house of parliament in Naypyidaw on July 10, 2012.

Hollande set for royalty and wrangles on British visitAgence France-Presse

PARIS - French President Francois Hollande will hold potentially combustible talks with Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday before meeting with Queen Elizabeth II during a one-day visit to Britain.

Dictator’s daughter runs for South Korea Presidency

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The case investigation on a 84 tons solar tank ship owned by PT Sembi-lan Pilar (SP) company have been going on for a week yet it seemed still going on. Even though the captain, Sutrisno, and six crews of it have been named as accused, owner of SP, I Made Wirata, still untouched as accused are still silent on where the solar came from and where it is going. Sea Commander, Wayan Suarjaya, last Monday (9/7) admitted the investigation got stuck meanwhile Wirata himself when confirmed admitted to be ready to be investigated if needed yet there hasn’t been any request.

When asked about his ship being captured, Wirata who lives at Sesetan Road, Denpasar, admitted did not know what it has violated. He explained that the tank ship is a deliver order ship.

Sadly he did not explain what the real status of the ship is and where the solar will go as the ship seemed still being an evidence of the same case at year 2003 so this con-fiscation was done with Indonesian Police Criminal Research.

Meanwhile Head of Bali Police Public Relation, PC Hariadi, did not comment a lot on this case as this don’t need to be explained by him knowing it is the Sea Army who takes care of it. (kmb21)

In Petang subdistrict, for ex-ample, Badung Government is undertaking an arrangement and enhancement of the infrastructure. A number of projects worth billions of rupiahs are being rolled out, including the corridor arrangement of the Tukad Bangkung Bridge, arrangement of drainage and pave-ment in Plaga and development

of Pangsan and Pelaga as tourism village. Though the projects worth billions of rupiahs are under prog-ress, there are still a number of key infrastructures and potential of the village that need addressing. It was revealed by Deputy Regent of Badung, I Ketut Sudikerta, when making a site inspection to those projects last weekend.

Nyoman Juta, a resident of Pelaga tourism village, said the infrastructure of pathway at his village still needed to be addressed. Condition of the pathway frequently passed through by trekking activity remained cha-otic and hazardous, especially the pathway near steep cliffs. He asked in order it could be immediately resolved so as not to affect the image

of the tourism village.“The pathway at our village

needs to be fixed. Our community asks in order the steep pathway can be repaired so as not to harm,” said Nyoman Juta while mentioning the length of such hazardous pathway was about 300 meters.

Other than infrastructure, he also mentioned that some of the agri-cultural potentials at the village had vanished or not yet developed maxi-mally. Around in 1990s, the tangerine commodity of his village had been so popular. Unfortunately, such popular-ity began to fade and vanished by de-grees. Local community was intensely cultivating the Arabica coffee having a

high economic value at the moment. However, the community could not take advantage of the existing niche as facing the problem of facility used to process the product. “The existing machine is an old one so that it often produces defective or damaged coffee products,” he complained.

Meanwhile, Deputy Regent Sudikerta stated the aspirations would become an input to be fol-lowed up later on. He added the problems of infrastructure and agricultural potential that could not have been developed by the community should be promptly ad-dressed so the tourism village could run properly. (kmb25)

Bali Post

KARANGASEM - A fiber ship got burnt in the middle of Indonesia Sea then the non crew and unidentified ship since Monday (9/7) got stranded at Jasri Beach, Karangasem. It is not known if there are any casualties or not in this incident as none was found so far. Karangasem Po-lice seemed confused seeing it as it has no name at all on the ship. Above the ship only burnt papers were found. SAR team with fishermen of Jafri then put the ship to a safer place by rope pulled towards a tree in front of Pura Mastima, Jasri.

Police then continued by asking locals about the 28 meters long and 8 meters wide ship. The ship was found first by

Nengah Kerta, a fisherman from Banjar Ramia Saba Jasri, who reported to Head of Village, Ir. Komang Sutirtayasa, who then forwarded to police. Other witness, I Made Adi Rismapramana alias Apel (11) saw the ship was burnt around 1 am local time in the mid ocean. A solar smell seemed to be disturbing them and with the strong tide, the ship was then stranded as seen in the morning. It is suspected that this ship is a fishing ship that usually harbored at Benoa Harbor, Denpasar, yet it is not known if its burnt purposely or other causer. Meanwhile Karangasem Water Police, APC Made Wartama, stated until then there hasn’t been any report of missing ship or sort. Remains can be seen located above the ship including rooms made of plastic sheets. (013)

84 tons solar illegal CaseInvestigators found dead end

Infrastructure and potential of tourism village in North Badung need improving

Development of tour-ism village in Ba-dung Regency has a strategic value. Aside from increasing the diversity of tourist destination, it is also considered capable of developing the economic potential of a village and society.

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Development of tourism village in Badung Regency has a strategic value. Aside from increasing the diversity of tourist destination, it is also considered capable of developing the economic potential of a village and society. To that end, the Badung Government should be able to provide ad-equate infrastructure and facilities, so that tourism village can really develop and does not only become a promotion or discourse.

IBP/Eka Adhiyasa

3Wednesday, July 11, 201214 InternationalInternational Bali NewsLife Style Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Agence France-PresseWASHINGTON - Two new scientific

papers have disproved a controversial claim made by NASA-funded scientists in 2010 that a new form of bacterial life had been discovered that could thrive on arsenic.

“Contrary to an original report, the new research clearly shows that the bacterium, GFAJ-1, cannot substitute arsenic for phos-phorus to survive,” said a statement by the US journal Science, a prestigious, peer-reviewed magazine.

Science published Sunday the much-hyped initial study in December 2010, with lead researcher Felisa Wolfe-Simon, then a fellow in NASA’s astrobiology program, announcing that a new form of life had been scooped from a California lake.

The bacterium in arsenic-rich Mono Lake was said to redefine the building blocks of life, surviving and growing by swapping phosphorus for arsenic in its DNA and cell membranes.

Biologists consider these six elements as necessary for life: carbon, hydrogen, nitro-gen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.

Arsenic is similar to phosphorus but is typically poisonous to living organisms.

The original study needed to be confirmed in order to be considered a true discovery, and two separate teams found that indeed, the bacterium needed some phosphate to survive, and could not fully substitute arsenic to live.

Two separate Science articles “now reveal that, in fact, her medium did contain enough phosphate contamination to support GFAJ-1’s growth,” said a statement by the magazine issued late Sunday.

One paper was written by Marshall Louis Reaves and colleagues at Princeton Univer-sity, Rosemary Redfield at the University of British Columbia, and Leonid Kruglyak of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

The other paper to refute the findings was written by Tobias Erb and colleagues at the Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, and found that the bacterium, while able to live in a high-arsenic environment, still needed phosphorus to survive and grow.

Rather than being a new form of life that thrives on arsenic, Science’s state-ment summed up the latest studies by de-scribing the bacterium as “a well-adapted extremophile that lives in a high-arsenic environment.”

The consensus statement at the Interna-tional Coral Reef Symposium, being held in the northeastern Australian city of Cairns, stressed that the livelihoods of millions of people were at risk.

Coral reefs provide food and work for countless coastal inhabitants globally, gener-ate significant revenues through tourism and function as a natural breakwater for waves and storms, they said.

The statement, endorsed by the forum attendees and other marine scientists, called for measures to head off escalating damage caused by rising sea temperatures, ocean acidification, overfishing and pollution from the land.

“There is a window of opportunity for the world to act on climate change, but it is clos-ing rapidly,” said Terry Hughes, convener of the symposium, held every four years, which attracted some 2,000 scientists from 80 countries.

Jeremy Jackson, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution in the United States, said reefs around the world have seen severe declines in coral cover over the last several decades.

In the Caribbean, for example, 75-85 percent of the coral cover has been lost in

the last 35 years.Even the Great Barrier Reef in Australia,

the best-protected reef ecosystem on the planet, has witnessed a 50 percent decline in the last 50 years.

Jackson said while climate change was exacerbating the problem, it was also causing increased droughts, agricultural failure and sea level rises at increasingly faster rates, which implied huge problems for society.

“That means what’s good for reefs is also critically important for people and we should wake up to that fact,” he said.

Stephen Palumbi, director of Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, said addressing local threats, such as poor land development and unsustainable fishing prac-tices, was also critical.

More than 85 percent of reefs in Asia’s “Coral Triangle” are directly threatened by human activities such as coastal develop-ment, pollution, and overfishing, according to a report launched at the forum earlier Monday.

The Coral Triangle covers Indonesia, Ma-laysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, The Solomon Islands, and East Timor and contains nearly 30 percent of the world’s reefs and more than 3,000 species of fish.

Agence France-PresseNEW YORK - New York City Mayor Mi-

chael Bloomberg on Monday launched a ten-der for the construction of “micro-apartments” in the Big Apple, where rents are exorbitant and the number of singles is on the rise.

A pilot project slated for construction in Manhattan’s Kips Bay section will feature rental apartments ranging from 275 to 300 square feet (26-28 square meters) with kitch-ens and bathrooms, the mayor’s office said in a statement.

Bloomberg explained it was “critical to the city’s continued growth, future competi-tiveness and long-term economic success” to develop “housing that matches how New Yorkers live.”

“People from all over the world want to live in New York City, and we must develop a new, scalable housing model that is safe, affordable and innovative to meet their needs.”

The project is slated to respond to the changing demographics of a city where 1.8 million households are composed of one or two people, but there are only one million studios and one-room apartments, the mayor’s office said.

Current standards in New York require that most new apartments be at least 400 square feet.

But rental costs in the Big Apple are in-creasingly expensive.

In Manhattan, a studio cost an average $2,243 per month in May in a building without concierge, up 7.9 percent from the previous year, and $2,657 in a building with concierge, up 4.4 percent, according to the Manhattan Rental Market Report.

A one-room apartment cost about $2,959 without concierge, up 6.2 percent from 2011, and $3,777 with concierge, up 6.8 percent in a year.

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The Coral TriangleContains 30 percent of the world’s reefs and more than3,000 species of fish

Coral Triangle Region

Source: WWF/WRI

750 km

Core Reefs

Top marine scientists warn reefs in rapid decline

Agence France-Presse

SYDNEY - More than 2,600 of the world’s top marine scientists Monday warned coral reefs around the world were in rapid decline and urged immedi-ate global action on climate change to save what remains.

Scientists say NASA’s ‘new form of life’ was untrue

New York City mayor promotes ‘micro’ apartments

Bali PostSEMARAPURA - Condition

of Tegal Besar Beach, Negari vil-lage, Klungkung, is getting more apprehensive. At least, the beach area is now starting to look shabby. Organic and inorganic wastes are seen to scatter along the shoreline whereas the beach belongs to a tourist attraction. However, the coastal area mostly favored for the establishment of many villas even looks dirty.

As observation made on Mon-day, other than scattered wastes, the beach was also polluted by sewerage of local residents chan-neled through a ditch. Additionally, the domestic waste flowing on the beach also caused stench. More seriously, the scattered wastes virtu-ally covered up the sand beach.

One of the local residents, Dewa Aji Gading, when met at location last Monday said if the wastes came from the home of local residents. Their wastes were discharged into the sewer line and drifted to beach.

“Formerly, the currents of sewer flowed directly to the sea. But, due to flooding, the channel or estuary diverted to beachside so that the wastes finally accumulated on the beach,” said Dewa Aji Gading.

According to Dewa Aji Gading, so far the condition of Tegal Besar Beach was clean and free from wastes. Even, there were people in charge of cleaning up the wastes around the beach. However, be-cause the coming waste was abun-dant, the people paid to do so then carried it out by degrees. “At the

village, mutual cleanup activity is carried out once a month, covering the entire village and beach area,” he admitted.

Obviously, said Dewa Aji, more and more wastes came to Tegal Be-sar Beach. He hoped the villa own-ers also paid attention to condition of Tegal Besar Beach filled with wastes. In addition, the abrasion on the Tegal Besar Beach was pro-gressively threatening. A pathway previously used for the venue of melasti procession had been eroded out by waves. On the other hand, the collection of mosaic stones was also rampant around the beach. People took the mosaic stones directly on the sea by diving by means of sack. After the sack had been fully filled, the stones acquired were then sorted on the beach. (kmb)

His party admitted that building permit of the project was still under process. “Its building permit has been processed. The document has been submitted to the officer of Mr.

Construction project of the underground parking on Jalan Sulawesi, Denpasar, does not have building permit (IMB) and the environ-mental impact assessment (Amdal).

Basement parking project

Not yet have building permit, environmental assessmentBali Post

DENPASAR - Construction project of the underground parking on Jalan Sulawesi, Denpasar, does not have building permit (IMB) and the environmental impact assessment (Amdal). It was recognized by the Head of Denpasar Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP), Kadek Kusuma Diputra.

Sukardja (Project Director—Ed),” said Kusuma Diputra when asked for his confirmation.

The former Head of Denpasar Population and Civil Registry Agency

also recognized to have no permit of environmental impact assessment. However, he said, the environmental impact assessment of the project, worked on by PT Sekar Kedaton

Nusantara, was the responsibility of the Denpasar Environment Agency (BLH). Kusuma Diputra seemed hesitant to respond to the need for such permit in the construction of basement parking. “As usual, the Am-dal is only required by larger projects like a market project. Whether the basement parking needs it or not, let me check first to the Environment Agency,” he said.

The absence of building permit and environmental impact assess-ment on the government project itself seems odd. So far, the municipal government has been very diligent in arranging the buildings in Denpasar by disciplining the buildings having no building permit, such as residential building, supermarket, hotel, modern store and other entertainment venues. But ironically, the government project that using the fund of regional budget even does not have several compul-sory permits. Inevitably, this condition is highlighted by legislators.

Not only that, previously when Commission B of Denpasar House raided a number of building projects worked on by local government, almost all of them had no permit, but the projects had been worked on and were almost accomplished. “All

building projects, if they are intended for the public, must have IMB and Amdal. Amdal is not only for waste, but everything that has a potential effect on the environment. For ex-ample, the recent landslide disaster was an environmental impact,” said a member of Commission B of the Denpasar House, I Wayan Mariyana Wandhira.

According to the Chairman of Denpasar Golkar Party, the project situated in the heart of the city, espe-cially in crowded market and motorist area, it really required both permits meaning if the project was supervised. “Amdal does not only have anything to do with waste or pollution, but also with the impact on traffic, condition of the surrounding traffic, vibration of the excavation and whether the piling installed had an impact on the other buildings. So, it is very neces-sary. It has been a bad example to the community why the government project even does not have a permit,” he satirized.

The projects worth over IDR 6 billion already claimed two fa-talities. As planned, the Municipal Government would conduct purifi-catory rite in accordance with Hindu religious belief. Spokesperson of Denpasar Municipality, IB Rahoela, said his party was still waiting for an auspicious day chosen by high priest. “Just now, the priest made a visit to location. According to him, the pecaruan ritual needed is ngeru-wak and caru resigana, while the time has not been determined yet,” he said. (kmb27)

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Condition of Tegal Besar Beach, Negari village, Klungkung, is getting more apprehensive. At least, the beach area is now starting to look shabby. Organic and inorganic wastes are seen to scatter along the shoreline whereas the beach belongs to a tourist attraction.

Tegal Besar Beach polluted by wastes

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Calendar Event for June 30 through July 25, 2012

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 con-sidered 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 “umbul-umbul”, 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.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

30 Jun Tumpek Landep. Pura Pasek Gelgel Pedungan Denpasar Selatan.Pura Agung Pasek Tangun Titi kaler TabananPura Agung Pasek Silamadeg TabananPura Pasek Tangkas Kediri TabananPura Kerta Banyuning Barat BulelengPura Dalem Tenggaling Sengguan Singapadu.Pura Kawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Peguyangan SingarajaPura Bhujangga Weisnawa Tegalcangkring Jembrana.Pura taman Desa Bubunan Seririt BulelengPura Penataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar Pandean MengwiPura Dalem Pingit Br, Taro Kaje TegalalangPura dadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Selat Sukasada BulelengPura Batur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara TabananPura Ida ratu Pande BesakihMr. Pasek Toh Jiwa TangungtitiPura Penataran Pande Kusamba KlungkungPura Penataran Agung Pinatih Desa Tulikup Gianyar. 1 Jul Redite Umanis Ukir Sangah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar.

3 Jul Purnama Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Gunung Kuripan Lombok.Pura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon SukawatiPura Amrta Jati Kompleks ALRI Pangkalan Jati Cinere Jakarta SelatanPura Jagatnatha Kota SingarajaPura Dang Hyang Tulus Dewa Desa Apuan-Susut-BangliPura Jagatdhita Selong-Lombok TimurPura Agung Pasek Gelgel Gobleg-Banjar BulelengPura Puseh Batur KintamaniPr. Asah (Alas Harum) Dusun Batur KintamaniPura Dalem Kedewatan Celuk-SukawatiPura Agung Mandara Giri Gunung Semeru-Lumajang Jawa TimurPura Pengubengan BesakihPura Penataran Agung SukawatiPura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah-Batur KintamaniMr. Agung Puser Jagat Meranting Batu Kanding-Nusa PenidaPura Nuansa Udayana, Kori Nuansa JimbaranPura Tianyar Pikat, Dawan Klungkung

4 Jul Buda Wage Ukir Pura Pasar Agung Besakih

Pura Pasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Legian KutaPura Gede Gunung Agung Dukuh Munggu BadungHyang Agung Pura Ibuwanasari TegalPura Puseh/Pura Desa Bebalang BangliPura Dalem Perancak BadungPura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Kerobokan Badung.Pura Kekeran Langit Sading Mengwi

10 Jul Anggar Kasih Kulantir Pura Penataran Tangkas SukawatiPura Dalem Lagan Bebalang BangliPura Puseh Lembeng Ketewel SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Penulisan Kerambitan TabananPura Gaduh SandingPura Dalem Gandamayu KlungkungPura 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 TabananPura Kawitan Sakula Gotra, Pasung Grigih Pura Bhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Pura Paibon Tangkas Kori Agung Banjar Ceningan KanginPura Batu Madeg BesakihPura 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 TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Dukuh Selemadeg TabananPura Puseh/Pura Desa Desa Guwang SukawatiMerajan Pasek Ketewel KetewelMerajan Pangeran Tangkas Kuro Agung Jeroan SadingPura Dalem Setra Batu Nunggul Swana Nusa Penida

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The new honeymoon celebration comes shortly after AYANA was voted amongst the World’s Best Wedding Venues by CNN, highlighting the exclusive setting and service of its signature wedding venues including two glass chapels perched over the Indian Ocean. With The Ultimate Honeymoon, couples can now celebrate their wedding, reception and honeymoon in one spectacular location, to cherish for the rest of their lives.

The Ultimate Honeymoon is priced from US$334++/room/night for a newly-renovated room or US$834++/villa/night for a private pool villa, inclusive of the romantic dining, spa and couple experiences.

Ayana launches honeymoon packagesIBP

JIMBArAN - To those who want to have special honeymoon in the Island of God, Ayana resort and Spa Bali, which recently completed a renovation of 270 rooms and suites, has launched a new honeymoon package. A unique and memorable celebration for couples to begin their new life together.

IBP/Courtesy of Ayana Resort

Bali PostDENPASAR - After three days

of Patuh Operation, Bali Traffic Police Directorate networked 90 vehicles violating where 4 cars and 14 motorcycles have no Vehicle Registration License (STNK) then confiscated, around 59 STNK and 13 Driving License (SIM) were confiscated. The operation took

place at different times and different places as stated by Head of Police, GPC Syamsul Bahri last Monday (9/7). This operation was to ask the people of Bali to obey (patuh) the regulations applied knowing that traffic accidents happened coming from a violation.

The operation took place 14 days (6-20 July 2012) and targets

everyone with no exception. Of course, those who have violated got fined or reminded. Violations hap-pening besides on SIM and STNK were also on parking violating no parking signs or other road signs, not turning on lights on day time or safety riding, not using safety belt and other riding regulations unapplied. (kmb21)

So far, Bali remains to have tens of thousands of poor families and dozens of thousands of people living in uninhabitable homes. Government program intended for poor people does not fully touch them. Many poor people are ne-glected and completely untouched by government assistance.

Ni Wayan Sari, 30, is one of them. She is a resident of Kawan Hamlet, Besakih village, Rendang subdistrict, Karangasem. Her life constantly suffers.

Sari and her three children should live a displaced life be-cause these poor residents have no land and the home to stay in. “We do not know where to stay because we have no land and home,” said Sari while clutching her children when the house refurbishment team of Wirasa BaliTV Charity Program and Hamlet Chief of Be-sakih Kawan, Nyoman Benya and Chief of Besakih customary village, Wayan Gunantra, visited them on Monday (Jul 9).

This thin-boned woman wel-comed her guests convivially. However, she could not hide the sad look on her face mixed with affection. “Sorry, we have no place to sit,” she said when greeting the team with teary eyes. At first, Sari seemed awkward and hesitant to tell about her miseries. Her expression hided away such a deep sorrow. But over time she told the painful life she lived.

Since getting married 14 years ago, Sari and her husband (late) Ketut Rupet should live beyond their home village, namely at Ba-turiti, Tabanan, because they had nothing at home. The couple was blessed with three children namely Ni Wayan Budiastini, 13, now in junior high school, Ni Kadek Sri Juliastini, 11, in the fifth grade of el-ementary school, and the youngest was Ni Komang Trisna Yanti, 4.

After getting tired of wandering

Poverty, a ‘hell’ portrait on Paradise IslandBali Post

KArANGASEM - Bali is often touted as a Paradise Island. Behind the sweet nickname of Bali, there are many people that still feel like in the ‘hell’ on the Paradise Island wallowing with dollars.

about, Sari and family ultimately came back to their home village and set up a shack on a borrowed land from her brother-in-law. Her husband worked as a sand and stone seeker with an average income of IDR 25,000 per day. Meanwhile, she helped him by selling porridge around the village. Unluckily, her convenience of living in the shack did not last longer because she had to leave the borrowed land.

Sari eventually moved not far from the previous location and contracted a piece of land from her neighbor for 30 years at IDR 3 mil-lion. There she established a shack of 4 x 3 m and a kitchen of 3 x 3 m. Both buildings were surrounded with distantly plaited bamboo wall so that it was easy for wind and cold temperature to come in.

Sari told that in the cold season as today her children’s body often shivered. Suffering of the family did not stop at that point. Her husband died a year ago because of hanging himself kindled by severe depres-sion. Burden of this poor family was also getting heavier. “After my hus-band died, I must fight alone to feed our three children,” she said tearful-ly. To that end, Sari had to work as a housemaid in Tabanan and bring along the youngest daughter by force. Meanwhile, the first daughter was entrusted to her grandfather, while the second should live alone at her home village.

She had to work hard alone to feed her three children and bear the cost of their school. Unfortunately, due to her poverty, she and family never received any help either in the form of rice for the poor or the others like the house refurbishment assistance from the Bali Govern-ment. “We never get any assistance from the government. In my mind, the assistance of the government is just like a dream,” she said while regretting that government paid less attention whereas Bali was known

as the mining of abundant dollars.Similarly, Sari was eager to have

a livable home. “We are eager to get home refurbishment program so that my children can sleep soundly. Even, if the government cannot lend a hand, we hope the viewers of BaliTV will be willing to help us,” he said hopefully.

Similar expectation was also con-veyed by the Hamlet Chief of Besakih

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Ni Wayan Sari, 30, is one of them. She is a resident of Kawan Hamlet, Besakih village, Rendang subdistrict, Karangasem. Her life constantly suffers.

Kawan, Nyoman Benya. He said that Wayan Sari and family belonged to the poorest family among the 17 poor families at the hamlet. He hoped Sari and her children could obtain an atten-tion from the government, at least she could get the assistance of home refur-bishment and education. “We do hope Wayan Sari and other poor residents can receive the attention of government or

BaliTV viewers at least with the home refurbishment program,” he said.

Similar hope was also delivered of Chief of Besakih customary village, Wayan Gunantra. “With the attention of BaliTV, we do expect our poor people can gradually get attention,” he said while adding that the customary village perched at the foot of Mount Agung had totally 370 poor families. (kmb29)

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Drogba to arrive in China on Saturday

4 hurt at Pamplona’s running of the bulls

The surprise announcement Monday that Hol-mes and Cruise had settled their divorce in less than two weeks ended what many expected to be a contentious breakup spanning both coasts.

Details of the agreement remain confidential and the pair released a joint statement indicating they intend to keep it that way.

“We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other’s commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other’s roles as parents,” their statement said.

Had the divorce taken longer to resolve, many expected Cruise to try to move the case from New York to California, where he has ended his marriages to actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman. Neither of those cases lasted very long, with Cruise finalizing his divorce from Rogers within 45 days; his divorce from Kidman took less than six months.

If Holmes and Cruise have a significant dispute about Suri’s care or custody, a fam-ily law judge may have to resolve the dis-pute. Their divorce settlement could dictate that the dispute be heard in Los Angeles or it could remain in New York, said Steve

Mindel, a divorce lawyer and partner in the Los Angeles firm Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt and Klein who has handled bi-coastal divorce cases.

“No doubt the settlement terms took into con-sideration where disputes are going to be settled,” said Michael Kelly, a Santa Monica, California-based divorce attorney who has handled numerous high-profile divorces and custody disputes.

He said, however, that settlements increasingly call for parties to go to mediation or appear before a private judge.

NBC says “The Voice” is teaming a crooner and a country singer for the show’s new season.

The network said Monday that Michael Buble will serve as adviser to coach Blake Shelton’s team of contestants when the singing contest returns in September.

Buble, who described himself as a “big Blake fan,” said he’s having a terrific time working with Shelton and his singers. Buble started taping his appearances on “The Voice” Monday in Los Angeles.

NBC has yet to announce advisers for the show’s three other coaches, Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green and Adam Levine. Kelly Clarkson, Jewel and Baby Face were among last season’s advisers, guiding contestants in their choice of songs. “The Voice” is back for its third season Sept. 10.

Blake Shelton, left, and Michael Buble on the set of NBC’s “The Voice,” on Monday,

July 9, 2012, in Los Angeles.

Michael Buble joins Blake Shelton’s ‘Voice’ team

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Settlement highlights Cruise-Holmes privacy wishes

AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File

In this June 27, 2005 file photo, Tom Cruise, star of the new film “War of the Worlds,” arrives with his fiancee Katie Holmes on motorcycle for a screening of the film at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Cruise and Homes are calling it quits after five years of marriage. Holmes’ attorney Jonathan Wolfe said Friday June 29, 2012 that the couple is divorcing, but called it a private matter for the family.

Only time will tell if the quick divorce settlement reached be-tween Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise lasts longer than their five-year marriage. It will need to, since the agreement will guide how the actors raise their 6-year-old daughter Suri for years to come. Yet major disputes could put the pair back in lawyers’ offices and force them to enter a place they have successfully avoided so far — a courtroom.

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DENPASAR - An Australian drug smuggler on death row in Indonesia has appealed for presi-dential clemency, a court official said Monday.

A member of the “Bali Nine” smuggling gang, Myuran Suku-maran, 31, through his lawyers submitted a request for clemency to the Denpasar district court on the island of Bali on Friday, the court’s spokesman Amser Simanjuntak told reporters.

“We received the clemency re-quest on July 6, and we will process it as soon as possible and send it to the Supreme Court, which will hand it over to the president,” he said.

“The letter states that the convict has repented and has been working to better himself while in prison. He is pleading to the president to spare him the death penalty.”

Sukumaran was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in an attempt to smuggle eight kilograms (18 pounds) of heroin into Australia from Bali in 2005.

He is being held in Kerobokan prison on the resort island, along with Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, who was granted a five-year cut in her 20-year jail term in May.

Witnesses in the prison have pro-vided testimony to support Sukuma-

ran’s case, Simanjuntak said.Sukumaran is one of the two

“Bali Nine” gang on death row. The rest are serving lengthy sentences, including life terms.

Indonesia enforces stiff penalties for drug trafficking, including life imprisonment and death.

Chairman o f Spec i a l Committee of the Regional Regula t ion D r a f t o n subak in the Bali House,

Cokorda Raka Kerthiyasa, admit-ted if the discussion on the regu-lation ran quite slowly. According to him, before being passed as regional regulation, there should be thorough and in-depth discus-sion against the existing articles so that after the issuance and approval the regulation could provide a comprehensive protec-

tion to subak and run in harmony with the environment and local communities.

He further said that substantial element in the discussion on the regional regulation draft of subak was regarding the incentives for farmers. Without the alignment to farmers, the conversion of farmland function would possibly take place more quickly. “This matter needs the attention of all parties, both central and local governments (province, regency/municipality), so that subak can be preserved,” said the politician who is fondly called Cok Ibah.

Avoid to be issued prematurely

Discussion on subak legislation draft runs slowly

Australian on death row seeks clemency

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In this February 24, 2012 Australian drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran on death row is seen in Kerobokan prison in

Indonesia’s Bali island. Sukumaran, 31, is one of the “Bali Nine” smuggling gang has appealed for presidential clem-

ency a court official said on July 9, 2012.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Regional regulation draft on subak is still being discussed by the Bali House with the executive. Preparation and discussion of the regulation draft ran pretty slowly because there were a number of articles that should live through in-depth discussion so that the regulation would not be issued prematurely in protecting the subak against various threats, chiefly the conversion of land function.

Regional regulation draft on subak is still being dis-cussed by the Bali House with the executive. Prepara-

tion and discussion of the regulation draft ran pretty slowly because there were a number of articles that

should live through in-depth discussion.IBP/File