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The actress testified during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that she plans to launch a campaign to raise awareness and spur action against human trafficking and slavery. She said the “old monster” of slavery “is still with us,” almost 150 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipa-tion Proclamation that freed slaves in the U.S.

“Fighting slavery doesn’t cost a lot of money. The costs of allowing it to exist in our nation and abroad are much higher,” the actress said. “It robs us of the thing we value most, our freedom.”

She said the issue was brought to her attention by her daughter Willow, 11, who sat nearby with actor Will Smith, Pinkett Smith’s husband and Willow’s father.

The Smiths all wore blazers over T-shirts that read, “Free Slaves.” The hear-ing room was filled mostly with young

people, some trying to take photos of the famous family.

With her father’s arm around her, Wil-low remained attentive to her mother’s testimony and often whispered to her father. At least 30 minutes into the hear-ing, Will wrapped his gray blazer around Willow.

The actress called for an extension of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which provides funding to combat traf-ficking and help trafficking victims. The act also created a task force, chaired by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clin-ton, which coordinates among federal agencies to implement policies against human trafficking.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., pledged to try to gather bipartisan congressional support to further fund the act. The State Department estimates that at least 14,500 people are trafficked to the U.S. annually.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Could Charlie Sheen be a judge on “American Idol”? The actor says he’s game. In an in-terview Tuesday on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, Sheen said “Idol” producer Nigel Lythgoe publicly threw his name out there as a possible judge and the idea piqued people’s interest — including his own.

“It seems so out of the blue that it almost made per-fect sense. I thought this could be a lot of fun,” he said. “Seriously ... I’m genuinely interested. It’s so different, it could be radical.”

Sheen also told Jay Leno Monday night on “The To-night Show” that his two demands would be that FX and his “Anger Management” team “would have to be into it”

and there would need to be a charitable component to him taking the job.

He may not have music experience, but neither did Ellen DeGeneres before she was named a judge

for season 9. She left the show after just one season.

Last week, both Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler announced they would not be returning for the show’s 12th season. Other names that have been kicked around as possible replacements include Mariah Carey and former “Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert.

Actress urges action against human traffickingAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Actress and activist Jada Pinkett Smith urged Congress on Tuesday to step up the fight against human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad.

AP Photo/Manuel Balce CenetaJada Pinkett Smith testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations

Committee during a hearing on “The Next Ten Years in the Fight Against Human Trafficking: At-

tacking the Problem with the Right Tools” on Capitol Hill in Washing-

ton Tuesday, July 17, 2012.

Charlie Sheen ‘genuinely interested’ in ‘Idol’ gig

FILE - This June 3, 2012 file photo shows actor Charlie Sheen at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles.

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Chinese companies see profits plunge amid slowdown

PSg reach agreement to sign Ibrahimovic

Argentina’s media divisions stoked by president

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DENPASAR - The development of Meeting, Incentive, Conference and Exhibition (MICE) tourism in Indonesia, especially in Bali, should be followed by promotion. Director of MICE Development and Special Interest Tourism, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Rizki Handayani, said that to develop MICE tourism, in terms of promotion, Bali needed to have an independent agency or the convention bureau.

“This agency will conduct the promotion. It will get in touch with corporate decision makers and organiza-tions related to MICE. It is an independent agency but financially supported by the government,” said Rizki Handayani in Denpasar.

She said that a number of countries such as Thailand and Singapore had been implementing such an effort. Similarly, Jakarta had established an independent agency called the Jakarta Convention Bureau.

“In terms of MICE facilities and infrastructure, Bali has been good. Potential buildings for MICE tourism have been widely established. However, Bali remains to face a constraint in the matter of access and it should improve the destinations,” she said.

According to her, the development of MICE in Bali should not stop at that point. The perpetrators of MICE should be able to constantly fill in the opportunity so that the facilities could be taken advantage sustainably.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism In-dustry Association (GIPI) of Bali, IB Ngurah Wijaya, said that Bali was necessary to have a convention bureau. At the same time, all the stakeholders having an interest in the MICE tourism wanted the formation of the bureau.

“If the agency has been established, the MICE industry in Bali will not perform the promotion separately.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s central bank Wednesday announced new regulations limiting bank ownership to 40 percent.

The new rules limit ownership of new acquisitions by financial institutions to 40 percent, non-financial institutions to 30 percent and families or individuals to 20

percent, said Mulya Effendi Siregar, an executive director at Bank Indonesia (BI), the country’s central bank.

“The ownership of commercial bank shares will apply to foreign and domestic banks to improve the health of banks,” he said. The bank said on its website that under new rules, financial institutions can own more than 40 percent of a domestic com-

mercial bank only under specific criteria and approval from BI.

BI said the rules went into effect on July 13, and that state-owned banks and banks undergoing recovery are exempt.

The bank said in April it would issue new ownership regulations after DBS Group of Singapore made a $7.3 billion bid to acquire Bank Danamon Indonesia, the nation’s fifth-

largest bank. BI declined to approve that deal, saying it would have to wait until new rules on foreign ownership are in place.

It was unclear immediately following the announcement whether the new rules would permit the takeover or not.

The new rules replace regulations that allowed local and foreign investors to own up to 99 percent of Indonesian banks.

Indonesia announces new bank ownership rules

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People gather in Bali International Convention Center (BICC), one of convention centers in Bali Island. The development of Meeting, Incentive, Conference and Exhibition (MICE) tourism in Indonesia, especially in Bali, should be followed by promotion. Director of MICE Development and Special Interest Tourism, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Rizki Handayani, said that to develop MICE tourism, in terms of promotion, Bali needed to have an independent agency or the convention bureau.

To develop MICE, Bali needs to establish a convention bureau

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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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Singaraja (Bali Post) –As the beginning of academic year

2012/2013, the pupils of elementary SDN 4 Pancasari from Dusun Dasong, Pancasari Village, Sukasada, studied in an emergency classroom as one unit of school and teacher dormitory are under-water after Buyan Lake is over capacity. Even so the study still goes on normally and smoothly. Headmaster of the school, Ketut Sarka, when asked for confirmation last Tuesday (17/7) stated the water has been decreasing yet its floor still is under-water. This condition caused year 4 and 5 to be in the village’s hall while year 1, 2,

3 and 6 are in their own classes. According to Sarka, in this beginning

of academic year it started with cleaning the school surrounding and year 1 gets it school introduction. When asked about a new building plan, Sarka stated it is waiting for its fund aid from Education and Culture Ministry as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been pro-duced with the Directorate of Elementary Education of the Ministry (previously Department). After processed, central government transferred the fund which then used to build one unit of building with two units of class rooms. (kmb)

Information compiled in the field last Tuesday mentioned if the boat led by Abdul Rahman, 30, from Sumbawa departed from Se-rangan around 8:00 a.m. local time. The boat itself was going to Gili Trawangan, Lombok, carrying 28 passengers including the captain. Of the 28 passengers, 21 of them were foreigners from Spain, Australia, the USA and France. Meanwhile, the others consisted of 3 domestic tourists, 3 crews and a captain. The three crews were Masuri, Wayan Yuliartha and Tangar. However, in the sea voyage exactly 500 meters from Jumpai Beach, Klungkung, the boat was suddenly penetrated by sea water or leaked out.

It was unknown why the boat equipped with four outboard en-gines leaked out. However, there was allegation if the boat leaked out as hitting a timber when sail-

ing from Serangan. Moreover, the boat was made from fiberglass. Obviously, when it occurred, the captain immediately attempted to take the boat ashore. At the end, the boat ran aground on the beach of Kusamba Kampong, Dawan, Klungkung around 9:45 a.m. after struggling against the waves for hours in the sea.

All passengers aboard could finally survive. Even, it was men-tioned that one of them cried when arriving on the beach. Having reached the beach, all the pas-sengers, mostly foreign nationals, were finally transported into a car for further taken to Padang Bay. Captain of the boat, Abdul Rahman, when met said that he did not know exactly why the boat leaked out. The boat never had a problem since he had carried it for six years. As far as he knew, the sea water penetrated

the rear bottom of the boat. There-fore, he immediately berthed the boat to the nearest beach. “I do not know the cause. Sea water suddenly penetrated the rear bottom and I immediately took it to the beach,” said Abdul Rahman.

Meanwhile, such boat incident drew the attention of the Chief of Dawan Police and Klungkung Police. Chief of Klungkung Police, Tri Wahyudi, directly came down to location to monitor the situation. Even, when asked for his confir-mation, the police chief admitted that his party would investigate by asking for clarification to the captain and crew. “We are still investigating the case whether it was caused by the factor of nature or not. However, if it was caused by the factor of nature, we could not do anything else,” said the police chief last Tuesday. (119)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Four days the tragic kite case that

killed Made Adi Yudi Sastrawan has gone by. However, the investigators of East Denpasar Police have not determined any suspect in this case. They still focus on the examination of witnesses. So far, the investigators have examined 10 witnesses taken from the kite pullers and people watching during the incident.

Examination of the 10 witnesses was justified by Chief of East Denpasar Police, I Wayan Parwata, Tuesday (Jul 17). “On the third day, we are still fo-cusing on the examination of witnesses. We just examined 10 witnesses,” he said. According to him, examination against the organizing committee of the Kite Festival had not been done yet so far. Even, he could not ascertain when it would be performed.

As in previous news, the Kite Festi-val taking place on Padanggalak Beach, East Denpasar, claimed a casualty. An eight-year old boy named Made Adi Yudi Sastrawan, a resident of Titih ham-let, Kapal village, Mengwi, Badung, was horribly killed by a falling giant kite on Sunday (Jul 15). The victim’s brain leaked out and finally died in Sanglah Hospital after getting medical treatment for few hours.

Such unfortunate incident occurred around 1:30 p.m. local time where hundreds of kites were competed on Padanggalak Beach. Not only kites of big size, but hundreds of spectators were also visible there. Well, sud-denly the fish-shaped kite belonging to Batu Yang village, Sukawati, Gi-anyar, fell down and hit the victim. Back part of his head was hit by the giant kite. (kmb21)

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The boat which was leaking while carrying tourists in Klungkung Regency

A boat conveying foreign tourists runs aground in KlungkungSemarapura, DenPost

Another maritime accident occurred in the waters of Klungkung territory. This time, a boat named Blue Water Express transporting dozens of foreign tourists almost drowned in the waters of Jumpai, Klungkung, Tuesday (Jul 17). Fortunately, the leakage experienced by the fiberglass boat could be known early. As consequence, the passengers could survive and ran aground on the beach of Kusamba Kampong, Dawan, Klungkung.

Case of tragic kite Investigators interogate ten witnesses

SDN 4 Pancasari classrooms still submerge students study at emergency classroom

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The students of SDN 4 Pancasari are forced to study in emergency classroom due to the flood that sink their school

3Thursday, July 19, 201214 InternationalInternational Bali NewsLife Style Thursday, July 19, 2012

A massive ice sheet covers about four-fifths of Greenland. Petermann Glacier is mostly on land, but a seg-ment sticks out over water like a frozen tongue, and that’s where the break occurred. The same glacier spawned an iceberg twice that size two years ago. Together, the breaks made a large change that’s got the attention of researchers.

“It’s dramatic. It’s disturbing,” said University of Delaware professor Andreas Muenchow, who was one of the first researchers to notice the break. “We have data for 150 years and we

see changes that we have not seen before.” “It’s one of the manifesta-tions that Greenland is changing very fast,” he said.

Researchers suspect global warm-ing is to blame, but can’t prove it con-clusively yet. Glaciers do calve ice-bergs naturally, but what’s happened in the last three years to Petermann is unprecedented, Muenchow and other scientists say. “This is not part of natu-ral variations anymore,” said NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot, who camped on Petermann 10 years ago.

Ohio State University ice scientist

Ian Howat said there is still a chance it could be normal calving, like losing a fingernail that has grown too long, but any further loss would show it’s not natural: “We’re still in the phase of scratching our heads and figuring out how big a deal this really is.”

Many of Greenland’s southern glaciers have been melting at an unusually rapid pace. The Peter-mann break brings large ice loss much farther north than in the past, said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.

Approximately three quarters of the world’s population now has access to a mobile phone, according to a new study from the World Bank.

The number of mobile phone subscriptions has skyrocketed over the past 12 years. Less than 1 billion mobile subscriptions were active in 2000, while there’s six billion subscriptions active today. Last year alone, mobile users downloaded more than 30 billion apps.

Additionally, the vast majority of today’s mobile subscriptions (5 billion) are in developing countries, a sign of mobile technology’s importance in countries which haven’t gone through the expensive and difficult process of building land-based communications infra-structure.

“Mobile communications offer major opportunities to advance human and economic development –- from providing basic access to health information to making cash payments, spurring job creation, and stimulating citizen involvement in democratic processes,” said World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development Rachel Kyte in a .

“The challenge now is to enable people, businesses, and governments in developing countries to develop their own locally-relevant mobile applications so they can take full advantage of these opportunities.”

Scientists have outfitted two snow leopards in a wild corner of Afghani-stan with satellite-tracking collars, a first for the country and a boon for researchers trying to better understand the habits and favored habitats of the endangered cats.

The snow leopards, both male, were captured in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Wakhan Corridor, a narrow strip of desolate, windswept mountains sandwiched between Pakistan and Tajikistan, and a spot where camera traps first snapped the elusive cats in 2011.

The first snow leopard was captured and released on May 27, the second on June 8. Researchers weighed and measured the animals, took DNA samples and fitted them with satellite collars before sending them on their way.

In the intervening weeks, the first cat has traveled more than 78 miles (125 kilometers) and the second cat has traveled more than 95 miles (153 km), according to a statement from the Wildlife Conservation Society, one of the main participants in the field work.

A film crew from Nat Geo WILD was on hand to document the research, for a film that is slated to air in December.

Snow leopards make their homes in the harsh, rugged mountain regions of 12 Asian nations, yet despite their wide range and impressive survival skills, the spotted cats’ numbers are dwindling. The species has declined by as much as 20 percent in the last 16 years, and only 3,000 to 7,500 individuals remain in the wild, according to population estimates.

Officials with the WCS lauded the recent capture and tracking of the Afghan snow leopards as a milestone in the fight to save the big cats.

“The information garnered from the tagging will assist researchers as they learn more about the range, behavior, movements and habitat used by snow leopards,” Peter Zahler, WCS’s deputy director of Asia Programs, said in a statement.

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This Monday, July 16, 2012 satellite image provided by NASA shows calving, crescent-shaped crack at center, on the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland.

Glacier in north Greenland breaks off huge icebergAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan tore off one of Greenland’s largest glaciers, illustrating another dramatic change to the warming island. For several years, scientists had been watching a long crack near the tip of the northerly Petermann Glacier. On Monday, NASA satellites showed it had broken completely, freeing an iceberg measuring 46 square miles.

75% of World Has Access to Mobile Phones

Elusive Snow Leopards Collared for Science

Probably, you have watched or are going to watch arja operetta or Ramayana Ballet during the visit in Bali. It would be more convenient if it is enjoyed while having dinner of Balinese cuisine. At the same time, you watch the beauty of culture and taste the delicacy of local culinary. You may hear the language spoken by players or puppeteer was not understandable. Of course, it is Ba-linese language.

As Japanese and Chinese, Bali-nese language also has its own char-acters. They consist of some 18 main characters and 10 vowel sounds. Ordinarily, Balinese characters are used to write palm-leaf manuscript or lontar. Such characters are incised with sharp knife or stylus. When the writing works have completed, they should be rubbed with a blend of oil and lamp shoot to blacken them. So they are visible easily. Since the works were performed manually, the copying of a manuscript took a long time.

At a glance, Balinese characters look like Old Javanese, Tamil (In-dia). It is inseparable from historical aspect where they had similarity of genealogical lines. Today, Balinese characters still have restricted use, namely at school for local subject from elementary school to senior high school. It is becoming the responsibility of local government to preserve and develop Balinese language in order it could survive in the midst of the growth of other languages like Bahasa Indonesia and foreign languages.

Balinese language poses a me-dium and spirit of Balinese culture. To preserve Balinese culture should also simultaneously maintain and use of Balinese language in daily life. In other words, speaking Balinese language also characterizes one of the identities as a Balinese. Among the use of other languages, Balinese language should remain to give a space to grow and develop. Other

than speaking and teaching it at schools, it should also accommodate the need of modern community or use in wider functions of language.

Balinese community receives abundant heritages of lontar or palm-leaf manuscripts from the predecessors retained by individu-als and museums. They carry many aspects of knowledge, ranging from philosophy, local healing, literature, architecture, agriculture, herbal practice, astrology and so forth. Therefore, if they could be inter-preted and presented in popular lan-guage, they could become attractive information for young generation and saleable books for commercial needs. Today, there is also a trend of poising the tradition with modern science namely by re-interpreting the indigenous wisdoms that are relevant to the current time. People will get balanced inputs from the past and current orientation.

Of course, such treasures will be beneficial for the conservation and future development of Balinese culture because it stays in touch with its original roots. Young generation should be introduced to these roots at early stage. Later, they will not lose their identity and even could feel proud of it. Moreover, it could give them inspiration in making their creativities, either in fine arts, performance, traditional architecture or herbal healings.

Thanks to modern technology, the writing of Balinese characters now can be made easy by Bali Simbar font. It is the innovative thinking of I Made Suatjana (1986) lies behind the composing of this font. His work has helped the writing of Balinese characters in word processing ap-plication like Microsoft Word. Hope-fully, there would be more creative software helping the development and learning of Balinese language so it would not come into extinction or be far left behind with the modern life. (BTN/punia)

The Head of Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency, Wayan Gatra, said the raid involving a team composed of several relevant agencies targeted a number of traditional markets such as the Badung, Sanglah and Kreneng Market. The raid itself would be persistently intensified before the fasting up to the Eid celebration.

“We continue to make a raid in order to anticipate the hoarding. But so far, we have not found any indications of unscrupulous traders that cheat,” said Gatra in Denpasar.

According to him, the price hikes ahead of the Muslim cel-ebration were common every year due to increasing demand. “The price of goods highly depends on the demand. When the demand for certain goods is high, the price will surely be high as well. Mainly

before the holidays, the people’s need for a variety of goods always increases,” he explained.

Nevertheless, celebration of the Fasting Month and Eid did not have significant effect on the price hikes of basic needs in Bali compared to the celebration of Galungan, Kuningan and Nyepi. “Any increase in the price of chicken flesh and eggs happens due to production decreases so that it has an impact on the price,” he said.

Price hikes of basic needs also led to inflation. By and large, the price of basic needs would rise from the regular price because the community averagely demanded for the same items. Such a trend had already happened today. Nev-ertheless, the increase would only last temporarily.

“We guarantee the availability

of basic needs of the public during the fasting month until the Eid. At the moment, the price fluctuations in the market remain quite reason-able,” he said.

The Division Head of Coop-eration and Consumer Protection, Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency, Jarot Agung Iswahyudi, previously said that market sur-veillance against the rising prices of basic needs indicated that the increase was below 10 percent.

Though the price hike occurred, Iswahyudi admitted the stock was still sufficient for the next two weeks. His party would continu-ously monitor the prices of those basic needs, especially before the Eid holidays. The Industry and Trade Agency would make next supervision to a number of markets, distributors and sub-distributors. (kmb27)

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People shopping at department store in Denpasar city, Bali Island. Denpasar Municipality through the Industry and Trade Agency continues to make a raid in the field ahead of the fast-ing month and Eid al-Fitr. Such an effort aims at avoiding the behavior of certain persons that hoard a few groceries needed by residents during the holidays.

Bewares of groceries hoarding ahead of fastingBali Post

DENPASAR - Denpasar Municipality through the Industry and Trade Agency continues to make a raid in the field ahead of the fasting month and Eid al-Fitr. Such an effort aims at avoiding the behavior of certain persons that hoard a few groceries needed by residents during the holidays. IBP/File

Balinese characters are used to write palm-leaf manuscript or lontar. Such characters are incised with sharp knife or stylus.

Balinese Characters:

From Palm-leaf to Keyboards

Baby found rotten at Ujung Pesisi River

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Moscow’s draft resolution calls for the “immediate implementation” of a peace plan from Kofi Annan, the U.N. and Arab League envoy for the crisis, and the guidelines for a politi-cal transition approved at a meeting in Geneva last month, but it objects to the resolution that would be tied to Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter, which could allow the use of force to end the conflict in Syria.

Although Western nations appear to have little appetite for force, Russia adamantly opposes any prospect of

international intervention in the 16-month-old conflict. China, another veto-wielding member of the Secu-rity Council, also has backed Syria.

After a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and An-nan on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, “I don’t see a reason that we couldn’t agree in the Security Council. We are prepared for that,” according to the Interfax news agency.

Annan, in turn, said, “I would hope that the Council will continue its dis-

cussions and hopefully find language that will pull everybody together for us to move forward on this critical is-sue.” There were no comments from Putin after the meeting, but at its opening he promised Russia would do all it could to support Annan.

Russia, which incurred interna-tional criticism by twice vetoing U.N. resolutions to increase pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime, has staked its posi-tion on Annan’s six-point plan for ending the fighting that activists say has killed some 17,000 people.

The plan was to begin with a cease-fire between government forces and rebels, followed by politi-cal dialogue, but increasingly intense fighting has called into question whether the plan is obsolete.

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The United States will present its highest award to Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in September when she makes her first US trip in more than two decades, congressional aides said.

Suu Kyi, who was elected to par-liament this year in a dramatic sign of Myanmar’s reforms, will travel to Washington in September to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, the aides told AFP.

The medal is the top honor be-stowed by the US Congress, with the ceremonies often bringing together the president and top lawmakers. Congress

voted to give the medal to Suu Kyi in May 2008 when the prospect of her leaving Myanmar looked remote.

It will be the 67-year-old Suu Kyi’s first visit to the United States since she was put under house arrest fol-lowing her party’s victory in

1990 elections, the results of which the military junta refused to accept.

Suu Kyi did not travel abroad again until May this year when she went to Thailand. Last month, she made an extensive tour of Europe, where she belatedly accepted her Nobel Peace Prize, was feted in major capitals and admitted that she was exhausted.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invited Suu Kyi to Washington when

the top US diplomat paid a landmark visit to Myanmar, also known as Burma, in December.

State Department spokesman Pat-rick Ventrell said he had no announce-ment to make on Suu Kyi’s travels but told reporters: “We look forward to, at an appropriate date, welcoming Aung San Suu Kyi here.”

Suu Kyi will also visit New York on September 21 to accept an award at a dinner of the Atlantic Council, said Taleen Ananian, a spokeswoman for the think-tank.

The dinner takes place in New York at the same time as the United Nations General Assembly, which each year brings world leaders to Manhattan. Suu Kyi lived in New York and worked at the UN secretariat from 1969 to 1971.

Associated Press Writer

PYONGYANG — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been granted the title of marshal, state media reported Wednesday, cement-ing his status as the authoritarian nation’s top military official as he makes key changes to the million-man force.

The decision to award Kim, who already serves as supreme com-mander of the Korean People’s Army, was made Tuesday by the na-tion’s top military, government and political officials, state media said in a special bulletin. The formal move to bestow the title of marshal to Kim comes seven months into his rule and follows several days of reshuffling at the highest levels of the military.

On Monday, North Korea announced that the chief of the army, Ri Yong Ho, a high-ranking figure in both political and military circles, was dismissed from all posts due to illness. The following day, a little-known general, Hyon Yong Chol, was promoted to vice marshal, one of four named to that position since Kim Jong Un took power.

The dismissal of Ri, who had been promoted to vice marshal in 2010 and had been seen as a mentor to Kim Jong Un, was a surprise to many outside observers. Kim Jong Un took over as North Korea’s leader following the death of his father, longtime leader Kim Jong Il, in December, and has continued to maintain his father’s policy of “songun,” or military first.

The position of marshal had been left vacant following the death of Kim Jong Il, who posthumously was made grand marshal — the nation’s top military title — in February on what would have been his 70th birthday. He had been named marshal 20 years ago when North Korea founder Kim Il Sung was promoted to grand marshal. Aside from Ri and Hyon, eight other generals hold the post of vice marshal in North Korea.

US to award Suu Kyi top medal on first visit in decades

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The United States will present its highest award to Myanmar’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in September when she makes her first US trip since years under house arrest, sources said Tuesday.

Putin, Annan meet on Syria crisis

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 17, 2012.

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday said Moscow is ready to seek consensus in the U.N. Security Council on a new resolu-tion aimed at ending Syria’s civil war, but gave no indication how it would resolve a disagreement over a Britain-sponsored resolution.

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File

FILE - In this April 14, 2012 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, waves as North Korean military officers clap dur-ing a mass meeting of North Korea’s ruling party at a stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea.

North Korea promotes Kim Jong Un to marshal

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

After found a jockey who has been the picker in a motorcycle robbery case, Abdul Basir alias Basir (28), as accused, Denpasar Police Criminal Research under Head of Section I First Inspector Ardana, now had other two accused that is in his network, Sofyan Efendi (22) from Jember and Muhamad Zainuri alias Gondrong (20) from Demak. Head of Denpasar Police Public Relation, APC IB Sarjana, last Tuesday (17/7) explained that truly the one that has been captured first was Gondrong at Tegal Wangi, Sesetan, South Denpasar which then after devel-oping the case they found Basir and Sofyan. “Sofyan is the mid person while the jockey is Basir. Another picker, AA, still being chased,” Sarjana stated.

The three accused is now at Denpasar Police prison and from the investigation they admitted have committed crime at four locations such as in front of Warung Tepi Sawah, Gunung Patas Street,

Padangsambian, Denpasar, at Batu Belik, North Kuta, Badung, at Dalem Tarukan Street No. 6, Ta-man Mumbul, South Kuta, Badung and at Drupadi II Street, Gang Kubucarik, Villa Cinta Seminyak, Kuta, Badung. “Three motorcycles have been sold IDR 900,000 each while one is mutilated and now confiscated at headquarter,” Sarjana stated.

Meanwhile, there were also motorbikes mutilated and its parts sold to a used items buyer at Kebo Iwa Street, Den-pasar which then each person got its payment. Picker and jockey got the same payment where 900,000 was divided to two (Basir and AA) while mid person got IDR 50,000 where they offer the motorcycle to a fence. Sarjana added the police are now still chasing AA as this person who previously lived at Kebo Iwa, Denpasar has escaped and nowhere to be found. Basir and AA were recidivists who stayed one cell at Kerobokan Jail. As they got out January 2011 they met and agreed for a motorcycle robbery and they managed to rob four. (kmb21)

However, their presence has been detected by the Denpasar Labor, Resettlement and Social Agency (Disnakertransos) and the agency promptly deployed the officers to lo-cations where they usually hang out. From the operation for two days, the agency could capture 16 beggars. The Head of Denpasar Labor, Resettle-ment and Social Agency, Made Erwin Suryadarma Sena, revealed the matter on Tuesday (Jul 17).

According to the former Spokes-person of the Regional Secretariat of Denpasar, the majority of the beggars netted were women. Even, some of them were holding their baby of four months and six months old. He said they were from Munti Gunung and Pedahan, Karangasem. They were ar-rested at Sesetan, Jalan Cokroaminoto, Jalan Waturenggong and near Renon Market. “Ahead of the holiday, the beggars turn rampant again. However, we have anticipated by targeting their frequent hangout locations,” he said.

He added that his party knew their existence based on information sub-mitted by the public to the agency. Besides, his party also routinely conducted a monitoring to strategic locations targeted by those beggars. Dozens of beggars captured in the operation would be returned to their home village. “Before returned, we will provide them with guidance in

halfway house at Kesiman Kertalangu to make them aware so they will no longer return and beg to Denpasar,” he said.

From January to July 2012, Erwin Suryadarma said the number of beg-gars captured and returned to their native region reached 215 people. In details, they consisted of 98 people from Munti Gunung, 68 people from Pedahan, 12 people from Trunyan, 2 people from Abang and another from Manggis. Meanwhile, the beggars from outside Bali captured in the operation were 10 people from Bon-dowoso, 10 people from Banyuwangi, 9 people from Madura, 2 people from Jember and another from Situbondo. “They have been returned to their native origin. Hopefully, they will not come again to Denpasar to beg,” he said.

Further, Erwin Suryadarma said that installation of billboards contain-ing an appeal not to give anything to beggars was effective enough to sup-press the amount of beggars roaming around in Denpasar. Many city dwell-ers set to be reluctant to give alms to the beggars hanging out at traffic lights. “Since no longer people giving alms on the streets, those beggars set to target people’s homes. We encourage the city dwellers to participate actively in alleviating the beggars by giving them nothing,” he said. (kmb13)

Amlapura (Bali Post) –

A forced born foetus body was found rotten in a plastic bag last Tuesday (17/7) at Ujung Pesisi River, Tumbu Village, Karangasem by two kids who were going to bathe, Fina (9) and Sabina (11). The siblings were there around 8 am and smelt something rotten which they thought it was a dead cat. Sabina, still not knowing it was a baby, dragged the plastic bag to the river and when it hit a rock then it revealed hands and feet. The two witnesses got scared and told their parent at home, Syakban, about it. After seeing it for himself, he then reports it to the Village’s Peace and Order Board (Babinkamtibnas), I Gede Sudarman. This police officer

then forwarded it to Karangasem Police.

The foetus with tragic condition was then evacuated. It has its head organs up to the stomach all dam-aged including its gender could not be figured out. The foetus was then sent to Karangasem Hospital to be further checked which then Doctor I Made Japa Sumantra stated still can’t figure out its gender and age as it seemed the foetus was thrown away for quite sometimes already and has been in water since it was thrown. Meanwhile Ujung resi-dents were shocked and suspected that the forced born foetus was thrown away from a bridge without being wrapped. It seemed that the foetus was aborted and a result from a backstreet relationship. (013)

Three suspect of motorcycle thieves jailed, one still at large

Ahead of Eid and Galungan beggars throng DenpasarDenpasar (Bali Post)—

It has become a tradition where before the Eid ul-Fitr and Galungan more and more beggars throng the city of Denpasar. Currently, they look to have roamed on leading road sections and strategic locations in Denpasar.

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The beggars are looking for the mercy of street users. The number of beggars in Denpasar is increas-ing near Galungan and Idul Fitri day

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On Wednesday, Air China Ltd., one of three main government-owned airlines, warned first-half profit will fall by at least half from a year earlier. State-owned ZTE Corp., one of the world’s biggest producers of telecommunications equipment, is projecting a decline of up to 80 percent.

The woes facing even politically favored companies that benefit from monopolies, low-cost bank loans and other government aid highlight the challenges for the authoritarian country’s leaders who are trying to pull China out of its deepest slow-down since the 2008 crisis.

Forecasters say the slowdown might have bottomed out after growth fell to a three-year low of 7.6 percent in the second quarter but the timing and strength of a rebound are uncertain. Premier Wen Jiabao warned last weekend a recovery was not yet stable. On Tuesday, he said the employment outlook “will be-come more complex and severe.”

“Economic growth will be un-stable for the next six or even 12 months at quite a low level,” said

Zhang Jiuhui, an analyst for Great Wall Securities in Beijing.

Beijing has cut interest rates twice since the start of June and is pumping money into the economy through spending on building low-cost housing and other public works. It is trying to use targeted measures instead of flooding the economy with money after a binge of spending and bank lending that helped China rebound quickly from the 2008 crisis fueled inflation and a wasteful building boom.

China’s expansion is still far more robust than the United States and Europe but its companies have come to depend on unusually high growth to stay profitable.

Industries that rely on demand for new factories and equipment have been hurt as struggling manu-facturers put off spending and Beijing enforces curbs imposed on home purchases to cool surging prices. The country’s shipbuilding industry association, slammed by weak trade, says May orders for new vessels were half the level of a year earlier.

“We have seen more profit warn-ings than expected in the first half and there might be more than there were in 2008,” said Mao Sheng, a

strategist for Huawei Securities in the western city of Chengdu.

ZTE’s statement Friday said some Chinese phone companies

were postponing new equipment or-ders — a downbeat sign for Beijing, which is pinning its hopes on higher investment to drive growth.

Assciated Press

BANGKOK — Oil fell below $89 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as regional stock markets slid on the Fed’s gloomy outlook for the U.S. economy.

Benchmark crude for August delivery was down 29 cents at $88.93 a barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract added 79 cents to end Tuesday at $89.22 per barrel in New York.

Brent crude was down 29 cents at $103.71 on the ICE futures exchange in London.

Oil has gained the past few days but is sig-nificantly lower from its $106 level of about two months ago. Europe’s debt crisis and waning growth in the U.S. and China have added to

expectations of weak demand for crude, pulling down the oil price.

Oil prices got a lift Tuesday from a brighter outlook for U.S. homebuilders and rising in-dustrial production but Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke’s warning on the world’s largest economy took its toll in Asia where stock mar-kets were mostly lower.

Investors had hoped that Bernanke would discuss a new stimulus plan before the Senate Banking Committee. He didn’t. Instead, Ber-nanke warned that the country could be headed for another recession, if Congress doesn’t avert a looming budget crisis.

In other futures trading, heating oil was down 0.4 cent to $2.838 a gallon. Gasoline lost 0.1 cent to $2.734 a gallon and natural gas fell 0.5 cent to $2.791 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Chinese companies see profits plunge amid slowdown

AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan

A construction worker labors on a high-rise building while part of an advertisement board is seen in Beijing’s Central Business District, China, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Some of China’s biggest companies, from tech giants to airlines and retailers, are warning of unexpectedly sharp drops in profit of up to 80 percent, adding to pressure on Beijing to reverse a painful economic slump.

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BEIJING — Some of China’s biggest companies, from tech giants to airlines and retailers, are warning of unexpectedly sharp drops in profit of up to 80 percent, adding to pressure on Beijing to reverse a painful economic slump.

AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File

In this Friday, June 15, 2012, file photo, an Arco gas station worker lowers the prices on a sign at a Arco gas station in Palo Alto, Calif. U.S.

Oil below $89 in Asia amid weak economic outlook

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DENPASAR - Gold becomes favorite investment in Bali because this future offers a steady and safe investment. Gold turned in a fairly tarnished performance during the second quarter, falling $80 an ounce, or 4.76%, during the April-June period.

Even still, most precious met-als analysts see strong potential for gold prices in the second half of 2012 given the continued slug-gishness in the global economy and increasing uncertainty about the Eurozone debt crisis.

According to Futures Consul-tant, Frans Oentoro, prospect on gold investment in Bali still very good. The people have interest on this kind of investment because gold is one of the very few assets that retain its value during tumultuous economic times. “It is often the go-to holding investors sell when they need to raise cash, want liquidity, or are faced with margin calls,” he explained.

Oentoro, Vice President of Bali

Branch PT. First State Futures, stated that in this 6 month to come many international holidays will taking place, for example Eid-ul Fitr, Deevali celebration in India, Christmas. “If we look up at the trend, in the next 6 month to come, from August 2012 till February 2013, demand on gold will be increase because of several inter-national holidays,” he said.

He said this is the perfect time for investors to buy gold because on the next half year to come, the price will be increase. These in-creases derive from higher demand on gold.

On First State Futures, he stated, around 90 percent clients are local people. Meanwhile 10 percent of them are foreigners that stay in Bali. He admitted foreigners are more informed than Balinese when they choose to invest.

Added Investment Manager An-dre Surya Chandra, in First State, investor should buy 1 lot that worth 3.11 kilogram of gold or equal to 1.5 billion rupiah. But, inves-tor can put deposit minimum 20

percent that will give more money than when you buy gold bullion. For example, suppose you had 200 million rupiah to invest. If you buy gold bullion and settle you can only buy 200 million rupiah worth. But you can probably buy 1.5 billion rupiah of gold futures, because your margin on a that future will prob-ably be about 10 percent i.e. 150 million rupiah. If the underlying gold price goes up 10% you would make 20 million rupiah from gold bullion, but 150 million rupiah from gold futures.

Sounds good, but don’t forget the flip side. If the price of gold falls 10% you’ll lose just 20 million rupiah with bullion, and your investment will be intact to earn you money if gold re-sumes its steady upwards trend. But the same 10% fall will cost you 150 million rupiah with futures, which is a lot more than you invested in the first place. “This is why futures are dangerous for people who don’t know the basic rules. If they already know and have all the information, futures can give you good investment,” he explained. (kmb18)

Certain curtiousies should be followed by all mountain walkers which to the outsider may appear odd or strange. For example woman should not visit mountain regions dur-ing their menstrual cycle, beef, in the form of meat should not be eaten or carried there. Also whilst in the mountain, bad language or behavior must be avoided.

The mountains of Bali form part of a chain stretching from East to West and two of these mountains are in fact active volcanos. One being Mount Agung (2152 m) the highest mountain in Bali which last erupted in 1963, the other Mount Batur (1717 m) currently active. There are three other lesser mountains mount Abang (2152 m), Mount Batuaru (2276 m) and Mount lempuyang (1058 m), and several other mountains, but many f these can be “climbed” by motor cycles or cars.

Mountain climbing in Bali is something much closer to mountain walking since most of Blai’s mountains have gentle slopes with few difficult or steep climbs, so the equipment required is minimal. Recommended climbing gear being a hat, for sun/rain protection, stout boots, gloves (ther are many thorn bushes and plants), warm clothing, rain coat and rucksack. It is also advisable to take along a small first aid kit. Many of the mountain foot hills have quite a number of leeches in particular Mount Batukaru so it is recommended to take along cigarettes (to burn the leeches off) and to tuck your trousers into your socks.

There is in Bali an active students mountaineering clubs in Bali. Every Universities in Bali has their own club, one of them “Mapala Wanaprastha Dharma” situated in the campus of the Udayana University on Jalan P.B Sudirman Denpasar. The following time-table gives a rough guide to some of the “climbs”, starting with the easy climbs and progreessing to more difficult ones.

Mountaineering

Gold becomes favorite investment in Bali

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DENPASAR - In Bali, the mountains have a special significance in the Hindu Philosophy. To the Balinese the mountains are holy or sacred areas and for this reason many temples and shrines will be found among the lofty peaks.

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In Bali, the mountains have a special significance in the Hindu Philosophy. To the Balinese the mountains are holy or sacred areas and for this reason many temples and shrines will be found among the lofty peaks.

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INDONESIAW RLD

The brief encounter in the presidential palace press room, recounted by a radio reporter, reflects Fernandez’s distrust of the media in a country deeply polarized by her rule.

Argentines have many news outlets to choose from, and nearly all of them take strong positions for or against her gov-ernment, and frequently spend ink and airtime accusing the other side of bias. With few op-portunities to establish a dialogue with officials on neutral ground, the two camps depend to an un-comfortable extent on leaks and rumors, reducing the credibility of all involved.

One side is led by the news-papers La Nacion and Clarin and their sister broadcast stations

and magazines, which generally portray Fernandez as a power-hungry despot who is increas-ingly mismanaging Argentina’s affairs.

On the other side are a grow-ing number of media outlets staffed by Fernandez supporters who call themselves advocacy journalists and describe the presi-dent as a transformative figure who is challenging entrenched economic interests and redistrib-uting wealth to the poor.

It’s a profound divide, but re-porters on both sides say the split has been encouraged by Fernan-dez, who has found a politically useful enemy in the opposition media. “There’s an ideological and I would say even philo-sophical attitude here against

the press,” said Jorge Lanata, a leading Argentine journalist who has challenged authorities on both sides.

Fernandez’s supporters say her critics in the media just can’t s tomach the pos i t ive impact her politics are having on Argentina. “If you want to ask a question you must be willing to accept the answer,” says Luciano Galende, host of a state-run television program called “6,7,8” that has guests pick apart each day’s criticism of the president.

Argentine society has long been polarized, but the media divide worsened after Fernandez succeeded her husband, Nestor Kirchner, as president, and tried to raise taxes on grain exports.

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Billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing, the heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, was on Tuesday charged with preventing the lawful and decent burial of his US-born wife Eva, British police said.

Police discovered the body of Eva Rausing at the couple’s home in Lon-don’s upscale Belgravia district last week after they detained her husband over drugs charges.

Rausing will appear in custody at West London Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, police said in a statement.

At the opening of an inquest into her death on Friday, Scotland Yard de-tective Sharon Marman said Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, was under medical supervision and detectives had been unable to interview him.

Marman said police had stopped Hans Kristian Rausing’s car in south London because they suspected he was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and they discovered a small amount of drugs.

“Authority was granted to search the home address... and during the course of that search officers discovered the apparently lifeless body of a female in one of the bedrooms,” she said.

A post-mortem examination proved inconclusive and further test results are awaited, Marman said.

The Rausing family, headed by Rausing’s father Hans, is the 12th richest in Britain, worth £4.3 billion ($6.7 billion, 5.4 billion euros), according to The Sunday Times newspaper’s Rich List 2012.

Associated Press Writer

MINNEAPOLIS — Jim Tonjes was high above North America when he bit into a hot turkey sandwich aboard a Delta Air Lines flight and felt a sudden jab in his mouth.

Glancing down, he noticed what looked like a sewing needle in the food. Another passenger on the plane reported the same thing.

At first, he thought a toothpick meant to hold the sandwich together had punctured the roof of his mouth. When he pulled it out, “it was a straight needle, about one inch long, with sharp points on both ends.”

Now U.S. and European authorities are trying to determine how the needles got into meals served on at least four Delta flights from Amsterdam to the U.S. and why anyone would place them there.

“We are keeping all options open because at this moment, we have no idea why somebody or something put needles inside the sandwiches,” said Robert van Kapel, a spokesman for Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.

The FBI and the airport’s police department have opened criminal inves-tigations. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said it does not view the matter as a national security threat.

A Delta spokeswoman said the needles were found Sunday in six sand-wiches on four flights. Passengers discovered four of them. The flights included one to Minneapolis, one to Seattle and two to Atlanta.

Tonjes was returning after a visit to Amsterdam for his mother-in-law’s 90th birthday. The nine-hour flight was about 90 minutes from Minneapolis when flight attendants offered Tonjes, who was seated in business class, a cold Mediterranean salad or the hot turkey sandwich.

“I’ll be very honest, the first bite, I thought, ‘Boy, this is pretty good,’” Tonjes said. “It was the second bite that got me.”

Now Tonjes is on a 28-day course of pills (at a cost of $1,400) aimed at warding off any infection, including hepatitis or HIV. His doctors have asked the FBI to tell them right away if they find any residue on the needle.

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In this picture released on May 13, 2012, by Canal 13, journalist Jorge Lanata, front left, and other fellow journalists participate in “Journalism for All” TV show in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Argentina’s media divisions stoked by presidentAssociated Press Writer

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — When Argentine President Cristina Fernandez got an earful from some reporters frustrated over her general refusal to take questions at news conferences, she offered little hope for change: “If you want official information, listen to my speeches,” she told them. “I won’t be speaking against myself.”

Police: Tetra Pak heir charged after wife’s death

Delta passenger thought needle was a toothpick

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono delivers his address at the first Stra-tegic Review Forum in Jakarta on July 17, 2012. Yudhoyono said there would be no quick resolution to competing territorial claims in the South China Sea, warning tensions must not be allowed to escalate.

Animals including tigers and elephants are coming into closer contact with people in Indonesia as forests are destroyed for timber or to make way for crops such as palm oil.

The 18-year-old female worker was killed Friday in the village of Indragiri Hulu, in Sumatra province, said provincial con-servation agency chief Bambang Dahono Aji.

“Some of her co-workers were

there when the tiger attacked the worker and tore her apart,” he said.

He added that about two weeks ago a Sumatran tiger was killed in the vicinity after getting snared in a trap villagers set to catch wild boars.

Estimates of the number of Su-matran tigers remaining in the world range from 300 to 400. Several die each year as a result of traps, poach-ing or other human actions.

Agence France-Press

JAKARTA - The “unique habit” of whale sharks that con-verge to feed from fishing nets in Indone-

sia has allowed them to be tagged with low-cost technology usually used on pets, conservationists said Tuesday.

Experts in June injected tiny pill-sized radio transmitters be-neath the skin of 30 whale sharks in Cenderawasih Bay in the eastern province of Papua, conservation group WWF said.

And it was only made possible because the giant animals, which measure up to 45 feet (13.7 metres) but are harmless to humans, were gathered to feed on fish caught in fishermen’s nets, WWF Indonesia project leader Beny Ahadian Noor told AFP.

A YouTube video by Conserva-tion International (CI) showing a whale shark sucking fish from a hole in a net in clear blue waters has now attracted more than one million views (www.youtube.com/watch?v=71FLO_6JJVo).

“Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags have been used on pets such as dogs, but this is the first time on whale sharks,” Noor said.Tiger kills

plantation workerAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - A Sumatran tiger attacked and killed a palm oil plantation worker in Indonesia, a conservation official said Tuesday, underlining the growing problem of human-animal conflicts.

AFP PHOTO/ROMEO GACAD

In this photograph taken on January 22, 2012, a captive Sumatran tiger roams around its enclosure at Jakarta’s Ragunan Zoo.

AFP PHOTO/CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL/MARK ERDMANN

This handout photograph taken on June 14, 2012 and released by Conservation International on July 17, 2012 shows a diver swimming next to a whale shark during a tagging project in Cendrawasih Bay in the eastern province of Papua.

‘Unique’ whale sharks get pet tags

Researchers would usually use a more sophisticated satellite method, at $4,000 a tag. But Noor said each radio-frequency tag used in Cend-erawasih Bay cost only $4.

“It’s good enough for a start since we have little information about the behaviour of whale sharks here,” he said.

Marine biologist Mark Erd-mann, who joined the expedition, said it was “fairly impractical to swim after the giants with a re-

ceiver wand under water”.“What makes this tagging pos-

sible in Cenderawasih Bay is the unique habit this population has of aggregating at... fishing platforms to feast upon the small silverside baitfish that the fishers are catch-ing,” he said.

Whale sharks, the world’s largest fish, are classified as “vulnerable” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Probably, the agency will established under the GIPI and attempted to be realized as soon as possible,” he said.

With the presence of convention bureau, Bali would be more appreci-ated rather than if the industrialists worked independently. Moreover, all parties supported the establishment of the bureau. “The industry wants it and so do the provincial government, governor, regents and central government. Why is not it established? Let’s establish this bureau,” he said. (kmb27)

To develop MICE...

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Alas Kedaton is a small forest with the width about 6-7 ha located in the middle of the rice field in

Tabanan regency, west part of Bali. The total size of this forest, temple and its supporter facility is about 12 ha. In this forest, there is a temple called Alas Kedaton Temple and

owns the natural environments that is looked green with its fresh air and create the calm, quite and holy atmosphere.

The monkeys in Alas Kedaton

are very tame and free gallivanting in temple yard, so that the calm atmosphere is sometime solved by noise voice of the monkey, which are playing around and scrambling of food. The monkeys who dwell in this forest, there are jump up and down in temple wall, take a bath in moat or there is also hang out in few leaves representing impres-sion view.

The monkey like as custodian of temple, which are always ready to greet all visitor who are paying a visit to this place. Beside monkeys, in Kedaton forest also can be met the bats and some other animals. At least 24 types of grove plant have been identified in Alas Kedaton.

Alas Kedaton is located in Kukuh countryside, Marga Sub district, Ta-banan Regency . The journey go to this place can be done easily by us-ing motor vehicle follow the major roadway from Denpasar to Tabanan. On the way go to this tourist place, we will see the beautiful nature view where in front of us will meet the carpet of rice field and irrigation voice at the side of road to bear the impression/peaceful atmosphere.

Alas Kedaton Temple have three yard that are external yard, middle and center yard. In the center and middle yard are encircled by wall and the outside yard is representing a open yard. The interesting point of this temple is the inside yard repre-senting holy yard, its situation lower than the middle yard. This thing is

different compare with the general temples in Bali that are more goes to inside the temple, the more higher the place will be. Beside of that an-other interesting point of this temple owns four entrances.

The temple ceremony in alas Kedaton temple is carried out every 210 days a year. It is on Angga-rakasih Medangsia (Balinese Hindu Calendar) or on every Tuesday where on that time the society do the worship or pray to request the safety and prosperity. The unique in this ceremony is do not use the fire and do not hence Penjor and also finished before the sunset or before the night is come.

In growth of handling of this tourist destination, Alas Kedaton has several become a training location about tourism nature, environmental handling and agro tourism. Alas Kedaton is many visited by the tourist from local and foreign countries which are generally a lot of paying a visit on August, December until January, while the local tourist generally pay a visit on holiday season and feast day of Ramadan (Moslem holiday) and this place is good to be visited in the day time. In front of Alas Kedaton temple there are quite a lot small shops selling the handicraft as souvenir, for example clothes, pants and other handicrafts. Others, there are some shops booth selling food and beverage, toilet and park area which is wide enough.

Schleck denies wrongdoing, requests B sample testReuters

PAU, France - Luxembourg rider Frank Schleck has denied any wrong-doing after he was withdrawn from the Tour de France on Tuesday when he returned a positive test for the diuretic Xipamide following Saturday’s Stage 13.

“I categorically deny taking any banned substance. I have no explanation for the test result and therefore insist that the B sample be tested which is my right,” Schleck said in a statement sent to Luxembourg media network RTL overnight

“If this analysis confirms the initial result, I will argue that I have been the victim of poisoning,” added Schleck, who was in 12th place in the over-all standings.

Schleck, who fin-ished third last year, was pulled out of the race by his Ra-dioShack team im-mediately after the test result was an-nounced.

He is not sus-pended because ac-cording to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), “Xipamide was “a “specified substance”, which allowed for a greater reduction of a two-year sanction when an athlete tested posi-tive for it.

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The 23-year-old point guard, who went undrafted out of Har-vard, became an international phe-nomenon and the biggest story in sports during one dazzling month in the Big Apple. But the Knicks decided keeping the show in town was too costly. “Extremely ex-cited and honored to be a Houston Rocket again!!” Lin posted on his Twitter account.

“Much love and thankfulness to the Knicks and New York for your support the past year...eas-ily the best year of my life.” Lin will return to Houston, where he

spent two weeks in training camp in December, before the Rockets waived him. General manager Daryl Morey later regretted the move and alluded to the mistake as he celebrated the re-acquisition of Lin on Twitter late Tuesday:

“Welcome to Houston (at)JLin7. We plan to hang on this time. You will love (hash)RedNa-tion.” The Knicks said they would match any offer to retain Lin, but the Rockets made it tough for New York to keep him by backloading their offer sheet with a $15 mil-lion salary in the third season of

the deal. If the Knicks agreed to match, they would have faced a hefty luxury tax in the 2014-15 season because of other big con-tracts on their books — between $30-40 million.

One sports consultant said the adjustment to the offer sheet was a stroke of genius by Morey. “The Rockets deserve a lot of credit for the way they’ve gone about this,” said Marc Ganis, president of Chicago-based SportsCorp. “It was extremely intelligent — with an assassin’s touch.”

FILE - This Feb. 24, 2012 file photo shows New York Knicks’

Jeremy Lin laughing during warmups before the start of

the NBA All-Star Rising Stars Challenge basketball game in

Orlando, Fla.

Agence France Presse

The unemployment rate in recession-hit Brit-ain fell to 8.1 percent in May from 8.2 percent in April, official data showed on Wednesday, as the jobs market was boosted by temporary hiring for the Olympics. “The unemployment rate for the three months to May 2012 was 8.1 percent of the economically active population,” the Office for National Statistics said in a statement.

“The total number of unemployed people fell by 65,000 over the quarter, but increased by 132,000 on the year, to reach 2.58 million.”

Howard Archer, chief European economist

at IHS Global Insight research group, said the British labour market was “displaying impres-sive resilience given the very real likelihood that the economy suffered a third successive quarter of contraction in the second quarter.

“It is evident that restrained earnings growth as well as significant increases in part-time jobs and self-employment is helping to keep unem-ployment down. In addition, the imminent hold-ing of the Olympic Games is currently providing a boost to employment,” he added. Thousands of temporary jobs have been created as a result of the upcoming London Olympics that begin in eight days.

Linsanity to Houston as Knicks pass on Jeremy

Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON — The New York Knicks decided that Linsanity would have only a one-season run on Broadway. Lin is headed back to Houston after the Knicks decided on Tuesday that they wouldn’t match the Rockets’ three-year, $25 million offer for the restricted free agent.

AP Photo/Chris O’Meara, File

Unemployment drops in May on Olympics boost

AFP Photo/Miguel Medina

London’s Tower Bridge is seen decorated with the Olympic ring symbol on July 15. The unemploy-ment rate in recession-hit Britain fell to 8.1 percent in May from 8.2 percent in April, official data showed on Wednesday, as the jobs market was boosted by temporary hiring for the Olympics.

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“It’s a great year for PSG. That such a player is coming here is enor-mous, it can change everything.” PSG announced on the club’s offi-cial website (www.psg.fr) that they would be holding a news confer-ence at 1300 GMT on Wednesday when the striker is expected to be presented.

“It’s a deal. I can confirm that,” Ibrahimovic’s agent Mino Raiola told Swedish news agency TT ear-lier on Tuesday. Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi announced last week that he had sold Ibrahimovic, top scorer in Serie A last season, and defender Thiago Silva to the big-spending

French club who were taken over by Qatari investors last year.

Ibrahimovic, 30, will join Argen-tine forward Ezequiel Lavezzi, who signed for PSG earlier this month, as the club from the French capital seek to play a major role in Europe. They finished second in Ligue 1 last term and will now play in the Champions League.

Last season, they signed Argen-tine playmaker Javier Pastore as well as defender Alex and midfielder Thiago Motta. Attempts to sign David Beckham and Carlos Tevez failed, however, despite the presence of new coach Carlo Ancelotti.

Agence France Presse

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson wants the Eng-lish Premier League trophy back at Old Trafford next season. He told a media conference Tuesday in this Indian Ocean city that regaining the symbol of English football supremacy was “priority number one” after being pipped at the post by neighbours Man-chester City last season.

Expensively assembled City scored twice in stoppage time to defeat QPR 3-2 at home on the final day of the season and win the title on goal difference from United, who won 1-0 at Sunderland in a match played simultaneously. “I want to re-cover the title after the disap-pointment of last season,” said Ferguson ahead of the first of six pre-season matches here Wednesday against mid-table South African Premiership outfit AmaZulu FC.

“We either win the title or come second -- it is an impor-tant part of the history of our club over the past 20 years,” he stressed on a warm mid-winter day in a city that attracts millions of tourists annually. “United have to recover as the club have done so many times in the past. That is our target this year. Priority number one is to win the English Premier League title back.”

Amid rumours tha t Man-chester City are preparing to woo prolific Dutch scorer Robin van Persie from Arsenal, Fergu-

son gave a brief Premier League history lesson to illustrate the resilience of his Red Devils. “When Arsenal won the title from us in 1998, we won the treble the following year. Then Chelsea came along and got off to a flier in the league for the first two years so we changed our pre-season a little to ensure quick starts.”

With stars like Wayne Rooney resting after Euro 2012 commit-ments, others like Ryan Giggs competing at the London Olym-pics and captain Nemanja Vidic among those injured, United have brought a severely depleted squad to South Africa.

However, Ferguson once again went back in time to demonstrate that AmaZulu should be wary of his Red Babes when they clash before a sell-out 50,000 crowd at Moses Mabhida Stadium. “When I started picking young players, we played Port Vale in a League Cup game and an MP protested to the government, saying we were cheating the public and they wanted their money back.

“Little did she know she was watching perhaps the great-est group of young players to come through at a football club in England. The same applies here,” he said.

The United manager hinted that midfielders Jesse Lingard and Robbie Brady could face AmaZulu, who are coached by Swede Roger Palmgren and cap-tained by Zimbabwe goalkeeper Tapuwa Kapini.

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Lord’s CricketGround

Soccer ArcheryBox Hill

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VolleyballEarl’s Court

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Beach Volleyball

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DUBAI - Former Senegal and United Arab Emir-ates coach Bruno Metsu has replaced the sacked Diego Maradona in charge of Al Wasl, the Dubai-based club said on Tuesday. Argentina World Cup winner Maradona, 51, was sacked last week with a year left on his two-year contract following a trophy-less season for Al Wasl.

“More details will be revealed in the press confer-ence that will be held in the coming days to officially unveil coach Metsu as head coach,” said a club state-ment released on Twitter, which also said Frenchman Metsu, 58, had signed a two-year contract.

Maradona was axed after Al Wasl finished in eighth place in the 12-team UAE Pro League, a drop of two places from their previous season’s finish. The club failed to make an impression in either of the two domestic cup competitions and did not qualify for next season’s Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League.

Al Wasl did reach the final of the Gulf Champions League but, after holding a 3-1 first-leg lead against

Bahrain side Al Muharraq, lost the second leg at home by the same margin, had two players sent off during that match and lost the title in a penalty shoot-out.

Metsu coached the UAE to victory in the 2007 Gulf Cup during a three-year spell in charge, and also coached Senegal at the 2002 World Cup, where they beat world champions France 1-0 in the tournament’s opening match en route to the quarter-finals. Metsu is also the only coach to have taken a UAE side to victory in the AFC Champions League, doing so with Al Ain in 2003.

He has been out of work since being sacked by Qatar side Al Gharafa in March 2012. Following Maradona’s dismissal, Al Wasl invited him back to the UAE for a “farewell ceremony to ““reflect the unique and strong relationship” between the club and its former coach.

“There is no information yet on whether or not he (Maradona) will be coming and no information on his arrival,” a spokesman for the public relations company acting on behalf of the club told Reuters on Tuesday.

Reuters

BERNE - Luxemburg’s FC Dudelange produced a stunning upset in the Champions League qualifiers with a 1-0 home win over Austrian double winners Salzburg on Tuesday.

HJK Helsinki thumped seven goals past hapless visitors KR Reykjavik, with Juho Makela scoring a hat-trick, and Alexander Frei scored twice to give Swiss champions FC Basel a 2-0 win at Flora Tallinn in other second round, first leg qualifiers.

Salzburg have never reached the Champions League group stage since the club was taken over by Red Bull in 2005 despite the energy drinks company pouring money into the club and their latest attempt got off to a miserable start.

Aurelien Joachim scored the only goal with a

rasping 25-metre effort 15 minutes from the end, his fifth goal of the competition, while Salzburg had substitute Jonathan Soriano sent off for a second bookable offence in the last minute.

Makela opened the floodgates for HJK with a 13th minute goal and they led 2-0 at halftime thanks to a Mika Vayrynen penalty.

Two further goals from Makela, two more from Joel Pohjanpalo and one from Rasmus Schuller completed the rout after the break.

Basel, forced into the qualifying rounds after the Swiss league dropped down UEFA’s complex rank-ings system, had to wait for the last half hour before securing their win in Estonia.

Frei, Switzerland’s all-time leading scorer, con-verted a David Degen cross just after the hour and slotted home a penalty three minutes from time.

AP Photo/thibault Camus

AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, of Sweden, arrives for a medical check at a Paris hospital before

joining Paris Saint-Germain soccer club, Wednesday, July 18, 2012.

PSG reach agreement to sign IbrahimovicReuters

PARIS - Paris St Germain have reached an agreement with AC Milan to sign Sweden captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the Ligue 1 club’s general manager Leonardo said on Tuesday. “An agreement has been reached and he (Ibrahimovic) will be having his medical tomorrow (Wednesday),” Leonardo told reporters outside the Parc des Princes.

Dudelange stun Salzburg in Champions League qualifiers

AFP Photo/Paul Ellis

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, pictured in May 2012, wants the English Premier League trophy back at Old Trafford next season.

Reclaiming Premiership title our priority - Fergie

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“It’s a great year for PSG. That such a player is coming here is enor-mous, it can change everything.” PSG announced on the club’s offi-cial website (www.psg.fr) that they would be holding a news confer-ence at 1300 GMT on Wednesday when the striker is expected to be presented.

“It’s a deal. I can confirm that,” Ibrahimovic’s agent Mino Raiola told Swedish news agency TT ear-lier on Tuesday. Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi announced last week that he had sold Ibrahimovic, top scorer in Serie A last season, and defender Thiago Silva to the big-spending

French club who were taken over by Qatari investors last year.

Ibrahimovic, 30, will join Argen-tine forward Ezequiel Lavezzi, who signed for PSG earlier this month, as the club from the French capital seek to play a major role in Europe. They finished second in Ligue 1 last term and will now play in the Champions League.

Last season, they signed Argen-tine playmaker Javier Pastore as well as defender Alex and midfielder Thiago Motta. Attempts to sign David Beckham and Carlos Tevez failed, however, despite the presence of new coach Carlo Ancelotti.

Agence France Presse

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson wants the Eng-lish Premier League trophy back at Old Trafford next season. He told a media conference Tuesday in this Indian Ocean city that regaining the symbol of English football supremacy was “priority number one” after being pipped at the post by neighbours Man-chester City last season.

Expensively assembled City scored twice in stoppage time to defeat QPR 3-2 at home on the final day of the season and win the title on goal difference from United, who won 1-0 at Sunderland in a match played simultaneously. “I want to re-cover the title after the disap-pointment of last season,” said Ferguson ahead of the first of six pre-season matches here Wednesday against mid-table South African Premiership outfit AmaZulu FC.

“We either win the title or come second -- it is an impor-tant part of the history of our club over the past 20 years,” he stressed on a warm mid-winter day in a city that attracts millions of tourists annually. “United have to recover as the club have done so many times in the past. That is our target this year. Priority number one is to win the English Premier League title back.”

Amid rumours tha t Man-chester City are preparing to woo prolific Dutch scorer Robin van Persie from Arsenal, Fergu-

son gave a brief Premier League history lesson to illustrate the resilience of his Red Devils. “When Arsenal won the title from us in 1998, we won the treble the following year. Then Chelsea came along and got off to a flier in the league for the first two years so we changed our pre-season a little to ensure quick starts.”

With stars like Wayne Rooney resting after Euro 2012 commit-ments, others like Ryan Giggs competing at the London Olym-pics and captain Nemanja Vidic among those injured, United have brought a severely depleted squad to South Africa.

However, Ferguson once again went back in time to demonstrate that AmaZulu should be wary of his Red Babes when they clash before a sell-out 50,000 crowd at Moses Mabhida Stadium. “When I started picking young players, we played Port Vale in a League Cup game and an MP protested to the government, saying we were cheating the public and they wanted their money back.

“Little did she know she was watching perhaps the great-est group of young players to come through at a football club in England. The same applies here,” he said.

The United manager hinted that midfielders Jesse Lingard and Robbie Brady could face AmaZulu, who are coached by Swede Roger Palmgren and cap-tained by Zimbabwe goalkeeper Tapuwa Kapini.

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St James’Park

Old Trafford

LondonWembley

Weymouthand Portland

HadleighCountry Park

Sailing MountainBike

Soccer MilleniumStadium

Weightlifting Fencing

TaekwondoTable Tennis

Boxing

WrestlingJudoExCel

The Dome

Basketball

Basketball

Gymnastics

Equestrian

Pentathlon

Greenwich Arenas

Greenwich Park

Royal ArtilleryBarracks

Badminton

Gymnastics

Shooting

L O N D O N

OlympicPark

WembleyStadium

Lord’s CricketGround

Soccer ArcheryBox Hill

Road Cycling

VolleyballEarl’s Court

Triathlon10k Swim

Hyde Park

TennisWimbledon Horse Guards Parade

Beach Volleyball

London

Eton Dorney

CanoeSprint

Rowing

Lee Valley White Water Park

Canoe Slalom

Hockey

Handball

StratfordInternationalStationStratfordRegionalStationAquaticsCentre

OlympicVillage

BMXTrack Cycling

Swimming,Diving, ModernPentathlon,SyncronisedSwimming

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DUBAI - Former Senegal and United Arab Emir-ates coach Bruno Metsu has replaced the sacked Diego Maradona in charge of Al Wasl, the Dubai-based club said on Tuesday. Argentina World Cup winner Maradona, 51, was sacked last week with a year left on his two-year contract following a trophy-less season for Al Wasl.

“More details will be revealed in the press confer-ence that will be held in the coming days to officially unveil coach Metsu as head coach,” said a club state-ment released on Twitter, which also said Frenchman Metsu, 58, had signed a two-year contract.

Maradona was axed after Al Wasl finished in eighth place in the 12-team UAE Pro League, a drop of two places from their previous season’s finish. The club failed to make an impression in either of the two domestic cup competitions and did not qualify for next season’s Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League.

Al Wasl did reach the final of the Gulf Champions League but, after holding a 3-1 first-leg lead against

Bahrain side Al Muharraq, lost the second leg at home by the same margin, had two players sent off during that match and lost the title in a penalty shoot-out.

Metsu coached the UAE to victory in the 2007 Gulf Cup during a three-year spell in charge, and also coached Senegal at the 2002 World Cup, where they beat world champions France 1-0 in the tournament’s opening match en route to the quarter-finals. Metsu is also the only coach to have taken a UAE side to victory in the AFC Champions League, doing so with Al Ain in 2003.

He has been out of work since being sacked by Qatar side Al Gharafa in March 2012. Following Maradona’s dismissal, Al Wasl invited him back to the UAE for a “farewell ceremony to ““reflect the unique and strong relationship” between the club and its former coach.

“There is no information yet on whether or not he (Maradona) will be coming and no information on his arrival,” a spokesman for the public relations company acting on behalf of the club told Reuters on Tuesday.

Reuters

BERNE - Luxemburg’s FC Dudelange produced a stunning upset in the Champions League qualifiers with a 1-0 home win over Austrian double winners Salzburg on Tuesday.

HJK Helsinki thumped seven goals past hapless visitors KR Reykjavik, with Juho Makela scoring a hat-trick, and Alexander Frei scored twice to give Swiss champions FC Basel a 2-0 win at Flora Tallinn in other second round, first leg qualifiers.

Salzburg have never reached the Champions League group stage since the club was taken over by Red Bull in 2005 despite the energy drinks company pouring money into the club and their latest attempt got off to a miserable start.

Aurelien Joachim scored the only goal with a

rasping 25-metre effort 15 minutes from the end, his fifth goal of the competition, while Salzburg had substitute Jonathan Soriano sent off for a second bookable offence in the last minute.

Makela opened the floodgates for HJK with a 13th minute goal and they led 2-0 at halftime thanks to a Mika Vayrynen penalty.

Two further goals from Makela, two more from Joel Pohjanpalo and one from Rasmus Schuller completed the rout after the break.

Basel, forced into the qualifying rounds after the Swiss league dropped down UEFA’s complex rank-ings system, had to wait for the last half hour before securing their win in Estonia.

Frei, Switzerland’s all-time leading scorer, con-verted a David Degen cross just after the hour and slotted home a penalty three minutes from time.

AP Photo/thibault Camus

AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, of Sweden, arrives for a medical check at a Paris hospital before

joining Paris Saint-Germain soccer club, Wednesday, July 18, 2012.

PSG reach agreement to sign IbrahimovicReuters

PARIS - Paris St Germain have reached an agreement with AC Milan to sign Sweden captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the Ligue 1 club’s general manager Leonardo said on Tuesday. “An agreement has been reached and he (Ibrahimovic) will be having his medical tomorrow (Wednesday),” Leonardo told reporters outside the Parc des Princes.

Dudelange stun Salzburg in Champions League qualifiers

AFP Photo/Paul Ellis

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, pictured in May 2012, wants the English Premier League trophy back at Old Trafford next season.

Reclaiming Premiership title our priority - Fergie

Maradona replaced by Metsu at Al Wasl

IBP

Alas Kedaton is a small forest with the width about 6-7 ha located in the middle of the rice field in

Tabanan regency, west part of Bali. The total size of this forest, temple and its supporter facility is about 12 ha. In this forest, there is a temple called Alas Kedaton Temple and

owns the natural environments that is looked green with its fresh air and create the calm, quite and holy atmosphere.

The monkeys in Alas Kedaton

are very tame and free gallivanting in temple yard, so that the calm atmosphere is sometime solved by noise voice of the monkey, which are playing around and scrambling of food. The monkeys who dwell in this forest, there are jump up and down in temple wall, take a bath in moat or there is also hang out in few leaves representing impres-sion view.

The monkey like as custodian of temple, which are always ready to greet all visitor who are paying a visit to this place. Beside monkeys, in Kedaton forest also can be met the bats and some other animals. At least 24 types of grove plant have been identified in Alas Kedaton.

Alas Kedaton is located in Kukuh countryside, Marga Sub district, Ta-banan Regency . The journey go to this place can be done easily by us-ing motor vehicle follow the major roadway from Denpasar to Tabanan. On the way go to this tourist place, we will see the beautiful nature view where in front of us will meet the carpet of rice field and irrigation voice at the side of road to bear the impression/peaceful atmosphere.

Alas Kedaton Temple have three yard that are external yard, middle and center yard. In the center and middle yard are encircled by wall and the outside yard is representing a open yard. The interesting point of this temple is the inside yard repre-senting holy yard, its situation lower than the middle yard. This thing is

different compare with the general temples in Bali that are more goes to inside the temple, the more higher the place will be. Beside of that an-other interesting point of this temple owns four entrances.

The temple ceremony in alas Kedaton temple is carried out every 210 days a year. It is on Angga-rakasih Medangsia (Balinese Hindu Calendar) or on every Tuesday where on that time the society do the worship or pray to request the safety and prosperity. The unique in this ceremony is do not use the fire and do not hence Penjor and also finished before the sunset or before the night is come.

In growth of handling of this tourist destination, Alas Kedaton has several become a training location about tourism nature, environmental handling and agro tourism. Alas Kedaton is many visited by the tourist from local and foreign countries which are generally a lot of paying a visit on August, December until January, while the local tourist generally pay a visit on holiday season and feast day of Ramadan (Moslem holiday) and this place is good to be visited in the day time. In front of Alas Kedaton temple there are quite a lot small shops selling the handicraft as souvenir, for example clothes, pants and other handicrafts. Others, there are some shops booth selling food and beverage, toilet and park area which is wide enough.

Schleck denies wrongdoing, requests B sample testReuters

PAU, France - Luxembourg rider Frank Schleck has denied any wrong-doing after he was withdrawn from the Tour de France on Tuesday when he returned a positive test for the diuretic Xipamide following Saturday’s Stage 13.

“I categorically deny taking any banned substance. I have no explanation for the test result and therefore insist that the B sample be tested which is my right,” Schleck said in a statement sent to Luxembourg media network RTL overnight

“If this analysis confirms the initial result, I will argue that I have been the victim of poisoning,” added Schleck, who was in 12th place in the over-all standings.

Schleck, who fin-ished third last year, was pulled out of the race by his Ra-dioShack team im-mediately after the test result was an-nounced.

He is not sus-pended because ac-cording to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), “Xipamide was “a “specified substance”, which allowed for a greater reduction of a two-year sanction when an athlete tested posi-tive for it.

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The 23-year-old point guard, who went undrafted out of Har-vard, became an international phe-nomenon and the biggest story in sports during one dazzling month in the Big Apple. But the Knicks decided keeping the show in town was too costly. “Extremely ex-cited and honored to be a Houston Rocket again!!” Lin posted on his Twitter account.

“Much love and thankfulness to the Knicks and New York for your support the past year...eas-ily the best year of my life.” Lin will return to Houston, where he

spent two weeks in training camp in December, before the Rockets waived him. General manager Daryl Morey later regretted the move and alluded to the mistake as he celebrated the re-acquisition of Lin on Twitter late Tuesday:

“Welcome to Houston (at)JLin7. We plan to hang on this time. You will love (hash)RedNa-tion.” The Knicks said they would match any offer to retain Lin, but the Rockets made it tough for New York to keep him by backloading their offer sheet with a $15 mil-lion salary in the third season of

the deal. If the Knicks agreed to match, they would have faced a hefty luxury tax in the 2014-15 season because of other big con-tracts on their books — between $30-40 million.

One sports consultant said the adjustment to the offer sheet was a stroke of genius by Morey. “The Rockets deserve a lot of credit for the way they’ve gone about this,” said Marc Ganis, president of Chicago-based SportsCorp. “It was extremely intelligent — with an assassin’s touch.”

FILE - This Feb. 24, 2012 file photo shows New York Knicks’

Jeremy Lin laughing during warmups before the start of

the NBA All-Star Rising Stars Challenge basketball game in

Orlando, Fla.

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The unemployment rate in recession-hit Brit-ain fell to 8.1 percent in May from 8.2 percent in April, official data showed on Wednesday, as the jobs market was boosted by temporary hiring for the Olympics. “The unemployment rate for the three months to May 2012 was 8.1 percent of the economically active population,” the Office for National Statistics said in a statement.

“The total number of unemployed people fell by 65,000 over the quarter, but increased by 132,000 on the year, to reach 2.58 million.”

Howard Archer, chief European economist

at IHS Global Insight research group, said the British labour market was “displaying impres-sive resilience given the very real likelihood that the economy suffered a third successive quarter of contraction in the second quarter.

“It is evident that restrained earnings growth as well as significant increases in part-time jobs and self-employment is helping to keep unem-ployment down. In addition, the imminent hold-ing of the Olympic Games is currently providing a boost to employment,” he added. Thousands of temporary jobs have been created as a result of the upcoming London Olympics that begin in eight days.

Linsanity to Houston as Knicks pass on Jeremy

Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON — The New York Knicks decided that Linsanity would have only a one-season run on Broadway. Lin is headed back to Houston after the Knicks decided on Tuesday that they wouldn’t match the Rockets’ three-year, $25 million offer for the restricted free agent.

AP Photo/Chris O’Meara, File

Unemployment drops in May on Olympics boost

AFP Photo/Miguel Medina

London’s Tower Bridge is seen decorated with the Olympic ring symbol on July 15. The unemploy-ment rate in recession-hit Britain fell to 8.1 percent in May from 8.2 percent in April, official data showed on Wednesday, as the jobs market was boosted by temporary hiring for the Olympics.

Alas Kedaton Monkey Forest

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The brief encounter in the presidential palace press room, recounted by a radio reporter, reflects Fernandez’s distrust of the media in a country deeply polarized by her rule.

Argentines have many news outlets to choose from, and nearly all of them take strong positions for or against her gov-ernment, and frequently spend ink and airtime accusing the other side of bias. With few op-portunities to establish a dialogue with officials on neutral ground, the two camps depend to an un-comfortable extent on leaks and rumors, reducing the credibility of all involved.

One side is led by the news-papers La Nacion and Clarin and their sister broadcast stations

and magazines, which generally portray Fernandez as a power-hungry despot who is increas-ingly mismanaging Argentina’s affairs.

On the other side are a grow-ing number of media outlets staffed by Fernandez supporters who call themselves advocacy journalists and describe the presi-dent as a transformative figure who is challenging entrenched economic interests and redistrib-uting wealth to the poor.

It’s a profound divide, but re-porters on both sides say the split has been encouraged by Fernan-dez, who has found a politically useful enemy in the opposition media. “There’s an ideological and I would say even philo-sophical attitude here against

the press,” said Jorge Lanata, a leading Argentine journalist who has challenged authorities on both sides.

Fernandez’s supporters say her critics in the media just can’t s tomach the pos i t ive impact her politics are having on Argentina. “If you want to ask a question you must be willing to accept the answer,” says Luciano Galende, host of a state-run television program called “6,7,8” that has guests pick apart each day’s criticism of the president.

Argentine society has long been polarized, but the media divide worsened after Fernandez succeeded her husband, Nestor Kirchner, as president, and tried to raise taxes on grain exports.

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Billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing, the heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, was on Tuesday charged with preventing the lawful and decent burial of his US-born wife Eva, British police said.

Police discovered the body of Eva Rausing at the couple’s home in Lon-don’s upscale Belgravia district last week after they detained her husband over drugs charges.

Rausing will appear in custody at West London Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, police said in a statement.

At the opening of an inquest into her death on Friday, Scotland Yard de-tective Sharon Marman said Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, was under medical supervision and detectives had been unable to interview him.

Marman said police had stopped Hans Kristian Rausing’s car in south London because they suspected he was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and they discovered a small amount of drugs.

“Authority was granted to search the home address... and during the course of that search officers discovered the apparently lifeless body of a female in one of the bedrooms,” she said.

A post-mortem examination proved inconclusive and further test results are awaited, Marman said.

The Rausing family, headed by Rausing’s father Hans, is the 12th richest in Britain, worth £4.3 billion ($6.7 billion, 5.4 billion euros), according to The Sunday Times newspaper’s Rich List 2012.

Associated Press Writer

MINNEAPOLIS — Jim Tonjes was high above North America when he bit into a hot turkey sandwich aboard a Delta Air Lines flight and felt a sudden jab in his mouth.

Glancing down, he noticed what looked like a sewing needle in the food. Another passenger on the plane reported the same thing.

At first, he thought a toothpick meant to hold the sandwich together had punctured the roof of his mouth. When he pulled it out, “it was a straight needle, about one inch long, with sharp points on both ends.”

Now U.S. and European authorities are trying to determine how the needles got into meals served on at least four Delta flights from Amsterdam to the U.S. and why anyone would place them there.

“We are keeping all options open because at this moment, we have no idea why somebody or something put needles inside the sandwiches,” said Robert van Kapel, a spokesman for Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.

The FBI and the airport’s police department have opened criminal inves-tigations. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said it does not view the matter as a national security threat.

A Delta spokeswoman said the needles were found Sunday in six sand-wiches on four flights. Passengers discovered four of them. The flights included one to Minneapolis, one to Seattle and two to Atlanta.

Tonjes was returning after a visit to Amsterdam for his mother-in-law’s 90th birthday. The nine-hour flight was about 90 minutes from Minneapolis when flight attendants offered Tonjes, who was seated in business class, a cold Mediterranean salad or the hot turkey sandwich.

“I’ll be very honest, the first bite, I thought, ‘Boy, this is pretty good,’” Tonjes said. “It was the second bite that got me.”

Now Tonjes is on a 28-day course of pills (at a cost of $1,400) aimed at warding off any infection, including hepatitis or HIV. His doctors have asked the FBI to tell them right away if they find any residue on the needle.

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In this picture released on May 13, 2012, by Canal 13, journalist Jorge Lanata, front left, and other fellow journalists participate in “Journalism for All” TV show in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Argentina’s media divisions stoked by presidentAssociated Press Writer

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — When Argentine President Cristina Fernandez got an earful from some reporters frustrated over her general refusal to take questions at news conferences, she offered little hope for change: “If you want official information, listen to my speeches,” she told them. “I won’t be speaking against myself.”

Police: Tetra Pak heir charged after wife’s death

Delta passenger thought needle was a toothpick

AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono delivers his address at the first Stra-tegic Review Forum in Jakarta on July 17, 2012. Yudhoyono said there would be no quick resolution to competing territorial claims in the South China Sea, warning tensions must not be allowed to escalate.

Animals including tigers and elephants are coming into closer contact with people in Indonesia as forests are destroyed for timber or to make way for crops such as palm oil.

The 18-year-old female worker was killed Friday in the village of Indragiri Hulu, in Sumatra province, said provincial con-servation agency chief Bambang Dahono Aji.

“Some of her co-workers were

there when the tiger attacked the worker and tore her apart,” he said.

He added that about two weeks ago a Sumatran tiger was killed in the vicinity after getting snared in a trap villagers set to catch wild boars.

Estimates of the number of Su-matran tigers remaining in the world range from 300 to 400. Several die each year as a result of traps, poach-ing or other human actions.

Agence France-Press

JAKARTA - The “unique habit” of whale sharks that con-verge to feed from fishing nets in Indone-

sia has allowed them to be tagged with low-cost technology usually used on pets, conservationists said Tuesday.

Experts in June injected tiny pill-sized radio transmitters be-neath the skin of 30 whale sharks in Cenderawasih Bay in the eastern province of Papua, conservation group WWF said.

And it was only made possible because the giant animals, which measure up to 45 feet (13.7 metres) but are harmless to humans, were gathered to feed on fish caught in fishermen’s nets, WWF Indonesia project leader Beny Ahadian Noor told AFP.

A YouTube video by Conserva-tion International (CI) showing a whale shark sucking fish from a hole in a net in clear blue waters has now attracted more than one million views (www.youtube.com/watch?v=71FLO_6JJVo).

“Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags have been used on pets such as dogs, but this is the first time on whale sharks,” Noor said.Tiger kills

plantation workerAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - A Sumatran tiger attacked and killed a palm oil plantation worker in Indonesia, a conservation official said Tuesday, underlining the growing problem of human-animal conflicts.

AFP PHOTO/ROMEO GACAD

In this photograph taken on January 22, 2012, a captive Sumatran tiger roams around its enclosure at Jakarta’s Ragunan Zoo.

AFP PHOTO/CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL/MARK ERDMANN

This handout photograph taken on June 14, 2012 and released by Conservation International on July 17, 2012 shows a diver swimming next to a whale shark during a tagging project in Cendrawasih Bay in the eastern province of Papua.

‘Unique’ whale sharks get pet tags

Researchers would usually use a more sophisticated satellite method, at $4,000 a tag. But Noor said each radio-frequency tag used in Cend-erawasih Bay cost only $4.

“It’s good enough for a start since we have little information about the behaviour of whale sharks here,” he said.

Marine biologist Mark Erd-mann, who joined the expedition, said it was “fairly impractical to swim after the giants with a re-

ceiver wand under water”.“What makes this tagging pos-

sible in Cenderawasih Bay is the unique habit this population has of aggregating at... fishing platforms to feast upon the small silverside baitfish that the fishers are catch-ing,” he said.

Whale sharks, the world’s largest fish, are classified as “vulnerable” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Probably, the agency will established under the GIPI and attempted to be realized as soon as possible,” he said.

With the presence of convention bureau, Bali would be more appreci-ated rather than if the industrialists worked independently. Moreover, all parties supported the establishment of the bureau. “The industry wants it and so do the provincial government, governor, regents and central government. Why is not it established? Let’s establish this bureau,” he said. (kmb27)

To develop MICE...

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On Wednesday, Air China Ltd., one of three main government-owned airlines, warned first-half profit will fall by at least half from a year earlier. State-owned ZTE Corp., one of the world’s biggest producers of telecommunications equipment, is projecting a decline of up to 80 percent.

The woes facing even politically favored companies that benefit from monopolies, low-cost bank loans and other government aid highlight the challenges for the authoritarian country’s leaders who are trying to pull China out of its deepest slow-down since the 2008 crisis.

Forecasters say the slowdown might have bottomed out after growth fell to a three-year low of 7.6 percent in the second quarter but the timing and strength of a rebound are uncertain. Premier Wen Jiabao warned last weekend a recovery was not yet stable. On Tuesday, he said the employment outlook “will be-come more complex and severe.”

“Economic growth will be un-stable for the next six or even 12 months at quite a low level,” said

Zhang Jiuhui, an analyst for Great Wall Securities in Beijing.

Beijing has cut interest rates twice since the start of June and is pumping money into the economy through spending on building low-cost housing and other public works. It is trying to use targeted measures instead of flooding the economy with money after a binge of spending and bank lending that helped China rebound quickly from the 2008 crisis fueled inflation and a wasteful building boom.

China’s expansion is still far more robust than the United States and Europe but its companies have come to depend on unusually high growth to stay profitable.

Industries that rely on demand for new factories and equipment have been hurt as struggling manu-facturers put off spending and Beijing enforces curbs imposed on home purchases to cool surging prices. The country’s shipbuilding industry association, slammed by weak trade, says May orders for new vessels were half the level of a year earlier.

“We have seen more profit warn-ings than expected in the first half and there might be more than there were in 2008,” said Mao Sheng, a

strategist for Huawei Securities in the western city of Chengdu.

ZTE’s statement Friday said some Chinese phone companies

were postponing new equipment or-ders — a downbeat sign for Beijing, which is pinning its hopes on higher investment to drive growth.

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BANGKOK — Oil fell below $89 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as regional stock markets slid on the Fed’s gloomy outlook for the U.S. economy.

Benchmark crude for August delivery was down 29 cents at $88.93 a barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract added 79 cents to end Tuesday at $89.22 per barrel in New York.

Brent crude was down 29 cents at $103.71 on the ICE futures exchange in London.

Oil has gained the past few days but is sig-nificantly lower from its $106 level of about two months ago. Europe’s debt crisis and waning growth in the U.S. and China have added to

expectations of weak demand for crude, pulling down the oil price.

Oil prices got a lift Tuesday from a brighter outlook for U.S. homebuilders and rising in-dustrial production but Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke’s warning on the world’s largest economy took its toll in Asia where stock mar-kets were mostly lower.

Investors had hoped that Bernanke would discuss a new stimulus plan before the Senate Banking Committee. He didn’t. Instead, Ber-nanke warned that the country could be headed for another recession, if Congress doesn’t avert a looming budget crisis.

In other futures trading, heating oil was down 0.4 cent to $2.838 a gallon. Gasoline lost 0.1 cent to $2.734 a gallon and natural gas fell 0.5 cent to $2.791 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Chinese companies see profits plunge amid slowdown

AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan

A construction worker labors on a high-rise building while part of an advertisement board is seen in Beijing’s Central Business District, China, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. Some of China’s biggest companies, from tech giants to airlines and retailers, are warning of unexpectedly sharp drops in profit of up to 80 percent, adding to pressure on Beijing to reverse a painful economic slump.

Associated Press

BEIJING — Some of China’s biggest companies, from tech giants to airlines and retailers, are warning of unexpectedly sharp drops in profit of up to 80 percent, adding to pressure on Beijing to reverse a painful economic slump.

AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File

In this Friday, June 15, 2012, file photo, an Arco gas station worker lowers the prices on a sign at a Arco gas station in Palo Alto, Calif. U.S.

Oil below $89 in Asia amid weak economic outlook

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DENPASAR - Gold becomes favorite investment in Bali because this future offers a steady and safe investment. Gold turned in a fairly tarnished performance during the second quarter, falling $80 an ounce, or 4.76%, during the April-June period.

Even still, most precious met-als analysts see strong potential for gold prices in the second half of 2012 given the continued slug-gishness in the global economy and increasing uncertainty about the Eurozone debt crisis.

According to Futures Consul-tant, Frans Oentoro, prospect on gold investment in Bali still very good. The people have interest on this kind of investment because gold is one of the very few assets that retain its value during tumultuous economic times. “It is often the go-to holding investors sell when they need to raise cash, want liquidity, or are faced with margin calls,” he explained.

Oentoro, Vice President of Bali

Branch PT. First State Futures, stated that in this 6 month to come many international holidays will taking place, for example Eid-ul Fitr, Deevali celebration in India, Christmas. “If we look up at the trend, in the next 6 month to come, from August 2012 till February 2013, demand on gold will be increase because of several inter-national holidays,” he said.

He said this is the perfect time for investors to buy gold because on the next half year to come, the price will be increase. These in-creases derive from higher demand on gold.

On First State Futures, he stated, around 90 percent clients are local people. Meanwhile 10 percent of them are foreigners that stay in Bali. He admitted foreigners are more informed than Balinese when they choose to invest.

Added Investment Manager An-dre Surya Chandra, in First State, investor should buy 1 lot that worth 3.11 kilogram of gold or equal to 1.5 billion rupiah. But, inves-tor can put deposit minimum 20

percent that will give more money than when you buy gold bullion. For example, suppose you had 200 million rupiah to invest. If you buy gold bullion and settle you can only buy 200 million rupiah worth. But you can probably buy 1.5 billion rupiah of gold futures, because your margin on a that future will prob-ably be about 10 percent i.e. 150 million rupiah. If the underlying gold price goes up 10% you would make 20 million rupiah from gold bullion, but 150 million rupiah from gold futures.

Sounds good, but don’t forget the flip side. If the price of gold falls 10% you’ll lose just 20 million rupiah with bullion, and your investment will be intact to earn you money if gold re-sumes its steady upwards trend. But the same 10% fall will cost you 150 million rupiah with futures, which is a lot more than you invested in the first place. “This is why futures are dangerous for people who don’t know the basic rules. If they already know and have all the information, futures can give you good investment,” he explained. (kmb18)

Certain curtiousies should be followed by all mountain walkers which to the outsider may appear odd or strange. For example woman should not visit mountain regions dur-ing their menstrual cycle, beef, in the form of meat should not be eaten or carried there. Also whilst in the mountain, bad language or behavior must be avoided.

The mountains of Bali form part of a chain stretching from East to West and two of these mountains are in fact active volcanos. One being Mount Agung (2152 m) the highest mountain in Bali which last erupted in 1963, the other Mount Batur (1717 m) currently active. There are three other lesser mountains mount Abang (2152 m), Mount Batuaru (2276 m) and Mount lempuyang (1058 m), and several other mountains, but many f these can be “climbed” by motor cycles or cars.

Mountain climbing in Bali is something much closer to mountain walking since most of Blai’s mountains have gentle slopes with few difficult or steep climbs, so the equipment required is minimal. Recommended climbing gear being a hat, for sun/rain protection, stout boots, gloves (ther are many thorn bushes and plants), warm clothing, rain coat and rucksack. It is also advisable to take along a small first aid kit. Many of the mountain foot hills have quite a number of leeches in particular Mount Batukaru so it is recommended to take along cigarettes (to burn the leeches off) and to tuck your trousers into your socks.

There is in Bali an active students mountaineering clubs in Bali. Every Universities in Bali has their own club, one of them “Mapala Wanaprastha Dharma” situated in the campus of the Udayana University on Jalan P.B Sudirman Denpasar. The following time-table gives a rough guide to some of the “climbs”, starting with the easy climbs and progreessing to more difficult ones.

Mountaineering

Gold becomes favorite investment in Bali

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DENPASAR - In Bali, the mountains have a special significance in the Hindu Philosophy. To the Balinese the mountains are holy or sacred areas and for this reason many temples and shrines will be found among the lofty peaks.

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In Bali, the mountains have a special significance in the Hindu Philosophy. To the Balinese the mountains are holy or sacred areas and for this reason many temples and shrines will be found among the lofty peaks.

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Baby found rotten at Ujung Pesisi River

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Moscow’s draft resolution calls for the “immediate implementation” of a peace plan from Kofi Annan, the U.N. and Arab League envoy for the crisis, and the guidelines for a politi-cal transition approved at a meeting in Geneva last month, but it objects to the resolution that would be tied to Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter, which could allow the use of force to end the conflict in Syria.

Although Western nations appear to have little appetite for force, Russia adamantly opposes any prospect of

international intervention in the 16-month-old conflict. China, another veto-wielding member of the Secu-rity Council, also has backed Syria.

After a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and An-nan on Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, “I don’t see a reason that we couldn’t agree in the Security Council. We are prepared for that,” according to the Interfax news agency.

Annan, in turn, said, “I would hope that the Council will continue its dis-

cussions and hopefully find language that will pull everybody together for us to move forward on this critical is-sue.” There were no comments from Putin after the meeting, but at its opening he promised Russia would do all it could to support Annan.

Russia, which incurred interna-tional criticism by twice vetoing U.N. resolutions to increase pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime, has staked its posi-tion on Annan’s six-point plan for ending the fighting that activists say has killed some 17,000 people.

The plan was to begin with a cease-fire between government forces and rebels, followed by politi-cal dialogue, but increasingly intense fighting has called into question whether the plan is obsolete.

Agence France Presse

The United States will present its highest award to Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in September when she makes her first US trip in more than two decades, congressional aides said.

Suu Kyi, who was elected to par-liament this year in a dramatic sign of Myanmar’s reforms, will travel to Washington in September to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, the aides told AFP.

The medal is the top honor be-stowed by the US Congress, with the ceremonies often bringing together the president and top lawmakers. Congress

voted to give the medal to Suu Kyi in May 2008 when the prospect of her leaving Myanmar looked remote.

It will be the 67-year-old Suu Kyi’s first visit to the United States since she was put under house arrest fol-lowing her party’s victory in

1990 elections, the results of which the military junta refused to accept.

Suu Kyi did not travel abroad again until May this year when she went to Thailand. Last month, she made an extensive tour of Europe, where she belatedly accepted her Nobel Peace Prize, was feted in major capitals and admitted that she was exhausted.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invited Suu Kyi to Washington when

the top US diplomat paid a landmark visit to Myanmar, also known as Burma, in December.

State Department spokesman Pat-rick Ventrell said he had no announce-ment to make on Suu Kyi’s travels but told reporters: “We look forward to, at an appropriate date, welcoming Aung San Suu Kyi here.”

Suu Kyi will also visit New York on September 21 to accept an award at a dinner of the Atlantic Council, said Taleen Ananian, a spokeswoman for the think-tank.

The dinner takes place in New York at the same time as the United Nations General Assembly, which each year brings world leaders to Manhattan. Suu Kyi lived in New York and worked at the UN secretariat from 1969 to 1971.

Associated Press Writer

PYONGYANG — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been granted the title of marshal, state media reported Wednesday, cement-ing his status as the authoritarian nation’s top military official as he makes key changes to the million-man force.

The decision to award Kim, who already serves as supreme com-mander of the Korean People’s Army, was made Tuesday by the na-tion’s top military, government and political officials, state media said in a special bulletin. The formal move to bestow the title of marshal to Kim comes seven months into his rule and follows several days of reshuffling at the highest levels of the military.

On Monday, North Korea announced that the chief of the army, Ri Yong Ho, a high-ranking figure in both political and military circles, was dismissed from all posts due to illness. The following day, a little-known general, Hyon Yong Chol, was promoted to vice marshal, one of four named to that position since Kim Jong Un took power.

The dismissal of Ri, who had been promoted to vice marshal in 2010 and had been seen as a mentor to Kim Jong Un, was a surprise to many outside observers. Kim Jong Un took over as North Korea’s leader following the death of his father, longtime leader Kim Jong Il, in December, and has continued to maintain his father’s policy of “songun,” or military first.

The position of marshal had been left vacant following the death of Kim Jong Il, who posthumously was made grand marshal — the nation’s top military title — in February on what would have been his 70th birthday. He had been named marshal 20 years ago when North Korea founder Kim Il Sung was promoted to grand marshal. Aside from Ri and Hyon, eight other generals hold the post of vice marshal in North Korea.

US to award Suu Kyi top medal on first visit in decades

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The United States will present its highest award to Myanmar’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in September when she makes her first US trip since years under house arrest, sources said Tuesday.

Putin, Annan meet on Syria crisis

AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 17, 2012.

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW — Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday said Moscow is ready to seek consensus in the U.N. Security Council on a new resolu-tion aimed at ending Syria’s civil war, but gave no indication how it would resolve a disagreement over a Britain-sponsored resolution.

AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File

FILE - In this April 14, 2012 file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, waves as North Korean military officers clap dur-ing a mass meeting of North Korea’s ruling party at a stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea.

North Korea promotes Kim Jong Un to marshal

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

After found a jockey who has been the picker in a motorcycle robbery case, Abdul Basir alias Basir (28), as accused, Denpasar Police Criminal Research under Head of Section I First Inspector Ardana, now had other two accused that is in his network, Sofyan Efendi (22) from Jember and Muhamad Zainuri alias Gondrong (20) from Demak. Head of Denpasar Police Public Relation, APC IB Sarjana, last Tuesday (17/7) explained that truly the one that has been captured first was Gondrong at Tegal Wangi, Sesetan, South Denpasar which then after devel-oping the case they found Basir and Sofyan. “Sofyan is the mid person while the jockey is Basir. Another picker, AA, still being chased,” Sarjana stated.

The three accused is now at Denpasar Police prison and from the investigation they admitted have committed crime at four locations such as in front of Warung Tepi Sawah, Gunung Patas Street,

Padangsambian, Denpasar, at Batu Belik, North Kuta, Badung, at Dalem Tarukan Street No. 6, Ta-man Mumbul, South Kuta, Badung and at Drupadi II Street, Gang Kubucarik, Villa Cinta Seminyak, Kuta, Badung. “Three motorcycles have been sold IDR 900,000 each while one is mutilated and now confiscated at headquarter,” Sarjana stated.

Meanwhile, there were also motorbikes mutilated and its parts sold to a used items buyer at Kebo Iwa Street, Den-pasar which then each person got its payment. Picker and jockey got the same payment where 900,000 was divided to two (Basir and AA) while mid person got IDR 50,000 where they offer the motorcycle to a fence. Sarjana added the police are now still chasing AA as this person who previously lived at Kebo Iwa, Denpasar has escaped and nowhere to be found. Basir and AA were recidivists who stayed one cell at Kerobokan Jail. As they got out January 2011 they met and agreed for a motorcycle robbery and they managed to rob four. (kmb21)

However, their presence has been detected by the Denpasar Labor, Resettlement and Social Agency (Disnakertransos) and the agency promptly deployed the officers to lo-cations where they usually hang out. From the operation for two days, the agency could capture 16 beggars. The Head of Denpasar Labor, Resettle-ment and Social Agency, Made Erwin Suryadarma Sena, revealed the matter on Tuesday (Jul 17).

According to the former Spokes-person of the Regional Secretariat of Denpasar, the majority of the beggars netted were women. Even, some of them were holding their baby of four months and six months old. He said they were from Munti Gunung and Pedahan, Karangasem. They were ar-rested at Sesetan, Jalan Cokroaminoto, Jalan Waturenggong and near Renon Market. “Ahead of the holiday, the beggars turn rampant again. However, we have anticipated by targeting their frequent hangout locations,” he said.

He added that his party knew their existence based on information sub-mitted by the public to the agency. Besides, his party also routinely conducted a monitoring to strategic locations targeted by those beggars. Dozens of beggars captured in the operation would be returned to their home village. “Before returned, we will provide them with guidance in

halfway house at Kesiman Kertalangu to make them aware so they will no longer return and beg to Denpasar,” he said.

From January to July 2012, Erwin Suryadarma said the number of beg-gars captured and returned to their native region reached 215 people. In details, they consisted of 98 people from Munti Gunung, 68 people from Pedahan, 12 people from Trunyan, 2 people from Abang and another from Manggis. Meanwhile, the beggars from outside Bali captured in the operation were 10 people from Bon-dowoso, 10 people from Banyuwangi, 9 people from Madura, 2 people from Jember and another from Situbondo. “They have been returned to their native origin. Hopefully, they will not come again to Denpasar to beg,” he said.

Further, Erwin Suryadarma said that installation of billboards contain-ing an appeal not to give anything to beggars was effective enough to sup-press the amount of beggars roaming around in Denpasar. Many city dwell-ers set to be reluctant to give alms to the beggars hanging out at traffic lights. “Since no longer people giving alms on the streets, those beggars set to target people’s homes. We encourage the city dwellers to participate actively in alleviating the beggars by giving them nothing,” he said. (kmb13)

Amlapura (Bali Post) –

A forced born foetus body was found rotten in a plastic bag last Tuesday (17/7) at Ujung Pesisi River, Tumbu Village, Karangasem by two kids who were going to bathe, Fina (9) and Sabina (11). The siblings were there around 8 am and smelt something rotten which they thought it was a dead cat. Sabina, still not knowing it was a baby, dragged the plastic bag to the river and when it hit a rock then it revealed hands and feet. The two witnesses got scared and told their parent at home, Syakban, about it. After seeing it for himself, he then reports it to the Village’s Peace and Order Board (Babinkamtibnas), I Gede Sudarman. This police officer

then forwarded it to Karangasem Police.

The foetus with tragic condition was then evacuated. It has its head organs up to the stomach all dam-aged including its gender could not be figured out. The foetus was then sent to Karangasem Hospital to be further checked which then Doctor I Made Japa Sumantra stated still can’t figure out its gender and age as it seemed the foetus was thrown away for quite sometimes already and has been in water since it was thrown. Meanwhile Ujung resi-dents were shocked and suspected that the forced born foetus was thrown away from a bridge without being wrapped. It seemed that the foetus was aborted and a result from a backstreet relationship. (013)

Three suspect of motorcycle thieves jailed, one still at large

Ahead of Eid and Galungan beggars throng DenpasarDenpasar (Bali Post)—

It has become a tradition where before the Eid ul-Fitr and Galungan more and more beggars throng the city of Denpasar. Currently, they look to have roamed on leading road sections and strategic locations in Denpasar.

IBP/File

The beggars are looking for the mercy of street users. The number of beggars in Denpasar is increas-ing near Galungan and Idul Fitri day

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A massive ice sheet covers about four-fifths of Greenland. Petermann Glacier is mostly on land, but a seg-ment sticks out over water like a frozen tongue, and that’s where the break occurred. The same glacier spawned an iceberg twice that size two years ago. Together, the breaks made a large change that’s got the attention of researchers.

“It’s dramatic. It’s disturbing,” said University of Delaware professor Andreas Muenchow, who was one of the first researchers to notice the break. “We have data for 150 years and we

see changes that we have not seen before.” “It’s one of the manifesta-tions that Greenland is changing very fast,” he said.

Researchers suspect global warm-ing is to blame, but can’t prove it con-clusively yet. Glaciers do calve ice-bergs naturally, but what’s happened in the last three years to Petermann is unprecedented, Muenchow and other scientists say. “This is not part of natu-ral variations anymore,” said NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot, who camped on Petermann 10 years ago.

Ohio State University ice scientist

Ian Howat said there is still a chance it could be normal calving, like losing a fingernail that has grown too long, but any further loss would show it’s not natural: “We’re still in the phase of scratching our heads and figuring out how big a deal this really is.”

Many of Greenland’s southern glaciers have been melting at an unusually rapid pace. The Peter-mann break brings large ice loss much farther north than in the past, said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.

Approximately three quarters of the world’s population now has access to a mobile phone, according to a new study from the World Bank.

The number of mobile phone subscriptions has skyrocketed over the past 12 years. Less than 1 billion mobile subscriptions were active in 2000, while there’s six billion subscriptions active today. Last year alone, mobile users downloaded more than 30 billion apps.

Additionally, the vast majority of today’s mobile subscriptions (5 billion) are in developing countries, a sign of mobile technology’s importance in countries which haven’t gone through the expensive and difficult process of building land-based communications infra-structure.

“Mobile communications offer major opportunities to advance human and economic development –- from providing basic access to health information to making cash payments, spurring job creation, and stimulating citizen involvement in democratic processes,” said World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development Rachel Kyte in a .

“The challenge now is to enable people, businesses, and governments in developing countries to develop their own locally-relevant mobile applications so they can take full advantage of these opportunities.”

Scientists have outfitted two snow leopards in a wild corner of Afghani-stan with satellite-tracking collars, a first for the country and a boon for researchers trying to better understand the habits and favored habitats of the endangered cats.

The snow leopards, both male, were captured in Afghanistan’s north-eastern Wakhan Corridor, a narrow strip of desolate, windswept mountains sandwiched between Pakistan and Tajikistan, and a spot where camera traps first snapped the elusive cats in 2011.

The first snow leopard was captured and released on May 27, the second on June 8. Researchers weighed and measured the animals, took DNA samples and fitted them with satellite collars before sending them on their way.

In the intervening weeks, the first cat has traveled more than 78 miles (125 kilometers) and the second cat has traveled more than 95 miles (153 km), according to a statement from the Wildlife Conservation Society, one of the main participants in the field work.

A film crew from Nat Geo WILD was on hand to document the research, for a film that is slated to air in December.

Snow leopards make their homes in the harsh, rugged mountain regions of 12 Asian nations, yet despite their wide range and impressive survival skills, the spotted cats’ numbers are dwindling. The species has declined by as much as 20 percent in the last 16 years, and only 3,000 to 7,500 individuals remain in the wild, according to population estimates.

Officials with the WCS lauded the recent capture and tracking of the Afghan snow leopards as a milestone in the fight to save the big cats.

“The information garnered from the tagging will assist researchers as they learn more about the range, behavior, movements and habitat used by snow leopards,” Peter Zahler, WCS’s deputy director of Asia Programs, said in a statement.

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This Monday, July 16, 2012 satellite image provided by NASA shows calving, crescent-shaped crack at center, on the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland.

Glacier in north Greenland breaks off huge icebergAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan tore off one of Greenland’s largest glaciers, illustrating another dramatic change to the warming island. For several years, scientists had been watching a long crack near the tip of the northerly Petermann Glacier. On Monday, NASA satellites showed it had broken completely, freeing an iceberg measuring 46 square miles.

75% of World Has Access to Mobile Phones

Elusive Snow Leopards Collared for Science

Probably, you have watched or are going to watch arja operetta or Ramayana Ballet during the visit in Bali. It would be more convenient if it is enjoyed while having dinner of Balinese cuisine. At the same time, you watch the beauty of culture and taste the delicacy of local culinary. You may hear the language spoken by players or puppeteer was not understandable. Of course, it is Ba-linese language.

As Japanese and Chinese, Bali-nese language also has its own char-acters. They consist of some 18 main characters and 10 vowel sounds. Ordinarily, Balinese characters are used to write palm-leaf manuscript or lontar. Such characters are incised with sharp knife or stylus. When the writing works have completed, they should be rubbed with a blend of oil and lamp shoot to blacken them. So they are visible easily. Since the works were performed manually, the copying of a manuscript took a long time.

At a glance, Balinese characters look like Old Javanese, Tamil (In-dia). It is inseparable from historical aspect where they had similarity of genealogical lines. Today, Balinese characters still have restricted use, namely at school for local subject from elementary school to senior high school. It is becoming the responsibility of local government to preserve and develop Balinese language in order it could survive in the midst of the growth of other languages like Bahasa Indonesia and foreign languages.

Balinese language poses a me-dium and spirit of Balinese culture. To preserve Balinese culture should also simultaneously maintain and use of Balinese language in daily life. In other words, speaking Balinese language also characterizes one of the identities as a Balinese. Among the use of other languages, Balinese language should remain to give a space to grow and develop. Other

than speaking and teaching it at schools, it should also accommodate the need of modern community or use in wider functions of language.

Balinese community receives abundant heritages of lontar or palm-leaf manuscripts from the predecessors retained by individu-als and museums. They carry many aspects of knowledge, ranging from philosophy, local healing, literature, architecture, agriculture, herbal practice, astrology and so forth. Therefore, if they could be inter-preted and presented in popular lan-guage, they could become attractive information for young generation and saleable books for commercial needs. Today, there is also a trend of poising the tradition with modern science namely by re-interpreting the indigenous wisdoms that are relevant to the current time. People will get balanced inputs from the past and current orientation.

Of course, such treasures will be beneficial for the conservation and future development of Balinese culture because it stays in touch with its original roots. Young generation should be introduced to these roots at early stage. Later, they will not lose their identity and even could feel proud of it. Moreover, it could give them inspiration in making their creativities, either in fine arts, performance, traditional architecture or herbal healings.

Thanks to modern technology, the writing of Balinese characters now can be made easy by Bali Simbar font. It is the innovative thinking of I Made Suatjana (1986) lies behind the composing of this font. His work has helped the writing of Balinese characters in word processing ap-plication like Microsoft Word. Hope-fully, there would be more creative software helping the development and learning of Balinese language so it would not come into extinction or be far left behind with the modern life. (BTN/punia)

The Head of Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency, Wayan Gatra, said the raid involving a team composed of several relevant agencies targeted a number of traditional markets such as the Badung, Sanglah and Kreneng Market. The raid itself would be persistently intensified before the fasting up to the Eid celebration.

“We continue to make a raid in order to anticipate the hoarding. But so far, we have not found any indications of unscrupulous traders that cheat,” said Gatra in Denpasar.

According to him, the price hikes ahead of the Muslim cel-ebration were common every year due to increasing demand. “The price of goods highly depends on the demand. When the demand for certain goods is high, the price will surely be high as well. Mainly

before the holidays, the people’s need for a variety of goods always increases,” he explained.

Nevertheless, celebration of the Fasting Month and Eid did not have significant effect on the price hikes of basic needs in Bali compared to the celebration of Galungan, Kuningan and Nyepi. “Any increase in the price of chicken flesh and eggs happens due to production decreases so that it has an impact on the price,” he said.

Price hikes of basic needs also led to inflation. By and large, the price of basic needs would rise from the regular price because the community averagely demanded for the same items. Such a trend had already happened today. Nev-ertheless, the increase would only last temporarily.

“We guarantee the availability

of basic needs of the public during the fasting month until the Eid. At the moment, the price fluctuations in the market remain quite reason-able,” he said.

The Division Head of Coop-eration and Consumer Protection, Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency, Jarot Agung Iswahyudi, previously said that market sur-veillance against the rising prices of basic needs indicated that the increase was below 10 percent.

Though the price hike occurred, Iswahyudi admitted the stock was still sufficient for the next two weeks. His party would continu-ously monitor the prices of those basic needs, especially before the Eid holidays. The Industry and Trade Agency would make next supervision to a number of markets, distributors and sub-distributors. (kmb27)

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People shopping at department store in Denpasar city, Bali Island. Denpasar Municipality through the Industry and Trade Agency continues to make a raid in the field ahead of the fast-ing month and Eid al-Fitr. Such an effort aims at avoiding the behavior of certain persons that hoard a few groceries needed by residents during the holidays.

Bewares of groceries hoarding ahead of fastingBali Post

DENPASAR - Denpasar Municipality through the Industry and Trade Agency continues to make a raid in the field ahead of the fasting month and Eid al-Fitr. Such an effort aims at avoiding the behavior of certain persons that hoard a few groceries needed by residents during the holidays. IBP/File

Balinese characters are used to write palm-leaf manuscript or lontar. Such characters are incised with sharp knife or stylus.

Balinese Characters:

From Palm-leaf to Keyboards

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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 guest can take a table at Colours Café where they can sample Asian and International favorites or chill out on the comfy low slung couches while watch the widescreen TV in the Sky Bar. The Colours Café

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Singaraja (Bali Post) –As the beginning of academic year

2012/2013, the pupils of elementary SDN 4 Pancasari from Dusun Dasong, Pancasari Village, Sukasada, studied in an emergency classroom as one unit of school and teacher dormitory are under-water after Buyan Lake is over capacity. Even so the study still goes on normally and smoothly. Headmaster of the school, Ketut Sarka, when asked for confirmation last Tuesday (17/7) stated the water has been decreasing yet its floor still is under-water. This condition caused year 4 and 5 to be in the village’s hall while year 1, 2,

3 and 6 are in their own classes. According to Sarka, in this beginning

of academic year it started with cleaning the school surrounding and year 1 gets it school introduction. When asked about a new building plan, Sarka stated it is waiting for its fund aid from Education and Culture Ministry as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been pro-duced with the Directorate of Elementary Education of the Ministry (previously Department). After processed, central government transferred the fund which then used to build one unit of building with two units of class rooms. (kmb)

Information compiled in the field last Tuesday mentioned if the boat led by Abdul Rahman, 30, from Sumbawa departed from Se-rangan around 8:00 a.m. local time. The boat itself was going to Gili Trawangan, Lombok, carrying 28 passengers including the captain. Of the 28 passengers, 21 of them were foreigners from Spain, Australia, the USA and France. Meanwhile, the others consisted of 3 domestic tourists, 3 crews and a captain. The three crews were Masuri, Wayan Yuliartha and Tangar. However, in the sea voyage exactly 500 meters from Jumpai Beach, Klungkung, the boat was suddenly penetrated by sea water or leaked out.

It was unknown why the boat equipped with four outboard en-gines leaked out. However, there was allegation if the boat leaked out as hitting a timber when sail-

ing from Serangan. Moreover, the boat was made from fiberglass. Obviously, when it occurred, the captain immediately attempted to take the boat ashore. At the end, the boat ran aground on the beach of Kusamba Kampong, Dawan, Klungkung around 9:45 a.m. after struggling against the waves for hours in the sea.

All passengers aboard could finally survive. Even, it was men-tioned that one of them cried when arriving on the beach. Having reached the beach, all the pas-sengers, mostly foreign nationals, were finally transported into a car for further taken to Padang Bay. Captain of the boat, Abdul Rahman, when met said that he did not know exactly why the boat leaked out. The boat never had a problem since he had carried it for six years. As far as he knew, the sea water penetrated

the rear bottom of the boat. There-fore, he immediately berthed the boat to the nearest beach. “I do not know the cause. Sea water suddenly penetrated the rear bottom and I immediately took it to the beach,” said Abdul Rahman.

Meanwhile, such boat incident drew the attention of the Chief of Dawan Police and Klungkung Police. Chief of Klungkung Police, Tri Wahyudi, directly came down to location to monitor the situation. Even, when asked for his confir-mation, the police chief admitted that his party would investigate by asking for clarification to the captain and crew. “We are still investigating the case whether it was caused by the factor of nature or not. However, if it was caused by the factor of nature, we could not do anything else,” said the police chief last Tuesday. (119)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Four days the tragic kite case that

killed Made Adi Yudi Sastrawan has gone by. However, the investigators of East Denpasar Police have not determined any suspect in this case. They still focus on the examination of witnesses. So far, the investigators have examined 10 witnesses taken from the kite pullers and people watching during the incident.

Examination of the 10 witnesses was justified by Chief of East Denpasar Police, I Wayan Parwata, Tuesday (Jul 17). “On the third day, we are still fo-cusing on the examination of witnesses. We just examined 10 witnesses,” he said. According to him, examination against the organizing committee of the Kite Festival had not been done yet so far. Even, he could not ascertain when it would be performed.

As in previous news, the Kite Festi-val taking place on Padanggalak Beach, East Denpasar, claimed a casualty. An eight-year old boy named Made Adi Yudi Sastrawan, a resident of Titih ham-let, Kapal village, Mengwi, Badung, was horribly killed by a falling giant kite on Sunday (Jul 15). The victim’s brain leaked out and finally died in Sanglah Hospital after getting medical treatment for few hours.

Such unfortunate incident occurred around 1:30 p.m. local time where hundreds of kites were competed on Padanggalak Beach. Not only kites of big size, but hundreds of spectators were also visible there. Well, sud-denly the fish-shaped kite belonging to Batu Yang village, Sukawati, Gi-anyar, fell down and hit the victim. Back part of his head was hit by the giant kite. (kmb21)

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The boat which was leaking while carrying tourists in Klungkung Regency

A boat conveying foreign tourists runs aground in KlungkungSemarapura, DenPost

Another maritime accident occurred in the waters of Klungkung territory. This time, a boat named Blue Water Express transporting dozens of foreign tourists almost drowned in the waters of Jumpai, Klungkung, Tuesday (Jul 17). Fortunately, the leakage experienced by the fiberglass boat could be known early. As consequence, the passengers could survive and ran aground on the beach of Kusamba Kampong, Dawan, Klungkung.

Case of tragic kite Investigators interogate ten witnesses

SDN 4 Pancasari classrooms still submerge students study at emergency classroom

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The students of SDN 4 Pancasari are forced to study in emergency classroom due to the flood that sink their school

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The actress testified during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that she plans to launch a campaign to raise awareness and spur action against human trafficking and slavery. She said the “old monster” of slavery “is still with us,” almost 150 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipa-tion Proclamation that freed slaves in the U.S.

“Fighting slavery doesn’t cost a lot of money. The costs of allowing it to exist in our nation and abroad are much higher,” the actress said. “It robs us of the thing we value most, our freedom.”

She said the issue was brought to her attention by her daughter Willow, 11, who sat nearby with actor Will Smith, Pinkett Smith’s husband and Willow’s father.

The Smiths all wore blazers over T-shirts that read, “Free Slaves.” The hear-ing room was filled mostly with young

people, some trying to take photos of the famous family.

With her father’s arm around her, Wil-low remained attentive to her mother’s testimony and often whispered to her father. At least 30 minutes into the hear-ing, Will wrapped his gray blazer around Willow.

The actress called for an extension of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which provides funding to combat traf-ficking and help trafficking victims. The act also created a task force, chaired by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clin-ton, which coordinates among federal agencies to implement policies against human trafficking.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., pledged to try to gather bipartisan congressional support to further fund the act. The State Department estimates that at least 14,500 people are trafficked to the U.S. annually.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Could Charlie Sheen be a judge on “American Idol”? The actor says he’s game. In an in-terview Tuesday on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, Sheen said “Idol” producer Nigel Lythgoe publicly threw his name out there as a possible judge and the idea piqued people’s interest — including his own.

“It seems so out of the blue that it almost made per-fect sense. I thought this could be a lot of fun,” he said. “Seriously ... I’m genuinely interested. It’s so different, it could be radical.”

Sheen also told Jay Leno Monday night on “The To-night Show” that his two demands would be that FX and his “Anger Management” team “would have to be into it”

and there would need to be a charitable component to him taking the job.

He may not have music experience, but neither did Ellen DeGeneres before she was named a judge

for season 9. She left the show after just one season.

Last week, both Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler announced they would not be returning for the show’s 12th season. Other names that have been kicked around as possible replacements include Mariah Carey and former “Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert.

Actress urges action against human traffickingAssociated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Actress and activist Jada Pinkett Smith urged Congress on Tuesday to step up the fight against human trafficking in the U.S. and abroad.

AP Photo/Manuel Balce CenetaJada Pinkett Smith testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations

Committee during a hearing on “The Next Ten Years in the Fight Against Human Trafficking: At-

tacking the Problem with the Right Tools” on Capitol Hill in Washing-

ton Tuesday, July 17, 2012.

Charlie Sheen ‘genuinely interested’ in ‘Idol’ gig

FILE - This June 3, 2012 file photo shows actor Charlie Sheen at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles.

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Chinese companies see profits plunge amid slowdown

PSg reach agreement to sign Ibrahimovic

Argentina’s media divisions stoked by president

Bali Post

DENPASAR - The development of Meeting, Incentive, Conference and Exhibition (MICE) tourism in Indonesia, especially in Bali, should be followed by promotion. Director of MICE Development and Special Interest Tourism, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Rizki Handayani, said that to develop MICE tourism, in terms of promotion, Bali needed to have an independent agency or the convention bureau.

“This agency will conduct the promotion. It will get in touch with corporate decision makers and organiza-tions related to MICE. It is an independent agency but financially supported by the government,” said Rizki Handayani in Denpasar.

She said that a number of countries such as Thailand and Singapore had been implementing such an effort. Similarly, Jakarta had established an independent agency called the Jakarta Convention Bureau.

“In terms of MICE facilities and infrastructure, Bali has been good. Potential buildings for MICE tourism have been widely established. However, Bali remains to face a constraint in the matter of access and it should improve the destinations,” she said.

According to her, the development of MICE in Bali should not stop at that point. The perpetrators of MICE should be able to constantly fill in the opportunity so that the facilities could be taken advantage sustainably.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Indonesian Tourism In-dustry Association (GIPI) of Bali, IB Ngurah Wijaya, said that Bali was necessary to have a convention bureau. At the same time, all the stakeholders having an interest in the MICE tourism wanted the formation of the bureau.

“If the agency has been established, the MICE industry in Bali will not perform the promotion separately.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s central bank Wednesday announced new regulations limiting bank ownership to 40 percent.

The new rules limit ownership of new acquisitions by financial institutions to 40 percent, non-financial institutions to 30 percent and families or individuals to 20

percent, said Mulya Effendi Siregar, an executive director at Bank Indonesia (BI), the country’s central bank.

“The ownership of commercial bank shares will apply to foreign and domestic banks to improve the health of banks,” he said. The bank said on its website that under new rules, financial institutions can own more than 40 percent of a domestic com-

mercial bank only under specific criteria and approval from BI.

BI said the rules went into effect on July 13, and that state-owned banks and banks undergoing recovery are exempt.

The bank said in April it would issue new ownership regulations after DBS Group of Singapore made a $7.3 billion bid to acquire Bank Danamon Indonesia, the nation’s fifth-

largest bank. BI declined to approve that deal, saying it would have to wait until new rules on foreign ownership are in place.

It was unclear immediately following the announcement whether the new rules would permit the takeover or not.

The new rules replace regulations that allowed local and foreign investors to own up to 99 percent of Indonesian banks.

Indonesia announces new bank ownership rules

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People gather in Bali International Convention Center (BICC), one of convention centers in Bali Island. The development of Meeting, Incentive, Conference and Exhibition (MICE) tourism in Indonesia, especially in Bali, should be followed by promotion. Director of MICE Development and Special Interest Tourism, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, Rizki Handayani, said that to develop MICE tourism, in terms of promotion, Bali needed to have an independent agency or the convention bureau.

To develop MICE, Bali needs to establish a convention bureau