The Head of Denpasar Government Tourism Office, Putu Budiasa, said that his party had issued principle permit. The companies which filed the permit had owned a basic license to develop a hotel in the area. “The five hotels to be established will be located in the city center and sur-

rounding area of Sanur Beach,” said the Head of Denpasar Government Tourism Office, Putu Budiasa.

Budiasa said the five new hotels would increase the presence of star tourist accom-modation in the capital of Bali Province. Unfortunately, the office was reluctant

to provide details about the origin of the investors that would be building the hotels and the amount of capital invested.

“At present, there have been 28 star hotels here. If the five new hotels have been in operation then they will totally amount to 33 units. We think the increasing number of new hotel development indicates if Den-pasar remains a promising area for tourism investment in Bali,” revealed Budiasa while adding the five hotels to be built consisted of Ibis Hotel, Batavia Hotel, Anamaya and Harris Hotel.

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“I think every song Slipknot has ever written is a greatest hit, so it was hard (to narrow it down), but at the same time there’s only four records, so we did stick a couple of live songs on,” band member Shawn “Clown” Crahan told Reuters. “It all falls together the way it needs to.”

Slipknot, founded by Gray and Crahan in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995, has eight members -- Crahan and Chris Fehn on percussion, lead singer Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson on turntables, guitarists Jim Root

and Mick Thomson, Craig “133” Jones on sampling and drummer Joey Jordison.

Following Gray’s death from an acci-dental overdose in 2010, the band’s future has been hotly debated in the world of mu-sic with media outlets posting conflicting reports on the end of Slipknot, something Crahan said has amused him.

“We as a band have never decided to go away. We’ve never even talked about it; it’s not even a question. The only question was how long it was going to take each

individual member to accept what’s hap-pened and feel comfortable with moving on in the record area,” said Crahan.

“Paul was the major part of writing records. It’s not only my brother that I’m not seeing, but it’s also what he brought to the table,” added the percussionist.

Crahan said the band will be stepping away from the spotlight after playing a series of summer festivals, so that band members can go through “the healing process” and work on a new record. He said the lyrics were already being written for the next album and the artwork would be “severely involved.”

The band released four studio albums over the years, 1999’s self-titled debut, 2001’s “Iowa,” 2004’s “Vol. 3: (The Sub-liminal Verses)” and 2008’s “All Hope Is Gone,” selling more than 20 million records worldwide.

While women are doing less housework than they used to, they still take on the brunt of the house-hold cleaning chores. New research indicates that this extra work stresses them out, and that stress worsens when there is salary or gender in-equality present in the relationship.

The findings match up well with previous studies regarding changes in the division of housework in the last decade. Though both men and women spend less time spent on do-mestic duties thanks to time-saving technologies, women still take on a large amount of the work, past stud-ies show.

“In this study, women were in the majority (85 percent) in the combina-tion of having more than half of the responsibility for domestic work and an equal socioeconomic position to the partner,” the researchers write in their research detailed today, June 13, in the journal PLoS ONE.

Working womenThe researchers studied data from

371 women and 352 men from the Northern Swedish Cohort, collected in 1986 and 2007, when the par-ticipants were on average 21 and 42, respectively. At 42, all participants analyzed were living with children.

The participants answered ques-tionnaires about their relationships, housework responsibilities, socio-economic status of themselves and partners, and “psychological distress” level gauged by the number of times they’ve felt restless, unable to con-centrate, or worried and nervous, in the last year.

“Domestic work is a highly gen-dered activity as women tend to have a greater and men a smaller responsibil-ity,” the researchers write. “Inequality in domestic work, in combination with experiencing the couple relation-ship as gender-unequal, were associ-ated with psychological distress.”

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Unequal employment and pay add to mom’s stressors, be-cause they make her feel the need to do more housework.

Higher Housework Burden Stresses Women

Slipknot unveils songs, art, on new “best-of” albumReuters

lOS ANGeleS - Grammy-winning heavy metal band Slipknot un-veiled the artwork and tracklist for their upcoming “best-of” album on Monday, their first release since the 2010 death of bassist Paul Gray. “Antennas To hell,” due out on July 24 in the United States, will encom-pass some of the band’s best-known singles from their last four studio albums, including “Spit it Out,” “left Behind” and “Vermilion.”

REUTERS/Phil McCarten

Members of the band Slipknot arrive at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles Septem-ber 7, 2008.

Obama honors Peres -- the ‘essence’ of Israel

Tunisia’s Ben Ali sentenced to life in absentia

Last-gasp Portugal seal 3-2 win over Denmark

Reuters

KHARKIV - Germany took a big step towards the Euro 2012 quarter-finals on Wednesday when two classy first-half strikes from Mario Gomez secured a 2-1 vic-tory over the Netherlands who are in serious danger of elimination. A majestic goal in the 73rd minute from Robin van Persie gave the Dutch a fighting chance in the latter stages but they looked physically spent hav-ing been forced to chase the game after falling behind.

Joachim Loew’s Germany will qualify as group winners if they draw or win their final match against Denmark in Lviv and they are shaping up nicely for a push for a fourth European title.

The only hope the Dutch have of progress is if they beat Portugal in Kharkiv and Germany win, opening up the opportunity to go through on goal difference. The mathematics may not yet be clear but what was certainly decided in the humid heat of the Metalist Stadium was that the Germans and not the Dutch are the real chal-lengers to Spain’s crown.

Even though they may not yet be at their peak Germany were still superior in all departments as the Dutch defence was opened up, their midfield exposed defensively and there was as lack of sharpness in at-tack. “It was supposed to be our night but we ended empty-handed as we played poorly,” was winger Arjen Robben’s frank assessment.

“There is no cohe-sion between our lines, there are gaps and we are not connecting and then it is very difficult to recover the ball,” he added. The early indications were, however, that the Dutch were going to give Germany’s back line a torrid test and skipper Mark Van Bommel sent Van Persie clear but he was unable to beat keeper Manuel Neuer.

INSTANT REACTIONThat chance triggered an instant reaction from Ger-

many with Mesut Ozil’s volley rattling the foot of the post and the ball rolling into Dutch keeper Maarten Stekelenburg’s hands. The Germans grabbed the lead with a goal of genuine quality, the influential Bastian Schweinsteiger threading a pass through the Dutch de-fence to Gomez, who elegantly turned and fired home with impressive smoothness. The pair combined again to double the advantage, the Germany striker opting for power as he blasted diagonally across Stekelenburg.

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Denpasar issues five new hotel permits Bali Post

DeNPASAR - Moratorium of tourist accommodation development in three regions such as Badung, Gianyar and Denpasar does not work. At least, five new hotels will be established in the city of Denpasar.

Germany sink Dutch to close on quarters Mario Gomez

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Calendar Event for May 20 through June 20, 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

26 May Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit JembranaOdalan Betara ratu Gede Desa Celuk SukawatiOdalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan DenpasarBetara Ratu Alit & Ratu Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarmaan Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarmaan Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarmaan Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarmaan dalem Bakas BesakihPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel KlungkungPura Pemrajan Agung Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung.Merajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung PengatepanPura Pedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Pura BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwa Banyuangi.Pesraman Dusun Kuto Rejo Banyuangi.

30 May Buda Wage Kelawu. Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Desa Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida.Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangembungan Bongkase Abiansemal.Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Br. Jawa Tengah BulelengPura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding TampaksiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan KutaPura Goa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihOdalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh Penataran Agung BesakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PejengMerajan Pasek Gelgel SonganMerajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan SidemenMerajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari Sukasada.Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Sidemen KarangasemMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli.

5 Jun Anggar Kasih Dukut.

Pr. Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan TabananPura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar.Merajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agun SulahanMerajan Pasek Padang Rata PadangPura Puser Jagat Dalem Dukut Puri Sukun Nusa Penida.

6 Jun Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja AbiansemalPura Dalem Samplangan Gianyar

16 Jun Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase AbiansemalPura Watugunung BimaPura Agung Jagatkarana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya Rawamangun Jakarta TimurPura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur BulelengPura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa BaratPura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung.Pura Giri Jaya Natha BalikpapanPura Agung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia.

18 Jun Some Ribek. Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Batugaing BangliPura Tirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya

20 Jun Hari Raya Pagerwesi Pura Laban Sindu Jiwa Kedewatan UbudPura Kehen BangliPura Wirabuana Magelang Jawa TengahPura Padang Sakti Tangtu Denpasar TimurPura Jogan Agung Ketewel SukawatiPura Gadung Pengiasan Dauh Puri DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel Buruan Kaja TabananPura Pasek Gobleg Kerambitan tabananPura Pasek Gelgel Meliling Tabanan

The three design firms were brought together to design Ayana Residences, a 6.5 hectare secure gated community comprising 115 units, located on the largest ocean-front land bank remaining in South Bali. All three firms have been separately involved over the past 16 years in the design of the adjacent AYANA Resort and Spa. Their commission for AYANA Residences was to maintain the same standard of quality, warmth and Balinese philosophy as the resort design, but to adapt this to a modern residential estate that reflects the lifestyle, sanctuary and harmony of a second home.

The architecture is modern Balinese, relaxed yet lasting, and maximizes the cliff-top location. “It’s not ostentatious, it’s not overdesign,” said Bill Reed, Vice-President of WATG which designed the original resort in 1995. “It allows the owner to live their own lifestyle, personalize their spaces to make this their home away from home. Ayana Residences really embod-ies the lifestyle and spirit of Bali and creates an opportunity for buyers to live here or come on regular vacations and take advantage of all the amenities in the entire property. WATG is proud to be associated with it; we think it’s going to be a huge success.”

Courtesy of Ayana Residences

Ayana Residences

Reunites hotel designers to residential luxuryIBP

JIMBArAN - They are some of the biggest names in high-end hospitality design, and now WATG Architects, St Legere Design International and P49 Deesign have been brought together to work once again with one of Bali’s most prestigious properties, this time to create the island’s first integrated residential community.

Landscape designer Dennis Selinger, Principal of St Legere, said the Residences are unique in Bali for the sense of space and balance. “It’s a real blessing to work with this developer as it’s focused on quality and there are a lot of spaces devoted to the landscape which is unusual in many develop-ments,” said Mr Selinger.

Mr Selinger said the Balinese philosophy of Tri Hita Kirana – embodying the balance of God, Nature and Man – is a very strong influence, from the indoor-outdoor living to the material selection with rich textures, bright colors, distinctively-shaped trees, large stones integrated with the buildings, and unique details. The botanical gardens include bamboo plantation to collect rainwater for irrigation – supplementing a Reverse Os-mosis recycling system – and fruit and vegetable gardens.

Carl Almeida of P49 Deesign, which designed the much lauded Cliff Villas at Ayana Resort in 2005, said his experi-ence working with this developer has given him a strong understanding of what Residences’ investors aspire to and want in their holiday home. “We feel the Ayana Residences is something that will lead the market over here and represents a true reflection of Ayana Resort as well,” said Mr Almeida.

“We didn’t want to do a purely Balinese design, but what we have done is added some key yet subtle details that reference Balinese culture to give a sense of place. It’s contemporary but it’s not just the minimalist approach to design, we really believe in warmth and feeling at home. The materials include marble for luxury, a lot of texture, amazing wallpapers and fabrics focusing on warmth. The bathrooms are based on amazing scale and symmetry.”

He said the materials used in the interiors – which are available at ad-ditional cost for Residences buyers, who are also free to design their unit in their own style – are based on a progression of spaces to create an entry-vastu (the ancient Hindu design philosophy similar to feng shui).

The drought overwhelming Ta-banan seems to have become an annual tradition. Sadly, the farmers are stricken by drought when the government built the Telaga Tunjung Dam located at Timpag village, Kerambitan. Before the presence of the facility, local farmers never underwent a drought. Then, farmers were increasingly made uneasy when the water was drained into the pipe of Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) whereas the water supply of farmers was still inadequate.

Farmers suspect the loss of water supply to rice fields was triggered by the water use by the Municipality Waterworks. “We also wonder, after the dam has been established, the ir-rigation to rice field even comes to a standstill. Even, the drought is getting worse,” said Secretary of the Indone-sia Farmers Association (HKTI) of Tabanan, Gusti Subagia, last week. This man explained that before the dam was established, the irrigation to rice field had never been stopped. Despite in dry season, the water kept flowing with a small discharge. “To-day, the water streams completely dry up,” he complained. Such condition kindled a question among the farm-ers. Moreover, many rice fields were located adjacent to the dam.

This farmer from Sembung Gede village, Kerambitan, said that farm-ers had long complained about the lack of water supply for rice fields, especially during dry season. How-ever, they remained to keep silent because the complaint always ended in stalemate. As a result, many farm-ers were forced to leave their rice fields uncultivated because there was no water supply.

The drought overwhelming the farmers had been going on since last month. However, there were no signs if the water stream would run again. Ideally, farmers should have planted rice. The most severe con-dition was experienced by farmers at Subak Aseman, Megati village, Selemadeg. Tens of hectares of rice fields had dried up as untouched by water. Bizarrely, location of the rice fields was still at the same course as the Telaga Tunjung Dam.

Farmers hoped the Telaga Tun-jung Dam being proud of could give a hope. Moreover, the dam

was capable of accommodating a large amount of water. Farmers also lamented if the dam water was also enjoyed by the Municipality Water-works because the dam water was absolutely needed for irrigation in dry season. The dam had just operated since about three years ago. Since then, the water discharge flowing into the rice fields tended to shrink persis-tently. “In the past, the water supply was always abundant. Despite in dry season, the water supply remained to exist. Now, the water is retained in the dam,” complained Subagia.

Such water shortages also caused the crop productivity to decline. Nor-mally, one hectare of rice field could produce up to 7 tons of rice. Since the water supply was not normal, the harvest yield of farmers tended to drop up to 3 tons per hectare whereas the operational cost of planting rice was quite expensive.

Gusti Subagia added the dam project combining three floodgates irrigated a large number of subak ter-ritories such as the Subak Gadungan, Subak Tangguntiti and Subak Melil-ing. The total extent of farmland was about 1,200 hectares. Virtually along the year, he said, the subak was rely-ing on paddy plants so they required abundant water supply. However, when the dam had been in opera-tion, the water supply flowing to a number of subak frequently came to a standstill.

Head of Customer Service of the Tabanan Municipality Waterworks, Astika Sapanca, explained the use of dam water into the pipe of Munici-pality Waterworks had been through agreement process. “From the begin-ning, there has been an agreement with the people and government, especially with Bali Government,” he explained.

He said the dam water drained into the pipe was solely intended for the provision of clean water for Tabanan community. Moreover, he said, the Telaga Tunjung Dam was built for three functions, namely for irrigation, tourist attraction and provision of clean water. He added the amount of water drained into the pipe of Municipality Waterworks was not too much if compared to the amount of supply deposited in the dam. (kmb30)

The meeting led by Chairman of the Commission A, I Wayan Regep, was also attended by some legislators such as I Made Duama, I Ketut Luki and Nyoman Sudarta. Wayan Regep said that Badung Regency should immediately discipline the illegal terminal oc-curring around Kuta. Such illegal terminals had disabled the Central Parking and coincidently abol-ished the opportunity for Komotra drivers in Kuta. “It is a pity that drivers of Komotra always missed the passengers because they were appropriated by the other transport services,” said Regep.

Made Duama revealed, the entry of blue public transporta-tion taking passengers in Kuta region automatically harmed the

livelihood of Komotra drivers who legally operated in Kuta. On that account, he urged the immediate issuance of clear regulation so that there would be no overlapping routes causing the public transport in Kuta to mutually pilfer.

Responding to the issue, the Head of Badung Transportation, Communications and Informat-ics Agency, Made Sutama, stated the existence of illegal terminal was caused by the emergence of intra-provincial urban transporta-tion (AKDP). Thus, solution to the problem of mutual passenger pilfering in Kuta could not be car-ried out by Badung alone because it should be coordinated with Bali Government. “We will soon discuss about the matters with the

province to find out a solution,” he said.

As a matter of fact, the transport service entering Kuta had been set by a joint agreement. However, due to crisis of public transport passengers, the agreement was frequently neglected. According to Sutama, the Regent Decree only banned the buses with the length of more than seven meters to enter Kuta. Then, the bus belonging to this category should park in Kuta Central Parking, while their pas-sengers would be transported by Komotra. Meanwhile, the Kuta Central Parking, admitted Sutama, was not a terminal but a place of services whose land was owned by the province and managed by a third party. (kmb25)

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The drivers of shuttle buses are sitting while waiting for passengers in Kuta Central Parking area.

Unclear fate of Central Parking Badung Government unable to take actionMangupura (Bali Post)—

Badung Government could not have taken immediate action to resolve the problem regarding the uncertainty of Kuta Central Parking after the appearance of “illegal ter-minal.” In the working meeting with Commission A of the Badung House on Wednesday (Jun 13), the Head of Badung Transportation, Communications and Informatics, I Made Sutama, stated his party remained to make coordination in advance with Bali Govern-ment to find out the right solution.

Dam exists, but water supply even comes to a standstill

3Friday, June 15, 201214 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Friday, June 15, 2012

The 34th Bali Art Festival

Success in the SunShot Prize would give a huge boost to the Department of Energy’s goal of making solar energy affordable compared with other power sources by 2020. Anyone hoping to compete for the millions in prize money must deploy 5,000 new rooftop solar panel installations at an average price of $2 per watt — the target cost without any subsidies.

“The investments in American startups and the new competition announced today further our ef-forts to seize on the tremendous global market for clean energy technologies, representing hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide,” said Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy, in a statement released on June 13.

A first place team can expect

to claim a $7 million prize and the hefty title of “SunShot Prize Winner of America’s Most Affordable Rooftop Solar.” Second and third place teams will receive $2 million and $1 million, respectively, as prize finalists.

Each of the 5,000 required in-stallations must have a power range between 1 and 15 kilowatts. (The average U.S. home used the energy equivalent of 1.3 kilowatts per hour in 2010, according to the U.S. En-ergy Information Administration.) They must also be installed between Aug. 1, 2012, and Dec. 31, 2014.

Limits exist on what entries count for the SunShot Prize competition, because the rooftop solar panels must sit on buildings inhabited by humans. That excludes sheds, dog-

h o u s e s and small scale solar farms, but a garage at-tached to a home would count.

Chu also announced up to $8 million in separate awards going to nine U.S. startups — companies focused on making solar installation easier and cheaper. That investment builds on the SunShot Incubator program’s record of getting $30 in private investment for every $1 of government funding.

W h i l e women are doing less housework than they used to, they still take on the brunt of the household cleaning chores. New

research indicates that this extra work stresses them out, and that stress worsens when there is salary or gender inequality present in the relationship.

The findings match up well with previous studies regarding changes in the division of

housework in the last decade. Though both men and women spend less time spent on domestic duties thanks to time-saving technologies, women still take on a large amount of the work, past stud-ies show.

“In this study, women were in the majority (85 percent) in the combination of having more than half

of the responsibility for domestic work and an equal socioeconomic position to the partner,”

the researchers write in their research detailed today, June 13, in the journal PLoS ONE.

Working women

The researchers studied data from 371 women and 352 men from the Northern Swedish Cohort, collected in 1986 and 2007, when the par-

Agence France Presse

Large swathes of farmland are threatened by locusts in Niger even as the drought-prone African nation is grappling with a severe food crisis, a pest-control official said Wednesday.

“Unless swarms are destroyed very early, locusts will reproduce and reach the cropland,” Yahaya Garba, director of the CNLA agency in charge of pest-control, said in the latest bulletin of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Niger.

At least 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of farmland and one million hectares (2.5 million acres) of pasture land could be devastated. “Locusts are about to reach the Sahel (region), and notably northern Mali and Niger,” Garba said adding that the migratory species was invading the area from southeast Algeria and neighbouring Libya.

The first swarms were spotted in northern Niger late last month and have started to migrate south where most Niger farmland is concentrated. More than 80 percent of Niger’s population of 15 million live on farm produce and six million are facing a new food crisis already, out of 18 million in the entire Sahel belt, according to United Nations figures.

“The fight (against the locusts) must be fought intensively and im-mediately,” warned Garba, appealing for international assistance.

There was a major risk that locusts invade the area from Mali where state agencies do not have access to locust reproduction zones as the north is under the control of armed rebel groups.

The UN’s Rome-based food agency said earlier this month that political insecurity and conflicts in North Africa were hindering ef-forts to control the swarms of desert locusts. Niger last faced desert locust swarms in 2003-05.

New Rooftop Solar Competition Offers $10 Million Prize

A $10 million prize could make rooftop solar panels a much more common sight on U.S. homes and businesses. The new contest launched by the U.S. Department of Energy aims to shatter the price barrier for solar power installations before the end of 2014.

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The $10 million SunShot Prize could make rooftop solar panel systems much more common. Here is one system that was installed by Solar Energy Systems in New York City.

Higher Housework Burden Stresses Women

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Unequal employment and pay add to mom’s stres-sors, because they make her feel the need to do more housework.

ticipants were on average 21 and 42, respectively. At 42, all participants analyzed were living with children.

The participants answered ques-tionnaires about their relationships, housework responsibilities, socio-economic status of themselves and

partners, and “psychological distress” level gauged by the number of times they’ve felt restless, unable to concentrate, or worried and nervous, in the last year.

“Domestic work is a highly gendered activity as women tend to have a greater and men a smaller responsibility,” the researchers write. “Inequality in domestic work, in combination with experiencing the couple relationship as gender-unequal, were associated with psychological distress.”

Niger farmland threatened by locusts: official

Friday, June 15, 2012

Time Place Activity

11.00 WITA Ayodya Stage Traditional Dance and Music

11.00 WITA Angsoka Stage Parwa Reconstruction Performance

20.00 WITA Ksirarnawa Hall Collosal Drama Musical

20.00 WITA Drama Gong Exhibition Ayodya Stage

20.00 WITA Ardha Chandra Children’s Gong Kebyar

“We will send a selection team to choose artists that will receive lifetime achievement award,” said BAF’s com-mittee I Wayan Dauh on Thursday.

He also said that each of regency will nominate one artist to receive this award. The team will select from those names and narrow down to nine artists.

Besides an award, artists will also receive some fund. This award had been given to 381 old artists in Bali. The award presented each year during Bali Art Festival.

Bali choose nine old artists to receive BAF’s award

An old artist perform on Bali Art Festival (BAF). Bali’s will choose nine old artists from eight regen-cies and one city to receive 34th Bali Art Festival (BAF). They will receive lifetime achieve-ment award for what they’ve been done to develop Bali’s art.

AntaraDENPASAR - Bali’s will choose

nine old artists from eight regen-cies and one city to receive 34th Bali Art Festival (BAF). They will receive lifetime achievement award for what they’ve been done to develop Bali’s art.

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Gambuh is kind of instrument consider an ancient art in Bali. According to BAF’s Committee, Putu Sedana, there will be Gambuh reconstruction performance.

Antara

DENPASAR - The fifth day of Bali Art Festival (BAF) will exhibit five type of perfor-mances. According to BAF’s Committee, Putu Sedana, there will be Gambuh reconstruction performance. Gambuh is kind of instrument consider an ancient art in Bali.

The reconstruction art will be perform by Karang Village troupe from Klungkung. They will be held an exhibition on Angsoka stage at 11.00 AM local time.

After that, spectators and visitors will be entertain by Joged Bumbung parade on Ay-odya stage.

Meanwhile in the night, they will be three performances showing in three different ven-ues. Three performances, in-cluding Drama from Sekar Cempaka Troupe, Adult Gong Kebyar dance, and modern drama.

The modern drama is col-laboration between London University students, a student from Japan, and ISI’s student.

Five performances will be exhibit on BAF’s fifth day

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Obama hosted a dinner for Peres, attended by guests including former president Bill Clinton, in a show of respect and affection for the presi-dent that reflects close US-Israeli relations.

“No individual has done so much over so many years to build our alliance and bring our two nations closer as the leader we honor tonight -- our friend, Shimon Peres,” Obama said before awarding Peres the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“In him we see the essence of

Israel itself -- an indomitable spirit that will not be denied,” Obama said, praising Peres for a political career that spanned “the entire life” of the state of Israel.

Dubbing Peres the “ultimate comeback kid,” Obama marveled at his guest’s frequent reinventions over decades in turbulent Israeli politics and told Peres he had earned his place in history long ago.

“Shimon teaches us to never settle for the world as it is, we have a vision of the world as it ought to

be and we have to strive for it.”Obama lauded Peres, 88, for

working with every American president since John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, and said that the “bonds” between the United States and Israel were “unbreakable” and “non-negotiable.”

The US president welcomed Peres to the White House at a time when US officials hope to deter Is-rael from making a unilateral strike against Iran’s nuclear program.

Peres, despite tension between the Obama administration and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told the US president that Israel supported his effort to reverse Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Reuters

When Myanmar emerged last year from army rule, state censors started to loosen their powerful grip, allowing newspapers to report freely on what had been unthink-able, from the views of opposition politicians to allegations of govern-ment corruption.

But as sectarian violence rages between majority Buddhists and Muslim Rohingyas in western Rakh-ine state, the old ways are returning. Censorship is creeping back, raising questions about whether the pre-screening of copy will be dropped, as the government has said.

“We cannot write whatever we want,” said Maung Wuntha, a prom-inent author and journalist who was jailed for publishing work deemed subversive by the former regime. “We can only write when the press scrutiny board approves ... and de-spite that, we were warned,” he said, referring to government warnings

about stories on the unrest.The Rakhine state violence is

perhaps as big a test for Myanmar’s media as it is for a government des-perate to put on a presentable face for the outside world.

The unrest is an extremely sen-sitive issue in Myanmar. The Roh-ingyas are not recognized as one of Myanmar’s numerous ethnic groups and their very presence is contested by many.

State media has said a five-day rampage of rioting in Rakhine state killed at least 21 people. [ID:nL3E8HD77F]. What started it remains a mystery but it seems almost certain to have stemmed from last month’s rape and murder of a Buddhist Rakhine woman, al-legedly by three Muslims who are now on trial.

The incident led to calls for retribution that were swiftly an-swered by Buddhist vigilantes, who lynched 10 Muslims with no ties to the alleged killers.

Violence tests Myanmar’s media, and its censors

REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

A soldier stands in the rain as he secures a major street in Sittwe June 13, 2012. Soldiers and riot police patrolled the streets of the Myanmar town of Sittwe on Wednesday to enforce a state of emer-gency after days of sectarian violence in which at least 21 people have been killed.

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Obama honors Peres -- the ‘essence’ of IsraelAgence France Presse

US President Barack Obama praised President Shimon Peres as the “essence of Israel itself” as he awarded the Israeli statesman America’s highest civilian honor.

US President Barack Obama presents Israeli President Shimon Peres with the Presiden-tial Medal of Freedom June 13, in the White House. Obama praised Peres as the “essence of Israel itself” as he awarded the Israeli statesman America’s highest civilian honor

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Negara (Bali Post) –

A number of areas of dengue has been fogged (sprayed by anti mosqui-toes pesticide) by Jembrana Health Agency in preventing its illness spread-ing as seen at Banjar Pasar, Yehembang Village, Mendoyo. Eight workers of it came to spray residents’ houses for

two days nearby Yehembang Market and Beach.

A worker stated this was done due to reports and complains received as the dengue carrier mosquitoes have been growing in this area even though no report of dengue or malaria vic-timized patients have been received. Besides at Yehembang, a number of

other sensitive dengue affected areas are also fogged. Head of the Agency, Putu Suasta, stated to reporters last Wednesday (13/6) that the fogging was done in prevening dengue illness happening and to prevent the mosquito growing. In a month it is scheduled for 25 times of fogging in dengue potential areas. (kmb26)

According to Ken, the coming of dog bite patients that acquired wound care as well as anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) began to indicate a flat graph. It illustrated if the dog bite cases set to be handled evenly in the urban and rural rabies centers.

“So, not all dog bite patients are now coming to Sanglah Hospital. They have started to come to rabies center in the local regency/munici-pality. In other words, rabies treat-ment and the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) supply have been evenly

distributed and available in each region,” explained Ken.

For the case of rabies patients who were treated within the past six months, continued Ken, Sanglah Hospital received seven patients where five of them died with clinical symptoms of rabies. “The last pa-tient died in April. Among the seven patients, five died and two others were declared negative to rabies and allowed to go home,” said Ken.

For the five patients who died with clinical symptoms of rabies, according to Ken, were not carried out a VCR examination. “Based on policy, a person who died with clinical symptoms of rabies and

had a history of dog bites will not undergo a VCR examination,” said Ken.

VCR examination to victims who died of rabies symptoms would be performed if history of their dog bite was unclear and if the dog biting the patient also bit other people. “For unclear history of dog bite cases and if the dog had bitten someone other than the patient, the VCR examination will be held to ensure its status, so that vaccina-tion can be done for other dog bite victims,” explained Ken.

Compared to the year 2011, the victim who died of rabies in 2012 had showed a decrease. According

to Ken, within the past six months of 2011, it was recorded that 12 patients died of rabies.

Ken added, although the cases of dog bites and death due to ra-bies showed a decline, it did not necessarily mean if people might lower their alertness. “As long as the dog remains to exist, the bite case will still exist and so will the rabies,” said Ken. On that account, the preventive measure to rabies starting from regular vaccine ad-ministration to chaining the dogs should continue to be performed. Victims of dog bite should also get anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) and wound care. (kmb24)

Tabanan (Bali Post) –

Resident of Banjar Beringkit, Beringkit Village, Marga, was shocked last Wednesday (13/6) as a shop balcony owned by a local, Ni Ketut Suti (42) got burnt suspected due to petrol spilt. There are no casualties in this incident.

Around 2.30 pm local time victim saw the fire attacked her shop’s roof. Due to panic victim tried to put it off with a sack but it also got burnt then fell to the jug filled with petrol and instead increased the fire. The strong wind seemed not help-ing which then a Honda Vario motorcycle parked there got caught fire. Victim then called for help which then in seconds locals who were resting at their houses gout out and help with equipments they have. In less than one hour the fire stopped the fire was managed off yet even so they still asked Tabanan Fire Brigade to help Even though there are no casualties, the Police still will investigate. Luckily the fire did not catch a gas tube inside the shop and it is predicted the loss experienced reached IDR 2 million. Victim is still in shocked of the incident while locals still crowded the place to see police investigating the scene. “The damages were on the motorcycle and a number of equipments burnt inside the shop,” Head of Marga Police, APC Surya Atmaja, stated in the middle of the scene. (kmb30)

Gianyar (Bali Post) –

The damaged street and pedestrians that had a banana tree planted by the residents of Manik Street, Gianyar, was fixed at last. Yet during the two days of the repair, a toilet owned by a resident besides the pedestrian col-lapsed last Tuesday (12/6) around 6 pm local time. There are no casualties when two repair workers just finished

working nearby it. As seen on Wednesday (13/6) the

collapse remains still around. Its owner, Nyoman Manyang (35) stated only can give up of this incident. Workers from Gianyar Public Works Agency did see the damaged yet can’t assure if there will be compensation or not. Accord-ing to Manyang this incident happened suddenly and it is hoped there will be compensation on the damages that hap-

pened. “This has disadvantaged IDR 15 million, but I don’t want the cash, I want this toilet constructed and fixed as it was,” Manyang stated.

Meanwhile Head of the Agency, Nyoman Nuadi, stated there has been a report on this received including from Head of the Environment. Nuadi still can’t tell if there will be any compen-sation yet as this incident is still being checked. (kmb16)

Dog bite cases in Sanglah Hospital diminishes

A man is walking on the beach accompa-nied by few dogs.

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—

During the first six months of 2012, the dog bite cases have de-creased in Sanglah Hospital. Secretary of Rabies Counteraction Team of Sanglah Hospital, Ken Wirasandhi, when met on Wednesday (Jun 13) described that during the first six months of 2012 the average pa-tient bitten by dog taking an outpatient treatment reached 30 patients per day and those coming to Emergency Room reached 15 patients per day. Compared to cases at the beginning when the rabies outbreak spread, Sanglah Hospital received 150 dog bitten patients per day.

Motorcycle burn due to oil spil

Dengue prone area fogged

After road fixed, toilet collapsedAssociated Press Writer

GENEVA — Switzerland is holding a referendum this weekend — on whether to hold more referendums. A nationalist group wants voters in the Alpine republic to have an automatic say every time their government signs an important international treaty.

Most major parties oppose the measure, saying it could gridlock Swiss democracy with

constant ballot calls. Switzerland signs rough-ly 500 international treaties a year, though the proposal’s backers insist most of those wouldn’t meet the bar for a referendum.

Switzerland already holds about half a dozen national referendums each year — some grouped together — as well as local ones, with turnout rarely over 40 percent.

All it takes is 50,000 signatures to force a national vote on a new law or treaty. The bar is higher — 100,000 signatures — if grass-roots groups want to propose completely new legislation, but such measures too are voted on frequently and sometimes succeed.

“In almost no other country in the world can the population vote on so many issues,” Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said

at a recent news conference where she argued against the new proposal. The group Action for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland on Wednesday accused political and business leaders of being afraid of Swiss voters.

“Some of our elites are panicking at the idea of a little more democracy in our country,” Werner Gartenmann, the group’s director, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Gartenmann said voters would likely be asked to go to the polls five times a year — once more than the current average. “Of course we don’t want to have a vote on every treaty,” he said.

The group has said it wants referendums whenever Switzerland submits to a foreign law or court, particularly if it involves the European Union, to which Switzerland does not belong.

Swiss wary of plan for more referendums

FILE - In this picture taken May 24, 2012 a poster, right, seen in Geneva, Swit-zerland, urging Swiss voters to reject a proposal to automatically hold a referen-dum whenever the government signs an important international treaty

Geithner backs Germany on EU reform

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Chairman of the Badung Chamber of Commerce and In-dustry (Kadin), AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, said that many large tourism-related companies were owned by outside investors. In order to offset the dominance of the outside investors, his party did a breakthrough in fostering a better relation to the state-owned companies.

“We are aware of losing time to outside investors. But, as business people and local investors we do not want to just become a spectator. We do not want to just sit back and are continuously overtaken by the outside investors. On that account, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry keeps in contact with parties outside the chamber,” said Alit Wiraputra amidst the hearings with the Angkasa Pura (AP) I, Wednesday (Jun 13).

The meeting of Badung Chamber of Commerce and Industry with AP I of Ngurah Rai was an effort to make cooperation and solicit the support in the economic de-velopment of Badung. The collaboration had significance in the economic and strategic value of Bali. “Hopefully, this partnership could help the SMEs in improving the competitiveness and building up young entrepreneurs who could compete,” he said.

Deputy Chairman of the Badung Chamber of Com-merce and Industry, Made Mangku Ariawan, said that Angkasa Pura I of Ngurah Rai Airport as a state-owned com-pany had a very important role in facilitating the small busi-ness. “Ngurah Rai is located in Badung Region, so that it’s natural if priority is given to

Badung,” he said.Angkasa Pura I had a fund

of corporate social responsibil-ity (CSR) that could help the community and local investors. “We all know that SMEs ex-periencing a funding problem. Then, not all the SMEs are ready to access the banking funds. We do hope the CSR of the airport could help the SMEs in Badung,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Procure-ment Manager of PT AP I of Ngurah Rai Airport, Dewa Putu Sudarma, stated his com-mitment to the existence of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Based on the mandate of Law No. 1/1987 on the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, all partners of PT AP I of Ngurah Rai should become a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. (kmb27)

Apart from besieged by thou-sands of foreign tourists, Bali as a tourist destination of the

world is also faced with the inva-sion of outside investors. Even,

existence of those investors has been ubiquitous in Bali, espe-

cially in Badung Regency.

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MANGUPURA - Apart from besieged by thousands of foreign tourists, Bali as a tourist destination of the world is also faced with the invasion of outside investors. Even, existence of those investors has been ubiquitous in Bali, especially in Badung Regency.

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

Edward Norman Myatt (L) of Australia walks from a holding cell after his trial at Denpasar court in Bali on June 14, 2012. Myatt, 54, was arrested on February 27 with 1.1 kg of hashish and 7 grams of methamphetamine after attempting to smuggle them into the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

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Associated Press

HELSINKI — Nokia Corp. will lay off 10,000 jobs globally and close plants by the end of 2013, the company said Thursday, in a further drive to save costs.

The cuts mean that it will close some research and development projects, including in Ulm, Ger-many, and Burnaby, Canada.

The Finnish cellphone maker said it will also close the manu-facturing plant in Salo, but will keep its research and development operations there.

Nokia is fighting fierce competi-tion from Apple Inc.’s iPhone and other makers using Google Inc.’s popular Android software, includ-ing Samsung Electronics Co. and HTC of Taiwan. It is also being squeezed in the low-end by Asian manufacturers making cheaper phones, such as China’s ZTE.

Although it plans “to significantly reduce its operating expenses,” Nokia

says it will focus on smartphones and feature phones and intends to expand location-based services.

Nokia also said that “com-petitive industry dynamics” in the second quarter would hit its smartphone sector to a “somewhat greater extent than previously ex-pected” and that no improvement was expected in the third quarter.

“Nokia is significantly increas-ing its cost reduction target for devices and services in support of the streamlined strategy an-nounced today,” said CFO Timo Ihamuotila. “With these planned actions, we believe our devices (and) services business has a clear path to profitability. Nokia intends to maintain its strong financial position while proceeding ag-gressively with actions aimed at creating shareholder value.”

Last year, Nokia announced more than 10,000 layoffs, aimed at cutting operating expenses by $1.31 billion by 2013.

At an event at the Council on Foreign Relations late Wednesday, Geithner waded into the debate over how to shore up the eurozone after a Spanish bank bailout fell flat, saying Germany’s position was “very reasonable.”

“What Germany is saying is (that) to make monetary union work, (they’re) prepared to put a substantial commitment of resources behind this broader endeavor,” Geithner said.

“But for that to work, (it) needs to be in support of reforms and changes in the institution ... and that is a very reasonable position.”

He went on to say that at next week’s G20 summit in Mexico all eyes would be on Germany and

other “major players” to clarify proposals for a European banking union and other measures to tame the crisis.

Fears for the eurozone have mounted since Spain at the week-end became the fourth country to receive rescue funds -- following bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Por-tugal -- after its European partners agreed to a 100 billion euro ($125 billion) lifeline for its banks.

Europe’s paymaster Germany is proposing eurozone structural reforms ahead of a European Union summit during where it is expected to again clash with France over how best to deal with the crisis.

Germany champions fiscal

discipline first, while France’s new Socialist President Francois Hollande is pushing for growth measures.

Greeks meanwhile return to the polls on Sunday for a second time in six weeks in parliamentary elections that could see the triumph of parties opposing an unpopular EU-IMF bailout deal.

The deal imposed tough auster-ity measures in return for money to avoid default and if a new Greek leadership rejects it, Greece could become the first country to leave the eurozone.

After the rescue lifeline for Spain, the eurozone’s fourth-larg-est economy, all eyes are now on Italy, the third largest euro country and the next in the firing line of the creeping debt crisis.

EU leaders gather for their next summit on June 28-29 in Brus-sels.

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has endorsed Germany’s call for structural reforms to save the crisis-hit eurozone.

Nokia to cut 10,000 jobs by end of 2013

Agence France-Presse

BERLIN - Italy’s economic system is “not fragile” although it has some weak points, notably a high level of debt, Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Wednesday, as Rome comes under pressure on the markets.

Speaking after receiving a prize from a business school here, Monti told reporters: “The Italian system isn’t fragile. There are aspects that are less solid, like the high level of debt and elements that are more solid ... notably our banking system.”

“We Italians have a tendency to go too quickly from moments of inexplicable euphoria to unjus-tified depression,” he quipped.

Nevertheless, there were some positive strengths of the Italian economy, for example a powerful network of small and medium-sized businesses and households that have a low level of debt, Monti stressed.

“We don’t need to resort to

desperate measures for our pub-lic finances,” he said, adding he would pursue Italy’s course of fiscal consolidation.

After Spain announced it would seek EU aid of some 100 billion euros ($125 billion) to recapitalise its crisis-wracked banks, market attention has switched to Italy, buried under one of the eurozone’s highest debt mountains.

While former EU commission-er Monti has generally regained market confidence after taking over from former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi last year, Italy’s borrowing costs have shot up in recent days amid fresh market tur-moil. The yield on the benchmark 10-year government bond has risen over the 6.0-percent barrier generally seen as unsustainable over the long-term.

At a auction of 12-month debt earlier on Wednesday, Italy’s rates spiked sharply to 3.972 percent from 2.34 percent at a similar operation on May 11.

Italian economic system ‘not fragile’

AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL

Mario Monti

BUSINESS

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Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Ben Ali -- who fled after his ouster and is living in exile in Saudi Arabia -- over the killing of 22 people while clamping down on the central cities of Thala and Kas-serine. “We tried to hand down a fair verdict, and nobody put any pressure on us. We were only guided by God and our own personal conviction,” civilian judge Chokri Mejri said at the end of the six-month trial in Kef, west of Tunis.

The court drew angry cries from victims’ families outside when it dropped charges against 10 officials, including former presidential guard chief Ali Seriati and the former direc-tor of Tunisia’s riot police, Moncef Laajimi.

“Revenge! Revenge!” they shout-

ed, according to Abdelkarim Mag-houri, a lawyer present at the hear-ing. “The judge could not fully read the verdict because of the ruckus,” Maghouri told AFP. Wasfi Seihi, whose cousin Wajdi was killed in Thala, said: “The judge should have pronounced the death penalty for all the accused.”

Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old vegetable seller from the central town of Sidi Bouzid, inspired the Tunisian revolt in December 2010 when he set himself on fire and died in protest at official corruption. His suicide set off weeks of protests that ended up toppling one of the most entrenched autocratic regimes in the Arab world and led to democratic elections last October that saw a moderate Islamist party rise to power.

The ouster of Ben Ali launched a wave of protests in the Middle East and North Africa that became known as the Arab Spring and is still sweeping the region. Wednesday’s convictions were the first of senior regime personnel over the killing of hundreds of protesters during the Tunisian revolution.

But there were fears that anger over the acquittals of several key figures and lingering doubts that Ben Ali will ever be brought to justice could see fresh violence. “I fear that this judgment will cause unrest,” Anouar el-Bassi, a lawyer for victims’ families, told AFP. “Two former pillars of the forces of order” were acquitted, he said, referring to Laajimi and senior interior ministry official Moncef Krifa.

Agence France Presse

A Facebook appeal by Malaysia’s leader for help naming two young Chinese pandas has drawn ridicule with many cheeky users seizing the opportunity to take shots at the government. Premier Najib Razak posted a message on his Chinese-language Facebook page Wednesday seeking help naming the pandas, which China will send to Malaysia for 10 years in the latest chapter in Beijing’s “panda diplomacy.”

More than 300 people commented by Thursday, with many alluding to government corruption or other sensitive political issues. One user suggested naming the pandas “Bersih” and “Stop-Lynas”.

“Bersih” is the name of an NGO coalition that organised a huge April 28 rally for free and fair elections that saw clashes with police, while the other name refers to a controversial rare earths plant being built in eastern Malaysia by Australian mining firm Lynas Corp.

Another suggested “Altantuya,” the first name of a Mongolian woman who was murdered in Malaysia in 2006 in a highly sensitive case.

A former close Najib associate was acquitted in the case, which at the time sparked opposition accusations of a massive cover-up. Malaysia will sign an agreement on Friday for the pandas, which Najib had requested in April in a meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as a sign of strong diplomatic ties between the countries.

The majority of Malaysia’s 28 million people are Muslim ethnic Malays, but ethnic Chinese make up a quarter of the population.

Najib, who must call elections by early next year, has sought to reach out to the country’s minorities, many of whose voters abandoned his ruling party in 2008 polls. Some Facebook users said Malaysia should first ensure protection and welfare of its own endangered animals, such as tigers.AFP Photo/Fethi Belaid

A military court sentenced ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to life in prison for his role in the deadly repression during last year’s popular uprising, TAP news agency said.

Tunisia’s Ben Ali sentenced to life in absentiaAgence France Presse

A Tunisian court sentenced ousted leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in absentia, to life in prison for presiding over the bloody protest crackdown that ignited the Arab Spring. Former interior minister Rafik Belhaj Kacem and several more of Ben Ali’s inner circle on Wednesday received sentences of up to 15 years in prison, but other key figures saw their charges dismissed, much to the anger of victims’ families.

Malaysia PM’s call to name pandas draws sneers

AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara

An ethnic Rohingya refugee holds up a poster during a demonstration calling for the end to the sectarian violence in Myanmar, in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. At least 21 people have died and more than 1,600 homes have been torched in the conflict pitting ethnic Rakhine Buddhists against stateless Rohingya Muslims in coastal Rakhine state, some of the worst sectarian unrest recorded in Myanmar in years.

“Rather than staying to embar-rass all cadres later it would be bet-ter if they resign right now. Leave the party,” he said at a meeting with party founders and declarers here on Wednesday.

The meeting was also attended by members of the board of patron, the executive board, the regional executive boards from across the country.

The party`s general chairman Anas Urbaningrum and secretary general Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono were absent.

Yudhoyono who is also president admitted that the party had fre-quently received attacks to make its popularity and electability continue to drop.

This is partly caused by a few

cadres who had been involved in the dishonorable act of corruption. “That has hurt us all,” he said.

Yudhoyono reminded all cadres not to play games much less being involved in corruption.

Party cadres must not let them-selves being tricked and persuaded to conduct dishonorable acts.

“Do not play with national or regional budgets. I still heard infor-mation about it from some quarters. Do not do it. Do not it let to happen again,” he said.

Yudhoyono said the party line is clear and consistent despite all challenges from outside namely it must play clean, smart and civil politics.

He admitted there had been a lot of political confusion while internal

and external challenges in the politi-cal arena were also big.

“Political temptation to justify all means is also still very high,” he said.

He said his commitment re-mained and would never sway namely he would always play clean, smart and civil politics.

“I also follow the principles in governing the state. This should continue to be carried out by party cadres in the future,” he said.

He said if Democrat Party could pass the tests it would become a future party of hope and a strong middle party.

“It will all be realized if we are all willing to seriously make changes for party`s improve-ment.” he said.

AntaraJAKARTA - High profile corruption suspect Neneng Sri Wahyuni,

who has been on the international police wanted list, has been ar-rested.

The wife of Muhammad Nazaruddin, the former treasurer of the ruling Democrat Party who was jailed for corruption, was arrested on Wednesday at her home in Pejaten, South Jakarta, upon her ar-rival from hiding abroad.

“That is right. (She was arrested) at her home in Pejaten,” Corrup-tion Eradication Commission (KPK) spokesman Johan Budi said.

Neneng has been wanted since August 20, 2011 and had been named as a suspect in a corruption case involving the solar power project (PLTS) of the ministry of manpower and transmigration. She and her husband Nazaruddin are alleged to have received Rp2.2 billion from the project.

KPK had earlier said that authorities had known her whereabouts, but could not arrest here pending Interpol`s action because she was living abroad.

AntaraJAKARTA - Trade minister Gita Wirjawan has said it would be a

remarkable feat if Indonesia can maintain its export values for 2012 and reach the same volume of exports as last year, considering the state of the global economy.

“Of course, we would like to see an increase from $US 230 billion dollars collected last year, but if we can maintain that same amount for this year, then that is already an achievement in itself,” Wirjawan said at a press conference for Trade Expo Indonesia (TEI) at the Ministry of Trade office in Jakarta on Wednesday.

According to Wirjawan, there are still many hurdles to overcome within the global economy, so all efforts need to concentrate on increasing exports in a more focused and direct manner.

So far, he said, Indonesian exports have concentrated solely on several traditional markets, such as the United States, Europe, Japan, Malaysia and South Korea.

That is why, he added, the ministry of trade has also released a policy directed towards countries with non-traditional markets, such as Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South America.

“The information gathered from the first quarter of 2012 on the traditional market is still tempting, even if the foundation is not as strong as I would like it to be,” he said.

He also stated that the increase in exports is judged not only by volume, but also by the amount of value of the goods exported. If that trend increases, Wirjawan said there is a possibility in 6 to18 months to expect a rise in exported goods with added value.

“Why should we expect exports with added value for the future? Because of the current western crisis that failed to produce a reason-able solution,” he said.

During the press conference, he also announced the 27th TEI event that will take place at Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran in Jakarta from the 17 until the 21 of October.

The minister said that the target for TEI this year was to reach 2,000 participants, with a target transaction of $US 2 billion or an increase from 1,000 participants, as well as a transaction amount over $US 461 million that was achieved at the 26th TEI event last year.

To achieve this goal, he stated that the Ministry of trade will boost international communications through the Indonesian consulates and the Indonesian Trade Promotion Center overseas so they are able to approach and bring in potential buyers that are on target.

Yudhoyono asks party cadres involved on corruption to resignAntara

JAKARTA - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged his Democrat Party cadres involved in corruption to resign.

High profile corruption suspect arrested

Trade minister: maintaining export values remarkable

The Dutch left the field showing the worst kind of body language, hands on hips with little communica-tion and only the slightest of glances to each other.

It was clear something had to change radically if the Netherlands were to avoid an even worse fate in the second half. Coach Bert van Marwijk brought on Bundesliga top scorer Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and midfielder Rafael van der Vaart and they added urgency.

Van Persie tested Neuer with a stinging shot, Wesley Schneider fired just wide with a curling effort and had a fierce drive superbly blocked by a the body of Jerome Boateng. The Dutch momentum was grow-ing and they got their reward in the 73rd minute in superb style with

Van Persie jinking to make room before unleashing a fierce shot from 25 metres.

The prospect of a precious point for the Dutch beckoned but just when they needed to find the extra push they ran out of steam. “I felt around 65-70 minutes the Dutch were physically drained, very tired,” said Loew.

“We could have tied it up earlier in the second half. I thought they were tired and we could get a third goal but then it got a bit more exciting with Van Persies’s goal,” he added.

The Netherlands’ problems in their opening defeat by Denmark were limited to a misfiring attack but Van Marwijk said the weak-nesses spread much deeper against the Germans.

Budiasa previously admitted that Denpasar still lacked of some 1,000 rooms. It was based on the high number of tourists who stayed in the city especially dur-ing peak season. At the moment, there had been 7,500 hotel rooms which consisted of 3,500 rooms of star hotel and 4,000 rooms of budget hotels.

He also mentioned that not all areas in Denpasar could be built a hotel to meet the shortage of hotel rooms. For example, in Sanur area denoting one of the tourist resorts

in Denpasar was no longer allowed to build a hotel. Such an effort was made to balance the tourism area in Denpasar so that it would not focus on specific areas.

Despite lacking of room, Bu-diasa affirmed it did not neces-sarily mean if his party would easily issue licenses to investor. Until now, the culture-based city had 8,787 hotel rooms consisting of 4,426 rooms of budget hotels, 4,041 rooms of star hotel as well as 320 rooms of tourist lodge. (kmb27)

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Top seed Murray had won the pre-Wimbledon grass-court event in west London twice in the last three years, beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in last year’s final, but he paid the price for an error-strewn display as former Queen’s runner-up Mahut enjoyed one of the best wins of his career.

It was the worst possible prepa-ration for Murray ahead of Wimble-don, which starts later this month, and leaves the Scot without a title since his triumph in Brisbane in January.

“I don’t think it went all wrong. It was a very close match but losing serve in the third set after breaking him wasn’t great. It got him back into the match,” Murray said.

“I didn’t move very well at the start of the match, but he’s a very good grass court player. He’s been in the final here and he played well today.”

Murray has been struggling with a back injury for several weeks and was troubled by the problem during his recent run at the French Open, which ended with a defeat against David Ferrer in the quarter-finals.

He never looked completely at ease on court on Wednesday.

After failing to convert two set

points in the opening game, Murray struggled to find any momentum and Mahut made him pay in the sixth game, securing the key break before serving out the first set.

It needed a tie-break to decide the second set and Murray took it as he produced a flurry of winners at the crucial moment.

Murray broke again in the first game of the final set when Mahut double faulted, but gifted the break straight back in the next game and a tie-break was required to settle the match.

Remarkably it was Mahut who took control, winning six straight points to leave Murray stunned and out of the tournament.

“This is maybe the best win of my career, it has made me very happy,” Mahut said. “I’m very confident in my game and I can do more yet.”

Roddick fared no better as France’s Edouard Roger-Vasselin clinched a shock 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 vic-tory over the seventh seed.

The American has slipped out of the top 30 in the world rankings after an injury-ravaged campaign, but losing to Roger-Vasselin, ranked 67th, on the grass he regards as his

favourite surface is a new low.It was the 29-year-old’s 11th

defeat in 18 matches this year and raises doubts about his abil-ity to mount a strong challenge at Wimbledon, where he has reached the final three times.

Roddick’s body is showing signs

of wear and tear after over 10 gru-elling years on the ATP Tour and the former world number one has struggled with ankle and hamstring injuries this year.

He looked sluggish again here. After losing the first set, Roddick hit back to get the only break of a

hard-fought second set.But the former US Open cham-

pion couldn’t convert a match point at 5-4 in the final set and Roger-Vasselin made him pay as he broke for a 6-5 lead before serving out a shock win. “I’ve certainly played a lot worse this year,” Roddick said.

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The Miami Heat dropped the first game of the NBA finals to Oklahoma City and one of the biggest reasons was their failure to keep point guard Russell Westbrook in check.

Westbrook finished with a team-high 11 assists, eight re-bounds and 27 points as Oklahoma City delivered the first blow of the best-of-seven championship series with a 105-94 win.

The Thunder could take a 2-0 series lead with a victory in Thursday’s game two, also at home at the Chesapeake Arena. “I only know one way to play and that is to stay in the at-tack mode,” said the 23-year-old Westbrook at Wednesday’s practice. “I can’t change my style now because it got me to this point.

“That is how my coach and my teammates want me to play and that is all that matters.”

Westbrook gave the Thunder their first lead of game one with 16 seconds to play in the third quarter by finishing off a three-point play to make it 74-73.

His success against the Heat Tuesday snapped a string of four sub-par performances against Miami. It was in contrast to his play in two games against the Heat in the regular season where he shot just nine-for-26 and four-for-16.

It was the same story last season as Westbrook shot seven-for-22 and five-for-16 against the Heat. In those four games, Westbrook averaged four turnovers per game.

Westbrook said he now has great chemistry on the floor with teammate Kevin Durant and they are always looking for each other as a passing option or to help finish off an of-fensive play.

Agence France Presse

Seven-time Tour de France cham-pion Lance Armstrong confirmed he is facing new doping allegations brought by the US Anti-Doping Agency that

could result in the stripping of his titles.

Armstrong -- who has vehemently denied using performance-enhancing drugs during his career -- angrily said the new “baseless” charges stem

from “discredited” allegations from the past.

“I have been notified that USADA... intends to again dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try and strip me of the seven Tour de France victories I earned,” Armstrong said in a state-ment.

He slammed the agency as “an organization largely funded by tax-payer dollars but governed only by self-written rules.”

The Washington Post was among the media outlets reporting Wednesday that USADA had written to Armstrong saying blood samples taken from him in 2009 and 2010 -- when he came out of retirement -- were “fully consistent with blood manipulation including EPO use and/or blood transfusions.”

Armstrong finished third in the Tour de France in June of 2009 and 23rd in the event in 2010.

Since retiring again from cycling last year, Armstrong has taken up triathlon competition, but USADA’s action immediately bans him from competing.

Murray, Roddick crash out at Queen’sAgence France Presse

Andy Murray’s reign as Queen’s champion came to an abrupt end as the world number four suffered a shock 6-3, 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/1) defeat to France’s Nicolas Mahut, while four-time winner Andy Roddick also bowed out in the second round on Wednesday.

AFP Photo/Miguel Medina

Andy Roddick of the US hits a return against France’s Edouard Roger-Vasselin during their men’s singles second round of the Aegon Championships tennis tournament at the Queen’s Club in west London on June 13.

Westbrook fired up for NBA Game Two

Lance Armstrong facing new doping allegations

AFP Photo/Gail Oskin

Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, seen here in August 2011, confirmed he is facing new doping allegations brought by the US Anti-Doping Agency that could result in the stripping of his titles.

IBP

It is located at Kertha Hamlet, Petang Subdistrict, about 37 km from Denpasar and sits on an al-titude of 730.77 meters above sea level. It can be reached within 2 hours with a leisurely stroll from the parking location. According to mythology, it is said that when Dang Hyang Nirartha was traveling from Pulaki to eastern Bali, he took a rest for a while on the highlands at Petang Village.

On resuming his pilgrimage, in fact he left behind his umbrella at the retreat. On that account, the place was called Pucuk Tedung or literally means the peak of umbrella. The umbrella left was encountered by local communities because it shone in the evening due to inherent magical powers. Seeing the phenomenon, the ruling King of Mengwi at that time ordered local community to build a three- tiered meru shrine as a tribute to the ser-vices of Dang Hyang Nirartha.

Outer territory of Pucak Tedung has a very beautiful panoramic view and cool atmosphere, where from this point visitors can observe exqui-site scenery on the Eastern, Western and Southern part of Bali, As con-sequence, it is very appropriate and attractive place to find inspiration and peace for those wishing to do meditation.

Pucak Tedung Temple

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B u t Va r e l a g a v e t h e P o r t u g u e s e the win they badly need-ed when he s m a s h e d home f rom close range. Portugal had taken a 2-0

lead in the first half after good work by Nani. Defender Pepe lost his marker from a corner and pow-ered a header past keeper Stephan Andersen in the 24th minute.

They doubled their lead in the 36th minute when striker Helder Postiga got in front of defender Simon Kjaer far too easily to turn home a Nani pass from close range. It was a bad moment for Kjaer, who had boasted Denmark would be able to contain winger

Cristiano Ronaldo, and he had to make a desperate clearance in the 44th minute to stop Nani setting up another goal.

Bendtner scored his first in the 41st minute, nodding home after Michael Krohn-Dehli sent a loop-ing header over keeper Rui Patri-cio. The goals were his fourth and fifth in four competitive games against Portugal.

The result means Denmark and Portugal have three points with one game left. Leaders Ger-many also have three and play the pointless Netherlands later on Wednesday.

POOR RONALDO

“Our character and indentity were important, we didn’t start playing differently when they equalised and we got a win which

was fair but we could have won more comforably without that suf-fering at the end,” said Portugal coach Paulo Bento. Ronaldo had another poor game and missed two good chances, shooting straight at Andersen in the 50th minute and screwing a shot wide in the 78th when it looked easier to score.

Denmark have a good recent record against Portugal but looked largely toothless and it was little surprise when Portugal, who had lost three consecutive European Championship games, took the lead. Pepe was their best player in the 1-0 defeat by Germany last Saturday and looked good again.

The Danes, who had defended brilliantly in their opening 1-0 win over the Dutch, were not helped by the loss of midfielder Niki Zimling

and winger Dennis Rommedahl to injury.

“Of course it’s a horrible feel-ing to lose so close to the end,” said Denmark coach Morten Olsen. “Maybe they were a bit better, they had a few free runs... that was our mistake.

“It’s hard to be in these posi-tions and sometimes you’re the lucky one and today I think we were a little bit unlucky. “...we have a few injuries

but we’ll pick it up before the

game against Germany (on Sunday).”

Reuters

KRAKOW - Roy Hodgson may won-der if he is looking into a footballing

mirror in Kiev on Fri-day when he travels

back to the future as England meet Sweden in

their Euro 2012 Group D clash. The new England man-

ager, who began his long coaching career with a series of Swedish clubs, is fondly remembered by many of the Scandinavian nation’s fans as the unofficial godfather of their national team’s consistency and success.

His establishment in Sweden of an orthodox, if defensive, 4-4-2 sys-

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Last-gasp Portugal seal 3-2 win over Denmark

ReutersLVIV - Portugal sub-

stitute Silvestre Varela scored a dramatic 87th-minute winner to give his side a 3-2 win over Denmark in a pulsat-

ing Euro 2012 Group B match on Wednesday.

Portugal looked to have thrown a two-goal lead

away when Danish striker Nicklas Bendt-

ner scored the second of two close-range headers to equalise in the 80th

minute.

English defender Phil Jagielka practises during an England team training session at the Suche Stawy municipal stadium in Krakow on June 8, 2012 during the Euro 2012 football Championships.

Hodgson goes back to the future v Swedentem, based on the then-traditional England approach, was widely copied after he guided Malmo to the domestic championship in 1986 and 1988. Having adopted a similar system, Sweden were beaten semi-finalists on home soil at Euro 92 and then finished third at the 1994 World Cup finals, achievements that followed Hodgson’s two four-year spells in a country where he is still respected.

But, like Swedish counterpart Erik Hamren, Hodgson knows that football is no respecter of age or reputations, especially when it is reduced to a close contest between two teams of similar strengths and styles who know each other well. After their 1-1 draw with France in Donetsk, England have a point in the bank and will seek to improve and snatch a decisive victory. Sweden, defeated 2-1 by co-hosts Ukraine in Kiev, know they must win to keep alive hopes of reaching the last eight.

This suggests both sides will attack and an open game is in pros-pect, but lovers of beautiful football should be warned that this collision

of similarities is more likely to re-semble an English Premier League slug-fest than a purists’ fiesta.

The Swedes have never lost to England in a competitive fixture - though many have been dreary 0-0 draws - while the English may take heart from their 1-0 win at Wembley last November, their first against the Swedes since 1968. Hodgson, however, believes he has the players and the know-how to end that spell of Swedish supremacy, even if he is forced to rotate his players with the final group game, against Ukraine in Donetsk next Tuesday, in mind.

TEAM FRESHNESS

“I will have to assess the freshness of my team and see whether they are able to do it again,” said Hodgson this week. “Scott Parker and Steven Ger-rard are both over 30 and had to work really hard (against France). I’m not the only coach wondering, ‘Can they do it every four days?’”

In that light - and with no real injury concerns - Hodgson may

bring in Jordan Henderson for Parker, alongside captain Ger-rard, and leave out winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, as he seeks to preserve the balance in midfield. “But,” he added, “my gut feeling, after a good recovery day on Tuesday, a sensible train-ing day on Wednesday and sen-sible recovery day on Thursday, is that it will be very hard for me to leave people out...”

Hodgson also knows that sus-pended striker Wayne Rooney will be available for the Ukraine game when he may be in a bet-ter position to make changes to his team lineup. If all that gives Sweden few clues, it will make little difference to their approach as Hamren also considers con-solidating his midfield by recall-ing veteran Anders Svensson.

He may also draft in Johan Elmander up front to give Zlatan Ibrahimovic more freedom to roam. “We’re going to try to go a long way in this tournament, but now it’s cup matches,” said Hamren. “It’s a cup match against England - it’s win or bust.”AFP PHOTO/CARL DE SOUZA

Ronaldo lacked efficiency, says Portugal coach

Reuters

LVIV - Cristiano Ronaldo is a great player who was “inefficient” at key moments, Portugal coach Paulo Bento said in defence of his below-par display in their 3-2 win against Denmark at Euro 2012. Bento, who said his side could have won the Group B game with less suffering, denied that Ronaldo was frustrated with his display and rejected

suggestions the forward was under pressure.“He is a player of enormous ability who was not efficient in a couple of situations he found himself

in,” Bento told reporters. “He has played two good games. There is not a single player among the 23 in the squad who feel any sense of frustration, they all have feelings of happiness and satisfac-tion and a sense of responsibility for the game in four days’ time.”

“He’s not under pressure from us, he’s here to help us resolve our problems.” Defender Pepe also stood up for his captain. “Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the world but even the best make mistakes, so we’re here to support him,” he said.

“He’s just one more player in the team, he can’t carry Portugal on his back, it was his turn to make a mistake today but he helped make it possible for us to be here in the first place.” Portugal needed an 87th-minute goal from substitute Silvestre Varela to win, having just conceded an equaliser.

“Their equaliser was unfair at that stage of the match. We could have won the game more comfort-ably and with less suffering,” said Bento.

AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT

Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo re-acts during the Euro 2012 championships football match Denmark vs Portugal on June 13, 2012 at the Arena Lviv. Portugal won 3 to 2.

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B u t Va r e l a g a v e t h e P o r t u g u e s e the win they badly need-ed when he s m a s h e d home f rom close range. Portugal had taken a 2-0

lead in the first half after good work by Nani. Defender Pepe lost his marker from a corner and pow-ered a header past keeper Stephan Andersen in the 24th minute.

They doubled their lead in the 36th minute when striker Helder Postiga got in front of defender Simon Kjaer far too easily to turn home a Nani pass from close range. It was a bad moment for Kjaer, who had boasted Denmark would be able to contain winger

Cristiano Ronaldo, and he had to make a desperate clearance in the 44th minute to stop Nani setting up another goal.

Bendtner scored his first in the 41st minute, nodding home after Michael Krohn-Dehli sent a loop-ing header over keeper Rui Patri-cio. The goals were his fourth and fifth in four competitive games against Portugal.

The result means Denmark and Portugal have three points with one game left. Leaders Ger-many also have three and play the pointless Netherlands later on Wednesday.

POOR RONALDO

“Our character and indentity were important, we didn’t start playing differently when they equalised and we got a win which

was fair but we could have won more comforably without that suf-fering at the end,” said Portugal coach Paulo Bento. Ronaldo had another poor game and missed two good chances, shooting straight at Andersen in the 50th minute and screwing a shot wide in the 78th when it looked easier to score.

Denmark have a good recent record against Portugal but looked largely toothless and it was little surprise when Portugal, who had lost three consecutive European Championship games, took the lead. Pepe was their best player in the 1-0 defeat by Germany last Saturday and looked good again.

The Danes, who had defended brilliantly in their opening 1-0 win over the Dutch, were not helped by the loss of midfielder Niki Zimling

and winger Dennis Rommedahl to injury.

“Of course it’s a horrible feel-ing to lose so close to the end,” said Denmark coach Morten Olsen. “Maybe they were a bit better, they had a few free runs... that was our mistake.

“It’s hard to be in these posi-tions and sometimes you’re the lucky one and today I think we were a little bit unlucky. “...we have a few injuries

but we’ll pick it up before the

game against Germany (on Sunday).”

Reuters

KRAKOW - Roy Hodgson may won-der if he is looking into a footballing

mirror in Kiev on Fri-day when he travels

back to the future as England meet Sweden in

their Euro 2012 Group D clash. The new England man-

ager, who began his long coaching career with a series of Swedish clubs, is fondly remembered by many of the Scandinavian nation’s fans as the unofficial godfather of their national team’s consistency and success.

His establishment in Sweden of an orthodox, if defensive, 4-4-2 sys-

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1 - Germany

2 - Portugal

4 - Netherlands

3 - Denmark

Group B

Ranking Pts P W D L GF GA D

9 June - Kharkiv

9 June - Lviv

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13 June - Kharkiv

17 June - Lviv

17 June - Kharkiv

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1800

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2045

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POLAND UKRAINEResults after matches on Wed.13 JuneMatch times in Central European Time

Denmark

Germany Portugal

Portugal

Denmark

Portugal

Denmark Germany

GermanyNeth. Neth.

Neth.

Last-gasp Portugal seal 3-2 win over Denmark

ReutersLVIV - Portugal sub-

stitute Silvestre Varela scored a dramatic 87th-minute winner to give his side a 3-2 win over Denmark in a pulsat-

ing Euro 2012 Group B match on Wednesday.

Portugal looked to have thrown a two-goal lead

away when Danish striker Nicklas Bendt-

ner scored the second of two close-range headers to equalise in the 80th

minute.

English defender Phil Jagielka practises during an England team training session at the Suche Stawy municipal stadium in Krakow on June 8, 2012 during the Euro 2012 football Championships.

Hodgson goes back to the future v Swedentem, based on the then-traditional England approach, was widely copied after he guided Malmo to the domestic championship in 1986 and 1988. Having adopted a similar system, Sweden were beaten semi-finalists on home soil at Euro 92 and then finished third at the 1994 World Cup finals, achievements that followed Hodgson’s two four-year spells in a country where he is still respected.

But, like Swedish counterpart Erik Hamren, Hodgson knows that football is no respecter of age or reputations, especially when it is reduced to a close contest between two teams of similar strengths and styles who know each other well. After their 1-1 draw with France in Donetsk, England have a point in the bank and will seek to improve and snatch a decisive victory. Sweden, defeated 2-1 by co-hosts Ukraine in Kiev, know they must win to keep alive hopes of reaching the last eight.

This suggests both sides will attack and an open game is in pros-pect, but lovers of beautiful football should be warned that this collision

of similarities is more likely to re-semble an English Premier League slug-fest than a purists’ fiesta.

The Swedes have never lost to England in a competitive fixture - though many have been dreary 0-0 draws - while the English may take heart from their 1-0 win at Wembley last November, their first against the Swedes since 1968. Hodgson, however, believes he has the players and the know-how to end that spell of Swedish supremacy, even if he is forced to rotate his players with the final group game, against Ukraine in Donetsk next Tuesday, in mind.

TEAM FRESHNESS

“I will have to assess the freshness of my team and see whether they are able to do it again,” said Hodgson this week. “Scott Parker and Steven Ger-rard are both over 30 and had to work really hard (against France). I’m not the only coach wondering, ‘Can they do it every four days?’”

In that light - and with no real injury concerns - Hodgson may

bring in Jordan Henderson for Parker, alongside captain Ger-rard, and leave out winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, as he seeks to preserve the balance in midfield. “But,” he added, “my gut feeling, after a good recovery day on Tuesday, a sensible train-ing day on Wednesday and sen-sible recovery day on Thursday, is that it will be very hard for me to leave people out...”

Hodgson also knows that sus-pended striker Wayne Rooney will be available for the Ukraine game when he may be in a bet-ter position to make changes to his team lineup. If all that gives Sweden few clues, it will make little difference to their approach as Hamren also considers con-solidating his midfield by recall-ing veteran Anders Svensson.

He may also draft in Johan Elmander up front to give Zlatan Ibrahimovic more freedom to roam. “We’re going to try to go a long way in this tournament, but now it’s cup matches,” said Hamren. “It’s a cup match against England - it’s win or bust.”AFP PHOTO/CARL DE SOUZA

Ronaldo lacked efficiency, says Portugal coach

Reuters

LVIV - Cristiano Ronaldo is a great player who was “inefficient” at key moments, Portugal coach Paulo Bento said in defence of his below-par display in their 3-2 win against Denmark at Euro 2012. Bento, who said his side could have won the Group B game with less suffering, denied that Ronaldo was frustrated with his display and rejected

suggestions the forward was under pressure.“He is a player of enormous ability who was not efficient in a couple of situations he found himself

in,” Bento told reporters. “He has played two good games. There is not a single player among the 23 in the squad who feel any sense of frustration, they all have feelings of happiness and satisfac-tion and a sense of responsibility for the game in four days’ time.”

“He’s not under pressure from us, he’s here to help us resolve our problems.” Defender Pepe also stood up for his captain. “Cristiano Ronaldo is the best player in the world but even the best make mistakes, so we’re here to support him,” he said.

“He’s just one more player in the team, he can’t carry Portugal on his back, it was his turn to make a mistake today but he helped make it possible for us to be here in the first place.” Portugal needed an 87th-minute goal from substitute Silvestre Varela to win, having just conceded an equaliser.

“Their equaliser was unfair at that stage of the match. We could have won the game more comfort-ably and with less suffering,” said Bento.

AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT

Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo re-acts during the Euro 2012 championships football match Denmark vs Portugal on June 13, 2012 at the Arena Lviv. Portugal won 3 to 2.

Top seed Murray had won the pre-Wimbledon grass-court event in west London twice in the last three years, beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in last year’s final, but he paid the price for an error-strewn display as former Queen’s runner-up Mahut enjoyed one of the best wins of his career.

It was the worst possible prepa-ration for Murray ahead of Wimble-don, which starts later this month, and leaves the Scot without a title since his triumph in Brisbane in January.

“I don’t think it went all wrong. It was a very close match but losing serve in the third set after breaking him wasn’t great. It got him back into the match,” Murray said.

“I didn’t move very well at the start of the match, but he’s a very good grass court player. He’s been in the final here and he played well today.”

Murray has been struggling with a back injury for several weeks and was troubled by the problem during his recent run at the French Open, which ended with a defeat against David Ferrer in the quarter-finals.

He never looked completely at ease on court on Wednesday.

After failing to convert two set

points in the opening game, Murray struggled to find any momentum and Mahut made him pay in the sixth game, securing the key break before serving out the first set.

It needed a tie-break to decide the second set and Murray took it as he produced a flurry of winners at the crucial moment.

Murray broke again in the first game of the final set when Mahut double faulted, but gifted the break straight back in the next game and a tie-break was required to settle the match.

Remarkably it was Mahut who took control, winning six straight points to leave Murray stunned and out of the tournament.

“This is maybe the best win of my career, it has made me very happy,” Mahut said. “I’m very confident in my game and I can do more yet.”

Roddick fared no better as France’s Edouard Roger-Vasselin clinched a shock 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 vic-tory over the seventh seed.

The American has slipped out of the top 30 in the world rankings after an injury-ravaged campaign, but losing to Roger-Vasselin, ranked 67th, on the grass he regards as his

favourite surface is a new low.It was the 29-year-old’s 11th

defeat in 18 matches this year and raises doubts about his abil-ity to mount a strong challenge at Wimbledon, where he has reached the final three times.

Roddick’s body is showing signs

of wear and tear after over 10 gru-elling years on the ATP Tour and the former world number one has struggled with ankle and hamstring injuries this year.

He looked sluggish again here. After losing the first set, Roddick hit back to get the only break of a

hard-fought second set.But the former US Open cham-

pion couldn’t convert a match point at 5-4 in the final set and Roger-Vasselin made him pay as he broke for a 6-5 lead before serving out a shock win. “I’ve certainly played a lot worse this year,” Roddick said.

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The Miami Heat dropped the first game of the NBA finals to Oklahoma City and one of the biggest reasons was their failure to keep point guard Russell Westbrook in check.

Westbrook finished with a team-high 11 assists, eight re-bounds and 27 points as Oklahoma City delivered the first blow of the best-of-seven championship series with a 105-94 win.

The Thunder could take a 2-0 series lead with a victory in Thursday’s game two, also at home at the Chesapeake Arena. “I only know one way to play and that is to stay in the at-tack mode,” said the 23-year-old Westbrook at Wednesday’s practice. “I can’t change my style now because it got me to this point.

“That is how my coach and my teammates want me to play and that is all that matters.”

Westbrook gave the Thunder their first lead of game one with 16 seconds to play in the third quarter by finishing off a three-point play to make it 74-73.

His success against the Heat Tuesday snapped a string of four sub-par performances against Miami. It was in contrast to his play in two games against the Heat in the regular season where he shot just nine-for-26 and four-for-16.

It was the same story last season as Westbrook shot seven-for-22 and five-for-16 against the Heat. In those four games, Westbrook averaged four turnovers per game.

Westbrook said he now has great chemistry on the floor with teammate Kevin Durant and they are always looking for each other as a passing option or to help finish off an of-fensive play.

Agence France Presse

Seven-time Tour de France cham-pion Lance Armstrong confirmed he is facing new doping allegations brought by the US Anti-Doping Agency that

could result in the stripping of his titles.

Armstrong -- who has vehemently denied using performance-enhancing drugs during his career -- angrily said the new “baseless” charges stem

from “discredited” allegations from the past.

“I have been notified that USADA... intends to again dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try and strip me of the seven Tour de France victories I earned,” Armstrong said in a state-ment.

He slammed the agency as “an organization largely funded by tax-payer dollars but governed only by self-written rules.”

The Washington Post was among the media outlets reporting Wednesday that USADA had written to Armstrong saying blood samples taken from him in 2009 and 2010 -- when he came out of retirement -- were “fully consistent with blood manipulation including EPO use and/or blood transfusions.”

Armstrong finished third in the Tour de France in June of 2009 and 23rd in the event in 2010.

Since retiring again from cycling last year, Armstrong has taken up triathlon competition, but USADA’s action immediately bans him from competing.

Murray, Roddick crash out at Queen’sAgence France Presse

Andy Murray’s reign as Queen’s champion came to an abrupt end as the world number four suffered a shock 6-3, 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/1) defeat to France’s Nicolas Mahut, while four-time winner Andy Roddick also bowed out in the second round on Wednesday.

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Andy Roddick of the US hits a return against France’s Edouard Roger-Vasselin during their men’s singles second round of the Aegon Championships tennis tournament at the Queen’s Club in west London on June 13.

Westbrook fired up for NBA Game Two

Lance Armstrong facing new doping allegations

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Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, seen here in August 2011, confirmed he is facing new doping allegations brought by the US Anti-Doping Agency that could result in the stripping of his titles.

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It is located at Kertha Hamlet, Petang Subdistrict, about 37 km from Denpasar and sits on an al-titude of 730.77 meters above sea level. It can be reached within 2 hours with a leisurely stroll from the parking location. According to mythology, it is said that when Dang Hyang Nirartha was traveling from Pulaki to eastern Bali, he took a rest for a while on the highlands at Petang Village.

On resuming his pilgrimage, in fact he left behind his umbrella at the retreat. On that account, the place was called Pucuk Tedung or literally means the peak of umbrella. The umbrella left was encountered by local communities because it shone in the evening due to inherent magical powers. Seeing the phenomenon, the ruling King of Mengwi at that time ordered local community to build a three- tiered meru shrine as a tribute to the ser-vices of Dang Hyang Nirartha.

Outer territory of Pucak Tedung has a very beautiful panoramic view and cool atmosphere, where from this point visitors can observe exqui-site scenery on the Eastern, Western and Southern part of Bali, As con-sequence, it is very appropriate and attractive place to find inspiration and peace for those wishing to do meditation.

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Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Ben Ali -- who fled after his ouster and is living in exile in Saudi Arabia -- over the killing of 22 people while clamping down on the central cities of Thala and Kas-serine. “We tried to hand down a fair verdict, and nobody put any pressure on us. We were only guided by God and our own personal conviction,” civilian judge Chokri Mejri said at the end of the six-month trial in Kef, west of Tunis.

The court drew angry cries from victims’ families outside when it dropped charges against 10 officials, including former presidential guard chief Ali Seriati and the former direc-tor of Tunisia’s riot police, Moncef Laajimi.

“Revenge! Revenge!” they shout-

ed, according to Abdelkarim Mag-houri, a lawyer present at the hear-ing. “The judge could not fully read the verdict because of the ruckus,” Maghouri told AFP. Wasfi Seihi, whose cousin Wajdi was killed in Thala, said: “The judge should have pronounced the death penalty for all the accused.”

Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old vegetable seller from the central town of Sidi Bouzid, inspired the Tunisian revolt in December 2010 when he set himself on fire and died in protest at official corruption. His suicide set off weeks of protests that ended up toppling one of the most entrenched autocratic regimes in the Arab world and led to democratic elections last October that saw a moderate Islamist party rise to power.

The ouster of Ben Ali launched a wave of protests in the Middle East and North Africa that became known as the Arab Spring and is still sweeping the region. Wednesday’s convictions were the first of senior regime personnel over the killing of hundreds of protesters during the Tunisian revolution.

But there were fears that anger over the acquittals of several key figures and lingering doubts that Ben Ali will ever be brought to justice could see fresh violence. “I fear that this judgment will cause unrest,” Anouar el-Bassi, a lawyer for victims’ families, told AFP. “Two former pillars of the forces of order” were acquitted, he said, referring to Laajimi and senior interior ministry official Moncef Krifa.

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A Facebook appeal by Malaysia’s leader for help naming two young Chinese pandas has drawn ridicule with many cheeky users seizing the opportunity to take shots at the government. Premier Najib Razak posted a message on his Chinese-language Facebook page Wednesday seeking help naming the pandas, which China will send to Malaysia for 10 years in the latest chapter in Beijing’s “panda diplomacy.”

More than 300 people commented by Thursday, with many alluding to government corruption or other sensitive political issues. One user suggested naming the pandas “Bersih” and “Stop-Lynas”.

“Bersih” is the name of an NGO coalition that organised a huge April 28 rally for free and fair elections that saw clashes with police, while the other name refers to a controversial rare earths plant being built in eastern Malaysia by Australian mining firm Lynas Corp.

Another suggested “Altantuya,” the first name of a Mongolian woman who was murdered in Malaysia in 2006 in a highly sensitive case.

A former close Najib associate was acquitted in the case, which at the time sparked opposition accusations of a massive cover-up. Malaysia will sign an agreement on Friday for the pandas, which Najib had requested in April in a meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as a sign of strong diplomatic ties between the countries.

The majority of Malaysia’s 28 million people are Muslim ethnic Malays, but ethnic Chinese make up a quarter of the population.

Najib, who must call elections by early next year, has sought to reach out to the country’s minorities, many of whose voters abandoned his ruling party in 2008 polls. Some Facebook users said Malaysia should first ensure protection and welfare of its own endangered animals, such as tigers.AFP Photo/Fethi Belaid

A military court sentenced ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to life in prison for his role in the deadly repression during last year’s popular uprising, TAP news agency said.

Tunisia’s Ben Ali sentenced to life in absentiaAgence France Presse

A Tunisian court sentenced ousted leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, in absentia, to life in prison for presiding over the bloody protest crackdown that ignited the Arab Spring. Former interior minister Rafik Belhaj Kacem and several more of Ben Ali’s inner circle on Wednesday received sentences of up to 15 years in prison, but other key figures saw their charges dismissed, much to the anger of victims’ families.

Malaysia PM’s call to name pandas draws sneers

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An ethnic Rohingya refugee holds up a poster during a demonstration calling for the end to the sectarian violence in Myanmar, in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. At least 21 people have died and more than 1,600 homes have been torched in the conflict pitting ethnic Rakhine Buddhists against stateless Rohingya Muslims in coastal Rakhine state, some of the worst sectarian unrest recorded in Myanmar in years.

“Rather than staying to embar-rass all cadres later it would be bet-ter if they resign right now. Leave the party,” he said at a meeting with party founders and declarers here on Wednesday.

The meeting was also attended by members of the board of patron, the executive board, the regional executive boards from across the country.

The party`s general chairman Anas Urbaningrum and secretary general Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono were absent.

Yudhoyono who is also president admitted that the party had fre-quently received attacks to make its popularity and electability continue to drop.

This is partly caused by a few

cadres who had been involved in the dishonorable act of corruption. “That has hurt us all,” he said.

Yudhoyono reminded all cadres not to play games much less being involved in corruption.

Party cadres must not let them-selves being tricked and persuaded to conduct dishonorable acts.

“Do not play with national or regional budgets. I still heard infor-mation about it from some quarters. Do not do it. Do not it let to happen again,” he said.

Yudhoyono said the party line is clear and consistent despite all challenges from outside namely it must play clean, smart and civil politics.

He admitted there had been a lot of political confusion while internal

and external challenges in the politi-cal arena were also big.

“Political temptation to justify all means is also still very high,” he said.

He said his commitment re-mained and would never sway namely he would always play clean, smart and civil politics.

“I also follow the principles in governing the state. This should continue to be carried out by party cadres in the future,” he said.

He said if Democrat Party could pass the tests it would become a future party of hope and a strong middle party.

“It will all be realized if we are all willing to seriously make changes for party`s improve-ment.” he said.

AntaraJAKARTA - High profile corruption suspect Neneng Sri Wahyuni,

who has been on the international police wanted list, has been ar-rested.

The wife of Muhammad Nazaruddin, the former treasurer of the ruling Democrat Party who was jailed for corruption, was arrested on Wednesday at her home in Pejaten, South Jakarta, upon her ar-rival from hiding abroad.

“That is right. (She was arrested) at her home in Pejaten,” Corrup-tion Eradication Commission (KPK) spokesman Johan Budi said.

Neneng has been wanted since August 20, 2011 and had been named as a suspect in a corruption case involving the solar power project (PLTS) of the ministry of manpower and transmigration. She and her husband Nazaruddin are alleged to have received Rp2.2 billion from the project.

KPK had earlier said that authorities had known her whereabouts, but could not arrest here pending Interpol`s action because she was living abroad.

AntaraJAKARTA - Trade minister Gita Wirjawan has said it would be a

remarkable feat if Indonesia can maintain its export values for 2012 and reach the same volume of exports as last year, considering the state of the global economy.

“Of course, we would like to see an increase from $US 230 billion dollars collected last year, but if we can maintain that same amount for this year, then that is already an achievement in itself,” Wirjawan said at a press conference for Trade Expo Indonesia (TEI) at the Ministry of Trade office in Jakarta on Wednesday.

According to Wirjawan, there are still many hurdles to overcome within the global economy, so all efforts need to concentrate on increasing exports in a more focused and direct manner.

So far, he said, Indonesian exports have concentrated solely on several traditional markets, such as the United States, Europe, Japan, Malaysia and South Korea.

That is why, he added, the ministry of trade has also released a policy directed towards countries with non-traditional markets, such as Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South America.

“The information gathered from the first quarter of 2012 on the traditional market is still tempting, even if the foundation is not as strong as I would like it to be,” he said.

He also stated that the increase in exports is judged not only by volume, but also by the amount of value of the goods exported. If that trend increases, Wirjawan said there is a possibility in 6 to18 months to expect a rise in exported goods with added value.

“Why should we expect exports with added value for the future? Because of the current western crisis that failed to produce a reason-able solution,” he said.

During the press conference, he also announced the 27th TEI event that will take place at Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran in Jakarta from the 17 until the 21 of October.

The minister said that the target for TEI this year was to reach 2,000 participants, with a target transaction of $US 2 billion or an increase from 1,000 participants, as well as a transaction amount over $US 461 million that was achieved at the 26th TEI event last year.

To achieve this goal, he stated that the Ministry of trade will boost international communications through the Indonesian consulates and the Indonesian Trade Promotion Center overseas so they are able to approach and bring in potential buyers that are on target.

Yudhoyono asks party cadres involved on corruption to resignAntara

JAKARTA - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged his Democrat Party cadres involved in corruption to resign.

High profile corruption suspect arrested

Trade minister: maintaining export values remarkable

The Dutch left the field showing the worst kind of body language, hands on hips with little communica-tion and only the slightest of glances to each other.

It was clear something had to change radically if the Netherlands were to avoid an even worse fate in the second half. Coach Bert van Marwijk brought on Bundesliga top scorer Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and midfielder Rafael van der Vaart and they added urgency.

Van Persie tested Neuer with a stinging shot, Wesley Schneider fired just wide with a curling effort and had a fierce drive superbly blocked by a the body of Jerome Boateng. The Dutch momentum was grow-ing and they got their reward in the 73rd minute in superb style with

Van Persie jinking to make room before unleashing a fierce shot from 25 metres.

The prospect of a precious point for the Dutch beckoned but just when they needed to find the extra push they ran out of steam. “I felt around 65-70 minutes the Dutch were physically drained, very tired,” said Loew.

“We could have tied it up earlier in the second half. I thought they were tired and we could get a third goal but then it got a bit more exciting with Van Persies’s goal,” he added.

The Netherlands’ problems in their opening defeat by Denmark were limited to a misfiring attack but Van Marwijk said the weak-nesses spread much deeper against the Germans.

Budiasa previously admitted that Denpasar still lacked of some 1,000 rooms. It was based on the high number of tourists who stayed in the city especially dur-ing peak season. At the moment, there had been 7,500 hotel rooms which consisted of 3,500 rooms of star hotel and 4,000 rooms of budget hotels.

He also mentioned that not all areas in Denpasar could be built a hotel to meet the shortage of hotel rooms. For example, in Sanur area denoting one of the tourist resorts

in Denpasar was no longer allowed to build a hotel. Such an effort was made to balance the tourism area in Denpasar so that it would not focus on specific areas.

Despite lacking of room, Bu-diasa affirmed it did not neces-sarily mean if his party would easily issue licenses to investor. Until now, the culture-based city had 8,787 hotel rooms consisting of 4,426 rooms of budget hotels, 4,041 rooms of star hotel as well as 320 rooms of tourist lodge. (kmb27)

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Chairman of the Badung Chamber of Commerce and In-dustry (Kadin), AA Ngurah Alit Wiraputra, said that many large tourism-related companies were owned by outside investors. In order to offset the dominance of the outside investors, his party did a breakthrough in fostering a better relation to the state-owned companies.

“We are aware of losing time to outside investors. But, as business people and local investors we do not want to just become a spectator. We do not want to just sit back and are continuously overtaken by the outside investors. On that account, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry keeps in contact with parties outside the chamber,” said Alit Wiraputra amidst the hearings with the Angkasa Pura (AP) I, Wednesday (Jun 13).

The meeting of Badung Chamber of Commerce and Industry with AP I of Ngurah Rai was an effort to make cooperation and solicit the support in the economic de-velopment of Badung. The collaboration had significance in the economic and strategic value of Bali. “Hopefully, this partnership could help the SMEs in improving the competitiveness and building up young entrepreneurs who could compete,” he said.

Deputy Chairman of the Badung Chamber of Com-merce and Industry, Made Mangku Ariawan, said that Angkasa Pura I of Ngurah Rai Airport as a state-owned com-pany had a very important role in facilitating the small busi-ness. “Ngurah Rai is located in Badung Region, so that it’s natural if priority is given to

Badung,” he said.Angkasa Pura I had a fund

of corporate social responsibil-ity (CSR) that could help the community and local investors. “We all know that SMEs ex-periencing a funding problem. Then, not all the SMEs are ready to access the banking funds. We do hope the CSR of the airport could help the SMEs in Badung,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Procure-ment Manager of PT AP I of Ngurah Rai Airport, Dewa Putu Sudarma, stated his com-mitment to the existence of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Based on the mandate of Law No. 1/1987 on the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, all partners of PT AP I of Ngurah Rai should become a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. (kmb27)

Apart from besieged by thou-sands of foreign tourists, Bali as a tourist destination of the

world is also faced with the inva-sion of outside investors. Even,

existence of those investors has been ubiquitous in Bali, espe-

cially in Badung Regency.

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MANGUPURA - Apart from besieged by thousands of foreign tourists, Bali as a tourist destination of the world is also faced with the invasion of outside investors. Even, existence of those investors has been ubiquitous in Bali, especially in Badung Regency.

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

Edward Norman Myatt (L) of Australia walks from a holding cell after his trial at Denpasar court in Bali on June 14, 2012. Myatt, 54, was arrested on February 27 with 1.1 kg of hashish and 7 grams of methamphetamine after attempting to smuggle them into the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

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HELSINKI — Nokia Corp. will lay off 10,000 jobs globally and close plants by the end of 2013, the company said Thursday, in a further drive to save costs.

The cuts mean that it will close some research and development projects, including in Ulm, Ger-many, and Burnaby, Canada.

The Finnish cellphone maker said it will also close the manu-facturing plant in Salo, but will keep its research and development operations there.

Nokia is fighting fierce competi-tion from Apple Inc.’s iPhone and other makers using Google Inc.’s popular Android software, includ-ing Samsung Electronics Co. and HTC of Taiwan. It is also being squeezed in the low-end by Asian manufacturers making cheaper phones, such as China’s ZTE.

Although it plans “to significantly reduce its operating expenses,” Nokia

says it will focus on smartphones and feature phones and intends to expand location-based services.

Nokia also said that “com-petitive industry dynamics” in the second quarter would hit its smartphone sector to a “somewhat greater extent than previously ex-pected” and that no improvement was expected in the third quarter.

“Nokia is significantly increas-ing its cost reduction target for devices and services in support of the streamlined strategy an-nounced today,” said CFO Timo Ihamuotila. “With these planned actions, we believe our devices (and) services business has a clear path to profitability. Nokia intends to maintain its strong financial position while proceeding ag-gressively with actions aimed at creating shareholder value.”

Last year, Nokia announced more than 10,000 layoffs, aimed at cutting operating expenses by $1.31 billion by 2013.

At an event at the Council on Foreign Relations late Wednesday, Geithner waded into the debate over how to shore up the eurozone after a Spanish bank bailout fell flat, saying Germany’s position was “very reasonable.”

“What Germany is saying is (that) to make monetary union work, (they’re) prepared to put a substantial commitment of resources behind this broader endeavor,” Geithner said.

“But for that to work, (it) needs to be in support of reforms and changes in the institution ... and that is a very reasonable position.”

He went on to say that at next week’s G20 summit in Mexico all eyes would be on Germany and

other “major players” to clarify proposals for a European banking union and other measures to tame the crisis.

Fears for the eurozone have mounted since Spain at the week-end became the fourth country to receive rescue funds -- following bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Por-tugal -- after its European partners agreed to a 100 billion euro ($125 billion) lifeline for its banks.

Europe’s paymaster Germany is proposing eurozone structural reforms ahead of a European Union summit during where it is expected to again clash with France over how best to deal with the crisis.

Germany champions fiscal

discipline first, while France’s new Socialist President Francois Hollande is pushing for growth measures.

Greeks meanwhile return to the polls on Sunday for a second time in six weeks in parliamentary elections that could see the triumph of parties opposing an unpopular EU-IMF bailout deal.

The deal imposed tough auster-ity measures in return for money to avoid default and if a new Greek leadership rejects it, Greece could become the first country to leave the eurozone.

After the rescue lifeline for Spain, the eurozone’s fourth-larg-est economy, all eyes are now on Italy, the third largest euro country and the next in the firing line of the creeping debt crisis.

EU leaders gather for their next summit on June 28-29 in Brus-sels.

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WASHINGTON - US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has endorsed Germany’s call for structural reforms to save the crisis-hit eurozone.

Nokia to cut 10,000 jobs by end of 2013

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BERLIN - Italy’s economic system is “not fragile” although it has some weak points, notably a high level of debt, Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Wednesday, as Rome comes under pressure on the markets.

Speaking after receiving a prize from a business school here, Monti told reporters: “The Italian system isn’t fragile. There are aspects that are less solid, like the high level of debt and elements that are more solid ... notably our banking system.”

“We Italians have a tendency to go too quickly from moments of inexplicable euphoria to unjus-tified depression,” he quipped.

Nevertheless, there were some positive strengths of the Italian economy, for example a powerful network of small and medium-sized businesses and households that have a low level of debt, Monti stressed.

“We don’t need to resort to

desperate measures for our pub-lic finances,” he said, adding he would pursue Italy’s course of fiscal consolidation.

After Spain announced it would seek EU aid of some 100 billion euros ($125 billion) to recapitalise its crisis-wracked banks, market attention has switched to Italy, buried under one of the eurozone’s highest debt mountains.

While former EU commission-er Monti has generally regained market confidence after taking over from former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi last year, Italy’s borrowing costs have shot up in recent days amid fresh market tur-moil. The yield on the benchmark 10-year government bond has risen over the 6.0-percent barrier generally seen as unsustainable over the long-term.

At a auction of 12-month debt earlier on Wednesday, Italy’s rates spiked sharply to 3.972 percent from 2.34 percent at a similar operation on May 11.

Italian economic system ‘not fragile’

AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL

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Obama hosted a dinner for Peres, attended by guests including former president Bill Clinton, in a show of respect and affection for the presi-dent that reflects close US-Israeli relations.

“No individual has done so much over so many years to build our alliance and bring our two nations closer as the leader we honor tonight -- our friend, Shimon Peres,” Obama said before awarding Peres the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“In him we see the essence of

Israel itself -- an indomitable spirit that will not be denied,” Obama said, praising Peres for a political career that spanned “the entire life” of the state of Israel.

Dubbing Peres the “ultimate comeback kid,” Obama marveled at his guest’s frequent reinventions over decades in turbulent Israeli politics and told Peres he had earned his place in history long ago.

“Shimon teaches us to never settle for the world as it is, we have a vision of the world as it ought to

be and we have to strive for it.”Obama lauded Peres, 88, for

working with every American president since John F. Kennedy in the 1960s, and said that the “bonds” between the United States and Israel were “unbreakable” and “non-negotiable.”

The US president welcomed Peres to the White House at a time when US officials hope to deter Is-rael from making a unilateral strike against Iran’s nuclear program.

Peres, despite tension between the Obama administration and the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told the US president that Israel supported his effort to reverse Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Reuters

When Myanmar emerged last year from army rule, state censors started to loosen their powerful grip, allowing newspapers to report freely on what had been unthink-able, from the views of opposition politicians to allegations of govern-ment corruption.

But as sectarian violence rages between majority Buddhists and Muslim Rohingyas in western Rakh-ine state, the old ways are returning. Censorship is creeping back, raising questions about whether the pre-screening of copy will be dropped, as the government has said.

“We cannot write whatever we want,” said Maung Wuntha, a prom-inent author and journalist who was jailed for publishing work deemed subversive by the former regime. “We can only write when the press scrutiny board approves ... and de-spite that, we were warned,” he said, referring to government warnings

about stories on the unrest.The Rakhine state violence is

perhaps as big a test for Myanmar’s media as it is for a government des-perate to put on a presentable face for the outside world.

The unrest is an extremely sen-sitive issue in Myanmar. The Roh-ingyas are not recognized as one of Myanmar’s numerous ethnic groups and their very presence is contested by many.

State media has said a five-day rampage of rioting in Rakhine state killed at least 21 people. [ID:nL3E8HD77F]. What started it remains a mystery but it seems almost certain to have stemmed from last month’s rape and murder of a Buddhist Rakhine woman, al-legedly by three Muslims who are now on trial.

The incident led to calls for retribution that were swiftly an-swered by Buddhist vigilantes, who lynched 10 Muslims with no ties to the alleged killers.

Violence tests Myanmar’s media, and its censors

REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

A soldier stands in the rain as he secures a major street in Sittwe June 13, 2012. Soldiers and riot police patrolled the streets of the Myanmar town of Sittwe on Wednesday to enforce a state of emer-gency after days of sectarian violence in which at least 21 people have been killed.

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Obama honors Peres -- the ‘essence’ of IsraelAgence France Presse

US President Barack Obama praised President Shimon Peres as the “essence of Israel itself” as he awarded the Israeli statesman America’s highest civilian honor.

US President Barack Obama presents Israeli President Shimon Peres with the Presiden-tial Medal of Freedom June 13, in the White House. Obama praised Peres as the “essence of Israel itself” as he awarded the Israeli statesman America’s highest civilian honor

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Negara (Bali Post) –

A number of areas of dengue has been fogged (sprayed by anti mosqui-toes pesticide) by Jembrana Health Agency in preventing its illness spread-ing as seen at Banjar Pasar, Yehembang Village, Mendoyo. Eight workers of it came to spray residents’ houses for

two days nearby Yehembang Market and Beach.

A worker stated this was done due to reports and complains received as the dengue carrier mosquitoes have been growing in this area even though no report of dengue or malaria vic-timized patients have been received. Besides at Yehembang, a number of

other sensitive dengue affected areas are also fogged. Head of the Agency, Putu Suasta, stated to reporters last Wednesday (13/6) that the fogging was done in prevening dengue illness happening and to prevent the mosquito growing. In a month it is scheduled for 25 times of fogging in dengue potential areas. (kmb26)

According to Ken, the coming of dog bite patients that acquired wound care as well as anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) began to indicate a flat graph. It illustrated if the dog bite cases set to be handled evenly in the urban and rural rabies centers.

“So, not all dog bite patients are now coming to Sanglah Hospital. They have started to come to rabies center in the local regency/munici-pality. In other words, rabies treat-ment and the anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) supply have been evenly

distributed and available in each region,” explained Ken.

For the case of rabies patients who were treated within the past six months, continued Ken, Sanglah Hospital received seven patients where five of them died with clinical symptoms of rabies. “The last pa-tient died in April. Among the seven patients, five died and two others were declared negative to rabies and allowed to go home,” said Ken.

For the five patients who died with clinical symptoms of rabies, according to Ken, were not carried out a VCR examination. “Based on policy, a person who died with clinical symptoms of rabies and

had a history of dog bites will not undergo a VCR examination,” said Ken.

VCR examination to victims who died of rabies symptoms would be performed if history of their dog bite was unclear and if the dog biting the patient also bit other people. “For unclear history of dog bite cases and if the dog had bitten someone other than the patient, the VCR examination will be held to ensure its status, so that vaccina-tion can be done for other dog bite victims,” explained Ken.

Compared to the year 2011, the victim who died of rabies in 2012 had showed a decrease. According

to Ken, within the past six months of 2011, it was recorded that 12 patients died of rabies.

Ken added, although the cases of dog bites and death due to ra-bies showed a decline, it did not necessarily mean if people might lower their alertness. “As long as the dog remains to exist, the bite case will still exist and so will the rabies,” said Ken. On that account, the preventive measure to rabies starting from regular vaccine ad-ministration to chaining the dogs should continue to be performed. Victims of dog bite should also get anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) and wound care. (kmb24)

Tabanan (Bali Post) –

Resident of Banjar Beringkit, Beringkit Village, Marga, was shocked last Wednesday (13/6) as a shop balcony owned by a local, Ni Ketut Suti (42) got burnt suspected due to petrol spilt. There are no casualties in this incident.

Around 2.30 pm local time victim saw the fire attacked her shop’s roof. Due to panic victim tried to put it off with a sack but it also got burnt then fell to the jug filled with petrol and instead increased the fire. The strong wind seemed not help-ing which then a Honda Vario motorcycle parked there got caught fire. Victim then called for help which then in seconds locals who were resting at their houses gout out and help with equipments they have. In less than one hour the fire stopped the fire was managed off yet even so they still asked Tabanan Fire Brigade to help Even though there are no casualties, the Police still will investigate. Luckily the fire did not catch a gas tube inside the shop and it is predicted the loss experienced reached IDR 2 million. Victim is still in shocked of the incident while locals still crowded the place to see police investigating the scene. “The damages were on the motorcycle and a number of equipments burnt inside the shop,” Head of Marga Police, APC Surya Atmaja, stated in the middle of the scene. (kmb30)

Gianyar (Bali Post) –

The damaged street and pedestrians that had a banana tree planted by the residents of Manik Street, Gianyar, was fixed at last. Yet during the two days of the repair, a toilet owned by a resident besides the pedestrian col-lapsed last Tuesday (12/6) around 6 pm local time. There are no casualties when two repair workers just finished

working nearby it. As seen on Wednesday (13/6) the

collapse remains still around. Its owner, Nyoman Manyang (35) stated only can give up of this incident. Workers from Gianyar Public Works Agency did see the damaged yet can’t assure if there will be compensation or not. Accord-ing to Manyang this incident happened suddenly and it is hoped there will be compensation on the damages that hap-

pened. “This has disadvantaged IDR 15 million, but I don’t want the cash, I want this toilet constructed and fixed as it was,” Manyang stated.

Meanwhile Head of the Agency, Nyoman Nuadi, stated there has been a report on this received including from Head of the Environment. Nuadi still can’t tell if there will be any compen-sation yet as this incident is still being checked. (kmb16)

Dog bite cases in Sanglah Hospital diminishes

A man is walking on the beach accompa-nied by few dogs.

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Denpasar (Bali Post)—

During the first six months of 2012, the dog bite cases have de-creased in Sanglah Hospital. Secretary of Rabies Counteraction Team of Sanglah Hospital, Ken Wirasandhi, when met on Wednesday (Jun 13) described that during the first six months of 2012 the average pa-tient bitten by dog taking an outpatient treatment reached 30 patients per day and those coming to Emergency Room reached 15 patients per day. Compared to cases at the beginning when the rabies outbreak spread, Sanglah Hospital received 150 dog bitten patients per day.

Motorcycle burn due to oil spil

Dengue prone area fogged

After road fixed, toilet collapsedAssociated Press Writer

GENEVA — Switzerland is holding a referendum this weekend — on whether to hold more referendums. A nationalist group wants voters in the Alpine republic to have an automatic say every time their government signs an important international treaty.

Most major parties oppose the measure, saying it could gridlock Swiss democracy with

constant ballot calls. Switzerland signs rough-ly 500 international treaties a year, though the proposal’s backers insist most of those wouldn’t meet the bar for a referendum.

Switzerland already holds about half a dozen national referendums each year — some grouped together — as well as local ones, with turnout rarely over 40 percent.

All it takes is 50,000 signatures to force a national vote on a new law or treaty. The bar is higher — 100,000 signatures — if grass-roots groups want to propose completely new legislation, but such measures too are voted on frequently and sometimes succeed.

“In almost no other country in the world can the population vote on so many issues,” Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said

at a recent news conference where she argued against the new proposal. The group Action for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland on Wednesday accused political and business leaders of being afraid of Swiss voters.

“Some of our elites are panicking at the idea of a little more democracy in our country,” Werner Gartenmann, the group’s director, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Gartenmann said voters would likely be asked to go to the polls five times a year — once more than the current average. “Of course we don’t want to have a vote on every treaty,” he said.

The group has said it wants referendums whenever Switzerland submits to a foreign law or court, particularly if it involves the European Union, to which Switzerland does not belong.

Swiss wary of plan for more referendums

FILE - In this picture taken May 24, 2012 a poster, right, seen in Geneva, Swit-zerland, urging Swiss voters to reject a proposal to automatically hold a referen-dum whenever the government signs an important international treaty

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The 34th Bali Art Festival

Success in the SunShot Prize would give a huge boost to the Department of Energy’s goal of making solar energy affordable compared with other power sources by 2020. Anyone hoping to compete for the millions in prize money must deploy 5,000 new rooftop solar panel installations at an average price of $2 per watt — the target cost without any subsidies.

“The investments in American startups and the new competition announced today further our ef-forts to seize on the tremendous global market for clean energy technologies, representing hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide,” said Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy, in a statement released on June 13.

A first place team can expect

to claim a $7 million prize and the hefty title of “SunShot Prize Winner of America’s Most Affordable Rooftop Solar.” Second and third place teams will receive $2 million and $1 million, respectively, as prize finalists.

Each of the 5,000 required in-stallations must have a power range between 1 and 15 kilowatts. (The average U.S. home used the energy equivalent of 1.3 kilowatts per hour in 2010, according to the U.S. En-ergy Information Administration.) They must also be installed between Aug. 1, 2012, and Dec. 31, 2014.

Limits exist on what entries count for the SunShot Prize competition, because the rooftop solar panels must sit on buildings inhabited by humans. That excludes sheds, dog-

h o u s e s and small scale solar farms, but a garage at-tached to a home would count.

Chu also announced up to $8 million in separate awards going to nine U.S. startups — companies focused on making solar installation easier and cheaper. That investment builds on the SunShot Incubator program’s record of getting $30 in private investment for every $1 of government funding.

W h i l e women are doing less housework than they used to, they still take on the brunt of the household cleaning chores. New

research indicates that this extra work stresses them out, and that stress worsens when there is salary or gender inequality present in the relationship.

The findings match up well with previous studies regarding changes in the division of

housework in the last decade. Though both men and women spend less time spent on domestic duties thanks to time-saving technologies, women still take on a large amount of the work, past stud-ies show.

“In this study, women were in the majority (85 percent) in the combination of having more than half

of the responsibility for domestic work and an equal socioeconomic position to the partner,”

the researchers write in their research detailed today, June 13, in the journal PLoS ONE.

Working women

The researchers studied data from 371 women and 352 men from the Northern Swedish Cohort, collected in 1986 and 2007, when the par-

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Large swathes of farmland are threatened by locusts in Niger even as the drought-prone African nation is grappling with a severe food crisis, a pest-control official said Wednesday.

“Unless swarms are destroyed very early, locusts will reproduce and reach the cropland,” Yahaya Garba, director of the CNLA agency in charge of pest-control, said in the latest bulletin of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Niger.

At least 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of farmland and one million hectares (2.5 million acres) of pasture land could be devastated. “Locusts are about to reach the Sahel (region), and notably northern Mali and Niger,” Garba said adding that the migratory species was invading the area from southeast Algeria and neighbouring Libya.

The first swarms were spotted in northern Niger late last month and have started to migrate south where most Niger farmland is concentrated. More than 80 percent of Niger’s population of 15 million live on farm produce and six million are facing a new food crisis already, out of 18 million in the entire Sahel belt, according to United Nations figures.

“The fight (against the locusts) must be fought intensively and im-mediately,” warned Garba, appealing for international assistance.

There was a major risk that locusts invade the area from Mali where state agencies do not have access to locust reproduction zones as the north is under the control of armed rebel groups.

The UN’s Rome-based food agency said earlier this month that political insecurity and conflicts in North Africa were hindering ef-forts to control the swarms of desert locusts. Niger last faced desert locust swarms in 2003-05.

New Rooftop Solar Competition Offers $10 Million Prize

A $10 million prize could make rooftop solar panels a much more common sight on U.S. homes and businesses. The new contest launched by the U.S. Department of Energy aims to shatter the price barrier for solar power installations before the end of 2014.

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The $10 million SunShot Prize could make rooftop solar panel systems much more common. Here is one system that was installed by Solar Energy Systems in New York City.

Higher Housework Burden Stresses Women

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Unequal employment and pay add to mom’s stres-sors, because they make her feel the need to do more housework.

ticipants were on average 21 and 42, respectively. At 42, all participants analyzed were living with children.

The participants answered ques-tionnaires about their relationships, housework responsibilities, socio-economic status of themselves and

partners, and “psychological distress” level gauged by the number of times they’ve felt restless, unable to concentrate, or worried and nervous, in the last year.

“Domestic work is a highly gendered activity as women tend to have a greater and men a smaller responsibility,” the researchers write. “Inequality in domestic work, in combination with experiencing the couple relationship as gender-unequal, were associated with psychological distress.”

Niger farmland threatened by locusts: official

Friday, June 15, 2012

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11.00 WITA Ayodya Stage Traditional Dance and Music

11.00 WITA Angsoka Stage Parwa Reconstruction Performance

20.00 WITA Ksirarnawa Hall Collosal Drama Musical

20.00 WITA Drama Gong Exhibition Ayodya Stage

20.00 WITA Ardha Chandra Children’s Gong Kebyar

“We will send a selection team to choose artists that will receive lifetime achievement award,” said BAF’s com-mittee I Wayan Dauh on Thursday.

He also said that each of regency will nominate one artist to receive this award. The team will select from those names and narrow down to nine artists.

Besides an award, artists will also receive some fund. This award had been given to 381 old artists in Bali. The award presented each year during Bali Art Festival.

Bali choose nine old artists to receive BAF’s award

An old artist perform on Bali Art Festival (BAF). Bali’s will choose nine old artists from eight regen-cies and one city to receive 34th Bali Art Festival (BAF). They will receive lifetime achieve-ment award for what they’ve been done to develop Bali’s art.

AntaraDENPASAR - Bali’s will choose

nine old artists from eight regen-cies and one city to receive 34th Bali Art Festival (BAF). They will receive lifetime achievement award for what they’ve been done to develop Bali’s art.

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Gambuh is kind of instrument consider an ancient art in Bali. According to BAF’s Committee, Putu Sedana, there will be Gambuh reconstruction performance.

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DENPASAR - The fifth day of Bali Art Festival (BAF) will exhibit five type of perfor-mances. According to BAF’s Committee, Putu Sedana, there will be Gambuh reconstruction performance. Gambuh is kind of instrument consider an ancient art in Bali.

The reconstruction art will be perform by Karang Village troupe from Klungkung. They will be held an exhibition on Angsoka stage at 11.00 AM local time.

After that, spectators and visitors will be entertain by Joged Bumbung parade on Ay-odya stage.

Meanwhile in the night, they will be three performances showing in three different ven-ues. Three performances, in-cluding Drama from Sekar Cempaka Troupe, Adult Gong Kebyar dance, and modern drama.

The modern drama is col-laboration between London University students, a student from Japan, and ISI’s student.

Five performances will be exhibit on BAF’s fifth day

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Calendar Event for May 20 through June 20, 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

26 May Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit JembranaOdalan Betara ratu Gede Desa Celuk SukawatiOdalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon SukawatiPura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan DenpasarBetara Ratu Alit & Ratu Lingsir Singakerta UbudPura Pedarmaan Dalem Sukawati BesakihPura Pedarmaan Mengwi BesakihPura Pedarmaan Kaba-kaba BesakihPura Pedarmaan dalem Bakas BesakihPura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel KlungkungPura Pemrajan Agung Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung.Merajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung PengatepanPura Pedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Pura BesakihPura Penataran Giri Purwa Banyuangi.Pesraman Dusun Kuto Rejo Banyuangi.

30 May Buda Wage Kelawu. Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang KarangasemPura Melanting Desa Camenggaon SukawatiPura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida.Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangembungan Bongkase Abiansemal.Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel TabananPura Pasek Gelgel Br. Jawa Tengah BulelengPura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta UbudPura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding TampaksiringPura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan KlungkungPura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan KutaPura Goa BesakihPura Basukian BesakihOdalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh Penataran Agung BesakihMerajan Pasek Gelgel PejengMerajan Pasek Gelgel SonganMerajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan SidemenMerajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari Sukasada.Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Sidemen KarangasemMerajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli.

5 Jun Anggar Kasih Dukut.

Pr. Dalem Batuyang BatubulanPura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri TabananPr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan TabananPura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar.Merajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agun SulahanMerajan Pasek Padang Rata PadangPura Puser Jagat Dalem Dukut Puri Sukun Nusa Penida.

6 Jun Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja AbiansemalPura Dalem Samplangan Gianyar

16 Jun Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang TabananPura Pasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase AbiansemalPura Watugunung BimaPura Agung Jagatkarana SurabayaPura Aditya Jaya Rawamangun Jakarta TimurPura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur BulelengPura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa BaratPura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung.Pura Giri Jaya Natha BalikpapanPura Agung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia.

18 Jun Some Ribek. Pura Jati JembranaPura Kawitan Batugaing BangliPura Tirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya

20 Jun Hari Raya Pagerwesi Pura Laban Sindu Jiwa Kedewatan UbudPura Kehen BangliPura Wirabuana Magelang Jawa TengahPura Padang Sakti Tangtu Denpasar TimurPura Jogan Agung Ketewel SukawatiPura Gadung Pengiasan Dauh Puri DenpasarPura Pasek Gelgel Buruan Kaja TabananPura Pasek Gobleg Kerambitan tabananPura Pasek Gelgel Meliling Tabanan

The three design firms were brought together to design Ayana Residences, a 6.5 hectare secure gated community comprising 115 units, located on the largest ocean-front land bank remaining in South Bali. All three firms have been separately involved over the past 16 years in the design of the adjacent AYANA Resort and Spa. Their commission for AYANA Residences was to maintain the same standard of quality, warmth and Balinese philosophy as the resort design, but to adapt this to a modern residential estate that reflects the lifestyle, sanctuary and harmony of a second home.

The architecture is modern Balinese, relaxed yet lasting, and maximizes the cliff-top location. “It’s not ostentatious, it’s not overdesign,” said Bill Reed, Vice-President of WATG which designed the original resort in 1995. “It allows the owner to live their own lifestyle, personalize their spaces to make this their home away from home. Ayana Residences really embod-ies the lifestyle and spirit of Bali and creates an opportunity for buyers to live here or come on regular vacations and take advantage of all the amenities in the entire property. WATG is proud to be associated with it; we think it’s going to be a huge success.”

Courtesy of Ayana Residences

Ayana Residences

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JIMBArAN - They are some of the biggest names in high-end hospitality design, and now WATG Architects, St Legere Design International and P49 Deesign have been brought together to work once again with one of Bali’s most prestigious properties, this time to create the island’s first integrated residential community.

Landscape designer Dennis Selinger, Principal of St Legere, said the Residences are unique in Bali for the sense of space and balance. “It’s a real blessing to work with this developer as it’s focused on quality and there are a lot of spaces devoted to the landscape which is unusual in many develop-ments,” said Mr Selinger.

Mr Selinger said the Balinese philosophy of Tri Hita Kirana – embodying the balance of God, Nature and Man – is a very strong influence, from the indoor-outdoor living to the material selection with rich textures, bright colors, distinctively-shaped trees, large stones integrated with the buildings, and unique details. The botanical gardens include bamboo plantation to collect rainwater for irrigation – supplementing a Reverse Os-mosis recycling system – and fruit and vegetable gardens.

Carl Almeida of P49 Deesign, which designed the much lauded Cliff Villas at Ayana Resort in 2005, said his experi-ence working with this developer has given him a strong understanding of what Residences’ investors aspire to and want in their holiday home. “We feel the Ayana Residences is something that will lead the market over here and represents a true reflection of Ayana Resort as well,” said Mr Almeida.

“We didn’t want to do a purely Balinese design, but what we have done is added some key yet subtle details that reference Balinese culture to give a sense of place. It’s contemporary but it’s not just the minimalist approach to design, we really believe in warmth and feeling at home. The materials include marble for luxury, a lot of texture, amazing wallpapers and fabrics focusing on warmth. The bathrooms are based on amazing scale and symmetry.”

He said the materials used in the interiors – which are available at ad-ditional cost for Residences buyers, who are also free to design their unit in their own style – are based on a progression of spaces to create an entry-vastu (the ancient Hindu design philosophy similar to feng shui).

The drought overwhelming Ta-banan seems to have become an annual tradition. Sadly, the farmers are stricken by drought when the government built the Telaga Tunjung Dam located at Timpag village, Kerambitan. Before the presence of the facility, local farmers never underwent a drought. Then, farmers were increasingly made uneasy when the water was drained into the pipe of Municipality Waterworks (PDAM) whereas the water supply of farmers was still inadequate.

Farmers suspect the loss of water supply to rice fields was triggered by the water use by the Municipality Waterworks. “We also wonder, after the dam has been established, the ir-rigation to rice field even comes to a standstill. Even, the drought is getting worse,” said Secretary of the Indone-sia Farmers Association (HKTI) of Tabanan, Gusti Subagia, last week. This man explained that before the dam was established, the irrigation to rice field had never been stopped. Despite in dry season, the water kept flowing with a small discharge. “To-day, the water streams completely dry up,” he complained. Such condition kindled a question among the farm-ers. Moreover, many rice fields were located adjacent to the dam.

This farmer from Sembung Gede village, Kerambitan, said that farm-ers had long complained about the lack of water supply for rice fields, especially during dry season. How-ever, they remained to keep silent because the complaint always ended in stalemate. As a result, many farm-ers were forced to leave their rice fields uncultivated because there was no water supply.

The drought overwhelming the farmers had been going on since last month. However, there were no signs if the water stream would run again. Ideally, farmers should have planted rice. The most severe con-dition was experienced by farmers at Subak Aseman, Megati village, Selemadeg. Tens of hectares of rice fields had dried up as untouched by water. Bizarrely, location of the rice fields was still at the same course as the Telaga Tunjung Dam.

Farmers hoped the Telaga Tun-jung Dam being proud of could give a hope. Moreover, the dam

was capable of accommodating a large amount of water. Farmers also lamented if the dam water was also enjoyed by the Municipality Water-works because the dam water was absolutely needed for irrigation in dry season. The dam had just operated since about three years ago. Since then, the water discharge flowing into the rice fields tended to shrink persis-tently. “In the past, the water supply was always abundant. Despite in dry season, the water supply remained to exist. Now, the water is retained in the dam,” complained Subagia.

Such water shortages also caused the crop productivity to decline. Nor-mally, one hectare of rice field could produce up to 7 tons of rice. Since the water supply was not normal, the harvest yield of farmers tended to drop up to 3 tons per hectare whereas the operational cost of planting rice was quite expensive.

Gusti Subagia added the dam project combining three floodgates irrigated a large number of subak ter-ritories such as the Subak Gadungan, Subak Tangguntiti and Subak Melil-ing. The total extent of farmland was about 1,200 hectares. Virtually along the year, he said, the subak was rely-ing on paddy plants so they required abundant water supply. However, when the dam had been in opera-tion, the water supply flowing to a number of subak frequently came to a standstill.

Head of Customer Service of the Tabanan Municipality Waterworks, Astika Sapanca, explained the use of dam water into the pipe of Munici-pality Waterworks had been through agreement process. “From the begin-ning, there has been an agreement with the people and government, especially with Bali Government,” he explained.

He said the dam water drained into the pipe was solely intended for the provision of clean water for Tabanan community. Moreover, he said, the Telaga Tunjung Dam was built for three functions, namely for irrigation, tourist attraction and provision of clean water. He added the amount of water drained into the pipe of Municipality Waterworks was not too much if compared to the amount of supply deposited in the dam. (kmb30)

The meeting led by Chairman of the Commission A, I Wayan Regep, was also attended by some legislators such as I Made Duama, I Ketut Luki and Nyoman Sudarta. Wayan Regep said that Badung Regency should immediately discipline the illegal terminal oc-curring around Kuta. Such illegal terminals had disabled the Central Parking and coincidently abol-ished the opportunity for Komotra drivers in Kuta. “It is a pity that drivers of Komotra always missed the passengers because they were appropriated by the other transport services,” said Regep.

Made Duama revealed, the entry of blue public transporta-tion taking passengers in Kuta region automatically harmed the

livelihood of Komotra drivers who legally operated in Kuta. On that account, he urged the immediate issuance of clear regulation so that there would be no overlapping routes causing the public transport in Kuta to mutually pilfer.

Responding to the issue, the Head of Badung Transportation, Communications and Informat-ics Agency, Made Sutama, stated the existence of illegal terminal was caused by the emergence of intra-provincial urban transporta-tion (AKDP). Thus, solution to the problem of mutual passenger pilfering in Kuta could not be car-ried out by Badung alone because it should be coordinated with Bali Government. “We will soon discuss about the matters with the

province to find out a solution,” he said.

As a matter of fact, the transport service entering Kuta had been set by a joint agreement. However, due to crisis of public transport passengers, the agreement was frequently neglected. According to Sutama, the Regent Decree only banned the buses with the length of more than seven meters to enter Kuta. Then, the bus belonging to this category should park in Kuta Central Parking, while their pas-sengers would be transported by Komotra. Meanwhile, the Kuta Central Parking, admitted Sutama, was not a terminal but a place of services whose land was owned by the province and managed by a third party. (kmb25)

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The drivers of shuttle buses are sitting while waiting for passengers in Kuta Central Parking area.

Unclear fate of Central Parking Badung Government unable to take actionMangupura (Bali Post)—

Badung Government could not have taken immediate action to resolve the problem regarding the uncertainty of Kuta Central Parking after the appearance of “illegal ter-minal.” In the working meeting with Commission A of the Badung House on Wednesday (Jun 13), the Head of Badung Transportation, Communications and Informatics, I Made Sutama, stated his party remained to make coordination in advance with Bali Govern-ment to find out the right solution.

Dam exists, but water supply even comes to a standstill

The Head of Denpasar Government Tourism Office, Putu Budiasa, said that his party had issued principle permit. The companies which filed the permit had owned a basic license to develop a hotel in the area. “The five hotels to be established will be located in the city center and sur-

rounding area of Sanur Beach,” said the Head of Denpasar Government Tourism Office, Putu Budiasa.

Budiasa said the five new hotels would increase the presence of star tourist accom-modation in the capital of Bali Province. Unfortunately, the office was reluctant

to provide details about the origin of the investors that would be building the hotels and the amount of capital invested.

“At present, there have been 28 star hotels here. If the five new hotels have been in operation then they will totally amount to 33 units. We think the increasing number of new hotel development indicates if Den-pasar remains a promising area for tourism investment in Bali,” revealed Budiasa while adding the five hotels to be built consisted of Ibis Hotel, Batavia Hotel, Anamaya and Harris Hotel.

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“I think every song Slipknot has ever written is a greatest hit, so it was hard (to narrow it down), but at the same time there’s only four records, so we did stick a couple of live songs on,” band member Shawn “Clown” Crahan told Reuters. “It all falls together the way it needs to.”

Slipknot, founded by Gray and Crahan in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995, has eight members -- Crahan and Chris Fehn on percussion, lead singer Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson on turntables, guitarists Jim Root

and Mick Thomson, Craig “133” Jones on sampling and drummer Joey Jordison.

Following Gray’s death from an acci-dental overdose in 2010, the band’s future has been hotly debated in the world of mu-sic with media outlets posting conflicting reports on the end of Slipknot, something Crahan said has amused him.

“We as a band have never decided to go away. We’ve never even talked about it; it’s not even a question. The only question was how long it was going to take each

individual member to accept what’s hap-pened and feel comfortable with moving on in the record area,” said Crahan.

“Paul was the major part of writing records. It’s not only my brother that I’m not seeing, but it’s also what he brought to the table,” added the percussionist.

Crahan said the band will be stepping away from the spotlight after playing a series of summer festivals, so that band members can go through “the healing process” and work on a new record. He said the lyrics were already being written for the next album and the artwork would be “severely involved.”

The band released four studio albums over the years, 1999’s self-titled debut, 2001’s “Iowa,” 2004’s “Vol. 3: (The Sub-liminal Verses)” and 2008’s “All Hope Is Gone,” selling more than 20 million records worldwide.

While women are doing less housework than they used to, they still take on the brunt of the house-hold cleaning chores. New research indicates that this extra work stresses them out, and that stress worsens when there is salary or gender in-equality present in the relationship.

The findings match up well with previous studies regarding changes in the division of housework in the last decade. Though both men and women spend less time spent on do-mestic duties thanks to time-saving technologies, women still take on a large amount of the work, past stud-ies show.

“In this study, women were in the majority (85 percent) in the combina-tion of having more than half of the responsibility for domestic work and an equal socioeconomic position to the partner,” the researchers write in their research detailed today, June 13, in the journal PLoS ONE.

Working womenThe researchers studied data from

371 women and 352 men from the Northern Swedish Cohort, collected in 1986 and 2007, when the par-ticipants were on average 21 and 42, respectively. At 42, all participants analyzed were living with children.

The participants answered ques-tionnaires about their relationships, housework responsibilities, socio-economic status of themselves and partners, and “psychological distress” level gauged by the number of times they’ve felt restless, unable to con-centrate, or worried and nervous, in the last year.

“Domestic work is a highly gen-dered activity as women tend to have a greater and men a smaller responsibil-ity,” the researchers write. “Inequality in domestic work, in combination with experiencing the couple relation-ship as gender-unequal, were associ-ated with psychological distress.”

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Unequal employment and pay add to mom’s stressors, be-cause they make her feel the need to do more housework.

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Slipknot unveils songs, art, on new “best-of” albumReuters

lOS ANGeleS - Grammy-winning heavy metal band Slipknot un-veiled the artwork and tracklist for their upcoming “best-of” album on Monday, their first release since the 2010 death of bassist Paul Gray. “Antennas To hell,” due out on July 24 in the United States, will encom-pass some of the band’s best-known singles from their last four studio albums, including “Spit it Out,” “left Behind” and “Vermilion.”

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Members of the band Slipknot arrive at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles Septem-ber 7, 2008.

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Last-gasp Portugal seal 3-2 win over Denmark

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KHARKIV - Germany took a big step towards the Euro 2012 quarter-finals on Wednesday when two classy first-half strikes from Mario Gomez secured a 2-1 vic-tory over the Netherlands who are in serious danger of elimination. A majestic goal in the 73rd minute from Robin van Persie gave the Dutch a fighting chance in the latter stages but they looked physically spent hav-ing been forced to chase the game after falling behind.

Joachim Loew’s Germany will qualify as group winners if they draw or win their final match against Denmark in Lviv and they are shaping up nicely for a push for a fourth European title.

The only hope the Dutch have of progress is if they beat Portugal in Kharkiv and Germany win, opening up the opportunity to go through on goal difference. The mathematics may not yet be clear but what was certainly decided in the humid heat of the Metalist Stadium was that the Germans and not the Dutch are the real chal-lengers to Spain’s crown.

Even though they may not yet be at their peak Germany were still superior in all departments as the Dutch defence was opened up, their midfield exposed defensively and there was as lack of sharpness in at-tack. “It was supposed to be our night but we ended empty-handed as we played poorly,” was winger Arjen Robben’s frank assessment.

“There is no cohe-sion between our lines, there are gaps and we are not connecting and then it is very difficult to recover the ball,” he added. The early indications were, however, that the Dutch were going to give Germany’s back line a torrid test and skipper Mark Van Bommel sent Van Persie clear but he was unable to beat keeper Manuel Neuer.

INSTANT REACTIONThat chance triggered an instant reaction from Ger-

many with Mesut Ozil’s volley rattling the foot of the post and the ball rolling into Dutch keeper Maarten Stekelenburg’s hands. The Germans grabbed the lead with a goal of genuine quality, the influential Bastian Schweinsteiger threading a pass through the Dutch de-fence to Gomez, who elegantly turned and fired home with impressive smoothness. The pair combined again to double the advantage, the Germany striker opting for power as he blasted diagonally across Stekelenburg.

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Denpasar issues five new hotel permits Bali Post

DeNPASAR - Moratorium of tourist accommodation development in three regions such as Badung, Gianyar and Denpasar does not work. At least, five new hotels will be established in the city of Denpasar.

Germany sink Dutch to close on quarters Mario Gomez