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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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Celebrations and sadness as Dalai Lama turns 75 Agence France Presse

DHARAMSHALA, India – The Dalai Lama turned 75 Tuesday, a milestone marked by celebrations in his hometown-in-exile but tinged by sadness that his compatriots in Tibet were unable to honour the occasion. Under relentless rain, the Tibetan spiritual leader addressed a packed crowd of 5,000 followers at his temple in McLeod Ganj, a hill station in the Indian Himalayas where he has lived since fleeing Tibet in 1959.

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In a reminder of the situation in his homeland, where China views him as a dangerous separatist, he expressed regret that his followers there would be unable to pay tribute for fear of reprisal. “The Tibetans in Tibet have a great desire to celebrate my birthday but they are not allowed to,” he said in Tibetan. Staring out at a banner depicting him at various stages over the last three-quarters of a century, he reflected on his work of preaching peace and religious tolerance while keeping the issue of Tibet in the spotlight. “When I see those pictures and see the development, I know my life has not been wasted,” he said.

Tibetan communities in North America, Europe and Australia organised festivities on Tuesday, but in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu police briefly detained around 200 Tibetan refugees on their way to a birthday celebration. Police said they had only wanted to question the refugees, but Tibetan activists denounced what they described as a clear violation of human rights.

Under pressure from China, Nepal has repeatedly cracked down on any political demonstrations against Chinese rule in Tibet. The Dalai Lama favours meaningful autonomy for Tibet under Chinese rule, but Beijing accuses him of inciting unrest with a hidden pro-independence agenda. Decades of on-off negotiations with China have made no tangible progress.

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(FILES) In a file picture taken on May 20, 2010 The Dalai Lama speaks during a press conference after the first of his teaching sessions at Radio City Hall in New York. The Dalai Lama marks his 75th birthday on July 6, 2010, with thousands set to celebrate the occasion in his hometown-in-exile and events planned across the globe from Europe to Australia.

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Octopus Paul fixes the spanish box during his oracel for the semifinal match at the World Cup in South Africa between Germany and Spain in the SeaLife Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Paul predicted all German matches during the World Cup 100 percent right.

BERLIN – The eight-legged oracle has spoken: Paul the octopus says Spain will sink three-time champion Germany in their World Cup semifinal.

The floppy football (soccer) fan from Oberhausen’s Sea Life Aquarium on Tuesday chose a mussel from a glass tank marked with a Spanish flag and ignored a tank emblazoned with Germany’s colors, spokesman Daniel Fey said. But there could still be hope for the Germans.

The only time the usually-prescient Paul has erred in the past was

ahead of the Germany-Spain final at the 2008 European Championship. Paul picked Germany; Spain prevailed 1-0.

“Paul has decided that Spain will win,” Fey said in a phone interview.

“But — and that’s a big but — Paul got it wrong only one time and that was also a game between Germany and Spain, therefore we think he just simply can’t get it right when it comes to this combination.”

Amid intense anticipation of Wednesday’s game, the eightlegged expert’s pick was even carried live by two national all-news television stations.

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Bali News Joged Magnet’s Still Strong Denpasar – The joged bumbung dance (Balinese dance accompanied by a bamboo gamelan ensemble which involves a female dancer inviting members of the audience to perform with her) had never failed its watchers.

Its magnet is still strong and wherever it’s performed is always crowded by people, so was the one performed in 32nd BAF last Monday (5/7) at Kalangan Ayodya, Bali’s Art Center. As the dancer from Sekaa Joged Tunjung Mekar Sinabun Village, Buleleng entered, some are ready to be her dance partner (pengibing).

Cheerful atmosphere filled up the space that was full of audience half hour before the performance. The dynamic gamelan playing added the atmosphere and the pengibing bring colors to the dance as there

are different kinds of styles given such as dancing with masks and also people prepared with Balinese traditional clothes.

A joged dancer usually gets so many pengibing as it’s a much liked popular socializing dance to the people. The unique movements of the dancer were accompanied by gamelan instruments such as riong, gamelan gender and more. In this performance from this sekaa joged there were three dancers starting with an opening gamelan playing (tabuh) completed with performances from two teen dancers. (08)

As increasingly recessive,

Traditional traders urge govt to control permits of supermarket Semarapura (Bali Post)—

The presence of supermarkets/mini markets in Klungkung Regency is just like mushroom in rainy season. Government of Klungkung Regency did not set it properly from the beginning when issuing permits. Consequently, many mini markets gather in one area. Moreover, they are side by side and very close to traditional markets that of course can threaten the traders in the market. Traders get pushed. They asked government to issue permits selectively and wisely. It should not merely pursue the growth of investment.

However, government should pay attention to the traditional vendors as the asset of regional government. Head of Klungkung Market management, Nyoman Mudiarta, when met at Galiran Market, last Monday (Jul 5), acknowledged to have heard about the complaints delivered by merchants. He urged continuing the complaints to Parliament to fight further to government. “However, I ask that the problem should be studied in depth first in order the struggle could run in harmony,” he said.

Traditional traders, he said, did not go against the supermarket investment. However, it should be arranged in such a way, mainly arranged in relation to the distance/radius.

Moreover, he added there were rules mentioning that development of mini markets/supermarkets were not allowed at the crossroads, near schools and near a traditional market. “I forget exactly. However, such provisions should be followed in issuing permits of supermarkets.

Otherwise, the existence of traditional markets

increasingly gets pushed. As has been known, traditional market is one of the potential assets or sources of regionally generated revenue (PAD),” he said, while adding that such condition aggravated the role of traditional market traders, particularly the traders of agricultural crops, meat, grocery, fruits, vegetables and other, because supermarkets also sold the same products with competitive price.

Traditional markets has been proved to be a potential source of regionally generated revenue (PAD) that can be seen from realization of income each year running on the average of more than IDR 1 billion. In 2010, the target that would be achieved from a number of traditional markets among others, Galiran, Semarapura (north market), Kusamba and Mentigi Market reached IDR 2.709 billion. Until May 2010, it has been realized IDR 1.253 billion. The greatest revenue was obtained from Galiran Market with the average of IDR 159.259 million per month.

“Unfortunately, as the largest market in terms of revenue, Galiran Market has been approached by supermarkets. Its condition is very deplorable, too,” added Mudiarta. Since it was established as destination of relocation of the merchants in the North Market during the development of the market in 1994, up to these days there is no improvement.

Therefore, many market stalls should be supported by bamboo or other poles to maintain them. Now, the Galiran Market should also compete against modern markets such as Indomaret, Cahaya Melati and Alfa Mart being under construction. (kmb20)

Porn video and poverty:

Sparking rampant rapes against underage children Ni Luh Sur alias Luh Ami, 15, since being raped by four boys three months ago at Bunutan, often looks sad lately. She admitted to know nothing how to face her future. She felt to have been stained, even by her own boyfriend who felt stuck, gave up her virginity to three young fishermen on the beach sand of Bunutan. When summoned to the Amlapura District Court to testify as a witness of the victim in front of judges, Ami continued to bemoan her fate as a poor family.

Not only that, his elder brother, last year also became a victim of sexual harassment by a foreigner suffering from pedophilia with the lure of money and attires. In fact, Luh Ami was not alone becoming the victim of rape or sexual harassment. Since the enactment of the Child Protection Act No. 23/2002, a dozens of underage children have become the victims. Some cases were reported to police and to the court, while others were resolved through reconciliation because they were not reported with the reasons of feeling ashamed if the scandal was revealed.

The last case was undergone by inexperienced girl who just graduated from Elementary School, namely Ni Komang BC, 13, from Sadimara, Abang, Karangasem.

She was also in the same boat as Ami or other underage victims. Another girl, SM, was raped by a student of second grade in one of the private high schools in Amlapura, Kadek S. Having met since last June 24, the perpetrator with dyed-red hair had dared to invite children from poor family for having sex. He continued to seduce and promised to give her a gold bracelet and necklace.

When the victim’s home was deserted because her mother worked as an attendant of public toilet at West Amlapura, his father went to work as a building worker, while her grandmother Ni Luh Berati, 60, was selling feed of pig, Kadek came to her house at 9:00 am Local Time. At that point, the victim was raped in her house in a very simple room. Previously, the perpetrator gave her imitation of a gold bracelet and necklace.

Perpetrator has prepared himself much earlier. He asked friend how to fuck his acquaintance in order not to become pregnant. Based on the information, he prepared a condom. When interrogated by police, perpetrator confessed often to watch porn videos. The boy from Bangras, Amlapura, then imitated the action watched to the underage victim.

Apparently, the victim SM, had not clearly understood about the consequences of having been raped or had sex. The reason, the victim still likes playing as trader.

However, her parents were truly confused.

Other than her daughter had been abused, they also worried if their underage daughter did not get menstruation or would be pregnant. Though she was a kid and still loved to play as trader, she has already got her puberty. The body of such whiteskinned girl is slightly oversized.

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Intercourse or rape cases against underage girls in Karangasem have increased within the past six months of this year.

Counselor of the Integrated Services for Women and Children (P2TP2A) of Karangasem, Ni Nyoman Suparni, admitted it. Up to this July, there were no less than nine cases occurred. In the previous year, similar cases in Karangasem were categorized into quite a lot, but within six months they have increased dramatically.

There had been nine cases within the past two months.

According to Suparni, the causes of the case were very complex. But the trigger was weak parental supervision amid the rising trend of public attitudes that was permissive against the tendency of free sex in the community and the many temptations because of the easy access to get a porn photos or videos.

Weak parental supervision to children was proven by most perpetrators or victims of rape coming from kids of broken home (divorced) families. Similarly, many victims were from poor families, in which the victims were raised by grandfather or grandmother. Meanwhile, her parents wandered to Denpasar to earn daily bread and butter.

Another factor was poverty of family where one family might have a lot of children, while father sleeping in the same room as his daughter also had a negative impact. Last month at Perasan, Ban, Kubu, a father, I Nyoman Su, 47, was alleged to fuck his victim girl Ni Wayan S, 15. Victim was also raped by another young man in Kintamani, Bangli. In this case, police did not process the two men because there were no reporting witnesses. Out of 10 cases this year, eight cases had been legally processed, on trial by judges or investigation process by police or its document remaining in the state prosecutor.

In the same slum and room, the deceased inexperienced girl Kadek Mariadi, 9, last May also became a victim of rape and intercourse by her own elder brother, I Nengah Su, 15. In order his deed did not spread, perpetrator Su killed his younger sister by plunging her into the water reservoir. After disclosure of these cases, the rape and carnal knowledge against underage children increased again in the circle of poor family at the barren Kubu area. (bud)

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Represent Bali, Gianyar Two Students Follow the Physics Olympics Gianyar (Bali Post) -

Gianyar district educational achievement, especially the branch of physics year 2010 really tested in the Physics Olympics events, 1 - August 7, 2010 which was held in Medan. Two outstanding students Gianyar regency National level in this event representing Bali. In Science Olympiad National (OSN) is a branch of physics, two students, coming from a junior high school 1 Sukawati Gianyar and SMP respectively, I Nyoman Windusara and Putu Bagus Darmayasa will be competing to be the best in the physical sciences degree National.

In addition to two students entering the contest Herzliya science, 16 school supervisors, teachers, principals, also following the election of School Trustees, Teachers, Principal Provincial level which runs from December 6 to 7 July2010, Institute for Educational Quality Assurance in Denpasar, Bali. “For years 2010, Herzliya send as many as six people in the Electoral Supervisory and Principal outstanding, and as many as 10 people in Teacher Selection, “

Kadisdikpora said Gusti Ngurah Wijana.

Regent of Gianyar, Sukawati Tjok Oka Artha Ardana hope they achieve Election victory in the event of Supervisors, Teachers, Principals, and Students Achievers at the provincial level so that it can represent the Balinese in the level of national. Especially to the two students who represent the OSN in Bali Medan, Cok Ace expect they could win and gave the message that they maintain the ethics and etiquette in the mix, so Even if they did not bring victory but still carry the good name of the Bali students. (Kmb16)

Represent Bali, Two Students from Gianyar Take Part in Physics Olympics Gianyar (Bali Post) -

Gianyar district educational achievement, especially the branch of physics year 2010 really tested in the Physics Olympics events, 1 - August 7, 2010 which was held in Medan.

Two outstanding students Gianyar regency National level in this event representing Bali. In Science Olympiad National (OSN) is a branch of physics, two students, coming from a junior high school 1 Sukawati Gianyar and SMP respectively, I Nyoman Windusara and Putu Bagus Darmayasa will be competing to be the best in the physical sciences degree National.

In addition to two students entering the contest Herzliya science, 16 school supervisors, teachers, principals, also following the election of School Trustees, Teachers, Principal Provincial level which runs from De-

cember 6 to 7 July2010, Institute for Educational Quality Assurance in Denpasar, Bali.

“For years 2010, Herzliya send as many as six people in the Electoral Supervisory and Principal outstanding, and as many as 10 people in Teacher Selection, “ Kadisdikpora said Gusti Ngurah Wijana.

Regent of Gianyar, Sukawati Tjok Oka Artha Ardana hope they achieve Election victory in the event of Supervisors, Teachers, Principals, and Students Achievers at the provincial level so that it can represent the Balinese in the level of national. Especially to the two students who represent the OSN in Bali Medan, Cok Ace expect they could win and gave the message that they maintain the ethics and etiquette in the mix, so Even if they did not bring victory but still carry the good name of the Bali students. (Kmb16)

Restless residents Makin Mengganas Abrasion

Bamboo planting Fighting Waves State, DenPost

Since six months ago the first time meluluh lantakkan abrasion Candikusuma Beach, Pigs. Pol Air and building even the trees on the beach has now been destroyed and eroded by water. But until now there is no handling of regional and national governments, although the threat of increasingly severe abrasion and mengganas are now increasingly threatened residents in the area. Abrasion now also have threatened the residents, even in the mosque Baitul Ma’mur previously Candikusuma east Pol Air Post Office has also threatened to collapse now buffeted by high tide.

Due to the lack of treatment from the government, citizens felt hot and restless.

Tirta Kusuma Candikusuma residents with restless hearts that strive to overcome the

malignant stem the tide with the shore by using bamboo.

From the observation Monday (5 / 7) yesterday put up a bamboo patch-citizens in the north of the former building of Water Pol Pol or rather in front of the mosque building.

One community leader Tirtakusuma Haji Ali said bamboo is installed since Friday (2 / 7) then. “After our mutual cooperation Jumatan installing bamboo to withstand the increasingly violent waves struck coastal border,” he said.

According to Haji Ali from abrasion hit four buildings already meluluh lantakkan citizens. “Initially the beach 100 yards away but it is now 10 yards from the residents,” he said. It had to do this step because the citizens feel alarmed by the growing threat of severe abrasion. (021)

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The “genjek” performance is seen in the 32nd annual Bali Art Festival (BAF) in Art Center Denpasar. “Genjek” is a performances where the music comes from the mouth of the artists. They sing a song which is similar to the traditional Balinese music.

Balinese women:

In devotional services through the arts Beauty can stop everyone’s eyes flickering. Beauty of the kid song can lullaby a baby.

Similarly, beauty also can toss the imagination, soothe the mind and draw people to get near. Bali has many sources of that beauty offering the charm of nature, culture or adventure.

By maintaining traditions inspired by Hinduism, Balinese people go on running in harmony with the time. In other words, they do not feel inferior because of inheriting those traditions. Beauty in the form of various dance movements has been introduced since early ages. On seeing a dance staged, a toddler may watch it attentively or its fingers move and move as if imitating the movement of the dance.

Virtually all customary villages in Bali have gamelan troupe. This troupe plays important role in expressing their entertainment arts and accompanying every ritual activity.

This existence gives opportunity to villagers from child to adult to express their artistic talent especially in dance, drama and gamelan arts. Young girls under twelve or elementary school age have a chance to participate in performing Rejang Dance. By wearing white and yellow costumes and floral decoration on head, they dance beautifully accompanied by gamelan music. Rejang Dance is one of the sacred dances performed in relation to the organization of temple anniversary or odalan.

Other than putting a basic love to their tradition, they also show devotional service or ngatur ayah through the arts.

When they grow older, right on entering secondary school, they join customary village youth club or Sekaa Taruna. Here, with their male friends and their brothers and sisters start to learn about organization. Many things can be learned through this organization. Since it has affiliation to customary village, they can learn about the making of some simple oblation under guidance of senior oblation maker and various traditional arts. In Bali, this youth club actually play important role in preparing young generation to maintain their valuable cultural heritages or to prepare them-

selves for inheriting customary responsibility.

With their male counterpart, here the young girls also learn to play drama or more complex traditional arts. Popular genres of performance showed are pure entertainment and the one in combination with sacred dance.

The latter usually features Calonarang. This magical drama involves a combination of male and female players. In essence, this Calonarang drama highlights the endless fight between truth and untruth symbolizing by sanctified effigies or tapakan like Rangda and Barong. By and large, it is also associated with ritual events at local temple.

In the following stage, when woman gets married she will enter the new organization, namely customary village. Having learned much about ritual works, it is now the time to practice them in wider social life. They should attend some socio-religious activities when the events engage the members of customary village. At this stage, household mother can remain to show her devotional service through the arts other than social works. Through the arts, they may join the drama or individual psalmodic singing or pasantian.

How is about their private life? It is normal as others. They also have opportunity to build career in their profession. In modern life with heterogeneous professions as today, woman also works as men do. Traditions do not impede them to reach outstanding achievement in self-employee or office job.

If they work at daytime, some social works will be held at the evening.

Tradition is not something obsolete.

Even, it retains abundant inspirations to create something new and creative that is advantageous for modern life. However, traditions should also be reviewed and adjust to the current condition without leaving behind its core. Tradition does not hinder women to get their career achievement. Even, it stays to give them a channel to express their spiritual sense through devotional services. (BTN/punia)

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Mass march for captive soldier divides Israel Associated Press Writer

TEL AVIV, Israel – Thousands of marchers brought Israel’s cultural and financial capital to a standstill, urging the government to do whatever it takes to win freedom for a soldier captured four years ago by Gaza militants. Near Israel’s border with Gaza, thousands more gathered for a concert led by a world-famous conductor to press Hamas to let the Red Cross visit the soldier for the first time.

The two scenes Monday — aimed at drawing renewed attention to the soldier’s plight — are part of a high-profile campaign that has opened deep divisions in Israel and put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the defensive.

While the nation overwhelmingly wants Sgt. Gilad Schalit to come home to his family, there are deep disagreements over whether the price demanded by Hamas is too high: the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including many convicted of terror attacks.

There is broad consensus that something must be done. But not everyone blames the government for its inability to free Schalit.

Some are aiming their anger at Hamas, an Iranian-backed group that has killed hundreds of Israe-

lis, while others have even criticized the Schalit movement, saying it is weakening Israel and making it less likely that he will ever be freed.

Hamas-linked militants seized Schalit four years ago inside Israel in a cross-border raid that killed two other soldiers. In return for his release, Hamas is demanding that Israel free some 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, including militants convicted of involvement in deadly attacks. Israel is holding an estimated 6,300 Palestinian prisoners, according to B’tselem, an Israeli advocacy group.

Schalit’s family has now taken to the streets to try to force the Israeli government to bend, and the campaign has drawn some 120,000 marchers over the past week, according to organizers. They have included politicians and celebrities like Israeli international supermodel Bar Refaeli.

Their 12-day march will end on Thursday outside the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem, where the Schalit family has pledged to camp until they see their son again.

Schalit’s captors have barred any access, even by the Red Cross, and released only a brief videotape last year to prove he was still alive.

AP Photo/Ariel Schalit

Israelis march in support of the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, July 5, 2010. The family of the captured Israeli soldier initiated a 12-day march from Schalit’s home to Jerusalem to press Israeli leaders to make a deal with his Hamas captors to free him. Schalit was taken captive four years ago during a cross-border raid by militants from the Gaza Strip.

FILE - This May 18 2010 file photo shows a woman, who gave her name as Najat, holding her passport during a press conference in Montreuil, east of Paris.

AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, FILE

French parliament debates ban on burqa-style veils Associated Press Writer

PARIS – France’s hotly debated bill to ban burqa-style Islamic veils in public is going before parliament, with President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government casting the measure as a way to promote equality between the sexes and protect oppressed women. The bill being debated Tuesday is widely expected to become law, despite the concerns of many French Muslims, who fear it will stigmatize them. Many law scholars also argue it would violate the constitution.

While ordinary Muslim headscarves are common in France, face-covering veils are a rarity — the Interior Ministry says only 1,900 women in France wear them.

Yet the planned law would be a turning point for Islam in a country with a Muslim population of at least 5 million people, the largest in western Europe. France is determined to protect the country’s deeply rooted secular values, and the conservative government is encouraging a moderate, state-sanctioned Islam that respects the secular state.

Last week Prime Minister Francois Fillon inaugurated a mosque in the

Paris suburbs.

Discussion on face-covering veils starts later Tuesday at the National Assembly, or lower house, where lawmakers are expected to vote on the bill July 13. The bill goes to the Senate in September. Some leftist opposition lawmakers also support it.

Authorities in several European countries have been debating similar bans. Belgium’s lower house has enacted a ban on the face-covering veil, though it must be ratified by the upper chamber. In France, the bill says France’s founding tenets of liberty, equality and fraternity are at stake.

The legislation would forbid face-

covering Muslim veils such as the niqab or burqa in all public places in France, even in the street. It calls for euro150 ($185) fines or citizenship classes for women who run afoul of the law, and in some cases both.

Part of the bill is aimed at husbands and fathers who impose such veils on female family members.

Under the most current version of the text, anyone convicted of forcing a woman to wear such a veil risks a year of prison and a euro30,000 fine — with both those penalties doubled if the victim is a minor.

Amnesty International has urged French lawmakers to reject the bill, and a French anti-racism group, MRAP, which opposes such dress, has said a law would be “useless and dangerous.” France’s highest administrative body, the Council of State, warned in March that a total ban risks being found unconstitutional. France banned common Muslim headscarves and other obvious religious symbols from classrooms in 2004.

Bus driver ‘shoots six dead near Cairo’ Agence France Presse

CAIRO – A construction firm bus driver shot dead six workers and wounded 16 others as he sprayed them with gunfire on their vehicle near the Egyptian capital on Tuesday, a security official told AFP. The source said the driver was taking the employees to their workplace when he suddenly stopped the bus and fired at his passengers.

“The bus driver for the company Arab Contractors was taking 22 labourers and other employees” to

their workplace in Giza when he stopped the vehicle at Meniel Shiha, 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Cairo, the official said.

“He then took out an automatic weapon and opened fire at the passengers, killing six on the spot and wounding 16, who have been taken

to hospital,” he said, asking not to be named.

The assailant was arrested but no immediate word emerged on his motives, although survivors were quoted as saying the driver had been suffering depression due to a job transfer.

Police stop traffic at a main crossroads in the rural town of Mahmudiya, 200 kilometers north of Cairo, November 2005. A construction firm bus driver shot dead six workers and wounded 16 others as he sprayed them with gunfire on their vehicle near the Egyptian capital on Tuesday, a security official told AFP.

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HOSPITAL Denpasar There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners Denpasar General Hospital (RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongaya and Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.

HOSPITAL Bangli Bangli General Hospital Jl. Kesumayuda 27, Bangli Phone : +62 366 91521 Gianyar

Royal Danish & Norwegian Mimpi Resort Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 070 The Czech Republic Jalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.286 465 France Consulate Agency Jalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.285 485 The Federal Republic of Germany Jalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.288 535 The Republic of Hungary Jalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.287 701 Italian Consulate Jalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, Bali Phone +62.361.701 005 Honorary Consulate of Mexico Jalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.223 266 Honorary Consulate of The Netherlands Jalan Raya Kuta 127, Bali Phone +62.361.761 506 Honorary Consulate of Spain Komplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. Jalan Patih Jelantik Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.769 286 USA Consulate Agency Jalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.222 426 Consulate General of Japan Jalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.227 628 Honorary Consulate of British Jalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.270 601 Swiss and Austria Consulate Jalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan Istana Galleria Phone +62.361.751 735 Honorary Consulate of Brazil Jalan Legian No. 186, Bali Phone +62.361.757 775 Honorary Consulate of Thailand Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.263 310 Embassy of India Jalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, Bali Phone +62.361.241 978 Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf Finland Segara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, Bali Phone +62.361.282 223 Honorary Consulate of Malaysia Alam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, Bali Phone +62.361.752 520

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Its facilities have improved since the emergency ward had been built in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become a problem anymore since it has complete equipments. It is located on Jl. Kesehatan Selatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with : Phone : 227 911 – 15 Fax : 226 363 Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters for less serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, anemia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equipped to care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl. Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.

Phone : 223 036 Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit) Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.

Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private) Jl. Sudirman No 50, Denpasar Phone : 227 560, 234 824 In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medical evacuation company, that is: AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.

PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 24X, Kuta 80361.

Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768 One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that the Blood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh) Negative blood.

Badung Bali Medical Clinics There are some medical clinics that are well known by foreigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and operated : Bali International Medical Center (BIMC) Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excellent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Services for tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.

Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance & Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone : 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta, Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com International SOS Clinic Bali Opened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visitors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency medical service.

Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - Indonesia Phone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919 E-mail : info@sos-bali.com ttp ://www.sos-bali.com Bali Nusa Dua Emergency Clinic Jl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324 Kuta Clinic Jl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268 Dental Clinic Dr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, Denpasar Phone : 222 445, 234 375 DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81 Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324 Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4A Br. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

Clinic Mas Jl. Raya Mas, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974573 Toyo Clinic Jl. Pengosekan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 978078 Permata Bunda Clinic Jl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 942082 Ubud Clinic Jl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, Ubud Phone : +62 361 974911 Gianyar General Hospital Jl. Ciung Wanara 2, Gianyar Phone : +62 361 943049 Karangasem Karangasem General Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai, Karangasem Phone : +62 363 21001 Klungkung Klungkung General Hospital Jl. Flamboyan 40-4, Klungkung Phone : +62 366 21371 Negara Negara General Hospital Jl. Gelar, Negara Phone : +62 365 41006 Tabanan Laboratorium Clinic Jl. Gunung semeru No. 8, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 819260 Mengwi Clinic Jl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 880550 Darma Kerti Hospital Jl. Teratai 16, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 812359 Tabanan General Hospital Jl. Pahlawan 14, Tabanan Phone : +62 361 811027 Singaraja Prodia Clinic Jl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 24-516 Singaraja Hospital Jl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali 0362 - 22-573 Pet Clinics Kayumas: (0361) 226934 Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121 Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018 Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518 Sidakarya: (0361) 724492 Pedungan: (0361) 720026

TAXIS Praja Taxi : (0361) 289090 Bali Taxi : (0361) 701111 Ngurah Rai Taxi : (0361) 724724 Pan Wirthi Taxi : (0361) 723366 Komotra Taxi : (0361) 758855

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Pamplona’s San Fermin party begins Associated Press Writer

PAMPLONA, Spain – Thousands of people packed into Pamplona’s main square Tuesday to spray each other with wine as a firecracker rocket blasted off to start Spain’s San Fermin bull-running festival.

The nine-day festival got under way at midday with the traditional shout from the city hall balcony of “Viva San Fermin!” followed seconds later by the firing of the firecracker known as the chupinazo.

The rocket blast was the signal to the revelers — many in the festival’s traditional dress of white shirts and trousers and red neckerchiefs — to erupt into party mode. People sang and whooped while many drenched each other with all sorts of drink and threw eggs and flour.

Television shots from the air showed a veritable sea of red and white swaying back and forth in the square as a deafening roar could be heard rising up from the crowd.

In an almost laughable bid to try to keep the noise level down during a fiesta known for its all-night street partying, Pamplona town hall on Monday banned the street sale of vuvuzelas, the droning plastic horns so popular at World

AFP PHOTO/Rafa Rivas

Participants take part in the ‘Chupinazo’ to mark the start at noon sharp of the San Fermin Festival on July 6, 2010 in front of the Town Hall of Pamplona, northern Spain. The festival is a symbol of Spanish culture, despite heavy condemnation from animal rights groups, and attracts thousands of tourists to watch the bull runs.

Cup matches in South Africa.

San Fermin’s first bull-run is Wednesday at 8 a.m (0600 GMT) when hundreds of people race ahead of six fighting bulls and six bell-tinkling steers — meant to keep them in a tight pack — charged down the 930-yard (850meter) course from a holding pen to the northern town’s bull ring.

Dozens of people are injured

each year in the morning runs, most from falls but some also from gorings and tramplings by the beasts. Last year’s festival saw the first goring death in nearly 15 years.

The fiesta, popularized internationally by Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises,” attracts tens of thousands of foreigners each year.

Australia: East Timor could process asylum seekers Associated Press Writer

SYDNEY – Australia’s new leader proposed Tuesday to stop an influx of asylum seeker boats by making East Timor a hub for processing U.N. refugee claims for people fleeing war and persecution — an idea the tiny, impoverished nation said it was still considering.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she also had discussed the proposal with U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres — who has apparently not yet signed off on it.

Gillard’s announcement was a shift in policy that aims to defuse a politically and racially charged debate that has flared in Australia ahead of elections expected to be held within months. Australia receives just a tiny proportion of the world’s asylum seekers, but in the past three years has witnessed a surge of people arriving via Indonesia in rickety boats — some

150 in the past three years carrying around 4,000 people.

Each new boat receives wide media coverage and stirs feelings among many Australians that the country is being forced to take them in.

The asylum seekers, mostly Afghans and Sri Lankans who have paid criminal syndicates to bring them to Australia, have overflowed a detention center at remote Christmas Island — an Australian territory — and many have been moved to the mainland while their applications are assessed.

In her first major speech touching on foreign policy, Gillard on Tuesday said Australia had an obligation to treat legitimate asylum seekers fairly while also ensuring its borders are secure.

She proposed the creation of a regional center for processing refugee claims under U.N. auspices, and said that East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta had agreed to discuss the possibility.

Gillard said she had proposed the idea to Guterres, though she did not say what his response was.

“A regional processing center removes the incentive, once and for all, for the people smugglers to send boats to Australia,” Gillard said. “Why risk a dangerous journey if you will simply be returned to the regional processing center?”

Some refugee advocates cautiously welcomed the plan, as long as applications were assessed under U.N. guidelines, applicants were treated humanely, and that other countries agreed to accept those who were judged to be legitimate asylum seekers.

“From our perspective this is a positive thing,” said John Gibson, the president of the Refugee Council of Australia. He said it differed from an earlier government’s system of detaining asylum seekers in prison-like camps on the pacific island of Nauru because it would involve the United Nations.

Toronto hit by blackout after transformer fire Reuters

TORONTO – A fire at a Toronto transformer station knocked out power to much of the city on Monday, snarling traffic in the midst of a blistering heatwave, but appearing to have little impact on financial markets. Hydro One, the provincial power company, said the blackout was due to a fire at a transformer station in west Toronto. The company said firefighters were still battling the fire and said it was working to restore power.

Just after 6:00 p.m. (2200 GMT), power was beginning to be restored on parts of the system. The outage, which brought back memories of the 2003 blackout that hit Toronto and much of the U.S. eastern seaboard, also affected power at the Fairmont Royal York hotel in downtown Toronto, where Queen Elizabeth is due to have dinner later on Monday.

The outage hit around 4:45 p.m. on the hottest day of the year so far in Toronto. By late afternoon, temperatures were still well above 30 degrees Celsius in high humidity, prompting heavy use of air conditioners. A power outage map on the website of Toronto

Octopus...

From page 1 Paul, a two-year-old British born octopus with a purple-yellowish complexion and hundreds of suckers, wrapped himself around a pole between the two tanks, occasionally extending several of his eight legs toward the German glass before moving his whole body onto the Spanish side.

“Once he sat on top of the Spanish glass, he opened the lid with one tentacle and grabbed the mussel with another one,” Fey said.

He added that analysts are still pondering whether Paul’s forecasts on games between Germany and Spain

Hydro showed much of the western half of Toronto affected by the power outage.

The blackout darkened screens on some trading floors of downtown banks and knocked out traffic lights, prompting some people to exit their cars and direct traffic. Transit service was disrupted on both subway and surface bus and streetcar lines, the Toronto Transit Commission said.

Shaun Osborne, chief currency strategist at TD Securities, a unit of TorontoDominion Bank, said the outage had little impact on markets, due to the late hour. It was also a light trading day in Canada because of the U.S. Independence Day holiday.

“It’s not the entire floor. Some people have lost power and other people haven’t. We’re probably pretty lucky in that it’s a quiet afternoon,” he said.

The Toronto Stock Exchange did not return calls seeking comment on the potential impact on settlements of late trades.

The power outage follows widespread disruption in the downtown core last week when rioting broke out during the G20 meeting of leaders of wealthy and developing countries. may have to do with a potential case of color blindness — the German tricolor of black, red and yellow may be hard to distinguish from the red-yellow-red stripes of Spain Paul’s record at this World Cup has been flawless so far. In the first round of play, he correctly predicted German victories over Australia and Ghana and the country’s loss to Serbia. England and Argentina then produced invertebrate performances in the next two rounds to match Paul’s predictions that Germany would win. If Germany wins the semifinal despite Paul’s prediction, the octopus will be allowed to predict the outcome of Sunday’s final as well, Fey said. Now it’s up to seafood-crazy Spain to prove him right.

Celebrations...

From page 1 Amid the dancing, singing and tributes on Tuesday, there were frequent reminders of the challenges ahead for the Tibetan exiles, above all the eventual succession of their ageing spiritual leader.

The Dalai Lama has been in hospital twice in recent times — in February last year for a pinched nerve and in October 2008 for surgery to remove gall stones. There is concern that his death would damage the cohesion and momentum of the Tibetan movement that has relied for so long on his leadership.

“It will be a completely different ball game when His Holiness is no longer with us,” the president of the Tibetan Youth Congress, Tsewang Rigzin, told AFP. “We need to be prepared for that day when it comes and that means having a strong government in exile.” China has already indicated

it will take a hard line on selecting a successor, with Qiangba Puncog, Tibet’s former governor, insisting in March that final approval lies with Beijing.

One senior figure tipped to assume the spiritual leadership of Tibet, the 26-year-old Karmapa Lama, was conspicuously seated next to the Dalai Lama on Tuesday.

The prime minister of the government-in-exile, Samdhong Rinpoche, urged the Dalai Lama to slow down to preserve his energy as his endeavours “are certainly taking a great toll”. “We would like to implore him to kindly see to it that his daily programmes do not come in the way of his good health,” he added.

At an age when most others are putting their feet up, the Dalai Lama keeps up a globe-trotting schedule that would tire someone half his age, travelling to countries willing to defy Chinese pressure not to grant him a visa.

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Central bank keeps low rate over moderate inflation Antara

AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY

A woman walks through a door in the office of Tempo magazine in Jakarta on July 6, 2010. Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the office of a news magazine embroiled in a dispute with Indonesian police over an article about alleged corruption, police said. The homemade firebombs were thrown at the magazine’s Jakarta headquarters before dawn but did not ignite or cause damage, a police spokesman said.

Firebombs thrown at Indonesian magazine Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the office of a news magazine embroiled in a dispute with Indonesian police over an article about alleged corruption, police said Tuesday.

The homemade firebombs were thrown at Tempo magazine’s Jakarta headquarters before dawn on Tuesday but did not ignite or cause damage, a police spokesman said.

“Two Molotov bombs without wicks were thrown this morning in front of Tempo’s office. It happened at around 3:00 am. The bombs didn’t explode and nobody was hurt,” police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said.

“We’re trying to find the culprits.

We suspect two people on a motorcycle threw them.”

Tempo editor-in-chief Wahyu Muryadi said: “We have reported this barbaric incident to the police and we are waiting for the police investigation to reveal the perpetrator”.

Police last week threatened to sue Tempo over an article alleging massive corruption among senior police generals accused of amassing millions of dollars in bank accounts from illegal activities.

The threat was not related to the corruption allegations, however, but to the magazine cover art that depicted a police officer with piggy banks. Pigs are considered haram (forbidden) in Islam.

Police were unavailable to comment on reports in the local media Tuesday, saying they had dropped the threat of legal action.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has demanded a thorough investigation of the corruption allegations after revealing that he had

been swamped with text messages from the public appealing for action.

“The issue on the bank accounts which belonged to a number of high ranking police officials has spread widely (among the public),” he said.

“Please take action,” he told the police. “If anyone broke the law, they must be punished. Otherwise, explain that to the public.”

Anti-corruption and human rights activists however questioned how the police, widely considered one of the most corrupt institutions in the country, could be trusted to investigate graft allegations against top officers.

Yudhoyono himself admits the force is part of a “court mafia” including prosecutors and crooked judges who run the mainly Muslim country’s judicial system in favour of powerful interests. Muryadi said the firebomb attack was a “warning” but he insisted Tempo would not be provoked or deterred from publishing good journalism.

Search for missing trike aircraft continues Antara

JAKARTA - Search efforts for a trike aircraft that is believed to have crashed in a mountain area in Bandung district on Sunday (July 4), continued on Tuesday by combing around Mount Wayang/Sentosa area, Pengalengan, Bandung.

“The search efforts are being carried out through land and air,” a source told ANTARA at Sulaeman airbase, Bandung, West Java, Tuesday.

The area to be searched will also be extended until Garut (West Java) given the fact that a local search and rescue (SAR) team had received a mobile cellular signal from one of the Trike PKS 135 crew.

A Susi Air’s Colibri plane and three Indonesian Aero Sports Federation (FASI)’s Trike aircraft have been deployed to help find the missing aircraft.

A trike aircraft piloted by Noto and Panji crashed and went missing around Mt. Wayang/Sentora in

Bandung district, West Java Province, on Sunday (7/4).

The accident occurred on the illfated aircraft’s flight from Nusawiru, Pangandaran, to Sulaiman air in Bandung district. The crash was known after ground people lost contact with those on board.

The trike aircraft might have crashed at about 02.00 pm local time in the Wayang or Swantosa mountain areas. Another trike aircraft with two people on board had safely landed at Sulaiman airstrip, he said.

JAKARTA - The central bank, Bank Indonesia (BI), decided on Monday to maintain its low key rate at 6.5 percent after concluding that inflation which some quarters had predicted would be pushed up by the electricity tariff hikes this month was not worrisome.

“The BI Rate is still consistent with the inflation target of five plus or minus one percent for 2010,” BI Acting Governor Darmin Nasution said after a board meeting on Monday.

A banker said last month that the government’s plan to increase the basic power rate (TDL) by 10 percent and the fuel oil prices would push up the inflation rate, and cause BI’s key reference rate to be raised by 0.25 to 0.50 percent.

“The 10-percent increase in the Basic Electricity Tariff (TDL) for middle and upper class consumers will lead Bank Indonesia to increase its benchmark rate by about 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent at least by the end of this year,” PT OCBC NISP chief commissioner Pramkti Surjaudaja said.

He said an increase in the TDL was indeed unavoidable to improve the performance state-owned power utility firm PLN which was also to repair its worn-out power transmission line networks. But the increase would also cause an increase in the domestic inflation rate. The increase in the inflation rate was expected to force BI to raise its key rate, he said.

However another banker also predicted last month that the power rate hikes were unlikely to force BI to raise its key rate. He said the central bank was expected to maintain its key rate at 6.5 percent even though the government was planning to increase basic power rates and fuel oil prices.

According to President Director of Bank CIMB Niaga Arwin Rasyid, the government’s plan to increase the TDL rates and fuel oil prices has yet to affect BI’s benchmark rate.

He said that it was still too premature to analyze the impact of the power rate increases because it was still in the discourse and was still discussed by the House of Representatives (DPR).

“We could not provide responses yet before the discourse becomes a reality,” he said. Moreover, the plan to increase the electricity tariffs and the price of fuel oils had sparked pros and cons, so that its realization would possibly still wait for the correct time.

“We predict that the government would also consider the two factors, even though it is now urgent to increase the electricity rates and fuel oil prices,” he said.

BI Deputy Governor S.Budi Rochadi expressed the same view saying that the planned electricity tariff hike effective early July would have little effect on the inflation rate.

“It will have no significant impact on the inflation rate,” he said following a function marking the transfer of the post of head of BI’s Semarang office last month.

Last month, there was a slight increase in the inflation rate but Darmin Nasution said there was no need to worry about inflation in June which reached 0.97 percent.

He said the inflation was only driven by a price hike in agricultural products which was temporary in nature. “So, June’s inflation is not worrisome as it will drop again,” he said.

The acting BI governor said that the rate of inflation in June indeed could be considered quite high but he remained optimistic that the yearly rate of inflation would be within the targeted range of five plus or minus one percent.

ILO calls on abolition of chilled workers Antara

JAKARTA - The International Labour Organization (ILO) planned to abolish Indonesian child workers in the future.

“Since early in 2000, important developments had taken place in efforts of abolishing child workers in Indonesia,” Executive Director of International Affairs of the ILO in Jakarta Peter Van Rooij said in Borobudur Hotel in Jakarta Monday.

Peter in a workshop observing World Day against Child Workers at Borobudur Hotel in Jakarta said that progress had been made in reaching the government’s target of nine-year basic education for all

children.

Peter added that another important breakthrough was that the government has reduction of number of child workers as a program of conditional cash assistance, known as Hopeful Family Program (PKH).

“We have conducted a household-based survey and found out that about 4 million children aged 5 to 17 are workers,” Peter said.

The national survey on child workers conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) in Indonesia in association with the ILO in August 2009, found that some 4 million children aged 5 to 17 years old are economically active, and 1.7 of the children were classified as child workers.

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Bali Today Electricity rate hikes affect tourist industry Antara

DENPASAR - Secretary General of Bali’s Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) Perry Markus said the electricity price hike will affect hotel rentals.

“Right now hotels had started raising hotel rentals following the increase in electricity rates (TDL). Hotels planned to raise their room rents to offset increased rentals, as TDL hikes increased hotel operational costs,” he said in Denpasar.

He added that the TDL hike will have a direct and indirect impact on the hotel industry.

He added that the direct impact is increased expenditures on energy, while the indirect impact is increases in the prices of hotel needs, like foods and beverages. “The indirect impact would be felt next month, because electricity had been raised from July 1, 2010, raising the prices of goods and commodities,” he said.

He said hotels are currently

seeking formulations and solutions to the power hikes.

Perry said that power price hikes which are not raised for all capacity categories will cause that the impact for the time being would not be felt by all hotels.

Those raised by the government would be subscribers enjoying more than 1,300 VA with varied amounts.

Made Supatra Karang, owner of Mimpi Bungalow Hotel in Kuta tourist resort, Bali, said everything will be up to the government, without being able to do anything about the hikes.

He did not have any plan of raising room rentals. “It is not easy to raise hotel room rates. We have to be satisfied that people are still renting our hotel rooms,” he said.

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Tourists surfing and swimming at Kuta Beach, Bali Island. Secretary General of Bali’s Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) Perry Markus said the electricity price hike will affect hotel rentals.

Gambuh must remain to exist BAF Agenda

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Time : 10.00 - 12.00 Activity : Dance and musical performance by East Lampung Cultural and Tourism Department Location: Wantilan Time : 10.00 - 12.00 Activity : Dance and Tabuh Samara Pegulingan by Sanggar Citarum, Denpasar Location: Kalangan Angsoka Time : 19.00 - 21.00 Activity : Prembon Masks parade by Sekaa Topeng Smara Buana Banjar Losan Takmung village, Klungkung Location: Wantilan Time : 19.00 - 21.00 Activity : Comedy Prembon Performance by Gamelan Cendana Batubulan, Gianyar Location: Kalangan Ayodya Time : 20.00 - 22.00 Activity : Jazz Fusion by Balawan with Batuan Ethnic Fusion Location: Gedung Ksirarnawa Time : 20.00 - 23.00 Activity : Gong kebyar parade by Sanggar Seni Dharma Suara, Delod Peken village, Keramas Blahbatuh, Gianyar with Sekaa Gong Sanggar Triptaka, Bulelelng Location: Ardha Candra

VISITORS of the 32nd Bali Arts Festival (BAF), last Monday (Jul 5, was presented with classical arts like the ancient Gambuh dance. It was performed by Kembang Bang Art Studio, Kedisan Sebatu, Tegallalang, Gianyar, under the leader I Wayan Warta, at Angsoka Stage. Its performance was quite interesting, so it could win the attention of BAF visitors and a number of art connoisseurs.

Reinforced by 28 personnel, 11 of them were dancers—all were male— this art troupe presented the story about “Yajna Ritual.” It was recounted that in Java laid a Gegelang kingdom led

by King Lobang Kara. This king organized a yajña ritual with the goal of begging safety for the whole world and its contents. The ritual was held at Mount Pangebel. After performing the ritual, the king and his servants were back to the kingdom. However, on the way home he came across with a statesman from Pemowotan Kingdom.

This statesman had a revenge on the assassination of his father by King Gegelang. Unavoidably, the battle took place bitterly among them and finally won by the King Gegelang.

Coordinator of Gambuh Dance of Kembang Bang Dance Studio, Wayan Gina, said the troupe attempted to preserve the Gambuh art since 2008. The attempt originated in a desire to continue preserving the Gambuh art because it had something to do with Yajna. Meanwhile, the Gambuh dance in general was still less enthused. Such conditions needed to be answered by

revitalizing the Gambuh dance so that its presence would not come to extinction. Ultimately, the idea of generating the Gambuh dance got vivacious welcome from the community. Even, the younger generations were also interested in learning it. “Gambuh may not be separated from the complementary elements of a ceremony. Therefore, Gambuh must remain to exist,” he said.

A professor from the Indonesia Institute of Arts (ISI) Denpasar, Prof. Dr. Wayan Dibia said that Gambuh dance belonged to ancient art and rare in existence. This kind of art needed revitalizing so that it increasingly existed in Bali. Now, it still existed at a number of villages. Meanwhile, performance of Gambuh by Kembang Bang art troupe was considered adequately good with style of remaining good, as well as its dancer regeneration. This indicated that if trained maximally, the Gambuh dance having something to do with yajña ritual would remain to exist and its present was increasingly required.

As a matter of fact, how does the Gambuh dance-drama look like? According to some sources, dance-drama was considered as a dance having the richest motions so that it was assumed as the source of all kinds of Balinese classical dances. Gambuh was estimated to have emerged around the 15th century originating in the Panji stories.

The dance is usually performed in relation to yajña ritual activities.

Gambuh is accompanied with

pegambuhan gamelan music with pelog saih pitu pitch. Common figures shown in Gambuh consist of Condong, Kakan-kakan, Arya, Princess, Panji, Statesman, Demat, Temenggung, Turas, Panasar and King. In the play, these characters made dialogue generally in Old Javanese or Kawi language, except for the figures Turas, Penasar and Condong spoke fine, medium and vernacular Balinese language. In Bali, Gambuh remains to exist only in a few villages. One of the famous Gambuh dancers is from Pedungan, South Denpasar, namely the late I Gede Geruh.

Formerly, the Gambuh art was scattered throughout the regencies. However, in keeping with the passage of time, some Gambuh dance-drama troupes remain to survive, while others not. Gambuh dance-drama has already been considered extremely difficult, either in terms of dance motion, genre, vocals, song, dialogue or expression. It is these assumptions making the regeneration difficult to work.

The assumption should be answered with determination and hard work. If there is a willingness to learn, it surely can. Similar opinion was revealed by dancer from Kembang Bang art studio, Tegallalang Sebatu, Kedisan, Gede Adi. If there was an intention and willingness to learn it patiently, Gambuh dance could be mastered well within relatively short time.

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Number of Japanese visitors to Bali declining Antara

DENPASAR - The number of Japanese tourists visiting Bali in the January - May, 2010, period decreased 24.72 percent to 99,743 from 132,122 in the same period

a year earlier, a statistics official said.

“This is the worst decline.

The decline was most likely caused by the global economic crisis,” Head of the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) for Bali, Ida Komang

Wisnu said.

He said that even though the number of Japanese tourist arrivals in Bali was declining, yet Japanese tourists holidaying in the islands of god still topped the list of foreign tourist visitors.

ASEAN uses cultural assets in diplomacy Antara

DENPASAR - Most Asean countries make use of cultural and social assets for diplomacy with other countries, Prof I Ketut Ardhana of Udayana University’s Faculty of Letters said.

“Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam make use of social and cultural assets to promote globalization era,” said the professor of Asian history at Udayana University (Unud) Faculty of Letters.

He said the application of strategy and policy in cultural diplomacy could give more space in

the solution of political and economic relation problem which came up at times as the result of competitiveness and economic crisis from the globalization at regional level.

Therefore, no wonder there we a lot of studies on ethnicity in relation with marginalized ethnic groups as the result of modernization influence.

Professor Ardhana pointed out that the existence of Karen people o the ethnic minority group in Thailand, indigenous people in Malaysia, Dayak Iban, Dayak Bidayu, and Dayak Lun in Vietnam were the example.

He said Thai government for example in its concept of “Becoming Thai” sometimes ignored the existence of local belief adhered by ethnic minority group in the country.

That concept is not much different from the concept implemented in Malaysia namely “Becoming Malays” with their unique characteristic.

Malaysian also makes use of social and cultural assets communicate with Malay ethnic in Indonesia.

Therefore, cultural diplomacy could be made through cultural seminars by involving the participants from Malaysia and Indonesia.

Bali produces over 13 thousand tons of soy beans Antara

DENPASAR - Bali farmers are encouraged to develop soy bean plantations after they were able to increase Bali’s soybean production in 2009 to 13,622

tons, a 45.03-percent increase compared with the previous year’s 9,424 tons, a statistics official said.

“They are encouraged with improved soybean prices so that their incomes are also increased,”

chief the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) for Bali, Ida Komang, said.

He said that the increase in the farmers’ soybean production was generated by the expansion of their plantations to 3,033 hectares.

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(Sayur Labu Siam) Ingredients * 200 gram stew meat water * 3 tbs. vegetable oil * 2 chayotes, peeled and cubed * 2 spring onions, sliced in 1 cm slices * ¼ cup flat-leaved parsley minced * 1 tsp. tamarind, dissolved in 1 Tbs. water * 1 Tbs. fried onions * Spice Paste 10 red chilies * 4 cloves garlic * 2 candlenuts * 1 cm fresh ginger * ¼ tsp ground pepper * 1 tbs dried shrimp, soaked briefly in hot water and drained * salt to taste

Directions Simmer the meat in water to cover, together with the salt, until tender. Remove and slice the meat in 1x2 cm cubes. Set aside 1 Liter of the broth.

Heat the oil and fry the spice-paste until fragrant. Add the meat and stir it around until the spices are wellmixed with the meat. Add the broth.

Let it come to a boil, then add the chayotes, spring onions, minced parsley and tamarind water. Serve with fried onions/shallots scattered on top. (http:// asiarecipe.com)

Cooked Vegetables with Grated Coconut (Urap) Ingredients * 8 oz fresh green beans * 8 oz bean sprouts * 4 carrots * 1 can bamboo shoots * ½ small cabbage * 1 cup fresh grated coconut * 1 small onion, finely chopped * ½ tsp. chilli sauce (sambal ulek) * 1 tsp. salt * 2 Tbs. lime juice * ½ tsp. dried shrimp paste (terasi)

Directions Wash bean sprouts, pinching of any brown tail. Pour boiling water over bean sprouts, then rinse under cold water tap. Drain well.

String beans and cut diagonally or bite-size lengths and cook in lightly salted water until just tender. Beans should still be crisp to bite.

Scrub carrot and cut into thin strips, cook until tender.

Drain well. Slice cabbage, discard the center stem.

Blanch in boiling salted water for a minute or two, until tender but not limp. Drain and refresh with cold water.

Cut bamboo shoots into strips the same size as the beans. Place fresh grated coconut into a bowl, add onion, chili sauce, salt, lime juice and the shrimp paste which has been grilled for a few minutes, or heated in a dry frying pan. Mix thoroughly together.

Sprinkle this grated coconut mixture over vegetables, reserving some to garnish the dish when served.

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Puri Lukisan/ Panting Museum

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This museum is opened in the year 1956 by minister of Education and Culture, Mr. Moh. Yamin. This museum is consisted of three special buildings in U-shape.

In the middle of this museum is the courtyard and fishpond with the beautiful lotus flower. The building no 1 is a place for a permanent exhibition of puppets dressy or puppets style painting. This building is collecting the painting from I Gusti Nyoman Lempad and the clarification about the existence of Pita Maha Organization.

The Building no. 2 is also a place for permanent exhibition or still from masterpiece result of all artist of Balinese modern dressy style. The Building no.3 is for a temporary exhibition.

There is only one museum is exist in Ubud Village that is Puri Lukisan Museum, but Ubud sub district area until the year of 2003 is built with 4 new painting museums those are: Puri Lukisan Museum, Neka Museum, Arma Museum and Rudana Museum. (www.balistarisland.com)

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BUSINESS

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Pedestrians walk past a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China in Beijing on July 6, 2010. China is on track to become the world’s biggest initial public offering market this year in terms of both the number of new listings and funds raised, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, as Chinese companies are expected to raise 500 billion yuan (73.6 billion dollars) in Initial public offering (IPO) this year.

China on track to become number one IPO market Agence France-Presse

SHANGHAI - China is on track to become the world’s biggest initial public offering market this year in terms of both the number of new listings and funds raised, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The total number of new listings on the country’s two bourses in Shanghai and Shenzhen may reach 300 in 2010, compared to 99 last year, business advisers PwC said in a forecast published this week.

Chinese companies are expected to raise 500 billion yuan (73.6 billion dollars) in IPOs this year, it said.

The IPO market picked up significantly in the first half of 2010, even though uncertainties over the global recovery and the euro debt crisis heightened market volatility, Frank Lyn, China Markets Leader

for PwC, said.

“This really demonstrates that Chinese companies are developing well, along with the continuing growth of the domestic economy and become more mature,” Lyn said in a statement.

Domestic companies have raised 212.7 billion yuan from 176 IPOs in the first half of this year, more than the 187.9 billion yuan raised in the whole of 2009, according to PwC. The Agricultural Bank of China, the last one of the “big four” state banks to float shares, is seek-

ing to raise up to 23.2 billion dollars in a massive IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong this month that could be the world’s biggest.

In June 2009, China’s securities regulator lifted a nine-month IPO moratorium imposed in September 2008, when global markets began to plummet due to the financial crisis.

However the Shanghai Stock Exchange now plans to set up an international board to allow foreign firms and overseas-registered Chinese firms to list shares, but no official timeline has been announced.

China to pump 100 billion dollars into western regions Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - China has said it will invest more than 100 billion dollars this year in 23 new infrastructure projects in impoverished western regions as part of efforts to boost domestic demand.

The plan was announced Monday after Premier Wen Jiabao said the Chinese economy was facing an “extremely complicated” situation and two purchasing manager surveys showed manufacturing activity had slowed in June.

The 682.2 billion yuan will

be used to build railways, roads, airports, coal mines, nuclear power stations and power grids, the National Development and Reform Commission said on its website.

Construction will start this year to “actively expand domestic demand and promote the fast and healthy development of the western areas,” the top economic planning agency said.

The areas include the northwestern region of Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and Yunnan in the southwest.

It is unclear whether the

spending is part of a 586-billiondollar government stimulus package unveiled in late 2008 to cushion the impact of the global financial crisis.

China has long sought to boost development in the poorer western areas. It spent 2.2 trillion yuan on 120 major projects between 2000 and 2009, the statement said.

State media reported last month that Beijing would pour around 10 billion yuan in economic aid into Xinjiang from 2011 in a bid to raise the living standards of the Uighur minority.

Bank of England gets new interest rate policymaker Agence France-Presse

LONDON - A top economic forecaster has been appointed to the Bank of England committee which sets interest rates, the government announced on Monday.

Martin Weale, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), replaces Kate Barker, who left at the end of May, finance minister George Osborne announced in a statement.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will now have a total of nine members although Weale will not take part in the Bank of England’s latest rate-setting meeting due to start on Wednesday. His first appearance will be at the August meeting.

Osborne said: “I am delighted that Dr Weale has agreed to join the Monetary Policy Committee. His experience of economic forecasting and data analysis derived from fif-

teen years as Director of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research will be extremely valuable to the Committee.”

Barclays Capital analyst Simon Hayes said the appointment was “unlikely to shift policy debate”.

He said: “Ahead of the June MPC meeting, Dr Weale said he believed policy should be left on hold because the upside risks to inflation from a persistently high headline rate were balanced by downside risks to growth from weakness in the euro area.

“This would put him broadly in the middle of the MPC pack, in our view, and suggests that his ascendance to the committee is unlikely to provoke a shift in the policy debate in the near term,” added Hayes.

The MPC is widely expected to leave the Bank of England’s key lending rate at a record-low level of 0.50 percent when it concludes its latest meeting on Thursday.

New Zealand’s recovery may be stalling: survey Agence France-Presse

WELLINGTON New Zealand’s export-led recovery may be stalling, according to a business confidence survey released Tuesday.

The New Zealand Institute of Economic Research’s quarterly survey of business opinion found renewed weakness in manufacturing, construction and investment intentions in the June quarter.

Small firms, which usually lead the economic cycle, experienced weaker conditions in the three months to June, the survey found.

“Firms are less optimistic as the economy has yet again failed to deliver on expectations of a strong recovery,” said the NZIER’s principal economist, Shamubeel Eaqub.

“Seasonally adjusted business confidence eased from 36 percent to 28 percent. The recovery may be stalling. The outlook is still fragile.”

The percentage is obtained by subtracting the percentage of respondents expecting business conditions to decline from those expecting an improvement.

Eaqub said the economy would normally be expected to be recovering strongly at this stage of the cycle.

The slowing momentum of global growth and financial market disruption also added risks to the outlook, the survey found.

New Zealand slumped into recession at the start of 2008, emerging only in the second quarter of last

year, with recovery driven largely by agriculture-dominated exports, especially dairy products.

But growth eased to 0.6 percent in the three months to March this year, down from 0.8 percent in the previous quarter.

The NZIER’s warning came a day after the Treasury said belt-tightening around the world and possible government defaults on sovereign debt posed risks for the economy.

Other economists interpreted the survey more optimistically, saying the results painted a picture of a mild economic recovery.

“The current level of firms’ own assessment of trading conditions suggests economic growth over 2010 will still be reasonably healthy,” said ASB bank chief economist Nick Tuffley.

ANZ bank economists said the results were still consistent with economic growth of three percent this year.

“We would characterise today’s results as the reality of a slower recovery dawning on businesses, as opposed to the recovery itself coming under threat,” they said.

But Eaqub said the central bank would need to take care not to stifle already weak domestic demand and derail a fragile export recovery, Eaqub said.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised the official interest rate last month for the first time in nearly three years from a record low of 2.5 percent as the economy entered its second year of recovery.

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“Hannah Montana” starts final season as Miley moves on Reuters

LOS ANGELES – Four years ago, Miley Cyrus was a young unknown making her debut on a Disney Channel comedy series, “Hannah Montana,” with her real-life father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, playing her dad on the show.

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The premise, an average teenager named Miley Stewart who moonlights as a rock star in a blonde wig named Hannah Montana, became an instant sensation. In no time at all, Cyrus was recording “Hannah Montana” soundtracks, embarking on a “Hannah Montana” singing tour, filming a concert movie and starring in a “Hannah Montana” feature film.

Now it’s all about to come to an end. When season four, titled “Hannah Montana Forever,” premieres on Sunday, July 11, on Disney Channel, it will be the final one as Cyrus has been eager to do her own thing. In fact, she has started already.

Cyrus, now 17, made her non“Hannah” feature film debut earlier this year in “The Last Song,” based on a Nicholas Sparks novel. She just released her third non-”Hannah” album, “Can’t be Tamed,” raising eyebrows with a music video of her in skimpy outfits being groped by back-up dancers. “I can’t base my career off of the six-year-olds,”

Cyrus told reporters recently. “It’s the 16-year-olds, the 26-year-olds I’m trying to reach for now. I have to move on.”

The independently wealthy teenager just purchased her own home and said she plans to move into it after she wraps her current project, the independent film feature “LOL (Laughing Out Loud),” opposite Demi Moore.

In the film, which is based on a French movie, Cyrus plays a teenager hanging out with the wrong crowd, dabbling in drugs and questionable boys. The actress said the project is “definitely not for the ‘Hannah Montana’ audience.”

“TIME TO TURN THE PAGE”

Her father Billy Ray, whose own music career experienced a resurgence thanks to the success of the show, has a new album coming out this summer and plans to tour. “I’m very thankful for what we’ve been through (with the show,)” said Billy Ray. “But it’s time to turn the page.”

But for one more year, their ‘tween audience gets to enjoy Cyrus as “Hannah Montana.” Viewers see the Stewart family move to a ranch where a horse is now part of the cast.

Miley Stewart must decide if she’s going to continue her Hannah persona, or join her best friend Lily in going to college.

And there will be plenty of famous guest stars including singer Sheryl Crowe, hip hop star Iyaz, Ray Liotta, Christine Taylor, Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay Leno and Kelly Ripa. Vicki Lawrence and Dolly Parton return, with Parton singing a duet with Billy Ray. Also, expect a tribute to the military.

Yet as much as Cyrus has already mentally moved on from the show, it was her decision to come back for one more go-around, despite already fulfilling her commitment to Disney at the end of season three.

Her father said his daughter felt fans deserved another season to take the series to a conclusion, rather than leaving things open-ended.

“This year didn’t have to happen, but we did it because we thought it was the right thing to do,” he said.

“I left it up to Miley (to decide). I’m very proud of her that she made what I consider to be a very honorable choice.”

Lindsay Lohan due in court for probation hearing Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES – The next stage of Lindsay Lohan’s life is in a judge’s hands. The starlet is scheduled to appear Tuesday in a Beverly Hills, Calif., courtroom for a probation revocation hearing that could end with Lohan either headed for jail or her next movie role.

The hearing is the culmination of several missteps by the 24-year-old actress, whose probation for a threeyear drug and alcohol case was revoked in May after she missed a hearing. She faces an increasingly impatient judge who has seemingly grown tired of the actress’ inability to complete the terms of her sentence, or appear in court on time.

Lohan’s fate is far from decided though. The hearing Tuesday morning is likely to feature testimony and evidence about her conduct and progress with her probation. Los Angeles County district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said a prosecutor could still decide not to seek jail time for Lohan.

If Lohan is ordered jailed, she will be taken into custody immediately.

The length of her stay will be determined by Lohan’s sentence, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore said. He said inmates serving nonviolent offenses typically serve about a quarter

of their sentence, although several factors are considered.

Lohan spent 84 minutes in jail in 2007 after she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of being under the influence of cocaine and no contest to two counts of driving with a blood-alcohol level above 0.08 percent and one count of reckless driving. The plea came after a pair of high-profile arrests earlier that year.

She was sentenced to three years of probation, but had to ask for a yearlong extension in October after she failed to complete her alcohol-education courses on time. Prosecutor Danette Meyers warned Lohan at the time that she would face jail time if she violated her proba-

tion. If the actress remains free she could lose a hated accessory — an ankle alcohol monitor that she has been required to wear since late May. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel revoked Lohan’s probation in May after the actress missed a court hearing to promote a film project at the Cannes Film Festival. Lohan claimed her passport was stolen, but Revel ordered her to wear the alcohol monitor upon her return. She also scheduled the evidentiary hearing that will be held Tuesday morning to determine whether Lohan violated her probation, and to what extent.

Weeks later, the monitor issued an alert after Lohan attended the MTV Movie Awards and its after-parties.

Revel promptly doubled Lohan’s bail to $200,000. Prosecutors called it an “alcohol-related” violation, but Lohan’s attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, downplayed the incident.

Chapman Holley was not available for comment last week.

Regardless of the outcome, Tuesday’s hearing won’t be the last reminder for Lohan of the court case and her arrests. She will soon be questioned about her drug use three years ago by civil attorneys representing a woman suing Lohan. The actress’ attorney persuaded a judge to delay that deposition until after Tuesday’s hearing so that her answers couldn’t be used against her in the criminal case.

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Singer Cheryl Cole in the hospital with malaria Associated Press Writer

LONDON – A spokesman for British singer and TV personality Cheryl Cole says she is being treated in a London hospital for malaria.

Publicist Sundraj Sreenivasan said Tuesday the 27-year-old performer will have to cancel all work commitments for the next week. Cole reportedly recently returned from a trip to Tanzania.

Britain’s tabloids reported that Cole, a judge along with Simon Cowell on the British reality talent show “The X Factor,” collapsed during a photoshoot for her album on Saturday.

The Sun newspaper said Tuesday that she had been in the hospital for two days, but her spokesman declined to offer further details.

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Soaring temps might press utilities in eastern US Associated Press Writer

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The picture show a kid is watching television

Too Much Screen Time Can Threaten Attention Span Too much time spent watching television and playing video games can double the risk of attention problems in children and young adults, new research finds. The study is the latest of many to point out the ill effects of excessive screen time, whether at the computer or the television.

Researcher Edward Swing, a graduate student at Iowa State University, compared participants who watched TV or played video games less than two hours a day — the recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics for children aged 2 and older — to those who watched more. “Those who exceeded the AAP recommendation were about 1.6 times to 2.2 times more likely to have greater than average attention problems,” he said.

The middle schoolers he studied were a little less likely than the col-

lege students to have attention problems with excess TV and video game participation. The study is published in the July issue of Pediatrics. Swing and his colleagues looked at two age groups. They assessed more than 1,300 children in the third, fourth and fifth grades over a 13-month time period.

They also looked at 210 college students for a one-time evaluation.

“The children were reporting their TV and video game use and the parents were also reporting TV and video game use,” Swing said. “The teachers were reporting attention problems,” he

said of the middle school students.

Teachers reported if children had problems staying on task, paying attention, if they interrupted other children’s work, or showed problems in other areas that reflected trouble with attention. College students did self-reports on their attention problems.

Middle school students spent an average of 4.26 hours a day watching TV or playing video games, the team found, while older students spent 4.82 hours daily. Previous studies have also linked screen time with attention problems. “There may well be a relation between television viewing and attention problems,” said Dr. David Elkind, professor emeritus of child development at Tufts University and author of The Power of Play.

NEW YORK – With a scorching holiday weekend in the rearview mirror, a real summer sizzle is about to wash over parts of the United States.

After an extended Fourth of July weekend when temperatures inched into at least the 90s from Maine to Texas and into the Southwest and Death Valley, the midAtlantic is embarking on a string of intensely hot days, with temperatures in some places closing in on 100-plus degrees.

Temperatures could reach as high as 102 degrees on Tuesday, meteorologists said, and Wednesday was forecast to be the most humid day of the stretch. And unlike on the long Independence Day weekend, when utilities had lower demand for power, the masses returning to work Tuesday amid the possible record-setting heat across the Northeast threatened to push utilities usage to record levels.

Demand was anticipated to increase when offices reopened Tuesday, said Bob McGee, spokesman for the Consolidated Edison utility in New York. Con Ed was preparing for peak usage to break

the record set on Aug. 2, 2006, he said.

In the East, warm air is “sitting over the top of us, and it’s not really going to budge much for the next day or two,” Brian Korty, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Camp Springs, Md., said Monday. After that, he said, a system coming in off the Atlantic Ocean would bring in cooler temperatures. Korty stressed that the danger from increasing temperatures was likely to grow.

“As the temperature and humidity both get higher, the stress it can put on the human body increases,” he said, “and therefore the higher the temperature and higher the humidity, the greater the chance of people having problems.”

One person affected was Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Tim Murray, who was hospitalized Monday evening after marching in five parades in 90degree heat over the holiday weekend and feeling under the weather, his spokesman said. Murray was in good spirits but was to stay overnight at a hospital in Worcester, 40 miles west of Boston, for observation, spokesman Kyle Sullivan said. The weekend heat also was blamed for at least one death.

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A child cools off in the East River during a visit to the Brooklyn Bridge Park, Monday, July 5, 2010, in New York.

Japanese lab finds ‘minute particles’ in asteroid pod Agence France Presse

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An artist’s impression of Japan’s space probe “Hayabusa” (Falcon) and an asteroid, called Itokawa in space. When Hayabusa was launched in 2003, the canister was open, meaning it may contain materials that originated on Earth, a JAXA spokesman said.

TOKYO – Japan’s space agency said Monday it has found “minute particles” of what it hopes is asteroid dust in the capsule of the space probe Hayabusa which returned to Earth last month. Scientists hope any dust samples from the potato-shaped asteroid Itokawa could help reveal secrets about the origins of the solar system.

“We have started the opening process of the sample container of Hayabusa since June 24, 2010 and confirmed there are minute particles,” the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said.

But the agency added it remained unclear whether the particles are contaminants from Earth or come from Itokawa, which the space probe landed on during its multi-billionkilometre (mile) journey. It is expected to take months to get the fi-

nal results of the analysis.

Hayabusa project manager Junichiro Kawaguchi said scientists believed materials from Earth were among the particles found in the pod.

“But it’s important that it wasn’t empty... I’m glad that there is the possibility” that some are from the asteroid, Kawaguchi told a press briefing.

Researchers have not fully opened the capsule yet but have found more than 10 specks visible to the naked eye, said another JAXA scientist, Toshifumi Mukai. Mukai conceded these particles may not have come from the asteroid.

“I have a feeling that they are not cosmic dust,” he said, adding that it was also possible that they were from deep space. Separately, an electron microscope found two more minute particles, estimated to be slightly bigger than 10 microns each, scientists said. One micron is one-millionth of a metre. When Hayabusa was

launched in 2003, the canister was open, meaning it may contain materials that originated on Earth, a JAXA spokesman said.

Technical problems plagued the journey of Hayabusa, which at one stage spun out of control and lost contact with JAXA for seven weeks, delaying the mission for three years until the asteroid and Earth re-aligned. When it finally latched onto the Itokawa asteroid, a pellet-firing system designed to stir up dust malfunctioned, leaving it unclear how much material the probe was able to gather.

After a seven-year space odyssey, the heatproof pod was fired back to Earth by the Hayabusa probe in June. Researchers at JAXA’s Sagamihara Campus near Tokyo, have been opening the multi-layered canister in cooperation with US space agency NASA.

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International

Germany wary of Spain’s team of talents Reuters

ERASMIA – Germany’s World Cup semi-final opponents Spain are far more dangerous than Argentina, with their game based on the world’s best teamwork and not just individual qualities, said coach Joachim Loew. Germany crushed the Argentines 4-0 in the last eight after stifling their playmaker Lionel Messi but Loew said European champions Spain were a completely different proposition.

“They are the country with the greatest consistency for the past two to three years,” the 50-year-old told reporters ahead of Wednesday’s showdown in Durban. “Spain do not have one Messi. They have more than one Messi. Especially in attack there are many players who can decide a game. Spain are not like England and Argentina, teams that make mistakes,” added Loew.

“They make very few mistakes in offence or defense so we have to force them to make those mistakes.”

Loew, who will need to replace suspended striker Thomas Mueller, singled out Spain midfielders Xavi and Andres Iniesta as the engine that needs to be switched off. “Spain’s midfield has a well-oiled axis with Iniesta and Xavi. But (Germany’s) Sami Khedira and (Bastian) Schweinsteiger are good as well so there will be a key situation there to carve out advantages.” Khedira, nursing a thigh muscle injury picked up in the quarter-final, should be fit for the match, said Loew.

The coach’s only injury real concern is striker Cacau, a possible replacement for Mueller. Loew said he could also opt to play Toni Kroos or

even Piotr Trochowski in his place.

SPANISH ADMIRATION

Spain coach Vicente del Bosque and his players have expressed their admiration for Germany, praising Loew’s success in building a side out of exciting new talent mixed with experienced campaigners. Del Bosque has indicated the European champions, who beat Germany in the Euro 2008 final, will stick with a fast-flowing, attacking style and, with the Germans employing similar tactics in South Africa, it should be an open, fluid match.

The form of Fernando Torres is a concern for Del Bosque, though he is likely to keep faith with the misfiring striker in a twin-pronged attack with World Cup top scorer David Villa.

Midfielder Cesc Fabregas hurt a shoulder after coming off the bench in the 1-0, quarter-final win over Paraguay but has said he will take a pain-killing injection to be available.

“We know we are on the verge of realizing something that is the dream of any child, or any player,” goalkeeper Pepe Reina told a news conference on Monday. “Just two more matches now, we are very close.”

Villa’s goals lead Spain’s World Cup march Associated Press Writer

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa – After missing out on Spain’s European Championship victory two years ago, striker David Villa will get another chance to play against Germany — this time in a World Cup semifinal.

Villa, the leading scorer among all players in South Africa with five goals, also topped Euro 2008 — with four goals.

But he hurt his leg during Spain’s semifinal win over Russia and missed the final, where Fernando Torres scored to beat Germany 1-0 in Vienna.

“We beat Germany two years ago and I don’t think they are happy to meet us again,” Villa said. “But we have to forget about that game.

Without a World Cup (win), it’s like we’ve achieved nothing.”

Villa has been Spain’s most reliable source of goals since his debut in 2005, and the 28year-old forward is just one

away from matching Raul Gonzalez’s Spanish record of 44.

“I’m happy with my five goals because they’ve been decisive,” said Villa, Spain’s all-time leading World Cup scorer with eight goals. “It’s also different because when you win by a lot of goals it doesn’t hold the same feeling as winning this way.”

Villa’s goal-scoring record is what prompted Barcelona to pay a reported $50 million to Valencia for the Asturias native, who scored 32 times in 50 games last season. His record speaks for itself: 43 goals in 63 games for Spain, and 160 goals in 258 club games over the past five seasons.

“He’s been very, very important for us, a key for Spain scoring a lot of goals,” Torres said.

“He gives us the opportunity to go forward and think about winning the World Cup.” The threat of Torres has helped Villa, who has the ability to find space between opponents defenses to get free and score many of his goals, with either the left or right foot.

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Germany’s coach Joachim Loew (L), defender Jerome Boateng (2nd from L), midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger (2nd from R) and defender Dennis Aogo attend a training session at the Super stadium in Atteridgeville near Pretoria on July 5, 2010. Germany faces Spain on July 7 for their 2010 World Cup semi-final match.

Semi-final is Spain’s biggest-ever match - Casillas Reuters

POTCHEFSTROOM – Spain’s World Cup semi-final against Germany is the most important soccer match in the nation’s history, more important even than their Euro 2008 victory, according to captain Iker Casillas. Their triumph two years ago, when they beat Germany in the final in Vienna, was their first major trophy in 44 years but goalkeeper Casillas said that was now part of history and the Spanish people wanted more.

“People are not telling us how good we were at Euro 2008,” Casillas said in an interview published on the Spanish soccer federation’s website (www.rfef.es) on Monday. “People are saying we have to win the World Cup. The people want the World Cup,” he added.

“We know that the Germany match is the most important in our history, even more than the Euro 2008 final in Austria.” Spain have already made history by progressing to a World Cup knockout semi-final for the first time and play the Germans on Wednesday in Durban for a place in the final at Johannesburg’s Soccer City stadium on July 11.

The Spanish finished fourth at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil when the competition had a different format, with a group phase followed by a mini league of four teams deciding who advanced to the final.

“We did not come here to finish fourth,” Casillas said. “The European championships is in the past and was a complete success, it was fantastic,”

he added. “Everyone was flying the (Spanish) flag from the rooftops but now, from what we are seeing, this is the most important match for Spain for a very long time.”

TEAMWORK COUNTS

Casillas said he had been surprised that some of the world’s best forwards, including current World Player of the Year Lionel Messi and his immediate predecessor Cristiano Ronaldo, had exited the tournament

in South Africa early.

“This shows that a national team is not at all about only one player,” said Casillas, who plays with Ronaldo at La Liga club Real Madrid.

“A player can win you a tournament, like Argentina and (Diego) Maradona (in Mexico in 1986) but today, more and more, the team is what counts. “A player can perform very well but at the end of the day everything is based around teamwork.”

AFP PHOTO / LLUIS GENE

Spain’s goalkeeper Iker Casillas (L) and coach Vicente Del Bosque (R) take part in a training session at the North West University Sports Village in Pochefstroom on July 4, 2010 a day after Spain beat Paraguay 1-0 in their 2010 World Cup quarterfinal football match.

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Chavanel in yellow as Schlecks, Armstrong crash Agence France Presse

SPA, Belgium – Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel claimed the leader’s yellow jersey after winning yet another crash-marred stage of the Tour de France as the peloton called a truce in the wet Belgian Ardennes. US rider Christian Vande Velde was forced out of the race after breaking two ribs and suffering eye injuries after crashing twice.

Vande Velde was among three team riders, including American Tyler Farrar and New Zealand’s Julian Dean, from the team who were taken to hospital for checks after dozens of competitors crashed on the slippery descents in the latter half of the 201km ride from Brussels to Spa in the Belgian Ardennes.

“I’m not sure what I hit; I think it might have been a pole,” said 34-year-old Vande Velde, who had finished fourth on the Tour de France in 2008 and eighth in 2009 and had high hopes for this year’s race.

“At that point my eye was bleeding pretty badly and the pain in my side and my back was excruciating. I got back on the bike though... I tried to stay with that

group, but the pain was too much and I couldn?t get out of the saddle to make it back on.”

He added: “No one wants to leave the Tour de France. I’m indescribably disappointed to not be starting tomorrow. I don?t ever want to have to see another day like today, whether I?m in the race or not.”

Spilled oil from a motorbike which crashed ahead of the peloton is being blamed for the high number of accidents, with seven-time winner Lance Armstrong, reigning champion Alberto Contador and last year’s runner-up Andy Schleck all escaping unhurt despite hitting the tarmac.

To believe Team Sky manager Dave Brailsford, whose main yellow jersey contender is British

Olympic pursuit champion Bradley Wiggins, it was total madness.

“It was ridiculously slippy,” said Brailsford. “They were coming down the last couple of descents and there were guys in the trees. “It was carnage in the true sense of the word. Sixty guys must have crashed in different places.”

Swiss Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara started the day with the yellow jersey but after the Schlecks, his teammates at Saxo Bank, crashed he decided enough was enough.

Numerous spills had marred the first stage on Sunday, so a day ahead of a third stage which feature seven treacherous cobblestone sectors - and likely more crash drama - the peloton laid down their arms.

Stoudemire agrees to sign with Knicks Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – While the top free agents are pondering their futures, the New York Knicks gave them something to think about. If LeBron James or Dwyane Wade comes to New York now, a dominant big man will be there waiting. Amare Stoudemire agreed Monday to sign with the Knicks for nearly $100 million, vowing to lead a rebirth in New York that the team hopes won’t have to be done alone.

“This could help get the dominoes falling and he’d be a great teammate for somebody,” Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni said. “We went after a very, very good free agent and you can’t tell what’s in other people’s minds, but we do know that if you’re serious about winning, we’ve got a piece that helps you do that.”

The Knicks said they intend to sign Stoudemire to a contract later this week when the free agent moratorium period ends. His agent, Happy Walters, said the deal is for the maximum allowed, which would be about $99.7 million over five years.

Stoudemire has already started recruiting, saying he spoke to James’ people and directly to Wade last

week. He plans to pitch them again, but insisted he won’t be affected if those players say no to New York.

“Totally comfortable, totally confident that my leadership qualities will uplift all of us to do something great this upcoming season,” Stoudemire said.

“So again, the Knicks are back.” The deal can’t be signed until Thursday, after the salary cap for next season has been set.

It was a desperately needed score in free agency for the Knicks, who had signs that pictured Stoudemire in their uniform and reading “Welcome, Amare Stoudemire” all over the entrances of Madison Square Garden. After spending two seasons clearing enough cap space to afford two top players, they met with James, Wade and Chris Bosh last week, and believe they could still land one of them.

The move reunites Stoudemire with D’Antoni, his former coach in Phoenix. Stoudemire averaged more than 20 points in every season they were together and immediately becomes the best player D’Antoni has coached since leaving the Suns after the 2007-08 season.

Amare Stoudemire is interviewed inside Madison Square Garden on Monday, July 5, 2010, in New York.

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France’s Sylvain Chavanel celebrates on the finish line as he wins the 201 km and second stage of the 2010 Tour de France cycling race run between Brussels and Spa. Chavanel claimed the leader’s yellow jersey after a gutsy ride in a second stage that witnessed a number of high-profile crashes.

Soeda topples Dent in ATP Hall of Fame Agence France Presse

NEWPORT, Rhode Island – Japan’s Go Soeda toppled eighth seed and former champion Taylor Dent in the first round of the ATP Hall of Fame tournament Monday - and admitted he could barely believe he’d pulled off the upset. “I saw the draw - Taylor Dent,” said the 25-year-old, who broke Dent in the final game to seal the 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 victory. “I can’t believe I won this.”

“I?m happy,” said Soeda, who notched his first ATP Tour-level match victory since 2008 in Beijing.” The victory comes not long after Soeda made his ATP grasscourt debut as a qualifier at Wimbledon, where he fell in the first round.

The Hall of Fame tournament is the only grasscourt event in North American, and is played in conjunction with the Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

The 2010 class of Gigi Fernandez, doubles pair Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde, and Brad Parks are to be enshrined on Saturday.

Fourth-seeded Olivier Rochus of Belgium, who pushed Novak Djokovic to five sets at Wimbledon, advanced with a 7-6 (7/2), 6-4 victory over France’s Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

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Japan’s Go Soeda has toppled eighth seed and former champion Taylor Dent in the first round of the ATP Hall of Fame tournament.

The 25-year-old has admitted that he could barely believe he’d pulled off the upset.

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Alonso optimistic of strong Silverstone Fernando Alonso is optimistic of a good result at Silverstone this weekend although the Spaniard admits that the new-look layout at the Northamptonshire circuit may not be well-suited to Ferrari’s F10.

Alonso heads for the British GP eager to continue the run of success enjoyed by Spanish sportsmen in recent weeks, with the nation’s football team having reached the World Cup semi-finals, Rafael Nadal having won Wimbledon and Jorge Lorenzo having taken a dominant MotoGP win at Catalunya.

While the double champion admits that the new Arena circuit may not be ideally suited to Ferrari, he remains optimistic of being able to fight towards the front with no-one knowing where they really stand until the cars hit the track for the first time.

“At Silverstone, we will discover a circuit whose final section has been modified,” he said. “Along

with the engineers, we have spent these few days studying all the characteristics of the new track layout, analysing the available information, including watching the motorcycle races held there a few weeks ago.

“On Thursday morning, again with my engineers, we will inspect the track to see everything in detail, looking especially for bumps on the racing line. The track seems reasonably similar to the way it was, with a lot of very fast corners, which will not suit us that much. However, it’s a fact that the configuration of the F10 seen in Valencia should give us a boost in these quick corners, so it is best to wait and see where we will be: I remain optimistic. Then, there is always a chance of rain playing

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its part at Silverstone.

“I would be very surprised to have a completely dry weekend and we will be ready to tackle any situation that comes our way.” Alonso added that further upgrades would be added onto the F10 this weekend at the start of what is a crucial run of races in the fight for the title.

“It is a crucial moment in the season, with three races coming up in the space of four weeks,” he said.

“We are ready, both on the technical front and physically. In Valencia, we introduced significant updates on the F10 and there will be more in Silverstone and the races after that.

“The development programme is intensive and I think we will see it produce results. We have also prepared very carefully from the physical point of view, given that the next events are all very close and one needs to be at a hundred per cent all the time.”

Dovizioso takes fight to Lorenzo, but falls Against expectation it was sixth on the grid Andrea Dovizioso who took the fight to dominant MotoGP title leader Jorge Lorenzo in Sunday’s Catalan Grand Prix. While Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa and Ducati’s Casey Stoner dropped out of victory contention by running wide, on lap one and six respectively, Dovizioso stuck doggedly with Lorenzo until lap 15 of 25.

It was then that Dovizioso’s best dry race in MotoGP effectively came to an end, as he slid off his

RCV at the end of the back straight.

The Italian remounted to collect just two points for 14th, but remains third in the championship.

“Today we had a really good race pace and we could have fought with Lorenzo for the win at the end of the race,” said Dovizioso. “Unfortunately though, from lap one my rear brake was not really working properly in the last part of the corner entry and this gave me some problems entering corners and mid corner.

“I was still able to be fast, but this

issue put more weight on the front, it was very difficult to control - I was always at the limit. Then at turn nine of 15 lap I went a little bit over the limit and crashed.

“It’s a pity but I have to take the positives from today - and fighting at the front of the race is where we want to be and we achieved that for a time today. Anyway, I’m happy with my performance, and I’m sorry for the team because we are all working hard. Next time we’ll aim to be back up front again.”

Repsol Honda’s Team Italian Andrea Dovizioso leaves the pits during the Moto GP qualifying session of the Catalunya Grand Prix at the Catalunya racetrack on July 3, 2010 in Montmelo, near Barcelona.

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Ferrari’s Spanish driver Fernando Alonso drives at the Valencia Street circuit on June 27, 2010, during the Formula One Grand Prix of Europe.