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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Res-cue workers struggled Sunday tosave more than 27,000 people stilltrapped by massive flooding inPakistan’s northwest that has killedover 900 people and destroyedthousands of homes, officials said.

The effort has been aided by aslackening of the monsoon rainsthat have caused the worst flood-ing in decades in Khyber-

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Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former US president Bill Clinton, is pictured during her marriage ceremony with Marc Mezvinskyon July 31, 2010 in Rhinebeck, New Yotk. Chelsea Clinton married her longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky, ending weeks ofsecretive build-up about the former first daughter’s wedding.

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RHINEBECK, N.Y. – It was high society inside and high security outside as Chelsea Clintonwed her longtime boyfriend at an elegant estate in a Hudson River village where several promi-nent guests were spotted beforehand, but the husband-and-wife-to-be stayed out of sight.

with investment banker MarcMezvinsky, and a few photographswere later released to media outlets.

Chelsea Clinton, wearing astrapless white gown with a fullskirt and silver beading around thewaist and carrying a bouquet of

white flowers, was escorted downthe aisle by her father. The formerpresident and the groom wore darksuits, while the mother of the bridewore a fuchsia dress.

The event was the culmination ofweeks of secrecy and buildup that

drew onlookers to the small villageof Rhinebeck, 90 miles north ofNew York City.

It is estimated that hundreds ofguests gathered at the historic estatenear the end of a near-perfect summerday of warm temperatures, blue skiesand cottony clouds. The ceremony wasconducted by a rabbi and a reverendas Chelsea Clinton is Methodist andMezvinsky is Jewish, and included apoem by Leo Marks titled, “The LifeThat I Have,” according to the family.

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The most important buildings inBesakih Temple are Padma Tigashrines (Padmasana). They are lo-cated in the complex of PenataranAgung Temple. Those shrines con-sist of three buildings in the formof Padmasana, standing on a singlealtar.

A religious and cultural observer,Ida Bagus Gede Agastia, said thatthe sacred shrines of PadmasanaTiga in Besakih Temple denoted aplace of worship to Tri Purushacomprising the Shiva, Sada Shivaand Parama Shiva (God Almighty).Anniversary of the Padmasana Tigawas held every Purnama Kapat orfull moon falling around Septem-ber. It had something to do with thengapat tradition. Sasih Kapat orKartika coincided with the momentswhen flowers were blooming -kartika penedengan sari.Padmasana was built on one altaror yoni.

Ida Bagus Agastia said thePadmasana shrine stood for theabode of God. The word Padmasanawas derived from the words padmaand asana. Padma means lotus andasana means seat or throne. So,Padmasana means an abode to sitor a lotus throne. Lord Shiva—theAlmighty One and the Omnipotentsymbolically enthroned on the seator lotus throne or Padmasana.Padmasana denoted a symbol of pu-rity with astadala or eight-leaved lo-tus. Bali Dwipa or Bali Island was

Padma Tiga shrines at Besakih,Padma Tiga shrines at Besakih,Padma Tiga shrines at Besakih,Padma Tiga shrines at Besakih,Padma Tiga shrines at Besakih,worship of God as Tri Purushaworship of God as Tri Purushaworship of God as Tri Purushaworship of God as Tri Purushaworship of God as Tri Purusha

Besakih Temple poses the biggest temple in Bali. According to the Charter of Besakih, it is knownas the Sari Padma Bhuwana or axis of the world symbolized with lotus flowers. Therefore, BesakihTemple becomes the center to purify the world along with its entire contents. Similarly, BesakihTemple is the hub of activity for Hindu religious ceremonies. In this temple every 10 years is orga-nized the Panca Bali Krama ceremony, while every 100 years is held Eka Dasa Rudra ceremony.Besakih Temple spiritually constitutes the source of holiness and safety for the Hindus.

envisioned by the ancient Hindurishis as a Padmasana, seat of LordShiva, God Almighty with His eightmagic power (eight-omnipotence)stretching into the eight directions(asta dala) of Island Bali along withits respective ruling gods.

Lord Ishvara was in the East di-rection residing in the LempuyangTemple; Brahma in the South dwell-ing in Andakasa Temple; LordMahadeva in the west (BatukaruTemple), Vishnu in the North (BaturTemple), Maheshvara in the South-east (Goa Lawah Temple); Rudra inthe Southwest (Uluwatu Temple);Shankar in the Northwest (PuncakMangu Temple); Sambhu in theNortheast (Besakih Temple); andShiva was residing in the middle, onthe altar of the Besakih Temple withHis Tri Purusha namely ParamaShiva, Sada Shiva and Shiva. TriPurusha was revered in PadmasanaTiga in Besakih.

“Padmasana Tiga shrines denotethe essence of the padma bhuwanaemitting holiness to all directions.On that account, it is an importantsource of holiness that is necessaryto maintain as a source of life,” heobserved.

Meanwhile, the development ofBesakih Temple and other SadKahyangan temples are based on thePadma-mandala conception or lotusflower with multi-layered strands(Catur Lawa and Astadala). BesakihTemple is sari padma mandala or

padma bhuwana. Gelap Temple,Kiduling Kerteg Temple, UlunKulkul Temple and BatumadegTemple are the Catur Lawa. Mean-while, Lempuyang Temple, GoaLawah Temple, Andakasa Temple,Uluwatu Temple, Batukaru Temple,Mangu Temple, and Batur Templeare the Astadala. Those temples arehighly sanctified and become asingle unity. The temples themselvesserve as the center of sanctity andsafety for Hindu devotees.

In the meantime, a lecturer ofHindu Dharma Institute of Denpasar(IHDN), Ketut Wiana, said thatBesakih temple served as the up-stream of Bali or Bali Rajya.Besakih Temple served as the heador the soul of the Island of Bali. Itwas in accordance with the locationof Besakih Temple in northeasternof Bali. Northeast was the directionof the rising sun along with its raysas one of the forces of nature cre-ated by God became the source oflife on earth. Besakih Temple alsoserved as the upstream of varioustemples in Bali.

Wiana added, in the PadmasanaTiga God was worshiped as SangHyang Tri Purusha— Three mani-festations of God as the soul of theuniverse. Tri means three andpurusha means soul. God as the TriPurusha is the supreme soul of thethree layers of universe namely bhurloka (the lowest sphere), bhuvahloka (central sphere) and svah loka

(upper sphere). God as ruler of thelower sphere was called Shiva orIshvara. As the soul of the middle ofnature, God was called Shiva andSadha Shiva and as the supreme soulof the upper sphere, God was calledParama Shiva or Parameshvara.

The rightmost Padma shrine wasthe abode of Lord Parama Shiva,namely God as the soul of SvahLoka. The shrine was usually deco-rated with black clothes because thehighest sphere (svah-loka) was un-attainable by sunlight so it was black.Padma shrine located in the middlewas symbol of the veneration to LordSadha Shiva. Clothing worn by thepadma shrine was white. It repre-sented the color of ether. Meanwhile,the leftmost padma shrine was sym-bol of worship to Shiva, the God asthe soul of Bhur Loka embellishedwith red clothes. It was in Bhur Lokathe Lord put His creations in theform of stavira (plants), janggama(animals) and humans. On that ac-count, Padma Tiga shrines weremeans of worshipping God as thesoul of the Tri Loka (Bhur Loka,Bhuvah Loka and Svah Loka).Therefore, in the rwa-bhineda (el-ementary dualism) conception,Besakih Temple served as Purusha(universal cosmic male), while BaturTemple as Prakriti (the Mother Na-ture).

According to Wiana, the blackattire on Padma Tiga shrines wasnot the symbol of the Lord Vishnu,but Parama Shiva. In Rig-VedaMantra was stated the existence ofAlmighty God including the uni-verse was a quarter sections only.The rest was outside of the universe.Existence outside the universe wasvery dark, because it was notreached by sunlight. God was also

omnipresent outside the dark uni-verse. God as Supreme Soul whowas present outside the universewas called Parama Shiva. ParamaShiva was in the state of NirgunaBrahman or without properties.Human being was impossible todescribe the attributes of the GodAlmighty. Meanwhile, Padmasanalocated in the center, dressed inwhite-yellow was symbol of God inthe state of Saguna Brahman. Itmeant that God had shown abstractfeatures to create a sacred and pros-perous life. Then, white symbolizedpurity and yellow symbolized wel-fare. In the meantime, the red clothof the leftmost Padmasana did notsymbolize the Lord Brahma. Thered color depicted the existence ofGod in the state of activity for Utpati(generating), Stithi (operating) andPralina (decomposing). In this re-gard, Lord Shiva manifested intoTrinity.

Meanwhile, within the complexof Besakih Temple, the manifesta-tion of God as Lord Brahma wasworshiped at the Kiduling KretegTemple, Lod Vishnu at BatumadegTemple and the Lord Ishvara atGelap Temple. At the level ofPadma Bhuwana temple, LordVishnu was worshiped at BaturTemple symbolizing the ruling godsin the north. Lord Ishvara was wor-shiped in the Lempuyang Templesymbolizing the ruling gods in aneasterly direction and Lord Brahmawas worshiped at the AndakasaTemple symbolizing the ruling godsin the south direction. In the mean-time, at the level of customary vil-lage or desa pakraman, the Trinitygods were revered at three villagetemples known as Kahyangan Tigatemples. (08)

Negara (Bali Post)—Bali Veterinary Agency de-

clared Jemberana as an endemicarea of rabies disease in dog. Itwas known after Jembrana Re-gency sent 10 samples of dog’sbrain on last July 23 throughJemberana Agricultural, Forestryand Maritime Services for labo-ratory testing. In fact, based on

Prompt action of Jemberana to handle rabiesthe lab results it was known the 7samples tested were positively con-taminated by rabies disease.

In order to prevent the spread ofrabies disease to broader areas, lastSaturday (Jul 31), Rabies DiseaseControl Team from Jemberana Ag-ricultural, Forestry and MaritimeServices took prompt action by ex-ploring the first target at Yehembang

Village, Mendoyo subdistrict andeliminated 77 dogs.

Field Coordinator of Rabies Elimi-nation in Dog, I Wayan Sueastika, saidthat Yehembang Village was an areawhere the samples of dog taken wereproven to be positive to rabies, particu-larly at the Wali Hamlet amounted toone dog and another at Pasar Hamlet.

According to him, implementation

of the elimination to wild dogs did notencounter many difficulties since hisparty had made socialization in advanceaccordingly to the village officials.

“Owners of the pet dogs who haveperformed vaccination should marktheir dog by label or a belt wornaround the neck. By doing so, theelimination team would be easier todistinguish which dogs to be elimi-

nated,” he hoped.Sueastika said the elimination

and socialization of his teamwould be continued to more vil-lages by targeting two subdistrictsnamely Pekutatan subdistrict(Gumbrih and Medewi Village),while at Mendoyo subdistrict(Yehembang and YehembangKangin Village). (120)

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According to Bali Post notes,coming in 2010 the pretima robberycases increased in Gianyar. Approxi-mately seven pura (Balinese Hindutemple) were victims and Policehaven’t found its way out in reveal-ing who have done it. Even last Sun-day, in a night the robber wentthrough three pura in SamplanganVillage.

Police admitted are having dif-ficulties in finding the robber. Firstthey want to find the evidencewhich is the missing pretima yetthis is hard as the kind and modelof the pretima is hard to find. “Weare having difficulties in identify-ing the kind and model of the Pura

Flood disaster experienced byDenpasar residents deserves to getthe attention from all componentsof society. Specifically the ranksof Denpasar Municipality have aduty to provide the comfort forcitizens when the rainy seasonarrives. Moreover, in recent years,flooding has become a regular di-saster at some points of the cul-ture-based city. It was proven bythe rain flushing Denpasar, lastWednesday (Jul 28) night untilThursday (Jul 29) early morning,undoubtedly made some points inDenpasar engulfed by flood.Ironically, some areas becomingregular destination of floods werere-immersed. What action willDenpasar Municipality take in thefuture?

After the floods hit SidakaryaVillage and some regions ofDenpasar at the beginning of last2009, similar disaster happenedagain. At least, 12 points of loca-tion were engulfed by flood. As aresult of this incident, two schoolswere forced to dismiss their teach-ing and learning activities. Bothschools were elementary schoolSD 11 and SD 13 Padangsambian.Students at both schools weregiven days off because theirschools were submerged by floodsand mud remained to covered mostparts of the walls. In addition, theAgency of Regional Disaster Man-agement (BPBD) of Denpasar re-corded at least four cows ownedby residents drifted to the death.

The more serious conditioneven afflicted one of the residentsof Jalan Kebo Iwa, Gang Citarum,West Denpasar, namely NengahKari. His kamulan taksu shrineswere eroded by the flood. As con-sequence, no single unit of hisshrines was left. Four units of hissacred shrines were destroyed bythe floods. Besides, his kitchen andbathroom also collapsed anderoded by the water of BuanaRiver.

In response to these events, theranks of Denpasar Municipalityimmediately held a meeting led bythe Secretary of Denpasar Munici-pality AA Rai Iswara with otherrelevant agencies. In the meeting,related agencies were required totake strategic measures to providean emergency action in handlingthe disaster.

The Head of Denpasar PublicWorks, I Ketut Winarta, met in hisoffice, last Friday (Jul 30), said thehandling of floods in Denpasar hadbeen carried out in synergy withother relevant agencies. Moreover,the river area belonged to the author-ity of provincial government. On thataccount, his party would remain tomake coordination with its superior.However, in the near future there hadbeen a program to make sewerage

Post-flood plan of Public Work Services:Making sewerage network atupstream, retarding basinhampered by land

network at upstream of local settle-ment in the region of Jalan PuraDemak. It would connect the TebaRiver and emptied out into BadungRiver by passing through BuaganDam. “This sewerage network willbe able to reduce the overflowingwater into the settlement area,” saidWinarta last Friday.

In keeping with Winarta’s opin-ion, one of the residents of Jalan PuraDemak, Wayan Budi, recognized thesewerage network at the upstream oflocal settlement would help reducethe water flowing into the territory.Because, the position of this new resi-dential area was lower than the ri-verbed. “This location had indeedbeen low, so it’s hard to avoid theflood,” said Wayan Budi.

Apart from sewerage network,Winarta would also conduct a basicdredging on the riverbed of MatiRiver located in the northern part ofthe settlements of Jalan Pura Demak.At this moment, the dredged river-bed was only undertaken in the south-ern part. “We have not dredged theriverbed in the north of the settle-ment,” explained the official fromTabanan.

Meanwhile, in relation to the de-velopment plan of retarding basin inthe downstream of Denpasar Cityseemed difficult to be materialized.The plan was still hampered by theavailability of land. At least, this floodprevention project would need 15hectares of land. In the meantime, theland used for the retarding basin de-velopment project located in the vi-cinity Subak Dadas, Jalan GunungSoputan, Padang Sambian Kelod wasentirely the property right of commu-nity. “That’s why we still encounteran obstacle in the matter of land,” saidWinarta.

The idea on the making of retard-ing basin, Winarta added, actuallyhad been initiated within the past fewyears. In following up of the plan,Bali Province would help finance theland acquisition used for parking lotof the water since it would cover tworegencies. If 15 hectares of land avail-able, possibly it would be divided intofive hectares each to Bali Province,Badung Regency and Denpasar City.Burden of the land acquisition wasfully delivered to regional govern-ments, while all constructions re-quired would be helped by WorkingUnit of Housing and Settlement De-velopment (P2P), Department ofPublic Works through the funds ofthe national budget.

“We hope that this developmentcould be realized. However, it needstime and understanding of the com-munity because retarding basinplanned to be built will provide tre-mendous benefits, not only for han-dling floods, but also supporting theraw water of Municipality Water-works (PDAM) and recharge area ofthe city,” he said. (ara)

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Beauty can stop everyone’s eyesflickering. Beauty of the kid songcan lullaby a baby. Similarly, beautyalso can toss the imagination, soothethe mind and draw people to getnear. Bali has many sources of thatbeauty offering the charm of nature,culture or adventure.

By maintaining traditions in-spired by Hinduism, Balinesepeople go on running in harmonywith the time. In other words, theydo not feel inferior because of in-heriting those traditions. Beauty inthe form of various dance move-ments has been introduced sinceearly ages. On seeing a dance staged,a toddler may watch it attentivelyor its fingers move and move as ifimitating the movement of thedance.

Virtually all customary villagesin Bali have gamelan troupe. Thistroupe plays important role in ex-pressing their entertainment arts andaccompanying every ritual activity.This existence gives opportunity tovillagers from child to adult to ex-press their artistic talent especiallyin dance, drama and gamelan arts.Young girls under twelve or elemen-tary school age have a chance toparticipate in performing RejangDance. By wearing white and yel-low costumes and floral decorationon head, they dance beautifully ac-companied by gamelan music.Rejang Dance is one of the sacreddances performed in relation to theorganization of temple anniversary

Police succeed in revealing robbery cases with tourists as victims in some villas at Gianyarwere not all. Now their homework started in investigating the pretima (religious statues) robberybeen happening lately. The robbers seem to be mocking the police to work harder to capturethem. So what have the police done so far?

pretima stolen,” Head of GianyarPolice Sector, Great Adjunct PoliceCommissioner I Ketut Suardanaconfirmed last Saturday (31/7).

In the future, the Pura guardianshould document the pretima sothe kind and model will be known.At least with a photo, it is clearwhat is to be found. The problemnow is the police never seen thepretima straight away and to findit is hard as there are many kind ormodel of this sacred item in Bali,“If there’s a photo of it, at leastfinding the evidence will beeasier.”

Besides documenting it ,Suardana through his lower staffs,

has asked village officials and puraguardians to increase supervisionfor the pura and its surroundings.To anticipate, police needs resi-dents’ involvement to protect theplace’s safety including swakarsasafeties in every village.

Suardana is now forming a spe-cial team in revealing this case asthis has been an uncomfortablesituation for the residents. Instruc-tion to shoot on location maybecan be done if needed. Also alarmsystem for the pretima savingwhich has been socialised to theRegent and connecting officials ishoped can be done to anticipateanother similar case. (kmb16)

Balinese women:In devotional services through the arts

or odalan. Other than putting a ba-sic love to their tradition, they alsoshow devotional service or ngaturayah through the arts.

When they grow older, right onentering secondary school, they joincustomary village youth club orSekaa Taruna. Here, with their malefriends and their brothers and sistersstart to learn about organization.Many things can be learned throughthis organization. Since it has affili-ation to customary village, they canlearn about the making of somesimple oblation under guidance ofsenior oblation maker and varioustraditional arts. In Bali, this youthclub actually play important role inpreparing young generation to main-tain their valuable cultural heritagesor to prepare themselves for inherit-ing customary responsibility.

With their male counterpart, herethe young girls also learn to playdrama or more complex traditionalarts. Popular genres of performanceshowed are pure entertainment andthe one in combination with sacreddance. The latter usually featuresCalonarang. This magical drama in-volves a combination of male andfemale players. In essence, thisCalonarang drama highlights theendless fight between truth and un-truth symbolizing by sanctified ef-figies or tapakan like Rangda andBarong. By and large, it is also as-sociated with ritual events at localtemple.

In the following stage, when

woman gets married she will enterthe new organization, namely cus-tomary village. Having learnedmuch about ritual works, it is nowthe time to practice them in widersocial life. They should attend somesocio-religious activities when theevents engage the members of cus-tomary village. At this stage, house-hold mother can remain to show herdevotional service through the artsother than social works. Through thearts, they may join the drama or in-dividual psalmodic singing orpasantian.

How is about their private life?It is normal as others. They alsohave opportunity to build career intheir profession. In modern lifewith heterogeneous professions astoday, woman also works as mendo. Traditions do not impede themto reach outstanding achievementin self-employee or office job. Ifthey work at daytime, some socialworks will be held at the evening.

Tradition is not something ob-solete. Even, it retains abundantinspirations to create somethingnew and creative that is advanta-geous for modern life. However,traditions should also be reviewedand adjust to the current condi-tion without leaving behind itscore. Tradition does not hinderwomen to get their careerachievement. Even, it stays togive them a channel to expresstheir spiritual sense through de-votional services. (BTN/punia)

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The Islamist Hamas movementruling Gaza linked the flare-up ofviolence to Arab foreign ministers’support for the principle of directtalks with Israel, saying Palestinianswere “paying the price for (their)great error.”

A spokesman for the Israeli mili-tary confirmed the strikes targetedtwo tunnels used to smuggle armsinto the Islamist Hamas-run enclave.

Palestinian medics said one per-son had been lightly injured in theovernight strike on the tunnels.

Late on Saturday, Gaza militantsfired a second rocket on Israel in twodays, with the makeshift projectileexploding near Sderot, causing dam-age at a university building but nocasualties.

Israeli cabinet minister BenjaminBen Eliezer told army radio that thearmy was “not going to sit there withits arms crossed in the face of theseattacks,” but that its response wouldbe measured.

“We do not want to set off an es-calation because that is exactly whatHamas wants, which is why our re-sponse is hard but limited,” he said.

Hamas meanwhile condemnedthe “Israeli aggression” and reiter-ated its opposition to the relaunch

AFP

Palestinian children play close to one of two smuggling tunnels damaged in two pre-dawn Israeli air strikes

AFPSYDNEY, Australia (AFP) – Aus-

tralian Prime Minister Julia Gillardstruggled Sunday to put her electioncampaign back on track after a pollshowed her heading for defeat fol-lowing a series of damaging leaks.

But just as she moved to re-focusattention for the August 21 electionon policy, her campaign was over-shadowed by claims her predecessorKevin Rudd was once used by rivalpoliticians as a “double agent” to leakinformation about his own party.

Gillard, Australia’s first womanprime minister, who came to powerjust five weeks ago in a party coupagainst Rudd, unveiled plans Sundayfor a low-fee pensions scheme thatwould help boost flagging retirementfunds.

“It’s part of the sharp contrast be-tween a re-elected Gillard govern-ment and what (opposition leader)Tony Abbott would do if he waselected prime minister,” she said.

The centre-left leader pledged thatif her Labor Party is re-elected, work-ers on average incomes would seetheir retirement savings grow by40,000 Australian dollars (36,000US) under the new superannuation

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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Israeli warplaneslaunched two pre-dawn raids on tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip onSunday after Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel.

of direct peace talks between theWestern-backed Palestinian leaderMahmud Abbas and Israel.

Arab foreign ministers meetingin Cairo last week had lent their sup-port to the principle of talks whileleaving their timing up to Abbas, asinternational pressure mounted onthe Palestinians to return to face-to-face talks.

“Our people in Gaza are payingthe price for the great error and po-litical mistake committed by theArab Peace Initiative follow-upcommittee against the Palestinianpeople,” Hamas spokesman FawziBarhum said.

He also criticised a letter from USPresident Barack Obama warningthat Abbas’ failure to return to di-rect talks could harm US-Palestin-ian relations. Palestinian officialshad revealed the contents of the let-ter on Saturday.

“The letter from Obama toMahmud Abbas revealed the false-hood of Obama’s policies and dis-appointed the Palestinian people. Itdeliberately harms the interests ofour people in favour of those of theZionist enemy and America.”

Hamas, which is blacklisted as aterrorist group by Israel, the United

States and the European Union, ispledged to Israel’s destruction andhas adamantly opposed peace talkssince they began in the early 1990s.

Israel routinely launches airstrikes after rocket attacks fromGaza. The strikes rarely kill anyone,but on Friday a raid killed a senior

Hamas military commander.That strike came after a rare mili-

tary-grade rocket fired from Gazaslammed into the southern Israeliport city of Ashkelon, damagingparked cars and shattering the win-dows of an apartment block but with-out wounding anyone.

Hamas vowed revenge forFriday’s raids that also wounded an-other eight people.

The Islamist movement hasruled Gaza since it drove out forcesloyal to Abbas in June 2007, split-ting the Palestinians into hostile ri-val camps.

Aussie PM struggles with election campaign

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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (centre) mingles with locals asshe arrives to make policy announcements.

scheme.Gillard, who is seeking a mandate

of her own after facing criticism overthe manner in which she seizedpower, conceded that her battle tokeep conservative Abbott out ofpower was a tough one.

“This is the fight of my life,”Gillard said late Saturday after thenew poll suggested Abbott’s Liberal

Party had for the first time pickedup an election-winning lead overLabor.

Labor’s support slumped to 48percent against the Liberal/Nationalcoalition’s 52 percent, Saturday’sNielsen poll showed, a six-percent-age point shift away from Laborwhich had until Saturday led in allpolls.

Gillard’s plunging popularity camein a week peppered by leaks from thecabinet room that undermined herposition on introducing paid parentalleave and raising pensions.

Rudd, who is recovering in hospi-tal from gallbladder surgery, has de-nied claims he was behind any of theleaks.

But his spectre hung over Gillard’scampaign when ex-Liberal foreignminister Alexander Downer wasquoted as saying his party “merci-lessly” used Rudd to leak compromis-ing information to media about La-bor a decade ago.

Rudd threatened legal action overthe claim, while his former deputyGillard lambasted the opposition overwhat she branded a “disgraceful po-litical attack” on the ailing Rudd.

“These are serious allegations...they are completely and utterly false,”a spokesman for Rudd said.

Downer issued a statement sayinghis comments had been “misinter-preted” and that he or his party hadnot used Rudd as “a so-called ‘doubleagent’ to leak material against othermembers of the Labor Party.”

But the latest political bombshellovershadowed Gillard’s superannua-

tion announcement, which was in-tended to be a return to business-as-usual.

Unleashing another blow againsther, a group of smaller mining firmslaunched a new advertising campaignagainst Gillard’s 30 percent resourcesprofits tax that she agreed with threegiant mining companies last month.

The smaller firms — which saythe scheme is unfair to them, a posi-tion supported by Abbott — howeversaid the campaign was not politicallymotivated.

Abbott, a devout Catholic andformer health minister, has seized onthe flow of leaks to say Labor “doesnot deserve to be re-elected” afterthree years in office during which heclaims it bungled policies.

An election defeat for Gillardwould put paid to plans to introducethe tax on iron ore and coal mines, tointroduce carbon-trading to fight cli-mate change and to build a 43 bil-lion Australian dollar broadband net-work. Abbott meanwhile brushed offcriticism of his constantly shiftingpositions on policy, includingwhether climate change exists, onpaid parental leave and on industrialrelations.

Hotel Activities Monday, August 2, 2010 5International

Australian Consulate GeneralJalan Tantular 32 Renon DenpasarPhone: +62 361 241118Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

The Czech RepublicJalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.286 465

France Consulate AgencyJalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.285 485

The Federal Republic of GermanyJalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.288 535

The Republic of HungaryJalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.287 701

Italian ConsulateJalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 005

Honorary Consulate of MexicoJalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.223 266

Honorary Consulate of The NetherlandsJalan Raya Kuta 127, BaliPhone +62.361.761 506

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

TAXIS

IMIGRATION

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SEMINYAK - Sofitel SeminyakBali keeping its commitment to trans-form every stay into a unique andunforgettable experience with theSofitel ‘art de vivre à la française’.

Following the Fitness Center ex-pansion, the hotel just opened thenew concept Lobby Lounge on Sun-day (18/7). The lounge located on

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KUTA - On Tuesday, 20 July 2010, Harris Resort Kuta invited theteam from Tri Hita Karana (THK) to give training to the Managementabout the concept and program. During the training, three assessors fromParhyangan division, Drs.I Ketut Wiana,M.Ag, Pawongan division -Prof.Dr I Wayan Windia, Palemahan division - Dr.KG. DharmaPutra.M.Sc gave brief presentation from each of THK section to the com-mittee and players of Harris Resort Kuta. The purpose of training is tobring more knowledge and awareness to the players and Management ofHarris Resort Kuta to better support the THK program. Last year HarrisResort Kuta won the Gold of Tri Hita Karana Tourism Award of 4 starsHotel.

Tri Hita KaranaTraining at HarrisResort Kuta

New Lobby Lounge at Sofitel Seminyak Bali3rd floor, right on top of the lobby.

Covering more than 440 square-meters area, the Lobby Lounge of-fers a spacious library or readingarea with more books selection,internet corner, TV area and gamecorner where the children can playvarious games on a wide LCD TV.Yet the best things are the snack barfor guests to order drinks and lightfood, and the Cigar Terrace.

Offering a selection of cigars fromaround the world, the terrace is aperfect place to enjoy the high-endlifestyle with a sip of cognac or goodwine and an outstanding view to lushtropical garden from the balcony.

Open daily from 7 a.m. to 11p.m., the Lobby Lounge is surelyoffering the hotel guests another fa-cility to savor the French luxuryduring their stay at Sofitel.

Denpasar

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

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Itsfacilities have improved since the emergency ward had beenbuilt in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become aproblem anymore since it has complete equipments. It islocated on Jl. KesehatanSelatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with :Phone : 227 911 – 15Fax : 226 363

Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters forless serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, ane-mia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equippedto care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl.Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.Phone : 223 036Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit)Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.Phone : 222 142.

HOSPITALHonorary Consulate of SpainKomplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. JalanPatih Jelantik Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.769 286

USA Consulate AgencyJalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.222 426

Consulate General of JapanJalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.227 628

Honorary Consulate of BritishJalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.270 601

Swiss and Austria ConsulateJalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan IstanaGalleriaPhone +62.361.751 735

Honorary Consulate of BrazilJalan Legian No. 186, BaliPhone +62.361.757 775

Honorary Consulate of ThailandJalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.263 310

Embassy of IndiaJalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.241 978

Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf FinlandSegara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.282 223

Honorary Consulate of MalaysiaAlam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.752 520

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The man’s wife refused to talk withinvestigators and asked for legal assis-tance from the U.S. Embassy, the offi-cial said. The embassy was closed Sat-urday and U.S. officials could not belocated for comment.

The couple, William Dathan Holbertand Laura Michelle Reese, were ar-rested earlier this week when they triedto enter Nicaragua from Costa Rica andwere sent back to Panama in shacklesfor questioning in the slayings of twoAmericans and the disappearances ofthree other U.S. citizens and two Pana-manians.

In testimony Friday, Holbert “ac-knowledged that he killed five people”— the five missing American citizens,Assistant Prosecutor Angel Calderonsaid in a telephone interview with TheAssociated Press. “He has explainedwhat he did, how he did it and why hedid it,” said Calderon, who added thatHolbert denied killing the two missingPanamanians.

Local media reported that a publicdefender was present for Holbert’squestioning, but didn’t report thelawyer’s name, so no independent com-ment was available on Calderon’s de-scription of the prisoner’s statements.

The case began when authorities

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Detainee identified by authorities as William Adolfo Cortez of Texas, walks upon his ar-rival in Panama

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PANAMA CITY – A jailed U.S. man has admitted killing five other Americans so he could takeover their businesses and other properties in a Panamanian resort area, a government prosecutorsaid Saturday.

found the bodies of a woman and a manburied behind a hostel run by Holbertin an area of small islands in Bocas delToro, a Caribbean archipelago popularwith tourists.

The woman was identified as CherylLynn Hughes, 53, a native of St. Louis,Missouri, who had lived in Panama 10years and was reported missing byfriends and relatives in late March. Theman was Bo Icelar, who disappeared inlate November and was described by afriend as the former owner of a galleryin Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Authorities in North Carolina sayHolbert had owned a landscaping busi-ness in that U.S. state until six years ago,when he divorced his wife, sold thecompany and filed for bankruptcy.Holbert disappeared soon after and al-legedly sold a house he didn’t own anda car he had stolen. Police say he usedaliases to elude authorities in at least sixstates.

Calderon quoted Holbert as sayinghe established friendships with Icelarand Hughes by posing as a potential in-vestor, then shot each in the head, bur-ied them and took over their money andother properties.

But Holbert said his first killings inPanama occurred about three years ago,

when he fatally shot a U.S. citizennamed Mike Brown, his wife and smallson in the head, the prosecutor said.

Holbert said he also had developeda friendship with Brown, describinghim as a fugitive sought American au-thorities on drug trafficking chargeswho was living under an assumedname, Calderon said.

“Seeing that he had a lot of moneyand bank accounts, he shot him in thehead,” the prosecutor said.

Calderon said Holbert told investi-gators about two spots on his propertyin Bocas del Toro where he buried theBrowns and experts would examine thesite next week to verify the informa-tion and exhume the bodies.

Holbert and his wife used falsenames and citizenship papers while liv-ing in Panama. Holbert posted as aDutch citizen, William Cortez-Reese,and his wife went by the names Jane orJeane Cortez.

When Holbert and his wife arrivedThursday at Panama’s Judicial Investi-gation Department, they refused to an-swer questions from journalists. Holbertsaid he would talk only to Panamanianauthorities.

“The people in Panama are veryfriendly and I like living here,” he said.

The disaster comes as the resi-dents of Swat are still trying to re-cover from a major battle betweenthe army and the Taliban lastspring that caused widespread de-struction and drove some 2 millionpeople from their homes. About amillion of those people are stilldisplaced.

Authorities have deployed 43military helicopters and over 100boats to try to rescue some 27,300people still trapped by the floods,said Rehman, the disaster manage-ment spokesman. At least 115people are still reported missing inSwat and Shangla, he said.

As rivers swelled in the north-west, people sought ever-shrinkinghigh ground or grasped for treesand fences to avoid getting sweptaway. Buildings simply crumbledinto the raging river in Kalam, atown in the northern part of theSwat Valley, local TV showed.

But some residents stepped uptheir criticism of the government’sresponse on Sunday. The militaryhas deployed 30,000 army troopswho had evacuated 19,000 trappedpeople by Saturday night, saidarmy spokesman Maj. Gen. AtharAbbas.

But the scale of the disaster hasstrained the resources of a govern-ment already grappling with a fal-tering economy and a brutal waragainst the Taliban.

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VICTORIA, British Columbia –A Canadian waterbombing planebattling wildfires deep in BritishColumbia’s interior crashed on Sat-urday, search and rescue officialssaid.

Capt. Marguerite Dodds-Lepinski, the public affairs officerat the province’s Joint Rescue Co-ordination Center in Victoria, said itwas believed that the plane had twocrew members on board. Their fateis currently unknown.

Dodds-Lepinski said two search-and-rescue aircraft from VancouverIsland are on the way to the crashsite about 160 miles (260 kilometers)northeast of Vancouver and about 11miles (18 kilometers) south of the

Firefighting planecrashes in Canada

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A Conair water bomber flies past a wildfire burning out of con-trol after dropping fire retardant

town of Lytton.The plane was chartered by the

provincial government from Conairin Abbotsford, British Columbia.

Conair spokesman Rick Pedersensaid that investigators from the Trans-portation Safety Board of Canadawould soon be headed to the site.

Pedersen, however, said he couldnot, at this time, release any infor-mation concerning the type of air-craft involved, or its crew.

As of Saturday, 318 forest fireswere burning across British Colum-bia, with the largest covering 10square miles (25 square kilometers).

Air tankers hired by the provin-cial Ministry of Forests, along withhelicopters and heavy machinery aresupporting at least 1,000 firefighterson the ground.

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Even people like Sehar Ali Shahwho were rescued by the govern-ment complained that authoritiesdidn’t provide shelter that wouldallow them to stay until the floodwaters receded. “My son drowned,but I don’t see the government tak-ing care of us,” said Shah after re-turning to his half-submergedhouse in the city of Nowshera.“The government has not managedan alternate place to shift us.”

Authorities have recoveredmore than 400 bodies from Swatand Shangla, but the collection ef-fort has been hampered by mud anddebris from destroyed houses, saidKhan, the Edhi Foundation repre-sentative.

The floods have caused an acuteshortage of fruits and vegetables inthe northwest because many of thehardest hit areas were the key cen-ters of production, said Khan. Thethreat of disease loomed as well assome evacuees arrived in camps withfever, diarrhea and skin problems.

The U.S. delivered 380,000food packages, four rescue boatsand two water filtration units to theProvincial Disaster ManagementAuthority, said Rehman, thegroup’s spokesman. The U.S. Em-bassy in Islamabad has also an-nounced it will provide 12 prefab-ricated steel bridges to temporarilyreplace some of the spans damagedby the water.

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MATARAM - The governmentwill invite 82 foreign ambassadorsand diplomats to attend the com-memoration of the 30th World FoodDay 2010 which will be held onLombok Island, NTB, on October 16.

“It was agreed at the preparatorymeeting of the World Food Day 2010commemoration that we will orga-nize a diplomatic tour for around 82ambassadors,” Pending DadihPermana, head of the NTB provin-cial agricultural office, said here Sat-urday.

“Neglected children in the coun-try now total 5.4 millions so a lot offunds will be needed to deal with theproblem,” he said here on Saturday.

He said in 2010 the number of streetchildren in the country under the su-pervision of the ministry of social af-fairs reached 160,000 or four percentof the total number of neglected chil-dren. They obviously were not devel-oping well because they had no home,were not protected and had no accessto education, health and other facilities.

The minister said by 2014 or atthe end of the term of the presentcabinet it was hoped Indonesia

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JAKARTA - Bank Indonesiahas recorded around Rp13 trillionworth of foreign capital flowedinto the country in July.

“In July if I am not mistakenbetween Rp13 and Rp14 trillionworth of foreign capital has cometo the country,” the central bankacting governor, Darmin Nasution,said here on Saturday.

He said the inflow of foreigncapital occurred after investorssaw Asia’s prospects are brighterthan the US and Europe.

“In the world with good com-munication facilities like nowflows of funds always occur. Mostof them used to go to Bank Indo-nesia Certificates (SBI). Now as aregulation requiring a minimumone month holding has been inplace (much of the funds do notonly go to SBI),” he said.

Darmin said the funds enteredmostly through state debentures(SUN) and shares. “Dozens of tril-lions of rupiahs or above one bil-lion US dollars directly go to theSUN and shares. SBI total posi-tion has not changed from lastmonth,” he said.

He said the good Asian eco-nomic growth was also the cause

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JAKARTA - Top traditionalbatik designer NusjirwanTirtaamidjaja or popularlyknown as Iwan Tirta passed awayat 8.35 am here on Saturday atthe age of 75 because of illhealth.

“We have yet to hear from thedoctors what exactly caused hisdeath but he was treated for lunginfection and heart problems,”his personal secretary, Sutisna,said at Tirta’s home on JalanPanarukan 25, Menteng, Jakarta.

Iwan Tirta who was born inBlora on April 18, 1935 had beentreated at Abdi Waluyo hospitalin Menteng since July 21 and hadundergone haemodialysis sixtimes.

“Initially he would be taken tothe Army Gatot Subroto Hospi-tal but he said it was too far sohe was taken to Abdi Waluyo.He was fine when he was firsttaken to the hospital and couldstill make jokes,” he said.

Sutisna who had worked forIwan for 35 years said the de-signer had three brothers fromdifferent mothers.

Iwan Tirta was to be buriednear his mother’s tomb at Karet

RP13 trillion flowsinto Indonesia in July

of the appreciation in Asian cur-rencies including the Rupiah.

On Friday the Rupiah appreci-ated to Rp8,950 against the USdollar. Bank Indonesia meanwhilecontinued monitoring the move-ment as exporters had alreadycomplained about it.

“Exporters gruntled because theUS dollar value continued to bedented in the past few days,” hesaid.

Darmin said the rupiah appre-ciation occured because economicfundamentals in Asia were indeedstronger than in Europe and theUS.

“It will not be good if they aretoo strong but we are determinedto maintain it,” he said.

Trade minister Mari ElkaPangestu said the rupiah apprecia-tion would increase the cost to beborne by exporters.

“We must try to reduce export-ers’ cost of production. So we mustlower high cost economy includ-ing cost of processing, restitutionsand others,” she said.

The minister said the govern-ment would maintain the rupiahexchange rate. “We will keep itbalanced. What is important is itsstability and that is the task of BI,”she said.

Top batik fashiondesigner IwanTirta passes away

Bivak cemetary later on Saturday.A number of public figures in-

cluding Women’s Role MinisterAmalia Sari Gumelar were seenpaying their last respects to thedeceased.

While he was a child Iwan saidhe wished to be a diplomat. Hisfather, the late Moh HuseinTartaatmidjaja, who was a mem-ber of the Supreme Court from1950 to 1958 supported him andallowed him to study law at theUniversity of Indonesia.

Iwan graduated in 1958 andonce became a lecturer on inter-national law before pursuing fur-ther studies in London at Schoolof Economics and School of Ori-ental and African Studies.

After returning to Indonesiahe became an associate profes-sor at the University of Indone-sia. He later went to the US tostudy at Yale University, NewHaven, Connecticut and gradu-ated in 1965. But when he re-turned to Jakarta in 1970 he wasinterested in studying batik.

Since then he dedicated hislife to the development of the tra-ditional batik painting art andeventually became a nationallyand internationally renownedbatik fashion designer.

NTB to invite 82 foreign envoysto World Food Day event

Based on a decision of Agricul-ture Minister Suswono, Lombok waschosen to be the venue of the nationalevent of the World Food Day, he said.

Apart from attending the function,the foreign invitees will be taken ona tour of NTB’s tourist objects andeconomic centers.

The commemoration will be cen-tered in Puyung village, CentralLombok District, Lombok Island.

According to the Food and Agri-culture Organization (FAO) of theUnited Nations, the World Food Day2010’s theme will be “United againstHunger”.

The FAO said that with an estimatedincrease of 105 million hungry peoplein 2009, there are now 1.02 billionmalnourished people in the world,meaning that almost one sixth of allhumanity is suffering from hunger.

The UN body has declared 16thOctober as World Food Day which isobserved in remembrance of launch-ing of the Food and Agriculture Or-ganization of the United Nations in1945.

In November 1979, The FirstWorld Food Day (WFD) waslaunched by FAO’s Member Coun-tries on its 20th General Conference.

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In this photo taken onFriday, July 30, 2010, agirl stands amongAhmadiyah followersoffering Friday prayers atManislor village inKuningan, West Java,Indonesia, Friday, July30, 2010. The minorityIslamic sect told follow-ers Friday to prepare forwar after rock-throwingmobs attacked one oftheir mosques in centralIndonesia, calling itsmembers heretics. Theweeklong violence inManislor peakedThursday after morethan 500 hard-linersfrom the IslamicDefenders Front, knownas FPI, clashed with3,000 Ahmadiyah sectfollowers.

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DEPOK - Social Affairs Minister Salim Segaf Al-Jufri said Rp271billion would be needed to solve the problem of neglected children.

would be free of street children whonow numbered 230,000.

Salim said the government wouldconduct a program to empower theparents of street children in coop-eration with parties providing lodg-ings for the children who could thenalso enjoy some education.

He said one of the factors con-tributing to the existence of streetchildren was encouragement fromparents who pushed them to live offthe streets, and therefore empower-ing the parents was important.

“Parents must be empowered sothat their economic condition im-

proves,” he said.Although the government had al-

ready freed students from schoolfees, students still have to meet otherschool needs such as books and uni-forms which were still burdensomefor many parents. Salim emphasizedthe importance of homes for the chil-dren but until now his office couldonly give assistance in stages as theexisting need was higher than thegovernment’s capability.

The problem of street children didnot only exist in Jakarta but also inregions across the country.

Referring to East and West NusaTenggara, Salim said the two prov-inces now had a significant numberof street children reaching around 20percent of the total number of ne-glected children in the regions.

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All elements of society take partin the event and the committee con-sists of people from various back-grounds, such as tourism business-men, government officer and eventhe army.

Morgan explained that the eventwas started after Bali suffered theBali bombing tragedy in 2002. Inorder to attract tourists visit Bali,the Balinese cooperate with expa-triate in Bali created the Kuta Car-nival.

“We wanted to show that Kutais still worth to be visited by tour-ists. Kuta Carnival could be usedas the momentum to resurrect tour-ism in Bali and to build better im-age on Bali,” Morgan added.

Kuta carnival can also use as thepromotion media to promote tour-ism in Bali. The theme for this yearKuta Carnival is Heal the World.There is great hope that the theme

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DENPASAR – A new lifestyleproperty will crowded the area in frontof Kuta beach. This property that com-bining hotel and mall is calls SahidKuta Lifestyle Resort.

The project, according to CEOof PT Indonesia Paradise Island,Hariyadi B. Sukamdani will give a dif-ferent aura for Kuta because not onlythis kind of concept is a new thing, heclaimed that the project also will try tosolve the traffic jam that happens inKuta beach road.

‘’We will not only build alifestyle resort but also provide a solu-tion for the traffic jam that happens inKuta beach. Our project including the1,000 vehicles parking area so peopledon’t have to worry anymore aboutparking space because we alreadythinking it while doing this project,”explain Sukamdani.

He stated that in order to buildthe project, his company have to investaround Rp600 billions.

He optimistic the whole project

Kuta carnival could becomeinternational tourism event

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CEO of PT Indonesia Paradise Island, Hariyadi B. Sukamdani (holding microphone)explained about the Sahid Kuta Lifestyle Resort.

People crowded at FoodFestival that held on the

sideline of Kuta Carnival.Kuta Carnival that will be

held for the eight times thisyear is hope to be the agenda

on International tourismcalendar.

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Kuta – Kuta Carnival which will be held on September 29th

through October 3rd 2010 could become an international tour-ism event. Morgan Made Suartha, the head o the committee ofthe event, said “we hope that Kuta Carnival could become a fixevent in the world tourism calendar because the event is beingheld in the heart of tourism in Bali which is Kuta.”

will send the massage to all peoplein Bali to act to heal the island espe-cially in tourism.

While that head of Badung Cul-tural and Tourism Department, MadeSubawa, said that the governmentand the people must cooperate tocarry out Kuta Carnival successfully.“We don’t want Bali to become thedestination yesterday but we mustmake Bali as the destination tomor-row. We must prepare everythingbecause Kuta is the heart of tourismin Bali,” he added.

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New lifestyle property to hit Kuta BeachA combination of hotel and mall

will finish on 2012 while the Beachwalk–the mall area- will finish in the middleof next year.

According to Sukamdani, theBeachwalk will consist of 200 exclusiveshops and restaurants. While, the hotelthat consist of 200 units of rooms willbe as exclusive as the stores and man-age by Starwood with its Sheratonbrand.

Sukamdani expressed his opti-mistic view that this property will be-come the favorable place for local andinternational people because it offers anew concept of living. He also said thatin viewing the growth numbers of tour-ists that visiting Bali in these couple ofyears, he predicting that in the nextyears to come Bali tourism will able torise around 15 – 20 percent per year.

‘’Bali is so promising in the nextyear to come. Not to mention that Baliwill become the most favorable desti-nation because Thailand still in conflict.I will say that the economic growth inBali to increase around 15 percent andthat include the tourism industry,” hestated. (kmb18)

Balinese Culture

Monday, August 2, 2010 9al

C.045 ibp

INGREDIENTS:500 gr raw

peanuts, deepfried (2 min.)

5 cloves garlic,peeled

8 – 10 bird’s-eye chilies

50 gr kencurroot, peeled andchopped

50 gr palmsugar, chopped

2 ltr fresh coconut milk4 tbsp sweet soy sauce2 ea lime leaves1 tbsp fresh limejuice, squeezed1 tbsp shallots, fried

PREPARATION:1. Combine peanuts, garlic, chilies and kencur in a

food processor and puree, or grind coarsely in a stonemortar.

2. Place in heavy sauce pan with coconut milk, sweetsoy sauce and lime leaves. Bring to boil, reduce heatand simmer uncovered, stirring frequently to prevent thesauce from sticking, for 15 minutes.

3. Add limejuice and sprinkle with shallots just beforeserving as a dipping sauce for satay. Season to tastewith salt. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

Archaeological researches in Balihave found a number of archeologi-cal heritages, which belonged to pre-historic and historic remains. Prehis-toric remains proved the earliest of thepeople’s life, started from hunting andfood gathering through cultivation upto mastering the advanced technology.Such remains indicated the struggleand the achievement of the people’slife gradually, after adapting and ex-ploring their environment its naturalresources for their life, because thenature was still quite dangerous. Onthe other hands, the remains also dem-onstrated the relationship of the pre-historic Balinese people to those wholived in Java, Sumatera etc, even tothe South-East Asian people.

The most important of the prehis-toric live in Bali is the invention of themetallic technology along with themegalithic tradition. During the ad-vance technology the Balinese peoplehave produced several kind of bronzegoods for ritual purpose such as kettle-drums and for daily uses as well suchas axes etc. Mastering the advancetechnology, Balinese people have suc-ceeded to develop stone moulds in thevillage of Manuaba (Gianyar) for cast-ing bronze kettledrum. The human-mask decoration, showed a remark-able similarities to the decorations ofthe huge kettledrums found in the vil-lage of Pejeng not so far of the east ofManuaba, but the stone moulds ofManuaba are small in its size.

It should be noted here that bronzekettledrums were not only found inBali, but also in Java, and Eastern In-donesian Island. Another bronzemoulds made of clay were also foundin West Java, but not for producingkettledrums, but for making spear-heads, axes, etc. Regarding the human-mask decorations, which were founds

Aside from retaining a beautiful view andchallenging attraction like rafting and splashing, riveralso poses a habitat of various food sources. Thereare fish, crab, shrimp and snails. Balinese peoplemay call the latter as ungun or river snail. This snailhas two forms, namely ordinary snail and half snail.The half snail shapes like carapace of turtle. Its fleshis open and has a piece of thin bone. When boiled,its flesh will easily get released from its carapace,while the ordinary one should be taken out by pin,needle and so on.

When their delicacy is combined with sabrang orBalinese cherry potato, they will have typical flavor.Its shape is much smaller than common potato andits leaf resembles to that of broadleaf thyme (jinten).Apart from combined with river snail or chicken, thischerry potato is also good if cooked as singlevegetable. It is usually sold at traditional market orvillage stalls.

Ingredients:2 handful river snail, 250gram sabrang or cherry

potato (peeled) and 800ml water for gravy.Ground spices: 6 cloves shallot, 3 cloves garlic, 2

small chilies, 1 candlenut, 2 tbsp grated coconut(ground with other spices), 1 slice turmeric, 1 slicearomatic ginger and 1 slice galangal

Others: 1 pc salam leaf, 1 tbsp palm oil and ½ tspsalt.

Method:· Cleanse thoroughly the river snail and cherry

potato and drain.· Pre-heat the palm oil on the frying pan. Stir-

fry the ground spices until smelling fragrant. Addsome water and wait until boiling.

· Put the cherry potato and river snail togetherinto the pan. Add salt, salam leaf and please waituntil the cherry potato is cooked.

· Take out and it is now ready to serve. (BTN/punia)

Archaeological heritage in Balion the kettledrums of Pejeng, on thestone moulds of Manuaba and on thenumber of the sarcophagi found in Bali,was regarded as symbol of the leader’sor the ancestor’s spirits. The peoplebelieved that the spirit, who were abodeon the top of the mountain or on theinaccessible place have the magicpower for protecting the living society.When Hinduism have spread widelyin Indonesia, the people believed to thesacred mountain as the place of theHindu pantheons and the ancestor’sspirit as well. Based on this conception,then the people built their temples onthe mountain area such as as PuraBesakih on the slope of Mount Agung.

Along with the development of themetallic industry, the megalithic tradi-tion increased not only in Bali, but alsoin Sumatera, Flores etc. Several kindsof megalithic remains were foundsthere namely menhirs, dolmens,menhirstatues, stepped pyramids etc. Itis a matter of facts that the megalithictradition have strongly influenced thepeople’s life and it is not surprising anymore that living megalithic traditioncould be found until to present day inNias, Toraja, Bali and Eastern Indone-sians Islands. In Bali, the megalithicremains, exe the sarcophagi are re-garded as sacred monuments and func-tioned for worshipping thje Hindu Trin-ity, the local deities and the ancestor’sspirit (Sutaba 1984).

Researches on the advanced tech-nology and on the megalithic traditionin Bali in particular, have made con-clusions that Balinese people havebuild their social organization headedby the leaders. The well organizationshave made favorable conditions formastering the advance technology.Then the social and cultural develop-ment became the solid foundation forfacing the new era when Hinduism ar-

rived in Bali (Sutaba, 1930).Bali have got Hindu-Budhis influ-

ences nearly at the 9 century A.D. asProved by the finding of claystuphikas and seals beared Budhis for-mula, near the village of Pejeng,Gianyar. Then a pillar inscription wasrediscovered in Blanjong Sanur(Badung) which mentioned the nameof the king Kesari Warmadewa. Thisinscription was originated from c.10century A.D. Since this period, Hin-duism was spread widely in Bali andwent deeply into the life of the Ba-linese people and then survived untiltoday. Having well developed socialorganization and cultural life beforethe arrival of Hinduism, have led theBalinese people successfully modi-fied the new elements in accordancewith their characters and became thenew one beared Balinese identity.

The wellknown king of Bali is acouple royal named king Udayanaand his wife Gunapryadharmapati(c.10 century A.D), then succeededby their families. During the ancienthistory of Bali, a number of templeswere built nearly in the whole island.In these temple several kinds of his-torical remains were preserved e.g.statues, inscriptions etc. As the fol-lower of Hinduism, Balinese peopleregard the temples including the re-mains in them as sacred monumentsfor worshiping the Hindu pantheons,the local deities and the ancestor’sspirit as well. This religious functionwas the responsibility of the Balinesepeople for keeping the monuments inwell conditions and the welfare of theliving society.

Based on the evidence foundin Bali there ere thousand tamples,which then named Bali as “The Is-land of Thousand Temples” or “TheIsland of Paradise”. (BTN)

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Temple of Mengwi Empire and it islocated in Mengwi Village, Mengwisub district, Badung regency andabout 18 Km north side of Denpasartown. It is strategically located be-side of major roadway betweenDenpasar to Singaraja. It is set onthe land which is surrounded by thebig fish pond and look like a drifton the water. It owns the beautifultemple building with multistoriedroof and Balinese Architecture. Thewide beautiful landscape garden infront courtyard to welcome all visi-tors who come and visit this temple.It is a beautiful place to visit on yourvacation in Bali.

Pursuant to Papyrus Chronicle ofthe Mengwi (Lontar Babad Mengwi),the temple which is now referred byTaman Ayun Temple that it had beennewly sanctified in the year 1634 Mand it is named with Taman AhyunTemple. The word of Ahyun is com-ing from from the root word Hyunmeaning a temple is founded in thepark (pool with the beautiful garden)which can fulfill the desire. The wordAhyun is then changed into Ayunword. Taman Ayun Temple is one of

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Taman Ayun TempleHindu Temples in Bali become tour-ist destination which has been visitedby many tourists from local and for-eign. This temple is usually visited bytourist once having a set tour to TanahLot Temple due to this temple is thesame route of the Tanah Lot TempleTour.

The function of Taman AyunTemple is a place to pray the god intheir manifestation. It is accordingto the content of Babad Mengwi andthe existence of temple buildingstructure, especially the temple thatis located in third area (Jeroan).According to Astadewata, the spe-cial God is worshiped in TamanAyun Temple is the God in mani-festation as a Wisnu God which hispalace located in top of Mangumount. In papyrus of Usana Balimentioning that one of Dewa CaturLokapalas carry through its worshipis Meru Pucak Pangelengan that isa temple building with 9multistoried roofs. Pitara God is aholy soul deity of ancestor who isalso referred as the other names ofHyang Pitara or Dewa Hyang. PitaraGod is obliged to be worshiped byclan heir (Prati Sentana) in the formof temple ceremony which the same

meaning as by the ceremony to thegod. The worshiping existence toPitara God in Taman Ayun Templecan be searched and proved by pur-suant to the existence of temple

building which lay in byconsecution in east which is calledPaibon that is representing SpecialTemple. Taman Ayun Temple in ca-pacities or its status as special altar

for the King family of Mengwi Pal-ace or as a Merajan Agung fromMengwi King Families specially forthe founder of Mengwi Empire thatis I Gusti Agung Putu.

Monday, August 2, 2010 11

BUSINESS

Agence France-Presse

ATHENS - Disaster has struck Greece’s crucial tourism in-dustry at the peak of a summer season badly needed by its re-cession-hit economy with a national fuel shortage compound-ing weeks of on-off work unrest.

A strike wave against austerity policies, a violent Mayprotest in which three people died in a firebombed bank andunionist action targeting cruise ships and flights have made fora calamitous season, operators say.

And additional disruption caused to tens of thousands oftravellers by the fuel holdup caused by a trucker walkout couldnot have come at a worse time for a sector which makes upnearly a fifth of the troubled Greek economy.

“The situation is absurd... we face a barrage of cancella-tions,” said Andreas Andreadis, chairman of the PanhellenicHotel Confederation. The strike came as thousands of Greeksembarked on vacation with many of them unsure whether theywould be able to return.

“I’m going to the island of Lefkada but I don’t knowwhether I’ll be back, maybe I’ll have to leave my car behind,”said one motorist filling up at a gas station.

A broad range of businesses from tourism car rentals tofruit growers were badly hit by the trucker protest which beganlast Sunday against plans by the government to liberalise thetightly-controlled freight sector.

The truckers on Friday decided to maintain their protest,ignoring warnings by the government that strikers who con-tinue to defy the law would be prosecuted and that their operat-ing licenses could be forfeit.

The authorities were forced to use military vehicles andpetrol station trucks to alleviate the shortage but supplies wereunlikely to return to full capacity before Monday.

The truckers say that boosting competition in the freightsector by reducing new licence charges is unfair to existing op-erators who have already paid high start-up fees running up to300,000 euros (391,000 dollars).

The plan is part of a reform programme that the govern-ment committed to in May in exchange for a 110-billion-euro(143-billion-dollar) bailout loan from the International Mon-etary Fund and European Union to stave off debt default.

The country’s leading unions have staged six generalstrikes and several protests since the start of the year againstwage and pension cuts ordered by the Socialist governmentwhich came close to bankruptcy earlier this year.

The main Greek port of Piraeus that links the mainlandwith islands popular with holidaymakers has also been repeat-edly blockaded by protesters this year while a work-to-rule ac-tion by air traffic controllers in late July caused widespread flightdelays.

With its back against the wall, the Greek government inJune promised to compensate travellers stranded in the countryby labour unrest.

But officials have so far given no details on the level ofcompensation nor how it would be paid.

“The present situation is turning into a disaster for thecountry, the economy and tourism,” the association of Greektourism entreprises (SETE) said in a statement this week.

The fuel shortage was discouraging tourists fromneighbouring Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia fromdriving to Greece, SETE added.

Before the fuel trouble struck, Greek hotels faced a three-percent fall in bookings and a drop in proceeds of 10-12 per-cent, Andreadis said.

“A fall of one percent in tourism proceeds corresponds to200 million euros in lost income for the country and 1,000 joblosses,” he told Flash Radio.

“And this is the worst showing in Europe, all our com-petitors including eurozone countries such as Spain and Portu-gal have increased their proceeds this year.”

Yi Gang, a vice-governor of the People’sBank of China and also the head of the StateAdministration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE),did not explain how he had arrived at the fig-ures, according to the comments posted onthe SAFE website.

“China is actually now already the world’ssecond-largest economy,” Yi said in an in-terview with China Reform magazine.

China has powered out of the global crisison the back of a stimulus package worth 586billion dollars and state-backed bank lending,with its economy growing 10.3 percent in thesecond quarter and 11.1 percent in the first half.

China’s gross domestic product in the firstsix moths stood at 17.284 trillion yuan, ac-cording to the National Bureau of Statistics.That comes to 2.5324 trillion dollars, usingthe central bank’s average monthly exchangerates.

Japan is due to release its first-half GDPfigure in mid August.

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The IMF on Friday lowered its 2011growth forecast for the Spanish economy to 0.6 percent fromthe 0.9 percent it foresaw in April and warned the recovery“is likely to be weak and fragile.”

“The particular challenges facing Spain will likely makethe recovery slower and more fragile than in the euro area,”the IMF said in its latest report on the country’s economy.

The International Monetary Fund’s growth forecast forEurope’s fifth-largest economy for next year was lower thanthe 1.3 percent expansion predicted by the Spanish govern-ment, which is under pressure to close its public deficit.

The IMF listed a deflating property bubble, a “dysfunc-tional” labor market, heavy private sector indebtedness, weakcompetitiveness, “anemic” productivity growth and a “bank-ing sector with pockets of weakness” as the challenges facedby the Spanish economy.

“Not only does each factor pose a challenge by itself,but, together, they may create a vicious cycle of negative feed-back,” the IMF said in the report.

“The central scenario is one of a long and gradual ad-justment of the various imbalances in the economy.”

Spain scraped out of recession during the first quarterwhen it expanded by 0.1 percent from the previous quarterand the government expects it will expand by 0.3 percent thisyear.

The IMF predicts the Spanish economy will contract by0.4 percent this year. It forecasts growth of 1.7 percent in 2012and of 1.9 percent in both 2013 and 2014 and of 1.8 percent in2015.

Spain was the last major world economy to emerge from

Greek tourism reelsfrom fuel shortage,strike blows

AFP PHOTO

Chinese girls look at a tower of gold bars worth of 260 mil-lion yuan (38 million USD) displayed at a shopping mall inBeijing on July 30, 2010. China’s gross domestic product inthe first half stood at 17.284 trillion yuan (2.5324 trillion USD)as China has moved ahead of Japan to become the world’ssecond-largest economy, a senior central bank official saidin an interview published.

China now world’sChina now world’sChina now world’sChina now world’sChina now world’snumber two economynumber two economynumber two economynumber two economynumber two economyAgence France-Presse

BEIJING - China has moved ahead ofJapan to become the world’s second-larg-est economy, a senior central bank officialsaid in an interview published Friday.

IMF lowers Spain growth forecast,warns of ‘fragile’ rebound

recession and concern over its weak growth prospects has fu-eled market worries that it may struggle to rein in a publicdeficit that shot up to 11.2 percent of GDP last year, the thirdhighest level in the eurozone after Greece and Ireland.

The country entered its worst recession in decades dur-ing the second half of 2008 as the global financial meltdowncompounded a crisis in the Spanish property market, whichhad been a major driver for growth in previous years.

“What needs to happen now is that the economy as awhole has to move away from its past reliance on the housingsector and produce more tradable goods,” said IMF missionchief for Spain, James Daniel.

“Together with concerted and continued progress onstructural reforms, especially in the labor market, we see noreason why Spain should not be able to return to good levelsof growth in the medium term.”

The government has introduced the steepest spendingcuts since Spain returned to democracy following the death ofconservative dictator General Francisco Franco in 1975 in aneffort to slash the public deficit.

The cutbacks include a freeze on pensions and a five-percent pay cut for civil servants.

The government has also adopted an overhaul of thelabour market that will make it easier and cheaper for em-ployers to dismiss workers in an effort to fight an unemploy-ment rate that has hit 20 percent.

Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapaterohas also announced plans to raise the country’s retirement ageto 67 from 65.

Daniel said if the austerity measures are complementedby a reform of the pension system, “this will put Spain’s pub-lic finances on a sustainable path.”

Entertainment InternationalMonday, August 2, 201012

“This is exactly why I fought sohard for tax credits in last year’sbudget,” Schwarzenegger said.“Just the first two years of this in-centive will generate two billiondollars in direct spending, with evenmore to come.”

The program, passed last year, al-lows the state to give up to 200 mil-lion dollars in tax breaks to produc-tion companies in its first year, andup to 100 million a year thereafterthrough the 2013-2014 fiscal year.

It was intended to help the statebattle its ballooning deficit and keepjobs and money from the massivemovie industry in California.

In its first year, Schwarzenegger

Associated Press Writer

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. –“Jersey Shore” cast member Nicole“Snooki” Polizzi has been arrestedin the New Jersey beach town wherethe MTV show is based.

Seaside Heights Police ChiefThomas Boyd says Polizzi was ar-rested at around 3:25 p.m. Fridayand charged with disorderly conductafter other beachgoers reported shewas bothering them. Polizzi was pro-cessed at police headquarters andreleased on a summons.

Associated Press Writer

SAN DIEGO – Spike Leescreened some of his new HBOdocumentary that includes a lookat the massive BP Gulf oil spilland says no one from the oil giantis speaking to him.

The director showed about 90minutes of “If God Is Willing andDa Creek Don’t Rise” at the Na-tional Association of Black Jour-nalists convention in San Diego onSaturday. The film is a follow-upto “When the Levees Broke”

Associated Press Writer

PARIS – The Material Girl is illuminating the City of Light,where she’s shooting her latest film, “W.E.” Dressed all in blackand heavily accessorized in dark shades, a hat and a patternedscarf, Madonna directed Saturday’s shoot in Paris’ tony 6th dis-trict.

The 51-year-old singer made her directorial debut in 2008 with“Filth and Wisdom,” about a Ukrainian cross-dressing punk-rocker.

Madonna is not the only U.S. star to film in the French capitalthis summer. Last week, Woody Allen was shooting his “Mid-night in Paris” on location near the Pantheon and in a park be-hind Notre Dame cathedral. The film, starring Owen Wilson, alsoincludes a performance by France’s first lady, model-turned-singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

Movie tax cuts ‘helpMovie tax cuts ‘helpMovie tax cuts ‘helpMovie tax cuts ‘helpMovie tax cuts ‘helpstruggling California economy’struggling California economy’struggling California economy’struggling California economy’struggling California economy’

Agence France Presse

LOS ANGELES – A year-old program granting movie studios tax breaks for filming in California hassaved jobs and should yield two billion dollars in direct spending, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said.In a statement released Friday, the governor said the program was “creating and retaining tens of thou-sands of jobs and generating spending in California.”

said, 77 projects benefited from taxbreaks, including 51 feature films, seventelevision series and 14 made-for-tele-vision movies. He said the program hadgenerated over 730 million dollars inwages paid in-state and that beneficiaryprojects had hired 18,200 crew mem-bers, 4,000 cast members, and over100,000 extras for movies and televi-sion series.

In recent years, production compa-nies have flocked away from Califor-

nia and US entertainment industrycapital Los Angeles, taking advan-tage of tax breaks offered by otherstates, including Georgia, Louisianaand New Mexico.

The Milken Institute estimated ina recent report that the state has since1997 lost 10,600 jobs in the enter-tainment industry and another 25,000jobs indirectly related to the indus-try, a total loss for the state of around4.2 billion dollars.

AFP/Getty Images/Michael Buckner

A year-old program granting movie studios tax breaks for filmingin California has saved jobs and should yield two billion dollars

in direct spending, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger — seenhere in June — said.

Spike Lee screens filmthat includes oil spill

about the devastation of HurricaneKatrina.

It picks up with the New Or-leans Saints’ Super Bowl victoryand chronicles the impact of thespill on people who have yet tofully recover from Katrina.

When asked if BP cooperatedhe said, “Nobody was speaking tome from BP.” A call to the BP pressoffice wasn’t immediately re-turned. He also called on PresidentBarack Obama to “bring the ham-mer” on BP and make the companypay.

AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano,File

FILE-This July 10, 2010 file photo shows director Spike Lee enter-ing Cipriani’s for the wedding of Carmelo Anthony and LaLaVasquez, in New York.

Snooki of ‘Jersey Shore’ arrested in NJ beach townMTV spokeswoman Emily

Yeomans declined comment on thearrest, which came one day after thepremiere of the show’s second sea-son.

Telephone messages left forSallyAnn Salsano, executive pro-ducer at “Jersey Shore” productioncompany 495 Productions, and PamLaLima, co-executive producer,were not immediately returned. Theshow focuses on the escapades of agroup of hard-partying, 20-some-thing Italian-Americans at a shorehouse.

AP Photo/Richard Drew, file

FILE - In this July 27, 2010 file photo, Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi , a castmember of MTV’s ‘Jersey Shore’ reality series is shown at the NewYork Stock Exchange.

Madonna in Paris todirect her new movie

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

U.S performer Madonna, during the filming of themovie ‘W.E’, which she is directing, in Paris, Satur-

day July 31, 2010.

International Monday, August 2, 2010 13Life Style

Government regulations an-nounced in July barring online gam-ing companies from using sex topromote their products had littleimpact at ChinaJoy, the country’slargest annual digital entertainmentexhibition which ends Sunday.

“The most eye-catching part ofthe exhibition is the show girls,” saidFeng Gong, senior director forInternet portal Zol.com.cn, which isowned by US broadcaster CBS Cor-poration. “The pretty girls and prod-ucts complement each other and thecombination is just perfect,” saidFeng, whose company is sponsor-ing a Miss ChinaJoy pageant, whichallows website users to vote for their

Agence France Presse

TOKYO - The “Terminator” hadit, US fighter pilots use it and it’sthe next hot feature on Japanesesmartphones — “augmented real-ity” which peppers the world aroundyou with useful bits of information.Imagine wearing high-tech glassesand having small, cartoon speechballoon-style tags pop up withinyour field of vision, overlaying real-world objects and buildings to de-scribe what you’re looking at.

That is essentially what Japan’stwo largest cellphone operators areabout to offer their millions of cus-tomers, except they will use thecameras and screens of smartphonesplus vast online databases.

By harnessing the power of theInternet and bringing it more deeplyinto people’s everyday lives, theyplan to change the way we perceivereality and move a step closer todigitising our world view — liter-ally. Japan’s NTT DoCoMo is setto launch “chokkan nabi”, or “in-tuitive navigation”, in September tohelp people find their way aroundmegacities such as Tokyo and Osakaand other places in Japan.

“You just need to focus on astreet, a building or a particular spotwith your camera-equippedcellphone to see if there is a bank, a

Agence France Presse

HONG KONG - After years oflurking in the literary wilderness, thee-book market has exploded withonline retailer Amazon.com’s digi-tal volumes recently overtaking salesof their hardcover counterparts. Theincrease in sales has come as Ama-zon slashes the price on its Kindledevice amid heavy competition from

Japan mobile phone makersto roll out ‘augmented reality’

restaurant, a supermarket or otherlocation,” said a DoCoMo official.

“Labels or signs indicate, for ex-ample, the distance to a chosen res-taurant, schedules, menus, etc ...With a simple gesture, you canswitch back to a conventional mapin two dimensions.” The service hasso far registered some 600,000points of interest throughout Japan,including restaurants, shops andtrain stations, which can be searchedthrough user-defined criteria.

The technology, developed withmap maker Zenrin, uses a global po-sitioning system (GPS) and sophis-ticated software to place virtual tagson real-world objects and also pro-vide directions to places outside theuser’s direct view. It also links withmicro-blogging site Twitter, whichhas been wildly successful in Japan,so that its users can spot each otherin real time and real space, and tweetcomments about where they are.

Japan’s number two mobile op-erator KDDI, meanwhile, has devel-oped a platform that allows users toscan for example a CD advertisingposter with their camera phone togain additional material, such as anextract from a song. The service willthen offer the user the option to buya download of the song with justtwo clicks, or can guide them to thenearest real-world CD shop.

AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO

Picture taken on July 14, 2010 shows an employee of Japan’s sec-ond largest mobile communicator KDDI displaying the prototypemodel of an Augmented reality (AR) mobile phone at the WirelessJapan exhibition in Tokyo. The mobile phone displays an animatedcharacter in the camera captured image.

AFP PHOTO / MIKE CLARKE

Soaring e-book sales speak volumesApple’s multi-purpose iPad and e-readers from Sony and bookstoregiant Barnes & Noble.

Underscoring the growth, HongKong’s massive book fair, an annualevent attended by almost one millionpeople, wrapped up last week withvisitors exposed to a brand-new sec-tion: digital reading. Beijing-basedHanvon Technology unveiled a black-and-white tablet reader that comes

with 5,000 Chinese and English booktitles pre-installed for about 3,400Hong Kong dollars (440 US).

Readers can download thousandsmore titles for as little as 20 HongKong dollars each on the device,which also lets users enlarge the type-face, take notes and look up words inthe dictionary.

“One (print) book might cost you100 Hong Kong dollars or more, andthen you have to find a place to storeit,” Hanvon employee Bo Bo Wongtold AFP. “With this, you can havethousands and thousands of books inone place,” she said. Mainland com-panies such as Hanvon, Acuce andTianjin are taking on the likes of

Apple and Amazon by pushing con-tent tailor-made for the vast andrapidly growing Chinese digitalmarket.

The total value of digital publi-cations across all platforms over-took that of traditional print publi-cations in mainland China for thefirst time last year, the GeneralAdministration of Press and Publi-cation said last week.

According to the South ChinaMorning Post, a recent survey bythe Chinese Institute of PublishingScience found that nearly a quarterof the 20,000-plus people it sur-veyed now do most of their read-ing digitally.

Visitors look at books as they attend the Hong Kong Book Fair inHong Kong on July 21, 2010. After years of lurking in the literarywilderness, the e-book market has exploded with online retailerAmazon.com’s digital volumes recently overtaking sales of theirhardcover counterparts.

AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZ

In this picture taken on July 29, 2010, a showgirl poses in a cage during the 8th annual China DigitalEntertainment Expo and Conference (ChinaJoy).

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SHANGHAI - At the door to a major computer game expo in Shanghai, visitors are greeted by columns ofChinese girls in white boots and miniskirts, the name of a computer parts maker emblazoned on their chests. A bitfarther on, amid the blaring music and pulsing lights, 40 more models in bikini shorts, tiny tanktops and hard hatsshill for an online security company, handing out small locks in boxes designed to resemble condom packs.

favourite booth model.Video games taking a backseat to

show girls is a phenomenon at exhi-bitions across Asia, but participantssay China is taking it to a new level.“I’ve been to shows in Japan andKorea before, they don’t have asmany show girls,” said Jay Jiang, amarketing planning director forShanda Games.

“For foreign companies, it’s moreabout exhibiting products. Often asenior executive will make a prod-uct presentation, but we invite play-ers onstage to compete with theshow girls,” he said.

The NASDAQ-listed companysaid it had more models than any

other exhibitor at its TV game show-inspired booth where 100 girls satsurrounded by flashing lights, wait-ing to join contests such as who canblow a vuvuzela the loudest. DuanmuWenlin, a top executive for ChinaMobile’s game division, said China’sIT industry was a relatively open busi-ness environment and — as a woman— she saw nothing wrong with us-ing models to promote games.

“Our show girls wear bumblebeeoutfits,” she said, gesturing to host-esses in yellow and black stripeddresses with wings on their backs.“We hope they will be like fairieswho accompany fans through an ad-venture in our games.”

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Cristiano Biraghi finished thescoring in the 74th minute, blast-ing home a 35-meter shot into theupper left corner of the goal.

“I am really pleased with the per-formance of the team. They playedreally well,” Inter manager RafaelBenitez said. “Our idea is to improve

Manchester City’s VincentKompany (L) vies with InterMilan’s MacDonald Marigaduring a friendly match inBaltimore on July 31, 2010.Inter won 3-0.

Agence France Presse

HOUSTON - French starThierry Henry was grabbed andjumped upon by two spectatorswho ran from the stands during theNew York Red Bulls’ 2-2 MajorLeague Soccer draw with 10-manHouston Dynamo on Saturday. Theformer Barcelona and Arsenal star,who set up Colombian Juan PabloAngel on both New York goals, re-ceived his greeting from over-exhuberant fans after Houston’sBrian Mullan equalized in the 90thminute to lift Dynamo to a draw.

Moments after the goal, thespectators ran onto the field andconfronted Henry at midfield in hisUS league debut, having alreadyplayed twice for the Red Bulls ininternational exhibition matcheslast week.

“I don’t even know what hap-pened,” Henry told the HoustonChronicle. The crowd began laugh-ing as stadium security guards triedin vain to grab the men who ranonto the field, one of them jump-ing on Henry’s back and both evad-ing capture for a while with speedand elusive feints.

Eventually they were appre-hended but the comical scene couldhave easily been a nightmare simi-lar to the infamous incident involv-ing tennis star Monica Seles beingstabbed in Germany had the tres-passers been wanting to harmHenry.

“It’s a good thing that theyweren’t coming to harm (Henry),”said New York midfielder DaneRichards. “That (guard) missed somany tackles from those guys.

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LONDON - AC Milan managerMassimiliano Allegri admits DavidBeckham is unlikely to return to theSan Siro for another loan spell.

Beckham was at the EmiratesStadium to watch his former team-mates draw 1-1 with Arsenal in apre-season friendly on Saturday, butthe veteran England midfielder hasbeen sidelined since March with aruptured Achilles and Allegridoesn’t expect him to feature againfor the Italian giants.

Although the former Manches-ter United and Real Madrid starmissed the World Cup as a result ofthe injury, he still intends to playon in America with LA Galaxy.

But Allegri believes Beckham’sage could hinder the 35-year-old’srehabilitation significantly enoughto preclude a third loan stint withMilan.

Asked if Beckham would beback in Italy, Allegri said: “I don’tthink so. He is now recovering froma very bad injury and at that age Ithink it is very difficult to comeback “But it has been a great plea-sure to see him here.”

Niang to FenerbahceMarseille striker Mamadou

Niang is set to complete an eight-million euros move to Istanbul gi-ants Fenerbahce, according to re-ports in the Turkish press Sunday.

Sengalese striker Niang toppedthe French top flight scoring chartswith 18 goals last season asMarseille finally ended their longwait for the league crown.

Although his current contract

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BALTIMORE - Nigerian winger Nsofor Victor Obinna scored one goal and set up another tolead reigning European champion Inter Milan past 10-man Manchester City 3-0 in a footballfriendly on Saturday.Obinna opened the scoring in the 38th minute and fired a shot in the 54thminute that deflected off the leg of Manchester City defender Joleon Lescott and into the net, theEnglishman helpless to deny the goal.

our fitness and also give time to ouryoung players on the pitch. We gotto do both.” Manchester City, whichwill open the Premiership campaignagainst Tottenham in two weeks,was without manager RobertoMancini, who departed Friday be-cause of a family illness and wasreplaced by assistant Brian Kidd.

The English Premier Leagueside went down a man in the 21stminute when Patrick Vieira, aSenegalese-born Frenchman, wasgiven a red card for a hard foulagainst Marco Materazzi.

“Pat was going for the ball,” Kidd

said. “It’s difficult for the referees. It’ssplit-second. But there was no intentthere.” City, playing the final matchof a pre-season US tour, used reservegoalkeeper Joe Hart in the first halfand starter Shay Given in the second.

“Certainly playing a man downwas too hard too overcome,” Givensaid.Inter forward Mario Balotelli,the 20-year-old striker whom reportshave linked to a possible move toCity, was not in uniform.

The match attracted 36,569 spec-tators, the largest crowd of City’s UStour, to the home pitch of Americanfootball’s Baltimore Ravens.AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMM

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runs until 2014, reports in Hurriyetand Vatan said the striker, followingtalks held between the clubs in Parison Saturday, has agreed a three tofour year deal with an annual salaryof 2.5 million euros.

According to Vatan the 31-year-old will be unveiled by the Istanbulclub on Friday. Fenerbahce were notimmediately available to confirm thereports.

Fenerbahce recently signed an-other Senegalese striker in Issiar Dia.French-born Dia, 23, was signed ona four-year contract from FrenchLigue 1 side Nancy.

Henry sets up two goals,gets two on-field greeters

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Thierry Henry #14 of the New York Red Bulls drives past An-drew Hainult #31 of the Houston Dynamo in the second half atRobertson Stadium on July 31, 2010 in Houston, Texas.

They are there to protect the play-ers, but it wasn’t there.” Even withthe incident, Henry said he waspleased at the atmosphere of excite-ment that surrounded the match.

“It was great,” he said. “The pitchwas great, the grass amazing. I sawsome people were in the Arsenal jer-seys and some people were in theBarcelona jerseys. It is great. It wasa great atmosphere.” Henry made thekey pass to spark goals fromColombia’s Angel in the 10th and58th minute, put two shots on goaland another off the crossbar in the42nd minute but he could not claima victory over a team that has notwon since May.

“The result was a bit bad for usbecause of the late goal,” Henry said.“I think Juan Pablo and I playedwell.” The Red Bulls, now 8-6 withthree drawn, opened the scoring when

Henry set up Angel in the 10th butthe Dynamo equalized on a BradDavis penalty kick in the 24th minute.

Davis went high on a second pen-alty kick in the 39th minute as theteams reached half-time deadlocked,although Houston’s Lovel Palmerwas ejected in the 44th minute for ahard foul, leaving Dynamo a mandown for the second half.

Angel’s second goal put the RedBulls ahead 2-1 with 32 minutes re-maining but Mullan snatched a vic-tory for the visitors away at thedeath, Houston moving to 5-8 withfive drawn. The match came amidreports New York will sign Mexicandefender Rafael Marquez, releasedSaturday from his contract by Span-ish champion Barcelona. The RedBulls have called a Tuesday newsconference to announce a playersigning.

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Marquez twice lost to Pacquiao and whilethe Asian superstar has been unable to landa blockbuster fight with unbeaten US vet-eran Floyd Mayweather, Marquez is hop-ing he might have a chance at a third swingin the ring with “Pac-Man”.

“The trilogy is what I want. It’s what thepeople want,” Marquez said. “I will be readyfor another fight in December, hopefullyPacquiao.” While Pacquiao looks to fightMexican Antonio Margarito in November,Marquez said his hunger to face the Filipinolegend is greater than his desire to rule asWorld Boxing Association and World Box-ing Organization lightweight king.

“That’s true. That fight is more impor-tant for me,” Marquez said. Marquez dis-patched Diaz in the ninth round in Februaryof last year and this time was faced with amore tactical boxer-styled foe. The result,however, was the same.

“That first fight was a war. This was a bitmore tactical,” Marquez said. “He wantedto box a bit more but we came out ahead.He’s a great fighter. He knows some tech-

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STANFORD - Russian star Maria Sharapova ispoised to capture her third title of the year and arankings milestone after beating AgnieszkaRadwanska on Saturday in a WTA Bank of the Westsemi-final. Fifth seed Sharapova rallied for a 1-6,6-2, 6-2 triumph over the Polish third seed, advanc-ing to Sunday’s championship match of the700,000-dollar hardcourt event against eighth seedVictoria Azarenka.

If Russian beauty Sharapova defeats the Belarusstar who turned 21 on Saturday, she will rise from15th in the world and achieve her best ranking sincereturning from a shoulder injury in May of last year.

Azarenka ousted Australian top seed SamanthaStosur 6-2, 6-3, to qualify for her third final of theseason. Azarenka has yet to win a title in 2010 andis 1-2 lifetime against Sharapova. “I will have to beprepared,” said Azarenka, who has won 10 of herpast 12 matches.

Sharapova has won 17 of her past 20 matchesand overcame a sluggish start with a sizzling fin-ish, firing four aces and making all eight of her un-forced errors on double faults but none of themcoming in the third set.

Azarenka, who ousted 2009 Stanford winnerMarion Bartoli of France in the quarter-finals, im-proved to 18-5 this season on hardcourts, the sur-face where she has won her three career WTA titles.

Azarenka, ranked 18th, has stressed her returnskills and pounced upon French Open runner-upStosur’s second serves to take command.

“I’m pretty good on the return,” she said. “That’sthe big key. I have been practicing reaction on thereturn. If you react well you can return well.” Stosur,in her sixth 2010 semi-final, leads the WTA with37 match triumphs this year but could not claim thecrown in her first event since cracking the rankingstop five, losing to Azarenka for the fourth time in

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BARCELONA - FrenchmanChristophe Lemaitre completed the sprintdouble at the European Championshipshere on Friday by following up his 100mtriumph with victory in the 200m.Britain’s Christian Malcolm took secondplace in a tight finish, with Lemaitre’scompatriot Martial Mbandjock claimingthe bronze.

“I really had to dig deep to win,” saidLemaitre. “Even when I crossed the line,I didn’t think I’d won. Christian Malcolmwas really very, very strong. He ran a greatbend. I had to wait for the result on theelectronic board to see that I’d won.”

A characteristically stunning late burstdown the straight saw Lemaitre cross theline in a time of 20.37sec, with Welsh-man Malcolm just 0.01sec behind in20.38.

“He has lots of talent, it’s great for Eu-rope to have athletes capable of compet-ing with the United States and the Carib-bean,” said Malcolm.

On Wednesday, 20-year-old Lemaitretasted victory in the 100m ahead ofBritain’s Mark Lewis-Francis andMbandjock. Lemaitre succeeds Portugal’sFrancis Obikwelu, who also achieved the100m-200m double in 2006, and theyoung Frenchman will now target a thirdgold medal in the 4x100m relay.

Lemaitre’s exploits also prompted acongratulatory message from Frenchpresident Nicolas Sarkozy. “The head ofstate conveys to him (Lemaitre) his prideat these exceptional and extraordinary

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WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (L) hits Juan Diaz in the fourthround of their bout at the Mandalay Bay Events Center July 31, 2010 in Las Vegas,Nevada. Marqez retained his WBA and WBO lightweight championship belts with a unani-mous-decision victory over Diaz.

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LAS VEGAS - Mexico’s Juan Manuel Marquez kept his World Box-ing Association lightweight throne on Saturday with a unanimous 12-round decision over Juan Diaz, then called out Filipino star MannyPacquaio. Marquez took a rematch of a slugfest from last year by judges’scores of 118-110, 117-111 and 116-112, improving the 36-year-old fighter’srecord to 51-5 with one drawn. Diaz fell to 35-4.

nique. But tonight technique was in our fa-vor.”

Marquez staggered Diaz with a left up-percut in the fourth round, cut the challenger’slower lip in the ninth and owned the fight al-most from start to finish. “I fulfilled the gameplan, used my jab, but Juan Manuel Marquezis a great fighter,” Diaz said. “He was the bet-ter man.”

Having lost four of his past six fights andwith plans to start law school in October, Diazmight be looking at the end of his ring careerat age 26. “I have to reconsider all the facts,”he said. “We will have to see. I have put up ahell of a fight for 10 years.”

Since losing to Marquez in his hometownof Houston, Diaz split two fights against coun-tryman Paul Malignaggi, winning a unani-mous decision last August but losing by unani-mous decision four months later.

The only fight for Marquez since beatingDiaz some 17 months ago came last Septem-ber when he stepped up to welterweight andlost to undefeated US star Floyd Mayweatherby unanimous decision.

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Maria Sharapova of Russia reacts aftermissing a shot against AgnieszkaRadwanska of Poland during the semifi-nals of the Bank of the West Classic atStanford University on July 31, 2010 inStanford, California. J

Sharapova rallis to reach WTAfinal against Azarenka

as many meetings.“She has had such good results. I’m so happy at

how I played against her,” Azarenka said. “I startedto move a litle better as the match went on and Iimproved my defensive game and that helped myoffensive game move forward.”

Azarenka broke Stosur three times in the firstset for a 5-2 edge and held at love to claim theset, then kept the Aussie at bay in the second aswell. “She played well and it wasn’t my best day,”Stosur said. “She punished me when I was beingtoo conservative.”

Lemaitre completesEuropean sprint double

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France’s Christophe Lemaitre (4thfrom top) wins the men’s 200m finalat the 2010 European AthleticsChampionships at the Olympic Sta-dium in Barcelona on July 30, 2010.

performances,” read a statement from theElysee Palace.

The breakthrough that Lemaitre hasmade in Barcelona has raised hopes thathe will go on to challenge the giants ofthe sport in the near future, but he insistedhe has plenty of work to do.

“I’m still young. I still have time toprogress,” he said. “I’ll keep training andgaining experience at the big championshipsand meetings. I don’t know if I can reachthe same level as (Usain) Bolt or (Tyson)Gay but I’ll give everything that I have.”

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But although well aware his situ-ation is far from ideal, he is upbeatthat McLaren can fight back – andwill get a boost whatever the FIAdoes on the flexi-wing controversy.

“I don’t feel it [the championship]falling away from us,” said Hamilton.“If we continue for the rest of theseason and we are more than one sec-ond behind, then inevitably it is go-ing to be very hard for us to win thechampionship. “But I think Martin[Whitmarsh, team principal] hasmade it clear that something will besorted or made clear [on front wings],so we can either change our approachor someone else changes their ap-proach.”

Hamilton says his desire to suc-ceed now is just as strong as it wasearlier in the season – and is unmovedby news that a number of bookmak-ers have now installed SebastianVettel as favourite for the title.

“My determination is as high as itcould be,” he said. “I am pushing ashard as I can with the team - it is thesame for me and Martin and every-one in the team. We want to win thechampionship, it doesn’t matter if abookie says we won’t or someoneelse says we will. We will do every-thing we can and everything in our

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McLaren Mercedes’ British driver Lewis Hamilton leaves the pits of the Hungaroring circuit on July31, 2010 in Budapest, during the qualifying session of the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix.

Hamilton denies title hopes are fadingLewis Hamilton is confident his world championship hopes arenot fading away on the back of continued frustrations for hisMcLaren team. The world championship leader has seen Red

Bull Racing and Ferrari enjoy a speed advantage for the last fewraces - and has found himself almost two seconds adrift of pole

position at this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix.

power to win the championship.“You don’t really think about the

championship until the momentwhen it really, really matters -which is when you are just aboutto win or just about to lose it. Sofor me I take it race by race and tryto get as many points in the races.That has always been my approach,I don’t think of critical results orhow that affects the championship.”

Team-mate Jenson Button alsoreckons his title challenge will notbe too badly dented in Hungary,despite a disappointing qualifyingsession.

“I’ve made it difficult again inqualifying,” he said. “Starting 11th,it is never easy when you are thatfar back, but there is still everythingto play for. “The first four cars seemto have very good pace, but any-thing can happen as we have seenmany times this season - and wehave performed as a team very well,especially on a Sunday.

“I think we can still have a goodrace. It is tough starting so far be-hind Lewis, he is the guy leadingthe championship from myself, andfinishing behind Lewis would hurtmy championship hopes at thispoint of the season, that is obvious.

VITALY Petrov plans to ban-ish thoughts about his Formula 1future until the end of the season- despite an impressive perfor-mance in Hungary boosting hischances of remaining at Renaultnext year. The Russianoutqualified team-mate RobertKubica for the first time this sea-son to grab seventh on the gridfor the Hungarian Grand Prix -and set his sights on adding morepoints to his tally.

And with Renault bosses hav-ing asked for Petrov to deliverexactly what he has produced inrecent races, the Russian said hehad no doubts how competitive hewould be at the Hungaroring.

Petrov not thinking about future“I knew I would be quick here

because I know this track,” he said.“When you know this track, you justneed to learn the set-up to be drivingin F1, but the rest is fine. So I knew Iwould be quick here. “But about thefuture? I don’t want to say anythingabout that. I will just wait until theend of the year and then we will see.”

Petrov reckoned he had the poten-tial to go even faster in qualifying,but still says he takes some satisfac-tion from starting ahead of his team-mate.

“It was still possible to be quickerbut anyway we are quite happy, thecar is in top 10 so this is the mostimportant thing,” he explained. “Tostart ahead of Robert means some-

thing, but not a lot “The most im-portant thing is that I am happywith the car, happy with my re-sults and happy with things aroundme that have happened. When yousit in the car you never think youmust beat this guy or somebodyelse, you just do you work.”

Petrov said his target for therace is to finish in the top 10 – andmore importantly not make anymistakes. “First of all it will be adifficult first corner because it isvery tight,” he said. “Then, justwho is doing the best tactics willwin. You always want to finish inthe top ten and do a clear racewithout some mistakes, withoutproblems. This is the target.”

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Vitaly Petrovdrives at the

Hockenheimringcircuit on July

23, 2010 inHockenheim,

during the firstfree practice

session of theFormula One

German GrandPrix.

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