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WASHINGTON — Singer Chris Brown is expected to be in Washington for a hearing on the assault charge he faces. Brown is sched-uled to appear Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court. Brown was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault in October, accused of hitting a man outside the W hotel. That man says Brown hit him after he tried to get in a photograph that the singer was taking with two women.

Prosecutors wanted Brown in Washington to face trial. At the time it was set to start, Brown was in a Los Angeles jail after being kicked out of a rehab facility. He was released earlier this month. Brown was still on proba-tion for a 2009 attack on singer Rihanna, his then girlfriend. No new trial date has been set in the D.C. case.

He didn’t fly first class and his hotels weren’t five-star. Still, when singer Chris Brown was moved from a Los Angeles jail

to Washington for what was to have been the start of his trial on an assault charge, the cost to taxpayers was more than $4,000.

The breakdown of the April trip was pro-vided to The Associated Press as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. The tab includes jail stays, airfare and other trans-portation costs. The U.S. Marshals Service, which transported Brown, said in a statement Tuesday that it uses the “safest and most cost-effective means to transport” inmates.

Brown is scheduled to be in a Washington courtroom Wednesday. This time, he’s out of jail, so he’ll be paying his own way.

Asked in April about transporting Brown across country, one of Brown’s lawyers, Mark Geragos, called the case possibly “the single most investigated, prosecuted and expensive misdemeanor prosecution in jurisprudence.”

Prosecutors wanted Brown in Wash-ington to face trial on a charge of hitting a man outside the W hotel in October 2013. At the time,

Brown was still on probation in California for a 2009 attack on the singer Rihanna, his then girlfriend.

When his trial was set to start in Washing-ton, Brown was in a Los Angeles jail after being kicked out of a court-ordered rehab facility.

Records show Brown’s trip began April 1 when he was moved to a jail in San Bernardi-no County, about an hour east of Los Angeles. He spent two days there before being driven to catch a plane. The cost of transportation and lodging was about $1,000, records show.

From there, the Marshals Service group responsible for flying prisoners across coun-try, sometimes called “Con Air,” took over and flew Brown to the D.C. area. That cost: $1,193. Three weeks of housing at the North-ern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia, about two hours south of Washington, cost $55 a day, the jail said.

During the expletive-laden Playboy interview, Oldman decried the “po-litical correctness” that ensnared Gibson and Baldwin. Gibson delivered an anti-Semitic rant in 2006 while being arrested for drunk driving, and he later

apologized. Baldwin last year was accused of using an anti-gay slur in a New York City street confrontation.

Oldman said that Gibson “got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those things. We’re all (expletive) hypocrites.” He said he didn’t blame Baldwin

for using the slur because somebody bothered him.“Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews and he said the wrong thing because

he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him, and doesn’t need to feed him anymore because he’s got enough dough,” Oldman said in the interview. In his later letter, first reported by the industry website Deadline.com, Oldman wrote, “I hope you will know that this apology is heartfelt, genuine, and that I have an

enormous personal affinity for the Jewish people in general, and those specifi-cally in my life.” Oldman’s Playboy comments had drawn a sharp response

from Jewish leaders.“Gary Oldman wants Jews to ‘get over’ what Mel Gibson said. But what Gibson said, was the slogan

that Adolf Hitler used to murder six million Jews,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wi-esenthal Center in Los Angeles. “(Oldman’s) comment that Hollywood is a town ‘run by Jews’ has a very familiar sinister ring to it that is the anthem of bigots and anti-Semites every-where. That has nothing to do with political correctness,” Hier said in a statement to The Associated Press.

Oldman apologizes for defending Gibson and Baldwin

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Gary Oldman has apologized for defending fellow actors Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin from critics of their contro-versial remarks about Jews and gays. “I am deeply remorseful that comments I recently made in the Playboy Interview were offensive to many Jewish people,” Oldman wrote in an open letter to the Anti-Defamation League late Tuesday. “Upon reading my comments in print — I see how insensitive they may be, and how they may indeed contribute to the furtherance of a false stereotype.”

Chris Brown facing trial in DC court

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A tourism expert from the Udayana University, Putu Anom, assessed the number of illegal tourist accommodation in Bali happened due to weak law enforce-ment. The government seeming to implement the regulation and mandate of the rules half-heartedly had triggered the mushrooming of illegal businesses. “If the govern-

ment is committed to enforce the rules, it should oversee the inves-tors from the beginning like from the licensing process through the project execution. So, any fraud can be minimized,” said Anom in Denpasar.

According to him, the govern-ment was not careful in issuing the building permit application so

it was often misused. As a result, some private homes were even functioned as villa accommodation. “Decisiveness is needed in the law enforcement to discipline those il-legal buildings because they have clearly violated but was allowed to operate,” he said.

Bali Villa Association (BVA) also observed that a lot of illegal tourist accommodations were built on the verge of cliff. Based on the spatial rules, it was not allowed to build on the edge of cliff. “The rules allow the building on cliff provided that it is twice the depth of the cliff. If there is a building on top of a cliff, probably it is not licensed because it clearly violates the rules,” said Chairman

of the BVA, Jero Mangku Wayan Suteja.

He admitted that his party with a joint team would perform an inspection to Southern Badung area, such as Jimbaran and Pecatu. These areas were alleged to be filled with many tourist accommoda-tions, either villas or hotels. “We encourage the joint team to come down to location in order to ascer-tain whether there are unlicensed accommodation buildings or not because today a home can even be called a villa,” he said.

He added that competition among the villas was getting tough-er in Bali due to the proliferation of villas, especially in the areas becoming the favorite of travelers

such as Badung and Gianyar. Even, the average annual growth had reached 10 percent. “The competi-tion will be tighter as every year the growth of villas is getting more and more. Among the rapid growth of the villas, the most is widely seen in Badung and Ubud area,” he said.

In addition, the number of villas in Bali had reached over 1,200 vil-las, where 700 villas were located in Badung, while the remaining scattered in Tabanan, Buleleng, Klungkung, Gianyar and other regions. Meanwhile, the illegal vil-las reached more than 10 percent. “Currently there is no clear rule governing the existence of villas, so many villas are not licensed,” he affirmed. (kmb27)

Tourist accommodation in Bali targets cliff

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Tourist accommodation growth in Bali has proliferated uncontrollably. Even, not a few investors violate the rules such as the coastal borderline, road borderline to taking advantage of the cliff.

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Tourist accommodation growth in Bali has proliferated uncontrollably. Even, not a few investors violate the rules such as the coastal borderline, road borderline to taking advantage of the cliff. Rampant tourist accommodation espe-cially villas built on a cliff is alleged to have no permit because based on the government’s rules on spatial plan it is not allowed to build on the edge of cliff.

Ferry survivors return to school amid tears, grief

Greece get late reward for attacking endeavor

Joged Bumbung dance staged in BAF

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014

1 Jun Pura Sakenan Serangan DenpasarPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar TimurPura Alas Harum Batur KintamaniPura Alas Angker Munduk KintamaniPura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung

4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang KapalDalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida

8 Jun Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesi-man DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan

10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung SelatanPura Luhur UluwatuPura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badungPura Penataran Agung Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Gua Lawah KlungkungPura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralaya Banda klungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan TabananPura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

GianyarPura Gerya Sakti Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh UbudPura Segara Ketewel SukawatiPura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud

11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungPura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana KlungkungPura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Dukuh TegallalangPura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah KesimanPura Sahab Nusa penidaPura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar

12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Ulun Swi Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar

15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi

25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai KarangasemPura Aer jeruk Sukawati GianyarPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyarPura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem KarangasemPura Batur Sari Ubud

27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati

30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi

5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan KlungkungPura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Penebel TabananPura Benua Tarukan Besakih

9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Kalah BatubulanPura Desa Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem Petitenget Kuta BadungPura Dalem Pulasari GianyarPura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar SelatanPura Paibon Sumerta DenpasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak SiringPura Pasar Agung Kediri TabananPura Puaya Batuan Sukawati

11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri 12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

The capital city will see the opening of three new favehotels, starting with favehotel Zainul Arifin – Jakarta which is set to open by September this year. The hotel will feature 84 rooms located close to such his-torical landmarks as the National Museum & National Monument, and will be just 10 minutes from Gambir Train Station and 35 minutes from Soekarno Hatta International Airport.

The super clean and contemporary hotel rooms will feature top of the line beds with a plush mattress, down pillows, a cozy duvet and crisp 250 thread-count sheets, together with smart touches that contribute to an even more comfortable stay. Free high speed WiFi will keep guests connected, while the eclectic café-shop will serve a simple but hearty breakfast and many light and healthy choices throughout the day.

The second favehotel set for Indonesia’s

capital is favehotel Pasar Minggu - Jakarta that will open within the second quarter of 2015. The 110 room hotel will be con-veniently located close to Cilandak Town Square, the Pondok Indak Golf & Country Club and the Cilandak Golf Driving Range, as well as being close to the International School and Government Offices.

And finally, the third favehotel to hit Jakarta will be favehotel Grogol – Jakarta, due to open within the 4th quarter of 2016. With 100 rooms, the hotel will be located close by to a number of famous malls, like Mall of Ciputra, Central Park Mall and Mall Taman Anggrek, whilst also being close to the International Soekarno Hatta Airport.

Heading south, the central Javan regency of Cilacap will see the opening of favehotel Cilacap, slated to open within the 4th quarter of 2016. The hotel will feature 120 rooms and it will be in close proximity to the area’s

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Favehotel continues to expandIBP

JAKArTA – As one of Archipelago International’s most prominent hotel brands, the maverick hotel management company is continuing to expand the famous favehotel brand to a number of new locations in Indonesia. The rapid expansion will see six new favehotel properties hit four different cities in Indonesia, including Jakarta, Cilacap, Padang and Pekanbaru.

main attractions, like the sea port and the surrounding beaches on the southern coast, as well as the ancient Dutch fortress called Benteng Pendem, which was built in 1861-1879 by the Dutch East Indies Army.

Into Sumatra and the flourishing island will see the opening of two new favehotels in the 4th quarter of 2015. Padang will welcome favehotel Olo – Padang with its 100 rooms, while favehotel Sudirman – Pe-kanbaru will feature 110 rooms and 3 meeting rooms. In Padang, guests can enjoy easy access to all that the lively city has to offer, like Food Street Simpang Kinol, the Museum Adityawarman, Siti Nurbaya Bridge and Padang Beach.

Padang is the largest city in the western coast of Su-matra and is a common transit point for surfers traveling to the Batu and Mentawai Islands. Padang beach (known as Taplau or Tapi Lauik) is well known for its beautiful sunset and hundreds of food stalls. Bungus bay to the

south of Padang is suitable for swimming and boating.Located at the heart of Pekanbaru, favehotel Sudirman

– Pekanbaru will be a short 10-minute drive to the Pe-kanbaru Mall and SKA Mall, with a two-way shuttle service available twice daily. It is also just 15-minutes from the Sultan Syarif Qasim II International Airport. Pekanbaru has been awarded on many occasions as one of the cleanest big cities in Indonesia, and it is notable for its wide main streets and large median roads.

“We are currently undertaking an unprecedented period of expansion throughout Indonesia, which will see Archipelago International more than double its col-lection of hotels in the country over the next few years. By the end of this year alone, Archipelago International will be launching 33 new hotel projects, while 2015 is already set to open a further 37 hotels to welcome guests throughout the year.” Said Norbert Vas, Archipelago International’s VP Sales & Marketing.

The staging of the Topeng Panca Dance featured the perfor-mance of Wongan. The Wongan told the stories on the beginning of the collapse faced by the empire of Tegeh Kori named Kingdom of Badung. The King-dom of Badung was then ruled by Kiyai Anglurah Jambe Merik centered at Alang Badung estab-lishing new position known as Sawunggaling. Ki Sawunggaling got power by controlling more extensive areas than other offi-cials with intelligence to rule so the people were safe and secure. After the death of Kiyai Jambe Merik, the Badung administra-tion was succeeded by his son namely Kejambean II Kiyai Jambe Ketewel.

His wisdom was not much different from that of his father. The Badung people felt to be well protected so they were obedient to the king and sub-

ject to Ki Sawunggaling having the obligation to pass the royal commands. His prominent idea was expanding paddy field area, establishing irrigation and dam in Badung Kingdom. Unluck-ily, the making of dam failed. Seeing the failure, Ki Tegeh Kori consulted the problem to the central government of Bali, namely Ida Bathara Sagening Dalem Gelgel for an advice. Then, he was suggested to per-form a sacrifice and meditate on the bank of Sagsag River. Here, he got revelation in order to make yadnya satya (human as the basis of sacrifice). Hearing the revelation, Ki Sawunggal-ing was excited and promised to do so. He then met the King of Badung and was ready to become the basis of sacrifice for realizing the dream of prosper-ing the Badung people though he had to sacrifice himself and his

Bali PostDENPASAR - The heyday

of drama gong art has passed. However, it does not necessarily mean if the art has become ex-tinct. Some drama gong troupes remain to survive, although they look powerless. In the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) XXXVI this time,

the lovers of drama gong had the opportunity to watch their favor-ite show at the Ayodya Stage, Wednesday (Jun 25). On that oc-casion, it was presented the Can-dra Budaya drama gong troupe from Bebandem, Karangasem, as one of the parade participants in the current Bali Arts Festival.

Previously, at 11:00 a.m. was also held the parade of Joged Bumbung by Tri Pitaka Art Stu-dio, Munduk village, Buleleng County that could entertain the spectators at Ayodya Stage. After that, it was resumed with the art presentation by the Maluku Resi-dent Association (Kemal) in Bali

at Angsoka Stage. Ultimately, it was resumed with the participa-tion of the Jember Government Tourism Office at the Angsoka Stage.

In addition to drama gong, there was also night show in the form of Arja operetta presented by Kakul Gondang Arja Troupe

from Kaba-Kaba village, Kediri subdistrict, Tabanan. It was per-formed at Wantilan Hall. As the closing session on the twelfth day, it was presented the Tri Sakti fragmentary dance by Mahasara-swati University of Denpasar in the Ksiraarnawa building. (kmb12)

Drama Gong makes performance at Ayodya Stage

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The Topeng Panca Wongan performance

Newer artists of Denpasar present Topeng Panca Wongan danceBali Post

DENPASAr - Staging of the Topeng Panca Dance at-tempted to entertain the audience at the Bali Arts Festival (BAF), Bali Art Center. Beginner artists got the opportunity to make performance at the Bali Arts Festival. The art displayed by the C Art Coblong gamelan troupe from Pe-mecutan Kelod, West Denpasar, tried to grace the audience. Although relatively new, the appearance of the art studio under direction of I Ketut Suandita as gamelan music ar-ranger and Putu Adi Sujana as artistic director was trying to give the best to the audience. Moreover, the art troupe founded three years ago was intended for devotional works at temple where the players were of the same age and given the opportunity to make performance in order to show off new generation artists in the BAF.

descendants. It is the reason why the river was named Wongan River.

This storyline was taken by I Ketut Kodi from the story on the birth of the Badung Kingdom and the Arya Wayabya Pinatih chronicle. The artistic director Putu Adi Su-jana said the story presented in the performance depicted togetherness by giving the opportunities to new young artists. The message was adjusted to the central theme Kerta-

masa namely discovering to achieve people’s prosperity. In other words, the irrigation system needed to be raised and the making of sacrifice should be based on the deepest sincerity. In the story of Wongan, any leader who led the Bali should dare to make self-sacrifice without sacrificing his people. The mask performance indicated that Bali was inseparable from yadnya creativity. Conversely, Bali was always insepa-

rable from the mask.“We salute to the leader in Den-

pasar because his leadership is in accordance with the character of the creative culture-based city and the leader consistently preserves the cultural character. It was indicated by the founding of the art troupes in Denpasar and provision of financial support to cultural preservation to discover the generation of new young artists in Denpasar. (BP/wan)

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The 36th Bali Art Festival

A study published on Thursday found that chronic exposure to ultra-violet radiation triggers the release of endorphins - the so-called feel-good hormones - that function through the same biological pathway as highly addictive opiate drugs such as heroin and morphine.

The study involved laboratory mice, but the researchers said they believe the findings are applicable to people because the biological response of skin to UV radiation in mice is so similar to humans.

Regular UV radiation exposure led to physical dependence and addictive behavior in the mice, the study found. The animals even exhibited withdrawal symptoms - shaking, tremors and teeth chattering - after being treated with a drug that blocked the endorphin activ-ity, the researchers said.

Writing in the journal Cell, they said the addictive nature of UV exposure “may contribute to the relentless rise in skin cancer incidence in humans.”

“There is this dangerous addictive pathway operating,” said dermatolo-gist Dr. David Fisher of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, who led the study.

Fisher said in theory sun-related skin cancer should be highly preventable merely by reducing exposure, but the addictive qualities of UV exposure may help explain the dogged “sun-seeking behavior” some people display through outdoor and indoor tanning and other pursuits.

“Behavioral exposure to the sun is being guided by influences that go past just a desire to have a nice game of Frisbee outside. There’s something else motivating that behavior,” Fisher added.

Exposure to ultraviolet rays through sunlight and indoor tanning equipment is considered a major risk factor for skin cancer including melanoma. The American Cancer Society said U.S. melanoma rates have been rising for at least 30 years, with about 76,000

news cases and 9,700 deaths forecast for 2014.

Cumulative damage from UV ra-diation also can cause premature skin aging in the form of wrinkles, lax skin and brown spots.

Exposure to UV rays stimulates production of endorphins - the same hormones stimulated by activities like vigorous exercise. They turn on opiate-related receptors via the same biological pathway triggered by pre-scription painkillers and other opiate drugs.

The researchers shaved the backs of the mice and gave them a daily dose of UV light - enough to induce tan-ning but not burning - for six weeks. Bloodstream endorphin levels rose within a week.

John Overstreet, executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association, said the study “ignores the benefits of exposure to ultraviolet light, the most obvious of which is the production of vitamin D through your skin.”

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - A California study out Monday found that pregnant women who lived near farms where pesticides are applied had a two-thirds higher risk of having children with autism.

The findings in the journal Environmental Health Per-spectives examine the association between living near commercial pesticide applications and having offspring with autism, but do not show cause-and-effect.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that ranges in severity and has been on the rise in recent years. Health authorities say it now affects as many as one in 68 children in the United States.

The latest research was based on data about commercial pesticide applications in California, combined with resi-dential addresses of about 1,000 participants in a study of families with an autistic child.

“We mapped where our study participants’ lived during pregnancy and around the time of birth,” said principal investigator Irva Hertz-Picciotto, vice chair of the Depart-ment of Public Health Sciences at University of California, Davis.

California law requires detailed records on what kinds of pesticides are applied, where and when and how much.

“What we saw were several classes of pesticides more commonly applied near residences of mothers whose children developed autism or had delayed cognitive or other skills.”

About one-third of study participants lived within 1.25 to 1.75 kilometers (about a mile) from a site where com-mercial pesticides were applied.

Researchers found risks of autism were highest when the chemicals were applied during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.

The study authors said the developing fetal brain may be particularly vulnerable to pesticides.

“This study validates the results of earlier research that has reported associations between having a child with autism and prenatal exposure to agricultural chemicals in California,” said lead study author Janie Shelton, a UC Davis graduate student.

“While we still must investigate whether certain sub-groups are more vulnerable to exposures to these com-pounds than others, the message is very clear: Women who are pregnant should take special care to avoid contact with agricultural chemicals whenever possible.”

Associated Press

CHICAGO — America’s largest pediatricians’ group says parents should read aloud to their children every day starting in infancy. Doing so can enhance child develop-ment and prepare young minds for early language and reading ability.

That’s according to a new policy from the American Academy of Pediatrics issued Tuesday. The academy wants pediatricians to spread the message to parents of young children and to provide books to needy families.

To help promote reading, the doctors’ group is team-ing up with the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail program, children’s book publisher Scholastic Inc., and a group called Reach out and Read. That nonprofit group works with doctors and hospitals to distribute books and encourage early reading.

Study finds link between pesticides and autism

Start reading to kids early

AP Photo/Wayne Parry

In this June 27, 2013 photo, beachgoers enjoy a sunny day on the beach in Atlantic City, N.J. This may give dedicated sun worshippers reason for pause. A new study suggests that regular tanning not only may raise the risk of skin cancer but also may be addictive.

Tanning may be addictive

Reuters

WASHINGTON - This may give dedicated sun worshippers reason for pause. A new study suggests that regular tanning not only may raise the risk of skin cancer but also may be addictive.

Unfortunately, ‘the breathing rate’ of the majority of the creation dances is only limited to the presen-tation on the stage of Ardha Candra Amphitheater, Bali Art Center. After the performance, the creation dances have gone by. Actually, not a few of the works are very reliable in terms of quality so that they are worth to be disseminated to the public. Like a mother, the BAF in this context can only bear. Unfortunately, it is unable to take care of, let alone raise the cre-ation dances that can be transformed into evergreen dances throughout the ages like the Oleg Tamulilingan, Kebyar Duduk, Teruna Jaya and so on. Indeed, it is a pity!

When contacted, the choreogra-pher AA Gede Agung Rahma Putra, truly deplored the phenomenon of ‘dying young’ experienced by the majority of the new creation dances. This doctoral candidate at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Surakarta analogized the BAF to the arena of birth and death for the new creation dances. “As the reality, so far it is indeed like that. There is an impression if the new creation dances are only created for the ‘consumption’ of BAF or it can only be enjoyed by some of Bali-nese people who happened to come to the BAF. After the performance at the BAF, the new creation dances seem to vanish as such because they

are very rarely staged whereas the majority of the dances have a very good quality,” said the young cho-reographer who is often trusted to work on new creation dances to be displayed.

According to Rahma Putra, the Bali and county/municipal govern-ment should be able to preserve the new creation dances from the threat of ‘dying young’ by helping disseminate the works to the public. Through the Culture Agency, the op-portunity to make the new creation dances as the ‘product’ of BAF still alive was widely open. One of them was by performing the new creation dances when local governments were entertaining state guests, officials, ambassadors or consuls of friendly countries or involving them when the local government performed a tourism promotion overseas. At the internal level, the dances could be performed on the anniversary of local governments or regional important moments. “If there is a will, there is a way to keep the new creation dances to remain alive. Similarly, I offer the same solution to gamelan music creations, contemporary dances and other types of art having spread its charm in the BAF,” he said.

Another solution, said Rahma Putra, the Culture Agency in col-laboration with the Education

Bali PostDENPASAR – Joged Bumbung dance performed again on Wednes-

day, June 25, during the Bali Art Festival (BAF). Dance that invites audiences to dance together attract many BAF’s visitors.

This time, the dance is featuring four dancers. Dancers who per-formed in the play come from Tripitaka Art Group.

Coordinator of Tripitaka Art Group, Putu Putrawan said this dance is one of favorite dances of Balinese people. This social dance com-monly performs in Bali. According to Putrawan, the dance shows Buleleng style with its classical trademark. “This dance is not only featured in Bali, but often performs in Europe, such as France and the Netherlands, as well as Hong Kong,” he said. (wan)

BAF ScheduleThursday, June 26, 2014

Time Place Event11.00 Angsoka Stage Semara Pegulingan by Citarum Art14.00 Ratna Kanda Stage Taman Penasar Show Competition17.00 Angsoka Stage Traditional Music Performance20.00 Wantilan Arja Performance 20.00 Ksirarnawa Contemporary Art Performance20.00 Ardha Candra Adult Gong Kebyar Performance

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Balinese dancer performed Joged Bumbung Dance during the Bali Art Festival on Wednesday, June 25, 2014.

Joged Bumbung dance staged in BAF

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Indonesian traditional dancers perform during a parade to mark the Bali Arts Festival in Bali, Indonesia, Friday, June 13, 2014. Undeniably, the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) extravaganza is a fertile ‘womb’ for the birth of the novelty works of arts.

New creation dances in BAF

Seem to face their birth and death all at onceBali Post

DENPASAR - Undeniably, the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) extravaganza is a fertile ‘womb’ for the birth of the novelty works of arts. In the Parade of Adult Gong Kebyar and Female Gong Kebyar of the BAF XXXVI this year, for example, every art envoy of the county/municipality in Bali works on a new creation dance with excellent qualities. Even, from this extravaganza is born 18 new creation dances that are actually potential to grace the universe of Balinese per-forming arts.

Agency could disseminate the new creation dances to schools. Through the subject of the Art Education, some of the creation dances could be used as a compulsory subject to be mastered by the students, espe-cially those choosing the dance as an extracurricular. In order that all

the new creation dances had the same right to life, the material of new creation dance taught should be adjusted to the county/munici-pality carrying the creation dances in the BAF. For example, the cre-ation dance composed by the envoy of Denpasar was taught to students

in Denpasar and so on. “With such a strategy, I am optimistic the new creation dances displayed in the BAF arena will not only be one night old. But, it is very likely to become a dance widely known by the public from year to year,” he suggested. (ian)

Bali News International4 Thursday, June 26, 2014 Thursday, June 26, 2014 13International RLDW

Some of the 73 students, wear-ing white and black uniforms and carrying book bags, bowed their heads as they cried and walked slowly from a bus to the school entrance. Some stopped to hug the parents of their friends, who caressed their hair and faces. Adults carried banners of encour-agement. One read: “I love you.” A large placard, which reads “We pray the dead will rest in peace,” was hung up on the school en-trance gate.

The anger, grief and deep re-morse at Danwon High School in Ansan, outside of Seoul, was a reflection of what many South Koreans have felt since the April 16 sinking that left more than 300 people dead or missing. Of the 325 students on a class trip to the southern holiday island of Jeju, 75 were rescued, 245 died and 5 are still missing. Two of those rescued had already returned to school, officials said.

The return to classes of the survivors, who had been staying at a facility in Ansan where they

had classes and therapy sessions, comes amid court hearings for the ferry crew and the officials from the company that owned it. Many South Koreans also fault the gov-ernment, the coast guard and even society for failing the victims.

“We ask for a thorough in-vestigation to find out why our friends and teachers had to be-come victims and why the rescue efforts didn’t proceed properly and led to more victims,” one of the surviving students, Shin Young-jin, said in an emotional address. “We hope that you will try to create a safer nation so that such a horrible accident never happens again.” After decades of negligence, many South Koreans are now questioning the country’s history of ignoring safety issues as it pursued rapid economic devel-opment above all else following the devastation of the Korean War, which began 64 years ago Wednesday with a North Korean invasion.

The government of President Park Geun-hye, whose dictator

father ruled during the economic boom in the 1960s and 1970s that was dubbed the “Miracle on the Han,” after the river that cuts through Seoul, has been battered by criticism that it should have done more before the sinking on safety and monitoring issues and that its incompetence botched the rescue operations.

The 15 crew members respon-sible for navigating the Sewol ferry face charges of negligence for failing to perform their duties to rescue passengers. Prosecutors say they abandoned the ship even though they knew passengers would be trapped and killed when the ferry sank. The defense has denied any collusion, saying the crew members were confused, injured and panicked.

Shin, the student, said that many people have tried to console the surviving students, but others have asked “unpleasant” ques-tions that have reminded them of the sinking and made them feel guilty. He said some people were even “burying daggers in our hearts” by saying that the survi-vors “betrayed” their classmates by coming back alive. “Whenever we heard such things, our hearts tore apart and ached and we shed tears because we felt guilty and sorry for our friends.”

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — The trial is not over yet, but tremors from the phone-hacking case are shaking Britain’s political establishment — and Rupert Murdoch’s media business.

Jurors are still considering brib-ery counts against former News of the World editor Andy Coulson and ex-royal editor Clive Goodman. On

Tuesday they convicted Coulson of conspiring to hack phones, but cleared former editor Rebekah Brooks and four others. The trial has refocused attention on illegality at Murdoch’s British tabloids.

The Guardian newspaper report-ed that detectives want to question Murdoch “under caution” — mean-ing as a potential suspect. Neither the police nor Murdoch’s British firm News U.K. would comment

Meanwhile the sister of murdered teenager Milly Dowler — whose phone was hacked in 2002 — on Wednesday urged Prime Minister David Cameron to seek tougher media regulation.

Hacking verdicts pile pressure on Cameron, Murdoch

Ferry survivors return to school amid tears, grief

Associated Press Writer

ANSAN, South Korea— As parents of the dead wept, more than 70 teenagers who survived a ferry sinking that killed hundreds of their schoolmates walked in a somber procession Wednesday to their first classes since the April disaster.

AP Photo/YonhapStudents who survived the sinking of a ferry Sewol are comforted by parents of their friends who lost their lives in the disaster as they make their way back for their first class since the disaster in Ansan, South Korea, Wednesday, June 25, 2014.

Andy Coulson, right, former News of the World editor, ar-rives at the Central Criminal Court in London, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Condition of the Denpasar-Petang road section, especially the section located at the territory of Badung County was criticized again. Chairman of the Badung House, I Nyoman Giri Prasta, revealed that at a number of points were still found very disturbing the comfort and safety of road users. His party also de-

plored the relevant agencies that only repaired the damaged road by patchworks.

“Provincial government should give attention to condition of the Denpasar-Petang road section. This pathway is very important because in addition to the path of the economy, it also poses the path of tourism,” said Giri Prasta.

He said the repair to the road with provincial status should be

done thoroughly. From his ob-servation all this time, the road repair was only undertaken by patchworks so that it obviously gave impression if the road condi-tion was never good. One of the examples was the road section at Angantiga village. “So, I do hope the Badung Highways and Irriga-tion Agency (BMP) can immedi-ately make coordination with the Bali Public Works to address this

problem,” said the PDI-P politician from Petang.

Other than at Angantiga vil-lage, damaged road conditions could also be found at Pangsan village leading to Sandakan. The data in the Badung Highways and Irrigation Agency showed that the Denpasar-Petang road section spread along 27.72 kilometers. The road in good condition was along 16.6 kilometers, moderate

condition along 4.12 kilometers and damaged condition along 7 kilometers.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Badung Highways and Irrigation Agency, Ida Bagus Surya Suamba, said that his party had coordinated with provincial government be-cause it belonged to provincial road. According to information received, the repair would be un-dertaken this year. (kmb25)

Based on information gathered in the field on Tuesday, the villa was built several years ago by the owner Cloude Jasin, an American citizen and his wife Nadia from Russia. After being in operation, the owner appointed lo-cal resident to claim as the villa owner, namely Wayan Edy Parsa. In addition, the owner also hired a villa manager, Ketut Redana, a resident of Jalan Pantai Indah, Singaraja.

During the construction, residents were once objected because the road to public facility was hampered by the villa building. Residents admitted to have difficulty to reach the public facility. In addition to closing the access, the villa buildings were also claimed by the owner as a home. In reality, the villas were rent-

ed to foreign travelers. During the villa was rented by foreign travelers, the owner had not paid the hotel and restaurant tax to Buleleng Revenue Service. Other than having tax arrears, the villas also took advantage of ground water (wells—Ed) illegally or without permission.

Chief of Buleleng Municipal Police (Satpol PP), Putu Hartana, when met in his office said that before sealing the villas without permission, the judiciary team of Buleleng County had issued reprimand letter for three times to the owner.

However, the reprimand letter was ignored, so the judiciary team then sealed the villa. As long as being sealed, the villa owner was not allowed to rent the villa to travelers. The seal would be opened when the owner had submitted

the permit and proved by presenting the permit issued by the authorized agency in Buleleng County. “We have reprimanded the owner for three times, but the owner did not want to submit the permission. As per standard operating procedure (SOP—Ed), after the third reprimand was not responded, we take firm action by imposing sanction in the form of sealing,” he said.

Other than sealing, added Artana, Wayan Edy Parsa given the credence to claim the villa would be summoned to be present at the Buleleng government. He would be required to comply with the rules to follow in managing the villa business.

As planned, the owner would be summoned on Wednesday and the of-ficials appealed the owner to submit the permits in the near future. “Tomorrow, on Tuesday (Jun 24) we will summon the owner. Hopefully, the owner could comply with the applicable provisions by applying for the permission in ac-cordance with the existing provisions,” he affirmed. (kmb38)

Again, condition of Denpasar-Petang road section reaps criticism

The officer of Buleleng Government seal Villa

Mentari at Kalianget

Bali Post

KUTA - The culprit of marijuana smuggling into the Kerobokan Prison of Class II A, North Kuta, Badung, Sunday (Jun 22), Raden Mohamad Zein Akasa, 29, remains under police investigation. Unexpectedly, other than carrying marijuana, the man from Palembang also brought a new type of drug named Ajapa-Japa. Mean-while, police are still awaiting the results of test at Police Headquarters Forensic Laboratory of Denpasar Branch.

According to police source on Monday (Jul 23), after the arrest, police immediately conducted an examination against Zein Akasa and the evidence. From the examina-tion of evidence was known if the culprit brought two packages of marijuana wrapped in aluminum foil and seven wraps of Ajapa-Japa posing a new brand of drug. “The marijuana with new brand, Ajapa-Japa, was also about to be smuggled into the Kerobokan Prison,” he explained.

From the initial examination by using drug test kits, it was only the marijuana in the aluminum foil declared positive. Meanwhile, the seven wraps of Ajapa-Japa did not contain any drug substance. “The Ajapa-Japa is declared negative,” he explained.

In the meantime, the other source said that the evidence of Ajapa-Japa brand was also secured by the officers from the hand of Zein. It was a new type of drug resembling to marijuana. “The shape of this stuff is unlike marijuana leaf and has a distinctive smell, but the leaf looks like tobacco and does not exude any distinctive smell,” he said.

The effects of the Ajapa-Japa were also similar to marijuana that made people fly. However, the Ajapa-Japa had 10 times stronger effect compared to marijuana on the users. It was sold in Bali for IDR 300,000 per pack, while in Jakarta for IDR 150,000 per pack. “This stuff was revealed when police arrested Roger Danuarta, a national artist who was in the fly in Jakarta some time ago,” said a source that rejected his name to be published.

Meanwhile, the Chief of North Kuta Police, Ronny R. Eppang, was still reluctant to give comment regarding the newly brand Ajapa-japa drug that was about to be smuggled into the Kerobokan Prison. He said the evidence of marijuana and seven wraps of Ajapa-Japa were still under examination in the Police Headquarters Forensic Laboratory of Denpasar Branch to be tested. “We cannot ascertain about the evidence, whether or not it contains a narcotic preparation as it is still awaiting the results of lab tests,” he said.

As reported previously, the high demand for drugs in Kerobokan Prison was evidenced by the increasing num-ber of marijuana that was about to be smuggled. Recently, police could secure the culprit of the drug smuggling, Raden Mohamad Zein Akasa, 29, Sunday (Jun 22). Even, the culprit living on Jalan Danau Tempe, Gang Pengiasan V/15 Denpasar showed resistance when arrested by police officers. After that, the culprit was secured in North Kuta Police station with the evidence seized including seven packages of marijuana and an unpacked wrap. (kmb35)

Again, Marijuana’s smuggling raided

Having no permit

Judiciary team seals Villa Mentari at KaliangetBali Post

SINGARAJA - Villa Mentari at Kalianget village, Seririt subdistrict, was sealed by judiciary team of Buleleng County, Monday (Jun 23). The villa rented to foreign travelers was sealed because the owner did not submit permission. In addition, the villa was also stated to violate public order and did not pay hotel and restaurant taxes.

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Bali News Thursday, June 26, 2014 5InternationalThursday, June 26, 201412 International

Agence France-Presse

NEW YORK - The US faces huge economic costs from climate change, including massive property loss from sea-level rise and major declines in some crop yields, according to a bipartisan report released Tuesday.

The report, titled “Risky Business” and backed by former Treasury Secretaries Henry Paulson and Robert Rubin and others, said the price of continued US policy foot-dragging on climate change will vary by region.

Based on current trends, between $66 billion and $106 billion of existing coastal property will be below sea level by 2050, with as much as $507 billion worth below sea level by 2100, the report said. The worst impacts are forecast in the eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico coast.

More extreme heat will weigh the economy. By the middle of the century, the average American will likely see 27 to 90 days over 95 degrees Fahrenheit each year, two or three times more than the average over the last 30 years.

This shift will hit productivity in construc-tion, agriculture and other outdoor occupations, the report said. The impact will be worst in the southwest, southeast and upper midwest, where demand for air conditioning will surge.

Hotter weather could also result in a fall in average annual crop yields of 50-70 percent in the southeast, lower Great Plains and midwest of such goods as corn, soy, cotton and wheat, the report said.

While food systems are generally resilient at a national level, the shifts “still carry risks for the individual farming communities most vulnerable to projected climatic changes,” the report said.

The report, released by Paulson and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and billionaire Democratic donor and climate activist Thomas Steyer, said the response of the agriculture industry, bond markets and other pockets of the economy show climate change is beginning to be addressed by decision-makers. “But business still tends to respond only to the extent that these risks intersect with short term financial and planning decisions,” the report said.

“American businesses should play an active role in helping the public sector determine how best to react to the risks and costs posed by climate change, and how to set the rules that move the country forward in a new, more sustainable direction.”

The report called for more muscular US policy to cut emissions and adapt to a changing climate. But it did not include specific propos-als or discuss leading controversies, such as the debate on the Keystone pipeline.

In a package that has already been heavily trailed, he promised to slash Japan’s corpo-rate tax rate -- one of the world’s highest at up to 36 percent -- and tackle sectors long sheltered by the state.

“The government decided today to make our growth strategy more powerful in a bold manner. The key is to revitalise local communities,” Abe told reporters in a press conference that was televised live.

“There is neither a taboo nor a sanctuary in the Abe government’s growth strategy. We will resolutely challenge rock-hard regula-tions and institutions.

“The Abe cabinet will break all barriers so that we can realise the potential of the Japanese economy,” Abe said.

The plan is Abe’s latest stab at making good on the final tranche of his growth strat-egy, dubbed “Abenomics”, which started in early 2013 with a huge public spending spree and an unprecedented monetary easing campaign by the Bank of Japan.

That gave the economy a shot in the arm and set off a stock market rally as firms’

profitability grew on the back of a sharply weaker yen.

But a growing chorus over recent months has called for action, saying as the sugar rush of cheap money wears off, the lack of real structural reform could prove problematic for an economy that has stumbled through more than two decades of disappointment.

“A virtuous circle of the economy is emerging as corporate profits are leading to expansion of employment and rises in wages,” Abe said.

“Abenomics takes it upon itself to con-tinue expanding the virtuous cycle.”

The plan calls for a review of the nation’s huge public pension fund portfolio, worth a staggering $1.26 trillion, urging it to make more aggressive investments in foreign and domestic stock markets.

Rigid labour marketThe hope, say commentators, is that

this massive fund will lead by example and encourage other funds to plough into stocks and to demand more and better quality re-

turns from the companies they invest in.Among other initiatives are a scheme to

promote clean energy, robotic technology and the tourism industries, while establish-ing special economic zones.

Japan’s rigid labour market is to be tin-kered with to loosen permanent residency rules for some manual workers and promote managerial jobs for women.

However, the relatively large-scale im-migration seen in other wealthy countries is a no-go; an influx of foreigners is anathema to Japan’s largely conservative public and initial talk of a huge policy change has been toned down.

Abe is also calling for more childcare support, partially as a way of encouraging women to have more babies, as the body politic grapples with a shrinking and age-ing society. His much-touted first attempt at a package of structural reforms fell flat last summer, with critics saying they were too timid and not doing enough to take on Japan’s many vested interests.

This year, the premier also faces a delicate balancing act as ordinary citizens struggle with lacklustre wage growth and rising prices for everyday goods -- the result of Tokyo’s bid to stoke long-absent inflation as well as April’s consumption tax hike to 8.0 percent from 5.0 percent.

Huge cost facing US over climate change

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press

conference at the prime minis-ter’s official residence in Tokyo,

Tuesday, June 24, 2014.

Abe unveils economic revival plans for JapanAgence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled a fresh round of reforms Tuesday, in the latest bid to cement a fragile recovery, his second attempt to fire the “third arrow” of his economic action plan.

AP Photo/Koji Sasahara

Antara

DENPASAR - The Bali De-partment of Health has recorded 535 cases of Human Immunodefi-ciency Virus or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in Bali during the period

between January and June 2014.“That figure depicts the num-

ber of identified and registered cases by the Bali Department of Health,” Head of Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL) Bali Department of Health Gede Wira Sunetra stated here on Tues-

day. The cases were recorded in nine districts of Bali.

With regard to HIV, the depart-ment has recorded 258 cases.

Gede Wira remarked that the department had recorded 1,486 HIV/AIDS cases in Bali between January and December 2013.

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Ongol-ongol cake is one of the Balinese cakes commonly made by the Hindu community. By and large, this soft cake is in place of breakfast of farm-ers before heading to rice field. This cake can also alternatively serve as desserts after farmers conduct a mutual assistance of planting rice. The ongol-ongol cake is widely sold in traditional markets, pastry shops and supermarkets.

The ingredients in use are very simple where the main one is sago flour containing carbohydrates. At this moment, Bali is not a major producer of sago, but this kind of cake appropriate for morning diet can still be encountered. Aside from sago, the other ingredients required are grated coconut, brown sugar, granulated sugar, pandan leaves and salt.

In other regions of Indonesia, probably there are similar cakes to the ongol-ongol, but the local people of Bali make it as the way they prepare porridge. First of all, they are boiling water. While waiting for the water to boil, the sago flour is mixed with water and stirred until it blends finely. Add salt to taste and then filter it. After that, pour it into the boiling water.

To cook it, the sago flour should be stir thoroughly. Having formed porridge, pour it into a mold. The second process is to prepare sugar sauce. Mix a suf-ficient amount of brown sugar with granulated sugar and add some water and pandan leaf. Cook them until the sugar dissolves. Then, remove and filter it.

Furthermore, peel and grate the coconut flesh. To serve, the cooked and cool sago flour is cut into small pieces or to taste. Then, put the pieces of cake onto a piece of banana leaf neatly and then sprinkle with grated coconut and top them with sugar sauce. Now, it is ready to serve.

Agustinus Brata Kusuma lost sight of the women near the resort island of Bali on February 14 when a storm hit suddenly.

Five of them were saved after clinging onto coral reefs for three

days some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from their take-off point.

Kusuma, who is accused of neg-ligence causing death and injury, admitted at a recent hearing that after searching for around an hour

for the women, he left the location to get more fuel.

“The captain of the boat should have been paying attention to the safety of the Japanese divers. But he didn’t do that as he left them to buy fuel, so when they came to the surface the boat wasn’t there,” prosecutor Ni Nyoman Martini told the Denpasar District Court.

“As a result, the Japanese divers were floating in the sea and were

wounded in the waves, while two of them were killed.”

Kusuma worked for dive com-pany Yellow Scuba in Bali, which organised the trip for the women around the neighbouring islands of Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan.

A Japanese instructor with Yel-low Scuba, Saori Furukawa, was among the women saved. She told the court how she fired a flare gun to get the skipper’s attention to no

avail.Furukawa told reporters after the

incident that the weather suddenly turned bad and the sea spun “like a washing machine”. She described being swept apart from the other divers by a strong current.

The body of Shoko Takahashi, who ran Yellow Scuba with her husband, was found around a month after the incident. Diver Ritsuko Miyata was also killed.

Health department records 535 HIV/

AIDS cases

Jail sought for skipper in Japanese diver deathsAgence France-Presse

DENPASAR - Prosecutors Tuesday sought a jail term of three years and six months for a boat skipper who lost track of seven Japanese women during a diving trip that left two of them dead.

Ongol-ongol Cake

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BUSINESS

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Despite having a year and a half to prepare warning photos that are to cover 40 percent of cigarette packs, most tobacco companies failed to meet Tuesday’s deadline, according to the National Commission for Child Pro-tection. It found little sign of change in brands being sold in Jakarta and 11 other cities across the sprawling archipelago.

“This clearly indicates that the cigarette industry has defied Indone-sian law,” said commission chair Arist Merdeka Sirait. “The government has been defeated by the cigarette industry.”

Only 409 of the more than 3,300 brands owned by 672 companies nationwide had registered the photos they plan to use on their products as of Monday, according to the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency. They were given a choice of five images last June.

Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi said companies that missed the deadline will be issued warnings, and those that fail to comply could eventually be fined up to $42,000 and face five years in prison.

Indonesia’s biggest cigarette pro-ducer, Philip Morris-owned Sampoer-na, said it began distributing products

with the new warnings on Monday, but needed more time to clear out existing stock. But the labels must be displayed on shelves by Tuesday, Mboi said.

“We believe the government will implement the regulation consistently and fairly, so as to realize a climate of healthy competition among cigarette manufacturers, as well as providing clear information about the impact of smoking on health,” Sampoerna spokesman Tommy Hersyaputera said.

Indonesia has a long history of delaying tobacco regulations. The graphic warnings stem from health regulations that passed in 2009, though it wasn’t until 18 months ago that a specific decree was issued for imple-mentation. And Indonesia is one of the few countries that has not joined a World Health Organization tobacco treaty. The order has taken years to reach President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s desk, and he still has not signed it. He will leave office in October after elections next month.

Tobacco control is particularly con-tentious in Indonesia, the world’s fifth-largest cigarette producer and a growth market for the industry. Farmers hold rowdy protests when restrictions are proposed, and lobbyists maintain

tight connections with politicians in a government rife with graft.

Many forms of tobacco advertis-ing long banned in the West remain ubiquitous here. Towering billboards and LED screens scream messages such as, “Marlboro Ice Blast ... crush it, unleash it.” At the main international airport, a bright blue advertisement for Clas mild cigarettes urges, “Act Now! Talk less do more.” Tobacco commercials are still on television, and although new regulations ban sponsor-ship of events, some companies have continued that practice.

Tobacco-related illnesses kill at least 200,000 each year in the country, which has a population of around 240 million. A national survey in 2012 found that 67 percent of all males over age 15 smoke — the world’s highest rate — while 35 percent of the total population lights up, surpassed only by Russia.

Most Indonesian men buy strong and pungent kreteks, filled with a mix of tobacco and cloves. But so-called white cigarettes, such as U.S.-based Philip Morris International’s Marl-boro, have become more popular in recent years. All brands are cheap, sell-ing for about $1 a pack, making it easy for children to take up the habit.

AntaraJAKARTA - A systematic break-

through is needed to stop environ-mental damage, which has reached an alarming level, according to Institute of Indonesian Forum for Environ-ment (Walhi) researcher Abdul Wahid Situmorang.

“The results of our research reveal that the environmental condition in terms of soil, water, air, and river quality is now at an alarming level,” Situmorang said on Wednesday.

But he added that the handling of environmental pollution and damage is still underway with a business-as-usual approach.

“Therefore, we need a comprehen-sive breakthrough to remedy the situa-tion and to deliver us from more severe environmental hazards,” he noted.

Another Walhi Institute researcher, Irhash Ahmady, claimed the results of the environmental research, conducted in five Indonesian cities, sufficiently

represented the general condition of the environment across the country.

According to him, these results demonstrated that the capacity of state institutions and law enforcers to handle the environmental problem was still weak.

“This is a serious problem, but none of the leaders at every level of govern-ment has a strong agenda to improve the current environmental condition,” Ahmady said.

He noted that many of the national and regional governments have mas-sively exploited natural resources for development through forestry, mining, and agricultural policies without re-gard to public safety and environmen-tal sustainability in the country.

Ahmady added that based on Walhi’s research in January 2014 in the cities of Jakarta, Bandung, Kend-ari, Pekanbaru, and Banjarmasin, the country’s environmental condition is alarming.

AntaraJAKARTA - Presidential candidate

Prabowo and his running mate Hatta Rajasa had declared their net worth with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) here on Wednes-day in line with the law for running presidency.

Their rivals, Joko Widodo and his running mate Jusuf Kalla, are sched-uled to declare on Thursday.

“This is a standard procedure. The verification includes the source of the wealth and how it was accumulated,” Hatta Rajasa noted after the verification.

Regarding their net worth, he said, “It will later be made known to the public by the General Election Com-mission (KPU). So, we will not be revealing our net worth as of now.”

Meanwhile, an announcement of the declaration of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates has been scheduled on July 1.

Hatta admitted that some correc-tions have been made with regard to his wealth report.

“Corrections have been made es-pecially with regard to the values of assets such as art work, which have not changed since 1999. So, no addition of values but a mere change of values,” he noted.

KPK has invited community mem-bers who have data about the wealth of

the presidential and vice-presidential candidates to report to the KPK for verification purposes.

Prabowo Subianto, a former chief of the Armed Forces’ Staff and Com-mand School, revealed his net worth in the latest report made on July 23, 2003, which was recorded at Rp10.65 billion and US$4,216.

Based on his report prepared when he had been the running mate of Mega-wati Soekarnoputri in the 2009 elec-tion, Prabowo’s wealth was recorded at Rp1,57 trillion plus US$7.5 million mostly, or Rp1.5 trillion in the form of securities.

The wealth of Hatta Rajasa, who was the former chief economic min-ister of current President Susilo Bam-bang Yudhyono’s administration, has been recorded at Rp16.95 billion plus US$56,936 based on a report submit-ted on July 27, 2012.

The wealth of Joko Widodo (Jokowi), who is a former mayor of Solo and is currently governor of Jakarta and also a businessman, has been recorded at Rp18.47 billion plus US$9,483, according to a record pre-pared on February 28, 2010.

His running mate, former vice-president Jusuf Kalla and also a businessman, reported his wealth at Rp314.51 billion and US$25,718 on November 2009.

Cigarette makers ignore label deadline

Associated Press

JAKARTA — Tobacco companies largely ignored an Indonesian deadline to put graphic health warnings on all cigarette packs being sold, another setback for anti-smoking efforts in a country that’s home to the world’s highest rate of male smokers and a wild, wild west of advertising.

A man walks past new packs of cigarettes displaying pictorial health warnings that were arranged by a shop at-tendant for pho-tographers, at a convenience store in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, June 24, 2014.

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The case had drawn nation-wide attention and emotion amid mounting calls in France to le-galize euthanasia. It is currently legal in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Wednesday’s decision comes the same day Britain’s Supreme Court said that a ban on assisted suicide was in-compatible with human rights.

The British decision was unexpectedly far-reaching. Al-though it dismissed the appeal from two severely disabled men who argued the law should be changed to allow doctors to legally kill them, the ruling sug-gested that Parliament change the law to be in line with human rights guarantees. Combined with a flurry of court rulings Tuesday in the case of a coma-tose Frenchman whose family is divided over whether to with-draw treatment, the cases cast new light on the legal struggle over medical treatments for the

terminally ill or those in vegeta-tive states.

France’s top administrative court on Tuesday said doctors could withhold food and hydra-tion for Vincent Lambert, saying he had made his wishes clear before the car accident six years ago that left him hospitalized.

That decision was overruled hours later by the European Court of Human Rights in a highly unusual late-night decision. It ordered France to continue treat-ment until it can examine the case. The court, although based in Strasbourg, has jurisdiction across Europe and member coun-tries are bound by its rulings.

“He is not sick, he is not at the end of his life, he is not suf-fering,” Jean Paillot, a lawyer for Lambert’s parents, told BFM television on Wednesday. “From our perspective, there is no rea-son to stop feeding or hydrating him.”

The Lambert case has echoes of the legal fight over Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who suffered brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped, and she entered what doctors refer to as a “persistent vegetative state,” or prolonged coma. She died in 2005 after her husband won a protracted court case with Schiavo’s parents to have her feeding tube

In Britain, five of the nine judges concluded that the coun-try’s ban on assisted suicide is incompatible with the right to private life, suggesting British politicians should amend the law to be in line with the human rights guaranteed under the European Convention.

One of the men, Paul Lamb, is paralyzed following a car acci-dent. The other, Tony Nicklinson, died of pneumonia in 2012, but the case has been taken over by his widow.

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Sanctions aimed at key economic sectors in Russia because of its threatening moves in Ukraine might be delayed because of positive signals from Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Obama administration of-ficials.

The United States and its European allies were finalizing a package of sanctions with the goal of putting them in place as early as this week, the officials and others close to the process said Tuesday. Penalizing large swaths of the Russian economy, including its lucrative energy industry, would ratchet up the West’s punishments against Moscow.

The U.S. and Europe have already sanctioned Russian individuals and enti-ties, including some with close ties to Putin, but have so far stayed away from the broader penalties, in part because of concern from European countries that have close economic ties with Russia.

But with the crisis in Ukraine stretching on, a senior U.S. official said the U.S. and Europe are moving forward on “common sanctions options” that would af-fect several areas of the Russian economy. A Western diplomat said those options included Russia’s energy industry, as well as Moscow’s access to world financial markets.

The U.S. and Europe have been eyeing a European Council meeting in Brussels later this week as an opportunity to announce the coordinated sanctions. However, the enthusiasm for new sanctions, particularly among European leaders, appears to have waned in recent days as countries evaluate whether Putin plans to follow through on a series of promises that could ease the crisis, officials said.

The Russian leader acted Tuesday to rescind a parliamentary resolution autho-rizing him to use the Russian military in Ukraine; on Wednesday, the parliament’s upper house canceled it. Putin also urged the new Ukrainian government to extend a weeklong cease-fire and called for talks between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels who are widely believed to be backed by the Kremlin. Putin’s moves came one day after he talked by phone with President Barack Obama, their first known conversa-tion in more than two weeks.

The threat of sector sanctions may be driving Putin to try to avoid penalties that could have a devastating impact on the already shaky Russian economy. However, there were no guarantees that Moscow would abide by the West’s requests to pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border, stop arming separatists and negotiate seriously with Kiev.

Indeed, there were signs Tuesday of just how fragile the situation on the ground remains. Hours after Putin called for the cease-fire to be extended, pro-Moscow separatists shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter, killing nine servicemen.

Vice President Joe Biden spoke to Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko, for the third time in as many days and offered his condolences for the deaths. The White House said Biden also underscored the importance of having monitors in place in Ukraine to verify violations of the cease-fire, as well as the need to stop the supply of weapons and militants from flowing across the Russian border. At the State Department, spokeswoman Marie Harf said the situation entailed “two steps forward, one step back.”

“We do see some positive signs on the ground,” she told reporters. “The cease-fire, some separatists have accepted it, but the same day some other separatists shot down a helicopter. That President Putin says he’ll go to the Duma, that’s good, but then they continue the military buildup.”

Associated Press Writer

CAIRO — Four near-simulta-neous small explosions went off in subway stations and outside a court building in Cairo on Wednesday, wounding three peo-ple and causing widespread panic among morning commuters, offi-cials said, in the first attacks since the election of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the former army chief who last year’s ouster of Islamist president.

Authorities quickly accused the Muslim Brotherhood of or-chestrating the attacks, describ-ing them as “desperate attempts” to disrupt the “prevailing state of stability.” The group, to which the ousted President Moham-

med Morsi belonged, has denied involvement in any violence. But even some Islamists warn that young Brotherhood supporters could turn to attacks under pres-sure of a fierce crackdown on the group for nearly a year.

Three of the blasts, caused by homemade explosive devices, went off in separate subway stations in central and northern Cairo, and the fourth was a bomb that had been planted under a car outside a courthouse in the upscale Heliopolis district, Interior Ministry spokesman Hani Abdel-Latif said. In one of the subway attacks, one of the injured was a man who carried the explosive in his backpack, Abdel-Latif said. In another, the

bomb was hidden in a garbage can. A total of three people were injured in the attacks, Abdel-Latif said.

Police quickly sealed off sta-tions and used sniffer dogs to search for more explosives. Abdel-Latif said that other bombs were found and defused outside the court building and in a fourth metro station.

He called the attacks a “des-perate attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organiza-tion to prove they still exist.”

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks — the first in the Egyptian capital since last month’s election of el-Sissi as the country’s new president.

Officials: More sanctions on Russia may be delayed

AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service

In this Thursday June 5, 2014 photo, British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, as they are in France ahead of the 70th anniversary of D-Day commemorations.

French doctor acquitted for helping 7 patients dieAssociated Press Writer

PARIS — A French doctor was acquitted Wednesday of poisoning charges after giving lethal injections to help seven terminally ill patients die, adding urgency to the growing de-bate on who can decide when a person is beyond treatment. Several relatives of Dr. Nicolas Bonnemaison’s patients had testified on his behalf.

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“We fully expected LeBron to opt-out and exercise his free agent rights, so this does not come as a surprise,” Heat President Pat Riley, who said he was informed of James’s decision earlier on Tuesday, said in a statement. “We look forward to sitting down with LeBron and his representatives and talking about our future to-gether.”

James, who was due to earn $20 million next season, had until June 30 to decide whether to head back to free agency. By joining the free agent pool that is open for business starting July 1, James created a level of intrigue over his future plans.

The decision allows James to explore other options besides ne-gotiating a new deal with the Heat team he led to four successive NBA Finals appearances since joining them as a free agent in 2010 after seven seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers. “Being able to have flex-ibility as a professional, anyone, that’s what we all would like,” James said last week. “That’s in any sport, for a football player, a baseball player, a basketball

player, to have flexibility and be able to control your future or your present.”

James’s wife, Savannah, caused a stir on Sunday when she posted an Instagram photo of a map of Ohio with “Akron” written across it and a star indicating the couple’s hometown location. “Home sweet home!! The countdown is real! #330” read the caption, referenc-ing the telephone area code of the James’s Akron home where they spend summers, leading some Cavaliers fans to envision a return to the Cleveland hardcourt by James.

The James family later said they were just excited about getting back home after another grueling NBA campaign. James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, who formed Miami’s ‘Big Three’ when they joined forces as free agents in 2010, are coming off a one-sided defeat to the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals earlier this month.

The opt-out decision by James came one day after fellow All-Star Carmelo Anthony opted out of the final year of his deal with the New

York Knicks to test free agency. Anthony was due to earn $23.5 million with the Knicks.

In contrast, San Antonio’s ever-green power forward Tim Duncan,

38, decided late on Monday to continue for an 18th campaign with the Spurs by exercising his $10.3 million option for next season. Wade and Bosh, who also have

early termination options, have not yet told the Heat or publicly revealed whether they will join James as free agents.

Reuters

LeBron James told the Miami Heat that he will exercise an early termination option in his contract and become an unrestricted free agent in a move the team said was “fully expected.” Opting out of the final two years of his contract does not necessarily mean the four-time league Most Valuable Player is leaving the star-studded Heat team he led to NBA championships in 2012 and 2013.

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LONDON — Retired women’s singles champion Marion Bartoli was part of a tribute Tuesday to the late British tennis player El-ena Baltacha on Centre Court at Wimbledon.

Baltacha, Britain’s former No. 1 women’s player, died of liver cancer May 4 at age 30.

Bartoli, who did not defend her title this year, took part in a coin toss ceremony ahead of the women’s singles match between

Sabine Lisicki, who lost to Bar-toli in last year’s final, and Julia Glushko.

Bartoli, wearing her Wimbledon members’ tag, wiped away tears on several occasions during the ceremony. She was accompanied by nine-year-old Elle Robus-Miller, a player from the Elena Baltacha Academy of Tennis for underprivi-leged children.

Traditionally at Wimbledon, the women’s singles champion opens play on the second day. Lisicki beat Glushko in straight sets.

Bartoli part of Wimbledon tribute to Baltacha

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2013 Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli of France wipes her eyes as she arrives on court to take part in the coin toss for the match between Julia Glushko of Israel and Sabine Lisicki of Germany at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday, June 24, 2014.

LeBron opts out of Heat contract to become free agent

Mandatory Credit: Brendan Maloney Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) shoots in the first half against the San Antonio Spurs in game five of the 2014 NBA Finals at AT&T Center.

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In addition to Andreas Sa-maris’s nicely worked and su-perbly finished opener, Giorgos Karagounis hit the bar midway through the second half and Vasillis Torosidis hit the post with 10 minutes remaining. Jose Cholevas also hit the woodwork in the first half. Such flair was unexpected from a Greek side that has never come close to rec-reating the form that won them a shock European Championship title in 2004.

Coming into these finals, everyone knew the Greeks had a good defence with Ukraine the only European side to keep more clean sheets in the qualifiers. But their attacking deficiencies have long been there for all to see. Be-fore Brazil, they had played six times in the World Cup Finals, losing five and scoring just two goals, in a 2-1 win over Nigeria in 2010.

Their form in the opening two matches suggested that sad scenario was not going to change. They were woefully off the pace in going down 3-0 to Colombia and could not score against a Ja-pan side that conceded six goals in their other two games. But if that was the defensive Jekyll, the attacking Hyde turned up on a day of transformation against Ivory Coast.

Although they still looked

Associated Press Writer

NATAL, Brazil — Biting opponents, racist comments — all that looked to be behind Luis

Suarez, as soccer’s bad boy was maturing into a star for his club

and country. Then, the old habit that most people leave behind in nursery school cropped up again in front of an audience of millions. Faced with a smothering and frustrating Italian de-fense in a must-win World Cup game Tuesday, the Uruguayan superstar responded with his front teeth.

It came at about the 80th minute when Suarez and Italy defender Gior-gio Chiellini got tangled up in front of the Italy goal. The apparent chomp happened in an instant, but caught by television cameras, it became a worldwide sensation, and could lead to Suarez being kicked out of the World Cup. The referee didn’t see a bite, and no foul was called despite Chiellini pleading and pulling down

his jersey to show a red mark on his left shoulder.

About a minute later, Uruguay scored the winning goal in a 1-0 game that sent Italy home. Uruguay will continue playing, but FIFA will investigate and may suspend Suarez, who has twice before been disciplined for biting opponents in league games. FIFA officially announced an inves-tigation early Wednesday, saying the Uruguayans had until late the next afternoon to present evidence. A rul-ing will be announced before Uruguay plays Colombia on Saturday.

Suarez didn’t confirm or deny the bite, but said he was angry that Chiel-lini — one of the best defenders in the world and known for his physical play — had hit him in the eye during the game.

“These are things that happen on the pitch, we were both in the area, he thrust his shoulder into me,” Suarez said in Spanish. “These things happen on the pitch, and we don’t have to give

them so much (importance).” Suarez, 27, should be celebrating a career year. After asking to be sold before the season, he stayed with Liverpool, won the scoring title and was named English Premier League’s player of the year.

Now, he’ll have to try to start rehab-bing his reputation again. Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez and Suarez’s teammates immediately defended their star. “I want to say that if he’s attacked, as it has begun in this press conference, we’ll also defend him, because this is a football World Cup, not of cheap morality,” said Tabarez, who said he didn’t see a bite.

Suarez was suspended following biting incidents in the Netherlands in 2010 and in England in 2013. He also was suspended for racially abusing an opponent. British tabloids have teas-ingly called him a vampire, and social media artists have had fun manipulat-ing his photo into images of Dracula and Hannibal Lecter.

Reuters

BRASILIA - World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo’s hopes of continu-ing in the World Cup are hanging by a thread and will depend on an unlikely combination of results in Thursday’s Group G games. Ronaldo’s Portugal must beat Ghana, preferably by several goals, to have any hope of progressing but must also hope the Germany-United States match does not end in a draw.

After winning the Champions League with Real Madrid, Ronaldo has had a miserable World Cup and has yet to hit the target. He was suffering from ten-dinosis in his left knee in the run-up to the tournament and there is speculation that the problem has not yet cleared up. After Portugal struggled to a 2-2 draw with the U.S. thanks to a last-gasp equaliser in their second game, Ronaldo suggested their chances had been overrated before the tournament.

“I never thought that we were going to win the World Cup,” he told Portu-guese media after the U.S. game. “For me, it would have been easy, I could have not come to the World Cup and finished the season as European champion. But I’m going to stand up and be counted.”

“Portugal were never favourites, you just have to look at qualifying for this (World Cup). It was difficult from the start,” he added. Portugal scraped into the finals by winning a difficult two-legged playoff against Sweden, having finished a point behind Russia in their qualifying group.

“We have to be humble and know our capabilities. In addition, we have had other limitations such as the cases of Pepe (sent off against Germany) and Fabio Coentrao (injured),” said Ronaldo. “At the moment, there are better national teams than ours.” Portugal and Ghana have one point each while Germany and the U.S have four and the latter pair will both definitely qualify if either match ends in a draw.

However, if neither game is drawn, it will come down to goal difference between the winner of Portugal-Ghana and the loser of Germany-U.S. Germany have a goal difference of plus four, followed by the U.S. (plus one), Ghana (minus one) and Portugal (minus four) so the only realistic hope for the Portuguese is a Germany win.

By a little twist of irony, the nucleus of the Germany team comes from Bayern Munich, who Ronaldo helped humiliate in the Champions League two months ago. Ronaldo scored twice as visitors Real Madrid inflicted a crushing 4-0 second-leg defeat on Bayern in their Champions League semi-final to win 5-0 on aggregate.

The rivalry between the two is long-running, so much so that Bayern are known as the “Black Beast” by Real fans, and the Germans dramatically beat Ronaldo’s team on penalties at the Bernabeu in another semi-final in 2012.

AP Photo/Paulo Duarte

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo stretches during his team’s training session in Campinas, Brazil, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Portugal plays in group G of the Brazil 2014 soccer World Cup.

Ronaldo’s World Cup hanging by a threadGreece’s Giorgos

Samaras celebrates scoring his side’s

second goal during the group C World Cup soccer match

between Greece and Ivory Coast at

the Arena Caste-lao in For-

taleza, Brazil, Tuesday, June 24,

2014.

AP Photo/Hassan Ammar

Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini, right, shows his shoulder after colliding with Uruguay’s Luis Suarez’s mouth as Uruguay’s Gaston Ramirez (18) watches during the group D World Cup soccer match between Italy and Uruguay at the Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil,

Tuesday, June 24, 2014.

Soccer’s bad boy bites opponent at World CupGreece get

late reward for attacking endeavorReuters

For a team that had scored two goals in their previous eight World Cup matches, Greece produced an unusually attacking performance against Ivory Coast on Tuesday - and got their reward when Giorgos Samaras’s last-gasp penalty sent them into the last 16. After defeat by Colombia and a draw with Japan, the Greeks needed to beat their final Group C rivals to have any chance of progressing to the knockout stages for the first time and they went about their job with gusto.

AP Photo/N

atacha Pisarenko

vulnerable at the back - the Ivo-rians had nine shots on target to Greece’s five - they also posed a threat going forward.

Samaras and Samiris ran at the Africans, causing them trouble. They whipped in crosses from both flanks. And they were not afraid to have a go, as Karagou-nis’s 35-yard rocket showed.

Whether they can reproduce that form in the last 16 against Group D winners Costa Rica remains to be seen. But if their defence can hold it together,

and the attack plays like it did on Tuesday, they are cer-tainly in with a chance.

Group C - final standings Japan 1 Colombia 4 Greece 2 Ivory Coast 1

Standings P W D L F A Pts Colombia* 3 3 0 0 9 2 9 Greece* 3 1 1 1 2 4 4 Ivory Coast 3 1 0 2 4 5 3 Japan 3 0 1 2 2 6 1 *Denotes qualified for last 16 Previous Results: June 14 Colombia 3 Greece 0 Ivory Coast 2 Japan 1 June 19 Colombia 2 Ivory Coast 1 Japan 0 Greece 0

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In addition to Andreas Sa-maris’s nicely worked and su-perbly finished opener, Giorgos Karagounis hit the bar midway through the second half and Vasillis Torosidis hit the post with 10 minutes remaining. Jose Cholevas also hit the woodwork in the first half. Such flair was unexpected from a Greek side that has never come close to rec-reating the form that won them a shock European Championship title in 2004.

Coming into these finals, everyone knew the Greeks had a good defence with Ukraine the only European side to keep more clean sheets in the qualifiers. But their attacking deficiencies have long been there for all to see. Be-fore Brazil, they had played six times in the World Cup Finals, losing five and scoring just two goals, in a 2-1 win over Nigeria in 2010.

Their form in the opening two matches suggested that sad scenario was not going to change. They were woefully off the pace in going down 3-0 to Colombia and could not score against a Ja-pan side that conceded six goals in their other two games. But if that was the defensive Jekyll, the attacking Hyde turned up on a day of transformation against Ivory Coast.

Although they still looked

Associated Press Writer

NATAL, Brazil — Biting opponents, racist comments — all that looked to be behind Luis

Suarez, as soccer’s bad boy was maturing into a star for his club

and country. Then, the old habit that most people leave behind in nursery school cropped up again in front of an audience of millions. Faced with a smothering and frustrating Italian de-fense in a must-win World Cup game Tuesday, the Uruguayan superstar responded with his front teeth.

It came at about the 80th minute when Suarez and Italy defender Gior-gio Chiellini got tangled up in front of the Italy goal. The apparent chomp happened in an instant, but caught by television cameras, it became a worldwide sensation, and could lead to Suarez being kicked out of the World Cup. The referee didn’t see a bite, and no foul was called despite Chiellini pleading and pulling down

his jersey to show a red mark on his left shoulder.

About a minute later, Uruguay scored the winning goal in a 1-0 game that sent Italy home. Uruguay will continue playing, but FIFA will investigate and may suspend Suarez, who has twice before been disciplined for biting opponents in league games. FIFA officially announced an inves-tigation early Wednesday, saying the Uruguayans had until late the next afternoon to present evidence. A rul-ing will be announced before Uruguay plays Colombia on Saturday.

Suarez didn’t confirm or deny the bite, but said he was angry that Chiel-lini — one of the best defenders in the world and known for his physical play — had hit him in the eye during the game.

“These are things that happen on the pitch, we were both in the area, he thrust his shoulder into me,” Suarez said in Spanish. “These things happen on the pitch, and we don’t have to give

them so much (importance).” Suarez, 27, should be celebrating a career year. After asking to be sold before the season, he stayed with Liverpool, won the scoring title and was named English Premier League’s player of the year.

Now, he’ll have to try to start rehab-bing his reputation again. Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez and Suarez’s teammates immediately defended their star. “I want to say that if he’s attacked, as it has begun in this press conference, we’ll also defend him, because this is a football World Cup, not of cheap morality,” said Tabarez, who said he didn’t see a bite.

Suarez was suspended following biting incidents in the Netherlands in 2010 and in England in 2013. He also was suspended for racially abusing an opponent. British tabloids have teas-ingly called him a vampire, and social media artists have had fun manipulat-ing his photo into images of Dracula and Hannibal Lecter.

Reuters

BRASILIA - World Player of the Year Cristiano Ronaldo’s hopes of continu-ing in the World Cup are hanging by a thread and will depend on an unlikely combination of results in Thursday’s Group G games. Ronaldo’s Portugal must beat Ghana, preferably by several goals, to have any hope of progressing but must also hope the Germany-United States match does not end in a draw.

After winning the Champions League with Real Madrid, Ronaldo has had a miserable World Cup and has yet to hit the target. He was suffering from ten-dinosis in his left knee in the run-up to the tournament and there is speculation that the problem has not yet cleared up. After Portugal struggled to a 2-2 draw with the U.S. thanks to a last-gasp equaliser in their second game, Ronaldo suggested their chances had been overrated before the tournament.

“I never thought that we were going to win the World Cup,” he told Portu-guese media after the U.S. game. “For me, it would have been easy, I could have not come to the World Cup and finished the season as European champion. But I’m going to stand up and be counted.”

“Portugal were never favourites, you just have to look at qualifying for this (World Cup). It was difficult from the start,” he added. Portugal scraped into the finals by winning a difficult two-legged playoff against Sweden, having finished a point behind Russia in their qualifying group.

“We have to be humble and know our capabilities. In addition, we have had other limitations such as the cases of Pepe (sent off against Germany) and Fabio Coentrao (injured),” said Ronaldo. “At the moment, there are better national teams than ours.” Portugal and Ghana have one point each while Germany and the U.S have four and the latter pair will both definitely qualify if either match ends in a draw.

However, if neither game is drawn, it will come down to goal difference between the winner of Portugal-Ghana and the loser of Germany-U.S. Germany have a goal difference of plus four, followed by the U.S. (plus one), Ghana (minus one) and Portugal (minus four) so the only realistic hope for the Portuguese is a Germany win.

By a little twist of irony, the nucleus of the Germany team comes from Bayern Munich, who Ronaldo helped humiliate in the Champions League two months ago. Ronaldo scored twice as visitors Real Madrid inflicted a crushing 4-0 second-leg defeat on Bayern in their Champions League semi-final to win 5-0 on aggregate.

The rivalry between the two is long-running, so much so that Bayern are known as the “Black Beast” by Real fans, and the Germans dramatically beat Ronaldo’s team on penalties at the Bernabeu in another semi-final in 2012.

AP Photo/Paulo Duarte

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo stretches during his team’s training session in Campinas, Brazil, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Portugal plays in group G of the Brazil 2014 soccer World Cup.

Ronaldo’s World Cup hanging by a threadGreece’s Giorgos

Samaras celebrates scoring his side’s

second goal during the group C World Cup soccer match

between Greece and Ivory Coast at

the Arena Caste-lao in For-

taleza, Brazil, Tuesday, June 24,

2014.

AP Photo/Hassan Ammar

Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini, right, shows his shoulder after colliding with Uruguay’s Luis Suarez’s mouth as Uruguay’s Gaston Ramirez (18) watches during the group D World Cup soccer match between Italy and Uruguay at the Arena das Dunas in Natal, Brazil,

Tuesday, June 24, 2014.

Soccer’s bad boy bites opponent at World CupGreece get

late reward for attacking endeavorReuters

For a team that had scored two goals in their previous eight World Cup matches, Greece produced an unusually attacking performance against Ivory Coast on Tuesday - and got their reward when Giorgos Samaras’s last-gasp penalty sent them into the last 16. After defeat by Colombia and a draw with Japan, the Greeks needed to beat their final Group C rivals to have any chance of progressing to the knockout stages for the first time and they went about their job with gusto.

AP Photo/N

atacha Pisarenko

vulnerable at the back - the Ivo-rians had nine shots on target to Greece’s five - they also posed a threat going forward.

Samaras and Samiris ran at the Africans, causing them trouble. They whipped in crosses from both flanks. And they were not afraid to have a go, as Karagou-nis’s 35-yard rocket showed.

Whether they can reproduce that form in the last 16 against Group D winners Costa Rica remains to be seen. But if their defence can hold it together,

and the attack plays like it did on Tuesday, they are cer-tainly in with a chance.

Group C - final standings Japan 1 Colombia 4 Greece 2 Ivory Coast 1

Standings P W D L F A Pts Colombia* 3 3 0 0 9 2 9 Greece* 3 1 1 1 2 4 4 Ivory Coast 3 1 0 2 4 5 3 Japan 3 0 1 2 2 6 1 *Denotes qualified for last 16 Previous Results: June 14 Colombia 3 Greece 0 Ivory Coast 2 Japan 1 June 19 Colombia 2 Ivory Coast 1 Japan 0 Greece 0

“We fully expected LeBron to opt-out and exercise his free agent rights, so this does not come as a surprise,” Heat President Pat Riley, who said he was informed of James’s decision earlier on Tuesday, said in a statement. “We look forward to sitting down with LeBron and his representatives and talking about our future to-gether.”

James, who was due to earn $20 million next season, had until June 30 to decide whether to head back to free agency. By joining the free agent pool that is open for business starting July 1, James created a level of intrigue over his future plans.

The decision allows James to explore other options besides ne-gotiating a new deal with the Heat team he led to four successive NBA Finals appearances since joining them as a free agent in 2010 after seven seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers. “Being able to have flex-ibility as a professional, anyone, that’s what we all would like,” James said last week. “That’s in any sport, for a football player, a baseball player, a basketball

player, to have flexibility and be able to control your future or your present.”

James’s wife, Savannah, caused a stir on Sunday when she posted an Instagram photo of a map of Ohio with “Akron” written across it and a star indicating the couple’s hometown location. “Home sweet home!! The countdown is real! #330” read the caption, referenc-ing the telephone area code of the James’s Akron home where they spend summers, leading some Cavaliers fans to envision a return to the Cleveland hardcourt by James.

The James family later said they were just excited about getting back home after another grueling NBA campaign. James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, who formed Miami’s ‘Big Three’ when they joined forces as free agents in 2010, are coming off a one-sided defeat to the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals earlier this month.

The opt-out decision by James came one day after fellow All-Star Carmelo Anthony opted out of the final year of his deal with the New

York Knicks to test free agency. Anthony was due to earn $23.5 million with the Knicks.

In contrast, San Antonio’s ever-green power forward Tim Duncan,

38, decided late on Monday to continue for an 18th campaign with the Spurs by exercising his $10.3 million option for next season. Wade and Bosh, who also have

early termination options, have not yet told the Heat or publicly revealed whether they will join James as free agents.

Reuters

LeBron James told the Miami Heat that he will exercise an early termination option in his contract and become an unrestricted free agent in a move the team said was “fully expected.” Opting out of the final two years of his contract does not necessarily mean the four-time league Most Valuable Player is leaving the star-studded Heat team he led to NBA championships in 2012 and 2013.

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SEMARAPURA - The Labuan Ampuak region is locat-ed at Pelilit Hamlet, Atuh Beach and Calung with the altitude of approximately 100 meters above sea level. The almost-perfect concept of natural beauty known as the “Nyegara-Gunung” re-gion offers the beautiful region surrounded by hills consisting of the Tunjuk Pusuh Hill, Nyahi Hill, Juntil Hill and others as well as the coastal region called the Titibehu spreading vastly in the Lombok Strait.

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LONDON — Retired women’s singles champion Marion Bartoli was part of a tribute Tuesday to the late British tennis player El-ena Baltacha on Centre Court at Wimbledon.

Baltacha, Britain’s former No. 1 women’s player, died of liver cancer May 4 at age 30.

Bartoli, who did not defend her title this year, took part in a coin toss ceremony ahead of the women’s singles match between

Sabine Lisicki, who lost to Bar-toli in last year’s final, and Julia Glushko.

Bartoli, wearing her Wimbledon members’ tag, wiped away tears on several occasions during the ceremony. She was accompanied by nine-year-old Elle Robus-Miller, a player from the Elena Baltacha Academy of Tennis for underprivi-leged children.

Traditionally at Wimbledon, the women’s singles champion opens play on the second day. Lisicki beat Glushko in straight sets.

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2013 Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli of France wipes her eyes as she arrives on court to take part in the coin toss for the match between Julia Glushko of Israel and Sabine Lisicki of Germany at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday, June 24, 2014.

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Despite having a year and a half to prepare warning photos that are to cover 40 percent of cigarette packs, most tobacco companies failed to meet Tuesday’s deadline, according to the National Commission for Child Pro-tection. It found little sign of change in brands being sold in Jakarta and 11 other cities across the sprawling archipelago.

“This clearly indicates that the cigarette industry has defied Indone-sian law,” said commission chair Arist Merdeka Sirait. “The government has been defeated by the cigarette industry.”

Only 409 of the more than 3,300 brands owned by 672 companies nationwide had registered the photos they plan to use on their products as of Monday, according to the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency. They were given a choice of five images last June.

Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi said companies that missed the deadline will be issued warnings, and those that fail to comply could eventually be fined up to $42,000 and face five years in prison.

Indonesia’s biggest cigarette pro-ducer, Philip Morris-owned Sampoer-na, said it began distributing products

with the new warnings on Monday, but needed more time to clear out existing stock. But the labels must be displayed on shelves by Tuesday, Mboi said.

“We believe the government will implement the regulation consistently and fairly, so as to realize a climate of healthy competition among cigarette manufacturers, as well as providing clear information about the impact of smoking on health,” Sampoerna spokesman Tommy Hersyaputera said.

Indonesia has a long history of delaying tobacco regulations. The graphic warnings stem from health regulations that passed in 2009, though it wasn’t until 18 months ago that a specific decree was issued for imple-mentation. And Indonesia is one of the few countries that has not joined a World Health Organization tobacco treaty. The order has taken years to reach President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s desk, and he still has not signed it. He will leave office in October after elections next month.

Tobacco control is particularly con-tentious in Indonesia, the world’s fifth-largest cigarette producer and a growth market for the industry. Farmers hold rowdy protests when restrictions are proposed, and lobbyists maintain

tight connections with politicians in a government rife with graft.

Many forms of tobacco advertis-ing long banned in the West remain ubiquitous here. Towering billboards and LED screens scream messages such as, “Marlboro Ice Blast ... crush it, unleash it.” At the main international airport, a bright blue advertisement for Clas mild cigarettes urges, “Act Now! Talk less do more.” Tobacco commercials are still on television, and although new regulations ban sponsor-ship of events, some companies have continued that practice.

Tobacco-related illnesses kill at least 200,000 each year in the country, which has a population of around 240 million. A national survey in 2012 found that 67 percent of all males over age 15 smoke — the world’s highest rate — while 35 percent of the total population lights up, surpassed only by Russia.

Most Indonesian men buy strong and pungent kreteks, filled with a mix of tobacco and cloves. But so-called white cigarettes, such as U.S.-based Philip Morris International’s Marl-boro, have become more popular in recent years. All brands are cheap, sell-ing for about $1 a pack, making it easy for children to take up the habit.

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through is needed to stop environ-mental damage, which has reached an alarming level, according to Institute of Indonesian Forum for Environ-ment (Walhi) researcher Abdul Wahid Situmorang.

“The results of our research reveal that the environmental condition in terms of soil, water, air, and river quality is now at an alarming level,” Situmorang said on Wednesday.

But he added that the handling of environmental pollution and damage is still underway with a business-as-usual approach.

“Therefore, we need a comprehen-sive breakthrough to remedy the situa-tion and to deliver us from more severe environmental hazards,” he noted.

Another Walhi Institute researcher, Irhash Ahmady, claimed the results of the environmental research, conducted in five Indonesian cities, sufficiently

represented the general condition of the environment across the country.

According to him, these results demonstrated that the capacity of state institutions and law enforcers to handle the environmental problem was still weak.

“This is a serious problem, but none of the leaders at every level of govern-ment has a strong agenda to improve the current environmental condition,” Ahmady said.

He noted that many of the national and regional governments have mas-sively exploited natural resources for development through forestry, mining, and agricultural policies without re-gard to public safety and environmen-tal sustainability in the country.

Ahmady added that based on Walhi’s research in January 2014 in the cities of Jakarta, Bandung, Kend-ari, Pekanbaru, and Banjarmasin, the country’s environmental condition is alarming.

AntaraJAKARTA - Presidential candidate

Prabowo and his running mate Hatta Rajasa had declared their net worth with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) here on Wednes-day in line with the law for running presidency.

Their rivals, Joko Widodo and his running mate Jusuf Kalla, are sched-uled to declare on Thursday.

“This is a standard procedure. The verification includes the source of the wealth and how it was accumulated,” Hatta Rajasa noted after the verification.

Regarding their net worth, he said, “It will later be made known to the public by the General Election Com-mission (KPU). So, we will not be revealing our net worth as of now.”

Meanwhile, an announcement of the declaration of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates has been scheduled on July 1.

Hatta admitted that some correc-tions have been made with regard to his wealth report.

“Corrections have been made es-pecially with regard to the values of assets such as art work, which have not changed since 1999. So, no addition of values but a mere change of values,” he noted.

KPK has invited community mem-bers who have data about the wealth of

the presidential and vice-presidential candidates to report to the KPK for verification purposes.

Prabowo Subianto, a former chief of the Armed Forces’ Staff and Com-mand School, revealed his net worth in the latest report made on July 23, 2003, which was recorded at Rp10.65 billion and US$4,216.

Based on his report prepared when he had been the running mate of Mega-wati Soekarnoputri in the 2009 elec-tion, Prabowo’s wealth was recorded at Rp1,57 trillion plus US$7.5 million mostly, or Rp1.5 trillion in the form of securities.

The wealth of Hatta Rajasa, who was the former chief economic min-ister of current President Susilo Bam-bang Yudhyono’s administration, has been recorded at Rp16.95 billion plus US$56,936 based on a report submit-ted on July 27, 2012.

The wealth of Joko Widodo (Jokowi), who is a former mayor of Solo and is currently governor of Jakarta and also a businessman, has been recorded at Rp18.47 billion plus US$9,483, according to a record pre-pared on February 28, 2010.

His running mate, former vice-president Jusuf Kalla and also a businessman, reported his wealth at Rp314.51 billion and US$25,718 on November 2009.

Cigarette makers ignore label deadline

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JAKARTA — Tobacco companies largely ignored an Indonesian deadline to put graphic health warnings on all cigarette packs being sold, another setback for anti-smoking efforts in a country that’s home to the world’s highest rate of male smokers and a wild, wild west of advertising.

A man walks past new packs of cigarettes displaying pictorial health warnings that were arranged by a shop at-tendant for pho-tographers, at a convenience store in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, June 24, 2014.

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Systematic breakthrough needed to stop environmental damage

Presidential candidates verify wealth

The case had drawn nation-wide attention and emotion amid mounting calls in France to le-galize euthanasia. It is currently legal in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Wednesday’s decision comes the same day Britain’s Supreme Court said that a ban on assisted suicide was in-compatible with human rights.

The British decision was unexpectedly far-reaching. Al-though it dismissed the appeal from two severely disabled men who argued the law should be changed to allow doctors to legally kill them, the ruling sug-gested that Parliament change the law to be in line with human rights guarantees. Combined with a flurry of court rulings Tuesday in the case of a coma-tose Frenchman whose family is divided over whether to with-draw treatment, the cases cast new light on the legal struggle over medical treatments for the

terminally ill or those in vegeta-tive states.

France’s top administrative court on Tuesday said doctors could withhold food and hydra-tion for Vincent Lambert, saying he had made his wishes clear before the car accident six years ago that left him hospitalized.

That decision was overruled hours later by the European Court of Human Rights in a highly unusual late-night decision. It ordered France to continue treat-ment until it can examine the case. The court, although based in Strasbourg, has jurisdiction across Europe and member coun-tries are bound by its rulings.

“He is not sick, he is not at the end of his life, he is not suf-fering,” Jean Paillot, a lawyer for Lambert’s parents, told BFM television on Wednesday. “From our perspective, there is no rea-son to stop feeding or hydrating him.”

The Lambert case has echoes of the legal fight over Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who suffered brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped, and she entered what doctors refer to as a “persistent vegetative state,” or prolonged coma. She died in 2005 after her husband won a protracted court case with Schiavo’s parents to have her feeding tube

In Britain, five of the nine judges concluded that the coun-try’s ban on assisted suicide is incompatible with the right to private life, suggesting British politicians should amend the law to be in line with the human rights guaranteed under the European Convention.

One of the men, Paul Lamb, is paralyzed following a car acci-dent. The other, Tony Nicklinson, died of pneumonia in 2012, but the case has been taken over by his widow.

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WASHINGTON — Sanctions aimed at key economic sectors in Russia because of its threatening moves in Ukraine might be delayed because of positive signals from Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Obama administration of-ficials.

The United States and its European allies were finalizing a package of sanctions with the goal of putting them in place as early as this week, the officials and others close to the process said Tuesday. Penalizing large swaths of the Russian economy, including its lucrative energy industry, would ratchet up the West’s punishments against Moscow.

The U.S. and Europe have already sanctioned Russian individuals and enti-ties, including some with close ties to Putin, but have so far stayed away from the broader penalties, in part because of concern from European countries that have close economic ties with Russia.

But with the crisis in Ukraine stretching on, a senior U.S. official said the U.S. and Europe are moving forward on “common sanctions options” that would af-fect several areas of the Russian economy. A Western diplomat said those options included Russia’s energy industry, as well as Moscow’s access to world financial markets.

The U.S. and Europe have been eyeing a European Council meeting in Brussels later this week as an opportunity to announce the coordinated sanctions. However, the enthusiasm for new sanctions, particularly among European leaders, appears to have waned in recent days as countries evaluate whether Putin plans to follow through on a series of promises that could ease the crisis, officials said.

The Russian leader acted Tuesday to rescind a parliamentary resolution autho-rizing him to use the Russian military in Ukraine; on Wednesday, the parliament’s upper house canceled it. Putin also urged the new Ukrainian government to extend a weeklong cease-fire and called for talks between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels who are widely believed to be backed by the Kremlin. Putin’s moves came one day after he talked by phone with President Barack Obama, their first known conversa-tion in more than two weeks.

The threat of sector sanctions may be driving Putin to try to avoid penalties that could have a devastating impact on the already shaky Russian economy. However, there were no guarantees that Moscow would abide by the West’s requests to pull back its troops from the Ukrainian border, stop arming separatists and negotiate seriously with Kiev.

Indeed, there were signs Tuesday of just how fragile the situation on the ground remains. Hours after Putin called for the cease-fire to be extended, pro-Moscow separatists shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter, killing nine servicemen.

Vice President Joe Biden spoke to Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko, for the third time in as many days and offered his condolences for the deaths. The White House said Biden also underscored the importance of having monitors in place in Ukraine to verify violations of the cease-fire, as well as the need to stop the supply of weapons and militants from flowing across the Russian border. At the State Department, spokeswoman Marie Harf said the situation entailed “two steps forward, one step back.”

“We do see some positive signs on the ground,” she told reporters. “The cease-fire, some separatists have accepted it, but the same day some other separatists shot down a helicopter. That President Putin says he’ll go to the Duma, that’s good, but then they continue the military buildup.”

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CAIRO — Four near-simulta-neous small explosions went off in subway stations and outside a court building in Cairo on Wednesday, wounding three peo-ple and causing widespread panic among morning commuters, offi-cials said, in the first attacks since the election of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the former army chief who last year’s ouster of Islamist president.

Authorities quickly accused the Muslim Brotherhood of or-chestrating the attacks, describ-ing them as “desperate attempts” to disrupt the “prevailing state of stability.” The group, to which the ousted President Moham-

med Morsi belonged, has denied involvement in any violence. But even some Islamists warn that young Brotherhood supporters could turn to attacks under pres-sure of a fierce crackdown on the group for nearly a year.

Three of the blasts, caused by homemade explosive devices, went off in separate subway stations in central and northern Cairo, and the fourth was a bomb that had been planted under a car outside a courthouse in the upscale Heliopolis district, Interior Ministry spokesman Hani Abdel-Latif said. In one of the subway attacks, one of the injured was a man who carried the explosive in his backpack, Abdel-Latif said. In another, the

bomb was hidden in a garbage can. A total of three people were injured in the attacks, Abdel-Latif said.

Police quickly sealed off sta-tions and used sniffer dogs to search for more explosives. Abdel-Latif said that other bombs were found and defused outside the court building and in a fourth metro station.

He called the attacks a “des-perate attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organiza-tion to prove they still exist.”

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks — the first in the Egyptian capital since last month’s election of el-Sissi as the country’s new president.

Officials: More sanctions on Russia may be delayed

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In this Thursday June 5, 2014 photo, British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, as they are in France ahead of the 70th anniversary of D-Day commemorations.

French doctor acquitted for helping 7 patients dieAssociated Press Writer

PARIS — A French doctor was acquitted Wednesday of poisoning charges after giving lethal injections to help seven terminally ill patients die, adding urgency to the growing de-bate on who can decide when a person is beyond treatment. Several relatives of Dr. Nicolas Bonnemaison’s patients had testified on his behalf.

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NEW YORK - The US faces huge economic costs from climate change, including massive property loss from sea-level rise and major declines in some crop yields, according to a bipartisan report released Tuesday.

The report, titled “Risky Business” and backed by former Treasury Secretaries Henry Paulson and Robert Rubin and others, said the price of continued US policy foot-dragging on climate change will vary by region.

Based on current trends, between $66 billion and $106 billion of existing coastal property will be below sea level by 2050, with as much as $507 billion worth below sea level by 2100, the report said. The worst impacts are forecast in the eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico coast.

More extreme heat will weigh the economy. By the middle of the century, the average American will likely see 27 to 90 days over 95 degrees Fahrenheit each year, two or three times more than the average over the last 30 years.

This shift will hit productivity in construc-tion, agriculture and other outdoor occupations, the report said. The impact will be worst in the southwest, southeast and upper midwest, where demand for air conditioning will surge.

Hotter weather could also result in a fall in average annual crop yields of 50-70 percent in the southeast, lower Great Plains and midwest of such goods as corn, soy, cotton and wheat, the report said.

While food systems are generally resilient at a national level, the shifts “still carry risks for the individual farming communities most vulnerable to projected climatic changes,” the report said.

The report, released by Paulson and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and billionaire Democratic donor and climate activist Thomas Steyer, said the response of the agriculture industry, bond markets and other pockets of the economy show climate change is beginning to be addressed by decision-makers. “But business still tends to respond only to the extent that these risks intersect with short term financial and planning decisions,” the report said.

“American businesses should play an active role in helping the public sector determine how best to react to the risks and costs posed by climate change, and how to set the rules that move the country forward in a new, more sustainable direction.”

The report called for more muscular US policy to cut emissions and adapt to a changing climate. But it did not include specific propos-als or discuss leading controversies, such as the debate on the Keystone pipeline.

In a package that has already been heavily trailed, he promised to slash Japan’s corpo-rate tax rate -- one of the world’s highest at up to 36 percent -- and tackle sectors long sheltered by the state.

“The government decided today to make our growth strategy more powerful in a bold manner. The key is to revitalise local communities,” Abe told reporters in a press conference that was televised live.

“There is neither a taboo nor a sanctuary in the Abe government’s growth strategy. We will resolutely challenge rock-hard regula-tions and institutions.

“The Abe cabinet will break all barriers so that we can realise the potential of the Japanese economy,” Abe said.

The plan is Abe’s latest stab at making good on the final tranche of his growth strat-egy, dubbed “Abenomics”, which started in early 2013 with a huge public spending spree and an unprecedented monetary easing campaign by the Bank of Japan.

That gave the economy a shot in the arm and set off a stock market rally as firms’

profitability grew on the back of a sharply weaker yen.

But a growing chorus over recent months has called for action, saying as the sugar rush of cheap money wears off, the lack of real structural reform could prove problematic for an economy that has stumbled through more than two decades of disappointment.

“A virtuous circle of the economy is emerging as corporate profits are leading to expansion of employment and rises in wages,” Abe said.

“Abenomics takes it upon itself to con-tinue expanding the virtuous cycle.”

The plan calls for a review of the nation’s huge public pension fund portfolio, worth a staggering $1.26 trillion, urging it to make more aggressive investments in foreign and domestic stock markets.

Rigid labour marketThe hope, say commentators, is that

this massive fund will lead by example and encourage other funds to plough into stocks and to demand more and better quality re-

turns from the companies they invest in.Among other initiatives are a scheme to

promote clean energy, robotic technology and the tourism industries, while establish-ing special economic zones.

Japan’s rigid labour market is to be tin-kered with to loosen permanent residency rules for some manual workers and promote managerial jobs for women.

However, the relatively large-scale im-migration seen in other wealthy countries is a no-go; an influx of foreigners is anathema to Japan’s largely conservative public and initial talk of a huge policy change has been toned down.

Abe is also calling for more childcare support, partially as a way of encouraging women to have more babies, as the body politic grapples with a shrinking and age-ing society. His much-touted first attempt at a package of structural reforms fell flat last summer, with critics saying they were too timid and not doing enough to take on Japan’s many vested interests.

This year, the premier also faces a delicate balancing act as ordinary citizens struggle with lacklustre wage growth and rising prices for everyday goods -- the result of Tokyo’s bid to stoke long-absent inflation as well as April’s consumption tax hike to 8.0 percent from 5.0 percent.

Huge cost facing US over climate change

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press

conference at the prime minis-ter’s official residence in Tokyo,

Tuesday, June 24, 2014.

Abe unveils economic revival plans for JapanAgence France-Presse

TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled a fresh round of reforms Tuesday, in the latest bid to cement a fragile recovery, his second attempt to fire the “third arrow” of his economic action plan.

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DENPASAR - The Bali De-partment of Health has recorded 535 cases of Human Immunodefi-ciency Virus or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) in Bali during the period

between January and June 2014.“That figure depicts the num-

ber of identified and registered cases by the Bali Department of Health,” Head of Disease Control and Environmental Health (P2PL) Bali Department of Health Gede Wira Sunetra stated here on Tues-

day. The cases were recorded in nine districts of Bali.

With regard to HIV, the depart-ment has recorded 258 cases.

Gede Wira remarked that the department had recorded 1,486 HIV/AIDS cases in Bali between January and December 2013.

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Ongol-ongol cake is one of the Balinese cakes commonly made by the Hindu community. By and large, this soft cake is in place of breakfast of farm-ers before heading to rice field. This cake can also alternatively serve as desserts after farmers conduct a mutual assistance of planting rice. The ongol-ongol cake is widely sold in traditional markets, pastry shops and supermarkets.

The ingredients in use are very simple where the main one is sago flour containing carbohydrates. At this moment, Bali is not a major producer of sago, but this kind of cake appropriate for morning diet can still be encountered. Aside from sago, the other ingredients required are grated coconut, brown sugar, granulated sugar, pandan leaves and salt.

In other regions of Indonesia, probably there are similar cakes to the ongol-ongol, but the local people of Bali make it as the way they prepare porridge. First of all, they are boiling water. While waiting for the water to boil, the sago flour is mixed with water and stirred until it blends finely. Add salt to taste and then filter it. After that, pour it into the boiling water.

To cook it, the sago flour should be stir thoroughly. Having formed porridge, pour it into a mold. The second process is to prepare sugar sauce. Mix a suf-ficient amount of brown sugar with granulated sugar and add some water and pandan leaf. Cook them until the sugar dissolves. Then, remove and filter it.

Furthermore, peel and grate the coconut flesh. To serve, the cooked and cool sago flour is cut into small pieces or to taste. Then, put the pieces of cake onto a piece of banana leaf neatly and then sprinkle with grated coconut and top them with sugar sauce. Now, it is ready to serve.

Agustinus Brata Kusuma lost sight of the women near the resort island of Bali on February 14 when a storm hit suddenly.

Five of them were saved after clinging onto coral reefs for three

days some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from their take-off point.

Kusuma, who is accused of neg-ligence causing death and injury, admitted at a recent hearing that after searching for around an hour

for the women, he left the location to get more fuel.

“The captain of the boat should have been paying attention to the safety of the Japanese divers. But he didn’t do that as he left them to buy fuel, so when they came to the surface the boat wasn’t there,” prosecutor Ni Nyoman Martini told the Denpasar District Court.

“As a result, the Japanese divers were floating in the sea and were

wounded in the waves, while two of them were killed.”

Kusuma worked for dive com-pany Yellow Scuba in Bali, which organised the trip for the women around the neighbouring islands of Nusa Penida and Nusa Lembongan.

A Japanese instructor with Yel-low Scuba, Saori Furukawa, was among the women saved. She told the court how she fired a flare gun to get the skipper’s attention to no

avail.Furukawa told reporters after the

incident that the weather suddenly turned bad and the sea spun “like a washing machine”. She described being swept apart from the other divers by a strong current.

The body of Shoko Takahashi, who ran Yellow Scuba with her husband, was found around a month after the incident. Diver Ritsuko Miyata was also killed.

Health department records 535 HIV/

AIDS cases

Jail sought for skipper in Japanese diver deathsAgence France-Presse

DENPASAR - Prosecutors Tuesday sought a jail term of three years and six months for a boat skipper who lost track of seven Japanese women during a diving trip that left two of them dead.

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Some of the 73 students, wear-ing white and black uniforms and carrying book bags, bowed their heads as they cried and walked slowly from a bus to the school entrance. Some stopped to hug the parents of their friends, who caressed their hair and faces. Adults carried banners of encour-agement. One read: “I love you.” A large placard, which reads “We pray the dead will rest in peace,” was hung up on the school en-trance gate.

The anger, grief and deep re-morse at Danwon High School in Ansan, outside of Seoul, was a reflection of what many South Koreans have felt since the April 16 sinking that left more than 300 people dead or missing. Of the 325 students on a class trip to the southern holiday island of Jeju, 75 were rescued, 245 died and 5 are still missing. Two of those rescued had already returned to school, officials said.

The return to classes of the survivors, who had been staying at a facility in Ansan where they

had classes and therapy sessions, comes amid court hearings for the ferry crew and the officials from the company that owned it. Many South Koreans also fault the gov-ernment, the coast guard and even society for failing the victims.

“We ask for a thorough in-vestigation to find out why our friends and teachers had to be-come victims and why the rescue efforts didn’t proceed properly and led to more victims,” one of the surviving students, Shin Young-jin, said in an emotional address. “We hope that you will try to create a safer nation so that such a horrible accident never happens again.” After decades of negligence, many South Koreans are now questioning the country’s history of ignoring safety issues as it pursued rapid economic devel-opment above all else following the devastation of the Korean War, which began 64 years ago Wednesday with a North Korean invasion.

The government of President Park Geun-hye, whose dictator

father ruled during the economic boom in the 1960s and 1970s that was dubbed the “Miracle on the Han,” after the river that cuts through Seoul, has been battered by criticism that it should have done more before the sinking on safety and monitoring issues and that its incompetence botched the rescue operations.

The 15 crew members respon-sible for navigating the Sewol ferry face charges of negligence for failing to perform their duties to rescue passengers. Prosecutors say they abandoned the ship even though they knew passengers would be trapped and killed when the ferry sank. The defense has denied any collusion, saying the crew members were confused, injured and panicked.

Shin, the student, said that many people have tried to console the surviving students, but others have asked “unpleasant” ques-tions that have reminded them of the sinking and made them feel guilty. He said some people were even “burying daggers in our hearts” by saying that the survi-vors “betrayed” their classmates by coming back alive. “Whenever we heard such things, our hearts tore apart and ached and we shed tears because we felt guilty and sorry for our friends.”

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — The trial is not over yet, but tremors from the phone-hacking case are shaking Britain’s political establishment — and Rupert Murdoch’s media business.

Jurors are still considering brib-ery counts against former News of the World editor Andy Coulson and ex-royal editor Clive Goodman. On

Tuesday they convicted Coulson of conspiring to hack phones, but cleared former editor Rebekah Brooks and four others. The trial has refocused attention on illegality at Murdoch’s British tabloids.

The Guardian newspaper report-ed that detectives want to question Murdoch “under caution” — mean-ing as a potential suspect. Neither the police nor Murdoch’s British firm News U.K. would comment

Meanwhile the sister of murdered teenager Milly Dowler — whose phone was hacked in 2002 — on Wednesday urged Prime Minister David Cameron to seek tougher media regulation.

Hacking verdicts pile pressure on Cameron, Murdoch

Ferry survivors return to school amid tears, grief

Associated Press Writer

ANSAN, South Korea— As parents of the dead wept, more than 70 teenagers who survived a ferry sinking that killed hundreds of their schoolmates walked in a somber procession Wednesday to their first classes since the April disaster.

AP Photo/YonhapStudents who survived the sinking of a ferry Sewol are comforted by parents of their friends who lost their lives in the disaster as they make their way back for their first class since the disaster in Ansan, South Korea, Wednesday, June 25, 2014.

Andy Coulson, right, former News of the World editor, ar-rives at the Central Criminal Court in London, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

Bali Post

MANGUPURA - Condition of the Denpasar-Petang road section, especially the section located at the territory of Badung County was criticized again. Chairman of the Badung House, I Nyoman Giri Prasta, revealed that at a number of points were still found very disturbing the comfort and safety of road users. His party also de-

plored the relevant agencies that only repaired the damaged road by patchworks.

“Provincial government should give attention to condition of the Denpasar-Petang road section. This pathway is very important because in addition to the path of the economy, it also poses the path of tourism,” said Giri Prasta.

He said the repair to the road with provincial status should be

done thoroughly. From his ob-servation all this time, the road repair was only undertaken by patchworks so that it obviously gave impression if the road condi-tion was never good. One of the examples was the road section at Angantiga village. “So, I do hope the Badung Highways and Irriga-tion Agency (BMP) can immedi-ately make coordination with the Bali Public Works to address this

problem,” said the PDI-P politician from Petang.

Other than at Angantiga vil-lage, damaged road conditions could also be found at Pangsan village leading to Sandakan. The data in the Badung Highways and Irrigation Agency showed that the Denpasar-Petang road section spread along 27.72 kilometers. The road in good condition was along 16.6 kilometers, moderate

condition along 4.12 kilometers and damaged condition along 7 kilometers.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Badung Highways and Irrigation Agency, Ida Bagus Surya Suamba, said that his party had coordinated with provincial government be-cause it belonged to provincial road. According to information received, the repair would be un-dertaken this year. (kmb25)

Based on information gathered in the field on Tuesday, the villa was built several years ago by the owner Cloude Jasin, an American citizen and his wife Nadia from Russia. After being in operation, the owner appointed lo-cal resident to claim as the villa owner, namely Wayan Edy Parsa. In addition, the owner also hired a villa manager, Ketut Redana, a resident of Jalan Pantai Indah, Singaraja.

During the construction, residents were once objected because the road to public facility was hampered by the villa building. Residents admitted to have difficulty to reach the public facility. In addition to closing the access, the villa buildings were also claimed by the owner as a home. In reality, the villas were rent-

ed to foreign travelers. During the villa was rented by foreign travelers, the owner had not paid the hotel and restaurant tax to Buleleng Revenue Service. Other than having tax arrears, the villas also took advantage of ground water (wells—Ed) illegally or without permission.

Chief of Buleleng Municipal Police (Satpol PP), Putu Hartana, when met in his office said that before sealing the villas without permission, the judiciary team of Buleleng County had issued reprimand letter for three times to the owner.

However, the reprimand letter was ignored, so the judiciary team then sealed the villa. As long as being sealed, the villa owner was not allowed to rent the villa to travelers. The seal would be opened when the owner had submitted

the permit and proved by presenting the permit issued by the authorized agency in Buleleng County. “We have reprimanded the owner for three times, but the owner did not want to submit the permission. As per standard operating procedure (SOP—Ed), after the third reprimand was not responded, we take firm action by imposing sanction in the form of sealing,” he said.

Other than sealing, added Artana, Wayan Edy Parsa given the credence to claim the villa would be summoned to be present at the Buleleng government. He would be required to comply with the rules to follow in managing the villa business.

As planned, the owner would be summoned on Wednesday and the of-ficials appealed the owner to submit the permits in the near future. “Tomorrow, on Tuesday (Jun 24) we will summon the owner. Hopefully, the owner could comply with the applicable provisions by applying for the permission in ac-cordance with the existing provisions,” he affirmed. (kmb38)

Again, condition of Denpasar-Petang road section reaps criticism

The officer of Buleleng Government seal Villa

Mentari at Kalianget

Bali Post

KUTA - The culprit of marijuana smuggling into the Kerobokan Prison of Class II A, North Kuta, Badung, Sunday (Jun 22), Raden Mohamad Zein Akasa, 29, remains under police investigation. Unexpectedly, other than carrying marijuana, the man from Palembang also brought a new type of drug named Ajapa-Japa. Mean-while, police are still awaiting the results of test at Police Headquarters Forensic Laboratory of Denpasar Branch.

According to police source on Monday (Jul 23), after the arrest, police immediately conducted an examination against Zein Akasa and the evidence. From the examina-tion of evidence was known if the culprit brought two packages of marijuana wrapped in aluminum foil and seven wraps of Ajapa-Japa posing a new brand of drug. “The marijuana with new brand, Ajapa-Japa, was also about to be smuggled into the Kerobokan Prison,” he explained.

From the initial examination by using drug test kits, it was only the marijuana in the aluminum foil declared positive. Meanwhile, the seven wraps of Ajapa-Japa did not contain any drug substance. “The Ajapa-Japa is declared negative,” he explained.

In the meantime, the other source said that the evidence of Ajapa-Japa brand was also secured by the officers from the hand of Zein. It was a new type of drug resembling to marijuana. “The shape of this stuff is unlike marijuana leaf and has a distinctive smell, but the leaf looks like tobacco and does not exude any distinctive smell,” he said.

The effects of the Ajapa-Japa were also similar to marijuana that made people fly. However, the Ajapa-Japa had 10 times stronger effect compared to marijuana on the users. It was sold in Bali for IDR 300,000 per pack, while in Jakarta for IDR 150,000 per pack. “This stuff was revealed when police arrested Roger Danuarta, a national artist who was in the fly in Jakarta some time ago,” said a source that rejected his name to be published.

Meanwhile, the Chief of North Kuta Police, Ronny R. Eppang, was still reluctant to give comment regarding the newly brand Ajapa-japa drug that was about to be smuggled into the Kerobokan Prison. He said the evidence of marijuana and seven wraps of Ajapa-Japa were still under examination in the Police Headquarters Forensic Laboratory of Denpasar Branch to be tested. “We cannot ascertain about the evidence, whether or not it contains a narcotic preparation as it is still awaiting the results of lab tests,” he said.

As reported previously, the high demand for drugs in Kerobokan Prison was evidenced by the increasing num-ber of marijuana that was about to be smuggled. Recently, police could secure the culprit of the drug smuggling, Raden Mohamad Zein Akasa, 29, Sunday (Jun 22). Even, the culprit living on Jalan Danau Tempe, Gang Pengiasan V/15 Denpasar showed resistance when arrested by police officers. After that, the culprit was secured in North Kuta Police station with the evidence seized including seven packages of marijuana and an unpacked wrap. (kmb35)

Again, Marijuana’s smuggling raided

Having no permit

Judiciary team seals Villa Mentari at KaliangetBali Post

SINGARAJA - Villa Mentari at Kalianget village, Seririt subdistrict, was sealed by judiciary team of Buleleng County, Monday (Jun 23). The villa rented to foreign travelers was sealed because the owner did not submit permission. In addition, the villa was also stated to violate public order and did not pay hotel and restaurant taxes.

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The 36th Bali Art Festival

A study published on Thursday found that chronic exposure to ultra-violet radiation triggers the release of endorphins - the so-called feel-good hormones - that function through the same biological pathway as highly addictive opiate drugs such as heroin and morphine.

The study involved laboratory mice, but the researchers said they believe the findings are applicable to people because the biological response of skin to UV radiation in mice is so similar to humans.

Regular UV radiation exposure led to physical dependence and addictive behavior in the mice, the study found. The animals even exhibited withdrawal symptoms - shaking, tremors and teeth chattering - after being treated with a drug that blocked the endorphin activ-ity, the researchers said.

Writing in the journal Cell, they said the addictive nature of UV exposure “may contribute to the relentless rise in skin cancer incidence in humans.”

“There is this dangerous addictive pathway operating,” said dermatolo-gist Dr. David Fisher of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, who led the study.

Fisher said in theory sun-related skin cancer should be highly preventable merely by reducing exposure, but the addictive qualities of UV exposure may help explain the dogged “sun-seeking behavior” some people display through outdoor and indoor tanning and other pursuits.

“Behavioral exposure to the sun is being guided by influences that go past just a desire to have a nice game of Frisbee outside. There’s something else motivating that behavior,” Fisher added.

Exposure to ultraviolet rays through sunlight and indoor tanning equipment is considered a major risk factor for skin cancer including melanoma. The American Cancer Society said U.S. melanoma rates have been rising for at least 30 years, with about 76,000

news cases and 9,700 deaths forecast for 2014.

Cumulative damage from UV ra-diation also can cause premature skin aging in the form of wrinkles, lax skin and brown spots.

Exposure to UV rays stimulates production of endorphins - the same hormones stimulated by activities like vigorous exercise. They turn on opiate-related receptors via the same biological pathway triggered by pre-scription painkillers and other opiate drugs.

The researchers shaved the backs of the mice and gave them a daily dose of UV light - enough to induce tan-ning but not burning - for six weeks. Bloodstream endorphin levels rose within a week.

John Overstreet, executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association, said the study “ignores the benefits of exposure to ultraviolet light, the most obvious of which is the production of vitamin D through your skin.”

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - A California study out Monday found that pregnant women who lived near farms where pesticides are applied had a two-thirds higher risk of having children with autism.

The findings in the journal Environmental Health Per-spectives examine the association between living near commercial pesticide applications and having offspring with autism, but do not show cause-and-effect.

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that ranges in severity and has been on the rise in recent years. Health authorities say it now affects as many as one in 68 children in the United States.

The latest research was based on data about commercial pesticide applications in California, combined with resi-dential addresses of about 1,000 participants in a study of families with an autistic child.

“We mapped where our study participants’ lived during pregnancy and around the time of birth,” said principal investigator Irva Hertz-Picciotto, vice chair of the Depart-ment of Public Health Sciences at University of California, Davis.

California law requires detailed records on what kinds of pesticides are applied, where and when and how much.

“What we saw were several classes of pesticides more commonly applied near residences of mothers whose children developed autism or had delayed cognitive or other skills.”

About one-third of study participants lived within 1.25 to 1.75 kilometers (about a mile) from a site where com-mercial pesticides were applied.

Researchers found risks of autism were highest when the chemicals were applied during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.

The study authors said the developing fetal brain may be particularly vulnerable to pesticides.

“This study validates the results of earlier research that has reported associations between having a child with autism and prenatal exposure to agricultural chemicals in California,” said lead study author Janie Shelton, a UC Davis graduate student.

“While we still must investigate whether certain sub-groups are more vulnerable to exposures to these com-pounds than others, the message is very clear: Women who are pregnant should take special care to avoid contact with agricultural chemicals whenever possible.”

Associated Press

CHICAGO — America’s largest pediatricians’ group says parents should read aloud to their children every day starting in infancy. Doing so can enhance child develop-ment and prepare young minds for early language and reading ability.

That’s according to a new policy from the American Academy of Pediatrics issued Tuesday. The academy wants pediatricians to spread the message to parents of young children and to provide books to needy families.

To help promote reading, the doctors’ group is team-ing up with the Clinton Foundation’s Too Small to Fail program, children’s book publisher Scholastic Inc., and a group called Reach out and Read. That nonprofit group works with doctors and hospitals to distribute books and encourage early reading.

Study finds link between pesticides and autism

Start reading to kids early

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In this June 27, 2013 photo, beachgoers enjoy a sunny day on the beach in Atlantic City, N.J. This may give dedicated sun worshippers reason for pause. A new study suggests that regular tanning not only may raise the risk of skin cancer but also may be addictive.

Tanning may be addictive

Reuters

WASHINGTON - This may give dedicated sun worshippers reason for pause. A new study suggests that regular tanning not only may raise the risk of skin cancer but also may be addictive.

Unfortunately, ‘the breathing rate’ of the majority of the creation dances is only limited to the presen-tation on the stage of Ardha Candra Amphitheater, Bali Art Center. After the performance, the creation dances have gone by. Actually, not a few of the works are very reliable in terms of quality so that they are worth to be disseminated to the public. Like a mother, the BAF in this context can only bear. Unfortunately, it is unable to take care of, let alone raise the cre-ation dances that can be transformed into evergreen dances throughout the ages like the Oleg Tamulilingan, Kebyar Duduk, Teruna Jaya and so on. Indeed, it is a pity!

When contacted, the choreogra-pher AA Gede Agung Rahma Putra, truly deplored the phenomenon of ‘dying young’ experienced by the majority of the new creation dances. This doctoral candidate at the Indonesia Institute of the Arts (ISI) Surakarta analogized the BAF to the arena of birth and death for the new creation dances. “As the reality, so far it is indeed like that. There is an impression if the new creation dances are only created for the ‘consumption’ of BAF or it can only be enjoyed by some of Bali-nese people who happened to come to the BAF. After the performance at the BAF, the new creation dances seem to vanish as such because they

are very rarely staged whereas the majority of the dances have a very good quality,” said the young cho-reographer who is often trusted to work on new creation dances to be displayed.

According to Rahma Putra, the Bali and county/municipal govern-ment should be able to preserve the new creation dances from the threat of ‘dying young’ by helping disseminate the works to the public. Through the Culture Agency, the op-portunity to make the new creation dances as the ‘product’ of BAF still alive was widely open. One of them was by performing the new creation dances when local governments were entertaining state guests, officials, ambassadors or consuls of friendly countries or involving them when the local government performed a tourism promotion overseas. At the internal level, the dances could be performed on the anniversary of local governments or regional important moments. “If there is a will, there is a way to keep the new creation dances to remain alive. Similarly, I offer the same solution to gamelan music creations, contemporary dances and other types of art having spread its charm in the BAF,” he said.

Another solution, said Rahma Putra, the Culture Agency in col-laboration with the Education

Bali PostDENPASAR – Joged Bumbung dance performed again on Wednes-

day, June 25, during the Bali Art Festival (BAF). Dance that invites audiences to dance together attract many BAF’s visitors.

This time, the dance is featuring four dancers. Dancers who per-formed in the play come from Tripitaka Art Group.

Coordinator of Tripitaka Art Group, Putu Putrawan said this dance is one of favorite dances of Balinese people. This social dance com-monly performs in Bali. According to Putrawan, the dance shows Buleleng style with its classical trademark. “This dance is not only featured in Bali, but often performs in Europe, such as France and the Netherlands, as well as Hong Kong,” he said. (wan)

BAF ScheduleThursday, June 26, 2014

Time Place Event11.00 Angsoka Stage Semara Pegulingan by Citarum Art14.00 Ratna Kanda Stage Taman Penasar Show Competition17.00 Angsoka Stage Traditional Music Performance20.00 Wantilan Arja Performance 20.00 Ksirarnawa Contemporary Art Performance20.00 Ardha Candra Adult Gong Kebyar Performance

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Balinese dancer performed Joged Bumbung Dance during the Bali Art Festival on Wednesday, June 25, 2014.

Joged Bumbung dance staged in BAF

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Indonesian traditional dancers perform during a parade to mark the Bali Arts Festival in Bali, Indonesia, Friday, June 13, 2014. Undeniably, the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) extravaganza is a fertile ‘womb’ for the birth of the novelty works of arts.

New creation dances in BAF

Seem to face their birth and death all at onceBali Post

DENPASAR - Undeniably, the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) extravaganza is a fertile ‘womb’ for the birth of the novelty works of arts. In the Parade of Adult Gong Kebyar and Female Gong Kebyar of the BAF XXXVI this year, for example, every art envoy of the county/municipality in Bali works on a new creation dance with excellent qualities. Even, from this extravaganza is born 18 new creation dances that are actually potential to grace the universe of Balinese per-forming arts.

Agency could disseminate the new creation dances to schools. Through the subject of the Art Education, some of the creation dances could be used as a compulsory subject to be mastered by the students, espe-cially those choosing the dance as an extracurricular. In order that all

the new creation dances had the same right to life, the material of new creation dance taught should be adjusted to the county/munici-pality carrying the creation dances in the BAF. For example, the cre-ation dance composed by the envoy of Denpasar was taught to students

in Denpasar and so on. “With such a strategy, I am optimistic the new creation dances displayed in the BAF arena will not only be one night old. But, it is very likely to become a dance widely known by the public from year to year,” he suggested. (ian)

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EvEry Temple and Shrine has a special date for it annual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days according to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestral shrine which each family possesses. Because of this practically every few days a ceremony of festival of some kind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are also times when the entire island celebrated the same Holiday, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswati day, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, Tumpek Wayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place on the same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. When new moon is used then the celebration always happens on new moon or full moon. The day of course can differ the religious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full day with some temple celebrating for three days while the celebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is never less than 7 days and most of the time it lasts for 11 days, depending on the importance of the occasion.

The celebration is very colorful. The shrine are dressed with pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land. Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Calendar Event for June 1 through July 12, 2014

1 Jun Pura Sakenan Serangan DenpasarPura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasar TimurPura Alas Harum Batur KintamaniPura Alas Angker Munduk KintamaniPura Dalem Kawitan Empuaji Klungkung

4 Jun Buda Cemeng Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Luhur Batur Pucangan Buahan TabananPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem bangun Sakti Tamiang KapalDalem Bias Muntig Ped Nusa penida

8 Jun Pura Agung Petilan Pengerebongan kesi-man DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Kerambitan Tabanan

10 Jun Anggarkasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Gerya Sakti Yogaloka Lampung SelatanPura Luhur UluwatuPura Bukit Pecatu Kuta badungPura Penataran Agung Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Gua Lawah KlungkungPura Kawitan Arya Gelgel klungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralaya Banda klungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Pasek Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Lurah Tutuan Kerambitan TabananPura Pusering Jagat Tampaksiring

GianyarPura Gerya Sakti Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh UbudPura Segara Ketewel SukawatiPura Mertha Sari Mas Ubud

11 Jun Pura Gede Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungPura Bhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana KlungkungPura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem MuasPahit Guwang SukawatiPura Taman Dukuh TegallalangPura Desa Sanding Tampak Siring gianyarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Batan Buah KesimanPura Sahab Nusa penidaPura Dalem Cemara Serangan Denpasar

12 Jun Purnama Sasih Sadha Pura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Amertha Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Ulun Swi Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitra Gianyar

15 Jun Kajeng Kliwon uwudan Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi

25 Jun Buda Kliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Padangbai KarangasemPura Aer jeruk Sukawati GianyarPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel GianyarPura Pasek Bendesa Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati gianyarPura Kresek Banyuning Buleleng

Pura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Kahyangan Batu Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Naga Sari Bebandem KarangasemPura Batur Sari Ubud

27 Jun Tilem Sasih Sadha Pura Dalem Celuk Sukawati

30 Jun Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan Pura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Delod Yeh Mengwi

5 Jul Tumpek krulut Pura Pasek gelgel Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Jelantik Tojan KlungkungPura Pedarman Bhujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Penebel TabananPura Benua Tarukan Besakih

9 Jul Buda Cemeng Merakih Pura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Kalah BatubulanPura Desa Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem Petitenget Kuta BadungPura Dalem Pulasari GianyarPura Kubayan Kapisah Denpasar SelatanPura Paibon Sumerta DenpasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPura Panti Penyarikan Sanding Tampak SiringPura Pasar Agung Kediri TabananPura Puaya Batuan Sukawati

11 Jul Hari Bhatara Sri 12 Jul Purnama Sasih Kasa Aci-aci Penaung Taluh Penataran Agung BesakihPura Tirta BesakihPura Purnama Cemangon Sukawati

The capital city will see the opening of three new favehotels, starting with favehotel Zainul Arifin – Jakarta which is set to open by September this year. The hotel will feature 84 rooms located close to such his-torical landmarks as the National Museum & National Monument, and will be just 10 minutes from Gambir Train Station and 35 minutes from Soekarno Hatta International Airport.

The super clean and contemporary hotel rooms will feature top of the line beds with a plush mattress, down pillows, a cozy duvet and crisp 250 thread-count sheets, together with smart touches that contribute to an even more comfortable stay. Free high speed WiFi will keep guests connected, while the eclectic café-shop will serve a simple but hearty breakfast and many light and healthy choices throughout the day.

The second favehotel set for Indonesia’s

capital is favehotel Pasar Minggu - Jakarta that will open within the second quarter of 2015. The 110 room hotel will be con-veniently located close to Cilandak Town Square, the Pondok Indak Golf & Country Club and the Cilandak Golf Driving Range, as well as being close to the International School and Government Offices.

And finally, the third favehotel to hit Jakarta will be favehotel Grogol – Jakarta, due to open within the 4th quarter of 2016. With 100 rooms, the hotel will be located close by to a number of famous malls, like Mall of Ciputra, Central Park Mall and Mall Taman Anggrek, whilst also being close to the International Soekarno Hatta Airport.

Heading south, the central Javan regency of Cilacap will see the opening of favehotel Cilacap, slated to open within the 4th quarter of 2016. The hotel will feature 120 rooms and it will be in close proximity to the area’s

IBP/Courtesy of Archipelago International

Favehotel continues to expandIBP

JAKArTA – As one of Archipelago International’s most prominent hotel brands, the maverick hotel management company is continuing to expand the famous favehotel brand to a number of new locations in Indonesia. The rapid expansion will see six new favehotel properties hit four different cities in Indonesia, including Jakarta, Cilacap, Padang and Pekanbaru.

main attractions, like the sea port and the surrounding beaches on the southern coast, as well as the ancient Dutch fortress called Benteng Pendem, which was built in 1861-1879 by the Dutch East Indies Army.

Into Sumatra and the flourishing island will see the opening of two new favehotels in the 4th quarter of 2015. Padang will welcome favehotel Olo – Padang with its 100 rooms, while favehotel Sudirman – Pe-kanbaru will feature 110 rooms and 3 meeting rooms. In Padang, guests can enjoy easy access to all that the lively city has to offer, like Food Street Simpang Kinol, the Museum Adityawarman, Siti Nurbaya Bridge and Padang Beach.

Padang is the largest city in the western coast of Su-matra and is a common transit point for surfers traveling to the Batu and Mentawai Islands. Padang beach (known as Taplau or Tapi Lauik) is well known for its beautiful sunset and hundreds of food stalls. Bungus bay to the

south of Padang is suitable for swimming and boating.Located at the heart of Pekanbaru, favehotel Sudirman

– Pekanbaru will be a short 10-minute drive to the Pe-kanbaru Mall and SKA Mall, with a two-way shuttle service available twice daily. It is also just 15-minutes from the Sultan Syarif Qasim II International Airport. Pekanbaru has been awarded on many occasions as one of the cleanest big cities in Indonesia, and it is notable for its wide main streets and large median roads.

“We are currently undertaking an unprecedented period of expansion throughout Indonesia, which will see Archipelago International more than double its col-lection of hotels in the country over the next few years. By the end of this year alone, Archipelago International will be launching 33 new hotel projects, while 2015 is already set to open a further 37 hotels to welcome guests throughout the year.” Said Norbert Vas, Archipelago International’s VP Sales & Marketing.

The staging of the Topeng Panca Dance featured the perfor-mance of Wongan. The Wongan told the stories on the beginning of the collapse faced by the empire of Tegeh Kori named Kingdom of Badung. The King-dom of Badung was then ruled by Kiyai Anglurah Jambe Merik centered at Alang Badung estab-lishing new position known as Sawunggaling. Ki Sawunggaling got power by controlling more extensive areas than other offi-cials with intelligence to rule so the people were safe and secure. After the death of Kiyai Jambe Merik, the Badung administra-tion was succeeded by his son namely Kejambean II Kiyai Jambe Ketewel.

His wisdom was not much different from that of his father. The Badung people felt to be well protected so they were obedient to the king and sub-

ject to Ki Sawunggaling having the obligation to pass the royal commands. His prominent idea was expanding paddy field area, establishing irrigation and dam in Badung Kingdom. Unluck-ily, the making of dam failed. Seeing the failure, Ki Tegeh Kori consulted the problem to the central government of Bali, namely Ida Bathara Sagening Dalem Gelgel for an advice. Then, he was suggested to per-form a sacrifice and meditate on the bank of Sagsag River. Here, he got revelation in order to make yadnya satya (human as the basis of sacrifice). Hearing the revelation, Ki Sawunggal-ing was excited and promised to do so. He then met the King of Badung and was ready to become the basis of sacrifice for realizing the dream of prosper-ing the Badung people though he had to sacrifice himself and his

Bali PostDENPASAR - The heyday

of drama gong art has passed. However, it does not necessarily mean if the art has become ex-tinct. Some drama gong troupes remain to survive, although they look powerless. In the Bali Arts Festival (BAF) XXXVI this time,

the lovers of drama gong had the opportunity to watch their favor-ite show at the Ayodya Stage, Wednesday (Jun 25). On that oc-casion, it was presented the Can-dra Budaya drama gong troupe from Bebandem, Karangasem, as one of the parade participants in the current Bali Arts Festival.

Previously, at 11:00 a.m. was also held the parade of Joged Bumbung by Tri Pitaka Art Stu-dio, Munduk village, Buleleng County that could entertain the spectators at Ayodya Stage. After that, it was resumed with the art presentation by the Maluku Resi-dent Association (Kemal) in Bali

at Angsoka Stage. Ultimately, it was resumed with the participa-tion of the Jember Government Tourism Office at the Angsoka Stage.

In addition to drama gong, there was also night show in the form of Arja operetta presented by Kakul Gondang Arja Troupe

from Kaba-Kaba village, Kediri subdistrict, Tabanan. It was per-formed at Wantilan Hall. As the closing session on the twelfth day, it was presented the Tri Sakti fragmentary dance by Mahasara-swati University of Denpasar in the Ksiraarnawa building. (kmb12)

Drama Gong makes performance at Ayodya Stage

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The Topeng Panca Wongan performance

Newer artists of Denpasar present Topeng Panca Wongan danceBali Post

DENPASAr - Staging of the Topeng Panca Dance at-tempted to entertain the audience at the Bali Arts Festival (BAF), Bali Art Center. Beginner artists got the opportunity to make performance at the Bali Arts Festival. The art displayed by the C Art Coblong gamelan troupe from Pe-mecutan Kelod, West Denpasar, tried to grace the audience. Although relatively new, the appearance of the art studio under direction of I Ketut Suandita as gamelan music ar-ranger and Putu Adi Sujana as artistic director was trying to give the best to the audience. Moreover, the art troupe founded three years ago was intended for devotional works at temple where the players were of the same age and given the opportunity to make performance in order to show off new generation artists in the BAF.

descendants. It is the reason why the river was named Wongan River.

This storyline was taken by I Ketut Kodi from the story on the birth of the Badung Kingdom and the Arya Wayabya Pinatih chronicle. The artistic director Putu Adi Su-jana said the story presented in the performance depicted togetherness by giving the opportunities to new young artists. The message was adjusted to the central theme Kerta-

masa namely discovering to achieve people’s prosperity. In other words, the irrigation system needed to be raised and the making of sacrifice should be based on the deepest sincerity. In the story of Wongan, any leader who led the Bali should dare to make self-sacrifice without sacrificing his people. The mask performance indicated that Bali was inseparable from yadnya creativity. Conversely, Bali was always insepa-

rable from the mask.“We salute to the leader in Den-

pasar because his leadership is in accordance with the character of the creative culture-based city and the leader consistently preserves the cultural character. It was indicated by the founding of the art troupes in Denpasar and provision of financial support to cultural preservation to discover the generation of new young artists in Denpasar. (BP/wan)

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WASHINGTON — Singer Chris Brown is expected to be in Washington for a hearing on the assault charge he faces. Brown is sched-uled to appear Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court. Brown was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault in October, accused of hitting a man outside the W hotel. That man says Brown hit him after he tried to get in a photograph that the singer was taking with two women.

Prosecutors wanted Brown in Washington to face trial. At the time it was set to start, Brown was in a Los Angeles jail after being kicked out of a rehab facility. He was released earlier this month. Brown was still on proba-tion for a 2009 attack on singer Rihanna, his then girlfriend. No new trial date has been set in the D.C. case.

He didn’t fly first class and his hotels weren’t five-star. Still, when singer Chris Brown was moved from a Los Angeles jail

to Washington for what was to have been the start of his trial on an assault charge, the cost to taxpayers was more than $4,000.

The breakdown of the April trip was pro-vided to The Associated Press as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request. The tab includes jail stays, airfare and other trans-portation costs. The U.S. Marshals Service, which transported Brown, said in a statement Tuesday that it uses the “safest and most cost-effective means to transport” inmates.

Brown is scheduled to be in a Washington courtroom Wednesday. This time, he’s out of jail, so he’ll be paying his own way.

Asked in April about transporting Brown across country, one of Brown’s lawyers, Mark Geragos, called the case possibly “the single most investigated, prosecuted and expensive misdemeanor prosecution in jurisprudence.”

Prosecutors wanted Brown in Wash-ington to face trial on a charge of hitting a man outside the W hotel in October 2013. At the time,

Brown was still on probation in California for a 2009 attack on the singer Rihanna, his then girlfriend.

When his trial was set to start in Washing-ton, Brown was in a Los Angeles jail after being kicked out of a court-ordered rehab facility.

Records show Brown’s trip began April 1 when he was moved to a jail in San Bernardi-no County, about an hour east of Los Angeles. He spent two days there before being driven to catch a plane. The cost of transportation and lodging was about $1,000, records show.

From there, the Marshals Service group responsible for flying prisoners across coun-try, sometimes called “Con Air,” took over and flew Brown to the D.C. area. That cost: $1,193. Three weeks of housing at the North-ern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw, Virginia, about two hours south of Washington, cost $55 a day, the jail said.

During the expletive-laden Playboy interview, Oldman decried the “po-litical correctness” that ensnared Gibson and Baldwin. Gibson delivered an anti-Semitic rant in 2006 while being arrested for drunk driving, and he later

apologized. Baldwin last year was accused of using an anti-gay slur in a New York City street confrontation.

Oldman said that Gibson “got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those things. We’re all (expletive) hypocrites.” He said he didn’t blame Baldwin

for using the slur because somebody bothered him.“Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews and he said the wrong thing because

he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him, and doesn’t need to feed him anymore because he’s got enough dough,” Oldman said in the interview. In his later letter, first reported by the industry website Deadline.com, Oldman wrote, “I hope you will know that this apology is heartfelt, genuine, and that I have an

enormous personal affinity for the Jewish people in general, and those specifi-cally in my life.” Oldman’s Playboy comments had drawn a sharp response

from Jewish leaders.“Gary Oldman wants Jews to ‘get over’ what Mel Gibson said. But what Gibson said, was the slogan

that Adolf Hitler used to murder six million Jews,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wi-esenthal Center in Los Angeles. “(Oldman’s) comment that Hollywood is a town ‘run by Jews’ has a very familiar sinister ring to it that is the anthem of bigots and anti-Semites every-where. That has nothing to do with political correctness,” Hier said in a statement to The Associated Press.

Oldman apologizes for defending Gibson and Baldwin

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NEW YORK — Gary Oldman has apologized for defending fellow actors Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin from critics of their contro-versial remarks about Jews and gays. “I am deeply remorseful that comments I recently made in the Playboy Interview were offensive to many Jewish people,” Oldman wrote in an open letter to the Anti-Defamation League late Tuesday. “Upon reading my comments in print — I see how insensitive they may be, and how they may indeed contribute to the furtherance of a false stereotype.”

Chris Brown facing trial in DC court

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A tourism expert from the Udayana University, Putu Anom, assessed the number of illegal tourist accommodation in Bali happened due to weak law enforce-ment. The government seeming to implement the regulation and mandate of the rules half-heartedly had triggered the mushrooming of illegal businesses. “If the govern-

ment is committed to enforce the rules, it should oversee the inves-tors from the beginning like from the licensing process through the project execution. So, any fraud can be minimized,” said Anom in Denpasar.

According to him, the govern-ment was not careful in issuing the building permit application so

it was often misused. As a result, some private homes were even functioned as villa accommodation. “Decisiveness is needed in the law enforcement to discipline those il-legal buildings because they have clearly violated but was allowed to operate,” he said.

Bali Villa Association (BVA) also observed that a lot of illegal tourist accommodations were built on the verge of cliff. Based on the spatial rules, it was not allowed to build on the edge of cliff. “The rules allow the building on cliff provided that it is twice the depth of the cliff. If there is a building on top of a cliff, probably it is not licensed because it clearly violates the rules,” said Chairman

of the BVA, Jero Mangku Wayan Suteja.

He admitted that his party with a joint team would perform an inspection to Southern Badung area, such as Jimbaran and Pecatu. These areas were alleged to be filled with many tourist accommoda-tions, either villas or hotels. “We encourage the joint team to come down to location in order to ascer-tain whether there are unlicensed accommodation buildings or not because today a home can even be called a villa,” he said.

He added that competition among the villas was getting tough-er in Bali due to the proliferation of villas, especially in the areas becoming the favorite of travelers

such as Badung and Gianyar. Even, the average annual growth had reached 10 percent. “The competi-tion will be tighter as every year the growth of villas is getting more and more. Among the rapid growth of the villas, the most is widely seen in Badung and Ubud area,” he said.

In addition, the number of villas in Bali had reached over 1,200 vil-las, where 700 villas were located in Badung, while the remaining scattered in Tabanan, Buleleng, Klungkung, Gianyar and other regions. Meanwhile, the illegal vil-las reached more than 10 percent. “Currently there is no clear rule governing the existence of villas, so many villas are not licensed,” he affirmed. (kmb27)

Tourist accommodation in Bali targets cliff

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Tourist accommodation growth in Bali has proliferated uncontrollably. Even, not a few investors violate the rules such as the coastal borderline, road borderline to taking advantage of the cliff.

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MANGUPURA - Tourist accommodation growth in Bali has proliferated uncontrollably. Even, not a few investors violate the rules such as the coastal borderline, road borderline to taking advantage of the cliff. Rampant tourist accommodation espe-cially villas built on a cliff is alleged to have no permit because based on the government’s rules on spatial plan it is not allowed to build on the edge of cliff.

Ferry survivors return to school amid tears, grief

Greece get late reward for attacking endeavor

Joged Bumbung dance staged in BAF