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“Simply be made into bhisama, so nobody can change it. Similarly, the one who makes it is unable to change. It’s very good. I absolutely agree and it is really desired by people of Tanjung Benoa. We in the environmental studies also require it,” she said.

Meanwhile, a community leader from Abiansemal, I Nyo-man Sentana, judged that even though being late there had been a good progress made by the Badung House. Sentana asked the Badung House to discuss it consistently. Thus, the appropriate intention and action to preserve the environment would not weaken or even faded amidst the process. He also urged to review or annul various rules in Bali that attempted to smooth the reclamation plan.

Similar appreciation was also extended by Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Tourism Intellectuals for Bali Re-gion, I Putu Anom. This former Dean of the Faculty of Tourism,

Udayana University, considered if the Benoa Bay remained a conservation area then mangroves and coral reefs in the region would remain intact. Coastal abrasion could be prevented and socio-cultural life of the community would be well maintained. “In terms of economic perspective, it means that fishermen can still be active including the marine tourism activities can go on normally. Carrying capacity of Southern Bali and Badung can be guaranteed to realize sustainable development,” continued the man from Kapal village, Mengwi.

Chairman of Bali Dwipa Care Forum, Gede Bangun Nusantara, judged the measure of Badung House that would maintain the Benoa Bay as a conservation area was a step forward than the Bali House that so far had not showed its decisive establishment related to the issue. Bangun hoped the Detailed Spatial Plan of Badung County could be rep-licated by Denpasar House. Moreover, the Bali House was

also expected to determine the Benoa Bay into conservation area where at the moment it was revising the Regional Spa-tial Plan. The establishment of Bali House was necessary to give legal instrument to Badung and Denpasar related to the Detailed Spatial Plan of Benoa Bay as conservation area. “Do not let the revision of Bali Regional Spatial Plan even change the Benoa Bay into non-conservation area. If this happens, then we can allege if the revision of spatial plan is filled with the interests of investors,” he said.

Earlier, Chairman of the Special Committee for the De-tailed Spatial Plan of the Badung House, I Wayan Suyasa, revealed that in the draft at issue by the Special Committee for Detailed Spatial Plan in the Badung House, Benoa Bay area was included in the sub-zone of Coastal Conservation and Small Islands. Distribution of the conservation sub-zone and small islands included the conservation block of Pudut Island at Tanjung Benoa village, conservation block of mangrove forest protection of the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park (Tahura) at Jimbaran village, Benoa village and Tanjung Benoa village, coral reef protection block, protection block of catch fishermen, seaweed farming protection block and buffer ecosystem block of Benoa Bay waters. With the enactment of Benoa Bay as conservation area, the reclamation was not allowed to do. (kmb25/kmb32)

People walked at Pudut Island near Benoa Bay. The drafting and enactment of Benoa Bay as conservation area in the regional bylaw draft on Detailed Spatial Plan (RDTR) and Zoning Regulation of Badung County was positively responded by a number of circles.

Maintain Benoa Bay as conservation area

Regional bylaw draft on RDTR proposed to be a “bhisama”

Bali PostMANGUPURA - The drafting and enactment of Benoa Bay as conservation area in the regional bylaw

draft on Detailed Spatial Plan (RDTR) and Zoning Regulation of Badung County was positively responded by a number of circles. Even, an environmentalist, Dr. Luh Kartini, proposed in order the Regional Bylaw Draft on Detailed Spatial Plan of Badung County could be made into bhisama (sanctified stipulation). Having been made into bhisama, it was believed that any violation against the rules could be suppressed because violating the bhisama was equally the same as getting prepared to get a curse.

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LONDON — Angelina Jolie ap-pealed for a change in attitude on sexual violence in conflict Tuesday, bringing the power of her celebrity to an international summit on a topic she said has been taboo for too long. Opening the four-day London summit, the Hollywood star and United Nations envoy spoke with passion and convic-tion, recalling her meetings with rape victims who struggle with injustice and stigma long after their countries have emerged from conflict.

“We must send a message around the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence, that the shame is on the aggressor,” she said, to cheers from the audience. “We need to shatter that culture of impunity.”

Jolie and British Foreign Secretary William Hague are co-hosting the event, billed as the largest gathering on the subject ever. Diplomats, of-ficials and non-profit representatives from more than 100 countries gathered to press for the rights of victims — women, men and children alike.

Wangu Kanja, a Kenyan rape sur-vivor who has set up her own organi-zation to help others, said she hoped the summit will send a message that governments cannot continue to ignore the issue.

“I’m really hoping that from this

“I’m coming. I leave tonight. We always were going,” she said. “I think people get anxious, especially with me and my schedule when I’m like, ‘Ah, OK, I can leave this day, that day, I don’t know if we can make it.’”

“People get nervous and I think it was a little bit premature to announce anything,” she said. “But we are definitely going.”

FIFA officials announced earlier this week that the singer wouldn’t perform the official tune “We Are One (Ole Ola)” alongside Pitbull and Claudia Leitte. But Lopez said they will perform before Brazil takes on Croatia at Thursday’s opening game in Sao Paulo.

Lopez said the World Cup song was orchestrated by Pitbull, who invited her to join on the track.“I can’t take credit for this. This was one of Pitbull’s call-ins,” said Lopez, who has collaborated with the rapper on the hits “On the Floor” and “Dance Again.”

“He had this record and he’s like, ‘I think this record could be great for the World Cup,” she recalled. “He’s like, ‘Will you do it with me?’ And I go, ‘Yeah, of course.’”

Lopez added: “I’m so lucky that he gave me the opportunity.”The 44-year-old singer, who’s from the Bronx, is also busy promoting

her new album, “A.K.A.,” to be released next week.

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the Kenyan government will be forced to do something,” she said hours after the summit began.

Hague and Jolie are set to launch a guidance document on best practices Wednesday to help strengthen pros-ecutions for rape in conflicts. Hague will also host a meeting Thursday on tackling Boko Haram, the Islamic terror group that abducted more than 300 schoolgirls and young women in Nigeria in April.

The pair have campaigned hard on the issue of sexual violence for two years, and on Tuesday they were welcomed

with cheers from others fighting for the cause as they toured a lively fringe program featuring photo exhibitions, poetry readings, and artists perform-ing skits.

With the cameras of the world fo-cused on her, Jolie said she wanted to dedicated the conference to a rape victim she and Hague recently met in Bosnia.

“She felt that having had no justice for her particular crime, in her particular situation, and having seen the actual man who raped her on the streets free, she really felt abandoned by the world,” Jolie said. “This day is for her.”

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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 12, 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

With endless mountain views, Garut, which is often referred to as the “Swit-zerland of Java” , has in recent years gained popularity as an domestic tour-ism destination due to pristine nature preserves, natural hot springs and stun-ning scenery.

In the heart of Garut and just two hours east of Bandung, the favehotel Ci-manuk Garut enjoys a perfect location from which to explore the city and the region beyond and aims to be the best option for business and leisure travelers seeking a contemporary, comfortable, and proficient hotel with an affordable price tag.

The hotels 79 guest rooms are equipped with contemporary furnish-ings topped off with an interior design concept that is both modern and stylish whilst capturing the unique character

of the local environment. Guests can make use of the hotel’s swimming pool and the signature all-day café-shop and lounge, whilst business travelers can stay connected thanks to the hotel’s 6 modern meeting rooms and compli-mentary high speed Wi-Fi throughout the entire hotel.

“West Java is booming as the Cipu-larang Expressway linking Jakarta to Bandung has opened up a whole new universe of weekend getaways to the south and east of Bandung that were previously beyond the reach of all but the most determined of weekend vaca-tioners. favehotel Cimanuk Garut will be the latest favehotel destination for savvy travelers and is fast becoming a key business hub for West Java.” says Norbert Vas, Vice President Sales & Marketing Archipelago International. IBP/Archipelago International

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JAKArTA – favehotels, Indonesia’s fastest growing select service hotel chain, announced the opening of the highly anticipated favehotel Cimanuk Garut, marking the arrival of the first international standard chain hotel in the remote region of Garut.

He explained that in the im-plementation of the parade this year, the county/municipality would be given the opportunity to work on fragmentary ses-sion for 15 minutes with new touches. Of course, it would be more innovative to minimize the monotonous impression so the presentation was packaged differently, both in the matter of form and parade participants. In addition, he said, there were some excellent local, national and international arts activi-ties.

“Local events in this Bali Arts Festival will be implemented openly with more emphases

on the art with development aspect. For a national art show, it will present the performance as participation of other re-gions. Meanwhile, the interna-tional events will feature the art presentation by overseas art troupes,” he said.

In addition, said Suastika, the BAF XXXVI in 2014 was planned to be inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yud-hoyono (SBY) at the Ardha Can-dra Amphitheater, Denpasar Art Center, Friday (Jun 13). “Other than Mr. SBY, it will also be attended by First Lady Ani Yud-hoyono, a number of ministers and others,” he explained.

On the opening day, he added, it would be filled with the Bali Dwipa Jaya Dance performance. The dance itself posed the mas-cot of Bali Province triggered by the Governor of Bali.

Suastika explained the BAF taking place on June 13 to July 12, 2014 would feature six subject matters including the pa-rade, performance, competition/parade, exhibition, workshop, and documentation. “The parade will be held during the day at 2:00 p.m. around the Bajra Sandi Monument at Renon, Denpasar. Then, it will be resumed with the opening by the President,” he added. (kmb21)

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Campaign Coordinator of Jokowi-JK for Nasdem Party Bali, IGK Manila, expected that Bali should not be crammed with ambitious and counter-productive projects like the National Tour-ism Strategic Area (KSPN) to Besakih Temple and reclamation to 838 hectares in Benoa Bay. “Regional leader must not be reasoned to bring in investors, and then destroy the order of Bali considered to be sacred, natural and consistent in maintain-ing tradition, culture and religion. Restore my Bali to condition as in the 1970s. Bali should not be developed excessively and artificially,” said IGK Manila when mak-ing a visit to the Ketut Nadha Bali Press Building, Tuesday (Jun 10).

According to him, there were many beautiful regions overseas like Bali such as Hawaii, Tahiti, Thailand and the Maldives. However, why did Bali have a special value and it was more than other destina-tion in the world? It happened because Bali was very consistent in maintaining tradition, culture and religion. “Synergy of customs, culture and religion goes in harmony and it becomes the icon of Bali. It remains to be guarded and maintained by its people for generations. It is the superior-ity of Bali compared to other destinations in the world,” said IGK Manila.

Then, if there were bureaucrats and anyone else leading the damage to Bali, it should be opposed because Bali had been very dense, especially in Southern Bali. “Do not make this density more crowded. Moreover, it is caused by development that does not support Bali,” he pleaded.

He said that Bali should not be sold

to investors. Bali should be for Balinese people, not for certain groups. Moreover, Besakih belonged to sacred area. People should not create the impression that go-ing to Besakih was to play golf instead of going to temple. “Keep the perception that going to Besakih is sublime, saying prayers and performing sacred obliga-tion. On that account, there should be no National Tourism Strategic Area for Besakih,” he asked seriously.

To that end, said IGK Manila, the gov-ernment should have to oversee as well as maintain local values, customs, religion and culture in order they remained good and stable. “There should be no parties exploiting and trying to destroy the good order having existed in Bali,” pleaded the Chief of the Nasdem mass organization doubling as Chairman of the Nasdem Party of Central Java Chapter.

In addition to escorting Bali, the government was expected to act neutral in the presidential election on July 9. As an example, the neutrality was showed by Hatta Rajasa who no longer filled the position as the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry. He had been re-placed by Chaerul Tanjung. Then, why was there still a welcome by the leaders in Bali putting on official badges and posi-tion? “It was not correct. As the govern-ments, they should act neutral and show off a good example of how to practice democracy correctly and objectively,” criticized IGK Manila.

His party also expected the Bali Elec-toral Commission not to take sides. The Commission should be honest, fair and becoming mediator by referring to the guidelines set forth in the rules. (ram)

BAF parade refers to central theme: KertamasaScheduled to be opened by President SBY Bali Post

DENPASAr - The parade of Bali Arts Festival (BAF) XXXvI in 2014 refers to the central theme entitled Kertamasa. In other words, it is the dynamics of agrarian society towards the universal welfare. Although it still refers to the theme, it is formatted with a walking procession and presents a wide range of diverse Balinese, national and inter-national art forms. These were disclosed by the Head of the Bali Culture Agency, Ketut Suastika.

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Workers prepare stage for the opening ceremony of Bali Art Festival. The parade of Bali Arts Festival (BAF) XXXVI in 2014 refers to the central theme entitled Kertamasa.

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IGK Manila: Restore my Bali

3Thursday, June 12, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Thursday, June 12, 2014

It was expressed by Chair-man of the Center for Business Economic Data Analysis, the Faculty of Economics, Udayana University, Dr. Sudjana Budhi, when met in Denpasar.

He said that most of the prob-lems pertaining to the low in-vestment in infrastructure were caused by limited funding of central government. Meanwhile, the need for investment funding was very much required for the development of economic poten-tial in many parts of Indonesia.

“To overcome the restricted-ness of funds for infrastructure investment needs and accel-eration process of the economic development, the governments in many countries invite the participation of business com-munity to invest in the sector,” he said.

According to him, public-private partnership was proved to have been able to accelerate the economic growth in many countries. Infrastructure develop-ment involving the participation of domestic private investment covered the area of transporta-tion, hospital, education and a number of industrial infrastruc-ture development which could trigger the growth of a variety of other industries.

“Investment cooperation of public-private partnership is the acceleration of the economic development having the impact on the added value and sharing fiscal risk, from the entire burden

AntaraDENPASAR - The ongoing

mass vaccination program against rabies in Bali has covered some 45 percent of the total dog popu-lation on the island so far, stated an official.

By June 9, at least 160 thousand dogs were vaccinated, or about 45 percent of the total 350 thousand dogs to be targeted, Putu Sumantra, the head of the Balinese animal

husbandry and animal health of-fice, stated on Wednesday.

Sumantra expressed optimism that the target can be achieved since the program, which started on April 15, will be carried out until July 31, 2014.

“The program has been con-ducted in 1.6 thousand villages of the total three thousand villages that will be targeted,” he said.

Sumantra called on the public

to make the program successful by taking their dogs for vaccination against rabies.

A total budget of Rp12 bil-lion has been allocated for the fifth mass vaccination program against rabies, which is part of the government’s effort to make Bali free from rabies.

Of the Rp12 billion, Rp5.6 billion is from Bali’s budget and Rp6.4 billion is from the state

budget.The number of dog bite cases

in Bali tended to increase, which is more than 100 cases per day, Dr Ketut Suarjaya, the head of the Health Office of Bali, recently remarked.

Bali has resolved to become rabies-free by the year 2015 in order to maintain its reputation as the world’s most famous resort island. Nationally, the central

government has targeted the en-tire country to become rabies-free by 2020.

Over the past few years, Bali authorities have routinely carried out mass vaccination programs against rabies, targeting stray and domestic dogs.

“We have deployed 90 staff members during the ongoing mass vaccination program,” Putu Sumantra recently noted.

Workers worked at hospital project at Badung Regency. Economic development that can be implemented through investment in infrastructure runs very slowly in many regions, including Bali.

Mass vaccination covers 45 percent of Bali’s dog population

Slow, infrastructure development in BaliBali Post

DENPASAR - Econom-ic development that can be implemented through invest-ment in infrastructure runs very slowly in many regions, including Bali. As a result, the economic potential of the region cannot be optimized in order to achieve the people’s welfare.

borne by government to be fur-ther shared with business sector,” he explained.

He assessed the control of fiscal space through the fiscal sharing risk in the framework of public-private partnership (KPS) having been implemented today could be expanded by involving the county/municipal govern-ments as well as the role and par-ticipation of local entrepreneurs

as complementary participant that would lead the Indonesian economy to togetherness.

“The fiscal risk-sharing policy can include cooperation contract agreement between central or lo-cal governments through national and regional budget with national private sector in the region in order to accelerate the infra-structure development that will encourage the economic growth,”

he concluded.He exemplified that England

managed to develop infrastruc-ture through national private participation. The success could be seen from two sides, namely the increase in the acceleration of economic development that generated value for money and the availability of funding for secondary financial market that provided opportunities for private

sector to develop new innovation with added value for production activities and creation of profit of the employers concerned.

“Secondary financial market provided through public-private partnership can give an op-portunity for entrepreneur to make innovation in providing the increasingly quality public service to prosper society,” he said. (kmb27)

Patients today use a number of apps that purport to track and treat a panoply of ailments, a headache for regulators and patient safety advocates. Now, the advent of wearable devices bristling with sophisticated biotracking sensors is stirring concern in the medical community about misdiagnoses that could have serious consequences for consumers.

Some are asking whether Apple and Google should do more to police their fast-growing app marketplaces. “Most of the health apps out there are built by people with zero medi-cal experience,” said Paris Wallace, chief ex-ecutive officer of Ovuline, a popular fertility app. Worse, many developers don’t have the resources for legal counsel, Wallace said, and are more likely to make false claims to patients without seeking FDA clearance.

The Food and Drug Administration last year published guidelines on the kinds of mobile apps it will supervise. But industry insiders fear the agency may get overwhelmed as apps mushroom. Last week Samsung Electronics launched a health platform for third-party developers, SAMI.

This week Apple introduced “Healthkit,” a repository of data for medical apps that opens up new realms for developers to explore. It may also make it easier for those with scant understanding of regulatory protocols to dive into the market.

Health apps are big business for Apple and Google, the two leading app marketplaces. The iPhone maker is the preferred choice for developers. Analytics firm AppAnnie found that Apple generates five times more revenue from downloads of health and fitness apps than Google.

How the two companies, who both declined to comment for this story, will handle the prolif-eration of medical apps is unclear. One source familiar with the matter said Apple is looking to add a regulatory expert to its growing digital health team, who will be tasked with oversight of the App Store.

Research has shown that many existing medical apps may be useless. Seventy-five percent of smartphone apps that claim to assess malignancy are wrongly diagnosing at least 30 percent of melanomas as “unconcerning,” researchers from the American Medical As-sociation’s JAMA Dermatology found.

A 2012 study by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting revealed that of

Reuters

LONDON - Scientists have found a way of genetically modifying mosqui-toes to produce sperm that only creates males, offering a potential fresh approach to fighting and eventually eradicating malaria.

Researchers from Imperial College London tested a genetic method that dis-torts the sex ratio of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the main transmitters of the malaria parasite, so that the female mos-quitoes that bite and pass the disease to humans are no longer produced.

In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the team re-ported that in the first laboratory tests, the technique created a fully fertile mosquito strain that produced 95 percent male offspring.

“For the very first time, we have been able to inhibit the production of female offspring in the laboratory and this provides a new means to eliminate the disease,” said Andrea Crisanti, who led the research at Imperial’s department of life sciences. Nikolai Windbichler, who co-led the work, said what was most promising about the results is that they are self-sustaining.

“Once modified mosquitoes are intro-duced, males will start to produce mainly sons, and their sons will do the same, so

essentially the mosquitoes carry out the work for us,” he said.

In their experiments, which took more than six years, the scientists inserted a DNA cutting enzyme called I-PpoI into Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes.

The enzyme works by cutting the DNA of the female-producing X chro-mosome during production of sperm, so that almost no functioning sperm carry it. As a result, the offspring of the geneti-cally modified mosquitoes was almost exclusively male.

The scientists introduced the geneti-cally modified mosquitoes to five caged wild-type mosquito populations. In four of the five cages, this eliminated the entire population within six generations due to the lack of females.

The hope is that if this could be rep-licated in the wild, this would ultimately cause the malaria-carrying mosquito population to crash.

Experts not directly involved in the work were impressed with its results and enthusiastic about its potential.

“This is super cool work,” said Mi-chael Bonsall, a reader in zoology at Britain’s University of Oxford.

Malaria kills some 627,000 people worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organisation, and the vast majority of its victims are babies and children in sub-Saharan Africa.

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LONDON — Women who often indulge their cravings for hamburgers, steaks and other red meat may have a slightly higher risk of breast cancer, a new study suggests. Doctors have long warned that a diet loaded with red meat is linked to cancers including those of the colon and pancreas, but there has been less evidence for its role in breast cancer.

In the new study, researchers at Har-vard University analyzed data from more than 88,000 women aged 26 to 45 who had filled in surveys in 1991. Their red meat intake varied from never or less than once a month, to six or more servings a day. Initial results of the study were first published in 2006 and showed a preliminary link between eating red meat and breast cancer after 12 years; the new research confirmed the earlier findings with longer follow-up information, and analyzed other types of breast cancer.

Using a statistical model, scientists estimated that in women who ate the most amount of red meat, there were an extra 6.8 cases of breast cancer for every 1,000 women over 20 years of follow-up. The researchers couldn’t rule out the pos-

sibility that other factors might explain the apparent link between red meat and breast cancer.

In developed countries, women have about a 12.5 percent chance of develop-ing breast cancer. Scientists suspect pro-teins in red meat speed up cell division and tumor growth; chemicals such as nitrates in processed meats are already classified as probable carcinogens.

The study was carried out main-ly among educated, white American women, and researchers said that the results were not necessarily applicable to women of other races. It was paid for by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and published online Tuesday in the British journal, BMJ.

“This underlines the importance of having a healthy diet,” said Sally Green-brook, a senior policy officer at the U.K. charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, who was not part of the research. She said women should focus on reducing their chances of breast cancer by stay-ing slim, and exercising and drinking in moderation.

Greenbrook added that there wasn’t yet enough proof about the dangers of red meat to change current prevention guidelines.

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Red meat possibly linked to breast cancer

Reuters

The home screen of health app MyFitnessPal is shown in this undated publicity photo released to Reuters June 5, 2014.

Wanted: a watchdog for the mobile medical app explosionReuters

SAN FRANCISCO - A smart-phone app that rids you of acne. Another that monitors your heart rate 24-7. One that detects skin can-cer by looking at your birthmarks. If they sound too good to be true, they may be.

1,500 health apps it evaluated, 20 percent claimed to treat or cure medical problems, but only a small percentage of them had been clinically tested. Medical professionals fear patients may defer an in-person checkup because of faulty results. By the time they see a doctor it may be too late. A false negative for cancer, for instance, may prompt a user to put off professional consultation.

“If patients perceive a mobile app as a cheaper alternative to a trip to my office, that’s worrying,” said Molly Maloof, a physician who has spoken about such matters and is a consultant for digital-health startups like Sano Intelligence and GeneSolve.

Echoing a familiar Silicon Valley stance, developers argue that increased federal oversight will only stifle innovation.

Mike Lee, cofounder of MyFitnessPal, a weight-loss app that claims 50 million users, said his company wouldn’t exist today if it been required to seek regulatory approval: “We wouldn’t have been able to afford the tremendous time and expense.”

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ANSEONG - Thousands of South Korean police and prosecutors raided a sprawling religious compound for a second time on Wednesday in their search for an elderly busi-nessman linked to a ferry disaster that reduced the nation to tears.

Helicopters flew overhead as officers moved from building to building at the site, believed to cover the size of a dozen soccer pitches, with church members in pursuit, some sing-ing hymns, others chanting “Let’s fight with prosecutors and police!”

But the businessman, Yoo Byung-un, also a photographer who was once jailed for fraud and is now South Korea’s most wanted man, was nowhere to be found.

Yoo, in his 70s, co-founder of the church which owns the website www.god.com, is want-ed on charges of embezzlement, negligence and tax evasion stemming from a web of business holdings centred on I-One-I, an investment vehicle owned by his sons that ran the shipping company, Chonghaejin Marine.

Chonghaejin owned the Sewol which sank off the southwest coast on April 16 on a routine journey from Incheon on the mainland to the southern holiday island of Jeju.

Of the 476 passengers and crew on board, 339 were children and teachers from the same school. Only 172 people were rescued and the remainder are all presumed to have drowned.

The raid came a day after 15 crew went on trial in a court packed with angry parents of the children who died. Four crew face homi-cide charges after they were seen escaping the sharply listing vessel as the children stayed in their cabins as told.

It also came a day after President Park Geun-hye, whose government was sharply criticised over its handling of the disaster, said “it made no sense” that such an extensive search opera-tion had failed to catch Yoo.

Church members grow organic produce, run a fish farm and hold religious services. Yoo is believed to keep a photography studio inside.

As the search operation went ahead, some church members handed out organic ice cream to police and journalists in the sweltering heat.

Yoo and his sons, one of whom is based in the United States, have eluded a police man-hunt for nearly a month. Yoo is a co-founder of the Evangelical Baptist Church that runs the Anseong compound, a two-hour drive south of Seoul. The prosecution has frozen the Yoo fam-ily’s assets, but news reports said there may be more yet to be identified.

Authorities last month increased the reward for information leading to Yoo’s arrest tenfold to the equivalent of half a million dollars. About 6,000 officials took part in the raid, three weeks after an initial search of the compound. Chonghaejin Marine did not answer phone calls on Wednesday, while two other firms related to Yoo had no comment on questions as to his whereabouts.

“I want to be able to tell my children and grandchildren that I have met the first woman president of the US,” said Nicole Kelly, who attended the event with two friends.

“She is a role model for all of us,” said retiree Claudia Sine.

Some at the Barnes and Noble flag-ship store on Union Square said they had been there all night. Others said they got in line before 5:00 am for Clinton’s late morning appearance to promote “Hard Choices.”

The book looks at her four years as Obama’s first secretary of state, revisiting some key events including the deadly attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, and shaky US-Russian ties.

New York, a heavily Democratic city, is the first stop on her carefully choreo-graphed book tour -- one that will see her travel across the nation, and potentially meet with a wide cross-section of voters.

Clinton, the former first lady and a former senator from New York, indicated she would likely wait until early 2015 to

announce her decision.The line of fans snaked around the

block. Some carried books, others had folding chairs to help them while away the time as they waited for just a few seconds with Clinton.

One fan in front of the store carried a sign reading “Ready for Hillary” -- the name of the super political action com-mittee urging the 66-year-old Clinton to make another run for the White House in 2016 and laying the groundwork for an eventual campaign.

A “Ready for Hillary” bus was also parked outside.

Opportunistic vendors selling Hillary tee-shirts were doing a brisk business.

At the store, security was tight.But the fans -- many of them college

students and women, but also older people and children -- didn’t let it bother them.

On an upper floor of the store, after hours of waiting, fans finally came face-to-face with Clinton, who has already kept Washington talking for months amid widespread speculation she is

planning to run.The former first lady -- who narrowly

lost the 2008 Democratic nomination to President Barack Obama -- was greeted with wild applause. Some screamed, “Go Hillary, Go Hillary!”

Clad in a fuchsia jacket, and all smiles, Clinton briefly explained the concept behind her book, noting: “It is really about the choices that everybody has to make in life.”

Clinton posed for pictures with chil-dren and chatted with attendees, some in wheelchairs. “Thank you, it’s great to see you,” she said. In answer to one question, Clinton reiterated that she had not yet decided whether to throw her hat in the ring in 2016.

So even if it was not the formal start of a presidential campaign, it certainly seemed like one -- with a carefully orchestrated series of high-profile inter-views, savvily-placed leaks of key bits of the book, and social media efforts in overdrive.

One million copies of the book were pre-sold.

Searching ferry family boss Thousands raid South Korea church

REUTERS/Shannon StapletonHillary Clinton speaks during a book signing of her new book “Hard Choices” in New York June 10, 2014.

Hillary all smiles in New York at book launchAgence France-Presse

NEW YORK - New York is known as The City That Never Sleeps, but fans of Hillary Clinton may have taken that quite literally. Hundreds of people got up before dawn Tuesday for the chance to see the former US secretary of state as she signed her new book in New York - an event that had the feel of a presidential campaign launch.

Bali PostSEMARAPURA - Implemen-

tation of the first Nusa Penida Festival (NPF) has entered the third day, Tuesday (Jun 10). Vari-ous potentials in the archipelago were included in the agenda of the activities from day one. However, the potential of Bali starling in the region was not included in the agenda during the four-day event. Actually, the Nusa Penida Islands have become the habitat for the center of Bali starling breeding since the past ten years and supported the potential of local tourism.

Chairman of the Friends of the National Parks Foundation (FNPF), I Gede Nyoman Bayu Wirayudha, when contacted on Tuesday (Jun 10) admitted that Bali starling was not included in the agenda during the four-day NPF centered in the field of Sampalan, Nusa Penida. The institution specialized in the de-velopment of Bali starling said that aside from marine tourism, travelers visiting Nusa Penida would also like to have closer look at the native bird becoming the icon of Bali. Since the past ten years, the Bali starling was said to thrive quite well in Nusa Penida.

Aside from a strong commit-ment to maintain the population, it was also supported by the entire customary village applying the awig-awig or customary bylaw to protect the Bali starling from poaching. However, Bayu Wir-ayudha considered it not to mat-ter. Yet, his party expected local authorities to help campaign for the rare bird conservation from the threat of poachers. “Deep-

It was revealed by the Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, when becoming a resource person in the interactive dialogue in the Singaraja FM Radio, Tuesday (Jun 10). The in-teractive dialogue was aired live and moderated by Gede Bob Suardika.

Some listeners participating in

the interactive dialogue responded positively to the implementation of Lake Buyan Festival organized by Buleleng government on June 20-22, 2014. After the dialogue, Nyoman Swatantra said the Bali cattle contest was one of the activities that had been arranged by the committee. The Bali cattle contest was deliberately held

to re-encourage the Bali cattle busi-ness existing only in Bali, including in Buleleng.

All this time, the interest of farm-ers to raise Bali cattle began to decline due to various factors. This condition was feared to threaten the population of Bali cattle in Buleleng. “We all know that Bali cattle are

only available in Bali and cannot be found in other region. Apparently, the population begins to fall as the people’s interest to raise it starts to decline. Without immediate handling, this condition can lead to decline,” he said.

According to Swatantra, in the Bali cattle contest, the breeders would get information related to Bali cattle raising techniques with the technology of artificial insemination. With this technique, breeders would be given the understanding. After the contest, the breeders would be keen to maintain the Bali cattle. In

addition to getting information re-lated to the maintenance technique, the contest participants could also share information, experience and cope with the problem having been experienced.

When touched about the popu-lation of Bali cattle in Buleleng, Swatantra added that up to this year the population of Bali cattle in Buleleng was recorded to reach 123,000 heads spreading across the nine subdistricts. Such amount of population was believed to be still sufficient to meet the needs of the meat in its own region. (kmb38)

Lake Buyan Festival

Counteracting extinction of Bali cattle population Bali Post

BULELENG - Lake Buyan Festival initiated by Buleleng government is not only to excite the potential of agriculture and tourism at Pancasari village, Sukasada subdistrict. This event held for the first time is also intended to excite the Bali cattle business in Northern Bali. One of the activities to be held in the Lake Buyan Festival is the contest of Bali cattle. The contest will be followed by the representatives of cattle breeding groups from each subdistrict.

Regretted, potential of Bali starling excluded in NPF agendaening of people’s commitment should be continued. Tourism benefit is not only measured by how much money earned, but also in terms of the preservation of protected animals such as the Bali Starling and the environment,” he explained.

Currently, the habitat of Bali starling was said to remain condu-cive. However, it was frequently found some poachers who threat-ened the existence of the protected species. “I see there was reluc-tance in upholding the customary bylaw at every village. So, I urge the role of local government to help campaign for the protection of Bali starling,” he said. When touched about the NPF, the activ-ity should give more spaces to the potential of Bali Starling, while campaigning for the protection of the animals extensively.

“Certainly, i t wil l not be enough for our institution to do so. Regional governments, both provincial and county government will have greater authority to help us in conserving the Bali starling,” he said.

“We then put up a sign board so that people also take care about the preservation of Bali starling and we’re difficult to get permission from the government,” he continued. He added the last observational data in 2012 made by the Natural Resources Conser-vation Agency (BKSDA) of Bali indicated there were 128 heads of Bali starling spreading throughout the archipelago. He expected such number was growing and Nusa Penida became the best habitat for the preservation of Bali starling along with the increasing various studies on Bali starling from dif-

ferent circles in the local area.Meanwhile, Chairman of the

NPF Committee, Wayan Sujana, when contacted on Tuesday, rec-ognized the potential of Bali star-ling that was not so highlighted in the NPF and not included in the agenda of the four-day event.

However, the potential of Bali starling had been included in the promotional materials. With the implementation of the NPF planned to be held sustainably, his party promised the potential of Bali starling to get more spaces in the agenda.

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“Later, af ter the act ivi ty, there must be an evaluation. Ex-istence of the Bali starling has also become the main attraction in Nusa Penida tourism. By all means, it must get more spaces in the agenda of activities,” he said. (kmb31)

Bali News Thursday, June 12, 2014 5InternationalThursday, June 12, 201412 International

Agence France-Presse

SINGAPORE - Singapore Telecom, Southeast Asia’s biggest telecom firm by revenue, said Wednesday it will buy two mobile advertising companies for a total of $385 million to further boost its digital business.

Amobee, a digital advertising firm fully owned by SingTel, said in a statement it had signed agreements to buy Adconion, a cross-channel digital advertising company as well as Kontera Technologies, a digital content intelligence and marketing technology firm.

Adconion Direct North America and Adconion Australia will be acquired for $235 million including debt, while US-based Kontera will cost $150 million.

Amobee said the deals are subject to certain conditions being met.

Allen Lew, chief executive of Group Digital Life at SingTel, said the purchases would enhance Amobee’s ability to create digital marketing campaigns that can reach SingTel’s global network of more than 500 mil-lion subscribers.

Adconion has top brands including Toyota, Disney and AT&T among its clients, while Kontera, which has a research and development centre in Israel, analyses consumer behaviour on social media.

SingTel bought Amobee in 2012 for $321 million and the firm holds a market share of about 10 percent of global ad spend in the mobile display advertisements sector, it said.

Lew, who is also Amobee’s chair-man, said SingTel has so far spent about a quarter of the Sg$2.0 billion al-located by its board for digital invest-ments until the 2016 financial year.

SingTel’s revenue from mobile advertising in the year to March 2013 stood at Sg$113 million ($90 million). Its net profit came in at Sg$3.65 bil-lion, a 4.1 percent increase from the previous year.

The telco owns partial stakes in India’s Bharti Airtel, Indonesia’s Telkomsel, Thailand’s Advanced Info Service, the Philippines’ Globe Telecom and Pacific Bangladesh Telecom. It fully owns SingTel Optus in Australia.

Most of the pick-up in growth this year will come from high-income countries, particularly the United States and the 18-nation eurozone, the World Bank said in its twice-yearly Global Economic Prospects report.

But a rough start to the year -- bad weather in the United States, financial market turmoil and the Ukraine crisis -- dragged down global growth for the year as a whole, the Bank said.

It marked down its 2014 fore-cast to a 2.8 percent pace from its January forecast of 3.2 per-cent. The global economy grew 2.4 percent growth in 2013.

High- income coun t r i e s would see stronger growth this year of 1.9 percent from 1.3 percent in the previous year, the World Bank said.

But developing countries can expect mixed challenges from the accelerating growth in the rich countries.

As high-income economies expand, their import demand should grow, boosting devel-oping-country exports.

But developing countries will be hard-pressed to find the capacity to meet that de-

mand, because most of them already are fully recovered from the 2008 financial crisis and growing close to potential, the Washington-based develop-ment lender said.

Developing countries were projected to grow 4.8 percent this year, substantially below the 5.3 percent estimate in January.

“The outlook for developing countries is for flat growth in 2014. This marks the third year in a row of sub-five percent growth and reflects a more chal-lenging post-crisis global eco-nomic environment,” it said.

The World Bank’s latest outlook marked a deterioration from the January report, when it had raised its growth forecasts, saying both rich and developing countries appeared to be “fi-nally turning the corner” after the global financial crisis.

Weakness in ChinaMuch of the slowdown this

year reflected weakness in China, the world’s second-largest economy. First-quarter growth in Chinese gross do-mestic product was only a 5.8 percent annualized rate, with a

sharp deceleration in industrial output and Beijing taking steps to tighten credit.

The Wash ing ton -based lender forecast growth of 7.6 percent this year, lower than China’s 7.7-percent growth rate in 2013. Beijing’s own target for this year is 7.5 percent.

GDP growth accelerated slightly in the first quarter in In-dia, Mexico and the Philippines. But the pace of growth slowed in Indonesia, Mongolia, Malaysia and Brazil and turned negative in South Africa and Peru.

Sharp annualized contrac-tions of between eight and 12 percent occurred in Ukraine, Thailand and Morocco.

The weakness in develop-ing countries reflected a slew of factors, including knock-on effects from the severe winter in the US; political tensions in Thailand, Ukraine and Turkey; labor unrest in South Africa; and monetary policy tightening fol-lowing financial market turmoil a year ago, the Bank said.

Actual and structural fiscal deficits are much higher now than in 2007 in developing countries, and debt rose by more than 10 percentage points

of GDP in half of them.The World Bank warned

that developing countries need to prepare now with structural reforms while financial condi-tions are easy, because they are likely to tighten over the longer term.

The president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, said more robust growth was needed to create the type of jobs that can improve the lives of the world’s poorest 40 percent.

“Clearly, countries need to move faster and invest more in domestic structural reforms to get broad-based economic growth to levels needed to end extreme poverty in our genera-tion,” Kim said in a statement.

Andrew Burns, lead author of the report, said bottlenecks in energy and infrastructure, labor markets and business climate in many of the large middle-income countries are holding back economic and productiv-ity growth.”

“Subsidy reform is one po-tential avenue for generating the money to raise the quality of public investments in human capital and physical infrastruc-ture,” he said.

SingTel acquires mobile advertisers to boost digital business

In this file photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, a woman counts U.S. dollar and Turkish lira banknotes at a currency exchange of-fice in Istanbul, Turkey. The World Bank lowered its 2014 growth

forecasts for the global economy Tuesday, but said advanced economies’ rebound from a rough start would help offset stagna-

tion in developing countries.

World Bank sees ‘flat’ growth for developing countries

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The World Bank lowered its 2014 growth forecasts for the global economy Tuesday, but said advanced econo-mies’ rebound from a rough start would help offset stagnation in developing countries.

AP Photo/Emrah Gurel

According to Javanese chronicle and a Dutch writer, François Valentyn, in the 17th century Blam-bangan was the subordinate of Surabaya. However, people still call the statement into doubt. Obviously, Sultan Agung from Mataram Kingdom (1613-1646) attacked Blambangan in 1633 but he was never able to conquer it. Blambangan was conquered by I Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti, the king of Buleleng in North Bali. Possibly, with the help of Surapati, the king of Blambangan Tawang Alun could be defeated. Temporarily, Ki Gusti Ngurah Panji Sakti appointed his representative to govern Blambangan. He handed over the authority of Blambangan King-dom to Cokorda Agung Mengwi after he married to the daughter of King of Mengwi.

After Blambangan was under control of Mengwi, Badung, it was appointed the descendant of King Tawang Alun to rule the Blambangan, namely Prince Danuningrat. To bind the loyalty, he was married to the daughter of Cokorda Agung Mengwi. Before becoming an independent kingdom, Blambangan belonged to the dominion of Bali. Mengwi Kingdom once ruled this region.

Meanwhile, the endeavor of Mataram Sultanate to conquest the Blambangan was never successful. That’s why the Blambangan (and Banyuwangi in general) never belonged to the Central Javanese culture. So far, the region has quite different variety of language from the standard Javanese language. The influence of Bali can also be seen in various kinds of dancing arts originating from the Blam-bangan area.

Andi, a resident met at the scene, said the fire started when he passed in front of the Sanur Deli Restaurant. Unexpectedly, the explosion sound made him surprised because he was curious and dozens of other residents ap-proached the source of the blast. “About 9:10 a.m., I heard the sound of explosion from the Sanur Deli Restaurant,” he said.

When approaching the Sanur Deli Restaurant, Andi said that some employees were already running out while screaming for help. In addition, a puff of smoke was seen coming out from the restaurant. “When I looked at the back (kitchen—Ed), there had been a blaze of fire,” he explained while adding that dozens of other residents immediately took water for extinguishing the fire.

Meanwhile, one of the employ-ees of the Sanur Deli Restaurant

said the fire originated in the kitch-en when he cooked. When turning on the stove, it began to smell the leaking LPG. “When smelling gas, I immediately turned off the stove and then I ran out of the kitchen,” said the source asking the name not to be published.

After this woman from Ban-gli was outside the kitchen, there was an explosion to destroy the kitchen roof and cracked the wall section. After the explosion, the restaurant employees remem-bered if the oven in the kitchen was still on. Allegedly, the fire of the oven grabbed the leaky gas cylinder. “To my knowledge, the only equipment still flaming in the kitchen is oven,” she added.

Chief of South Denpasar Crim-inal Investigation Unit, Hendik Setiadi, when asked for his con-firmation justified the incident. After the incident, his party had

installed police line and conducted the crime scene investigation. As provisional estimation, the explo-sion triggering the fire in the oven exposed to leaky LPG cylinder. “The fire engulfed the LPG gas, so the cylinder exploded,” he said.

Further, he said that aside from material damages, the explosion also resulted in burns to three vic-tims namely the owner of Sanur Deli Restaurant. Eni Sihombing suffered burns on arms, legs and back, Maxi on his hands, while Jero Cempaka on legs and backs of the hands. (kmb35)

IBP/ManikResidents of Jalan

Danau Poso Sanur were startled by explosive sound of 12-kg LPG

cylinder at the restaurant owned by an Australian,

Tuesday (Jun 10).

LPG cylinder explodes, three victims suffer burns

Bali PostDENPASAR - Residents of Jalan Danau Poso Sanur were startled by explosive sound of 12-kg LPG

cylinder at the restaurant owned by an Australian, Tuesday (Jun 10). Consequently, the owner of Sa-nur Deli Restaurant, Eni Sihombing, 65, along with two colleagues Maxi, 40, and Jero Cempaka, 33, suffered burns.

IBP/File Photo

Relation between of Blambangan to Mengwi Kingdom

IBP

Is there any relationship of Blambangan Kingdom to Mengwi Kingdom in Badung, Bali? According to Wikipedia, the Blambangan Kingdom is a kingdom located on the easternmost region of Java Island. It is considered as the last Hindu kingdom in Java in the 16th century, where the only significant Muslim kingdom in East Java at that time was Pasuruan. Other regions were still under control of Hindu ruler. Allegedly, a war had exploded between Pasuruan and Blambangan in 1540s, 1580s and 1590s. In the meantime, the capital of Blambangan seemed to have been conquered in 1600 or 1601.

BUSINESS

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Frontrunner Joko Widodo and ex-general Prabowo Subianto have said they will favour domestic companies in the lucrative oil and gas industry and have pledged to stick with a con-troversial mineral ore export ban ahead of the July 9 polls.

Indonesia has long been a major investment destination but in recent years nationalist politicians have cam-paigned to clip the wings of foreign firms they say have reaped huge profits and given little back.

The policies include restrictions on foreign energy firms hiring expatriates, and limits on the stakes that banks can buy in one another -- a policy intro-duced after a Singapore lender sought to take over an Indonesian bank.

Observers say that the election platforms of Widodo and Prabowo suggest that, whoever wins, the cli-mate is unlikely to change under the next government.

Indonesia’s economy is one of the world’s liveliest, expanding at an annual six percent clip, powered by voracious demand for its commodi-ties exports -- particularly from China

AntaraJAKARTA - The marine and fish-

ery ministry has warned of extinction of Indonesian endemic fish species with the breeding of foreign fish spe-cies in Indonesian waters.

Extinction of certain endemic fish species in a number of Indonesian waters pose a serious threat to the efforts to preserve the variety of the country’s fish resources, Marine and Fisheries Minister Sharif C. Sutardjo said.

This should serve as a lesson for the country to take a concrete step immediately to minimize and pre-vent the negative effects of breeding foreign fish species in the country’s waters, Sharif said.

He said the ministry already took a

number of preventive measure such as with the issuance of regulation based on the United Nations Conven-tion animal diversity .

The ministry has also provided reference for steps to be taken by related institutions in controlling invasive species, he said in a seminar on strategy to control invasive fish species here on Monday.

For that purpose it is necessary to identify invasive fish species that control and supervision could be directed properly and effectively, he added.

He said in order to prevent and control invasive species all related agencies need to be involved through strong coordination in addressing the problem caused.

The government needs to sup-port research development related to negative impact of the breeding of invasive foreign fish species in the Indonesian waters, he said.

He cited the agriculture ministry, the forestry ministry and the ministry of environment should take part in the efforts to preserve Indonesian endemic fish species.

The efforts should be under the coordination of the ministry of the environment as the focal point of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), he said.

A complete information system is needed on the breeding and spreading of invasive species and to detect the threat to the existence of endemic fish species in the country.

Head of the Fish Quarantine Agency (BKIPM)Narmoko Prasm-adji said on the sideline of the seminar that control must be tight in all ports to prevent entry of potential invasive fish species.

Narmoko said the introduction of foreign fish species already had nega-tive impact in Indonesia and many other countries. He cited the explo-sion of the population of gold snail and mujair, a fresh water fish species, creating imbalance even causing ex-tinction of other fish species.

A number of local endemic fish species have fallen victim to the explosion of the invasive foreign fish species, he said. The popula-tion of Mujair in the Cirata dam has declined but ironically Louhan fish

grew fast and in the Sempor dam where originally Betik fish was found in abundance is now near extinction giving ground for Louhan and Oscar fish species, he noted.

Similar trend was also found in a number of Indonesian sea waters. Narmoko said the foreign fishes have also brought fish diseases to the country.

He said there were 13 foreign fish diseases have been identified in the country such as Lerneae cyprinacea attcking fresh water gold fish, Viral Nervous Necrosis Virus (VNNV) attacking the groupers, Koi herpes virus (KHV) attacking Koi and Gold fish and White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) and taura Syndrome Virus (TSV) attacking shrimp.

Ministry warns against breeding of foreign fish species

REUTERS/Supri

Indonesia’s presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto (2nd L), vice presidential candidate Hatta Rajasa (L), presidential candidate Joko Widodo (2nd R) and vice presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla (R) take part in the presidential debate in Jakarta June 9, 2014. Indonesia will go to the polls to select a new president on July 9.

Economic nationalism drumbeat grows louder

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s two presidential candidates are outdoing each other with hardline policies to rein in foreign firms and control the resources sector, risking a lurch towards nationalism in Southeast Asia’s top economy, analysts say.

-- and the spending power of an emerg-ing middle class.

Jakarta argues that while painful in the short term, moves such as the mineral export ban, which forces companies to process more of their products in Indonesia, are the only way to develop national industries.

Analysts say that while the goal is laudable, the policies are badly thought out and that corruption-prone Indone-sian industry is not yet ready to meet the ambitious objectives.

Superficially, the two candidates are starkly different. Widodo won legions of fans as Jakarta governor and is seen as a refreshing break from the three-decade Suharto dictatorship that ended in 1998, while Prabowo is a ex-military figure with a dark past who has long railed at foreign control of Indonesia’s resources.

But as the election race has tight-ened in recent weeks, with Prabowo making strong gains in opinion polls, Widodo has taken on a more national-istic tone and their economic policies appear to be converging.

In a recent op-ed piece for Kompas

newspaper, Widodo wrote: “We need to review foreign investment policy... because most investments are directed towards capital-intensive, extractive sectors that do not create a lot of jobs but merely turn as great a profit as possible.”

Wellian Wiranto, a economist from OCBC Bank in Singapore, warned there was a risk of “a blind lurch towards nationalism” which could scare off foreign investors as the economy seeks to recover after last

year’s emerging market turmoil.“While it is understandable that

both would inject nationalistic fervour into their campaign in order to secure votes on July 9... there is a risk of the country stepping onto a slippery slope,” he said.

Widodo’s policy programme calls for restrictions on the sale of banks to foreigners, potentially creating problems for investors eyeing the fast-growing sector in a country where millions still do not have accounts.

Prabowo meanwhile wants the state-controlled energy firm Pertamina to play a greater role in running oil and gas blocks, his brother and senior economic advisor, Hashim Djojohadi-kusumo, said recently.

His programme also calls for more involvement by state-owned compa-nies in processing mineral ores, and talks of developing national industries, from car-making to ship-building -- projects that have failed elsewhere in Asia.

Reynolds High School in the middle-class Portland suburb of Troutdale was immediately locked down, then evacuated room by room, as law enforcement officials converged on the campus of 2,800 students, which had been set for its last day of classes on Wednesday before the summer break.

“A gunman entered the high school this morning, shot one stu-dent. Unfortunately, that student has died,” Troutdale Police Chief Scott Anderson told a news conference. “The gunman was located and the gunman is also deceased.”

Authorities identified the victim as 14-year-old high school freshman Emilio Hoffman.

Gym teacher and track coach Todd Rispler was grazed by a bullet but made his way to the school’s of-fice to initiate the lockdown, possibly saving lives, Anderson said.

Authorities have not publicly named the gunman nor said how he died, but USA Today cited a police spokesman as saying the shooter was a teenager who shot himself to death in a bathroom stall following the attack.

The violence in northern Oregon was the latest in a string of fatal shootings in U.S. public places since

Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Key ministers from Japan and Australia will meet later Wednesday to beef up their defence relations, including a possible future submarine deal, as a rising China stirs tension in the Asia-Pacific region.

Japanese Foreign Minister Fu-mio Kishida and Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera will play host in Tokyo to Julie Bishop and David Johnston, their respective opposite numbers, for the fifth round of so-called “2+2” talks.

The two US allies are eager to discuss the future transfer of Japanese submarine technology to

Australia, with Canberra needing to replace its fleet of stealth subs over the coming years at a reported cost of up to US$37 billion.

The potential deal, which is some way from being finalised, would boost Japan’s defence in-dustry, while also further cementing relations both economically and militarily.

At their meeting, the ministers will follow up on a free trade pact and a security deal reached in April between Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Japanese coun-terpart Shinzo Abe.

The two leaders also agreed on joint basic research for marine hydrodynamics to be applied for

construction of future military ves-sels and submarines.

Abe, who reportedly is planning to visit Abbott in Australia next month, has argued that Japan must play a bigger role on the global stage and has pushed to loosen re-strictions on when its well-equipped armed forces can act.

He has also relaxed a self-imposed ban on weapons exports, paving the way for the possible deal with Australia.

In their evening meeting, the ministers will make particular ef-forts to hammer out terms for a legal framework to allow the two nations to conduct joint research and trade of defence equipment

-- a necessary precursor to any submarine deal.

“We will engage in practical dis-cussions to strengthen our security and defence cooperation,” Kishida told a press conference Tuesday.

Following an Australian request, Tokyo will let Johnston see Japa-nese submarines during his stay, according to Onodera.

The Japanese defence chief also said the two nations are looking to boost the interoperability of their troops through more joint drills, hu-manitarian assistance programmes, disaster relief and projects to ensure maritime security.

The ministers are also expected to discuss the impact of China’s

ambitious naval activities and ter-ritorial claims that have shifted the balance of power in the region, which was long dominated by the United States.

Beijing has intensified its claims over the South China Sea, and has butted heads with Hanoi and Manila.

Japan’s ties with China have remained sour, due mainly to a ter-ritorial dispute in the East China Sea.

Worries about China have en-couraged a relationship-building drive across Asia, analysts say, with Abe and Abbott aiming to elevate their ties to “a new special relationship”.

Japan, Australia talk closer military ties and submarines

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Sandra Villavicencio, a former classmate of Emilio Hoffman, receives a hug, as Greater Port-land Baptist Church in Portland, Ore., hosted a prayer vigil Tuesday night, June 10, 2014, for the community following a shooting at Reynolds High School. A teen gunman armed with a rifle shot and killed Hoffman on Tuesday and injured a teacher before he likely killed himself at a high school in a quiet Columbia River town in Oregon, authorities said.

One student, gunman dead after Oregon high school shooting

Reuters

TROUTDALE, Oregon - A gunman walked into an Oregon high school gym with a rifle and shot a student to death on Tuesday before he was found dead in a bathroom stall, in the third outbreak of gun violence to shake a U.S. high school or college campus in less than three weeks.

May, including one at a Christian col-lege in neighboring Washington state last week in which one student died.

President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration on Tuesday at the in-ability of Washington lawmakers to tighten gun control measures in the wake of U.S. shootings.

“The country has to do some soul searching about this. This is becoming the norm and we take it for granted in ways that, as a parent, are terrifying to me,” Obama said.

Oregon lawmakers have been at a legislative impasse for about two years over stricter gun control proposals.

Television footage at the Oregon school showed police officers in hel-mets and tactical gear stepping from armored vehicles and running near the school’s perimeter with rifles. Students streamed out of the school with hands raised.

A few miles from the school, stu-dents bused from the campus were being reunited with anxious parents in the parking lot of a shopping center.

“I’m glad it wasn’t worse,” said Rachelle Rueschenberg, a mother clutching her ninth-grade daughter, Maddy.

Two girls from the high school, sisters Kadejah and Deondra Nixon,

told Reuters after being reunited with their parents that police were asking students whether anyone had ridden a bus to school with a student carrying a guitar case.

Kadejah Nixon said she did not hear gunfire because the shooting

was in a different wing of the build-ing, but recounted an announcement over the public address system that urged students to go to the nearest classroom and close the doors.

“’This is not a drill, this is serious, get into a classroom,’” she quoted the

announcement as saying.Police said during a search of the

school after the shooting they found a gun on another person, which they believed to be unrelated to the violence. That person, who was not identified, was taken into custody.

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Kedonganan BeachIBP

JIMBARAN - It is only 3 kilometers southwards of Ngurah Rai Intemational Airport; this object offers a gently sloping white sandy beach with quiet waves, so it is suitable for relax-ing, swimming and sunbathing. In the northern part of Kedonganan Beach, lies traditional fish market embellished with the parking of traditional boats along the beach. As a result, they enrich the beauty of coastal scenery. Exploring and sailing the crescent-shaped beach by fishing boat will give another unique impression for tourists.

Reuters

TOKYO - Rising labour and construction costs are forcing a review of Tokyo’s venue plans for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and could lead to a scaling back of facilities, Japanese officials said on Wednesday.

The review will include all 10 venues that Tokyo plans to build for the sporting extravaganza the city won the right to host last September on the strength of its financial clout and pledges to keep most competition sites close together.

“There is no choice but to re-view the plans within the scope of our commitments to the In-

ternational Olympic Committee (IOC),” Hakubun Shimomura, education and sports minister, told reporters on Wednesday.

Construction and labour costs have been pushed higher around Japan by the country’s expanding economy and rebuilding efforts af-ter the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which devastated a wide swathe of the northeastern coastline.

Questions have also been raised about the cost of maintaining the venues after the Olympics and how useful they will be to Tokyo citizens, both points that Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe raised in proposing the review on Tuesday.

The original Olympics pro-

posal, which budgeted some 153.8 billion yen ($1.5 billion) for ven-ues, did not take into account the impact of the Japanese consump-tion tax hike that took place in April and did not predict the sharp rise in construction costs, a Tokyo government official said.

“We still don’t know what ven-ues will be involved or what the scale of the revisions might be,” he added.

“As to whether the venues will be smaller or not, the rising costs are a worry, so the review will have to be centred on keeping the budget in check.”

Following the review, a revised plan will be submitted to the IOC in February 2015.

The Spurs made 19 of their first 21 shots and finished 25 of 33 in the first half, bettering the 75 per-cent shooting by Orlando against the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009.

“I don’t think we’ll ever shoot 76 percent in a half ever again,”

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.

Unlike Game 1, when they pulled away in the final minutes, the Spurs were up comfortably before halftime in this one.

Returning to the arena where

they were so close to winning a fifth championship last year, the Spurs came out playing like they were trying to build a lead that was impossible to blow.

They shot 13 of 15 and led 41-25 lead after the first quarter,

then hit their first six shots of the second in front of a stunned crowd in Miami to go ahead 55-30.

Kawhi Leonard scored a career-high 29 points, sinking 10 of 13. Leonard scored only 18 points in the first two games, looking frustrated while getting into foul trouble trying to defend LeBron James in Game 2. But he had his outside shot working early and the effect on the Spurs’ offense was

obvious.Danny Green and Tony Parker

each had 15 points for the Spurs.James and Dwyane Wade had 22

points each for the Heat, who host Game 4 on Thursday.

Chris Bosh took only four points and scored nine points for the Heat, who for the second straight year will have to overcome a 2-1 finals deficit after being blown out in Game 3.

Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — Netherlands captain Robin van Persie and de-fender Daryl Janmaat emerged unscathed Tuesday after a collision with a kite surfer on Rio’s Ipanema beach.

Neither player showed any ill effects of the incident at the Netherlands training session Tuesday afternoon at the Estadio da Gavea in Rio.

Janmaat, who is expected to be in Louis van Gaal’s starting lineup for Friday’s Group B opener against Spain in Salvador, said the kite surfer nearly floored him during a stroll along the beach in front of the Dutch team’s hotel on Monday.

He told Dutch public broadcaster NOS he “almost got a kite on my head. A man was kite surfing and he fell exactly where I was stand-ing.”

Though both Janmaat and Van Persie were struck as the kite surfer landed, Netherlands team management said neither player was badly hurt in the incident.

Van Persie ran freely during the session and scored a number of free kicks, while Janmaat practiced crossing from the right flank — something he will be required to do as a wing back in the 5-3-2 system coach Louis van Gaal is expected to deploy against Spain.

Spurs beat Heat to take 2-1 series leadAssociated Press

MIAMI — San Antonio made an NBA Finals-record 75.8 percent of their shots in the first half to set up a 111-92 victory over Miami on Tuesday to take a 2-1 series lead.

REUTERS/Yuya ShinoRising labour and construction costs are forcing a review of Tokyo’s venue plans for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and could lead to a scaling back of facilities, Japanese officials said on Wednesday.

Rising costs force review of Tokyo 2020 venue plans

Van Persie, Janmaat hit by kite surfer on beach

REUTERS/Dylan Martinez Men play football on the iconic Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro June 9, 2014. Netherlands captain Robin van Persie and defender Daryl Janmaat emerged unscathed Tuesday after a collision with a kite surfer on Rio’s Ipanema beach.

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With many in the crowd wearing Portuguese jerseys, most of them emblazoned with Ronaldo’s customary No. 7, they cheered his every touch, the first of which came less than a minute after the opening kickoff. He sprinted from midfield before hitting a low shot that Irish keeper David Forde easily handled.

After much publicized injuries to his left knee and thigh that kept him sidelined since May 24 when he helped Real Madrid over Atletico in the Champions League final, Portuguese fans — and coach Paulo Bento — were happy to see him back.

“It’s important,” Bento said through a translator. “Players like Ronaldo are definitely important for any team they play for, and such is the case ourselves. So it’s good for us to have him back.”

Each time Ronaldo neared the ball, the noise level crescendoed. One of his biggest ovations came when he left the game in the 65th minute for Nani, one of four simultaneous substitutions for Portugal.

Portugal scored a mere 121 seconds into the game when Silvestre Varela dribbled down the right and crossed to an unmarked Almeida, who easily headed it in from the edge of the 6-yard box.

The Portuguese doubled their lead in the 20th when Ronaldo sent a ball wide left to Fabio Coentrao. His attempted cross struck the outstretched foot of Irish defender Richard Keough and looped over a hapless Forde before settling in the far side netting for an own-goal.

Portugal dominated possession and chances, including a pair of shots in rapid succession in the 14th minute. Forde did well to parry a blast from Ronaldo first, then recovered to deny Raul Mierelles on the rebound.

The Portuguese open the World Cup on June 16 against Germa-ny and also will face the United States and Ghana in Group G.

Associated Press

SAO PAULO — While some World Cup teams whine about withering weather and trouble-some travel, American players say: Bring it on!

European teams worry they will wilt. The United States con-siders cauldron-like climates a regular finishing touch, as if the

Associated Press

NEW YORK — This year’s World Cup will play out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and messaging apps like WhatsApp just as it pro-gresses in stadiums from Sao Paulo to Rio De Janeiro. Nearly 40 percent of Facebook’s 1.28 billion users are fans of soccer, better known as football outside of the U.S. and Australia. On Tuesday, the world’s biggest online social network is adding new features to help fans follow the World Cup — the world’s most widely viewed sporting event — which takes place in Brazil from June 12 to July 13.

Facebook users will be able to keep track of their favorite teams and players throughout the tourna-ment in a special World Cup section, called “Trending World Cup.” Avail-able on the Web as well as mobile devices, the hub will include the lat-est scores, game highlights as well as a feed with tournament-related posts from friends, players and teams. In addition, an interactive map will show where the fans of top players are located around the world. The company is also launching a page called FacebookRef, where fans can see commentary about the matches from “The Ref,” Facebook’s official tournament commentator.

Social media activity during big sporting events such as the Olympics and the Super Bowl has soared in recent years and should continue as user numbers grow. In 2010, when the last World Cup took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, Facebook had just 500 million users. Now there are just that many soc-cer fans (people who have “liked” a team or a player) on the site, the company says.

Users can get to the World Cup hub by clicking on “World Cup” in the list of trending topics on the site. In a nod to Twitter, Facebook, earlier this year, began displaying trending topics to show users the most popular

topics at any given moment. The fea-ture is currently available in the U.S., U.K., India, Canada and Australia.

“This is our first foray into this, especially for a big sporting event like this,” Van Dyck said.

Facebook, which counts 81 per-cent of its users outside the U.S. and Canada, is unveiling its World Cup features at a time when the company is working to become a place for more real-time, public conversations about big events— a la Twitter. Such events attract big advertising dollars, though the company is not saying how much money it expects to make from World Cup-related ads.

Not to be outdone, Twitter touted

in a blog post last week that the “the only real-time #WorldCup global viewing party will be on Twitter, where you can track all 64 matches, experience every goal and love every second, both on and off the pitch.”

Fans can follow individual teams or players and use the hashtags #WorldCup to tweet about the matches, and follow official ac-counts such as @FIFAWorldCup, @ussoccer for the United States team and @CBF_Futebol for Brazil’s soccer governing body, for example. Clicking on the #WorldCup or #WorldCup2014 hashtags, mean-while, will take you to Twitter’s hubs for the event.

Agence France-Presse

SAO PAULO - Football rulers hold their annual congress on Wednesday amid calls from top European football for president Sepp Blatter to end his reign as FIFA president and damaging corruption accusations against Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid. Michael van Praag, head of the Dutch foot-ball association, said Blatter should quit when his term ends next year. A similar demand was made by David Gill, vice-chairman of England’s Football Association,

Blatter, 78, officially opened FIFA’s annual congress at a gala in Sao Paulo on Tuesday night without mentioning the attacks or corruption controversy. He is expected to announce on Wednesday that he will seek a new four year term. “Tonight we are in a festive mood because let’s say the discussions and all of what’s linked with FIFA and is so important nowadays, we will discuss it tomorrow,” Blatter told said.

FIFA investigator Michael Garcia is to discuss his inquiry into the FIFA vote on the 2022 World Cup awarded to Qatar and the 2018 tournament that will be held in Russia at the Congress.

The corruption allegations and criticism of Blatter have threatened to further taint the opening of the latest World Cup in Sao Paulo on Thursday. Brazil is already struggling with protests over the cost of the event.

Van Praag challenged Blatter when he appeared before a closed meet-ing of the European confederation, UEFA. Some federations are angry because Blatter said in 2011 when he secured his latest term that it would be his last.

“FIFA has an executive president and you are not making things easy for yourself and I do not think you are the man for the job any longer.”

Blatter replied that he would not resign straight away, according to the official.

The English FA’s Gill also said it was “disappointing” that Blatter had changed his stance and the FIFA leader should leave next year.

“I think we need a full, frank and open debate about what FIFA needs going forward.”

UEFA president Michel Platini has been touted as a possible rival to Blatter when the FIFA vote is held in May next year. Platini has said he will only decide his candidacy in September. Van Praag said that if Platini does not stand then UEFA should agree another candidate to stand against the Swiss official.

Blatter has been FIFA’s president since 1998. But his rule has never seen a controversy like the accusations that Qatar paid for votes when FIFA chose the Gulf country to host the 2022 World Cup.

AP Photo/Andre Penner

FIFA President Sepp Blatter

FIFA Congress stung by Blatter resign calls

AP Photo/Julio Cortez

United States’ Geoff Cameron, right, and Omar Gonzalez, jump in unison as they workout at the Sao Paulo FC training center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. The U.S. will play in group G of the Brazil 2014 soccer World Cup.

The heat will be on, and the US is happy

Facebook, Twitter brace for World Cup fever

AP Photo/Bill Kostroun

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo passes the ball as Republic of Ireland’s Jeff Hendrick (25) defends during the first half of an international friendly soccer match Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in East Rutherford, N.J.

Portugal routs Irish 5-1

Ronaldo returnsAssociated Press

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Hugo Almeida scored the goals. Cristiano Ronaldo was the star. Almeida’s two first-half goals paced Portugal to a 5-1 victory over Ireland on Tuesday, the team’s final friendly before heading to Brazil for the World Cup. But it was Ronaldo the overwhelmingly partisan Portuguese crowd of 46,063 at MetLife Stadium came to see.

Americans were a Baked Alaska flambe.

And if FIFA added a Road Warrior prize to the Golden Ball, Golden Boot and Golden Glove, the U.S. would be assured of tak-ing home an award.

“When you talk about playing in the heat, the travel, it doesn’t bother us,” midfielder Michael Bradley said Tuesday. “And not

only does it not bother us, it ex-cites us to see that now the other teams are so worried about it.”

The Amer icans have the lengthiest first-round trek among the 32 teams at 8,800 air miles, chartering roundtrip flights from Sao Paulo to Natal (1,420 each way), Manaus (1,680) and Recife (1,300).

That’s quite a contrast to four years ago, where the U.S. had the shortest group-stage travel in South Africa. To reach their games, the Americans took bus rides from Irene to Rustenburg (62 miles each way), Johannes-burg (24) and Pretoria (11) for a total of 194 miles. They needed to pack a weekender only once during the first round, burrowing at their base hotel for the second and third matches.

This year they’ll change cities and climates repeatedly. Tues-day’s training session at Sao Paulo Futebol Clube started in a 62-degree temperature with a cooling drizzle, but the Americans’ games up north figure to be played in the mid-80s or higher. And extreme humidity could make each sta-dium feel like a sauna.

Accustomed to an August-through-May club schedule in Europe, where players use gloves and fans insulate in thermals, some soccer officials fret. No European nation has won a World Cup played in the Americas, where Brazil has taken three titles, and Argentina and Uruguay two apiece.

Before the World Cup draw in December, England coach Roy Hodgson called the Amazon rain forest city of Manaus “prob-lematic” and said “you have a better chance if you get one of the venues where the climate is kinder.”

“It’s going to be incredibly humid and hot,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said. “We must get used to it, in training and preparing.”

The U.S. opens Monday with a 7 p.m. (6 p.m. EDT) match against Ghana in Natal. The AccuWeather forecast calls for a daytime high in the mid-80s, dropping into the 70s in the eve-ning with a couple showers pos-sible. The Americans next play in Manaus for a 6 p.m. game against Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal on June 22. The extended forecast calls for temperatures in the high-80s that day.

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With many in the crowd wearing Portuguese jerseys, most of them emblazoned with Ronaldo’s customary No. 7, they cheered his every touch, the first of which came less than a minute after the opening kickoff. He sprinted from midfield before hitting a low shot that Irish keeper David Forde easily handled.

After much publicized injuries to his left knee and thigh that kept him sidelined since May 24 when he helped Real Madrid over Atletico in the Champions League final, Portuguese fans — and coach Paulo Bento — were happy to see him back.

“It’s important,” Bento said through a translator. “Players like Ronaldo are definitely important for any team they play for, and such is the case ourselves. So it’s good for us to have him back.”

Each time Ronaldo neared the ball, the noise level crescendoed. One of his biggest ovations came when he left the game in the 65th minute for Nani, one of four simultaneous substitutions for Portugal.

Portugal scored a mere 121 seconds into the game when Silvestre Varela dribbled down the right and crossed to an unmarked Almeida, who easily headed it in from the edge of the 6-yard box.

The Portuguese doubled their lead in the 20th when Ronaldo sent a ball wide left to Fabio Coentrao. His attempted cross struck the outstretched foot of Irish defender Richard Keough and looped over a hapless Forde before settling in the far side netting for an own-goal.

Portugal dominated possession and chances, including a pair of shots in rapid succession in the 14th minute. Forde did well to parry a blast from Ronaldo first, then recovered to deny Raul Mierelles on the rebound.

The Portuguese open the World Cup on June 16 against Germa-ny and also will face the United States and Ghana in Group G.

Associated Press

SAO PAULO — While some World Cup teams whine about withering weather and trouble-some travel, American players say: Bring it on!

European teams worry they will wilt. The United States con-siders cauldron-like climates a regular finishing touch, as if the

Associated Press

NEW YORK — This year’s World Cup will play out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and messaging apps like WhatsApp just as it pro-gresses in stadiums from Sao Paulo to Rio De Janeiro. Nearly 40 percent of Facebook’s 1.28 billion users are fans of soccer, better known as football outside of the U.S. and Australia. On Tuesday, the world’s biggest online social network is adding new features to help fans follow the World Cup — the world’s most widely viewed sporting event — which takes place in Brazil from June 12 to July 13.

Facebook users will be able to keep track of their favorite teams and players throughout the tourna-ment in a special World Cup section, called “Trending World Cup.” Avail-able on the Web as well as mobile devices, the hub will include the lat-est scores, game highlights as well as a feed with tournament-related posts from friends, players and teams. In addition, an interactive map will show where the fans of top players are located around the world. The company is also launching a page called FacebookRef, where fans can see commentary about the matches from “The Ref,” Facebook’s official tournament commentator.

Social media activity during big sporting events such as the Olympics and the Super Bowl has soared in recent years and should continue as user numbers grow. In 2010, when the last World Cup took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, Facebook had just 500 million users. Now there are just that many soc-cer fans (people who have “liked” a team or a player) on the site, the company says.

Users can get to the World Cup hub by clicking on “World Cup” in the list of trending topics on the site. In a nod to Twitter, Facebook, earlier this year, began displaying trending topics to show users the most popular

topics at any given moment. The fea-ture is currently available in the U.S., U.K., India, Canada and Australia.

“This is our first foray into this, especially for a big sporting event like this,” Van Dyck said.

Facebook, which counts 81 per-cent of its users outside the U.S. and Canada, is unveiling its World Cup features at a time when the company is working to become a place for more real-time, public conversations about big events— a la Twitter. Such events attract big advertising dollars, though the company is not saying how much money it expects to make from World Cup-related ads.

Not to be outdone, Twitter touted

in a blog post last week that the “the only real-time #WorldCup global viewing party will be on Twitter, where you can track all 64 matches, experience every goal and love every second, both on and off the pitch.”

Fans can follow individual teams or players and use the hashtags #WorldCup to tweet about the matches, and follow official ac-counts such as @FIFAWorldCup, @ussoccer for the United States team and @CBF_Futebol for Brazil’s soccer governing body, for example. Clicking on the #WorldCup or #WorldCup2014 hashtags, mean-while, will take you to Twitter’s hubs for the event.

Agence France-Presse

SAO PAULO - Football rulers hold their annual congress on Wednesday amid calls from top European football for president Sepp Blatter to end his reign as FIFA president and damaging corruption accusations against Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid. Michael van Praag, head of the Dutch foot-ball association, said Blatter should quit when his term ends next year. A similar demand was made by David Gill, vice-chairman of England’s Football Association,

Blatter, 78, officially opened FIFA’s annual congress at a gala in Sao Paulo on Tuesday night without mentioning the attacks or corruption controversy. He is expected to announce on Wednesday that he will seek a new four year term. “Tonight we are in a festive mood because let’s say the discussions and all of what’s linked with FIFA and is so important nowadays, we will discuss it tomorrow,” Blatter told said.

FIFA investigator Michael Garcia is to discuss his inquiry into the FIFA vote on the 2022 World Cup awarded to Qatar and the 2018 tournament that will be held in Russia at the Congress.

The corruption allegations and criticism of Blatter have threatened to further taint the opening of the latest World Cup in Sao Paulo on Thursday. Brazil is already struggling with protests over the cost of the event.

Van Praag challenged Blatter when he appeared before a closed meet-ing of the European confederation, UEFA. Some federations are angry because Blatter said in 2011 when he secured his latest term that it would be his last.

“FIFA has an executive president and you are not making things easy for yourself and I do not think you are the man for the job any longer.”

Blatter replied that he would not resign straight away, according to the official.

The English FA’s Gill also said it was “disappointing” that Blatter had changed his stance and the FIFA leader should leave next year.

“I think we need a full, frank and open debate about what FIFA needs going forward.”

UEFA president Michel Platini has been touted as a possible rival to Blatter when the FIFA vote is held in May next year. Platini has said he will only decide his candidacy in September. Van Praag said that if Platini does not stand then UEFA should agree another candidate to stand against the Swiss official.

Blatter has been FIFA’s president since 1998. But his rule has never seen a controversy like the accusations that Qatar paid for votes when FIFA chose the Gulf country to host the 2022 World Cup.

AP Photo/Andre Penner

FIFA President Sepp Blatter

FIFA Congress stung by Blatter resign calls

AP Photo/Julio Cortez

United States’ Geoff Cameron, right, and Omar Gonzalez, jump in unison as they workout at the Sao Paulo FC training center in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. The U.S. will play in group G of the Brazil 2014 soccer World Cup.

The heat will be on, and the US is happy

Facebook, Twitter brace for World Cup fever

AP Photo/Bill Kostroun

Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo passes the ball as Republic of Ireland’s Jeff Hendrick (25) defends during the first half of an international friendly soccer match Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in East Rutherford, N.J.

Portugal routs Irish 5-1

Ronaldo returnsAssociated Press

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Hugo Almeida scored the goals. Cristiano Ronaldo was the star. Almeida’s two first-half goals paced Portugal to a 5-1 victory over Ireland on Tuesday, the team’s final friendly before heading to Brazil for the World Cup. But it was Ronaldo the overwhelmingly partisan Portuguese crowd of 46,063 at MetLife Stadium came to see.

Americans were a Baked Alaska flambe.

And if FIFA added a Road Warrior prize to the Golden Ball, Golden Boot and Golden Glove, the U.S. would be assured of tak-ing home an award.

“When you talk about playing in the heat, the travel, it doesn’t bother us,” midfielder Michael Bradley said Tuesday. “And not

only does it not bother us, it ex-cites us to see that now the other teams are so worried about it.”

The Amer icans have the lengthiest first-round trek among the 32 teams at 8,800 air miles, chartering roundtrip flights from Sao Paulo to Natal (1,420 each way), Manaus (1,680) and Recife (1,300).

That’s quite a contrast to four years ago, where the U.S. had the shortest group-stage travel in South Africa. To reach their games, the Americans took bus rides from Irene to Rustenburg (62 miles each way), Johannes-burg (24) and Pretoria (11) for a total of 194 miles. They needed to pack a weekender only once during the first round, burrowing at their base hotel for the second and third matches.

This year they’ll change cities and climates repeatedly. Tues-day’s training session at Sao Paulo Futebol Clube started in a 62-degree temperature with a cooling drizzle, but the Americans’ games up north figure to be played in the mid-80s or higher. And extreme humidity could make each sta-dium feel like a sauna.

Accustomed to an August-through-May club schedule in Europe, where players use gloves and fans insulate in thermals, some soccer officials fret. No European nation has won a World Cup played in the Americas, where Brazil has taken three titles, and Argentina and Uruguay two apiece.

Before the World Cup draw in December, England coach Roy Hodgson called the Amazon rain forest city of Manaus “prob-lematic” and said “you have a better chance if you get one of the venues where the climate is kinder.”

“It’s going to be incredibly humid and hot,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said. “We must get used to it, in training and preparing.”

The U.S. opens Monday with a 7 p.m. (6 p.m. EDT) match against Ghana in Natal. The AccuWeather forecast calls for a daytime high in the mid-80s, dropping into the 70s in the eve-ning with a couple showers pos-sible. The Americans next play in Manaus for a 6 p.m. game against Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal on June 22. The extended forecast calls for temperatures in the high-80s that day.

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Kedonganan BeachIBP

JIMBARAN - It is only 3 kilometers southwards of Ngurah Rai Intemational Airport; this object offers a gently sloping white sandy beach with quiet waves, so it is suitable for relax-ing, swimming and sunbathing. In the northern part of Kedonganan Beach, lies traditional fish market embellished with the parking of traditional boats along the beach. As a result, they enrich the beauty of coastal scenery. Exploring and sailing the crescent-shaped beach by fishing boat will give another unique impression for tourists.

Reuters

TOKYO - Rising labour and construction costs are forcing a review of Tokyo’s venue plans for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and could lead to a scaling back of facilities, Japanese officials said on Wednesday.

The review will include all 10 venues that Tokyo plans to build for the sporting extravaganza the city won the right to host last September on the strength of its financial clout and pledges to keep most competition sites close together.

“There is no choice but to re-view the plans within the scope of our commitments to the In-

ternational Olympic Committee (IOC),” Hakubun Shimomura, education and sports minister, told reporters on Wednesday.

Construction and labour costs have been pushed higher around Japan by the country’s expanding economy and rebuilding efforts af-ter the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which devastated a wide swathe of the northeastern coastline.

Questions have also been raised about the cost of maintaining the venues after the Olympics and how useful they will be to Tokyo citizens, both points that Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe raised in proposing the review on Tuesday.

The original Olympics pro-

posal, which budgeted some 153.8 billion yen ($1.5 billion) for ven-ues, did not take into account the impact of the Japanese consump-tion tax hike that took place in April and did not predict the sharp rise in construction costs, a Tokyo government official said.

“We still don’t know what ven-ues will be involved or what the scale of the revisions might be,” he added.

“As to whether the venues will be smaller or not, the rising costs are a worry, so the review will have to be centred on keeping the budget in check.”

Following the review, a revised plan will be submitted to the IOC in February 2015.

The Spurs made 19 of their first 21 shots and finished 25 of 33 in the first half, bettering the 75 per-cent shooting by Orlando against the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009.

“I don’t think we’ll ever shoot 76 percent in a half ever again,”

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.

Unlike Game 1, when they pulled away in the final minutes, the Spurs were up comfortably before halftime in this one.

Returning to the arena where

they were so close to winning a fifth championship last year, the Spurs came out playing like they were trying to build a lead that was impossible to blow.

They shot 13 of 15 and led 41-25 lead after the first quarter,

then hit their first six shots of the second in front of a stunned crowd in Miami to go ahead 55-30.

Kawhi Leonard scored a career-high 29 points, sinking 10 of 13. Leonard scored only 18 points in the first two games, looking frustrated while getting into foul trouble trying to defend LeBron James in Game 2. But he had his outside shot working early and the effect on the Spurs’ offense was

obvious.Danny Green and Tony Parker

each had 15 points for the Spurs.James and Dwyane Wade had 22

points each for the Heat, who host Game 4 on Thursday.

Chris Bosh took only four points and scored nine points for the Heat, who for the second straight year will have to overcome a 2-1 finals deficit after being blown out in Game 3.

Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — Netherlands captain Robin van Persie and de-fender Daryl Janmaat emerged unscathed Tuesday after a collision with a kite surfer on Rio’s Ipanema beach.

Neither player showed any ill effects of the incident at the Netherlands training session Tuesday afternoon at the Estadio da Gavea in Rio.

Janmaat, who is expected to be in Louis van Gaal’s starting lineup for Friday’s Group B opener against Spain in Salvador, said the kite surfer nearly floored him during a stroll along the beach in front of the Dutch team’s hotel on Monday.

He told Dutch public broadcaster NOS he “almost got a kite on my head. A man was kite surfing and he fell exactly where I was stand-ing.”

Though both Janmaat and Van Persie were struck as the kite surfer landed, Netherlands team management said neither player was badly hurt in the incident.

Van Persie ran freely during the session and scored a number of free kicks, while Janmaat practiced crossing from the right flank — something he will be required to do as a wing back in the 5-3-2 system coach Louis van Gaal is expected to deploy against Spain.

Spurs beat Heat to take 2-1 series leadAssociated Press

MIAMI — San Antonio made an NBA Finals-record 75.8 percent of their shots in the first half to set up a 111-92 victory over Miami on Tuesday to take a 2-1 series lead.

REUTERS/Yuya ShinoRising labour and construction costs are forcing a review of Tokyo’s venue plans for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and could lead to a scaling back of facilities, Japanese officials said on Wednesday.

Rising costs force review of Tokyo 2020 venue plans

Van Persie, Janmaat hit by kite surfer on beach

REUTERS/Dylan Martinez Men play football on the iconic Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro June 9, 2014. Netherlands captain Robin van Persie and defender Daryl Janmaat emerged unscathed Tuesday after a collision with a kite surfer on Rio’s Ipanema beach.

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Frontrunner Joko Widodo and ex-general Prabowo Subianto have said they will favour domestic companies in the lucrative oil and gas industry and have pledged to stick with a con-troversial mineral ore export ban ahead of the July 9 polls.

Indonesia has long been a major investment destination but in recent years nationalist politicians have cam-paigned to clip the wings of foreign firms they say have reaped huge profits and given little back.

The policies include restrictions on foreign energy firms hiring expatriates, and limits on the stakes that banks can buy in one another -- a policy intro-duced after a Singapore lender sought to take over an Indonesian bank.

Observers say that the election platforms of Widodo and Prabowo suggest that, whoever wins, the cli-mate is unlikely to change under the next government.

Indonesia’s economy is one of the world’s liveliest, expanding at an annual six percent clip, powered by voracious demand for its commodi-ties exports -- particularly from China

AntaraJAKARTA - The marine and fish-

ery ministry has warned of extinction of Indonesian endemic fish species with the breeding of foreign fish spe-cies in Indonesian waters.

Extinction of certain endemic fish species in a number of Indonesian waters pose a serious threat to the efforts to preserve the variety of the country’s fish resources, Marine and Fisheries Minister Sharif C. Sutardjo said.

This should serve as a lesson for the country to take a concrete step immediately to minimize and pre-vent the negative effects of breeding foreign fish species in the country’s waters, Sharif said.

He said the ministry already took a

number of preventive measure such as with the issuance of regulation based on the United Nations Conven-tion animal diversity .

The ministry has also provided reference for steps to be taken by related institutions in controlling invasive species, he said in a seminar on strategy to control invasive fish species here on Monday.

For that purpose it is necessary to identify invasive fish species that control and supervision could be directed properly and effectively, he added.

He said in order to prevent and control invasive species all related agencies need to be involved through strong coordination in addressing the problem caused.

The government needs to sup-port research development related to negative impact of the breeding of invasive foreign fish species in the Indonesian waters, he said.

He cited the agriculture ministry, the forestry ministry and the ministry of environment should take part in the efforts to preserve Indonesian endemic fish species.

The efforts should be under the coordination of the ministry of the environment as the focal point of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), he said.

A complete information system is needed on the breeding and spreading of invasive species and to detect the threat to the existence of endemic fish species in the country.

Head of the Fish Quarantine Agency (BKIPM)Narmoko Prasm-adji said on the sideline of the seminar that control must be tight in all ports to prevent entry of potential invasive fish species.

Narmoko said the introduction of foreign fish species already had nega-tive impact in Indonesia and many other countries. He cited the explo-sion of the population of gold snail and mujair, a fresh water fish species, creating imbalance even causing ex-tinction of other fish species.

A number of local endemic fish species have fallen victim to the explosion of the invasive foreign fish species, he said. The popula-tion of Mujair in the Cirata dam has declined but ironically Louhan fish

grew fast and in the Sempor dam where originally Betik fish was found in abundance is now near extinction giving ground for Louhan and Oscar fish species, he noted.

Similar trend was also found in a number of Indonesian sea waters. Narmoko said the foreign fishes have also brought fish diseases to the country.

He said there were 13 foreign fish diseases have been identified in the country such as Lerneae cyprinacea attcking fresh water gold fish, Viral Nervous Necrosis Virus (VNNV) attacking the groupers, Koi herpes virus (KHV) attacking Koi and Gold fish and White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) and taura Syndrome Virus (TSV) attacking shrimp.

Ministry warns against breeding of foreign fish species

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Indonesia’s presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto (2nd L), vice presidential candidate Hatta Rajasa (L), presidential candidate Joko Widodo (2nd R) and vice presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla (R) take part in the presidential debate in Jakarta June 9, 2014. Indonesia will go to the polls to select a new president on July 9.

Economic nationalism drumbeat grows louder

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s two presidential candidates are outdoing each other with hardline policies to rein in foreign firms and control the resources sector, risking a lurch towards nationalism in Southeast Asia’s top economy, analysts say.

-- and the spending power of an emerg-ing middle class.

Jakarta argues that while painful in the short term, moves such as the mineral export ban, which forces companies to process more of their products in Indonesia, are the only way to develop national industries.

Analysts say that while the goal is laudable, the policies are badly thought out and that corruption-prone Indone-sian industry is not yet ready to meet the ambitious objectives.

Superficially, the two candidates are starkly different. Widodo won legions of fans as Jakarta governor and is seen as a refreshing break from the three-decade Suharto dictatorship that ended in 1998, while Prabowo is a ex-military figure with a dark past who has long railed at foreign control of Indonesia’s resources.

But as the election race has tight-ened in recent weeks, with Prabowo making strong gains in opinion polls, Widodo has taken on a more national-istic tone and their economic policies appear to be converging.

In a recent op-ed piece for Kompas

newspaper, Widodo wrote: “We need to review foreign investment policy... because most investments are directed towards capital-intensive, extractive sectors that do not create a lot of jobs but merely turn as great a profit as possible.”

Wellian Wiranto, a economist from OCBC Bank in Singapore, warned there was a risk of “a blind lurch towards nationalism” which could scare off foreign investors as the economy seeks to recover after last

year’s emerging market turmoil.“While it is understandable that

both would inject nationalistic fervour into their campaign in order to secure votes on July 9... there is a risk of the country stepping onto a slippery slope,” he said.

Widodo’s policy programme calls for restrictions on the sale of banks to foreigners, potentially creating problems for investors eyeing the fast-growing sector in a country where millions still do not have accounts.

Prabowo meanwhile wants the state-controlled energy firm Pertamina to play a greater role in running oil and gas blocks, his brother and senior economic advisor, Hashim Djojohadi-kusumo, said recently.

His programme also calls for more involvement by state-owned compa-nies in processing mineral ores, and talks of developing national industries, from car-making to ship-building -- projects that have failed elsewhere in Asia.

Reynolds High School in the middle-class Portland suburb of Troutdale was immediately locked down, then evacuated room by room, as law enforcement officials converged on the campus of 2,800 students, which had been set for its last day of classes on Wednesday before the summer break.

“A gunman entered the high school this morning, shot one stu-dent. Unfortunately, that student has died,” Troutdale Police Chief Scott Anderson told a news conference. “The gunman was located and the gunman is also deceased.”

Authorities identified the victim as 14-year-old high school freshman Emilio Hoffman.

Gym teacher and track coach Todd Rispler was grazed by a bullet but made his way to the school’s of-fice to initiate the lockdown, possibly saving lives, Anderson said.

Authorities have not publicly named the gunman nor said how he died, but USA Today cited a police spokesman as saying the shooter was a teenager who shot himself to death in a bathroom stall following the attack.

The violence in northern Oregon was the latest in a string of fatal shootings in U.S. public places since

Agence France-Presse

TOKYO - Key ministers from Japan and Australia will meet later Wednesday to beef up their defence relations, including a possible future submarine deal, as a rising China stirs tension in the Asia-Pacific region.

Japanese Foreign Minister Fu-mio Kishida and Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera will play host in Tokyo to Julie Bishop and David Johnston, their respective opposite numbers, for the fifth round of so-called “2+2” talks.

The two US allies are eager to discuss the future transfer of Japanese submarine technology to

Australia, with Canberra needing to replace its fleet of stealth subs over the coming years at a reported cost of up to US$37 billion.

The potential deal, which is some way from being finalised, would boost Japan’s defence in-dustry, while also further cementing relations both economically and militarily.

At their meeting, the ministers will follow up on a free trade pact and a security deal reached in April between Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Japanese coun-terpart Shinzo Abe.

The two leaders also agreed on joint basic research for marine hydrodynamics to be applied for

construction of future military ves-sels and submarines.

Abe, who reportedly is planning to visit Abbott in Australia next month, has argued that Japan must play a bigger role on the global stage and has pushed to loosen re-strictions on when its well-equipped armed forces can act.

He has also relaxed a self-imposed ban on weapons exports, paving the way for the possible deal with Australia.

In their evening meeting, the ministers will make particular ef-forts to hammer out terms for a legal framework to allow the two nations to conduct joint research and trade of defence equipment

-- a necessary precursor to any submarine deal.

“We will engage in practical dis-cussions to strengthen our security and defence cooperation,” Kishida told a press conference Tuesday.

Following an Australian request, Tokyo will let Johnston see Japa-nese submarines during his stay, according to Onodera.

The Japanese defence chief also said the two nations are looking to boost the interoperability of their troops through more joint drills, hu-manitarian assistance programmes, disaster relief and projects to ensure maritime security.

The ministers are also expected to discuss the impact of China’s

ambitious naval activities and ter-ritorial claims that have shifted the balance of power in the region, which was long dominated by the United States.

Beijing has intensified its claims over the South China Sea, and has butted heads with Hanoi and Manila.

Japan’s ties with China have remained sour, due mainly to a ter-ritorial dispute in the East China Sea.

Worries about China have en-couraged a relationship-building drive across Asia, analysts say, with Abe and Abbott aiming to elevate their ties to “a new special relationship”.

Japan, Australia talk closer military ties and submarines

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Sandra Villavicencio, a former classmate of Emilio Hoffman, receives a hug, as Greater Port-land Baptist Church in Portland, Ore., hosted a prayer vigil Tuesday night, June 10, 2014, for the community following a shooting at Reynolds High School. A teen gunman armed with a rifle shot and killed Hoffman on Tuesday and injured a teacher before he likely killed himself at a high school in a quiet Columbia River town in Oregon, authorities said.

One student, gunman dead after Oregon high school shooting

Reuters

TROUTDALE, Oregon - A gunman walked into an Oregon high school gym with a rifle and shot a student to death on Tuesday before he was found dead in a bathroom stall, in the third outbreak of gun violence to shake a U.S. high school or college campus in less than three weeks.

May, including one at a Christian col-lege in neighboring Washington state last week in which one student died.

President Barack Obama expressed deep frustration on Tuesday at the in-ability of Washington lawmakers to tighten gun control measures in the wake of U.S. shootings.

“The country has to do some soul searching about this. This is becoming the norm and we take it for granted in ways that, as a parent, are terrifying to me,” Obama said.

Oregon lawmakers have been at a legislative impasse for about two years over stricter gun control proposals.

Television footage at the Oregon school showed police officers in hel-mets and tactical gear stepping from armored vehicles and running near the school’s perimeter with rifles. Students streamed out of the school with hands raised.

A few miles from the school, stu-dents bused from the campus were being reunited with anxious parents in the parking lot of a shopping center.

“I’m glad it wasn’t worse,” said Rachelle Rueschenberg, a mother clutching her ninth-grade daughter, Maddy.

Two girls from the high school, sisters Kadejah and Deondra Nixon,

told Reuters after being reunited with their parents that police were asking students whether anyone had ridden a bus to school with a student carrying a guitar case.

Kadejah Nixon said she did not hear gunfire because the shooting

was in a different wing of the build-ing, but recounted an announcement over the public address system that urged students to go to the nearest classroom and close the doors.

“’This is not a drill, this is serious, get into a classroom,’” she quoted the

announcement as saying.Police said during a search of the

school after the shooting they found a gun on another person, which they believed to be unrelated to the violence. That person, who was not identified, was taken into custody.

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SINGAPORE - Singapore Telecom, Southeast Asia’s biggest telecom firm by revenue, said Wednesday it will buy two mobile advertising companies for a total of $385 million to further boost its digital business.

Amobee, a digital advertising firm fully owned by SingTel, said in a statement it had signed agreements to buy Adconion, a cross-channel digital advertising company as well as Kontera Technologies, a digital content intelligence and marketing technology firm.

Adconion Direct North America and Adconion Australia will be acquired for $235 million including debt, while US-based Kontera will cost $150 million.

Amobee said the deals are subject to certain conditions being met.

Allen Lew, chief executive of Group Digital Life at SingTel, said the purchases would enhance Amobee’s ability to create digital marketing campaigns that can reach SingTel’s global network of more than 500 mil-lion subscribers.

Adconion has top brands including Toyota, Disney and AT&T among its clients, while Kontera, which has a research and development centre in Israel, analyses consumer behaviour on social media.

SingTel bought Amobee in 2012 for $321 million and the firm holds a market share of about 10 percent of global ad spend in the mobile display advertisements sector, it said.

Lew, who is also Amobee’s chair-man, said SingTel has so far spent about a quarter of the Sg$2.0 billion al-located by its board for digital invest-ments until the 2016 financial year.

SingTel’s revenue from mobile advertising in the year to March 2013 stood at Sg$113 million ($90 million). Its net profit came in at Sg$3.65 bil-lion, a 4.1 percent increase from the previous year.

The telco owns partial stakes in India’s Bharti Airtel, Indonesia’s Telkomsel, Thailand’s Advanced Info Service, the Philippines’ Globe Telecom and Pacific Bangladesh Telecom. It fully owns SingTel Optus in Australia.

Most of the pick-up in growth this year will come from high-income countries, particularly the United States and the 18-nation eurozone, the World Bank said in its twice-yearly Global Economic Prospects report.

But a rough start to the year -- bad weather in the United States, financial market turmoil and the Ukraine crisis -- dragged down global growth for the year as a whole, the Bank said.

It marked down its 2014 fore-cast to a 2.8 percent pace from its January forecast of 3.2 per-cent. The global economy grew 2.4 percent growth in 2013.

High- income coun t r i e s would see stronger growth this year of 1.9 percent from 1.3 percent in the previous year, the World Bank said.

But developing countries can expect mixed challenges from the accelerating growth in the rich countries.

As high-income economies expand, their import demand should grow, boosting devel-oping-country exports.

But developing countries will be hard-pressed to find the capacity to meet that de-

mand, because most of them already are fully recovered from the 2008 financial crisis and growing close to potential, the Washington-based develop-ment lender said.

Developing countries were projected to grow 4.8 percent this year, substantially below the 5.3 percent estimate in January.

“The outlook for developing countries is for flat growth in 2014. This marks the third year in a row of sub-five percent growth and reflects a more chal-lenging post-crisis global eco-nomic environment,” it said.

The World Bank’s latest outlook marked a deterioration from the January report, when it had raised its growth forecasts, saying both rich and developing countries appeared to be “fi-nally turning the corner” after the global financial crisis.

Weakness in ChinaMuch of the slowdown this

year reflected weakness in China, the world’s second-largest economy. First-quarter growth in Chinese gross do-mestic product was only a 5.8 percent annualized rate, with a

sharp deceleration in industrial output and Beijing taking steps to tighten credit.

The Wash ing ton -based lender forecast growth of 7.6 percent this year, lower than China’s 7.7-percent growth rate in 2013. Beijing’s own target for this year is 7.5 percent.

GDP growth accelerated slightly in the first quarter in In-dia, Mexico and the Philippines. But the pace of growth slowed in Indonesia, Mongolia, Malaysia and Brazil and turned negative in South Africa and Peru.

Sharp annualized contrac-tions of between eight and 12 percent occurred in Ukraine, Thailand and Morocco.

The weakness in develop-ing countries reflected a slew of factors, including knock-on effects from the severe winter in the US; political tensions in Thailand, Ukraine and Turkey; labor unrest in South Africa; and monetary policy tightening fol-lowing financial market turmoil a year ago, the Bank said.

Actual and structural fiscal deficits are much higher now than in 2007 in developing countries, and debt rose by more than 10 percentage points

of GDP in half of them.The World Bank warned

that developing countries need to prepare now with structural reforms while financial condi-tions are easy, because they are likely to tighten over the longer term.

The president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, said more robust growth was needed to create the type of jobs that can improve the lives of the world’s poorest 40 percent.

“Clearly, countries need to move faster and invest more in domestic structural reforms to get broad-based economic growth to levels needed to end extreme poverty in our genera-tion,” Kim said in a statement.

Andrew Burns, lead author of the report, said bottlenecks in energy and infrastructure, labor markets and business climate in many of the large middle-income countries are holding back economic and productiv-ity growth.”

“Subsidy reform is one po-tential avenue for generating the money to raise the quality of public investments in human capital and physical infrastruc-ture,” he said.

SingTel acquires mobile advertisers to boost digital business

In this file photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, a woman counts U.S. dollar and Turkish lira banknotes at a currency exchange of-fice in Istanbul, Turkey. The World Bank lowered its 2014 growth

forecasts for the global economy Tuesday, but said advanced economies’ rebound from a rough start would help offset stagna-

tion in developing countries.

World Bank sees ‘flat’ growth for developing countries

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The World Bank lowered its 2014 growth forecasts for the global economy Tuesday, but said advanced econo-mies’ rebound from a rough start would help offset stagnation in developing countries.

AP Photo/Emrah Gurel

According to Javanese chronicle and a Dutch writer, François Valentyn, in the 17th century Blam-bangan was the subordinate of Surabaya. However, people still call the statement into doubt. Obviously, Sultan Agung from Mataram Kingdom (1613-1646) attacked Blambangan in 1633 but he was never able to conquer it. Blambangan was conquered by I Gusti Anglurah Panji Sakti, the king of Buleleng in North Bali. Possibly, with the help of Surapati, the king of Blambangan Tawang Alun could be defeated. Temporarily, Ki Gusti Ngurah Panji Sakti appointed his representative to govern Blambangan. He handed over the authority of Blambangan King-dom to Cokorda Agung Mengwi after he married to the daughter of King of Mengwi.

After Blambangan was under control of Mengwi, Badung, it was appointed the descendant of King Tawang Alun to rule the Blambangan, namely Prince Danuningrat. To bind the loyalty, he was married to the daughter of Cokorda Agung Mengwi. Before becoming an independent kingdom, Blambangan belonged to the dominion of Bali. Mengwi Kingdom once ruled this region.

Meanwhile, the endeavor of Mataram Sultanate to conquest the Blambangan was never successful. That’s why the Blambangan (and Banyuwangi in general) never belonged to the Central Javanese culture. So far, the region has quite different variety of language from the standard Javanese language. The influence of Bali can also be seen in various kinds of dancing arts originating from the Blam-bangan area.

Andi, a resident met at the scene, said the fire started when he passed in front of the Sanur Deli Restaurant. Unexpectedly, the explosion sound made him surprised because he was curious and dozens of other residents ap-proached the source of the blast. “About 9:10 a.m., I heard the sound of explosion from the Sanur Deli Restaurant,” he said.

When approaching the Sanur Deli Restaurant, Andi said that some employees were already running out while screaming for help. In addition, a puff of smoke was seen coming out from the restaurant. “When I looked at the back (kitchen—Ed), there had been a blaze of fire,” he explained while adding that dozens of other residents immediately took water for extinguishing the fire.

Meanwhile, one of the employ-ees of the Sanur Deli Restaurant

said the fire originated in the kitch-en when he cooked. When turning on the stove, it began to smell the leaking LPG. “When smelling gas, I immediately turned off the stove and then I ran out of the kitchen,” said the source asking the name not to be published.

After this woman from Ban-gli was outside the kitchen, there was an explosion to destroy the kitchen roof and cracked the wall section. After the explosion, the restaurant employees remem-bered if the oven in the kitchen was still on. Allegedly, the fire of the oven grabbed the leaky gas cylinder. “To my knowledge, the only equipment still flaming in the kitchen is oven,” she added.

Chief of South Denpasar Crim-inal Investigation Unit, Hendik Setiadi, when asked for his con-firmation justified the incident. After the incident, his party had

installed police line and conducted the crime scene investigation. As provisional estimation, the explo-sion triggering the fire in the oven exposed to leaky LPG cylinder. “The fire engulfed the LPG gas, so the cylinder exploded,” he said.

Further, he said that aside from material damages, the explosion also resulted in burns to three vic-tims namely the owner of Sanur Deli Restaurant. Eni Sihombing suffered burns on arms, legs and back, Maxi on his hands, while Jero Cempaka on legs and backs of the hands. (kmb35)

IBP/ManikResidents of Jalan

Danau Poso Sanur were startled by explosive sound of 12-kg LPG

cylinder at the restaurant owned by an Australian,

Tuesday (Jun 10).

LPG cylinder explodes, three victims suffer burns

Bali PostDENPASAR - Residents of Jalan Danau Poso Sanur were startled by explosive sound of 12-kg LPG

cylinder at the restaurant owned by an Australian, Tuesday (Jun 10). Consequently, the owner of Sa-nur Deli Restaurant, Eni Sihombing, 65, along with two colleagues Maxi, 40, and Jero Cempaka, 33, suffered burns.

IBP/File Photo

Relation between of Blambangan to Mengwi Kingdom

IBP

Is there any relationship of Blambangan Kingdom to Mengwi Kingdom in Badung, Bali? According to Wikipedia, the Blambangan Kingdom is a kingdom located on the easternmost region of Java Island. It is considered as the last Hindu kingdom in Java in the 16th century, where the only significant Muslim kingdom in East Java at that time was Pasuruan. Other regions were still under control of Hindu ruler. Allegedly, a war had exploded between Pasuruan and Blambangan in 1540s, 1580s and 1590s. In the meantime, the capital of Blambangan seemed to have been conquered in 1600 or 1601.

BUSINESS

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ANSEONG - Thousands of South Korean police and prosecutors raided a sprawling religious compound for a second time on Wednesday in their search for an elderly busi-nessman linked to a ferry disaster that reduced the nation to tears.

Helicopters flew overhead as officers moved from building to building at the site, believed to cover the size of a dozen soccer pitches, with church members in pursuit, some sing-ing hymns, others chanting “Let’s fight with prosecutors and police!”

But the businessman, Yoo Byung-un, also a photographer who was once jailed for fraud and is now South Korea’s most wanted man, was nowhere to be found.

Yoo, in his 70s, co-founder of the church which owns the website www.god.com, is want-ed on charges of embezzlement, negligence and tax evasion stemming from a web of business holdings centred on I-One-I, an investment vehicle owned by his sons that ran the shipping company, Chonghaejin Marine.

Chonghaejin owned the Sewol which sank off the southwest coast on April 16 on a routine journey from Incheon on the mainland to the southern holiday island of Jeju.

Of the 476 passengers and crew on board, 339 were children and teachers from the same school. Only 172 people were rescued and the remainder are all presumed to have drowned.

The raid came a day after 15 crew went on trial in a court packed with angry parents of the children who died. Four crew face homi-cide charges after they were seen escaping the sharply listing vessel as the children stayed in their cabins as told.

It also came a day after President Park Geun-hye, whose government was sharply criticised over its handling of the disaster, said “it made no sense” that such an extensive search opera-tion had failed to catch Yoo.

Church members grow organic produce, run a fish farm and hold religious services. Yoo is believed to keep a photography studio inside.

As the search operation went ahead, some church members handed out organic ice cream to police and journalists in the sweltering heat.

Yoo and his sons, one of whom is based in the United States, have eluded a police man-hunt for nearly a month. Yoo is a co-founder of the Evangelical Baptist Church that runs the Anseong compound, a two-hour drive south of Seoul. The prosecution has frozen the Yoo fam-ily’s assets, but news reports said there may be more yet to be identified.

Authorities last month increased the reward for information leading to Yoo’s arrest tenfold to the equivalent of half a million dollars. About 6,000 officials took part in the raid, three weeks after an initial search of the compound. Chonghaejin Marine did not answer phone calls on Wednesday, while two other firms related to Yoo had no comment on questions as to his whereabouts.

“I want to be able to tell my children and grandchildren that I have met the first woman president of the US,” said Nicole Kelly, who attended the event with two friends.

“She is a role model for all of us,” said retiree Claudia Sine.

Some at the Barnes and Noble flag-ship store on Union Square said they had been there all night. Others said they got in line before 5:00 am for Clinton’s late morning appearance to promote “Hard Choices.”

The book looks at her four years as Obama’s first secretary of state, revisiting some key events including the deadly attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, and shaky US-Russian ties.

New York, a heavily Democratic city, is the first stop on her carefully choreo-graphed book tour -- one that will see her travel across the nation, and potentially meet with a wide cross-section of voters.

Clinton, the former first lady and a former senator from New York, indicated she would likely wait until early 2015 to

announce her decision.The line of fans snaked around the

block. Some carried books, others had folding chairs to help them while away the time as they waited for just a few seconds with Clinton.

One fan in front of the store carried a sign reading “Ready for Hillary” -- the name of the super political action com-mittee urging the 66-year-old Clinton to make another run for the White House in 2016 and laying the groundwork for an eventual campaign.

A “Ready for Hillary” bus was also parked outside.

Opportunistic vendors selling Hillary tee-shirts were doing a brisk business.

At the store, security was tight.But the fans -- many of them college

students and women, but also older people and children -- didn’t let it bother them.

On an upper floor of the store, after hours of waiting, fans finally came face-to-face with Clinton, who has already kept Washington talking for months amid widespread speculation she is

planning to run.The former first lady -- who narrowly

lost the 2008 Democratic nomination to President Barack Obama -- was greeted with wild applause. Some screamed, “Go Hillary, Go Hillary!”

Clad in a fuchsia jacket, and all smiles, Clinton briefly explained the concept behind her book, noting: “It is really about the choices that everybody has to make in life.”

Clinton posed for pictures with chil-dren and chatted with attendees, some in wheelchairs. “Thank you, it’s great to see you,” she said. In answer to one question, Clinton reiterated that she had not yet decided whether to throw her hat in the ring in 2016.

So even if it was not the formal start of a presidential campaign, it certainly seemed like one -- with a carefully orchestrated series of high-profile inter-views, savvily-placed leaks of key bits of the book, and social media efforts in overdrive.

One million copies of the book were pre-sold.

Searching ferry family boss Thousands raid South Korea church

REUTERS/Shannon StapletonHillary Clinton speaks during a book signing of her new book “Hard Choices” in New York June 10, 2014.

Hillary all smiles in New York at book launchAgence France-Presse

NEW YORK - New York is known as The City That Never Sleeps, but fans of Hillary Clinton may have taken that quite literally. Hundreds of people got up before dawn Tuesday for the chance to see the former US secretary of state as she signed her new book in New York - an event that had the feel of a presidential campaign launch.

Bali PostSEMARAPURA - Implemen-

tation of the first Nusa Penida Festival (NPF) has entered the third day, Tuesday (Jun 10). Vari-ous potentials in the archipelago were included in the agenda of the activities from day one. However, the potential of Bali starling in the region was not included in the agenda during the four-day event. Actually, the Nusa Penida Islands have become the habitat for the center of Bali starling breeding since the past ten years and supported the potential of local tourism.

Chairman of the Friends of the National Parks Foundation (FNPF), I Gede Nyoman Bayu Wirayudha, when contacted on Tuesday (Jun 10) admitted that Bali starling was not included in the agenda during the four-day NPF centered in the field of Sampalan, Nusa Penida. The institution specialized in the de-velopment of Bali starling said that aside from marine tourism, travelers visiting Nusa Penida would also like to have closer look at the native bird becoming the icon of Bali. Since the past ten years, the Bali starling was said to thrive quite well in Nusa Penida.

Aside from a strong commit-ment to maintain the population, it was also supported by the entire customary village applying the awig-awig or customary bylaw to protect the Bali starling from poaching. However, Bayu Wir-ayudha considered it not to mat-ter. Yet, his party expected local authorities to help campaign for the rare bird conservation from the threat of poachers. “Deep-

It was revealed by the Head of Buleleng Agriculture and Livestock Agency, Nyoman Swatantra, when becoming a resource person in the interactive dialogue in the Singaraja FM Radio, Tuesday (Jun 10). The in-teractive dialogue was aired live and moderated by Gede Bob Suardika.

Some listeners participating in

the interactive dialogue responded positively to the implementation of Lake Buyan Festival organized by Buleleng government on June 20-22, 2014. After the dialogue, Nyoman Swatantra said the Bali cattle contest was one of the activities that had been arranged by the committee. The Bali cattle contest was deliberately held

to re-encourage the Bali cattle busi-ness existing only in Bali, including in Buleleng.

All this time, the interest of farm-ers to raise Bali cattle began to decline due to various factors. This condition was feared to threaten the population of Bali cattle in Buleleng. “We all know that Bali cattle are

only available in Bali and cannot be found in other region. Apparently, the population begins to fall as the people’s interest to raise it starts to decline. Without immediate handling, this condition can lead to decline,” he said.

According to Swatantra, in the Bali cattle contest, the breeders would get information related to Bali cattle raising techniques with the technology of artificial insemination. With this technique, breeders would be given the understanding. After the contest, the breeders would be keen to maintain the Bali cattle. In

addition to getting information re-lated to the maintenance technique, the contest participants could also share information, experience and cope with the problem having been experienced.

When touched about the popu-lation of Bali cattle in Buleleng, Swatantra added that up to this year the population of Bali cattle in Buleleng was recorded to reach 123,000 heads spreading across the nine subdistricts. Such amount of population was believed to be still sufficient to meet the needs of the meat in its own region. (kmb38)

Lake Buyan Festival

Counteracting extinction of Bali cattle population Bali Post

BULELENG - Lake Buyan Festival initiated by Buleleng government is not only to excite the potential of agriculture and tourism at Pancasari village, Sukasada subdistrict. This event held for the first time is also intended to excite the Bali cattle business in Northern Bali. One of the activities to be held in the Lake Buyan Festival is the contest of Bali cattle. The contest will be followed by the representatives of cattle breeding groups from each subdistrict.

Regretted, potential of Bali starling excluded in NPF agendaening of people’s commitment should be continued. Tourism benefit is not only measured by how much money earned, but also in terms of the preservation of protected animals such as the Bali Starling and the environment,” he explained.

Currently, the habitat of Bali starling was said to remain condu-cive. However, it was frequently found some poachers who threat-ened the existence of the protected species. “I see there was reluc-tance in upholding the customary bylaw at every village. So, I urge the role of local government to help campaign for the protection of Bali starling,” he said. When touched about the NPF, the activ-ity should give more spaces to the potential of Bali Starling, while campaigning for the protection of the animals extensively.

“Certainly, i t wil l not be enough for our institution to do so. Regional governments, both provincial and county government will have greater authority to help us in conserving the Bali starling,” he said.

“We then put up a sign board so that people also take care about the preservation of Bali starling and we’re difficult to get permission from the government,” he continued. He added the last observational data in 2012 made by the Natural Resources Conser-vation Agency (BKSDA) of Bali indicated there were 128 heads of Bali starling spreading throughout the archipelago. He expected such number was growing and Nusa Penida became the best habitat for the preservation of Bali starling along with the increasing various studies on Bali starling from dif-

ferent circles in the local area.Meanwhile, Chairman of the

NPF Committee, Wayan Sujana, when contacted on Tuesday, rec-ognized the potential of Bali star-ling that was not so highlighted in the NPF and not included in the agenda of the four-day event.

However, the potential of Bali starling had been included in the promotional materials. With the implementation of the NPF planned to be held sustainably, his party promised the potential of Bali starling to get more spaces in the agenda.

IBP/Bagiarta

“Later, af ter the act ivi ty, there must be an evaluation. Ex-istence of the Bali starling has also become the main attraction in Nusa Penida tourism. By all means, it must get more spaces in the agenda of activities,” he said. (kmb31)

3Thursday, June 12, 201414 InternationalInternational Bali NewsHealth Thursday, June 12, 2014

It was expressed by Chair-man of the Center for Business Economic Data Analysis, the Faculty of Economics, Udayana University, Dr. Sudjana Budhi, when met in Denpasar.

He said that most of the prob-lems pertaining to the low in-vestment in infrastructure were caused by limited funding of central government. Meanwhile, the need for investment funding was very much required for the development of economic poten-tial in many parts of Indonesia.

“To overcome the restricted-ness of funds for infrastructure investment needs and accel-eration process of the economic development, the governments in many countries invite the participation of business com-munity to invest in the sector,” he said.

According to him, public-private partnership was proved to have been able to accelerate the economic growth in many countries. Infrastructure develop-ment involving the participation of domestic private investment covered the area of transporta-tion, hospital, education and a number of industrial infrastruc-ture development which could trigger the growth of a variety of other industries.

“Investment cooperation of public-private partnership is the acceleration of the economic development having the impact on the added value and sharing fiscal risk, from the entire burden

AntaraDENPASAR - The ongoing

mass vaccination program against rabies in Bali has covered some 45 percent of the total dog popu-lation on the island so far, stated an official.

By June 9, at least 160 thousand dogs were vaccinated, or about 45 percent of the total 350 thousand dogs to be targeted, Putu Sumantra, the head of the Balinese animal

husbandry and animal health of-fice, stated on Wednesday.

Sumantra expressed optimism that the target can be achieved since the program, which started on April 15, will be carried out until July 31, 2014.

“The program has been con-ducted in 1.6 thousand villages of the total three thousand villages that will be targeted,” he said.

Sumantra called on the public

to make the program successful by taking their dogs for vaccination against rabies.

A total budget of Rp12 bil-lion has been allocated for the fifth mass vaccination program against rabies, which is part of the government’s effort to make Bali free from rabies.

Of the Rp12 billion, Rp5.6 billion is from Bali’s budget and Rp6.4 billion is from the state

budget.The number of dog bite cases

in Bali tended to increase, which is more than 100 cases per day, Dr Ketut Suarjaya, the head of the Health Office of Bali, recently remarked.

Bali has resolved to become rabies-free by the year 2015 in order to maintain its reputation as the world’s most famous resort island. Nationally, the central

government has targeted the en-tire country to become rabies-free by 2020.

Over the past few years, Bali authorities have routinely carried out mass vaccination programs against rabies, targeting stray and domestic dogs.

“We have deployed 90 staff members during the ongoing mass vaccination program,” Putu Sumantra recently noted.

Workers worked at hospital project at Badung Regency. Economic development that can be implemented through investment in infrastructure runs very slowly in many regions, including Bali.

Mass vaccination covers 45 percent of Bali’s dog population

Slow, infrastructure development in BaliBali Post

DENPASAR - Econom-ic development that can be implemented through invest-ment in infrastructure runs very slowly in many regions, including Bali. As a result, the economic potential of the region cannot be optimized in order to achieve the people’s welfare.

borne by government to be fur-ther shared with business sector,” he explained.

He assessed the control of fiscal space through the fiscal sharing risk in the framework of public-private partnership (KPS) having been implemented today could be expanded by involving the county/municipal govern-ments as well as the role and par-ticipation of local entrepreneurs

as complementary participant that would lead the Indonesian economy to togetherness.

“The fiscal risk-sharing policy can include cooperation contract agreement between central or lo-cal governments through national and regional budget with national private sector in the region in order to accelerate the infra-structure development that will encourage the economic growth,”

he concluded.He exemplified that England

managed to develop infrastruc-ture through national private participation. The success could be seen from two sides, namely the increase in the acceleration of economic development that generated value for money and the availability of funding for secondary financial market that provided opportunities for private

sector to develop new innovation with added value for production activities and creation of profit of the employers concerned.

“Secondary financial market provided through public-private partnership can give an op-portunity for entrepreneur to make innovation in providing the increasingly quality public service to prosper society,” he said. (kmb27)

Patients today use a number of apps that purport to track and treat a panoply of ailments, a headache for regulators and patient safety advocates. Now, the advent of wearable devices bristling with sophisticated biotracking sensors is stirring concern in the medical community about misdiagnoses that could have serious consequences for consumers.

Some are asking whether Apple and Google should do more to police their fast-growing app marketplaces. “Most of the health apps out there are built by people with zero medi-cal experience,” said Paris Wallace, chief ex-ecutive officer of Ovuline, a popular fertility app. Worse, many developers don’t have the resources for legal counsel, Wallace said, and are more likely to make false claims to patients without seeking FDA clearance.

The Food and Drug Administration last year published guidelines on the kinds of mobile apps it will supervise. But industry insiders fear the agency may get overwhelmed as apps mushroom. Last week Samsung Electronics launched a health platform for third-party developers, SAMI.

This week Apple introduced “Healthkit,” a repository of data for medical apps that opens up new realms for developers to explore. It may also make it easier for those with scant understanding of regulatory protocols to dive into the market.

Health apps are big business for Apple and Google, the two leading app marketplaces. The iPhone maker is the preferred choice for developers. Analytics firm AppAnnie found that Apple generates five times more revenue from downloads of health and fitness apps than Google.

How the two companies, who both declined to comment for this story, will handle the prolif-eration of medical apps is unclear. One source familiar with the matter said Apple is looking to add a regulatory expert to its growing digital health team, who will be tasked with oversight of the App Store.

Research has shown that many existing medical apps may be useless. Seventy-five percent of smartphone apps that claim to assess malignancy are wrongly diagnosing at least 30 percent of melanomas as “unconcerning,” researchers from the American Medical As-sociation’s JAMA Dermatology found.

A 2012 study by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting revealed that of

Reuters

LONDON - Scientists have found a way of genetically modifying mosqui-toes to produce sperm that only creates males, offering a potential fresh approach to fighting and eventually eradicating malaria.

Researchers from Imperial College London tested a genetic method that dis-torts the sex ratio of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the main transmitters of the malaria parasite, so that the female mos-quitoes that bite and pass the disease to humans are no longer produced.

In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the team re-ported that in the first laboratory tests, the technique created a fully fertile mosquito strain that produced 95 percent male offspring.

“For the very first time, we have been able to inhibit the production of female offspring in the laboratory and this provides a new means to eliminate the disease,” said Andrea Crisanti, who led the research at Imperial’s department of life sciences. Nikolai Windbichler, who co-led the work, said what was most promising about the results is that they are self-sustaining.

“Once modified mosquitoes are intro-duced, males will start to produce mainly sons, and their sons will do the same, so

essentially the mosquitoes carry out the work for us,” he said.

In their experiments, which took more than six years, the scientists inserted a DNA cutting enzyme called I-PpoI into Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes.

The enzyme works by cutting the DNA of the female-producing X chro-mosome during production of sperm, so that almost no functioning sperm carry it. As a result, the offspring of the geneti-cally modified mosquitoes was almost exclusively male.

The scientists introduced the geneti-cally modified mosquitoes to five caged wild-type mosquito populations. In four of the five cages, this eliminated the entire population within six generations due to the lack of females.

The hope is that if this could be rep-licated in the wild, this would ultimately cause the malaria-carrying mosquito population to crash.

Experts not directly involved in the work were impressed with its results and enthusiastic about its potential.

“This is super cool work,” said Mi-chael Bonsall, a reader in zoology at Britain’s University of Oxford.

Malaria kills some 627,000 people worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organisation, and the vast majority of its victims are babies and children in sub-Saharan Africa.

Associated Press

LONDON — Women who often indulge their cravings for hamburgers, steaks and other red meat may have a slightly higher risk of breast cancer, a new study suggests. Doctors have long warned that a diet loaded with red meat is linked to cancers including those of the colon and pancreas, but there has been less evidence for its role in breast cancer.

In the new study, researchers at Har-vard University analyzed data from more than 88,000 women aged 26 to 45 who had filled in surveys in 1991. Their red meat intake varied from never or less than once a month, to six or more servings a day. Initial results of the study were first published in 2006 and showed a preliminary link between eating red meat and breast cancer after 12 years; the new research confirmed the earlier findings with longer follow-up information, and analyzed other types of breast cancer.

Using a statistical model, scientists estimated that in women who ate the most amount of red meat, there were an extra 6.8 cases of breast cancer for every 1,000 women over 20 years of follow-up. The researchers couldn’t rule out the pos-

sibility that other factors might explain the apparent link between red meat and breast cancer.

In developed countries, women have about a 12.5 percent chance of develop-ing breast cancer. Scientists suspect pro-teins in red meat speed up cell division and tumor growth; chemicals such as nitrates in processed meats are already classified as probable carcinogens.

The study was carried out main-ly among educated, white American women, and researchers said that the results were not necessarily applicable to women of other races. It was paid for by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and published online Tuesday in the British journal, BMJ.

“This underlines the importance of having a healthy diet,” said Sally Green-brook, a senior policy officer at the U.K. charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, who was not part of the research. She said women should focus on reducing their chances of breast cancer by stay-ing slim, and exercising and drinking in moderation.

Greenbrook added that there wasn’t yet enough proof about the dangers of red meat to change current prevention guidelines.

Malaria fightGenetically modified mosquitoes offer hope

Red meat possibly linked to breast cancer

Reuters

The home screen of health app MyFitnessPal is shown in this undated publicity photo released to Reuters June 5, 2014.

Wanted: a watchdog for the mobile medical app explosionReuters

SAN FRANCISCO - A smart-phone app that rids you of acne. Another that monitors your heart rate 24-7. One that detects skin can-cer by looking at your birthmarks. If they sound too good to be true, they may be.

1,500 health apps it evaluated, 20 percent claimed to treat or cure medical problems, but only a small percentage of them had been clinically tested. Medical professionals fear patients may defer an in-person checkup because of faulty results. By the time they see a doctor it may be too late. A false negative for cancer, for instance, may prompt a user to put off professional consultation.

“If patients perceive a mobile app as a cheaper alternative to a trip to my office, that’s worrying,” said Molly Maloof, a physician who has spoken about such matters and is a consultant for digital-health startups like Sano Intelligence and GeneSolve.

Echoing a familiar Silicon Valley stance, developers argue that increased federal oversight will only stifle innovation.

Mike Lee, cofounder of MyFitnessPal, a weight-loss app that claims 50 million users, said his company wouldn’t exist today if it been required to seek regulatory approval: “We wouldn’t have been able to afford the tremendous time and expense.”

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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 12, 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

With endless mountain views, Garut, which is often referred to as the “Swit-zerland of Java” , has in recent years gained popularity as an domestic tour-ism destination due to pristine nature preserves, natural hot springs and stun-ning scenery.

In the heart of Garut and just two hours east of Bandung, the favehotel Ci-manuk Garut enjoys a perfect location from which to explore the city and the region beyond and aims to be the best option for business and leisure travelers seeking a contemporary, comfortable, and proficient hotel with an affordable price tag.

The hotels 79 guest rooms are equipped with contemporary furnish-ings topped off with an interior design concept that is both modern and stylish whilst capturing the unique character

of the local environment. Guests can make use of the hotel’s swimming pool and the signature all-day café-shop and lounge, whilst business travelers can stay connected thanks to the hotel’s 6 modern meeting rooms and compli-mentary high speed Wi-Fi throughout the entire hotel.

“West Java is booming as the Cipu-larang Expressway linking Jakarta to Bandung has opened up a whole new universe of weekend getaways to the south and east of Bandung that were previously beyond the reach of all but the most determined of weekend vaca-tioners. favehotel Cimanuk Garut will be the latest favehotel destination for savvy travelers and is fast becoming a key business hub for West Java.” says Norbert Vas, Vice President Sales & Marketing Archipelago International. IBP/Archipelago International

New Favehotel opens in GarutIBP

JAKArTA – favehotels, Indonesia’s fastest growing select service hotel chain, announced the opening of the highly anticipated favehotel Cimanuk Garut, marking the arrival of the first international standard chain hotel in the remote region of Garut.

He explained that in the im-plementation of the parade this year, the county/municipality would be given the opportunity to work on fragmentary ses-sion for 15 minutes with new touches. Of course, it would be more innovative to minimize the monotonous impression so the presentation was packaged differently, both in the matter of form and parade participants. In addition, he said, there were some excellent local, national and international arts activi-ties.

“Local events in this Bali Arts Festival will be implemented openly with more emphases

on the art with development aspect. For a national art show, it will present the performance as participation of other re-gions. Meanwhile, the interna-tional events will feature the art presentation by overseas art troupes,” he said.

In addition, said Suastika, the BAF XXXVI in 2014 was planned to be inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yud-hoyono (SBY) at the Ardha Can-dra Amphitheater, Denpasar Art Center, Friday (Jun 13). “Other than Mr. SBY, it will also be attended by First Lady Ani Yud-hoyono, a number of ministers and others,” he explained.

On the opening day, he added, it would be filled with the Bali Dwipa Jaya Dance performance. The dance itself posed the mas-cot of Bali Province triggered by the Governor of Bali.

Suastika explained the BAF taking place on June 13 to July 12, 2014 would feature six subject matters including the pa-rade, performance, competition/parade, exhibition, workshop, and documentation. “The parade will be held during the day at 2:00 p.m. around the Bajra Sandi Monument at Renon, Denpasar. Then, it will be resumed with the opening by the President,” he added. (kmb21)

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DENPASAR - Campaign Coordinator of Jokowi-JK for Nasdem Party Bali, IGK Manila, expected that Bali should not be crammed with ambitious and counter-productive projects like the National Tour-ism Strategic Area (KSPN) to Besakih Temple and reclamation to 838 hectares in Benoa Bay. “Regional leader must not be reasoned to bring in investors, and then destroy the order of Bali considered to be sacred, natural and consistent in maintain-ing tradition, culture and religion. Restore my Bali to condition as in the 1970s. Bali should not be developed excessively and artificially,” said IGK Manila when mak-ing a visit to the Ketut Nadha Bali Press Building, Tuesday (Jun 10).

According to him, there were many beautiful regions overseas like Bali such as Hawaii, Tahiti, Thailand and the Maldives. However, why did Bali have a special value and it was more than other destina-tion in the world? It happened because Bali was very consistent in maintaining tradition, culture and religion. “Synergy of customs, culture and religion goes in harmony and it becomes the icon of Bali. It remains to be guarded and maintained by its people for generations. It is the superior-ity of Bali compared to other destinations in the world,” said IGK Manila.

Then, if there were bureaucrats and anyone else leading the damage to Bali, it should be opposed because Bali had been very dense, especially in Southern Bali. “Do not make this density more crowded. Moreover, it is caused by development that does not support Bali,” he pleaded.

He said that Bali should not be sold

to investors. Bali should be for Balinese people, not for certain groups. Moreover, Besakih belonged to sacred area. People should not create the impression that go-ing to Besakih was to play golf instead of going to temple. “Keep the perception that going to Besakih is sublime, saying prayers and performing sacred obliga-tion. On that account, there should be no National Tourism Strategic Area for Besakih,” he asked seriously.

To that end, said IGK Manila, the gov-ernment should have to oversee as well as maintain local values, customs, religion and culture in order they remained good and stable. “There should be no parties exploiting and trying to destroy the good order having existed in Bali,” pleaded the Chief of the Nasdem mass organization doubling as Chairman of the Nasdem Party of Central Java Chapter.

In addition to escorting Bali, the government was expected to act neutral in the presidential election on July 9. As an example, the neutrality was showed by Hatta Rajasa who no longer filled the position as the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry. He had been re-placed by Chaerul Tanjung. Then, why was there still a welcome by the leaders in Bali putting on official badges and posi-tion? “It was not correct. As the govern-ments, they should act neutral and show off a good example of how to practice democracy correctly and objectively,” criticized IGK Manila.

His party also expected the Bali Elec-toral Commission not to take sides. The Commission should be honest, fair and becoming mediator by referring to the guidelines set forth in the rules. (ram)

BAF parade refers to central theme: KertamasaScheduled to be opened by President SBY Bali Post

DENPASAr - The parade of Bali Arts Festival (BAF) XXXvI in 2014 refers to the central theme entitled Kertamasa. In other words, it is the dynamics of agrarian society towards the universal welfare. Although it still refers to the theme, it is formatted with a walking procession and presents a wide range of diverse Balinese, national and inter-national art forms. These were disclosed by the Head of the Bali Culture Agency, Ketut Suastika.

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Workers prepare stage for the opening ceremony of Bali Art Festival. The parade of Bali Arts Festival (BAF) XXXVI in 2014 refers to the central theme entitled Kertamasa.

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“Simply be made into bhisama, so nobody can change it. Similarly, the one who makes it is unable to change. It’s very good. I absolutely agree and it is really desired by people of Tanjung Benoa. We in the environmental studies also require it,” she said.

Meanwhile, a community leader from Abiansemal, I Nyo-man Sentana, judged that even though being late there had been a good progress made by the Badung House. Sentana asked the Badung House to discuss it consistently. Thus, the appropriate intention and action to preserve the environment would not weaken or even faded amidst the process. He also urged to review or annul various rules in Bali that attempted to smooth the reclamation plan.

Similar appreciation was also extended by Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Tourism Intellectuals for Bali Re-gion, I Putu Anom. This former Dean of the Faculty of Tourism,

Udayana University, considered if the Benoa Bay remained a conservation area then mangroves and coral reefs in the region would remain intact. Coastal abrasion could be prevented and socio-cultural life of the community would be well maintained. “In terms of economic perspective, it means that fishermen can still be active including the marine tourism activities can go on normally. Carrying capacity of Southern Bali and Badung can be guaranteed to realize sustainable development,” continued the man from Kapal village, Mengwi.

Chairman of Bali Dwipa Care Forum, Gede Bangun Nusantara, judged the measure of Badung House that would maintain the Benoa Bay as a conservation area was a step forward than the Bali House that so far had not showed its decisive establishment related to the issue. Bangun hoped the Detailed Spatial Plan of Badung County could be rep-licated by Denpasar House. Moreover, the Bali House was

also expected to determine the Benoa Bay into conservation area where at the moment it was revising the Regional Spa-tial Plan. The establishment of Bali House was necessary to give legal instrument to Badung and Denpasar related to the Detailed Spatial Plan of Benoa Bay as conservation area. “Do not let the revision of Bali Regional Spatial Plan even change the Benoa Bay into non-conservation area. If this happens, then we can allege if the revision of spatial plan is filled with the interests of investors,” he said.

Earlier, Chairman of the Special Committee for the De-tailed Spatial Plan of the Badung House, I Wayan Suyasa, revealed that in the draft at issue by the Special Committee for Detailed Spatial Plan in the Badung House, Benoa Bay area was included in the sub-zone of Coastal Conservation and Small Islands. Distribution of the conservation sub-zone and small islands included the conservation block of Pudut Island at Tanjung Benoa village, conservation block of mangrove forest protection of the Ngurah Rai Grand Forest Park (Tahura) at Jimbaran village, Benoa village and Tanjung Benoa village, coral reef protection block, protection block of catch fishermen, seaweed farming protection block and buffer ecosystem block of Benoa Bay waters. With the enactment of Benoa Bay as conservation area, the reclamation was not allowed to do. (kmb25/kmb32)

People walked at Pudut Island near Benoa Bay. The drafting and enactment of Benoa Bay as conservation area in the regional bylaw draft on Detailed Spatial Plan (RDTR) and Zoning Regulation of Badung County was positively responded by a number of circles.

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Regional bylaw draft on RDTR proposed to be a “bhisama”

Bali PostMANGUPURA - The drafting and enactment of Benoa Bay as conservation area in the regional bylaw

draft on Detailed Spatial Plan (RDTR) and Zoning Regulation of Badung County was positively responded by a number of circles. Even, an environmentalist, Dr. Luh Kartini, proposed in order the Regional Bylaw Draft on Detailed Spatial Plan of Badung County could be made into bhisama (sanctified stipulation). Having been made into bhisama, it was believed that any violation against the rules could be suppressed because violating the bhisama was equally the same as getting prepared to get a curse.

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LONDON — Angelina Jolie ap-pealed for a change in attitude on sexual violence in conflict Tuesday, bringing the power of her celebrity to an international summit on a topic she said has been taboo for too long. Opening the four-day London summit, the Hollywood star and United Nations envoy spoke with passion and convic-tion, recalling her meetings with rape victims who struggle with injustice and stigma long after their countries have emerged from conflict.

“We must send a message around the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence, that the shame is on the aggressor,” she said, to cheers from the audience. “We need to shatter that culture of impunity.”

Jolie and British Foreign Secretary William Hague are co-hosting the event, billed as the largest gathering on the subject ever. Diplomats, of-ficials and non-profit representatives from more than 100 countries gathered to press for the rights of victims — women, men and children alike.

Wangu Kanja, a Kenyan rape sur-vivor who has set up her own organi-zation to help others, said she hoped the summit will send a message that governments cannot continue to ignore the issue.

“I’m really hoping that from this

“I’m coming. I leave tonight. We always were going,” she said. “I think people get anxious, especially with me and my schedule when I’m like, ‘Ah, OK, I can leave this day, that day, I don’t know if we can make it.’”

“People get nervous and I think it was a little bit premature to announce anything,” she said. “But we are definitely going.”

FIFA officials announced earlier this week that the singer wouldn’t perform the official tune “We Are One (Ole Ola)” alongside Pitbull and Claudia Leitte. But Lopez said they will perform before Brazil takes on Croatia at Thursday’s opening game in Sao Paulo.

Lopez said the World Cup song was orchestrated by Pitbull, who invited her to join on the track.“I can’t take credit for this. This was one of Pitbull’s call-ins,” said Lopez, who has collaborated with the rapper on the hits “On the Floor” and “Dance Again.”

“He had this record and he’s like, ‘I think this record could be great for the World Cup,” she recalled. “He’s like, ‘Will you do it with me?’ And I go, ‘Yeah, of course.’”

Lopez added: “I’m so lucky that he gave me the opportunity.”The 44-year-old singer, who’s from the Bronx, is also busy promoting

her new album, “A.K.A.,” to be released next week.

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the Kenyan government will be forced to do something,” she said hours after the summit began.

Hague and Jolie are set to launch a guidance document on best practices Wednesday to help strengthen pros-ecutions for rape in conflicts. Hague will also host a meeting Thursday on tackling Boko Haram, the Islamic terror group that abducted more than 300 schoolgirls and young women in Nigeria in April.

The pair have campaigned hard on the issue of sexual violence for two years, and on Tuesday they were welcomed

with cheers from others fighting for the cause as they toured a lively fringe program featuring photo exhibitions, poetry readings, and artists perform-ing skits.

With the cameras of the world fo-cused on her, Jolie said she wanted to dedicated the conference to a rape victim she and Hague recently met in Bosnia.

“She felt that having had no justice for her particular crime, in her particular situation, and having seen the actual man who raped her on the streets free, she really felt abandoned by the world,” Jolie said. “This day is for her.”