visit bali island, the paradise of indonesia

I first visited the island of Bali in Indonesia almost four decades ago. We stayed at Denpasar, the capital where, if I remember correctly, there was only one decent hotel on the beach owned by the Japanese. We drove around the island on narrow streets through lush green terraced rice fields and quiet, picturesque villages where clear streams cascaded, and along the only paved street to visit the numerous Hindu temples which are distinguished both for their discrete architecture and religious rituals. Rows of women elegantly dressed in sarongs, gracefully balancing on their heads pyramids of exquisitely arranged baskets of fruits and flowers, moved gracefully towards the shrines. It was indeed an arcadian land.

Since then Bali has been discovered by tourists from all over the globe, especially their southwesterly neighbour Australia. The entire face of the island has altered dramatically with booming tourist resorts, increased urban settlements, and, of course, both permanent and transitory population straining the island's natural resources and beauty. An indication is the fact that in December 2007, as I write this column, some 11,000 people from 187 countries have gathered in airconditioned comfort in Nusa Dua (a peninsula that certainly was not on the tourist map when we first visited the island) for ten days for a global climate change conference. On Christmas day a friend sent the following message from Bali: "It is ironic the environmentalists chose Bali. Lucky I am not driving that tour bus. I could show them the devastation of the ecology Indonesian style. It is a pity what has happened there. They probably won't venture too far from their five star hotels."

Perhaps Bali was selected deliberately as the venue to discuss the fate of the planet and all its sentient beings. For if indeed global warming, greenhouse emissions, and climate change are established facts, which seems to be the consensus in the scientific community and consistent with the report of the UN panel on climate change (headed by an Indian Dr R.K. Pachauri) that shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace with Al Gore, then the entire world is in trouble. It is clear that as a consequence of the catastrophe that Al Gore predicts there will not be much left for the poor, or for that matter for the rich, in a couple of generations, to inherit. In any event, even as the politicians wrangled over ten days to finally reach the tame consensus that they will meet again a couple of years from now, the media was reporting the disappearance of the rainforest in other islands of the Indonesian archipelago and the threat to our nearest cousin the Orang-utan in Borneo. (Incidentally orang-utan literally means "men of the forest" and in Indian languages too apes are generally referred to as vanmanush which has the same meaning.) Indeed, the rapid disappearance of the rainforests of the Indonesian archipelago as well as the Amazon basin in South America contributes more to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming than the emissions from all the functioning internal combustion engines on the planet. The two together are a lethal combination.

True, the United States is the leading culprit in its insatiable appetite for the consumption of fossil fuel, but we are told that both China and India are rapidly catching up. Despite the Americans' culpability, there is a consensus building in the States among the public, the environmental activists, and the state governments that urgent and aggressive action must be taken if we are to resolve the problem that is already upon us. A great deal of credit must go to Al Gore for making the commercially and globally successful movie An Inconvenient Truth which converted even the diehard sceptics.

However, the developed countries cannot by themselves solve the crisis without the cooperation of the developing behemoths like China and India--a combined population of two billion plus with their voracious appetite for energy and consumerism. We cannot take cover under the blanket of poverty to complacently aggravate the situation. Economic growth and reduction of greenhouse gases must learn to march together in harmony, with sustainable technology. It is not enough simply to put cheaper cars on the substandard Indian roads. They must at the same time be fuel-efficient with reduced toxic emissions. Does it make any sense to concentrate only on eradicating poverty, if there is no clean air or water to sustain life?

India was once a richly forested land and forests have played a significant role in the development of what is distinctive Indian culture. Indeed, in few other civilizations have the forests, the rivers, and the mountains contributed so much to enrich the Indian mind. Many in India would like us to use the Vedas to rejuvenate our society and our souls by reviving the spiritual values enunciated so eloquently by the ancient sages in the Vedic poems, but in practice we do little or nothing to preserve our forests or clean up our rivers.

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What you think about Bali, Traveling to Indonesia is definitely a trip you will never forget.Plan for a long ride to get there, as it is a 31 hour flight from New York. Bali is a wonderful area with an array of fun filled activities to choose from. It is the main tourist area of Indonesia.

The people of Bali are very friendly, and enjoy having visitors come to their area. Many speak English to interact with tourists. They have chosen to preserve their culture for all to see rather than change it to become like other countries. The beaches are a main attraction with surfing being one of the most popular activities. Others enjoy renting a boat for the day to relax on the open waters.

Lodging in Bali ranges from small bungalows to huge fancy hotels, all with basic accommodations to meet the needs of tourists. The view from your hotel will be wonderful because of the rich beauty of the area regardless of where you choose to stay.

The people of Bali are very artistic. They enjoy painting, weaving, carving, basket making, and other arts. Children are taught art from a very early age. They often display their makings to sell to the tourists.

Temples are a main attraction in Bali. They are called Pura. The temples provide an opportunity to explore religion and art of the culture. The people of Bali are still very religious, and it is very important that those visiting the Temples show respect for their religious beliefs.

Art galleries exhibit creative and attractive art work to view. Wildlife and nature reserves are popular in Bali. Many people go to get a glimpse of the very dangerous Komodo Dragon, a large lizard that is found only in the area and is extinct. The rare Java tiger is also displayed.

There are more than 400 volcanoes in Indonesia, 128 are still active. They offer a historical view of this natural creation to observe. Botanic Gardens are also a very popular attraction. Displaying flora and fauna as well as promoting conservation, people are drawn to the beauty of such attractions.

While Indonesia is a beautiful and serene place to visit, it is strongly advised at this time to be cautious with such visits due to the possibility of terrorist attacks. If you do choose to travel to the area do not travel alone and make sure you have registered with the US Embassy.

Bali Top Class Retreats Near the Beaches

Bali, a huge conglomeration of 13,000 islands, tempts the travelers all around the world with its richness ranging from mountains to long coastlines and hillsides to sandy beaches. The beach lovers throng in at Bali throughout the year and thus number of Bali Beach Hotels has multiplied in the recent years. Couples, families and even the corporate individuals make frequent visits to spend a nice vacation near the Bali beaches.

Since the island of Bali covers a huge area you find plenty of Bali beach hotels situated at every corner of the region. While Southern part of Bali has the major concentration of hotels you can still count on a number of star category hotels located in other parts of Bali. After you fly down at Ngurah Rai international airport in Denpasar you can easily get connected with your chosen hotel.

Accommodation

If you are planning to go for a trip to North Bali you can select from a number of quality Bali beach hotels. Apart from the luxury hotels like, Matahari Beach Resort & Spa, Damai Lovina Villas and Puri Bagus Lovina, you can also check-in at the mid-range hotels like Saranam Eco Resort. This beautiful region of Indonesia touches the heart of millions of travelers every year and these beach hotels in Bali offer you the dose of relaxation.

Candi Dasa, a noted tourist destination in the East of Bali is also gifted with a number of world class hotels. Rama Candidasa Resort & Spa and Alila Manggis Bali are among the luxury beach hotels in Bali while Puri Bagus Candidasa and Puri Bagus Manggis are the noted mid-range accommodations. You expect to receive exclusive comfort in the form of elegant rooms, elaborate arrangement of dining and wining and endless list of recreational facilities.

Coming down to the south of Bali will let you explore the blessed regions like, Kuta, Legian, Seminyak, Tuban, Jimbaran, and Nusa Dua. There is a wide range of Bali beach hotels in these popular destinations. The luxury hotels like Kuta Seaview Cottage, Mercure Kuta Bali, Ramayana Resort & Spa, and White Rose Hotel & Spa await your coming and welcome you with sheer hospitality. Be it the night-life or the beach activities, staying in these Bali hotels give you a free ticket to entertainment.

Nusa Dua, considered to be a posh region in Bali, has the major concentration of 5-star hotels. If you can afford luxury the Bali beach hotels in Nusa Dua like, Melia Bali Villas & Spa Resort, Nikko Bali Resort & Spa, Novotel Nusa Dua Bali Hotel & Residences, and Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa, are ready to offer you a grand treatment. Like other luxury hotels in Indonesia, these beach hotels in Bali offer you extensive range of recreational facilities including spa, swimming pool and water sports in the nearby beaches.

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7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listeni

TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT THEIR job, internal auditors must be able to write, speak, and listen effectively. Of these three skills, effective listening may be the most crucial because auditors are required to do it so often. Unfortunately, listening also may be the most difficult skill to master.

Effective listening is challenging, in part, because people often are more focused on what they're saying than on what they're hearing in return. According to a recent study by the Harvard Business Review, people think the voice mail they send is more important than the voice mail they receive. Generally, senders think that their message is more helpful and urgent than do the people who receive it.

Additionally, listening is difficult because people don't work as hard at it as they should. Listening seems to occur so naturally that putting a lot of effort into it doesn't seem necessary. However, hard work and effort is exactly what effective listening requires.

Internal auditors must listen to explanations, rationales, and defenses of financial practices and procedures. They are constantly communicating with fellow employees whose backgrounds range from accounting to finance to marketing to information systems. In addition, explanations by fellow employees of any "unusual" practices often pose a significant challenge to an internal auditor's listening skills. Auditors can use the following techniques to improve these skills.

1. CONCENTRATE ON WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING. When listening to someone, do you often find yourself thinking about a job or task that is nearing deadline or an important family matter? In the middle of a conversation, do you sometimes realize that you haven't heard a word the other person has said? Most individuals speak at the rate of 175 to 200 words per minute. However, research suggests that we are very capable of listening and processing words at the rate of 600 to 1,000 words per minute. An internal auditor's job today is very fast and complex, and because the brain does not use all of its capacity when listening, an auditor's mind may drift to thinking of further questions or explanations rather than listening to the message at hand. This unused brainpower can be a barrier to effective listening, causing the auditor to miss or misinterpret what others are saying. It is important for internal auditors to actively concentrate on what others are saying so that effective communication can occur.

2. SEND THE NONVERBAL MESSAGE THAT YOU ARE LISTENING. When someone is talking to you, do you maintain eye contact with that person? Do you show the speaker you are listening by nodding your head? Does your body language transmit the message that you are listening? Are you leaning forward and not using your hands to play with things? Most communication experts agree that nonverbal messages can be three times as powerful as verbal messages. Effective communication becomes difficult anytime you send a nonverbal message that you're not really listening.

3. AVOID EARLY EVALUATIONS. When listening, do you often make immediate judgments about what the speaker is saying? Do you assume or guess what the speaker is going to say next? Do you sometimes discover later that you failed to interpret correctly what the speaker was telling you? Because a listener can listen at a faster rate than most speakers talk, there is a tendency to evaluate too quickly. That tendency is perhaps the greatest barrier to effective listening. It is especially important to avoid early evaluations when listening to a person with whom you disagree. When listeners begin to disagree with a sender's message, they tend to misinterpret the remaining information and distort its intended meaning so that it is consistent with their own beliefs.

4. AVOID GETTING DEFENSIVE. Do you ever take what another person says personally when what her or she is saying is not meant to be personal? Do you ever become angry at what another person says? Careful listening does not mean that you will always agree with the other party's point of view, but it does mean that you will try to listen to what the other person is saying without becoming overly defensive. Too much time spent explaining, elaborating, and defending your decision or position is a sure sign that you are not listening. This is because your role has changed from one of listening to a role of convincing others they are wrong. After listening to a position or suggestion with which you disagree, simply respond with something like, "I understand your point. We just disagree on this one." Effective listeners can listen calmly to another person even when that person is offering unjust criticism.

5. PRACTICE PARAPHRASING. Paraphrasing is the art of putting into your own words what you thought you heard and saying it back to the sender. For example, a subordinate might say: "You have been unfair to rate me so low on my performance appraisal. You have rated me lower than Jim. I can do the job better than him, and I've been here longer." A paraphrased response might be: "I can see that you are upset about your rating. You think it was unfair for me to rate you as I did." Paraphrasing is a great technique for improving your listening and problem-solving skills. First, you have to listen very carefully if you are going to accurately paraphrase what you heard. Second, the paraphrasing response will clarify for the sender that his or her message was correctly received and encourage the sender to expand on what he or she is trying to communicate.

how Transition From Female To Male

IN THIS WORK I INTERROGATE MY LOCATION AS PHOTOGRAPHER while making pictures of Jake as he transitioned from female to male. At the time Jake asked me to photograph his sex change in 1996, his name was Deb. Having never heard of gender dysphoria, the state of mind which characterizes the desire for gender reassignment, I was naive about the complexity or intensity of the process. What part did my own subjectivity, as a fiftyish black heterosexual woman from the Southeast, play in constructing images of a thirtyish white Midwestern lesbian who was working to become a heterosexual man?

The concept of changing one's identity was not new to me. While growing up I'd heard stories about slaves escaping to become "free" and light skinned blacks "passing" for white. In 1848, a woman named Ellen Craft did both. In her husband's 1860 narrative about their journey, he wrote, "It occurred to me that, as my wife was nearly white, I might get her to disguise herself as an invalid gentleman, and assume to be my master, while I could attend as his slave, and that in this manner we might effect our escape. For the Crafts, crossing the Mason Dixon line was contingent on Ellen successfully crossing the boundaries of black to white, slave to owner, woman to man and wife to master.

The history of "passing," its assumption of fraudulently trespassing, and its question of authenticity seemed to parallel Jake's quest. But from the stories he told me about middle class life in Indiana and his parents' opposition to ending defacto (by practice) racial segregation in the public schools he attended, I got the impression that he did not relate his situation to that of blacks.

Even before the Civil Rights Movement was being shaped in the 1950s, my mother had made "the fight for racial equality" part of our lives. I never forgot my feelings of rage when the confessed kidnappers of Emmett Till were acquitted. He was the fourteen-year-old black boy who was beaten, shot in the head and thrown in the Tallahatchie River because he spoke to a white woman in Money, Mississippi. This event is just one of many which marks my work.

Although Jake's act had its own value and meaning, it was not my issue and I was wary of the ethical and political violence inherent in "speaking for others." On top of that, Jake wanted to be the kind of man who embraced patriarchal and misogynistic values.

Why would I, a black feminist, choose to work with a person who had Jake's values? The answer lies in having always lived and worked with people who are racist and/or sexist. Within this was formed my blueprint for self-destruction and survival. Grudgingly I have had to admit that each of us is more complicated than our "labels" would imply. Admittedly, I had a hard time understanding why Jake could not remain the masculine female which he had been, but I halfway understood the impulse to want to fit into the mainstream culture.

From the beginning I felt conflicted in my role as a documentary photographer. For one thing it was not my field of work. In order to understand and perhaps resolve being at odds in my role as the interpreter of Jake's process, I taped our dialogues, researched transsexuality and maintained a personal journal. My photographic objective was to show the body's physical alterations. I saw my 4 x 5 view camera as a tool to create visual evidence of the body's transformation.

In our second photo shoot, I asked Jake to disrobe. Since he had seemed so relaxed, his discomfort in undressing in front of the camera threw me off a bit. Embarrassed to see his agonizing self-consciousness, I felt thrust into the role of voyeur. I averted my gaze, gave him some privacy by not looking straight at him. Thinking reflection, reflecting, I turned my camera towards the dresser mirror.

That session was probably the most difficult one for Jake. Mine would come later. Afterwards I realized that in order to photograph .Jake, I would have to be able to look, to see, to open my mind. I would have to struggle to be the voyeur, to hold my gaze and to confront and overcome the taboos and conventions that "nice colored girls" don't do or ask about, look at, or think about certain things across racial lines.

On the day that Jake had his double mastectomy, I wrote in my journal: "I will shoot her tonight. Now that the time has come I am terrified, ambivalent, no, horrified, about her cutting out her female body parts. Somehow it feels like it's my body, like it's being done to me. Will I be able to follow through?"

The next day I wrote, "As she began removing her shirt, I thought, 'I hope I don't get sick.'"

After working together three and a half months. I felt unsure about the nature of the relationship. I also became conscious of mediating between the perceived fiction and the reality of the transformative process. I wanted to deromanticize it and to show both Jake's struggles and triumphs. My journal revealed my shift to empathize with and support him.

When Jake came out of surgery on his genitalia, he looked like he was in so much pain that I could not make myself take a photograph. I waited for him to feel better. After two and a half months he finally admitted that he had been in tremendous pain since the silicon balls were inserted. I began to notice his despair. I did not want him to quit, so I began taking photographs again. I shifted my photographic goal and my camera to 35 mm in order to put more of a human face on what was becoming Jake's new body.

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generally handphone samsung do not support java platform.how to interrogate that matter ?, just try this way of following :

1. Download Driver & File Explorer.

2. If you not install the modem yet, uncompress SAMSUNG_Composite_USB_Driver_4_34_WHQL.zip and execute Setup.exe. If you had install it, go to step 4.

3. Connect your Samsung to PC. First time you should be prompted with a ‘device installed and ready’ message.

4. Execute TkFileExplorer_2.2.exe

5. Go to Settings - COM.

6. Scroll down Port window: You should get just one COMxx option. Choose it and press OK.

7. Go to File - Connect. You should get the F480 File System Tree at TkFileExplorer bottom half side.

8. Go to /Exe/Java/Games (if there is no Games folder in /Exe/Java, go to /Media/Games)

9. Create a New Folder for your game

10. At TkFileExplorer PC upper side select game JAD/JAR files and copy to F480 created folder using drag&drop or right button menu Download option.

11. Repeat steps 9 & 10 for all games you want to install at a time.

12. Disconnect USB cable

13. Dial *#6984125*#

14. Go to Internals (Master Key: *#9072641*#)

15. Go to Storage Settings and select Update Java DB

Good luck...

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Technology is increasing very quickly in the world and especially in software field. People are now using latest version of Outlook application (Outlook 2007) which has included many advance features and it is very user friendly. Microsoft has launched this application to full fill the demand of outlook users. Today most of the organization or offices are using this software for managing e-mail account. It File extension of this Outlook 2007 application is .ost and .pst. It is a widely used file format for managing email, tasks, calendar and much more. But today data loss problem is very high in the world. So the chances of pst file loss is always high but don’t worry solution is now available. Use Outlook 2007 Repair Software.

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In the present day a lot of type and brand of handphone circulating in marketing, how to interrogate handphone to which you wear according to your requirement and the maximal function.

1. First

What your target to buy handphone

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