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Government Wants BalineseVillagers to Plant RotatingCrop of Trees on LocalFarmlands to Make Bali'sWood Carving IndustrySustainable.

The Bali Forestry serviceis inviting the public to developlocal forest reserves in order tomeet the need for raw materialamong the island's wood workersand statue carvers.Quoted by the national newsagency, Antara, the head of Bali'sForestry Service, Anak Agung NgurahBuana, said, "We are preparingseedlings without charge andrequesting public participation (in theproject) in conjunction with the Heads(Kelian) of the Bali community units."Buana said that forests plantedby local communities would be readyfor harvest in three to four years.The type of woods to beplanted include mahogany, Bintangur(bentawas),Crocodile wood(panggal buaya)and rain tree(trembesi) whichforestry officialshope localresidents willintroduce in theirland holdings."The fellingof the trees shouldbe carried out in stages,ideally over four cuttings from asingle planting, in order toprovide for a sustainableharvest," he continued.He also explained thatover the last several years, theForestry Service has distributedone million trees plantingswithout charge to the public.

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Making Bali's Wood Carvers Self-Reliant

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AirAsia to Fly from Bali toDarwin in October 2010.

The Indonesia arm ofAirAisa (IAA) have announcedtheir intention to operate directflights between Denpasar andDarwin commencing October2010. The service connecting Balito Australia's northwest will takeup routes recently abandoned bythe Indonesian national flagcarrier Garuda Indonesia.As reported in Bisnis.com,the President Director of IAA,Dharmadi, said the new servicewould operate four times a weekusing Airbus A320 aircraft with acapacity of 180 passengers.Explaining hisairlines decision to flythe new route,Dharmadi said theDenpasar-Darwinroute can be flown in just 2 hours, wellwithin the 5 hour flightrange of the A 320.Final approval topermit flightoperations over thenew route, now rests with civilaviation authorities in Jakarta andCanberra. IAA currently operatesflights to Australia on theDenpasar-Perth, WesternAustralia route.If approved, operations byIAA between Bali and Darwin willplace the Indonesia airline indirect competition with JetStarAustralia who also operate thisroute using A320 equipment.Dharmadi toldBisnis.com. that thecurrent twice-weekly service isaveraging passenger loadsabove 90%, primarily comprisedof Australia tourists.IAA is targeting to converttheir entire armada to A320aircraft, bringing to 14 the totalnumber of planes in their fleet bythe end of November 2010.49% of IAA is owned byAirAsia Berhad Malaysia.

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"Once our proposal receives localcommunity approval, seedlingscan be taken at three nurserylocations in Suwung (Denpasar),Grokgak (Buleleng) and Abang(Karangasem)," he explained.Continuing to outline thescheme, he described howplantings should be limited to 400trees per hectare, allowing mixedagriculture including also corn,cassava and several varieties ofpeanuts to coexist alongside theforestry cultivation. This approachprovides a secondary cash cropwhile waiting for the wood harvestto sufficiently mature.Agung Buana expressedthe wish that trees can be plantedin a mixed agricultural productsetting in every vacant parcel ofland in Bali as part of efforts tomake Bali green, while at thesame time helping to fulfill rawmaterial needs of the local woodcarving sector.Bali has a constant needfor wood required by traditionalcarvers, currently compelling theimport of wood from other areas ofIndonesia each year. Efforts tocreate new wood sources on Baliwill hopefully, over time, reducethe need for these imports,making a key Bali employmentsector more self-reliant.Bali currently calculatesits forested regions as covering130,686 hectares comprised of95,766 hectares (73.28%) ofconservation land and 26,293hectares (20.12%) of protectedtrees and 8.626 hectares (6.60%)of wood plantations. In all,forested land covers only 22% ofthe island's surface, a numbersubstantially below the 30%figure seen as ideal for sustainingBali's natural environment.

Mona Lisa x-ray reveals Da Vinci's light touch

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French scientists have shone new light on the painting technique that allowed Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci to give the Mona Lisa such an extraordinary delicate charm.

Working with an x-rayscanner, scholars at the Louvrewere able to detect each layer ofglaze, paint and pigment in sevenof his masterpieces, andreconstruct his painstakingshading technique, known as"sfumato"."Minute observations,optical measurements andreconstitutions have alreadydescribed the sfumato, but newanalysis can confirm theprocedure of this technique," astatement from the state CNRSresearch institute said."The results obtained inthis study help tounderstand Da Vinci's searchtowards making his art look alive."One of the reasons theMona Lisa remains renowned tothis day as a great portrait is thelifelike shadows and tones thatgive her enigmatically smilingface a sense of depth and reality.According to thescientists, who were able to studythe layers of work that went intothe paintings without damagingthem by extracting actualsamples, the shadows were builtup by dozens of translucent layersof glaze.Each layer was only oneof two micrometres thick, but eachcontained a carefully dosedamount of pigmentation.This was a new techniquein the Renaissance, and part ofthe reason Da Vinci and hiscontemporaries were able tomake what had been the once flatimages of the Middle Agesappear to leap from their framesinto photo-like reality.In addition to the MonaLisa, the scientists studied theVirgin of the Rocks, Saint Johnthe Baptist, Annunciation,Bacchus, Belle Ferronniere, SaintAnne and the Virgin and the Child.In each case they wereable to probe the 500-year-oldmasterworks without even takingthem down from the walls of thefamous Louvre Gallery in Paris,by beaming an x-ray fluorescencespectroscope at the canvas.The research was carriedout by Laurence de Viguerie,Philippe Walter, Eric Laval, BrunoMottin and Armando Sole of theFrench national museumsservice, and published in thescholarly review AngewandteChemie International Edition.

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For the girl who has everything - a wearable winerack

THERE'S now a perfect giftfor the girl who haseverything - including adesire to secretly drink whilesimultaneously getting abreast lift.

The Wine Rack, a sportsbra with a plastic "bladder" thatcan hold an entire bottle of wine, isfeatured at the BaronBob.comwebsite."You won't find this atVictoria's Secret," Paul Krasuljaof BaronBob boasted to the theNew York Daily News."I don't consider it fine-looking lingerie. But it is a good-looking piece."He won't get manyarguments about the goodlooking part.Basically the $US29.95device is a black sportsbra with a polyurethane bladderinside and a drinking tube longenough to sip from.Add liquid, and thewebsite promises you will "turn anA cup into double Ds".And where, exactly, wouldyou want to sport thispiece of equipment?The website suggestsfilling it with wine or cocktails andwearing it to "movies, concerts,ball games, even PTA meetings".