Wiratha said that his party ex-plored cooperation with at least 50 private employment services (PPT-KIS) to dispatch formal migrant workers from Bali. To that end, it had been prepared two agendas of job fair in mid-May 2012. The endeavor was intended to dimin-ish the open unemployment rate in Bali reaching 52,380 people. Further, he said that in 2012 the Bali Manpower and Resettlement Agency targeted 18,000 youths of Bali to work in formal sector overseas. The labor force placed

up to April 2012 amounted to 1,450 workers, while formal workers that managed to be dispatched by Bali in 2011came to 14,994 people.

Further, he said that his party would try to meet the target through improvement of work-force competency. According to him, briefing in the form of educa-tion and training for various busi-ness sectors had been prepared to yield a reliable, skilled and professional labor force as well as to have capability of competing in job market. In addition, his party

had also developed the manag-ing companies and socialized the implementation mechanism to prospective migrant workers so that they would not go beyond the existing mechanisms because it could harm them. He added that for protection to workers prior to departure until their return, they would be covered by insurance overseen by a local insurance company and local private em-ployment services (BP3TKIS).

Are the potential of job opportu-nities in Bali minimal so that many

young people of Bali even look for them overseas? According to him, the unemployment rate in Bali kept on accumulating so that they could not be absorbed by the existing job markets in the region. He described that within a year there were at least 1,500 job opportunities, while the number of unemployment and job seekers exploded. “We try to facili-tate the job seekers that could not be absorbed at home through job placement overseas,” he said.

Meanwhile, an economist, Prof. Dr. Made Kembar Sri Budhi, said on Tuesday (May 1) that rather than continuing to send migrant workers overseas which was not impossible for them to encounter a problem without being well prepared, the Bali Government should have a new breakthrough to create job opportunities in the region.

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Many therefore opted to run with periscope gauges or various aero sensors rather than chase times. Such priorities would not diminish Grosjean’s pace, however, as he pulled clear of the field after barely an hour in and never looked under threat thereafter. He ended the morning on a 1m21.603s.

Mark Webber, in the Red Bull for this morn-ing before handing over to reigning champion Sebastian Vettel for the final day and a half, ended the morning as Grosjean’s nearest chal-lenger.

Webber had run second for much of the morning, still more than 1.5s adrift of the Frenchman, but in the final hour a medium-tyre run allowed him to close to within four tenths. The pair were the only two to dip below the 1m22s mark.

Felipe Massa kept Ferrari near the top by going third fastest, de-spite a programme which saw him make several low speed runs early on and run with a periscope gauge attached to his roll hoop for almost the duration.

Toro Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne ended fourth ahead of Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi and Mer-cedes’ Michael Schumacher, with the German managing 74 laps, the most of any driver.

That was in stark contrast to Paul di Resta, who managed just seven laps and failed to set a time in the Force India. The team said an issue with the hydraulics was the most likely cause of its woes, but it remains optimistic of running before the end of the day.

The Scot propped up the timesheets as a re-sult, separated from Schumacher by Charles Pic (Marussia), Vitaly Petrov (Caterham), Gary Paf-fett (McLaren) and Bruno Senna (Williams).

Formula 1 drivers should be happy to accept the challenge posed by Pirelli’s current generation of tyres be-cause they are helping make the racing

more exciting. That is the view of Mark Webber, who reckons that complaints that the high degradation is detracting from the thrill of pushing F1 cars to the

limit are not valid.“Tyres have always been an important

part of Formula 1,” said the Red Bull Racing driver. “Things were probably a little less punishing in the past to get them right, but now you need to be right there and, if you aren’t, it can be quite tricky.

“Everybody has the same stuff to deal with so you have to get on with it. We just drive the cars and do the best job with what we have.” The impact of tyres on the racing has become a big talking point after Michael Schumacher criticised the characteristics of Pirelli’s rubber after the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Webber acknowledges that all drivers would love perfect tyres, but says that the most important consideration should be the entertainment for the fans.

“We would all love to have quicker laptimes and extremely consistent tyres like we did in the old days, but that wasn’t the most exciting thing for the racing,” he explained.

“Trying to find somewhere in the middle is always tricky, but at the mo-ment we have a pretty good show for the crowd. Whether it’s by design or not, it’s turned out like that.”

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Red Bull mechanics push their team driver Mark Webber of Australia’s car back to the pit lane garage during the second practice session ahead of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Friday, April 20, 2012.

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unemployment remains a serious problem for Bali as indicated by the data of Central Statistics agency (BPS) of Bali that open unemployment reaches 52,380. Bali Government itself has not been able to create job opportunities in the region so that many young people of Bali are looking for job outside Bali and overseas. To reduce the unemployment rate, the Head of Bali manpower and resettlement agency, Wayan Wiratha, said on monday (apr 30) that in 2012 his agency targeted to send 18,000 formal workers to various countries.

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Jrue Holiday scored 26 points, Lou Williams added 20 and the Philadelphia 76ers beat Chicago 109-92 on Tuesday night to even their first-round series in the Bulls’ first game since Rose’s season-ending knee injury.

The superstar point guard received a standing ovation and waved to the crowd as he limped onto the court to present the game ball, then watched from a suite as the 76ers simply blitzed the Bulls in the third quarter.

They outscored Chicago 36-14 in the period, turning an eight-point defi-cit into an 83-69 lead, and pulled even with the league’s top-seeded team.

Game 3 is Friday in Philadelphia.“This game we caught fire and it

was pretty hard to put it out,” Holi-day said.

All the Bulls could do was shake their heads and vow to do better.

“Disappointed,” Chicago’s Joa-kim Noah said. “Disappointing effort overall. We didn’t play well defensively. We didn’t play well of-fensively.”

Holiday was 11 of 15 from the field, and the Sixers shot 59 percent overall. Williams came up big, going 8 of 13 after hitting just 1 of 6 shots in the opener, and Chicago product Evan Turner chipped in with 19 points, seven rebounds and six assists.

Noah led the Bulls with 21 points and eight rebounds. John Lucas III scored 15 points, but Carlos Boozer scored just nine and Luol Deng fin-ished with eight. More alarming, the Bulls simply couldn’t stop the Sixers, particularly in the third quarter.

Turner scored 11 points in the period, and Philadelphia wiped out a 55-47 deficit.

“That third quarter we played to-night was as good a quarter as I ever seen our team play as long as I’ve been with them,” Philadelphia coach Doug Collins said. “We were active.”

For the Bulls, that was about as bad as it gets.

They were unable to make any stops, and they couldn’t find a rhythm on offense, either.

“We kind of let our offense af-fect our defense,” Richard Hamilton said.

The Sixers were leading 68-61 midway through the quarter after a 12-0 run that Elton Brand started with a foul-line jumper. Then, after a bas-ket by C.J. Watson, Andre Iguodala threw down a thunderous one-handed dunk over Deng for a three-point play that drew plenty of oohs, aahs and groans from a crowd that felt this one

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LONDON - Roy Hodgson was appointed England manager on a four-year contract on Tuesday, ending months of speculation over who would lead the national team to next month’s European Championship. The experienced 64-year-old, who has been in charge of Premier League West Bromwich Albion since February last year, became the 13th permanent post-War England manager after succeeding Italian Fabio Capello.

“This is a very proud day for me, I’m a very happy man to be offered the chance to manage my country and I’m looking forward to the task ahead,” Englishman Hodgson, who the FA said was the unanimous choice of the board, said at a news conference at Wembley.

“Everyone knows it’s not an easy one but I’m hoping everyone, the fans and supporters get behind the team. “It’s the team that counts and I will do my very best to make sure they are prepared as well as possible for the tasks that lay ahead.”

Capello left his role as England manager in February, four years after taking over from Steve McClaren, despite a successful Euro 2012 qualifying campaign. Since then Stuart Pearce, the under-21s coach, had been in temporary charge with Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp the hot favourite to be offered the job.

FA chairman David Bernstein refused to talk about why Red-knapp was overlooked, preferring to trumpet the credentials of Hodgson. “After putting together a shortlist Roy emerged as the standout candidate,” Bernstein said.

“We met at Wembley yesterday and we quickly agreed that Roy was the right man to guide us to the European Championship and future tournaments.

“I want to make it quite clear we were unanimous in choosing Roy,” Bernstein added. “He is a manager of a vast experience of international and European football, in fact this is the first time the FA has appointed a manager with any previous international experience and this will I’m be a great benefit to him in making the adjustment from club management.

COMMAND RESPECT

“Roy has outstanding contacts and could walk into any train-ing ground across the world and command respect.” West Brom confirmed on their website that Hodgson, who replaced now Chel-sea caretaker coach Roberto Di Matteo last year, would remain in charge for the final two games of the season, away to Bolton Wanderers and home to Arsenal.

“Roy’s appointment as England Manager is obviously disap-pointing news for the club as we would have liked him to sign a new contract, which was in the process of negotiation, and remain as our head coach,” West Brom chairman Jeremy Peace said in a statement.

“But we understand Roy’s desire to take the England job and he will leave us after the Arsenal game on May 13 with our best wishes. We are delighted he will be see the season out with us.”

76ers pull away in 3rd, beat Bulls 109-92Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO — The fans gave Derrick Rose a standing ovation before the game. There wasn’t much for them to cheer about in the end.

slipping away.Things didn’t get much better for

Chicago after that.The 76ers continued to pour it

on, with Iguodala delivering another vicious dunk late in the quarter and then hitting Williams with an alley-oop pass that made it 83-69 heading into the fourth.

“For the first time in a long time our defense dictated our offense,” Iguodala said. “We rebounded the ball. Evan and myself pushed it out on the break and we finished pretty well. It started with that in the third quarter.”

It added up to a rough night for the Bulls, who were in a familiar spot with Rose sidelined again — this time after tearing the ACL in his left knee late in Game 1.

He missed 27 games during the regular season because of a variety of ailments, and the Bulls did just fine, going 18-9. Throw in injuries to Hamilton and Deng, and they were able to go with their projected starting five just 15 times, yet they still captured homecourt advantage throughout the playoffs for the second straight season.

That’s why they insist they can still make a run, even with Rose out. They won without him before. They insist their championship hopes didn’t die when he went down.

“It’s different (without Rose),” Noah said. “There’s no excuses, though. We know we can play bet-ter. It’s disappointing, but you know what? We live to fight another day. There’s a lot of basketball to play.”

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Philadelphia 76ers forward Thaddeus Young (21) drives to the basket against Chicago Bulls forward Taj Gibson during the third quarter of Game 2 in an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, in Chicago on Tuesday, May 1, 2012.

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Newly appointed England soccer manager Roy Hodgson poses for a photograph in the home dressing room at Wembley Stadium in London, May 1, 2012.

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Negara (Bali Post) –A number of banjar Tengah peo-

ple, Yeh Kuning Village, protested the existence of a poultry farm around their house area as they felt burden with its strong unfriendly smell moreover flies are found a lot nearby. One resident, Ni Sayu Putu Tirta (38) when met last Tuesday (1/5) admitted very disturbed by it especially during the rain. Besides that water on wells also polluted expected an affect from the farm as it’s water gone green and not clear. “During no rain there are many flies, moreover during the rain. I can’t stand it,” Tirta clarified.

Other resident, Gusti Ngurah Arya (31) complained the condition as well as even though his house is far the smell still reached there which disturbed their sleeps too. The cages of the poultry farm were placed horizontally with total 5 of them in the banjar. This complain has been stated several times yet there were never a respond and it is hoped that the connected agency will take action. It was stated that it did reached its harvest time last time and there should be spray-ing and cleaning moreover bird flu seemed to be attacking again. (kmb26)

Chairman of Commission C of the Denpasar House, I Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa, accompanied by his member I Nyoman Darsa and a member of Commission B, I Wayan Suadi Putra, questioned the allocation of PHR funds man-aged by provincial government in Denpasar on Tuesday (May 1). “We consider the funds sourcing from the hotel and restaurant tax revenue as much as 20 percent managed by the province is not effective,” said the politician of PDI-P.

Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa said the use of funds paid to the province was unclear. Having been traced, the utilization of funds was only effective in 2009. Meanwhile, the use of fund in subsequent years was unclear. On that account, he judged that utilization of the fund should be returned to respective owner.

He said that in the memoran-

dum of understanding (MoU) No. 075/01/KB/B.Pem/2009, No.18/2009 and No.188.45/01/HK/2009 concerning with Hotel and Restaurant Tax Revenue Re-allocation of Badung and Denpasar was mentioned the second parties (Badung and Denpasar) deposited the PHR tax revenue to first party. Twenty percent of the tax revenue was submitted to the province and remaining 80 percent to the six regencies, namely Buleleng, Karan-gasem, Tabanan, Bangli, Jembrana and Klungkung. “We do not dispute the allocation for the regencies. Indeed, they deserve to receive the funds,” he said.

The fund amounting to 20 per-cent managed by the provincial government was used to finance the tourism promotion and com-prehensive integration by involving the regency/municipality, the cost

of security improvement as well as cultural and environmental preser-vation. “We recommend that such 20 percent of fund can be constantly managed by Denpasar and Badung for the management of security is-sues. Therefore, it can be used for coordination with subdistrict police station in each territory so that it will be more effective,” said Agus Arya Wibawa last Tuesday.

Arya Wibawa also explained that currently the hotel and res-taurant tax deposited by Denpasar reached IDR 13.3 billion. Of this amount, approximately IDR 2.6 billion was managed by the prov-ince for the costs specified in the MoU. Even, the Badung Regency deposited in a greater amount. “It is what we need to review in the future because the fund was not managed effectively by the province,” he explained. (kmb12)

After treated at Nusa Indah Room Sanglah Hospital, the suspect rabies from Karangasem initialled KW (44) died on Tuesday (1/5) around 6 am local time as the virus has attacked the brain and nerve system, stated by Sanglah Hospital Rabies Management Team Secretary, dr. Ken Wirasandhi, MARS, “Rabies are potential deadly disease if it has attacked the brain and nerve system which so a VAR (Rabies Anti Vaccination) will be no use.”

Rabies takes various timing in get-

ting up to the brain and nerve system also depends on its wound position (near or not near the head) plus the size of the wound. If it’s nearby the nerve system, head, deep and large size it will attack the brain quicker. For that it is always suggested to the people that has been bitten to wash the wound with soap at least 10-15 minutes with running water after bitten. This function is to lessen the virus coming in the body which then continued with a VAR. (san)

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Tourists are packed in a restaurant in Kuta area.

Come into question,

20 percent deposit of hotel and restaurant tax to provincial govtDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Mutual agreement of the governor of Bali with the regent of Badung and mayor of Den-pasar on the re-allocation of hotel and restaurant (PHR) tax revenue of Badung Regency and Denpasar Municipality to Bali Government is now in question. In the agreement, the fund of PHR tax revenue paid to provincial government reaches 10-22 percent of the total tax revenue in Denpasar and Badung. As much as 80 percent is allocated for the six regencies in Bali, while the remaining 20 percent is managed by the province.

Rabies suspect patient from Karangasem died

Yeh Kuning Residents protest on poultry farm

Denpasar (Bali Post) –Denpasar Police Criminal unit

succeeded in revealing a network of motorcycle robber network with three accused Hadi Pamuji alias Andik (31), Moh. Santosa alias Ade (28) and Misdianto alias Gandul (31) all from Banyuwangi. Besides accused, police also con-fiscated evidences of mutilated motorcycles.

The capture last Saturday (28/4) happened when the three was known to have taken Andik’s girlfriend, Anita Sukamawati (26), motorcycle at Jl. Gunung Soputan Kebak Sari No. 25, Denpasar which was taken 21st April 2012 at 11.30 pm local time as stated by Head of Denpasar Police Public Relation, APC IB Sarjana, last Tuesday (1/5).

As accused comes to victim’s place often, it was easy for ac-cused to steal the motorcycle. The problem was then reported and received by police 28th April 2012. The suspicion led to accused, Andik, as he never came by after the robbery and captured him at his flat in Ceningan Sari Street, Gang Melati No. 18, Denpasar. From the investigation, accused admitted auctioned the bike to Gandul with intermediary Ade. The other two accused were then captured at each accused places Pulau Sepiori No. 4 Denpasar and Bali Clief No. 18 Ungasan South Kuta Badung. “The two accused are violating section 480 and have been jailed. The case is still being developed,” Sarjana concluded. (kmb21)

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“I don’t think it can be described as a performance,” Dalglish told the BBC after a fifth-minute own goal by defender Martin Skrtel handed the Londoners their first win at Anfield at the 49th attempt. “The attitude was very poor.

“I think we got what we deserved from the game and that was abso-lutely nothing. If you don’t approach the game properly you’re not going to get anything.

“I take part of the blame because I

thought I was being fair to everybody by giving them the opportunity to get some minutes on the pitch,” added Dalglish. “The game coming up on Saturday is important to the club.”

Liverpool stayed in eighth place with two matches left this season, level on 49 points with Fulham who are ninth. In the night’s other game, seventh-placed Everton drew 1-1 at Stoke City.

Everton went in front with a Pe-ter Crouch own goal on the stroke

of halftime but Stoke, who are 13th, equalised through Cameron Jerome midway through the second half.

Chelsea warm up for Satur-day’s final at Wembley by hosting Newcastle United in the league on Wednesday.

Champions League finalists Chelsea are sixth, a point behind Newcastle and fourth-placed Tot-tenham Hotspur who travel to relegation-threatened Bolton Wan-derers on Wednesday.

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PARIS - Souleymane Camara missed a penalty eight minutes into stoppage time and three players were sent off in a dramatic finish as leaders Montpellier were held 2-2 at home by Evian Thonon Gaillard in Ligue 1 on Tuesday. The draw extended Montpellier’s advantage to six points over second-placed Paris St Germain who play their game in hand on Wednesday at home to St Etienne.

Younes Belhanda put the hosts, who have three matches left this season, in front with a first-half penalty only for Thomas Kahlenberg to equalise for Evian after 44 minutes. Kevin Berigaud added a close-range effort for Evian midway through the second half but Olivier Giroud levelled with his 21st league goal of the season six minutes from time.

Morocco midfielder Belhanda, one of Montpellier’s players of the season, could be banned for several matches for punching Cedric Mongongu as both players were sent off following a mass injury-time brawl.

Second-half substitute Camara was about to take his penalty when the fighting started and had to wait for more than five minutes before having his shot parried by keeper Stephan Andersen.

“We shot ourselves in the foot because it took too much time to take the penalty,” Giroud told the Canal Plus TV channel. Evian’s Saber Khelifa, who had already left the pitch, was also red-carded in stoppage time.

PLENTY OF POSSESSIONMontpellier enjoyed plenty of possession and had the first clear

chance when Giroud’s volley on the turn was palmed away by Ander-sen in the 10th minute. The Danish keeper was again made to work two minutes later, stretching to his left to tip away Marco Estrada’s fierce low shot.

Andersen then conceded the game’s first penalty when he felled Giroud while trying to punch a cross, the France striker appearing to briefly lose consciousness before getting back to his feet. Belhanda converted the spot kick before Kahlenberg levelled by volleying in a Khelifa header. Montpellier lacked energy in the second half and Camara came on for Karim Ait Fana on the hour but it was Evian who took the lead when Berigaud latched on to a Cedric Barbosa cross from the left on 69 minutes.

Camara then looked offside when he set up Giroud’s goal in the 84th minute. Elsewhere, Bastia were promoted after clinching the Ligue 2 title with a 3-0 win over Metz. They have a 10-point lead over second-placed Stade Reims with three games left.

Bastia’s promotion came almost 20 years to the day after 18 people died when a stand in the club’s Furiani stadium collapsed just before a French Cup semi-final.

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MADRID - Villarreal took a big stride towards securing their top-flight status when they beat Sporting Gijon 3-2 in a tense and ill-tempered La Liga relegation battle on Tuesday to move seven points clear of the drop zone.

The team known as ‘yellow sub-marine’ after their canary-coloured shirts had their season wrecked by injuries to key players but now look safe with two games left to play.

Javier Clemente’s Gijon, by contrast, are all-but condemned to second division football next term as their valiant effort to avoid the drop ran out of steam at a crucial

moment and their captain Alberto Lora was left sitting on the pitch in tears.

Villarreal have 41 points in 16th, one ahead of 17th-placed Rayo Vallecano, who play at Real Mallorca on Wednesday (1800 GMT). Gijon are 19th on 34 points, level with Real Zaragoza, who host fifth-placed Levante on Wednesday (1800). If Rayo avoid defeat in Mal-lorca Gijon will be down.

Villarreal took the lead when de-fender Mario sprinted into the area to turn in a Bruno Soriano centre after 19 minutes at the Molinon be-fore Lora levelled with a long-range shot six minutes before halftime.

The home fans’ joy was short-

lived as Gregory Arnolin brought down Marco Ruben in the penalty area moments after the restart and former Spain midfielder Marcos Senna calmly smashed home the spot kick.

Villarreal’s Hernan Perez was denied by a post in the 53rd min-ute but made no mistake with a powerful long-range effort two minutes later to extend their lead to 3-1.

Alejandro Galvez gave the home side some hope when he made it 3-2 with five minutes remaining and as the tension mounted and tempers frayed, Gijon coach Clemente was sent from the bench, the first of a slew of late cards.

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Liverpool’s Martin Skrtel, top, jumps for the ball against Fulham’s Clint Dempsey during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Tues-day, May 1, 2012.

Dalglish slamsLiverpool after home defeat by FulhamReuters

LONDON - Liverpool, who made nine changes to the team in their last game before the FA Cup final with Chelsea at the weekend, slumped to a 1-0 home defeat by Fulham in the Premier League on Tuesday much to the annoyance of manager Kenny Dalglish.

Villarreal beat Gijon to boost La Liga survival bid

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Evian’s Danish goalkeeper Stephan Andersen, left, and Evian’s Danish defender Daniel Wass, celebrate at the end of their League One soccer match against Montpellier, at La Mosson stadium, in Montpellier, southern France, Tuesday, May 1, 2012.

Dramatic finish as leaders Montpellier held at home

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Inflation rate in Denpasar City during April 2012 reached 0.25 percent.

This achievement was much higher than national inflation rate only reach-ing 0.21 percent. Meanwhile, the calendar year inflation (January-April) in 2012 amounted to 2.26 percent.

The Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, I Gede Suarsa, said that if compared to other cities such as Jakarta, Mataram and Surabaya, the achievement of inflation in Denpasar was quite high. Such high inflation happened as the side impact of fuel price hike plan last April although the policy plan was canceled.

“Fuel price hike issue last April made the prices of basic needs increase significantly. Such condition has not changed much when the enforcement of policy was canceled,” said Suarsa in Denpasar on Tuesday (May 1).

Based on monitoring of prices in April 2012, Suarsa said there was an increase in the index of goods and services. Among them, the food group rose 0.21 percent; processed food, cigarettes and tobacco became the largest contributor to inflation during the period reaching 0.70 percent; housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel (0.30 percent); education, recreation and sport (0.19 percent); as well as transportation, communications and financial services (0.12 percent). “The group going through an index decline was clothing (0.83 percent) and health group (0.18 percent),” he said.

Some commodities showing an increase, among others, were garlic at 16 percent with a contribution of inflation rate at 0.1340 percent, chicken flesh rose 3 percent with an inflation of 0.0406 percent and cayenne pepper rose 14.69 percent with inflation share of 0.0498 percent. On the other hand, the commodity experiencing decline in price or contributing deflation only happened to large red chili at 14.09 percent with deflation contribution of 0.0405 percent.

It was mentioned that among the 66 cities recorded, 52 cities lived through inflation. The highest inflation happened in Pangkal Pinang at 1.76 percent and the lowest at 0.03 percent in Bengkulu. The highest deflation occurred in Tarakan at 0.51 percent and the lowest deflation occurred in Banjarmasin at 0.01 percent. “Among the highest inflation, then Denpasar occupied the 27th position of 52 cities experiencing inflation,” he said. (kmb27)

“Yes, we did receive complaints about the proliferation of land conversion due to the absence of written awig-awig or by-laws of subak,” said the Head of Klung-kung Cultural and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, after performing the monitoring and evaluation to Subak Dlod Banjarangkan, Klungkung, Monday (May 1).

Ubiquitous land conversion was triggered by government policy that was too easy to issue the building permits in agricultural areas. Even, it could be contrary to the discourse of the government which had always claimed a commitment to preserve the subak. One of them was by flush-ing financial assistance to subak.

Related to subak assistance pro-vided by the government, it was strictly supervised by a monitoring and evaluation team. Monitoring and evaluation were not only performed

to the object of the assistance by also to the implementation by subak. “We carry out the evaluation to preserve the existence as well as encourage the maximal implementation of the subak tasks,” said Sujana while adding that an evaluation was also conducted to monitor the utiliza-tion of the government assistance granted.

From the monitoring and evalu-ation carried out so far, including at Subak Dlod Banjarangkan, pointed out Sujana, most of the subak organi-zations in Klungkung had not owned a written awig-awig (by-laws). They mostly still applied the old dresta or conventions agreed upon for the common interest of subak. “Such conventions must be transcribed. They should cover the conversion of land function to anticipate the conversion of the agricultural land getting more widespread, other than

maintaining the tradition,” he said.Aside from complaining about

the land conversion, the subak like the one in Klungkung, was often appointed a pilot project for various government programs, such as crop-ping pattern. Previously, Klungkung was asked to try out the direct seeded rice (Tabela) at Subak Toya Hee, and then on Monday (Apr 30) the Subak Dlod Bakas, Ban-jarangkan, was appointed to test the system of rice intensification. Various programs offered were always touted to give more profits to farmers. However, a few farm-ers also worried if those programs would make farmers confused. “Ideally, there should be a test re-sult that is really superior to be ap-plied later on by farmers regularly and sustainably,” revealed the legislator of Klungkung, Wayan Buda Parwata. (kmb20)

Gianyar (Bali Post)—Crackles of dollars in the tourist destination of Gianyar, especially

Ubud subdistrict, seem not to diminish the desire of residents to par-ticipate in the resettlement program. Even, this year some 55 families have signed up to join the resettlement program. Among them, 14 families are from Ubud subdistrict, while the remaining 8 families are from Gianyar in Klungkung subdistrict, Blahbatuh (3 families), Tegal-lalang (10 families), Tampaksiring (10 families), Payangan and Suka-wati respectively 5 families. As planned, their resettlement destination which would be opened by government this year was the area of Tasik Payaman, Katingan in Central Kalimantan.

“These residents are applying to join the resettlement because they want to improve their living standard, especially in agricultural field,” said the Head of Gianyar Manpower and Resettlement Agency (Naker-trans), Ketut Suweta, Tuesday (May 1).

Admittedly, the number of resettlement applicant this year exceeded the quota provided by central government through the Bali Government. Gianyar Regency got the allocation to resettlement area in Katingan Regency, Central Kalimantan for 25 families. As scheduled, the resettle-ment applicants would be dispatched around November 2012.

Accompanied by his staff, aside from the 55 families who had ap-plied, there were two other families stating their intention to apply as participant of resettlement to Central Kalimantan. In response to the intention of residents to join the program, his party would make a site inspection first and it was then resumed with a selection regarding the seriousness of applicant to take the program. Meanwhile, the registered applicants expressed their strong desire or motivation to resettle. “We will select the poorest candidates and approve those having no farmland for the resettlement program,” he explained.

Suweta said that every family participating in the resettlement program was provided with a courtyard land of 0.25 hectare and 1.75 hectares of farmland. In 2010, a total of 19 families or 79 people were dispatched to UPT Aronggo, Landono subdistrict, South Konawe Re-gency, Southeast Sulawesi. (kmb16)

Evaluating subak

Assessment team receives complaints on ubiquitous land conversion

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The subak system is seen on the picture. Ubiquitous conversion of land function increasingly worries the members of subak.

Semarapura (Bali Post)—Ubiquitous conversion of land function increasingly worries the members of subak. Land

conversion makes the existence of subak progressively get eroded. Such complaints about the ubiquitous land conversion have often been delivered by subak members. Even, it was revealed directly to monitoring team of the subak assistance implementation consisting of the Agriculture Agency, Culture and Tourism Agency, Public Works Agency and other relevant regional working units.

Ubud dominates application of resettlement

Inflation in Denpasar surpasses national rate

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The presence in France of Basher Saleh threatens to make life even more complicated for French Presi-dent Nicolas Sarkozy, who confirmed Tuesday that Saleh is here. Sarkozy has had a roller-coaster relationship with Libya and faces an uphill battle for re-election in a vote Sunday.

The French leader already has denied recent allegations that Gad-hafi’s regime offered to finance his 2007 presidential campaign.

Saleh served as Gadhafi’s chief of staff, chief of the Cabinet, and chairman of the government-con-trolled Libya Africa Investment Portfolio, according to the U.S. government. A former Libyan rebel

described Saleh on Tuesday as a key Gadhafi adviser who knows many of the regime’s secrets.

French website Mediapart and newspaper Canard Enchaine have described Saleh as the dead dicta-tor’s “cash man” and suggested that Sarkozy allowed Saleh refuge in France because of past favors.

Sarkozy denies the reports. He said in an interview with RMC radio Tues-day that “Saleh is in France. ... The decision for him to be in France was made after consultations with Libyan authorities, because his family was in France.” Interpol’s website has a so-called red notice for a man named Bashir al-Shrkawi, based on a Libyan

warrant for fraud. The attached pho-tos appear to show Saleh. The Lyon, France-based police agency referred all questions on the warrant to Libya’s new government.

A member of Libya’s National Transitional Council said that the Libyan warrant was issued for Bash-er Saleh al-Sharkawy. The council member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, gave no other details.

Sarkozy said France would hand over Saleh if it’s confirmed that he is wanted by Interpol, and said the French government is “working hand in hand with the Libyan authorities” to deter-mine how to handle Saleh’s case.

An Interpol red notice is the equivalent of putting a suspect on the police agency’s most-wanted list. The notices are based on na-tional warrants, and mean Interpol is urging all member countries to arrest and hand over the suspect.

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KABUL - At least six people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, officials said, hours after U.S. President Barack Obama left Kabul following an unannounced visit during which he signed a strategic partnership agreement.

The blast, and Obama’s visit, came a year after U.S. special forces troops killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks, in a raid in neighboring Pakistan.

The Taliban, ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces for harbor-ing bin Laden and other militants, quickly claimed responsibility for what it said was a suicide car bomb attack.

Wednesday’s attack was the latest in a recent surge of violence after the Taliban announced they had begun their usual “spring offensive”, and that they had

suspended tentative steps towards peace talks with the United States.

Kabul police chief Ayoub Sa-langi said six people, a Gurkha guard and five passers-by, were killed in the Kabul attack.

Salangi told Reuters a car bomb exploded on Jalalabad road, the main road out of the capital heading east, where sev-eral U.S. military bases and compounds housing Westerners are located.

He said one of those com-pounds, known as “Green Vil-lage”, was the target. A plume of black smoke was seen rising from inside the area.

Reuters witnesses heard a second blast in the same area about 90 minutes after the first explosion.

The Interior Ministry earlier said at least two people had been killed , and another police official said an exchange of gunfire fol-lowed the first blast.

Associated Press Writer

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Op-position leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in to Myanmar’s mili-tary-backed parliament Wednesday, taking public office for the first time since launching her struggle against authoritarian rule nearly a quarter century ago.

The opposition leader’s entry into the legislature heralds a new political era in Myanmar, cementing a risky detente between her party and the reformist government of President Thein Sein, which inherited power from the army last year.

Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party will occupy too few seats to have any real power in the ruling-party dominated as-sembly, however, and there are fears the presence of the opposition lawmakers could simply legitimize the regime without any change.

But the new lawmakers are also likely to bring a level of public de-bate to the legislative body that has never been seen as they prepare for the next general election in 2015.

The solemn swearing-in cer-emony took place in the capital, Naypyitaw, which was built by the former army junta. With white roses

in her hair, Suu Kyi stood along with several dozen of her party’s lawmakers as the speaker the lower house asked them to read the oath.

Speaking briefly to a mob of reporters afterward, Suu Kyi said her focus will be “to carry out our duties within the parliament as we have been carrying out our duties outside the parliament for the last 20 or so years.”

Suu Kyi’s ascent marks an as-tonishing reversal of fortune for a woman who became one of the world’s most prominent prisoners of conscience, held under house arrest for much of the last two decades.

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Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, center, and elected lawmakers of her National League for Democracy party swear during a regular session of Myanmar Lower House at parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 2, 2012.

Myanmar begins new era as Suu Kyi joins parliament

Gadhafi ally in exile in France, Sarkozy says

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France’s President and candidate for re-election in 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy, gestures as he delivers a speech dur-ing a campaign meeting at Tocadero square in Paris, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Eiffel tower in the background.

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PARIS — The late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s former chief of staff is living in France with the government’s permission despite facing U.S. sanctions and being wanted by Interpol.

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Afghan security forces members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul May 2, 2012. At least six people were killed in the suicide car bomb attack in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, officials said, hours after U.S.

Car bomb kills six after Obama leaves Afghan capital

Scientists had known that dolphins work together to herd groups of mullet, a fish that’s an important source of food for local fishermen, toward a line of fishermen in boats or knee-deep water. Then the dolphins signal with specialized head or tail slaps when and where the fishermen should throw their nets. The cooperation is helpful to both parties, researchers said. The two wouldn’t survive without each other.

“About 200 local artisanal fishermen are almost entirely reliant on the dolphins for catching their fish,” study researcher Fábio Daura-Jorge, of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil, wrote in a statement sent to LiveScience. “The fishermen do not fish without the assistance of the dolphins and know the individual animals from their natural marks and can recognize them by eye.”

Daura-Jorge added, “The fishermen have names for the cooperative dolphins — particular stars in this cooperation are ‘Scooby’ and ‘Caro-ba,’ that cooperate for more than 15 years.”

Cooperative dolphinsThe researchers watched the dolphins of La-

guna, identifying individuals by their appearance. They documented which animals spent time to-gether, and which ones participated in the fishing. They were able to reconstruct the social structure of 35 of the population’s 55 dolphins from this data, which included 15 of the cooperative dolphins.

They identified three distinct social networks within the Laguna dolphins, with one group made up entirely of the fishermen-cooperating dolphins. This cooperation seems to be a learned or inherited behavioral trait, since there’s nothing in the environment stopping other dolphins from engaging in it.

“Dolphin societies are very complex, and so-cial interaction seems to drive foraging behavior,” Daura-Jorge said. “It might be that the develop-ment of specialized foraging behavior occurs in small tight-knit resident coastal communities because there is a high degree of social interaction between the animals.”

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — A rare watercolor study by Paul Cezanne believed lost for nearly 60 years fetched over $19 million at a New York City auction on Tuesday. Christie’s auction house said “A Card Player” sold to a buyer who wished to remain anonymous. The price included the buyer’s pre-mium.

The watercolor was a study for Cezanne’s celebrated series of oil paintings titled “Card Players.” It was rediscovered this year in the collec-tion of the late Dr. Heinz Eichenwald, a well-known collector from Dallas, Texas. It shows a man in a hat and jacket seated at a table. Rendered in hues of blue and ochre, it was previ-ously known to scholars only from a black-and-white photograph.

The French post-impressionist artist created the five-painting “Card Players” series between 1890 and 1896. The preparatory study of-fers a rare glimpse into Cezanne’s creative process. The figure in the painting is that of Paulin Paulet, a gardener on Cezanne’s estate near Aix en Provence, France. It was last displayed at a New York gallery in 1953.

Christie’s said Eichenwald in-herited the work from his father. Its presale estimate was $15 million to $20 million. The Courtauld Gallery in London exhibited the five-painting series in 2010; the exhibition traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art last year.

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More than a quarter of Japanese in their twenties have thought about taking their own life, according to a survey released Wednes-day, in a nation with one of the world’s highest suicide rates.

The survey found that 28.4 of respondents in their twenties had contemplated suicide, the highest of any age group, while 36.2 percent of that group had considered taking their own life in the past year, according to the report.

“The data show that the younger people hesitate to talk to others, or cannot find anyone to talk to when they have a problem because of shallow relationships with others,” said the survey conducted by Japan’s Cabinet Office.

“They tend to suffer alone,” it added.Overall, 23.4 percent of the more than 2,000

adult respondents said they had thought of committing suicide, up 4.3 percentage points from the previous and first such survey con-ducted in 2008.

The ratio stood at 27.1 percent for women and 19.1 percent for men. Japan, with a popu-lation of about 128 million, has one of the world’s highest suicide rates, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

More than 30,000 people take their lives annually in Japan amid rising unemployment, with family troubles and health problems also cited as key factors behind many of those suicides.

Dolphins Help Fishermen Catch FishA visitor might stumble upon a strange sight in Laguna, Brazil, if they went down to the

shore. Here, the local fishermen rely on dolphins to help them with their yearly fish catch. New research has found that just one local group of about 20 dolphins works with the fishermen, while the other local dolphins don’t cooperate, finding other sources of food. The researchers aren’t sure what separates these groups.

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The dolphins drive schools of mullet toward the fishermen.

Rare Cezanne watercolor fetches $19M at NY auction

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FILE - This undated file picture provided by Christie’s shows a rare watercolor study by French artist Paul Cezanne believed lost and last seen in 1953.

Over 25% of Japanese in twenties mull suicide

AFP Photo/Toshifumi Kitamura

The Tokyo skyline. More than a quarter of Japanese in their twenties have thought about taking their own life, according to a survey released Wednesday, in a nation with one of the world’s highest suicide rates.

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Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for April 20 through May 20, 2012

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, sail-ings, 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

20 Apr Tilem Kedasa - Pura Kahyangan Tiga Batur Bangli- Pura Batur Camenggon-Sukawati- Pura Luhur Bhujangga Camggu Kuta- Pura Kawitan Kayu Selem Tampurhyang Batur-Kintamani

21 Apr Hari Tumpek Kandang - Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota Gianyar- Pura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - Tabanan- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung

25 Apr Buda Wage Menail - Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Cemenggaon Sukawati- Mr. Pasek Dangke bambang - Bangli- Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Pejeng Kaja - Gianyar- Pura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - Bangli- Merajan Agung Blangsinga - Blahbatuh- Pura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh Gianyar- Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Sukawati- Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan Kapal Mengwi

1 May Anggar Kasih Perangbakat - Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - Klungkung- Pura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - Bangli- Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - Buleleng- Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - Klungkung- Pura Gunung Tengsong Lombok.- Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar- Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar- Pura Dalem Banyuning Timur Buleleng- Pura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas Denpasar- Pura Tengah Padang Tegalalang- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - Pupuan Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Denpasar- Pura Hyangaluh/Jenggala Besakih- Merajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan Gunaksa- Mr. Pasek Gelgel Selulung- Merajan Pasek Subrata Medahan- Merajan Pasek Munggu Munggu- Pura Tengkulak Tulikup - Gianyar- Pura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen.

2 May Buda Umanis Perangbakat - Pura Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring- Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana- Pura Batu Bolong Canggu - Kuta- Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan- Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Jembrana- Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan - Buleleng.- Pura Pasek Tangkas Darma Reyanggede Tabanan- Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng- Pr. Srijon Tabanan- Mr. Pasek Gelgel Lebah Pangkung- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Patemon- Pura Tirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak Siring- Pura Dadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba Tegalalang.- Pura Pedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel Tabanan.- Pura Puncak Mundi Nusa Penida.

5 May Purnama Jiyestha - Pura Segara Lombok- Pura Dwijawarsa Malang- Pura Puncaktingguh Angsri Baturiti Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Desa Jatiluwih Penebel Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Batur Tonja Denpasar- Pura Masopahit Grenceng Denpasar- Pura Penyungsungan Pasek Tohjiwa Wanagiri Selemadeg.- Pura Pamerajan Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem- Pura Eka Dharma Sweta Indah-Mataram, NTB.

16 May Buda Keliwon Ugu - Pura Dalem Tarukan Desa Peninjoan Tembuku - Bangli.- Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba-kaba Tabanan- Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng- Pura Desa Kayangan Tiga Desa Bubunan Seririt - Buleleng- Pura Agung Gunung Raung Banjar Taro Kaja Taro - Tegalalang- Merajan Pasek Dangka Bungbungan

20 May Tilem Jiyestha. - Pura Bhujangga Waisnawa Gumrih Jembrana.

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This coming month Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center will cel-ebrate their 4th Hotel Anniversary on May 5th, 2012. A series of competi-tions, charity events and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will be held from Wednesday May 2nd 2012 until Saturday, May 5th 2012 and will end on the staff gathering on Monday, May 7th 2012.

First competition that will be par-ticipated by Aston staff on May 2nd, 2012 are Aston Denpasar got talent (Singing Competition) and Aston Quiz (Questions will be about Aston). For the outbound competition will be held on the next day and it will full of wet, dirty, crazyness, madness and laugh from Pillow Attact (Gebug Ban-tal), Jil-jil (Jilat-jilat) and Hulahoop Competition. The venue is all around Aston Denpasar Hotel from poolside until level B1.

Aston Denpasar continue the pro-

gram of CSR from the previous one on 14 February 2012 before. Referring the demands from the local community, we will hold this in their hall. It is in Kusuma Jati Hall. Corporate Social Responsibility in the local community (Balai Kusuma Jati) will be held on 04 May 2012. The activities will be Blood Donation with PMI, Free Blood Checking, Free Eyes Checking, Free Bone Checking, Free Face & Skin Consultation, Drawing competition for kids, etc.

Furthermore, Charity for Disabled Children at Panti Asuhan Kesayan Ikang Papa Gianyar will be held on 05 May 2012. Some of the representation of Aston Denpasar Hotel will visit this orphanage and bring all the things collected from all staff such as clothes, food, reading books and money.

“The purpose of this event in specif-ic is to develop teamworks and social awareness in local community and in general to make other people and hotel business people are always aware about

some unfortunate people that need our attention, caring and love from us. We never know that a very small thing we share is really worthed by others” said Rike Liwan, Public Relations Manager of Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center.

The final event and the closing will be on the May 7th,2012 with Staff Gathering and Supervisory and As-sistant Manager performance. Some of the winners from the several competi-tion will perform too. The theme that Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center created is “4 Tahun, 4 Cinta, 4 Cerita”. Meaning that in this 4 year, Aston Denpasar has been through 4 big stories such a big renovation over the whole hotel area, refurbished of the Grand Ballroom, 4 leaderships, Go Green Team in the 4th Year was bornt. 4 loves meaning there were 4 great loves stories has been made in Aston Den-pasar Hotel & Convention Center, A meeting place that united some couples to have a new path of life.

Aston Denpasar celebrated anniversary with CSR Program

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In my childhood (and, admittedly, parts of my adulthood), I read the “Avengers” comics because they were equally concerned with character in-teractions and the old biff-bam-pow. On one page, our heroes would be sitting around a meeting table nee-dling each other about their differing methodologies, and on the next, they would assemble to beat back some threat from dastardly aliens.

That’s the balance that Whedon has so brilliantly accomplished here, tell-ing a story in which who these heroes are and how they deal with each other remains at the forefront, even when

Manhattan is under assault from an interplanetary Big Bad. He gets the vibe and the delights of Marvel comic books in the same way that Spielberg and Lucas intuitively understood the appeal of serials in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” You don’t have to be a com-ics fan to have a great time (although it sure couldn’t hurt) but you may need a reminder of everything that’s gone down in the previous Marvel movies.

Remember that powerful tesseract (Marvel readers know it as the Cosmic Cube) that played such a big part in “Captain America: The First Avenger”? Now it resides in a SHIELD laboratory

where astrophysicist Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård, reprising his role from “Thor”) is trying to unlock its secrets, under the watchful eye of the arrow-wielding Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), also known as Hawkeye. During a site visit from SHIELD chief Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), Asgardian trick-ster Loki (Tom Hiddleston) shows up to steal the tesseract, enslaving Selvig and Barton in the process.

After the entire installation sinks into the earth (a moment reminiscent of the finale of Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV series), Fury assembles the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson, last seen kicking butt in black leather in “Iron Man 2”), Dr. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) - who’s constantly worried that the Hulk (whom he refers to as “the other guy”) will manifest, Captain America (Chris Evans) and Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.).

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The Os-cars will be in Dolby. The CIM Group, which owns the Hol-lywood & Highland Center, an-nounced a 20-year deal on Tues-day with the audio technology company Dolby Laboratories Inc. to rename the Academy Awards venue as the Dolby Theatre.

In a separate deal, the Acad-emy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed a new agree-ment to keep the annual Oscars extravaganza at the theater for 20 more years.

“We are thrilled that Dolby is now the name of the theater because Dolby stands for excel-lence,” said Tom Sherak, president of the motion picture academy. “It’s a no-brainer for us.”

The posh four-level, 3,400-seat theater, formerly known as the Kodak Theatre, has been home to the Academy Awards since 2002. CIM Group dropped

the Kodak name from the theater earlier this year after a bank-ruptcy court judge approved the early exit of 131-year-old East-man Kodak Co. from a 20-year naming rights deal it signed with CIM Group in 1999.

During this year’s Oscar cer-emony, host Billy Crystal jok-ingly referred to the space as the “Chapter 11 Theatre.”

Sherak said the motion pic-ture academy, which did not immediately renew its deal with CIM Group last year, briefly considered moving ceremonies to another venue but decided to keep the Oscars in Hollywood.

“We got a number of sugges-tions from people saying, ‘we’d love to have you,’” said Sherak. “We talked to them, and they gave us some offers that they would have loved to negotiate with us, but we stopped there because the board met and we decided we wanted to be in Hol-lywood with the awards show.”

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LOS ANGELES - Whitney Hous-ton’s ex-husband Bobby Brown struck back at claims he was responsible for getting the pop star hooked on drugs or that he somehow played a role in her cocaine-fueled death in February. “I’m not the one that got Whitney on drugs, at all,” Brown said in an interview to be aired this week on the “Today” show on U.S. television network NBC.

“I’m not the reason she’s gone,” he added. Houston, 48, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub on Febru-ary11 from what authorities called acci-dental drowning brought on by cocaine use and heart disease. White powder and drug paraphernalia were found in the bathroom where she died.

The singer had spoken publicly about a long battle with cocaine, marijuana and crack, particularly dur-ing her tempestuous 15-year marriage to Brown. They divorced in 2007, but some fans and members of Houston’s family have blamed Brown for her untimely death.

In his first TV interview since the singer died, Brown, 43, told “Today” show host Matt Lauer that he had been off drugs for seven years and was hurt to hear that Houston had been using cocaine. “I was hurt ... because, you know, me being off of narcotics for the last seven years - I felt that she was, you know, I didn’t know she was struggling with it still. But at the same time, you know - listen, it’s a hard fight,” he said.

Brown said drugs were part of Houston’s life before he met her in 1991. “I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn’t the one that got Whitney on drugs at all,” he said. “So this was a part of her life before you and she got together?” Lauer asked.

“Way, way before. Yeah ... It’s just, it’s just unexplainable - how one could, you know, (say that I) got her addicted to drugs. I’m not the reason she’s gone,” Brown replied.

Brown said Houston had a “glow about her” when he last saw her about a week before she died. He was at a restaurant having dinner with their daughter, Bobbi Kristina. “She just looked like she was in a good place,” he said about the “I Will Always Love You” singer.

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Bobby Brown (R) leaves the funeral service of ex-wife, pop singer Whitney Houston, at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey February 18, 2012.

Don’t blame me for Whitney’s death, Bobby Brown says

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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2012 file photo, an Oscar state is displayed outside the Kodak Theatre in preparation for the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Oscars to stay in same theater for 20 more years

“The Avengers” is a satis-fying superhero sandwich

In this film image released by Disney, Thor portrayed by Chris Hemsworth, left, and Captain America, portrayed by Chris Evans, are shown in a scene from “The Avengers”

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LOS ANGELES - Assembling a team of superheroes is no doubt like putting together an all-star cast - you’ve got to deal with a lot of clashing egos in a small space and make sure that everyone has his or her moment to shine. Writer-director Joss Whedon pulls off both in “The Avengers,” an exhilarating ode to what mainstream comics do best.

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BRUSSELS - Britain and Swe-den, backed by eastern European allies, squared off with Germany, France and other EU states Wednes-day over rules to harden the defences of banks against any crisis.

European Union finance minis-ters gathered for a special meeting in Brussels to debate the so-called Basel III regulation that will require banks to increase their capital buf-fers so they can withstand financial shocks.

The discussion comes in the midst of concerns about the health of the Spanish banking sector, still reeling from a real estate bubble that burst in 2008, but officials say Madrid’s struggles are not on the agenda.

“It’s very important that we do not hesitate to do the general right thing in order to secure the entire financial sector, with capital buf-fers, with more and better quality of capital, more liquidity,” Danish

The Asian Development Fund (ADF), which provides grants and concessional loans to the region’s poorest countries, is replenished every four years, with the funding during the last financing cycle of 2009-2012 at around $11.3 billion.

“ADF borrowers face significant development challenges and have fewer resources of their own to address them,” ADB President Har-uhiko Kuroda said in a briefing.

“Despite difficult fiscal situation in traditional donors, we have been able to secure larger resources, larger than ADF 10.”

The replenished ADF, as well as a planned doubling of the Chiang Mai Initiative fund to $240 billion, would help the region weather any impact from the euro zone crisis which Kuroda said continues to be a risk to growth in Asia.

While the region has made progress in reducing poverty, the benefits of growth have yet to reach several hundreds of millions in Asia who continue to subsist on less than $1.25 a day, Kuroda said.

Associated Press

Facebook will go public on May 18, a publ ished repor t says, in one of the most highly anticipated tech initial public offerings since Google went public in August 2004.

The Wall Street Journal re-ported Tuesday that the social networking company is set to start its roadshow on Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. The roadshow, a series of meetings with pro-spective institutional investors, is designed to stir interest in the company’s stock.

Mark Zuckerberg, the found-er and chief executive of Fa-cebook, will attend some of the meetings, The Journal re-ported.

The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company is seeking to raise about $5 billion in the offering, giving the entire company a value of about $100 billion.

Officials for Facebook de-clined to comment.

Facebook las t month an-nounced it is buying Instagram, the company behind a popular mobile photo-sharing applica-tion with the same name, for $1 billion, its largest acquisi-tion ever.

During the first quarter, Fa-cebook’s net income fell 12 per-cent, weighed down by higher expenses even as its revenue soared. Net income fell to $205 million in the three months that ended March 31, from $233 million a year earlier, while net income attributable to common shareholders fell to $137 mil-lion from $153 million. That amounts to earnings of 9 cents per share in the latest quarter, down from 11 cents a year ear-lier. Revenue rose 45 percent to $1.06 billion.

The company had 901 mil-lion monthly active users as of March 31, up from 845 million as of the end of 2011.

Facebook is listing its stock on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “FB.”

Haruhiko Kuroda, president of Asian Development Bank

(ADB) gestures as he speaks during a press conference

at the start of ADB’s annual meeting of the Board of Gover-nors in Manila on May 2, 2012. Kuroda said during the press conference that the bank has secured more than 12 billion

USD to help Asia’s poorest and there will be no financial

assistance to Myanmar unless they pay their debt.

ADB secures billions for poorest countriesReuters

MANILA - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Wednesday that funding for its concessional loan facility will increase nearly 10 percent to $12.4 billion as the bank seeks to promote inclusive growth in low-income countries and shield them from financial crises.

AFP PHOTO/TED ALJIBE

Facebook IPO set for May 18 EU nations face off over

bank capital rulesEconomy Minister Margrethe Ve-stager said on arrival for the talks, which she was chairing.

Britain, Sweden and others want the freedom to impose tougher capi-tal requirements on their banks than the Basel rules, should they want to do so, but the Franco-German bloc is pushing for all 27 EU states to follow the same line.

France and others fear that al-lowing one nation to set higher threshholds would spark a “race to the top,” as governments would compete to show their banks have the biggest reserves, said a senior EU diplomat.

These nations are also concerned that forcing banks to park too much capital would curb efforts to encour-age them to invest in Europe’s sickly economy, the diplomat said.

While the European Commission and nations such as France want “maximum harmonisation,” another EU diplomat said Britain argues that capital rules are a sovereign issue since taxpayers would be affected

by any bank failures.Sweden’s finance ministry said

last week that governments must have “greater possibilities to take the measures they consider neces-sary to ensure financial stability at a national level than those provided by the current proposal.”

The Basel III rules, which gov-ernments must start to implement in 2013, require all banks to strengthen their capital reserves by raising total core reserves to 7.0 percent from 2.0 percent at the moment.

The Danish presidency to the EU has proposed a compromise that would allow governments to impose an extra 3.0 percent buffer, with any-thing above that requiring European Commission permission.

But Britain and Sweden are against letting the commission, the EU’s executive arm, making such decisions.

London wants the council of EU governments or the European Sys-temic Risk Board, a financial over-sight body, to have a say instead.

“We’ve confirmed the GPS (global positioning system) jam-ming signals have been stemming from the North,” Lee Kyung-Woo, a deputy director at the state Korea Communications Commission, told AFP.

The transport ministry, in a statement and in comments to AFP, said the jamming had affected 252 flights since last Saturday but did not identify who was responsible.

The North has been accused before by Seoul of jamming GPS systems but there was no previ-ous widespread effect on civilian flights.

In recent weeks it has frequent-ly threatened offensive action against the South, amid growing fears it may soon carry out a nu-clear test following a failed rocket launch last month that sparked international criticism.

The North accuses Seoul’s leaders of disrespect during Pyongyang’s celebrations last month of the centenary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-Sung.

A transport ministry state-ment said 241 flights by nine South Korean airlines and 11 flights operated by nine foreign airlines had been affected since last Saturday.

It said Seoul that day issued a warning notice for pilots and airlines.

Kim Choon-Oh, a ministry director, said GPS disruption was noticeable around Incheon airport, the South’s main inter-national gateway.

“Authorities are tracing the origin,” he told AFP.

“Despite disruption in GPS, there is no serious threat to the safety of flights because planes are using other navigation de-vices.”

Kim said there was a brief effect on the GPS systems of civilian flights last year, “but this kind of widespread disruption is unusual”.

A spokesman for Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff declined to say whether the jamming was also directed against the military. “There has been no problem

in our military operations,” he said.

The South’s then-defence min-ister said in October 2010 that a North Korean jamming device capable of disrupting guided weapons posed a fresh threat to security.

Minister Kim Tae-Young told parliament the North had im-ported Russian equipment to jam South Korea’s GPS reception and could achieve this effect over a distance of up to 100 kilometres (60 miles).

Kim said the North was thought to have been responsible for the intermittent failure of GPS re-ceivers on naval and civilian craft along the west coast from August 23 to 25 that year.

In March last year the South’s Yonhap news agency said the North had used jamming equip-ment to block South Korean mili-tary communication devices.

It said the strong jamming signals had caused minor disrup-tions to phones and navigational devices using GPS at military units near Seoul.

Associated Press Writer

SEARCY, Ark. — An Arkansas woman who cashed a $1 million lot-tery ticket may have to give up the winnings to a woman who threw away the ticket after she bought it, according to a judge’s ruling Tuesday.

The judge decided that Sharon Duncan was entitled to the prize money, not Sharon Jones, who claimed the prize money after she took the ticket from a trash can of discarded lottery tickets at a convenience store in Beebe, a city about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock.

Jones’ attorney, James Simpson, said he plans to appeal. Jones had testified that she already spent some of the money on a new truck and cash gifts to her children.

Simpson noted that Duncan testified she threw away the ticket after the read-out on a ticket scanner said, “Sorry. Not a winner.” The attorney argued that people shouldn’t be allowed to throw items away and then say, “’ooh, I want to un-abandon it.’”

“We’d have garage-sale law all over the place,” he said. “It became trash when someone threw it away.”

White County judge Thomas Hughes, however, said Jones never met the burden of proof that Duncan abandoned her right to claim $1 million.

“The $1 million was never found money,” Hughes said.Earlier Tuesday, Jones testified that she gathered a handful of dis-

carded tickets from the trash can — as she had done many times before — and said there was no sign alerting customers not to take tickets.

That contradicted Super 1 Stop store manager Lisa Petriches’ earlier testimony that she had taped a sign that read “Do not take” on the can. But a former store clerk testified that Petriches posted the sign only after Jones claimed the prize.

Petriches brought the lawsuit against Jones, and Duncan joined it after the judge said at a January hearing that she may be the true owner of the ticket. Hughes ruled that Petriches and the store’s owner, Louie Dajani — whose corporation, Summer One LLC, joined the suit — weren’t entitled to anything.

Associated Press Writer

WELLINGTON, New Zea-land — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the Secret Service has found no basis to allegations its agents hired strip-pers and prostitutes in El Salvador last year.

The allegations had been made by an anonymous source on a Se-attle television station after the ser-vice was embroiled in a prostitution

scandal involving agents’ conduct in Colombia last month.

Napolitano said no basis to the claims had been found after inter-views with some of the Secret Ser-vice agents who were in El Salvador at that time. She discussed the matter Wednesday with The Associated Press on her visit to New Zealand.

She said while the interviewing likely was to continue, “to date, nobody has been able to substantiate that anonymous story.”

IBP/afp

Electronic jamming signals from North Korea have been affecting scores of civilian flights in and out of South Korea but did not endanger the aircraft, a Seoul official said Wednesday

N. Korea jamming affects flights: Seoul officialAgence France Presse

Electronic jamming signals from North Korea have affected scores of civilian flights in and out of South Korea, a Seoul official said Wednesday, amid rising tensions with Pyongyang.

No basis to El Salvador sex claims

Woman who lost Ark. lotto ticket entitled to $1M

He said a lot of potential jobs remained to exist in Bali if the government was indeed capable of working on them. The basis of SMEs and creative industries promised an adequate employ-ment. “If the creative industry is developed by the government and it educates the prospective job seekers to go into it, then there is a chance to absorb more labor,” said the professor of Graduate School of Economics, Udayana University.

Besides, according to him, the government should also be able to create an entrepreneurial

climate. It should be able to synergize the entrepreneurship development program with the support of financial institutions, education sector and job seek-ers. “Government is obliged to create a favorable entrepre-neurial climate. Then, it should establish a marketing network to specific regions that really needs the products yielded by the young entrepreneurs. If the market has been well established and the goods sell well, they can continue to expand the business and create job opportunities,” said Sri Budhi. (kmb29)

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Tenganan Village is one of the oldest Balinese Traditional located in Karangasem Regency, east part of Bali. This village is much referred by cultural literature science of Ten-ganan Pegringsingan, which is very famous in the island. It own very unique local community life pattern which is one example of Bali Aga Village cultures (Hindu Prehistoric) and different with other countryside in plain of Bali. Nowadays, this vil-lage has been appointed as a place for tourist destination which can

present the attractive and unique matters which able to add the varia-tion of object and fascination for tourist to come.

Tenganan village is geographi-cally situated among the hill in west and east part of this village. This village is located in Manggis sub district and Karangasem Re-gency or about 1 hour drive from Denpasar Town. It is a small village consisted of three Banjars (group of local community) those are Banjar Kauh, Banjar Tengah and Banjar Pande. The regional of this village is consisted of three complexes

those are resident, plantation and rice field complex. The history of Tenganan village is expressed in a few versions. The first version is mentioned that the resident of Tenganan village are come from Paneges Village, a village is located near with Bedahulu Village that is located Gianyar Regency. The sec-ond version is expressed that word of Tenganan recognized in one of Bali inscription that was written by the word of Tranganan. The third version is expressed that the Tenganan Village Resident prays to the Bukit Lempuyang Temple. The

word of Tenganan is ascribed by a Tengah root word which can mean to aim to middle of Pegringsingan, the fasten cloth type weave that is typically produce by Tenganan village resident. The structure of resident in Tenganan village is built in linear consisted of six rays. Each of ray consisted of some lawn broadly, the building form where the local community use it to pres-ent the handicraft for tourists. All the tradition existences of the hu-man being are harmoniously with the God, human and environment as according to Tri Hita Karana

concept. The Tourism Destination of Tenganan remains to draw dur-ing the time, goodness as tourism cultural object, tourism nature and agriculture tourism.

It is a very famous village throughout Bali where most of the local people knows where it is located. It is located in Karangasem Regency and close to Candidasa. You can find many travel agencies serve the tour to visit this village and you may join Karangasem Tour which you will discover places of interest in east part of Bali including this village.

Tenganan Village

Associated Press

BANDA ACEH — A ranger says an endangered Sumatran elephant has died in a palm oil plantation in western Indonesia, apparently after being poisoned by villag-ers trying to protect their crops.

Fewer than 3,000 of the animals are

left in the wild and environmentalists warn they could be extinct within three decades unless steps are taken to protect them.

Mukhtar, a ranger with Fauna-Flora International, says the 18-year-old elephant was not yet dead when she was found Monday in Aceh province.

Rangers unsuccessfully tried to save her by giving her medicine.

Mukhtar said it is not uncommon for elephants to be poisoned. As forests disap-pear, elephants stray into inhabited areas in search of food. Villagers trying to protect their property sometimes leave fruits laced with cyanide.

Indonesia suspended US imports of boned meat and innards on April 26, two days after the fourth-ever case in the US of bovine spongi-form encephalopathy, known as

mad cow disease, was reported in California.

“The US government has yet to overcome the problem. It hasn’t given us assurance that the prod-

ucts are disease-free,” Indonesia’s agriculture minister Suswono told reporters.

“I have received a letter from the US agriculture ministry that explains they are taking the neces-sary actions to solve the problem, but we also need to wait for our expert commission to give clear-ance,” he said.

No case of mad cow disease has

ever been reported in Indonesia.US beef accounts for around

seven percent of the country’s imports of the meat, ministry data shows.

Indonesia imported around 18,000 tonnes of beef worth $28.2 million from the United States in 2011, according to the US Meat Export Federation, and has imported 1,027 tonnes

from the United States so far this year.

Australia and New Zealand sup-ply the bulk of the country’s beef imports, which reached 100,000 tonnes last year.

Beef innards such as liver, kidney, heart and intestines, are widely used in Indonesian cuisine but prime-cut boneless meat accounts for a large part of US beef imports.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Former Indonesian health minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih died Wednesday, a week after resigning to concentrate on treatment for her lung cancer, the state secretary said. She was 57.

“She passed away at 11:41 am,” State Secretary Sudi Silalahi told reporters.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thurs-day last week said he had accepted her resignation as she was in a “period of intensive treatment”.

The Harvard-educated Sedyaningsih took on the job in 2009 after Yudhoyono won his second and final term with more than 60 percent of the vote.

She was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 2010 and had been undergoing radiotherapy and cryosurgery.

Deputy health minister Ali Ghufron Mukti is heading the ministry until her replacement is ap-pointed.

Agence France-Presse JAKARTA - A two-year-old boy has died of bird

flu in Indonesia, the health ministry said, bringing the country’s death toll from the virulent disease this year to seven.

The toddler, from the city of Pekanbaru on Su-matra island, developed fever on April 17 and was hospitalised three days later, according to a health ministry statement released late Tuesday.

“His condition worsened and he died on April 27,” it said.

It added that it was suspected that he contracted the virus through contact with poultry products as his parents sold quails’ eggs for a living.

Indonesia is the nation hardest-hit by bird flu, with 156 deaths reported since 2003, according to the latest figures given by the World Health Organi-zation, which exclude the country’s latest death.

The virus typically spreads from birds to humans through direct contact, but experts fear it could mutate into a form that is easily transmissible between humans.

US beef ban from Indonesia amid mad cow fearsAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia will not lift a ban on certain US beef imports until the United States declares the products free from mad cow dis-ease, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday.

Ex-health minister dies of cancer

Another victim of Bird Flu died

AFP PHOTO / CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN

In this photograph taken on May 1, 2012, a body of a rare Sumatran elephant is buried along a road of a palm oil plantation in Aceh Jaya in Aceh province after it was found dead on the road on April 30, 2012. Conflicts between humans and animals are increasing as people encroach on wildlife habitats in Indonesia, an archipelago with some of the world’s largest remaining tropical forests. Sumatran elephants in the wild face extinction in less than 30 years unless there is an “immediate morato-rium” on destruction of the animals’ habitat, environmental group WWF warned in January. There are now between 2,400 and 2,800 of the elephants left in the wild on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, which means the population has halved since 1985, said the WWF.

Sumatran elephant found poisoned in Aceh

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LAWAR AYAM(Green Bean Salad with Chicken)

OVERVIEW:

No big religious or private celebration would be held

without serving this ritual dish. Only the eldest, and

most experienced men are allowed to mix the many

ingredients. Many versions incorporate raw pounded

meat and fresh blood in the dressing. Chicken meat

can be replaced with beef, pork, seafood, vegetables or

young jackfruit.

INGREDIENTS:

3 cups blanched long bean cut in ½ cm slices

½ cups grated coconut, roasted

6 clove garlic, peeled, sliced and fried

6 - 8 shallots, peeled, sliced and fried

2 large red chilies, seeded and cut in fine strips

4 - 6 bird’s-eye chilies, finely sliced

3 tsp fried chili

2 tbsp chicken spice paste

Fried shallots to garnish

DRESSING:

250g boneless chicken, minced

2tbsp chicken spice paste

1tsp freshly squeezed limejuice

1tsp salt

½tsp black peppercorns, crushed

Banana leaf cut in 30 cm (12 in) square

PREPARATION:

Combine beans, coconut, garlic, shallots, all the

chilies and chicken spice paste in a large bowl and mix

well.

To prepare the dressing, combine chicken mince

with 2 tbsp of chicken spice paste and mix well. Place

minced chicken lengthwise in center of banana leaf

and roll up very tightly. Place banana leaf roll on

aluminum foil and roll up again very tightly. Turn sides

simultaneously in opposite directions to tighten the roll.

Steam roll for 20 minutes. Remove aluminum foil and

banana leaf; break up with fork to its original minced

form.

Combine mince chicken with bean mixture; season to

taste with salt pepper and limejuice. Garnish with crispy

fried shallot.

He explained that every coun-try in South East Asia have their own regulations and standards on products that being produce by those countries. He’s giving ex-ample of standard that owned by country, like Indonesian standard that called Indonesia’s National

Standard (SNI). Malaysia and Singapore also have those special regulations for their products.

Among members of Asean, Myanmar and Cambodia doesn’t have standards for their products. Meanwhile, Brunei Darussalam only recently has the regulation.

Putu Restiti and her little sister, Alit, have felt invisible most of their lives, hidden in a run-down shack because they were born with twisted limbs some believe were caused by evil spirits.

They were kept out of school and had no friends. But like children everywhere, they had powerful imaginations. After being given a Barbie doll, they started stitching tiny, intricate outfits for her from their mother’s sewing scraps. And in doing so, they created a new world for themselves.

Word of their beautiful and deli-cate designs spread. They were dis-played for sale in Bali’s top tourist area and neighborhood kids started visiting, first to watch and then to request their own.

Indonesia’s resort island of Bali — with its white-sand beaches, five-star hotels and throbbing night-clubs — attracts millions of tourists every year. They include everyone from Paris Hilton (who gushed to fans during a recent visit that she’d finally found “paradise”) to back-packers and surfers. And with her starring role in “Eat, Pray, Love,” Julia Roberts helped bring a dif-ferent pilgrim to the “Island of the Gods”: spiritual seekers.

But there is a dark side as well for children like Putu and Alit, neither of whom can stand nor walk because of problems that occurred during breech births.

An embarrassment to families, some are locked away. In the most extreme cases, they’re abandoned, left to fend for themselves.

That’s what led to the search for Putu two years ago.

Sakti Soediro, a volunteer with a health foundation that helps disabled youths, was looking through a mid-wife’s files describing a breech birth

Pie of tourism does not always taste sweet. Those getting involved in person or indirectly may taste so. However, the remaining does not enjoy any impact of the increase of tourist visit to Bali. Probably, it is actually a matter of imbalance on development policy.

By and large, development in general is ideally intended to improve people’s prosperity. Its proceedings should be distributed and could be enjoyed evenly. Otherwise, the imbalance can trigger social envy. If unresolved immediately, this may turn into protracted problem. It is not surprising if community then pro-posed the removal of Denpasar City and the airport to other region in order the new region could also drive a bet-ter economic growth. Meanwhile, an-other protested that its region was just used as stopover of cruise passenger. After landing, guests spent holidays or had excursion to other neighbor-ing destination. It is considered, the region was merely taken advantage for ‘urinating’ and guests spent no single penny.

Various attempts have indeed been undertaken by local government to gradually diminish such imbalance.

One of them is by launching tourism village in regencies. By this initiative, guests are driven to explore local village to know more about their uniqueness. They were expected to not only have a sightseeing tour but also take advantage of local accom-modation facilities. The program de-notes one of the community involve-ments in tourism or better known as community-based tourism.

Additionally, guests will have more convenient time to explore the splendor of the village and get in closer touch with the local community. This will enable local people to provide everything re-quired by guests during their stay at the village. They are starting from unique tradition, beauty of nature, challenging adventure to delicious and country-style culi-nary. Of course, these would enrich their personal experience as one of the objectives of traveling.

Last but not least, government should also map the great potential retained by each region and make a policy in such a way that each region is included in particular tour package. Basically each region has unique and attractive potentials like arts,

livelihood, tools, tourist destinations, customs and other treasures. Besides, government can lead new invest-ment to less developed regions and establish inter-regency cooperation in distributing job opportunities. In reality, there are some regencies un-dergoing rapid growth in handicraft industry and informal sector enter-prises, while others have abundant unemployment. Local labor force should be given priority to fill in the opportunities as they are supporters of local culture and responsible for its conservation.

Bali has a great potential of pris-tine destination. This should be managed and preserved accordingly for its sustainability. When this can be achieved, people will have more job opportunities without leaving agriculture or other previous job. Conversely, tourists will have a wide choice of destination and attraction to visit. Hopefully, such development could be supported by all compo-nents of community, so the ‘social envy’ could be gradually diminished without moving the ‘existing infra-structure’ but discovering each local potential and how to get a share of the opportunities. (BTN/punia)

Asean need standard for consumer protectionAntara

KUTA - Vice minister of Trade Bayu Krisnamurthi stated that Asean need same standard to protect consumers. This standard will be necessary if Asean want to build economic society like European Union. “This same perception will be need. But on it, country still have some procedures and standards that should being honor by other Asean members,” he stated on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 during the opening session of ASEAN Committee on Consumer Protection.

AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati

In this April 22, 2012 photo, sisters Alit Astini, left, and Putu Restiti display Barbie dolls as they sit on wheel chair outside their house in Songan village, Kintamani, Bali, Indonesia. The disabled sisters were kept out of school and had no friends. But like children everywhere, they had powerful imaginations.

Barbie helps long-hidden sisters shinenearly two decades ago in which the baby was born feet first and the mother nearly lost her life.

“We were determined to find out what happened,” said Soediro, who looked for a month, first going door-to-door in villages dotting Bali’s stunning coasts, and then venturing deep into the island’s interior, where many still live in abject poverty.

After navigating a windy, dirt road that climbed the long-dormant Mount Batur volcano, she reached the rice-farming community of Songan.

There, in a concrete shack at the end of an alley, Jero Widiani, a seam-stress abandoned by her husband years earlier, was struggling to raise five daughters on her own.

Three were healthy. Neighbors were not even aware of the two others.

Putu, the eldest, was sitting on the ground, her severely distorted legs folded beneath her as she sewed together scraps of material. Alit, huddled beside her, was even worse off.

No bigger than a toddler, the little girl has a ribcage pressed tightly against her lungs, making it difficult to breathe, much less speak. She has no mobility in her legs and use, only, of her left arm.

Soediro came back a few days later with some Barbie dolls. When she returned a third time, the girls showed her a stack of miniature dresses, sarongs and shirts.

One had been fitted, beautifully, on the Barbie.

“It was amazing!” said Soediro, who has helped the girls sell the dresses in shops and occasionally at exhibitions for $2 to $4 a piece — bringing in up to $70 a month, enough to help feed the family.

Neighborhood kids pay just 5

cents, but the interaction after years of isolation is priceless.

As word spread, even Western tourists have been known to make the four-hour trip from the capital, Denpasar.

“They are inspiring,” said Steph-anie Crowe, taking a seat on the floor beside the girls and picking up tiny dresses, admiring their fine handiwork.

They don’t have much, the Aus-tralian said, but they are surrounded, now, by friends and family.

Putu, whose health is much better than her sister’s, designs all the clothes and does most of the

sewing. Alit helps when she feels strong enough, but this week the little girl was rushed to the hos-pital, where she is suffering from respiratory problems and a leaky heart valve.

Of the dozen Barbies and one Ken the girls have collected over the last two years, some of them knock-offs, all of them gifts, Alit has her favorite: a blonde-haired girl whom she has yet to rename.

She gently washes and condi-tions the doll’s hair every day and then applies perfume and powder.

Though the family lives with

next to nothing — there are no beds, cabinets, or even chairs — the sisters have created a miniature palace out of boxes for their Barbies.

They have used cardboard to make furniture. Tiny blankets stitched by hand are spread across the beds. And the walls have been decorated with brightly colored gift wrap.

“To me, Barbie is a princess,” Putu says, shrugging off criticism that the Mattel dolls promote an unrealistic ideal about the feminine body.

“And for her,” she says, smiling over at Alit, “they are beautiful fair-ies.” (AP/Niniek Karmini)

Community-based Tourism:

A New Source of Hope for Prosperity

Balinese Culture

98 InternationalThursday, May 3, 2012

Bali Today International Thursday, May 3, 2012

LAWAR AYAM(Green Bean Salad with Chicken)

OVERVIEW:

No big religious or private celebration would be held

without serving this ritual dish. Only the eldest, and

most experienced men are allowed to mix the many

ingredients. Many versions incorporate raw pounded

meat and fresh blood in the dressing. Chicken meat

can be replaced with beef, pork, seafood, vegetables or

young jackfruit.

INGREDIENTS:

3 cups blanched long bean cut in ½ cm slices

½ cups grated coconut, roasted

6 clove garlic, peeled, sliced and fried

6 - 8 shallots, peeled, sliced and fried

2 large red chilies, seeded and cut in fine strips

4 - 6 bird’s-eye chilies, finely sliced

3 tsp fried chili

2 tbsp chicken spice paste

Fried shallots to garnish

DRESSING:

250g boneless chicken, minced

2tbsp chicken spice paste

1tsp freshly squeezed limejuice

1tsp salt

½tsp black peppercorns, crushed

Banana leaf cut in 30 cm (12 in) square

PREPARATION:

Combine beans, coconut, garlic, shallots, all the

chilies and chicken spice paste in a large bowl and mix

well.

To prepare the dressing, combine chicken mince

with 2 tbsp of chicken spice paste and mix well. Place

minced chicken lengthwise in center of banana leaf

and roll up very tightly. Place banana leaf roll on

aluminum foil and roll up again very tightly. Turn sides

simultaneously in opposite directions to tighten the roll.

Steam roll for 20 minutes. Remove aluminum foil and

banana leaf; break up with fork to its original minced

form.

Combine mince chicken with bean mixture; season to

taste with salt pepper and limejuice. Garnish with crispy

fried shallot.

He explained that every coun-try in South East Asia have their own regulations and standards on products that being produce by those countries. He’s giving ex-ample of standard that owned by country, like Indonesian standard that called Indonesia’s National

Standard (SNI). Malaysia and Singapore also have those special regulations for their products.

Among members of Asean, Myanmar and Cambodia doesn’t have standards for their products. Meanwhile, Brunei Darussalam only recently has the regulation.

Putu Restiti and her little sister, Alit, have felt invisible most of their lives, hidden in a run-down shack because they were born with twisted limbs some believe were caused by evil spirits.

They were kept out of school and had no friends. But like children everywhere, they had powerful imaginations. After being given a Barbie doll, they started stitching tiny, intricate outfits for her from their mother’s sewing scraps. And in doing so, they created a new world for themselves.

Word of their beautiful and deli-cate designs spread. They were dis-played for sale in Bali’s top tourist area and neighborhood kids started visiting, first to watch and then to request their own.

Indonesia’s resort island of Bali — with its white-sand beaches, five-star hotels and throbbing night-clubs — attracts millions of tourists every year. They include everyone from Paris Hilton (who gushed to fans during a recent visit that she’d finally found “paradise”) to back-packers and surfers. And with her starring role in “Eat, Pray, Love,” Julia Roberts helped bring a dif-ferent pilgrim to the “Island of the Gods”: spiritual seekers.

But there is a dark side as well for children like Putu and Alit, neither of whom can stand nor walk because of problems that occurred during breech births.

An embarrassment to families, some are locked away. In the most extreme cases, they’re abandoned, left to fend for themselves.

That’s what led to the search for Putu two years ago.

Sakti Soediro, a volunteer with a health foundation that helps disabled youths, was looking through a mid-wife’s files describing a breech birth

Pie of tourism does not always taste sweet. Those getting involved in person or indirectly may taste so. However, the remaining does not enjoy any impact of the increase of tourist visit to Bali. Probably, it is actually a matter of imbalance on development policy.

By and large, development in general is ideally intended to improve people’s prosperity. Its proceedings should be distributed and could be enjoyed evenly. Otherwise, the imbalance can trigger social envy. If unresolved immediately, this may turn into protracted problem. It is not surprising if community then pro-posed the removal of Denpasar City and the airport to other region in order the new region could also drive a bet-ter economic growth. Meanwhile, an-other protested that its region was just used as stopover of cruise passenger. After landing, guests spent holidays or had excursion to other neighbor-ing destination. It is considered, the region was merely taken advantage for ‘urinating’ and guests spent no single penny.

Various attempts have indeed been undertaken by local government to gradually diminish such imbalance.

One of them is by launching tourism village in regencies. By this initiative, guests are driven to explore local village to know more about their uniqueness. They were expected to not only have a sightseeing tour but also take advantage of local accom-modation facilities. The program de-notes one of the community involve-ments in tourism or better known as community-based tourism.

Additionally, guests will have more convenient time to explore the splendor of the village and get in closer touch with the local community. This will enable local people to provide everything re-quired by guests during their stay at the village. They are starting from unique tradition, beauty of nature, challenging adventure to delicious and country-style culi-nary. Of course, these would enrich their personal experience as one of the objectives of traveling.

Last but not least, government should also map the great potential retained by each region and make a policy in such a way that each region is included in particular tour package. Basically each region has unique and attractive potentials like arts,

livelihood, tools, tourist destinations, customs and other treasures. Besides, government can lead new invest-ment to less developed regions and establish inter-regency cooperation in distributing job opportunities. In reality, there are some regencies un-dergoing rapid growth in handicraft industry and informal sector enter-prises, while others have abundant unemployment. Local labor force should be given priority to fill in the opportunities as they are supporters of local culture and responsible for its conservation.

Bali has a great potential of pris-tine destination. This should be managed and preserved accordingly for its sustainability. When this can be achieved, people will have more job opportunities without leaving agriculture or other previous job. Conversely, tourists will have a wide choice of destination and attraction to visit. Hopefully, such development could be supported by all compo-nents of community, so the ‘social envy’ could be gradually diminished without moving the ‘existing infra-structure’ but discovering each local potential and how to get a share of the opportunities. (BTN/punia)

Asean need standard for consumer protectionAntara

KUTA - Vice minister of Trade Bayu Krisnamurthi stated that Asean need same standard to protect consumers. This standard will be necessary if Asean want to build economic society like European Union. “This same perception will be need. But on it, country still have some procedures and standards that should being honor by other Asean members,” he stated on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 during the opening session of ASEAN Committee on Consumer Protection.

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In this April 22, 2012 photo, sisters Alit Astini, left, and Putu Restiti display Barbie dolls as they sit on wheel chair outside their house in Songan village, Kintamani, Bali, Indonesia. The disabled sisters were kept out of school and had no friends. But like children everywhere, they had powerful imaginations.

Barbie helps long-hidden sisters shinenearly two decades ago in which the baby was born feet first and the mother nearly lost her life.

“We were determined to find out what happened,” said Soediro, who looked for a month, first going door-to-door in villages dotting Bali’s stunning coasts, and then venturing deep into the island’s interior, where many still live in abject poverty.

After navigating a windy, dirt road that climbed the long-dormant Mount Batur volcano, she reached the rice-farming community of Songan.

There, in a concrete shack at the end of an alley, Jero Widiani, a seam-stress abandoned by her husband years earlier, was struggling to raise five daughters on her own.

Three were healthy. Neighbors were not even aware of the two others.

Putu, the eldest, was sitting on the ground, her severely distorted legs folded beneath her as she sewed together scraps of material. Alit, huddled beside her, was even worse off.

No bigger than a toddler, the little girl has a ribcage pressed tightly against her lungs, making it difficult to breathe, much less speak. She has no mobility in her legs and use, only, of her left arm.

Soediro came back a few days later with some Barbie dolls. When she returned a third time, the girls showed her a stack of miniature dresses, sarongs and shirts.

One had been fitted, beautifully, on the Barbie.

“It was amazing!” said Soediro, who has helped the girls sell the dresses in shops and occasionally at exhibitions for $2 to $4 a piece — bringing in up to $70 a month, enough to help feed the family.

Neighborhood kids pay just 5

cents, but the interaction after years of isolation is priceless.

As word spread, even Western tourists have been known to make the four-hour trip from the capital, Denpasar.

“They are inspiring,” said Steph-anie Crowe, taking a seat on the floor beside the girls and picking up tiny dresses, admiring their fine handiwork.

They don’t have much, the Aus-tralian said, but they are surrounded, now, by friends and family.

Putu, whose health is much better than her sister’s, designs all the clothes and does most of the

sewing. Alit helps when she feels strong enough, but this week the little girl was rushed to the hos-pital, where she is suffering from respiratory problems and a leaky heart valve.

Of the dozen Barbies and one Ken the girls have collected over the last two years, some of them knock-offs, all of them gifts, Alit has her favorite: a blonde-haired girl whom she has yet to rename.

She gently washes and condi-tions the doll’s hair every day and then applies perfume and powder.

Though the family lives with

next to nothing — there are no beds, cabinets, or even chairs — the sisters have created a miniature palace out of boxes for their Barbies.

They have used cardboard to make furniture. Tiny blankets stitched by hand are spread across the beds. And the walls have been decorated with brightly colored gift wrap.

“To me, Barbie is a princess,” Putu says, shrugging off criticism that the Mattel dolls promote an unrealistic ideal about the feminine body.

“And for her,” she says, smiling over at Alit, “they are beautiful fair-ies.” (AP/Niniek Karmini)

Community-based Tourism:

A New Source of Hope for Prosperity

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Tenganan Village is one of the oldest Balinese Traditional located in Karangasem Regency, east part of Bali. This village is much referred by cultural literature science of Ten-ganan Pegringsingan, which is very famous in the island. It own very unique local community life pattern which is one example of Bali Aga Village cultures (Hindu Prehistoric) and different with other countryside in plain of Bali. Nowadays, this vil-lage has been appointed as a place for tourist destination which can

present the attractive and unique matters which able to add the varia-tion of object and fascination for tourist to come.

Tenganan village is geographi-cally situated among the hill in west and east part of this village. This village is located in Manggis sub district and Karangasem Re-gency or about 1 hour drive from Denpasar Town. It is a small village consisted of three Banjars (group of local community) those are Banjar Kauh, Banjar Tengah and Banjar Pande. The regional of this village is consisted of three complexes

those are resident, plantation and rice field complex. The history of Tenganan village is expressed in a few versions. The first version is mentioned that the resident of Tenganan village are come from Paneges Village, a village is located near with Bedahulu Village that is located Gianyar Regency. The sec-ond version is expressed that word of Tenganan recognized in one of Bali inscription that was written by the word of Tranganan. The third version is expressed that the Tenganan Village Resident prays to the Bukit Lempuyang Temple. The

word of Tenganan is ascribed by a Tengah root word which can mean to aim to middle of Pegringsingan, the fasten cloth type weave that is typically produce by Tenganan village resident. The structure of resident in Tenganan village is built in linear consisted of six rays. Each of ray consisted of some lawn broadly, the building form where the local community use it to pres-ent the handicraft for tourists. All the tradition existences of the hu-man being are harmoniously with the God, human and environment as according to Tri Hita Karana

concept. The Tourism Destination of Tenganan remains to draw dur-ing the time, goodness as tourism cultural object, tourism nature and agriculture tourism.

It is a very famous village throughout Bali where most of the local people knows where it is located. It is located in Karangasem Regency and close to Candidasa. You can find many travel agencies serve the tour to visit this village and you may join Karangasem Tour which you will discover places of interest in east part of Bali including this village.

Tenganan Village

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BANDA ACEH — A ranger says an endangered Sumatran elephant has died in a palm oil plantation in western Indonesia, apparently after being poisoned by villag-ers trying to protect their crops.

Fewer than 3,000 of the animals are

left in the wild and environmentalists warn they could be extinct within three decades unless steps are taken to protect them.

Mukhtar, a ranger with Fauna-Flora International, says the 18-year-old elephant was not yet dead when she was found Monday in Aceh province.

Rangers unsuccessfully tried to save her by giving her medicine.

Mukhtar said it is not uncommon for elephants to be poisoned. As forests disap-pear, elephants stray into inhabited areas in search of food. Villagers trying to protect their property sometimes leave fruits laced with cyanide.

Indonesia suspended US imports of boned meat and innards on April 26, two days after the fourth-ever case in the US of bovine spongi-form encephalopathy, known as

mad cow disease, was reported in California.

“The US government has yet to overcome the problem. It hasn’t given us assurance that the prod-

ucts are disease-free,” Indonesia’s agriculture minister Suswono told reporters.

“I have received a letter from the US agriculture ministry that explains they are taking the neces-sary actions to solve the problem, but we also need to wait for our expert commission to give clear-ance,” he said.

No case of mad cow disease has

ever been reported in Indonesia.US beef accounts for around

seven percent of the country’s imports of the meat, ministry data shows.

Indonesia imported around 18,000 tonnes of beef worth $28.2 million from the United States in 2011, according to the US Meat Export Federation, and has imported 1,027 tonnes

from the United States so far this year.

Australia and New Zealand sup-ply the bulk of the country’s beef imports, which reached 100,000 tonnes last year.

Beef innards such as liver, kidney, heart and intestines, are widely used in Indonesian cuisine but prime-cut boneless meat accounts for a large part of US beef imports.

Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Former Indonesian health minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih died Wednesday, a week after resigning to concentrate on treatment for her lung cancer, the state secretary said. She was 57.

“She passed away at 11:41 am,” State Secretary Sudi Silalahi told reporters.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thurs-day last week said he had accepted her resignation as she was in a “period of intensive treatment”.

The Harvard-educated Sedyaningsih took on the job in 2009 after Yudhoyono won his second and final term with more than 60 percent of the vote.

She was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 2010 and had been undergoing radiotherapy and cryosurgery.

Deputy health minister Ali Ghufron Mukti is heading the ministry until her replacement is ap-pointed.

Agence France-Presse JAKARTA - A two-year-old boy has died of bird

flu in Indonesia, the health ministry said, bringing the country’s death toll from the virulent disease this year to seven.

The toddler, from the city of Pekanbaru on Su-matra island, developed fever on April 17 and was hospitalised three days later, according to a health ministry statement released late Tuesday.

“His condition worsened and he died on April 27,” it said.

It added that it was suspected that he contracted the virus through contact with poultry products as his parents sold quails’ eggs for a living.

Indonesia is the nation hardest-hit by bird flu, with 156 deaths reported since 2003, according to the latest figures given by the World Health Organi-zation, which exclude the country’s latest death.

The virus typically spreads from birds to humans through direct contact, but experts fear it could mutate into a form that is easily transmissible between humans.

US beef ban from Indonesia amid mad cow fearsAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia will not lift a ban on certain US beef imports until the United States declares the products free from mad cow dis-ease, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday.

Ex-health minister dies of cancer

Another victim of Bird Flu died

AFP PHOTO / CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN

In this photograph taken on May 1, 2012, a body of a rare Sumatran elephant is buried along a road of a palm oil plantation in Aceh Jaya in Aceh province after it was found dead on the road on April 30, 2012. Conflicts between humans and animals are increasing as people encroach on wildlife habitats in Indonesia, an archipelago with some of the world’s largest remaining tropical forests. Sumatran elephants in the wild face extinction in less than 30 years unless there is an “immediate morato-rium” on destruction of the animals’ habitat, environmental group WWF warned in January. There are now between 2,400 and 2,800 of the elephants left in the wild on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, which means the population has halved since 1985, said the WWF.

Sumatran elephant found poisoned in Aceh

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BRUSSELS - Britain and Swe-den, backed by eastern European allies, squared off with Germany, France and other EU states Wednes-day over rules to harden the defences of banks against any crisis.

European Union finance minis-ters gathered for a special meeting in Brussels to debate the so-called Basel III regulation that will require banks to increase their capital buf-fers so they can withstand financial shocks.

The discussion comes in the midst of concerns about the health of the Spanish banking sector, still reeling from a real estate bubble that burst in 2008, but officials say Madrid’s struggles are not on the agenda.

“It’s very important that we do not hesitate to do the general right thing in order to secure the entire financial sector, with capital buf-fers, with more and better quality of capital, more liquidity,” Danish

The Asian Development Fund (ADF), which provides grants and concessional loans to the region’s poorest countries, is replenished every four years, with the funding during the last financing cycle of 2009-2012 at around $11.3 billion.

“ADF borrowers face significant development challenges and have fewer resources of their own to address them,” ADB President Har-uhiko Kuroda said in a briefing.

“Despite difficult fiscal situation in traditional donors, we have been able to secure larger resources, larger than ADF 10.”

The replenished ADF, as well as a planned doubling of the Chiang Mai Initiative fund to $240 billion, would help the region weather any impact from the euro zone crisis which Kuroda said continues to be a risk to growth in Asia.

While the region has made progress in reducing poverty, the benefits of growth have yet to reach several hundreds of millions in Asia who continue to subsist on less than $1.25 a day, Kuroda said.

Associated Press

Facebook will go public on May 18, a publ ished repor t says, in one of the most highly anticipated tech initial public offerings since Google went public in August 2004.

The Wall Street Journal re-ported Tuesday that the social networking company is set to start its roadshow on Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. The roadshow, a series of meetings with pro-spective institutional investors, is designed to stir interest in the company’s stock.

Mark Zuckerberg, the found-er and chief executive of Fa-cebook, will attend some of the meetings, The Journal re-ported.

The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company is seeking to raise about $5 billion in the offering, giving the entire company a value of about $100 billion.

Officials for Facebook de-clined to comment.

Facebook las t month an-nounced it is buying Instagram, the company behind a popular mobile photo-sharing applica-tion with the same name, for $1 billion, its largest acquisi-tion ever.

During the first quarter, Fa-cebook’s net income fell 12 per-cent, weighed down by higher expenses even as its revenue soared. Net income fell to $205 million in the three months that ended March 31, from $233 million a year earlier, while net income attributable to common shareholders fell to $137 mil-lion from $153 million. That amounts to earnings of 9 cents per share in the latest quarter, down from 11 cents a year ear-lier. Revenue rose 45 percent to $1.06 billion.

The company had 901 mil-lion monthly active users as of March 31, up from 845 million as of the end of 2011.

Facebook is listing its stock on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “FB.”

Haruhiko Kuroda, president of Asian Development Bank

(ADB) gestures as he speaks during a press conference

at the start of ADB’s annual meeting of the Board of Gover-nors in Manila on May 2, 2012. Kuroda said during the press conference that the bank has secured more than 12 billion

USD to help Asia’s poorest and there will be no financial

assistance to Myanmar unless they pay their debt.

ADB secures billions for poorest countriesReuters

MANILA - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Wednesday that funding for its concessional loan facility will increase nearly 10 percent to $12.4 billion as the bank seeks to promote inclusive growth in low-income countries and shield them from financial crises.

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Facebook IPO set for May 18 EU nations face off over

bank capital rulesEconomy Minister Margrethe Ve-stager said on arrival for the talks, which she was chairing.

Britain, Sweden and others want the freedom to impose tougher capi-tal requirements on their banks than the Basel rules, should they want to do so, but the Franco-German bloc is pushing for all 27 EU states to follow the same line.

France and others fear that al-lowing one nation to set higher threshholds would spark a “race to the top,” as governments would compete to show their banks have the biggest reserves, said a senior EU diplomat.

These nations are also concerned that forcing banks to park too much capital would curb efforts to encour-age them to invest in Europe’s sickly economy, the diplomat said.

While the European Commission and nations such as France want “maximum harmonisation,” another EU diplomat said Britain argues that capital rules are a sovereign issue since taxpayers would be affected

by any bank failures.Sweden’s finance ministry said

last week that governments must have “greater possibilities to take the measures they consider neces-sary to ensure financial stability at a national level than those provided by the current proposal.”

The Basel III rules, which gov-ernments must start to implement in 2013, require all banks to strengthen their capital reserves by raising total core reserves to 7.0 percent from 2.0 percent at the moment.

The Danish presidency to the EU has proposed a compromise that would allow governments to impose an extra 3.0 percent buffer, with any-thing above that requiring European Commission permission.

But Britain and Sweden are against letting the commission, the EU’s executive arm, making such decisions.

London wants the council of EU governments or the European Sys-temic Risk Board, a financial over-sight body, to have a say instead.

“We’ve confirmed the GPS (global positioning system) jam-ming signals have been stemming from the North,” Lee Kyung-Woo, a deputy director at the state Korea Communications Commission, told AFP.

The transport ministry, in a statement and in comments to AFP, said the jamming had affected 252 flights since last Saturday but did not identify who was responsible.

The North has been accused before by Seoul of jamming GPS systems but there was no previ-ous widespread effect on civilian flights.

In recent weeks it has frequent-ly threatened offensive action against the South, amid growing fears it may soon carry out a nu-clear test following a failed rocket launch last month that sparked international criticism.

The North accuses Seoul’s leaders of disrespect during Pyongyang’s celebrations last month of the centenary of the birth of founding leader Kim Il-Sung.

A transport ministry state-ment said 241 flights by nine South Korean airlines and 11 flights operated by nine foreign airlines had been affected since last Saturday.

It said Seoul that day issued a warning notice for pilots and airlines.

Kim Choon-Oh, a ministry director, said GPS disruption was noticeable around Incheon airport, the South’s main inter-national gateway.

“Authorities are tracing the origin,” he told AFP.

“Despite disruption in GPS, there is no serious threat to the safety of flights because planes are using other navigation de-vices.”

Kim said there was a brief effect on the GPS systems of civilian flights last year, “but this kind of widespread disruption is unusual”.

A spokesman for Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff declined to say whether the jamming was also directed against the military. “There has been no problem

in our military operations,” he said.

The South’s then-defence min-ister said in October 2010 that a North Korean jamming device capable of disrupting guided weapons posed a fresh threat to security.

Minister Kim Tae-Young told parliament the North had im-ported Russian equipment to jam South Korea’s GPS reception and could achieve this effect over a distance of up to 100 kilometres (60 miles).

Kim said the North was thought to have been responsible for the intermittent failure of GPS re-ceivers on naval and civilian craft along the west coast from August 23 to 25 that year.

In March last year the South’s Yonhap news agency said the North had used jamming equip-ment to block South Korean mili-tary communication devices.

It said the strong jamming signals had caused minor disrup-tions to phones and navigational devices using GPS at military units near Seoul.

Associated Press Writer

SEARCY, Ark. — An Arkansas woman who cashed a $1 million lot-tery ticket may have to give up the winnings to a woman who threw away the ticket after she bought it, according to a judge’s ruling Tuesday.

The judge decided that Sharon Duncan was entitled to the prize money, not Sharon Jones, who claimed the prize money after she took the ticket from a trash can of discarded lottery tickets at a convenience store in Beebe, a city about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock.

Jones’ attorney, James Simpson, said he plans to appeal. Jones had testified that she already spent some of the money on a new truck and cash gifts to her children.

Simpson noted that Duncan testified she threw away the ticket after the read-out on a ticket scanner said, “Sorry. Not a winner.” The attorney argued that people shouldn’t be allowed to throw items away and then say, “’ooh, I want to un-abandon it.’”

“We’d have garage-sale law all over the place,” he said. “It became trash when someone threw it away.”

White County judge Thomas Hughes, however, said Jones never met the burden of proof that Duncan abandoned her right to claim $1 million.

“The $1 million was never found money,” Hughes said.Earlier Tuesday, Jones testified that she gathered a handful of dis-

carded tickets from the trash can — as she had done many times before — and said there was no sign alerting customers not to take tickets.

That contradicted Super 1 Stop store manager Lisa Petriches’ earlier testimony that she had taped a sign that read “Do not take” on the can. But a former store clerk testified that Petriches posted the sign only after Jones claimed the prize.

Petriches brought the lawsuit against Jones, and Duncan joined it after the judge said at a January hearing that she may be the true owner of the ticket. Hughes ruled that Petriches and the store’s owner, Louie Dajani — whose corporation, Summer One LLC, joined the suit — weren’t entitled to anything.

Associated Press Writer

WELLINGTON, New Zea-land — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the Secret Service has found no basis to allegations its agents hired strip-pers and prostitutes in El Salvador last year.

The allegations had been made by an anonymous source on a Se-attle television station after the ser-vice was embroiled in a prostitution

scandal involving agents’ conduct in Colombia last month.

Napolitano said no basis to the claims had been found after inter-views with some of the Secret Ser-vice agents who were in El Salvador at that time. She discussed the matter Wednesday with The Associated Press on her visit to New Zealand.

She said while the interviewing likely was to continue, “to date, nobody has been able to substantiate that anonymous story.”

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Electronic jamming signals from North Korea have been affecting scores of civilian flights in and out of South Korea but did not endanger the aircraft, a Seoul official said Wednesday

N. Korea jamming affects flights: Seoul officialAgence France Presse

Electronic jamming signals from North Korea have affected scores of civilian flights in and out of South Korea, a Seoul official said Wednesday, amid rising tensions with Pyongyang.

No basis to El Salvador sex claims

Woman who lost Ark. lotto ticket entitled to $1M

He said a lot of potential jobs remained to exist in Bali if the government was indeed capable of working on them. The basis of SMEs and creative industries promised an adequate employ-ment. “If the creative industry is developed by the government and it educates the prospective job seekers to go into it, then there is a chance to absorb more labor,” said the professor of Graduate School of Economics, Udayana University.

Besides, according to him, the government should also be able to create an entrepreneurial

climate. It should be able to synergize the entrepreneurship development program with the support of financial institutions, education sector and job seek-ers. “Government is obliged to create a favorable entrepre-neurial climate. Then, it should establish a marketing network to specific regions that really needs the products yielded by the young entrepreneurs. If the market has been well established and the goods sell well, they can continue to expand the business and create job opportunities,” said Sri Budhi. (kmb29)

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Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for April 20 through May 20, 2012

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, sail-ings, 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

20 Apr Tilem Kedasa - Pura Kahyangan Tiga Batur Bangli- Pura Batur Camenggon-Sukawati- Pura Luhur Bhujangga Camggu Kuta- Pura Kawitan Kayu Selem Tampurhyang Batur-Kintamani

21 Apr Hari Tumpek Kandang - Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota Gianyar- Pura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - Tabanan- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung

25 Apr Buda Wage Menail - Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Cemenggaon Sukawati- Mr. Pasek Dangke bambang - Bangli- Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Pejeng Kaja - Gianyar- Pura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - Bangli- Merajan Agung Blangsinga - Blahbatuh- Pura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh Gianyar- Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Sukawati- Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan Kapal Mengwi

1 May Anggar Kasih Perangbakat - Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - Klungkung- Pura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - Bangli- Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - Buleleng- Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - Klungkung- Pura Gunung Tengsong Lombok.- Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar- Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar- Pura Dalem Banyuning Timur Buleleng- Pura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas Denpasar- Pura Tengah Padang Tegalalang- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - Pupuan Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Denpasar- Pura Hyangaluh/Jenggala Besakih- Merajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan Gunaksa- Mr. Pasek Gelgel Selulung- Merajan Pasek Subrata Medahan- Merajan Pasek Munggu Munggu- Pura Tengkulak Tulikup - Gianyar- Pura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen.

2 May Buda Umanis Perangbakat - Pura Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring- Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana- Pura Batu Bolong Canggu - Kuta- Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan- Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Jembrana- Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan - Buleleng.- Pura Pasek Tangkas Darma Reyanggede Tabanan- Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng- Pr. Srijon Tabanan- Mr. Pasek Gelgel Lebah Pangkung- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Patemon- Pura Tirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak Siring- Pura Dadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba Tegalalang.- Pura Pedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel Tabanan.- Pura Puncak Mundi Nusa Penida.

5 May Purnama Jiyestha - Pura Segara Lombok- Pura Dwijawarsa Malang- Pura Puncaktingguh Angsri Baturiti Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Desa Jatiluwih Penebel Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Batur Tonja Denpasar- Pura Masopahit Grenceng Denpasar- Pura Penyungsungan Pasek Tohjiwa Wanagiri Selemadeg.- Pura Pamerajan Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem- Pura Eka Dharma Sweta Indah-Mataram, NTB.

16 May Buda Keliwon Ugu - Pura Dalem Tarukan Desa Peninjoan Tembuku - Bangli.- Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba-kaba Tabanan- Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng- Pura Desa Kayangan Tiga Desa Bubunan Seririt - Buleleng- Pura Agung Gunung Raung Banjar Taro Kaja Taro - Tegalalang- Merajan Pasek Dangka Bungbungan

20 May Tilem Jiyestha. - Pura Bhujangga Waisnawa Gumrih Jembrana.

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This coming month Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center will cel-ebrate their 4th Hotel Anniversary on May 5th, 2012. A series of competi-tions, charity events and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will be held from Wednesday May 2nd 2012 until Saturday, May 5th 2012 and will end on the staff gathering on Monday, May 7th 2012.

First competition that will be par-ticipated by Aston staff on May 2nd, 2012 are Aston Denpasar got talent (Singing Competition) and Aston Quiz (Questions will be about Aston). For the outbound competition will be held on the next day and it will full of wet, dirty, crazyness, madness and laugh from Pillow Attact (Gebug Ban-tal), Jil-jil (Jilat-jilat) and Hulahoop Competition. The venue is all around Aston Denpasar Hotel from poolside until level B1.

Aston Denpasar continue the pro-

gram of CSR from the previous one on 14 February 2012 before. Referring the demands from the local community, we will hold this in their hall. It is in Kusuma Jati Hall. Corporate Social Responsibility in the local community (Balai Kusuma Jati) will be held on 04 May 2012. The activities will be Blood Donation with PMI, Free Blood Checking, Free Eyes Checking, Free Bone Checking, Free Face & Skin Consultation, Drawing competition for kids, etc.

Furthermore, Charity for Disabled Children at Panti Asuhan Kesayan Ikang Papa Gianyar will be held on 05 May 2012. Some of the representation of Aston Denpasar Hotel will visit this orphanage and bring all the things collected from all staff such as clothes, food, reading books and money.

“The purpose of this event in specif-ic is to develop teamworks and social awareness in local community and in general to make other people and hotel business people are always aware about

some unfortunate people that need our attention, caring and love from us. We never know that a very small thing we share is really worthed by others” said Rike Liwan, Public Relations Manager of Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center.

The final event and the closing will be on the May 7th,2012 with Staff Gathering and Supervisory and As-sistant Manager performance. Some of the winners from the several competi-tion will perform too. The theme that Aston Denpasar Hotel & Convention Center created is “4 Tahun, 4 Cinta, 4 Cerita”. Meaning that in this 4 year, Aston Denpasar has been through 4 big stories such a big renovation over the whole hotel area, refurbished of the Grand Ballroom, 4 leaderships, Go Green Team in the 4th Year was bornt. 4 loves meaning there were 4 great loves stories has been made in Aston Den-pasar Hotel & Convention Center, A meeting place that united some couples to have a new path of life.

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In my childhood (and, admittedly, parts of my adulthood), I read the “Avengers” comics because they were equally concerned with character in-teractions and the old biff-bam-pow. On one page, our heroes would be sitting around a meeting table nee-dling each other about their differing methodologies, and on the next, they would assemble to beat back some threat from dastardly aliens.

That’s the balance that Whedon has so brilliantly accomplished here, tell-ing a story in which who these heroes are and how they deal with each other remains at the forefront, even when

Manhattan is under assault from an interplanetary Big Bad. He gets the vibe and the delights of Marvel comic books in the same way that Spielberg and Lucas intuitively understood the appeal of serials in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” You don’t have to be a com-ics fan to have a great time (although it sure couldn’t hurt) but you may need a reminder of everything that’s gone down in the previous Marvel movies.

Remember that powerful tesseract (Marvel readers know it as the Cosmic Cube) that played such a big part in “Captain America: The First Avenger”? Now it resides in a SHIELD laboratory

where astrophysicist Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård, reprising his role from “Thor”) is trying to unlock its secrets, under the watchful eye of the arrow-wielding Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner), also known as Hawkeye. During a site visit from SHIELD chief Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), Asgardian trick-ster Loki (Tom Hiddleston) shows up to steal the tesseract, enslaving Selvig and Barton in the process.

After the entire installation sinks into the earth (a moment reminiscent of the finale of Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV series), Fury assembles the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson, last seen kicking butt in black leather in “Iron Man 2”), Dr. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) - who’s constantly worried that the Hulk (whom he refers to as “the other guy”) will manifest, Captain America (Chris Evans) and Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.).

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The Os-cars will be in Dolby. The CIM Group, which owns the Hol-lywood & Highland Center, an-nounced a 20-year deal on Tues-day with the audio technology company Dolby Laboratories Inc. to rename the Academy Awards venue as the Dolby Theatre.

In a separate deal, the Acad-emy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed a new agree-ment to keep the annual Oscars extravaganza at the theater for 20 more years.

“We are thrilled that Dolby is now the name of the theater because Dolby stands for excel-lence,” said Tom Sherak, president of the motion picture academy. “It’s a no-brainer for us.”

The posh four-level, 3,400-seat theater, formerly known as the Kodak Theatre, has been home to the Academy Awards since 2002. CIM Group dropped

the Kodak name from the theater earlier this year after a bank-ruptcy court judge approved the early exit of 131-year-old East-man Kodak Co. from a 20-year naming rights deal it signed with CIM Group in 1999.

During this year’s Oscar cer-emony, host Billy Crystal jok-ingly referred to the space as the “Chapter 11 Theatre.”

Sherak said the motion pic-ture academy, which did not immediately renew its deal with CIM Group last year, briefly considered moving ceremonies to another venue but decided to keep the Oscars in Hollywood.

“We got a number of sugges-tions from people saying, ‘we’d love to have you,’” said Sherak. “We talked to them, and they gave us some offers that they would have loved to negotiate with us, but we stopped there because the board met and we decided we wanted to be in Hol-lywood with the awards show.”

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LOS ANGELES - Whitney Hous-ton’s ex-husband Bobby Brown struck back at claims he was responsible for getting the pop star hooked on drugs or that he somehow played a role in her cocaine-fueled death in February. “I’m not the one that got Whitney on drugs, at all,” Brown said in an interview to be aired this week on the “Today” show on U.S. television network NBC.

“I’m not the reason she’s gone,” he added. Houston, 48, was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub on Febru-ary11 from what authorities called acci-dental drowning brought on by cocaine use and heart disease. White powder and drug paraphernalia were found in the bathroom where she died.

The singer had spoken publicly about a long battle with cocaine, marijuana and crack, particularly dur-ing her tempestuous 15-year marriage to Brown. They divorced in 2007, but some fans and members of Houston’s family have blamed Brown for her untimely death.

In his first TV interview since the singer died, Brown, 43, told “Today” show host Matt Lauer that he had been off drugs for seven years and was hurt to hear that Houston had been using cocaine. “I was hurt ... because, you know, me being off of narcotics for the last seven years - I felt that she was, you know, I didn’t know she was struggling with it still. But at the same time, you know - listen, it’s a hard fight,” he said.

Brown said drugs were part of Houston’s life before he met her in 1991. “I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn’t the one that got Whitney on drugs at all,” he said. “So this was a part of her life before you and she got together?” Lauer asked.

“Way, way before. Yeah ... It’s just, it’s just unexplainable - how one could, you know, (say that I) got her addicted to drugs. I’m not the reason she’s gone,” Brown replied.

Brown said Houston had a “glow about her” when he last saw her about a week before she died. He was at a restaurant having dinner with their daughter, Bobbi Kristina. “She just looked like she was in a good place,” he said about the “I Will Always Love You” singer.

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Bobby Brown (R) leaves the funeral service of ex-wife, pop singer Whitney Houston, at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey February 18, 2012.

Don’t blame me for Whitney’s death, Bobby Brown says

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FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2012 file photo, an Oscar state is displayed outside the Kodak Theatre in preparation for the 84th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Oscars to stay in same theater for 20 more years

“The Avengers” is a satis-fying superhero sandwich

In this film image released by Disney, Thor portrayed by Chris Hemsworth, left, and Captain America, portrayed by Chris Evans, are shown in a scene from “The Avengers”

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LOS ANGELES - Assembling a team of superheroes is no doubt like putting together an all-star cast - you’ve got to deal with a lot of clashing egos in a small space and make sure that everyone has his or her moment to shine. Writer-director Joss Whedon pulls off both in “The Avengers,” an exhilarating ode to what mainstream comics do best.

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The presence in France of Basher Saleh threatens to make life even more complicated for French Presi-dent Nicolas Sarkozy, who confirmed Tuesday that Saleh is here. Sarkozy has had a roller-coaster relationship with Libya and faces an uphill battle for re-election in a vote Sunday.

The French leader already has denied recent allegations that Gad-hafi’s regime offered to finance his 2007 presidential campaign.

Saleh served as Gadhafi’s chief of staff, chief of the Cabinet, and chairman of the government-con-trolled Libya Africa Investment Portfolio, according to the U.S. government. A former Libyan rebel

described Saleh on Tuesday as a key Gadhafi adviser who knows many of the regime’s secrets.

French website Mediapart and newspaper Canard Enchaine have described Saleh as the dead dicta-tor’s “cash man” and suggested that Sarkozy allowed Saleh refuge in France because of past favors.

Sarkozy denies the reports. He said in an interview with RMC radio Tues-day that “Saleh is in France. ... The decision for him to be in France was made after consultations with Libyan authorities, because his family was in France.” Interpol’s website has a so-called red notice for a man named Bashir al-Shrkawi, based on a Libyan

warrant for fraud. The attached pho-tos appear to show Saleh. The Lyon, France-based police agency referred all questions on the warrant to Libya’s new government.

A member of Libya’s National Transitional Council said that the Libyan warrant was issued for Bash-er Saleh al-Sharkawy. The council member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, gave no other details.

Sarkozy said France would hand over Saleh if it’s confirmed that he is wanted by Interpol, and said the French government is “working hand in hand with the Libyan authorities” to deter-mine how to handle Saleh’s case.

An Interpol red notice is the equivalent of putting a suspect on the police agency’s most-wanted list. The notices are based on na-tional warrants, and mean Interpol is urging all member countries to arrest and hand over the suspect.

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KABUL - At least six people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, officials said, hours after U.S. President Barack Obama left Kabul following an unannounced visit during which he signed a strategic partnership agreement.

The blast, and Obama’s visit, came a year after U.S. special forces troops killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks, in a raid in neighboring Pakistan.

The Taliban, ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces for harbor-ing bin Laden and other militants, quickly claimed responsibility for what it said was a suicide car bomb attack.

Wednesday’s attack was the latest in a recent surge of violence after the Taliban announced they had begun their usual “spring offensive”, and that they had

suspended tentative steps towards peace talks with the United States.

Kabul police chief Ayoub Sa-langi said six people, a Gurkha guard and five passers-by, were killed in the Kabul attack.

Salangi told Reuters a car bomb exploded on Jalalabad road, the main road out of the capital heading east, where sev-eral U.S. military bases and compounds housing Westerners are located.

He said one of those com-pounds, known as “Green Vil-lage”, was the target. A plume of black smoke was seen rising from inside the area.

Reuters witnesses heard a second blast in the same area about 90 minutes after the first explosion.

The Interior Ministry earlier said at least two people had been killed , and another police official said an exchange of gunfire fol-lowed the first blast.

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NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Op-position leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in to Myanmar’s mili-tary-backed parliament Wednesday, taking public office for the first time since launching her struggle against authoritarian rule nearly a quarter century ago.

The opposition leader’s entry into the legislature heralds a new political era in Myanmar, cementing a risky detente between her party and the reformist government of President Thein Sein, which inherited power from the army last year.

Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party will occupy too few seats to have any real power in the ruling-party dominated as-sembly, however, and there are fears the presence of the opposition lawmakers could simply legitimize the regime without any change.

But the new lawmakers are also likely to bring a level of public de-bate to the legislative body that has never been seen as they prepare for the next general election in 2015.

The solemn swearing-in cer-emony took place in the capital, Naypyitaw, which was built by the former army junta. With white roses

in her hair, Suu Kyi stood along with several dozen of her party’s lawmakers as the speaker the lower house asked them to read the oath.

Speaking briefly to a mob of reporters afterward, Suu Kyi said her focus will be “to carry out our duties within the parliament as we have been carrying out our duties outside the parliament for the last 20 or so years.”

Suu Kyi’s ascent marks an as-tonishing reversal of fortune for a woman who became one of the world’s most prominent prisoners of conscience, held under house arrest for much of the last two decades.

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Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, center, and elected lawmakers of her National League for Democracy party swear during a regular session of Myanmar Lower House at parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, May 2, 2012.

Myanmar begins new era as Suu Kyi joins parliament

Gadhafi ally in exile in France, Sarkozy says

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France’s President and candidate for re-election in 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy, gestures as he delivers a speech dur-ing a campaign meeting at Tocadero square in Paris, Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Eiffel tower in the background.

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PARIS — The late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s former chief of staff is living in France with the government’s permission despite facing U.S. sanctions and being wanted by Interpol.

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Afghan security forces members inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Kabul May 2, 2012. At least six people were killed in the suicide car bomb attack in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, officials said, hours after U.S.

Car bomb kills six after Obama leaves Afghan capital

Scientists had known that dolphins work together to herd groups of mullet, a fish that’s an important source of food for local fishermen, toward a line of fishermen in boats or knee-deep water. Then the dolphins signal with specialized head or tail slaps when and where the fishermen should throw their nets. The cooperation is helpful to both parties, researchers said. The two wouldn’t survive without each other.

“About 200 local artisanal fishermen are almost entirely reliant on the dolphins for catching their fish,” study researcher Fábio Daura-Jorge, of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil, wrote in a statement sent to LiveScience. “The fishermen do not fish without the assistance of the dolphins and know the individual animals from their natural marks and can recognize them by eye.”

Daura-Jorge added, “The fishermen have names for the cooperative dolphins — particular stars in this cooperation are ‘Scooby’ and ‘Caro-ba,’ that cooperate for more than 15 years.”

Cooperative dolphinsThe researchers watched the dolphins of La-

guna, identifying individuals by their appearance. They documented which animals spent time to-gether, and which ones participated in the fishing. They were able to reconstruct the social structure of 35 of the population’s 55 dolphins from this data, which included 15 of the cooperative dolphins.

They identified three distinct social networks within the Laguna dolphins, with one group made up entirely of the fishermen-cooperating dolphins. This cooperation seems to be a learned or inherited behavioral trait, since there’s nothing in the environment stopping other dolphins from engaging in it.

“Dolphin societies are very complex, and so-cial interaction seems to drive foraging behavior,” Daura-Jorge said. “It might be that the develop-ment of specialized foraging behavior occurs in small tight-knit resident coastal communities because there is a high degree of social interaction between the animals.”

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — A rare watercolor study by Paul Cezanne believed lost for nearly 60 years fetched over $19 million at a New York City auction on Tuesday. Christie’s auction house said “A Card Player” sold to a buyer who wished to remain anonymous. The price included the buyer’s pre-mium.

The watercolor was a study for Cezanne’s celebrated series of oil paintings titled “Card Players.” It was rediscovered this year in the collec-tion of the late Dr. Heinz Eichenwald, a well-known collector from Dallas, Texas. It shows a man in a hat and jacket seated at a table. Rendered in hues of blue and ochre, it was previ-ously known to scholars only from a black-and-white photograph.

The French post-impressionist artist created the five-painting “Card Players” series between 1890 and 1896. The preparatory study of-fers a rare glimpse into Cezanne’s creative process. The figure in the painting is that of Paulin Paulet, a gardener on Cezanne’s estate near Aix en Provence, France. It was last displayed at a New York gallery in 1953.

Christie’s said Eichenwald in-herited the work from his father. Its presale estimate was $15 million to $20 million. The Courtauld Gallery in London exhibited the five-painting series in 2010; the exhibition traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art last year.

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More than a quarter of Japanese in their twenties have thought about taking their own life, according to a survey released Wednes-day, in a nation with one of the world’s highest suicide rates.

The survey found that 28.4 of respondents in their twenties had contemplated suicide, the highest of any age group, while 36.2 percent of that group had considered taking their own life in the past year, according to the report.

“The data show that the younger people hesitate to talk to others, or cannot find anyone to talk to when they have a problem because of shallow relationships with others,” said the survey conducted by Japan’s Cabinet Office.

“They tend to suffer alone,” it added.Overall, 23.4 percent of the more than 2,000

adult respondents said they had thought of committing suicide, up 4.3 percentage points from the previous and first such survey con-ducted in 2008.

The ratio stood at 27.1 percent for women and 19.1 percent for men. Japan, with a popu-lation of about 128 million, has one of the world’s highest suicide rates, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

More than 30,000 people take their lives annually in Japan amid rising unemployment, with family troubles and health problems also cited as key factors behind many of those suicides.

Dolphins Help Fishermen Catch FishA visitor might stumble upon a strange sight in Laguna, Brazil, if they went down to the

shore. Here, the local fishermen rely on dolphins to help them with their yearly fish catch. New research has found that just one local group of about 20 dolphins works with the fishermen, while the other local dolphins don’t cooperate, finding other sources of food. The researchers aren’t sure what separates these groups.

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The dolphins drive schools of mullet toward the fishermen.

Rare Cezanne watercolor fetches $19M at NY auction

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FILE - This undated file picture provided by Christie’s shows a rare watercolor study by French artist Paul Cezanne believed lost and last seen in 1953.

Over 25% of Japanese in twenties mull suicide

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The Tokyo skyline. More than a quarter of Japanese in their twenties have thought about taking their own life, according to a survey released Wednesday, in a nation with one of the world’s highest suicide rates.

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“I don’t think it can be described as a performance,” Dalglish told the BBC after a fifth-minute own goal by defender Martin Skrtel handed the Londoners their first win at Anfield at the 49th attempt. “The attitude was very poor.

“I think we got what we deserved from the game and that was abso-lutely nothing. If you don’t approach the game properly you’re not going to get anything.

“I take part of the blame because I

thought I was being fair to everybody by giving them the opportunity to get some minutes on the pitch,” added Dalglish. “The game coming up on Saturday is important to the club.”

Liverpool stayed in eighth place with two matches left this season, level on 49 points with Fulham who are ninth. In the night’s other game, seventh-placed Everton drew 1-1 at Stoke City.

Everton went in front with a Pe-ter Crouch own goal on the stroke

of halftime but Stoke, who are 13th, equalised through Cameron Jerome midway through the second half.

Chelsea warm up for Satur-day’s final at Wembley by hosting Newcastle United in the league on Wednesday.

Champions League finalists Chelsea are sixth, a point behind Newcastle and fourth-placed Tot-tenham Hotspur who travel to relegation-threatened Bolton Wan-derers on Wednesday.

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PARIS - Souleymane Camara missed a penalty eight minutes into stoppage time and three players were sent off in a dramatic finish as leaders Montpellier were held 2-2 at home by Evian Thonon Gaillard in Ligue 1 on Tuesday. The draw extended Montpellier’s advantage to six points over second-placed Paris St Germain who play their game in hand on Wednesday at home to St Etienne.

Younes Belhanda put the hosts, who have three matches left this season, in front with a first-half penalty only for Thomas Kahlenberg to equalise for Evian after 44 minutes. Kevin Berigaud added a close-range effort for Evian midway through the second half but Olivier Giroud levelled with his 21st league goal of the season six minutes from time.

Morocco midfielder Belhanda, one of Montpellier’s players of the season, could be banned for several matches for punching Cedric Mongongu as both players were sent off following a mass injury-time brawl.

Second-half substitute Camara was about to take his penalty when the fighting started and had to wait for more than five minutes before having his shot parried by keeper Stephan Andersen.

“We shot ourselves in the foot because it took too much time to take the penalty,” Giroud told the Canal Plus TV channel. Evian’s Saber Khelifa, who had already left the pitch, was also red-carded in stoppage time.

PLENTY OF POSSESSIONMontpellier enjoyed plenty of possession and had the first clear

chance when Giroud’s volley on the turn was palmed away by Ander-sen in the 10th minute. The Danish keeper was again made to work two minutes later, stretching to his left to tip away Marco Estrada’s fierce low shot.

Andersen then conceded the game’s first penalty when he felled Giroud while trying to punch a cross, the France striker appearing to briefly lose consciousness before getting back to his feet. Belhanda converted the spot kick before Kahlenberg levelled by volleying in a Khelifa header. Montpellier lacked energy in the second half and Camara came on for Karim Ait Fana on the hour but it was Evian who took the lead when Berigaud latched on to a Cedric Barbosa cross from the left on 69 minutes.

Camara then looked offside when he set up Giroud’s goal in the 84th minute. Elsewhere, Bastia were promoted after clinching the Ligue 2 title with a 3-0 win over Metz. They have a 10-point lead over second-placed Stade Reims with three games left.

Bastia’s promotion came almost 20 years to the day after 18 people died when a stand in the club’s Furiani stadium collapsed just before a French Cup semi-final.

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MADRID - Villarreal took a big stride towards securing their top-flight status when they beat Sporting Gijon 3-2 in a tense and ill-tempered La Liga relegation battle on Tuesday to move seven points clear of the drop zone.

The team known as ‘yellow sub-marine’ after their canary-coloured shirts had their season wrecked by injuries to key players but now look safe with two games left to play.

Javier Clemente’s Gijon, by contrast, are all-but condemned to second division football next term as their valiant effort to avoid the drop ran out of steam at a crucial

moment and their captain Alberto Lora was left sitting on the pitch in tears.

Villarreal have 41 points in 16th, one ahead of 17th-placed Rayo Vallecano, who play at Real Mallorca on Wednesday (1800 GMT). Gijon are 19th on 34 points, level with Real Zaragoza, who host fifth-placed Levante on Wednesday (1800). If Rayo avoid defeat in Mal-lorca Gijon will be down.

Villarreal took the lead when de-fender Mario sprinted into the area to turn in a Bruno Soriano centre after 19 minutes at the Molinon be-fore Lora levelled with a long-range shot six minutes before halftime.

The home fans’ joy was short-

lived as Gregory Arnolin brought down Marco Ruben in the penalty area moments after the restart and former Spain midfielder Marcos Senna calmly smashed home the spot kick.

Villarreal’s Hernan Perez was denied by a post in the 53rd min-ute but made no mistake with a powerful long-range effort two minutes later to extend their lead to 3-1.

Alejandro Galvez gave the home side some hope when he made it 3-2 with five minutes remaining and as the tension mounted and tempers frayed, Gijon coach Clemente was sent from the bench, the first of a slew of late cards.

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Liverpool’s Martin Skrtel, top, jumps for the ball against Fulham’s Clint Dempsey during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Tues-day, May 1, 2012.

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LONDON - Liverpool, who made nine changes to the team in their last game before the FA Cup final with Chelsea at the weekend, slumped to a 1-0 home defeat by Fulham in the Premier League on Tuesday much to the annoyance of manager Kenny Dalglish.

Villarreal beat Gijon to boost La Liga survival bid

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Evian’s Danish goalkeeper Stephan Andersen, left, and Evian’s Danish defender Daniel Wass, celebrate at the end of their League One soccer match against Montpellier, at La Mosson stadium, in Montpellier, southern France, Tuesday, May 1, 2012.

Dramatic finish as leaders Montpellier held at home

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Inflation rate in Denpasar City during April 2012 reached 0.25 percent.

This achievement was much higher than national inflation rate only reach-ing 0.21 percent. Meanwhile, the calendar year inflation (January-April) in 2012 amounted to 2.26 percent.

The Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, I Gede Suarsa, said that if compared to other cities such as Jakarta, Mataram and Surabaya, the achievement of inflation in Denpasar was quite high. Such high inflation happened as the side impact of fuel price hike plan last April although the policy plan was canceled.

“Fuel price hike issue last April made the prices of basic needs increase significantly. Such condition has not changed much when the enforcement of policy was canceled,” said Suarsa in Denpasar on Tuesday (May 1).

Based on monitoring of prices in April 2012, Suarsa said there was an increase in the index of goods and services. Among them, the food group rose 0.21 percent; processed food, cigarettes and tobacco became the largest contributor to inflation during the period reaching 0.70 percent; housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel (0.30 percent); education, recreation and sport (0.19 percent); as well as transportation, communications and financial services (0.12 percent). “The group going through an index decline was clothing (0.83 percent) and health group (0.18 percent),” he said.

Some commodities showing an increase, among others, were garlic at 16 percent with a contribution of inflation rate at 0.1340 percent, chicken flesh rose 3 percent with an inflation of 0.0406 percent and cayenne pepper rose 14.69 percent with inflation share of 0.0498 percent. On the other hand, the commodity experiencing decline in price or contributing deflation only happened to large red chili at 14.09 percent with deflation contribution of 0.0405 percent.

It was mentioned that among the 66 cities recorded, 52 cities lived through inflation. The highest inflation happened in Pangkal Pinang at 1.76 percent and the lowest at 0.03 percent in Bengkulu. The highest deflation occurred in Tarakan at 0.51 percent and the lowest deflation occurred in Banjarmasin at 0.01 percent. “Among the highest inflation, then Denpasar occupied the 27th position of 52 cities experiencing inflation,” he said. (kmb27)

“Yes, we did receive complaints about the proliferation of land conversion due to the absence of written awig-awig or by-laws of subak,” said the Head of Klung-kung Cultural and Tourism Agency, Wayan Sujana, after performing the monitoring and evaluation to Subak Dlod Banjarangkan, Klungkung, Monday (May 1).

Ubiquitous land conversion was triggered by government policy that was too easy to issue the building permits in agricultural areas. Even, it could be contrary to the discourse of the government which had always claimed a commitment to preserve the subak. One of them was by flush-ing financial assistance to subak.

Related to subak assistance pro-vided by the government, it was strictly supervised by a monitoring and evaluation team. Monitoring and evaluation were not only performed

to the object of the assistance by also to the implementation by subak. “We carry out the evaluation to preserve the existence as well as encourage the maximal implementation of the subak tasks,” said Sujana while adding that an evaluation was also conducted to monitor the utiliza-tion of the government assistance granted.

From the monitoring and evalu-ation carried out so far, including at Subak Dlod Banjarangkan, pointed out Sujana, most of the subak organi-zations in Klungkung had not owned a written awig-awig (by-laws). They mostly still applied the old dresta or conventions agreed upon for the common interest of subak. “Such conventions must be transcribed. They should cover the conversion of land function to anticipate the conversion of the agricultural land getting more widespread, other than

maintaining the tradition,” he said.Aside from complaining about

the land conversion, the subak like the one in Klungkung, was often appointed a pilot project for various government programs, such as crop-ping pattern. Previously, Klungkung was asked to try out the direct seeded rice (Tabela) at Subak Toya Hee, and then on Monday (Apr 30) the Subak Dlod Bakas, Ban-jarangkan, was appointed to test the system of rice intensification. Various programs offered were always touted to give more profits to farmers. However, a few farm-ers also worried if those programs would make farmers confused. “Ideally, there should be a test re-sult that is really superior to be ap-plied later on by farmers regularly and sustainably,” revealed the legislator of Klungkung, Wayan Buda Parwata. (kmb20)

Gianyar (Bali Post)—Crackles of dollars in the tourist destination of Gianyar, especially

Ubud subdistrict, seem not to diminish the desire of residents to par-ticipate in the resettlement program. Even, this year some 55 families have signed up to join the resettlement program. Among them, 14 families are from Ubud subdistrict, while the remaining 8 families are from Gianyar in Klungkung subdistrict, Blahbatuh (3 families), Tegal-lalang (10 families), Tampaksiring (10 families), Payangan and Suka-wati respectively 5 families. As planned, their resettlement destination which would be opened by government this year was the area of Tasik Payaman, Katingan in Central Kalimantan.

“These residents are applying to join the resettlement because they want to improve their living standard, especially in agricultural field,” said the Head of Gianyar Manpower and Resettlement Agency (Naker-trans), Ketut Suweta, Tuesday (May 1).

Admittedly, the number of resettlement applicant this year exceeded the quota provided by central government through the Bali Government. Gianyar Regency got the allocation to resettlement area in Katingan Regency, Central Kalimantan for 25 families. As scheduled, the resettle-ment applicants would be dispatched around November 2012.

Accompanied by his staff, aside from the 55 families who had ap-plied, there were two other families stating their intention to apply as participant of resettlement to Central Kalimantan. In response to the intention of residents to join the program, his party would make a site inspection first and it was then resumed with a selection regarding the seriousness of applicant to take the program. Meanwhile, the registered applicants expressed their strong desire or motivation to resettle. “We will select the poorest candidates and approve those having no farmland for the resettlement program,” he explained.

Suweta said that every family participating in the resettlement program was provided with a courtyard land of 0.25 hectare and 1.75 hectares of farmland. In 2010, a total of 19 families or 79 people were dispatched to UPT Aronggo, Landono subdistrict, South Konawe Re-gency, Southeast Sulawesi. (kmb16)

Evaluating subak

Assessment team receives complaints on ubiquitous land conversion

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The subak system is seen on the picture. Ubiquitous conversion of land function increasingly worries the members of subak.

Semarapura (Bali Post)—Ubiquitous conversion of land function increasingly worries the members of subak. Land

conversion makes the existence of subak progressively get eroded. Such complaints about the ubiquitous land conversion have often been delivered by subak members. Even, it was revealed directly to monitoring team of the subak assistance implementation consisting of the Agriculture Agency, Culture and Tourism Agency, Public Works Agency and other relevant regional working units.

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Jrue Holiday scored 26 points, Lou Williams added 20 and the Philadelphia 76ers beat Chicago 109-92 on Tuesday night to even their first-round series in the Bulls’ first game since Rose’s season-ending knee injury.

The superstar point guard received a standing ovation and waved to the crowd as he limped onto the court to present the game ball, then watched from a suite as the 76ers simply blitzed the Bulls in the third quarter.

They outscored Chicago 36-14 in the period, turning an eight-point defi-cit into an 83-69 lead, and pulled even with the league’s top-seeded team.

Game 3 is Friday in Philadelphia.“This game we caught fire and it

was pretty hard to put it out,” Holi-day said.

All the Bulls could do was shake their heads and vow to do better.

“Disappointed,” Chicago’s Joa-kim Noah said. “Disappointing effort overall. We didn’t play well defensively. We didn’t play well of-fensively.”

Holiday was 11 of 15 from the field, and the Sixers shot 59 percent overall. Williams came up big, going 8 of 13 after hitting just 1 of 6 shots in the opener, and Chicago product Evan Turner chipped in with 19 points, seven rebounds and six assists.

Noah led the Bulls with 21 points and eight rebounds. John Lucas III scored 15 points, but Carlos Boozer scored just nine and Luol Deng fin-ished with eight. More alarming, the Bulls simply couldn’t stop the Sixers, particularly in the third quarter.

Turner scored 11 points in the period, and Philadelphia wiped out a 55-47 deficit.

“That third quarter we played to-night was as good a quarter as I ever seen our team play as long as I’ve been with them,” Philadelphia coach Doug Collins said. “We were active.”

For the Bulls, that was about as bad as it gets.

They were unable to make any stops, and they couldn’t find a rhythm on offense, either.

“We kind of let our offense af-fect our defense,” Richard Hamilton said.

The Sixers were leading 68-61 midway through the quarter after a 12-0 run that Elton Brand started with a foul-line jumper. Then, after a bas-ket by C.J. Watson, Andre Iguodala threw down a thunderous one-handed dunk over Deng for a three-point play that drew plenty of oohs, aahs and groans from a crowd that felt this one

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LONDON - Roy Hodgson was appointed England manager on a four-year contract on Tuesday, ending months of speculation over who would lead the national team to next month’s European Championship. The experienced 64-year-old, who has been in charge of Premier League West Bromwich Albion since February last year, became the 13th permanent post-War England manager after succeeding Italian Fabio Capello.

“This is a very proud day for me, I’m a very happy man to be offered the chance to manage my country and I’m looking forward to the task ahead,” Englishman Hodgson, who the FA said was the unanimous choice of the board, said at a news conference at Wembley.

“Everyone knows it’s not an easy one but I’m hoping everyone, the fans and supporters get behind the team. “It’s the team that counts and I will do my very best to make sure they are prepared as well as possible for the tasks that lay ahead.”

Capello left his role as England manager in February, four years after taking over from Steve McClaren, despite a successful Euro 2012 qualifying campaign. Since then Stuart Pearce, the under-21s coach, had been in temporary charge with Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp the hot favourite to be offered the job.

FA chairman David Bernstein refused to talk about why Red-knapp was overlooked, preferring to trumpet the credentials of Hodgson. “After putting together a shortlist Roy emerged as the standout candidate,” Bernstein said.

“We met at Wembley yesterday and we quickly agreed that Roy was the right man to guide us to the European Championship and future tournaments.

“I want to make it quite clear we were unanimous in choosing Roy,” Bernstein added. “He is a manager of a vast experience of international and European football, in fact this is the first time the FA has appointed a manager with any previous international experience and this will I’m be a great benefit to him in making the adjustment from club management.

COMMAND RESPECT

“Roy has outstanding contacts and could walk into any train-ing ground across the world and command respect.” West Brom confirmed on their website that Hodgson, who replaced now Chel-sea caretaker coach Roberto Di Matteo last year, would remain in charge for the final two games of the season, away to Bolton Wanderers and home to Arsenal.

“Roy’s appointment as England Manager is obviously disap-pointing news for the club as we would have liked him to sign a new contract, which was in the process of negotiation, and remain as our head coach,” West Brom chairman Jeremy Peace said in a statement.

“But we understand Roy’s desire to take the England job and he will leave us after the Arsenal game on May 13 with our best wishes. We are delighted he will be see the season out with us.”

76ers pull away in 3rd, beat Bulls 109-92Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO — The fans gave Derrick Rose a standing ovation before the game. There wasn’t much for them to cheer about in the end.

slipping away.Things didn’t get much better for

Chicago after that.The 76ers continued to pour it

on, with Iguodala delivering another vicious dunk late in the quarter and then hitting Williams with an alley-oop pass that made it 83-69 heading into the fourth.

“For the first time in a long time our defense dictated our offense,” Iguodala said. “We rebounded the ball. Evan and myself pushed it out on the break and we finished pretty well. It started with that in the third quarter.”

It added up to a rough night for the Bulls, who were in a familiar spot with Rose sidelined again — this time after tearing the ACL in his left knee late in Game 1.

He missed 27 games during the regular season because of a variety of ailments, and the Bulls did just fine, going 18-9. Throw in injuries to Hamilton and Deng, and they were able to go with their projected starting five just 15 times, yet they still captured homecourt advantage throughout the playoffs for the second straight season.

That’s why they insist they can still make a run, even with Rose out. They won without him before. They insist their championship hopes didn’t die when he went down.

“It’s different (without Rose),” Noah said. “There’s no excuses, though. We know we can play bet-ter. It’s disappointing, but you know what? We live to fight another day. There’s a lot of basketball to play.”

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Philadelphia 76ers forward Thaddeus Young (21) drives to the basket against Chicago Bulls forward Taj Gibson during the third quarter of Game 2 in an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, in Chicago on Tuesday, May 1, 2012.

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Newly appointed England soccer manager Roy Hodgson poses for a photograph in the home dressing room at Wembley Stadium in London, May 1, 2012.

England put faith in much-travelled Hodgson

Negara (Bali Post) –A number of banjar Tengah peo-

ple, Yeh Kuning Village, protested the existence of a poultry farm around their house area as they felt burden with its strong unfriendly smell moreover flies are found a lot nearby. One resident, Ni Sayu Putu Tirta (38) when met last Tuesday (1/5) admitted very disturbed by it especially during the rain. Besides that water on wells also polluted expected an affect from the farm as it’s water gone green and not clear. “During no rain there are many flies, moreover during the rain. I can’t stand it,” Tirta clarified.

Other resident, Gusti Ngurah Arya (31) complained the condition as well as even though his house is far the smell still reached there which disturbed their sleeps too. The cages of the poultry farm were placed horizontally with total 5 of them in the banjar. This complain has been stated several times yet there were never a respond and it is hoped that the connected agency will take action. It was stated that it did reached its harvest time last time and there should be spray-ing and cleaning moreover bird flu seemed to be attacking again. (kmb26)

Chairman of Commission C of the Denpasar House, I Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa, accompanied by his member I Nyoman Darsa and a member of Commission B, I Wayan Suadi Putra, questioned the allocation of PHR funds man-aged by provincial government in Denpasar on Tuesday (May 1). “We consider the funds sourcing from the hotel and restaurant tax revenue as much as 20 percent managed by the province is not effective,” said the politician of PDI-P.

Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa said the use of funds paid to the province was unclear. Having been traced, the utilization of funds was only effective in 2009. Meanwhile, the use of fund in subsequent years was unclear. On that account, he judged that utilization of the fund should be returned to respective owner.

He said that in the memoran-

dum of understanding (MoU) No. 075/01/KB/B.Pem/2009, No.18/2009 and No.188.45/01/HK/2009 concerning with Hotel and Restaurant Tax Revenue Re-allocation of Badung and Denpasar was mentioned the second parties (Badung and Denpasar) deposited the PHR tax revenue to first party. Twenty percent of the tax revenue was submitted to the province and remaining 80 percent to the six regencies, namely Buleleng, Karan-gasem, Tabanan, Bangli, Jembrana and Klungkung. “We do not dispute the allocation for the regencies. Indeed, they deserve to receive the funds,” he said.

The fund amounting to 20 per-cent managed by the provincial government was used to finance the tourism promotion and com-prehensive integration by involving the regency/municipality, the cost

of security improvement as well as cultural and environmental preser-vation. “We recommend that such 20 percent of fund can be constantly managed by Denpasar and Badung for the management of security is-sues. Therefore, it can be used for coordination with subdistrict police station in each territory so that it will be more effective,” said Agus Arya Wibawa last Tuesday.

Arya Wibawa also explained that currently the hotel and res-taurant tax deposited by Denpasar reached IDR 13.3 billion. Of this amount, approximately IDR 2.6 billion was managed by the prov-ince for the costs specified in the MoU. Even, the Badung Regency deposited in a greater amount. “It is what we need to review in the future because the fund was not managed effectively by the province,” he explained. (kmb12)

After treated at Nusa Indah Room Sanglah Hospital, the suspect rabies from Karangasem initialled KW (44) died on Tuesday (1/5) around 6 am local time as the virus has attacked the brain and nerve system, stated by Sanglah Hospital Rabies Management Team Secretary, dr. Ken Wirasandhi, MARS, “Rabies are potential deadly disease if it has attacked the brain and nerve system which so a VAR (Rabies Anti Vaccination) will be no use.”

Rabies takes various timing in get-

ting up to the brain and nerve system also depends on its wound position (near or not near the head) plus the size of the wound. If it’s nearby the nerve system, head, deep and large size it will attack the brain quicker. For that it is always suggested to the people that has been bitten to wash the wound with soap at least 10-15 minutes with running water after bitten. This function is to lessen the virus coming in the body which then continued with a VAR. (san)

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Tourists are packed in a restaurant in Kuta area.

Come into question,

20 percent deposit of hotel and restaurant tax to provincial govtDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Mutual agreement of the governor of Bali with the regent of Badung and mayor of Den-pasar on the re-allocation of hotel and restaurant (PHR) tax revenue of Badung Regency and Denpasar Municipality to Bali Government is now in question. In the agreement, the fund of PHR tax revenue paid to provincial government reaches 10-22 percent of the total tax revenue in Denpasar and Badung. As much as 80 percent is allocated for the six regencies in Bali, while the remaining 20 percent is managed by the province.

Rabies suspect patient from Karangasem died

Yeh Kuning Residents protest on poultry farm

Denpasar (Bali Post) –Denpasar Police Criminal unit

succeeded in revealing a network of motorcycle robber network with three accused Hadi Pamuji alias Andik (31), Moh. Santosa alias Ade (28) and Misdianto alias Gandul (31) all from Banyuwangi. Besides accused, police also con-fiscated evidences of mutilated motorcycles.

The capture last Saturday (28/4) happened when the three was known to have taken Andik’s girlfriend, Anita Sukamawati (26), motorcycle at Jl. Gunung Soputan Kebak Sari No. 25, Denpasar which was taken 21st April 2012 at 11.30 pm local time as stated by Head of Denpasar Police Public Relation, APC IB Sarjana, last Tuesday (1/5).

As accused comes to victim’s place often, it was easy for ac-cused to steal the motorcycle. The problem was then reported and received by police 28th April 2012. The suspicion led to accused, Andik, as he never came by after the robbery and captured him at his flat in Ceningan Sari Street, Gang Melati No. 18, Denpasar. From the investigation, accused admitted auctioned the bike to Gandul with intermediary Ade. The other two accused were then captured at each accused places Pulau Sepiori No. 4 Denpasar and Bali Clief No. 18 Ungasan South Kuta Badung. “The two accused are violating section 480 and have been jailed. The case is still being developed,” Sarjana concluded. (kmb21)

Chain of motorcycle thief uncovered

Wiratha said that his party ex-plored cooperation with at least 50 private employment services (PPT-KIS) to dispatch formal migrant workers from Bali. To that end, it had been prepared two agendas of job fair in mid-May 2012. The endeavor was intended to dimin-ish the open unemployment rate in Bali reaching 52,380 people. Further, he said that in 2012 the Bali Manpower and Resettlement Agency targeted 18,000 youths of Bali to work in formal sector overseas. The labor force placed

up to April 2012 amounted to 1,450 workers, while formal workers that managed to be dispatched by Bali in 2011came to 14,994 people.

Further, he said that his party would try to meet the target through improvement of work-force competency. According to him, briefing in the form of educa-tion and training for various busi-ness sectors had been prepared to yield a reliable, skilled and professional labor force as well as to have capability of competing in job market. In addition, his party

had also developed the manag-ing companies and socialized the implementation mechanism to prospective migrant workers so that they would not go beyond the existing mechanisms because it could harm them. He added that for protection to workers prior to departure until their return, they would be covered by insurance overseen by a local insurance company and local private em-ployment services (BP3TKIS).

Are the potential of job opportu-nities in Bali minimal so that many

young people of Bali even look for them overseas? According to him, the unemployment rate in Bali kept on accumulating so that they could not be absorbed by the existing job markets in the region. He described that within a year there were at least 1,500 job opportunities, while the number of unemployment and job seekers exploded. “We try to facili-tate the job seekers that could not be absorbed at home through job placement overseas,” he said.

Meanwhile, an economist, Prof. Dr. Made Kembar Sri Budhi, said on Tuesday (May 1) that rather than continuing to send migrant workers overseas which was not impossible for them to encounter a problem without being well prepared, the Bali Government should have a new breakthrough to create job opportunities in the region.

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Many therefore opted to run with periscope gauges or various aero sensors rather than chase times. Such priorities would not diminish Grosjean’s pace, however, as he pulled clear of the field after barely an hour in and never looked under threat thereafter. He ended the morning on a 1m21.603s.

Mark Webber, in the Red Bull for this morn-ing before handing over to reigning champion Sebastian Vettel for the final day and a half, ended the morning as Grosjean’s nearest chal-lenger.

Webber had run second for much of the morning, still more than 1.5s adrift of the Frenchman, but in the final hour a medium-tyre run allowed him to close to within four tenths. The pair were the only two to dip below the 1m22s mark.

Felipe Massa kept Ferrari near the top by going third fastest, de-spite a programme which saw him make several low speed runs early on and run with a periscope gauge attached to his roll hoop for almost the duration.

Toro Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne ended fourth ahead of Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi and Mer-cedes’ Michael Schumacher, with the German managing 74 laps, the most of any driver.

That was in stark contrast to Paul di Resta, who managed just seven laps and failed to set a time in the Force India. The team said an issue with the hydraulics was the most likely cause of its woes, but it remains optimistic of running before the end of the day.

The Scot propped up the timesheets as a re-sult, separated from Schumacher by Charles Pic (Marussia), Vitaly Petrov (Caterham), Gary Paf-fett (McLaren) and Bruno Senna (Williams).

Formula 1 drivers should be happy to accept the challenge posed by Pirelli’s current generation of tyres be-cause they are helping make the racing

more exciting. That is the view of Mark Webber, who reckons that complaints that the high degradation is detracting from the thrill of pushing F1 cars to the

limit are not valid.“Tyres have always been an important

part of Formula 1,” said the Red Bull Racing driver. “Things were probably a little less punishing in the past to get them right, but now you need to be right there and, if you aren’t, it can be quite tricky.

“Everybody has the same stuff to deal with so you have to get on with it. We just drive the cars and do the best job with what we have.” The impact of tyres on the racing has become a big talking point after Michael Schumacher criticised the characteristics of Pirelli’s rubber after the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Webber acknowledges that all drivers would love perfect tyres, but says that the most important consideration should be the entertainment for the fans.

“We would all love to have quicker laptimes and extremely consistent tyres like we did in the old days, but that wasn’t the most exciting thing for the racing,” he explained.

“Trying to find somewhere in the middle is always tricky, but at the mo-ment we have a pretty good show for the crowd. Whether it’s by design or not, it’s turned out like that.”

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Red Bull mechanics push their team driver Mark Webber of Australia’s car back to the pit lane garage during the second practice session ahead of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Friday, April 20, 2012.

Webber backs tyre impact on Formula 1 show

Grosjean puts Lotus top on F1 testing at Mugello

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Lotus driver Romain Grosjean of France leads McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain during the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Sunday, April 22, 2012.

romain Grosjean put lotus on top as the second morning of in-season testing at mugello came to a close. In contrast to the torrential weather which blighted the opening day, conditions were dry almost from the outset, allowing teams the chance to catch up with their disrupted programmes.

lack of job opportunities

Bali youth decides to work abroadDenpasar (Bali Post)—

unemployment remains a serious problem for Bali as indicated by the data of Central Statistics agency (BPS) of Bali that open unemployment reaches 52,380. Bali Government itself has not been able to create job opportunities in the region so that many young people of Bali are looking for job outside Bali and overseas. To reduce the unemployment rate, the Head of Bali manpower and resettlement agency, Wayan Wiratha, said on monday (apr 30) that in 2012 his agency targeted to send 18,000 formal workers to various countries.

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