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Thursday, May 16, 2013

It’s the latest peak in Jolie’s turn-around from hedo-nist to humanitarian, party girl to inspirational poster girl. The way she went public with her medical story on her own terms, in her own time — with a New York Times op-ed piece Tuesday that caught the media fishbowl of Hollywood completely by surprise — reveals a woman who once seemed out of control to be one of Hollywood’s most forceful and compassionate stars, using her fame with surgical precision to promote matters dear to her.

“I’m in awe of her. She remains one of the most inspiring women that I’ve ever encountered,” said former Paramount Pictures boss Sherry Lansing, who heads the Sherry Lansing

Foundation for cancer research. “By letting people know about her personal issue, she is touching countless women who have the same genetic mutations, and she is showing them that they have choices and they can be empowered and can take care of their own health. And by doing so, I believe she is go-ing to save countless lives.”

Jolie’s come a long way from her wild-child days of 10 or 12 years ago. She was branded a home-

wrecker when she took up with Billy Bob Thornton, who broke up with

Laura Dern and married Jolie. Thornton and Jolie were a tabloid writer’s dream team, an odd couple who wore lockets with a drop of each other’s blood.

Back in 2000, Jolie proudly showed off the newest of her 10 tattoos, the name “Billy Bob” etched across her left shoulder. The marriage ended three

years later, and new home-wrecker accusations arose after Brad Pitt left Jennifer Aniston for Jolie, his co-star in the 2005 assas-sin adventure “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

But since then, while paparazzi stalk them and entertainment reporters scramble to chase the latest rumor that Jolie and Pitt are finally going to wed, they have emerged as the ultimate Hol-lywood power couple. They switch off on film projects so one is free to mind their six children, they travel the world talking up good deeds.

“If she wasn’t one of the top actresses in Hollywood, she’d be one of the top publicists,” said Howard Bragman, vice chairman of Reputation.com. “It’s hard to think of a couple that has a better image in this town, both for their careers, family, humanitarian work. ... They’re very good at it, and one of the reasons is they have a very intimate circle that they trust, and they don’t go beyond that. It’s unusual in Hollywood circles, but they’re very strict about their personal life, about what gets out there. When something gets out there, it’s usually planned to get out there. It doesn’t leak. They don’t even have publicists.”

Associated Press Writer

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival is getting under way with a blockbuster day of Steven Spielberg and Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby.”

The French Riviera extravaganza began on a rainy Wednesday, where the prestigious festival was to open with the 3-D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. Spielberg is serv-ing as jury president of this year’s Cannes, presiding over a particu-larly starry group including Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee and Christoph Waltz.

“Gatsby” is making its Euro-pean premiere Wednesday night, nearly a week after opening in North America. Such timing is atypical for Cannes, but the glamorous, flashy film is otherwise perfectly in line with the glitzy festival. It also re-turns Leonardo DiCaprio to Cannes’ famous red carpet.

Cannes opens with DiCaprio, Spielberg

AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau

Workers make final preparations at a beach ahead of the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Jolie: From girl with tattoos to girl with a causeAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — In her bad girl days, Angelina Jolie’s body was a billboard for tattoos that said such things as “Billy Bob.” Now she’s sharing intimate details of her anatomy to help women at risk, going public with her preventive double mastectomy to greatly reduce her high odds of breast cancer.

FILE - This Feb. 14, 2012 file photo shows US actress and director Ange-lina Jolie address-ing the audience after premiere of her movie, “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” in Sara-jevo, Bosnia.

AP Photo/Amel Emric, file

China questions Japan rule over Okinawa

Eviction fears haunt Haiti camps after attacks

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A man came to polling station to use his voting rights on the Bali gubernatorial election that held Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

Wigan relegated from EPL, Arsenal reclaims 4th

Kamil Malik said that the elec-tion in Bali has been cone according to the national standard starting from the schedule, data, campaign

until the election. “In Bali there is uniqueness where all of the officers in the election polls using the tradi-tional Balinese costume as well as

the voters,” he added. He also explained that the level

of participation of the voters were very high. Since early in the morn-ing, the people were queuing to give their votes. “I see that they were not only gave their votes but also interact with each other. There were no strange things happened though,” Kamil added.

Vote LetterDuring his visit to the election

poll, Kamil also gave his explana-tion about the vote letter in Bali

which was causing some problem earlier. This is because the first candidate put the logo of his party there. However, he was strictly stated that it is not violation.

“The election is running so it is proving that both of the candidates agreed on the letter. All of us must aware of this and so the elected Governor and Vice Governor can be established without any problem,” he added.

However different statement was said by Muhammad Al Hamid. He

still thinks that the vote letter is not suitable with the rules because accord-ing to the rule, on the letter only can be put photo, names and number.

“It doesn’t mean that we will not process this violation but we think that the election must be carried out,” he added. He also gave the possibility that one candidate may put in a law suit regarding the vote letter. “We certainly don’t hope that to happen because it will give huge political and social impact,’ Al Hamid said. (kmb32)

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Denpasar – The Head of Indonesian Election Commission Kamil Malik and The Head of Election Steering Comite Mu-hammad Al Hamid inspected the Bali Governor Election which was held on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. They inspection the elec-tion polls where the two candidates, A.A. Ngurah Puspayoga and Made Mangku Pastika gave their votes.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Calendar Event for May 1 through June 19, 2013

1 May Buda Kliwon PahangPura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Desa Bangli BaturitiPura Silayukti Padang Bai KarangasemPura Aer Jeruk SukawatiPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran - Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel SukawatiPura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati GianyarPura Kresek Banyuning BulelengPura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Khayangan Batu Medahu Desa Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari BebandemKarangasemPura pasek Bendesa Tagtag PeguyanganPure Pulesari - Bantas Kelod Desa Sibang Gede AbiansemalPura Batur Sari UbudPura Penataran Agung SukawatiPura Panti - Kucupin Ketewel Ketewel6 May Kajeng Kliwon UwudanPura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Dlod Yeh MengwiMerajan Pasek Subadra Kramas Gianyar

9 May Tilem Sasih JiyesthaPura Bujangga Waisnawa Gumbrih JembranaPura Dalem Desa celuk

11May Tumpek KlurutPura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Desa Jelantik TojanKlungkungPura Pedarman bujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Desa Gunung Sari PenebeltabananPura Dalem Tarukan - Bebalang BangliPura Benua Kangin BesakihPura Merajan Kangin (Ida Betara Empu Baradah) Besakih

12 May r edite Umanis MerakihPura Parangan Tengah Ceningan Kangin Lem-bongan Nusa PenidaPura Desa Ubud

15 May Buda Wage MerakihPura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Banjar Kalah BatubulanPura Desa lan Puseh Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem Petitenget Kerobokan KutaPura Dalem Pulasari Samplangan GianyarPura Kubayan - Kepisah Pedungan DenpasarSelatanPura Pasek Gelgel - Tanah Pegat TabananPura Paibon lan Pura Bengkel Sumerta Den-pasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPura Panti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding Tam-pak SiringPura Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken KabaKabaPura Dadia Buda Cemeng Pulasari BatuanSukawati

21 May Anggar Kasih TambirPura Dalem Puri Batuan SukawatiPura Dalem kediri Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem SukawatiPura Dalem Lembeng Ketewel SukawatiPura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan UbudPura Puseh Ngukuhin Kramas GianyarPura Pamerajan Agung Ki Telabah TuakilangTabananPura Karang Buncing BlahbatuhPura Dalem Bubunan Seririt BulelengPura Desa Badung Kota DenpasarPura Luhur Pedenganan Bedha Bongan Ta-bananPura Pucak Payogan - Lungsiakan Kedewatan Ubud GianyarPura Tanah Kilap “Griya Anyar” Suwung KauhDenpasar Selatan

Pura Selukat Keramas Blahbatuh GianyarPura Dalem Tampuagan Peninjoan TembukuBangliPura Waturenggong Desa TaroPura Dalem Bentuyung Desa UbudPura Puseh UbudPura Dalem Puri Peliatan UbudPura Batur Hyang Bulan Muntig Karangasem

22 May Buda Umanis TambirPura Sari Banjar Titih KapalPura Gulamanikan Bendesa Manik Mas Serongga Gianyar

24 May Purnama Sasih SadhaPura Amrta Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Maospahit Banjar Grenceng Denpasar

5 Jun Buda Kliwon MatalPura Puseh lan Desa SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Bebetin Sawan BulelengPura Maspahit Sesetan Denpasar SelatanPura Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran TegallalangPura Panti Pasek Gaduh SesetanPura Pedharaman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

15 JunPura Puseh lan Desa Kota GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal (TARO) Tegallalang

19 Jun Buda Cemeng MenailPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Suka-watiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng KajaGianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan BangliPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Baler Pura Sada Pemebetan Kapal MengwiPemerajan Agung UbudPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas Ubud

The intimate atmosphere and at-tentive service combine to create the “Meliã moment”—a magical quality that brings guests back to the resort again and again. Stays here are per-sonalized by the genuine warmth of the staff in their daily activities, making Meliã Bali an ideal holiday destination. The resort’s 494 stylish rooms constitute 10 different classes. Every room is appointed with graceful teak furniture enhanced with jewel-tone accents.

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Guests in the Lagoon Access Suites will enjoy many privileges, starting with a welcome drink, fresh fruit and flowers in the room on arrival, and newspapers.

Lagoon Access Suites will have a cool and tranquil ambience in earth-tone hues which express the essence of Bali. A specially designed comfortable day bed with a trundle for children will ensure the supreme comfort of fam-ily travelers enjoying the lagoon and garden view and a 37” LCD television. Spacious marble bathrooms offer sepa-rate large tubs, standing showers and the latest in contemporary fittings.

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Set along the gleaming white sands of Nusa Dua Beach, Meliã Bali faces a tranquil, reef-fringed lagoon that extends as far as the eye can see. The first hotel in Asia to be awarded an EarthCheck platinum cer-tification for its commitment to sustainability, the Meliã’s 10 hectares of lush tropical gardens and lotus ponds are the epitome of paradise, offering a world of exotic beauty amid luxurious surroundings. The resort enjoys an excellent location just 11 kilometers from Ngurah rai International Airport.

Amlapura (Bali Post)-The security of Bali tourism kept on

breached as number of robberies towards for-eigners, broken car windows and pickpockets keep on happening one of them in Karangas-em. The latest one vicitmised a Dutch tourist at Tirtagangga on Tuesday (14/5) around 11 am local time.

Floris Veegar (26) stayed in a hotel located at Amed. He was on his own motorcycle while girlfriend Susanne Rolaff (27) also from Hol-land with her own motorcycle, went there. Floris who was on a Vario, 40 meters in front of Susanne suddenly had a man went beside him from the right using a sport motorcycle. Floris had his bag taken nearby Tirtagangga by a fat man and couldn’t chase the robber due to not knowing Karangasem well. Victim gave up and chose to report it to Abang Police

accompanied by his girlfriend. The bag taken had towels with total loss IDR 2 million. Floris was not worried of the loss he just experienced but the security for foreigners to come have a holiday n Bali. Victim stated that he and his girlfriend was going to Amlapura to get some money.

Head of Abang Police, APC Cokorda Arim-bawa, confirmed that the case is still being investigated as the information received was just that the robber was fat. As told before, Kubu area has had a number of tourists robbed while driving a motorcycle on the road. Before this, an English tourist got robbed at Tegal-sari, Tianyar Barat, Kubu. The four robbers were then later found and have been known as criminals in Kuta such as Ketut Bukit, and was in Karangasem for religious ceremonies yet also did some robbery. (013)

Length of the beach in Tabanan approximately reaches 37 kilome-ters. Of this length, only 10 kilome-ters are still in beautiful condition. The remaining length has been badly damaged as crushed by sea abrasion. “High waves and powerful currents have triggered the abrasion in Tabanan. Such condition is quite alarming,” said the Head of Tabanan Public Works, Gusti Ngurah Anom Antara, Tuesday (May 14).

Such damage, said Anom, was divided into severely, moderately and lightly damaged. The most severe damage occurred at some points. Among them, they hap-pened at Kedungu Beach, Nyanyi Beach, Yeh Gangga to Kelating and beaches in West Selemadeg. According to him, the damage was the responsibility of the Bali-Nusa Penida Water Resources Office. “Arrangement of the coastal infra-

In order to give equal rights to vote in the gubernatorial election 2013 on Wednesday (May 15), the Bali Electoral Commission has prepared special bal-lots for the blind in Bali. The ballot is specially designed using Braille so that voters can distinguish one candidate from the other.

“For the blind, we’ve prepared a tool. It is like a template but using Braille scripts,” said a member of the Bali Elec-toral Commission, Ketut Udi Prayudi, in Denpasar, Tuesday (May 14).

He said the special ballots had been distributed to all the polling stations having the voters with the disability. A total of 730 people with visual impair-ment scattered throughout the counties/municipality in Bali were entitled to vote

with a secret.The voting mechanism was just like

the others. The blind would be given a piece of ballot and could be accom-panied by a companion when needed. Companion could come from the fam-ily, or entrusted person or the officer of the local polling station committee. “If they can do it alone it’s okay, but they may also be assisted. There has been as a companion form and it should be signed,” he explained.

However, when the voter arrived in voting booth, the blind would later be giv-en the opportunity to vote independently to ensure the confidentiality. “When giv-ing a vote in the booth, the blind will be left by the companion and they can vote by themselves,” he said. (ina)

Minimal handling,

75 percent of beaches in Tabanan damaged Tabanan (Bali Post)—

The onslaught of abrasion in coastal territories of Tabanan belongs to critical cat-egory. Nearly 75 percent of the beaches in the region are damaged as getting eroded by the abrasion. More apprehensively, the Tabanan County does not have enough budget to make improvement, especially reclamation. As a result, the level of damage is getting more serious each year.

The blind provided with Braille ballots

Again, tourist robbed in Karangasem

structure is under the authority of the Bali-Nusa Penida Water Resources Office. We just provide a supportive movement, such as reforestation and others,” he explained. He also added that his party had made data collection on the coastal damage every three months due to abrasion. The results were reported to the Bali-Nusa Penida Water Resources Office. Minimal budget owned by local government had caused the handling of the abrasion to rely on the help from central government.

All this time, he said, more bud-getary support was obtained from central government. Thus, the pro-cess was rather long. Meanwhile, the Bali government had given once assistance for the coastal safeguard-ing project at Yeh Gangga Beach, Sudimara village, Tabanan. “It was an emergency fund from Bali gov-ernment for coastal handling, while

we have no regular budget,” he said. Nevertheless, his party remained to make a conservation program to rescue the beach. One of them was by holding green movement to save the beach.

However, due to sea waves progressively raging they often de-stroyed the existing infrastructure. Moreover, the position of Tabanan Beach was directly in contact with the Indonesia Ocean known to be ferocious.

Chairman of the Indonesian Fishermen Association (HNSI) Tabanan, Ketut ‘Sadam’ Arsana Yasa, also deplored the abrasion overwhelming the coast of Ta-banan. The man noted many points of beach were in critical condition due to the onslaught of the abrasion, even the number continued to grow. “More unfortunately, the abrasion handling gets less attention from

the government,” he protested.It was visible from many damaged

beaches and had not got maximal han-dling. Due to the abrasion, said Sadam, the beach was increasingly steep. In the past around 1970s, the distance of beach to sea water was quite far, then

it was only about one meter and the width was only about three meters. The man from Pasut, Tibubiu village, Kerambitan, proposed a green initiative rather than es-tablishing concrete revetment on the beach as the latter was more easily destroyed by the waves. (kmb30)

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One of the damage beach in Tabanan Regency

3Thursday, May 16, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Thursday, May 16, 2013

Bali PostDENPASAR - The increase in Bali tourism sector cannot

necessarily boost the economic growth of Bali. Bank Indonesia (BI) Denpasar noted the economy of the Island of the Gods in the first quarter of 2013 slowed down compared to the previous quarter.

Based on the year-on-year (yoy) growth in early 2013 was recorded at 6.71 percent while the previous quarter reached 6.94 percent.

“Despite the slowing down, the economic condition of Bali remains better than the national economic growth reaching 6.02 percent,” said the Representative of Bank Indonesia (BI) for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara, Aidil Kairil.

According to him, the strong growth at the beginning of the year in Bali was supported by favorable economic condition as well as good business situation.

“Compared to national growth, the Bali’s economy remains to grow high. Conducive climate and good business situation are very supportive to this achievement,” he said.

Furthermore, Aidil said that in early 2013 the banking sector in Bali was still capable of undertaking a strong expansion. Some banking performance indicators still grew high. “Indicators of the banking are still growing high,” he said.

In terms of the demand, Aidil said that investment was still the main support to the economic growth in harmony with the rampant development of the multi-year infrastructure undertaken in the first quarter of 2013 as the preparation for the APEC Summit.

Additionally, in terms of consumption also showed an increase. According to Aidil, it was boosted by the domestic consumption and acceleration of the government expenditure. (kmb28)

The Head of Badung Transportation, Communications and Informat-ics Agency, Wayan Weda Dharmaja, said the assignment of personnel to oversee the traffic for 24 hours was aimed at addressing the traffic crowdedness in Kuta tourist area. At the moment, his party was prepar-ing for the addition of personnel to 70 people to be further assigned in Kuta.

The officials would be divided into four shifts for 24 hours. Assign-ment of the personnel in Kuta could be said as a new breakthrough, considering that all this time the assignment of the agency personnel in Badung was only made at particular times when an event was or-ganized in Kuta area.

“Next week, we will activate the personnel and now they are still in practice. They will be placed at vulnerable points of congestion in all the areas in Kuta. Additionally, we also plan to carry out the re-arrangement of traffic flow in the Kuta area, including making the socialization of parking arrangements in appropriate with the results of meeting with the existing stakeholders doing activities in Kuta,” he explained.

When asked about the immediate operation of the Dewa Ruci under-pass, Weda Dharmaja said it had become a concern of his party. The Badung Transportation Agency did not want the smooth traffic flow at the Dewa Ruci intersection would have an impact on new congestions at the other points such as at the intersection of Jalan Imam Bonjol and toll road on the waters with Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai at the airport area. Assignment of the personnel in turn would also be conducted at those vulnerable points of traffic congestion. (kmb25)

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The Badung Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency in the near future will deploy its personnel in turn to arrange the traffic flows at the points of congestion in Kuta tourist area for 24 hours.

Congestion in Kuta

Badung transportation agency alerts personnel for 24 hoursBali Post

MANGUPURA - The Badung Transportation, Communica-tions and Informatics Agency in the near future will deploy its personnel in turn to arrange the traffic flows at the points of congestion in Kuta tourist area for 24 hours. According to the plan, the officials will start to be assigned next week.

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The increase in Bali tourism sector cannot necessarily boost the economic growth of Bali. Bank Indonesia (BI) Denpasar noted the economy of the Island of the Gods in the first quarter of 2013 slowed down compared to the previous quarter.

Economic growth of Bali slows down

Some scientific studies have pro-jected sea level rise of up to 2 meters by 2100, a figure that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called a worst case that would swamp large tracts of land from Bangladesh to Florida. Ice2sea, a four-year project to narrow down uncertainties of how melting ice will pour water into the oceans, found that sea levels would rise by between 16.5 and 69 cm under a scenario of moderate global warm-ing this century.

“This is good news” for those who have feared sharper rises, David Vaughan, of the British Antarctic Survey who led the ice2sea project, told Reuters in a telephone interview. “But 69 cm is a very real impact ... it changes the frequency of floods sig-nificantly,” he said. And seas would keep rising for centuries beyond 2100, in a threat to coastal cities and low-lying islands such as the Maldives or Tuvalu.

Ice2sea said a thaw of Antarctica, Greenland and glaciers from the Alps to the Andes would contribute between

Dogs are more than man’s best friend: They may be partners in humans’ evo-lutionary journey, according to a new study.

The study shows that dogs split from gray wolves about 32,000 years ago, and that since then, domestic dogs’ brains and digestive organs have evolved in ways very similar to the brains and organs of humans.

The findings suggest a more ancient ori-gin for dog domestication than previously suggested. They also hint that a common environment drove both dog and human evolution for thousands of years.

“As domestication is often associated with large increases in population den-sity and crowded living conditions, these ‘unfavorable’ environments might be the selective pressure that drove the rewiring of both species,” the researchers wrote in their article, published today (May 14) in the journal Nature Communications.

First domestication

It isn’t clear precisely when wolves were tamed and transformed into man’s best friend, and the date has been hotly de-bated. An ancient, doglike skull uncovered

in the Siberian Mountains suggested that the first dogs were domesticated around 33,000 years ago from gray wolves. But genetic analysis suggested dogs in China were domesticated only about 16,000 years ago.

In any case, most researchers agree that by about 10,000 years ago, dogs were firmly ensconced in human society. Some studies show that the wild dogs of South China may have been the first domesti-cated canines.

To understand this domestication, Guo-dong Wang, a genetics researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his colleagues analyzed the DNA of four gray wolves, three indigenous Chinese dogs and a German shepherd, a Belgian Malinois and a Tibetan mastiff.

The DNA suggests that the gray wolves split off from the indigenous dogs about 32,000 years ago, the researchers said.

“Chinese indigenous dogs might rep-resent the missing link in dog domestica-tion,” the researchers write in the paper.

Since then, dogs’ evolution has been gradual, and there were no sharp decreases in the dog population over time, suggesting dogs gradually became domesticated, after many years of scavenging from humans.

Ice melt, sea level rise, to be less severe than feared: studyReuters

OSLO - A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69 cm (27 inches), an international study said on Tuesday. Even so, such a rise could dramatically change coastal environments in the lifetimes of people born today with ever more severe storm surges and erosion, according to the ice2sea project by 24, mostly European, scientific institutions.

3.5 and 36.8 cm to sea level rise this century. The fact that water expands as it warms would add another 13 to 32 cm, Vaughan said. Some other scien-tists disputed ice2sea’s projections.

“I think the numbers are too low,” Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, an ice expert and professor at the Niels Bohr In-stitute in Copenhagen, told Reuters. She said ice2sea wrongly assumed a slowdown in the rate of ice discharge from Greenland.

ANTARCTIC SNOW

Sea levels rose by 17 cm last century and the rate has accelerated to more than 3 mm a year. A third of the current rise is from Antarctica and Greenland - equivalent to emptying 138 million Olympic-sized pools into the sea every year.

One factor likely to offset sea level rise, ice2sea said, is that warmer temperatures will result in more snow, especially over Antarctica, locking in the moisture on land. It also played down worries of a runaway melt of

Greenland, and of the breakup of major Antarctic ice shelves.

Governments want to know future sea levels to plan sea barriers and regulations for everything from vaca-tion homes to nuclear power plants by the coast. And every extra centimeter means big costs. A Dutch commission planning to bolster sea defenses, for instance, has advised spending more than 100 billion euros ($130 billion) by 2100 to strengthen dykes and other barriers for a worst case scenario of a 1.2 meter North Sea rise by 2100.

The ice2sea study also said that a survey of experts’ opinions showed there was a less than one-in-20 risk that melting ice sheets would contribute more than 84 cm to sea level rise this century. Taken with thermal expan-sion, that would mean a sea level gain of just over a meter, Vaughan said.

Almost 200 governments have agreed to work out a U.N. deal, by the end of 2015, to combat global warm-ing that would help limit temperature rises and rising seas.

A leaked report by a U.N. panel

of climate scientists, due for release in September and drawing on ice2-sea data, estimates sea level rise at between 29 and 82 cm by the late 21st century, above the estimates in its last report in 2007 of between 18 and 59 cm.

Many studies since 2007 have had higher upper numbers, including by the World Bank, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-tration (NOAA) and a report for the Arctic Council. NOAA put the upper limit at 2 meters. ($1 = 0.7703 euros)

Dogs and Humans Evolved Together, Study Suggests

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Japan refuses to offer any conces-sions to China over Tokyo’s control of the uninhabited East China Sea islands, which are called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku by Japan. Tokyo issued a formal protest to Beijing over the comments about Okinawa, made last week in the ruling Com-munist Party’s flagship newspaper, the People’s Daily.

Scholars in Japan and elsewhere, meanwhile, warn Beijing may be shooting itself in the foot by arous-ing fears of a creeping campaign to nibble away at Japanese territory. “If China’s goal is to hold talks with Japan over the Senkakus, articles

like these are counterproductive,” said M. Taylor Fravel, a Chinese foreign policy expert at the Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology. “As a result, Japan has an even stronger incentive now to stand firm with China and not hold talks.”

The Diaoyu issue has rarely been out of the headlines in China since Japan’s government bought the islands in September to preempt Tokyo’s pugnacious former mayor from doing so.

Although the Japanese govern-ment purchase was ostensibly aimed reducing tensions, the move was seen in China as an attempt to so-

lidify Tokyo’s sovereignty over the islets. Outraged Chinese staged vio-lent street protests and attacked Japa-nese property, while the government backed up its objections by dispatch-ing patrol boats to confront Japanese ships and sending a surveillance plane into Japanese airspace. While the sides have avoided clashes, the situation remains tense and neither side has backed down.

The comments about Okinawa appeared in a scholarly editorial in People’s Daily, in an apparent attempt to weaken the historical basis of Japan’s claim to the Sen-kaku islands by questioning the legitimacy of its control over the entire Okinawa chain. Its authors, Li Guoqiang and Zhang Haipeng, are prominent academics at the government’s Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the editorial is believed to have received high-level approval.

Associated Press Writer

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Britain’s Prince Harry toured two New Jersey shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy, shaking hands with emergency personnel and construction work-ers before spending Tuesday afternoon in New York City at events promoting tourism, entre-preneurism and philanthropy. He even got a chance to play a little baseball.

In Seaside Heights, where the MTV reality show “Jersey Shore” was made, Harry and his tour guide, Gov. Chris Christie, also took part in a game of chance along the boardwalk, throw-ing plastic balls into holes for prizes, which they handed over to children.

The prince suggested to a girl partnered with him, Allie Cirigliano, 7, of Middletown, that she pick a blue penguin as

a prize. But she didn’t want it. “Don’t listen to me,” he said with a laugh. She chose a Hello Kitty doll instead.

The prince came within sight of the surf-washed Jet Star Roller Coaster, which became a defining image of the October storm when it blew off an amusement pier into the Atlantic Ocean. A crane later began tearing the ride apart. Harry also greeted construction workers who have been working on rebuilding Seaside Heights’ boardwalk, now about two-thirds complete.

At a morning stop in Man-toloking, residents flew Union Jack flags. Christie showed the prince a spot where the sea had cut the town in half, taking out a bridge and houses. The channel has since been filled in. Every one of the wealthy town’s 521 homes was damaged or de-stroyed. Scores remain as piles of rubble.

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MOSCOW - A U.S. diplomat was ordered Tuesday to leave the country after the Kremlin’s security services said he tried to recruit a Russian agent, and they displayed tradecraft tools that seemed straight from a cheap spy thriller: wigs, packets of cash, a knife, map and compass, and a letter promising millions for “long-term cooperation.”

The FSB, the successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB, identified the diplomat as Ryan Fogle, a third

secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, detaining him briefly overnight.

It alleged that Fogle was a CIA officer trying to recruit a Russian counterterrorism officer who spe-cializes in the volatile Caucasus region in southern Russia, where the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects had their ethnic roots.

Fogle was handed over to U.S. Embassy officials, declared persona non grata and ordered to leave Russia immediately. He has diplomatic immu-nity, which protects him from arrest.

The State Department would only confirm that Fogle worked as an embassy employee, but wouldn’t give any details about his employ-ment record or responsibilities in Russia. Some officials also referred inquiries to the CIA, which declined comment.

Fogle was the first American dip-lomat to be publicly accused of spy-ing in Russia in about a decade. While relations between the two countries have been strained, officials in both Washington and Moscow sought to play down the incident.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Mi-chael McFaul to appear Wednesday in connection with the case. McFaul said he would not comment on the spying allegation.

Russian officials expressed in-dignation the U.S. would carry out an espionage operation at a time when the two countries have been working to improve counterterror-ism cooperation. “Such provocative actions in the spirit of the Cold War do nothing to strengthen mutual trust,” the Foreign Ministry said.

Russia’s Caucasus region in-cludes the provinces of Chechnya and Dagestan. The suspects in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his elder brother, Tamerlan, who was killed in a manhunt - are ethnic Chechens. Tamerlan spent six months last year in Dagestan, now the center of an Islamic insurgency.

U.S. investigators have been working with the Russians to try to determine whether Tamerlan Tsar-naev had established any contacts with militants in Dagestan.

US diplomat ordered to leave Russia in spy case

AP Photo/Kyodo News, FileFILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 file photo, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C Orion patrol plane flies over the disputed islands, the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea.

China questions Japan rule over OkinawaAssociated Press Writer

BEIJING - China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhab-ited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to more than a million Japanese along with major U.S. military installations. The tactic, however, ap-pears to have done little but harden Tokyo’s stance.

Prince Harry tours storm-damaged NJ shore

AP Photo/The Record of Bergen County, Tyson TrishPrince Harry of Britain tours the Seaside Heights Boardwalk with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday morning, May 14, 2013 in Seaside Heights, N.J.

Negara (Bali Post)-

Drainage work on a road at Tegal Badeng Barat has been complained by road users as the project materials have been just placed on the road creating mud. The 900 meter project was in two banjar, Banjar Anyar and Banjar Tengah. When met last Tuesday (14/5), locals hoped the project materials will be placed much closer to the roadside and not to disadvantage public priorities. The project is part of the National Program for Village Supply (PNPM-PD) with budget IDR 213 million.

Head of the Activity Management Team of the PNPM, Komang Deermen, stated that the team has socialized it to the locals and they are obliged to maintain the road. Head of the Village, Ketut Wetrem, stated his side will try find a solution so the materials won’t block any road users.

Head of the Village Development Board also Supervisor Head, Sukirman, stated the space for materials have been hard to find. This road has no alternative road and this project has been facing several problem such as shortage on rocks. The project should have been completed 70 percent and only 50-60 percent is done. He hoped materials will be completed soon and can be completed as soon as possible. (kmb26)

“If there is no polling station, they (patient attendants—Ed) will be go-ing home to vote,” said the officer. If the patients being treated at Sanglah Hospital could not vote, then about 500 votes would be being lost in vain excluding the patient attendants. Estimated, a total of more than 1,000 votes could not be distributed on the Election Day.

Spokesperson of Sanglah Hospital, Kadek Nariyantha, explained there was no letter or further informa-tion from the Electoral Commission regarding the availability of roving polling station to Sanglah Hospital. “Until now, there has been no letter or information regarding the roving polling station,” he said.

Some patient attendants preferred watching their ill family to going home to vote. As described by Fendy Sulistiawan, 25, a resident living on Jalan Raya Sesetan. He said he could

not go home to vote because he pre-ferred to wait for his father who was in comma as suffering from diabetic. “If I go home, nobody will be waiting my father,” he said.

Similar expression was revealed by Wayan Sudiani and Wayan Merta. These residents of Bebandem, Karan-gasem, did not know for sure whether they would go home to vote or not. “We prefer to give priority to our fam-ily being treated at Sanglah Hospital,” said Merta. They hoped there would be a polling station at the hospital so that they could vote with family.

Another opinion was given by Nengah Sutama, 40, a patient treated in Angsoka Room. Due to undergo-ing surgery on the neck, Sutama from Bangli should get treatment on the Election Day. “I actually want to vote. But with this condition, of course, I cannot go home,” he said. Sutama hoped there would be roving polling

station to Sanglah Hospital, so that he could vote.

Different opinion was presented by Ratna, a resident from Bajera, Ta-banan. She was more concerned with her recovery than thinking about vot-ing or not. “If there is roving polling station, I’ll surely vote. Otherwise, it does not matter and I’ll just focus on my recovery,” she said.

If Sanglah Hospital had not got information from the Electoral Com-mission, the Wangaya Hospital had made coordination with the Denpasar Electoral Commission regarding the election for patients on the gubernato-rial election. Deputy Director in charge of General Administration, I Made Maja Winaya, explained that based on information from the Denpasar Elec-toral Commission the patient attendants could vote at the nearest polling station by presenting a C6 letter. “Patients will be provided with roving polling station coming to the hospital after 12:00 noon provided that the patients can present a C6 letter. Otherwise, patients cannot vote,” said Winaya.

The roving polling station com-ing to Wangaya Hospital was from the nearest polling station. Its arrival would also depend on the availability of residual ballots at the polling sta-tion. (san)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

On Wednesday (May 15), all the people of Bali having met the requirements to use their voting right elected one of the two candidate pairs of the governor and deputy governor of Bali which would lead Bali next five years. In connection with the Bali gubernatorial election, all schools in Bali were dismissed. Aside from schools, the government offices were also given time off to vote. Community was asked to keep conduciveness during the implementation of the election so that it could run safely, orderly and peacefully.

When contacted on Tuesday (May 14), the Head of Bali Education Agency, AA Gede Ngurah Sujaya, said the policy to dismiss the entire schools in Bali was based on the circular from the Ministry of Home Affairs. When the voting took place, all the students were given the opportunity to study at home or dismissed. “This policy is in accordance with the circular of the Minister of Home Affairs related to regional leader election. So, all the schools are dismissed,” he asserted.

In this regard, the Head of the Education Agency of all counties/municipality across Bali had notified the principals. Furthermore, the principals informed their students. “We have announced it to all the principals. Coinciding with the voting day, all schools are dismissed,” said the Head of Denpasar Education Agency, IGN Eddy Mulya.

According to Eddy Mulya, his party had received a circular sent by Bali Province on Monday afternoon (May 13). After re-ceiving the letter, his party immediately contacted the principals throughout Denpasar. “So, we have contacted all the schools yesterday,” he said.

Separately, Spokesperson of Denpasar Municipality, Ida Bagus Rahoela, said that other than dismissing the educational institu-tions, almost all the government agencies were also given time off to vote the candidates of Bali leader they supported. “Based on the circular of Bali government, tomorrow (Wednesday—Ed) is indeed established as a holiday,” he said.

Rahoela added the circular had been notified to relevant Re-gional Working Units (SKPD) in the municipal government of Denpasar. In the appeal, he said, the Denpasar Mayor Ida Bagus Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra asked the entire community to main-tain the security conduciveness of Denpasar City. “Let’s maintain together so that the implementation of this regional leader election can take place safely and smoothly. Most importantly, it remains conducive,” he affirmed. (kmb13)

Project materials at Tegal Badeng blocked road

Bali gubernatorial election, all schools dismissed

IBP/FileThe crowded patients and families in Sanglah Hospital is not given the chance to give their votes becuase there is no polling station there.

No polling station at Sanglah HospitalDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Information from the Electoral Commission (KPU) to exclude polling station at hospital resulted in confusion for patients and their attendants to vote on the election of Governor of Bali on Wednesday (May 15). Sanglah Hospital, for example, according to the Spokesperson on Tuesday (May 14) got some calls from treatment room asking if there would be a roving polling station at Sanglah Hospital so that patient and their attendants could vote at hospital.

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BANGLI has a unique temple showing a strong Chinese influ-ence known as Dalem Balingkang Temple. Structure of the temple is unique because it was formerly said to serve as a palace to avoid the attack from other kings. Formerly, the Dalem Balingkang Temple belonged to the temple complex of Tanggun Titi—standing for the end of bridge and had a spring. In this temple complex lie some shrines dedicated to Ratu Ngurah Sakti Tanggun Titi, Ratu Mas Melant-ing, Ratu Sakti Gede Penyarikan and Sang Hyang Haji Saraswati. The second complex after passing a square occurs a cangapit building, namely an entrance equipped with a monarchic sitting when the king watched the Jro Gede mepada sur-rounding the temple. The middle courtyard only has a few buildings, only consisting of a meeting hall, the abode of all deities and a shrine of Ratu Ayu Subandar.

The shrine is used to worship Kang Ci Wi and is highly believed by Chinese descendant community to bring in blessings. In the main complex or innermost courtyard lies the worship place of Petak Grand Palace comprising the eleven and

nine-tiered meru shrines. Similarly, there is also ancestral worship of Dalem Balingkang in the form of brick chamber and seven-tiered meru shrine to remind of the Seven Deities. Besides, there are long pavilion with 24 columns and 20 columns as well as mundar-mundar pavilion with 16 columns.

History of the temple is much re-vealed in the S u k a w a n a Inscription (Goris, 1954). It said that Su-kawana vil-lage was hit by storms and the palace of Jaya Pangus was badly d a m a g e d , so that Jong Les moved to Balingkang. Balingkang itself is de-rived from two words Bali + ing-kang. Orally

and based on written evidence, it is associated with the wedding of King Jaya Pangus Harkajalancana who ruled during the period of Caka Year 1103-1191 or 1181-1269 AD. King Jaya Pangus had two queens, Paduka Bhatari Sri Parameswari In-dujaketana and Paduka Sri Mahadewi Cacangkaja Cihna. In the existing

folklore, his Chinese wife was named Kang Ci Wi, namely a daughter of trader from China.

Then, the words Bali-Ing-Kang were combined into Balingkang. In the chronicle of Ulun Danu Batur Temple (Batur Temple) of Kinta-mani is mentioned about Ida Ratu Gede Ngurah Subandar or Kongco

Cong Po Kong, where Empu Liem became t h e p r o m i -nent assistant to teach war strategy and governed with principles of As ta Bra ta . One of the war strategy relics is immortalized in the dance of Baris Dadap, Baris Tumbak, Baris Perisi or Baris Tamiang, Baris Bajra to Bar i s C ina . Baris or war-rior dance rep-resents knight-hood. Strong

Chinese influence is evidenced at a number of villages in Kintamani having geographical names derived from Mandarin words.

For example, the name of Pingan village is actually derived from the word Ping An meaning safety. Son-gan village comes from the Song An, Siakin village from the Sia In and Paketan village from Paket An. Early Chinese settlers also got farmland at Payangan and they gave litchi seedlings to the King of Bali. The tradition of gallivanting show (ngelawang) is also similar to the tradition of Chinese Lion Dance coming from one house to another. Many kinds of ornamental styles used to embellish the house and furniture in Bali are also adopted from Chinese arts.

Such diverse influences have been widely recognized as native culture to Bali. Even, Balinese traders believe that Kongco Cong Po Kong or Ida Ratu Gede Ngurah Subandar in Kintamani is a protec-tor that gives blessing to their trade. Likewise, the couple of deities called Rambut Sedana symbolized with the effigies made of perforated coins are believed to give a blessing to family. (puj)

Interestingly, the event was packed into a familial atmosphere coupled with cartoon exhibition featuring the works of Balinese cartoonist Jango Pramartha. The exhibition attended by 20 delegates from Tunisia highlighted the theme ‘Bali Gubernatorial Election’ that was highly contextual with the atmosphere in Bali organizing the gubernatorial election on Wednes-day (May 15).

The Tunisian Honorary Consul in Bali, Popo Danes, said that Tunisia was a country in North Africa coalescing into the Arab League. According to the Balinese figure having profession as an ar-chitect, he was keen to accept the offer as the Honorary Consul of Tunisia because Tunisia had a lot of similarities with Bali. With the similarities, Tunisia and Bali had plenty of opportunities to establish cooperation in tourism sector. Ac-

cording to Popo Danes, the number tourist visiting the country located in the African continent surpassed the number of its population and Bali had the opportunity to work with the country in tourism sector. More interestingly, the tourism of-fered of Tunisia was integrated with the agriculture where the country was well known as the producer of olives and dates with the best qual-ity in the world.

“Obviously, Bali will be able to adopt the strategy in combi-nation with the development of agricultural tourism that has been well developed by Tunisia through cooperative relationship that can be increasingly intensified,” he said.

Equally important, he said, Bali and Tunisia also had a huge poten-tial for cooperation in the cultural sector. Three similarities owned by Tunisia and Bali had made him

very keen to accept the offer as the Honorary Consul of Tunisia. “In the future, I hope that Tunisia and Indonesia, chiefly Bali, can make intensive cooperation through the

exchange of cultural envoys, includ-ing the exchange of information and science in the field of agriculture and tourism development,” he said while adding the number of Tuni-

sian tourists visiting Bali was fairly large and likely to be increased in harmony with the opening of the Honorary Consulate of Tunisia in Bali. (kmb13)

Tunisian honorary consulate opens in BaliBali Post

DENPASAR - Tunisian government through the Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia to Indonesia, H.E. Mr. Mourad Belhassen, officially opened the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Tunisia in Bali, Tuesday (May 14). The opening ceremony was coupled with the inauguration of the Office of the Honorary Consulate of Tunisia lo-cated at the Danes Art Veranda at Jalan Hayam Wuruk 159 Denpasar. Meanwhile, Popo Danes was given credence by Tunisian government as the Tunisian Honorary Consul in Bali.

IBP/Wayan SumantikaTunisian government through the Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia to Indonesia, H.E. Mr. Mourad Bel-hassen, officially opened the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Tunisia in Bali, Tuesday (May 14).

Dalem Balingkang Temple

Showing Chinese Influence in Bali

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WELLINGTON - New Zea-land on Wednesday gave the green light to an alliance between Qantas and Emirates, saying it will increase competition on the busy trans-Tasman route between Australia and New Zealand.

Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee said he had no objection to a deal, unveiled earlier this year, allowing the airlines to cooperate on passenger and cargo operations for an initial period of five years.

“There will be more sustain-able competition and cost savings as a result of the alliance, as well as a commitment that the two air-line applicants will maintain the number of seats that are operated across the Tasman,” he said.

“This should allow the low fares that passengers enjoy to be maintained.”

Brownlee said the link-up, which has already been approved by Australia’s competition watch-

dog, was likely to boost tour-ist numbers to Wellington and Queenstown.

The deal will see Qantas switch its hub for European flights from Singapore to Emir-ates’ Dubai base as it attempts to turn around its struggling inter-national business.

The Australian flag carrier and Emirates welcomed Brownlee’s decision, with Qantas chief execu-tive Alan Joyce saying it would allow travelers to “connect more seamlessly” over the Tasman.

“This decision means that New Zealand consumers can tap into the lounges, frequent flyer benefits and destinations avail-able under the joint Qantas and Emirates network,” he said.

Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia already have a trans-Tasman alliance which was established in late 2010 and is set to be reviewed by regulators in Wellington and Canberra later this year.

Looking at major global econo-mies, an OECD statement said that “growth is returning to trend” in China, while in the United States the OECD’s composite leading indicator (CLI) “continues to point to economic growth firming.”

In the 17-nation eurozone, the CLI indicated “a gain in momentum,” al-though no detailed growth forecasts were issued.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development en-couraged Portugal meanwhile to pursue “ambitious and courageous reforms to restore the sustainability of public finances, reduce external im-balances, and put its economy back on a path of strong, jobs-rich growth.”

The OECD’s leading indicators are mainly designed to point to turning points in economic activity.

“In Japan, it indicates that growth should remain above trend,” the OECD said, while in Germany, the biggest European economy, growth was tipped to return to its trend rate.

One less favourable outlook was issued for India, where the CLI “continues to indicate growth below trend.”

In Italy, the third biggest eurozone economy, the data indicated a positive change in momentum.

A separate statement said: “Despite the hardships brought about by the crisis, Portugal is now faced with a unique opportunity to modernise its economy, as well as building a fairer, more cohesive society and a more efficient, dynamic public administra-tion.”

The OECD noted that the country has “recorded one of the sharpest re-

ductions in fiscal and external imbal-ances in the OECD since 2009.”

That has come at a cost however, with unemployment hitting a record 17.7 percent in the first quarter of 2013 amid widespread public dis-content with political leadership in Lisbon.

After suffering an economic con-traction of 3.2 percent in 2012 and faced with a forecast decline of 2.3 percent this year, Portugal could nonetheless benefit from an expan-sion of business activity on the order of 3.5 percent by 2020, the OECD estimated.

“Further reforms could bring even higher gains,” it added.

A man walks in front of a share price board of the Tokyo Stock

Exchanges in Tokyo on May 15, 2013. Global economies are on

the mend, but growth is likely to remain below trend in India, the

OECD said on Tuesday.

AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMANThis general view shows the SingTel building in Singapore on May 15, 2013. Singapore Telecom, Southeast Asia’s biggest telecom firm by revenue, said on May 15 its net profit fell 32.6 percent in the fiscal fourth quarter, weighed down by a loss on the sale of its stake in a Pakistani mobile phone firm.

New Zealand signs off on Qantas-Emirates tie-up

Global economies on the mend, OECD saysAgence France-Presse

PARIS - Global economies are on the mend, but growth is likely to remain below trend in India, the OECD said on Tuesday.

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TIMIKA - Rescuers struggled Wednesday to reach 25 workers trapped underground at a US-owned mine in remote eastern Indonesia after a tunnel caved in, with four others confirmed dead.

They cleared debris blocking the tunnel at Freeport-McMoRan’s Grasberg gold and copper mine with saws and wheelbarrows, but cramped conditions prevented them from using heavy earth-moving equipment.

Ten people were hauled out alive during overnight rescue efforts. But those still underground have been trapped for more than 24 hours since the accident early Tuesday high in the mountains of rugged Papua province.

The tunnel collapse is just the latest problem to hit the mine, where a major strike in 2011 crippled production.

“Rescuers worked throughout the night and managed to evacuate 10 survivors and four fatalities by this morning,” said Freeport Indonesia, the local subsidiary of the US firm, in a statement.Police said all 14 were Indonesians.

“A total of 25 workers are believed to be still trapped in the debris and res-cue and recovery work is continuing,” said Freeport.

But the company added that res-

cue efforts by a Freeport team “have been hampered by the confined and restricted space within the tunnel”.

Those rescued were taken to a company hospital and were all in a stable condition, said Freeport.

The company previously said 37 people had been trapped when the tun-nel collapsed as workers took part in a training exercise, but on Wednesday revised that figure up to 39.

“This is a very sad day for us,” said Freeport Indonesia president Rozik B. Soetjipto.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims and their families and we will continue to do our best to evacuate the remaining workers.”

Neither Freeport nor police have given any indication of what caused the accident. The firm has said it does not expect the accident to affect production.

It did not disclose the nationalities of all the workers involved in the acci-dent, but the vast majority of the more than 24,000 employees at Grasberg are Indonesian.

The 2011 strike by thousands of workers lasted three months and badly hit production. It was only ended when the firm agreed to a major pay rise.

The industrial action sparked a wave of deadly clashes between police and gunmen around the mine, with at least 11 people, all Indonesians, killed.

Vast tracts of the sprawling Indone-sian archipelago are covered in trees, including some of the world’s most biodiverse tropical rainforest that is home to endangered animals such as orangutans, tigers and elephants.

But huge swathes have been chopped down by palm oil, mining and timber companies in Southeast Asia’s top economy, which has be-come the world’s third-biggest carbon emitter as a result.

Under a $1 billion conservation deal with Norway, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono two years ago signed the moratorium, which bans new logging permits for primary, or virgin, forest -- defined as forest not logged in recent history.

On Wednesday the government confirmed Yudhoyono had signed a two-year extension and the moratorium would remain in its original form.

“The extension on the moratorium of new permits will be in place for two years from when the presidential instruction is issued,” said a statement

from the cabinet secretariat.Yudhoyono signed the extension

on Monday, it said.The ban applies to new permits for

primary forest and peatland with the exception of projects already approved by the forestry minister and others considered vital, such as for power production, it said.

But Greenpeace criticised the gov-ernment for not taking the opportunity to strengthen the ban.

“That is what’s really needed if we want to save Indonesia’s remaining tigers and orangutans, which are under threat from relentless palm oil and pulp and paper expansion,” said the group’s forests campaigner Yuyun Indradi.

Indonesia, the world’s top pro-ducer of palm oil that is used in many everyday items from soap to biscuits, has faced fierce industry pressure over the ban.

“The moratorium has already had negative effects on the economy, not just in the palm oil industry but the timber industry as well,” said Fadhil

Hasan, from the Indonesian Palm Oil Association.

The government says the morato-rium has drastically reduced logging in a country with the world’s third largest amount of tropical forest.

Senior forestry ministry official Hadi Daryanto said that between 2000 and 2010, Indonesia lost around 1.125 million hectares (2.8 million acres) of forest each year.

But he said that at the end of 2011 this figure had been reduced to the equivalent of 450,000 hectares an-nually.

However, green groups say local authorities are using a murky web of local laws to open up new areas for exploitation despite the national ban, and much logging has continued illegally.

A glaring example is a plan in the province of Aceh on Sumatra island, supported by Jakarta, which activists say could open up a million hectares of protected forest for exploitation despite the moratorium.

AntaraJAKARTA - President Susilo Bam-

bang Yudhoyono has convinced the industrialists that Indonesia remained attractive to oil and gas investment.

The head of state made the statement when he opened the 37th Indonesia Pe-troleum Association (IPA) convention and exhibition at Jakarta Convention Center here on Wednesday.

“I would like to convince you that Indonesia remains an attractive country for both domestic and foreign investors to invest

in oil and gas upstream sectors which are full of risk, solid in capital and technology,” President Yudhoyono told hundreds of participants of the IPA convention and exhibition.

The 37th IPA convention and exhibition 2013 from May 15 to 17 was themed “Promoting Investment in Challenging Environment”.

“The theme of the IPA convention and exhibition this year is very rel-evant with the intention of Indonesian

Government to push investment in oil and gas sectors,” the president said, adding that the oil and gas sectors were the national economic backbones and therefore its contributions should be sustained and increased.

Yudhoyono noted that geopoliti-cally, there has been a shift in the area of energy use.

He said Europe was the biggest energy consumer in the past but now it has shifted to Asian region whose eco-nomic growth continued to develop.

The president added that the gov-ernment also continued to improve investment climate in oil and gas sec-tor through the Presidential Instruction (Inpres) No.2/2012 on the national increase in oil production.

Further, he added that the govern-ment in the long term has had a blue print to speed up oil and gas industrial development through the implementa-tion of the Masterplan for Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia’s Eco-nomic Development (MP3EI).

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Sayeed Abbas Azad (C), a 30-year-old Afghan, is escorted by security guards after his ex-tradition hearing at South Jakarta court on May 15, 2013 after he was jailed in Indonesia, a transit hub for asylum seekers heading to Australia, for people smuggling and harbouring foreign nationals after being arrested in 2010.

Government extends logging ban to protect rainforestAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia has extended a logging ban to protect rainforests despite fierce in-dustry pressure, the government said Wednesday, but green campaigners slammed the move as inadequate.

Four dead, 25 trapped after mine collapse

RI remains attractive to oil and gas investment

The lawyer told the camp of some 30,000 people that they were squatting on his land and had to leave, witnesses said. If they didn’t vacate, he said he’d have the place burned down and lev-eled by bulldozers. Camp leader Elie Joseph Jean-Louis said other angry residents, who had lost their homes in a catastrophic 2010 earthquake, fought back by lobbing rocks at Georges and the people he had come with.

The camp residents managed to protect their homes that day but they also brought to life a far-reaching problem.

In the few weeks since the mid-April confrontation, their plight has become a symbol for what many say is the growing use of threats and sometimes outright violence to clear out sprawling displaced person camps, where some 320,000 Haitians still live.

The standoff set off a chain of events that left several shelters burned and a camp resident dead. It occurred a little more than a week before the human rights group Amnesty Inter-national issued a report on the jump in camp evictions in Haiti over the past year.

“This terrible event is proof of the consequences of continuing forced evictions in Haiti,” Javier Zuniga, a special adviser to Amnesty Interna-tional, said in a statement about the

standoff. “They have been living in camps with appalling living conditions. As if this were not enough, they are threatened with forced evictions and, eventually, made homeless again.”

Georges tells a different story. The former senator, whose most famous law client is former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, denied that he had threatened residents, say-ing he was only there to show officials what he said was his land. “If they said that, they are crooks and liars,” Georges said of camp residents.

After Amnesty released its report, Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lam-onthe told The Associated Press that the government of President Michel Martelly was in fact trying to stop the evictions.

The government does not “believe in forced evictions,” Lamonthe said. “There are some private owners that do it, but the government itself does not condone that.”

Haitians displaced by the earth-quake are entitled to special legal protection under the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, which prohibit forced evictions unless necessary to protect the safety and health of those affected. National au-thorities are responsible for protecting and providing humanitarian assistance to those displaced people.

By all accounts, clearing the camps in a humane way reflects the epic challenge that Haiti still faces more than three years after one of the worst natural disasters in modern history.

The earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and displaced as many as 1.5 million others, a staggering number in a country of 10 million. In its aftermath, settlements such as Acra sprang up around the crowded capital where land runs scarce, with people building shelters with debris, tree branches, salvaged timber, tarps from aid groups and bed sheets. The camps eventually became miniature cities with their own stores, barber shops, bars and churches. About 385 of the settlements are still standing.

Aid groups and officials from Mar-telly’s government say fewer visible encampments and a smaller number of displaced residents are proof Haiti is recovering. But housing advocates worry that many people are actually being evicted with no place to go, at the hands of authorities or people such as Georges who claim to own the land.

Evictions were far more common just after the quake, with the Inter-national Organization for Migration calculating that 6,650 people were forced from informal camps during the last six months of 2010.

Associated Press Writer

KAMPALA, Uganda - A four-story building under construction collapsed, killing at least six workers and injuring dozens more people, Rwandan police said Wednesday. Authorities were searching for survivors after the building collapsed late Tuesday afternoon in the eastern Rwanda district of Nyagatare, in what police called an “unfolding tragedy.”

At least 30 workers injured in the collapse are now being treated at a nearby hospital, said Christophe Semuhungu, the police spokesman for Rwanda’s Eastern Province.

It was yet clear what caused the collapse or even how many people are feared buried under the rubble.

In recent years, building collapses have become frequent in East and Central African countries as some property developers bypass regulations to cut costs. In March, a building collapsed in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam, killing at least 30 people.

Reuters

CAIRO - Egypt’s prosecutors on Tuesday referred a Christian schoolteacher to trial on charges of insulting Islam, judicial sources said.

Dimiana Abdel-Nour, who was arrested on Wednesday, was accused by her Muslim students’ parents of insulting Islam and comparing it to Christian-ity by saying that the late Coptic Pope Shenouda was better than the Prophet Mohammad.

Alongside the political and economic turmoil Egypt has endured since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011, tensions have risen between Muslims and Christians, especially since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in June.

Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s 84 million people and have complained that the authorities have failed to protect them since Mubarak was ousted, giving radical Islamists a free hand.

Last year, an Egyptian court sentenced a 17-year-old Christian to three years in jail for publishing cartoons on his Facebook page that mocked Islam and the Prophet, triggering sectarian violence.

At least three people were killed and more than 80 injured in clashes last month

AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery

In this April 24, 2013 photo, Darlin Lexima speaks on the phone as he walks through Camp Acra in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Lexima, 21, who lives in the camp for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, was arrested by police early April 15 when he was walking home from a disco club as police were responding to residents protesting an earlier raid by an unidentified band of motorcyclist who set fire to their homes.

Eviction fears haunt Haiti camps after attacksAssociated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents and plywood shelters scattered across rocky hills dotted with trees in the heart of the Haitian capital.

Christian teacher to be tried in Egypt for insulting Islam

Rwanda building collapse kills 6, injures 30

Associated Press Writer

ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH -- The Navy for the first time Tuesday launched an unmanned aircraft the size of a fighter jet from a warship in the Atlantic Ocean, as it wades deeper into America’s drone program amid growing concerns over the legal-ity of its escalating surveillance and lethal strikes.

The drone, called the X-47B, is considered particularly valuable because it’s the first that is designed specifically to take off and land on an aircraft carrier, allowing it to be used around the world without needing the permission of other countries to serve as a home base.

There has been increasing pushback against the use of drones from some nations that say the strikes cause widespread civilian deaths and operate with only limited oversight, eroding the U.S. image overseas. Navy officials say the drone will provide around-the-clock intelligence, surveillance and targeting capabilities.

The X-47B took off successfully Tuesday morning and made two low approaches to the ship before heading back toward land. The test aircraft isn’t intended for operational use; instead, the military is using the information it gathers during these demonstrations to develop the drone program. The Navy already operates two other unmanned aircraft, the small, low cost ScanEagle, which does not carry weapons, and the armed Fire Scout which is built more like a helicopter.

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Sangeh is a natural attraction relying on the wildlife and forest as the main tourist attraction. Sangeh tourist object is located at Sangeh village, Abiansemal subdistrict, Badung Regency. It is precisely about 21 km north of Denpasar. Sangeh does not only attract foreign tourists, but also domestic tourists and even the locals of Bali. When

you want to make a visit, take the Denpasar–Plaga route or Jalan A. Yani to the north. After some 21 km, on the left side you will encounter a small forest filled with large tropical trees.

Approximately 20 attendants are on duty to maintain the sanitation, safety of tourists, as well as the orderliness of merchants and photographers. Those attendants are spread within the neighborhood of Sangeh forest

area. On the whole, this tourist attraction

spreads across 13.969 hectares of land bor-dering with rice fields in the north, Yeh Penet River in the west, and Batursari settlement in the south and east. Sangeh forest has a variety of plant species. There are approximately 6,443 nutmeg trees, 27 species of other trees consisting of gliricidia, silk plant, milkwood pine, banyan tree and others. In addition, there

are also 22 types of shrubs such sea pearl, shoebutton and others.

Aside from becoming the native home to apes, this forest area of 10.8 hectares is also inhabited by two species of mammals such as monkeys and raccoons, 8 bird spe-cies such as Java sparrow and turtledoves, three kinds of reptile such as snakes and 2 types of amphibians. The long-tailed gray ape (Macaca fascicularis) has become the prominent attraction for tourist to visit Sangeh.

This tourist attraction also has 4 temples, such as the Bukitsari Temple located in west part of the forest, Melanting Temple (middle), Tirta Temple (front) and Anyar Temple at the entrance to the forest. The four temples are venerated by customary village of Sangeh, except for the Anyar Temple is only venerated by Batursari residents.

In the Southwest corner is built an isolation cage for the rogue apes. Additionally, it also serves a laboratory to treat the sick monkeys. In front of the entrance lie two small buildings used as ticket booth and a post of the Natural Resources Conservation (KSDA). Recently, the management carried out a reforestation and forest area expansion of around 3.169 hectares.

It is said the forest originated from the forest of Mount Agung scheduled to travel to Mengwi. At that time, it moved slowly in the evening. Unfortunately, a man came across the forest and shouted at it, so that the forest suddenly stopped. This belief is supported by the existence of nutmeg trees in the forest area that cannot be found in any other areas. Even, one or two can be found, but it surely grows at haunted temple area.

Bukit Sari SangehIn the women’s tournament, the

top-ranked Williams brushed aside Laura Robson 6-2, 6-2 a day after the rising British player had beaten her sister, Venus Williams.

Djokovic dropped his serve to fall behind 2-1 in the opening set but broke back immediately and took control from there against his 32-year-old opponent.

The six-time Grand Slam cham-pion didn’t appear to have any problem with his right ankle, which he twisted while representing Ser-bia in the Davis Cup in April then appeared to hurt again in a loss to Grigor Dimitrov at the Madrid Open last week.

“It was a good performance for a start, although I know I can do bet-ter,” Djokovic said. “My game has to be better for the next challenge. I didn’t have a good week in Madrid but I came here early and did a lot of practice.”

Djokovic didn’t practice for 12 days between winning the Monte Carlo Masters in April and the start of the Madrid tournament.

“I was playing with a degree of in-jury,” he said. “With Paris and London

coming up I need to be 100 percent. ... the positive thing is that my ankle is well and I’m playing without pain, and I did not want an injury in the most important part of the year.”

Djokovic has reached the final in four of the five past years at the Foro Italico, winning the title in 2008 and 2011.

Federer has never won in Rome, with his best results being two runner-up finishes. He lost the 2003 final to Felix Mantila and in 2006 dropped a fifth-set tiebreaker to Rafael Nadal.

After a seven-week break from the tennis circuit, Federer returned to action last week and got his clay-court season off to a difficult start with a third-round loss to Kei Nishikori of Japan.

Against Starace, however, Feder-er never struggled, with the Foro Italico crowd’s support for the local favorite proving useless. “I feel the way I want to feel,” Federer said. “I’m happy that from start to finish I was able to control the outcome of the match.” Williams has won her past three tournaments but her only title at this event came in 2002.

Associated Press Writer

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio held the Golden State Warriors’ vaunted backcourt to a miserly 13 points, laying the foundation for a 109-91 victory on Tuesday that gave the Spurs a 3-2 lead in the NBA Western Conference semifinals.

The Indiana Pacers also moved within one win of a place in the conference finals by beating the New York Knicks, taking a 3-1 lead. San Antonio’s Tony Parker had 25 points and 10 assists, Kawhi Leonard added 17 points, Danny Green scored 16 and Tim Duncan had 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Spurs.

But the story of the game was who didn’t score, much. Described by coach Mark Jackson as the “greatest shooting backcourt” in NBA history, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were held to 6-for-22 shooting.

Curry finished with nine points, going 1 for 7 on 3-pointers, and Thompson was held to four points

while not even attempting a 3. Curry has not missed any time since turning his right ankle late in Game 3, but the injury seemed to limit his explosiveness.

Leonard stripped Curry and then outran him to the ball midway through the first quarter, feeding Parker for an uncontested layup. Curry appeared to grimace when he attempted to push off to sprint for the loose ball.

Harrison Barnes scored 25 points, Jarrett Jack added 20 and Carl Lan-dry 16 for Golden State. No other Warriors player had more than nine points. The Spurs led for all but the opening 6 minutes of the game.

San Antonio went on a 12-2 run to take a 102-84 lead with 4 minutes remaining. The Warriors missed two shots and had two turnovers to facilitate the Spurs’ run. San Antonio shot 72 percent in the first quarter, pounding the ball inside for layups and kick outs to open shoot-ers in taking a 10-point lead.

Duncan battered Andrew Bogut early, making San Antonio’s first

three baskets on a drive and a jumper over the Australian and on a layup against Landry off a hard pick by Tiago Splitter.

San Antonio went on a 15-0 run on a series of drives to the basket and low-post moves, taking a 27-15 lead. Curry and Thompson were held to a combined four points on 2-for-10 shooting in the opening 16 minutes, but Barnes had 13 points and Jack seven.

Curry did not make his first 3 until there were 2 minutes left in the first half. The Spurs stopped going inside in the second quarter, help-ing Golden State rally. The Spurs returned to attacking the basket in the third, resulting in another double-digit lead.

Meanwhile, Indiana’s George Hill scored 26 points and Paul George added 18 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Pacers to a 93-82 victory over New York. Indiana needs one more win to reach the conference finals for the first time since 2004. Game 5 will be Thurs-day at Madison Square Garden.

Djokovic and Federer show improved form in RomeAssociated Press Writer

ROME - Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer appear back on track after early losses in Madrid last week. Serena Williams, meanwhile, is maintaining her dominance. Top-ranked Djokovic quickly overcame an early break to cruise past Spanish qualifier Albert Montanes 6-2, 6-3 and second-seeded Federer routed Italian wild card Potito Starace 6-1, 6-2 Tuesday to reach the third round of the Italian Open.

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic returns the ball to Spain’s Albert Montanes during their match at the Italian Open tennis tourna-ment in Rome, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Djokovic won 6-2, 6-3. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

Spurs, Pacers win to close on conference finals

AP Photo/Michael ConroyIndiana Pacers guard Lance Stephenson, center, looks to pass between New York Knicks guard Raymond Felton, left, and guard J.R. Smith during the first half of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series, in Indianapolis on Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

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“The FA Cup is an achieve-ment we will never lose as a club. It is our first silverware, but it is a real shame it happens in the same season as relegation,” Wigan manager Roberto Mancini said. “You don’t normally get teams good enough to win the cup going down.”

In fact, it has never happened to an FA Cup winner in the same season. Meanwhile, Arsenal reclaimed fourth place to sit a point above Tottenham going into the final round of matches on Sunday. Manchester City, in its first game since Roberto Mancini was fired, swept to a 2-0 victory

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bian forward Duvier Riascos the softest of goals to put Tijuana on course for an upset 2-1 victory in their Libertadores Cup tie in Brazil on Tuesday.

Tijuana, a northern Mexican border town side punching well above their weight in South America’s elite club competition, advanced to the quarter-finals 2-1 on aggregate after they were held to a 0-0 draw in the first leg at the Caliente.

Things will not get any easier for the Mexican underdogs in the last eight, however, as the victory set up a showdown against Ronaldinho’s Atletico Mineiro, who are firm favourites to win the title for the first time.

For Palmeiras, the dream of winning the trophy for a second time after their 1999 victory is over and, having been relegated last year, they must make do with concentrating on fighting for promotion from Brazil’s second division.

Bruno let Riascos’s weak shot slip through his grasp and into the net in the 27th minute of the last-16, second leg at the Pacaembu in Sao Paulo.

“It was a grotesque mistake that shouldn’t have happened. It was my fault, the first goal was critical for the defeat,” Bruno told reporters.

In a match littered with fouls, Venezuelan referee Juan Soto also blundered when he sent Tijuana defender Richard Ruiz off for what he thought was a second yellow card offence before realising he had not previously booked the player and called him back.

Tijuana-born midfielder Fernando Arce increased the away side’s lead early in the second half before being harshly penalised when the ball hit his hand and Palmeiras pulled a goal back with Souza’s spot kick in the 61st minute.

Paraguayan defender Pablo Aguilar was then sent off, leaving Tijuana a man short for the last seven minutes but that did not dampen the team coached by Argentine Antonio Mohamed’s joy at qualifying.

The Mexicans, who won their first league title in December, are the second side founded this century to reach the last eight after Peru’s Real Garcilaso.

Garcilaso, formed in 2009 two years after Tijuana, upset three times South American champions Nacional of Uruguay on penalties last week.

Reuters

OLYMPIA, Washington - A man less than two weeks into a planned journey to dribble a soccer ball from his home city of Seattle to Brazil, the host nation for the 2014 World Cup, died on Tuesday after being struck by a car in Oregon, police and the man’s supporters said.

Richard Swanson, 42, was struck as he walked on the shoulder of a road on the outskirts of Lincoln City just east of the Oregon coast, said Lincoln City Police Sergeant Randy Weaver. Swanson’s soccer ball was found nearby, Weaver said.

Swanson’s death was mourned in a post on the Facebook page titled “Breakaway Brazil,” which he had used to document his planned journey. It was supposed to culminate with his arrival in Brazil in time for the World Cup, which begins in June 2014.

“It is with a heavy heart to notify you that Richard Swanson passed on this morning,” said the post, signed “Team Richard.” “His team, family, friends, and loved ones will miss him and love him dearly. You made it to Brazil in our hearts, Richard.”

Swanson wrote on his Facebook page that he planned to dribble the ball from Seattle to Brazil and sought donations for the trip, which would take him through countries such as Mexico, Nicaragua and Colombia.

He is survived by two sons, aged 22 and 18, whom he mentioned in a YouTube video he uploaded in March.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — The Premier League could go into extra time. After the final round of matches on Sunday, Arsenal and Chelsea could have to contest a playoff to determine who finishes third and claims an automatic Champions League qualification place.

Chelsea currently has a two-point lead over Arsenal. But if Arsenal beats Newcastle 2-1 and Chelsea draws 0-0 with Everton on Sunday, the teams would be level on points and have the same number of goals scored and conceded.

Premier League rules state that the teams would have to meet in a playoff on a neutral venue to decide third place.

The fourth-place finisher, which could still be Arsenal, Chelsea or Tottenham, would then have to play a Champions League qualifier in August to reach the group stage.

Wigan relegated from EPL, Arsenal reclaims 4thAssociated Press Writer

LONDON - Wigan is going to be relegated to the League Championship, while Arsenal seemingly is heading back to the Champions League. Drained after winning the FA Cup for the first time on Saturday, Wigan crashed back to earth with a 4-1 loss at Arsenal on Tuesday to be relegated after eight seasons in the Premier League.

AP Photo/Alastair Grant

Wigan Athletic’s manager Roberto Martinez consoles his player James McCarthy after Wigan were relegated from the Premier League as they lost 4-1 to Arsenal following their English Pre-mier League soccer match at Arsenal’s Emirates stadium in London, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

at already-relegated Reading to secure second spot after having already conceded its league title to Manchester United.

Mancini’s final match in charge of City was the surprise 1-0 loss to Wigan at Wembley Stadium. Now Wigan is going from the highest point in its 81-year his-tory to one of its lowest.

“It’s not one of the things to be too sad about - it’s the opposite,” Martinez said. “It’s time to look back - to have eight seasons at this level is incredible ... it’s time to be proud of what we’ve done in eight seasons and the culmination with the FA Cup.” Wigan con-

ceded after just 11 minutes, with Lukas Podolski heading home from Santi Cazorla’s corner, but leveled just before half time from Shaun Maloney’s free kick.

Wigan posed a threat at the start of the second half but was denied by goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny before Arsenal became a more ruthless attacking unit. Theo Walcott nudged Arsenal in front in the 63rd minute from Cazorla’s cross and Podolski clipped in another five minutes later.

Aaron Ramsey completed Wigan’s misery in the 71st. “We have conceded far too many

goals,” Martinez reflected on the season. “Going forward we have been magnificent, I think it’s been our best season in terms of performances, but the injuries in the back line are something I have never seen before.

“To have four, five, even six players missing in the back line and our keeper affected with injury - our captain Antolin Alcaraz, Ivan Ramis out for the season, Ben Watson with a broken leg, (Jean) Beausejour, (Maynor) Figueroa. “We have to have so many different partner-ships and keep changing, and that caused us problems.”

Arsenal, having made its worst start to a season since Arsene Wenger took charge in 1996, now looks like heading back into the Champions League going into Sunday’s finale at Newcastle. “It is all open, but it depends on our result,” Wenger said. “Even third place is not out of sight if we win the game.

“I am confident because we have experience, we play for a

long time under massive pressure and we have always found the solutions with the problems that we have faced.” City’s final match against Norwich will come at the end of a week of difficult week for City, which is now preparing to appoint Mancini’s replacement before resuming the search for silverware next season.

It was a routine victory in Reading for interim manager Brian Kidd. A slick routine from a corner between Gareth Barry, David Silva and James Milner led to the ball being played across for Sergio Aguero to powerfully strike into the net in the 40th.

The win was wrapped up in the 88th by Edin Dzeko after Silva slipped the ball through the substi-tute. “It’s all credit to the players- they are the ones who have had to put up with stuff off the pitch,” Kidd said. “I am pleased for them because it would have been a trav-esty if we hadn’t finished second. Reading and Wigan are joining Queens Park Rangers back in the second tier next season.

Seattle man dribbling soccer ball to Brazil dies after being hit by car

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Duvier Riascos (R) of Mexico’s Tijuana celebrates with team mates Jose Lopez and Javier Gandolfi (R) after scoring against Brazil’s Palmeiras during their Copa Libertadores soccer match in Sao Paulo May 14, 2013.

Tijuana benefit from Bruno blunder to advance

Arsenal, Chelsea could face playoff to decide 3rd

Dortmund’s Goetze winning fitness fight for final - Klopp

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Borussia Dortmund Mario Goetze runs for the ball during the Champions League semi-final first leg soccer match against Real Madrid at BVB stadium in Dortmund April 24, 2013.

expected to recover from a muscle injury in time for the Champions League final against German rivals Bayern Munich on May 25, Dort-

mund coach Juergen Klopp said on Wednesday.

The talented 20-year-old attacking midfielder, who has already agreed to

join Bayern from next season, picked up the muscle injury early in Dort-mund’s semi-final second leg against Real Madrid on April 30.

“Right now it looks like Goetze could be ready for the final,” Klopp told reporters. “His recovery is going according to plan.

“We will intensify training gradually during the week and the plan is for him to join the team training next week. Then we will

see if it is good enough.”The Germany international was

instrumental in helping Dortmund secure successive league titles from 2011 and helping guide the side to this year’s Champions League final at Wembley.

However, Goetze shocked Dort-mund fans when his transfer to Bayern was announced a matter of hours before last month’s first leg against Real Madrid.

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“The FA Cup is an achieve-ment we will never lose as a club. It is our first silverware, but it is a real shame it happens in the same season as relegation,” Wigan manager Roberto Mancini said. “You don’t normally get teams good enough to win the cup going down.”

In fact, it has never happened to an FA Cup winner in the same season. Meanwhile, Arsenal reclaimed fourth place to sit a point above Tottenham going into the final round of matches on Sunday. Manchester City, in its first game since Roberto Mancini was fired, swept to a 2-0 victory

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russia Dortmund’s Mario Goetze is

Reuters BUENOS AIRES - Palmeiras goalkeeper Bruno’s blunder gifted Colom-

bian forward Duvier Riascos the softest of goals to put Tijuana on course for an upset 2-1 victory in their Libertadores Cup tie in Brazil on Tuesday.

Tijuana, a northern Mexican border town side punching well above their weight in South America’s elite club competition, advanced to the quarter-finals 2-1 on aggregate after they were held to a 0-0 draw in the first leg at the Caliente.

Things will not get any easier for the Mexican underdogs in the last eight, however, as the victory set up a showdown against Ronaldinho’s Atletico Mineiro, who are firm favourites to win the title for the first time.

For Palmeiras, the dream of winning the trophy for a second time after their 1999 victory is over and, having been relegated last year, they must make do with concentrating on fighting for promotion from Brazil’s second division.

Bruno let Riascos’s weak shot slip through his grasp and into the net in the 27th minute of the last-16, second leg at the Pacaembu in Sao Paulo.

“It was a grotesque mistake that shouldn’t have happened. It was my fault, the first goal was critical for the defeat,” Bruno told reporters.

In a match littered with fouls, Venezuelan referee Juan Soto also blundered when he sent Tijuana defender Richard Ruiz off for what he thought was a second yellow card offence before realising he had not previously booked the player and called him back.

Tijuana-born midfielder Fernando Arce increased the away side’s lead early in the second half before being harshly penalised when the ball hit his hand and Palmeiras pulled a goal back with Souza’s spot kick in the 61st minute.

Paraguayan defender Pablo Aguilar was then sent off, leaving Tijuana a man short for the last seven minutes but that did not dampen the team coached by Argentine Antonio Mohamed’s joy at qualifying.

The Mexicans, who won their first league title in December, are the second side founded this century to reach the last eight after Peru’s Real Garcilaso.

Garcilaso, formed in 2009 two years after Tijuana, upset three times South American champions Nacional of Uruguay on penalties last week.

Reuters

OLYMPIA, Washington - A man less than two weeks into a planned journey to dribble a soccer ball from his home city of Seattle to Brazil, the host nation for the 2014 World Cup, died on Tuesday after being struck by a car in Oregon, police and the man’s supporters said.

Richard Swanson, 42, was struck as he walked on the shoulder of a road on the outskirts of Lincoln City just east of the Oregon coast, said Lincoln City Police Sergeant Randy Weaver. Swanson’s soccer ball was found nearby, Weaver said.

Swanson’s death was mourned in a post on the Facebook page titled “Breakaway Brazil,” which he had used to document his planned journey. It was supposed to culminate with his arrival in Brazil in time for the World Cup, which begins in June 2014.

“It is with a heavy heart to notify you that Richard Swanson passed on this morning,” said the post, signed “Team Richard.” “His team, family, friends, and loved ones will miss him and love him dearly. You made it to Brazil in our hearts, Richard.”

Swanson wrote on his Facebook page that he planned to dribble the ball from Seattle to Brazil and sought donations for the trip, which would take him through countries such as Mexico, Nicaragua and Colombia.

He is survived by two sons, aged 22 and 18, whom he mentioned in a YouTube video he uploaded in March.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — The Premier League could go into extra time. After the final round of matches on Sunday, Arsenal and Chelsea could have to contest a playoff to determine who finishes third and claims an automatic Champions League qualification place.

Chelsea currently has a two-point lead over Arsenal. But if Arsenal beats Newcastle 2-1 and Chelsea draws 0-0 with Everton on Sunday, the teams would be level on points and have the same number of goals scored and conceded.

Premier League rules state that the teams would have to meet in a playoff on a neutral venue to decide third place.

The fourth-place finisher, which could still be Arsenal, Chelsea or Tottenham, would then have to play a Champions League qualifier in August to reach the group stage.

Wigan relegated from EPL, Arsenal reclaims 4thAssociated Press Writer

LONDON - Wigan is going to be relegated to the League Championship, while Arsenal seemingly is heading back to the Champions League. Drained after winning the FA Cup for the first time on Saturday, Wigan crashed back to earth with a 4-1 loss at Arsenal on Tuesday to be relegated after eight seasons in the Premier League.

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Wigan Athletic’s manager Roberto Martinez consoles his player James McCarthy after Wigan were relegated from the Premier League as they lost 4-1 to Arsenal following their English Pre-mier League soccer match at Arsenal’s Emirates stadium in London, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

at already-relegated Reading to secure second spot after having already conceded its league title to Manchester United.

Mancini’s final match in charge of City was the surprise 1-0 loss to Wigan at Wembley Stadium. Now Wigan is going from the highest point in its 81-year his-tory to one of its lowest.

“It’s not one of the things to be too sad about - it’s the opposite,” Martinez said. “It’s time to look back - to have eight seasons at this level is incredible ... it’s time to be proud of what we’ve done in eight seasons and the culmination with the FA Cup.” Wigan con-

ceded after just 11 minutes, with Lukas Podolski heading home from Santi Cazorla’s corner, but leveled just before half time from Shaun Maloney’s free kick.

Wigan posed a threat at the start of the second half but was denied by goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny before Arsenal became a more ruthless attacking unit. Theo Walcott nudged Arsenal in front in the 63rd minute from Cazorla’s cross and Podolski clipped in another five minutes later.

Aaron Ramsey completed Wigan’s misery in the 71st. “We have conceded far too many

goals,” Martinez reflected on the season. “Going forward we have been magnificent, I think it’s been our best season in terms of performances, but the injuries in the back line are something I have never seen before.

“To have four, five, even six players missing in the back line and our keeper affected with injury - our captain Antolin Alcaraz, Ivan Ramis out for the season, Ben Watson with a broken leg, (Jean) Beausejour, (Maynor) Figueroa. “We have to have so many different partner-ships and keep changing, and that caused us problems.”

Arsenal, having made its worst start to a season since Arsene Wenger took charge in 1996, now looks like heading back into the Champions League going into Sunday’s finale at Newcastle. “It is all open, but it depends on our result,” Wenger said. “Even third place is not out of sight if we win the game.

“I am confident because we have experience, we play for a

long time under massive pressure and we have always found the solutions with the problems that we have faced.” City’s final match against Norwich will come at the end of a week of difficult week for City, which is now preparing to appoint Mancini’s replacement before resuming the search for silverware next season.

It was a routine victory in Reading for interim manager Brian Kidd. A slick routine from a corner between Gareth Barry, David Silva and James Milner led to the ball being played across for Sergio Aguero to powerfully strike into the net in the 40th.

The win was wrapped up in the 88th by Edin Dzeko after Silva slipped the ball through the substi-tute. “It’s all credit to the players- they are the ones who have had to put up with stuff off the pitch,” Kidd said. “I am pleased for them because it would have been a trav-esty if we hadn’t finished second. Reading and Wigan are joining Queens Park Rangers back in the second tier next season.

Seattle man dribbling soccer ball to Brazil dies after being hit by car

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Duvier Riascos (R) of Mexico’s Tijuana celebrates with team mates Jose Lopez and Javier Gandolfi (R) after scoring against Brazil’s Palmeiras during their Copa Libertadores soccer match in Sao Paulo May 14, 2013.

Tijuana benefit from Bruno blunder to advance

Arsenal, Chelsea could face playoff to decide 3rd

Dortmund’s Goetze winning fitness fight for final - Klopp

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Borussia Dortmund Mario Goetze runs for the ball during the Champions League semi-final first leg soccer match against Real Madrid at BVB stadium in Dortmund April 24, 2013.

expected to recover from a muscle injury in time for the Champions League final against German rivals Bayern Munich on May 25, Dort-

mund coach Juergen Klopp said on Wednesday.

The talented 20-year-old attacking midfielder, who has already agreed to

join Bayern from next season, picked up the muscle injury early in Dort-mund’s semi-final second leg against Real Madrid on April 30.

“Right now it looks like Goetze could be ready for the final,” Klopp told reporters. “His recovery is going according to plan.

“We will intensify training gradually during the week and the plan is for him to join the team training next week. Then we will

see if it is good enough.”The Germany international was

instrumental in helping Dortmund secure successive league titles from 2011 and helping guide the side to this year’s Champions League final at Wembley.

However, Goetze shocked Dort-mund fans when his transfer to Bayern was announced a matter of hours before last month’s first leg against Real Madrid.

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Sangeh is a natural attraction relying on the wildlife and forest as the main tourist attraction. Sangeh tourist object is located at Sangeh village, Abiansemal subdistrict, Badung Regency. It is precisely about 21 km north of Denpasar. Sangeh does not only attract foreign tourists, but also domestic tourists and even the locals of Bali. When

you want to make a visit, take the Denpasar–Plaga route or Jalan A. Yani to the north. After some 21 km, on the left side you will encounter a small forest filled with large tropical trees.

Approximately 20 attendants are on duty to maintain the sanitation, safety of tourists, as well as the orderliness of merchants and photographers. Those attendants are spread within the neighborhood of Sangeh forest

area. On the whole, this tourist attraction

spreads across 13.969 hectares of land bor-dering with rice fields in the north, Yeh Penet River in the west, and Batursari settlement in the south and east. Sangeh forest has a variety of plant species. There are approximately 6,443 nutmeg trees, 27 species of other trees consisting of gliricidia, silk plant, milkwood pine, banyan tree and others. In addition, there

are also 22 types of shrubs such sea pearl, shoebutton and others.

Aside from becoming the native home to apes, this forest area of 10.8 hectares is also inhabited by two species of mammals such as monkeys and raccoons, 8 bird spe-cies such as Java sparrow and turtledoves, three kinds of reptile such as snakes and 2 types of amphibians. The long-tailed gray ape (Macaca fascicularis) has become the prominent attraction for tourist to visit Sangeh.

This tourist attraction also has 4 temples, such as the Bukitsari Temple located in west part of the forest, Melanting Temple (middle), Tirta Temple (front) and Anyar Temple at the entrance to the forest. The four temples are venerated by customary village of Sangeh, except for the Anyar Temple is only venerated by Batursari residents.

In the Southwest corner is built an isolation cage for the rogue apes. Additionally, it also serves a laboratory to treat the sick monkeys. In front of the entrance lie two small buildings used as ticket booth and a post of the Natural Resources Conservation (KSDA). Recently, the management carried out a reforestation and forest area expansion of around 3.169 hectares.

It is said the forest originated from the forest of Mount Agung scheduled to travel to Mengwi. At that time, it moved slowly in the evening. Unfortunately, a man came across the forest and shouted at it, so that the forest suddenly stopped. This belief is supported by the existence of nutmeg trees in the forest area that cannot be found in any other areas. Even, one or two can be found, but it surely grows at haunted temple area.

Bukit Sari SangehIn the women’s tournament, the

top-ranked Williams brushed aside Laura Robson 6-2, 6-2 a day after the rising British player had beaten her sister, Venus Williams.

Djokovic dropped his serve to fall behind 2-1 in the opening set but broke back immediately and took control from there against his 32-year-old opponent.

The six-time Grand Slam cham-pion didn’t appear to have any problem with his right ankle, which he twisted while representing Ser-bia in the Davis Cup in April then appeared to hurt again in a loss to Grigor Dimitrov at the Madrid Open last week.

“It was a good performance for a start, although I know I can do bet-ter,” Djokovic said. “My game has to be better for the next challenge. I didn’t have a good week in Madrid but I came here early and did a lot of practice.”

Djokovic didn’t practice for 12 days between winning the Monte Carlo Masters in April and the start of the Madrid tournament.

“I was playing with a degree of in-jury,” he said. “With Paris and London

coming up I need to be 100 percent. ... the positive thing is that my ankle is well and I’m playing without pain, and I did not want an injury in the most important part of the year.”

Djokovic has reached the final in four of the five past years at the Foro Italico, winning the title in 2008 and 2011.

Federer has never won in Rome, with his best results being two runner-up finishes. He lost the 2003 final to Felix Mantila and in 2006 dropped a fifth-set tiebreaker to Rafael Nadal.

After a seven-week break from the tennis circuit, Federer returned to action last week and got his clay-court season off to a difficult start with a third-round loss to Kei Nishikori of Japan.

Against Starace, however, Feder-er never struggled, with the Foro Italico crowd’s support for the local favorite proving useless. “I feel the way I want to feel,” Federer said. “I’m happy that from start to finish I was able to control the outcome of the match.” Williams has won her past three tournaments but her only title at this event came in 2002.

Associated Press Writer

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio held the Golden State Warriors’ vaunted backcourt to a miserly 13 points, laying the foundation for a 109-91 victory on Tuesday that gave the Spurs a 3-2 lead in the NBA Western Conference semifinals.

The Indiana Pacers also moved within one win of a place in the conference finals by beating the New York Knicks, taking a 3-1 lead. San Antonio’s Tony Parker had 25 points and 10 assists, Kawhi Leonard added 17 points, Danny Green scored 16 and Tim Duncan had 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Spurs.

But the story of the game was who didn’t score, much. Described by coach Mark Jackson as the “greatest shooting backcourt” in NBA history, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson were held to 6-for-22 shooting.

Curry finished with nine points, going 1 for 7 on 3-pointers, and Thompson was held to four points

while not even attempting a 3. Curry has not missed any time since turning his right ankle late in Game 3, but the injury seemed to limit his explosiveness.

Leonard stripped Curry and then outran him to the ball midway through the first quarter, feeding Parker for an uncontested layup. Curry appeared to grimace when he attempted to push off to sprint for the loose ball.

Harrison Barnes scored 25 points, Jarrett Jack added 20 and Carl Lan-dry 16 for Golden State. No other Warriors player had more than nine points. The Spurs led for all but the opening 6 minutes of the game.

San Antonio went on a 12-2 run to take a 102-84 lead with 4 minutes remaining. The Warriors missed two shots and had two turnovers to facilitate the Spurs’ run. San Antonio shot 72 percent in the first quarter, pounding the ball inside for layups and kick outs to open shoot-ers in taking a 10-point lead.

Duncan battered Andrew Bogut early, making San Antonio’s first

three baskets on a drive and a jumper over the Australian and on a layup against Landry off a hard pick by Tiago Splitter.

San Antonio went on a 15-0 run on a series of drives to the basket and low-post moves, taking a 27-15 lead. Curry and Thompson were held to a combined four points on 2-for-10 shooting in the opening 16 minutes, but Barnes had 13 points and Jack seven.

Curry did not make his first 3 until there were 2 minutes left in the first half. The Spurs stopped going inside in the second quarter, help-ing Golden State rally. The Spurs returned to attacking the basket in the third, resulting in another double-digit lead.

Meanwhile, Indiana’s George Hill scored 26 points and Paul George added 18 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Pacers to a 93-82 victory over New York. Indiana needs one more win to reach the conference finals for the first time since 2004. Game 5 will be Thurs-day at Madison Square Garden.

Djokovic and Federer show improved form in RomeAssociated Press Writer

ROME - Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer appear back on track after early losses in Madrid last week. Serena Williams, meanwhile, is maintaining her dominance. Top-ranked Djokovic quickly overcame an early break to cruise past Spanish qualifier Albert Montanes 6-2, 6-3 and second-seeded Federer routed Italian wild card Potito Starace 6-1, 6-2 Tuesday to reach the third round of the Italian Open.

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic returns the ball to Spain’s Albert Montanes during their match at the Italian Open tennis tourna-ment in Rome, Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Djokovic won 6-2, 6-3. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

Spurs, Pacers win to close on conference finals

AP Photo/Michael ConroyIndiana Pacers guard Lance Stephenson, center, looks to pass between New York Knicks guard Raymond Felton, left, and guard J.R. Smith during the first half of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series, in Indianapolis on Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

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TIMIKA - Rescuers struggled Wednesday to reach 25 workers trapped underground at a US-owned mine in remote eastern Indonesia after a tunnel caved in, with four others confirmed dead.

They cleared debris blocking the tunnel at Freeport-McMoRan’s Grasberg gold and copper mine with saws and wheelbarrows, but cramped conditions prevented them from using heavy earth-moving equipment.

Ten people were hauled out alive during overnight rescue efforts. But those still underground have been trapped for more than 24 hours since the accident early Tuesday high in the mountains of rugged Papua province.

The tunnel collapse is just the latest problem to hit the mine, where a major strike in 2011 crippled production.

“Rescuers worked throughout the night and managed to evacuate 10 survivors and four fatalities by this morning,” said Freeport Indonesia, the local subsidiary of the US firm, in a statement.Police said all 14 were Indonesians.

“A total of 25 workers are believed to be still trapped in the debris and res-cue and recovery work is continuing,” said Freeport.

But the company added that res-

cue efforts by a Freeport team “have been hampered by the confined and restricted space within the tunnel”.

Those rescued were taken to a company hospital and were all in a stable condition, said Freeport.

The company previously said 37 people had been trapped when the tun-nel collapsed as workers took part in a training exercise, but on Wednesday revised that figure up to 39.

“This is a very sad day for us,” said Freeport Indonesia president Rozik B. Soetjipto.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims and their families and we will continue to do our best to evacuate the remaining workers.”

Neither Freeport nor police have given any indication of what caused the accident. The firm has said it does not expect the accident to affect production.

It did not disclose the nationalities of all the workers involved in the acci-dent, but the vast majority of the more than 24,000 employees at Grasberg are Indonesian.

The 2011 strike by thousands of workers lasted three months and badly hit production. It was only ended when the firm agreed to a major pay rise.

The industrial action sparked a wave of deadly clashes between police and gunmen around the mine, with at least 11 people, all Indonesians, killed.

Vast tracts of the sprawling Indone-sian archipelago are covered in trees, including some of the world’s most biodiverse tropical rainforest that is home to endangered animals such as orangutans, tigers and elephants.

But huge swathes have been chopped down by palm oil, mining and timber companies in Southeast Asia’s top economy, which has be-come the world’s third-biggest carbon emitter as a result.

Under a $1 billion conservation deal with Norway, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono two years ago signed the moratorium, which bans new logging permits for primary, or virgin, forest -- defined as forest not logged in recent history.

On Wednesday the government confirmed Yudhoyono had signed a two-year extension and the moratorium would remain in its original form.

“The extension on the moratorium of new permits will be in place for two years from when the presidential instruction is issued,” said a statement

from the cabinet secretariat.Yudhoyono signed the extension

on Monday, it said.The ban applies to new permits for

primary forest and peatland with the exception of projects already approved by the forestry minister and others considered vital, such as for power production, it said.

But Greenpeace criticised the gov-ernment for not taking the opportunity to strengthen the ban.

“That is what’s really needed if we want to save Indonesia’s remaining tigers and orangutans, which are under threat from relentless palm oil and pulp and paper expansion,” said the group’s forests campaigner Yuyun Indradi.

Indonesia, the world’s top pro-ducer of palm oil that is used in many everyday items from soap to biscuits, has faced fierce industry pressure over the ban.

“The moratorium has already had negative effects on the economy, not just in the palm oil industry but the timber industry as well,” said Fadhil

Hasan, from the Indonesian Palm Oil Association.

The government says the morato-rium has drastically reduced logging in a country with the world’s third largest amount of tropical forest.

Senior forestry ministry official Hadi Daryanto said that between 2000 and 2010, Indonesia lost around 1.125 million hectares (2.8 million acres) of forest each year.

But he said that at the end of 2011 this figure had been reduced to the equivalent of 450,000 hectares an-nually.

However, green groups say local authorities are using a murky web of local laws to open up new areas for exploitation despite the national ban, and much logging has continued illegally.

A glaring example is a plan in the province of Aceh on Sumatra island, supported by Jakarta, which activists say could open up a million hectares of protected forest for exploitation despite the moratorium.

AntaraJAKARTA - President Susilo Bam-

bang Yudhoyono has convinced the industrialists that Indonesia remained attractive to oil and gas investment.

The head of state made the statement when he opened the 37th Indonesia Pe-troleum Association (IPA) convention and exhibition at Jakarta Convention Center here on Wednesday.

“I would like to convince you that Indonesia remains an attractive country for both domestic and foreign investors to invest

in oil and gas upstream sectors which are full of risk, solid in capital and technology,” President Yudhoyono told hundreds of participants of the IPA convention and exhibition.

The 37th IPA convention and exhibition 2013 from May 15 to 17 was themed “Promoting Investment in Challenging Environment”.

“The theme of the IPA convention and exhibition this year is very rel-evant with the intention of Indonesian

Government to push investment in oil and gas sectors,” the president said, adding that the oil and gas sectors were the national economic backbones and therefore its contributions should be sustained and increased.

Yudhoyono noted that geopoliti-cally, there has been a shift in the area of energy use.

He said Europe was the biggest energy consumer in the past but now it has shifted to Asian region whose eco-nomic growth continued to develop.

The president added that the gov-ernment also continued to improve investment climate in oil and gas sec-tor through the Presidential Instruction (Inpres) No.2/2012 on the national increase in oil production.

Further, he added that the govern-ment in the long term has had a blue print to speed up oil and gas industrial development through the implementa-tion of the Masterplan for Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia’s Eco-nomic Development (MP3EI).

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Sayeed Abbas Azad (C), a 30-year-old Afghan, is escorted by security guards after his ex-tradition hearing at South Jakarta court on May 15, 2013 after he was jailed in Indonesia, a transit hub for asylum seekers heading to Australia, for people smuggling and harbouring foreign nationals after being arrested in 2010.

Government extends logging ban to protect rainforestAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia has extended a logging ban to protect rainforests despite fierce in-dustry pressure, the government said Wednesday, but green campaigners slammed the move as inadequate.

Four dead, 25 trapped after mine collapse

RI remains attractive to oil and gas investment

The lawyer told the camp of some 30,000 people that they were squatting on his land and had to leave, witnesses said. If they didn’t vacate, he said he’d have the place burned down and lev-eled by bulldozers. Camp leader Elie Joseph Jean-Louis said other angry residents, who had lost their homes in a catastrophic 2010 earthquake, fought back by lobbing rocks at Georges and the people he had come with.

The camp residents managed to protect their homes that day but they also brought to life a far-reaching problem.

In the few weeks since the mid-April confrontation, their plight has become a symbol for what many say is the growing use of threats and sometimes outright violence to clear out sprawling displaced person camps, where some 320,000 Haitians still live.

The standoff set off a chain of events that left several shelters burned and a camp resident dead. It occurred a little more than a week before the human rights group Amnesty Inter-national issued a report on the jump in camp evictions in Haiti over the past year.

“This terrible event is proof of the consequences of continuing forced evictions in Haiti,” Javier Zuniga, a special adviser to Amnesty Interna-tional, said in a statement about the

standoff. “They have been living in camps with appalling living conditions. As if this were not enough, they are threatened with forced evictions and, eventually, made homeless again.”

Georges tells a different story. The former senator, whose most famous law client is former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, denied that he had threatened residents, say-ing he was only there to show officials what he said was his land. “If they said that, they are crooks and liars,” Georges said of camp residents.

After Amnesty released its report, Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lam-onthe told The Associated Press that the government of President Michel Martelly was in fact trying to stop the evictions.

The government does not “believe in forced evictions,” Lamonthe said. “There are some private owners that do it, but the government itself does not condone that.”

Haitians displaced by the earth-quake are entitled to special legal protection under the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, which prohibit forced evictions unless necessary to protect the safety and health of those affected. National au-thorities are responsible for protecting and providing humanitarian assistance to those displaced people.

By all accounts, clearing the camps in a humane way reflects the epic challenge that Haiti still faces more than three years after one of the worst natural disasters in modern history.

The earthquake killed more than 200,000 people and displaced as many as 1.5 million others, a staggering number in a country of 10 million. In its aftermath, settlements such as Acra sprang up around the crowded capital where land runs scarce, with people building shelters with debris, tree branches, salvaged timber, tarps from aid groups and bed sheets. The camps eventually became miniature cities with their own stores, barber shops, bars and churches. About 385 of the settlements are still standing.

Aid groups and officials from Mar-telly’s government say fewer visible encampments and a smaller number of displaced residents are proof Haiti is recovering. But housing advocates worry that many people are actually being evicted with no place to go, at the hands of authorities or people such as Georges who claim to own the land.

Evictions were far more common just after the quake, with the Inter-national Organization for Migration calculating that 6,650 people were forced from informal camps during the last six months of 2010.

Associated Press Writer

KAMPALA, Uganda - A four-story building under construction collapsed, killing at least six workers and injuring dozens more people, Rwandan police said Wednesday. Authorities were searching for survivors after the building collapsed late Tuesday afternoon in the eastern Rwanda district of Nyagatare, in what police called an “unfolding tragedy.”

At least 30 workers injured in the collapse are now being treated at a nearby hospital, said Christophe Semuhungu, the police spokesman for Rwanda’s Eastern Province.

It was yet clear what caused the collapse or even how many people are feared buried under the rubble.

In recent years, building collapses have become frequent in East and Central African countries as some property developers bypass regulations to cut costs. In March, a building collapsed in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam, killing at least 30 people.

Reuters

CAIRO - Egypt’s prosecutors on Tuesday referred a Christian schoolteacher to trial on charges of insulting Islam, judicial sources said.

Dimiana Abdel-Nour, who was arrested on Wednesday, was accused by her Muslim students’ parents of insulting Islam and comparing it to Christian-ity by saying that the late Coptic Pope Shenouda was better than the Prophet Mohammad.

Alongside the political and economic turmoil Egypt has endured since Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011, tensions have risen between Muslims and Christians, especially since the election of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in June.

Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s 84 million people and have complained that the authorities have failed to protect them since Mubarak was ousted, giving radical Islamists a free hand.

Last year, an Egyptian court sentenced a 17-year-old Christian to three years in jail for publishing cartoons on his Facebook page that mocked Islam and the Prophet, triggering sectarian violence.

At least three people were killed and more than 80 injured in clashes last month

AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery

In this April 24, 2013 photo, Darlin Lexima speaks on the phone as he walks through Camp Acra in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Lexima, 21, who lives in the camp for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake, was arrested by police early April 15 when he was walking home from a disco club as police were responding to residents protesting an earlier raid by an unidentified band of motorcyclist who set fire to their homes.

Eviction fears haunt Haiti camps after attacksAssociated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents and plywood shelters scattered across rocky hills dotted with trees in the heart of the Haitian capital.

Christian teacher to be tried in Egypt for insulting Islam

Rwanda building collapse kills 6, injures 30

Associated Press Writer

ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH -- The Navy for the first time Tuesday launched an unmanned aircraft the size of a fighter jet from a warship in the Atlantic Ocean, as it wades deeper into America’s drone program amid growing concerns over the legal-ity of its escalating surveillance and lethal strikes.

The drone, called the X-47B, is considered particularly valuable because it’s the first that is designed specifically to take off and land on an aircraft carrier, allowing it to be used around the world without needing the permission of other countries to serve as a home base.

There has been increasing pushback against the use of drones from some nations that say the strikes cause widespread civilian deaths and operate with only limited oversight, eroding the U.S. image overseas. Navy officials say the drone will provide around-the-clock intelligence, surveillance and targeting capabilities.

The X-47B took off successfully Tuesday morning and made two low approaches to the ship before heading back toward land. The test aircraft isn’t intended for operational use; instead, the military is using the information it gathers during these demonstrations to develop the drone program. The Navy already operates two other unmanned aircraft, the small, low cost ScanEagle, which does not carry weapons, and the armed Fire Scout which is built more like a helicopter.

Navy launches unmanned aircraft from carrier

Bali News Thursday, May 16, 2013 5InternationalThursday, May 16, 201312 International

BANGLI has a unique temple showing a strong Chinese influ-ence known as Dalem Balingkang Temple. Structure of the temple is unique because it was formerly said to serve as a palace to avoid the attack from other kings. Formerly, the Dalem Balingkang Temple belonged to the temple complex of Tanggun Titi—standing for the end of bridge and had a spring. In this temple complex lie some shrines dedicated to Ratu Ngurah Sakti Tanggun Titi, Ratu Mas Melant-ing, Ratu Sakti Gede Penyarikan and Sang Hyang Haji Saraswati. The second complex after passing a square occurs a cangapit building, namely an entrance equipped with a monarchic sitting when the king watched the Jro Gede mepada sur-rounding the temple. The middle courtyard only has a few buildings, only consisting of a meeting hall, the abode of all deities and a shrine of Ratu Ayu Subandar.

The shrine is used to worship Kang Ci Wi and is highly believed by Chinese descendant community to bring in blessings. In the main complex or innermost courtyard lies the worship place of Petak Grand Palace comprising the eleven and

nine-tiered meru shrines. Similarly, there is also ancestral worship of Dalem Balingkang in the form of brick chamber and seven-tiered meru shrine to remind of the Seven Deities. Besides, there are long pavilion with 24 columns and 20 columns as well as mundar-mundar pavilion with 16 columns.

History of the temple is much re-vealed in the S u k a w a n a Inscription (Goris, 1954). It said that Su-kawana vil-lage was hit by storms and the palace of Jaya Pangus was badly d a m a g e d , so that Jong Les moved to Balingkang. Balingkang itself is de-rived from two words Bali + ing-kang. Orally

and based on written evidence, it is associated with the wedding of King Jaya Pangus Harkajalancana who ruled during the period of Caka Year 1103-1191 or 1181-1269 AD. King Jaya Pangus had two queens, Paduka Bhatari Sri Parameswari In-dujaketana and Paduka Sri Mahadewi Cacangkaja Cihna. In the existing

folklore, his Chinese wife was named Kang Ci Wi, namely a daughter of trader from China.

Then, the words Bali-Ing-Kang were combined into Balingkang. In the chronicle of Ulun Danu Batur Temple (Batur Temple) of Kinta-mani is mentioned about Ida Ratu Gede Ngurah Subandar or Kongco

Cong Po Kong, where Empu Liem became t h e p r o m i -nent assistant to teach war strategy and governed with principles of As ta Bra ta . One of the war strategy relics is immortalized in the dance of Baris Dadap, Baris Tumbak, Baris Perisi or Baris Tamiang, Baris Bajra to Bar i s C ina . Baris or war-rior dance rep-resents knight-hood. Strong

Chinese influence is evidenced at a number of villages in Kintamani having geographical names derived from Mandarin words.

For example, the name of Pingan village is actually derived from the word Ping An meaning safety. Son-gan village comes from the Song An, Siakin village from the Sia In and Paketan village from Paket An. Early Chinese settlers also got farmland at Payangan and they gave litchi seedlings to the King of Bali. The tradition of gallivanting show (ngelawang) is also similar to the tradition of Chinese Lion Dance coming from one house to another. Many kinds of ornamental styles used to embellish the house and furniture in Bali are also adopted from Chinese arts.

Such diverse influences have been widely recognized as native culture to Bali. Even, Balinese traders believe that Kongco Cong Po Kong or Ida Ratu Gede Ngurah Subandar in Kintamani is a protec-tor that gives blessing to their trade. Likewise, the couple of deities called Rambut Sedana symbolized with the effigies made of perforated coins are believed to give a blessing to family. (puj)

Interestingly, the event was packed into a familial atmosphere coupled with cartoon exhibition featuring the works of Balinese cartoonist Jango Pramartha. The exhibition attended by 20 delegates from Tunisia highlighted the theme ‘Bali Gubernatorial Election’ that was highly contextual with the atmosphere in Bali organizing the gubernatorial election on Wednes-day (May 15).

The Tunisian Honorary Consul in Bali, Popo Danes, said that Tunisia was a country in North Africa coalescing into the Arab League. According to the Balinese figure having profession as an ar-chitect, he was keen to accept the offer as the Honorary Consul of Tunisia because Tunisia had a lot of similarities with Bali. With the similarities, Tunisia and Bali had plenty of opportunities to establish cooperation in tourism sector. Ac-

cording to Popo Danes, the number tourist visiting the country located in the African continent surpassed the number of its population and Bali had the opportunity to work with the country in tourism sector. More interestingly, the tourism of-fered of Tunisia was integrated with the agriculture where the country was well known as the producer of olives and dates with the best qual-ity in the world.

“Obviously, Bali will be able to adopt the strategy in combi-nation with the development of agricultural tourism that has been well developed by Tunisia through cooperative relationship that can be increasingly intensified,” he said.

Equally important, he said, Bali and Tunisia also had a huge poten-tial for cooperation in the cultural sector. Three similarities owned by Tunisia and Bali had made him

very keen to accept the offer as the Honorary Consul of Tunisia. “In the future, I hope that Tunisia and Indonesia, chiefly Bali, can make intensive cooperation through the

exchange of cultural envoys, includ-ing the exchange of information and science in the field of agriculture and tourism development,” he said while adding the number of Tuni-

sian tourists visiting Bali was fairly large and likely to be increased in harmony with the opening of the Honorary Consulate of Tunisia in Bali. (kmb13)

Tunisian honorary consulate opens in BaliBali Post

DENPASAR - Tunisian government through the Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia to Indonesia, H.E. Mr. Mourad Belhassen, officially opened the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Tunisia in Bali, Tuesday (May 14). The opening ceremony was coupled with the inauguration of the Office of the Honorary Consulate of Tunisia lo-cated at the Danes Art Veranda at Jalan Hayam Wuruk 159 Denpasar. Meanwhile, Popo Danes was given credence by Tunisian government as the Tunisian Honorary Consul in Bali.

IBP/Wayan SumantikaTunisian government through the Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia to Indonesia, H.E. Mr. Mourad Bel-hassen, officially opened the Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Tunisia in Bali, Tuesday (May 14).

Dalem Balingkang Temple

Showing Chinese Influence in Bali

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Agence France-Presse

WELLINGTON - New Zea-land on Wednesday gave the green light to an alliance between Qantas and Emirates, saying it will increase competition on the busy trans-Tasman route between Australia and New Zealand.

Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee said he had no objection to a deal, unveiled earlier this year, allowing the airlines to cooperate on passenger and cargo operations for an initial period of five years.

“There will be more sustain-able competition and cost savings as a result of the alliance, as well as a commitment that the two air-line applicants will maintain the number of seats that are operated across the Tasman,” he said.

“This should allow the low fares that passengers enjoy to be maintained.”

Brownlee said the link-up, which has already been approved by Australia’s competition watch-

dog, was likely to boost tour-ist numbers to Wellington and Queenstown.

The deal will see Qantas switch its hub for European flights from Singapore to Emir-ates’ Dubai base as it attempts to turn around its struggling inter-national business.

The Australian flag carrier and Emirates welcomed Brownlee’s decision, with Qantas chief execu-tive Alan Joyce saying it would allow travelers to “connect more seamlessly” over the Tasman.

“This decision means that New Zealand consumers can tap into the lounges, frequent flyer benefits and destinations avail-able under the joint Qantas and Emirates network,” he said.

Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia already have a trans-Tasman alliance which was established in late 2010 and is set to be reviewed by regulators in Wellington and Canberra later this year.

Looking at major global econo-mies, an OECD statement said that “growth is returning to trend” in China, while in the United States the OECD’s composite leading indicator (CLI) “continues to point to economic growth firming.”

In the 17-nation eurozone, the CLI indicated “a gain in momentum,” al-though no detailed growth forecasts were issued.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development en-couraged Portugal meanwhile to pursue “ambitious and courageous reforms to restore the sustainability of public finances, reduce external im-balances, and put its economy back on a path of strong, jobs-rich growth.”

The OECD’s leading indicators are mainly designed to point to turning points in economic activity.

“In Japan, it indicates that growth should remain above trend,” the OECD said, while in Germany, the biggest European economy, growth was tipped to return to its trend rate.

One less favourable outlook was issued for India, where the CLI “continues to indicate growth below trend.”

In Italy, the third biggest eurozone economy, the data indicated a positive change in momentum.

A separate statement said: “Despite the hardships brought about by the crisis, Portugal is now faced with a unique opportunity to modernise its economy, as well as building a fairer, more cohesive society and a more efficient, dynamic public administra-tion.”

The OECD noted that the country has “recorded one of the sharpest re-

ductions in fiscal and external imbal-ances in the OECD since 2009.”

That has come at a cost however, with unemployment hitting a record 17.7 percent in the first quarter of 2013 amid widespread public dis-content with political leadership in Lisbon.

After suffering an economic con-traction of 3.2 percent in 2012 and faced with a forecast decline of 2.3 percent this year, Portugal could nonetheless benefit from an expan-sion of business activity on the order of 3.5 percent by 2020, the OECD estimated.

“Further reforms could bring even higher gains,” it added.

A man walks in front of a share price board of the Tokyo Stock

Exchanges in Tokyo on May 15, 2013. Global economies are on

the mend, but growth is likely to remain below trend in India, the

OECD said on Tuesday.

AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMANThis general view shows the SingTel building in Singapore on May 15, 2013. Singapore Telecom, Southeast Asia’s biggest telecom firm by revenue, said on May 15 its net profit fell 32.6 percent in the fiscal fourth quarter, weighed down by a loss on the sale of its stake in a Pakistani mobile phone firm.

New Zealand signs off on Qantas-Emirates tie-up

Global economies on the mend, OECD saysAgence France-Presse

PARIS - Global economies are on the mend, but growth is likely to remain below trend in India, the OECD said on Tuesday.

AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI

BUSINESS

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Japan refuses to offer any conces-sions to China over Tokyo’s control of the uninhabited East China Sea islands, which are called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku by Japan. Tokyo issued a formal protest to Beijing over the comments about Okinawa, made last week in the ruling Com-munist Party’s flagship newspaper, the People’s Daily.

Scholars in Japan and elsewhere, meanwhile, warn Beijing may be shooting itself in the foot by arous-ing fears of a creeping campaign to nibble away at Japanese territory. “If China’s goal is to hold talks with Japan over the Senkakus, articles

like these are counterproductive,” said M. Taylor Fravel, a Chinese foreign policy expert at the Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology. “As a result, Japan has an even stronger incentive now to stand firm with China and not hold talks.”

The Diaoyu issue has rarely been out of the headlines in China since Japan’s government bought the islands in September to preempt Tokyo’s pugnacious former mayor from doing so.

Although the Japanese govern-ment purchase was ostensibly aimed reducing tensions, the move was seen in China as an attempt to so-

lidify Tokyo’s sovereignty over the islets. Outraged Chinese staged vio-lent street protests and attacked Japa-nese property, while the government backed up its objections by dispatch-ing patrol boats to confront Japanese ships and sending a surveillance plane into Japanese airspace. While the sides have avoided clashes, the situation remains tense and neither side has backed down.

The comments about Okinawa appeared in a scholarly editorial in People’s Daily, in an apparent attempt to weaken the historical basis of Japan’s claim to the Sen-kaku islands by questioning the legitimacy of its control over the entire Okinawa chain. Its authors, Li Guoqiang and Zhang Haipeng, are prominent academics at the government’s Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the editorial is believed to have received high-level approval.

Associated Press Writer

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Britain’s Prince Harry toured two New Jersey shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy, shaking hands with emergency personnel and construction work-ers before spending Tuesday afternoon in New York City at events promoting tourism, entre-preneurism and philanthropy. He even got a chance to play a little baseball.

In Seaside Heights, where the MTV reality show “Jersey Shore” was made, Harry and his tour guide, Gov. Chris Christie, also took part in a game of chance along the boardwalk, throw-ing plastic balls into holes for prizes, which they handed over to children.

The prince suggested to a girl partnered with him, Allie Cirigliano, 7, of Middletown, that she pick a blue penguin as

a prize. But she didn’t want it. “Don’t listen to me,” he said with a laugh. She chose a Hello Kitty doll instead.

The prince came within sight of the surf-washed Jet Star Roller Coaster, which became a defining image of the October storm when it blew off an amusement pier into the Atlantic Ocean. A crane later began tearing the ride apart. Harry also greeted construction workers who have been working on rebuilding Seaside Heights’ boardwalk, now about two-thirds complete.

At a morning stop in Man-toloking, residents flew Union Jack flags. Christie showed the prince a spot where the sea had cut the town in half, taking out a bridge and houses. The channel has since been filled in. Every one of the wealthy town’s 521 homes was damaged or de-stroyed. Scores remain as piles of rubble.

Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW - A U.S. diplomat was ordered Tuesday to leave the country after the Kremlin’s security services said he tried to recruit a Russian agent, and they displayed tradecraft tools that seemed straight from a cheap spy thriller: wigs, packets of cash, a knife, map and compass, and a letter promising millions for “long-term cooperation.”

The FSB, the successor agency to the Soviet-era KGB, identified the diplomat as Ryan Fogle, a third

secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, detaining him briefly overnight.

It alleged that Fogle was a CIA officer trying to recruit a Russian counterterrorism officer who spe-cializes in the volatile Caucasus region in southern Russia, where the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects had their ethnic roots.

Fogle was handed over to U.S. Embassy officials, declared persona non grata and ordered to leave Russia immediately. He has diplomatic immu-nity, which protects him from arrest.

The State Department would only confirm that Fogle worked as an embassy employee, but wouldn’t give any details about his employ-ment record or responsibilities in Russia. Some officials also referred inquiries to the CIA, which declined comment.

Fogle was the first American dip-lomat to be publicly accused of spy-ing in Russia in about a decade. While relations between the two countries have been strained, officials in both Washington and Moscow sought to play down the incident.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Mi-chael McFaul to appear Wednesday in connection with the case. McFaul said he would not comment on the spying allegation.

Russian officials expressed in-dignation the U.S. would carry out an espionage operation at a time when the two countries have been working to improve counterterror-ism cooperation. “Such provocative actions in the spirit of the Cold War do nothing to strengthen mutual trust,” the Foreign Ministry said.

Russia’s Caucasus region in-cludes the provinces of Chechnya and Dagestan. The suspects in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his elder brother, Tamerlan, who was killed in a manhunt - are ethnic Chechens. Tamerlan spent six months last year in Dagestan, now the center of an Islamic insurgency.

U.S. investigators have been working with the Russians to try to determine whether Tamerlan Tsar-naev had established any contacts with militants in Dagestan.

US diplomat ordered to leave Russia in spy case

AP Photo/Kyodo News, FileFILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011 file photo, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C Orion patrol plane flies over the disputed islands, the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea.

China questions Japan rule over OkinawaAssociated Press Writer

BEIJING - China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhab-ited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain that is home to more than a million Japanese along with major U.S. military installations. The tactic, however, ap-pears to have done little but harden Tokyo’s stance.

Prince Harry tours storm-damaged NJ shore

AP Photo/The Record of Bergen County, Tyson TrishPrince Harry of Britain tours the Seaside Heights Boardwalk with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday morning, May 14, 2013 in Seaside Heights, N.J.

Negara (Bali Post)-

Drainage work on a road at Tegal Badeng Barat has been complained by road users as the project materials have been just placed on the road creating mud. The 900 meter project was in two banjar, Banjar Anyar and Banjar Tengah. When met last Tuesday (14/5), locals hoped the project materials will be placed much closer to the roadside and not to disadvantage public priorities. The project is part of the National Program for Village Supply (PNPM-PD) with budget IDR 213 million.

Head of the Activity Management Team of the PNPM, Komang Deermen, stated that the team has socialized it to the locals and they are obliged to maintain the road. Head of the Village, Ketut Wetrem, stated his side will try find a solution so the materials won’t block any road users.

Head of the Village Development Board also Supervisor Head, Sukirman, stated the space for materials have been hard to find. This road has no alternative road and this project has been facing several problem such as shortage on rocks. The project should have been completed 70 percent and only 50-60 percent is done. He hoped materials will be completed soon and can be completed as soon as possible. (kmb26)

“If there is no polling station, they (patient attendants—Ed) will be go-ing home to vote,” said the officer. If the patients being treated at Sanglah Hospital could not vote, then about 500 votes would be being lost in vain excluding the patient attendants. Estimated, a total of more than 1,000 votes could not be distributed on the Election Day.

Spokesperson of Sanglah Hospital, Kadek Nariyantha, explained there was no letter or further informa-tion from the Electoral Commission regarding the availability of roving polling station to Sanglah Hospital. “Until now, there has been no letter or information regarding the roving polling station,” he said.

Some patient attendants preferred watching their ill family to going home to vote. As described by Fendy Sulistiawan, 25, a resident living on Jalan Raya Sesetan. He said he could

not go home to vote because he pre-ferred to wait for his father who was in comma as suffering from diabetic. “If I go home, nobody will be waiting my father,” he said.

Similar expression was revealed by Wayan Sudiani and Wayan Merta. These residents of Bebandem, Karan-gasem, did not know for sure whether they would go home to vote or not. “We prefer to give priority to our fam-ily being treated at Sanglah Hospital,” said Merta. They hoped there would be a polling station at the hospital so that they could vote with family.

Another opinion was given by Nengah Sutama, 40, a patient treated in Angsoka Room. Due to undergo-ing surgery on the neck, Sutama from Bangli should get treatment on the Election Day. “I actually want to vote. But with this condition, of course, I cannot go home,” he said. Sutama hoped there would be roving polling

station to Sanglah Hospital, so that he could vote.

Different opinion was presented by Ratna, a resident from Bajera, Ta-banan. She was more concerned with her recovery than thinking about vot-ing or not. “If there is roving polling station, I’ll surely vote. Otherwise, it does not matter and I’ll just focus on my recovery,” she said.

If Sanglah Hospital had not got information from the Electoral Com-mission, the Wangaya Hospital had made coordination with the Denpasar Electoral Commission regarding the election for patients on the gubernato-rial election. Deputy Director in charge of General Administration, I Made Maja Winaya, explained that based on information from the Denpasar Elec-toral Commission the patient attendants could vote at the nearest polling station by presenting a C6 letter. “Patients will be provided with roving polling station coming to the hospital after 12:00 noon provided that the patients can present a C6 letter. Otherwise, patients cannot vote,” said Winaya.

The roving polling station com-ing to Wangaya Hospital was from the nearest polling station. Its arrival would also depend on the availability of residual ballots at the polling sta-tion. (san)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

On Wednesday (May 15), all the people of Bali having met the requirements to use their voting right elected one of the two candidate pairs of the governor and deputy governor of Bali which would lead Bali next five years. In connection with the Bali gubernatorial election, all schools in Bali were dismissed. Aside from schools, the government offices were also given time off to vote. Community was asked to keep conduciveness during the implementation of the election so that it could run safely, orderly and peacefully.

When contacted on Tuesday (May 14), the Head of Bali Education Agency, AA Gede Ngurah Sujaya, said the policy to dismiss the entire schools in Bali was based on the circular from the Ministry of Home Affairs. When the voting took place, all the students were given the opportunity to study at home or dismissed. “This policy is in accordance with the circular of the Minister of Home Affairs related to regional leader election. So, all the schools are dismissed,” he asserted.

In this regard, the Head of the Education Agency of all counties/municipality across Bali had notified the principals. Furthermore, the principals informed their students. “We have announced it to all the principals. Coinciding with the voting day, all schools are dismissed,” said the Head of Denpasar Education Agency, IGN Eddy Mulya.

According to Eddy Mulya, his party had received a circular sent by Bali Province on Monday afternoon (May 13). After re-ceiving the letter, his party immediately contacted the principals throughout Denpasar. “So, we have contacted all the schools yesterday,” he said.

Separately, Spokesperson of Denpasar Municipality, Ida Bagus Rahoela, said that other than dismissing the educational institu-tions, almost all the government agencies were also given time off to vote the candidates of Bali leader they supported. “Based on the circular of Bali government, tomorrow (Wednesday—Ed) is indeed established as a holiday,” he said.

Rahoela added the circular had been notified to relevant Re-gional Working Units (SKPD) in the municipal government of Denpasar. In the appeal, he said, the Denpasar Mayor Ida Bagus Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra asked the entire community to main-tain the security conduciveness of Denpasar City. “Let’s maintain together so that the implementation of this regional leader election can take place safely and smoothly. Most importantly, it remains conducive,” he affirmed. (kmb13)

Project materials at Tegal Badeng blocked road

Bali gubernatorial election, all schools dismissed

IBP/FileThe crowded patients and families in Sanglah Hospital is not given the chance to give their votes becuase there is no polling station there.

No polling station at Sanglah HospitalDenpasar (Bali Post)—

Information from the Electoral Commission (KPU) to exclude polling station at hospital resulted in confusion for patients and their attendants to vote on the election of Governor of Bali on Wednesday (May 15). Sanglah Hospital, for example, according to the Spokesperson on Tuesday (May 14) got some calls from treatment room asking if there would be a roving polling station at Sanglah Hospital so that patient and their attendants could vote at hospital.

3Thursday, May 16, 201314 InternationalInternational Bali NewsScience Thursday, May 16, 2013

Bali PostDENPASAR - The increase in Bali tourism sector cannot

necessarily boost the economic growth of Bali. Bank Indonesia (BI) Denpasar noted the economy of the Island of the Gods in the first quarter of 2013 slowed down compared to the previous quarter.

Based on the year-on-year (yoy) growth in early 2013 was recorded at 6.71 percent while the previous quarter reached 6.94 percent.

“Despite the slowing down, the economic condition of Bali remains better than the national economic growth reaching 6.02 percent,” said the Representative of Bank Indonesia (BI) for Region III Bali-Nusa Tenggara, Aidil Kairil.

According to him, the strong growth at the beginning of the year in Bali was supported by favorable economic condition as well as good business situation.

“Compared to national growth, the Bali’s economy remains to grow high. Conducive climate and good business situation are very supportive to this achievement,” he said.

Furthermore, Aidil said that in early 2013 the banking sector in Bali was still capable of undertaking a strong expansion. Some banking performance indicators still grew high. “Indicators of the banking are still growing high,” he said.

In terms of the demand, Aidil said that investment was still the main support to the economic growth in harmony with the rampant development of the multi-year infrastructure undertaken in the first quarter of 2013 as the preparation for the APEC Summit.

Additionally, in terms of consumption also showed an increase. According to Aidil, it was boosted by the domestic consumption and acceleration of the government expenditure. (kmb28)

The Head of Badung Transportation, Communications and Informat-ics Agency, Wayan Weda Dharmaja, said the assignment of personnel to oversee the traffic for 24 hours was aimed at addressing the traffic crowdedness in Kuta tourist area. At the moment, his party was prepar-ing for the addition of personnel to 70 people to be further assigned in Kuta.

The officials would be divided into four shifts for 24 hours. Assign-ment of the personnel in Kuta could be said as a new breakthrough, considering that all this time the assignment of the agency personnel in Badung was only made at particular times when an event was or-ganized in Kuta area.

“Next week, we will activate the personnel and now they are still in practice. They will be placed at vulnerable points of congestion in all the areas in Kuta. Additionally, we also plan to carry out the re-arrangement of traffic flow in the Kuta area, including making the socialization of parking arrangements in appropriate with the results of meeting with the existing stakeholders doing activities in Kuta,” he explained.

When asked about the immediate operation of the Dewa Ruci under-pass, Weda Dharmaja said it had become a concern of his party. The Badung Transportation Agency did not want the smooth traffic flow at the Dewa Ruci intersection would have an impact on new congestions at the other points such as at the intersection of Jalan Imam Bonjol and toll road on the waters with Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai at the airport area. Assignment of the personnel in turn would also be conducted at those vulnerable points of traffic congestion. (kmb25)

IBP/File Photo

The Badung Transportation, Communications and Informatics Agency in the near future will deploy its personnel in turn to arrange the traffic flows at the points of congestion in Kuta tourist area for 24 hours.

Congestion in Kuta

Badung transportation agency alerts personnel for 24 hoursBali Post

MANGUPURA - The Badung Transportation, Communica-tions and Informatics Agency in the near future will deploy its personnel in turn to arrange the traffic flows at the points of congestion in Kuta tourist area for 24 hours. According to the plan, the officials will start to be assigned next week.

IBP/File Photo

The increase in Bali tourism sector cannot necessarily boost the economic growth of Bali. Bank Indonesia (BI) Denpasar noted the economy of the Island of the Gods in the first quarter of 2013 slowed down compared to the previous quarter.

Economic growth of Bali slows down

Some scientific studies have pro-jected sea level rise of up to 2 meters by 2100, a figure that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called a worst case that would swamp large tracts of land from Bangladesh to Florida. Ice2sea, a four-year project to narrow down uncertainties of how melting ice will pour water into the oceans, found that sea levels would rise by between 16.5 and 69 cm under a scenario of moderate global warm-ing this century.

“This is good news” for those who have feared sharper rises, David Vaughan, of the British Antarctic Survey who led the ice2sea project, told Reuters in a telephone interview. “But 69 cm is a very real impact ... it changes the frequency of floods sig-nificantly,” he said. And seas would keep rising for centuries beyond 2100, in a threat to coastal cities and low-lying islands such as the Maldives or Tuvalu.

Ice2sea said a thaw of Antarctica, Greenland and glaciers from the Alps to the Andes would contribute between

Dogs are more than man’s best friend: They may be partners in humans’ evo-lutionary journey, according to a new study.

The study shows that dogs split from gray wolves about 32,000 years ago, and that since then, domestic dogs’ brains and digestive organs have evolved in ways very similar to the brains and organs of humans.

The findings suggest a more ancient ori-gin for dog domestication than previously suggested. They also hint that a common environment drove both dog and human evolution for thousands of years.

“As domestication is often associated with large increases in population den-sity and crowded living conditions, these ‘unfavorable’ environments might be the selective pressure that drove the rewiring of both species,” the researchers wrote in their article, published today (May 14) in the journal Nature Communications.

First domestication

It isn’t clear precisely when wolves were tamed and transformed into man’s best friend, and the date has been hotly de-bated. An ancient, doglike skull uncovered

in the Siberian Mountains suggested that the first dogs were domesticated around 33,000 years ago from gray wolves. But genetic analysis suggested dogs in China were domesticated only about 16,000 years ago.

In any case, most researchers agree that by about 10,000 years ago, dogs were firmly ensconced in human society. Some studies show that the wild dogs of South China may have been the first domesti-cated canines.

To understand this domestication, Guo-dong Wang, a genetics researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his colleagues analyzed the DNA of four gray wolves, three indigenous Chinese dogs and a German shepherd, a Belgian Malinois and a Tibetan mastiff.

The DNA suggests that the gray wolves split off from the indigenous dogs about 32,000 years ago, the researchers said.

“Chinese indigenous dogs might rep-resent the missing link in dog domestica-tion,” the researchers write in the paper.

Since then, dogs’ evolution has been gradual, and there were no sharp decreases in the dog population over time, suggesting dogs gradually became domesticated, after many years of scavenging from humans.

Ice melt, sea level rise, to be less severe than feared: studyReuters

OSLO - A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69 cm (27 inches), an international study said on Tuesday. Even so, such a rise could dramatically change coastal environments in the lifetimes of people born today with ever more severe storm surges and erosion, according to the ice2sea project by 24, mostly European, scientific institutions.

3.5 and 36.8 cm to sea level rise this century. The fact that water expands as it warms would add another 13 to 32 cm, Vaughan said. Some other scien-tists disputed ice2sea’s projections.

“I think the numbers are too low,” Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, an ice expert and professor at the Niels Bohr In-stitute in Copenhagen, told Reuters. She said ice2sea wrongly assumed a slowdown in the rate of ice discharge from Greenland.

ANTARCTIC SNOW

Sea levels rose by 17 cm last century and the rate has accelerated to more than 3 mm a year. A third of the current rise is from Antarctica and Greenland - equivalent to emptying 138 million Olympic-sized pools into the sea every year.

One factor likely to offset sea level rise, ice2sea said, is that warmer temperatures will result in more snow, especially over Antarctica, locking in the moisture on land. It also played down worries of a runaway melt of

Greenland, and of the breakup of major Antarctic ice shelves.

Governments want to know future sea levels to plan sea barriers and regulations for everything from vaca-tion homes to nuclear power plants by the coast. And every extra centimeter means big costs. A Dutch commission planning to bolster sea defenses, for instance, has advised spending more than 100 billion euros ($130 billion) by 2100 to strengthen dykes and other barriers for a worst case scenario of a 1.2 meter North Sea rise by 2100.

The ice2sea study also said that a survey of experts’ opinions showed there was a less than one-in-20 risk that melting ice sheets would contribute more than 84 cm to sea level rise this century. Taken with thermal expan-sion, that would mean a sea level gain of just over a meter, Vaughan said.

Almost 200 governments have agreed to work out a U.N. deal, by the end of 2015, to combat global warm-ing that would help limit temperature rises and rising seas.

A leaked report by a U.N. panel

of climate scientists, due for release in September and drawing on ice2-sea data, estimates sea level rise at between 29 and 82 cm by the late 21st century, above the estimates in its last report in 2007 of between 18 and 59 cm.

Many studies since 2007 have had higher upper numbers, including by the World Bank, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-tration (NOAA) and a report for the Arctic Council. NOAA put the upper limit at 2 meters. ($1 = 0.7703 euros)

Dogs and Humans Evolved Together, Study Suggests

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The gray wolf (Canis lupus lycaon), also known as the timber wolf, is the largest wild member of the dog family.

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Calendar Event for May 1 through June 19, 2013

1 May Buda Kliwon PahangPura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Desa Bangli BaturitiPura Silayukti Padang Bai KarangasemPura Aer Jeruk SukawatiPura Dangin Pasar Batuan SukawatiPura Penataran - Batuyang BatubulanPura Desa Lembeng Ketewel SukawatiPura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Kediri TabananPura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati GianyarPura Kresek Banyuning BulelengPura Puseh Bebandem KarangasemPura Sad Khayangan Batu Medahu Desa Swana Nusa PenidaPura Buda Kliwon Penatih DenpasarPura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari BebandemKarangasemPura pasek Bendesa Tagtag PeguyanganPure Pulesari - Bantas Kelod Desa Sibang Gede AbiansemalPura Batur Sari UbudPura Penataran Agung SukawatiPura Panti - Kucupin Ketewel Ketewel6 May Kajeng Kliwon UwudanPura Pasek Gelgel Kekeran Dlod Yeh MengwiMerajan Pasek Subadra Kramas Gianyar

9 May Tilem Sasih JiyesthaPura Bujangga Waisnawa Gumbrih JembranaPura Dalem Desa celuk

11May Tumpek KlurutPura Pasek Gelgel Banjar Tengah BulelengPura Dalem Pemuteran Desa Jelantik TojanKlungkungPura Pedarman bujangga Waisnawa BesakihPura Taman Sari Desa Gunung Sari PenebeltabananPura Dalem Tarukan - Bebalang BangliPura Benua Kangin BesakihPura Merajan Kangin (Ida Betara Empu Baradah) Besakih

12 May r edite Umanis MerakihPura Parangan Tengah Ceningan Kangin Lem-bongan Nusa PenidaPura Desa Ubud

15 May Buda Wage MerakihPura Bendesa Mas Kepisah PedunganPura Natih Banjar Kalah BatubulanPura Desa lan Puseh Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem Petitenget Kerobokan KutaPura Dalem Pulasari Samplangan GianyarPura Kubayan - Kepisah Pedungan DenpasarSelatanPura Pasek Gelgel - Tanah Pegat TabananPura Paibon lan Pura Bengkel Sumerta Den-pasarPura Pasek Lumintang DenpasarPura Panti Penyarikan Medahan Sanding Tam-pak SiringPura Pasar Agung Banjar Dauh Peken KabaKabaPura Dadia Buda Cemeng Pulasari BatuanSukawati

21 May Anggar Kasih TambirPura Dalem Puri Batuan SukawatiPura Dalem kediri Silakarang SingapaduPura Dalem SukawatiPura Dalem Lembeng Ketewel SukawatiPura Paibon Pasek Tangkas Peliatan UbudPura Puseh Ngukuhin Kramas GianyarPura Pamerajan Agung Ki Telabah TuakilangTabananPura Karang Buncing BlahbatuhPura Dalem Bubunan Seririt BulelengPura Desa Badung Kota DenpasarPura Luhur Pedenganan Bedha Bongan Ta-bananPura Pucak Payogan - Lungsiakan Kedewatan Ubud GianyarPura Tanah Kilap “Griya Anyar” Suwung KauhDenpasar Selatan

Pura Selukat Keramas Blahbatuh GianyarPura Dalem Tampuagan Peninjoan TembukuBangliPura Waturenggong Desa TaroPura Dalem Bentuyung Desa UbudPura Puseh UbudPura Dalem Puri Peliatan UbudPura Batur Hyang Bulan Muntig Karangasem

22 May Buda Umanis TambirPura Sari Banjar Titih KapalPura Gulamanikan Bendesa Manik Mas Serongga Gianyar

24 May Purnama Sasih SadhaPura Amrta Sari Rempoa Jakarta SelatanPura Maospahit Banjar Grenceng Denpasar

5 Jun Buda Kliwon MatalPura Puseh lan Desa SukawatiPura Pasek Gelgel Bebetin Sawan BulelengPura Maspahit Sesetan Denpasar SelatanPura Pasek Bendesa Manik Mas Dukuh Kendran TegallalangPura Panti Pasek Gaduh SesetanPura Pedharaman Arya Kanuruhan Besakih

15 JunPura Puseh lan Desa Kota GianyarPura Luhur Dalem Segening Kediri TabananPura Sang Hyang Tegal (TARO) Tegallalang

19 Jun Buda Cemeng MenailPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon Suka-watiPura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng KajaGianyarPura Puseh Manakaji Peninjoan BangliPura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Baler Pura Sada Pemebetan Kapal MengwiPemerajan Agung UbudPura Taman Limut Pengosekan Mas Ubud

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Lagoon Access Suites will have a cool and tranquil ambience in earth-tone hues which express the essence of Bali. A specially designed comfortable day bed with a trundle for children will ensure the supreme comfort of fam-ily travelers enjoying the lagoon and garden view and a 37” LCD television. Spacious marble bathrooms offer sepa-rate large tubs, standing showers and the latest in contemporary fittings.

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Amlapura (Bali Post)-The security of Bali tourism kept on

breached as number of robberies towards for-eigners, broken car windows and pickpockets keep on happening one of them in Karangas-em. The latest one vicitmised a Dutch tourist at Tirtagangga on Tuesday (14/5) around 11 am local time.

Floris Veegar (26) stayed in a hotel located at Amed. He was on his own motorcycle while girlfriend Susanne Rolaff (27) also from Hol-land with her own motorcycle, went there. Floris who was on a Vario, 40 meters in front of Susanne suddenly had a man went beside him from the right using a sport motorcycle. Floris had his bag taken nearby Tirtagangga by a fat man and couldn’t chase the robber due to not knowing Karangasem well. Victim gave up and chose to report it to Abang Police

accompanied by his girlfriend. The bag taken had towels with total loss IDR 2 million. Floris was not worried of the loss he just experienced but the security for foreigners to come have a holiday n Bali. Victim stated that he and his girlfriend was going to Amlapura to get some money.

Head of Abang Police, APC Cokorda Arim-bawa, confirmed that the case is still being investigated as the information received was just that the robber was fat. As told before, Kubu area has had a number of tourists robbed while driving a motorcycle on the road. Before this, an English tourist got robbed at Tegal-sari, Tianyar Barat, Kubu. The four robbers were then later found and have been known as criminals in Kuta such as Ketut Bukit, and was in Karangasem for religious ceremonies yet also did some robbery. (013)

Length of the beach in Tabanan approximately reaches 37 kilome-ters. Of this length, only 10 kilome-ters are still in beautiful condition. The remaining length has been badly damaged as crushed by sea abrasion. “High waves and powerful currents have triggered the abrasion in Tabanan. Such condition is quite alarming,” said the Head of Tabanan Public Works, Gusti Ngurah Anom Antara, Tuesday (May 14).

Such damage, said Anom, was divided into severely, moderately and lightly damaged. The most severe damage occurred at some points. Among them, they hap-pened at Kedungu Beach, Nyanyi Beach, Yeh Gangga to Kelating and beaches in West Selemadeg. According to him, the damage was the responsibility of the Bali-Nusa Penida Water Resources Office. “Arrangement of the coastal infra-

In order to give equal rights to vote in the gubernatorial election 2013 on Wednesday (May 15), the Bali Electoral Commission has prepared special bal-lots for the blind in Bali. The ballot is specially designed using Braille so that voters can distinguish one candidate from the other.

“For the blind, we’ve prepared a tool. It is like a template but using Braille scripts,” said a member of the Bali Elec-toral Commission, Ketut Udi Prayudi, in Denpasar, Tuesday (May 14).

He said the special ballots had been distributed to all the polling stations having the voters with the disability. A total of 730 people with visual impair-ment scattered throughout the counties/municipality in Bali were entitled to vote

with a secret.The voting mechanism was just like

the others. The blind would be given a piece of ballot and could be accom-panied by a companion when needed. Companion could come from the fam-ily, or entrusted person or the officer of the local polling station committee. “If they can do it alone it’s okay, but they may also be assisted. There has been as a companion form and it should be signed,” he explained.

However, when the voter arrived in voting booth, the blind would later be giv-en the opportunity to vote independently to ensure the confidentiality. “When giv-ing a vote in the booth, the blind will be left by the companion and they can vote by themselves,” he said. (ina)

Minimal handling,

75 percent of beaches in Tabanan damaged Tabanan (Bali Post)—

The onslaught of abrasion in coastal territories of Tabanan belongs to critical cat-egory. Nearly 75 percent of the beaches in the region are damaged as getting eroded by the abrasion. More apprehensively, the Tabanan County does not have enough budget to make improvement, especially reclamation. As a result, the level of damage is getting more serious each year.

The blind provided with Braille ballots

Again, tourist robbed in Karangasem

structure is under the authority of the Bali-Nusa Penida Water Resources Office. We just provide a supportive movement, such as reforestation and others,” he explained. He also added that his party had made data collection on the coastal damage every three months due to abrasion. The results were reported to the Bali-Nusa Penida Water Resources Office. Minimal budget owned by local government had caused the handling of the abrasion to rely on the help from central government.

All this time, he said, more bud-getary support was obtained from central government. Thus, the pro-cess was rather long. Meanwhile, the Bali government had given once assistance for the coastal safeguard-ing project at Yeh Gangga Beach, Sudimara village, Tabanan. “It was an emergency fund from Bali gov-ernment for coastal handling, while

we have no regular budget,” he said. Nevertheless, his party remained to make a conservation program to rescue the beach. One of them was by holding green movement to save the beach.

However, due to sea waves progressively raging they often de-stroyed the existing infrastructure. Moreover, the position of Tabanan Beach was directly in contact with the Indonesia Ocean known to be ferocious.

Chairman of the Indonesian Fishermen Association (HNSI) Tabanan, Ketut ‘Sadam’ Arsana Yasa, also deplored the abrasion overwhelming the coast of Ta-banan. The man noted many points of beach were in critical condition due to the onslaught of the abrasion, even the number continued to grow. “More unfortunately, the abrasion handling gets less attention from

the government,” he protested.It was visible from many damaged

beaches and had not got maximal han-dling. Due to the abrasion, said Sadam, the beach was increasingly steep. In the past around 1970s, the distance of beach to sea water was quite far, then

it was only about one meter and the width was only about three meters. The man from Pasut, Tibubiu village, Kerambitan, proposed a green initiative rather than es-tablishing concrete revetment on the beach as the latter was more easily destroyed by the waves. (kmb30)

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One of the damage beach in Tabanan Regency

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It’s the latest peak in Jolie’s turn-around from hedo-nist to humanitarian, party girl to inspirational poster girl. The way she went public with her medical story on her own terms, in her own time — with a New York Times op-ed piece Tuesday that caught the media fishbowl of Hollywood completely by surprise — reveals a woman who once seemed out of control to be one of Hollywood’s most forceful and compassionate stars, using her fame with surgical precision to promote matters dear to her.

“I’m in awe of her. She remains one of the most inspiring women that I’ve ever encountered,” said former Paramount Pictures boss Sherry Lansing, who heads the Sherry Lansing

Foundation for cancer research. “By letting people know about her personal issue, she is touching countless women who have the same genetic mutations, and she is showing them that they have choices and they can be empowered and can take care of their own health. And by doing so, I believe she is go-ing to save countless lives.”

Jolie’s come a long way from her wild-child days of 10 or 12 years ago. She was branded a home-

wrecker when she took up with Billy Bob Thornton, who broke up with

Laura Dern and married Jolie. Thornton and Jolie were a tabloid writer’s dream team, an odd couple who wore lockets with a drop of each other’s blood.

Back in 2000, Jolie proudly showed off the newest of her 10 tattoos, the name “Billy Bob” etched across her left shoulder. The marriage ended three

years later, and new home-wrecker accusations arose after Brad Pitt left Jennifer Aniston for Jolie, his co-star in the 2005 assas-sin adventure “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

But since then, while paparazzi stalk them and entertainment reporters scramble to chase the latest rumor that Jolie and Pitt are finally going to wed, they have emerged as the ultimate Hol-lywood power couple. They switch off on film projects so one is free to mind their six children, they travel the world talking up good deeds.

“If she wasn’t one of the top actresses in Hollywood, she’d be one of the top publicists,” said Howard Bragman, vice chairman of Reputation.com. “It’s hard to think of a couple that has a better image in this town, both for their careers, family, humanitarian work. ... They’re very good at it, and one of the reasons is they have a very intimate circle that they trust, and they don’t go beyond that. It’s unusual in Hollywood circles, but they’re very strict about their personal life, about what gets out there. When something gets out there, it’s usually planned to get out there. It doesn’t leak. They don’t even have publicists.”

Associated Press Writer

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival is getting under way with a blockbuster day of Steven Spielberg and Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby.”

The French Riviera extravaganza began on a rainy Wednesday, where the prestigious festival was to open with the 3-D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. Spielberg is serv-ing as jury president of this year’s Cannes, presiding over a particu-larly starry group including Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee and Christoph Waltz.

“Gatsby” is making its Euro-pean premiere Wednesday night, nearly a week after opening in North America. Such timing is atypical for Cannes, but the glamorous, flashy film is otherwise perfectly in line with the glitzy festival. It also re-turns Leonardo DiCaprio to Cannes’ famous red carpet.

Cannes opens with DiCaprio, Spielberg

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Workers make final preparations at a beach ahead of the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

Jolie: From girl with tattoos to girl with a causeAssociated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — In her bad girl days, Angelina Jolie’s body was a billboard for tattoos that said such things as “Billy Bob.” Now she’s sharing intimate details of her anatomy to help women at risk, going public with her preventive double mastectomy to greatly reduce her high odds of breast cancer.

FILE - This Feb. 14, 2012 file photo shows US actress and director Ange-lina Jolie address-ing the audience after premiere of her movie, “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” in Sara-jevo, Bosnia.

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A man came to polling station to use his voting rights on the Bali gubernatorial election that held Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

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Kamil Malik said that the elec-tion in Bali has been cone according to the national standard starting from the schedule, data, campaign

until the election. “In Bali there is uniqueness where all of the officers in the election polls using the tradi-tional Balinese costume as well as

the voters,” he added. He also explained that the level

of participation of the voters were very high. Since early in the morn-ing, the people were queuing to give their votes. “I see that they were not only gave their votes but also interact with each other. There were no strange things happened though,” Kamil added.

Vote LetterDuring his visit to the election

poll, Kamil also gave his explana-tion about the vote letter in Bali

which was causing some problem earlier. This is because the first candidate put the logo of his party there. However, he was strictly stated that it is not violation.

“The election is running so it is proving that both of the candidates agreed on the letter. All of us must aware of this and so the elected Governor and Vice Governor can be established without any problem,” he added.

However different statement was said by Muhammad Al Hamid. He

still thinks that the vote letter is not suitable with the rules because accord-ing to the rule, on the letter only can be put photo, names and number.

“It doesn’t mean that we will not process this violation but we think that the election must be carried out,” he added. He also gave the possibility that one candidate may put in a law suit regarding the vote letter. “We certainly don’t hope that to happen because it will give huge political and social impact,’ Al Hamid said. (kmb32)

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Denpasar – The Head of Indonesian Election Commission Kamil Malik and The Head of Election Steering Comite Mu-hammad Al Hamid inspected the Bali Governor Election which was held on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. They inspection the elec-tion polls where the two candidates, A.A. Ngurah Puspayoga and Made Mangku Pastika gave their votes.