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Josh Elliott: I wanted to get back to sports Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Josh Elliott said Wednesday that his defection from ABC’s “Good Morning America” for NBC is a “deeply personal” move to get back to sports at a level he could not have anticipated. He spoke in a conference call where NBC announced his hiring to work on future Olympics, NFL football and other events. He turned down an offer to remain at ABC’s top-rated morning show to be what he described as “the last man on the bench with the showtime Lakers.”

His NBC debut is planned for the May 3 Kentucky Derby broadcast. “I have loved sports since before I could walk,” said Elliott, 42. He said he dreamed of being on an Olympics broadcast before he even knew he wanted to be in television. He worked at Sports Illustrated and then ESPN before 2011 when ABC News President Ben Sherwood played a hunch and hired him as news anchor at “Good

Morning America.”

The arrival of Elliott and Lara Spencer built a feel-good team in the morning that prospered as “Today” went through the excruciating exit of Ann Curry. Now two members of that team — Elliott and weather forecaster Sam Champion — have left within four months of each other.

Elliott said he had not discussed any

role at NBC News, where it was almost immediately speculated that he could be a potential successor to Matt Lauer in the morning. “I hope Matt Lauer is here when I step away from this gig 30 years down the road,” he said.

The fallout of his decision, made public Sunday, has been painful and left him feeling like a bit player in an “absurdist melodrama.” “It has been really difficult,” he said. “It’s been difficult to read categorical falsehood after categorical falsehood.”

He credited Sherwood with giving him the big break in his career. He wouldn’t comment on Sherwood’s memo to ABC News employees announcing his departure this weekend, where Sherwood wrote that “we worked hard to close a significant gap between our generous offer and his expectations.”

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FILE - This Aug. 30, 2012 file image released by ABC shows former “Good Morning America” cohost Josh Elliott on the popular morning show in New York. Elliott says his decision to leave ABC’s “Good Morning America” for NBC is a “deeply personal” move to get back to sports.

Artist plants fake Bieber CDs in LA stores

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LOS ANGELES — An artist is making it difficult to believe there’s actually a copy of Justin Bieber’s latest album for sale in Los Angeles. Paz Dylan, a 25-year-old electronic musician and artist known only as Paz, says he planted 5,000 copies of an album that appears to be Bieber’s “Believe” but actually contains a copy of Dylan’s own CD. The fakes appeared at retailers such as Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart on Tuesday, April Fools’ Day. “We were meticulous,” said Paz, who fancies the stunt as more of a performance art piece than a gag. “We paid a lot of attention to detail because we wanted these to stay up on shelves as long as possible.”

The wrapped CDs resemble “Believe” right down to the bar code and silky Bieber portrait on the cover.

However, Paz’s artwork is on the inside of the back cover, and the disc itself is slathered with images of cats, pizzas and a dog stuffed inside a taco. The CD itself contains the 13 tracks from Paz’s synth-heavy independent release “From the Bottom of My Heart to the Top of Your Lungs.”

The only differentiating factor is that Paz’s subversive CD package lacks the kind of sticker that usually covers the top of a CD case, which is found beneath the wrapper of most unopened albums.

The Associated Press independently verified the stunt by purchasing random copies of what looked like Bieber’s

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In this image an album that appears to be Justin Bieber’s “Believe” sits on the rack at the Best Buy in Culver City, Calif., Tuesday April 1, 2014.

“Believe” from widely scattered Los Angeles-area locations such as a Wal-Mart in Baldwin Hills, Target in Burbank and Best Buy stores in West Hollywood and Culver City.

In each instance, the CDs were scanned and paid for as if they were Bieber CDs. But when they were

opened outside the store, each contained a copy of Paz’s album, not Bieber’s.

“Although Mr. Dylan is clearly not a Belieber, we know that many of our customers are, and we are taking care of those who didn’t get what they intended to purchase,” said Best Buy spokeswoman Carly Morris.

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KUTA - Bali’s emergency Quick Response Team raised their awareness by deploying 25 personnel to manage the tsunami threat in Kuta Beach following the 8.2 earthquake in Chile on Wednesday, April 2.

However, tourism activities in Bali’s Kuta Beach are not disrupted by the tsunami threat issue.

Hundreds of domestic and foreign tourists have been spotted holidaying as usual.

“We will continue to monitor throughout the beach in Bali to suppress fatalities from the disaster,” assured Bali Province response team officer Rudi Tjandi who is currently monitoring the tsunami in Kuta, Thursday.

Rudi explained that the team will continue to monitor

the shores following the notification information issued by the National Disaster Management Agency, BNPB, on Wednesday, April 2, until it is revoked.

Meanwhile, the response team and Badung Regional Disaster Management Board, BPBD continue to monitor Kuta Beach coastline and the surrounding areas.

Previously, the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that oc-

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curred on the northern coast of Chile or 240 northwest of Bombay, India, on Wednesday, April 2, was expected to have an impact on Indonesia.

Bali is regarded as one of the tsunami-affected regions of alert status with 0.5 meters of potential wave raise that will cover areas of Denpasar City Beach - Sanur, Southern District of Karangasem, Klungkung, and Nusa Penida.

Furthermore the increase of the sea level from the tsunami for districts of Gianyar, Jembrana, Tabanan, and Badung that are located on the coastline of Kuta Beach is estimated to occur on Thursday at 9:28 p.m. until 10:14 p.m.

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KUTA - On 7th March 2014, the owning company of FRii Bali Gana Kuta, PT Shree Lakshmi Ganapataye, held a ground breaking event of their incoming hotel which will be operated by mid of 2015 under the latest hotel brand of PHM Hospitality, FRii Hotels.

Located on main road of Kuta and close to Kuta’s Legendary Shopping & Culinary District, FRii Bali Gana Kuta will be a home for active and young spirit travelers who wish to explore Bali easily. Developed on a land of 1,850 M² FRii Bali Gana Kuta will be featuring 150 Unique Rooms, Meeting Rooms, Restaurant, Swimming Pool & Sky Bar at Rooftop, and Spa. PHM Hospitality offers a selection of fresh lifestyles and experiences that suitable for business and leisure market from Budget to Luxury, and FRii Hotels is the 4th Hotel Brand created by PHM Hospitality after THE HAVEN, Deluxe Brand for Suites | Hotel | Villas, THE 1O1 Hotels & Resorts for Midscale Premium Brand, and THE BnB Hotels for Urban Budget Brand. All brands have unique signatures which come from spirit of The Five Nature Elements (Earth, Water, Metal, Fire, and Wood) as PHM Hospitality believes there

SINGARAJA - The lack of interest of the traders in the coastal area of Penimbangan Beach to move to location that has been provided by Buleleng government through the Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) of Buleleng becomes an unresolved issue so far. A year passed, most traders remain to peddle in the north of the road and are reluctant to use the vacant land on the South side of the Segara Penimbangan Beach.

The current condition of Penimbangan Beach reasons still firm to trade in the area formerly occupied. “The price of land has been increased three times

more than the initial price. DKP Buleleng has made an approach but the land owners still do not want to

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release their land. We still continue to make efforts by persuasion,” he said. (dgk)

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The unfinished development of Sagung Wah Museum

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TABANAN - In addition to delay, the Sagung Wah museum development project becoming one of the arrangement programs of the Tabanan Town Park remains uncertain so far. The building project to be used as a venue for the art show and cultural exhibition, including the heritage of Sagung Wah, remains to show off a structure equipped with a roof up to this minute.

Aside from museum building, similar thing is also visible on the open stage located in the east of the park. Its upper roof resembles a rice granary. It still looks very plain, without ornament at all.

Having been investigated, in fact the continuation of the project was not allocated in the main budget of this year.

The Head of Tabanan Public Works, I GN Anom Anthara, when asked for his confirmation regarding this matter on Wednesday (Apr 2) justified the second phase of the two projects were not included in the master regional budget. Nevertheless, he said the budget of the two projects would be proposed in the discussion of the budget amendment this year. “We will

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weather struck. “There is only one land available. Meanwhile, the DKP Buleleng fails to make the land acquisition because the landowners are reluctant to relinquish their land by putting a higher price than the amount of the selling price of tax object (NJOP). The approach has been often done, but traders still insist on surviving,” he said.

As planned, the land prepared would be in the west and east area. For the time being, the space is available in the west and the traders with a variety of

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Traders on Penimbangan Beach reluctant to move

The vacant land provided is observed only used as a parking lot for visitors who are looking for food or soft drinks from vendors around. This condition was recognized by the Head of DKP Buleleng, Nyoman Genep.

He said the land for the traders had been prepared on the South side, but the traders averagely persisted on selling various kinds of food on the breakwater on the side of Penimbangan Beach. They would move to sell to the space provided if large coastal waves and bad

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propose the budget of the two projects in the discussions of the budget amendment of this year,” he said.

He added that his party had attempted previously to propose in order the second phase of the Town Park project could be included in the parent budget. Unfortunately, due to limited budget the second phase of the two projects was eliminated in the parent budget. “This is related to the ability of the budget, but later on we will try to propose them in the budget amendment,” he said.

The absence of continuation of the two projects in the Town Park also received attention from a number of legislators because the two projects cost quite a bit. One of the legislators highlighted the matter was the Democrat, Ida Bagus Kade Adnyana Suryawan.

He said both projects should continue to avoid the impression of dormant projects. “Before this project goes on, there has been a plan, phases and when the project should be completed. This plan is supposed to be executed and do not let it be impressed a dormant project,” he affirmed. (kmb28)

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Calendar Event for March 5 through May 21, 2014 5 Mar Hari Urip 6 Mar Hari Patetegan 7 Mar Pengeradanan Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Kabayan Penebel Tabanan 8 Mar Saraswati Pura Pasek tangkas Gempinis Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Sayan Abiansemal Pura Watu Gunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Jakarta Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Pura Agung Wira Loka Cimahi Jawa Barat 9 Mar Hari Banyu Pinaruh 10 Mar Soma Ribek Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Bayu Gaiyang Bangli Tirta Wening Surabaya Pura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karangasem 11 Mar Sabuh Mas 12 Mar Hari Pagerwesi Pura Labang Sindu JiwaUbud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wira Bhuana Magelang Jawa tengah Pura Padang Sakti Denpasar Timur Pura Payogan Agung Ketewel Gianyar Pura Gaduh Pangiasan Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Masceti Tampak Siring Pura Dalem Ularan Denpasar Pura Siwa Penebel Tabanan Pura Luhur Sliki Banyuwangi Pura Gunung Lebah Ubud Pura Puseh Sukawati 15 Mar Purnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung lebah Batur Kintamani 17 Mar Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 22 Mar Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya

Denpasar Pura Agung Pasek Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Singapadu Gianyar Pura Bhujangga Jembrana Pura Dalem pingit Tegalalang Pura Penataran Pande Pandean Mengwi Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran AGung Tulikup Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pura Batur Arya Tabanan 23 Mar Radite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar 26 Mar Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan Kawitan Arya Gelgel Kelungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Pura Pasek Bendesa Legian Kuta Badung Pura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu Badung Pura Puseh Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Krobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Mengwi Badung 28 Mar Melasti Pakiyisan Ke Segara Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga 30 Mar Tilem Kesanga Tawur Agung 31 Mar Hari Raya Nyepi 1 May Buda Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

2 May Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Besakih Ida Ratu Raja Puraus Besakih Merajan Saloding Besakih 6 May Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi Bangli Pura Baratan Baturiti Pura Batu Klotok Klungkung

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Manik Bingin Dukuh Sidemen 7 May Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Pande Bangli Pura Puncak Sari Sangeh Abian Semal Pura Puseh Penegil Dharma Kubu Tambahan Bangli Pura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Linggih Betara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih 13 May Purnama Sasih Jiyestha Pura Dwija Warsa Malang Pura Pucak Tinggah Angsri Baturiti Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Jati Luwih Penebel Pura Kawitan Batur Pande Tonja Tonja Denpasar Pura Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem Pura Maospahit Grenceng Denpasar 15 May Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Besakih 16 May Sugihan Bali Dan Kajeng Kliwon 18 May Penyekeban 19 May Penyajaan Galungan 20 May Penampahan Galungan 21 May Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

district of Kuta Village, Bali.” Another FRii Hotels in our pipeline is on Echo Beach, known as one of the best surfing spots in Bali and the hotel will be the Ultimate Home for those who crave the surfing adventure and surf enthusiasts, added him.

Balinese Temple Ceremony 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 considered 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 “umbulumbul”, 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.

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Glamour of Italian fashion on show in London Associated Press Writer

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DENPASAR - The emergence of positive cases of rabies in Bali, exactly in the region of Buleleng in humans in 2014, makes the status of the targeted Bali Rabies-free 2015 delayed two more years.

Actually, Bali has almost been absent from positive cases of rabies in humans for almost two years. The delay of Bali Rabies-free target to 2016 will surely require an evaluation, where does actually the problem of rabies handling in Bali lie?

LONDON — The grace and glamour of Italian fashion are on display in London — and the attitude, too. Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were guests at Tuesday night’s launch of “The Glamour of Italian Fashion,” a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The duo behind Dolce & Gabbana praised Britain’s “cool” style and designers like Vivienne Westwood, but were less enthusiastic about Victoria Beckham. Gabbana said the former Spice Girl had turned to fashion after doing “many, many, many different things.” He added “she’s a designer but ... for us, she don’t make (clothes) the same way like a fashion designer.”

Dolce grouped Beckham, whose designs have appeared on catwalks at New York Fashion week, with mainstream retailers such as Zara and H&M. The museum’s exhibition, which opens Saturday, traces the global rise of Italian style, from the rebuilding of a shattered economy after World War II through the 1950s and ‘60s, when stars including Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn made Italian design synonymous with sophistication.

It also looks at how Italy’s fashion and textile industries are coping with the globalized “fast fashion” world of the 21st century. The show, which runs to July 27, features designs from fashion houses including Georgio Armani, Prada, Gucci, Valentino and Versace — and of course Dolce & Gabbana.

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Dresses are seen at an exhibition entitled: ‘The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014’, at the V&A museum in London, Wednesday, April 2, 2014.

Designer award named for L’Wren Scott

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FILE - This Feb. 16, 2012, file photo, shows singer Mick Jagger, right, with designer L’Wren Scott after her Fall 2012 collection was modeled during Fashion Week, in New York.

NEW YORK — An award honoring emerging fashion designers has been named for L’Wren Scott.

The award was created by The Art of Elysium, an organization that brings the arts to hospitalized children. The L’Wren Scott Amber Award honors both Scott, who committed suicide on March 17, and Amber, a child who had a brain tumor and who participated in The Art of Elysium’s fashion workshops for hospitalized kids.

The venture was announced Thursday by the New York company that handled the 49-year-old designer’s public relations, PR Consulting.

Meanwhile, various media outlets reported that Scott’s will left her $8 million Manhattan condo and her other personal possessions to her boyfriend, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.

Steinem, Keys named honorees of annual DVF awards Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Designer Diane von Furstenberg, who made fashion news this year with the 40th anniversary of her famous wrap dress, is honoring an icon of the women’s movement: Gloria Steinem.

Steinem, who turned 80 last week, will be receiving the Lifetime Leadership Award at the annual DVF awards Friday evening in a ceremony at the United Nations.

Also being honored: Singer Alicia Keys, who receives the Inspiration Award.

Some high-profile presenters will be on hand, including Meryl Streep and Sarah Jessica Parker.

The DVF Awards were created in 2010 by von Furstenberg and The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation to recognize and support “women who are using their resources, commitment and visibility to transform the lives of other women.” Each DVF award winner receives $50,000 for her chosen cause.

Rabies in Bali began to appear in 2008 and has claimed at least 147 victims who died positively due to rabies. The Head of the Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, explained on Wednesday (Apr 2) that rabies problem in Bali was a serious case which should be observed by all people. The main problem encountered was the handling of the case in the upstream or the handling of the rabies carrier animal. According to him, though having made socialization on the transmission and treatment of rabies and dog vaccination programs, there were still some positive rabies cases in dogs and humans. “In 2014, from 4 suspected cases in humans, one is tested positive.

Currently, the positive dogs were found in the region of Buleleng,” said Suarjaya.

The finding of positive dog case indicated if the upstream handling was still not maximal. To that end,

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The emergence of positive cases of rabies in Bali, exactly in the region of Buleleng in humans in 2014, makes the status of the targeted Bali Rabies-free 2015 delayed two more years.

Suarjaya expected the cooperation of the public in order not to release their dog and vaccinate dogs diligently. “Several cases of rabies were even found in a puppy.

It can be concluded if the parent was positive or infected by other dogs,” said Suarjaya.

He said that people still considered rabies not a dreaded disease as long as no bite had occurred.

So, it raised an impression that preventive measure was lacking. It could be seen in the area of Suwug, Ularan, Tejakula and Buleleng where positive dog

cases were found and many stray dogs were still let roam around by the owners. “People are only afraid when they have been bitten. Actually, the most important is to prevent the bites and positive dogs,” he said.

To handle this, added Suarjaya, the Bali Health Agency and Bali Livestock Agency would make intensification of dog handling in this case in the region where positive cases were found such as in Buleleng. The intensification measures taken were such as by isolation of the area detected

as positive area. In other words, there should be no outgoing and incoming dogs in the positive region. “The dog is also dealt with vaccination and elimination of stray dogs,” he said.

Although there had been Regional Bylaw governing the rabies, especially in terms of handling and mobilization of animal rabies carrier, Suarjaya admitted that many people still violated.

On that account, he hoped the participation of customary village by setting forth an awig-awig regarding the handling of rabies in the

area. “Awig-awig is usually better adhered to by the community,” said Suarjaya.

All this time, there had been no customary village setting forth the regulations on the rabies handling in their awig-awig. According to Suarjaya, the rules of customary village in the form of perarem or convention had been applied by several customary villages such as Sibetan and Kediri. “Although it was only in the form of perarem but the handling of rabies in the area have been intensified,” he said. (san)

Due to imports

Competitiveness of local products getting weaker

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DENPASAR - Imported food products and horticulture cause the competitiveness of agriculture in Indonesia to weaken. Moreover, Balinese community especially the Hindus are busy with religious ceremonies. As a result, imported fruits and other products are absorbed by the market because the quality is superior and more durable.

Responding to these conditions, an academician, I Wayan Sukarja, said on Wednesday (Apr 2) that many migrant workers were employed in agriculture

and plantations. Therefore, the imported products were the result of our migrant workers. “Abroad, our workers are paid expensive.

Therefore, many of our residents want to become migrant workers although as a farming laborer,” added Sukarja.

This condition made Sukarja concerned because the agricultural land in Indonesia remained vast and fertile. But people even wanted to be farmers abroad.

“Imagine we import many agricultural products and meat. Actually, they are all products produced

by the hard work of our workers.

Why this opportunity is not worked on maximally by the government?” he said.

According to Sukarja, if the government including Bali had not been able to develop the agricultural industry, there was no harm in inviting foreign investors in agriculture. To attract investors, they should be given facilities like tax exemption. “After growing bigger, they are imposed with tax. It is intended for the creation of national food security, even if possible our products can be ex-

ported. If the imports continue, it will always make our farmers hard and it is prone to corruption. VAT is just levied for large employers,” said Sukarja.

Secretary of the Indonesia Farmers Union (HKTI) of Badung, Ketut Sugiana, also agree if foreign investors were invited to invest in agriculture in Indonesia to strengthen food security. He added there was no harm in inviting foreign investors to increase the yield of agricultural products, but should involve farmers. It was intended to yield quality products,

increase farmers’ welfare so their products could fully absorbed by the market.

“As far as it relates to the strengthening of food security, I think it realistic. But there must be a synergy between investors, farmers and our experts,” he said.

Related to the plan of providing warehouse for the post-harvest commodities by the government, according to Sugiana, it was a nice breakthrough. However, he hoped the realization would not deviate from the objectives of the program. (rah)

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GIANYAR - Unlucky experience afflicted a woman traveler from Canada named Luong Linh, 38, Wednesday (Apr 2). Luong Linh staying at Tegal Sari Hotel located on Jalan Raya Ubud Pengosekan drowned while swimming in the hotel pool. The incident certainly caused hotel guests and employees to feel panic.

Based on information gathered, the victim stayed at Tegal Sari alone and checked-in on Monday (Apr 1). Based on her room reservation, the victim wanted to stay for three days. Amidst her holiday on Wednesday afternoon, around 12:00 a.m., the victim wanted to enjoy swimming in the hotel pool.

The atmosphere around the pool at that time was slightly tranquil.

One of the hotel employees said the victim initially immersed herself in the shallow pool. Some employees did not give serious scrutiny because the victim was estimated to swim well.

A few minutes later, the victim shifted to deeper pool. Without realizing it, it caused the victim surprised. The victim tried moving the whole body but did not have time to cry out for help.

At the same time, a child came and wanted to bathe. Seeing the incident, the boy was screaming because the victim had drowned.

The employees were coming and some of which plunged into the pool to evacuate the casualty. Until at the edge of the pool, the victim was limp. The victim also had been given

DENPASAR - The whole day on Nyepi, Monday (Mar 31), Sanglah Hospital continued to serve the people who needed a treatment. Based on data from 00:00 p.m. on Monday (Mar 31) until Tuesday midnight (Apr 1) the total patient coming to Sanglah Hospital amounted to 105 people.

Spokesperson of Sanglah Hospital, Kadek Nariyantha, described that most patients belonged to the policlinic of emergency room or fast track reaching 29 people and 16 medical patients. “Medical Triage handled 16 people, where 7 of them were hospitalized, 3 people took outpatient treatment and a patient went home by force. Most cases are closed fractures,” he said.

Fast track and Medical Triage patients were dominated by febrile observation or fever patients, in addition to non-bleeding stroke cases and suspect cases of tetanus.

Meanwhile, the surgical triage handled 11 patients where 7 took inpatient treatment, 3 outpatient treatment and a patient went home by force. Most cases handled were closed fracture trauma.

For Midwifery Triage, based

respiratory assistance but the attempt failed. Furthermore, the victim was taken to Toyo Clinic located not far from the hotel. However, when arriving at the clinic, the victim was mentioned lifeless.

The incident involving a foreign victim was then reported to police.

In the examination of the victim’s body in the clinic by doctor and paramedics, the victim was alleged to die of heart failure and pulmonary circulation due to drowning. No signs of violence were found on the victim’s body.

With permission from Gianyar Police Chief, the Ubud Police Chief I Wayan Sumara justified the incident on the death of foreign traveler during a swimming activity. Gianyar Police identification team had been deployed to ascertain the cause of the victim’s death. The result of post mortem examination indicated if the victim died while failing to breathe when drowning. Nevertheless, his party was still awaiting coordination with the consulate office for further post mortem plan. (kmb16)

on a 24-hour time span, it was recorded 13 pregnant women who were hospitalized and 7 took outpatient treatment. “The number of birth was recorded 15 infants, consisting of 9 men and 6 women,” said Nariyantha.

Most patients came with private car accompanied by pecalang (customary security guard) and some were picked by ambulance.

In the implementation of Nyepi, Sanglah Hospital remained to alert an ambulance even though the ambulance was not allowed to pick out patients. “But on Nyepi, there were three emergency cases requiring an ambulance pick up,” said Nariyantha.

Emergency patients picked up by an ambulance on Nyepi was a patient with stroke at Sempidi, a patient with seizures on Jalan Sedap Malam, and another patient with abdominal pain on Jalan Dukuh Sari. “The patient pick up with an ambulance during the Nyepi was through coordination of Sanglah Hospital with local pecalang. When picking up the patient, the siren was not turned on, only turned on the lights,” said Nariyantha. (san)

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Malaysian PM visits Australian base for jet search Associated Press Writer

PERTH, Australia — Malaysia’s prime minister said Thursday the search for the missing jetliner will not stop until answers are found, as his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott called it “the most difficult in human history.” Prime Minister Najib Razak met with Abbott at the Australian base near Perth that is serving as the hub for the multinational effort and was briefed by Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search in the southern Indian Ocean.

No trace of the Boeing 777 has been found nearly a month after it vanished in the early hours of March 8 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

“It is a very difficult search — the most difficult in human history. But as far as Australia is concerned, we are throwing everything we have at it,” Abbott told reporters.

Although Australia is coordinating the ocean search, the investigation into the tragedy ultimately remains Malaysia’s responsibility.

On Thursday, Najib said Australia had agreed to act as an “accredited representative in the investigation,” and would be working with Malaysia to draw up a comprehensive agreement on the search. Despite a lack of answers into the mystery of Flight 370, Najib sounded a hopeful note during his visit.

“We want to provide comfort to the families and we will not rest until answers are indeed found,” he said. “In due time, we will provide a closure for this event.”

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On Wednesday, officials warned that the investigation may never produce answers into why the Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared.

A frustrating dearth of information has plagued investigators from the moment the plane’s transponders, which make the plane visible to commercial radar, were shut off.

Military radar picked up the jet just under an hour later, on the other side of the Malay Peninsula. Authorities say that until then, its “movements were consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane,” but have not ruled out anything, including mechanical error.

Police are investigating the pilots and crew for any evidence suggesting they may have hijacked or sabotaged the plane. The backgrounds of the passengers have been checked by local and international investigators and nothing suspicious has been found.

The search for the plane began over the Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea, where the plane’s last

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Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott, foreground left, and Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak, foreground second from left, accompanied by Australian Air Force Group Commander.

communications were, and then shifted west to the Strait of Malacca. Experts then analyzed hourly satellite “handshakes” between the plane and a satellite and now believe it crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.

Search planes initially began

looking in a remote area southwest of Perth before moving the search zone 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the north after a new analysis of the data showed the plane was traveling faster, and therefore likely ran out of fuel earlier than officials first thought.

Despite more than two weeks of scouring the remote waters, no trace of the plane’s wreckage has been found. Houston has said there is no timeframe for ending the search, but acknowledged a new approach will eventually be needed if nothing turns up.

3 killed, 16 wounded at Fort Hood Army base Associated Press Writer The parent of Putu Suprapto hold the picture of their son

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Bali’s worker missing in Myanmar Sea Bali Post

NEGARA - Putu Suprapto, 25, a migrant worker from Pasar Pergung hamlet, Mendoyo, was reported by the agency to have been missing since last month.

Suprapto that worked in the Swiber Offshore Construction Pte. Ltd. or Swiber 4000 Kaizen splashed himself into the sea, Myanmar on March 20.

When met by reporters on Wednesday (Apr 2), the victim’s parents Ketut Reden, 50, and Nengah Tinggalini, 50, said that his party had received such information from the agency. According to the agency, his first son was about to save the lifeboat, but he did not know why his son

could drown. “We do not know the truth, my son has just got higher rank to drive a lifeboat,” he said. His son was previously a dishwasher and cleaning service worker.

Related to the missing of her first son, the family had made various efforts including consultation to a medium. Tinggalini mentioned that her son had worked in Swiber vessel since 2010. It was a tanker served the route of Singapore-Myanmar.

Originally, Putu worked on the vessels from a dishwasher and then was believed by the company and asked to attend school.

Finally after school, he became a driver of small lifeboat. “Some-

times he calls just to say hello to their parents and siblings. All this time, he never complained to have a problem,” she explained.

Recently, she said that her son was sent shoes to his sister on 15 February.

Unexpectedly, a month later the family received information from relatives who also worked abroad if Putu drowned while jumping into the sea of Myanmar. Since then, the family had met with the agency in Denpasar and promised all the rights of the victim would be given to the family. Her party said to still await a decision of the agency and Tinggalini did not have any feeling if her son was dead. (kmb26)

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Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, commanding general of III Corps and Fort Hood, speaks with the media outside of an entrance to the Fort Hood military base following a shooting that occurred inside, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Fort Hood, Texas.

FORT HOOD, Texas — An Iraq War veteran being treated for mental illness opened fire on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide at the same post where more than a dozen people were slain in a 2009 attack, authorities said. The shooter apparently walked into a building Wednesday and began firing a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol that had been purchased recently. He then got into a vehicle and continued firing before entering another building and kept shooting.

He was eventually confronted by military police in a parking lot. As he came within 20 feet (6 meters) of an officer, the gunman put his hands up but then reached under his jacket and pulled out his gun. The officer drew her own weapon, and the suspect put his gun to his head and pulled the trigger a final time.

The gunman, who was married and served in Iraq for four months in 2011, had sought help for depression, anxiety and other problems. Before the attack, he had been undergoing an assessment to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder, according to Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the senior officer on the base.

The 2009 assault on Fort Hood was the deadliest attack on a domestic military installation in U.S. history. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 wounded.

The suspect in Wednesday’s shooting had arrived at Fort Hood in February from another base. He was taking medication, and there were reports that he had complained about suffering a traumatic brain injury, Milley said. He did not elaborate. The gunman was not wounded in action, according to military records, Milley said. There was no indication the attack was related to terrorism, Milley said.

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Agence France-Presse

BEIJING - China has announced a set of steps to boost slowing growth in the world’s number-two economy, including extending tax breaks for small businesses and support measures for poor urban districts. in scale, but it is more targeted and involves reforms on financing to secure funding,” they said. “So this should help China to smooth growth without exacerbating financial stability risks.”

The tax breaks for “small and micro” companies will be extended until the end of 2016, the State Council said in a statement on the central government website.

It also said 6,600 kilometres (4,100 miles) of new railway lines will come into operation this year,

1,000 kilometres more than in 2013.

The plan will also see the creation of a railway fund that will receive between 200-300 billion yuan ($32-$48 billion) each year, the statement said.

However, there was no mention of plans for monetary policy, such as a reduction in the amount of cash banks must keep in reserve, a cut in interest rates or a drive to get banks lending more.

Investors were unmoved by the announcement, with Shanghai’s benchmark composite index down 0.15 percent in the morning session.

The state-run Xinhua news agency quoted officials at the meet-

ing as saying the government will take other steps this year including stimulating enterprises and boosting domestic consumption and employment.

China’s leadership says it wants to transform the country’s growth model from an over-reliance on often wasteful investment, instead making private demand the driver for more sustainable development.

Since becoming head of the ruling Communist Party in November 2012 and state president in March last year, Xi Jinping has mounted an austerity campaign among top officials and a highly publicised crackdown on corruption that has seen some high-ranking officials sacked or charged.

India announces first bank licences in a decade

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NEW DELHI - India on Wednesday announced it was issuing two new bank licences for the first time in a decade as it accelerates a push to bring more Indians into the formal banking system.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced “in-principle” approval for Mumbai-based IDFC, a major infrastructure project lender, and microfinance company Bandhan Financial Services, located in eastern India, to establish banks.

Just 35 percent of Indian adults have bank accounts, a figure which the RBI calls “miniscule” and says shows a “crying need for a further push to the financial inclusion agenda” to include India’s poorest.

Under their licences, the new banks must open 25 percent of their branches in rural areas that have no banking services.

The two companies were chosen from among 25 applicants, including corporate heavyweights such as the telecom-to-energy ADAG Group, controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani.

The central bank said IDFC and Bandhan were chosen on the basis of their 10-year business track records and their proposed business

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan announces the first bimonthly monetary policy statement at the RBI headquarters in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. India on Wednesday announced it was issuing two new bank licences for the first time in a decade as it accelerates a push to bring more Indians into the formal banking system.

models for the banks.

Indians are slated to start voting next Monday in elections in which the conservative Hindu nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party is expected oust the left-leaning Congress party.

The RBI said the decision to grant the licences was taken after

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China unveils mini stimulus to boost slowing economy domestic product grew an annual 7.7 percent in 2013, the same as in 2012 -- which was the slowest since 1999.

“The State Council is responding to the growth slowdown by announcing tax breaks for SMEs (small and medium enterprises), speeding up investment in railways and rebuilding urban shantytowns,” HSBC economists Qu Hongbin and Sun Junwei said in a report Thursday.

“This time the package is small

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73 Balinese artists take part in India’s art festival

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The State Council, China’s cabinet, announced the mini stimulus late Wednesday after a meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang.

Anticipation has been building recently for some kind of action following a string of disappointing economic indicators, including on industrial production and consumer spending.

Li said last month that China had set its annual growth target at “around” 7.5 percent, the same level as the goal for last year, after gross

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consulting the Election Commission to ensure that the move would not contravene the electoral conduct code.

The RBI added given public worries about widespread corruption, its approach in awarding the licences had been “conservative” and it gave the licences to

bodies “intimately trusted” by the public.

The central bank said it plans to revise bank licensing rules and award licences “more regularly” in the future.

It held out hope to failed applicants, saying “some of these who did not qualify in this round for a

full-fledged banking licence could well apply in future rounds”.

India’s banking sector is dominated by public sector banks and heavily regulated.

After India began its process of liberalising its inward-looking economy in the early 1990s, the central bank awarded 10 commercial licences in 1994 and another two in 2004.

The government declared four years ago a need to extend access to banking services and said there was a need to bring in more private players.

RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, a reform-minded economist who took over the central bank last September, set up a four-member panel to vet the applications.

Advocates hope getting new players in the banking sector will bring in fresh capital and technology and energise the banking system which has been afflicted by a growing number of nonperforming loans.

Bandhan is the first Indian microfinance firm to get a bank licence. Microfinance companies lend to the “poorest of the poor” who are unable to get funds from mainstream banks.

“We will (now) be able to offer full-fledged banking services to the poor people,” Bandhan chairman Chandra Shekhar Ghosh said.

DENPASAR - Some 73 Balinese artists grouped in the Indonesian Society for Krishna Consciousness (SAKKHI), a part of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, participated in Gaura Purnima Festival in India.

They played the Balinese traditional music instrument “gamelan geguntangan” in the festival, said Kadek A. Rama of

SAKKHI. The one-week festival organized in Mayapur, India, in March, was attended by artists from all over the world.

Pande Tamblingan Temple IBP

In surviving their life, the Hindu community in Bali always does an activity supported by various things such as hoes, machetes, knives and sacred tools in the form of spear and kris dagger. All the devices are made by Pande clan or ironsmith, a community being good at making weapons of iron. Interestingly, all the descendants of Pande clan in Bali always say prayers in the Pande Tamblingan Temple. Why? At the verge of mangrove forests of Lake Tamblingan lies a unique temple called the Pande Tamblingan Temple. Balinese people, especially the Pande clan flock to perform prayers in the temple. Although the lake water overflows and floods the outermost courtyard of the temple, it does not dampen the Pande community to say prayers. It aims at invoking safety, especially in carrying out the profession as a weapon maker.

The temple poses the forerunner of the birth of Pande clan since ancient times. It is located about 65 km north of Denpasar, or about 30 km south of Singaraja town. Precisely, the temple is situated among the four villages namely the Munduk, Gobleg, Gesing and Umajero.

The closest village to the temple is Tamblingan hamlet, belonging to Munduk Village.

The Pande Tamblingan Temple perching on the verge of Lake Tamblingan spread across the area of 2,000 square meters. In the temple the devotees venerate the Lord Pasupati (Lord Brahma), LingamYoni as well as the ancestors of Pande clan. Aside from Pande clan at the four villages, the temple is also venerated by Pande clan from Celuk and Bitra Village (Gianyar), Kayu Putih and Baturiti Village.

Pujawali or anniversary of the temple falls on full moon of the first month in Balinese calendar (July 3, 2012). Devotees came to the temple by passing through the woods and riding traditional boat services operated by lake fishermen.

According to wayan gedeSutama, the man from Celuk Village pioneering the excavation of local site and the temple establishment, the temple area around the Lake Tamblingan

was originally a residential area of Pande community. It was evidenced by many discoveries of Pande heritage objects when doing the excavating for the temple construction.

Some were in the form of cooling container and iron stones.

Additionally, the man familiarly greeted Mr. Dedes also found the Tamblingan inscription. It was found by chance on September 26, 2002 during the restoration of the Endek Temple located within the proximity of Pande Tamblingan Temple or 150 meters from the woods. “Discovery of this inscription also strengthens if this area was indeed the territory of Pande clan,” he said.

Sutama also explained if the inscription was kept in an earthenware jug buried in the depth of about 75 cm. Having examined the inscription consisting of 16 blades, in fact they were issued by the king of ancient Bali from different periods, namely the King Ugrasena, Udayana and Suradipha.

On the inscription originating from Ugrasena period, it was mentioned if the Pande community had been capable of making an armor used in a war, while the inscription from the period of Udayana and Suradipha mentioned the existence of papilihan mas and pwesi as well as Selonding gamelan. “The inscription states that Pande community and Selonding gamelan players got the exemption from the obligation of paying taxes,” he added.

Sutama added that during the leadership of Bali ancient kingdom the King Asta Sura Bumi Banten was not subject to the authority of Majapahit. As consequence, a troop under the commander of the Arya Cengceng was assigned to attack the Pande community. Based on the information of secret service, Gajah Mada knew if Tamblingan was the center of the arms industry of the kings in Bali. Afterward, the settlement of Pande Tamblingan was attacked. Its amphibian forces were spread to all corners of Bali.

“Probably, it was the reason why the inscriptions were hidden in jars and buried under the ground, so the descendants of Pande would then know about the history and genealogy of their ancestors,” he said seriously.

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Export value of commodities of Bali province conveyed through multiple ports in Indonesia, in February 2014, reached USD 40,308,911. This figure is down 6.73 percent compared to the export value of the same period in 2013, which reached USD 43,218,830.

Bali export value down 6.73 percent

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DENPASAR - Export value of commodities of Bali province conveyed through multiple ports in Indonesia, in February 2014, reached USD 40,308,911. This figure is down 6.73 percent compared to the export value of the same period in 2013, which reached USD 43,218,830.

“The figure also decreased 12.24 percent if compared to January 2014 reaching USD 45,928, 354,” said the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Panusunan Siregar, in Denpasar.

According to him, most of the exports in the period were devoted to the United States, Japan, Singapore, Australia and France, with the proportion of exports respectively amounting to 21.18 percent, 9.04 percent, 8.00 percent, 5.49 percent and 5.09 percent. Five major commodities exported were the non-knitted apparel products, fish and shrimp products, wooden products, wooden goods, jewelry products and furniture products, home lighting.

“Of the ten major products, there are six types of products exported to the United States, namely the non-knitted apparel products, wooden products, wooden goods, furniture products, home lighting, processed meat and fish products, products of stone objects, plaster and cement as well as straw products,” he explained.

Meanwhile, he said that fish and shrimp products as well as products of leather goods, were mostly exported to Japan with respective percentage of 29.16 percent and 26.15 percent.

Jewelry/gem products and knitted products were widely shipped to Singapore with a percentage of 29.91 percent and 28.34 percent.

“Delivery of export commodities from Bali is most widely shipped through the port of Bali Province alone, with the percentage reached 51.67 percent. Then, the second largest delivery is through the port in East Java reaching 47.11 percent. Remaining products were sent through the port existing in Greater Jakarta and Central Java,” he said.

Meanwhile, a lecturer from the Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, said there was macroeconomic impact requiring extra works in securing the economic growth that had declined due to inflation and exchange rate disturbances that hit the import and export traders based on imported raw materials.

“The condition is one of the weakening or strengthening indicators of the stability of the national economy. This phenomenon can be seen based on perspective or developmental capacity and quality of exports and imports of goods and services nationwide,” he said.

He affirmed the sustainable economic stability was much needed by the nation. Despite the Indonesia’s economic growth in 2012 had been quite encouraging about 6.5 percent, with the existence of Law on the state budget amendment (APBN-P 2012) probably it would decrease in 2013 due to disturbing multifactor, causing the economy of Indonesia to be burdensome with gradation. (kmb27)

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Delta jet makes emergency landing at JFK

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — A Delta jet from Atlanta bound for New York’s LaGuardia Airport was diverted to John F. Kennedy Airport due to a problem with its hydraulic system.

The plane skidded off the runway and into a grassy area after making the emergency landing around 9 p.m. Wednesday (0100 GMT Thursday).

Delta spokeswoman Leslie Scott says Delta Flight 886 was carrying 118 passengers. No one was injured.

Scott says the plane was diverted to JFK because it has longer runways.

She says the McDonald Douglas MD88 was taxiing to the terminal when it rolled onto a grassy area.

Passengers were taken to Terminal 2, where buses to LaGuardia Airport were provided. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.

Afghan girl who lost arm paints with prosthetic Associated Press Writer

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Members of the Turkish Youth Union hold cartoons depicting Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a protest against a ban on Twitter, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, March 21, 2014.

Twitter still blocked despite Turkish court ruling

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The doctors and therapists who worked with a little girl from Afghanistan knew the prosthetic arm they gave her would change her life. What they didn’t anticipate was that within weeks of strapping on her new limb, 7-year-old Shah Bibi Tarakhail would be using it to pick up a brush and begin carving out a new life — of abstract painting.

“What color would you like?” asked artist Davyd Whaley as he sat next to her at a table at the Galerie Michael on Rodeo Drive in the heart of Beverly Hills on Wednesday afternoon. “That one!” the normally reticent girl responded with a determined voice as she pointed to a tube of blue acrylic.

Then, before her mentor could fetch it, she grabbed it with her new prosthetic hand, unscrewed the top with her other hand and began squeezing the tube’s contents onto a palette.

As her friends from the nonprofit Children of War Foundation and the Shriners Hospital for Children Los Angeles looked on with delight, Shah Bibi proceeded to put a series of broad brush strokes across a piece of art board Whaley had provided. Soon there were shades of blue, green and bright orange laid out across little stickers of fish, bunnies, a flower and sky that Whaley had showed her how to place on the board beforehand.

At one point she giggled with embarrassment as she accidentally squeezed a tube of orange paint onto the painting rather than the pallete. But Whaley quickly assured her that accidental art sometimes makes the best abstract art.

“You’re going to do a Jackson Pollock,” he quipped. The finished result, the artist said afterward, “was pretty mind-blowing.” Shah Bibi, he said, not only handles a brush well but has an impressive grasp of matching colors.

“She kind of has a facility for it if she wants to pursue it,” added the artist whose own work is the subject of a large exhibition on display at Galerie Michael.

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INDONESIA Indonesia opposition to top legislative polls: survey Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s main opposition party is set to win a convincing victory at legislative elections next week, boosted by the nomination of the popular Jakarta governor as their presidential candidate, a poll showed.

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) will take 37 percent of the vote at Wednesday’s election, a survey of 2,000 people by private pollster Roy Morgan Research suggested.

The poll put the corruption-mired Democratic Party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in fourth place with 10 percent.

The Golkar party, the former political vehicle of late dictator Suharto, came second in the survey with its support declining to 17 percent, while the Gerindra party of ex-army general Prabowo Subianto was in third with 14 percent.

The PDI-P had been expected to top the elections for some months, but it has seen an increase in popularity since the nomination of governor Joko Widodo as its candidate for the presidential elections in July.

Roy Morgan Research reported a ten percent jump in the party’s popularity after Widodo, known universally by his nickname of “Jokowi”, was chosen

in mid-March, compared to a previous poll.

His humble demeanour and common touch -- he regularly heads out to meet people in the capital’s poorer districts -- has endeared him to a nation sick of aloof, political leaders with deep roots in the Suharto era.

The survey showed the percentage of people saying they would vote for Widodo in the presidential polls rising to 45 percent from 35 percent in a survey before his nomination.

His main rival for the presidency is seen as Subianto but he lagged far behind in the survey with only 15 percent saying they would pick him as head of state.

Roy Morgan Research is an Australian company which has an Indonesian office. The survey was released late Wednesday.

Some 186 million voters are eligible to cast ballots in the legislative elections in the world’s third-biggest democracy, with 12 parties competing for 560 seats in the national parliament.

Associated Press Writer

ANKARA, Turkey — A block on access to Twitter remained in place in Turkey on Thursday despite a high court ruling against the ban. Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled late Wednesday that the two-week-old ban violates the right to free expression and demanded that access be restored. The decision was published in the Official Gazette early on Thursday and the Ankara Bar Association said the decision was binding and had immediate effect.

Still, as of Thursday morning Twitter remained blocked, raising questions on whether the government would flout the ruling.

A government official said the telecommunication authorities’ legal teams were examining the high court decision. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of government regulations that bar civil servants from speaking to reporters without authorization.

Sezgin Tanrikulu, an opposition legislator who along with two

academicians petitioned the high court for an overturn of the ban, called for access to be reinstated immediately, threatening to file a legal complaint against the government for “abuse of power” and violation of laws.

Turkey blocked access to Twitter last month after users posted links suggesting government corruption. The government then blocked access to YouTube following the leak of an audio recording of a secret government security meeting. The social media bans

sparked international criticism of Turkey — a country that is a candidate to join the European Union.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Embassy in Turkey welcomed the high court’s decision to lift the ban on Twitter. The EU Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule said on Twitter that he looked forward to the “swift enforcement” of the court order. Many tech-savvy users, including President Abdullah Gul, found ways to circumvent the ban on both Twitter and YouTube.

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Afghan war victim Shah Bibi Tarakhail, left, uses her new prosthetic arm during a painting session with artist Dayvd Whaley, far right, at Galerie Michael in Beverly Hills, Calif., Wednesday, April 2, 2014.

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Protesters handcuffed and gagged with tape stage a rally across from the Indonesian embassy in central London, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 to protest the ongoing detention of 76 political prisoners in Indonesia’s West Papua province.

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JAKARTA - The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, BMKG, declared that Indonesia is safe from the tsunami threat following the 8.2 SR earthquake in Chile on Wednesday, April 2.

“Based on the information that we received from Solomon Islands and Vanuatu that are closer to Chile it has reached 0.50 meters, so Indonesia is quite safe,” clarified the agency Chief Andi Eka Sakya on Thursday.

Andi explained that the 8.2 magnitude earthquake in Chile, has already caused a 1.92 meters tsunami in the coastal areas of Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

“We instantly simulate on how far the waves will impact Indonesia, and our prediction is less than 0.5 meters,” asserted Andi.

Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning

Center, InaTEWS, which is located in the climatology agency’s building, also issued a tsunami warning, stating that that tsunami will hit several regions in Indonesia.

Warnings were issued by the tsunami propagation analysis that mentioned that there are 115 locations in the districts or cities of 19 provinces across Indonesia that will be potentially hit by the tsunami.

The potential 0.5-meter tsunami is estimated to arrive on the Indonesian coast on Thursday, April 3, at 5:11 until 19:44.

“Based on our observation, the earthquake will have no effect on Indonesia because the location is too far and the waves too small,” Andi explained.

The climatology agency also mentioned that the tsunami warning for the entire territory of Indonesia ended at 08.30.

Garuda sets target to serve 30 million passengers

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JAKARTA - Indonesian flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has set a target to serve 30 million passengers in 2014, an increase from 25 million passengers who flew with Garuda in 2013.

“We target an increase of 15-20 percent in 2014,” Garuda Indonesia President Director Emirsyah Satar stated on Wednesday.

Garuda booked operation income worth US$3.72 billion in 2013, up seven percent from the previous year.

However, Garuda recorded a decrease in its profit from US$168.1 million in 2012 to US$56.4 million last year because of its investment in fleet expansion and Citilink as a low cost carrier.

The Seat Load Factor (SLF) in 2013 slightly dropped to 74.1 percent from 75.9 percent in the previous year.

“The performance of Garuda in 2013 was very much affected by the rupiah depreciation and the high level of its growth as well as investment carried out to improve the airline’s position in the future,” he explained.

In the first quarter last year, Garuda expanded flight networking to six new international routes to Europe and the Middle East - Frankfurt, Brussels, Milan, Dusseldorf, Munich, and Bahrain - served by Ettihad Airways.

In the second quarter, Garuda

signed a funding agreement for two jetliners B777-300ER using the Syariah (Islamic law) principle, and paid syndicated debts worth US$55 million, which was a commercial loan from Citi Club Deal.

In the third quarter, Garuda paid debts worth US$75 million from Indonesia Exim Bank. It carried 90,108 Indonesian hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia and won the title of “The Best Airline” for Hajj Season 1434H/2013 from the Abdul Aziz International Airport Aviation Authorities of Saudi Arabia.

Last year, it also won “The World’s Best Economy Class 2013” award from Syktrax and was placed 13th in Skytrax’s Global Airline Rankings.

Emirates, Qatar Airways, and Singapore Airlines ranked first, second and third respectively in the Global Airline Rankings 2013.

“With the successes that have been achieved over the past few years, Garuda Indonesia has implemented ‘Quantum Leap’ to develop and dominate the Indonesian aviation market,” he asserted.

Garuda’s “Quantum Leap” strategies to boost growth include expansion, fleet rejuvenation, brand strengthening, improvement of its product and service quality, efficiency in coast structure, and improve the human resources quality and quantity.

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WASHINGTON — John Wall joined his Washington Wizards teammates at center court and did a little dance in the middle of a celebratory huddle.

DENPASAR - Serangan is a small island that lies off the Balinese coastline just south of Sanur and has long played an important role in local religious history. Despite its size, there are actually four temple compounds found on the island and Pura Sakenan is considered one of the holiest sites of worship for Balinese Hindu’s.

3,000 people and almost half of them are involved in the fishing industry.

Interestingly enough there is also a local Bugis community of approximately 300 Muslims who live side by side with the Hindu’s complete harmony. There is a rare mutual respect that exists between these two ethnic groups.

Serangan Island is also known as Turtle Island as for many years it was nesting ground for the Green Sea Turtle.

Locals used to catch the live turtles as well as their eggs for consumption and unfortunately this exploitation resulted in the near elimination of all turtles in this area. In 2004 with the aid of international funding a Turtle Conservation and Education Centre was established on the island and the government imposed a strict ban on turtle trading. With local help, the aim of this centre is to nurture the growth of newly hatched turtles and release them at an age where survival rates are quite favourable. The fishermen of Serangan now try to safeguard these ocean creatures to prevent extinction.

The waters surrounding Serangan Island are popular with surfers especially during the wet season when west-southwest winds blow. The waves average 4-6ft and this once secret spot now gets quite crowded.

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Wizards top Celtics 118-92 to clinch playoff berth

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The origin of Pura Sakenan dates back to around 1250 during the reign of Raja Sri Masula Masuli when it was built by Mpu Kuturan. However, shrines, pagodas and other religious elements were added during the 15th Century by Dang Hyang Niratha, a priest who was also responsible for the magnificent cliff top temple at Uluwatu.

Every Kuningan on the Balinese calendar a vibrant three-day temple ceremony is held and Pura Sakenan and worshippers flock from all over south Bali to the island to pray. Prior to 1996 the island was only accessible by boat and visits to the temple there were likened to a holy pilgrimage.

During the reign of President Suharto, Serangan Island was viewed as prime property and developers began a massive reclamation project that tripled the size of the island and built a bypass land bridge in anticipation of a luxury golf resort. But due to financial difficulties the entire project went into bankruptcy and the island and its sacred temple were saved from the clutches of greedy developers. As a result, Hindu worshippers now visit the island by car or motorbike, which some scholars believe de-sanctifies the overall pilgrimage.

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Wall will soon be making his playoff debut, and the Wizards will be there for the first time since 2008, having clinched an Eastern Conference berth Wednesday night with a 118-92 win over the Boston Celtics.

“It’s everything I’ve been waiting for,” said Wall, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 draft, “as being a point guard, and trying to learn how to lead in this league, and become a better player. But also I think the fans deserve it. I mean, the tough times they’ve been through, booing us and us feeling bad when we’re not playing good or playing the right way.”

Wall had 13 points and 10 assists in one of the Wizards’ easiest recent wins. It was their biggest margin of victory this season, and their 62.5 shooting percentage was their best in a game since 2001.

The Wizards’ playoff position had been relatively secure for several weeks in the weakened East, but the formality of seeing the magic number reach zero was a milestone worth noting for a club whose win totals since their last postseason appearance have been 19, 26, 23, 20 and 29 — never

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finishing better than 24 games below .500. Washington sits in sixth place in the conference.

“We’re still learning the process of what it takes to be a really good team,” said Randy Wittman, who will be in the playoffs for the first time as a head coach. “But I couldn’t be more happy for those guys.”

Marcin Gortat scored 22 points on 10-for-13 shooting, and Bradley Beal went 7 for 8 to finish with 19 points.

All five Wizards starters scored in double figures.

Jared Sullinger had 25 points, and Rajon Rondo had 13 to lead the Celtics, who have lost six in a row and 11 of 12. The Bulls bumped slumping Atlanta out of the last playoff spot in the Eastern conference with a 10592 win.

The Hawks lost for the 21st time in 28 games, this one dropping them slightly behind New York for the eighth playoff seed. The Knicks routed Brooklyn 110-81 to climb percentage points ahead of Atlanta.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are also in the mix after beating Orlando 119-98 for their fifth win in six games.

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Washington Wizards forward Trevor Booker (35) blocks a shot by Boston Celtics forward Chris Johnson (12) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Washington.

Mercedes set for hat trick of F1 wins at Bahrain Associated Press Writer

MANAMA, Bahrain — The switch from a steamy Malaysia to a night race amid the sands of Bahrain is unlikely to be enough of a shift to prevent Mercedes this weekend from a hat trick of victories to open the Formula One season. After Nico Rosberg won the season-opener in Australia, his teammate Lewis Hamilton took victory at Malaysia last weekend, leading home his teammate in a one-two finish that underlined the degree of dominance Mercedes is enjoying in the early stages of the new V6 turbo hybrid era.

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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, left, of Britain and his teammate Nico Rosberg of Germany spray champagnes during the prize presentation on the podium after the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix at Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Malaysia, Sunday, March 30, 2014.

the two weeks between the races, so they stand little chance in making headway in the one week between Malaysia and Bahrain, which has switched to being a night race, joining Singapore as F1’s only races under lights. The only succor for those in Mercedes’ wake is that the two drivers split the honors in the first two rounds, and Hamilton gathered no points in Australia due to an engine misfire, meaning the drivers’ championship is more open than it otherwise could have been.

Chief among those rivals is Red Bull ace Sebastian Vettel, who was third in Malaysia but worryingly for the team, he had higher fuel consumption rates than the Mercedes pair just trying to keep up, and that compromised his capacity to challenge at least Rosberg in front of him. Beyond the Mercedes drivers and the indefatigable Vettel, it is hard to make a case for any other winners in Bahrain, with its stable weather and low incidence of safety car periods, although many teams are still having teething problems with the new engines, so a surprise is possible.

“I’ve finished on the podium a couple of times here but, for

one reason or another, I’ve never managed to get the win,” Hamilton said. “Until last week it was the same story for me with Malaysia, so fingers crossed this can be the year of breaking those cycles. “We know it’s going to be tough to maintain our current form, particularly at a circuit where every team has had so much running time over the winter.”

Vettel’s new teammate, Daniel Ricciardo, has suffered a cruel reversal of fortunes since he celebrated on the podium in front of his home fans in Australia. That second place was taken off him due to the team exceeding new fuel-flow limits, and then in Malaysia he was running fourth before a botched pitstop cost him vast amounts of time. To make matters worse, he will have a 10-place grid penalty in Bahrain as a result of that pitstop, with stewards ruling the car was released when it was unsafe to do so, as a wheel was loose.

Williams appeared to have the race pace to challenge Mercedes, based on the Australia performance, but in Malaysia, as in Melbourne, they were hampered by rain-affected qualifying sessions which exposed the team’s relative lack of downforce.

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Madrid beats Dortmund 3-0 in Champions League Associated Press Writer

MADRID — Cristiano Ronaldo scored a record equaling goal before exiting to injury as Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 3-0 on Wednesday to take a big step toward the Champions League semifinals. Ronaldo netted his 14th goal of the season in Europe’s top competition to give Madrid a clear advantage ahead of next week’s quarterfinal return leg in Germany. But it came at a price as the Portugal forward, who came into the first-leg nursing a sore left knee, came off in the 80th minute. coach Juergen Klopp said. “It was too easy (for them), and that’s not what we wanted. We made some mistakes and we were punished.”

The energetic start saw Bale nearly miss Dani Carvajal’s short pass inside the area before stretching to toe poke his fifth goal of the competition under goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller after just three minutes. Weidenfeller was sharp despite Madrid’s early onslaught as he punched free kicks from Ronaldo and Bale over the bar. He also stayed in the game despite wincing in pain after Marco Reus made a clearance that also connected with the ‘keeper’s hands.

With forward Angel Di Maria out to a gastro virus, Isco showed good poise to gather a loose ball in front of the area and slide home a low shot for 2-0 in the 27th minute.

The Spain midfielder’s goal was just the boost Madrid need-

ed as Dortmund began to find its rhythm, with Kevin Grosskreutz forcing Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas into a low stop in the 33rd. Ronaldo, playing in his 100th Champions League game, was clearly eager to match the record 14 goals scored by Lionel Messi in one Champions League campaign.

Luka Modric made it happen as the Croat pounced on a poor Dortmund pass deep in its own area in the 57th minute and picked out Ronaldo, who dribbled around Weidenfeller for his 45th goal of the season. Jose Altafini also scored 14 goals in the 1962/63 European Cup campaign for AC Milan. “We did what we prepared for well,” Ancelotti said. “We used a lot of energy in the first half and were tired. So we dropped the team back a little in the second half — while looking to score on the counter.”

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GLENDALE, Ariz. — U.S. versus Mexico lived up to its billing with the rivals battling to a 2-2 draw Wednesday night, and provided a possible glimpse into the future with 18-year-old Julian

Real’s Isco celebrates scoring his side’s first goal during a Champions League quarterfinal first leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday April 2, 2014.

Green making his first national team appearance for the Americans. The highly touted Green made his senior U.S. debut, coming on in the 59th minute as a substitute at midfielder for Brad Davis.

Green was on the pitch as Mexico completed a rally from a two-goal deficit to earn the exhibition match draw at University of Phoenix Stadium. “All the players that were here today gave everything they had, and if they understand that a game goes at least 90 minutes ... we had 55, maybe 60 maximum at that (World Cup) level. So that means we have a lot of homework to do,” U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said, lamenting a non-call against Green in which he wanted a penalty in the closing minutes of the game. “You saw in some moments what this kid is capable to do. He goes in the box,

he draws two guys. ... It is what it is. Obviously he was nervous, too.

He played his first cap in front of 60,000 against Mexico.”

Green, the product of German club Bayern Munich’s developmental system, recently committed his international soccer future to the United States national team. Born in Tampa, Fla., but raised in Germany, Green has played for both German and U.S. national teams from the U-16 to U-19 levels.

He was called in last year by Klinsmann, but declined the invitation to attend the team’s camp at that time.

Green appeared to injure his shoulder in the 80th minute after he fell down, but was checked out quickly on the sideline and returned to the field. Klinsmann said Green simply lost his balance. Mexico turned a dreadful first half into a tight game following captain Rafael Marquez’s 49th-minute goal. Mexico became more active on the attack and threatened to tie on almost every run in the second half.

The tying goal came in the 67th minute. Alan Pulido collected the rebound of Paul Aguilar’s shot that hit the post and kicked the ball into an open net. “We got a tie that we needed to get,” Mexico goalkeeper Moises Munoz said in Spanish.

Fluminense changes coach FIFA’s Valcke on World after series of losses Cup: We are not ready Associated Press Writer

RIO DE JANEIRO — Four-time Brazilian champion Fluminense has hired Cristovao Borges as its new coach, replacing former player Renato Gaucho after a series of disappointing results.

Gaucho was fired on Wednesday, three days after the team was eliminated by rival Vasco da Gama in the semifinals of the Rio de Janeiro state championship.

Fluminense, which won two Brazilian league titles in the last four years, also had a disappointing 3-1 first-leg loss to minnow Horizonte in the first round of the Brazilian Cup. Fluminense has won only one of its last six matches.

Gaucho played for the club in the late 1990s and had already coached the club three times.

The 54-year-old Borges gained notoriety as a coach with Vasco da Gama in 2011. His last team was Bahia.

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JOHANNESBURG — FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has again raised concerns over Brazil’s World Cup preparations, saying “we are not ready” and that the stadium for the opening game is one of two venues that worry him most.

Just two months before the showpiece tournament starts, Valcke told The Associated Press at a joint FIFA-Confederation of African

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Gareth Bale scored early and Isco added another before the half hour mark at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. “Ronaldo has a problem with his knee but at this moment I’m not worried about it,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. The Spaniards opened against Dortmund as the Germans had against them in the semifinals last season — when they thrashed Madrid 4-1 en route to reaching the final with a 4-3 victory on aggregate. In Wednesday’s other quarterfinal first leg, Paris Saint-Germain beat Chelsea 3-1 in the French capital.

Madrid certainly didn’t need inspiration after last seasons’ loss to Dortmund, which was without suspended striker Robert Lewandowski and five more regulars to injury as it fielded just four of the players present in last season’s 4-1 win. “The goals we gave up tonight were not because of this,” Dortmund

im Benzema continued to threaten Dortmund’s goal, Madrid was fortunate not to concede under pressure as Pepe blocked Reus’ shot from inside the area after Casillas failed to control a cross. Madrid’s defense blocked several Dortmund shots during the final stages. “ Yo u h a v e to do the right tactical things against the best teams in the world. We can do better than we did tonight,” said Klopp, who rued the late misses. “(Losing) 3-0 you are not cool, you are not confident, you are under pressure and you are not confident in the box. We had chances.” Madrid, which is vying for a record 10th European Cup, is now on the cusp of a fourth straight appearance in the semifinals — a welcome lift after a difficult run in the Spanish league.

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Football conference in South Africa on Wednesday that the stadiums in Sao Paulo, where the opening game will be played June 12, and Porto Alegre in the south were “where we have more work to do than in the other 10.”

A construction worker died at Sao Paulo’s Itaquerao stadium on Saturday, temporarily halting some work.

Asked to describe Brazil’s status, Valcke said “if you want me to summarize ... we are not ready.”

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U.S. midfielder Michael Bradley, left, celebrates with defender Matt Besler (5) after scoring a goal against Mexico during the first half of an international friendly soccer match, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Glendale, Ariz.

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PSG’s Javier Pastore, left, celebrates after scoring his sides 3rd goal during the Champions League quarterfinal first leg soccer match between PSG and Chelsea, at the Parc des Princes stadium, in Paris, Wednesday, April 2, 2014.

Pastore scores solo goal as PSG beats Chelsea 3-1 Associated Press Writer

PARIS — Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho called his team’s defending “a joke” after Paris SaintGermain scored deep into injury time Wednesday to take a commanding 3-1 lead into their Champions League quarterfinal return leg next week. A second straight defeat has turned the pressure back on Mourinho’s Chelsea side, with big-spending PSG now favored to reach the last four in the European Cup for the first time since 1995 and Liverpool grabbing the impetus in the Premier League.

“When the games are tight and when you make the defensive mistakes, you are in trouble,” Mourinho said. “We couldn’t transform these half chances into goals and on top of that we made defensive mistakes, the kind of individual defensive mistakes, and we paid the price.” PSG substitute Javier Pastore capped the win with a brilliant goal in stoppage time. The Argentina playmaker gathered the ball on the right wing, cut inside and then jinked his way through the penalty area before planting a low

shot inside goalkeeper Petr Cech’s near post.

“It was a horrible time to concede,” center half Gary Cahill told British broadcaster Sky Sports.

“It’s a sloppy goal and unlike us.

It was difficult to come here; 2-1 would have been okay to take to Stamford Bridge. It’s devastating.”

Mourinho was more scathing. “He (Cahill) says sloppy. I say ridiculous,” later adding. “It’s not a goal, it’s a joke.”

He also criticized his forwards, with neither Andre Schuerrle or his replacement, Fernando Torres, making any impression in the absence of the injured Samuel Eto’o. “It’s difficult for us to score goals,” Mourinho said. “I’m not happy with my strikers’ performances and I have to try things (for the return leg).” Chelsea did well to contain Zlatan Ibrahimovic, PSG’s top scorer with more than 40 goals this season. But Jose Mourinho’s team was undone by lapses from captain John Terry and midfielder David Luiz, who gave the ball away leading up to the opening goal.

It came after only four minutes

when Ezequiel Lavezzi twisted to sweep the ball home after Terry’s poor headed clearance. Eden Hazard equalized from the penalty spot midway through the first half, only for PSG to take the lead again in the 61st as Luiz shinned the ball into his own net. Chelsea won the competition two years ago, although Mourinho was not in charge, getting past Napoli despite losing their quarterfinal first leg 3-1.

“I have nothing to lose now, I have to play thinking that it is possible,” Mourinho said. “To be fair, I don’t think Paris think that it’s done.” PSG coach Laurent Blanc was full of praise for his players.

“We really believed we could do it tonight, and we pushed Chelsea around at times,” he said. “The third goal changes things. We can’t say tonight how much it changes things.

The match at Stamford Bridge will be difficult.”

There was some bad news on the night for PSG, however, with Ibrahimovic limping off midway through the second half with a hamstring injury. “He will probably be out for a while,” Blanc said. “I hope he’ll be back as soon as possible.”

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Madrid beats Dortmund 3-0 in Champions League Associated Press Writer

MADRID — Cristiano Ronaldo scored a record equaling goal before exiting to injury as Real Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 3-0 on Wednesday to take a big step toward the Champions League semifinals. Ronaldo netted his 14th goal of the season in Europe’s top competition to give Madrid a clear advantage ahead of next week’s quarterfinal return leg in Germany. But it came at a price as the Portugal forward, who came into the first-leg nursing a sore left knee, came off in the 80th minute. coach Juergen Klopp said. “It was too easy (for them), and that’s not what we wanted. We made some mistakes and we were punished.”

The energetic start saw Bale nearly miss Dani Carvajal’s short pass inside the area before stretching to toe poke his fifth goal of the competition under goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller after just three minutes. Weidenfeller was sharp despite Madrid’s early onslaught as he punched free kicks from Ronaldo and Bale over the bar. He also stayed in the game despite wincing in pain after Marco Reus made a clearance that also connected with the ‘keeper’s hands.

With forward Angel Di Maria out to a gastro virus, Isco showed good poise to gather a loose ball in front of the area and slide home a low shot for 2-0 in the 27th minute.

The Spain midfielder’s goal was just the boost Madrid need-

ed as Dortmund began to find its rhythm, with Kevin Grosskreutz forcing Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas into a low stop in the 33rd. Ronaldo, playing in his 100th Champions League game, was clearly eager to match the record 14 goals scored by Lionel Messi in one Champions League campaign.

Luka Modric made it happen as the Croat pounced on a poor Dortmund pass deep in its own area in the 57th minute and picked out Ronaldo, who dribbled around Weidenfeller for his 45th goal of the season. Jose Altafini also scored 14 goals in the 1962/63 European Cup campaign for AC Milan. “We did what we prepared for well,” Ancelotti said. “We used a lot of energy in the first half and were tired. So we dropped the team back a little in the second half — while looking to score on the counter.”

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Associated Press Writer

GLENDALE, Ariz. — U.S. versus Mexico lived up to its billing with the rivals battling to a 2-2 draw Wednesday night, and provided a possible glimpse into the future with 18-year-old Julian

Real’s Isco celebrates scoring his side’s first goal during a Champions League quarterfinal first leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday April 2, 2014.

Green making his first national team appearance for the Americans. The highly touted Green made his senior U.S. debut, coming on in the 59th minute as a substitute at midfielder for Brad Davis.

Green was on the pitch as Mexico completed a rally from a two-goal deficit to earn the exhibition match draw at University of Phoenix Stadium. “All the players that were here today gave everything they had, and if they understand that a game goes at least 90 minutes ... we had 55, maybe 60 maximum at that (World Cup) level. So that means we have a lot of homework to do,” U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann said, lamenting a non-call against Green in which he wanted a penalty in the closing minutes of the game. “You saw in some moments what this kid is capable to do. He goes in the box,

he draws two guys. ... It is what it is. Obviously he was nervous, too.

He played his first cap in front of 60,000 against Mexico.”

Green, the product of German club Bayern Munich’s developmental system, recently committed his international soccer future to the United States national team. Born in Tampa, Fla., but raised in Germany, Green has played for both German and U.S. national teams from the U-16 to U-19 levels.

He was called in last year by Klinsmann, but declined the invitation to attend the team’s camp at that time.

Green appeared to injure his shoulder in the 80th minute after he fell down, but was checked out quickly on the sideline and returned to the field. Klinsmann said Green simply lost his balance. Mexico turned a dreadful first half into a tight game following captain Rafael Marquez’s 49th-minute goal. Mexico became more active on the attack and threatened to tie on almost every run in the second half.

The tying goal came in the 67th minute. Alan Pulido collected the rebound of Paul Aguilar’s shot that hit the post and kicked the ball into an open net. “We got a tie that we needed to get,” Mexico goalkeeper Moises Munoz said in Spanish.

Fluminense changes coach FIFA’s Valcke on World after series of losses Cup: We are not ready Associated Press Writer

RIO DE JANEIRO — Four-time Brazilian champion Fluminense has hired Cristovao Borges as its new coach, replacing former player Renato Gaucho after a series of disappointing results.

Gaucho was fired on Wednesday, three days after the team was eliminated by rival Vasco da Gama in the semifinals of the Rio de Janeiro state championship.

Fluminense, which won two Brazilian league titles in the last four years, also had a disappointing 3-1 first-leg loss to minnow Horizonte in the first round of the Brazilian Cup. Fluminense has won only one of its last six matches.

Gaucho played for the club in the late 1990s and had already coached the club three times.

The 54-year-old Borges gained notoriety as a coach with Vasco da Gama in 2011. His last team was Bahia.

Associated Press Writer

JOHANNESBURG — FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has again raised concerns over Brazil’s World Cup preparations, saying “we are not ready” and that the stadium for the opening game is one of two venues that worry him most.

Just two months before the showpiece tournament starts, Valcke told The Associated Press at a joint FIFA-Confederation of African

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Gareth Bale scored early and Isco added another before the half hour mark at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. “Ronaldo has a problem with his knee but at this moment I’m not worried about it,” Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said. The Spaniards opened against Dortmund as the Germans had against them in the semifinals last season — when they thrashed Madrid 4-1 en route to reaching the final with a 4-3 victory on aggregate. In Wednesday’s other quarterfinal first leg, Paris Saint-Germain beat Chelsea 3-1 in the French capital.

Madrid certainly didn’t need inspiration after last seasons’ loss to Dortmund, which was without suspended striker Robert Lewandowski and five more regulars to injury as it fielded just four of the players present in last season’s 4-1 win. “The goals we gave up tonight were not because of this,” Dortmund

im Benzema continued to threaten Dortmund’s goal, Madrid was fortunate not to concede under pressure as Pepe blocked Reus’ shot from inside the area after Casillas failed to control a cross. Madrid’s defense blocked several Dortmund shots during the final stages. “ Yo u h a v e to do the right tactical things against the best teams in the world. We can do better than we did tonight,” said Klopp, who rued the late misses. “(Losing) 3-0 you are not cool, you are not confident, you are under pressure and you are not confident in the box. We had chances.” Madrid, which is vying for a record 10th European Cup, is now on the cusp of a fourth straight appearance in the semifinals — a welcome lift after a difficult run in the Spanish league.

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Football conference in South Africa on Wednesday that the stadiums in Sao Paulo, where the opening game will be played June 12, and Porto Alegre in the south were “where we have more work to do than in the other 10.”

A construction worker died at Sao Paulo’s Itaquerao stadium on Saturday, temporarily halting some work.

Asked to describe Brazil’s status, Valcke said “if you want me to summarize ... we are not ready.”

AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Michael Chow

U.S. midfielder Michael Bradley, left, celebrates with defender Matt Besler (5) after scoring a goal against Mexico during the first half of an international friendly soccer match, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Glendale, Ariz.

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PSG’s Javier Pastore, left, celebrates after scoring his sides 3rd goal during the Champions League quarterfinal first leg soccer match between PSG and Chelsea, at the Parc des Princes stadium, in Paris, Wednesday, April 2, 2014.

Pastore scores solo goal as PSG beats Chelsea 3-1 Associated Press Writer

PARIS — Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho called his team’s defending “a joke” after Paris SaintGermain scored deep into injury time Wednesday to take a commanding 3-1 lead into their Champions League quarterfinal return leg next week. A second straight defeat has turned the pressure back on Mourinho’s Chelsea side, with big-spending PSG now favored to reach the last four in the European Cup for the first time since 1995 and Liverpool grabbing the impetus in the Premier League.

“When the games are tight and when you make the defensive mistakes, you are in trouble,” Mourinho said. “We couldn’t transform these half chances into goals and on top of that we made defensive mistakes, the kind of individual defensive mistakes, and we paid the price.” PSG substitute Javier Pastore capped the win with a brilliant goal in stoppage time. The Argentina playmaker gathered the ball on the right wing, cut inside and then jinked his way through the penalty area before planting a low

shot inside goalkeeper Petr Cech’s near post.

“It was a horrible time to concede,” center half Gary Cahill told British broadcaster Sky Sports.

“It’s a sloppy goal and unlike us.

It was difficult to come here; 2-1 would have been okay to take to Stamford Bridge. It’s devastating.”

Mourinho was more scathing. “He (Cahill) says sloppy. I say ridiculous,” later adding. “It’s not a goal, it’s a joke.”

He also criticized his forwards, with neither Andre Schuerrle or his replacement, Fernando Torres, making any impression in the absence of the injured Samuel Eto’o. “It’s difficult for us to score goals,” Mourinho said. “I’m not happy with my strikers’ performances and I have to try things (for the return leg).” Chelsea did well to contain Zlatan Ibrahimovic, PSG’s top scorer with more than 40 goals this season. But Jose Mourinho’s team was undone by lapses from captain John Terry and midfielder David Luiz, who gave the ball away leading up to the opening goal.

It came after only four minutes

when Ezequiel Lavezzi twisted to sweep the ball home after Terry’s poor headed clearance. Eden Hazard equalized from the penalty spot midway through the first half, only for PSG to take the lead again in the 61st as Luiz shinned the ball into his own net. Chelsea won the competition two years ago, although Mourinho was not in charge, getting past Napoli despite losing their quarterfinal first leg 3-1.

“I have nothing to lose now, I have to play thinking that it is possible,” Mourinho said. “To be fair, I don’t think Paris think that it’s done.” PSG coach Laurent Blanc was full of praise for his players.

“We really believed we could do it tonight, and we pushed Chelsea around at times,” he said. “The third goal changes things. We can’t say tonight how much it changes things.

The match at Stamford Bridge will be difficult.”

There was some bad news on the night for PSG, however, with Ibrahimovic limping off midway through the second half with a hamstring injury. “He will probably be out for a while,” Blanc said. “I hope he’ll be back as soon as possible.”

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WASHINGTON — John Wall joined his Washington Wizards teammates at center court and did a little dance in the middle of a celebratory huddle.

DENPASAR - Serangan is a small island that lies off the Balinese coastline just south of Sanur and has long played an important role in local religious history. Despite its size, there are actually four temple compounds found on the island and Pura Sakenan is considered one of the holiest sites of worship for Balinese Hindu’s.

3,000 people and almost half of them are involved in the fishing industry.

Interestingly enough there is also a local Bugis community of approximately 300 Muslims who live side by side with the Hindu’s complete harmony. There is a rare mutual respect that exists between these two ethnic groups.

Serangan Island is also known as Turtle Island as for many years it was nesting ground for the Green Sea Turtle.

Locals used to catch the live turtles as well as their eggs for consumption and unfortunately this exploitation resulted in the near elimination of all turtles in this area. In 2004 with the aid of international funding a Turtle Conservation and Education Centre was established on the island and the government imposed a strict ban on turtle trading. With local help, the aim of this centre is to nurture the growth of newly hatched turtles and release them at an age where survival rates are quite favourable. The fishermen of Serangan now try to safeguard these ocean creatures to prevent extinction.

The waters surrounding Serangan Island are popular with surfers especially during the wet season when west-southwest winds blow. The waves average 4-6ft and this once secret spot now gets quite crowded.

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The origin of Pura Sakenan dates back to around 1250 during the reign of Raja Sri Masula Masuli when it was built by Mpu Kuturan. However, shrines, pagodas and other religious elements were added during the 15th Century by Dang Hyang Niratha, a priest who was also responsible for the magnificent cliff top temple at Uluwatu.

Every Kuningan on the Balinese calendar a vibrant three-day temple ceremony is held and Pura Sakenan and worshippers flock from all over south Bali to the island to pray. Prior to 1996 the island was only accessible by boat and visits to the temple there were likened to a holy pilgrimage.

During the reign of President Suharto, Serangan Island was viewed as prime property and developers began a massive reclamation project that tripled the size of the island and built a bypass land bridge in anticipation of a luxury golf resort. But due to financial difficulties the entire project went into bankruptcy and the island and its sacred temple were saved from the clutches of greedy developers. As a result, Hindu worshippers now visit the island by car or motorbike, which some scholars believe de-sanctifies the overall pilgrimage.

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Wall will soon be making his playoff debut, and the Wizards will be there for the first time since 2008, having clinched an Eastern Conference berth Wednesday night with a 118-92 win over the Boston Celtics.

“It’s everything I’ve been waiting for,” said Wall, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 draft, “as being a point guard, and trying to learn how to lead in this league, and become a better player. But also I think the fans deserve it. I mean, the tough times they’ve been through, booing us and us feeling bad when we’re not playing good or playing the right way.”

Wall had 13 points and 10 assists in one of the Wizards’ easiest recent wins. It was their biggest margin of victory this season, and their 62.5 shooting percentage was their best in a game since 2001.

The Wizards’ playoff position had been relatively secure for several weeks in the weakened East, but the formality of seeing the magic number reach zero was a milestone worth noting for a club whose win totals since their last postseason appearance have been 19, 26, 23, 20 and 29 — never

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finishing better than 24 games below .500. Washington sits in sixth place in the conference.

“We’re still learning the process of what it takes to be a really good team,” said Randy Wittman, who will be in the playoffs for the first time as a head coach. “But I couldn’t be more happy for those guys.”

Marcin Gortat scored 22 points on 10-for-13 shooting, and Bradley Beal went 7 for 8 to finish with 19 points.

All five Wizards starters scored in double figures.

Jared Sullinger had 25 points, and Rajon Rondo had 13 to lead the Celtics, who have lost six in a row and 11 of 12. The Bulls bumped slumping Atlanta out of the last playoff spot in the Eastern conference with a 10592 win.

The Hawks lost for the 21st time in 28 games, this one dropping them slightly behind New York for the eighth playoff seed. The Knicks routed Brooklyn 110-81 to climb percentage points ahead of Atlanta.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are also in the mix after beating Orlando 119-98 for their fifth win in six games.

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Washington Wizards forward Trevor Booker (35) blocks a shot by Boston Celtics forward Chris Johnson (12) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Washington.

Mercedes set for hat trick of F1 wins at Bahrain Associated Press Writer

MANAMA, Bahrain — The switch from a steamy Malaysia to a night race amid the sands of Bahrain is unlikely to be enough of a shift to prevent Mercedes this weekend from a hat trick of victories to open the Formula One season. After Nico Rosberg won the season-opener in Australia, his teammate Lewis Hamilton took victory at Malaysia last weekend, leading home his teammate in a one-two finish that underlined the degree of dominance Mercedes is enjoying in the early stages of the new V6 turbo hybrid era.

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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, left, of Britain and his teammate Nico Rosberg of Germany spray champagnes during the prize presentation on the podium after the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix at Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Malaysia, Sunday, March 30, 2014.

the two weeks between the races, so they stand little chance in making headway in the one week between Malaysia and Bahrain, which has switched to being a night race, joining Singapore as F1’s only races under lights. The only succor for those in Mercedes’ wake is that the two drivers split the honors in the first two rounds, and Hamilton gathered no points in Australia due to an engine misfire, meaning the drivers’ championship is more open than it otherwise could have been.

Chief among those rivals is Red Bull ace Sebastian Vettel, who was third in Malaysia but worryingly for the team, he had higher fuel consumption rates than the Mercedes pair just trying to keep up, and that compromised his capacity to challenge at least Rosberg in front of him. Beyond the Mercedes drivers and the indefatigable Vettel, it is hard to make a case for any other winners in Bahrain, with its stable weather and low incidence of safety car periods, although many teams are still having teething problems with the new engines, so a surprise is possible.

“I’ve finished on the podium a couple of times here but, for

one reason or another, I’ve never managed to get the win,” Hamilton said. “Until last week it was the same story for me with Malaysia, so fingers crossed this can be the year of breaking those cycles. “We know it’s going to be tough to maintain our current form, particularly at a circuit where every team has had so much running time over the winter.”

Vettel’s new teammate, Daniel Ricciardo, has suffered a cruel reversal of fortunes since he celebrated on the podium in front of his home fans in Australia. That second place was taken off him due to the team exceeding new fuel-flow limits, and then in Malaysia he was running fourth before a botched pitstop cost him vast amounts of time. To make matters worse, he will have a 10-place grid penalty in Bahrain as a result of that pitstop, with stewards ruling the car was released when it was unsafe to do so, as a wheel was loose.

Williams appeared to have the race pace to challenge Mercedes, based on the Australia performance, but in Malaysia, as in Melbourne, they were hampered by rain-affected qualifying sessions which exposed the team’s relative lack of downforce.

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Delta jet makes emergency landing at JFK

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NEW YORK — A Delta jet from Atlanta bound for New York’s LaGuardia Airport was diverted to John F. Kennedy Airport due to a problem with its hydraulic system.

The plane skidded off the runway and into a grassy area after making the emergency landing around 9 p.m. Wednesday (0100 GMT Thursday).

Delta spokeswoman Leslie Scott says Delta Flight 886 was carrying 118 passengers. No one was injured.

Scott says the plane was diverted to JFK because it has longer runways.

She says the McDonald Douglas MD88 was taxiing to the terminal when it rolled onto a grassy area.

Passengers were taken to Terminal 2, where buses to LaGuardia Airport were provided. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.

Afghan girl who lost arm paints with prosthetic Associated Press Writer

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Members of the Turkish Youth Union hold cartoons depicting Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a protest against a ban on Twitter, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, March 21, 2014.

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The doctors and therapists who worked with a little girl from Afghanistan knew the prosthetic arm they gave her would change her life. What they didn’t anticipate was that within weeks of strapping on her new limb, 7-year-old Shah Bibi Tarakhail would be using it to pick up a brush and begin carving out a new life — of abstract painting.

“What color would you like?” asked artist Davyd Whaley as he sat next to her at a table at the Galerie Michael on Rodeo Drive in the heart of Beverly Hills on Wednesday afternoon. “That one!” the normally reticent girl responded with a determined voice as she pointed to a tube of blue acrylic.

Then, before her mentor could fetch it, she grabbed it with her new prosthetic hand, unscrewed the top with her other hand and began squeezing the tube’s contents onto a palette.

As her friends from the nonprofit Children of War Foundation and the Shriners Hospital for Children Los Angeles looked on with delight, Shah Bibi proceeded to put a series of broad brush strokes across a piece of art board Whaley had provided. Soon there were shades of blue, green and bright orange laid out across little stickers of fish, bunnies, a flower and sky that Whaley had showed her how to place on the board beforehand.

At one point she giggled with embarrassment as she accidentally squeezed a tube of orange paint onto the painting rather than the pallete. But Whaley quickly assured her that accidental art sometimes makes the best abstract art.

“You’re going to do a Jackson Pollock,” he quipped. The finished result, the artist said afterward, “was pretty mind-blowing.” Shah Bibi, he said, not only handles a brush well but has an impressive grasp of matching colors.

“She kind of has a facility for it if she wants to pursue it,” added the artist whose own work is the subject of a large exhibition on display at Galerie Michael.

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INDONESIA Indonesia opposition to top legislative polls: survey Agence France-Presse

JAKARTA - Indonesia’s main opposition party is set to win a convincing victory at legislative elections next week, boosted by the nomination of the popular Jakarta governor as their presidential candidate, a poll showed.

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) will take 37 percent of the vote at Wednesday’s election, a survey of 2,000 people by private pollster Roy Morgan Research suggested.

The poll put the corruption-mired Democratic Party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in fourth place with 10 percent.

The Golkar party, the former political vehicle of late dictator Suharto, came second in the survey with its support declining to 17 percent, while the Gerindra party of ex-army general Prabowo Subianto was in third with 14 percent.

The PDI-P had been expected to top the elections for some months, but it has seen an increase in popularity since the nomination of governor Joko Widodo as its candidate for the presidential elections in July.

Roy Morgan Research reported a ten percent jump in the party’s popularity after Widodo, known universally by his nickname of “Jokowi”, was chosen

in mid-March, compared to a previous poll.

His humble demeanour and common touch -- he regularly heads out to meet people in the capital’s poorer districts -- has endeared him to a nation sick of aloof, political leaders with deep roots in the Suharto era.

The survey showed the percentage of people saying they would vote for Widodo in the presidential polls rising to 45 percent from 35 percent in a survey before his nomination.

His main rival for the presidency is seen as Subianto but he lagged far behind in the survey with only 15 percent saying they would pick him as head of state.

Roy Morgan Research is an Australian company which has an Indonesian office. The survey was released late Wednesday.

Some 186 million voters are eligible to cast ballots in the legislative elections in the world’s third-biggest democracy, with 12 parties competing for 560 seats in the national parliament.

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ANKARA, Turkey — A block on access to Twitter remained in place in Turkey on Thursday despite a high court ruling against the ban. Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled late Wednesday that the two-week-old ban violates the right to free expression and demanded that access be restored. The decision was published in the Official Gazette early on Thursday and the Ankara Bar Association said the decision was binding and had immediate effect.

Still, as of Thursday morning Twitter remained blocked, raising questions on whether the government would flout the ruling.

A government official said the telecommunication authorities’ legal teams were examining the high court decision. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of government regulations that bar civil servants from speaking to reporters without authorization.

Sezgin Tanrikulu, an opposition legislator who along with two

academicians petitioned the high court for an overturn of the ban, called for access to be reinstated immediately, threatening to file a legal complaint against the government for “abuse of power” and violation of laws.

Turkey blocked access to Twitter last month after users posted links suggesting government corruption. The government then blocked access to YouTube following the leak of an audio recording of a secret government security meeting. The social media bans

sparked international criticism of Turkey — a country that is a candidate to join the European Union.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Embassy in Turkey welcomed the high court’s decision to lift the ban on Twitter. The EU Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule said on Twitter that he looked forward to the “swift enforcement” of the court order. Many tech-savvy users, including President Abdullah Gul, found ways to circumvent the ban on both Twitter and YouTube.

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Afghan war victim Shah Bibi Tarakhail, left, uses her new prosthetic arm during a painting session with artist Dayvd Whaley, far right, at Galerie Michael in Beverly Hills, Calif., Wednesday, April 2, 2014.

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Protesters handcuffed and gagged with tape stage a rally across from the Indonesian embassy in central London, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 to protest the ongoing detention of 76 political prisoners in Indonesia’s West Papua province.

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JAKARTA - The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, BMKG, declared that Indonesia is safe from the tsunami threat following the 8.2 SR earthquake in Chile on Wednesday, April 2.

“Based on the information that we received from Solomon Islands and Vanuatu that are closer to Chile it has reached 0.50 meters, so Indonesia is quite safe,” clarified the agency Chief Andi Eka Sakya on Thursday.

Andi explained that the 8.2 magnitude earthquake in Chile, has already caused a 1.92 meters tsunami in the coastal areas of Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

“We instantly simulate on how far the waves will impact Indonesia, and our prediction is less than 0.5 meters,” asserted Andi.

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Center, InaTEWS, which is located in the climatology agency’s building, also issued a tsunami warning, stating that that tsunami will hit several regions in Indonesia.

Warnings were issued by the tsunami propagation analysis that mentioned that there are 115 locations in the districts or cities of 19 provinces across Indonesia that will be potentially hit by the tsunami.

The potential 0.5-meter tsunami is estimated to arrive on the Indonesian coast on Thursday, April 3, at 5:11 until 19:44.

“Based on our observation, the earthquake will have no effect on Indonesia because the location is too far and the waves too small,” Andi explained.

The climatology agency also mentioned that the tsunami warning for the entire territory of Indonesia ended at 08.30.

Garuda sets target to serve 30 million passengers

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JAKARTA - Indonesian flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has set a target to serve 30 million passengers in 2014, an increase from 25 million passengers who flew with Garuda in 2013.

“We target an increase of 15-20 percent in 2014,” Garuda Indonesia President Director Emirsyah Satar stated on Wednesday.

Garuda booked operation income worth US$3.72 billion in 2013, up seven percent from the previous year.

However, Garuda recorded a decrease in its profit from US$168.1 million in 2012 to US$56.4 million last year because of its investment in fleet expansion and Citilink as a low cost carrier.

The Seat Load Factor (SLF) in 2013 slightly dropped to 74.1 percent from 75.9 percent in the previous year.

“The performance of Garuda in 2013 was very much affected by the rupiah depreciation and the high level of its growth as well as investment carried out to improve the airline’s position in the future,” he explained.

In the first quarter last year, Garuda expanded flight networking to six new international routes to Europe and the Middle East - Frankfurt, Brussels, Milan, Dusseldorf, Munich, and Bahrain - served by Ettihad Airways.

In the second quarter, Garuda

signed a funding agreement for two jetliners B777-300ER using the Syariah (Islamic law) principle, and paid syndicated debts worth US$55 million, which was a commercial loan from Citi Club Deal.

In the third quarter, Garuda paid debts worth US$75 million from Indonesia Exim Bank. It carried 90,108 Indonesian hajj pilgrims to Saudi Arabia and won the title of “The Best Airline” for Hajj Season 1434H/2013 from the Abdul Aziz International Airport Aviation Authorities of Saudi Arabia.

Last year, it also won “The World’s Best Economy Class 2013” award from Syktrax and was placed 13th in Skytrax’s Global Airline Rankings.

Emirates, Qatar Airways, and Singapore Airlines ranked first, second and third respectively in the Global Airline Rankings 2013.

“With the successes that have been achieved over the past few years, Garuda Indonesia has implemented ‘Quantum Leap’ to develop and dominate the Indonesian aviation market,” he asserted.

Garuda’s “Quantum Leap” strategies to boost growth include expansion, fleet rejuvenation, brand strengthening, improvement of its product and service quality, efficiency in coast structure, and improve the human resources quality and quantity.

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BEIJING - China has announced a set of steps to boost slowing growth in the world’s number-two economy, including extending tax breaks for small businesses and support measures for poor urban districts. in scale, but it is more targeted and involves reforms on financing to secure funding,” they said. “So this should help China to smooth growth without exacerbating financial stability risks.”

The tax breaks for “small and micro” companies will be extended until the end of 2016, the State Council said in a statement on the central government website.

It also said 6,600 kilometres (4,100 miles) of new railway lines will come into operation this year,

1,000 kilometres more than in 2013.

The plan will also see the creation of a railway fund that will receive between 200-300 billion yuan ($32-$48 billion) each year, the statement said.

However, there was no mention of plans for monetary policy, such as a reduction in the amount of cash banks must keep in reserve, a cut in interest rates or a drive to get banks lending more.

Investors were unmoved by the announcement, with Shanghai’s benchmark composite index down 0.15 percent in the morning session.

The state-run Xinhua news agency quoted officials at the meet-

ing as saying the government will take other steps this year including stimulating enterprises and boosting domestic consumption and employment.

China’s leadership says it wants to transform the country’s growth model from an over-reliance on often wasteful investment, instead making private demand the driver for more sustainable development.

Since becoming head of the ruling Communist Party in November 2012 and state president in March last year, Xi Jinping has mounted an austerity campaign among top officials and a highly publicised crackdown on corruption that has seen some high-ranking officials sacked or charged.

India announces first bank licences in a decade

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NEW DELHI - India on Wednesday announced it was issuing two new bank licences for the first time in a decade as it accelerates a push to bring more Indians into the formal banking system.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced “in-principle” approval for Mumbai-based IDFC, a major infrastructure project lender, and microfinance company Bandhan Financial Services, located in eastern India, to establish banks.

Just 35 percent of Indian adults have bank accounts, a figure which the RBI calls “miniscule” and says shows a “crying need for a further push to the financial inclusion agenda” to include India’s poorest.

Under their licences, the new banks must open 25 percent of their branches in rural areas that have no banking services.

The two companies were chosen from among 25 applicants, including corporate heavyweights such as the telecom-to-energy ADAG Group, controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani.

The central bank said IDFC and Bandhan were chosen on the basis of their 10-year business track records and their proposed business

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan announces the first bimonthly monetary policy statement at the RBI headquarters in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. India on Wednesday announced it was issuing two new bank licences for the first time in a decade as it accelerates a push to bring more Indians into the formal banking system.

models for the banks.

Indians are slated to start voting next Monday in elections in which the conservative Hindu nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party is expected oust the left-leaning Congress party.

The RBI said the decision to grant the licences was taken after

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China unveils mini stimulus to boost slowing economy domestic product grew an annual 7.7 percent in 2013, the same as in 2012 -- which was the slowest since 1999.

“The State Council is responding to the growth slowdown by announcing tax breaks for SMEs (small and medium enterprises), speeding up investment in railways and rebuilding urban shantytowns,” HSBC economists Qu Hongbin and Sun Junwei said in a report Thursday.

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The State Council, China’s cabinet, announced the mini stimulus late Wednesday after a meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang.

Anticipation has been building recently for some kind of action following a string of disappointing economic indicators, including on industrial production and consumer spending.

Li said last month that China had set its annual growth target at “around” 7.5 percent, the same level as the goal for last year, after gross

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consulting the Election Commission to ensure that the move would not contravene the electoral conduct code.

The RBI added given public worries about widespread corruption, its approach in awarding the licences had been “conservative” and it gave the licences to

bodies “intimately trusted” by the public.

The central bank said it plans to revise bank licensing rules and award licences “more regularly” in the future.

It held out hope to failed applicants, saying “some of these who did not qualify in this round for a

full-fledged banking licence could well apply in future rounds”.

India’s banking sector is dominated by public sector banks and heavily regulated.

After India began its process of liberalising its inward-looking economy in the early 1990s, the central bank awarded 10 commercial licences in 1994 and another two in 2004.

The government declared four years ago a need to extend access to banking services and said there was a need to bring in more private players.

RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, a reform-minded economist who took over the central bank last September, set up a four-member panel to vet the applications.

Advocates hope getting new players in the banking sector will bring in fresh capital and technology and energise the banking system which has been afflicted by a growing number of nonperforming loans.

Bandhan is the first Indian microfinance firm to get a bank licence. Microfinance companies lend to the “poorest of the poor” who are unable to get funds from mainstream banks.

“We will (now) be able to offer full-fledged banking services to the poor people,” Bandhan chairman Chandra Shekhar Ghosh said.

DENPASAR - Some 73 Balinese artists grouped in the Indonesian Society for Krishna Consciousness (SAKKHI), a part of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, participated in Gaura Purnima Festival in India.

They played the Balinese traditional music instrument “gamelan geguntangan” in the festival, said Kadek A. Rama of

SAKKHI. The one-week festival organized in Mayapur, India, in March, was attended by artists from all over the world.

Pande Tamblingan Temple IBP

In surviving their life, the Hindu community in Bali always does an activity supported by various things such as hoes, machetes, knives and sacred tools in the form of spear and kris dagger. All the devices are made by Pande clan or ironsmith, a community being good at making weapons of iron. Interestingly, all the descendants of Pande clan in Bali always say prayers in the Pande Tamblingan Temple. Why? At the verge of mangrove forests of Lake Tamblingan lies a unique temple called the Pande Tamblingan Temple. Balinese people, especially the Pande clan flock to perform prayers in the temple. Although the lake water overflows and floods the outermost courtyard of the temple, it does not dampen the Pande community to say prayers. It aims at invoking safety, especially in carrying out the profession as a weapon maker.

The temple poses the forerunner of the birth of Pande clan since ancient times. It is located about 65 km north of Denpasar, or about 30 km south of Singaraja town. Precisely, the temple is situated among the four villages namely the Munduk, Gobleg, Gesing and Umajero.

The closest village to the temple is Tamblingan hamlet, belonging to Munduk Village.

The Pande Tamblingan Temple perching on the verge of Lake Tamblingan spread across the area of 2,000 square meters. In the temple the devotees venerate the Lord Pasupati (Lord Brahma), LingamYoni as well as the ancestors of Pande clan. Aside from Pande clan at the four villages, the temple is also venerated by Pande clan from Celuk and Bitra Village (Gianyar), Kayu Putih and Baturiti Village.

Pujawali or anniversary of the temple falls on full moon of the first month in Balinese calendar (July 3, 2012). Devotees came to the temple by passing through the woods and riding traditional boat services operated by lake fishermen.

According to wayan gedeSutama, the man from Celuk Village pioneering the excavation of local site and the temple establishment, the temple area around the Lake Tamblingan

was originally a residential area of Pande community. It was evidenced by many discoveries of Pande heritage objects when doing the excavating for the temple construction.

Some were in the form of cooling container and iron stones.

Additionally, the man familiarly greeted Mr. Dedes also found the Tamblingan inscription. It was found by chance on September 26, 2002 during the restoration of the Endek Temple located within the proximity of Pande Tamblingan Temple or 150 meters from the woods. “Discovery of this inscription also strengthens if this area was indeed the territory of Pande clan,” he said.

Sutama also explained if the inscription was kept in an earthenware jug buried in the depth of about 75 cm. Having examined the inscription consisting of 16 blades, in fact they were issued by the king of ancient Bali from different periods, namely the King Ugrasena, Udayana and Suradipha.

On the inscription originating from Ugrasena period, it was mentioned if the Pande community had been capable of making an armor used in a war, while the inscription from the period of Udayana and Suradipha mentioned the existence of papilihan mas and pwesi as well as Selonding gamelan. “The inscription states that Pande community and Selonding gamelan players got the exemption from the obligation of paying taxes,” he added.

Sutama added that during the leadership of Bali ancient kingdom the King Asta Sura Bumi Banten was not subject to the authority of Majapahit. As consequence, a troop under the commander of the Arya Cengceng was assigned to attack the Pande community. Based on the information of secret service, Gajah Mada knew if Tamblingan was the center of the arms industry of the kings in Bali. Afterward, the settlement of Pande Tamblingan was attacked. Its amphibian forces were spread to all corners of Bali.

“Probably, it was the reason why the inscriptions were hidden in jars and buried under the ground, so the descendants of Pande would then know about the history and genealogy of their ancestors,” he said seriously.

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Export value of commodities of Bali province conveyed through multiple ports in Indonesia, in February 2014, reached USD 40,308,911. This figure is down 6.73 percent compared to the export value of the same period in 2013, which reached USD 43,218,830.

Bali export value down 6.73 percent

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DENPASAR - Export value of commodities of Bali province conveyed through multiple ports in Indonesia, in February 2014, reached USD 40,308,911. This figure is down 6.73 percent compared to the export value of the same period in 2013, which reached USD 43,218,830.

“The figure also decreased 12.24 percent if compared to January 2014 reaching USD 45,928, 354,” said the Head of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Panusunan Siregar, in Denpasar.

According to him, most of the exports in the period were devoted to the United States, Japan, Singapore, Australia and France, with the proportion of exports respectively amounting to 21.18 percent, 9.04 percent, 8.00 percent, 5.49 percent and 5.09 percent. Five major commodities exported were the non-knitted apparel products, fish and shrimp products, wooden products, wooden goods, jewelry products and furniture products, home lighting.

“Of the ten major products, there are six types of products exported to the United States, namely the non-knitted apparel products, wooden products, wooden goods, furniture products, home lighting, processed meat and fish products, products of stone objects, plaster and cement as well as straw products,” he explained.

Meanwhile, he said that fish and shrimp products as well as products of leather goods, were mostly exported to Japan with respective percentage of 29.16 percent and 26.15 percent.

Jewelry/gem products and knitted products were widely shipped to Singapore with a percentage of 29.91 percent and 28.34 percent.

“Delivery of export commodities from Bali is most widely shipped through the port of Bali Province alone, with the percentage reached 51.67 percent. Then, the second largest delivery is through the port in East Java reaching 47.11 percent. Remaining products were sent through the port existing in Greater Jakarta and Central Java,” he said.

Meanwhile, a lecturer from the Udayana University, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, said there was macroeconomic impact requiring extra works in securing the economic growth that had declined due to inflation and exchange rate disturbances that hit the import and export traders based on imported raw materials.

“The condition is one of the weakening or strengthening indicators of the stability of the national economy. This phenomenon can be seen based on perspective or developmental capacity and quality of exports and imports of goods and services nationwide,” he said.

He affirmed the sustainable economic stability was much needed by the nation. Despite the Indonesia’s economic growth in 2012 had been quite encouraging about 6.5 percent, with the existence of Law on the state budget amendment (APBN-P 2012) probably it would decrease in 2013 due to disturbing multifactor, causing the economy of Indonesia to be burdensome with gradation. (kmb27)

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GIANYAR - Unlucky experience afflicted a woman traveler from Canada named Luong Linh, 38, Wednesday (Apr 2). Luong Linh staying at Tegal Sari Hotel located on Jalan Raya Ubud Pengosekan drowned while swimming in the hotel pool. The incident certainly caused hotel guests and employees to feel panic.

Based on information gathered, the victim stayed at Tegal Sari alone and checked-in on Monday (Apr 1). Based on her room reservation, the victim wanted to stay for three days. Amidst her holiday on Wednesday afternoon, around 12:00 a.m., the victim wanted to enjoy swimming in the hotel pool.

The atmosphere around the pool at that time was slightly tranquil.

One of the hotel employees said the victim initially immersed herself in the shallow pool. Some employees did not give serious scrutiny because the victim was estimated to swim well.

A few minutes later, the victim shifted to deeper pool. Without realizing it, it caused the victim surprised. The victim tried moving the whole body but did not have time to cry out for help.

At the same time, a child came and wanted to bathe. Seeing the incident, the boy was screaming because the victim had drowned.

The employees were coming and some of which plunged into the pool to evacuate the casualty. Until at the edge of the pool, the victim was limp. The victim also had been given

DENPASAR - The whole day on Nyepi, Monday (Mar 31), Sanglah Hospital continued to serve the people who needed a treatment. Based on data from 00:00 p.m. on Monday (Mar 31) until Tuesday midnight (Apr 1) the total patient coming to Sanglah Hospital amounted to 105 people.

Spokesperson of Sanglah Hospital, Kadek Nariyantha, described that most patients belonged to the policlinic of emergency room or fast track reaching 29 people and 16 medical patients. “Medical Triage handled 16 people, where 7 of them were hospitalized, 3 people took outpatient treatment and a patient went home by force. Most cases are closed fractures,” he said.

Fast track and Medical Triage patients were dominated by febrile observation or fever patients, in addition to non-bleeding stroke cases and suspect cases of tetanus.

Meanwhile, the surgical triage handled 11 patients where 7 took inpatient treatment, 3 outpatient treatment and a patient went home by force. Most cases handled were closed fracture trauma.

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respiratory assistance but the attempt failed. Furthermore, the victim was taken to Toyo Clinic located not far from the hotel. However, when arriving at the clinic, the victim was mentioned lifeless.

The incident involving a foreign victim was then reported to police.

In the examination of the victim’s body in the clinic by doctor and paramedics, the victim was alleged to die of heart failure and pulmonary circulation due to drowning. No signs of violence were found on the victim’s body.

With permission from Gianyar Police Chief, the Ubud Police Chief I Wayan Sumara justified the incident on the death of foreign traveler during a swimming activity. Gianyar Police identification team had been deployed to ascertain the cause of the victim’s death. The result of post mortem examination indicated if the victim died while failing to breathe when drowning. Nevertheless, his party was still awaiting coordination with the consulate office for further post mortem plan. (kmb16)

on a 24-hour time span, it was recorded 13 pregnant women who were hospitalized and 7 took outpatient treatment. “The number of birth was recorded 15 infants, consisting of 9 men and 6 women,” said Nariyantha.

Most patients came with private car accompanied by pecalang (customary security guard) and some were picked by ambulance.

In the implementation of Nyepi, Sanglah Hospital remained to alert an ambulance even though the ambulance was not allowed to pick out patients. “But on Nyepi, there were three emergency cases requiring an ambulance pick up,” said Nariyantha.

Emergency patients picked up by an ambulance on Nyepi was a patient with stroke at Sempidi, a patient with seizures on Jalan Sedap Malam, and another patient with abdominal pain on Jalan Dukuh Sari. “The patient pick up with an ambulance during the Nyepi was through coordination of Sanglah Hospital with local pecalang. When picking up the patient, the siren was not turned on, only turned on the lights,” said Nariyantha. (san)

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Malaysian PM visits Australian base for jet search Associated Press Writer

PERTH, Australia — Malaysia’s prime minister said Thursday the search for the missing jetliner will not stop until answers are found, as his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott called it “the most difficult in human history.” Prime Minister Najib Razak met with Abbott at the Australian base near Perth that is serving as the hub for the multinational effort and was briefed by Angus Houston, the head of a joint agency coordinating the search in the southern Indian Ocean.

No trace of the Boeing 777 has been found nearly a month after it vanished in the early hours of March 8 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

“It is a very difficult search — the most difficult in human history. But as far as Australia is concerned, we are throwing everything we have at it,” Abbott told reporters.

Although Australia is coordinating the ocean search, the investigation into the tragedy ultimately remains Malaysia’s responsibility.

On Thursday, Najib said Australia had agreed to act as an “accredited representative in the investigation,” and would be working with Malaysia to draw up a comprehensive agreement on the search. Despite a lack of answers into the mystery of Flight 370, Najib sounded a hopeful note during his visit.

“We want to provide comfort to the families and we will not rest until answers are indeed found,” he said. “In due time, we will provide a closure for this event.”

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On Wednesday, officials warned that the investigation may never produce answers into why the Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared.

A frustrating dearth of information has plagued investigators from the moment the plane’s transponders, which make the plane visible to commercial radar, were shut off.

Military radar picked up the jet just under an hour later, on the other side of the Malay Peninsula. Authorities say that until then, its “movements were consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane,” but have not ruled out anything, including mechanical error.

Police are investigating the pilots and crew for any evidence suggesting they may have hijacked or sabotaged the plane. The backgrounds of the passengers have been checked by local and international investigators and nothing suspicious has been found.

The search for the plane began over the Gulf of Thailand and South China Sea, where the plane’s last

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Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott, foreground left, and Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak, foreground second from left, accompanied by Australian Air Force Group Commander.

communications were, and then shifted west to the Strait of Malacca. Experts then analyzed hourly satellite “handshakes” between the plane and a satellite and now believe it crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.

Search planes initially began

looking in a remote area southwest of Perth before moving the search zone 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) to the north after a new analysis of the data showed the plane was traveling faster, and therefore likely ran out of fuel earlier than officials first thought.

Despite more than two weeks of scouring the remote waters, no trace of the plane’s wreckage has been found. Houston has said there is no timeframe for ending the search, but acknowledged a new approach will eventually be needed if nothing turns up.

3 killed, 16 wounded at Fort Hood Army base Associated Press Writer The parent of Putu Suprapto hold the picture of their son

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Bali’s worker missing in Myanmar Sea Bali Post

NEGARA - Putu Suprapto, 25, a migrant worker from Pasar Pergung hamlet, Mendoyo, was reported by the agency to have been missing since last month.

Suprapto that worked in the Swiber Offshore Construction Pte. Ltd. or Swiber 4000 Kaizen splashed himself into the sea, Myanmar on March 20.

When met by reporters on Wednesday (Apr 2), the victim’s parents Ketut Reden, 50, and Nengah Tinggalini, 50, said that his party had received such information from the agency. According to the agency, his first son was about to save the lifeboat, but he did not know why his son

could drown. “We do not know the truth, my son has just got higher rank to drive a lifeboat,” he said. His son was previously a dishwasher and cleaning service worker.

Related to the missing of her first son, the family had made various efforts including consultation to a medium. Tinggalini mentioned that her son had worked in Swiber vessel since 2010. It was a tanker served the route of Singapore-Myanmar.

Originally, Putu worked on the vessels from a dishwasher and then was believed by the company and asked to attend school.

Finally after school, he became a driver of small lifeboat. “Some-

times he calls just to say hello to their parents and siblings. All this time, he never complained to have a problem,” she explained.

Recently, she said that her son was sent shoes to his sister on 15 February.

Unexpectedly, a month later the family received information from relatives who also worked abroad if Putu drowned while jumping into the sea of Myanmar. Since then, the family had met with the agency in Denpasar and promised all the rights of the victim would be given to the family. Her party said to still await a decision of the agency and Tinggalini did not have any feeling if her son was dead. (kmb26)

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Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, commanding general of III Corps and Fort Hood, speaks with the media outside of an entrance to the Fort Hood military base following a shooting that occurred inside, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Fort Hood, Texas.

FORT HOOD, Texas — An Iraq War veteran being treated for mental illness opened fire on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide at the same post where more than a dozen people were slain in a 2009 attack, authorities said. The shooter apparently walked into a building Wednesday and began firing a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol that had been purchased recently. He then got into a vehicle and continued firing before entering another building and kept shooting.

He was eventually confronted by military police in a parking lot. As he came within 20 feet (6 meters) of an officer, the gunman put his hands up but then reached under his jacket and pulled out his gun. The officer drew her own weapon, and the suspect put his gun to his head and pulled the trigger a final time.

The gunman, who was married and served in Iraq for four months in 2011, had sought help for depression, anxiety and other problems. Before the attack, he had been undergoing an assessment to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder, according to Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the senior officer on the base.

The 2009 assault on Fort Hood was the deadliest attack on a domestic military installation in U.S. history. Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 wounded.

The suspect in Wednesday’s shooting had arrived at Fort Hood in February from another base. He was taking medication, and there were reports that he had complained about suffering a traumatic brain injury, Milley said. He did not elaborate. The gunman was not wounded in action, according to military records, Milley said. There was no indication the attack was related to terrorism, Milley said.

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Bali fail to achieve Rabies-free target in 2015 Bali Post

DENPASAR - The emergence of positive cases of rabies in Bali, exactly in the region of Buleleng in humans in 2014, makes the status of the targeted Bali Rabies-free 2015 delayed two more years.

Actually, Bali has almost been absent from positive cases of rabies in humans for almost two years. The delay of Bali Rabies-free target to 2016 will surely require an evaluation, where does actually the problem of rabies handling in Bali lie?

LONDON — The grace and glamour of Italian fashion are on display in London — and the attitude, too. Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were guests at Tuesday night’s launch of “The Glamour of Italian Fashion,” a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The duo behind Dolce & Gabbana praised Britain’s “cool” style and designers like Vivienne Westwood, but were less enthusiastic about Victoria Beckham. Gabbana said the former Spice Girl had turned to fashion after doing “many, many, many different things.” He added “she’s a designer but ... for us, she don’t make (clothes) the same way like a fashion designer.”

Dolce grouped Beckham, whose designs have appeared on catwalks at New York Fashion week, with mainstream retailers such as Zara and H&M. The museum’s exhibition, which opens Saturday, traces the global rise of Italian style, from the rebuilding of a shattered economy after World War II through the 1950s and ‘60s, when stars including Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn made Italian design synonymous with sophistication.

It also looks at how Italy’s fashion and textile industries are coping with the globalized “fast fashion” world of the 21st century. The show, which runs to July 27, features designs from fashion houses including Georgio Armani, Prada, Gucci, Valentino and Versace — and of course Dolce & Gabbana.

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Dresses are seen at an exhibition entitled: ‘The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014’, at the V&A museum in London, Wednesday, April 2, 2014.

Designer award named for L’Wren Scott

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FILE - This Feb. 16, 2012, file photo, shows singer Mick Jagger, right, with designer L’Wren Scott after her Fall 2012 collection was modeled during Fashion Week, in New York.

NEW YORK — An award honoring emerging fashion designers has been named for L’Wren Scott.

The award was created by The Art of Elysium, an organization that brings the arts to hospitalized children. The L’Wren Scott Amber Award honors both Scott, who committed suicide on March 17, and Amber, a child who had a brain tumor and who participated in The Art of Elysium’s fashion workshops for hospitalized kids.

The venture was announced Thursday by the New York company that handled the 49-year-old designer’s public relations, PR Consulting.

Meanwhile, various media outlets reported that Scott’s will left her $8 million Manhattan condo and her other personal possessions to her boyfriend, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.

Steinem, Keys named honorees of annual DVF awards Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Designer Diane von Furstenberg, who made fashion news this year with the 40th anniversary of her famous wrap dress, is honoring an icon of the women’s movement: Gloria Steinem.

Steinem, who turned 80 last week, will be receiving the Lifetime Leadership Award at the annual DVF awards Friday evening in a ceremony at the United Nations.

Also being honored: Singer Alicia Keys, who receives the Inspiration Award.

Some high-profile presenters will be on hand, including Meryl Streep and Sarah Jessica Parker.

The DVF Awards were created in 2010 by von Furstenberg and The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation to recognize and support “women who are using their resources, commitment and visibility to transform the lives of other women.” Each DVF award winner receives $50,000 for her chosen cause.

Rabies in Bali began to appear in 2008 and has claimed at least 147 victims who died positively due to rabies. The Head of the Bali Health Agency, Ketut Suarjaya, explained on Wednesday (Apr 2) that rabies problem in Bali was a serious case which should be observed by all people. The main problem encountered was the handling of the case in the upstream or the handling of the rabies carrier animal. According to him, though having made socialization on the transmission and treatment of rabies and dog vaccination programs, there were still some positive rabies cases in dogs and humans. “In 2014, from 4 suspected cases in humans, one is tested positive.

Currently, the positive dogs were found in the region of Buleleng,” said Suarjaya.

The finding of positive dog case indicated if the upstream handling was still not maximal. To that end,

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The emergence of positive cases of rabies in Bali, exactly in the region of Buleleng in humans in 2014, makes the status of the targeted Bali Rabies-free 2015 delayed two more years.

Suarjaya expected the cooperation of the public in order not to release their dog and vaccinate dogs diligently. “Several cases of rabies were even found in a puppy.

It can be concluded if the parent was positive or infected by other dogs,” said Suarjaya.

He said that people still considered rabies not a dreaded disease as long as no bite had occurred.

So, it raised an impression that preventive measure was lacking. It could be seen in the area of Suwug, Ularan, Tejakula and Buleleng where positive dog

cases were found and many stray dogs were still let roam around by the owners. “People are only afraid when they have been bitten. Actually, the most important is to prevent the bites and positive dogs,” he said.

To handle this, added Suarjaya, the Bali Health Agency and Bali Livestock Agency would make intensification of dog handling in this case in the region where positive cases were found such as in Buleleng. The intensification measures taken were such as by isolation of the area detected

as positive area. In other words, there should be no outgoing and incoming dogs in the positive region. “The dog is also dealt with vaccination and elimination of stray dogs,” he said.

Although there had been Regional Bylaw governing the rabies, especially in terms of handling and mobilization of animal rabies carrier, Suarjaya admitted that many people still violated.

On that account, he hoped the participation of customary village by setting forth an awig-awig regarding the handling of rabies in the

area. “Awig-awig is usually better adhered to by the community,” said Suarjaya.

All this time, there had been no customary village setting forth the regulations on the rabies handling in their awig-awig. According to Suarjaya, the rules of customary village in the form of perarem or convention had been applied by several customary villages such as Sibetan and Kediri. “Although it was only in the form of perarem but the handling of rabies in the area have been intensified,” he said. (san)

Due to imports

Competitiveness of local products getting weaker

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DENPASAR - Imported food products and horticulture cause the competitiveness of agriculture in Indonesia to weaken. Moreover, Balinese community especially the Hindus are busy with religious ceremonies. As a result, imported fruits and other products are absorbed by the market because the quality is superior and more durable.

Responding to these conditions, an academician, I Wayan Sukarja, said on Wednesday (Apr 2) that many migrant workers were employed in agriculture

and plantations. Therefore, the imported products were the result of our migrant workers. “Abroad, our workers are paid expensive.

Therefore, many of our residents want to become migrant workers although as a farming laborer,” added Sukarja.

This condition made Sukarja concerned because the agricultural land in Indonesia remained vast and fertile. But people even wanted to be farmers abroad.

“Imagine we import many agricultural products and meat. Actually, they are all products produced

by the hard work of our workers.

Why this opportunity is not worked on maximally by the government?” he said.

According to Sukarja, if the government including Bali had not been able to develop the agricultural industry, there was no harm in inviting foreign investors in agriculture. To attract investors, they should be given facilities like tax exemption. “After growing bigger, they are imposed with tax. It is intended for the creation of national food security, even if possible our products can be ex-

ported. If the imports continue, it will always make our farmers hard and it is prone to corruption. VAT is just levied for large employers,” said Sukarja.

Secretary of the Indonesia Farmers Union (HKTI) of Badung, Ketut Sugiana, also agree if foreign investors were invited to invest in agriculture in Indonesia to strengthen food security. He added there was no harm in inviting foreign investors to increase the yield of agricultural products, but should involve farmers. It was intended to yield quality products,

increase farmers’ welfare so their products could fully absorbed by the market.

“As far as it relates to the strengthening of food security, I think it realistic. But there must be a synergy between investors, farmers and our experts,” he said.

Related to the plan of providing warehouse for the post-harvest commodities by the government, according to Sugiana, it was a nice breakthrough. However, he hoped the realization would not deviate from the objectives of the program. (rah)

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KUTA - On 7th March 2014, the owning company of FRii Bali Gana Kuta, PT Shree Lakshmi Ganapataye, held a ground breaking event of their incoming hotel which will be operated by mid of 2015 under the latest hotel brand of PHM Hospitality, FRii Hotels.

Located on main road of Kuta and close to Kuta’s Legendary Shopping & Culinary District, FRii Bali Gana Kuta will be a home for active and young spirit travelers who wish to explore Bali easily. Developed on a land of 1,850 M² FRii Bali Gana Kuta will be featuring 150 Unique Rooms, Meeting Rooms, Restaurant, Swimming Pool & Sky Bar at Rooftop, and Spa. PHM Hospitality offers a selection of fresh lifestyles and experiences that suitable for business and leisure market from Budget to Luxury, and FRii Hotels is the 4th Hotel Brand created by PHM Hospitality after THE HAVEN, Deluxe Brand for Suites | Hotel | Villas, THE 1O1 Hotels & Resorts for Midscale Premium Brand, and THE BnB Hotels for Urban Budget Brand. All brands have unique signatures which come from spirit of The Five Nature Elements (Earth, Water, Metal, Fire, and Wood) as PHM Hospitality believes there

SINGARAJA - The lack of interest of the traders in the coastal area of Penimbangan Beach to move to location that has been provided by Buleleng government through the Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) of Buleleng becomes an unresolved issue so far. A year passed, most traders remain to peddle in the north of the road and are reluctant to use the vacant land on the South side of the Segara Penimbangan Beach.

The current condition of Penimbangan Beach reasons still firm to trade in the area formerly occupied. “The price of land has been increased three times

more than the initial price. DKP Buleleng has made an approach but the land owners still do not want to

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release their land. We still continue to make efforts by persuasion,” he said. (dgk)

Continuation of Sagung Wah Museum uncertain Bali Post

The unfinished development of Sagung Wah Museum

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TABANAN - In addition to delay, the Sagung Wah museum development project becoming one of the arrangement programs of the Tabanan Town Park remains uncertain so far. The building project to be used as a venue for the art show and cultural exhibition, including the heritage of Sagung Wah, remains to show off a structure equipped with a roof up to this minute.

Aside from museum building, similar thing is also visible on the open stage located in the east of the park. Its upper roof resembles a rice granary. It still looks very plain, without ornament at all.

Having been investigated, in fact the continuation of the project was not allocated in the main budget of this year.

The Head of Tabanan Public Works, I GN Anom Anthara, when asked for his confirmation regarding this matter on Wednesday (Apr 2) justified the second phase of the two projects were not included in the master regional budget. Nevertheless, he said the budget of the two projects would be proposed in the discussion of the budget amendment this year. “We will

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weather struck. “There is only one land available. Meanwhile, the DKP Buleleng fails to make the land acquisition because the landowners are reluctant to relinquish their land by putting a higher price than the amount of the selling price of tax object (NJOP). The approach has been often done, but traders still insist on surviving,” he said.

As planned, the land prepared would be in the west and east area. For the time being, the space is available in the west and the traders with a variety of

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Traders on Penimbangan Beach reluctant to move

The vacant land provided is observed only used as a parking lot for visitors who are looking for food or soft drinks from vendors around. This condition was recognized by the Head of DKP Buleleng, Nyoman Genep.

He said the land for the traders had been prepared on the South side, but the traders averagely persisted on selling various kinds of food on the breakwater on the side of Penimbangan Beach. They would move to sell to the space provided if large coastal waves and bad

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propose the budget of the two projects in the discussions of the budget amendment of this year,” he said.

He added that his party had attempted previously to propose in order the second phase of the Town Park project could be included in the parent budget. Unfortunately, due to limited budget the second phase of the two projects was eliminated in the parent budget. “This is related to the ability of the budget, but later on we will try to propose them in the budget amendment,” he said.

The absence of continuation of the two projects in the Town Park also received attention from a number of legislators because the two projects cost quite a bit. One of the legislators highlighted the matter was the Democrat, Ida Bagus Kade Adnyana Suryawan.

He said both projects should continue to avoid the impression of dormant projects. “Before this project goes on, there has been a plan, phases and when the project should be completed. This plan is supposed to be executed and do not let it be impressed a dormant project,” he affirmed. (kmb28)

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Calendar Event for March 5 through May 21, 2014 5 Mar Hari Urip 6 Mar Hari Patetegan 7 Mar Pengeradanan Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Kabayan Penebel Tabanan 8 Mar Saraswati Pura Pasek tangkas Gempinis Dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Sayan Abiansemal Pura Watu Gunung Bima Pura Agung Jagat Karana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Jakarta Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Pura Agung Wira Loka Cimahi Jawa Barat 9 Mar Hari Banyu Pinaruh 10 Mar Soma Ribek Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Bayu Gaiyang Bangli Tirta Wening Surabaya Pura Desa Lingga Wana Abang Karangasem 11 Mar Sabuh Mas 12 Mar Hari Pagerwesi Pura Labang Sindu JiwaUbud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wira Bhuana Magelang Jawa tengah Pura Padang Sakti Denpasar Timur Pura Payogan Agung Ketewel Gianyar Pura Gaduh Pangiasan Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Masceti Tampak Siring Pura Dalem Ularan Denpasar Pura Siwa Penebel Tabanan Pura Luhur Sliki Banyuwangi Pura Gunung Lebah Ubud Pura Puseh Sukawati 15 Mar Purnama Sasih Kesanga Pura Nataran Sasih Pejeng Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung lebah Batur Kintamani 17 Mar Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan 22 Mar Tumpek Landep Pura Mutering Jagat Dalem Sidakarya

Denpasar Pura Agung Pasek Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangkas Tabanan Pura Kerta Banyuning Buleleng Pura Dalem Tenggaling Singapadu Gianyar Pura Bhujangga Jembrana Pura Dalem pingit Tegalalang Pura Penataran Pande Pandean Mengwi Pura Ida Ratu Pande Besakih Pura Penataran AGung Tulikup Pura Kumuda Saraswati Ubud Pura Batur Arya Tabanan 23 Mar Radite Umanis Ukir Sanggah Gede Dukuh Segening Tegal Tugu Gianyar 26 Mar Buda Cemeng Ukir Pura Pajenengan Kawitan Arya Gelgel Kelungkung Pura Pasar Agung Besakih Pura Pasek Bendesa Legian Kuta Badung Pura Gde Gunung Agung Munggu Badung Pura Puseh Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Peruncak Badung Pura Pasek Bendesa Hyang Krobokan Badung Pura Kereban Langit Mengwi Badung 28 Mar Melasti Pakiyisan Ke Segara Pura Pasek Gelgel Kukuh Marga 30 Mar Tilem Kesanga Tawur Agung 31 Mar Hari Raya Nyepi 1 May Buda Kajeng Kliwon Enyitan

2 May Bhatara Sri Ida Ratu Geng Besakih Pura Penataran Agung Besakih Ida Ratu Raja Puraus Besakih Merajan Saloding Besakih 6 May Anggara Kasih Juluwangi Pura Thirta Harum Tegal Wangi Bangli Pura Baratan Baturiti Pura Batu Klotok Klungkung

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Ibu Wanagiri Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Manik Bingin Dukuh Sidemen 7 May Pura Penataran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Pande Bangli Pura Puncak Sari Sangeh Abian Semal Pura Puseh Penegil Dharma Kubu Tambahan Bangli Pura Dalem Maya Blahbatuh Gianyar Pura Linggih Betara Kayu Selem Penataran Agung Besakih 13 May Purnama Sasih Jiyestha Pura Dwija Warsa Malang Pura Pucak Tinggah Angsri Baturiti Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Jati Luwih Penebel Pura Kawitan Batur Pande Tonja Tonja Denpasar Pura Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem Pura Maospahit Grenceng Denpasar 15 May Sugihan Jawa Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Tangkas Klungkung Pura Siang Kangin Peninjoan Tembuku Bangli Pura Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Pura Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Besakih 16 May Sugihan Bali Dan Kajeng Kliwon 18 May Penyekeban 19 May Penyajaan Galungan 20 May Penampahan Galungan 21 May Hari Raya Galungan Pura Wakika Kupang NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung Jakarta Timur

district of Kuta Village, Bali.” Another FRii Hotels in our pipeline is on Echo Beach, known as one of the best surfing spots in Bali and the hotel will be the Ultimate Home for those who crave the surfing adventure and surf enthusiasts, added him.

Balinese Temple Ceremony 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 considered 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 “umbulumbul”, 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.

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Josh Elliott: I wanted to get back to sports Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Josh Elliott said Wednesday that his defection from ABC’s “Good Morning America” for NBC is a “deeply personal” move to get back to sports at a level he could not have anticipated. He spoke in a conference call where NBC announced his hiring to work on future Olympics, NFL football and other events. He turned down an offer to remain at ABC’s top-rated morning show to be what he described as “the last man on the bench with the showtime Lakers.”

His NBC debut is planned for the May 3 Kentucky Derby broadcast. “I have loved sports since before I could walk,” said Elliott, 42. He said he dreamed of being on an Olympics broadcast before he even knew he wanted to be in television. He worked at Sports Illustrated and then ESPN before 2011 when ABC News President Ben Sherwood played a hunch and hired him as news anchor at “Good

Morning America.”

The arrival of Elliott and Lara Spencer built a feel-good team in the morning that prospered as “Today” went through the excruciating exit of Ann Curry. Now two members of that team — Elliott and weather forecaster Sam Champion — have left within four months of each other.

Elliott said he had not discussed any

role at NBC News, where it was almost immediately speculated that he could be a potential successor to Matt Lauer in the morning. “I hope Matt Lauer is here when I step away from this gig 30 years down the road,” he said.

The fallout of his decision, made public Sunday, has been painful and left him feeling like a bit player in an “absurdist melodrama.” “It has been really difficult,” he said. “It’s been difficult to read categorical falsehood after categorical falsehood.”

He credited Sherwood with giving him the big break in his career. He wouldn’t comment on Sherwood’s memo to ABC News employees announcing his departure this weekend, where Sherwood wrote that “we worked hard to close a significant gap between our generous offer and his expectations.”

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FILE - This Aug. 30, 2012 file image released by ABC shows former “Good Morning America” cohost Josh Elliott on the popular morning show in New York. Elliott says his decision to leave ABC’s “Good Morning America” for NBC is a “deeply personal” move to get back to sports.

Artist plants fake Bieber CDs in LA stores

Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — An artist is making it difficult to believe there’s actually a copy of Justin Bieber’s latest album for sale in Los Angeles. Paz Dylan, a 25-year-old electronic musician and artist known only as Paz, says he planted 5,000 copies of an album that appears to be Bieber’s “Believe” but actually contains a copy of Dylan’s own CD. The fakes appeared at retailers such as Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart on Tuesday, April Fools’ Day. “We were meticulous,” said Paz, who fancies the stunt as more of a performance art piece than a gag. “We paid a lot of attention to detail because we wanted these to stay up on shelves as long as possible.”

The wrapped CDs resemble “Believe” right down to the bar code and silky Bieber portrait on the cover.

However, Paz’s artwork is on the inside of the back cover, and the disc itself is slathered with images of cats, pizzas and a dog stuffed inside a taco. The CD itself contains the 13 tracks from Paz’s synth-heavy independent release “From the Bottom of My Heart to the Top of Your Lungs.”

The only differentiating factor is that Paz’s subversive CD package lacks the kind of sticker that usually covers the top of a CD case, which is found beneath the wrapper of most unopened albums.

The Associated Press independently verified the stunt by purchasing random copies of what looked like Bieber’s

Tsunami threat

Tourism activities still normal

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In this image an album that appears to be Justin Bieber’s “Believe” sits on the rack at the Best Buy in Culver City, Calif., Tuesday April 1, 2014.

“Believe” from widely scattered Los Angeles-area locations such as a Wal-Mart in Baldwin Hills, Target in Burbank and Best Buy stores in West Hollywood and Culver City.

In each instance, the CDs were scanned and paid for as if they were Bieber CDs. But when they were

opened outside the store, each contained a copy of Paz’s album, not Bieber’s.

“Although Mr. Dylan is clearly not a Belieber, we know that many of our customers are, and we are taking care of those who didn’t get what they intended to purchase,” said Best Buy spokeswoman Carly Morris.

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KUTA - Bali’s emergency Quick Response Team raised their awareness by deploying 25 personnel to manage the tsunami threat in Kuta Beach following the 8.2 earthquake in Chile on Wednesday, April 2.

However, tourism activities in Bali’s Kuta Beach are not disrupted by the tsunami threat issue.

Hundreds of domestic and foreign tourists have been spotted holidaying as usual.

“We will continue to monitor throughout the beach in Bali to suppress fatalities from the disaster,” assured Bali Province response team officer Rudi Tjandi who is currently monitoring the tsunami in Kuta, Thursday.

Rudi explained that the team will continue to monitor

the shores following the notification information issued by the National Disaster Management Agency, BNPB, on Wednesday, April 2, until it is revoked.

Meanwhile, the response team and Badung Regional Disaster Management Board, BPBD continue to monitor Kuta Beach coastline and the surrounding areas.

Previously, the 8.2 magnitude earthquake that oc-

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curred on the northern coast of Chile or 240 northwest of Bombay, India, on Wednesday, April 2, was expected to have an impact on Indonesia.

Bali is regarded as one of the tsunami-affected regions of alert status with 0.5 meters of potential wave raise that will cover areas of Denpasar City Beach - Sanur, Southern District of Karangasem, Klungkung, and Nusa Penida.

Furthermore the increase of the sea level from the tsunami for districts of Gianyar, Jembrana, Tabanan, and Badung that are located on the coastline of Kuta Beach is estimated to occur on Thursday at 9:28 p.m. until 10:14 p.m.