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Chaos as Sydney lashed by heaviest rain in five years

Michael Schumacher is not getting carried away with the positive winter testing programme his Mercedes team has enjoyed - and says the lessons of last year have made him more cautious ahead of the first race. Twelve months ago, Schumacher and his Mercedes team believed they had a car capable of fighting at the front after topping the final pre-season test, only for its W02 to fall well short of those expectations.

This time around, Schumacher feels that Mercedes is in much better shape, but he says that he is keeping expectations more in check. “The car is reliable which is already good,” he told his official website. “The first impression was already quite positive. We were driving out of the box with the car and everything went well, so there is potential.

“We are heading into the season much better prepared than in the past two years, and we can fully concentrate onto the development of our car.

“The speed is promising. I hope we can show that in Melbourne. We were able to drive a lot during the tests and therefore learn a lot too, and we certainly have made a step forward. But I want to wait until after the first races to judge how big this step is and how much it is worth compared to our competitors.”

Although some race simulation data over the tests has pointed to the possibility of the team being close to Red Bull Racing, Schumacher believes his rivals remain ahead of the opposition.

Speaking about his own chances of winning in Melbourne, Schumacher said:

“Victory to me is unlikely, I see Red Bull in front. Behind them it will be tight, and you can be either hero or zero very quickly. It will come down a lot to the ability of how well you will be setting up your car to the respective track.”

Asked about why he was playing down his prospects so much, Schumacher said: “Because we have experienced last year that you can be very wrong relying on the data coming out of the winter tests. And because we can see that the field will be very narrow this year.

“I do not have a clear picture yet. What we can say though is that the gap between several teams will not be as big as it was last year.”

Schumacher also reiterated that he was in no rush to decide whether or not he would extend his contract with Mercedes, which runs out at the end of this season. “That’s just totally unimportant at the moment, I don’t even think about it now,” he said. “Now, it is all about focussing and concentrating on understanding our car, so that we will have a positive season. I will certainly not be nailed down now.”

testing purposes as the Toyota it had been using up until now was deemed too old.

Pirelli said the Renault R30 will be adapted to simulate the latest technical

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Michael Schumacher of Germany in the gravel after he lost control of his car during a test session at the Montmelo racetrack near Barcelona, Spain, Friday, March 2, 2012.

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Pirelli to use Renault R30 as test car Pirelli has announced a Renault R30 from the 2010 season will be its new test car. The Italian manufacturer had been looking for a new car to use for

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and aerodynamic regulations. The car will run with a carbon fiber black Pirelli livery and the test team will be run by Pirelli with no team member connected to a current Formula 1 team.

Pirelli is hoping to announce a test driver within a month. “It was clear from an early point that we needed a more modern solution for our test car, as while the Toyota TF109 has served us extremely well, it is now three years old,” said Pirelli’s Paul Hembery.

“Technology as well as the regulations have moved on considerably since then, and the Toyota is no longer able to generate the same sort of forces that we need to simulate in order to meet the current requirements of Formula 1.

“At the top of our agenda is the need to treat the teams entirely equally, which is why the test team will be run independently and all the teams will be able to send an observer to the tests.

“Our new test car will be running to current fuel regulations, with no refueling, so we will be able to simulate a full race distance and the change in balance with the car and tyres.”

The Italian manufacturer said four to five tyre tests are anticipated for this season, with the first one set for May.

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple gave the new iPad a bunch of new features but no new name.

When it goes on sale next week in the U.S. and several other countries, it will be “the iPad” or perhaps “the new iPad” — not “iPad 3” or “iPad HD,” as some had speculated.

The new iPad unveiled Wednesday comes with improvements that may not be readily apparent to the casual observer. It has, as expected, a sharper screen, driven by a faster processing chip that acts as the “brains” of the device. What was more surprising was that the new features mean the tablet AP Photo/Paul Sakuma computer will be slightly thicker and Apple CEO Tim Cook clasp his hands during an new iPad announcement during an Apple heavier than the iPad 2, because it event in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 7, 2012. The new iPad features a sharper screen needs a larger battery to power the and a faster processor. Apple says the new display will be even sharper than the high- high-resolution screen. definition television set in the living room.

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DENPASAR - Allocation of education budget that has not reached 20 percent of the total Bali Regional Budget 2012 is now widely criticized by practitioners and observers of education in Bali.

The Law on the National Education System (Sisdiknas) expressly mandates the government at all levels to allocate at least 20 percent of the total regional budget. By such a way, the 20 percent allocation for education in the regional budget is compulsory so that the government components which do not comply with the provisions can be categorized to have violated the Law on the National Education System.

“In my opinion, if someone

accuses the Bali Government of having violated the Law of the National Education System is legitimate because the education budget has not reached 20 percent of the total Regional Budget 2012,” said Deputy Chairman of the Committee of SMAN 1 Denpasar senior high school, Prof. Dr. I Wayan Maba, to Bali Post.

If the Bali Government did not want to be accused of violating the Law of the National Education System, said Maba, then there

was no other choice but should meet the mandate of the law by allocating at least 20 percent of the regional budget for the development of education sector.

In this context, the professor assigned in the Mahasaraswati University requested the Bali Government to increase its attention to the development of education sector followed by concrete action through the allocation of higher budget for the education sector.

He affirmed the commitment in education sector was mandatory because it was strategic and closely related to human resources investment. Armed with the quality education, this nation could hope an improvement in the quality of future generations.

“The intellectuality and intelligence established will be able to offset the increasingly tight global competition. Therefore, never assume the budgetary allocation for education set forth in the Law of the National Education System as a burden.

However, it must be understood as an investment to prepare the young generation of Bali in order they could win the tight competition in the globalization era. If Bali Government really has a strong commitment to improve the quality of Balinese human resources, I think the Bali Government has the financial ability to realize the 20 percent budget for the education,” he said.

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Alleged to overdose A Russian citizen found dead in lodging room Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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Puputan field, one of the city park exist in Denpasar.

Get rid of squalid impression Slums transformed into beautiful City Park

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Existence of many slums established at the fringe of several main roads has become one of the factors making Denpasar look squalid. For example, the slums can be found in the area of Jalan Gatot Subroto precisely behind the Super Ekonomi Supermarket, Tohpati, Kesiman Kertalangu, East Denpasar. To get rid of the squalid impression, Denpasar Municipality has set a plan to arrange and transform the area into a city park. It means the policy will force dozens of dwellers renting the slums to leave the location.

Contacted on Wednesday (Mar 7), the Headman of Kesiman Kertalangu, IB Bima Putra, confirmed the arrangement plan of the area.

According to him, the slums on Jalan Gatot Subroto Timur posed one of the program targets of the Denpasar Municipality in arranging all the slums area in Denpasar City. “This location is included in the arrangement program. So, today (Wednesday—Ed) we and related agencies in the Denpasar Municipality such as the Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP) and the civilian security guard (Tramtib) and public order agency (Satpol PP) makes an inspection to location of the arrangement later,” said Bima Putra.

According to Bima Putra, the land becoming the arrangement target was owned by a resident on

behalf of Mangku Muliarta. Currently, on the land had been built a few semi-permanent buildings inhabited by regional migrants on a lease. “With regard to the arrangement plan, we will organize another meeting with relevant agencies and landowners to find out the solutions regarding the technical implementation later,” he said.

When confirmed separately, the landowner, Mangku Muliarta, claimed if he would be willing to follow the rules of the government.

However, he wanted to get clarity when the land had been arranged whether he still could occupy or build a house for himself at that location. “I do realize if this land is shabby on account of the slums.

Actually I want to arrange it, but I do not have money. If the govern-

ment would now like to arrange and it is a necessity, I will follow,” he said.

Related to the plan, Mangku Muliarta claimed to have not notified the occupants of those slums.

Since there had been a regulation about the matter, they had to comply with it. “If it is a must and when I ask him to move, they should do so. Now, I am waiting for the result of meeting to be held in the headman’s office,” he said.

According to him, on the land area of 150 square meters was built eight units of semipermanent house and rented out to eight families. Each unit was rented at IDR 50,000 per month so that he totally earned IDR 400,000. “I use the revenue for school fees of my children,” he said frankly. (kmb13)

Occupants, employees as well as the owner of lodging in the area of Jalan Bakung Sari No. 3 B, Kuta, Badung, Tuesday (Mar 6), were surprised by the discovery of a body. In fact, the body was identified as Valentina from Russia. The victim was one of the occupants of the lodging. Allegedly the victim’s death was caused by overdose.

However, to be sure, the victim’s body was rushed to Sanglah Hospital for autopsy.

Chief of Kuta Police, I Gede Ganefo, Wednesday (Mar 7), justified the victim’s death. His party was still making investigation related to the cause of death. Based on the results of tentative examination, no signs of violence were found on the victim’s body. For further investigation, the victim’s body was taken to Sanglah Hospital. “Her body has been sent to Sanglah Hospital,” explained the former chief of South Denpasar Police.

As initial allegation, the victim died of an overdose. When police conducted an examination at the crime scene, it was found two bottles of liquor belonging to Whiskey and Vodka type. Not only that, police also encountered sev-

eral drugs in the victim’s room. “From information of witnesses or the lodging owner, it was not known for sure about the victim’s daily activities. The victim had been staying in the lodging for a month and 12 days,” she said.

Information of the police authority said the discovery of the victim’s body in her room was first known by the lodging owner, Wayan Sudarti. Previously, Sudarti did not have suspicion if the victim would be found motionless in her room. The witness knocked at the door of the victim’s room and then opened it. “When the door was opened, the witness was surprised as the victim was found lying,” explained one of the officers in the Kuta Police last Wednesday.

The witness tried to wake up the victim by shaking her body because the victim was thought to sleep. As no reaction from the victim, the witness believed if the victim was dead. Afterward, the victim told local residents and reported the case to Kuta Police.

Having received the report, police officers drove to the scene. At the scene, the officers conducted an investigation and interrogated a number of witnesses. (kmb21)

Night of Pengerupukan Gianyar anticipates dozens of critical points Gianyar (Bali Post)—

A number of customary cases and social problems emerging within the past few years have been resolved by mediation. However, they seem to have become a latent source of problems, mainly the vulnerable activities to friction. Some vulnerable areas get serious attention from the Gianyar Government. Dozens of those critical points in Gianyar will be anticipated at the night of Pengerupukan.

It was affirmed by the Head of Gianyar Office of National Union, Politics and Public Protection (Kesbangpollinmas), Ida Bagus Putra Siwagatha, Wednesday (Mar 7). His party had also discussed the critical points at the night of Pengerupukan in the meeting of regional leader consultative forum (Muspida) some time ago. A number of early detection teams had been assigned to monitor any development regarding those critical points in the community until the night of

Pengerupukan.

Against the existing critical points, his party had sent a letter to subdistrict government to make an approach and provide appeal to a number of public figures associated with the implementation of the night of Pengerupukan and celebration of Nyepi or Day of Silence.

Meanwhile, anticipation against the existing critical points in Gianyar Regency would be carried out in almost all the subdistricts. In the Gianyar subdistrict, the critical points covered the area of Sumita—Mulung (fission), Samplangan village (migrants) and Bitera village (Roban and Dauh Uma hamlet). Then, Blahbatuh subdistrict covered the Bonbiyu village, Keramas village—Medahan village, Getas hamlet at Buruan village and Bedulu Village (Wanayu hamlet—Mas hamlet). Then, Sukawati subdistrict started from Kemenuh—Batuan village, Kemenuh—Tegenungan, Ketewel— Guwang, Ketewel—Batubulan to Silakarang village. (kmb16)

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Spurs hand slumping Knicks another defeat Agence France Presse

Tony Parker scored 32 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 118-105 NBA victory over New York on Wednesday, dealing the Knicks their third straight defeat.

Tim Duncan added 17 points for the Spurs, who also got 17 from Manu Ginobili in the Argentine’s second game back after a fortnight out with an abdominal strain.

Carmelo Anthony scored 27 points for the Knicks, who were without injured center Tyson Chandler as well as backup center Jared Jeffries.

Coach Mike D’Antoni opted to shuffle the players he had, starting Iman Shumpert in place of Landry Fields, but the new-look Knicks lineup showed little of the flair that saw them surge before the All-Star break with the emergence of point guard Jeremy Lin. Lin, whose parents were born in Taiwan, became a global sensation last month for the Knicks, coming off the bench to spark the Knicks to a seven-game win streak with big-scoring, clutch shooting and inspired passing.

But the Knicks have since gone 3-6 and Anthony complained after a defeat at Dallas on Tuesday that he wasn’t getting enough chances to score.

He had his opportunities on Wednesday, but the Knicks were hurt by the absence of Chandler on the defensive end.

Lin scored 14 of his 20 points in the second half. Amare Stoudemire had 18 points and 11 rebounds and D’Antoni said the Knicks need to set aside their frustrations and find a way to win.

“I understand the frustration,” D’Antoni said. “We’ve just got to work through it. It’s a combination of everything.

“We as a team have to find better spots for people. People that have the spots have to play better.

I think everybody is a little frustrated. ... It’s OK for frustration to set in. But at the same time, let’s

get it worked out, let’s figure it out and let’s win some games.”

France’s Parker gave the Knicks little time to figure out anything.

He scored 23 points in the first half as the hot-shooting Spurs built a 58-41 halftime lead. San Antonio led by as many as 24 before the Knicks put together a 14-2 run, a rally that proved too little too late.

San Antonio Spurs’ Tony Parker, right, of France, drives around New York Knicks’ Steve Novak during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, in San Antonio.

Australia’s Geale retains IBF middleweight title Agence France Presse

Australia’s Daniel Geale retained his IBF middleweight world title with an unanimous points decision over Ghanaian Osumanu Adama in Hobart late Wednesday.

Geale, 31, defeated his USbased opponent 117-111, 115-113,

118-110 on the judges’ cards in his second defence of the title he first won from Sebastian Sylvester in Germany last year.

Geale will look for further fights overseas against the likes of German WBA champion Felix Sturm, former US undisputed champion Jermain Taylor, Russian WBO ti-

tleholder Dmitry Pirog and Argentine Sergio Gabriel Martinez after improving his record to 27-1.

Fellow Australian Billy Dib retained his IBF featherweight world title on the same fight card, with Mexican challenger Eduardo Escobedo retiring after the sixth round.

Australia’s Daniel Geale, pictured in 2011, retained his IBF middleweight world title with an unanimous points decision over Ghanaian Osumanu Adama in Hobart late Wednesday IBP/afp

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Australia’s Thorpe says London bid likely to fail Reuters

Ian Thorpe’s bid to make Australia’s swimming team for the London Games after coming out of retirement is more than likely doomed to fail at next week’s national trials in Adelaide, the five-times Olympic champion said.

Thorpe, who announced his return to the pool just over a year ago after retiring in 2006, told Australian television he had left his run too late.

“The most realistic outcome of this is that I will most likely fail,” Thorpe told Network Ten. “I wish I had another six months to do this. I wish I had more time to do it.”

Thorpe will compete in the 100 and 200 metres freestyle events at the March 15-22 trials but remains well short of the pace needed to book a spot at a third Olympics.

The 29-year-old clocked a pedestrian 52.28 seconds in the 100 freestyle in Zurich last month, a time unlikely to

secure him even a relay berth in Adelaide.

He swam the 200 in one minute 50.79 seconds at a state championships meeting in Melbourne in January, more than six seconds shy of his 1.44.06 world record in 2001, which stood for almost six years.

Thorpe also failed to impress at a number of meets across the Asian World Cup series since his comeback to competitive swimming in November.

Despite the swimmer ’s own concerns about his progress, Australia’s head coach Leigh Nugent and former champions, including twice 1,500 freestyle Olympic gold medallist Grant Hackett, have refused to write him off.

Thorpe said failure at Adelaide would not mean another prompt retirement.

“It’s probably the last time that I’ll be able to do this, so I want to make the most of it,” he said. “So I’ll probably swim for at least a year or two after the Games.”

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The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) have asked FIFA to take action against their head of security Chris Eaton after the departing Australian linked them to alleged match fixing.

Eaton, who is stepping down from his role with soccer’s world governing body in May, was quoted by the Singapore-based Straits Times newspaper last month as saying he had unconfirmed allegations of match-fixing involving Malaysian officials.

The FAM said they wrote to Eaton asking for clarification of his comments last month and earlier this week said they were

disappointed with his reply.

“He has gone overboard with his unethical statement. I do not know if there is a hidden agenda but FIFA must explain if there is no evidence in such a claim,” FAM deputy president Prince Abdullah Ibni Sultan Ahmad Shah was quoted as saying by the Bernama news agency on Thursday.

“FIFA must also take action for issuing such a damaging statement.” Malaysia has a history of problems with match-fixing. In February, 18 youth players were banned for two-to-five years for match-fixing, which the Malaysian sports minister deemed a disgrace.

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Neymar hat-trick inspires Santos to Libertadores Cup win Reuters

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FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, from Argentina, reacts after scoring his third goal against Bayer 04 Leverkusen during a Champions League round of sixteen, second leg, soccer match at the Nou Camp, in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, March 7, 2012.

Brazil striker Neymar scored a brilliant hat-trick as holders Santos beat fellow Brazilian side Internacional 3-1 in a Libertadores Cup Group One match on Wednesday. Santos, upset 2-1 by Bolivia’s The Strongest at high altitude in La Paz three weeks ago, have three points from two matches.

The Strongest lead the group with six points after they also beat Juan Aurich of Peru last month.

Inter have three points and Juan Aurich none.

Neymar, Brazil’s big hope for

the 2014 World Cup, converted a penalty to give Santos a 1-0 halftime lead at their Vila Belmiro ground before exploding after the break with two superb goals.

In the 54th minute, he picked up the ball in his team’s half and dribbled his way past three defenders before steering it past goalkeeper Muriel at close quarters.

Inter striker Leandro Damiao pulled one back 10 minutes later, but within two minutes Neymar had completed his treble, his speed on the ball leaving two defenders in his wake before he chipped over Muriel.

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The groceries seller is seen on Badung traditional market

Aprindo criticizes prohibition on selling groceries

Fuel price hike is feared to trigger the increase of poverty rate.

It is supported by various studies conducted by many parties related to the impacts of fuel price hike whose increase averagely reaches 29 percent in total.

An economist from the Udayana University, Dr. I Gusti Wayan Murjana Yasa, said on Wednesday (Mar 7) that government plan to raise the fuel prices would have an impact on the rising price of groceries. Estimated, the most serious impact of the fuel price hike would be felt by the low-income groups. “In other words, life of the poor will be increasingly pressured and community groups classified into gray economy or slightly above the poverty line will also potentially drop back to poverty. This condition will aggravate the poverty condition,” he said.

He added that mitigation measures required to overcome the condition could be through the reduction program in the burden of living cost of the poor households and empowerment program. Related to reduction program against the living costs of poor households, he said could be implemented through the assistance of rice for the poor (raskin), scholarships and other short-term schemes. Meanwhile, the medium-term and long-term program could be done through empowerment of poor households pursuant to their potential to capture various opportunities of

productive activities that enabled them to earn money.

In line with Murjana, another economic observer and former leader of Bank Indonesia Denpasar, I Gusti Bagus Oka Viraguna, said the government plan to raise the price of subsidized-fuel was not a smart choice at the moment. Though in terms of government’s interest it had a good impact on reducing the burden of National Budget worth IDR 40 trillion, compensation provision of direct cash assistance (BLT) for short-term interest was considered unable to resolve the increasingly severe poverty.

He said the fuel price hike would only increase the current burden of community remaining to be affected by economic crisis, chiefly for the marginalized community whose life was in miseries all the time. The increase in fuel price had resulted in a domino effect on the society since it was always followed by the increase in the price of groceries, not to mention the possibility of a tariff increase in the public transport.

“Top priorities before deciding the policy of fuel price hike are the improvement of economic infrastructure such as the public services, public transportation, supply side, legal system, legal enforcement and concrete governance, so that the rise in fuel price can provide alternative opportunities for the marginalized communities in responding to the fuel price hike,” he explained. (kmb28)

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Indonesian Retail Merchants Association (Aprindo) criticized the Decree of Denpasar Mayor No.188.45/495/HK/2011 about the regulation of modern stores. One of the contents is prohibiting the modern stores on selling groceries and this point is assessed to incriminate the community.

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BARCELONA - Lionel Messi at his breathtaking best ripped Bayer Leverkusen apart with a record five-goal Champions League haul on Wednesday as Barcelona swept past the Germans and into the quarter-finals 7-1 on the night and 10-2 on aggregate. The Argentine World Player of the Year became the first player to score five in a Champions League match with the holders handing out one of the most comprehensive drubbings in the competition’s history.

After they lost last month’s round of 16 first leg in Leverkusen 3-1, the Bundesliga side’s mission impossible was effectively ended when Messi sped on to Xavi’s lofted pass and scooped the ball over Bernd Leno in the 25th minute. He added a second with a trademark run across the defence and low shot three minutes before halftime and completed his hat-trick with another stunning chip, this time with his right foot, four minutes after the break.

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twice either side of Messi’s fourth, which came after Leno spilled the ball at his feet, and the Argentine wizard bagged his fifth with a powerful strike six minutes from time before Leverkusen substitute Karim Bellarabi scored an addedtime goal.

Messi has been enjoying a purple patch in recent weeks, even by his lofty standards, and Wednesday’s goals took his tally to 14 in his last five matches for club and country.

He now has 12 in the Champions League in seven appearances this

season and has netted an astonishing 30 goals in his last 25 games in Europe’s elite club competition.

Leverkusen coach Robin Dutt cut a lonely figure on the touchline in the second half as his side were humbled by the Spanish, European and world champions.

However, the 4,000 travelling Leverkusen fans high up in the giant arena remained in fine voice until the end and Bellarabi’s goal was some reward for their efforts to drown out the 75,000-strong home support.

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Brazil’s Santos’ Neymar celebrates after scoring his second goal against Brazil’s Internacional during a Copa Libertadores soccer match in Santos, Brazil, Wednesday, March 7, 2012.

Chairman of the Aprindo Bali, I Gusti Made Dhordy, suggested the government to review the decision concerning with the prohibition on selling groceries for modern stores in Denpasar.

Decision of the government prohibiting all the modern stores on selling groceries would only incriminate the people who lived far from the location of traditional market.

“We agree to the endeavor of Denpasar Municipality to regulate the modern stores in Denpasar, including prohibiting the sale of groceries. However, we are asking the municipal government to rethink the prohibition of selling basic necessities for modern stores located far from

traditional market,” said Dhordy, Wednesday (Mar 7).

According to him, having been discussed, in fact the plan of municipal government to prohibit all the modern stores in Denpasar to sell groceries was still not right because it did not consider the people living far from traditional market.

“We hope the Denpasar Municipality could rethink the regulation. If it prohibits the stores located close to traditional market is okay, we strongly support it. However, we essentially would like to serve the community living far from traditional market.

The government does not only aim to promote the modern market, but also serves the community,” he said.

The Head of Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency, Wayan Gatra, in separate location said his party would examine it further. In essence, the government did not want to complicate anyone, both the employers of modern stores and the community. “We’ll discuss with the modern store assessment team for further measures,” he said.

The Decree of Denpasar Mayor No.188.45/495/HK/2011 dated September 9, 2011 is concerning with the arrangement of modern stores. Therein is also mentioned about the modern stores having no permit are given opportunity to submit all the operational requirements no later than six months. The deadline will be at the end of this March. (kmb27)

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the officer is filling gas to a car. Fuel price hike is feared to trigger the increase of poverty rate.

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Iran may be cleaning up nuke work

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Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth

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VIENNA — Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and earthmoving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe’s magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.

The assertions from the diplomats, all nuclear experts accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency, could add to the growing international pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, which Tehran insists is for peaceful purposes.

While the U.S. and the EU are backing a sanctions-heavy approach, Israel has warned that it may resort to a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities to prevent it from obtaining atomic weapons.

Two of the diplomats said the crews at the Parchin military site may be trying to erase evidence of tests of a small experimental neutron device used to set off a nuclear explosion. A third diplomat could not confirm that but said any attempt to trigger a so-called neutron initiator could only be in the context of trying to develop nuclear arms.

The diplomats said they suspect attempts at sanitization because some of the vehicles at the scene appeared to be haulage trucks and other equipment suited to carting off poten-

The storm started with a massive solar flare earlier in the week and grew as it raced outward from the sun, expanding like a giant soap bubble, scientists said. When it strikes, the particles will be moving at 4 million mph.

“It’s hitting us right in the nose,” said Joe Kunches, a scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo.

The massive cloud of charged particles could disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite networks and GPS services, especially in northern areas. But the same blast could also paint colorful auroras farther from the poles than normal.

Astronomers say the sun has been relatively quiet for some time. And this storm, while strong, may seem fiercer because Earth has been lulled by sev-

tially contaminated soil from the site.

The images, provided by member countries to the IAEA, the U.N’s nuclear watchdog, are recent and constantly updated, one of the diplomats said. The diplomats all requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the information on the record.

The IAEA has already identified Parchin as the location of suspected nuclear weaponsrelated testing. In a November report, it said it appeared to be the site of experiments with conventional high explosives meant to initiate a nuclear chain reaction.

It did not mention a neutron initiator as part of those tests, but in a separate section cited an unnamed member nation as saying Iran may have experimented with a neutron initiator, without going into detail or naming a location for such work.

In contrast, the intelligence information shared with the AP by the two diplomats linked the high-explosives work directly to setting off a neutron initiator at Parchin.

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Satellite image received courtesy of the Institute for Science and International Security, shows Iran’s military site in Parchin.

Prince Harry changes schedule after Afghan deaths

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Thai security personnel investigate the wreckage of a jeep after a bomb attack by suspected Muslim militants as weapons and body armour of soldiers are seen in the foreground on a roadside in Thailand’s southern Narathiwat province March 7, 2012.

Bomb kills 4 Thai soldiers in Muslim south Reuters

NARATHIWAT, Thailand - Four soldiers were killed and one was critically wounded when insurgents detonated a roadside bomb in Thailand’s Muslim south, police said on Thursday.

The attack took place late on Wednesday in Narathiwat, one of three mainly Muslim provinces bordering Malaysia, where a shadowy insurgency has claimed more than 5,000 lives since 2004, when a low-level separatist rebellion from the 1970s resurfaced.

The soldiers were travelling in two vehicles and had been providing security during a Buddhist festival. They were attacked moments after delivering the body of a Muslim villager to his family after he was shot dead by

suspected rebels. Three of the soldiers were killed instantly, a fourth died in hospital.

In a separate incident, a Muslim rubber farmer was shot dead and his wife seriously wounded early on Thursday when two unknown gunmen opened fire on them while they were working at their farm, police said.

The region, which is more than 1,100 km (680 miles) away from the capital, Bangkok, was part of an independent Malay Muslim sultanate until annexed by predominantly Buddhist Thailand in 1909.

The government insists the military’s large-scale deployment in the rubber-rich region is vital to quell the rebellion, but many Muslims say their presence is exacerbating the conflict.

be on its core professional roles and of looking after the bereaved of those tragically killed in Afghanistan,” on such a tragic day, the statement said.

Wednesday’s deaths amounted to the biggest British loss of life in a single incident in Afghanistan since a Nimrod aircraft crashed in 2006, killing 14 crew.

The prince, third-in-line to the British throne, is touring Caribbean Commonwealth realms to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee year.

Britain’s Prince Harry proved he was a top shot on Wednesday during his trip to Jamaica, but he also changed his plans after learning that six fellow troops had been killed in Afghanistan.

The British prince fired 16 live rounds on a 30-meter practice range and earned praise from a local army trainer.

“Excellent shooting, a perfect grouping with perfect results,” said Jamaican Defence Force Sergeant Anthony Forbes.

However the prince, who is an Apache helicopter pilot in the British Army, canceled a planned rappelling event after it emerged that the six troops had been killed in Afghanistan when a massive roadside bomb engulfed their armored vehicle.

A statement from a Royal family spokesman said Prince Harry “did not wish to take part in a military activity which would be deemed peripheral to an Apache piAP PhotoJohn Stillwell/PA lot,” following the Britain’s Prince Harry follows the signature victory gesture of deaths.

Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt, Tuesday March 6 2012 “The focus for the following a mock race at the University of the West Indies, in British Army should Jamaica.

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This handout image provided by NASA shows a solar flare heading toward Earth. An impressive solar flare is heading toward Earth and could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights.

Scientists survey seabed fractured by Japan quake

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Scientists on Thursday launched a mission to the seabed off Japan where a massive quake triggered last year’s devastating tsunami, to get their first proper look at the buckled ocean floor.

Researchers from Germany and Japan are sending high-tech vehicles to probe the seabed up to 7,000 metres (23,000 feet) below the surface where the massive seismic shock hit last March.

“We want to deploy instruments on the sea floor and also map the area to see the large changes caused by the earthquake,” said Gerold Wefer, who is leading the project. His team said the data gathered from the month-long mission covering a rupture zone stretching hundreds of kilometres (miles) would help them understand the mechanism of huge quakes and the tsunamis they can spawn.

The mission comes as Japan readies to mark the first anniversary of the 9.0 magnitude quake that unleashed a huge tsunami on March 11.

More than 19,000 people died and vast tracts of coastline were crushed by towering waves that rushed ashore, swamping the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and sparking the worst atomic accident in a generation.

Wefer, director of the German Centre for Marine Environmental Changes at Bremen University, told reporters he was feeling “quite high” ahead of the start of the mission. He said scientists would see “huge cracks” in rocks that run parallel to the trench off the main Japanese island of Honshu. “The rocks were broken into pieces” by the quake, releasing fluid and gas into the ocean, he said.

The team will use an autonomously controlled 5.5-metre (18-feet) vehicle, which looks like a small submarine, to map the sea floor with a multibeam sonar device. The mothership from which the vehicle will be launched is equipped with echo sounders and will map several longer profiles extending from the shelf off Honshu across the deep-sea trench.

Brermen University marine environmental science center (MARUM) researcher Gerold Wefer displays an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) on a German research ship “Sonne” at the Yokohama port, suburban Tokyo on March 7, 2012.

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eral years of weak solar activity.

The storm is part of the sun’s normal 11-year cycle, which is supposed to reach peak storminess next year. Solar storms don’t harm people, but they do disrupt technology. And during the last peak around 2002, experts learned that GPS was vulnerable to solar outbursts.

Because new technology has flourished since then, scientists could discover that some new systems are also at risk, said Jeffrey Hughes, director of the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling at Boston University. A decade ago, this type of solar storm happened a couple of times a year, Hughes said.

“This is a good-size event, but not the extreme type,” said Bill Murtagh, program coordinator for

the federal government’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The sun erupted Tuesday evening, and the most noticeable effects should arrive here between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. EST Thursday, according to forecasters at the space weather center. The effects could linger through Friday morning.

Center forecaster Rob Steenburgh said that as of 2:30 a.m. EST Thursday, there were no noticeable effects on Earth. But he said there were some indications from a satellite, which registered a slight rise in low energy particles. The region of the sun that erupted can still send more blasts our way, Kunches said. He said another set of active sunspots is ready to aim at Earth right after this.

“This is a big sun spot group, particularly nasty,” NASA solar physicist David Hathaway said.

“Things are really twisted up and mixed up. It keeps flaring.” Storms like this start with sun spots, Hathaway said.

A woman, suffering from Alzheimer’s desease, walks in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern France, in 2011.

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Alzheimer’s drug aids more severe cases too: study

Agence France Presse

The most widely prescribed drug to treat mild Alzheimer’s disease, Aricept (donepezil), has been shown for the first time to help patients with more severe cases too, a study said Wednesday. The research was funded by the UK Medical Research Council and the Alzheimer’s Society, and received donated pills from the pharmaceutical companies PfizerEisa and Lundbeck but drugmakers were not otherwise involved.

Treating patients with advanced Alzheimer’s offered “significant functional benefits over the course of 12 months,” said the article in the New England Journal of Medicine which included nearly 300 patients.

Doctors often stop prescribing donepezil to patients with more advanced

dementia because the drug’s benefit is unclear and treatment may appear to have less benefit as the disease progresses. The randomized clinical trial looked at the effects of donepezil on patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s who scored between five and 13 on a scale of one to 30, where 30 indicates higher cognitive function.

It found that taking donepezil for 52 weeks resulted in improved scores on mental tests and measures of daily activity compared to those who were assigned to discontinue the drug.

“For the first time, we have robust and compelling evidence that treatment with these drugs can continue to help patients at the later, more severe stages of the disease,” said lead author Robert Howard from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London.

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Entertainment

Friday, March 9, 2012

PARIS — Harvey Weinstein says “The Artist” is just the beginning. “France is about to have a golden age of cinema,” said the Hollywood titan, who produced the Frenchborn silent film that captured the world’s attention and five Academy Awards, including best picture.

Weinstein told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his optimism is driven in part by a French law cracking down on the Internet piracy that has strangled the U.S. movie and music industries. The expansive New Yorker was feeling particularly well-disposed to France after a Paris party celebrating “The Artist” this week and getting the esteemed Legion of Honor award from French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday.

Sarkozy turned out to be a big movie buff, and Weinstein said that when they met, the French leader quoted from a

five-hour documentary Weinstein and Martin Scorsese once did and praising Danish silent filmmaker Carl Dreyer.

“He sees a movie almost every day. ... He understands that movies can change somebody’s life,” Weinstein said. Sarkozy’s office wouldn’t comment on the meeting with Weinstein, other than to say it took place.

Sarkozy, facing a tough bid for re-election next month, also understands that French cinema would be in much worse shape without government subsidies, and made a point of saying so in a congratulatory letter to the “Artist” Oscar winners.

Thanks to that government support, the success of “The Artist,” and especially the anti-piracy law that Sarkozy championed, “France is having its most robust cinema on a global basis than at any time,” Weinstein said. “Sarkozy has the guts to go and make the toughest content law in the world,” he said. “It’s given French cinema a rebirth.”

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JAKARTA – Recently Aston International and PT. Frande Jaya Resort celebrated the Ground Breaking of the “favehotel Kasuari – Makassar”.

The favehotel Kasuari – Makassar will be an economy class select service hotel following in the footsteps of the already immensely popular favehotels in Jakarta, Bali, Solo, Surabaya and Langkawi. The new hotel will feature 108 fun, fresh and friendly guest rooms, an eclectic coffee shop and several small and mid seized meeting rooms and enjoys an ideal location nearby the Losari Beach promenade.

Makassar is Sulawesi’s largest city and ranked amongst Indonesia’s top 10

Teenager Sanchez wows ‘American Idol’ judges The 16-year-old San Diego high school student’s assured version of “I Will Always Love You” was “just amazing. I don’t even know what to say,” Jennifer Lopez exclaimed during the performance show.

“Jessica, you may be the one. You

just made 40 million people cry,” Tyler said (adding a dose of hyperbole by roughly doubling the show’s biggest Wednesday night audience for the season so far). Randy Jackson didn’t hold back either, calling Sanchez “one of the best talents in the whole country.”

On the Fox show’s 400th episode, the men tackled Stevie Wonder’s catalogue and the women choose from Houston’s hits, a tribute to the singer who died Feb. 11, on the eve of the Grammy Awards, at age 48. “I Will Always Love You” was played at the conclusion of Houston’s New Jersey church funeral last month.

The “American Idol” finalists performed as the Fox show marked its 400th episode. In a twist, the male and female singers who rank lowest in the audience vote will be announced Thursday and the judges will decide which of the two will be bounced.

Whitney Houston leaves everything to her daughter

Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA — Whitney Houston left everything to her 19-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina. The pop superstar’s will doesn’t mention specific assets, but leaves all of her furnishings, clothing, personal effects, jewelry and cars to her surviving children.

Bobbi Kristina was her only child.

Inside Edition first reported the will, filed in Atlanta, on Wednesday. Houston’s money will be put in a trust. Her sister-in-law and manager, Patricia Houston, was appointed the administrator of the estate.

Upon turning 21, Bobbi Kristina will receive part

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of the money, more of it at age 25 and the balance at age 30. Houston’s trustees can give her money from the trust for various purposes, including tuition, to buy a home and to start a business.

The will was signed on Feb. 3, 1993, about a month before Houston gave birth to her daughter.

The 48-year-old died Feb. 11 in California.

In this undated image from video released by Harpo, Inc., host Oprah Winfrey, left, embraces Bobbi Kristina, daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston during an interview in Atlanta, Ga.

Calendar Event for February 19 through March 17, 2012 19 Feb Redite Pon Medangsia Pura Agung Pentilan Kesiman-Denpasar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kerambitan Tabanan 20 Feb Soma Wage Medangsia Pura Nataran Desa Getas Blahbatuh Merajan Pasek Gelgel Aan-Klungkung Pura Pasek Bakbakan Gianyar 21 Feb Tilem Kawulu Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih Pura Dalem Yang Taluh Sidemen - Karangasem Pura Dalem Kangin Sidemen - Karangasem 22 Feb Buda Umanis Medangsia Pura Gede Perancak-Jembrana Pura Dalem Dauma-Batuan Sukawati Pura Nataran Kacangdawa Klungkung Odalan Bhatara, Gede Apol Ubung Denpasar Pura Puseh Brahmana Kawasan-Klungkung Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan Pura Dalem Sukehet Klungkung Pura Dalem Muaspatih Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Tegalalang Pura Desa Sanding-Tampaksiring Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Batanbuah-Kesiman.

Pura Sahab Nusa Penida Merajan Agung Gorokgak Dalem Sukawati 23 Feb Wraspati Paing Medangsia Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitera-Gianyar 26 Feb Redite Keliwon Pujut Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi 4 Mar Redite Paing Pahang.

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Pura Pasek Sandra Peguyangan Badung.

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Snapshot Ground Breaking of favehotel Kasuari – Makassar, seen in the image balloon releases by Mrs. Leli Uche – Commisioner of PT. Frande Jaya Resort (left) and Mrs. Rusmayani Majid – Chief of Tourism & Culture (right) as an official sign of favehotel Kasuari – Makassar’s development.

Temple Ceremony

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LOS ANGELES — Gutsy “American Idol” contestant Jessica Sanchez took on Whitney Houston’s biggest hit, delivering a performance that awed the show’s judges. When host Ryan Seacrest asked the panel to name Wednesday night’s top two singers among the 13 finalists, Steven Tyler was ready. “Jessica Sanchez and Jessica Sanchez,” Tyler said.

U.S film producer and movie studio chairman Harvey Weinstein during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Wednesday, March 7, 2012, the same day as Weinstein received, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

metropolitan areas with an approximate population of 1 400 000. Besides its booming economy and important harbor the city also offers several tourist attractions such as the colonial Fort Rotterdam and the Trans Studio indoor theme park which is the third largest indoor amusement park in the world.

Aston International’s Vice President Sales & Marketing Vice President, Mr. Norbert Vas, said “favehotels aim to be the best in class budget hotels in SE Asia and Aston’s goal for Indonesia is to offer the largest, most consistent and most reliable network of budget hotels in the country.

Bringing “fave” to Makassar is an important step towards this goal and increases the number of faves currently already open or under construction to 30 hotels.”

In this March 1, 2012 image released by Fox, the remaining 13 contestants from the singing competition series, “American Idol,” are shown in Los Angeles.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Ground breaking of Favehotel Kasuari

Harvey Weinstein: French film’s golden age is now Associated Press Writer

Activities

International

International

6 Mar Anggara Wage Pahang Pura Batu Madeg Besakih(Meru Tumpang Sanga)

Pura Hyang Tibha Batuan Sakah.

7 Mar Purnama Kesanga Pura Penataran sasih Pejeng - Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani.

7 Mar Buda Keliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti Tabanan Pura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem Pura Aer Jeruk Sukawati Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan-Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang-Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel-Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh-Kediri-Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati Gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning-Buleleng Pura Puseh Bebandem-Karangasem Merajan Pasek Kubayan-Gaji.

Merajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-Songan Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga Merajan Pasek Gelgel Bungbungan Sad Kahyangan Batu Medahu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih-Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Pasek Bendesa Tagtag Paguyangan.

Pura Pulasari Sibang Gede Abiansemal Pura Batur Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati.

12 Mar Soma Keliwon Krulut Pura Pasel Gelgel Kekeran Mngwi Badung Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar.

17 Mar Hari Tumpek Krurut Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Desa Jelantik Tojan Pura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel - Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Bebalang Bangli Pura Benua Kangin Besakih.

Pura Merajan Kanginan Besakih.

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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News

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Chaos as Sydney lashed by heaviest rain in five years

Friday, March 9, 2012

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Sydney was thrown into chaos Thursday after the city’s heaviest rainfall in five years sparked widespread flash flooding and forced the closure of railway lines and dozens of roads.

Large tracts of Australia’s most populous state New South Wales are under water, with Sydney feeling the force of a La Nina weather system as an estimated 119 millimetres (4.7 inches) of rain fell on the city -- the highest daily total since 2007.

“There has been very, very heavy rain and some very strong winds,” a Bureau of Meteorology spokesman said. La Nina conditions typically bring higher-thannormal rainfall.

The downpour sparked extensive flash flooding, caused havoc with bus timetables, road and rail transport and prompted power cuts to at least 2,000 homes.

Several flights from Sydney were delayed or cancelled while there were fears that hundreds of boats on Sydney Harbour could sink after filling up with rainwater, NSW Maritime officials said.

“We’ve had a hell of a rain event,” NSW roads minister Duncan Gay told reporters. “It is a weather event the likes of which many of us have never seen before. It’s that one-in-a-hundred year event that you hear of.”

Reports said authorities had

been called out to more than 1,000 incidents in the city, with overflowing rivers and canals engulfing cars and homes in suburban Sydney. A savage windstorm in the city’s east also tore bricks and tiles from homes.

Further inland, the town of Forbes, was cut in three by flooding with some 1,000 people ordered to leave their homes as the Lachlan River continued to rise.

“We’re totally surrounded in the CBD by water,” Forbes mayor Phyllis Miller told national broadcaster ABC. Heavy rain and flooding has hit three eastern states throughout the week, sweeping two men to their deaths after they attempted to cross waterways in cars, inundating hundreds of homes and causing millions of dollars in damage.

A police officer was lucky to escape with his life after falling down a mountainside Thursday when the ground beneath him gave way as he worked on a fallen tree in the NSW Southern Highlands.

He plunged some 30 metres (100 feet) before his fall was broken by vines and he was taken to

Apple...

From page 1 Prices aren’t changing from the previous models. They will start at $499. Versions capable of accessing cellular networks will cost $629 to $829.

Apple is keeping the basic model of the iPad 2 in production and dropping the price to $399.

That could help Apple regain some market share from cheaper tablets like Amazon.com Inc.’s $199 Kindle Fire. Samsung Electronics and other makers of full-size tablets have cut their prices to below $500.

The battery life of the new model remains the same: about 10 hours of use. Apple says the battery capacity is 70 percent higher than for the old model, which suggests that it could have kept the old screen and extended the battery life to 17 hours instead of upgrading the screen resolution.

Apple said the new display will be sharper than the average high-definition television set. In a hands-on demonstration for an Associated Press reporter, text shown on the screen was noticeably crisper. The higher resolution won’t make a difference, however, for most Web images, which are of low resolution. The new screen should be able to show all the detail in high-definition movies, which the iPad 2 does not.

The new screen can also show deeper and more vibrant colors than previous models, Apple said.

“We are taking it to a whole new level and are redefining the category that Apple cre-

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A stranded motorist (R) is rescued by emergency personnel as heavy rains caused flash flooding across Sydney on March 8, 2012 hospital in a stable condition.

“The rain and the flooding continues and there is hardly an area of NSW that has not been affected at some point,” NSW emergency services minister Michael Gal-

ated with the original iPad,” said Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook at the launch event in San Francisco.

Cook spoke of a “post-PC” era dominated by the iPad and other Apple products.

The new iPad will go on sale March 16 in the U.S., Canada and 10 other countries.

A week later, it will go on sale in 25 more countries.

The lack of a new name could cause confusion for buyers, particularly since the older model, the “iPad 2,” will still be sold. But the naming practice is consistent with Apple’s practices for the iPod. New models have been simply called “iPod.” Consumers are left to figure out which generation of the product they are looking for.

Compared with the iPad 2, the new model features a higher-resolution camera on the back, similar to the one in the iPhone 4S. The new iPad will be 9.4 millimeters thick, or 0.37 inches. That compares with 8.8 millimeters, or 0.34 inches, for the iPad 2. The weight is going up from 1.33 pounds to 1.44 pounds for the Wi-Fi-only model. The original iPad weighed 1.5 pounds.

Apple also confirmed that the new model will come in a version that can use Verizon Wireless’ and AT&T Inc.’s “LTE” wireless broadband networks. They offer speeds that are faster than the “3G” networks used by previous iPads, and current iPhones.

Apple is updating some of the software on the tablet to take advantage of the new features. For example, it’s introducing a version of the Mac’s iPhoto photo organization and manipulation program for the iPad.

lacher said.

Parts of rural Victoria state are also struggling, with residents from the northern town of Nathalia evacuated as floodwaters threatened to breach both its main levees.

Provincial...

From page 1 Furthermore, Maba also urged the people’s representatives in the Bali House, chiefly the Commission IV handling the educational issues, to be proactive in ‘escorting’ the commitment to realize the 20 percent education budget as mandated by law. They should have the courage to criticize and request clarification if the executive designed the education budget far below the requirements. “People’s representatives should oversee this education budget seriously. Do not even keep silent if the education sector is given small budgetary portion because it equally means if the legislators have violated the law,” he said.

Similar request was also revealed by Maba to the elites of the teachers’ association (PGRI) of Bali in order not to instantly fall asleep if the Bali Government and regency/municipal government claimed to have allocated the education budget over 20 percent. They should conduct a search whether the budget had actually been used for quality improvement programs, educational services as well as improvement of education infrastructure and facilities. There was a possibility if such 20 percent education budget was false because half of the budget was allocated for salary of teachers. “I do hope PGRI has the courage to criticize the government policies that do not take sides in the educational development. Do not just keep silent and surrender when the educational development is allocated a tight

Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said it was too early to establish the cost of the floods, although some estimates have put it as high as Aus$1 billion ($1.05 billion).

budget, but they must do a resistance in a positive connotation,” he criticized.

Proposed program

Similar opinion was also delivered by Committee Chairman of SMK PGRI 3 Denpasar vocational school, I Nyoman Madiun. In the context of ‘escorting’ the realization of the education budget by 20 percent, the Director of the Bali Tourism Institute Nusa Dua requested the elites of the PGRI to have an intensive discussion with the decision makers in the process of preparing the regional budget. Likewise, it should also proactively propose the programs considered urgent in an effort to improve the quality of education in their respective region.

“PGRI should be able to convince the government that budgetary allocation of 20 percent for education is not a burden but a worthwhile investment to improve the quality of human resources and competitiveness of the nation in the global level,” he said.

Madiun also asked the Bali Government to gradually fulfill its obligation in realizing the education budget of 20 percent as required by Law of the National Education System. If the financial capability of the region enabled, there was certainly no reason for Bali Government not to implement the mandate. “With a higher allocation for the education budget, of course, we can expect more to the efforts in improving the quality of our human resources in the future. Never assume the education budget as a burden, but it should be interpreted as a valuable investment that will improve the competitiveness of Balinese human in the global competition,” he said. (ian)

Berlin berates Athens for bureaucracy stopping investment

Reuters

BERLIN - Athens’ failure to accept Germany’s help on reducing bureaucracy and boosting private investment is disappointing, German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler was cited as saying by a newspaper on Thursday.

Germany pledged last October to advise Greece on cutting red tape and attracting investment to help its economy get back on its feet and have a fighting chance to cope with its debt.

The agreement was struck during Roesler’s visit to Greece as head of a 70-strong delegation of German industry representatives seeking business in the country.

“The aid has hardly been accepted, a lot has been in vain so far, it is very disillusioning,” Roesler told the Saarbruecker Zeitung.

The newspaper quoted a ministry progress report on the deal, which read: “The implementation clearly is not a priority on the Greek side.”

Companies wanting to invest in Greece have met with hurdles such as a multitude of approval procedures and unclear responsibility, according to the ministry.

“It is not failing due to a lack of will, the fundamental problem are the structures,” Roesler told the paper.

Roesler said he was also disappointed that some German companies which had previously done business with Greece had still not been paid.

“The Greek side said during my visit that it would soon resolve the old cases,” he said. “Unfortunately there has been hardly any progress on this.”

Germany has a big stake in the debt-stricken Greek economy.

Athens has been one of the biggest

buyers of German armaments over the past decade and German companies manage some of Greece’s largest firms, including Athens International Airport, managed by engineering firm Hochtief.

Greece’s cash-strapped hospitals owe dozens of millions of euros in arrears to German drugmakers and health equipment providers, such as Bayer.

Roesler urged the Greek government to do what was necessary to ensure it could return to growth.

Athens needed to create the necessary conditions for growth, by modernizing the administration, opening up its markets and implementing its privatization programme, he said.

“Only when these steps have been seriously implemented will the willingness to invest increase,” he said.

Greece, unable to borrow normally on the bond markets, urgently needs a bailout agreed last month to keep paying its bills while it attempts to make deep structural reforms to its shattered economy, now in the fifth year of deep recession.

Euro zone finance ministers are due to decide whether to release the 130 billion euros ($170.57 billion) package during a conference call on Friday but they have already approved the bailout, subject to a private sector creditor agreement slated to go through later on Thursday.

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A businessman looks up a share prices board in Tokyo on March 8, 2012. Japan’s economy shrank less than initially estimated in the fourth quarter as companies ramped up capital expenditure, but the current account swung to a record deficit in January as a shift away from nuclear power pushes up fossil fuel imports.

Japan GDP contraction eases, current account in red Reuters

TOKYO - Japan’s economy shrank less than initially estimated in the fourth quarter as companies ramped up capital expenditure, but the current account swung to a record deficit in January as a shift away from nuclear power pushes up fossil fuel imports.

The revision to GDP showed a 0.2 percent contraction, bang in line with the median market forecast as companies look to an increase in demand due to reconstruction of the country’s tsunami-battered northeast coast.

The current account balance also took a hit in January because Chinese Lunar New Year holiday weighed on exports, but economists see the result as a one-off and expect annual current account to remain in surplus for the next few years.

The figures on GDP could be a welcome sign for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda as he tries to muster support for next fiscal year’s budget and a controversial plan to double the 5 percent sales tax.

“The economy will resume growing in the first quarter as exports increase and as rebuilding after the earthquake proceeds. The economic recovery will continue into the new fiscal year starting from April,” said

Hiroshi Miyazaki, chief economist at Shinkin Asset Management Co in Tokyo. “There are a lot of risk factors, such as a strong yen and Europe’s debt crisis, but these risks have been receding.”

On an annualized basis, the economy shrank 0.7 percent, also in line with forecasts, and less than a preliminary 2.3 percent annualized contraction, the Cabinet Office data showed on Thursday.

Capital expenditure, the main driver of the upward revisions, rose 4.8 percent, slightly less than a 5.0 percent rise expected by economists, but well ahead of a preliminary reading of a 1.9 percent rise.

Larger-than-expected gains in industrial production and bullish output forecasts for the first quarter have raised hopes that Japan’s economy will gather momentum this year.

Japan’s current account balance swung to a record deficit of 437.3 billion yen ($5.41 billion)in January, deeper than the median estimate for a 317.8 billion yen deficit.

Japan logged its first shortfall since January 2009 due to a gaping trade deficit as exports plunged on holiday-thinned Chinese demand while higher fuel costs and nuclear plant shutdowns after last year’s earthquake pushed up energy im-

ports.

The yen slipped to trade at 81.26 per dollar as a current account deficit raises doubts about how long Japan will be able to fund its large public debt domestically.

Economists say it may be some time before Japan consistently runs a deficit in its current account given the income generated on investments overseas.

“The trade balance is likely to stay in deficit this year as we import more energy to offset the declining use of nuclear power,” said Norio Miyagawa, senior economist at Mizuho Securities Research & Consulting.

“The current account should swing back to a surplus as we still have a surplus in the income account. Japan should be able to finance its debt for the time being.

But if it is a question of what happens five to 10 years from now, we cannot be so certain.”

The Bank of Japan is likely to leave monetary policy unchanged at its next meeting on March 12-13.

The BOJ surprised markets on February 14 by easing monetary policy with a 10 trillion yen ($123.86 billion) increase in government bond purchases and set an inflation goal of 1 percent, signaling more vigorous efforts to end deflation.

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Banyuwedang hot spring

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Citibank Indonesia official jailed for bilking $4.4 Million

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Located in Pajarakan Village, Gerokgak District Buleleng Regency, it’s about 60 kms from Singaraja, it’s located near the West Bali National park. This beach area also near the Menjangan beach that usually used for Snorkeling or Diving Banyuwedang Hot spring come from the hot spring in the beach area, this hot spring is the largest hot spring in Bali.

This hot spring contain a little of Sulfur, the average temperature is around 40 C. Because of its sulfur, this hots ping believed able to cure a lot of disease. There is a lot of people come to this place with a hope to cure their sickness.

In the beach area of the hot spring, there is a lot of mangrove (actually this hot spring located in the middle of mangrove forest), so this area was free from abrasion. There also a creek with a white shore in this hot spring area, this makes banyuwedang hot spring even more beautiful than what you have been thinking.

The domestic tourist was dominated the visit to this area, they come with a hope to cure their sickness, lot of domestic tourist come from Banyuwangi, Java. This makes government of the Bali regency planning to make this area as a “Health Tourism”.

JAKARTA — A court has sentenced a top Citibank Indonesia official to eight years in prison for bilking $4.4 million from wealthy clients.

The court said Inong Malinda Dee falsified transfer documents of 35 clients and deposited their money into her relatives’ accounts.

The 50-year-old Citigold rela-

tionships manager used the cash to buy two Ferraris, a Hummer, a Mercedes and a Porsche and got extensive plastic surgery.

Dee’s husband, younger sister and brother-in-law were sentenced earlier to jail terms ranging from two to four years for money laundering.

Dee also was fined $1.1 million Wednesday by the South Jakarta District Court.

Inong Malinda Dee, a former senior vice president of Citibank Indonesia is escorted by police officers upon arrival for her trial at a district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 7, 2012.

The court said Dee falsified transfer documents of 35 clients and deposited their money into her relatives’ accounts. Dee was sentenced to eight years in prison for bilking $4.4 million from wealthy clients.

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Government cuts its growth target for 2012 Antara

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JAKARTA - The government has cut its target of economic growth in 2012 to 6.5 percent from 6.7 percent and remains optimistic the target can be achieved thanks to strong investment and household consumption.

“We hope household consumption and investment will be able to rescue the Indonesian economy in the future,” Finance Minister Agus

Martowardojo said at a working meeting with the House of Representatives (DPR)`s Budgetary Body at the parliament building here on

Yudhoyono calls for strongest action against anarchists Antara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on the police and law enforcers to take the strongest possible action against anarchists.

“The police, security officials, and law enforcers should take the strongest possible action against brutal protesters,” the head of state said when dedicating the PT Tempo Scan Pacific Tbk central office at Kuningan area in South Jakarta, on Wednesday.

President Yudhoyono noted that protests and rallies were reasonable in a democracy but at the same time democracy should be executed in a dignified manner without the violation of law.

“The efforts of Indonesia to implement the law and democracy will be in vain if its people convey their aspirations in an unconstitutional manner,” the president noted.

He said all parties, including businesspersons, should make every effort to maintain the national stability in order to achieve a better economic development. After dedicating the PT Tempo Scan Pacific Tbk central office, President Yudhoyono is scheduled to chair the first plenary session of the National Energy Board.

The plenary session will take place at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry office at 2 pm on Wednesday.

Wednesday night.

He said household consumption was projected to grow by 0.2 percent to 4.9 percent in 2012 from 4.9 percent in 2011.

“Likewise investment is also expected to contribute more to the national economy the more so because Indonesia`s debt rating has been increased to an investment grade when the debt ratings of other

countries decline,” he said.

The minister predicted investment would grow 10.9 percent in 2012 compared to 8.8 percent last year.

He said the government also had revised upward the assumed inflation rate in the revised 2012 state budget to 7 percent from 5.3 percent.

“The assumed inflation rate emerges as a result of a plan to raise

the price of subsidized fuel oils in April,” he said.

The fuel oil price must be raised to maintain the credibility of the state budget in response to spiraling global crude price, he said.

He said the rupiah`s assumed exchange rate against the dollar had been lowered to Rp9,000 per dollar from Rp8,800 per dollar in the 2012 state budget.

Indonesian football to lose funding Associated Press

JAKARTA — The Indonesian government reportedly plans to strip funding for its national football association after a series of scandals — including a 10-0 loss to Bahrain that led to an investigation into what FIFA called an “unusual outcome.”

The loss to Bahrain in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match was the biggest in the national team’s history, and much of the blame fell on the association (PSSI), which has been in turmoil for years.

Without a cash injection, it will likely descend further into crisis.

“We have no choice since it looks like the PSSI’s infighting won’t be ending anytime soon,” Andi Mallarangeng, the minister of youth and sports, was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe newspaper.

“It was not the country’s best squad that was humiliated by Bahrain last week. It was a team assembled under the shadow of discrimination, as the PSSI only called up players from a

certain league.”

Until things change, he said, funding will stop.

“I think the funding termination is reasonable owing to their bad performances so far,” Bernard Limbong, a spokesman for the Indian football federation, told Antara news agency.

“The policy is expected to improve the performance of the national teams.”

The announcement came after FIFA, football’s world governing body, announced last week it was launching an investigation into the “unusual outcome” of Bahrain’s win.

Bahrain needed to make up a ninegoal deficit on Qatar in the group standings to have a chance of advancing to the next round.

It also needed Qatar to lose its last match, but the Qataris scored an 83rdminute equalizer in a 2-2 draw at Iran to instead reach the next stage of the Asian qualifying tournament.

“The important thing is that if there are suspicions you have to investigate it,” FIFA vice president Prince Ali said during a trip to London. “It might

just be a coincidence. However, there might be something behind it.”

Indonesia’s performance has been abysmal.

It had lost all five previous group matches, conceding 16 goals while scoring just three. It also fielded several inexperienced international players in Bahrain after suspending others who play for clubs in the breakaway Indonesian Super League.

The Indonesian football association recognizes the Indonesian Premier League, and the dispute jeopardized the participation of ISL winner Persipura Jayapura in the Asian Champions League last month. Persipura required a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling in order to face Adelaide United in the continental club competition.

The PSSI launched an unsuccessful bid to host the 2022 World Cup, but FIFA removed Indonesia from the contest midway through the bid process when football officials failed to persuade the government to provide hosting guarantees.

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Balinese Culture UDANG PANTUNG KUNING

Hotel Association suggests government controls tourist

(Lobster in Yellow Sauce)

OVERVIEW: A real gourmet treat from Bali, this could also be made with huge prawns. In Bali, coconut chunks are roasted directly on charcoal, then the charred skin scrapped off and the flesh grated for making the coconut milk.

INGREDIENTS: 4 sml lobsters, weighing about 500 gr each or 1 kg large prawns 5 cups water 2 lemongrass, bruised 2 fragrant lime leaves 4 cups coconut milk few drops white vinegar fried shallots to garnish

Antara

GIANYAR - Bali’s Chief of Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI), Tjokorda Oka Arta Ardhana Sukawati, suggests that the government controls the number of tourists coming to Bali.

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PT XL Axiata Tbk (XL) doing cooperation with six companies to develop cloud computing solution. XL partners on this project are Fujitsu, Huawei, IBM, Intratech, Mandawani, and Microsoft.

Developing cloud computing

XL joint cooperation with 6 companies IBP

DENPASAR - PT XL Axiata Tbk (XL) doing cooperation with six companies to develop cloud computing solution. XL partners on this project are Fujitsu, Huawei, IBM, Intratech, Mandawani, and Microsoft.

According to Director of Technology, Content, and New Business XL, Dian Siswarini, this project is to show XL seriousness on increasing data service traffic.

XL, said Dian, believed that demand on data service will growing steadily in Indonesia. One of the chance to increase this demand is cloud computing solution. “This project show XL will always doing

new business inovation, including data service to serve Indonesia the best service,” she said.

Dian added that XL choose highly qualify partners to making the project happen. They all have big name and leader in their field of business. Cloud computing technology that they offer are the best technology and had been use in many countries around the globe. “Together with XL, we try to satisfy our customers and capture all opportunities in cloud computing business,” she stated.

Dian also said that XL and its partners have same vision about Indonesia. “We want to develop cloud computing in Indonesia so Indonesia have bigger chance to

grow faster and its people can benefited from this kind of technology”.

She admited there is feared among people that using cloud computing on their data safety.

She said already heard that question lots of time during the socialization and education on this technology, that is why XL with its partners try to build a safe environment for Indonesi’s cloud computing.

She mentioned that through this joint cooperation, XL will be make the service available to public around May 2012. The service will not only for XL customers but also to businessmen and people that not using XL service.

“The development of tourism in Bali during the past few years has emphasized on quantity instead of the quality of tourists coming to the island,” he said.

Tjokorda gave the example of cheap accommodation in Bali that attracts many tourists but, consequently, increases the density of population in the island.

He said the large number of tourists coming to Bali also had a negative impact on the local culture.

“People in Ubud (north of Bali), for example, can no longer conduct cultural activities such as Mapeed (walking together in a group) without being disturbed by the public transportation and private cars flocking the area,” he explained.

Russia become biggest number Of tourists to Bali Antara

DENPASAR - Russia has joined the ten countries with the biggest number of tourists to Bali, as the Russians have began making the Island Paradise a save and comfortable place to spend a holiday.

“It was only starting in January 2012 that the Russians are holding fifth place following Australia, China, Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia”, head of the Bali Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Ir Gede Suarsa MSi said in Denpasar on Wednesday.

He said that the number of Russian tourists going on a holiday to Bali in January 2012 had reached 10,907, a 5.15 pct decline compared to the 44,499

in the same month last year.

While declining in number, the Russians who enjoyed the uniqueness of cultural art and panorama of the Island Paradise are more than the South Koreans, Singaporians, Americans and the British.

For this reason, the Russians are a future potential market of tourism in Bali, and the future image needs to be developed by promotion to that country,” Gede Suarsa said.

He also said that the visit of Russian tourists to Bali could give a contribution of 4.31 pct of the total of 253,286 tourists to the Island Paradise in January 2012, a 21.14 pct increase compared to only 209,093 in the same month last year.

AFP PHOTO/ SONNY TUMBELAKA

Scott Thompson (R) of Scotland runs during his charity event in Denpasar on March 8, 2012.

Thompson is running from Bali to Jakarta, 30 cities in 5 provinces, covering 1,250 kilometers within 25 days to raise funds for the Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa (YCAB) which concentrates on youth development through education, economic assistance and welfare creation for a better and sustainable future, and Mary’s Cancer Kiddies (MCK) whose goal is to assist children from financially disadvantaged families by giving them access to the medical treatment they need and to help them in their fight against cancer.

SPICE PASTE: 5 red chilies, seeded and chopped 3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped 7 shallots, peeled and chopped 5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped 5 cm ginger, peeled and chopped 4 candlenuts 1 ½ tsp coriander ½ tsp dried shrimp paste toasted 1 sml tomato, peeled and seeded 2 tbsp oil 1 ½ tbsp tamarind pulp 1 salam leaf 1 lemon grass, bruised PREPARATION: Prepare spice paste by grinding or blending all ingredients except oil, tamarind, salam leaf and lemongrass. Heat oil, add spice paste and all other ingredients. Cook over moderate heat for about 5 minutes, then cool.

Wash lobsters and leave whole. Bring water to the boil, add lobsters and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove lobsters, plunge in iced water for 1 minutes, then drain and remove meat. Return shells to the pot of water, keeping lobster meat aside.

Add spice paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and vinegar to the water with the shells and simmer until 4 cups of stock remain.

Add coconut milk and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain stock and return to pan. Add lobster and simmer for 1 minute. Serve garnished with fried shallots and accompanied by white rice.

Helpful hints: if using prawns instead of lobster, peel the raw prawns and put prawns shells 4 cups of water. Simmer for 5 minutes, then combine this stock with coconut milk, prawns and all other ingredients, simmering until cooked.

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Bali Today

International

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Balinese Culture UDANG PANTUNG KUNING

Hotel Association suggests government controls tourist

(Lobster in Yellow Sauce)

OVERVIEW: A real gourmet treat from Bali, this could also be made with huge prawns. In Bali, coconut chunks are roasted directly on charcoal, then the charred skin scrapped off and the flesh grated for making the coconut milk.

INGREDIENTS: 4 sml lobsters, weighing about 500 gr each or 1 kg large prawns 5 cups water 2 lemongrass, bruised 2 fragrant lime leaves 4 cups coconut milk few drops white vinegar fried shallots to garnish

Antara

GIANYAR - Bali’s Chief of Hotel and Restaurant Association (PHRI), Tjokorda Oka Arta Ardhana Sukawati, suggests that the government controls the number of tourists coming to Bali.

IBP/Courtesy of XL

PT XL Axiata Tbk (XL) doing cooperation with six companies to develop cloud computing solution. XL partners on this project are Fujitsu, Huawei, IBM, Intratech, Mandawani, and Microsoft.

Developing cloud computing

XL joint cooperation with 6 companies IBP

DENPASAR - PT XL Axiata Tbk (XL) doing cooperation with six companies to develop cloud computing solution. XL partners on this project are Fujitsu, Huawei, IBM, Intratech, Mandawani, and Microsoft.

According to Director of Technology, Content, and New Business XL, Dian Siswarini, this project is to show XL seriousness on increasing data service traffic.

XL, said Dian, believed that demand on data service will growing steadily in Indonesia. One of the chance to increase this demand is cloud computing solution. “This project show XL will always doing

new business inovation, including data service to serve Indonesia the best service,” she said.

Dian added that XL choose highly qualify partners to making the project happen. They all have big name and leader in their field of business. Cloud computing technology that they offer are the best technology and had been use in many countries around the globe. “Together with XL, we try to satisfy our customers and capture all opportunities in cloud computing business,” she stated.

Dian also said that XL and its partners have same vision about Indonesia. “We want to develop cloud computing in Indonesia so Indonesia have bigger chance to

grow faster and its people can benefited from this kind of technology”.

She admited there is feared among people that using cloud computing on their data safety.

She said already heard that question lots of time during the socialization and education on this technology, that is why XL with its partners try to build a safe environment for Indonesi’s cloud computing.

She mentioned that through this joint cooperation, XL will be make the service available to public around May 2012. The service will not only for XL customers but also to businessmen and people that not using XL service.

“The development of tourism in Bali during the past few years has emphasized on quantity instead of the quality of tourists coming to the island,” he said.

Tjokorda gave the example of cheap accommodation in Bali that attracts many tourists but, consequently, increases the density of population in the island.

He said the large number of tourists coming to Bali also had a negative impact on the local culture.

“People in Ubud (north of Bali), for example, can no longer conduct cultural activities such as Mapeed (walking together in a group) without being disturbed by the public transportation and private cars flocking the area,” he explained.

Russia become biggest number Of tourists to Bali Antara

DENPASAR - Russia has joined the ten countries with the biggest number of tourists to Bali, as the Russians have began making the Island Paradise a save and comfortable place to spend a holiday.

“It was only starting in January 2012 that the Russians are holding fifth place following Australia, China, Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia”, head of the Bali Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) Ir Gede Suarsa MSi said in Denpasar on Wednesday.

He said that the number of Russian tourists going on a holiday to Bali in January 2012 had reached 10,907, a 5.15 pct decline compared to the 44,499

in the same month last year.

While declining in number, the Russians who enjoyed the uniqueness of cultural art and panorama of the Island Paradise are more than the South Koreans, Singaporians, Americans and the British.

For this reason, the Russians are a future potential market of tourism in Bali, and the future image needs to be developed by promotion to that country,” Gede Suarsa said.

He also said that the visit of Russian tourists to Bali could give a contribution of 4.31 pct of the total of 253,286 tourists to the Island Paradise in January 2012, a 21.14 pct increase compared to only 209,093 in the same month last year.

AFP PHOTO/ SONNY TUMBELAKA

Scott Thompson (R) of Scotland runs during his charity event in Denpasar on March 8, 2012.

Thompson is running from Bali to Jakarta, 30 cities in 5 provinces, covering 1,250 kilometers within 25 days to raise funds for the Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa (YCAB) which concentrates on youth development through education, economic assistance and welfare creation for a better and sustainable future, and Mary’s Cancer Kiddies (MCK) whose goal is to assist children from financially disadvantaged families by giving them access to the medical treatment they need and to help them in their fight against cancer.

SPICE PASTE: 5 red chilies, seeded and chopped 3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped 7 shallots, peeled and chopped 5 cm fresh turmeric, peeled and chopped 5 cm ginger, peeled and chopped 4 candlenuts 1 ½ tsp coriander ½ tsp dried shrimp paste toasted 1 sml tomato, peeled and seeded 2 tbsp oil 1 ½ tbsp tamarind pulp 1 salam leaf 1 lemon grass, bruised PREPARATION: Prepare spice paste by grinding or blending all ingredients except oil, tamarind, salam leaf and lemongrass. Heat oil, add spice paste and all other ingredients. Cook over moderate heat for about 5 minutes, then cool.

Wash lobsters and leave whole. Bring water to the boil, add lobsters and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove lobsters, plunge in iced water for 1 minutes, then drain and remove meat. Return shells to the pot of water, keeping lobster meat aside.

Add spice paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and vinegar to the water with the shells and simmer until 4 cups of stock remain.

Add coconut milk and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain stock and return to pan. Add lobster and simmer for 1 minute. Serve garnished with fried shallots and accompanied by white rice.

Helpful hints: if using prawns instead of lobster, peel the raw prawns and put prawns shells 4 cups of water. Simmer for 5 minutes, then combine this stock with coconut milk, prawns and all other ingredients, simmering until cooked.

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Banyuwedang hot spring

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Citibank Indonesia official jailed for bilking $4.4 Million

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Located in Pajarakan Village, Gerokgak District Buleleng Regency, it’s about 60 kms from Singaraja, it’s located near the West Bali National park. This beach area also near the Menjangan beach that usually used for Snorkeling or Diving Banyuwedang Hot spring come from the hot spring in the beach area, this hot spring is the largest hot spring in Bali.

This hot spring contain a little of Sulfur, the average temperature is around 40 C. Because of its sulfur, this hots ping believed able to cure a lot of disease. There is a lot of people come to this place with a hope to cure their sickness.

In the beach area of the hot spring, there is a lot of mangrove (actually this hot spring located in the middle of mangrove forest), so this area was free from abrasion. There also a creek with a white shore in this hot spring area, this makes banyuwedang hot spring even more beautiful than what you have been thinking.

The domestic tourist was dominated the visit to this area, they come with a hope to cure their sickness, lot of domestic tourist come from Banyuwangi, Java. This makes government of the Bali regency planning to make this area as a “Health Tourism”.

JAKARTA — A court has sentenced a top Citibank Indonesia official to eight years in prison for bilking $4.4 million from wealthy clients.

The court said Inong Malinda Dee falsified transfer documents of 35 clients and deposited their money into her relatives’ accounts.

The 50-year-old Citigold rela-

tionships manager used the cash to buy two Ferraris, a Hummer, a Mercedes and a Porsche and got extensive plastic surgery.

Dee’s husband, younger sister and brother-in-law were sentenced earlier to jail terms ranging from two to four years for money laundering.

Dee also was fined $1.1 million Wednesday by the South Jakarta District Court.

Inong Malinda Dee, a former senior vice president of Citibank Indonesia is escorted by police officers upon arrival for her trial at a district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 7, 2012.

The court said Dee falsified transfer documents of 35 clients and deposited their money into her relatives’ accounts. Dee was sentenced to eight years in prison for bilking $4.4 million from wealthy clients.

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

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Government cuts its growth target for 2012 Antara

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JAKARTA - The government has cut its target of economic growth in 2012 to 6.5 percent from 6.7 percent and remains optimistic the target can be achieved thanks to strong investment and household consumption.

“We hope household consumption and investment will be able to rescue the Indonesian economy in the future,” Finance Minister Agus

Martowardojo said at a working meeting with the House of Representatives (DPR)`s Budgetary Body at the parliament building here on

Yudhoyono calls for strongest action against anarchists Antara

JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on the police and law enforcers to take the strongest possible action against anarchists.

“The police, security officials, and law enforcers should take the strongest possible action against brutal protesters,” the head of state said when dedicating the PT Tempo Scan Pacific Tbk central office at Kuningan area in South Jakarta, on Wednesday.

President Yudhoyono noted that protests and rallies were reasonable in a democracy but at the same time democracy should be executed in a dignified manner without the violation of law.

“The efforts of Indonesia to implement the law and democracy will be in vain if its people convey their aspirations in an unconstitutional manner,” the president noted.

He said all parties, including businesspersons, should make every effort to maintain the national stability in order to achieve a better economic development. After dedicating the PT Tempo Scan Pacific Tbk central office, President Yudhoyono is scheduled to chair the first plenary session of the National Energy Board.

The plenary session will take place at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry office at 2 pm on Wednesday.

Wednesday night.

He said household consumption was projected to grow by 0.2 percent to 4.9 percent in 2012 from 4.9 percent in 2011.

“Likewise investment is also expected to contribute more to the national economy the more so because Indonesia`s debt rating has been increased to an investment grade when the debt ratings of other

countries decline,” he said.

The minister predicted investment would grow 10.9 percent in 2012 compared to 8.8 percent last year.

He said the government also had revised upward the assumed inflation rate in the revised 2012 state budget to 7 percent from 5.3 percent.

“The assumed inflation rate emerges as a result of a plan to raise

the price of subsidized fuel oils in April,” he said.

The fuel oil price must be raised to maintain the credibility of the state budget in response to spiraling global crude price, he said.

He said the rupiah`s assumed exchange rate against the dollar had been lowered to Rp9,000 per dollar from Rp8,800 per dollar in the 2012 state budget.

Indonesian football to lose funding Associated Press

JAKARTA — The Indonesian government reportedly plans to strip funding for its national football association after a series of scandals — including a 10-0 loss to Bahrain that led to an investigation into what FIFA called an “unusual outcome.”

The loss to Bahrain in a 2014 World Cup qualifying match was the biggest in the national team’s history, and much of the blame fell on the association (PSSI), which has been in turmoil for years.

Without a cash injection, it will likely descend further into crisis.

“We have no choice since it looks like the PSSI’s infighting won’t be ending anytime soon,” Andi Mallarangeng, the minister of youth and sports, was quoted as saying by the Jakarta Globe newspaper.

“It was not the country’s best squad that was humiliated by Bahrain last week. It was a team assembled under the shadow of discrimination, as the PSSI only called up players from a

certain league.”

Until things change, he said, funding will stop.

“I think the funding termination is reasonable owing to their bad performances so far,” Bernard Limbong, a spokesman for the Indian football federation, told Antara news agency.

“The policy is expected to improve the performance of the national teams.”

The announcement came after FIFA, football’s world governing body, announced last week it was launching an investigation into the “unusual outcome” of Bahrain’s win.

Bahrain needed to make up a ninegoal deficit on Qatar in the group standings to have a chance of advancing to the next round.

It also needed Qatar to lose its last match, but the Qataris scored an 83rdminute equalizer in a 2-2 draw at Iran to instead reach the next stage of the Asian qualifying tournament.

“The important thing is that if there are suspicions you have to investigate it,” FIFA vice president Prince Ali said during a trip to London. “It might

just be a coincidence. However, there might be something behind it.”

Indonesia’s performance has been abysmal.

It had lost all five previous group matches, conceding 16 goals while scoring just three. It also fielded several inexperienced international players in Bahrain after suspending others who play for clubs in the breakaway Indonesian Super League.

The Indonesian football association recognizes the Indonesian Premier League, and the dispute jeopardized the participation of ISL winner Persipura Jayapura in the Asian Champions League last month. Persipura required a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling in order to face Adelaide United in the continental club competition.

The PSSI launched an unsuccessful bid to host the 2022 World Cup, but FIFA removed Indonesia from the contest midway through the bid process when football officials failed to persuade the government to provide hosting guarantees.

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Sydney was thrown into chaos Thursday after the city’s heaviest rainfall in five years sparked widespread flash flooding and forced the closure of railway lines and dozens of roads.

Large tracts of Australia’s most populous state New South Wales are under water, with Sydney feeling the force of a La Nina weather system as an estimated 119 millimetres (4.7 inches) of rain fell on the city -- the highest daily total since 2007.

“There has been very, very heavy rain and some very strong winds,” a Bureau of Meteorology spokesman said. La Nina conditions typically bring higher-thannormal rainfall.

The downpour sparked extensive flash flooding, caused havoc with bus timetables, road and rail transport and prompted power cuts to at least 2,000 homes.

Several flights from Sydney were delayed or cancelled while there were fears that hundreds of boats on Sydney Harbour could sink after filling up with rainwater, NSW Maritime officials said.

“We’ve had a hell of a rain event,” NSW roads minister Duncan Gay told reporters. “It is a weather event the likes of which many of us have never seen before. It’s that one-in-a-hundred year event that you hear of.”

Reports said authorities had

been called out to more than 1,000 incidents in the city, with overflowing rivers and canals engulfing cars and homes in suburban Sydney. A savage windstorm in the city’s east also tore bricks and tiles from homes.

Further inland, the town of Forbes, was cut in three by flooding with some 1,000 people ordered to leave their homes as the Lachlan River continued to rise.

“We’re totally surrounded in the CBD by water,” Forbes mayor Phyllis Miller told national broadcaster ABC. Heavy rain and flooding has hit three eastern states throughout the week, sweeping two men to their deaths after they attempted to cross waterways in cars, inundating hundreds of homes and causing millions of dollars in damage.

A police officer was lucky to escape with his life after falling down a mountainside Thursday when the ground beneath him gave way as he worked on a fallen tree in the NSW Southern Highlands.

He plunged some 30 metres (100 feet) before his fall was broken by vines and he was taken to

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From page 1 Prices aren’t changing from the previous models. They will start at $499. Versions capable of accessing cellular networks will cost $629 to $829.

Apple is keeping the basic model of the iPad 2 in production and dropping the price to $399.

That could help Apple regain some market share from cheaper tablets like Amazon.com Inc.’s $199 Kindle Fire. Samsung Electronics and other makers of full-size tablets have cut their prices to below $500.

The battery life of the new model remains the same: about 10 hours of use. Apple says the battery capacity is 70 percent higher than for the old model, which suggests that it could have kept the old screen and extended the battery life to 17 hours instead of upgrading the screen resolution.

Apple said the new display will be sharper than the average high-definition television set. In a hands-on demonstration for an Associated Press reporter, text shown on the screen was noticeably crisper. The higher resolution won’t make a difference, however, for most Web images, which are of low resolution. The new screen should be able to show all the detail in high-definition movies, which the iPad 2 does not.

The new screen can also show deeper and more vibrant colors than previous models, Apple said.

“We are taking it to a whole new level and are redefining the category that Apple cre-

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A stranded motorist (R) is rescued by emergency personnel as heavy rains caused flash flooding across Sydney on March 8, 2012 hospital in a stable condition.

“The rain and the flooding continues and there is hardly an area of NSW that has not been affected at some point,” NSW emergency services minister Michael Gal-

ated with the original iPad,” said Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook at the launch event in San Francisco.

Cook spoke of a “post-PC” era dominated by the iPad and other Apple products.

The new iPad will go on sale March 16 in the U.S., Canada and 10 other countries.

A week later, it will go on sale in 25 more countries.

The lack of a new name could cause confusion for buyers, particularly since the older model, the “iPad 2,” will still be sold. But the naming practice is consistent with Apple’s practices for the iPod. New models have been simply called “iPod.” Consumers are left to figure out which generation of the product they are looking for.

Compared with the iPad 2, the new model features a higher-resolution camera on the back, similar to the one in the iPhone 4S. The new iPad will be 9.4 millimeters thick, or 0.37 inches. That compares with 8.8 millimeters, or 0.34 inches, for the iPad 2. The weight is going up from 1.33 pounds to 1.44 pounds for the Wi-Fi-only model. The original iPad weighed 1.5 pounds.

Apple also confirmed that the new model will come in a version that can use Verizon Wireless’ and AT&T Inc.’s “LTE” wireless broadband networks. They offer speeds that are faster than the “3G” networks used by previous iPads, and current iPhones.

Apple is updating some of the software on the tablet to take advantage of the new features. For example, it’s introducing a version of the Mac’s iPhoto photo organization and manipulation program for the iPad.

lacher said.

Parts of rural Victoria state are also struggling, with residents from the northern town of Nathalia evacuated as floodwaters threatened to breach both its main levees.

Provincial...

From page 1 Furthermore, Maba also urged the people’s representatives in the Bali House, chiefly the Commission IV handling the educational issues, to be proactive in ‘escorting’ the commitment to realize the 20 percent education budget as mandated by law. They should have the courage to criticize and request clarification if the executive designed the education budget far below the requirements. “People’s representatives should oversee this education budget seriously. Do not even keep silent if the education sector is given small budgetary portion because it equally means if the legislators have violated the law,” he said.

Similar request was also revealed by Maba to the elites of the teachers’ association (PGRI) of Bali in order not to instantly fall asleep if the Bali Government and regency/municipal government claimed to have allocated the education budget over 20 percent. They should conduct a search whether the budget had actually been used for quality improvement programs, educational services as well as improvement of education infrastructure and facilities. There was a possibility if such 20 percent education budget was false because half of the budget was allocated for salary of teachers. “I do hope PGRI has the courage to criticize the government policies that do not take sides in the educational development. Do not just keep silent and surrender when the educational development is allocated a tight

Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan said it was too early to establish the cost of the floods, although some estimates have put it as high as Aus$1 billion ($1.05 billion).

budget, but they must do a resistance in a positive connotation,” he criticized.

Proposed program

Similar opinion was also delivered by Committee Chairman of SMK PGRI 3 Denpasar vocational school, I Nyoman Madiun. In the context of ‘escorting’ the realization of the education budget by 20 percent, the Director of the Bali Tourism Institute Nusa Dua requested the elites of the PGRI to have an intensive discussion with the decision makers in the process of preparing the regional budget. Likewise, it should also proactively propose the programs considered urgent in an effort to improve the quality of education in their respective region.

“PGRI should be able to convince the government that budgetary allocation of 20 percent for education is not a burden but a worthwhile investment to improve the quality of human resources and competitiveness of the nation in the global level,” he said.

Madiun also asked the Bali Government to gradually fulfill its obligation in realizing the education budget of 20 percent as required by Law of the National Education System. If the financial capability of the region enabled, there was certainly no reason for Bali Government not to implement the mandate. “With a higher allocation for the education budget, of course, we can expect more to the efforts in improving the quality of our human resources in the future. Never assume the education budget as a burden, but it should be interpreted as a valuable investment that will improve the competitiveness of Balinese human in the global competition,” he said. (ian)

Berlin berates Athens for bureaucracy stopping investment

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BERLIN - Athens’ failure to accept Germany’s help on reducing bureaucracy and boosting private investment is disappointing, German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler was cited as saying by a newspaper on Thursday.

Germany pledged last October to advise Greece on cutting red tape and attracting investment to help its economy get back on its feet and have a fighting chance to cope with its debt.

The agreement was struck during Roesler’s visit to Greece as head of a 70-strong delegation of German industry representatives seeking business in the country.

“The aid has hardly been accepted, a lot has been in vain so far, it is very disillusioning,” Roesler told the Saarbruecker Zeitung.

The newspaper quoted a ministry progress report on the deal, which read: “The implementation clearly is not a priority on the Greek side.”

Companies wanting to invest in Greece have met with hurdles such as a multitude of approval procedures and unclear responsibility, according to the ministry.

“It is not failing due to a lack of will, the fundamental problem are the structures,” Roesler told the paper.

Roesler said he was also disappointed that some German companies which had previously done business with Greece had still not been paid.

“The Greek side said during my visit that it would soon resolve the old cases,” he said. “Unfortunately there has been hardly any progress on this.”

Germany has a big stake in the debt-stricken Greek economy.

Athens has been one of the biggest

buyers of German armaments over the past decade and German companies manage some of Greece’s largest firms, including Athens International Airport, managed by engineering firm Hochtief.

Greece’s cash-strapped hospitals owe dozens of millions of euros in arrears to German drugmakers and health equipment providers, such as Bayer.

Roesler urged the Greek government to do what was necessary to ensure it could return to growth.

Athens needed to create the necessary conditions for growth, by modernizing the administration, opening up its markets and implementing its privatization programme, he said.

“Only when these steps have been seriously implemented will the willingness to invest increase,” he said.

Greece, unable to borrow normally on the bond markets, urgently needs a bailout agreed last month to keep paying its bills while it attempts to make deep structural reforms to its shattered economy, now in the fifth year of deep recession.

Euro zone finance ministers are due to decide whether to release the 130 billion euros ($170.57 billion) package during a conference call on Friday but they have already approved the bailout, subject to a private sector creditor agreement slated to go through later on Thursday.

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A businessman looks up a share prices board in Tokyo on March 8, 2012. Japan’s economy shrank less than initially estimated in the fourth quarter as companies ramped up capital expenditure, but the current account swung to a record deficit in January as a shift away from nuclear power pushes up fossil fuel imports.

Japan GDP contraction eases, current account in red Reuters

TOKYO - Japan’s economy shrank less than initially estimated in the fourth quarter as companies ramped up capital expenditure, but the current account swung to a record deficit in January as a shift away from nuclear power pushes up fossil fuel imports.

The revision to GDP showed a 0.2 percent contraction, bang in line with the median market forecast as companies look to an increase in demand due to reconstruction of the country’s tsunami-battered northeast coast.

The current account balance also took a hit in January because Chinese Lunar New Year holiday weighed on exports, but economists see the result as a one-off and expect annual current account to remain in surplus for the next few years.

The figures on GDP could be a welcome sign for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda as he tries to muster support for next fiscal year’s budget and a controversial plan to double the 5 percent sales tax.

“The economy will resume growing in the first quarter as exports increase and as rebuilding after the earthquake proceeds. The economic recovery will continue into the new fiscal year starting from April,” said

Hiroshi Miyazaki, chief economist at Shinkin Asset Management Co in Tokyo. “There are a lot of risk factors, such as a strong yen and Europe’s debt crisis, but these risks have been receding.”

On an annualized basis, the economy shrank 0.7 percent, also in line with forecasts, and less than a preliminary 2.3 percent annualized contraction, the Cabinet Office data showed on Thursday.

Capital expenditure, the main driver of the upward revisions, rose 4.8 percent, slightly less than a 5.0 percent rise expected by economists, but well ahead of a preliminary reading of a 1.9 percent rise.

Larger-than-expected gains in industrial production and bullish output forecasts for the first quarter have raised hopes that Japan’s economy will gather momentum this year.

Japan’s current account balance swung to a record deficit of 437.3 billion yen ($5.41 billion)in January, deeper than the median estimate for a 317.8 billion yen deficit.

Japan logged its first shortfall since January 2009 due to a gaping trade deficit as exports plunged on holiday-thinned Chinese demand while higher fuel costs and nuclear plant shutdowns after last year’s earthquake pushed up energy im-

ports.

The yen slipped to trade at 81.26 per dollar as a current account deficit raises doubts about how long Japan will be able to fund its large public debt domestically.

Economists say it may be some time before Japan consistently runs a deficit in its current account given the income generated on investments overseas.

“The trade balance is likely to stay in deficit this year as we import more energy to offset the declining use of nuclear power,” said Norio Miyagawa, senior economist at Mizuho Securities Research & Consulting.

“The current account should swing back to a surplus as we still have a surplus in the income account. Japan should be able to finance its debt for the time being.

But if it is a question of what happens five to 10 years from now, we cannot be so certain.”

The Bank of Japan is likely to leave monetary policy unchanged at its next meeting on March 12-13.

The BOJ surprised markets on February 14 by easing monetary policy with a 10 trillion yen ($123.86 billion) increase in government bond purchases and set an inflation goal of 1 percent, signaling more vigorous efforts to end deflation.

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Entertainment

Friday, March 9, 2012

PARIS — Harvey Weinstein says “The Artist” is just the beginning. “France is about to have a golden age of cinema,” said the Hollywood titan, who produced the Frenchborn silent film that captured the world’s attention and five Academy Awards, including best picture.

Weinstein told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his optimism is driven in part by a French law cracking down on the Internet piracy that has strangled the U.S. movie and music industries. The expansive New Yorker was feeling particularly well-disposed to France after a Paris party celebrating “The Artist” this week and getting the esteemed Legion of Honor award from French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday.

Sarkozy turned out to be a big movie buff, and Weinstein said that when they met, the French leader quoted from a

five-hour documentary Weinstein and Martin Scorsese once did and praising Danish silent filmmaker Carl Dreyer.

“He sees a movie almost every day. ... He understands that movies can change somebody’s life,” Weinstein said. Sarkozy’s office wouldn’t comment on the meeting with Weinstein, other than to say it took place.

Sarkozy, facing a tough bid for re-election next month, also understands that French cinema would be in much worse shape without government subsidies, and made a point of saying so in a congratulatory letter to the “Artist” Oscar winners.

Thanks to that government support, the success of “The Artist,” and especially the anti-piracy law that Sarkozy championed, “France is having its most robust cinema on a global basis than at any time,” Weinstein said. “Sarkozy has the guts to go and make the toughest content law in the world,” he said. “It’s given French cinema a rebirth.”

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JAKARTA – Recently Aston International and PT. Frande Jaya Resort celebrated the Ground Breaking of the “favehotel Kasuari – Makassar”.

The favehotel Kasuari – Makassar will be an economy class select service hotel following in the footsteps of the already immensely popular favehotels in Jakarta, Bali, Solo, Surabaya and Langkawi. The new hotel will feature 108 fun, fresh and friendly guest rooms, an eclectic coffee shop and several small and mid seized meeting rooms and enjoys an ideal location nearby the Losari Beach promenade.

Makassar is Sulawesi’s largest city and ranked amongst Indonesia’s top 10

Teenager Sanchez wows ‘American Idol’ judges The 16-year-old San Diego high school student’s assured version of “I Will Always Love You” was “just amazing. I don’t even know what to say,” Jennifer Lopez exclaimed during the performance show.

“Jessica, you may be the one. You

just made 40 million people cry,” Tyler said (adding a dose of hyperbole by roughly doubling the show’s biggest Wednesday night audience for the season so far). Randy Jackson didn’t hold back either, calling Sanchez “one of the best talents in the whole country.”

On the Fox show’s 400th episode, the men tackled Stevie Wonder’s catalogue and the women choose from Houston’s hits, a tribute to the singer who died Feb. 11, on the eve of the Grammy Awards, at age 48. “I Will Always Love You” was played at the conclusion of Houston’s New Jersey church funeral last month.

The “American Idol” finalists performed as the Fox show marked its 400th episode. In a twist, the male and female singers who rank lowest in the audience vote will be announced Thursday and the judges will decide which of the two will be bounced.

Whitney Houston leaves everything to her daughter

Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA — Whitney Houston left everything to her 19-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina. The pop superstar’s will doesn’t mention specific assets, but leaves all of her furnishings, clothing, personal effects, jewelry and cars to her surviving children.

Bobbi Kristina was her only child.

Inside Edition first reported the will, filed in Atlanta, on Wednesday. Houston’s money will be put in a trust. Her sister-in-law and manager, Patricia Houston, was appointed the administrator of the estate.

Upon turning 21, Bobbi Kristina will receive part

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of the money, more of it at age 25 and the balance at age 30. Houston’s trustees can give her money from the trust for various purposes, including tuition, to buy a home and to start a business.

The will was signed on Feb. 3, 1993, about a month before Houston gave birth to her daughter.

The 48-year-old died Feb. 11 in California.

In this undated image from video released by Harpo, Inc., host Oprah Winfrey, left, embraces Bobbi Kristina, daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston during an interview in Atlanta, Ga.

Calendar Event for February 19 through March 17, 2012 19 Feb Redite Pon Medangsia Pura Agung Pentilan Kesiman-Denpasar Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kerambitan Tabanan 20 Feb Soma Wage Medangsia Pura Nataran Desa Getas Blahbatuh Merajan Pasek Gelgel Aan-Klungkung Pura Pasek Bakbakan Gianyar 21 Feb Tilem Kawulu Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih Pura Dalem Yang Taluh Sidemen - Karangasem Pura Dalem Kangin Sidemen - Karangasem 22 Feb Buda Umanis Medangsia Pura Gede Perancak-Jembrana Pura Dalem Dauma-Batuan Sukawati Pura Nataran Kacangdawa Klungkung Odalan Bhatara, Gede Apol Ubung Denpasar Pura Puseh Brahmana Kawasan-Klungkung Pura Kahyangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Denbantas Tabanan Pura Dalem Sukehet Klungkung Pura Dalem Muaspatih Guwang Sukawati Pura Taman Tegalalang Pura Desa Sanding-Tampaksiring Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Batanbuah-Kesiman.

Pura Sahab Nusa Penida Merajan Agung Gorokgak Dalem Sukawati 23 Feb Wraspati Paing Medangsia Pura Ulun Swi Kediri Tabanan Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Bitera-Gianyar 26 Feb Redite Keliwon Pujut Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Mengwi 4 Mar Redite Paing Pahang.

Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran Pura Pasek Sandra Peguyangan Badung.

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Snapshot Ground Breaking of favehotel Kasuari – Makassar, seen in the image balloon releases by Mrs. Leli Uche – Commisioner of PT. Frande Jaya Resort (left) and Mrs. Rusmayani Majid – Chief of Tourism & Culture (right) as an official sign of favehotel Kasuari – Makassar’s development.

Temple Ceremony

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LOS ANGELES — Gutsy “American Idol” contestant Jessica Sanchez took on Whitney Houston’s biggest hit, delivering a performance that awed the show’s judges. When host Ryan Seacrest asked the panel to name Wednesday night’s top two singers among the 13 finalists, Steven Tyler was ready. “Jessica Sanchez and Jessica Sanchez,” Tyler said.

U.S film producer and movie studio chairman Harvey Weinstein during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Wednesday, March 7, 2012, the same day as Weinstein received, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

metropolitan areas with an approximate population of 1 400 000. Besides its booming economy and important harbor the city also offers several tourist attractions such as the colonial Fort Rotterdam and the Trans Studio indoor theme park which is the third largest indoor amusement park in the world.

Aston International’s Vice President Sales & Marketing Vice President, Mr. Norbert Vas, said “favehotels aim to be the best in class budget hotels in SE Asia and Aston’s goal for Indonesia is to offer the largest, most consistent and most reliable network of budget hotels in the country.

Bringing “fave” to Makassar is an important step towards this goal and increases the number of faves currently already open or under construction to 30 hotels.”

In this March 1, 2012 image released by Fox, the remaining 13 contestants from the singing competition series, “American Idol,” are shown in Los Angeles.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Ground breaking of Favehotel Kasuari

Harvey Weinstein: French film’s golden age is now Associated Press Writer

Activities

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6 Mar Anggara Wage Pahang Pura Batu Madeg Besakih(Meru Tumpang Sanga)

Pura Hyang Tibha Batuan Sakah.

7 Mar Purnama Kesanga Pura Penataran sasih Pejeng - Gianyar Pura Bukit Mentik Gunung Lebah Desa Batur Kintamani.

7 Mar Buda Keliwon Pahang Pura Luhur Puncak Padang Dawa Baturiti Tabanan Pura Silayukti Padangbai-Karangasem Pura Aer Jeruk Sukawati Pura Dangin Pasar Batuan-Sukawati Pura Penataran Batuyang-Batubulan Pura Desa Lembeng Ketewel-Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Dukuh-Kediri-Tabanan Pura Kawitan Dalem Sukawati Gianyar Pura Kresek Banyuning-Buleleng Pura Puseh Bebandem-Karangasem Merajan Pasek Kubayan-Gaji.

Merajan pasek Gelgel Jeroan Abang-Songan Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga Merajan Pasek Subrata Temaga Merajan Pasek Gelgel Bungbungan Sad Kahyangan Batu Medahu Swana Nusa Penida Pura Buda Kliwon Penatih-Denpasar Pura Penataran Dukuh Nagasari Bebandem Karangasem Pura Pasek Bendesa Tagtag Paguyangan.

Pura Pulasari Sibang Gede Abiansemal Pura Batur Sari Ubud Pura Penataran Agung Sukawati.

12 Mar Soma Keliwon Krulut Pura Pasel Gelgel Kekeran Mngwi Badung Merajan Pasek Subadra Kramas-Gianyar.

17 Mar Hari Tumpek Krurut Pura Pasek Gelgel Br Tengah Buleleng Pura Dalem Pemuteran Desa Jelantik Tojan Pura Pedarmaan Bhujangga Waisnawa Besakih Pura Taman Sari Desa Gunungsari Penebel - Tabanan Pura Dalem Tarukan Bebalang Bangli Pura Benua Kangin Besakih.

Pura Merajan Kanginan Besakih.

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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Iran may be cleaning up nuke work

Friday, March 9, 2012

Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth

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VIENNA — Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and earthmoving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe’s magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights.

The assertions from the diplomats, all nuclear experts accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency, could add to the growing international pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, which Tehran insists is for peaceful purposes.

While the U.S. and the EU are backing a sanctions-heavy approach, Israel has warned that it may resort to a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities to prevent it from obtaining atomic weapons.

Two of the diplomats said the crews at the Parchin military site may be trying to erase evidence of tests of a small experimental neutron device used to set off a nuclear explosion. A third diplomat could not confirm that but said any attempt to trigger a so-called neutron initiator could only be in the context of trying to develop nuclear arms.

The diplomats said they suspect attempts at sanitization because some of the vehicles at the scene appeared to be haulage trucks and other equipment suited to carting off poten-

The storm started with a massive solar flare earlier in the week and grew as it raced outward from the sun, expanding like a giant soap bubble, scientists said. When it strikes, the particles will be moving at 4 million mph.

“It’s hitting us right in the nose,” said Joe Kunches, a scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo.

The massive cloud of charged particles could disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite networks and GPS services, especially in northern areas. But the same blast could also paint colorful auroras farther from the poles than normal.

Astronomers say the sun has been relatively quiet for some time. And this storm, while strong, may seem fiercer because Earth has been lulled by sev-

tially contaminated soil from the site.

The images, provided by member countries to the IAEA, the U.N’s nuclear watchdog, are recent and constantly updated, one of the diplomats said. The diplomats all requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the information on the record.

The IAEA has already identified Parchin as the location of suspected nuclear weaponsrelated testing. In a November report, it said it appeared to be the site of experiments with conventional high explosives meant to initiate a nuclear chain reaction.

It did not mention a neutron initiator as part of those tests, but in a separate section cited an unnamed member nation as saying Iran may have experimented with a neutron initiator, without going into detail or naming a location for such work.

In contrast, the intelligence information shared with the AP by the two diplomats linked the high-explosives work directly to setting off a neutron initiator at Parchin.

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Satellite image received courtesy of the Institute for Science and International Security, shows Iran’s military site in Parchin.

Prince Harry changes schedule after Afghan deaths

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Thai security personnel investigate the wreckage of a jeep after a bomb attack by suspected Muslim militants as weapons and body armour of soldiers are seen in the foreground on a roadside in Thailand’s southern Narathiwat province March 7, 2012.

Bomb kills 4 Thai soldiers in Muslim south Reuters

NARATHIWAT, Thailand - Four soldiers were killed and one was critically wounded when insurgents detonated a roadside bomb in Thailand’s Muslim south, police said on Thursday.

The attack took place late on Wednesday in Narathiwat, one of three mainly Muslim provinces bordering Malaysia, where a shadowy insurgency has claimed more than 5,000 lives since 2004, when a low-level separatist rebellion from the 1970s resurfaced.

The soldiers were travelling in two vehicles and had been providing security during a Buddhist festival. They were attacked moments after delivering the body of a Muslim villager to his family after he was shot dead by

suspected rebels. Three of the soldiers were killed instantly, a fourth died in hospital.

In a separate incident, a Muslim rubber farmer was shot dead and his wife seriously wounded early on Thursday when two unknown gunmen opened fire on them while they were working at their farm, police said.

The region, which is more than 1,100 km (680 miles) away from the capital, Bangkok, was part of an independent Malay Muslim sultanate until annexed by predominantly Buddhist Thailand in 1909.

The government insists the military’s large-scale deployment in the rubber-rich region is vital to quell the rebellion, but many Muslims say their presence is exacerbating the conflict.

be on its core professional roles and of looking after the bereaved of those tragically killed in Afghanistan,” on such a tragic day, the statement said.

Wednesday’s deaths amounted to the biggest British loss of life in a single incident in Afghanistan since a Nimrod aircraft crashed in 2006, killing 14 crew.

The prince, third-in-line to the British throne, is touring Caribbean Commonwealth realms to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee year.

Britain’s Prince Harry proved he was a top shot on Wednesday during his trip to Jamaica, but he also changed his plans after learning that six fellow troops had been killed in Afghanistan.

The British prince fired 16 live rounds on a 30-meter practice range and earned praise from a local army trainer.

“Excellent shooting, a perfect grouping with perfect results,” said Jamaican Defence Force Sergeant Anthony Forbes.

However the prince, who is an Apache helicopter pilot in the British Army, canceled a planned rappelling event after it emerged that the six troops had been killed in Afghanistan when a massive roadside bomb engulfed their armored vehicle.

A statement from a Royal family spokesman said Prince Harry “did not wish to take part in a military activity which would be deemed peripheral to an Apache piAP PhotoJohn Stillwell/PA lot,” following the Britain’s Prince Harry follows the signature victory gesture of deaths.

Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt, Tuesday March 6 2012 “The focus for the following a mock race at the University of the West Indies, in British Army should Jamaica.

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This handout image provided by NASA shows a solar flare heading toward Earth. An impressive solar flare is heading toward Earth and could disrupt power grids, GPS and airplane flights.

Scientists survey seabed fractured by Japan quake

Agence France Presse

Scientists on Thursday launched a mission to the seabed off Japan where a massive quake triggered last year’s devastating tsunami, to get their first proper look at the buckled ocean floor.

Researchers from Germany and Japan are sending high-tech vehicles to probe the seabed up to 7,000 metres (23,000 feet) below the surface where the massive seismic shock hit last March.

“We want to deploy instruments on the sea floor and also map the area to see the large changes caused by the earthquake,” said Gerold Wefer, who is leading the project. His team said the data gathered from the month-long mission covering a rupture zone stretching hundreds of kilometres (miles) would help them understand the mechanism of huge quakes and the tsunamis they can spawn.

The mission comes as Japan readies to mark the first anniversary of the 9.0 magnitude quake that unleashed a huge tsunami on March 11.

More than 19,000 people died and vast tracts of coastline were crushed by towering waves that rushed ashore, swamping the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and sparking the worst atomic accident in a generation.

Wefer, director of the German Centre for Marine Environmental Changes at Bremen University, told reporters he was feeling “quite high” ahead of the start of the mission. He said scientists would see “huge cracks” in rocks that run parallel to the trench off the main Japanese island of Honshu. “The rocks were broken into pieces” by the quake, releasing fluid and gas into the ocean, he said.

The team will use an autonomously controlled 5.5-metre (18-feet) vehicle, which looks like a small submarine, to map the sea floor with a multibeam sonar device. The mothership from which the vehicle will be launched is equipped with echo sounders and will map several longer profiles extending from the shelf off Honshu across the deep-sea trench.

Brermen University marine environmental science center (MARUM) researcher Gerold Wefer displays an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) on a German research ship “Sonne” at the Yokohama port, suburban Tokyo on March 7, 2012.

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eral years of weak solar activity.

The storm is part of the sun’s normal 11-year cycle, which is supposed to reach peak storminess next year. Solar storms don’t harm people, but they do disrupt technology. And during the last peak around 2002, experts learned that GPS was vulnerable to solar outbursts.

Because new technology has flourished since then, scientists could discover that some new systems are also at risk, said Jeffrey Hughes, director of the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling at Boston University. A decade ago, this type of solar storm happened a couple of times a year, Hughes said.

“This is a good-size event, but not the extreme type,” said Bill Murtagh, program coordinator for

the federal government’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The sun erupted Tuesday evening, and the most noticeable effects should arrive here between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. EST Thursday, according to forecasters at the space weather center. The effects could linger through Friday morning.

Center forecaster Rob Steenburgh said that as of 2:30 a.m. EST Thursday, there were no noticeable effects on Earth. But he said there were some indications from a satellite, which registered a slight rise in low energy particles. The region of the sun that erupted can still send more blasts our way, Kunches said. He said another set of active sunspots is ready to aim at Earth right after this.

“This is a big sun spot group, particularly nasty,” NASA solar physicist David Hathaway said.

“Things are really twisted up and mixed up. It keeps flaring.” Storms like this start with sun spots, Hathaway said.

A woman, suffering from Alzheimer’s desease, walks in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern France, in 2011.

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Alzheimer’s drug aids more severe cases too: study

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The most widely prescribed drug to treat mild Alzheimer’s disease, Aricept (donepezil), has been shown for the first time to help patients with more severe cases too, a study said Wednesday. The research was funded by the UK Medical Research Council and the Alzheimer’s Society, and received donated pills from the pharmaceutical companies PfizerEisa and Lundbeck but drugmakers were not otherwise involved.

Treating patients with advanced Alzheimer’s offered “significant functional benefits over the course of 12 months,” said the article in the New England Journal of Medicine which included nearly 300 patients.

Doctors often stop prescribing donepezil to patients with more advanced

dementia because the drug’s benefit is unclear and treatment may appear to have less benefit as the disease progresses. The randomized clinical trial looked at the effects of donepezil on patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s who scored between five and 13 on a scale of one to 30, where 30 indicates higher cognitive function.

It found that taking donepezil for 52 weeks resulted in improved scores on mental tests and measures of daily activity compared to those who were assigned to discontinue the drug.

“For the first time, we have robust and compelling evidence that treatment with these drugs can continue to help patients at the later, more severe stages of the disease,” said lead author Robert Howard from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London.

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The Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) have asked FIFA to take action against their head of security Chris Eaton after the departing Australian linked them to alleged match fixing.

Eaton, who is stepping down from his role with soccer’s world governing body in May, was quoted by the Singapore-based Straits Times newspaper last month as saying he had unconfirmed allegations of match-fixing involving Malaysian officials.

The FAM said they wrote to Eaton asking for clarification of his comments last month and earlier this week said they were

disappointed with his reply.

“He has gone overboard with his unethical statement. I do not know if there is a hidden agenda but FIFA must explain if there is no evidence in such a claim,” FAM deputy president Prince Abdullah Ibni Sultan Ahmad Shah was quoted as saying by the Bernama news agency on Thursday.

“FIFA must also take action for issuing such a damaging statement.” Malaysia has a history of problems with match-fixing. In February, 18 youth players were banned for two-to-five years for match-fixing, which the Malaysian sports minister deemed a disgrace.

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Neymar hat-trick inspires Santos to Libertadores Cup win Reuters

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FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, from Argentina, reacts after scoring his third goal against Bayer 04 Leverkusen during a Champions League round of sixteen, second leg, soccer match at the Nou Camp, in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, March 7, 2012.

Brazil striker Neymar scored a brilliant hat-trick as holders Santos beat fellow Brazilian side Internacional 3-1 in a Libertadores Cup Group One match on Wednesday. Santos, upset 2-1 by Bolivia’s The Strongest at high altitude in La Paz three weeks ago, have three points from two matches.

The Strongest lead the group with six points after they also beat Juan Aurich of Peru last month.

Inter have three points and Juan Aurich none.

Neymar, Brazil’s big hope for

the 2014 World Cup, converted a penalty to give Santos a 1-0 halftime lead at their Vila Belmiro ground before exploding after the break with two superb goals.

In the 54th minute, he picked up the ball in his team’s half and dribbled his way past three defenders before steering it past goalkeeper Muriel at close quarters.

Inter striker Leandro Damiao pulled one back 10 minutes later, but within two minutes Neymar had completed his treble, his speed on the ball leaving two defenders in his wake before he chipped over Muriel.

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Fuel price hike is feared to trigger the increase of poverty rate.

It is supported by various studies conducted by many parties related to the impacts of fuel price hike whose increase averagely reaches 29 percent in total.

An economist from the Udayana University, Dr. I Gusti Wayan Murjana Yasa, said on Wednesday (Mar 7) that government plan to raise the fuel prices would have an impact on the rising price of groceries. Estimated, the most serious impact of the fuel price hike would be felt by the low-income groups. “In other words, life of the poor will be increasingly pressured and community groups classified into gray economy or slightly above the poverty line will also potentially drop back to poverty. This condition will aggravate the poverty condition,” he said.

He added that mitigation measures required to overcome the condition could be through the reduction program in the burden of living cost of the poor households and empowerment program. Related to reduction program against the living costs of poor households, he said could be implemented through the assistance of rice for the poor (raskin), scholarships and other short-term schemes. Meanwhile, the medium-term and long-term program could be done through empowerment of poor households pursuant to their potential to capture various opportunities of

productive activities that enabled them to earn money.

In line with Murjana, another economic observer and former leader of Bank Indonesia Denpasar, I Gusti Bagus Oka Viraguna, said the government plan to raise the price of subsidized-fuel was not a smart choice at the moment. Though in terms of government’s interest it had a good impact on reducing the burden of National Budget worth IDR 40 trillion, compensation provision of direct cash assistance (BLT) for short-term interest was considered unable to resolve the increasingly severe poverty.

He said the fuel price hike would only increase the current burden of community remaining to be affected by economic crisis, chiefly for the marginalized community whose life was in miseries all the time. The increase in fuel price had resulted in a domino effect on the society since it was always followed by the increase in the price of groceries, not to mention the possibility of a tariff increase in the public transport.

“Top priorities before deciding the policy of fuel price hike are the improvement of economic infrastructure such as the public services, public transportation, supply side, legal system, legal enforcement and concrete governance, so that the rise in fuel price can provide alternative opportunities for the marginalized communities in responding to the fuel price hike,” he explained. (kmb28)

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Indonesian Retail Merchants Association (Aprindo) criticized the Decree of Denpasar Mayor No.188.45/495/HK/2011 about the regulation of modern stores. One of the contents is prohibiting the modern stores on selling groceries and this point is assessed to incriminate the community.

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BARCELONA - Lionel Messi at his breathtaking best ripped Bayer Leverkusen apart with a record five-goal Champions League haul on Wednesday as Barcelona swept past the Germans and into the quarter-finals 7-1 on the night and 10-2 on aggregate. The Argentine World Player of the Year became the first player to score five in a Champions League match with the holders handing out one of the most comprehensive drubbings in the competition’s history.

After they lost last month’s round of 16 first leg in Leverkusen 3-1, the Bundesliga side’s mission impossible was effectively ended when Messi sped on to Xavi’s lofted pass and scooped the ball over Bernd Leno in the 25th minute. He added a second with a trademark run across the defence and low shot three minutes before halftime and completed his hat-trick with another stunning chip, this time with his right foot, four minutes after the break.

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twice either side of Messi’s fourth, which came after Leno spilled the ball at his feet, and the Argentine wizard bagged his fifth with a powerful strike six minutes from time before Leverkusen substitute Karim Bellarabi scored an addedtime goal.

Messi has been enjoying a purple patch in recent weeks, even by his lofty standards, and Wednesday’s goals took his tally to 14 in his last five matches for club and country.

He now has 12 in the Champions League in seven appearances this

season and has netted an astonishing 30 goals in his last 25 games in Europe’s elite club competition.

Leverkusen coach Robin Dutt cut a lonely figure on the touchline in the second half as his side were humbled by the Spanish, European and world champions.

However, the 4,000 travelling Leverkusen fans high up in the giant arena remained in fine voice until the end and Bellarabi’s goal was some reward for their efforts to drown out the 75,000-strong home support.

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Brazil’s Santos’ Neymar celebrates after scoring his second goal against Brazil’s Internacional during a Copa Libertadores soccer match in Santos, Brazil, Wednesday, March 7, 2012.

Chairman of the Aprindo Bali, I Gusti Made Dhordy, suggested the government to review the decision concerning with the prohibition on selling groceries for modern stores in Denpasar.

Decision of the government prohibiting all the modern stores on selling groceries would only incriminate the people who lived far from the location of traditional market.

“We agree to the endeavor of Denpasar Municipality to regulate the modern stores in Denpasar, including prohibiting the sale of groceries. However, we are asking the municipal government to rethink the prohibition of selling basic necessities for modern stores located far from

traditional market,” said Dhordy, Wednesday (Mar 7).

According to him, having been discussed, in fact the plan of municipal government to prohibit all the modern stores in Denpasar to sell groceries was still not right because it did not consider the people living far from traditional market.

“We hope the Denpasar Municipality could rethink the regulation. If it prohibits the stores located close to traditional market is okay, we strongly support it. However, we essentially would like to serve the community living far from traditional market.

The government does not only aim to promote the modern market, but also serves the community,” he said.

The Head of Denpasar Industry and Trade Agency, Wayan Gatra, in separate location said his party would examine it further. In essence, the government did not want to complicate anyone, both the employers of modern stores and the community. “We’ll discuss with the modern store assessment team for further measures,” he said.

The Decree of Denpasar Mayor No.188.45/495/HK/2011 dated September 9, 2011 is concerning with the arrangement of modern stores. Therein is also mentioned about the modern stores having no permit are given opportunity to submit all the operational requirements no later than six months. The deadline will be at the end of this March. (kmb27)

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Alleged to overdose A Russian citizen found dead in lodging room Denpasar (Bali Post)—

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Puputan field, one of the city park exist in Denpasar.

Get rid of squalid impression Slums transformed into beautiful City Park

Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Existence of many slums established at the fringe of several main roads has become one of the factors making Denpasar look squalid. For example, the slums can be found in the area of Jalan Gatot Subroto precisely behind the Super Ekonomi Supermarket, Tohpati, Kesiman Kertalangu, East Denpasar. To get rid of the squalid impression, Denpasar Municipality has set a plan to arrange and transform the area into a city park. It means the policy will force dozens of dwellers renting the slums to leave the location.

Contacted on Wednesday (Mar 7), the Headman of Kesiman Kertalangu, IB Bima Putra, confirmed the arrangement plan of the area.

According to him, the slums on Jalan Gatot Subroto Timur posed one of the program targets of the Denpasar Municipality in arranging all the slums area in Denpasar City. “This location is included in the arrangement program. So, today (Wednesday—Ed) we and related agencies in the Denpasar Municipality such as the Spatial Planning and Housing Agency (DTRP) and the civilian security guard (Tramtib) and public order agency (Satpol PP) makes an inspection to location of the arrangement later,” said Bima Putra.

According to Bima Putra, the land becoming the arrangement target was owned by a resident on

behalf of Mangku Muliarta. Currently, on the land had been built a few semi-permanent buildings inhabited by regional migrants on a lease. “With regard to the arrangement plan, we will organize another meeting with relevant agencies and landowners to find out the solutions regarding the technical implementation later,” he said.

When confirmed separately, the landowner, Mangku Muliarta, claimed if he would be willing to follow the rules of the government.

However, he wanted to get clarity when the land had been arranged whether he still could occupy or build a house for himself at that location. “I do realize if this land is shabby on account of the slums.

Actually I want to arrange it, but I do not have money. If the govern-

ment would now like to arrange and it is a necessity, I will follow,” he said.

Related to the plan, Mangku Muliarta claimed to have not notified the occupants of those slums.

Since there had been a regulation about the matter, they had to comply with it. “If it is a must and when I ask him to move, they should do so. Now, I am waiting for the result of meeting to be held in the headman’s office,” he said.

According to him, on the land area of 150 square meters was built eight units of semipermanent house and rented out to eight families. Each unit was rented at IDR 50,000 per month so that he totally earned IDR 400,000. “I use the revenue for school fees of my children,” he said frankly. (kmb13)

Occupants, employees as well as the owner of lodging in the area of Jalan Bakung Sari No. 3 B, Kuta, Badung, Tuesday (Mar 6), were surprised by the discovery of a body. In fact, the body was identified as Valentina from Russia. The victim was one of the occupants of the lodging. Allegedly the victim’s death was caused by overdose.

However, to be sure, the victim’s body was rushed to Sanglah Hospital for autopsy.

Chief of Kuta Police, I Gede Ganefo, Wednesday (Mar 7), justified the victim’s death. His party was still making investigation related to the cause of death. Based on the results of tentative examination, no signs of violence were found on the victim’s body. For further investigation, the victim’s body was taken to Sanglah Hospital. “Her body has been sent to Sanglah Hospital,” explained the former chief of South Denpasar Police.

As initial allegation, the victim died of an overdose. When police conducted an examination at the crime scene, it was found two bottles of liquor belonging to Whiskey and Vodka type. Not only that, police also encountered sev-

eral drugs in the victim’s room. “From information of witnesses or the lodging owner, it was not known for sure about the victim’s daily activities. The victim had been staying in the lodging for a month and 12 days,” she said.

Information of the police authority said the discovery of the victim’s body in her room was first known by the lodging owner, Wayan Sudarti. Previously, Sudarti did not have suspicion if the victim would be found motionless in her room. The witness knocked at the door of the victim’s room and then opened it. “When the door was opened, the witness was surprised as the victim was found lying,” explained one of the officers in the Kuta Police last Wednesday.

The witness tried to wake up the victim by shaking her body because the victim was thought to sleep. As no reaction from the victim, the witness believed if the victim was dead. Afterward, the victim told local residents and reported the case to Kuta Police.

Having received the report, police officers drove to the scene. At the scene, the officers conducted an investigation and interrogated a number of witnesses. (kmb21)

Night of Pengerupukan Gianyar anticipates dozens of critical points Gianyar (Bali Post)—

A number of customary cases and social problems emerging within the past few years have been resolved by mediation. However, they seem to have become a latent source of problems, mainly the vulnerable activities to friction. Some vulnerable areas get serious attention from the Gianyar Government. Dozens of those critical points in Gianyar will be anticipated at the night of Pengerupukan.

It was affirmed by the Head of Gianyar Office of National Union, Politics and Public Protection (Kesbangpollinmas), Ida Bagus Putra Siwagatha, Wednesday (Mar 7). His party had also discussed the critical points at the night of Pengerupukan in the meeting of regional leader consultative forum (Muspida) some time ago. A number of early detection teams had been assigned to monitor any development regarding those critical points in the community until the night of

Pengerupukan.

Against the existing critical points, his party had sent a letter to subdistrict government to make an approach and provide appeal to a number of public figures associated with the implementation of the night of Pengerupukan and celebration of Nyepi or Day of Silence.

Meanwhile, anticipation against the existing critical points in Gianyar Regency would be carried out in almost all the subdistricts. In the Gianyar subdistrict, the critical points covered the area of Sumita—Mulung (fission), Samplangan village (migrants) and Bitera village (Roban and Dauh Uma hamlet). Then, Blahbatuh subdistrict covered the Bonbiyu village, Keramas village—Medahan village, Getas hamlet at Buruan village and Bedulu Village (Wanayu hamlet—Mas hamlet). Then, Sukawati subdistrict started from Kemenuh—Batuan village, Kemenuh—Tegenungan, Ketewel— Guwang, Ketewel—Batubulan to Silakarang village. (kmb16)

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Spurs hand slumping Knicks another defeat Agence France Presse

Tony Parker scored 32 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 118-105 NBA victory over New York on Wednesday, dealing the Knicks their third straight defeat.

Tim Duncan added 17 points for the Spurs, who also got 17 from Manu Ginobili in the Argentine’s second game back after a fortnight out with an abdominal strain.

Carmelo Anthony scored 27 points for the Knicks, who were without injured center Tyson Chandler as well as backup center Jared Jeffries.

Coach Mike D’Antoni opted to shuffle the players he had, starting Iman Shumpert in place of Landry Fields, but the new-look Knicks lineup showed little of the flair that saw them surge before the All-Star break with the emergence of point guard Jeremy Lin. Lin, whose parents were born in Taiwan, became a global sensation last month for the Knicks, coming off the bench to spark the Knicks to a seven-game win streak with big-scoring, clutch shooting and inspired passing.

But the Knicks have since gone 3-6 and Anthony complained after a defeat at Dallas on Tuesday that he wasn’t getting enough chances to score.

He had his opportunities on Wednesday, but the Knicks were hurt by the absence of Chandler on the defensive end.

Lin scored 14 of his 20 points in the second half. Amare Stoudemire had 18 points and 11 rebounds and D’Antoni said the Knicks need to set aside their frustrations and find a way to win.

“I understand the frustration,” D’Antoni said. “We’ve just got to work through it. It’s a combination of everything.

“We as a team have to find better spots for people. People that have the spots have to play better.

I think everybody is a little frustrated. ... It’s OK for frustration to set in. But at the same time, let’s

get it worked out, let’s figure it out and let’s win some games.”

France’s Parker gave the Knicks little time to figure out anything.

He scored 23 points in the first half as the hot-shooting Spurs built a 58-41 halftime lead. San Antonio led by as many as 24 before the Knicks put together a 14-2 run, a rally that proved too little too late.

San Antonio Spurs’ Tony Parker, right, of France, drives around New York Knicks’ Steve Novak during the first half of an NBA basketball game on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, in San Antonio.

Australia’s Geale retains IBF middleweight title Agence France Presse

Australia’s Daniel Geale retained his IBF middleweight world title with an unanimous points decision over Ghanaian Osumanu Adama in Hobart late Wednesday.

Geale, 31, defeated his USbased opponent 117-111, 115-113,

118-110 on the judges’ cards in his second defence of the title he first won from Sebastian Sylvester in Germany last year.

Geale will look for further fights overseas against the likes of German WBA champion Felix Sturm, former US undisputed champion Jermain Taylor, Russian WBO ti-

tleholder Dmitry Pirog and Argentine Sergio Gabriel Martinez after improving his record to 27-1.

Fellow Australian Billy Dib retained his IBF featherweight world title on the same fight card, with Mexican challenger Eduardo Escobedo retiring after the sixth round.

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Australia’s Thorpe says London bid likely to fail Reuters

Ian Thorpe’s bid to make Australia’s swimming team for the London Games after coming out of retirement is more than likely doomed to fail at next week’s national trials in Adelaide, the five-times Olympic champion said.

Thorpe, who announced his return to the pool just over a year ago after retiring in 2006, told Australian television he had left his run too late.

“The most realistic outcome of this is that I will most likely fail,” Thorpe told Network Ten. “I wish I had another six months to do this. I wish I had more time to do it.”

Thorpe will compete in the 100 and 200 metres freestyle events at the March 15-22 trials but remains well short of the pace needed to book a spot at a third Olympics.

The 29-year-old clocked a pedestrian 52.28 seconds in the 100 freestyle in Zurich last month, a time unlikely to

secure him even a relay berth in Adelaide.

He swam the 200 in one minute 50.79 seconds at a state championships meeting in Melbourne in January, more than six seconds shy of his 1.44.06 world record in 2001, which stood for almost six years.

Thorpe also failed to impress at a number of meets across the Asian World Cup series since his comeback to competitive swimming in November.

Despite the swimmer ’s own concerns about his progress, Australia’s head coach Leigh Nugent and former champions, including twice 1,500 freestyle Olympic gold medallist Grant Hackett, have refused to write him off.

Thorpe said failure at Adelaide would not mean another prompt retirement.

“It’s probably the last time that I’ll be able to do this, so I want to make the most of it,” he said. “So I’ll probably swim for at least a year or two after the Games.”

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Michael Schumacher is not getting carried away with the positive winter testing programme his Mercedes team has enjoyed - and says the lessons of last year have made him more cautious ahead of the first race. Twelve months ago, Schumacher and his Mercedes team believed they had a car capable of fighting at the front after topping the final pre-season test, only for its W02 to fall well short of those expectations.

This time around, Schumacher feels that Mercedes is in much better shape, but he says that he is keeping expectations more in check. “The car is reliable which is already good,” he told his official website. “The first impression was already quite positive. We were driving out of the box with the car and everything went well, so there is potential.

“We are heading into the season much better prepared than in the past two years, and we can fully concentrate onto the development of our car.

“The speed is promising. I hope we can show that in Melbourne. We were able to drive a lot during the tests and therefore learn a lot too, and we certainly have made a step forward. But I want to wait until after the first races to judge how big this step is and how much it is worth compared to our competitors.”

Although some race simulation data over the tests has pointed to the possibility of the team being close to Red Bull Racing, Schumacher believes his rivals remain ahead of the opposition.

Speaking about his own chances of winning in Melbourne, Schumacher said:

“Victory to me is unlikely, I see Red Bull in front. Behind them it will be tight, and you can be either hero or zero very quickly. It will come down a lot to the ability of how well you will be setting up your car to the respective track.”

Asked about why he was playing down his prospects so much, Schumacher said: “Because we have experienced last year that you can be very wrong relying on the data coming out of the winter tests. And because we can see that the field will be very narrow this year.

“I do not have a clear picture yet. What we can say though is that the gap between several teams will not be as big as it was last year.”

Schumacher also reiterated that he was in no rush to decide whether or not he would extend his contract with Mercedes, which runs out at the end of this season. “That’s just totally unimportant at the moment, I don’t even think about it now,” he said. “Now, it is all about focussing and concentrating on understanding our car, so that we will have a positive season. I will certainly not be nailed down now.”

testing purposes as the Toyota it had been using up until now was deemed too old.

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and aerodynamic regulations. The car will run with a carbon fiber black Pirelli livery and the test team will be run by Pirelli with no team member connected to a current Formula 1 team.

Pirelli is hoping to announce a test driver within a month. “It was clear from an early point that we needed a more modern solution for our test car, as while the Toyota TF109 has served us extremely well, it is now three years old,” said Pirelli’s Paul Hembery.

“Technology as well as the regulations have moved on considerably since then, and the Toyota is no longer able to generate the same sort of forces that we need to simulate in order to meet the current requirements of Formula 1.

“At the top of our agenda is the need to treat the teams entirely equally, which is why the test team will be run independently and all the teams will be able to send an observer to the tests.

“Our new test car will be running to current fuel regulations, with no refueling, so we will be able to simulate a full race distance and the change in balance with the car and tyres.”

The Italian manufacturer said four to five tyre tests are anticipated for this season, with the first one set for May.

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple gave the new iPad a bunch of new features but no new name.

When it goes on sale next week in the U.S. and several other countries, it will be “the iPad” or perhaps “the new iPad” — not “iPad 3” or “iPad HD,” as some had speculated.

The new iPad unveiled Wednesday comes with improvements that may not be readily apparent to the casual observer. It has, as expected, a sharper screen, driven by a faster processing chip that acts as the “brains” of the device. What was more surprising was that the new features mean the tablet AP Photo/Paul Sakuma computer will be slightly thicker and Apple CEO Tim Cook clasp his hands during an new iPad announcement during an Apple heavier than the iPad 2, because it event in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 7, 2012. The new iPad features a sharper screen needs a larger battery to power the and a faster processor. Apple says the new display will be even sharper than the high- high-resolution screen. definition television set in the living room.

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DENPASAR - Allocation of education budget that has not reached 20 percent of the total Bali Regional Budget 2012 is now widely criticized by practitioners and observers of education in Bali.

The Law on the National Education System (Sisdiknas) expressly mandates the government at all levels to allocate at least 20 percent of the total regional budget. By such a way, the 20 percent allocation for education in the regional budget is compulsory so that the government components which do not comply with the provisions can be categorized to have violated the Law on the National Education System.

“In my opinion, if someone

accuses the Bali Government of having violated the Law of the National Education System is legitimate because the education budget has not reached 20 percent of the total Regional Budget 2012,” said Deputy Chairman of the Committee of SMAN 1 Denpasar senior high school, Prof. Dr. I Wayan Maba, to Bali Post.

If the Bali Government did not want to be accused of violating the Law of the National Education System, said Maba, then there

was no other choice but should meet the mandate of the law by allocating at least 20 percent of the regional budget for the development of education sector.

In this context, the professor assigned in the Mahasaraswati University requested the Bali Government to increase its attention to the development of education sector followed by concrete action through the allocation of higher budget for the education sector.

He affirmed the commitment in education sector was mandatory because it was strategic and closely related to human resources investment. Armed with the quality education, this nation could hope an improvement in the quality of future generations.

“The intellectuality and intelligence established will be able to offset the increasingly tight global competition. Therefore, never assume the budgetary allocation for education set forth in the Law of the National Education System as a burden.

However, it must be understood as an investment to prepare the young generation of Bali in order they could win the tight competition in the globalization era. If Bali Government really has a strong commitment to improve the quality of Balinese human resources, I think the Bali Government has the financial ability to realize the 20 percent budget for the education,” he said.

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