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CONTEXT The Olympic torch will be lit in a ceremony in Ancient Olympia on Thursday. After that it is flown to Britain on May 18 and carried by a succession of torchbearers through 1,019 communities before it is used to light the cauldron at the London opening ceremony on July 27.

LONDON 2012 OLYMPICS TORCH RELAY FINISH

Shetland Islands Jun 10

Orkney Islands Jun 10

Isle of Lewis Jun 11

Canal boat Cable car Tram Steam train Hot air balloon Motorcycle sidecar

Londonderry Jun 4

Mount Snowdon, Snowdonia National Park 2 June 4 Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland 3 June 13 Forth Rail Bridge, Edinburgh 4 June 21 Windermere, Lake District

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Alnwick Jun 14 Newcastle Jun 15 Durham Jun 16

B R I TA I N Carlisle Jun 20

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Nottingham Jun 28 Norwich Jul 4 Luton Ipswich Jul 5 Birm’ham Jul 8 Jun 30

Derby Jun 29 Aberystwyth May 27 Swansea May 26 Cardiff May 25

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Stonehenge

Worcester May 24

Land’s End May 19, 2012

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Exeter May 20 Plymouth May 19

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Dundee Jun 12

Relay highlights 1 May 29

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Aberdeen Jun 11

Glasgow Jun 8 2

Bexley Jul 22

Wandsworth Jul 23

Inverness Jun 9

Belfast Jun 6 Newry Jun 5

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Olympic Stadium July 27, 2012 Finish

Portsmouth Jul 15

Weymouth & Portland Jul 12

Guernsey Jul 15

Dover Jul 18

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Jersey Jul 15

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McLaren set to switch to higher nose

Team principal Martin Whitmarsh says McLaren is likely to switch to the new high nose design it trialled on the final afternoon of in-season testing at Mugello.

The new nose is far higher at the front than the original design, and features significantly longer pillars - effectively bringing it far closer to the stepped designs used by the rest of the field.

While McLaren only trialled the high nose in the final hours at Mugello, Whitmarsh said during a Vodafone phone-in on Wednesday that the team would run the design again in Barcelona, and that it was reasonable to expect it to remain on the car for the race.

“There’s a reasonable chance we will see it on Sunday, which will be the first time our drivers experience it,” Whitmarsh said.

“We got a lot of feedback from Mugello, so we have the data to set it up and can find the performance on track.”

Asked about the philosophy behind the new design, Whitmarsh said the higher nose helped manage the airflow directed to the rear of the car. “Classically of course you are looking for lower drag and higher downforce, but be aware that nowadays incremental improvements are generally modest,” he said.

“In the case of the nose and front wing the attachment pylons are quite different and there are other subtle differences.

“You are managing the airflow that is enjoyed by the rest of the car.

Nowadays, in quite a critical part of the car you are looking to find very small improvements. [There are] a lot of restrictions around the back end of the car, so you generate more improvement by managing the flow that arrives there than by developing the rear itself.” Whitmarsh said he expected McLaren to prove competitive once again after its poor showing in Bahrain, but said it was impossible to be fully confident given how competitive 2012 has proved.

“I believe we will be competitive in Spain and going forward, but you don’t know what other teams are going to do,” he said. “I think great thing about this sport is you can never been fully confident you understand everything. “[We] have a car clearly able to be on front row in each of the first four races and therefore the pace is inherently there. We are working to continuously develop the car, but you can never be confident that other teams won’t up their game and give you harder time. “We had an interesting data gathering test at Mugello, and we will see at Barcelona but we expect to put that knowledge to good use.”

Greek actress Ino Menegaki (L), playing the role of High Priestess, lights the torch held by Spyridon Gianniotis, Greece’s world champion of swimming, during a dress rehearsal for the torch lighting ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece May 9, 2012. The official lighting ceremony for the London Games will take place on May 10.

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One of Luh Endang Susiani sisters, crying in front of Endang’s coffin when it arrived at Ngurah Rai Airport on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. The worker from Buleleng was killed in robbery at South Carolina, United States of America (USA). Endang was worked there as waitress on one of restaurant in South Carolina.

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JAKARTA - The growth in foreign tourist arrivals can improve the understanding and insight of international community about the culture and life in Indonesia. It can generate positive influence on the imaging of Indonesia in the eyes of the world. “Aside from bringing in the economic impact, namely the increase in foreign exchange, the arrival of foreign tourists also has non-economic impact that can help the imaging of Indonesia,” said Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Mari Elka Pangestu.

Mari added, aside from the growth of foreign tourists continuing to climb, the travel of domestic tourists also showed an increase.

“The more frequent people travel around Indonesia, the more increasing their understanding on

Indonesia will be. Thus, they will progressively love Indonesia,” she said.

Currently, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy focused on the development of 16 tourist destinations of Bali

and Beyond such as Lake Toba, Lombok Island, Ternate, Wakatobi and Flores. “We develop the Bali and Beyond destinations for even distribution of tourist arrivals in Indonesia,” she said.

Related to the development of creative economy, Mari said the sector required special attention and should be widely publicized to general public. “Indonesia has a broader potential of creative economic development. This happens because Indonesia has a wealth of natural and cultural resources that can become the raw material of creative industries. However, it faces an obstacle in the management and access to the creative products for wider community,” said Mari.

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AMLAPURA - As much as 10 under age workers who are in Family Hope Program (PPPAKH) on lessening under age workers program experienced food poisoning last Monday (7/5) evening and ran to Karangasem Hospital A&E around 10 pm local time as confirmed by the Hospital’s Public Relation I Wayan Arsiawan Adi, S.Kep., last Tuesday (8/5).

According to information the 10 children were staying at Dangin Taman Inn, Tirtagangga, where around 7 pm they were eating meal of rice

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The pushcart of the sellers of Kreneng Market are seen on the picture. The residents often complain about the pushcarts which was often being left on the side of the road.

Sidewalk traders at Kreneng Market complained Denpasar (Bali Post)—

A row of pushcarts of sidewalk traders (PKL) that do selling at Kreneng Market was complained by residents because they frequently lined their pushcart along the Jalan Kapten Japa and Jalan Rampe infringing the opening hours as complained by Wayan Sarina, a resident of Denpasar, Tuesday (May 8). Denpasar Municipality and PD Pasar Denpasar should arrange the sidewalk traders. If they were allowed to set up their merchandise before operating hours, they could disrupt the traffic flows along the road section.

Besides, they also harmed the traders at Kreneng Market.

“When visitors are still busy, suddenly the parked vehicles were forcibly evicted. If it is not time to sell merchandise, they should be stopped. Do not let them do so as they like,” he complained.

According to him, Denpasar Municipality should strictly enforce the rules for sidewalk traders. It should not close the eyes for the sake of getting revenue from those sidewalk traders. “By degrees, visitors will be lazy to come to Kreneng Market if opened earlier because the existing parking area in front of Kreneng Market has been taken by sidewalk traders,” he said.

Hopefully, the Denpasar Municipality could strictly enforce

the rules. Traders should not be allowed to enter the area of night market to offer their merchandise ahead of time, including parking their pushcart on Jalan Rampe and those on Jalan Kapten Japa should be disciplined.

Chairman of Joint Faction of the Denpasar House, Ricky Teguh Utama Argawa asked the PD Pasar Denpasar to discipline those sidewalk traders. Complaints of residents were important inputs for the goodness and urban progress.

“We all should pay attention to this matter. Moreover, we are promoting the empowerment of traditional markets. So far, the Kreneng Market is very potential as a traditional market. Against

the presence of the sidewalk traders, the other complaints also came from traders occupying stalls and kiosks in the market,” he said.

If those sidewalk traders, said Ricky Teguh, were given more leeway to open the night market earlier, whereas should be opened from 4:30 p.m. local time, they would cause the traders in the market to lose out greatly.

“On that account, we must begin to find out the solution, and the municipal government should enforce the existing rules. If the sidewalk traders infringe, they should be reprimanded and given an action if they do not comply with the rules,” he said. (kmb27)

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AMLAPURA - Head of Karangasem Police GAPC Jefri Torunde, last Tuesday (8/5) stated at Karangasem Regent house that Padangbai Harbour has been the place for terrorists entering and going out of Bali that make Karangasem is potential to become a terrorist target.

Being the resource in anticipating terrorist attacks at Karangasem, Torunde stated that there are tourist objects in Karangasem that had a lot of overseas tourists coming such as Candidasa shores, Padangbai, Tanah Ampo, Ujung and Tulamben Cruise Harbours also Depo Pertamina Manggis (petrol warehouse). “The example can be taken during Bali Bomb II year 2005 where turns out they arrived at Ujung Beach at midnight,” Torunde stated.

Another example was stated during a raid at Yeh Malet, Manggis border, a person with 60 bullets, sword and Methamphetamine packet was found following the terrorist capture at Sanur. It was found later in the raid of the person’s living place, its weapon was found when actually the person admitted to use it for hunting at Sumbawa. Information then stated there is a terrorist training area at Sumbawa and could spread even target Bali. At least there are 31 illegal routes on the 87 km East Bali Shores such as at Kubu, Abang and Manggis. It seemed that X-Ray facilities at security checking are needed and placed by government

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with chicken, noodle and potatoes.

Then a few moments later they felt heartburn where some vomited, had headaches and shivering also hands and feet felt cramped. The ten children were Gede Indrawan (15), Merta (15), Agus Gede Putra (15), Ni Wayan Citra Pratama (15) Dewa Ketut Satria (17), Ketut Agus Permata (15), Kadek Widiani (14), Putu Astawa (15) Ni Wayan Putu (15), Pujiani (15). They were treated as procedure and after that they are allowed to go home without being hospitalised. It was added that all the fee was paid by the government through jamkesmas. (013)

Padangbai is suspected to be terrorist entrance as all this time police held it manually which is burdening, difficult and not all items can be opened. Identity checking solution is also needed especially around midnight where it’s Population and Civil Notes Agency workers are no longer around when actually that’s a sensitive time.

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Karangasem Vice Regent, Made Sukerana, SH also stated the same that Bali including Karangasem is still a sensitive spot for terrorist to attack and police also public should be aware of it. He hoped that any vehicles coming in and out Bali are all checked as it is heard that DK numbered vehicles are not really checked when actually they could be there too. Terrorists are ingenious people in hiding which so they would think any strategy to reach its goals. For example one car that was chased and bullets were left until now it’s not known where it is.

This anticipation was inviting all village head and public figures yet only little came. In other hand public figures was sadden there were no question-answers session which one of them from Segeha Village, Made Oka, stated he wanted to give a suggestion. Apparently the number of non residents in his area are worrying living up to the hidden places which so he hoped this anticipation is not only a lecturing session but will be taken action up to the most bottom level of government. (013)

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Azarenka, Sharapova and Serena progress in Madrid

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Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum dives to for a loose ball as Denver Nuggets guard Andre Miller, right, looks on during the first half in Game 5 of an NBA first-round playoff basketball game, Tuesday, May 8, 2012, in Los Angeles.

Nuggets avoid elimination, hold off Lakers 102-99 Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The Denver Nuggets plastered Andrew Bynum’s words all over their locker room and across their minds, drawing fiery inspiration from the Lakers center’s declaration that closeout playoff games are sometimes easy when an opponent quits. The young Nuggets rode that emotion to a big lead and a landmark victory — only after Kobe Bryant reminded them almost nothing comes easily for anybody in the NBA playoffs.

MADRID - Top seeds Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova breezed past Czech opponents into the Madrid Open third round on Tuesday along with former world number one Serena Williams.

Azarenka dispatched Andrea Hlavackova 6-3 7-6, Sharapova saw off Klara Zakopalova 6-4 6-3 and Williams, seeded nine and making her first European appearance of the season, thumped unseeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2 6-1.

Serena eased through a day after her sister Venus was knocked out by Germany’s Angelique Kerber. Sharapova, who beat world number one Azarenka in the Stuttgart final last month, was first up on the unfamiliar blue clay of the Manolo Santana show court.

The colour is a controversial innovation at this year’s edition of the event and has prompted complaints from Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and others. With the sliding roof closed to keep off the morning drizzle, second-seeded Russian Sharapova found her range and broke Zakopalova’s serve in the opening game.

The three-times grand-slam singles champion wobbled when serving for the match at 5-2 in the second set but broke again in the next game for a comfortable win. Sharapova next meets another Czech, unseeded Lucie Safarova, who beat Spanish wild card Carla Suarez Navarro 6-3 6-4.

Sharapova said the blue clay was a little more slippery than its red counterpart but added that she generally approved of the decision to switch colours, which organisers argue makes it easier to follow the yellow balls on television.

“I did feel a bit of a difference with the amount of clay that is on the court and the bounces were a bit off, especially the first couple of days of practice, but I feel like it’s got better and settled in a little bit,” she told a news conference.

“You just have to work on your balance a bit more,” added the 25year-old world number two, who will be chasing the only grand slam that has eluded her at the French Open starting later this month.

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Andre Miller scored 24 points, including two free throws with 12.8 seconds left, and Denver survived Bryant’s late scoring barrage in a 43-point performance, avoiding playoff elimination with a 102-99 victory over Los Angeles in Game 5 on Tuesday night.

The third-seeded Lakers are one win away from a second-round date with Oklahoma City, but the Nuggets forced Los Angeles to board a plane for Denver on Wednesday. Coach George Karl gratefully fed Bynum’s offhanded post-practice comment to his players, and they played like a team that isn’t going anywhere.

“I’ve been blessed to win a few series, and it’s the hardest thing in the world to win the fourth game,” Karl said. “I don’t care who you’re playing, it’s hard. ... His feeling on closeouts is a little different than mine.” Game 6 is Thursday night in Denver.

“We still have to go take care of business at home,” Miller said.

“Nothing is a gimme against this team. If we can take care of home

and force a Game 7, anything can happen.” JaVale McGee had 21 points and 14 rebounds for the sixthseeded Nuggets, who trimmed the Lakers’ series lead to 3-2, but only after a hair-raising finish. Denver had a 15-point lead midway through the fourth quarter against the lifeless Lakers, but Bryant engineered a stunning comeback before his final three shots missed.

“That’s true, closeouts can be easy,” Bryant said. “Tonight wasn’t one of those nights. ... Did it pump them up? Probably. You never want to give anybody bulletin board material, but if you’re going to be a champion, you’ve got to play through things like that.”

Bryant scored 12 points over the final 4:45, hitting four 3-pointers that trimmed the Nuggets’ lead to 98-96 with 59 seconds left. Bryant then missed a potential tying 5-footer and a 3-pointer, but Denver missed two of four free throws before Ramon Sessions hit a 3-pointer with 12.8 seconds left, trimming the Nuggets’ lead to one point.

Los Angeles had two more chances to tie after the veteran Miller’s free throws, but Bryant and Sessions missed 3-pointers near the buzzer. “I wouldn’t say the energy kicked in in the fourth quarter,” Bryant said. “I almost bailed us out, is what happened. That’s something you can’t rely on if you’re going to win a championship.”

Arron Afflalo scored a career playoff-high 19 points and Danilo Gallinari added 14 for the Nuggets, while rookie Kenneth Faried had 10 points and nine rebounds. Miller scored 10 points in the fourth quarter and 17 in the second half, calmly leading his young teammates to the win.

The Nuggets still must win two games to advance to the second round for just the second time in nine years, but they have already accomplished something rare by winning Game 5. Los Angeles had closed out a playoff series on the first try in 11 of its previous 12 opportunities, and the Lakers won 12 of their last 13 closeout games under departed coach Phil Jackson.

LAS VEGAS — With a May 19 bout in Las Vegas on the line, boxer Lamont Peterson’s lawyer is telling Nevada boxing regulators the champion fighter’s failed doping test in March stemmed from an “inadvertent” failure to disclose medical treatment last November for low testosterone levels.

In a letter obtained late Tuesday by The Associated Press, Washington, D.C.-based attorney Jeff Fried told the Nevada Athletic Commission that Peterson’s doctor determined that a one-time “therapeutic” treatment “would not produce a significant enhancement of athletic performance.”

Peterson, of Washington, defeated Amir Khan in a disputed split decision in December in the nation’s capital to become the WBA and IBF junior welterweight champion.

Peterson’s scheduled rematch next week with Khan in Las Vegas was in doubt after a urine test in March found unacceptably high levels of synthetic testosterone in Peterson’s system, Athletic Commission executive Keith Kizer said Tuesday.

Kizer said Peterson (30-1-1, with 15 KOs) would have faced routine approval in the next several days for the fight scheduled next week at the Mandalay Bay resort. Now, it would be up to the five-member commission to hold a special meeting to accept Peterson’s explanation and grant a license for the Khan bout. The panel isn’t currently scheduled to meet until May 21.

“Lamont has never had a positive anti-doping test either before (or) after this isolated occurrence,” Fried said in the letter that appears to apologize for the failed test but doesn’t specifically seek a commission hearing. Fried didn’t immediately respond to an after-hours message seeking comment.

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Chelsea’s top-four hopes end in defeat at Liverpool

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

To increase dialysis services or Haemodialysis (HD) at Sanglah Hospital, 16 new machines of it will be added at Sanjiwani room which just got renovated. The inauguration will take place on Thursday (10/5) including its testing for 4-5 patients as stated by Head of Special Treatment Medical Service of the Hospital, dr. Ken Wirasandhi when met last Tuesday (8/5).

It was explained the new machines will add the previous 6 HD machines which will be placed be-

LONDON - Chelsea must win the Champions League to play in Europe’s elite club competition next season after a 4-1 defeat at Liverpool on Tuesday ended their hopes of qualifying via the Premier League. Stand-in manager Roberto Di Matteo made eight changes to the team that beat Liverpool 2-1 in Saturday’s FA Cup final and they were picked apart by the rampant home side who gained some revenge for their Wembley disappointment.

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Chelsea captain John Terry, who is suspended for the clash with Bayern, was selected but had a woeful night. After 19 minutes he allowed Luis Suarez to

dance past him and cut back a pass which Michael Essien could only turn into his own net and six minutes later his slip allowed Jordan Henderson a clear run on goal to slot home Liverpool’s second.

Daniel Agger’s header made it 3-0 before the half hour mark and Stewart Downing struck a penalty against the post just before halftime as Liverpool ran riot.

Ramires pulled a goal back for the visitors, who had hit the post through Branislav Ivanovic’s header when it was 0-0, shortly after halftime but Liverpool remained in control. A poor clearance

by Chelsea keeper Ross Turnbull, in for the rested Petr Cech, allowed Jonjo Shelvey to calmly fire a sublime shot into an empty net from 30 metres just past the hour.

Andy Carroll wasted a chance to extend Liverpool’s lead while Agger also headed wide late on as the hosts ended a disappointing home league season on a high.

“That performance was on a par with many this season but we’ve not had the results those deserve,” said Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish, whose side have managed just six league victories at Anfield from 19 matches.

Liverpool’s win saw them leapfrog Fulham into eighth place on goal difference and they can still finish above Everton if their result at Swansea City on Sunday is better than that achieved by their city rivals at home to Newcastle United.

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Liverpool’s Andy Carroll attempts an overhead kick during his team’s 4-1 win over Chelsea in their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Tuesday May 8, 2012.

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sides UTD PMI Pembina Bali building. The machine operates every day with three shifts non stop yet for the new ones it is hoped to just operate two shifts so it got its rest except when the demand is high. “In the old building nearby UTD PMI Bali there are two rooms each with 13 and 19 machines which the second one will be renovated. Even Sanjiwani HD room is nearby VIP rooms, patients from public to Jamkesnas insurance will all be treated there. There are total of 48 machines in Sanglah,” Ken explained. (kmb24)

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With one match remaining, Chelsea are five points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur and four behind fifth-placed Newcastle United, both of whom are in a final-day scrap with Arsenal to determine the Champions League qualifiers. It is the first time Chelsea will have finished outside the top four since the 2001-02 season, although they could still grab a place in next year’s Champions League if they beat Bayern Munich in the final on May 19.

Should that happen, the team that finishes fourth in the Premier League would be deprived of a Champions League qualifying round tie and be bumped down to the Europa League. Di Matteo said he had no regrets about making eight changes from his Cup final side for the game at Anfield despite his team beginning the night still in contention for a top-four berth.

“I have no regrets, the effort was there but we came up against an inspired Liverpool side,” Di Matteo, who left out the likes of Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole and Juan Mata, told Sky Sports.

“We have had some very intense games, the last one three days ago. It’s hard to keep getting yourself going every three days. Since I’ve been in charge we’ve played every three days and it’s been a big ask and a big demand.

“I just thought with fresh legs and new energy we could have had a better chance tonight.”

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MADRID - Spain defender Carles Puyol will almost certainly miss Euro 2012 after he sustained an injury to his right knee that his club Barcelona said requires arthroscopic surgery and will sideline him for around six weeks.

The shaggy-haired centre back damaged the knee in Saturday’s La Liga match at home to Espanyol and will have the operation next Saturday, Barca said in a statement on their website (www. fcbarcelona.com) on Tuesday.

“The estimated time he will be out of action is around six weeks,” the statement said, adding that the talismanic club captain would be unavailable for the King’s Cup final against Athletic Bilbao on May 25.

The loss of the highly-respected Puyol will be a major blow to the world and European champions, who begin the defence of their continental title against

Italy on June 10.

The 34-year-old has been a reliable presence in the Spanish back line for more than a decade, making 99 appearances for his country and scoring the winning goal in the 1-0 semi-final victory against Germany at the 2010 World Cup. “That’s football, it’s an extremely significant loss for us,” coach Vicente del Bosque was quoted as saying in Marca sports daily.

“Quite apart from whether or not it disrupts my plans, he is a charismatic lad and very important (to the team) and was only a step away from making his 100th appearance,” Del Bosque added. “He has been on great form, it’s a shame.”

Puyol’s absence will likely mean that Del Bosque deploys Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos alongside Barca’s Gerard Pique in central defence, with Javi Martinez of Athletic Bilbao another option. Spain also face Ireland and Croatia in Group C at the Euro finals in Poland and Ukraine.

Indonesia undergoes a significant growth in labor force. Until February 2012, the labor force rate reached 120.4 million or an increase of three million people compared to August 2011 reaching 117.4 million.

Meanwhile, Bali in the same period accommodated 2.30 million people classified into labor force.

High upsurge in labor force, according to an economist from Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana, would lead to rising unemployment. It happened because the upsurge was not accompanied by the absorption of existing job opportunities.

“Every year, the average of labor force increases 1 million people.

Without balanced absorption of job opportunities, it kindles an increase in unemployment,” said Raka Suardana in Denpasar, Tuesday (May 8).

According to him, the unemployment rate in Bali from February 2011-February 2012 reached 52,380 people. Meanwhile, the economic growth was projected approximately 6.3 to 6.5 percent.

By all means, such condition would not be able to absorb so much unemployment.

“Theoretically, 1 percent of economic growth will absorb approximately 300,000 labor forces or maximally 400,000 people. Therefore, it is impossible to resolve the unemployment if the economic growth still revolves around such a rate,” he said.

Aside from triggering unemployment, high rate of labor force without being poised by job opportunities would also have an impact on the increase in poverty. As a result, it would triggered more crime rates, increase in individual homeless and beggars and psychiatric disorders (stress) due to being unemployed.

“So far, the government apparently does not show off significant progress in dealing with unemploy-

ment and has no systematic solution, except for the recent massive entrepreneurship campaigns,” he said.

According to the Secretary of the Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter, it was done half-heartedly because there was no regulation to the banks to increase the amount and low-interest loans to prospective employers. As a result, new businesses created by graduates of universities and diploma were more reliant on private funding or support of their family and relatives.

“Government needs to establish good cooperation with public (private) sector to create job opportunities. In formal educational institutions, from senior high school to college for instance, the government through relevant ministries should include a curriculum that directed the students to become an entrepreneur, not to look for a job after graduation,” he concluded.

Meanwhile, the Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Gede Suarsa, judged that labor force participation rate (TPAK) in Bali was quite good compared to some other provinces. It could be seen from the high number of people who worked in various productive sectors and the decline in unemployment rate.

The results of the National Labor Force Survey (Sukernas) in February 2012 indicated that 2.98 million people were categorized into working age and 2.30 million of them were classified into labor force. The remaining 672,920 people were classified into non-labor force, namely those that were still attending school or managing household and other activities that did not generate revenue.

“In February 2012, the working population amounted to 2.25 million people or 97.89 percent of the total labor force in Bali,” he said. (kmb27)

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The vegetable farmer is harvesting carrot in his field in Baturiti, Tabanan Regency.

Harvest yields unsold, vegetable farmers of Baturiti distraught Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Vegetable farmers at Baturiti were recently hit by unrest. It happened because their harvest yields were unsold in the market. This condition made farmers distraught. They lost out up to tens of millions of rupiahs. Other than being unsold, the quality of harvest yields also declined due to adverse weather condition.

Price of vegetable at farmer level almost totally dropped. Since it was so cheap, many farmers then let their crops scattered in the garden as carried out by a number of farmers at Kembang Merta hamlet, Candikuning village, Tuesday (May 8). They were forced to pile up the vegetables at the garden edge because collectors were unwilling to purchase them. The price was very cheap. “All the farmers here are distraught. No one wants to purchase our harvest yields,” complained Made Suartana, 45, one of the local farmers.This man told if the price of all vegetable commodities was very alarming. He exemplified that round salad and various types of lotus usually reached IDR 10,000, dropped to IDR 1,000 per kilogram.

Price of the other commodities like coriander from IDR 80,000 dropped to IDR 5,000 per kilogram, scallion from IDR 10,000 dropped to IDR 4,000 per kilogram. Meanwhile, bell pepper becoming the leading commodity of local farmers also declined. Yellow bell pepper whose price was IDR 80,000 dropped to

IDR 35,000 per kilogram. More tragically, carrot could not be sold at all. Typically it could penetrate the price of IDR 4,000 per kilogram.

Since it could not be sold, some farmers forcibly took advantage of it for fodder. “No one wanted to purchase it. If not harvested, it even harms the soil,” complained Suartana.

The man doubling as chief hamlet of Kembang Merta admitted not to know what triggered the price drop and why no one wanted to purchase. He had tried to offer his crops to market. Unfortunately, his effort was fruitless, where a pick-up truck of carrots and other vegetables was completely untouched by buyers.

This price drop had occurred since the past few days. Due to such condition, Suartana claimed to lose out over IDR 60 million. He suspected the price disorder to vegetable was triggered by abundant vegetable supplies from Java.

By and large, said Suartana, vegetable collectors and suppliers were in line to buy up the farmers’ crops. Now, they entirely disap-

peared. On average farmers lost out over IDR 20 million. This amount was used to buy seeds, pesticides and protective cover of plastic. Such condition further exacerbated the fate of farmers on the edge of Lake Beratan. Previously, local farmers suffered a loss due to flooding and overflowing water of the lake. After flooding, with a minimum investment they grew vegetables again. However, the prices dropped at harvest time and did not sell well. “So far, we only rely on our own capital. We have never received any help from the government,” said Suartana.

Though losing out, farmers could only submit to their fate. They were forced to continue planting activities because they had no other livelihoods. So far, they only relied on the income from vegetable farming.

Hopefully, there would be a subsidy from the government to ease the burden of their farming cost.

Moreover, said Suartana, farmers of Baturiti also took part in shoring up the economy of Bali through vegetable sector. (kmb30)

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International

Qaeda bomber adept at breaching aviation security Reuters

LONDON - A Saudi bombmaker believed behind several failed but ingenious attempted attacks on the West is the most likely creator of an improved “underwear bomb” discovered in a plot foiled by U.S. and allied authorities, security experts and officials say.

Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who once provided the bomb for a suicide mission by his younger brother, a fellow militant, is described by security officials as one of the most dangerous and innovative explosives experts ever to serve al Qaeda.

Believed to be in his early 30s, Yemen-based Asiri became an urgent priority for Western counter-terrorism officials following his alleged role in planning strikes on the United States in 2009 and 2010, plots that included the failed bombing of an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009.

Asiri, who survived a U.S. drone missile attack last year, has drawn scrutiny for his skill at fashioning bombs using a hardto-detect powdery substance called pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, and hiding them in clothing or equipment.

“If we assume Asiri is behind all these attacks, then he is at the top of the list of the most dangerous al Qaeda operatives,” Mustafa Alani, a Gulf security expert with good Saudi contacts, told Reuters.

Richard Barrett, who heads the al Qaeda-Taliban sanctions monitoring committee at the United Nations, said he was “pretty certain” Asiri was the top suspect in the latest plot.

“He has a particular skill for making things which are effective without being detectable,” he said. “This example looks like an evolution from the one he gave the Christmas Day bomber ... and so I think it is likely to have been his.”

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Transportation Security Agency (TSA) workers carry out security checks at Denver International Airport, the day before the Thanksgiving holiday in Denver November 24, 2010.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and former President Dmitry Medvedev speak in the State Duma, Russian parliament’s lower house, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

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Putin and Medvedev complete job swap in Russia

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MOSCOW - Russia’s lower house of parliament confirmed former president Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister on Tuesday, completing a job swap with Vladimir Putin that has sparked protests against the two leaders’ grip on power.

The approval vote, comfortably won by Medvedev as Putin looked on, ignored growing concern in the country that keeping power in the hands of the same men who have led Russia for the past four years will bring political and economic stagnation.

Police led away more than 20 people, including two opposition leaders, when they broke up a peaceful protest near the Kremlin hours before the vote, after detaining more than 700 on the previous two days to keep a lid on dissent.

“They just started to grab people and put them in police buses,” said Alexander Delfinov, 40, who was held for hours and ordered to appear

in court on Friday, facing a fine or up to 15 days in jail.

Activists regrouped later and were chased around central Moscow by police who hemmed them in and detained dozens more.

In Twitter posts from police vans, prominent opposition activist Alexei Navalny and Ksenia Sobchak, a television host who has fallen out with Putin, said they were among those detained - Navalny for the second time in a day.

The United States said it was concerned by arrests and by clashes that erupted at a rally on Sunday, a day before Putin’s inauguration as president, when police beat demonstrators with batons and some

Cameron says Euro needs single government: report

LONDON - A successful euro zone requires a single government if it is to work properly, British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a newspaper interview on Wednesday. “There’s nowhere in the world that has a single currency without having more of a single government,” Cameron told Britain’s Daily Mail.

“Making sense of the euro for me would mean that those euro zone countries would have to have much more co-ordinated economic policy, much more coordinated debt policy,” he said.

Cameron, who opted out of a new European economic pact late last year, advocated Britain’s position outside the euro and its ability “to do things to ourselves, for ourselves, by ourselves.

“I have always believed different countries at times

will need different economic policies, interest rates tailored to their own needs.” Cameron said, however, that it is in Britain’s interest to see a return to growth in the euro zone, which accounts for 40 percent of UK exports.

“We want them to sort out the problems that they have. We want to be in the single market, we want European co-operation, we don’t want to be in the euro,” Cameron said.

“The euro is a project in transition that could go in a number of different ways ... all these countries have to make their own choices.”

File photo of Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron in Alfreton, central England, April 16, 2012.

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protesters wielded pieces of metal fencing and flagpoles.

“We are disturbed by images of police mistreatment of peaceful protesters both during the protests and after detentions,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told a daily briefing in Washington.

Medvedev’s confirmation vote in the State Duma, the lower house, was held under tight security, with camouflage-clad riot police guarding the building near Red Square and police trucks and buses parked nearby.

Medvedev stood and nodded to Duma deputies to show his gratitude and then shook hands with Putin.

The president smiled and applauded the outcome of the vote, one day after he was sworn in as president for a six-year term.

“I thank you for showing your trust in me,” Medvedev told the assembly. “I am absolutely sure that if we work together we can achieve results.”

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Hobbs, NM, picked as site of scientific ghost town Associated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology — but no people.

A $1 billion city without residents will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, officials said Tuesday, to help researchers test everything from intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks to automated washing machines and self-flushing toilets.

Hobbs Mayor Sam Cobb said the unique research facility that looks like an empty city will be a key for diversifying the economy of the nearby community, which after the oil bust of the 1980s saw bumper stickers asking the last person to leave to turn out the lights. “It brings so many great opportunities and puts us on a world stage,” Cobb told The Associated Press before the announcement.

Pegasus Holdings and its New Mexico subsidiary, CITE Development, said Hobbs and Lea County beat out Las Cruces, for the Center for Innovation, Technology and Testing. The CITE project is being

billed as a first-of-its kind smart city, or ghost town of sorts, that will be developed on about 15 square miles west of Hobbs.

Bob Brumley, senior managing director of Pegasus Holdings, said the town will be modeled after the real city of Rock Hill, S.C., complete with highways, houses and commercial buildings, old and new.

No one will live there, although they could as houses will include all the necessities, like appliances and plumbing.

The point of the town is to enable researchers to test new technologies on existing infrastructure without interfering in everyday life. For instance, while some researchers will be testing smart technologies on old grids, others might be using the streets to test self-driving cars. “The only thing we won’t be doing is destructive testing, blowing things up — I hope,” said Brumley.

Not far from the Texas border,

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This artist rendering provided by the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation shows the $1 billion scientific ghost town that will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, N.M.

Hobbs has seen new growth in recent years but local leaders have been pushing to expand the area’s reputation to include economic

development ventures beyond the staple of oil and gas. The investors developing CITE were looking for open spaces. Brumley said his

group scoured the country for potential sites, “but we kept coming back to New Mexico. New Mexico is unique in so many ways.”

Infection causes one in six new cancer cases: study Agence France Presse

tion, safer injection practice or antimicrobial treatments, could have a substantial effect on Largely preventable or treatable infections the future burden of cancer worldwide,” said with viruses, bacteria and parasites cause the report by the International Agency for about two million new cancer cases and 1.5 Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. million cancer deaths each year, said a study Four infections, hepatitis B and C, human published Wednesday. papillomavirus (HPV) and the Helicobacter This amounted to about one in six of the 12.7 pylori stomach bacteria, accounted for the million new cancer cases reported in 2008, said bulk of the cases, some 1.9 million -- mostly the report in The Lancet Oncology journal. gastric, liver and cervical cancers.

“Application of existing public health methInfection-related cancers accounted for 3.3 ods for infection prevention, such as vaccina- percent of new cases in Australia and New Zealand, but 32.7 percent in sub-Saharan Africa, said the report, based on a study of 27 cancer types in 184 countries.

Cervical cancer accounted for half the infection-related cancers in women, and liver and gastric cancers for 80 percent of cases in men.

“Around 30 percent of infection-attributable cases occur in people younger than 50 years,” said AFP Photo/Fred Dufour the report.

A nurse carries a patient on a stretcher at a hospital.

Google issued first license to test driverless cars Nevada is the first state to grant Google a U.S. license to test driverless cars.

The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed on Monday that it had approved the company’s application to test autonomous vehicles on public streets. Google will be required to have at least two people in the vehicle while testing it, however, including one in the driver’s seat.

Prior to being approved, the Mountain View-based company had been testing the car on freeways in neighborhoods around Carson City and Las Vegas, according to Fox News. The tests showed the car was just as safe, if not safer, than cars oper-

ated by human drivers. “It gets honked at more often because it’s being safe,” said Nevada DMV Director Bruce Breslow.

The driverless vehicles will be required to wear red license plates that contain an infinity symbol, which the DMV says represents their status as “the car of the future.” If testing goes as planned and the vehicles are ever used by the general public, the license plates will be green.

“They’re designed to avoid distracted driving,” Breslow said. “When you’re on the Strip and there’s a huge truck with a three scantily clad women on the side, the car only sees a box.”

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“Avengers” to return to big screen in sequel Reuters

LOS ANGELES - The runaway success of “The Avengers” movie landed the crime-fighting Marvel superhero team a return date to theaters. Hot off the movie’s record-setting debut, Walt Disney Co said on Tuesday an “Avengers” sequel is in the works, though no release date is set.

The movie debuted with a staggering $207.4 million from U.S. and Canadian theaters over the weekend, the biggest debut in film history. Globally, the film has pulled in $702.2 million.

The film unites Marvel superheroes including Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor and The Hulk in a battle against a villain out to destroy the Earth. Stars include Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson.

The second “Avengers” movie will follow a previously announced “Thor” and “Iron Man”

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Wax figures designed to look like characters from the Marvel Entertainment film “The Avengers” are on display at the “Marvel Superhero Experience” at Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York April 26, 2012.

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Jermaine Paul crowned season winner on “The Voice”

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Associated Press Writer

LONDON — A man who had a cardiac arrest while jogging in London’s Hyde Park says his life was saved with help from a famous passer-by — Dustin Hoffman.

Sam Dempster said Tuesday that the actor waited with him after he collapsed on April 27 until paramedics arrived.

On his recovery blog, 27-yearold Dempster thanked medical staff and “my newfound favorite celebrity Dustin Hoffman.”

Dempster initially credited Hoffman with having summoned an ambulance, but the London Ambulance Service said someone else had made the emergency call.

Martin Macarthur, one of the paramedics on the scene, said Hoffman described seeing Dempster collapse and froth at the mouth.

“It is essential to get a history of what has happened, and he witnessed the jogger go down. He was the main witness and saw him stagger and go down,” Macarthur said. “He stayed on the scene for the whole duration of the resuscitation which was about 15 minutes.

He was very concerned.”

Macarthur said the 74-yearold actor told medics, “Great job, guys” after they resuscitated Dempster with a defibrillator.

Representatives of the “Tootsie” and “

NEW YORK - Jermaine Paul of Team Blake won TV singing contest “The Voice” on Tuesday night, taking home a recording contract with Universal Republic Records, a $100,000 cash prize, and a shot at his dream of singing stardom. Paul collapsed into a hug from his coach Blake Shelton and wiped away tears as he thanked his wife, children, and all of the people who voted for him, ending his speech by exclaiming “nobody but Jesus!”

The former backup singer for Alicia Keys took center stage as he sang R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” to close out the show, which he also sang in his final performance on Monday’s penultimate episode of the show. Paul received embraces from his wife and family members as he sang.

Paul beat out fellow contestants Juliet Simms of Team Cee Lo (Green), Tony Lucca of Team Adam (Levine), and Chris Mann of Team Christina (Aguilera).

Host Carson Daly revealed that Paul edged out second place finalist Simms by fewer than four percentage points.

Tuesday’s special two-hour finale included a plethora of performances from stars such as Justin Bieber, Lady Antebellum, Flo Rida, and Hall & Oates. Contestants previously voted off the show were invited back to perform with the four finalists. “The Voice” became one of the most-watched TV shows in the United States earlier this season and was seen a challenge to Fox’s top-rated singing show “American Idol.”

During the season, it proved very competitive against “Idol,” especially in the coveted 18-49 viewer group where the two shows are in a close race to be the mostwatched program.

But “Idol” draws many millions more total viewers than “The Voice” - an average audience size of 19.2 million this season compared to 14.8 million for “The Voice”, according to figures from the two TV networks.

Singer Jermaine Paul performs at the 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux July 17, 2008.

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The Sultan held a photographic exhibition JAKARTA - From May 12-17, 2012, the Sultan Hotel Lobby Lounge will feature a photographic exhibition by Vivek Bammi, faculty member at Jakarta International School and avid photographer, with the title “China – Poetic and Romantic”. Born in eastern India, Vivek has always been fascinated by the grand civilization and aesthetic richness of neighboring China, and he has had the opportunity to explore that with his photographic lens. The images he presents at the exhibition go beyond the modern façade of Beijing and Shanghai; instead, he finds the rootedness of China in the timeless rhythms of agricultural life, stunning natural landscapes, the warmth of family ties, colorful ethnic diversity, and the creativity and beauty of its people.

As photographer and author, Vivek has published three books: “Golden Buddhism”, “Indonesia – A Feast for the Senses”, and “Bali Boys – A Visual Symphony”, guided by Pak Deniek Sukarya, one of Indonesia’s leading photographers.

The exhibition will be opened on Saturday May 12 at 7 p.m. in the Sultan Hotel Lobby Lounge in the presence of Excellency Zhong Ruiming, the Councilor and Consul General at the Chinese embassy in Jakarta.

sequels coming in 2013 and a new “Captain America” movie in 2014, Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger told industry analysts. “Eventually, (on) a date to be determined, you’ll see a sequel to ‘Avengers,’” Iger said.

London jogger: Dustin Hoffman saved my life

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Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for April 20 through May 20, 2012 20 Apr Tilem Kedasa - Pura Kahyangan Tiga Batur Bangli - Pura Batur Camenggon-Sukawati - Pura Luhur Bhujangga Camggu Kuta - Pura Kawitan Kayu Selem Tampurhyang Batur-Kintamani 21 Apr Hari Tumpek Kandang - Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota Gianyar - Pura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - Tabanan - Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung 25 Apr Buda Wage Menail - Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Cemenggaon Sukawati - Mr. Pasek Dangke bambang - Bangli - Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Pejeng Kaja - Gianyar - Pura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - Bangli - Merajan Agung Blangsinga - Blahbatuh - Pura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh Gianyar - Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Sukawati - Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan Kapal Mengwi 1 May Anggar Kasih Perangbakat - Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - Klungkung - Pura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - Bangli - Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - Buleleng - Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - Klungkung - Pura Gunung Tengsong Lombok.

- Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar - Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar - Pura Dalem Banyuning Timur Buleleng - Pura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas Denpasar - Pura Tengah Padang Tegalalang - Merajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - Pupuan Tabanan - Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Denpasar - Pura Hyangaluh/Jenggala Besakih - Merajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan Gunaksa - Mr. Pasek Gelgel Selulung - Merajan Pasek Subrata Medahan - Merajan Pasek Munggu Munggu - Pura Tengkulak Tulikup - Gianyar - Pura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen.

2 May Buda Umanis Perangbakat - Pura Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring - Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana - Pura Batu Bolong Canggu - Kuta - Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan - Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Jembrana - Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan - Buleleng.

- Pura Pasek Tangkas Darma Reyanggede Tabanan - Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng - Pr. Srijon Tabanan - Mr. Pasek Gelgel Lebah Pangkung - Merajan Pasek Gelgel Patemon - Pura Tirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak Siring - Pura Dadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba Tegalalang.

- Pura Pedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel Tabanan.

- Pura Puncak Mundi Nusa Penida.

5 May Purnama Jiyestha - Pura Segara Lombok - Pura Dwijawarsa Malang - Pura Puncaktingguh Angsri Baturiti Tabanan - Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Desa Jatiluwih Penebel Tabanan - Pura Kawitan Batur Tonja Denpasar - Pura Masopahit Grenceng Denpasar - Pura Penyungsungan Pasek Tohjiwa Wanagiri Selemadeg.

- Pura Pamerajan Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem - Pura Eka Dharma Sweta Indah-Mataram, NTB. 16 May Buda Keliwon Ugu - Pura Dalem Tarukan Desa Peninjoan Tembuku - Bangli.

- Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba-kaba Tabanan - Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng - Pura Desa Kayangan Tiga Desa Bubunan Seririt - Buleleng - Pura Agung Gunung Raung Banjar Taro Kaja Taro Tegalalang - Merajan Pasek Dangka Bungbungan 20 May Tilem Jiyestha.

- Pura Bhujangga Waisnawa Gumrih Jembrana.

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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11 dead in Philippine department store fire Agence France Presse

At least 11 shop clerks sleeping in a Philippines’ department store were killed when a fire swept through the building before dawn on Wednesday, local authorities said.

Twenty-one female employees of the store were trapped in the fire, with seven others still missing and three surviving by jumping from a second-storey window, provincial fire department head Chief Inspector Mario Palarca told AFP. “Twenty-one people were asleep on the second floor when the fire struck the ground floor. They could not find the emergency exit because of the huge volume of black smoke,” Palarca said by telephone.

The fire occurred in a three-storey department store in Butuan, a small city on the southern island of Mindanao.

In the Philippines, it is common for people in low-paying jobs to sleep at their place of work.

Boy on Bike: Moscow’s Tiananmen Image

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MOSCOW - As a bloody skirmish between police and opposition activists in central Moscow was drawing to a close on Sunday a small boy on a tiny bicycle pedaled through the crowd and approached a line of hulking riot police.

He sat there for a moment, balancing on his training wheels, staring at the menacing troops who were decked out in blue camouflage uniforms and full riot gear, nightsticks at the ready.

A group of protesters who had been heckling the cops began jeering, “Here’s the guy that will storm the Kremlin. Be ready boys! Here he comes!”

Julia Ioffe, the Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy magazine, happened to be standing right behind him. She whipped out her iPhone and snapped a picture which she tweeted out to her over 6,000 followers with the caption “Russia’s Tianamen (sic) image.”

The photo quickly ricocheted around the internet.

It was a David and Goliath moment, perhaps a metaphor for the unarmed protesters who clashed with police that day and whose movement is taking on President Vladimir Putin’s formidable political system.

Tens of thousands of protesters had marched against Putin that afternoon, the day before his inauguration. They were met by row after row of police, thousands of them, who were there to

make sure they stayed within the bounds of their rally permit.

When a large group tried to cross a police line towards the Kremlin, police pushed them back and tensions flared. Rocks and bottles were thrown and police responded with what many say was disproportionate force, deploying tear gas and striking people with their batons. They surged into the crowd to grab individuals and drag them by their arms, legs, and even their hair back to police vans. Many protesters were bloodied. By the end of the day more than 450 people had been arrested.

Ioffe had been there all day to cover the protest. She was in the thick of the melee and says she was struck in the leg by a rock. When police had finally cleared the square, only a handful of protesters remained behind, including the group heckling the riot police.

“Shame on you,” they shouted.

“What are you going to tell your grandparents who fought against the fascists? Don’t you have mothers?”

Ioffe says she was walking with another journalist, Olaf Koens, who works for RTL Tele-

vision in the Netherlands. They were tired and wanted to go find some dinner when they stopped to watch.

Koens spotted the boy first.

“Olaf smacked me in the arm and said look at that,” she recalled later when ABC News asked about the photo. “Then I see this little bicycle weave through the crowd and stop in front of the troops. He stood there for a few minutes. I’m not sure why.”

Koens says he wanted to take the picture himself, but his iPhone battery had run out an hour earlier.

“This little boy just showed up.

His parents were somewhere in the crowd, there was no immediate danger, and the kid just kind of peddled (sic) up to the police, probably out of curiosity,” he wrote in an email to ABC News.

Ioffe laughed at the thought that one of her pictures has gone viral and is being called iconic.

“I didn’t think it would be any good. I’m a terrible photographer, especially with an iPhone,” she said, adding that her family usually won’t even let her take pictures on vacation. Maybe now they will.

British woman makes marathon history in bionic suit Agence France Presse

A paralysed British woman became the first person to complete a marathon in a bionic suit as she crossed the finishing line in London on Tuesday 16 days after the race began.

Claire Lomas was in tears but said she was “over the moon” as she completed the 26.2-mile (42.2 kilometre) course in her bionic ReWalk suit, which mimics the response that the wearer’s joints would make if they were not paralysed.

Hundreds of people lined the streets and three mounted members of the Household Cavalry gave the 32-year-old a guard of honour as she finished the course on The Mall in central London.

Lomas, a former chiropractor who was left paralysed from the chest down following a horseriding accident five years ago, said: “There were times when I questioned whether I would make it when I was training.

“Once I started, I just took each day as it came and every step got me a step closer.”

She walked about two miles a day, cheered on by her husband Dan and their 13-month-old daughter Maisie, and her parents.

Lomas will not appear in the official results and did not receive a medal when she finished as competitors have to complete the course on the day of the race to qualify for a medal.

But a dozen other runners in the race have given her their own medals in recognition of her achievement.

Lomas, who now works as a jewellery designer, raised more than £86,000 ($140,000, 107,000 euros) for a charity which funds

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Greece waits on new loan tranche from EU-IMF

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ATHENS - Greece, still without a government since no clear winner emerged in general elections, expressed doubts on Wednesday that the EU and IMF would release crucial rescue funds due later this week.

“There are questions on securing” the latest tranche of rescue loans, said Gikas Hardouvelis, economic advisor to outgoing Prime Minister Lucas Papademos on Skai Radio.

“Why would they give us money?” if Greece deviated from its commitments, Ghikas added, as has been promised by most of the antiausterity parties that saw great gains in Sunday’s elections.

According to centre-right daily Kathimerini, the European Union has confirmed to Athens that the 5.2 billion euro ($6.74 billion) tranche would be approved, though news website To Vima speculated that the EU may decide to hold the payment to put pressure Greece.

General elections on Sunday did not produce a clear winner but gave an overwhelming boost to leftist

party Syriza which now has 52 deputies in parliament, making it the second biggest party.

The main parties that have pledged to continue deficit-cutting reforms, New Democracy and socialist Pasok, now only send a combined 149 MPs to the 300-seat parliament, not enough for a re-run of the outgoing coalition led by technocrat Papademos.

On Monday, the International Monetary Fund said it was waiting for a new government to be formed in Greece before deciding on how to move forward.

“We look forward to being in contact with the new government once it has been formed. Until that time, we have no further comment,” IMF spokeswoman Conny Lotze told journalists.

Agence France-Presse

Taipei struck a trade agreement with Beijing in 2010.

Finance Minister Bahk JaeWan has repeatedly called for early negotiations with Beijing, saying the China-Taiwan deal put South Korean firms at a “great disadvantage”.

Deputy minister Lee said trade ministers from South Korea, China and Japan would separately meet in Beijing Saturday as part of annual three-way trade talks, to discuss a possible separate trilateral free trade pact.

“China and Japan hope to begin negotiations by the end of this year,” he said, adding Seoul also sees “little difficulty” in doing so.

A joint feasibility study on a trade bloc grouping the three nations -- none of which has a trade pact with each other -- found that all members would benefit, Lee said.

Export-dependent South Korea has been more successful than its neighbours in negotiating free trade pacts, signing deals with the United States, the European Union, India, Chile, Peru, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Singapore and the European Free Trade Association.

South Korea, China to start-free trade talks next week

AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/PA

Claire Lomas, 32, who is paralysed from the chest down, wears a bionic ReWalk suit reacts after completing the London Marathon on The Mall Tuesday May 8, 2012 , with her husband Dan, 16 days after the race began. research to develop treatments for paralysis caused by a broken back or neck.

“I have had tremendous support since my accident which I am so grateful for, some don’t have that,” she said.

“Some people lose the use of their arms as well. A cure needs to be found.”

The £43,000 ReWalk suit, designed by Israeli entrepreneur Amit Goffer, enables people with lowerlimb paralysis to stand, walk and climb stairs through motion sensors and an onboard computer system.

SEOUL - South Korea will start talks next week aimed at securing a free trade agreement with China, its largest commercial partner and the world’s second biggest economy, officials said Wednesday.

Choi Seok-Young, deputy minister for free trade agreements, will meet his counterpart Yu Jianhua in Beijing Monday, Deputy Trade Minister Lee Si-Hyung told reporters.

“The upcoming talks are aimed at discussing...the scope of the pact, how to form the group of negotiators and to exchange necessary data and information as well as a schedule for future negotiations,” Lee said.

The countries’ trade ministers announced in Beijing last week that formal negotiations on the pact would begin this month and were expected to take two years.

Beijing forecasts trade between the two sides to reach $300 billion by 2015, up from $245.6 billion last year, according to Chinese customs data.

Seoul policymakers say such a pact would allow South Korea to better compete against Taiwan in the lucrative Chinese market after

AFP PHOTO / DANIEL ROLAND

The Occupy camp remains in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on May 8, 2012. German exports grew to a record level in March, boosting a trade surplus by 16.8 percent from the February level on strong demand from outside the European Union, official data showed on Wednesday.

German exports hit record in March Agence France-Presse

FRANKFURT - German exports grew to a record level in March, boosting a trade surplus by 16.8 percent from the February level on strong demand from outside the European Union, official data showed on Wednesday.

Germany’s trade surplus grew to 17.4 billion euros in March, the figures showed, but exports to the eurozone fell on a 12-month basis.

The German economy, the biggest in Europe, exported goods worth 98.9 billion euros ($128 billion) in March, up 8.4 percent from the figure for February and beating the previous record from March 2011, the national statistics office Destatis said.

On a 12-month basis, exports to countries

outside the European Union grew by 6.1 percent to 41.9 billion euros while exports to countries in the crisis-hit eurozone contracted by 3.6 percent to 38.1 billion euros.

Imports overall were up 6.8 percent at 81.5 billion euros, the office said with imports from the eurozone up 2.3 percent to 37 billion euros.

On Tuesday, official data showed German industrial output rose sharply in March driven by a strong showing in construction after cold winter weather hit production in February.

Industrial production increased by 2.8 percent from February providing a sunnier outlook for output in the coming months.

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Les Waterfall IBP

Les waterfall is located in Les village, 38 kilometer south to Singaraja, in the north Bali. The waterfall is overlooking green hills and untouched nature. The height is about 30 meters.

In addition, Les Village is also famous for its very amazing beach with its magnificent underwater world view.

Located some 90 kilometers north of Denpasar, Les is blessed with a majestic waterfall and rich underwater scenery at its beach.

The best way to reach Les is by rented or private car or motorcycle, so visitors can stop where they want to take photos.

The shortest route from Denpasar to Les is through Gianyar and Kintamani, where visitors can stop to enjoy the wonderful Lake Batur and mountain views while sipping hot Balinese coffee outside Pura Puncak Panulisan, a temple.

The waterfall is about 1 kilometer from the village’s main road.

Visitors can park at the entrance gate, where a few shops sell snacks and souvenirs, before walking along a path to an open area next to a wide river, with a small stream of water and huge rocks.

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After crossing the river, a similar footpath leads to the waterfall.

The 30-meter-high waterfall has a perfect slope so the water from the river jumps from one rock to another before eventually hitting the bottom of the land more gently.

Visitors can stand under the waterfall and enjoy the sensation of a natural massage of the water pounding on their head, neck and back while trying to become one with the surroundings and listening to the great voice of the waterfall.

Antara

AFP PHOTO / JUNI KRISWANTO

This photo taken on March 1, 2012 shows Indonesian zoo personnel attending to a 30-year-old ailing giraffe named Kliwon at the Surabaya zoo in Surabaya. Kliwon, the last remaining giraffe at the zoo, died in the evening of March 1, 2012 with 20 kilograms of plastic found in its stomach. British musician Steven Morrissey called on the Indonesian government on May 8, 2012 to immediately shut down the Surabaya zoo in eastern Java where hundreds of animals have died or disappeared.

JAKARTA - The government has declared that a report regarding the country`s loss of almost 5 million hectares of forest and peatlands since the implementation of a moratorium on deforestation is a misleading falsehood.

“The report cannot be understood because it`s so different from the report of the UN (FAO) and the forestry ministry`s record that the deforestation rate over the past few years has drastically decreased to around 500,000 hectares annually,” stated Agus Purnomo, a presidential special aide on climate change.

Purnomo`s statement come in response to the information on deforestation issued by the Indonesian Forest and Global Climate Salvation Coalition to commemorate one year of implementation of the presidential instruction on forest and peatland deforestation issued in May 20, 2011.

According to Greenpeace, a revision of the forest moratorium imple-

mentation from November 2011 to May 2012 revealed that Indonesia has lost some 4.9 million hectares of its forests and peatlands. This figure amounted to 5.64 million hectares from June to November 2011.

“By May 2012, Indonesia could lose 4.9 million hectares of its forests and peatlands. With each revision of the forest moratorium, the acreage of forests and peatlands continues to decrease,” said Yuyun Indradi, political campaigner of Greenpeace, recently.

Agus Purnomo, however, cited the forestry ministry`s report that Indonesia`s deforestation rate has decreased over the last 10 years.

During the 1990-1996 period, the deforestation rate was 1.87 million ha/year, which increased to 3.51 million ha/year in 1997-2000.

Forest fires, decentralization and weak law enforcement led to a deforestation rate of 1.08 million ha/year in 2001-2003, 1.17 million ha/year in 2004/2006, 0.83 million ha/year in 2007-2009, and 0.45 million ha/year in 2009-2011.

Four killed, 10 missing in floods Agence France-Presse

IBP/Net

JAKARTA - Floods carrying volcanic debris swept through a town in eastern Indonesia Wednesday killing four people, including a nine-year-old child, and leaving 10 others missing, a government official said.

A further 15 people were injured after floodwaters rampaged through 11 villages in Ternate City in North Maluku province,

national disaster mitigation agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.

“Following heavy rains dur-

ing the night, volcanic floods hit early morning at 2:00 am (1700 GMT),” Nugroho said, adding that more than 280 people were evacuated to government offices and schools.

“Four people have died, 10 are missing and 15 have been injured.

Fifty-eight families, or 284 people, have been evacuated,” he said.

Two bridges and 15 homes were

Polri reportedly granted 18,030 gun permits Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Police (Polri) has issued civilian ownership licences for 18,030 guns, according to Indonesia Police Watch (IPW).

“IPW regrets that Polri has issued so many civilian gun licences. This year, Polri has violated the government regulation by exceeding the existing limit by almost 700 percent,” IPW Presidium Chairman Neta S Pane said here on Tuesday.

According to the existing regulation, Polri is allowed to issue firearm ownership licences for only 2,608 guns to civilians in 2012.

“But the fact is that Polri has issued 18,030 gun licences,” Pane noted.

Based on the Law No. 22/2011 on the State Budget (APBN) 2012, the government has a target of receiving revenues worth Rp2,608,425,000 from issuing licences for firearms and explosives to civilians.

According to the Government Regulation No. 50/2010 on the Non-Tax State Revenues

(PNPB), the government charges Rp1 million per civilian gun licence.

It means that Polri is allowed to issue 2,608 licences to civilians. The fact, however, is Polri has issued 18,030 permits and received revenues worth around Rp18 billion, Pane explained.

“A total of Rp2.6 billion has to be deposited in the state treasury, so where is the remaining Rp15.4 billion? Where is the money?” he added.

Therefore, IPW has urged the State Audit Agency (BPK) and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to conduct an investigation into the matter.

Polri has been under intense scrutiny for issuing firearms to inappropriate people lately.

Under Indonesia`s gun laws, only citizens employed in select professions may have a gun permit. Among those allowed to legally carry guns in Indonesia are doctors, public officials, lawmakers, members of the military and police, and corporate heads.

completely destroyed by the floods, while 173 other homes were damaged, Nugroho said.

The floods carried volcanic mud from Mount Gamalama, which forms the entire island of Ternate in the Maluku chain, which erupted and spewed a column of ash 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) into the air in December.

Two rivers on the eastern side

of the volcano overflowed after Wednesday’s heavy rains carried volcanic debris down to the affected residential areas, Nugroho said.

The Indonesian archipelago has dozens of active volcanoes. The country’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than 350 people in a series of violent eruptions in 2010.

Telkom begins tender for Manado-Papua optic cable

Antara

JAKARTA - State telecommunications operator PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk has begun a tender for the construction of 5,600 km undersea optic fiber networks connecting Manado to Papua.

“A tender for the construction of the second phase of the Palapa Ring project is underway. Hopefully, an e-auction for the project will be conducted in one or two months,” Telkom President Director Rinaldi Firmansyah said on the sidelines of the company`s strategic exposure in the business portfolio, Telecommunication Information, Media and Edutaintment (TIME), Tuesday.

Four companies were taking part in the tender and only one or two of them would later be chosen as tender winners, he said.

“Hopefully, the construction of the undersea optic fiber networks will be com-

pleted in 2013,” he said.

The construction of optic fiber networks was part of the company`s efforts to connect all parts of the country through several rings, he said. But he stopped short of revealing the names of the four companies.

He said the companies were involved in the construction of the first phase of the Palapa Ring project.

Huawei Marine, optic fiber provider based in China, was one of the companies taking part in the first phase of the project.

The second phase of the Palapa Ring project which will cost an estimated Rp2.4 trillion will connect Manado, capital of North Sulawesi province, to Papua, via Ternate, Halmahera, Ambon, Fak-fak, Timika and Sorong.

The construction of the first phase of the Palapa Ring project called MataramKupang Cable System (MKCS) which covered 1,041 km cost Rp600 billion.

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Bali Today Foreign investors should not be a ‘people’s bloodsucker’

Balinese Culture TIMUN MESANTEN

(Cucumber With Coconut Sauce) Greek citizen Nikolaos Bouikidis (C) sits during his trial at a court in Denpasar on May 8, 2012.

Bouikidis was sentenced to 18 years jail by an Indonesia court on May 8 for smuggling drugs onto the resort island of Bali.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - As a world tourist destination, the Island of the Gods has become a target for investors. The Bali Licensing and Investment Office notes that realization of investment in 2011 reached IDR 11.7 trillion. Such amount consists of IDR 7.3 trillion of domestic investment and IDR 4.4 trillion of foreign investment.

Nevertheless, Chairman of the Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, judged the high rate of investment growth in Bali so far was still taken control by investor from outside Bali and overseas. As a result, the economic growth of Bali lying averagely over six percent was dominantly enjoyed by outsiders.

“The presence of outside investors in Bali should have a clear contribution to the neighborhood, village and local residents, and the provincial, regency and municipal government has not regulated the matter.

On that account, their presence only sucks the people’s blood without giving any multiplier effect,” said Ketut Rahyuda in Denpasar.

According to him, the island visited by 2.5 million tourists per year should not reject the presence of foreign investors or outsiders who wanted to invest in Bali.

However, the government should regulate their contribution to Bali, not only in terms of taxes, but also their alignment to the surIBP/Net The construction site in Bali Island. As a world tourist destination, the Island of the rounding communities.

“We cannot just rely on local investors Gods has become a target for investors. The Bali Licensing and Investment Office notes because their ability has not achieved a that realization of investment in 2011 reached IDR 11.7 trillion.

large scale investment. However, it requires a strict government rules against investors who invest in Bali. For example, it should set forth the distribution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and labor absorption, so that Balinese people can obtain the benefits of their existence here,” he said.

Previously, the Head of Bali Investment and Licensing Office, IB M Parwata, said that other than encouraging investment in the agricultural sector, his party would also encourage domestic investment and diminish foreign investment. It was intended to avoid the capital flight caused by many foreign investors making investment in Bali.

Investment growth in Bali throughout 2012 was targeted to reach IDR 18.29 trillion with the growth of foreign and domestic investment reaching IDR 4.575 trillion. Meanwhile, by referring to the data in 2011, the country making the most investment in Bali was still dominated by combined states of USD 362,9 million, Australia (USD 7.03 million), the United States (USD 5.9 million), the Netherlands (USD 4.5 million) and France (USD 4.4 million). (kmb27)

A Journey into the History and Mystery of Bali

Undeniably, bliss or happiness has become a dream and destination of most people. Career and material achievement are the bridge to reach it.

However, when arriving at the height of these, sometimes people encounters there is something lost. Ultimately, they travel to several parts of the world to look for a satisfying answer of this matter.

Many favorite destinations of the world now offer the combination of leisure and spirituality as if these two words had become new mantra in travel trend. Traveling for this purpose is focused on the experience and journey. It digs out self-potential and human achievement in the past, chiefly on self-realization and his relation to nature and the Creator. This kind of tourism is appropriate for those wish-

ing to pursue the answer above.

In the journey of time, local history records that the Balinese community has a bright achievement in spiritual development. Some footprints can be encountered through the heritage at favorite destinations. Gunung Kawi sanctuary, for instance, becomes a proof of spiritual activity established during the administration of the King Anak Wungsu (11th century). Next to the cave temples occurs a series of meditation cells. The rock was cut to make some cloisters and meditation cells. At this location, ancient people can practice their meditation. It is a truly tranquil place situated at the Petanu riverside.

Another important location is nestled at the Elephant Cave or Goa Gajah, Gianyar. It is estimated to have

been founded during the reign of Warmadeva Dynasty (10th century).

The sanctuary is known as Kunjarapada where Kunjara (Sanskrit) means elephant and pada means location. In the mass, this name represents that it became the last destination of Maharishi Agastya in providing his spiritual enlightenment in Bali.

Today, visitors can trace back and enjoy a variety of experiences in spiritual travel, ranging from visiting great temples to ancient sanctuaries used to practice yoga.

Even, yoga class has now been offered at several hotels, villas and yoga centers at main destinations of Bali. Meanwhile, for relaxation and rejuvenation visitors can try some spa treatments in the combination of traditional method and ingredients

with modern technique. These are often promoted through illustrious catchphrases mentioning as product of mind, body and soul. To sum up, by visiting Bali you can enrich your experience related to spiritual and wellness. Though the tradition has been created hundreds of years ago, its practice and benefits remain relevant to modern life today.

More than that, Bali as a tourist destination also implements the concept of indigenous wisdom called Tri Hita Karana (THK). It stands for an integrated application of social, environmental and spiritual aspect in tourism development and practices.

Approximately one hundred hotels or villas and tourist objects throughout Bali participate in the annual competition of THK Awards. It is

intended to implement and preserve this sublime concept in their business practices. By doing so, it is expected they could give the best satisfaction to customer, surrounding community and the operator going hand in hand with the conservation of nature.

Ultimately, inspired by Hinduism, indigenous wisdom and local tradition, the island has a variety of treasures, endless activities and ‘mystery’ to explore. They have become integrated part of Balinese life.

Many visitors come and go. Some get interested to join the ceremony, to roam pristine villages, or even to stay at ashrams for weeks. Hopefully, one of the activities above can become an answer for those wishing to balance their life with any achievement at hand. (BTN/punia)

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

Singapore tourists to Bali up 4.79 percent

DENPASAR - The number of Singapore tourists holidaying in Bali reached 24,288 in the January-March 2012 period, a 4.79 pct increase from 23,177 in the same period last year.

Most of the Singaporeans going on a holiday to the Island Paradise arrived at Bali`s Ngurah Rai airport straight from their country and only 302 were cruising, Head of the Bali Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Gede Suarsa said here Wednesday.

Last year the number of Singapore tourists to Bali reached 111,153, up 14.09 pct compared to last year`s 97,429, which made

the Island republic the fourth of the 10 big.

Gede Suarsa also said Singapore is also a potential market in Bali, as it also contributed 3.42 pct of the total number of 710,236 foreign tourists to the island paradise in the first quarter this year, a 13.78 pct increase from 624,195 in last year`s same period.

He said of the 10 countries with the biggest number of tourists to Bali, seven had a significant increase and only three declining.

The 7 countries with a significant increase in their number of foreign tourists besides Singapore

included Australia with 24.80 pct from 155,093 to 178,050, China 82.42 pct from 56,971 to 103,924, South Korea 14.45 pct from 28,002 to 32,047, Russia 6.16 pct from 26,596 to 28,235, UK 32.59 pct from 20,608 to 27,324, and the US 7.42 pct from 19,386 to 20,825.

The three countries with a declining number of tourists to Bali were Japan by 18.45 pct from 52,253 in the January-March 2011 period to merely 42,614 in this year`s same period, Malaysia 3.11 pct from 40,118 to 38,871, and Taiwan 4.43 pct from 28,558 to 27,293, Gede Suarsa said.

OVERVIEW: The bland flavor of cucumbers can be enhanced when prepared with coconut milk and spicy seasonings.

INGREDIENTS: 2 tbsp oil 3 shallots, peeled and sliced 2 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced 2 large red chilies, seeded and sliced ½ tsp dried shrimp paste 2 cups coconut milk 2 medium sized cucumbers, peeled, seeded and sliced 1 tsp salt ¼ tsp black peppercorns, crushed Fried shallots to garnish PREPARATION: Heat oil in heavy saucepan. Add shallots, garlic and chilies and sauté for 2 minutes over low heat. Mix in shrimp paste and sauté for another minute. Pour in coconut milk and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add cucumbers and bring to the boil.

Reduce heat and simmer until beans are cooked. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Garnish with salt and pepper. Garnish with fried shallots. Helpful hints: Any type of green bean can be used instead of the long Asian variety. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

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Bali Today Foreign investors should not be a ‘people’s bloodsucker’

Balinese Culture TIMUN MESANTEN

(Cucumber With Coconut Sauce) Greek citizen Nikolaos Bouikidis (C) sits during his trial at a court in Denpasar on May 8, 2012.

Bouikidis was sentenced to 18 years jail by an Indonesia court on May 8 for smuggling drugs onto the resort island of Bali.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - As a world tourist destination, the Island of the Gods has become a target for investors. The Bali Licensing and Investment Office notes that realization of investment in 2011 reached IDR 11.7 trillion. Such amount consists of IDR 7.3 trillion of domestic investment and IDR 4.4 trillion of foreign investment.

Nevertheless, Chairman of the Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter, Prof. Dr. Ketut Rahyuda, judged the high rate of investment growth in Bali so far was still taken control by investor from outside Bali and overseas. As a result, the economic growth of Bali lying averagely over six percent was dominantly enjoyed by outsiders.

“The presence of outside investors in Bali should have a clear contribution to the neighborhood, village and local residents, and the provincial, regency and municipal government has not regulated the matter.

On that account, their presence only sucks the people’s blood without giving any multiplier effect,” said Ketut Rahyuda in Denpasar.

According to him, the island visited by 2.5 million tourists per year should not reject the presence of foreign investors or outsiders who wanted to invest in Bali.

However, the government should regulate their contribution to Bali, not only in terms of taxes, but also their alignment to the surIBP/Net The construction site in Bali Island. As a world tourist destination, the Island of the rounding communities.

“We cannot just rely on local investors Gods has become a target for investors. The Bali Licensing and Investment Office notes because their ability has not achieved a that realization of investment in 2011 reached IDR 11.7 trillion.

large scale investment. However, it requires a strict government rules against investors who invest in Bali. For example, it should set forth the distribution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and labor absorption, so that Balinese people can obtain the benefits of their existence here,” he said.

Previously, the Head of Bali Investment and Licensing Office, IB M Parwata, said that other than encouraging investment in the agricultural sector, his party would also encourage domestic investment and diminish foreign investment. It was intended to avoid the capital flight caused by many foreign investors making investment in Bali.

Investment growth in Bali throughout 2012 was targeted to reach IDR 18.29 trillion with the growth of foreign and domestic investment reaching IDR 4.575 trillion. Meanwhile, by referring to the data in 2011, the country making the most investment in Bali was still dominated by combined states of USD 362,9 million, Australia (USD 7.03 million), the United States (USD 5.9 million), the Netherlands (USD 4.5 million) and France (USD 4.4 million). (kmb27)

A Journey into the History and Mystery of Bali

Undeniably, bliss or happiness has become a dream and destination of most people. Career and material achievement are the bridge to reach it.

However, when arriving at the height of these, sometimes people encounters there is something lost. Ultimately, they travel to several parts of the world to look for a satisfying answer of this matter.

Many favorite destinations of the world now offer the combination of leisure and spirituality as if these two words had become new mantra in travel trend. Traveling for this purpose is focused on the experience and journey. It digs out self-potential and human achievement in the past, chiefly on self-realization and his relation to nature and the Creator. This kind of tourism is appropriate for those wish-

ing to pursue the answer above.

In the journey of time, local history records that the Balinese community has a bright achievement in spiritual development. Some footprints can be encountered through the heritage at favorite destinations. Gunung Kawi sanctuary, for instance, becomes a proof of spiritual activity established during the administration of the King Anak Wungsu (11th century). Next to the cave temples occurs a series of meditation cells. The rock was cut to make some cloisters and meditation cells. At this location, ancient people can practice their meditation. It is a truly tranquil place situated at the Petanu riverside.

Another important location is nestled at the Elephant Cave or Goa Gajah, Gianyar. It is estimated to have

been founded during the reign of Warmadeva Dynasty (10th century).

The sanctuary is known as Kunjarapada where Kunjara (Sanskrit) means elephant and pada means location. In the mass, this name represents that it became the last destination of Maharishi Agastya in providing his spiritual enlightenment in Bali.

Today, visitors can trace back and enjoy a variety of experiences in spiritual travel, ranging from visiting great temples to ancient sanctuaries used to practice yoga.

Even, yoga class has now been offered at several hotels, villas and yoga centers at main destinations of Bali. Meanwhile, for relaxation and rejuvenation visitors can try some spa treatments in the combination of traditional method and ingredients

with modern technique. These are often promoted through illustrious catchphrases mentioning as product of mind, body and soul. To sum up, by visiting Bali you can enrich your experience related to spiritual and wellness. Though the tradition has been created hundreds of years ago, its practice and benefits remain relevant to modern life today.

More than that, Bali as a tourist destination also implements the concept of indigenous wisdom called Tri Hita Karana (THK). It stands for an integrated application of social, environmental and spiritual aspect in tourism development and practices.

Approximately one hundred hotels or villas and tourist objects throughout Bali participate in the annual competition of THK Awards. It is

intended to implement and preserve this sublime concept in their business practices. By doing so, it is expected they could give the best satisfaction to customer, surrounding community and the operator going hand in hand with the conservation of nature.

Ultimately, inspired by Hinduism, indigenous wisdom and local tradition, the island has a variety of treasures, endless activities and ‘mystery’ to explore. They have become integrated part of Balinese life.

Many visitors come and go. Some get interested to join the ceremony, to roam pristine villages, or even to stay at ashrams for weeks. Hopefully, one of the activities above can become an answer for those wishing to balance their life with any achievement at hand. (BTN/punia)

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

Singapore tourists to Bali up 4.79 percent

DENPASAR - The number of Singapore tourists holidaying in Bali reached 24,288 in the January-March 2012 period, a 4.79 pct increase from 23,177 in the same period last year.

Most of the Singaporeans going on a holiday to the Island Paradise arrived at Bali`s Ngurah Rai airport straight from their country and only 302 were cruising, Head of the Bali Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Gede Suarsa said here Wednesday.

Last year the number of Singapore tourists to Bali reached 111,153, up 14.09 pct compared to last year`s 97,429, which made

the Island republic the fourth of the 10 big.

Gede Suarsa also said Singapore is also a potential market in Bali, as it also contributed 3.42 pct of the total number of 710,236 foreign tourists to the island paradise in the first quarter this year, a 13.78 pct increase from 624,195 in last year`s same period.

He said of the 10 countries with the biggest number of tourists to Bali, seven had a significant increase and only three declining.

The 7 countries with a significant increase in their number of foreign tourists besides Singapore

included Australia with 24.80 pct from 155,093 to 178,050, China 82.42 pct from 56,971 to 103,924, South Korea 14.45 pct from 28,002 to 32,047, Russia 6.16 pct from 26,596 to 28,235, UK 32.59 pct from 20,608 to 27,324, and the US 7.42 pct from 19,386 to 20,825.

The three countries with a declining number of tourists to Bali were Japan by 18.45 pct from 52,253 in the January-March 2011 period to merely 42,614 in this year`s same period, Malaysia 3.11 pct from 40,118 to 38,871, and Taiwan 4.43 pct from 28,558 to 27,293, Gede Suarsa said.

OVERVIEW: The bland flavor of cucumbers can be enhanced when prepared with coconut milk and spicy seasonings.

INGREDIENTS: 2 tbsp oil 3 shallots, peeled and sliced 2 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced 2 large red chilies, seeded and sliced ½ tsp dried shrimp paste 2 cups coconut milk 2 medium sized cucumbers, peeled, seeded and sliced 1 tsp salt ¼ tsp black peppercorns, crushed Fried shallots to garnish PREPARATION: Heat oil in heavy saucepan. Add shallots, garlic and chilies and sauté for 2 minutes over low heat. Mix in shrimp paste and sauté for another minute. Pour in coconut milk and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Add cucumbers and bring to the boil.

Reduce heat and simmer until beans are cooked. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Garnish with salt and pepper. Garnish with fried shallots. Helpful hints: Any type of green bean can be used instead of the long Asian variety. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)

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Les Waterfall IBP

Les waterfall is located in Les village, 38 kilometer south to Singaraja, in the north Bali. The waterfall is overlooking green hills and untouched nature. The height is about 30 meters.

In addition, Les Village is also famous for its very amazing beach with its magnificent underwater world view.

Located some 90 kilometers north of Denpasar, Les is blessed with a majestic waterfall and rich underwater scenery at its beach.

The best way to reach Les is by rented or private car or motorcycle, so visitors can stop where they want to take photos.

The shortest route from Denpasar to Les is through Gianyar and Kintamani, where visitors can stop to enjoy the wonderful Lake Batur and mountain views while sipping hot Balinese coffee outside Pura Puncak Panulisan, a temple.

The waterfall is about 1 kilometer from the village’s main road.

Visitors can park at the entrance gate, where a few shops sell snacks and souvenirs, before walking along a path to an open area next to a wide river, with a small stream of water and huge rocks.

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Government denies report on increased deforestation rate

After crossing the river, a similar footpath leads to the waterfall.

The 30-meter-high waterfall has a perfect slope so the water from the river jumps from one rock to another before eventually hitting the bottom of the land more gently.

Visitors can stand under the waterfall and enjoy the sensation of a natural massage of the water pounding on their head, neck and back while trying to become one with the surroundings and listening to the great voice of the waterfall.

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AFP PHOTO / JUNI KRISWANTO

This photo taken on March 1, 2012 shows Indonesian zoo personnel attending to a 30-year-old ailing giraffe named Kliwon at the Surabaya zoo in Surabaya. Kliwon, the last remaining giraffe at the zoo, died in the evening of March 1, 2012 with 20 kilograms of plastic found in its stomach. British musician Steven Morrissey called on the Indonesian government on May 8, 2012 to immediately shut down the Surabaya zoo in eastern Java where hundreds of animals have died or disappeared.

JAKARTA - The government has declared that a report regarding the country`s loss of almost 5 million hectares of forest and peatlands since the implementation of a moratorium on deforestation is a misleading falsehood.

“The report cannot be understood because it`s so different from the report of the UN (FAO) and the forestry ministry`s record that the deforestation rate over the past few years has drastically decreased to around 500,000 hectares annually,” stated Agus Purnomo, a presidential special aide on climate change.

Purnomo`s statement come in response to the information on deforestation issued by the Indonesian Forest and Global Climate Salvation Coalition to commemorate one year of implementation of the presidential instruction on forest and peatland deforestation issued in May 20, 2011.

According to Greenpeace, a revision of the forest moratorium imple-

mentation from November 2011 to May 2012 revealed that Indonesia has lost some 4.9 million hectares of its forests and peatlands. This figure amounted to 5.64 million hectares from June to November 2011.

“By May 2012, Indonesia could lose 4.9 million hectares of its forests and peatlands. With each revision of the forest moratorium, the acreage of forests and peatlands continues to decrease,” said Yuyun Indradi, political campaigner of Greenpeace, recently.

Agus Purnomo, however, cited the forestry ministry`s report that Indonesia`s deforestation rate has decreased over the last 10 years.

During the 1990-1996 period, the deforestation rate was 1.87 million ha/year, which increased to 3.51 million ha/year in 1997-2000.

Forest fires, decentralization and weak law enforcement led to a deforestation rate of 1.08 million ha/year in 2001-2003, 1.17 million ha/year in 2004/2006, 0.83 million ha/year in 2007-2009, and 0.45 million ha/year in 2009-2011.

Four killed, 10 missing in floods Agence France-Presse

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JAKARTA - Floods carrying volcanic debris swept through a town in eastern Indonesia Wednesday killing four people, including a nine-year-old child, and leaving 10 others missing, a government official said.

A further 15 people were injured after floodwaters rampaged through 11 villages in Ternate City in North Maluku province,

national disaster mitigation agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said.

“Following heavy rains dur-

ing the night, volcanic floods hit early morning at 2:00 am (1700 GMT),” Nugroho said, adding that more than 280 people were evacuated to government offices and schools.

“Four people have died, 10 are missing and 15 have been injured.

Fifty-eight families, or 284 people, have been evacuated,” he said.

Two bridges and 15 homes were

Polri reportedly granted 18,030 gun permits Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Police (Polri) has issued civilian ownership licences for 18,030 guns, according to Indonesia Police Watch (IPW).

“IPW regrets that Polri has issued so many civilian gun licences. This year, Polri has violated the government regulation by exceeding the existing limit by almost 700 percent,” IPW Presidium Chairman Neta S Pane said here on Tuesday.

According to the existing regulation, Polri is allowed to issue firearm ownership licences for only 2,608 guns to civilians in 2012.

“But the fact is that Polri has issued 18,030 gun licences,” Pane noted.

Based on the Law No. 22/2011 on the State Budget (APBN) 2012, the government has a target of receiving revenues worth Rp2,608,425,000 from issuing licences for firearms and explosives to civilians.

According to the Government Regulation No. 50/2010 on the Non-Tax State Revenues

(PNPB), the government charges Rp1 million per civilian gun licence.

It means that Polri is allowed to issue 2,608 licences to civilians. The fact, however, is Polri has issued 18,030 permits and received revenues worth around Rp18 billion, Pane explained.

“A total of Rp2.6 billion has to be deposited in the state treasury, so where is the remaining Rp15.4 billion? Where is the money?” he added.

Therefore, IPW has urged the State Audit Agency (BPK) and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to conduct an investigation into the matter.

Polri has been under intense scrutiny for issuing firearms to inappropriate people lately.

Under Indonesia`s gun laws, only citizens employed in select professions may have a gun permit. Among those allowed to legally carry guns in Indonesia are doctors, public officials, lawmakers, members of the military and police, and corporate heads.

completely destroyed by the floods, while 173 other homes were damaged, Nugroho said.

The floods carried volcanic mud from Mount Gamalama, which forms the entire island of Ternate in the Maluku chain, which erupted and spewed a column of ash 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) into the air in December.

Two rivers on the eastern side

of the volcano overflowed after Wednesday’s heavy rains carried volcanic debris down to the affected residential areas, Nugroho said.

The Indonesian archipelago has dozens of active volcanoes. The country’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi in central Java, killed more than 350 people in a series of violent eruptions in 2010.

Telkom begins tender for Manado-Papua optic cable

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JAKARTA - State telecommunications operator PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk has begun a tender for the construction of 5,600 km undersea optic fiber networks connecting Manado to Papua.

“A tender for the construction of the second phase of the Palapa Ring project is underway. Hopefully, an e-auction for the project will be conducted in one or two months,” Telkom President Director Rinaldi Firmansyah said on the sidelines of the company`s strategic exposure in the business portfolio, Telecommunication Information, Media and Edutaintment (TIME), Tuesday.

Four companies were taking part in the tender and only one or two of them would later be chosen as tender winners, he said.

“Hopefully, the construction of the undersea optic fiber networks will be com-

pleted in 2013,” he said.

The construction of optic fiber networks was part of the company`s efforts to connect all parts of the country through several rings, he said. But he stopped short of revealing the names of the four companies.

He said the companies were involved in the construction of the first phase of the Palapa Ring project.

Huawei Marine, optic fiber provider based in China, was one of the companies taking part in the first phase of the project.

The second phase of the Palapa Ring project which will cost an estimated Rp2.4 trillion will connect Manado, capital of North Sulawesi province, to Papua, via Ternate, Halmahera, Ambon, Fak-fak, Timika and Sorong.

The construction of the first phase of the Palapa Ring project called MataramKupang Cable System (MKCS) which covered 1,041 km cost Rp600 billion.

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11 dead in Philippine department store fire Agence France Presse

At least 11 shop clerks sleeping in a Philippines’ department store were killed when a fire swept through the building before dawn on Wednesday, local authorities said.

Twenty-one female employees of the store were trapped in the fire, with seven others still missing and three surviving by jumping from a second-storey window, provincial fire department head Chief Inspector Mario Palarca told AFP. “Twenty-one people were asleep on the second floor when the fire struck the ground floor. They could not find the emergency exit because of the huge volume of black smoke,” Palarca said by telephone.

The fire occurred in a three-storey department store in Butuan, a small city on the southern island of Mindanao.

In the Philippines, it is common for people in low-paying jobs to sleep at their place of work.

Boy on Bike: Moscow’s Tiananmen Image

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MOSCOW - As a bloody skirmish between police and opposition activists in central Moscow was drawing to a close on Sunday a small boy on a tiny bicycle pedaled through the crowd and approached a line of hulking riot police.

He sat there for a moment, balancing on his training wheels, staring at the menacing troops who were decked out in blue camouflage uniforms and full riot gear, nightsticks at the ready.

A group of protesters who had been heckling the cops began jeering, “Here’s the guy that will storm the Kremlin. Be ready boys! Here he comes!”

Julia Ioffe, the Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy magazine, happened to be standing right behind him. She whipped out her iPhone and snapped a picture which she tweeted out to her over 6,000 followers with the caption “Russia’s Tianamen (sic) image.”

The photo quickly ricocheted around the internet.

It was a David and Goliath moment, perhaps a metaphor for the unarmed protesters who clashed with police that day and whose movement is taking on President Vladimir Putin’s formidable political system.

Tens of thousands of protesters had marched against Putin that afternoon, the day before his inauguration. They were met by row after row of police, thousands of them, who were there to

make sure they stayed within the bounds of their rally permit.

When a large group tried to cross a police line towards the Kremlin, police pushed them back and tensions flared. Rocks and bottles were thrown and police responded with what many say was disproportionate force, deploying tear gas and striking people with their batons. They surged into the crowd to grab individuals and drag them by their arms, legs, and even their hair back to police vans. Many protesters were bloodied. By the end of the day more than 450 people had been arrested.

Ioffe had been there all day to cover the protest. She was in the thick of the melee and says she was struck in the leg by a rock. When police had finally cleared the square, only a handful of protesters remained behind, including the group heckling the riot police.

“Shame on you,” they shouted.

“What are you going to tell your grandparents who fought against the fascists? Don’t you have mothers?”

Ioffe says she was walking with another journalist, Olaf Koens, who works for RTL Tele-

vision in the Netherlands. They were tired and wanted to go find some dinner when they stopped to watch.

Koens spotted the boy first.

“Olaf smacked me in the arm and said look at that,” she recalled later when ABC News asked about the photo. “Then I see this little bicycle weave through the crowd and stop in front of the troops. He stood there for a few minutes. I’m not sure why.”

Koens says he wanted to take the picture himself, but his iPhone battery had run out an hour earlier.

“This little boy just showed up.

His parents were somewhere in the crowd, there was no immediate danger, and the kid just kind of peddled (sic) up to the police, probably out of curiosity,” he wrote in an email to ABC News.

Ioffe laughed at the thought that one of her pictures has gone viral and is being called iconic.

“I didn’t think it would be any good. I’m a terrible photographer, especially with an iPhone,” she said, adding that her family usually won’t even let her take pictures on vacation. Maybe now they will.

British woman makes marathon history in bionic suit Agence France Presse

A paralysed British woman became the first person to complete a marathon in a bionic suit as she crossed the finishing line in London on Tuesday 16 days after the race began.

Claire Lomas was in tears but said she was “over the moon” as she completed the 26.2-mile (42.2 kilometre) course in her bionic ReWalk suit, which mimics the response that the wearer’s joints would make if they were not paralysed.

Hundreds of people lined the streets and three mounted members of the Household Cavalry gave the 32-year-old a guard of honour as she finished the course on The Mall in central London.

Lomas, a former chiropractor who was left paralysed from the chest down following a horseriding accident five years ago, said: “There were times when I questioned whether I would make it when I was training.

“Once I started, I just took each day as it came and every step got me a step closer.”

She walked about two miles a day, cheered on by her husband Dan and their 13-month-old daughter Maisie, and her parents.

Lomas will not appear in the official results and did not receive a medal when she finished as competitors have to complete the course on the day of the race to qualify for a medal.

But a dozen other runners in the race have given her their own medals in recognition of her achievement.

Lomas, who now works as a jewellery designer, raised more than £86,000 ($140,000, 107,000 euros) for a charity which funds

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Greece waits on new loan tranche from EU-IMF

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ATHENS - Greece, still without a government since no clear winner emerged in general elections, expressed doubts on Wednesday that the EU and IMF would release crucial rescue funds due later this week.

“There are questions on securing” the latest tranche of rescue loans, said Gikas Hardouvelis, economic advisor to outgoing Prime Minister Lucas Papademos on Skai Radio.

“Why would they give us money?” if Greece deviated from its commitments, Ghikas added, as has been promised by most of the antiausterity parties that saw great gains in Sunday’s elections.

According to centre-right daily Kathimerini, the European Union has confirmed to Athens that the 5.2 billion euro ($6.74 billion) tranche would be approved, though news website To Vima speculated that the EU may decide to hold the payment to put pressure Greece.

General elections on Sunday did not produce a clear winner but gave an overwhelming boost to leftist

party Syriza which now has 52 deputies in parliament, making it the second biggest party.

The main parties that have pledged to continue deficit-cutting reforms, New Democracy and socialist Pasok, now only send a combined 149 MPs to the 300-seat parliament, not enough for a re-run of the outgoing coalition led by technocrat Papademos.

On Monday, the International Monetary Fund said it was waiting for a new government to be formed in Greece before deciding on how to move forward.

“We look forward to being in contact with the new government once it has been formed. Until that time, we have no further comment,” IMF spokeswoman Conny Lotze told journalists.

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Taipei struck a trade agreement with Beijing in 2010.

Finance Minister Bahk JaeWan has repeatedly called for early negotiations with Beijing, saying the China-Taiwan deal put South Korean firms at a “great disadvantage”.

Deputy minister Lee said trade ministers from South Korea, China and Japan would separately meet in Beijing Saturday as part of annual three-way trade talks, to discuss a possible separate trilateral free trade pact.

“China and Japan hope to begin negotiations by the end of this year,” he said, adding Seoul also sees “little difficulty” in doing so.

A joint feasibility study on a trade bloc grouping the three nations -- none of which has a trade pact with each other -- found that all members would benefit, Lee said.

Export-dependent South Korea has been more successful than its neighbours in negotiating free trade pacts, signing deals with the United States, the European Union, India, Chile, Peru, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Singapore and the European Free Trade Association.

South Korea, China to start-free trade talks next week

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Claire Lomas, 32, who is paralysed from the chest down, wears a bionic ReWalk suit reacts after completing the London Marathon on The Mall Tuesday May 8, 2012 , with her husband Dan, 16 days after the race began. research to develop treatments for paralysis caused by a broken back or neck.

“I have had tremendous support since my accident which I am so grateful for, some don’t have that,” she said.

“Some people lose the use of their arms as well. A cure needs to be found.”

The £43,000 ReWalk suit, designed by Israeli entrepreneur Amit Goffer, enables people with lowerlimb paralysis to stand, walk and climb stairs through motion sensors and an onboard computer system.

SEOUL - South Korea will start talks next week aimed at securing a free trade agreement with China, its largest commercial partner and the world’s second biggest economy, officials said Wednesday.

Choi Seok-Young, deputy minister for free trade agreements, will meet his counterpart Yu Jianhua in Beijing Monday, Deputy Trade Minister Lee Si-Hyung told reporters.

“The upcoming talks are aimed at discussing...the scope of the pact, how to form the group of negotiators and to exchange necessary data and information as well as a schedule for future negotiations,” Lee said.

The countries’ trade ministers announced in Beijing last week that formal negotiations on the pact would begin this month and were expected to take two years.

Beijing forecasts trade between the two sides to reach $300 billion by 2015, up from $245.6 billion last year, according to Chinese customs data.

Seoul policymakers say such a pact would allow South Korea to better compete against Taiwan in the lucrative Chinese market after

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The Occupy camp remains in front of the European Central Bank (ECB) in the central German city of Frankfurt am Main on May 8, 2012. German exports grew to a record level in March, boosting a trade surplus by 16.8 percent from the February level on strong demand from outside the European Union, official data showed on Wednesday.

German exports hit record in March Agence France-Presse

FRANKFURT - German exports grew to a record level in March, boosting a trade surplus by 16.8 percent from the February level on strong demand from outside the European Union, official data showed on Wednesday.

Germany’s trade surplus grew to 17.4 billion euros in March, the figures showed, but exports to the eurozone fell on a 12-month basis.

The German economy, the biggest in Europe, exported goods worth 98.9 billion euros ($128 billion) in March, up 8.4 percent from the figure for February and beating the previous record from March 2011, the national statistics office Destatis said.

On a 12-month basis, exports to countries

outside the European Union grew by 6.1 percent to 41.9 billion euros while exports to countries in the crisis-hit eurozone contracted by 3.6 percent to 38.1 billion euros.

Imports overall were up 6.8 percent at 81.5 billion euros, the office said with imports from the eurozone up 2.3 percent to 37 billion euros.

On Tuesday, official data showed German industrial output rose sharply in March driven by a strong showing in construction after cold winter weather hit production in February.

Industrial production increased by 2.8 percent from February providing a sunnier outlook for output in the coming months.

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“Avengers” to return to big screen in sequel Reuters

LOS ANGELES - The runaway success of “The Avengers” movie landed the crime-fighting Marvel superhero team a return date to theaters. Hot off the movie’s record-setting debut, Walt Disney Co said on Tuesday an “Avengers” sequel is in the works, though no release date is set.

The movie debuted with a staggering $207.4 million from U.S. and Canadian theaters over the weekend, the biggest debut in film history. Globally, the film has pulled in $702.2 million.

The film unites Marvel superheroes including Iron Man, Black Widow, Thor and The Hulk in a battle against a villain out to destroy the Earth. Stars include Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson.

The second “Avengers” movie will follow a previously announced “Thor” and “Iron Man”

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Wax figures designed to look like characters from the Marvel Entertainment film “The Avengers” are on display at the “Marvel Superhero Experience” at Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York April 26, 2012.

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Jermaine Paul crowned season winner on “The Voice”

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LONDON — A man who had a cardiac arrest while jogging in London’s Hyde Park says his life was saved with help from a famous passer-by — Dustin Hoffman.

Sam Dempster said Tuesday that the actor waited with him after he collapsed on April 27 until paramedics arrived.

On his recovery blog, 27-yearold Dempster thanked medical staff and “my newfound favorite celebrity Dustin Hoffman.”

Dempster initially credited Hoffman with having summoned an ambulance, but the London Ambulance Service said someone else had made the emergency call.

Martin Macarthur, one of the paramedics on the scene, said Hoffman described seeing Dempster collapse and froth at the mouth.

“It is essential to get a history of what has happened, and he witnessed the jogger go down. He was the main witness and saw him stagger and go down,” Macarthur said. “He stayed on the scene for the whole duration of the resuscitation which was about 15 minutes.

He was very concerned.”

Macarthur said the 74-yearold actor told medics, “Great job, guys” after they resuscitated Dempster with a defibrillator.

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NEW YORK - Jermaine Paul of Team Blake won TV singing contest “The Voice” on Tuesday night, taking home a recording contract with Universal Republic Records, a $100,000 cash prize, and a shot at his dream of singing stardom. Paul collapsed into a hug from his coach Blake Shelton and wiped away tears as he thanked his wife, children, and all of the people who voted for him, ending his speech by exclaiming “nobody but Jesus!”

The former backup singer for Alicia Keys took center stage as he sang R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” to close out the show, which he also sang in his final performance on Monday’s penultimate episode of the show. Paul received embraces from his wife and family members as he sang.

Paul beat out fellow contestants Juliet Simms of Team Cee Lo (Green), Tony Lucca of Team Adam (Levine), and Chris Mann of Team Christina (Aguilera).

Host Carson Daly revealed that Paul edged out second place finalist Simms by fewer than four percentage points.

Tuesday’s special two-hour finale included a plethora of performances from stars such as Justin Bieber, Lady Antebellum, Flo Rida, and Hall & Oates. Contestants previously voted off the show were invited back to perform with the four finalists. “The Voice” became one of the most-watched TV shows in the United States earlier this season and was seen a challenge to Fox’s top-rated singing show “American Idol.”

During the season, it proved very competitive against “Idol,” especially in the coveted 18-49 viewer group where the two shows are in a close race to be the mostwatched program.

But “Idol” draws many millions more total viewers than “The Voice” - an average audience size of 19.2 million this season compared to 14.8 million for “The Voice”, according to figures from the two TV networks.

Singer Jermaine Paul performs at the 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux July 17, 2008.

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The Sultan held a photographic exhibition JAKARTA - From May 12-17, 2012, the Sultan Hotel Lobby Lounge will feature a photographic exhibition by Vivek Bammi, faculty member at Jakarta International School and avid photographer, with the title “China – Poetic and Romantic”. Born in eastern India, Vivek has always been fascinated by the grand civilization and aesthetic richness of neighboring China, and he has had the opportunity to explore that with his photographic lens. The images he presents at the exhibition go beyond the modern façade of Beijing and Shanghai; instead, he finds the rootedness of China in the timeless rhythms of agricultural life, stunning natural landscapes, the warmth of family ties, colorful ethnic diversity, and the creativity and beauty of its people.

As photographer and author, Vivek has published three books: “Golden Buddhism”, “Indonesia – A Feast for the Senses”, and “Bali Boys – A Visual Symphony”, guided by Pak Deniek Sukarya, one of Indonesia’s leading photographers.

The exhibition will be opened on Saturday May 12 at 7 p.m. in the Sultan Hotel Lobby Lounge in the presence of Excellency Zhong Ruiming, the Councilor and Consul General at the Chinese embassy in Jakarta.

sequels coming in 2013 and a new “Captain America” movie in 2014, Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger told industry analysts. “Eventually, (on) a date to be determined, you’ll see a sequel to ‘Avengers,’” Iger said.

London jogger: Dustin Hoffman saved my life

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Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for April 20 through May 20, 2012 20 Apr Tilem Kedasa - Pura Kahyangan Tiga Batur Bangli - Pura Batur Camenggon-Sukawati - Pura Luhur Bhujangga Camggu Kuta - Pura Kawitan Kayu Selem Tampurhyang Batur-Kintamani 21 Apr Hari Tumpek Kandang - Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota Gianyar - Pura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - Tabanan - Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung 25 Apr Buda Wage Menail - Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Cemenggaon Sukawati - Mr. Pasek Dangke bambang - Bangli - Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Pejeng Kaja - Gianyar - Pura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - Bangli - Merajan Agung Blangsinga - Blahbatuh - Pura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh Gianyar - Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Sukawati - Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan Kapal Mengwi 1 May Anggar Kasih Perangbakat - Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - Klungkung - Pura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - Bangli - Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - Buleleng - Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - Klungkung - Pura Gunung Tengsong Lombok.

- Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar - Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar - Pura Dalem Banyuning Timur Buleleng - Pura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas Denpasar - Pura Tengah Padang Tegalalang - Merajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - Pupuan Tabanan - Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Denpasar - Pura Hyangaluh/Jenggala Besakih - Merajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan Gunaksa - Mr. Pasek Gelgel Selulung - Merajan Pasek Subrata Medahan - Merajan Pasek Munggu Munggu - Pura Tengkulak Tulikup - Gianyar - Pura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen.

2 May Buda Umanis Perangbakat - Pura Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring - Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana - Pura Batu Bolong Canggu - Kuta - Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan - Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Jembrana - Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan - Buleleng.

- Pura Pasek Tangkas Darma Reyanggede Tabanan - Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng - Pr. Srijon Tabanan - Mr. Pasek Gelgel Lebah Pangkung - Merajan Pasek Gelgel Patemon - Pura Tirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak Siring - Pura Dadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba Tegalalang.

- Pura Pedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel Tabanan.

- Pura Puncak Mundi Nusa Penida.

5 May Purnama Jiyestha - Pura Segara Lombok - Pura Dwijawarsa Malang - Pura Puncaktingguh Angsri Baturiti Tabanan - Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Desa Jatiluwih Penebel Tabanan - Pura Kawitan Batur Tonja Denpasar - Pura Masopahit Grenceng Denpasar - Pura Penyungsungan Pasek Tohjiwa Wanagiri Selemadeg.

- Pura Pamerajan Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem - Pura Eka Dharma Sweta Indah-Mataram, NTB. 16 May Buda Keliwon Ugu - Pura Dalem Tarukan Desa Peninjoan Tembuku - Bangli.

- Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba-kaba Tabanan - Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng - Pura Desa Kayangan Tiga Desa Bubunan Seririt - Buleleng - Pura Agung Gunung Raung Banjar Taro Kaja Taro Tegalalang - Merajan Pasek Dangka Bungbungan 20 May Tilem Jiyestha.

- Pura Bhujangga Waisnawa Gumrih Jembrana.

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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Qaeda bomber adept at breaching aviation security Reuters

LONDON - A Saudi bombmaker believed behind several failed but ingenious attempted attacks on the West is the most likely creator of an improved “underwear bomb” discovered in a plot foiled by U.S. and allied authorities, security experts and officials say.

Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who once provided the bomb for a suicide mission by his younger brother, a fellow militant, is described by security officials as one of the most dangerous and innovative explosives experts ever to serve al Qaeda.

Believed to be in his early 30s, Yemen-based Asiri became an urgent priority for Western counter-terrorism officials following his alleged role in planning strikes on the United States in 2009 and 2010, plots that included the failed bombing of an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009.

Asiri, who survived a U.S. drone missile attack last year, has drawn scrutiny for his skill at fashioning bombs using a hardto-detect powdery substance called pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, and hiding them in clothing or equipment.

“If we assume Asiri is behind all these attacks, then he is at the top of the list of the most dangerous al Qaeda operatives,” Mustafa Alani, a Gulf security expert with good Saudi contacts, told Reuters.

Richard Barrett, who heads the al Qaeda-Taliban sanctions monitoring committee at the United Nations, said he was “pretty certain” Asiri was the top suspect in the latest plot.

“He has a particular skill for making things which are effective without being detectable,” he said. “This example looks like an evolution from the one he gave the Christmas Day bomber ... and so I think it is likely to have been his.”

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Transportation Security Agency (TSA) workers carry out security checks at Denver International Airport, the day before the Thanksgiving holiday in Denver November 24, 2010.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and former President Dmitry Medvedev speak in the State Duma, Russian parliament’s lower house, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

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Putin and Medvedev complete job swap in Russia

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MOSCOW - Russia’s lower house of parliament confirmed former president Dmitry Medvedev as prime minister on Tuesday, completing a job swap with Vladimir Putin that has sparked protests against the two leaders’ grip on power.

The approval vote, comfortably won by Medvedev as Putin looked on, ignored growing concern in the country that keeping power in the hands of the same men who have led Russia for the past four years will bring political and economic stagnation.

Police led away more than 20 people, including two opposition leaders, when they broke up a peaceful protest near the Kremlin hours before the vote, after detaining more than 700 on the previous two days to keep a lid on dissent.

“They just started to grab people and put them in police buses,” said Alexander Delfinov, 40, who was held for hours and ordered to appear

in court on Friday, facing a fine or up to 15 days in jail.

Activists regrouped later and were chased around central Moscow by police who hemmed them in and detained dozens more.

In Twitter posts from police vans, prominent opposition activist Alexei Navalny and Ksenia Sobchak, a television host who has fallen out with Putin, said they were among those detained - Navalny for the second time in a day.

The United States said it was concerned by arrests and by clashes that erupted at a rally on Sunday, a day before Putin’s inauguration as president, when police beat demonstrators with batons and some

Cameron says Euro needs single government: report

LONDON - A successful euro zone requires a single government if it is to work properly, British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a newspaper interview on Wednesday. “There’s nowhere in the world that has a single currency without having more of a single government,” Cameron told Britain’s Daily Mail.

“Making sense of the euro for me would mean that those euro zone countries would have to have much more co-ordinated economic policy, much more coordinated debt policy,” he said.

Cameron, who opted out of a new European economic pact late last year, advocated Britain’s position outside the euro and its ability “to do things to ourselves, for ourselves, by ourselves.

“I have always believed different countries at times

will need different economic policies, interest rates tailored to their own needs.” Cameron said, however, that it is in Britain’s interest to see a return to growth in the euro zone, which accounts for 40 percent of UK exports.

“We want them to sort out the problems that they have. We want to be in the single market, we want European co-operation, we don’t want to be in the euro,” Cameron said.

“The euro is a project in transition that could go in a number of different ways ... all these countries have to make their own choices.”

File photo of Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron in Alfreton, central England, April 16, 2012.

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protesters wielded pieces of metal fencing and flagpoles.

“We are disturbed by images of police mistreatment of peaceful protesters both during the protests and after detentions,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told a daily briefing in Washington.

Medvedev’s confirmation vote in the State Duma, the lower house, was held under tight security, with camouflage-clad riot police guarding the building near Red Square and police trucks and buses parked nearby.

Medvedev stood and nodded to Duma deputies to show his gratitude and then shook hands with Putin.

The president smiled and applauded the outcome of the vote, one day after he was sworn in as president for a six-year term.

“I thank you for showing your trust in me,” Medvedev told the assembly. “I am absolutely sure that if we work together we can achieve results.”

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Hobbs, NM, picked as site of scientific ghost town Associated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A scientific ghost town in the heart of southeastern New Mexico oil and gas country will hum with the latest next-generation technology — but no people.

A $1 billion city without residents will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, officials said Tuesday, to help researchers test everything from intelligent traffic systems and next-generation wireless networks to automated washing machines and self-flushing toilets.

Hobbs Mayor Sam Cobb said the unique research facility that looks like an empty city will be a key for diversifying the economy of the nearby community, which after the oil bust of the 1980s saw bumper stickers asking the last person to leave to turn out the lights. “It brings so many great opportunities and puts us on a world stage,” Cobb told The Associated Press before the announcement.

Pegasus Holdings and its New Mexico subsidiary, CITE Development, said Hobbs and Lea County beat out Las Cruces, for the Center for Innovation, Technology and Testing. The CITE project is being

billed as a first-of-its kind smart city, or ghost town of sorts, that will be developed on about 15 square miles west of Hobbs.

Bob Brumley, senior managing director of Pegasus Holdings, said the town will be modeled after the real city of Rock Hill, S.C., complete with highways, houses and commercial buildings, old and new.

No one will live there, although they could as houses will include all the necessities, like appliances and plumbing.

The point of the town is to enable researchers to test new technologies on existing infrastructure without interfering in everyday life. For instance, while some researchers will be testing smart technologies on old grids, others might be using the streets to test self-driving cars. “The only thing we won’t be doing is destructive testing, blowing things up — I hope,” said Brumley.

Not far from the Texas border,

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This artist rendering provided by the Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation shows the $1 billion scientific ghost town that will be developed in Lea County near Hobbs, N.M.

Hobbs has seen new growth in recent years but local leaders have been pushing to expand the area’s reputation to include economic

development ventures beyond the staple of oil and gas. The investors developing CITE were looking for open spaces. Brumley said his

group scoured the country for potential sites, “but we kept coming back to New Mexico. New Mexico is unique in so many ways.”

Infection causes one in six new cancer cases: study Agence France Presse

tion, safer injection practice or antimicrobial treatments, could have a substantial effect on Largely preventable or treatable infections the future burden of cancer worldwide,” said with viruses, bacteria and parasites cause the report by the International Agency for about two million new cancer cases and 1.5 Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. million cancer deaths each year, said a study Four infections, hepatitis B and C, human published Wednesday. papillomavirus (HPV) and the Helicobacter This amounted to about one in six of the 12.7 pylori stomach bacteria, accounted for the million new cancer cases reported in 2008, said bulk of the cases, some 1.9 million -- mostly the report in The Lancet Oncology journal. gastric, liver and cervical cancers.

“Application of existing public health methInfection-related cancers accounted for 3.3 ods for infection prevention, such as vaccina- percent of new cases in Australia and New Zealand, but 32.7 percent in sub-Saharan Africa, said the report, based on a study of 27 cancer types in 184 countries.

Cervical cancer accounted for half the infection-related cancers in women, and liver and gastric cancers for 80 percent of cases in men.

“Around 30 percent of infection-attributable cases occur in people younger than 50 years,” said AFP Photo/Fred Dufour the report.

A nurse carries a patient on a stretcher at a hospital.

Google issued first license to test driverless cars Nevada is the first state to grant Google a U.S. license to test driverless cars.

The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed on Monday that it had approved the company’s application to test autonomous vehicles on public streets. Google will be required to have at least two people in the vehicle while testing it, however, including one in the driver’s seat.

Prior to being approved, the Mountain View-based company had been testing the car on freeways in neighborhoods around Carson City and Las Vegas, according to Fox News. The tests showed the car was just as safe, if not safer, than cars oper-

ated by human drivers. “It gets honked at more often because it’s being safe,” said Nevada DMV Director Bruce Breslow.

The driverless vehicles will be required to wear red license plates that contain an infinity symbol, which the DMV says represents their status as “the car of the future.” If testing goes as planned and the vehicles are ever used by the general public, the license plates will be green.

“They’re designed to avoid distracted driving,” Breslow said. “When you’re on the Strip and there’s a huge truck with a three scantily clad women on the side, the car only sees a box.”

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Chelsea’s top-four hopes end in defeat at Liverpool

Denpasar (Bali Post) –

To increase dialysis services or Haemodialysis (HD) at Sanglah Hospital, 16 new machines of it will be added at Sanjiwani room which just got renovated. The inauguration will take place on Thursday (10/5) including its testing for 4-5 patients as stated by Head of Special Treatment Medical Service of the Hospital, dr. Ken Wirasandhi when met last Tuesday (8/5).

It was explained the new machines will add the previous 6 HD machines which will be placed be-

LONDON - Chelsea must win the Champions League to play in Europe’s elite club competition next season after a 4-1 defeat at Liverpool on Tuesday ended their hopes of qualifying via the Premier League. Stand-in manager Roberto Di Matteo made eight changes to the team that beat Liverpool 2-1 in Saturday’s FA Cup final and they were picked apart by the rampant home side who gained some revenge for their Wembley disappointment.

WOEFUL TERRY

Chelsea captain John Terry, who is suspended for the clash with Bayern, was selected but had a woeful night. After 19 minutes he allowed Luis Suarez to

dance past him and cut back a pass which Michael Essien could only turn into his own net and six minutes later his slip allowed Jordan Henderson a clear run on goal to slot home Liverpool’s second.

Daniel Agger’s header made it 3-0 before the half hour mark and Stewart Downing struck a penalty against the post just before halftime as Liverpool ran riot.

Ramires pulled a goal back for the visitors, who had hit the post through Branislav Ivanovic’s header when it was 0-0, shortly after halftime but Liverpool remained in control. A poor clearance

by Chelsea keeper Ross Turnbull, in for the rested Petr Cech, allowed Jonjo Shelvey to calmly fire a sublime shot into an empty net from 30 metres just past the hour.

Andy Carroll wasted a chance to extend Liverpool’s lead while Agger also headed wide late on as the hosts ended a disappointing home league season on a high.

“That performance was on a par with many this season but we’ve not had the results those deserve,” said Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish, whose side have managed just six league victories at Anfield from 19 matches.

Liverpool’s win saw them leapfrog Fulham into eighth place on goal difference and they can still finish above Everton if their result at Swansea City on Sunday is better than that achieved by their city rivals at home to Newcastle United.

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Liverpool’s Andy Carroll attempts an overhead kick during his team’s 4-1 win over Chelsea in their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Tuesday May 8, 2012.

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sides UTD PMI Pembina Bali building. The machine operates every day with three shifts non stop yet for the new ones it is hoped to just operate two shifts so it got its rest except when the demand is high. “In the old building nearby UTD PMI Bali there are two rooms each with 13 and 19 machines which the second one will be renovated. Even Sanjiwani HD room is nearby VIP rooms, patients from public to Jamkesnas insurance will all be treated there. There are total of 48 machines in Sanglah,” Ken explained. (kmb24)

Upsurge of labor force triggers unemployment

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With one match remaining, Chelsea are five points adrift of fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur and four behind fifth-placed Newcastle United, both of whom are in a final-day scrap with Arsenal to determine the Champions League qualifiers. It is the first time Chelsea will have finished outside the top four since the 2001-02 season, although they could still grab a place in next year’s Champions League if they beat Bayern Munich in the final on May 19.

Should that happen, the team that finishes fourth in the Premier League would be deprived of a Champions League qualifying round tie and be bumped down to the Europa League. Di Matteo said he had no regrets about making eight changes from his Cup final side for the game at Anfield despite his team beginning the night still in contention for a top-four berth.

“I have no regrets, the effort was there but we came up against an inspired Liverpool side,” Di Matteo, who left out the likes of Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole and Juan Mata, told Sky Sports.

“We have had some very intense games, the last one three days ago. It’s hard to keep getting yourself going every three days. Since I’ve been in charge we’ve played every three days and it’s been a big ask and a big demand.

“I just thought with fresh legs and new energy we could have had a better chance tonight.”

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MADRID - Spain defender Carles Puyol will almost certainly miss Euro 2012 after he sustained an injury to his right knee that his club Barcelona said requires arthroscopic surgery and will sideline him for around six weeks.

The shaggy-haired centre back damaged the knee in Saturday’s La Liga match at home to Espanyol and will have the operation next Saturday, Barca said in a statement on their website (www. fcbarcelona.com) on Tuesday.

“The estimated time he will be out of action is around six weeks,” the statement said, adding that the talismanic club captain would be unavailable for the King’s Cup final against Athletic Bilbao on May 25.

The loss of the highly-respected Puyol will be a major blow to the world and European champions, who begin the defence of their continental title against

Italy on June 10.

The 34-year-old has been a reliable presence in the Spanish back line for more than a decade, making 99 appearances for his country and scoring the winning goal in the 1-0 semi-final victory against Germany at the 2010 World Cup. “That’s football, it’s an extremely significant loss for us,” coach Vicente del Bosque was quoted as saying in Marca sports daily.

“Quite apart from whether or not it disrupts my plans, he is a charismatic lad and very important (to the team) and was only a step away from making his 100th appearance,” Del Bosque added. “He has been on great form, it’s a shame.”

Puyol’s absence will likely mean that Del Bosque deploys Real Madrid’s Sergio Ramos alongside Barca’s Gerard Pique in central defence, with Javi Martinez of Athletic Bilbao another option. Spain also face Ireland and Croatia in Group C at the Euro finals in Poland and Ukraine.

Indonesia undergoes a significant growth in labor force. Until February 2012, the labor force rate reached 120.4 million or an increase of three million people compared to August 2011 reaching 117.4 million.

Meanwhile, Bali in the same period accommodated 2.30 million people classified into labor force.

High upsurge in labor force, according to an economist from Undiknas University, Prof. Dr. IB Raka Suardana, would lead to rising unemployment. It happened because the upsurge was not accompanied by the absorption of existing job opportunities.

“Every year, the average of labor force increases 1 million people.

Without balanced absorption of job opportunities, it kindles an increase in unemployment,” said Raka Suardana in Denpasar, Tuesday (May 8).

According to him, the unemployment rate in Bali from February 2011-February 2012 reached 52,380 people. Meanwhile, the economic growth was projected approximately 6.3 to 6.5 percent.

By all means, such condition would not be able to absorb so much unemployment.

“Theoretically, 1 percent of economic growth will absorb approximately 300,000 labor forces or maximally 400,000 people. Therefore, it is impossible to resolve the unemployment if the economic growth still revolves around such a rate,” he said.

Aside from triggering unemployment, high rate of labor force without being poised by job opportunities would also have an impact on the increase in poverty. As a result, it would triggered more crime rates, increase in individual homeless and beggars and psychiatric disorders (stress) due to being unemployed.

“So far, the government apparently does not show off significant progress in dealing with unemploy-

ment and has no systematic solution, except for the recent massive entrepreneurship campaigns,” he said.

According to the Secretary of the Indonesian Economists Association (ISEI) of Bali Chapter, it was done half-heartedly because there was no regulation to the banks to increase the amount and low-interest loans to prospective employers. As a result, new businesses created by graduates of universities and diploma were more reliant on private funding or support of their family and relatives.

“Government needs to establish good cooperation with public (private) sector to create job opportunities. In formal educational institutions, from senior high school to college for instance, the government through relevant ministries should include a curriculum that directed the students to become an entrepreneur, not to look for a job after graduation,” he concluded.

Meanwhile, the Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of Bali, Gede Suarsa, judged that labor force participation rate (TPAK) in Bali was quite good compared to some other provinces. It could be seen from the high number of people who worked in various productive sectors and the decline in unemployment rate.

The results of the National Labor Force Survey (Sukernas) in February 2012 indicated that 2.98 million people were categorized into working age and 2.30 million of them were classified into labor force. The remaining 672,920 people were classified into non-labor force, namely those that were still attending school or managing household and other activities that did not generate revenue.

“In February 2012, the working population amounted to 2.25 million people or 97.89 percent of the total labor force in Bali,” he said. (kmb27)

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The vegetable farmer is harvesting carrot in his field in Baturiti, Tabanan Regency.

Harvest yields unsold, vegetable farmers of Baturiti distraught Tabanan (Bali Post)—

Vegetable farmers at Baturiti were recently hit by unrest. It happened because their harvest yields were unsold in the market. This condition made farmers distraught. They lost out up to tens of millions of rupiahs. Other than being unsold, the quality of harvest yields also declined due to adverse weather condition.

Price of vegetable at farmer level almost totally dropped. Since it was so cheap, many farmers then let their crops scattered in the garden as carried out by a number of farmers at Kembang Merta hamlet, Candikuning village, Tuesday (May 8). They were forced to pile up the vegetables at the garden edge because collectors were unwilling to purchase them. The price was very cheap. “All the farmers here are distraught. No one wants to purchase our harvest yields,” complained Made Suartana, 45, one of the local farmers.This man told if the price of all vegetable commodities was very alarming. He exemplified that round salad and various types of lotus usually reached IDR 10,000, dropped to IDR 1,000 per kilogram.

Price of the other commodities like coriander from IDR 80,000 dropped to IDR 5,000 per kilogram, scallion from IDR 10,000 dropped to IDR 4,000 per kilogram. Meanwhile, bell pepper becoming the leading commodity of local farmers also declined. Yellow bell pepper whose price was IDR 80,000 dropped to

IDR 35,000 per kilogram. More tragically, carrot could not be sold at all. Typically it could penetrate the price of IDR 4,000 per kilogram.

Since it could not be sold, some farmers forcibly took advantage of it for fodder. “No one wanted to purchase it. If not harvested, it even harms the soil,” complained Suartana.

The man doubling as chief hamlet of Kembang Merta admitted not to know what triggered the price drop and why no one wanted to purchase. He had tried to offer his crops to market. Unfortunately, his effort was fruitless, where a pick-up truck of carrots and other vegetables was completely untouched by buyers.

This price drop had occurred since the past few days. Due to such condition, Suartana claimed to lose out over IDR 60 million. He suspected the price disorder to vegetable was triggered by abundant vegetable supplies from Java.

By and large, said Suartana, vegetable collectors and suppliers were in line to buy up the farmers’ crops. Now, they entirely disap-

peared. On average farmers lost out over IDR 20 million. This amount was used to buy seeds, pesticides and protective cover of plastic. Such condition further exacerbated the fate of farmers on the edge of Lake Beratan. Previously, local farmers suffered a loss due to flooding and overflowing water of the lake. After flooding, with a minimum investment they grew vegetables again. However, the prices dropped at harvest time and did not sell well. “So far, we only rely on our own capital. We have never received any help from the government,” said Suartana.

Though losing out, farmers could only submit to their fate. They were forced to continue planting activities because they had no other livelihoods. So far, they only relied on the income from vegetable farming.

Hopefully, there would be a subsidy from the government to ease the burden of their farming cost.

Moreover, said Suartana, farmers of Baturiti also took part in shoring up the economy of Bali through vegetable sector. (kmb30)

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AMLAPURA - As much as 10 under age workers who are in Family Hope Program (PPPAKH) on lessening under age workers program experienced food poisoning last Monday (7/5) evening and ran to Karangasem Hospital A&E around 10 pm local time as confirmed by the Hospital’s Public Relation I Wayan Arsiawan Adi, S.Kep., last Tuesday (8/5).

According to information the 10 children were staying at Dangin Taman Inn, Tirtagangga, where around 7 pm they were eating meal of rice

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The pushcart of the sellers of Kreneng Market are seen on the picture. The residents often complain about the pushcarts which was often being left on the side of the road.

Sidewalk traders at Kreneng Market complained Denpasar (Bali Post)—

A row of pushcarts of sidewalk traders (PKL) that do selling at Kreneng Market was complained by residents because they frequently lined their pushcart along the Jalan Kapten Japa and Jalan Rampe infringing the opening hours as complained by Wayan Sarina, a resident of Denpasar, Tuesday (May 8). Denpasar Municipality and PD Pasar Denpasar should arrange the sidewalk traders. If they were allowed to set up their merchandise before operating hours, they could disrupt the traffic flows along the road section.

Besides, they also harmed the traders at Kreneng Market.

“When visitors are still busy, suddenly the parked vehicles were forcibly evicted. If it is not time to sell merchandise, they should be stopped. Do not let them do so as they like,” he complained.

According to him, Denpasar Municipality should strictly enforce the rules for sidewalk traders. It should not close the eyes for the sake of getting revenue from those sidewalk traders. “By degrees, visitors will be lazy to come to Kreneng Market if opened earlier because the existing parking area in front of Kreneng Market has been taken by sidewalk traders,” he said.

Hopefully, the Denpasar Municipality could strictly enforce

the rules. Traders should not be allowed to enter the area of night market to offer their merchandise ahead of time, including parking their pushcart on Jalan Rampe and those on Jalan Kapten Japa should be disciplined.

Chairman of Joint Faction of the Denpasar House, Ricky Teguh Utama Argawa asked the PD Pasar Denpasar to discipline those sidewalk traders. Complaints of residents were important inputs for the goodness and urban progress.

“We all should pay attention to this matter. Moreover, we are promoting the empowerment of traditional markets. So far, the Kreneng Market is very potential as a traditional market. Against

the presence of the sidewalk traders, the other complaints also came from traders occupying stalls and kiosks in the market,” he said.

If those sidewalk traders, said Ricky Teguh, were given more leeway to open the night market earlier, whereas should be opened from 4:30 p.m. local time, they would cause the traders in the market to lose out greatly.

“On that account, we must begin to find out the solution, and the municipal government should enforce the existing rules. If the sidewalk traders infringe, they should be reprimanded and given an action if they do not comply with the rules,” he said. (kmb27)

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AMLAPURA - Head of Karangasem Police GAPC Jefri Torunde, last Tuesday (8/5) stated at Karangasem Regent house that Padangbai Harbour has been the place for terrorists entering and going out of Bali that make Karangasem is potential to become a terrorist target.

Being the resource in anticipating terrorist attacks at Karangasem, Torunde stated that there are tourist objects in Karangasem that had a lot of overseas tourists coming such as Candidasa shores, Padangbai, Tanah Ampo, Ujung and Tulamben Cruise Harbours also Depo Pertamina Manggis (petrol warehouse). “The example can be taken during Bali Bomb II year 2005 where turns out they arrived at Ujung Beach at midnight,” Torunde stated.

Another example was stated during a raid at Yeh Malet, Manggis border, a person with 60 bullets, sword and Methamphetamine packet was found following the terrorist capture at Sanur. It was found later in the raid of the person’s living place, its weapon was found when actually the person admitted to use it for hunting at Sumbawa. Information then stated there is a terrorist training area at Sumbawa and could spread even target Bali. At least there are 31 illegal routes on the 87 km East Bali Shores such as at Kubu, Abang and Manggis. It seemed that X-Ray facilities at security checking are needed and placed by government

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with chicken, noodle and potatoes.

Then a few moments later they felt heartburn where some vomited, had headaches and shivering also hands and feet felt cramped. The ten children were Gede Indrawan (15), Merta (15), Agus Gede Putra (15), Ni Wayan Citra Pratama (15) Dewa Ketut Satria (17), Ketut Agus Permata (15), Kadek Widiani (14), Putu Astawa (15) Ni Wayan Putu (15), Pujiani (15). They were treated as procedure and after that they are allowed to go home without being hospitalised. It was added that all the fee was paid by the government through jamkesmas. (013)

Padangbai is suspected to be terrorist entrance

as all this time police held it manually which is burdening, difficult and not all items can be opened. Identity checking solution is also needed especially around midnight where it’s Population and Civil Notes Agency workers are no longer around when actually that’s a sensitive time.

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Karangasem Vice Regent, Made Sukerana, SH also stated the same that Bali including Karangasem is still a sensitive spot for terrorist to attack and police also public should be aware of it. He hoped that any vehicles coming in and out Bali are all checked as it is heard that DK numbered vehicles are not really checked when actually they could be there too. Terrorists are ingenious people in hiding which so they would think any strategy to reach its goals. For example one car that was chased and bullets were left until now it’s not known where it is.

This anticipation was inviting all village head and public figures yet only little came. In other hand public figures was sadden there were no question-answers session which one of them from Segeha Village, Made Oka, stated he wanted to give a suggestion. Apparently the number of non residents in his area are worrying living up to the hidden places which so he hoped this anticipation is not only a lecturing session but will be taken action up to the most bottom level of government. (013)

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Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum dives to for a loose ball as Denver Nuggets guard Andre Miller, right, looks on during the first half in Game 5 of an NBA first-round playoff basketball game, Tuesday, May 8, 2012, in Los Angeles.

Nuggets avoid elimination, hold off Lakers 102-99 Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — The Denver Nuggets plastered Andrew Bynum’s words all over their locker room and across their minds, drawing fiery inspiration from the Lakers center’s declaration that closeout playoff games are sometimes easy when an opponent quits. The young Nuggets rode that emotion to a big lead and a landmark victory — only after Kobe Bryant reminded them almost nothing comes easily for anybody in the NBA playoffs.

Andre Miller scored 24 points, including two free throws with 12.8 seconds left, and Denver survived Bryant’s late scoring barrage in a 43-point performance, avoiding playoff elimination with a 102-99 victory over Los Angeles in Game 5 on Tuesday night.

The third-seeded Lakers are one win away from a second-round date with Oklahoma City, but the Nuggets forced Los Angeles to board a plane for Denver on Wednesday. Coach George Karl gratefully fed Bynum’s offhanded post-practice comment to his players, and they played like a team that isn’t going anywhere.

“I’ve been blessed to win a few series, and it’s the hardest thing in the world to win the fourth game,” Karl said. “I don’t care who you’re playing, it’s hard. ... His feeling on closeouts is a little different than mine.” Game 6 is Thursday night in Denver.

“We still have to go take care of business at home,” Miller said.

“Nothing is a gimme against this team. If we can take care of home

and force a Game 7, anything can happen.” JaVale McGee had 21 points and 14 rebounds for the sixthseeded Nuggets, who trimmed the Lakers’ series lead to 3-2, but only after a hair-raising finish. Denver had a 15-point lead midway through the fourth quarter against the lifeless Lakers, but Bryant engineered a stunning comeback before his final three shots missed.

“That’s true, closeouts can be easy,” Bryant said. “Tonight wasn’t one of those nights. ... Did it pump them up? Probably. You never want to give anybody bulletin board material, but if you’re going to be a champion, you’ve got to play through things like that.”

Bryant scored 12 points over the final 4:45, hitting four 3-pointers that trimmed the Nuggets’ lead to 98-96 with 59 seconds left. Bryant then missed a potential tying 5-footer and a 3-pointer, but Denver missed two of four free throws before Ramon Sessions hit a 3-pointer with 12.8 seconds left, trimming the Nuggets’ lead to one point.

Los Angeles had two more chances to tie after the veteran Miller’s free throws, but Bryant and Sessions missed 3-pointers near the buzzer. “I wouldn’t say the energy kicked in in the fourth quarter,” Bryant said. “I almost bailed us out, is what happened. That’s something you can’t rely on if you’re going to win a championship.”

Arron Afflalo scored a career playoff-high 19 points and Danilo Gallinari added 14 for the Nuggets, while rookie Kenneth Faried had 10 points and nine rebounds. Miller scored 10 points in the fourth quarter and 17 in the second half, calmly leading his young teammates to the win.

The Nuggets still must win two games to advance to the second round for just the second time in nine years, but they have already accomplished something rare by winning Game 5. Los Angeles had closed out a playoff series on the first try in 11 of its previous 12 opportunities, and the Lakers won 12 of their last 13 closeout games under departed coach Phil Jackson.

MADRID - Top seeds Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova breezed past Czech opponents into the Madrid Open third round on Tuesday along with former world number one Serena Williams.

Azarenka dispatched Andrea Hlavackova 6-3 7-6, Sharapova saw off Klara Zakopalova 6-4 6-3 and Williams, seeded nine and making her first European appearance of the season, thumped unseeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2 6-1.

Serena eased through a day after her sister Venus was knocked out by Germany’s Angelique Kerber. Sharapova, who beat world number one Azarenka in the Stuttgart final last month, was first up on the unfamiliar blue clay of the Manolo Santana show court.

The colour is a controversial innovation at this year’s edition of the event and has prompted complaints from Novak Djokovic, Rafa Nadal and others. With the sliding roof closed to keep off the morning drizzle, second-seeded Russian Sharapova found her range and broke Zakopalova’s serve in the opening game.

The three-times grand-slam singles champion wobbled when serving for the match at 5-2 in the second set but broke again in the next game for a comfortable win. Sharapova next meets another Czech, unseeded Lucie Safarova, who beat Spanish wild card Carla Suarez Navarro 6-3 6-4.

Sharapova said the blue clay was a little more slippery than its red counterpart but added that she generally approved of the decision to switch colours, which organisers argue makes it easier to follow the yellow balls on television.

“I did feel a bit of a difference with the amount of clay that is on the court and the bounces were a bit off, especially the first couple of days of practice, but I feel like it’s got better and settled in a little bit,” she told a news conference.

“You just have to work on your balance a bit more,” added the 25year-old world number two, who will be chasing the only grand slam that has eluded her at the French Open starting later this month.

Peterson lawyer fighting failed test Associated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS — With a May 19 bout in Las Vegas on the line, boxer Lamont Peterson’s lawyer is telling Nevada boxing regulators the champion fighter’s failed doping test in March stemmed from an “inadvertent” failure to disclose medical treatment last November for low testosterone levels.

In a letter obtained late Tuesday by The Associated Press, Washington, D.C.-based attorney Jeff Fried told the Nevada Athletic Commission that Peterson’s doctor determined that a one-time “therapeutic” treatment “would not produce a significant enhancement of athletic performance.”

Peterson, of Washington, defeated Amir Khan in a disputed split decision in December in the nation’s capital to become the WBA and IBF junior welterweight champion.

Peterson’s scheduled rematch next week with Khan in Las Vegas was in doubt after a urine test in March found unacceptably high levels of synthetic testosterone in Peterson’s system, Athletic Commission executive Keith Kizer said Tuesday.

Kizer said Peterson (30-1-1, with 15 KOs) would have faced routine approval in the next several days for the fight scheduled next week at the Mandalay Bay resort. Now, it would be up to the five-member commission to hold a special meeting to accept Peterson’s explanation and grant a license for the Khan bout. The panel isn’t currently scheduled to meet until May 21.

“Lamont has never had a positive anti-doping test either before (or) after this isolated occurrence,” Fried said in the letter that appears to apologize for the failed test but doesn’t specifically seek a commission hearing. Fried didn’t immediately respond to an after-hours message seeking comment.

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CONTEXT The Olympic torch will be lit in a ceremony in Ancient Olympia on Thursday. After that it is flown to Britain on May 18 and carried by a succession of torchbearers through 1,019 communities before it is used to light the cauldron at the London opening ceremony on July 27.

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Orkney Islands Jun 10

Isle of Lewis Jun 11

Canal boat Cable car Tram Steam train Hot air balloon Motorcycle sidecar

Londonderry Jun 4

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McLaren set to switch to higher nose

Team principal Martin Whitmarsh says McLaren is likely to switch to the new high nose design it trialled on the final afternoon of in-season testing at Mugello.

The new nose is far higher at the front than the original design, and features significantly longer pillars - effectively bringing it far closer to the stepped designs used by the rest of the field.

While McLaren only trialled the high nose in the final hours at Mugello, Whitmarsh said during a Vodafone phone-in on Wednesday that the team would run the design again in Barcelona, and that it was reasonable to expect it to remain on the car for the race.

“There’s a reasonable chance we will see it on Sunday, which will be the first time our drivers experience it,” Whitmarsh said.

“We got a lot of feedback from Mugello, so we have the data to set it up and can find the performance on track.”

Asked about the philosophy behind the new design, Whitmarsh said the higher nose helped manage the airflow directed to the rear of the car. “Classically of course you are looking for lower drag and higher downforce, but be aware that nowadays incremental improvements are generally modest,” he said.

“In the case of the nose and front wing the attachment pylons are quite different and there are other subtle differences.

“You are managing the airflow that is enjoyed by the rest of the car.

Nowadays, in quite a critical part of the car you are looking to find very small improvements. [There are] a lot of restrictions around the back end of the car, so you generate more improvement by managing the flow that arrives there than by developing the rear itself.” Whitmarsh said he expected McLaren to prove competitive once again after its poor showing in Bahrain, but said it was impossible to be fully confident given how competitive 2012 has proved.

“I believe we will be competitive in Spain and going forward, but you don’t know what other teams are going to do,” he said. “I think great thing about this sport is you can never been fully confident you understand everything. “[We] have a car clearly able to be on front row in each of the first four races and therefore the pace is inherently there. We are working to continuously develop the car, but you can never be confident that other teams won’t up their game and give you harder time. “We had an interesting data gathering test at Mugello, and we will see at Barcelona but we expect to put that knowledge to good use.”

Greek actress Ino Menegaki (L), playing the role of High Priestess, lights the torch held by Spyridon Gianniotis, Greece’s world champion of swimming, during a dress rehearsal for the torch lighting ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece May 9, 2012. The official lighting ceremony for the London Games will take place on May 10.

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JAKARTA - The growth in foreign tourist arrivals can improve the understanding and insight of international community about the culture and life in Indonesia. It can generate positive influence on the imaging of Indonesia in the eyes of the world. “Aside from bringing in the economic impact, namely the increase in foreign exchange, the arrival of foreign tourists also has non-economic impact that can help the imaging of Indonesia,” said Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Mari Elka Pangestu.

Mari added, aside from the growth of foreign tourists continuing to climb, the travel of domestic tourists also showed an increase.

“The more frequent people travel around Indonesia, the more increasing their understanding on

Indonesia will be. Thus, they will progressively love Indonesia,” she said.

Currently, the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy focused on the development of 16 tourist destinations of Bali

and Beyond such as Lake Toba, Lombok Island, Ternate, Wakatobi and Flores. “We develop the Bali and Beyond destinations for even distribution of tourist arrivals in Indonesia,” she said.

Related to the development of creative economy, Mari said the sector required special attention and should be widely publicized to general public. “Indonesia has a broader potential of creative economic development. This happens because Indonesia has a wealth of natural and cultural resources that can become the raw material of creative industries. However, it faces an obstacle in the management and access to the creative products for wider community,” said Mari.

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