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Ben Spies says visibility issues caused by water leaking into his helmet were the chief culprit behind his struggles at Le Mans. In contrast to Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo, who dominated from the front, Spies fared miserably, dropping down the grid after the rear of his bike got loose at the start.

He fought back to get as high as 13th, but could not break free of the surrounding CRT bikes and eventually brought his race to an effective close even though he was able to return – by heading into the pits. The Texan said visibility issues were to blame for his slump. He has just one top 10 finish to his credit this season, an eighth in the previous race at Estoril.

“That was a rough race,” Spies conceded. “We actually got off to a good start at the beginning then had a very big moment on the line.

“Something happened because then I had quite a lot of water coming in through my helmet and couldn’t see much on the first five laps. I hoped it

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the action is limited for the fans, Hembery says teams are reluctant to change it. But he insists Pirelli could supply qualifyingspecific tyres right away if needed. “We could do it immediately,” Hembery told Autosprint. “We could come up with a specific compound, or maintain the current ones.

“But the teams say that the format is fine as is, that the public enjoys tyre strategies. “But if a fan on the grandstands doesn’t see much running in Q3, then that fan casts the blame on Pirelli think-

ing that we don’t want to spend any more money in order to supply more tyres.”

Hembery also denied that Pirelli has intentionally attempted to create an impossible challenge for teams with its tyres for the 2012 season. He reckons the design of this year’s car means they are less stable, something that affects the way the tyres behave.

“I don’t agree with whoever says that our tyres’ scope of use is too narrow: the temperatures are in line with the estimated values,” he said. “What has changed, heavily, is the way these tyres are used this year. You can see that there’s a lot more oversteering on the track. We also hear drivers’ comments lamenting a lack of traction, but in my opinion that problem doesn’t exist.

“Having changed the exhaust configuration through a rule has undoubtedly made the cars less stable. That causes wheelspin and the tread heats up, so it’s normal you can’t use the tyre.

“Another point is that nowadays the car performances are a lot closer. Last year there was a second between Red Bull and McLaren, while we’ve now seen in Spain 16 cars within the same second in Q2.

“It’s not true we have intentionally tried to create an impossible challenge.

In the next tests with the Renault test car we’ll verify what the teams say.”

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would get better but I couldn’t see anything and decided to come in because I need to see where I am going.

“I knew the race was gone by then so went back out to try and get some data and get better working with the bike in the rain. Circumstances meant it wasn’t a good day.”

After hailing Lorenzo’s ‘incredible’ ride, team director Massimo Meregalli said he expected Spies to bounce back at Barcelona. “We were expecting a different race but unfortunately this bad luck doesn’t want to disappear,” Meregalli said. “We’re looking forward to Barcelona, we won’t give up and we will get back up to where we belong with Ben.”

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Pirelli ready to supply Q3-only tyres Pirelli’s motorsport boss Paul Hembery says the Italian tyre manufacturer is ready to supply Formula 1 teams with Q3-only tyres. He made it clear, however, that the teams believe the current format is fine and don’t want it changed. Current rules mean teams have to use the same tyres they qualify on in the race, something that has lead to drivers sitting out Q3 in order to limit their running and save sets for the race.

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Relatives put a portrait on the coffins containing the remains of Anggraini Fitria, a cabin crew on the Sukhoi Superjet100 that crashed on May 9 during a handover ceremony to family members at Halim Perdanakusumah airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 23, 2012.

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JAKARTA - Bodies of Sukhoi Superjet (SSJ) 100 crash victims were returned to their family on ceremony that took place in Halim Perdanakusuma Airport. The Transportation Minister EE Mangindaan led the event on Wednesday, May 23, 2012.

The Transportation Minister on behalf of the Indonesian government expressed the deepest condolences on the air accident which had taken the lives of 45 people.

“We have lost the people that we loved including journalists,” Mangindaan said.

The Minister also conveyed his appreciation to the people including the Military,

students, lovers of nature, and locals who have helped find and recover the victims. He said the evacuation of the crash victims on the slopes of Mt Salak took some time because the location was very difficult to reach and has an inclination of about 85 degrees, not to mention the adverse weather conditions.

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GIANYAR - Penetration of handicraft products from outside coming into the market of Bali in general and Gianyar in particular increasingly sticks out the local handicraft products. Such condition was revealed in a workshop entitled ‘Developing Synergy in the MSME Empowerment’

held by the Institute of Public Administration (LAN) in the Meeting Room of the Gianyar Regent’s Office on Tuesday (May 22). Assistant II of Gianyar Regional Secretariat, I Gede Widarma Suharta, when opening the workshop said that Gianyar Regency currently ranked second in the exports of handicrafts in Bali.

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Tourists shop at Sukawati Art Market that located in Gianyar, Bali Island. Penetration of handicraft products from outside coming into the market of Bali in general and Gianyar in particular increasingly sticks out the local handicraft products.

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MIAMI (AP) — Suddenly, the road back to the Eastern Conference finals no longer looks daunting for Miami. Not after the Heat left the Pacers beat up and banged up. LeBron James scored 30 points, Dwyane Wade added 28, and the Heat moved a win away from the NBA’s final four with a 115-83 victory over the hurting Pacers on Tuesday night, a game where three flagrant fouls added more chapters to an already-physical series and Indiana watched starting forwards Danny Granger and David West leave with injuries.

“This is our challenge right now, to leave it behind us,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “A lot of good things tonight, but we have to focus on the next one.” That would be Game 6 in Indiana on Thursday night. The Heat lead the best-ofseven East semifinals 3-2.

James added 10 rebounds and eight assists. Shane Battier scored 13 points, Mario Chalmers had eight points and 11 rebounds, and Udonis Haslem finished with 10 points for Miami, which never trailed, held a 22-2 edge in fast-break points and shot a franchise playoff-record 61 percent — best of any team in the playoffs this season.

Paul George scored 11 points for Indiana, with Granger and West adding 10 points apiece. Granger left with a sprained left ankle in the third quarter and departed the arena in a walking boot, while West departed with what the Pacers called a left knee sprain at the end of that period — something that West thought was born of a cheap shot.

Replays showed Shane Battier boxed out West on the play where

DENPASAR - The impact of progressively narrowing farmland is felt directly by farmers in terms of the reduction of land for farming and decline in income. Prof. Dr. I Wayan Windia, a professor of agriculture from the Udayana University, said the agricultural sector in Bali today almost did not indicate any development or tended to stagnate because of its very low contribution to the gross regional domestic product (GDP). sion of farmland function,” he explained.

Related to conversion of the land function, previously the Indonesian Farmers Association (HKTI) claimed to worry about the threat of food crisis in Bali.

This condition could possibly happen considering the occurrence of farmland conversion was uncontrollable. The HKTI recorded at least 800 hectares of paddy field lived through conversion of land function per year. It was caused by the lack of clear rules and negligence of local government against violations of spatial planning. “It is required a clear and unequivocal rule of the local governments regarding land categorized into eternal and protected land territory so that they will not be converted into different function,” said Chairman of HKTI Bali, Prof. Dr. Nyoman Suparta. (kmb28)

Developing learning creativity by involving nature The total of 68 teachers were spread at villages at the furthest point in forests and on mountains even some on the border with Timor Leste reaching 15 km from Kupang City such as Amfoang Timur, Amfoang Barat Daya, Takari, Fatuleu Barat.

All the villages were left out and furthest yet even so all of the teachers liked teaching here as besides they got new experiences they also got a lot of knowledge in teaching in such limited facility places. They are happy to live with the people of the village who are purified from any politic problems. One of them, Gede Oka Suandana, from Tamblang Village, Kubutambahan, Buleleng, who graduated from Geography at UNDIKSHA teaches at high school

SMAN 1 Amfoang Barat Daya.

This school is built simple with roof of strong leaves and in this place he teaches geography and sometimes other studies. Oka stated the kids’ spirit in learning is high here even though they catch the studies still in a weak state. Even so, he still loves teaching here as in this place the pupils are nice and obeys the teacher also very accepted the new teachers.

“I felt much healthier here because I eat a lot of fruits given by the locals,” Oka stated.

One of the problems would be communication as cell phone signals here are very week. Moreover, those at Fatuleu Barat couldn’t communicate at all as there is no signal at all and so to send a SMS or call, they

would go to a higher ground yet not as good as in big cities. Teachers at Fatulue Barat have different problems. In the new High School built by government in that area there is no electiricy and so teachers have to develop a teaching creativity. For example a graduate from UNDIKSHA Health and Sports Faculty have to teach involving nature such as for javelin they would make the javelin sticks first from bamboo that they found in the forests and for shot-put they would find a various size of stones or rocks which used as the shot-put ball. Meanwhile Information Technology graduate has another problem with the no electricity situation. For typing studies at laptop, at first the graduate made a replica of

the keyboard letters on a paper and so the children would know where the places are which then on a Saturday the children learns to type on a real keyboard at the teacher’s living place where a genset/extra power supply is place yet not on all the time. Sutama is admitted proud of his graduate in able to teach by developing creativity also seeing them happy to adapt in their areas. For that he is optimist that the SM3T program in the coming years would be able to send more UNDIKSHA graduates to give their knowledge in left places of Indonesia. “At first a number of students were worried due to the place very far yet now they are very happy with their new experiences,” Sutama explained. (ole)

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he fell backward, but it did not appear any Heat player hit West below the waist. It was an 11-point game when Granger departed early in the third quarter, and the Heat outscored the Pacers by 21 the rest of the way.

“We learned early in this series, you don’t get two wins for a blowout,” Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. A series marked by ugly moments had perhaps its worst with 19.4 seconds remaining when Miami reserve center Dexter Pittman went across the lane to send a forearm into the chin area of Indiana’s Lance Stephenson — who was caught on camera making a choke sign toward James during the Pacers’ Game 3 win, drawing the ire of the Miami locker room.

Pittman was caught on camera winking after the foul. “I don’t know if that was retaliation. ... I’m sure the NBA will and do what they have to do,” Granger said, adding that Stephenson was getting X-rays for a possible collarbone problem.

Physicians were examining Stephenson after the game.

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quick deficits in each of the first four games, was the team that started hot in Game 5, running out to a 19-8 lead on the strength of three 3-pointers from Battier — who had been 2 for 19 from the field in the first four games of the series. Battier left his mark in many ways, even stopping a 3-on-1 Indiana break to set up a score by Wade at the other end.

But much like the Heat did in Game 4 when Indiana threatened to turn things into an early runaway, the Pacers settled down in a hurry. The Pacers made Wade see blood early on, a couple of early flagrant fouls reminding everyone that these teams don’t seem to like each other much.

Tyler Hansbrough struck first, hitting Wade on a play where the 2006 NBA finals MVP wound up with a cut over his right eye, similar to what Haslem received at Indiana in Game 4. So Haslem retaliated against Hansbrough not long afterward, earning a flagrant-1 foul that left the Pacers saying it should merit a flagrant-2 and automatic ejection.

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Miami Heat’s LeBron James, right, shoots as Indiana Pacers’ David West (21) watches during the second half of Game 5 of an NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series, in Miami on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

Clijsters to retire again after U.S. Open

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A man working in the rice field. The impact of progressively narrowing farmland is felt directly by farmers in terms of the reduction of land for farming and decline in income.

Bali young teachers teach at East Nusa Tenggara A NUMBER of young Balinese teachers since the past few months have placed themselves in Junior High Schools (SMP) and High Schools (SMA) at the furthest villages of Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. They were sent by Singaraja Ganesha Education University (UNDIKSHA) through Front, Left and Furthest Area Teaching Postgraduate Program (SM3T) which last 1st-5th May 2012.

Bali Post and 1st Vice Rector of UNDIKSHA, Prof. Dr. Made Sutama, got to see how they’ve been going.

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result that was certainly not much different from the condition of farmers in Bali. Rice farmer in Bali averagely has 0.30 hectare of land. If the income of beggar is more than 2 million per month, farmers with such area of land will be unable to yield IDR 4 million per season or four months,” he explained.

Wayan Windia, who also chairs a subak research group in the Udayana University, said that investment in the agricultural sector in Bali sourcing from the fund of government and investors remained fairly low. Small amount of investment in agriculture had caused the exchange rate or welfare of farmers in this region to still become low. “Condition of farmer is identical to the poor, so that no young people are interested in becoming farmers.

It is then compounded by the increasingly ubiquitous conver-

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Agricultural sector in Bali tends to stagnate “Contribution of the agricultural sector to the economy of Bali has always been the smallest compared to the growth of other sectors. One of which is the tourism sector that has always had a fairly rapid growth,” he explained.

He told that it happened because government paid less attention to the sector, whereas the agricultural sector actually could absorb 30.87 percent or 672,204 people of the workforce in Bali.

According to him, small role of the agriculture and low income of farmers had made them unable to live a feasible and prosperous life. But, those who worked in the agricultural sector in the broader sense were greater with a percentage of 50 percent. “Probably, the income of farmer can be said to be smaller than a street beggar. I firmly say so because there was a survey made by an NGO at Sukoharjo in Central Java with a

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11, 2010, file photo shows Kim Clijsters, of Belgium, holding the championship trophy after winning the women’s singles final at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York.

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Former world number one Kim Clijsters has confirmed that she will bring down the curtain on her second career at the end of this year’s U.S. Open, Belgian news agency Belga has reported. The 28year-old came out of retirement in 2009 after more than two years out of the sport, winning three more grand slam titles to take her career tally to four.

Injury, which has hampered the Belgian throughout her career, has already forced her to pull out of the upcoming French Open and on Tuesday she said the Aug. 27-Sept. 9 U.S. Open would be her last tournament. “In principle, I will stop after the U.S. Open.

That’s the tournament where I have had my greatest triumphs and it is therefore very special to me,” she told a news con-

ference at the headquarters of her sponsors Galaxo in Paal, Belgium. “The (Flushing Meadows) stadium is about 45 minutes from our house in the United States and so my inlaws can be there.”

Clijsters won her first U.S. Open title in 2005 and marked a sensational return to tennis with a second in 2009 before successfully defending the title the following year.

She also won the Australian Open in 2011 and, by reaching the semi-finals at her next tournament in Paris, reclaimed the number one world ranking after a gap of 256 weeks. The hip injury which forced her to withdraw from this year’s French Open robbed her of a chance to finally win the Roland Garros tournament, where she twice lost in the final.

She said last month that she aimed to return to action at the

Wimbledon warm-up event in Den Bosch in mid-June before having a ninth crack at winning the grasscourt grand slam.

Clijsters is planning to return to Wimbledon for the tennis tournament at the London Olympics, having missed the 2008 Games in Beijing during her first retirement and skipped the 2004 Athens Olympics because of a row over clothing sponsorship.

“The Olympic fever is started to build,” she told the news conference. Clijsters, who turns 29 next month, has won 41 singles and 11 doubles titles since she turned professional in 1997 and helped Belgium win a first Fed Cup title in 2001.

Injuries to almost all parts of her body have hampered her ability to play with any regularity since her return from retirement and she is currently ranked 44th in the world.

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Spain’s national soccer team player David Villa attends a news conference in Kaunas in this March 28, 2011 file photo. Villa ruled himself out of the running for a place in Spain’s squad for Euro 2012 on May 22, 2012 after failing to fully recover from a broken leg.

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MADRID - Barcelona striker David Villa ruled himself out of the running for a place in Spain’s squad for Euro 2012 on Tuesday after failing to fully recover from a broken leg. Villa, Spain’s all-time leading scorer, broke his left leg while competing in the Club World Cup with Barca in December, and has not played a competitive match since then.

“I tried right to the end but I wasn’t able to get to 100 percent for the Euros,” Villa said on his official Twitter feed. “Today I called the coach to tell him. It was the most honest thing to do.

Thanks to all of you for your support.”

The Spanish football federation (RFEF) broke the news with an earlier statement. “After failing to achieve the desired progress in recent training sessions, Villa spoke with Del Bosque,” the RFEF said. “(He) told him although he would like to be with the team in Poland and Ukraine, his physical state ‘isn’t the best’ for a competition like the Euros. “The RFEF and Spain’s coaching staff wish the player all the best in his recovery and hope he will return soon to the national team, and value the effort made by David to get back to full fitness.”

Villa has scored 51 goals in 82 national team appearances for Spain helping them victory at Euro 2008 and in the World Cup finals in 2010. His Spanish international team mates were quick to send messages of support on their Twitter accounts.

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Barcelona’s Cesc Fabregas wrote: “Keep your spirits up, you are a star. You have been and will continue being the best goal-scorer in the national team.”

Chelsea winger Juan Mata wrote: “You have proved again you are an example, we will miss you a lot. You will soon be back scoring goals.”

Barca’s doctors had already said he would not make the King’s Cup final on Friday, when Pep Guardiola’s side take on Athletic Bilbao.

Del Bosque named a provisional squad for Euro 2012 last

week which included many fringe players, and added Chelsea duo Fernando Torres and Mata on Monday after they helped their side win the Champions League final. Del Bosque delayed naming any Barca and Bilbao players until after the Cup final. He set May 27 as his deadline for deciding his final 23-man squad, when attention will focus in particular on their forward line without Villa.

Torres, Valencia’s Roberto Soldado, Sevilla’s Alvaro Negredo and Atletico Madrid’s Adrian Lopez are already in the squad, while Bilbao’s Fernando Llorente and possibly Barca’s Pedro are expected to be called up, with others making way.

Spain won all eight of their qualifiers for Euro 2012 and are in Group C for the finals along with Italy, against who they play their opening game on June 10, Republic of Ireland and Croatia.

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MADRID - Jose Mourinho said he was motivated by the challenges ahead at Real Madrid after agreeing a two-year contract extension on Tuesday which tied him to the Spanish champions until 2016. “I’ve loved the professional experience I’ve had of working for different clubs in different countries and cultures,” the Portuguese said in an interview published on the club’s website (www.realmadrid.com).

“It’s different for me now because I’m thinking about a club longterm. (Real) has been more demanding and has forced me to do my absolute best due to the difficulties I have had to face. “I’ve had to improve as a coach and a professional. I think it is the perfect challenge for the next four years. I need these great challenges at this time in my career.”

Mourinho, the self-styled ‘Special One’, joined Real from Inter Milan in 2010 on a four-year deal and led them to victory in the King’s Cup final in his first season, the club’s first cup triumph in 18 years.

They won their first La Liga title for four years this month, smashing league records along the way and ending Barcelona’s domestic dominance.

Real set a new points record of 100 from 38 games, beating the previous best of 99 achieved by Pep Guardiola’s side in 2009, and broke the league’s goal-scoring record of 107 set by the Whites in 1989-90 by finding the net 121 times. On a personal level, the league title was Mourinho’s seventh after winning two in Portugal with Porto, two in England with Chelsea and two in Italy with Inter.

Mourinho’s next big challenge is to win a 10th European Cup for Real, and his third with a different club after Champions League successes with Porto in 2004 and Inter in 2010. Real have fallen in the semi-finals to Barcelona and Bayern Munich in his two years in charge. The last time they reached the final four before then was 2003. “I’ve always said we have to improve collectively and individually, and that we must play football to win both games and supporters,” Mourinho added.

“I’m sure Real gained many supporters this year because we played the best football in the world despite not winning the Champions League. But we did win the toughest league title with fantastic football. We have to keep it up.”

The 49-year-old has fought for and won unprecedented freedom and power as their coach with the full backing of club president Florentino Perez. His new commitment to Real ended any speculation that he might be lured away elsewhere.

The show of unity and strength at the world’s richest club by revenue comes at a moment when their great rivals Barcelona appear to be entering a period of transition.

Mourinho’s opposite number Guardiola has decided to step down at the end of the season after winning 13 trophies in four years at the Nou Camp.

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Incessant pest attacks have disrupted farmers in Tabanan. After attacked by rats, grasshoppers came with predatory attack at Subak Penyarikan, Priyukti hamlet, Wanasari village. This insect attacked dozens of hectares of rice plant belonging to Inpari variety.

Grasshopper attack makes farmers restless Bali Post

TABANAN - Incessant pest attacks have disrupted farmers in Tabanan. After attacked by rats, grasshoppers came with predatory attack at Subak Penyarikan, Priyukti hamlet, Wanasari village. This insect attacked dozens of hectares of rice plant belonging to Inpari variety. As a result, farmers were overwhelmed by unrest.

Such insects have set to attack since last week. They consisted of green and brown grasshoppers. They harmed the young rice plants of only 1.5 months old. “The grasshoppers sucked the rice ears setting to grow. If left unchecked, it can damage the quality of rice,” complained Wayan Suparti, 45, one of the local farmers, Tuesday (May 22).

This woman told if the attack of grasshoppers had taken place regularly every planting season.

However, this time was the most severe. Sadly, the arrival of those insects was uncertain. On that account, farmers should be ready at all times to spray the rice plants regularly. “We spray them every two weeks and the pesticide in use is too expensive,” she said.

She also added that if spraying late, the rice plants were not capable of growing normally. Moreover, they would be coming into the period of bearing fruits.

Similar complaints were also revealed by Budha, 50, another farmer. This man said the grasshoppers usually attacked in the morning. They went into the rice stalks and then sucked the young ears.

“We have to spray the rice plants on time. Otherwise, the rice ear can turn damaged,” he said. Budha claimed to have an area of 3,000 square meters. The entire acreage had been attacked by the insects.

He hoped the grasshoppers could disappear by the action of spraying because the costs incurred for planting rice were pretty expensive. Without eradi-

cating the insects, they were feared to disrupt the crops. “All the peasants are restless because the grasshoppers continue to rage,” he complained. Such condition had taken place regularly every planting season. However, he considered the current attack was quite severe whereas the growth of rice plants was very good since the start of planting. It was feared the plants would be damaged if the grasshoppers were neglected.

Meanwhile, the rice harvest season nearly coming to an end had made the rice price to skyrocket. Since the past a week, the rice price rose from IDR 150,000 to IDR 170,000.

The increase was predicted to continue until the end of the harvest season. (kmb30)

SEMARAPURA - A prisoner of Klungkung Prison, Jayadi Ahmad, escaped around 10 am local time last Tuesday (22/5). The prisoner from Lombok that was guilty of robbery break free while cleaning the jail house area. Two wardens in the prison threatened to be sanctioned.

Head of the Jail, Cahyo Dewanto, confirmed that the prisoner was convicted for 1,5 years due to robbery. Yet, he was only jailed for six months before he escaped. “He’s not on his assimilation time yet,” Cahyo stated.

Cahyo did not know specifically how it happened and so it is being discussed also if Jayadi escaped using the prisoner uniform or not.

The situation is still being investigated and the two wardens can’t be questioned yet.

The situation has been reported to police and a number of officers have been sent to check where he run, including at Padangbai.

From what’s known so far, the incident happened when four prisoners were cleaning up the jail area supervised by two wardens at the south side of the jail area (Teratai Street). Jayadi then asked to go to the restroom. Five minutes later, Jayadi did not come back and it is suspected he has escaped.

Cahyo suspected the escape was due to wardens’ ignorance. He assured that wardens will get sanctions based on their faults.

Meanwhile Klungkung Prison that is being lived by 57 prisoners and convicts are being supervised by 14 officers divided to four groups. The ratio between prisoners and wardens are imbalance.

Jayadi was captured on 18th May 2011 as one of the members of a gold jewelry robbery group which have caused disturbance in Klungkung. In his action, Jayadi will always look for empty houses where its owner is working. To do his action, he camouflage himself as an Electricity State Company worker. (kmb20)

Illegal building, shop at Pekutatan warned Bali Post

NEGARA - A number of shops and hotels at Pekutatan last Tuesday (22/5) got warning from Jembrana Police Civil Service as their buildings are disobeying the rules. The service lead by its Head, I Putu Widarta, was going through semi permanent shops at Pengeragoan, the border between Jembrana and Tabanan.

There are several illegal shop that found there which were illegal, such as owned by Dewa Made Sriati on the roadside of Gilimanuk-Denpasar route.

The shop violating beach’s demarcation line, it has been warned by giving three days notice before demolished by the service. “If this kind of situation is ignored then more of it will be around,” Widarta explained.

Besides shops, Widarta’s officers also came by a Hotel named Puri Dajuma which is a hotel without any Building Permit. The building was warned before, yet nothing has been done. The hotel was stopped from operating based on Regional Law No. 3 Year 2004 until it has a building permit. This operation was to bring up justice and comfort to the people who has been reporting as these activities have disturbed them. (kmb26)

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Jembrana police civil service officers warned a woman who own illegal shop at Pekutatan. A number of shops and hotels at Pekutatan last Tuesday (22/5) got warning from Jembrana Police Civil Service as their buildings are disobeying the rules.

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Egyptians vote for Mubarak successor in historic poll Agence France-Presse

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular middle-of-the-night blastoff.

with initial results expected on Sunday. Voting ends at 8:00 pm (1800 GMT) on both days.

A senior interior ministry official said police were on standby across the country and helping soldiers secure polling stations.

The election marks the final phase of a tumultuous transition overseen by the ruling military council after Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising last year.

After decades of pre-determined results, for the first time, the outcome of the vote in the Arab world’s most populous nation -- which also pits revolutionaries against old regime members -- is wide open.

According to pollsters, the large number of voters undecided beAP Photo/Khalil Hamra tween candidates reflecting radiAn Egyptian woman votes during the first day of the presidential election inside a polling station in Alexcally different trends and the nov- andria, Egypt, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Egyptians went to polls on Wednesday morning to elect a new elty of a free presidential vote president after the fall of ex-President Hosni Mubarak last year. make Wednesday’s election almost impossible to call.

Shafiq, Mubarak’s last prime min- Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh, a struggling economy, deteriorating Among the leading contenders ister, is accused of belonging to the former member of the Islamist security and the challenge of unitis former foreign minister and Arab old regime. movement who portrays himself ing a nation divided by the uprising League chief Amr Mussa, who The powerful Muslim Broth- as a consensus choice with a wide and its sometimes deadly aftermath, is seen as an experienced politi- erhood’s candidate Mohammed range of support. but his powers are yet to be defined cian and diplomat but like Ahmed Mursi faces competition from The next president will inherit a by a new constitution.

Australia: No deal was made in Indonesia drug case Associated Press

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Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr speaks about convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, who is serving a prison sentence on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, at a press conference in Sydney on May 23, 2012.

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Commercial spacecraft speeds toward space station

CAIRO - Egyptians were voting Wednesday in historic presidential elections contested by Islamists and secularists promising different futures for the country after the overthrow of veteran dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Queues formed outside polling stations long before they opened at 08:00 am (0600 GMT), with voters in a festive mood.

“It’s a beautiful day for Egypt,” said Nehmedo Abdel Hadi, who was voting at the Omar Markram school in Cairo’s Shubra neighbourhood.

“Now I feel this is my country and I have dignity,” said the 46year-old woman, who wears a full-face veil.

Across the city, in the leafy Mohandesseen neighbourhood, Rania, wearing gym clothes and a ponytail under her baseball cap, was at the front of the line.

“It’s the first time in Egypt’s history we choose our president,” she said, preferring to keep her choice “a secret between me and my ballot box.”

More than 50 million eligible voters have been called to choose one of 12 candidates wrestling to succeed ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

Voting over two days is taking place at 13,000 polling stations,

Thursday, May 24, 2012

CANBERRA — Australia denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for Indonesia reducing the prison sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker.

But Foreign Minister Bob Carr conceded that Indonesians saw a link between the treatment of Australian Schapelle Corby and young Indonesians held in Australian prisons.

Corby, 34, learned in a Bali prison on Tuesday that Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had granted a five-year reduction of a 20-year sentence for her 2005 conviction for smuggling marijuana onto the resort island.

Her lawyer said that since several other cuts to her sentence were approved previously, she could be freed in about three months.

The announcement comes a week after Australia released three young Indonesians from prison based on new evidence that they might not be

adults. Crew members of Indonesian people-smuggling boats who illegally bring asylum seekers to Australia are sent home without punishment if they are children.

The Australian government is reviewing the convictions of another 21 Indonesian prisoners after complaints from Jakarta and Australia’s human rights commissioner that they might have been children when they were arrested for people smuggling. Police use wrist X-rays as proof that a suspect is at least 19 years old, but critics argue that such tests are inaccurate.

Indonesia State Secretary Sudi Silalahi said Corby’s sentence reduction was part of a deal in which Australia would be more lenient toward young Indonesians arrested for crewing asylum-seeker boats.

“That’s how the Indonesians see it,” Carr conceded. But he denied that Australia’s decision was part of any reciprocal agreement, though both Corby and the incarceration of young Indonesians in Australia were on the agenda of a bilateral

summit in March.

“We’d be making that decision about those minors if there were no Schapelle Corby and indeed no Australians serving time in Indonesian jails,” Carr said. “We’d be doing it because it’s unconscionable to hold minors in adult prisons.”

Corby’s case has attracted intense and sustained attention in Australia, where many believe she is innocent. She maintains she does not know how 9 pounds (4.2 kilograms) of marijuana came to be found in her surfboard bag when it was searched on arrival at Denpasar Airport in late 2004.

Her lawyer, Iskandar Nawing, said Indonesian authorities agreed to reduce her sentence because of her poor mental state. Corby’s mother, Rosleigh Rose, told reporters outside her home in the Australian east coast city of Logan on Wednesday that she would fly to Bali in July and “will be bringing her home.”

“I think it hasn’t sunk in yet.

I can’t believe it,” Rose said in a statement.

Updates with today’s news. Graphic explains the SpaceX Dragon capsule

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Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96 Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO — Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity.

Just ask anyone who’s lost a remote. Polley died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital, said Zenith Electronics spokesman John Taylor. The former Zenith engineer was 96.

In 1955, if you wanted to switch TV channels from “Arthur Godfrey” to “Father Knows Best,”

you got up from your chair, walked across the room and turned a knob. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk.

Or you could buy a new Zenith television with Flash-Matic tuning. The TV came with a green ray gun-shaped contraption with a red trigger. The advertising promised “TV miracles.” The “flash tuner” was “Absolutely harmless to humans!” Most intriguing of all: “You can even shut off annoying commercials while the picture remains on the screen.”

Polley was proud of his invention even late in life, Taylor said. He showed visitors at his assisted-living apartment his original Flash-Matic and how it had evolved into the technology of today.

This undated photo of a 1955 advertisement, provided by LG Electronics, shows an ad for a Zenith “FlashMatic,” the first wireless TV remote control.

AP Photo/LG Electronics

The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and its unmanned Dragon capsule marked the first time a commercial spacecraft has been sent to the orbiting outpost.

Tracing a fiery arc across the night sky, the rocket lifted off just before 4 a.m. and smoothly boosted the capsule into orbit. The capsule is expected to rendezvous with the space station within days, delivering a halfton of provisions for its six crew members.

It is considered just a test flight — in fact, the capsule was packed with only nonessential items, in case something went disastrously wrong — but if all goes well with this mission and others like it, commercial spaceships could be carrying astronauts to and from the space station in three to five years.

“Falcon flew perfectly!!” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of the SpaceX company, said via Twitter. “Feels like a giant weight just came off my back.” Musk later told reporters: “For us, it’s like winning the Super Bowl.” Up to now, flights to the space

station were something only major governments had done.

The White House offered congratulations.

“Every launch into space is a thrilling event, but this one is especially exciting,” said John Holdren, President Barack Obama’s chief science adviser. “This expanded role for the private sector will free up more of NASA’s resources to do what NASA does best — tackle the most demanding technological challenges in space, including those of human spaceflight beyond low-Earth orbit.”

NASA is looking to the private sector to take over flights to the space station now that the space shuttle has been retired.

Several U.S. companies are vying for the opportunity.

“The significance of this day cannot be overstated,” said a beaming NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. “It’s a great day for America. It’s actually a great day for the world because there are people who thought that we had gone away, and today says, ‘No, we’re not going away at all.’”

Pomegranate juice claims deceptive, US rules Agence France Presse

Pomegranate juice has not been proven to be an effective treatment for cancer, heart disease or erectile dysfunction, US regulators said Monday, calling a company’s ad claims deceptive. The US Federal Trade Commission’s chief administrative law judge D. Michael Chappell ruled that the company, POM Wonderful LLC, violated federal law by making deceptive claims.

The judge ordered the company to stop making claims of health effects in the absence of “competent and reliable scientific evidence.” The judge said in a 345-page decision that there was “inadequate” evidence to back up the company’s superfood claims.

But the judge said the company would not have to submit to pre-approved marketing, which the FTC lawsuit had requested. The company, a unit of the Roll International group that includes Teleflora and Fiji Water which has claimed the the FTC was interfering with speech, said this was a victory.

The company said the judge upheld the firm’s “right to share valuable, scientifically validated information about the health benefits of its safe food with consumers.”

The company said the FTC lawsuit “tried to create a new, stricter industry standard, similar to that required for pharmaceuticals, for marketing the health benefits inherent in safe food and natural food-based products.”

“While we are still analyzing the ruling, it is clear that we will be able to continue to promote the health benefits of our safe, food products without having our advertisements, marketing or public relations efforts preapproved,” said Craig Cooper, the company’s chief legal officer.

POM has been in a long battle with authorities over the so-called superfood which has also been purported to help fight Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis and improve sperm quality.

AFP Photo/KAREN BLEIER

This photo illustration shows a bottle of POM Wonderful pomegranate juice.

Pomegranate juice has not been proven to be an effective treatment for cancer, heart disease or erectile dysfunction, US regulators said Monday, calling a company’s ad claims deceptive.

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International

Comanche tribe makes Johnny Depp honorary member Associated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Johnny Depp has been made an honorary member of the Comanche tribe. Depp is in New Mexico, shooting the film adaptation of “The Lone Ranger.” He plays “Ranger” sidekick Tonto in the film. Comanche Nation tribal member LaDonna Harris said Tuesday that the tribal chairman presented Depp with a proclamation at her Albuquerque home May 16. She said the Comanche adoption tradition means she now considers Depp her son.

Harris said Depp seemed humbled. His spokeswoman, Jayne Ngo, confirmed the actor participated in a ceremony, but she declined to provide details.

Harris said she had read in interviews that Depp identified

himself as being part Native American, so she thought it would be fun to adopt him — a tradition she says is common in Comanche culture. She ran the idea past her adult children, and they agreed.

Harris said she reached out to the “Dark Shadows” star through a friend who is working as a cultural adviser on the “Lone Ranger” set. The Comanche Nation is based in Lawton, Okla.

About half of its 15,000 members live in southwestern Oklahoma.

Depp has been the topic of much discussion in Indian Country and online since he was cast as Tonto, with comments ranging from his costume, to the selection of a non-Native for the part, to how the role itself has historically epitomized Hollywood’s misrepresentation of Native culture.

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Actor Brad Pitt signs autographs as he arrives at a photo call for Killing Them Softly at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

Brad Pitt brings ‘Killing Them Softly’ to Cannes

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Brad Pitt arrived at the festival with the stylish, hardboiled film “Killing Them Softly,” which he produced and stars in. The film, an adaptation of a George V. Higgins crime novel directed by Andrew Dominik, was screened Tuesday in competition for the Palme d’Or. While many were wrangling with the film’s audacious juxtaposing of a story of violent back-stabbing criminals with an overt political subtext, others were being gently let down by Pitt: No, Angelina Jolie wasn’t with him, as she’s preparing for a role, he said. And their highly anticipated wedding has no date

set, he said in a press conference.

But “Killing Them Softly” left much for discussion. Pitt stars as a kind of fixer who organizes the necessary retribution of two thieves (Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn) who rob a poker game of gangsters.

Woven throughout are billboards, radio broadcast and televised speeches of U.S. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush.

Though the book (“Cogan’s Trade”) takes place in the 1970s, the film is set in 2008, during the presidential election and the financial crisis. At one

point, Pitt’s character pronounces: “America’s not a country, it’s a business.”

“We were certainly at the apex of the mortgage loan debacle,” Pitt said on the beginning of the project. “I felt that I was reading a gangster film and it wasn’t until the very end that it coalesced for me as far what the direction of the film is pointing to overall — that this microcosm is actually saying something about the macro world.”

Pitt said he doesn’t intend “Killing Them Softly,” which is scheduled for theatrical release this September, to be read as his views or to be fodder for the upcoming election season.

NEW YORK — Pearl Jam, Skrillex and D’Angelo are among the performers scheduled to take the stage at the Made In America music festival Jay-Z is curating in Philadelphia in September. Jay-Z will also perform, as will Janelle Monae, Passion Pit, Odd Future, Santigold, Afrojack, Calvin Harris and Rick Ross and his Maybach Music group.

The festival will feature 28 acts over Labor Day

weekend. Tickets for the two-day festival are to go on sale Wednesday. Jay-Z announced plans for the event last week atop the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Proceeds will benefit the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. More performers will be announced later.

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2010 file photo, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performs during the Bridge School Benefit concert in Mountain View, Calif.

KUTA - Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park, a member of the Aston group of hotels, recently celebrate its first anniversary and the successful revitalization of Kuta’s Central Park area with an eclectic Hawaiian themed birthday bash.

Since its opening in May 2011, The Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park has developed into a well liked mid market hotel for a predominantly Indonesian, Australian and SE Asian clientele and contributed to the resurging popularity of the Kuta Central Park area whose many shops and restaurants have benefited greatly from the influx of several thousand Hotel guest. The anniversary event was devoted to travel agents and tour operators, media representatives and friends

of Quest Hotels who were early supporters and had embraced the relatively young hotel putting the Quest Kuta and Central Park firmly on Bali’s tourism map.

I Made Yadnya, General Manager of The Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park said, “Our first year of operation was a tremendous success as we exceeded even our most optimistic expectations, won an Indonesia Design Editors Choice Award for best budget hotel design in Indonesia and reintroduced a previously overlooked but very attractive area of Kuta to the domestic and several overseas markets.

A big thank you is due to the hotel’s developers for their vision and entrepreneurial spirit, Aston International for their keen marketing insight and Bali’s travel agency community whose enthusiastic

AP Photo/Tony Avelar, file

support for our hotel has helped not only us but the entire neighborhood.”

The Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park is part of revitalization project of in Kuta’s Central park and was cleverly incorporated into more than 50 renovated former shop houses. The hotel aims to be a convenient, comfortable and enjoyable hotel offering 226 delightfully furnished and oversized guest rooms, studios and suites and a wide array of recreation facilities. Located in the midst of Kuta’s Central Park’s shopping area the hotel combines the value of a premium budget hotel with unique and inspiring design elements and uncompromising standards for cleanliness and service making it ideal for vacationers seeking a stylish but unpretentious environment.

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Seen in the image (left to right) Mr. I Made Yadnya – General Manager of Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park, Mr. Norbert Vas – Vice President Sales & Marketing of Aston International and Ms. Febry Mutia Anindita – Marketing Communications Manager of Aston International.

Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for May 20 through June 20, 2012 26 May Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit Jembrana Odalan Betara ratu Gede Desa Celuk Sukawati Odalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Denpasar Betara Ratu Alit & Ratu Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarmaan Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarmaan Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarmaan Kaba-kaba Besakih Pura Pedarmaan dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pemrajan Agung Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung.

Merajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung Pengatepan Pura Pedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Pura Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwa Banyuangi.

Pesraman Dusun Kuto Rejo Banyuangi.

30 May Buda Wage Kelawu.

Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Desa Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida.

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangembungan Bongkase Abiansemal.

Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Br. Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan Kuta Pura Goa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Pejeng Merajan Pasek Gelgel Songan Merajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan Sidemen Merajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari Sukasada.

Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Sidemen Karangasem Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli.

Pearl Jam, Skrillex to perform at Philly festival Associated Press Writer

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Celebrated its first anniversary

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival got its biggest shot of celebrity adrenaline yet on Tuesday, even if it was only half the dose some were expecting.

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Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park

Associated Press Writer

This photo provided by Americans for Indian Opportunity shows LaDonna Harris, left, president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, poses with actor Johnny Depp at her Albuquerque, N.M., home on May 16, 2012.

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5 Jun Anggar Kasih Dukut.

Pr. Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar.

Merajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agun Sulahan Merajan Pasek Padang Rata Padang Pura Puser Jagat Dalem Dukut Puri Sukun Nusa Penida.

6 Jun Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja Abiansemal Pura Dalem Samplangan Gianyar 16 Jun Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase Abiansemal Pura Watugunung Bima Pura Agung Jagatkarana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Rawamangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung.

Pura Giri Jaya Natha Balikpapan Pura Agung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia.

18 Jun Some Ribek.

Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Batugaing Bangli Pura Tirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya 20 Jun Hari Raya Pagerwesi Pura Laban Sindu Jiwa Kedewatan Ubud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wirabuana Magelang Jawa Tengah Pura Padang Sakti Tangtu Denpasar Timur Pura Jogan Agung Ketewel Sukawati Pura Gadung Pengiasan Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel Buruan Kaja Tabanan Pura Pasek Gobleg Kerambitan tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Meliling Tabanan

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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Scottish 10-pound note celebrates Queen Elizabeth Associated Press

LONDON — The Royal Bank of Scotland will celebrate Queen Elizabeth 60-year reign by launching an issue of 20 million pounds worth of 10-pound notes.

The note will carry four images of the queen from the 1940s to the 21st century.

The bank customers outside Scotland can order up to 20 notes for the face value plus 5.90 pounds postage.

The notes are legal tender throughout the United Kingdom.

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

BUSINESS World Bank says Europe, US might hurt Asian growth

Mazda, Fiat to work together on small convertible

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BEIJING — East Asia’s developing economies could face a shock from China’s slowdown and need to boost domestic demand to offset weak exports due to a sluggish U.S. recovery and Europe’s debt crisis, the World Bank said Wednesday.

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Passengers de-plane a trans-atlantic flight originating in France on the tarmac at Bangor International Airport, in Bangor, Maine, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Officials briefed on the incident say a French passenger passed a note to a flight attendant saying she had a surgically implanted device.

Jet diverted to Maine; suspicious passenger cited Associated Press

BANGOR, Maine — Officials diverted a US Airways jet to Maine after a French passenger traveling from Paris to North Carolina handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, prompting concerns about possible terrorism.

There is no evidence the plane was ever in danger on Tuesday, officials said. However, the FBI and Homeland Security Department warned airlines last summer that terrorists are considering surgically hiding bombs inside humans to evade airport security.

Two doctors aboard the plane examined the passenger, a French citizen born in Cameroon, and found that she had no scars or incisions, said U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who was briefed by Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole.

“We have seen intelligence identifying surgically implanted bombs as a threat to air travel,” said Collins, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee.

Two F-15 fighters scrambled to escort Boeing Flight 787 with 179 passengers and nine crew members to Bangor International Airport, where it landed shortly after noon. The TSA issued a statement saying the passenger’s suspicious behavior warranted the unscheduled stop.

“We saw lots of police and federal customs people take a woman off the plane in handcuffs,” said Stuart Frankel of Baltimore. “People were amazed at what was going on. We didn’t know what was happening until we landed.”

The flight was about 40 minutes away from Bangor when local of-

ficials were alerted. After landing, it taxied to a remote part of the airport where law enforcement officials removed the passenger, said Tony Caruso, acting airport manager.

Frankel said passengers had been advised to keep their shades down during a movie, so they didn’t realize fighter jets had been dispatched to intercept the flight. There were a couple of calls on the overhead speakers for doctors, but that didn’t seem especially unusual, he said.

Eventually, the pilot advised them that the jet needed to land for fuel in Maine.

William Milam said he’d spoken French with the woman and helped her get her luggage into an overhead bin.

After the woman was removed from the flight, passengers were informed that they’d have to leave while the jet was checked for explosives, Milam said. “This is like, ‘Wow,’” he said. “I’m thinking drugs. And they’re thinking explosives.”

Several passengers said they’d noticed that particular passenger because of her slight stature and big eyelashes. They said she attracted attention by walking up and down the aisle throughout the flight.

The passengers were kept in a secure area before being allowed

back onto the jet, which departed 3 1/2 hours later for Charlotte, North Carolina.

U.S. Congressman Peter King, who was briefed on the matter, said the woman who was detained was traveling alone without any checked baggage and intended to stay in the U.S. for 10 days.

The FBI, which is conducting the investigation, interviewed passengers before the plane departed.

“At this time, there is no evidence that the plane or its passengers were ever in any actual danger,” said Greg Comcowich, an FBI spokesman in Boston.

He said the agency wouldn’t confirm the status nor release the identity of the passenger who caused the flight to be diverted.

“Out of an abundance of caution, the flight was diverted to (Bangor) where it was met by law enforcement,” said TSA spokesman Sterling Payne.

The Bangor airport is accustomed to dealing with diverted flights.

It’s the first large U.S. airport for incoming European flights and the last U.S. airport for outgoing flights, with uncluttered skies and one of the longest runways on the East Coast.

Aircraft use the airport when there are mechanical problems, medical emergencies or unruly passengers.

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This image made available by the Royal Bank of Scotland Wednesday May 23, 2012 shows their 10 pound ($15.80/12.38 euro) commemorative banknote which has been released in to circulation Wednesday to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.

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From page 1 But with hard work, Minister Mangindaan said, the evacuation team managed to locate and bring the victims, and eventually identify them by the police.

“We also wished to express our appreciation to the identification team for their ward work in obtaining data of the victims` finger prints, DNA, teeth, and other relevant factors,” he said.

A total of 45 people, comprising Russians, 35 Indonesians, a Frenchman and American, became victim of the ill-fated Sukhoi SuperJet 100 airliner.

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However, when examined further, the export of handicrafts becoming the export priority were brought in from outside Bali, such as pottery and carving from Jepara.

If such condition was allowed to happen it would then have an impact on the competitiveness of products yielded by local craftsmen.

Then, what to do in response to the current condition? Widarma who was the former head of Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency described there were three strategic policies made by the regency government at this time. Among others, the government developed the superstructure, infrastructure and improved the competence of craftsmen.

Meanwhile, the Head of Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba, said that Gianyar currently had small and medium industries (SMI) reaching 22,726 units that could absorb the labor force amounting to 68,382 people with the production value of IDR1.406, 20 billion. He admitted that in de-

veloping the SMEs our craftsmen faced the challenge in the form of weak competitiveness on human resources, capital, product promotion and lack of understanding on the strategic value of intellectual property rights.

In the meantime, the Head of Center for International Administration Studies, Dr. P.M. Marpaung, stated that LAN as a state institution also showed its seriousness to improve the competence of human resources of Indonesia. As a strategic sector in the face of globalization, the development of SMEs needed synergizing with various agencies and organizations working in the field of Small Business and Industry.

The workshop was also expected to synergize the role of the Agency for Regional Development (Bappeda), Regional Investment Board, Social Agency, Cooperative Agency, Manpower Agency, Education Agency as well as various associations of craftsmen in empowering the MSMEs. (kmb16)

Overall growth for East Asian economies should decline from last year’s 8.2 percent to a stillrobust 7.6 percent, the bank said.

The group includes China, South Korea and Southeast Asia and excludes Japan.

“As external demand is likely to remain weak, countries in developing East Asia and Pacific need to rely less on exports and more on domestic demand to maintain high growth,” the bank said.

Excluding China, regional growth should accelerate from last year ’s 4.3 percent to 5.2 percent, propelled by Thailand’s rebound from flooding, the bank said in its “East Asia and Pacific Economic Update.”

China’s rapid growth fell to a three-year low of 8.1 percent in the first quarter from the previous quarter ’s 8.9 percent due to anemic global demand and government controls imposed to cool overheating and inflation.

Growth in factory output in April plunged to its lowest level since the 2008 global crisis, jarring hopes the slowdown has bot-

tomed out.

The World Bank left its growth forecast for China unchanged at 8.2 percent and said that should rise to 8.6 percent in 2013. Some private sector analysts have trimmed their outlooks, though to still-healthy levels of about 8 to 9 percent.

Asian commodities suppliers such as Indonesia that have benefited from China’s boom are especially vulnerable to a slowdown, which could “trigger an unexpected drop in commodity prices,” the bank said.

Many countries are trying to reduce reliance on trade but need to do more, the bank said.

“Some countries will need to stimulate household consumption,” said the report’s chief author, World Bank economist Bryce Quillin, in a statement. He said others can pump money into their economies through spending on building public works.

In China, authorities responded to the slump in global demand late last year by reversing course after spending two years tighten-

ing lending and investment curbs to cool inflation and steer growth to a manageable level.

Analysts expect Beijing to move cautiously after its huge stimulus in response to the 2008 crisis fueled inflation and a wasteful building boom.

O n S u n d a y, P r e m i e r We n Jiabao, China’s top economic official, promised to give “more priority” to boosting growth but gave no indication what Beijing might do. The government has promised more bank lending for small businesses but says controls imposed to cool surging housing costs will stay in place.

The region also is vulnerable to shocks from Europe’s debt crisis, the World Bank said.

It said the European Union, along with the United States and Japan, accounts for more than 40 percent of regional exports.

“Prospects for East Asia are, as in other developing regions, weighed down by the persistent tepid recovery of the U.S. and, most particularly, the uncertainty in Europe,” the bank said.

TOKYO — Mazda Motor Corp. and Fiat SpA are working together on developing and manufacturing a roadster, or two-seater convertible, although the automakers will come up with different, distinctly styled models.

The deal with Fiat of Italy, which controls U.S. automaker Chrysler, serves as a perk for a money-losing Mazda, and highlights the Japanese automaker’s trademark product — the best-selling roadster of all time.

Both sides said in a release Wednesday they had signed an agreement to work together, but each manufacturer will use its own engine and styling.

They declined to give details, but said their cooperation on Fiat’s Alpha Romeo model and Mazda model will be based on Mazda’s “nextgeneration MX-5 rear-wheel-drive architecture.”

Hiroshima-based Mazda has been struggling, racking up four straight years of red ink, after its ties with U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co. weakened.

“Establishing technology and product development alliances is one of Mazda’s corporate objectives, and this announcement with Fiat is an important first step in that direction,” said Mazda President Takashi Yamanouchi.

Fiat Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said working with Mazda was part of an effort to grow into “a truly global brand,” and deliver “an exciting and stylish roadster in the Alfa Romeo tradition.”

Fiat has had a joint venture with Tata in India since 2006. Many automakers have their eyes on the growth potential of Asia amid a lagging European market.

Speculation has been rife that Mazda might need a partner, perhaps one of the emerging Chinese makers, if it hopes to ride out the intense competition in the industry.

For the fiscal year ended March, Mazda’s losses ballooned from 60 billion yen to 107 billion yen ($1.3 billion) as vehicle sales declined across all regions except for North America.

It is planning a return to the black for the fiscal year through March 2013.

Dearborn-based Ford bought 25 percent of Mazda in 1979, raising it to 33.4 percent in 1996. But Ford began cutting ties in 2008, and in 2010 lowered its ownership to 3.5 percent.

Ford now has a 2 percent stake in Mazda. Mazda and Ford have partnerships in production in China, Thailand and North America.

Greek banks to get $23 billion from bailout fund Associated Press

ATHENS — Greece’s four biggest commercial banks will receive an €18 billion ($23 billion) cash infusion from the European bailout fund.

The recapitalization comes

AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris

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A man passes a plaque of a Greek one-drachma coin, which was replaced by the euro in 2002, in central Athens, on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

Greece’s four biggest commercial banks will receive an 18 billion ($23 billion) cash infusion from the European bailout fund.

amid political uncertainty in the debt-stricken country after inconclusive May 6 elections saw a rise in support for anti-bailout parties and cast doubt over whether Greece’s future use of the euro currency.

The uncertainty has impacted bank deposits as people have been withdrawing their money to hedge against the country’s possible return to its old devalued currency, the drachma.

The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) money will be disbursed on Wednesday to the National Bank of Greece, Eurobank, Alpha Bank and Bank of Piraeus.

Meanwhile, pharmacies across Greece are staging a day-long strike to protest unpaid dues from the largest health care provider.

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International

Belega village is inclusive of Subdistrict of Blahbatuh of Area Regency Gianyar, while Bona orchard represent the region of Belega village . Very withdrawing from this Belega village, this village is famous and known as the center of bamboo crafting, for example in the form of : chair, bed, decorative desk, cupboard and other goods. While Bona village as center crafting from palm leaf and the kecak dance.

Almost every day Belega and Bona village is

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A ball of one? Lady Gaga unsure of Indonesia show

Belega and Bona Village IBP

Indonesia Today

visited by the tourist of foreign countries and also local tourist which wish to buy or order the bamboo or palm leaf crafting for household or hotel and restaurant.

Despitefully Bona also famous with the kecak dance that taking story of Ramayana. After the kecak dance show, demonstrated also Hyang Dedari dance that danced by 2 small girl in a state of unconscious ( trance), and last demonstrated Hyang Jaran Dance, where a men dance at the same time kick the very big amber with the naked foot.

Associated Press

JAKARTA — Lady Gaga is as confused as anyone about whether she’ll be allowed to perform in Indonesia.

I s l a m i c h a r d - l i n e r s h ave threatened violence, saying her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves could corrupt youth. Police initially denied a permit for the “Born This Way Ball” but are now hinting the concert could ahead if the pop diva toned down the show.

She tweeted Tuesday: “The Jakarta situation is 2-fold: Indonesian authorities

demand I censor the show & religious extremist separately, are threatening violence. If the show does go on as scheduled, I will perform the BTWBall alone.”

What she meant wasn’t clear, and her promoters have not commented. Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim nation of 240 million people, was supposed to be the biggest show on Lady Gaga’s Asian tour.

AFP PHOTO/STR

US singer Lady Gaga arrives at a hotel in Makati, financial district of Manila on May 19, 2012. Lady Gaga is as confused as anyone about whether she’ll be allowed to perform in Indonesia.

Indonesian inter milan supporters Indonesia, Portugal agree to increase welcome champions cup trade value

Antara

IBP/Net

TANGERANG - Some Indonesian supporters welcomed the arrival of Inter Milan officials carrying Champions Cup at Soekarno-Hatta airport here on Tuesday.

The Inter Milan officials who also carried logistics to be needed by the players in the matches and stay here later greeted the yells-shouting Indonesian supporters.

They also held up the Champions Cup for “the internisti” (supporters) to see.

Afterward the officials numbering in tens proceeded in two buses to the hotel where they would stay in Jakarta with a police escort.

Muhammad Anung, one of the supporters, said he was glad with the arrival of the big team in Indonesia hoping Indonesian players could learn from the team`s success in winning various champion titles.

“We hope all football players in Indonesia would be motivated by Inter Milan`s arrival and the arrival could also help advance football in

the country,” he said.

Anung said Inter Milan supporters would again come to the airport to welcome the arrival of Inter Milan players scheduled on Wednesday at around 10am.

“We will come again in a bigger number to welcome our favorite team and show that the number of internisti in Indonesia is huge,” he said.

The Italian club will bring 20 players to conduct friendly matches in Jakarta on May 24 and 26. Football is the most popular game in the country.

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Inter Milan coach Andrea Stramaccioni talks during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. The Italian soccer team is currently on an Indonesian tour and scheduled to play friendly matches against the country’s national teams.

Antara

JAKARTA - Indonesia and Portugal have agreed to increase the value of trade between the two countries to improve common welfare.

“The Portuguese president and I have agreed to increase the value of trade so that the two countries` bilateral trade relations will be stronger and balanced,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said when receiving visiting Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva at Merdeka Palace here on Tuesday.

He said trade between the two developing countries had been quite good and could still be increased. From 2010 to 2011 there was an increase of 58 percent to make the total value of the two countries` trade to reach US$171 million.

The two countries` delegations had also agreed to increase cooperation in the renewable energy sector, defense industry and other strategic industries.

In the political field, the two countries also agreed to deepen their friendly relations in various international forum.

Yudhoyono emphasized the importance of cooperation at the UN and increasing friendly relations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the European Union.

Indonesia and Portugal had also discussed cooperation in the fields of education, youth affairs, sports and mass media.

President Cavaco Silva welcomed the cooperation proposals presented by President Yudhoyono. He said Indonesia and Portugal have huge potentials for cooperation in various sectors.

“As a Portuguese president and for the Indonesian people I would take concrete friendly actions in the fields of economy, sciences, advanced technology and other fields that could complement each other well,” he said.

He said he would also pay special attention to progressing cooperation between the two countries in various international forums.

During the state visit President Cavaco Silva are also scheduled to witness the signing of a number of memorandums of understanding for cooperation in various fields such as economy, social and culture and diplomatic visa.

This was the first visit by a Portuguese president to Indonesia since the two countries opened diplomatic relations in 1950. Indonesia`s first president Soekarno visited Portugal in 1960.

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Bali Today

June 9 marks the first Coral Triangle Day in celebration of oceans

Two gateways to Bali will be equipped with Gama rays

IBP

Bali Post

That assertion was made by Deputy Chief of Bali Police, Untung Yoga Ana, in a special interview in his office on Tuesday (May 22). He said the procurement process of such advanced devices was under progress. Hopefully, both devices could be installed this year at the two gateways namely at Padangbai and Gilimanuk Harbor. “We (Bali Police—Ed) have been making coordination with local government and Bali House. They responded positively and it will soon be realized,” he explained.

According to this general from Mengwi, installation of both devices was very essential to maintain the security of Bali. Moreover, Bali had been known as a prominent tourist destination visited by many foreign and domestic tourists. More importantly, every year, Bali also often hosted several international meetings. “Such conferences are often held in Bali. To that end, the security is very important and the faster the installations, the better will be,” he said.

In addition, Untung Yoga also realized that security condition of a region would not be conducive without being supported by adequate devices. When deploying a number of personnel in a particular place, they would be unable to check the condition in detail. “However, when using a device or a sophisticated device, it will be easier to do the examination. On that account, the device will help detect if there are hazardous things or goods,” he said last Tuesday.

Untung Yoga also admitted his party would make his personnel more active in the field. And it could be seen today, namely a number of police were assigned everywhere.

He also realized that safeguarding responsibility should also be supported by related agencies, such as the customary security taskforce (pecalang), the agency and the community itself. “Security is not only the responsibility of police, but also of all parties, including the community. Therefore, let us maintain the security of Bali together so that it will be in control and conducive,” he added. (kmb21)

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Balinese Culture

To maintain security

DENPASAR - In the near future, the two gateways to Bali will be equipped with advanced device named gamma rays. This device is more powerful than X-ray device and can detect things thoroughly. Hopefully, installation of these devices can better maintain the security situation and make it more conducive. Most importantly, there will be no longer hazardous items like bomb or radical movement that wants to disrupt the security of Bali.

International

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

Mercedes Corby (2nd R) of Australia arrives to visit her sister Schapelle Corby at Kerobokan prison in Denpasar on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on May 23, 2012. The letter of clemency for Schapelle Leigh Corby has already arrived at the Kerobokan detention centre in Badung district, Bali province, according to the head of the detention centre, Gusti Ngurah Wiratna.

Corby’s clemency in Kerobokan Prison

Antara

DENPASAR - The letter of clemency for Schapelle Leigh Corby has already arrived at the Kerobokan detention centre in Badung district, Bali province, according to the head of the detention centre, Gusti Ngurah Wiratna.

“I am still in Jakarta right now; on Friday (May 25), I’ll be returning home. The letter of

clemency for Corby has already arrived at the Kerobokan detention centre,” Wiratna stated over the phone on Wednesday.

He was certain that his staff would not dare to open the letter when he was away from office.

Wiratna, however, was informed by the Bali provincial legal and human rights office about the clemency granted to the Australian beauty queen who, on May 27, 2005, was sentenced

to 20 years in prison for an illicit drug smuggling attempt.

“The provincial legal and human rights office asked me to present the letter to Corby directly,” Wiratna remarked, adding that he would do so immediately upon his return in Bali.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reduced Corby’s sentence by five years in the letter of clemency that he signed on May 15, 2012.

The first-ever Coral Triangle Day will be celebrated in several locations around the Coral Triangle region on June 9, 2012, to highlight the importance of marine conservation and to raise awareness on this global center of marine biodiversity.

An interpretation of World Oceans Day in this part of the world, the Coral Triangle Day brings together individuals, organizations, and establishments from different parts of the region on one special day to celebrate the beauty and uniqueness of this region and to promote the importance of oceans through varied activities including: beach clean-ups; sustainable seafood dinners; educational exhibitions; marine-themed bazaars; beach parties; and many more.

Everyone is encouraged to do one special thing on this day that will contribute to saving the Coral Triangle and to share it on the Coral Triangle online platform: www.thecoraltriangle.com/ day.

The Coral Triangle is a six million square-kilometer ocean expanse that contains the highest number of reef building corals on the planet. Its spectacular coral reefs systems are home to thousands of whales, dolphins, rays, sharks, and six of the world’s seven species of marine turtles.

Spanning across six countries in Asia and the Pacific including Indo-

nesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor Leste, the Coral Triangle is also a nursery ground for highly valuable tuna species and much sought-after reef fish species. It directly sustains the lives of more than 120 million people who heavily depend on marine resources for food and income.

However, coastal development, destructive fishing, overfishing, un-

sustainable tourism, the illegal harvest and trade of endangered species, and climate change, among many others, are taking a heavy toll on this fragile marine ecosystem.

The Coral Triangle Day, envisioned to be an annual, open-sourced event, hopes to empower individuals to take specific action to help protect and conserve this globally-significant marine eco-region.

UDANG PANTUNG KUNING (Lobster in Yellow Sauce)

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

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

IBP/Net

The photo shows grafic of Coral Triangle Initiative. The firstever Coral Triangle Day will be celebrated in several locations around the Coral Triangle region on June 9, 2012, to highlight the importance of marine conservation and to raise awareness on this global center of marine biodiversity.

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

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

Add spice paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and vinegar to the water with the shells and simmer until 4 cups of stock remain. Add coconut milk and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain stock and return to pan. Add lobster and simmer for 1 minute. Serve garnished with fried shallots and accompanied by white rice.

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

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Bali Today

June 9 marks the first Coral Triangle Day in celebration of oceans

Two gateways to Bali will be equipped with Gama rays

IBP

Bali Post

That assertion was made by Deputy Chief of Bali Police, Untung Yoga Ana, in a special interview in his office on Tuesday (May 22). He said the procurement process of such advanced devices was under progress. Hopefully, both devices could be installed this year at the two gateways namely at Padangbai and Gilimanuk Harbor. “We (Bali Police—Ed) have been making coordination with local government and Bali House. They responded positively and it will soon be realized,” he explained.

According to this general from Mengwi, installation of both devices was very essential to maintain the security of Bali. Moreover, Bali had been known as a prominent tourist destination visited by many foreign and domestic tourists. More importantly, every year, Bali also often hosted several international meetings. “Such conferences are often held in Bali. To that end, the security is very important and the faster the installations, the better will be,” he said.

In addition, Untung Yoga also realized that security condition of a region would not be conducive without being supported by adequate devices. When deploying a number of personnel in a particular place, they would be unable to check the condition in detail. “However, when using a device or a sophisticated device, it will be easier to do the examination. On that account, the device will help detect if there are hazardous things or goods,” he said last Tuesday.

Untung Yoga also admitted his party would make his personnel more active in the field. And it could be seen today, namely a number of police were assigned everywhere.

He also realized that safeguarding responsibility should also be supported by related agencies, such as the customary security taskforce (pecalang), the agency and the community itself. “Security is not only the responsibility of police, but also of all parties, including the community. Therefore, let us maintain the security of Bali together so that it will be in control and conducive,” he added. (kmb21)

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Balinese Culture

To maintain security

DENPASAR - In the near future, the two gateways to Bali will be equipped with advanced device named gamma rays. This device is more powerful than X-ray device and can detect things thoroughly. Hopefully, installation of these devices can better maintain the security situation and make it more conducive. Most importantly, there will be no longer hazardous items like bomb or radical movement that wants to disrupt the security of Bali.

International

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

Mercedes Corby (2nd R) of Australia arrives to visit her sister Schapelle Corby at Kerobokan prison in Denpasar on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on May 23, 2012. The letter of clemency for Schapelle Leigh Corby has already arrived at the Kerobokan detention centre in Badung district, Bali province, according to the head of the detention centre, Gusti Ngurah Wiratna.

Corby’s clemency in Kerobokan Prison

Antara

DENPASAR - The letter of clemency for Schapelle Leigh Corby has already arrived at the Kerobokan detention centre in Badung district, Bali province, according to the head of the detention centre, Gusti Ngurah Wiratna.

“I am still in Jakarta right now; on Friday (May 25), I’ll be returning home. The letter of

clemency for Corby has already arrived at the Kerobokan detention centre,” Wiratna stated over the phone on Wednesday.

He was certain that his staff would not dare to open the letter when he was away from office.

Wiratna, however, was informed by the Bali provincial legal and human rights office about the clemency granted to the Australian beauty queen who, on May 27, 2005, was sentenced

to 20 years in prison for an illicit drug smuggling attempt.

“The provincial legal and human rights office asked me to present the letter to Corby directly,” Wiratna remarked, adding that he would do so immediately upon his return in Bali.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reduced Corby’s sentence by five years in the letter of clemency that he signed on May 15, 2012.

The first-ever Coral Triangle Day will be celebrated in several locations around the Coral Triangle region on June 9, 2012, to highlight the importance of marine conservation and to raise awareness on this global center of marine biodiversity.

An interpretation of World Oceans Day in this part of the world, the Coral Triangle Day brings together individuals, organizations, and establishments from different parts of the region on one special day to celebrate the beauty and uniqueness of this region and to promote the importance of oceans through varied activities including: beach clean-ups; sustainable seafood dinners; educational exhibitions; marine-themed bazaars; beach parties; and many more.

Everyone is encouraged to do one special thing on this day that will contribute to saving the Coral Triangle and to share it on the Coral Triangle online platform: www.thecoraltriangle.com/ day.

The Coral Triangle is a six million square-kilometer ocean expanse that contains the highest number of reef building corals on the planet. Its spectacular coral reefs systems are home to thousands of whales, dolphins, rays, sharks, and six of the world’s seven species of marine turtles.

Spanning across six countries in Asia and the Pacific including Indo-

nesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor Leste, the Coral Triangle is also a nursery ground for highly valuable tuna species and much sought-after reef fish species. It directly sustains the lives of more than 120 million people who heavily depend on marine resources for food and income.

However, coastal development, destructive fishing, overfishing, un-

sustainable tourism, the illegal harvest and trade of endangered species, and climate change, among many others, are taking a heavy toll on this fragile marine ecosystem.

The Coral Triangle Day, envisioned to be an annual, open-sourced event, hopes to empower individuals to take specific action to help protect and conserve this globally-significant marine eco-region.

UDANG PANTUNG KUNING (Lobster in Yellow Sauce)

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

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

IBP/Net

The photo shows grafic of Coral Triangle Initiative. The firstever Coral Triangle Day will be celebrated in several locations around the Coral Triangle region on June 9, 2012, to highlight the importance of marine conservation and to raise awareness on this global center of marine biodiversity.

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

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

Add spice paste, lemongrass, lime leaves and vinegar to the water with the shells and simmer until 4 cups of stock remain. Add coconut milk and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain stock and return to pan. Add lobster and simmer for 1 minute. Serve garnished with fried shallots and accompanied by white rice.

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

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International

International

Belega village is inclusive of Subdistrict of Blahbatuh of Area Regency Gianyar, while Bona orchard represent the region of Belega village . Very withdrawing from this Belega village, this village is famous and known as the center of bamboo crafting, for example in the form of : chair, bed, decorative desk, cupboard and other goods. While Bona village as center crafting from palm leaf and the kecak dance.

Almost every day Belega and Bona village is

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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A ball of one? Lady Gaga unsure of Indonesia show

Belega and Bona Village IBP

Indonesia Today

visited by the tourist of foreign countries and also local tourist which wish to buy or order the bamboo or palm leaf crafting for household or hotel and restaurant.

Despitefully Bona also famous with the kecak dance that taking story of Ramayana. After the kecak dance show, demonstrated also Hyang Dedari dance that danced by 2 small girl in a state of unconscious ( trance), and last demonstrated Hyang Jaran Dance, where a men dance at the same time kick the very big amber with the naked foot.

Associated Press

JAKARTA — Lady Gaga is as confused as anyone about whether she’ll be allowed to perform in Indonesia.

I s l a m i c h a r d - l i n e r s h ave threatened violence, saying her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves could corrupt youth. Police initially denied a permit for the “Born This Way Ball” but are now hinting the concert could ahead if the pop diva toned down the show.

She tweeted Tuesday: “The Jakarta situation is 2-fold: Indonesian authorities

demand I censor the show & religious extremist separately, are threatening violence. If the show does go on as scheduled, I will perform the BTWBall alone.”

What she meant wasn’t clear, and her promoters have not commented. Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim nation of 240 million people, was supposed to be the biggest show on Lady Gaga’s Asian tour.

AFP PHOTO/STR

US singer Lady Gaga arrives at a hotel in Makati, financial district of Manila on May 19, 2012. Lady Gaga is as confused as anyone about whether she’ll be allowed to perform in Indonesia.

Indonesian inter milan supporters Indonesia, Portugal agree to increase welcome champions cup trade value

Antara

IBP/Net

TANGERANG - Some Indonesian supporters welcomed the arrival of Inter Milan officials carrying Champions Cup at Soekarno-Hatta airport here on Tuesday.

The Inter Milan officials who also carried logistics to be needed by the players in the matches and stay here later greeted the yells-shouting Indonesian supporters.

They also held up the Champions Cup for “the internisti” (supporters) to see.

Afterward the officials numbering in tens proceeded in two buses to the hotel where they would stay in Jakarta with a police escort.

Muhammad Anung, one of the supporters, said he was glad with the arrival of the big team in Indonesia hoping Indonesian players could learn from the team`s success in winning various champion titles.

“We hope all football players in Indonesia would be motivated by Inter Milan`s arrival and the arrival could also help advance football in

the country,” he said.

Anung said Inter Milan supporters would again come to the airport to welcome the arrival of Inter Milan players scheduled on Wednesday at around 10am.

“We will come again in a bigger number to welcome our favorite team and show that the number of internisti in Indonesia is huge,” he said.

The Italian club will bring 20 players to conduct friendly matches in Jakarta on May 24 and 26. Football is the most popular game in the country.

AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim

Inter Milan coach Andrea Stramaccioni talks during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. The Italian soccer team is currently on an Indonesian tour and scheduled to play friendly matches against the country’s national teams.

Antara

JAKARTA - Indonesia and Portugal have agreed to increase the value of trade between the two countries to improve common welfare.

“The Portuguese president and I have agreed to increase the value of trade so that the two countries` bilateral trade relations will be stronger and balanced,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said when receiving visiting Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva at Merdeka Palace here on Tuesday.

He said trade between the two developing countries had been quite good and could still be increased. From 2010 to 2011 there was an increase of 58 percent to make the total value of the two countries` trade to reach US$171 million.

The two countries` delegations had also agreed to increase cooperation in the renewable energy sector, defense industry and other strategic industries.

In the political field, the two countries also agreed to deepen their friendly relations in various international forum.

Yudhoyono emphasized the importance of cooperation at the UN and increasing friendly relations between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the European Union.

Indonesia and Portugal had also discussed cooperation in the fields of education, youth affairs, sports and mass media.

President Cavaco Silva welcomed the cooperation proposals presented by President Yudhoyono. He said Indonesia and Portugal have huge potentials for cooperation in various sectors.

“As a Portuguese president and for the Indonesian people I would take concrete friendly actions in the fields of economy, sciences, advanced technology and other fields that could complement each other well,” he said.

He said he would also pay special attention to progressing cooperation between the two countries in various international forums.

During the state visit President Cavaco Silva are also scheduled to witness the signing of a number of memorandums of understanding for cooperation in various fields such as economy, social and culture and diplomatic visa.

This was the first visit by a Portuguese president to Indonesia since the two countries opened diplomatic relations in 1950. Indonesia`s first president Soekarno visited Portugal in 1960.

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Scottish 10-pound note celebrates Queen Elizabeth Associated Press

LONDON — The Royal Bank of Scotland will celebrate Queen Elizabeth 60-year reign by launching an issue of 20 million pounds worth of 10-pound notes.

The note will carry four images of the queen from the 1940s to the 21st century.

The bank customers outside Scotland can order up to 20 notes for the face value plus 5.90 pounds postage.

The notes are legal tender throughout the United Kingdom.

International

Thursday, May 24, 2012

BUSINESS World Bank says Europe, US might hurt Asian growth

Mazda, Fiat to work together on small convertible

Associated Press

Associated Press

BEIJING — East Asia’s developing economies could face a shock from China’s slowdown and need to boost domestic demand to offset weak exports due to a sluggish U.S. recovery and Europe’s debt crisis, the World Bank said Wednesday.

AP Photo/Bangor Daily News, Kevin Bennett

Passengers de-plane a trans-atlantic flight originating in France on the tarmac at Bangor International Airport, in Bangor, Maine, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Officials briefed on the incident say a French passenger passed a note to a flight attendant saying she had a surgically implanted device.

Jet diverted to Maine; suspicious passenger cited Associated Press

BANGOR, Maine — Officials diverted a US Airways jet to Maine after a French passenger traveling from Paris to North Carolina handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, prompting concerns about possible terrorism.

There is no evidence the plane was ever in danger on Tuesday, officials said. However, the FBI and Homeland Security Department warned airlines last summer that terrorists are considering surgically hiding bombs inside humans to evade airport security.

Two doctors aboard the plane examined the passenger, a French citizen born in Cameroon, and found that she had no scars or incisions, said U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who was briefed by Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole.

“We have seen intelligence identifying surgically implanted bombs as a threat to air travel,” said Collins, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee.

Two F-15 fighters scrambled to escort Boeing Flight 787 with 179 passengers and nine crew members to Bangor International Airport, where it landed shortly after noon. The TSA issued a statement saying the passenger’s suspicious behavior warranted the unscheduled stop.

“We saw lots of police and federal customs people take a woman off the plane in handcuffs,” said Stuart Frankel of Baltimore. “People were amazed at what was going on. We didn’t know what was happening until we landed.”

The flight was about 40 minutes away from Bangor when local of-

ficials were alerted. After landing, it taxied to a remote part of the airport where law enforcement officials removed the passenger, said Tony Caruso, acting airport manager.

Frankel said passengers had been advised to keep their shades down during a movie, so they didn’t realize fighter jets had been dispatched to intercept the flight. There were a couple of calls on the overhead speakers for doctors, but that didn’t seem especially unusual, he said.

Eventually, the pilot advised them that the jet needed to land for fuel in Maine.

William Milam said he’d spoken French with the woman and helped her get her luggage into an overhead bin.

After the woman was removed from the flight, passengers were informed that they’d have to leave while the jet was checked for explosives, Milam said. “This is like, ‘Wow,’” he said. “I’m thinking drugs. And they’re thinking explosives.”

Several passengers said they’d noticed that particular passenger because of her slight stature and big eyelashes. They said she attracted attention by walking up and down the aisle throughout the flight.

The passengers were kept in a secure area before being allowed

back onto the jet, which departed 3 1/2 hours later for Charlotte, North Carolina.

U.S. Congressman Peter King, who was briefed on the matter, said the woman who was detained was traveling alone without any checked baggage and intended to stay in the U.S. for 10 days.

The FBI, which is conducting the investigation, interviewed passengers before the plane departed.

“At this time, there is no evidence that the plane or its passengers were ever in any actual danger,” said Greg Comcowich, an FBI spokesman in Boston.

He said the agency wouldn’t confirm the status nor release the identity of the passenger who caused the flight to be diverted.

“Out of an abundance of caution, the flight was diverted to (Bangor) where it was met by law enforcement,” said TSA spokesman Sterling Payne.

The Bangor airport is accustomed to dealing with diverted flights.

It’s the first large U.S. airport for incoming European flights and the last U.S. airport for outgoing flights, with uncluttered skies and one of the longest runways on the East Coast.

Aircraft use the airport when there are mechanical problems, medical emergencies or unruly passengers.

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This image made available by the Royal Bank of Scotland Wednesday May 23, 2012 shows their 10 pound ($15.80/12.38 euro) commemorative banknote which has been released in to circulation Wednesday to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.

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From page 1 But with hard work, Minister Mangindaan said, the evacuation team managed to locate and bring the victims, and eventually identify them by the police.

“We also wished to express our appreciation to the identification team for their ward work in obtaining data of the victims` finger prints, DNA, teeth, and other relevant factors,” he said.

A total of 45 people, comprising Russians, 35 Indonesians, a Frenchman and American, became victim of the ill-fated Sukhoi SuperJet 100 airliner.

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However, when examined further, the export of handicrafts becoming the export priority were brought in from outside Bali, such as pottery and carving from Jepara.

If such condition was allowed to happen it would then have an impact on the competitiveness of products yielded by local craftsmen.

Then, what to do in response to the current condition? Widarma who was the former head of Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency described there were three strategic policies made by the regency government at this time. Among others, the government developed the superstructure, infrastructure and improved the competence of craftsmen.

Meanwhile, the Head of Gianyar Industry and Trade Agency, I Wayan Suamba, said that Gianyar currently had small and medium industries (SMI) reaching 22,726 units that could absorb the labor force amounting to 68,382 people with the production value of IDR1.406, 20 billion. He admitted that in de-

veloping the SMEs our craftsmen faced the challenge in the form of weak competitiveness on human resources, capital, product promotion and lack of understanding on the strategic value of intellectual property rights.

In the meantime, the Head of Center for International Administration Studies, Dr. P.M. Marpaung, stated that LAN as a state institution also showed its seriousness to improve the competence of human resources of Indonesia. As a strategic sector in the face of globalization, the development of SMEs needed synergizing with various agencies and organizations working in the field of Small Business and Industry.

The workshop was also expected to synergize the role of the Agency for Regional Development (Bappeda), Regional Investment Board, Social Agency, Cooperative Agency, Manpower Agency, Education Agency as well as various associations of craftsmen in empowering the MSMEs. (kmb16)

Overall growth for East Asian economies should decline from last year’s 8.2 percent to a stillrobust 7.6 percent, the bank said.

The group includes China, South Korea and Southeast Asia and excludes Japan.

“As external demand is likely to remain weak, countries in developing East Asia and Pacific need to rely less on exports and more on domestic demand to maintain high growth,” the bank said.

Excluding China, regional growth should accelerate from last year ’s 4.3 percent to 5.2 percent, propelled by Thailand’s rebound from flooding, the bank said in its “East Asia and Pacific Economic Update.”

China’s rapid growth fell to a three-year low of 8.1 percent in the first quarter from the previous quarter ’s 8.9 percent due to anemic global demand and government controls imposed to cool overheating and inflation.

Growth in factory output in April plunged to its lowest level since the 2008 global crisis, jarring hopes the slowdown has bot-

tomed out.

The World Bank left its growth forecast for China unchanged at 8.2 percent and said that should rise to 8.6 percent in 2013. Some private sector analysts have trimmed their outlooks, though to still-healthy levels of about 8 to 9 percent.

Asian commodities suppliers such as Indonesia that have benefited from China’s boom are especially vulnerable to a slowdown, which could “trigger an unexpected drop in commodity prices,” the bank said.

Many countries are trying to reduce reliance on trade but need to do more, the bank said.

“Some countries will need to stimulate household consumption,” said the report’s chief author, World Bank economist Bryce Quillin, in a statement. He said others can pump money into their economies through spending on building public works.

In China, authorities responded to the slump in global demand late last year by reversing course after spending two years tighten-

ing lending and investment curbs to cool inflation and steer growth to a manageable level.

Analysts expect Beijing to move cautiously after its huge stimulus in response to the 2008 crisis fueled inflation and a wasteful building boom.

O n S u n d a y, P r e m i e r We n Jiabao, China’s top economic official, promised to give “more priority” to boosting growth but gave no indication what Beijing might do. The government has promised more bank lending for small businesses but says controls imposed to cool surging housing costs will stay in place.

The region also is vulnerable to shocks from Europe’s debt crisis, the World Bank said.

It said the European Union, along with the United States and Japan, accounts for more than 40 percent of regional exports.

“Prospects for East Asia are, as in other developing regions, weighed down by the persistent tepid recovery of the U.S. and, most particularly, the uncertainty in Europe,” the bank said.

TOKYO — Mazda Motor Corp. and Fiat SpA are working together on developing and manufacturing a roadster, or two-seater convertible, although the automakers will come up with different, distinctly styled models.

The deal with Fiat of Italy, which controls U.S. automaker Chrysler, serves as a perk for a money-losing Mazda, and highlights the Japanese automaker’s trademark product — the best-selling roadster of all time.

Both sides said in a release Wednesday they had signed an agreement to work together, but each manufacturer will use its own engine and styling.

They declined to give details, but said their cooperation on Fiat’s Alpha Romeo model and Mazda model will be based on Mazda’s “nextgeneration MX-5 rear-wheel-drive architecture.”

Hiroshima-based Mazda has been struggling, racking up four straight years of red ink, after its ties with U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co. weakened.

“Establishing technology and product development alliances is one of Mazda’s corporate objectives, and this announcement with Fiat is an important first step in that direction,” said Mazda President Takashi Yamanouchi.

Fiat Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said working with Mazda was part of an effort to grow into “a truly global brand,” and deliver “an exciting and stylish roadster in the Alfa Romeo tradition.”

Fiat has had a joint venture with Tata in India since 2006. Many automakers have their eyes on the growth potential of Asia amid a lagging European market.

Speculation has been rife that Mazda might need a partner, perhaps one of the emerging Chinese makers, if it hopes to ride out the intense competition in the industry.

For the fiscal year ended March, Mazda’s losses ballooned from 60 billion yen to 107 billion yen ($1.3 billion) as vehicle sales declined across all regions except for North America.

It is planning a return to the black for the fiscal year through March 2013.

Dearborn-based Ford bought 25 percent of Mazda in 1979, raising it to 33.4 percent in 1996. But Ford began cutting ties in 2008, and in 2010 lowered its ownership to 3.5 percent.

Ford now has a 2 percent stake in Mazda. Mazda and Ford have partnerships in production in China, Thailand and North America.

Greek banks to get $23 billion from bailout fund Associated Press

ATHENS — Greece’s four biggest commercial banks will receive an €18 billion ($23 billion) cash infusion from the European bailout fund.

The recapitalization comes

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A man passes a plaque of a Greek one-drachma coin, which was replaced by the euro in 2002, in central Athens, on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

Greece’s four biggest commercial banks will receive an 18 billion ($23 billion) cash infusion from the European bailout fund.

amid political uncertainty in the debt-stricken country after inconclusive May 6 elections saw a rise in support for anti-bailout parties and cast doubt over whether Greece’s future use of the euro currency.

The uncertainty has impacted bank deposits as people have been withdrawing their money to hedge against the country’s possible return to its old devalued currency, the drachma.

The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) money will be disbursed on Wednesday to the National Bank of Greece, Eurobank, Alpha Bank and Bank of Piraeus.

Meanwhile, pharmacies across Greece are staging a day-long strike to protest unpaid dues from the largest health care provider.

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International

Comanche tribe makes Johnny Depp honorary member Associated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Johnny Depp has been made an honorary member of the Comanche tribe. Depp is in New Mexico, shooting the film adaptation of “The Lone Ranger.” He plays “Ranger” sidekick Tonto in the film. Comanche Nation tribal member LaDonna Harris said Tuesday that the tribal chairman presented Depp with a proclamation at her Albuquerque home May 16. She said the Comanche adoption tradition means she now considers Depp her son.

Harris said Depp seemed humbled. His spokeswoman, Jayne Ngo, confirmed the actor participated in a ceremony, but she declined to provide details.

Harris said she had read in interviews that Depp identified

himself as being part Native American, so she thought it would be fun to adopt him — a tradition she says is common in Comanche culture. She ran the idea past her adult children, and they agreed.

Harris said she reached out to the “Dark Shadows” star through a friend who is working as a cultural adviser on the “Lone Ranger” set. The Comanche Nation is based in Lawton, Okla.

About half of its 15,000 members live in southwestern Oklahoma.

Depp has been the topic of much discussion in Indian Country and online since he was cast as Tonto, with comments ranging from his costume, to the selection of a non-Native for the part, to how the role itself has historically epitomized Hollywood’s misrepresentation of Native culture.

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Actor Brad Pitt signs autographs as he arrives at a photo call for Killing Them Softly at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

Brad Pitt brings ‘Killing Them Softly’ to Cannes

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Brad Pitt arrived at the festival with the stylish, hardboiled film “Killing Them Softly,” which he produced and stars in. The film, an adaptation of a George V. Higgins crime novel directed by Andrew Dominik, was screened Tuesday in competition for the Palme d’Or. While many were wrangling with the film’s audacious juxtaposing of a story of violent back-stabbing criminals with an overt political subtext, others were being gently let down by Pitt: No, Angelina Jolie wasn’t with him, as she’s preparing for a role, he said. And their highly anticipated wedding has no date

set, he said in a press conference.

But “Killing Them Softly” left much for discussion. Pitt stars as a kind of fixer who organizes the necessary retribution of two thieves (Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn) who rob a poker game of gangsters.

Woven throughout are billboards, radio broadcast and televised speeches of U.S. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush.

Though the book (“Cogan’s Trade”) takes place in the 1970s, the film is set in 2008, during the presidential election and the financial crisis. At one

point, Pitt’s character pronounces: “America’s not a country, it’s a business.”

“We were certainly at the apex of the mortgage loan debacle,” Pitt said on the beginning of the project. “I felt that I was reading a gangster film and it wasn’t until the very end that it coalesced for me as far what the direction of the film is pointing to overall — that this microcosm is actually saying something about the macro world.”

Pitt said he doesn’t intend “Killing Them Softly,” which is scheduled for theatrical release this September, to be read as his views or to be fodder for the upcoming election season.

NEW YORK — Pearl Jam, Skrillex and D’Angelo are among the performers scheduled to take the stage at the Made In America music festival Jay-Z is curating in Philadelphia in September. Jay-Z will also perform, as will Janelle Monae, Passion Pit, Odd Future, Santigold, Afrojack, Calvin Harris and Rick Ross and his Maybach Music group.

The festival will feature 28 acts over Labor Day

weekend. Tickets for the two-day festival are to go on sale Wednesday. Jay-Z announced plans for the event last week atop the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Proceeds will benefit the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. More performers will be announced later.

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2010 file photo, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performs during the Bridge School Benefit concert in Mountain View, Calif.

KUTA - Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park, a member of the Aston group of hotels, recently celebrate its first anniversary and the successful revitalization of Kuta’s Central Park area with an eclectic Hawaiian themed birthday bash.

Since its opening in May 2011, The Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park has developed into a well liked mid market hotel for a predominantly Indonesian, Australian and SE Asian clientele and contributed to the resurging popularity of the Kuta Central Park area whose many shops and restaurants have benefited greatly from the influx of several thousand Hotel guest. The anniversary event was devoted to travel agents and tour operators, media representatives and friends

of Quest Hotels who were early supporters and had embraced the relatively young hotel putting the Quest Kuta and Central Park firmly on Bali’s tourism map.

I Made Yadnya, General Manager of The Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park said, “Our first year of operation was a tremendous success as we exceeded even our most optimistic expectations, won an Indonesia Design Editors Choice Award for best budget hotel design in Indonesia and reintroduced a previously overlooked but very attractive area of Kuta to the domestic and several overseas markets.

A big thank you is due to the hotel’s developers for their vision and entrepreneurial spirit, Aston International for their keen marketing insight and Bali’s travel agency community whose enthusiastic

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support for our hotel has helped not only us but the entire neighborhood.”

The Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park is part of revitalization project of in Kuta’s Central park and was cleverly incorporated into more than 50 renovated former shop houses. The hotel aims to be a convenient, comfortable and enjoyable hotel offering 226 delightfully furnished and oversized guest rooms, studios and suites and a wide array of recreation facilities. Located in the midst of Kuta’s Central Park’s shopping area the hotel combines the value of a premium budget hotel with unique and inspiring design elements and uncompromising standards for cleanliness and service making it ideal for vacationers seeking a stylish but unpretentious environment.

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Seen in the image (left to right) Mr. I Made Yadnya – General Manager of Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park, Mr. Norbert Vas – Vice President Sales & Marketing of Aston International and Ms. Febry Mutia Anindita – Marketing Communications Manager of Aston International.

Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for May 20 through June 20, 2012 26 May Tumpek Wayang Pura Majapahit Jembrana Odalan Betara ratu Gede Desa Celuk Sukawati Odalan Betara Ratu Wedyadari Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Panti Gelgel Pengembungan Sesetan Denpasar Betara Ratu Alit & Ratu Lingsir Singakerta Ubud Pura Pedarmaan Dalem Sukawati Besakih Pura Pedarmaan Mengwi Besakih Pura Pedarmaan Kaba-kaba Besakih Pura Pedarmaan dalem Bakas Besakih Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Gelgel Pegatepan Gelgel Klungkung Pura Pemrajan Agung Sulang Kec Dawan Klungkung.

Merajan Pasek Bendesa Kori Agung Pengatepan Pura Pedarmaan Dinasti dalem sri Aji Pura Besakih Pura Penataran Giri Purwa Banyuangi.

Pesraman Dusun Kuto Rejo Banyuangi.

30 May Buda Wage Kelawu.

Pura Penataran Agung Teluk Padang Karangasem Pura Melanting Desa Camenggaon Sukawati Pura Penataran Ped Nusa Penida.

Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangembungan Bongkase Abiansemal.

Pura Pasek Bendesa Reyang Gede Penebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Br. Jawa Tengah Buleleng Pura Gaduhan Jagat Desa Singakerta Ubud Pura Masceti Tegeh Mancawarna Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Penataran Batu Lepang Kamasan Klungkung Pura Paibon Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Desa Kedonganan Kuta Pura Goa Besakih Pura Basukian Besakih Odalan Ida Ratu Pucak Pameneh Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Pejeng Merajan Pasek Gelgel Songan Merajan Pasek Prateka Pekandelan Sidemen Merajan Pasek Prateka Taman Sari Sukasada.

Pura dadia Pasek Gelgel Sidemen Karangasem Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tampuagan Tembuku, Bangli.

Pearl Jam, Skrillex to perform at Philly festival Associated Press Writer

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Celebrated its first anniversary

CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival got its biggest shot of celebrity adrenaline yet on Tuesday, even if it was only half the dose some were expecting.

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Quest Hotel Kuta Central Park

Associated Press Writer

This photo provided by Americans for Indian Opportunity shows LaDonna Harris, left, president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, poses with actor Johnny Depp at her Albuquerque, N.M., home on May 16, 2012.

Activities

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5 Jun Anggar Kasih Dukut.

Pr. Dalem Batuyang Batubulan Pura Pasek Gelgel Mengening Kediri Tabanan Pr Pasek Undagi Timpag Kerambitan Tabanan Pura Desa/ Pura Pucak Banjar Taman Bedulu Gianyar.

Merajan Pasek Tangkas Kori Agun Sulahan Merajan Pasek Padang Rata Padang Pura Puser Jagat Dalem Dukut Puri Sukun Nusa Penida.

6 Jun Buda Umanis Dukut Pura Agung Pasek Gelgel Sibang Kaja Abiansemal Pura Dalem Samplangan Gianyar 16 Jun Saraswati Pura Pasek Tangkas Gempinis dalang Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel sayan Bongkase Abiansemal Pura Watugunung Bima Pura Agung Jagatkarana Surabaya Pura Aditya Jaya Rawamangun Jakarta Timur Pura Pemaksan Banyuning Timur Buleleng Pura Agung Wira Lokha Natha Cimahi Jawa Barat Pura Dadia Agung Bendesa Tangkas Kori Agung Pusat Gerih Desa Gerih Abiansemal Badung.

Pura Giri Jaya Natha Balikpapan Pura Agung Santi Bhuana Brugelette Belgia.

18 Jun Some Ribek.

Pura Jati Jembrana Pura Kawitan Batugaing Bangli Pura Tirta Wening Tambak Sari Surabaya 20 Jun Hari Raya Pagerwesi Pura Laban Sindu Jiwa Kedewatan Ubud Pura Kehen Bangli Pura Wirabuana Magelang Jawa Tengah Pura Padang Sakti Tangtu Denpasar Timur Pura Jogan Agung Ketewel Sukawati Pura Gadung Pengiasan Dauh Puri Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel Buruan Kaja Tabanan Pura Pasek Gobleg Kerambitan tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Meliling Tabanan

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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Thursday, May 24, 2012

International

Egyptians vote for Mubarak successor in historic poll Agence France-Presse

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Associated Press Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular middle-of-the-night blastoff.

with initial results expected on Sunday. Voting ends at 8:00 pm (1800 GMT) on both days.

A senior interior ministry official said police were on standby across the country and helping soldiers secure polling stations.

The election marks the final phase of a tumultuous transition overseen by the ruling military council after Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising last year.

After decades of pre-determined results, for the first time, the outcome of the vote in the Arab world’s most populous nation -- which also pits revolutionaries against old regime members -- is wide open.

According to pollsters, the large number of voters undecided beAP Photo/Khalil Hamra tween candidates reflecting radiAn Egyptian woman votes during the first day of the presidential election inside a polling station in Alexcally different trends and the nov- andria, Egypt, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Egyptians went to polls on Wednesday morning to elect a new elty of a free presidential vote president after the fall of ex-President Hosni Mubarak last year. make Wednesday’s election almost impossible to call.

Shafiq, Mubarak’s last prime min- Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh, a struggling economy, deteriorating Among the leading contenders ister, is accused of belonging to the former member of the Islamist security and the challenge of unitis former foreign minister and Arab old regime. movement who portrays himself ing a nation divided by the uprising League chief Amr Mussa, who The powerful Muslim Broth- as a consensus choice with a wide and its sometimes deadly aftermath, is seen as an experienced politi- erhood’s candidate Mohammed range of support. but his powers are yet to be defined cian and diplomat but like Ahmed Mursi faces competition from The next president will inherit a by a new constitution.

Australia: No deal was made in Indonesia drug case Associated Press

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Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr speaks about convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, who is serving a prison sentence on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, at a press conference in Sydney on May 23, 2012.

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Commercial spacecraft speeds toward space station

CAIRO - Egyptians were voting Wednesday in historic presidential elections contested by Islamists and secularists promising different futures for the country after the overthrow of veteran dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Queues formed outside polling stations long before they opened at 08:00 am (0600 GMT), with voters in a festive mood.

“It’s a beautiful day for Egypt,” said Nehmedo Abdel Hadi, who was voting at the Omar Markram school in Cairo’s Shubra neighbourhood.

“Now I feel this is my country and I have dignity,” said the 46year-old woman, who wears a full-face veil.

Across the city, in the leafy Mohandesseen neighbourhood, Rania, wearing gym clothes and a ponytail under her baseball cap, was at the front of the line.

“It’s the first time in Egypt’s history we choose our president,” she said, preferring to keep her choice “a secret between me and my ballot box.”

More than 50 million eligible voters have been called to choose one of 12 candidates wrestling to succeed ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

Voting over two days is taking place at 13,000 polling stations,

Thursday, May 24, 2012

CANBERRA — Australia denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for Indonesia reducing the prison sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker.

But Foreign Minister Bob Carr conceded that Indonesians saw a link between the treatment of Australian Schapelle Corby and young Indonesians held in Australian prisons.

Corby, 34, learned in a Bali prison on Tuesday that Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had granted a five-year reduction of a 20-year sentence for her 2005 conviction for smuggling marijuana onto the resort island.

Her lawyer said that since several other cuts to her sentence were approved previously, she could be freed in about three months.

The announcement comes a week after Australia released three young Indonesians from prison based on new evidence that they might not be

adults. Crew members of Indonesian people-smuggling boats who illegally bring asylum seekers to Australia are sent home without punishment if they are children.

The Australian government is reviewing the convictions of another 21 Indonesian prisoners after complaints from Jakarta and Australia’s human rights commissioner that they might have been children when they were arrested for people smuggling. Police use wrist X-rays as proof that a suspect is at least 19 years old, but critics argue that such tests are inaccurate.

Indonesia State Secretary Sudi Silalahi said Corby’s sentence reduction was part of a deal in which Australia would be more lenient toward young Indonesians arrested for crewing asylum-seeker boats.

“That’s how the Indonesians see it,” Carr conceded. But he denied that Australia’s decision was part of any reciprocal agreement, though both Corby and the incarceration of young Indonesians in Australia were on the agenda of a bilateral

summit in March.

“We’d be making that decision about those minors if there were no Schapelle Corby and indeed no Australians serving time in Indonesian jails,” Carr said. “We’d be doing it because it’s unconscionable to hold minors in adult prisons.”

Corby’s case has attracted intense and sustained attention in Australia, where many believe she is innocent. She maintains she does not know how 9 pounds (4.2 kilograms) of marijuana came to be found in her surfboard bag when it was searched on arrival at Denpasar Airport in late 2004.

Her lawyer, Iskandar Nawing, said Indonesian authorities agreed to reduce her sentence because of her poor mental state. Corby’s mother, Rosleigh Rose, told reporters outside her home in the Australian east coast city of Logan on Wednesday that she would fly to Bali in July and “will be bringing her home.”

“I think it hasn’t sunk in yet.

I can’t believe it,” Rose said in a statement.

Updates with today’s news. Graphic explains the SpaceX Dragon capsule

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Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96 Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO — Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity.

Just ask anyone who’s lost a remote. Polley died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital, said Zenith Electronics spokesman John Taylor. The former Zenith engineer was 96.

In 1955, if you wanted to switch TV channels from “Arthur Godfrey” to “Father Knows Best,”

you got up from your chair, walked across the room and turned a knob. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk.

Or you could buy a new Zenith television with Flash-Matic tuning. The TV came with a green ray gun-shaped contraption with a red trigger. The advertising promised “TV miracles.” The “flash tuner” was “Absolutely harmless to humans!” Most intriguing of all: “You can even shut off annoying commercials while the picture remains on the screen.”

Polley was proud of his invention even late in life, Taylor said. He showed visitors at his assisted-living apartment his original Flash-Matic and how it had evolved into the technology of today.

This undated photo of a 1955 advertisement, provided by LG Electronics, shows an ad for a Zenith “FlashMatic,” the first wireless TV remote control.

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The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and its unmanned Dragon capsule marked the first time a commercial spacecraft has been sent to the orbiting outpost.

Tracing a fiery arc across the night sky, the rocket lifted off just before 4 a.m. and smoothly boosted the capsule into orbit. The capsule is expected to rendezvous with the space station within days, delivering a halfton of provisions for its six crew members.

It is considered just a test flight — in fact, the capsule was packed with only nonessential items, in case something went disastrously wrong — but if all goes well with this mission and others like it, commercial spaceships could be carrying astronauts to and from the space station in three to five years.

“Falcon flew perfectly!!” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of the SpaceX company, said via Twitter. “Feels like a giant weight just came off my back.” Musk later told reporters: “For us, it’s like winning the Super Bowl.” Up to now, flights to the space

station were something only major governments had done.

The White House offered congratulations.

“Every launch into space is a thrilling event, but this one is especially exciting,” said John Holdren, President Barack Obama’s chief science adviser. “This expanded role for the private sector will free up more of NASA’s resources to do what NASA does best — tackle the most demanding technological challenges in space, including those of human spaceflight beyond low-Earth orbit.”

NASA is looking to the private sector to take over flights to the space station now that the space shuttle has been retired.

Several U.S. companies are vying for the opportunity.

“The significance of this day cannot be overstated,” said a beaming NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. “It’s a great day for America. It’s actually a great day for the world because there are people who thought that we had gone away, and today says, ‘No, we’re not going away at all.’”

Pomegranate juice claims deceptive, US rules Agence France Presse

Pomegranate juice has not been proven to be an effective treatment for cancer, heart disease or erectile dysfunction, US regulators said Monday, calling a company’s ad claims deceptive. The US Federal Trade Commission’s chief administrative law judge D. Michael Chappell ruled that the company, POM Wonderful LLC, violated federal law by making deceptive claims.

The judge ordered the company to stop making claims of health effects in the absence of “competent and reliable scientific evidence.” The judge said in a 345-page decision that there was “inadequate” evidence to back up the company’s superfood claims.

But the judge said the company would not have to submit to pre-approved marketing, which the FTC lawsuit had requested. The company, a unit of the Roll International group that includes Teleflora and Fiji Water which has claimed the the FTC was interfering with speech, said this was a victory.

The company said the judge upheld the firm’s “right to share valuable, scientifically validated information about the health benefits of its safe food with consumers.”

The company said the FTC lawsuit “tried to create a new, stricter industry standard, similar to that required for pharmaceuticals, for marketing the health benefits inherent in safe food and natural food-based products.”

“While we are still analyzing the ruling, it is clear that we will be able to continue to promote the health benefits of our safe, food products without having our advertisements, marketing or public relations efforts preapproved,” said Craig Cooper, the company’s chief legal officer.

POM has been in a long battle with authorities over the so-called superfood which has also been purported to help fight Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis and improve sperm quality.

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This photo illustration shows a bottle of POM Wonderful pomegranate juice.

Pomegranate juice has not been proven to be an effective treatment for cancer, heart disease or erectile dysfunction, US regulators said Monday, calling a company’s ad claims deceptive.

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Spain’s national soccer team player David Villa attends a news conference in Kaunas in this March 28, 2011 file photo. Villa ruled himself out of the running for a place in Spain’s squad for Euro 2012 on May 22, 2012 after failing to fully recover from a broken leg.

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MADRID - Barcelona striker David Villa ruled himself out of the running for a place in Spain’s squad for Euro 2012 on Tuesday after failing to fully recover from a broken leg. Villa, Spain’s all-time leading scorer, broke his left leg while competing in the Club World Cup with Barca in December, and has not played a competitive match since then.

“I tried right to the end but I wasn’t able to get to 100 percent for the Euros,” Villa said on his official Twitter feed. “Today I called the coach to tell him. It was the most honest thing to do.

Thanks to all of you for your support.”

The Spanish football federation (RFEF) broke the news with an earlier statement. “After failing to achieve the desired progress in recent training sessions, Villa spoke with Del Bosque,” the RFEF said. “(He) told him although he would like to be with the team in Poland and Ukraine, his physical state ‘isn’t the best’ for a competition like the Euros. “The RFEF and Spain’s coaching staff wish the player all the best in his recovery and hope he will return soon to the national team, and value the effort made by David to get back to full fitness.”

Villa has scored 51 goals in 82 national team appearances for Spain helping them victory at Euro 2008 and in the World Cup finals in 2010. His Spanish international team mates were quick to send messages of support on their Twitter accounts.

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Barcelona’s Cesc Fabregas wrote: “Keep your spirits up, you are a star. You have been and will continue being the best goal-scorer in the national team.”

Chelsea winger Juan Mata wrote: “You have proved again you are an example, we will miss you a lot. You will soon be back scoring goals.”

Barca’s doctors had already said he would not make the King’s Cup final on Friday, when Pep Guardiola’s side take on Athletic Bilbao.

Del Bosque named a provisional squad for Euro 2012 last

week which included many fringe players, and added Chelsea duo Fernando Torres and Mata on Monday after they helped their side win the Champions League final. Del Bosque delayed naming any Barca and Bilbao players until after the Cup final. He set May 27 as his deadline for deciding his final 23-man squad, when attention will focus in particular on their forward line without Villa.

Torres, Valencia’s Roberto Soldado, Sevilla’s Alvaro Negredo and Atletico Madrid’s Adrian Lopez are already in the squad, while Bilbao’s Fernando Llorente and possibly Barca’s Pedro are expected to be called up, with others making way.

Spain won all eight of their qualifiers for Euro 2012 and are in Group C for the finals along with Italy, against who they play their opening game on June 10, Republic of Ireland and Croatia.

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MADRID - Jose Mourinho said he was motivated by the challenges ahead at Real Madrid after agreeing a two-year contract extension on Tuesday which tied him to the Spanish champions until 2016. “I’ve loved the professional experience I’ve had of working for different clubs in different countries and cultures,” the Portuguese said in an interview published on the club’s website (www.realmadrid.com).

“It’s different for me now because I’m thinking about a club longterm. (Real) has been more demanding and has forced me to do my absolute best due to the difficulties I have had to face. “I’ve had to improve as a coach and a professional. I think it is the perfect challenge for the next four years. I need these great challenges at this time in my career.”

Mourinho, the self-styled ‘Special One’, joined Real from Inter Milan in 2010 on a four-year deal and led them to victory in the King’s Cup final in his first season, the club’s first cup triumph in 18 years.

They won their first La Liga title for four years this month, smashing league records along the way and ending Barcelona’s domestic dominance.

Real set a new points record of 100 from 38 games, beating the previous best of 99 achieved by Pep Guardiola’s side in 2009, and broke the league’s goal-scoring record of 107 set by the Whites in 1989-90 by finding the net 121 times. On a personal level, the league title was Mourinho’s seventh after winning two in Portugal with Porto, two in England with Chelsea and two in Italy with Inter.

Mourinho’s next big challenge is to win a 10th European Cup for Real, and his third with a different club after Champions League successes with Porto in 2004 and Inter in 2010. Real have fallen in the semi-finals to Barcelona and Bayern Munich in his two years in charge. The last time they reached the final four before then was 2003. “I’ve always said we have to improve collectively and individually, and that we must play football to win both games and supporters,” Mourinho added.

“I’m sure Real gained many supporters this year because we played the best football in the world despite not winning the Champions League. But we did win the toughest league title with fantastic football. We have to keep it up.”

The 49-year-old has fought for and won unprecedented freedom and power as their coach with the full backing of club president Florentino Perez. His new commitment to Real ended any speculation that he might be lured away elsewhere.

The show of unity and strength at the world’s richest club by revenue comes at a moment when their great rivals Barcelona appear to be entering a period of transition.

Mourinho’s opposite number Guardiola has decided to step down at the end of the season after winning 13 trophies in four years at the Nou Camp.

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Incessant pest attacks have disrupted farmers in Tabanan. After attacked by rats, grasshoppers came with predatory attack at Subak Penyarikan, Priyukti hamlet, Wanasari village. This insect attacked dozens of hectares of rice plant belonging to Inpari variety.

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TABANAN - Incessant pest attacks have disrupted farmers in Tabanan. After attacked by rats, grasshoppers came with predatory attack at Subak Penyarikan, Priyukti hamlet, Wanasari village. This insect attacked dozens of hectares of rice plant belonging to Inpari variety. As a result, farmers were overwhelmed by unrest.

Such insects have set to attack since last week. They consisted of green and brown grasshoppers. They harmed the young rice plants of only 1.5 months old. “The grasshoppers sucked the rice ears setting to grow. If left unchecked, it can damage the quality of rice,” complained Wayan Suparti, 45, one of the local farmers, Tuesday (May 22).

This woman told if the attack of grasshoppers had taken place regularly every planting season.

However, this time was the most severe. Sadly, the arrival of those insects was uncertain. On that account, farmers should be ready at all times to spray the rice plants regularly. “We spray them every two weeks and the pesticide in use is too expensive,” she said.

She also added that if spraying late, the rice plants were not capable of growing normally. Moreover, they would be coming into the period of bearing fruits.

Similar complaints were also revealed by Budha, 50, another farmer. This man said the grasshoppers usually attacked in the morning. They went into the rice stalks and then sucked the young ears.

“We have to spray the rice plants on time. Otherwise, the rice ear can turn damaged,” he said. Budha claimed to have an area of 3,000 square meters. The entire acreage had been attacked by the insects.

He hoped the grasshoppers could disappear by the action of spraying because the costs incurred for planting rice were pretty expensive. Without eradi-

cating the insects, they were feared to disrupt the crops. “All the peasants are restless because the grasshoppers continue to rage,” he complained. Such condition had taken place regularly every planting season. However, he considered the current attack was quite severe whereas the growth of rice plants was very good since the start of planting. It was feared the plants would be damaged if the grasshoppers were neglected.

Meanwhile, the rice harvest season nearly coming to an end had made the rice price to skyrocket. Since the past a week, the rice price rose from IDR 150,000 to IDR 170,000.

The increase was predicted to continue until the end of the harvest season. (kmb30)

SEMARAPURA - A prisoner of Klungkung Prison, Jayadi Ahmad, escaped around 10 am local time last Tuesday (22/5). The prisoner from Lombok that was guilty of robbery break free while cleaning the jail house area. Two wardens in the prison threatened to be sanctioned.

Head of the Jail, Cahyo Dewanto, confirmed that the prisoner was convicted for 1,5 years due to robbery. Yet, he was only jailed for six months before he escaped. “He’s not on his assimilation time yet,” Cahyo stated.

Cahyo did not know specifically how it happened and so it is being discussed also if Jayadi escaped using the prisoner uniform or not.

The situation is still being investigated and the two wardens can’t be questioned yet.

The situation has been reported to police and a number of officers have been sent to check where he run, including at Padangbai.

From what’s known so far, the incident happened when four prisoners were cleaning up the jail area supervised by two wardens at the south side of the jail area (Teratai Street). Jayadi then asked to go to the restroom. Five minutes later, Jayadi did not come back and it is suspected he has escaped.

Cahyo suspected the escape was due to wardens’ ignorance. He assured that wardens will get sanctions based on their faults.

Meanwhile Klungkung Prison that is being lived by 57 prisoners and convicts are being supervised by 14 officers divided to four groups. The ratio between prisoners and wardens are imbalance.

Jayadi was captured on 18th May 2011 as one of the members of a gold jewelry robbery group which have caused disturbance in Klungkung. In his action, Jayadi will always look for empty houses where its owner is working. To do his action, he camouflage himself as an Electricity State Company worker. (kmb20)

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NEGARA - A number of shops and hotels at Pekutatan last Tuesday (22/5) got warning from Jembrana Police Civil Service as their buildings are disobeying the rules. The service lead by its Head, I Putu Widarta, was going through semi permanent shops at Pengeragoan, the border between Jembrana and Tabanan.

There are several illegal shop that found there which were illegal, such as owned by Dewa Made Sriati on the roadside of Gilimanuk-Denpasar route.

The shop violating beach’s demarcation line, it has been warned by giving three days notice before demolished by the service. “If this kind of situation is ignored then more of it will be around,” Widarta explained.

Besides shops, Widarta’s officers also came by a Hotel named Puri Dajuma which is a hotel without any Building Permit. The building was warned before, yet nothing has been done. The hotel was stopped from operating based on Regional Law No. 3 Year 2004 until it has a building permit. This operation was to bring up justice and comfort to the people who has been reporting as these activities have disturbed them. (kmb26)

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Jembrana police civil service officers warned a woman who own illegal shop at Pekutatan. A number of shops and hotels at Pekutatan last Tuesday (22/5) got warning from Jembrana Police Civil Service as their buildings are disobeying the rules.

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MIAMI (AP) — Suddenly, the road back to the Eastern Conference finals no longer looks daunting for Miami. Not after the Heat left the Pacers beat up and banged up. LeBron James scored 30 points, Dwyane Wade added 28, and the Heat moved a win away from the NBA’s final four with a 115-83 victory over the hurting Pacers on Tuesday night, a game where three flagrant fouls added more chapters to an already-physical series and Indiana watched starting forwards Danny Granger and David West leave with injuries.

“This is our challenge right now, to leave it behind us,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “A lot of good things tonight, but we have to focus on the next one.” That would be Game 6 in Indiana on Thursday night. The Heat lead the best-ofseven East semifinals 3-2.

James added 10 rebounds and eight assists. Shane Battier scored 13 points, Mario Chalmers had eight points and 11 rebounds, and Udonis Haslem finished with 10 points for Miami, which never trailed, held a 22-2 edge in fast-break points and shot a franchise playoff-record 61 percent — best of any team in the playoffs this season.

Paul George scored 11 points for Indiana, with Granger and West adding 10 points apiece. Granger left with a sprained left ankle in the third quarter and departed the arena in a walking boot, while West departed with what the Pacers called a left knee sprain at the end of that period — something that West thought was born of a cheap shot.

Replays showed Shane Battier boxed out West on the play where

DENPASAR - The impact of progressively narrowing farmland is felt directly by farmers in terms of the reduction of land for farming and decline in income. Prof. Dr. I Wayan Windia, a professor of agriculture from the Udayana University, said the agricultural sector in Bali today almost did not indicate any development or tended to stagnate because of its very low contribution to the gross regional domestic product (GDP). sion of farmland function,” he explained.

Related to conversion of the land function, previously the Indonesian Farmers Association (HKTI) claimed to worry about the threat of food crisis in Bali.

This condition could possibly happen considering the occurrence of farmland conversion was uncontrollable. The HKTI recorded at least 800 hectares of paddy field lived through conversion of land function per year. It was caused by the lack of clear rules and negligence of local government against violations of spatial planning. “It is required a clear and unequivocal rule of the local governments regarding land categorized into eternal and protected land territory so that they will not be converted into different function,” said Chairman of HKTI Bali, Prof. Dr. Nyoman Suparta. (kmb28)

Developing learning creativity by involving nature The total of 68 teachers were spread at villages at the furthest point in forests and on mountains even some on the border with Timor Leste reaching 15 km from Kupang City such as Amfoang Timur, Amfoang Barat Daya, Takari, Fatuleu Barat.

All the villages were left out and furthest yet even so all of the teachers liked teaching here as besides they got new experiences they also got a lot of knowledge in teaching in such limited facility places. They are happy to live with the people of the village who are purified from any politic problems. One of them, Gede Oka Suandana, from Tamblang Village, Kubutambahan, Buleleng, who graduated from Geography at UNDIKSHA teaches at high school

SMAN 1 Amfoang Barat Daya.

This school is built simple with roof of strong leaves and in this place he teaches geography and sometimes other studies. Oka stated the kids’ spirit in learning is high here even though they catch the studies still in a weak state. Even so, he still loves teaching here as in this place the pupils are nice and obeys the teacher also very accepted the new teachers.

“I felt much healthier here because I eat a lot of fruits given by the locals,” Oka stated.

One of the problems would be communication as cell phone signals here are very week. Moreover, those at Fatuleu Barat couldn’t communicate at all as there is no signal at all and so to send a SMS or call, they

would go to a higher ground yet not as good as in big cities. Teachers at Fatulue Barat have different problems. In the new High School built by government in that area there is no electiricy and so teachers have to develop a teaching creativity. For example a graduate from UNDIKSHA Health and Sports Faculty have to teach involving nature such as for javelin they would make the javelin sticks first from bamboo that they found in the forests and for shot-put they would find a various size of stones or rocks which used as the shot-put ball. Meanwhile Information Technology graduate has another problem with the no electricity situation. For typing studies at laptop, at first the graduate made a replica of

the keyboard letters on a paper and so the children would know where the places are which then on a Saturday the children learns to type on a real keyboard at the teacher’s living place where a genset/extra power supply is place yet not on all the time. Sutama is admitted proud of his graduate in able to teach by developing creativity also seeing them happy to adapt in their areas. For that he is optimist that the SM3T program in the coming years would be able to send more UNDIKSHA graduates to give their knowledge in left places of Indonesia. “At first a number of students were worried due to the place very far yet now they are very happy with their new experiences,” Sutama explained. (ole)

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he fell backward, but it did not appear any Heat player hit West below the waist. It was an 11-point game when Granger departed early in the third quarter, and the Heat outscored the Pacers by 21 the rest of the way.

“We learned early in this series, you don’t get two wins for a blowout,” Pacers coach Frank Vogel said. A series marked by ugly moments had perhaps its worst with 19.4 seconds remaining when Miami reserve center Dexter Pittman went across the lane to send a forearm into the chin area of Indiana’s Lance Stephenson — who was caught on camera making a choke sign toward James during the Pacers’ Game 3 win, drawing the ire of the Miami locker room.

Pittman was caught on camera winking after the foul. “I don’t know if that was retaliation. ... I’m sure the NBA will and do what they have to do,” Granger said, adding that Stephenson was getting X-rays for a possible collarbone problem.

Physicians were examining Stephenson after the game.

Miami, which had gotten into

quick deficits in each of the first four games, was the team that started hot in Game 5, running out to a 19-8 lead on the strength of three 3-pointers from Battier — who had been 2 for 19 from the field in the first four games of the series. Battier left his mark in many ways, even stopping a 3-on-1 Indiana break to set up a score by Wade at the other end.

But much like the Heat did in Game 4 when Indiana threatened to turn things into an early runaway, the Pacers settled down in a hurry. The Pacers made Wade see blood early on, a couple of early flagrant fouls reminding everyone that these teams don’t seem to like each other much.

Tyler Hansbrough struck first, hitting Wade on a play where the 2006 NBA finals MVP wound up with a cut over his right eye, similar to what Haslem received at Indiana in Game 4. So Haslem retaliated against Hansbrough not long afterward, earning a flagrant-1 foul that left the Pacers saying it should merit a flagrant-2 and automatic ejection.

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Miami Heat’s LeBron James, right, shoots as Indiana Pacers’ David West (21) watches during the second half of Game 5 of an NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series, in Miami on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

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A man working in the rice field. The impact of progressively narrowing farmland is felt directly by farmers in terms of the reduction of land for farming and decline in income.

Bali young teachers teach at East Nusa Tenggara A NUMBER of young Balinese teachers since the past few months have placed themselves in Junior High Schools (SMP) and High Schools (SMA) at the furthest villages of Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. They were sent by Singaraja Ganesha Education University (UNDIKSHA) through Front, Left and Furthest Area Teaching Postgraduate Program (SM3T) which last 1st-5th May 2012.

Bali Post and 1st Vice Rector of UNDIKSHA, Prof. Dr. Made Sutama, got to see how they’ve been going.

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result that was certainly not much different from the condition of farmers in Bali. Rice farmer in Bali averagely has 0.30 hectare of land. If the income of beggar is more than 2 million per month, farmers with such area of land will be unable to yield IDR 4 million per season or four months,” he explained.

Wayan Windia, who also chairs a subak research group in the Udayana University, said that investment in the agricultural sector in Bali sourcing from the fund of government and investors remained fairly low. Small amount of investment in agriculture had caused the exchange rate or welfare of farmers in this region to still become low. “Condition of farmer is identical to the poor, so that no young people are interested in becoming farmers.

It is then compounded by the increasingly ubiquitous conver-

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Agricultural sector in Bali tends to stagnate “Contribution of the agricultural sector to the economy of Bali has always been the smallest compared to the growth of other sectors. One of which is the tourism sector that has always had a fairly rapid growth,” he explained.

He told that it happened because government paid less attention to the sector, whereas the agricultural sector actually could absorb 30.87 percent or 672,204 people of the workforce in Bali.

According to him, small role of the agriculture and low income of farmers had made them unable to live a feasible and prosperous life. But, those who worked in the agricultural sector in the broader sense were greater with a percentage of 50 percent. “Probably, the income of farmer can be said to be smaller than a street beggar. I firmly say so because there was a survey made by an NGO at Sukoharjo in Central Java with a

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11, 2010, file photo shows Kim Clijsters, of Belgium, holding the championship trophy after winning the women’s singles final at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York.

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Former world number one Kim Clijsters has confirmed that she will bring down the curtain on her second career at the end of this year’s U.S. Open, Belgian news agency Belga has reported. The 28year-old came out of retirement in 2009 after more than two years out of the sport, winning three more grand slam titles to take her career tally to four.

Injury, which has hampered the Belgian throughout her career, has already forced her to pull out of the upcoming French Open and on Tuesday she said the Aug. 27-Sept. 9 U.S. Open would be her last tournament. “In principle, I will stop after the U.S. Open.

That’s the tournament where I have had my greatest triumphs and it is therefore very special to me,” she told a news con-

ference at the headquarters of her sponsors Galaxo in Paal, Belgium. “The (Flushing Meadows) stadium is about 45 minutes from our house in the United States and so my inlaws can be there.”

Clijsters won her first U.S. Open title in 2005 and marked a sensational return to tennis with a second in 2009 before successfully defending the title the following year.

She also won the Australian Open in 2011 and, by reaching the semi-finals at her next tournament in Paris, reclaimed the number one world ranking after a gap of 256 weeks. The hip injury which forced her to withdraw from this year’s French Open robbed her of a chance to finally win the Roland Garros tournament, where she twice lost in the final.

She said last month that she aimed to return to action at the

Wimbledon warm-up event in Den Bosch in mid-June before having a ninth crack at winning the grasscourt grand slam.

Clijsters is planning to return to Wimbledon for the tennis tournament at the London Olympics, having missed the 2008 Games in Beijing during her first retirement and skipped the 2004 Athens Olympics because of a row over clothing sponsorship.

“The Olympic fever is started to build,” she told the news conference. Clijsters, who turns 29 next month, has won 41 singles and 11 doubles titles since she turned professional in 1997 and helped Belgium win a first Fed Cup title in 2001.

Injuries to almost all parts of her body have hampered her ability to play with any regularity since her return from retirement and she is currently ranked 44th in the world.

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Ben Spies says visibility issues caused by water leaking into his helmet were the chief culprit behind his struggles at Le Mans. In contrast to Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo, who dominated from the front, Spies fared miserably, dropping down the grid after the rear of his bike got loose at the start.

He fought back to get as high as 13th, but could not break free of the surrounding CRT bikes and eventually brought his race to an effective close even though he was able to return – by heading into the pits. The Texan said visibility issues were to blame for his slump. He has just one top 10 finish to his credit this season, an eighth in the previous race at Estoril.

“That was a rough race,” Spies conceded. “We actually got off to a good start at the beginning then had a very big moment on the line.

“Something happened because then I had quite a lot of water coming in through my helmet and couldn’t see much on the first five laps. I hoped it

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the action is limited for the fans, Hembery says teams are reluctant to change it. But he insists Pirelli could supply qualifyingspecific tyres right away if needed. “We could do it immediately,” Hembery told Autosprint. “We could come up with a specific compound, or maintain the current ones.

“But the teams say that the format is fine as is, that the public enjoys tyre strategies. “But if a fan on the grandstands doesn’t see much running in Q3, then that fan casts the blame on Pirelli think-

ing that we don’t want to spend any more money in order to supply more tyres.”

Hembery also denied that Pirelli has intentionally attempted to create an impossible challenge for teams with its tyres for the 2012 season. He reckons the design of this year’s car means they are less stable, something that affects the way the tyres behave.

“I don’t agree with whoever says that our tyres’ scope of use is too narrow: the temperatures are in line with the estimated values,” he said. “What has changed, heavily, is the way these tyres are used this year. You can see that there’s a lot more oversteering on the track. We also hear drivers’ comments lamenting a lack of traction, but in my opinion that problem doesn’t exist.

“Having changed the exhaust configuration through a rule has undoubtedly made the cars less stable. That causes wheelspin and the tread heats up, so it’s normal you can’t use the tyre.

“Another point is that nowadays the car performances are a lot closer. Last year there was a second between Red Bull and McLaren, while we’ve now seen in Spain 16 cars within the same second in Q2.

“It’s not true we have intentionally tried to create an impossible challenge.

In the next tests with the Renault test car we’ll verify what the teams say.”

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would get better but I couldn’t see anything and decided to come in because I need to see where I am going.

“I knew the race was gone by then so went back out to try and get some data and get better working with the bike in the rain. Circumstances meant it wasn’t a good day.”

After hailing Lorenzo’s ‘incredible’ ride, team director Massimo Meregalli said he expected Spies to bounce back at Barcelona. “We were expecting a different race but unfortunately this bad luck doesn’t want to disappear,” Meregalli said. “We’re looking forward to Barcelona, we won’t give up and we will get back up to where we belong with Ben.”

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Pirelli ready to supply Q3-only tyres Pirelli’s motorsport boss Paul Hembery says the Italian tyre manufacturer is ready to supply Formula 1 teams with Q3-only tyres. He made it clear, however, that the teams believe the current format is fine and don’t want it changed. Current rules mean teams have to use the same tyres they qualify on in the race, something that has lead to drivers sitting out Q3 in order to limit their running and save sets for the race.

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Relatives put a portrait on the coffins containing the remains of Anggraini Fitria, a cabin crew on the Sukhoi Superjet100 that crashed on May 9 during a handover ceremony to family members at Halim Perdanakusumah airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 23, 2012.

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JAKARTA - Bodies of Sukhoi Superjet (SSJ) 100 crash victims were returned to their family on ceremony that took place in Halim Perdanakusuma Airport. The Transportation Minister EE Mangindaan led the event on Wednesday, May 23, 2012.

The Transportation Minister on behalf of the Indonesian government expressed the deepest condolences on the air accident which had taken the lives of 45 people.

“We have lost the people that we loved including journalists,” Mangindaan said.

The Minister also conveyed his appreciation to the people including the Military,

students, lovers of nature, and locals who have helped find and recover the victims. He said the evacuation of the crash victims on the slopes of Mt Salak took some time because the location was very difficult to reach and has an inclination of about 85 degrees, not to mention the adverse weather conditions.

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GIANYAR - Penetration of handicraft products from outside coming into the market of Bali in general and Gianyar in particular increasingly sticks out the local handicraft products. Such condition was revealed in a workshop entitled ‘Developing Synergy in the MSME Empowerment’

held by the Institute of Public Administration (LAN) in the Meeting Room of the Gianyar Regent’s Office on Tuesday (May 22). Assistant II of Gianyar Regional Secretariat, I Gede Widarma Suharta, when opening the workshop said that Gianyar Regency currently ranked second in the exports of handicrafts in Bali.

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Tourists shop at Sukawati Art Market that located in Gianyar, Bali Island. Penetration of handicraft products from outside coming into the market of Bali in general and Gianyar in particular increasingly sticks out the local handicraft products.