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“I’m so happy, this result is so im-portant for us,” Rossi said following his second-place finish, his best MotoGP result with Ducati. “I know we have a better chance in these conditions for the podium so I tried to ride in a better way to stay concentrated. We knew we had a special chance for [a top three], so it was very important to ride at the maximum.”

The seven-time world champion explained he dropped back in the early

stages of the race - when he was passed by Tech 3’s Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso - due to his visor fogging up, but was able to start pushing again once it had cleared.

“I was behind [Casey] Stoner and I could keep up with him, but then my visor steamed up because we are using a new helmet,” he told Italia1.

“I managed to open it and little by little air came through: when I was again able to see I started pushed again and

overtook the two Yamahas. I saw I was going quick and that I was closing up to Stoner, but Cal and Dovizioso came with me so I had to push at the maximum.

“Then I arrived with Stoner and it was a great battle as always. I’m happy for myself, for all the Ducati boys who work for me and my team. We needed this. Now let’s hope we can be more competitive in the dry too.”

Italian rider Valentino Rossi reacts during the award cer-

emony of the MotoGP Grand Prix of France, in Le Mans, western France, Sunday, May 20, 2012,

after he took the second place.

Jorge Lorenzo labelled his French Grand Prix triumph ‘very sweet’ after delivering a faultless ride in difficult wet conditions. Despite missing out on the front row for the second straight race, Lorenzo was in aggressive mood from the outset and had moved into the lead before the end of the first lap.

He rapidly extended his advantage in the early stages, when no-one could live with his pace, and was ultimately untroubled en route to a victory which earned him an eight-point lead over Honda’s Casey Stoner in the 2012 championship standings.

“The flavour of this victory is very sweet. In the dry it is complicated but in the wet it’s even more,” Lorenzo said. “The race feels much longer and it’s really difficult to hold concentration.

“You have to remember where the corners are slip-pery every lap, and if you forget one you can crash very easily.”

Lorenzo’s lead only ever looked in jeopardy when Stoner began closing around the sixth lap, but the mo-ment proved fleeting and he was soon extending his advantage again over his main points rival.

“When I saw Casey was catching me I didn’t lose it, I kept calm and didn’t force it too much,” Lorenzo said. “It would have been easy to push a bit more and make a mistake at that moment but I waited for a few more laps to see what happened then opened the gap again to win this fantastic race.

“A big thank you to my team who worked very hard in difficult conditions to make a set up that worked for me.”

Rossi knew Le Mans could be a crucial opportunity

Valentino rossi says he and Ducati were aware they had a special chance to finish on the podium at Le Mans given the race’s wet conditions. rossi, who said after qualifying that he was hoping for a wet race, explained that he rode at the maximum under the knowledge that the gP12 could fare better in the adverse conditions than it would have in the dry.

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Lorenzo savours ‘sweet’ MotoGP victory

The tourism village built must em-power the local communities more totally without relying on large investors from outside.

The matter was submitted by a legislator of the Buleleng House from Sukasada, Made Teja, in connection with the development of the upstream region at Pancasari village and Munduk

village. According to Teja, at Pancasari village, for instance, the residents should be empowered seriously to build an agro-tourism. Community activities in strawberry and vegetable garden as well as fishing activities using traditional boats could become a main attraction for tourists.

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LONDON — With his careful-ly tended hair, tight trousers and perfect harmonies, Robin Gibb, along with his brothers Maurice and Barry, defined the disco era. As part of the Bee Gees — short for the Brothers Gibb — they created dance floor classics like “Stayin Alive,” ‘’Jive Talkin’,” and “Night Fever” that can still get

crowds onto a dance floor.The catchy songs, with their

falsetto vocals and relentless beat, are familiar pop culture mainstays. There are more than 6,000 cover ver-sions of the Bee Gees hits, and they are still heard on dance floors and at wedding receptions, birthday parties, and other festive occasions.

Robin Gibb, 62, died Sunday “following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery,” his

family announced in a statement released by Gibb’s representative Doug Wright.

Gibb was the second disco-era star to die this week. Donna Sum-mer — who earned the Queen of Disco title by singing “Last Dance” and “I Feel Love” — died of cancer in Florida on Thursday.

The Bee Gees, born in England but raised in Australia, began their career in the musically rich 1960s

but it was their soundtrack for the 1977 movie “Saturday Night Fe-ver” that sealed their success. The album’s signature sound — some called it “blue-eyed soul” — re-mains instantly recognizable more than 40 years after its release.

The album remains a turning point in popular music history, ending the hard rock era and ushering in a time when dance music ruled supreme.

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BULeLeNg - To maintain the lake and for-est environment as well as to secure the sacred area, the government should seriously build a

tourism village in the upstream region such as at Pancasari village in Sukasada subdistrict

and Munduk village in Banjar subdistrict.

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James didn’t panic. He simply picked up his teammates and carried them to a win. And this time, Dwyane Wade helped.

James scored 40 points with 18 rebounds and nine assists, and Wade added 30 points — 22 in the second half — as Miami rallied to even their semifinal series against Indiana with a 101-93 win on Sunday over the Pac-ers, who had the defending Eastern Conference champions down couldn’t keep them there. “I felt like I had to do whatever it took to win,” said James, who played all but four minutes.

With All-Star forward Chris Bosh injured and back in Florida, the James-Wade tag team saved the Heat, who will host Game 5 on Tuesday night at AmericanAirlines Arena.

“Me and ‘Bron had it going,” said Wade, who bounced back from the worst playoff game of his career — five points on 2-of-13 shooting — with one of his best, “We played off of each other very well. We both were aggres-

sive at the same time. That’s beautiful basketball for the Miami Heat when we play that way.”

The Heat now head home back in control of the best-of-seven series, which is down to a best-of-three with two of the games on Miami’s home floor. “It’s still going to be a dogfight,” James said.

Udonis Haslem, playing with a large bandage covering a nasty cut over his right eye that required nine stitches, added 14 points for Miami. For a while, the Heat’s season was slipping away.

The underrated Pacers had built a 10-point lead in the third quarter and were threatening to run away as they did in Game 3, when James and Wade took over. They scored 38 consecu-tive points in one stretch bridging the second and third quarters and com-bined to score 28 of Miami’s 30 in the third when the Heat seemed to be playing with two to Indiana’s five.

“LeBron had that look,” Heat

forward Shane Battier said. “And when he has that look and Dwyane has that look, you want to run through a wall.”

Wade finished with nine rebounds and six assists, erasing the ugly memory of Game 3 when he also had a confrontation with Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, a public dispute that turned into a bigger deal than it prob-ably was because of a two-day break between games. The next day, Wade, who has refused to blame injuries for his recent struggles, visited his former Marquette coach Tom Crean, who is now at Indiana.

Wade said Crean had film for him to watch. “I was able to be a student of the game,” Wade said. “Just figur-ing out what I needed to do differently to help our team get this win. I just wanted to come out today and affect the game somehow. Obviously, I knew I was struggling a little bit on my offensive game. I wasn’t going to let that affect my overall game.”

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Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) dunks in front of Indiana Pacers’ George Hill (3), Roy Hibbert (55) and Paul George (24) during the second half of Game 4 of their NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series, Sunday, May 20, 2012, in Indianapolis.

James, Wade combine for 70 as Heat win Game 4Associated Press Writer

INDIANAPOLIS — The coveted NBA championship, the one LeBron James needs to validate everything, was vanishing. With 18,000 towel-waving fans roaring like the engines at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Indiana Pacers had knocked the Miami Heat to the floor and to the edge of elimination.

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — It was on the streets of her Harlem neighbor-hood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to winning Wimbledon. But according to the 1940 census, the trailblazing athlete didn’t even exist.

There’s no record of Gibson and her family in the decennial census, the records of which were released online to the pub-lic April 2 by the U.S. National Archives after a 72-year confi-dentiality period lapsed.

She and her family aren’t the only ones — more than a million black people weren’t accounted for in 1940, an undercount that had ramifications at the time on everything from the political map to the distribution of re-sources.

It also had an impact on the

Census Bureau itself, the agency said, leading to efforts that con-tinue to this day as it counts peo-ple every decade, to assess how well it managed to count people and to determine what could be done to improve. An analysis of the 2010 Census’ efficacy is being released May 22. The undercount estimate has gener-ally gone down, but it’s always been disproportionately higher for blacks than nonblacks.

There are a variety of rea-sons for undercounts — people move around; people may not know or be reluctant to answer government questions; ad-dress lists may be inaccurate; extremely crowded areas can be difficult to count, as can ex-tremely isolated areas. Experts believe some of those factors weigh more heavily on minor-ity undercounts, particularly the challenges of counting in urban areas.

Associated Press Writer

Babe Ruth equals big bucks. A baseball jersey worn by The Bambino sold for more than $4.4 million Sunday, a record for any item of sports memorabilia, ac-cording to the buyer and seller.

SCP Auctions, based in Cali-fornia, said the circa 1920 New York Yankees uniform top is the earliest known jersey worn by Ruth and it fetched $4,415,658 at the company’s April auction, which ended Sunday. That price broke the previous record of $4,338,500 set in 2010 for James Naismith’s founding rules of basketball.

Lelands.com said it submitted the winning bid for the jersey, which had been displayed for years at The Babe Ruth Birth-

place Museum in Baltimore. The road top has “New York” written across the front and the Hall of Fame slugger wore it shortly af-ter he was sold to the Yankees by the Boston Red Sox for $100,000 following the 1919 season.

Suzan French, a spokeswoman for Lelands.com, said the compa-ny plans to sell the jersey privately rather than re-auction it.

“Such a spectacular piece will find a home with one of our private clients who truly appre-ciates its historic significance,” Lelands.com president Michael Heffner said in a statement.

Ruth retired in 1935 with 714 home runs, the major league record for nearly 40 years. Hank Aaron broke that mark and then was passed by Barry Bonds, who finished with 762.

Black undercount found in 1940 census records

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FILE - In this June 26, 1956 file photo, trailblazing tennis star Althea Gibson competes in the first round of Wimble-don, in England.

Babe Ruth jersey sells for record $4.4 million

Denpasar (Bali Post)-The commodity of imported fruits

from other parts of the country or outside the country seemed to have flooeded the market a lot dominating up to 60-70 percent of the whole of fruits trading in Denpasar. The high demand daily of them caused Bali farmers disadvantaged as stated by Udayana University great lec-turer and agriculture expert, Prof. Wayan Windia last week. “Local farmers will lose many opportunities to fulfill locals need as they are not able to compete with overseas farmers that used better technol-ogy and marketing in their ways to sell their products. A protection is needed and vital such as a protection to the agriculture by government especially. It is seen that the local agriculture hasn’t been maximal when during religious days imported products flooded the traditional markets as local products quality not as good as the overseas, therefore public would buy it even though it is expensive. And so famers can’t develop further to improve quality,” Windia exclaimed.

Windia reminded the public’s aware-ness that to consume local fruits needs an early plantation while as the mid up to high economy class would use 0.3 percent of their income in buying imported fruits for their religious and consumption needs which means if their income increased 100 percent, then 30 percent of it used for that. The public are too much enjoy-ing imported products especially on fruits compared to local products. Yet even so, if government managed to pressure that then slowly the public would like their own plantation result.

According to sellers imported fruits were dominated due to their continuous supply and not disturbed by seasons while local would depend on seasons. Besides that imported products looked better than locals. Wayan Sudiani, a seller, admit-ted to have sold more of the imported products compared to locals up to now. From business wise, imported ones are much sellable than locals besides they are much further expired, they also gave more profit. “I very much agree if imported fruits distribution is tightened which will also followed by making consumers liking their local products and so it will be better for us in selling them as well,” Sudiani explained. (kmb28)

Such worries were conveyed by a legislator of Karangasem House, I Nengah Perdana Putra aka Matek, Sunday (May 20) in Karangasem. He said there had been 13 rafting companies taking advantage of the rapids of Telaga Waja River. Such amount of rafting companies could have absorbed hundreds of workers.

Perdana Putra who also has a rafting company in the river said he and other rafting investors equally revealed the same worries. In order to prevent the diminishing water discharge of Telaga Waja River and to preserve the sustainability of rafting operation, Perdana Putra hoped the Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, or operator of Telaga Waja River pipeline to find a way out. For example, it could be done by regulating the operating hours of the water source suction held at Arca. “Preferably, the suc-tion should not be carried out during the day,” he said.

Agriculture tech-nology shortage, Bali farmers hard to compete

Telaga Waja River

Sucked by pipeline network

Water of Telaga Waja River feared to shrink

Amlapura (Bali Post)—The lineup of rafting business people taking advantage of the rapids of Telaga Waja

River, Rendang, set to worry if the river’s flow will shrink. It happens because the water source will be later sucked up by the Telaga Waja River water pipeline network to be distributed to eight subdistricts.

He said that currently the rafting entrepreneurs taking advantage of the river already had an association. However, the minimal rate could not be obeyed by the rafting asso-ciation. As many rafting companies operating at the location, namely 13 units and one had gone bankrupt, such condition ultimately triggered an unhealthy competition. There was a newly emerging company that committed a descending price practice. Unavoidably, the un-healthy competition occurred and it was feared to harm all the parties if the government did not promptly take action by giving development or awareness.

He said the official rates estab-lished by the rafting association were IDR 180,000 per person for local tourist and IDR 225,000 per person for foreign tourist. However, due to the practice of descending price, there were operators selling the package at IDR 120,000 per person. As a matter of fact, added

Perdana Putra, the levies of aquatic tourism collected by Karangasem Regency did not matter as long as the minimal rate could be observed by members of the association.

At the moment, the levy of aquatic tourism was IDR 20,000 per person for foreign tourist and IDR 10,000 per person for local tourist. “Investors do not dispute the amount of levy provided that the minimum rate can be obeyed by the members of the association. I urge the government to help discipline the minimal rates of rafting,” he explained.

Related to the expectation of Perdana Putra asking for guidance from Karangasem Regency, the acting officer of the Karangasem Regional Secretary, I Wayan Arta Dipa, said that if requiring such a guidance or awareness develop-ment, the association should write to regency government. For instance, the regency government could be invited to the meeting of the rafting

company association. “Without for-mally invited, the regency govern-ment official certainly cannot come as such because it concerns with the association,” he said.

On the other hand, the Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, said the rafting entrepreneurs in Telaga Waja River should not have to worry if the water discharge would shrink or even run dry. Except, the headsprings decreased because of destruction happening to forests in the catch-ment areas in the upstream or Mount Agung. On that account, all parties, especially the rafting businessmen relying on their livelihood to the water discharge of Telaga Waja River, should actively participate in the forest conservation efforts.

He said the suction of head-springs of Telaga Waja River to be drained to the eight subdistricts in Karangasem through the Telaga Waja pipeline project would be carried out only at night for a few hours to fill in the reservoir. On that account, according to Geredeg, the rafting entrepreneurs should not fear if the water discharge of the river would diminish. (013)

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Nigeria’s John Utaka scored the two goals after relegated Auxerre had opened the scoring through Olivier Kapo. Montpellier finished the season on 82 points, leading second-placed Paris St Germain, who won 2-1 at Lorient, by three points.

Eden Hazard scored three in his farewell game as third-placed Lille, who will be in the Champi-ons League playoffs next season, beat Nancy 4-1. Olympique Lyon, who had nothing to gain or lose, finished fourth with a 4-3 defeat by visitors Nice. Girondins Bordeaux, fifth, secured a Europa League spot with a 3-2 victory at St Etienne.

Dijon and Caen were relegated to Ligue 2 with AJ Auxerre. “It’s incredible, I can hardly find the words,” Montpellier keeper Geof-frey Jourdren told Canal + as fans descended on to the pitch to cel-ebrate the title.

“Our only goal was to stay in the top flight and in the end we are champions. I’m going to enjoy it because it will probably be the only time it happens to me.”

The joyous celebrations at the end were in stark contrast to the crowd trouble that repeat-edly marred the second half of the contest.

Emotions spilled over when Auxerre fans threw tennis balls, toilet paper and tomatoes onto the pitch to cause the first two disrup-

tions. Referee Said Ennjimi de-layed the start of the second half by five minutes and then ushered the players back inside the tunnel after suspending the game again just five minutes after the interval.

However, riot police were called in when the match was halted for the third time in the 70th minute after raging Auxerre supporters threw flares onto the pitch.

With the jeering, whistling and booing fans showing no signs of calming down, the police moved in to evacuate sections of the stands, allowing Montpellier to complete their title charge without any fur-ther stoppages.

Montpellier, in only their third top-flight season after a five-year spell in Ligue 2, had climbed up the Ligue 1 ladderthanks to their free-flowing, inspired football and made sure they were rewarded for their hard work and belief on Sunday. At the Abbe Deschamps stadium, a Montpellier fan’s ban-ner read “historical season”. It was meant to be one.

WILD CELEBRATIONS

The players did not let their fans down even though they fell behind when Kapo beat Mapou Yanga Mbiwa to head home from a Roy Contout corner as Auxerre took the lead after 20 minutes. The visitors hit back 12 minutes

later when Utaka latched on to a Souleymane Camara cross from the right to make it 1-1.

Montpellier showed their com-posure amid the chaotic scenes erupting around them as Utaka doubled the tally in the 76th minute with a low shot from just inside the box, triggering wild but peace-ful celebrations in their corner. It ended PSG’s hopes of winning their first title since 1994 after the Qatar-backed side spent over 80 million euros ($101.78 million) on transfers last summer.

“We have to congratulate Mont-pellier. We did a good job tonight, we just lacked a little something,” said PSG coach Carlo Ancelotti, who took over from Antoine Kom-bouare last December when the club was leading the table.

“We need to have faith in the future.” PSG were 1-0 down after 28 minutes when some sloppy defending by Zoumana Camara allowed the unmarked Kevin Monnet-Paquet to head home from a Lucas Mareque cross. That game was also interrupted shortly afterwards for five minutes after PSG fans threw flares on to the pitch. The visitors levelled on 61 minutes thanks to a close-range goal from Javier Pastore. Thiago Motta made it 2-1 for PSG when he headed home from a Nene corner 15 minutes from time. But it was all for nothing.

Reuters

ROME - Napoli won their first major title since the Diego Mara-dona era, denied Serie A cham-pions Juventus the double and handed their captain Alessandro Del Piero an unhappy end to 19 seasons at the club by beating the Turin side 2-0 in the Italian Cup final on Sunday.

Edinson Cavani broke the dead-lock with a penalty just after the hour and Marek Hamsik finished off a counter-attack as Napoli claimed their first trophy since the Maradona-inspired team won Serie A in 1989/90. Juventus had substi-tute Fabio Quagliarella sent off in the 89th minute for a full-blooded elbow in the face of Salvatore Aronica after only 17 minutes on the pitch.

“This was a club that didn’t ex-ist, said Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis, a film-maker who refounded the club after it was de-clared bankrupt in 2004 and led it from Serie C back to the top flight. “In a few years we’ve brought something home, above all the

knowledge that Napoli exists, lives and can be the world champion of the sport.”

Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri said: “It seemed unthinkable to beat Juve. “They hadn’t ever lost this season (in Serie A) and to beat them 2-0 was magnificent work. The team has done something extraordinary in the last three years: Cavani, (Ezequiel) Lavezzi, Hamsik are on everyone’s lips, but it’s an entire team that should be acclaimed as one.”

“This was the 51st game of the season. Anyone who plays football knows that playing these games at that level is hard. We have paid in the championship for this. You can lose to anyone in our league, and we dropped too many points.”

Although Juventus had com-pleted their 38-match campaign in Serie A without losing, there was some debate over their 2-2 Italian Cup draw after extra time against AC Milan in their semi-final sec-ond leg. Milan claimed that, as they were winning 2-1 at the end of 90 minutes, that should count as a Juventus defeat.

Montpellier clinch maiden title as season ends in chaosReuters

AUXERRE, France - Montpellier players kept their cool to clinch a maiden Ligue 1 title with a 2-1 win at AJ Auxerre although the match descended into chaos as police were called in after local fans pelted the pitch with flares, tomatoes and toilet paper to interrupt the game three times on Sunday.

Montpellier’s Garry Bocaly celebrates after his French League one soccer match against Auxerre at the Abbe Deschamps stadium in Auxerre, central France, Sunday, May 20, 2012. Montpellier defeated

Auxerre 2-1 and celebrated its first title.

AP Photo/Thibault Camus

AP Photo/Massimo Pinca

Napoli’ s captain Paolo Cannavaro celebrates winning the Italian Cup soccer final after beating Juventus 2 - 0 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy, Sunday, May 20, 2012.

Napoli win first trophy since Maradona era

Mangupura (Bali Post) –The Badung Province Regula-

tion No 1 Year 2008 on HIV/AIDS Prevention Management seemed still not fully applied especially on the sanctions or fines that should be given to the spreader of the vi-rus as the supervision team is still uncreated. Head of Badung AIDS Prevention Commission (KPA) Daily Head, I Ketut Sudikerta, a while ago stated it is being formed which with it will be managed which part will get which sanction and so on. “Will it involve Police Civil Service, Police or KPA,”

Sudikerta stated.Sudikerta who’s also the Vice

Regent of Badung stated on the Regional Law No.1 Year 2008 that besides being jailed HIV/AIDS spreader also will be fined as much as IDR 50 million which its purpose to save the public and young generation from HIV/AIDS threat. Badung Government also supplies free medication in a number of health community centers for sufferers also in socializing the illness. Even so, Sudikerta hoped that all public members

to also support the prevention of this disease moreover 70 percent of this virus was spread by sex intercourse besides through breast feeding, the use of unsterilized injection needle, and blood transfusion. The total case in Badung is placed third in Bali where it is noted up to March 2012 as much as 793 cases which means 410 people with HIV and 383 people with AIDS which 70 of them are dead. Meanwhile the estimate of this case in Badung could reach up to 1,259 cases.(kmb25)

Sapta said that motorsport, tennis, golf and football could become a powerful magnet for the world community, so that many countries competed to become a host of the events to promote their country. For example, the World Cup ever held in Portugal managed to raise the tourist visit rate up to 5-10 percent. Similar positive impact also occurred to Cape Town in South Africa, Bei-jing in China, and London which would host the 2012 Olympics next month and the attention of world community would be fo-cused there.

Strategy to make the sport an entry point had been implemented in a number of destinations such as West Sumatra with the organiza-

tion of international cycling race entitled Tour de Singkarak enter-ing the fourth year and the results obtained was the increase in tour-ist visits to West Sumatera. Sport tourism was developed in a num-ber of destinations such as Bintan with the Bintan Triathlon and boat races on the Musi River.

Meanwhile, the entry point in the cultural f ield, among others, had been packaged in a jazz festival having a universal value. Aside from the Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta that had been famous throughout the world, similar jazz festival activities would also be organized in six other cities including Ambon, Makassar, Bangka-Belitung and Batam. (010)

Negara (Bali Post)—Since Saturday night (May 19)

a long queue of vehicles happened at Gilimanuk Harbor in conjunc-tion with the end of a long weekend holiday. The queues were dominated by tourist buses. Hundreds of tour-ist buses had queued up since last Saturday afternoon at Gilimanuk Harbor to cross to Ketapang Harbor, Banyuwangi.

A number of bus passengers claimed to have arrived at the harbor since the afternoon and some of them were about to stepping aboard. The queue was getting longer and longer at night and went out of the Gili-manuk Harbor. A teacher joining a tour package from Surabaya, Junaedi, 36, said that he was in the entourage

holidaying in Bali for three days. On Saturday, the entourage totally 10 buses would return to Surabaya. He along with high school students were waiting in the queue for up to an hour, but the buses had not entered into the ship. Nevertheless, he could understand because many groups tak-ing advantage of the last weekend for a holiday in Bali.

Another passenger, Rizki, from East Java, had come to Bali for two times with a group. Based on her previous experience, the bus just arrived at Gilimanuk Harbor at night, so it was stuck in a queue for few hours. On that account, the entourage had arrived early in the afternoon, but it was also subject to the queue. Based on observation

until Saturday night, the queues were dominated by tourist buses until reaching the maneuver parking area. The queues increased in the evening and all finally could go out in the morning. Predicted, the peak of queue would happen on Sunday night (May 20) especially for tourist buses and private vehicles.

Operations Manager of Gilimanuk Harbor, Ospar Silaban, said there was an increase in the number of vehicles crossing to Ketapang. They were predominated by tourist buses and private cars that had spent holidays in Bali. According to him, the increase reached about five percent. Estimat-ed, the peak of passenger backflows would take place on Sunday after-noon until evening. (kmb26)

For a week a number of lo-cals in Buleleng’s villages were made unease as a number of pigs robbery cases happened such as at Dusun Kunci, Tigewesa Vil-lage, Banjar and Banjar Dinas Kelodan, Panglatan Vil lage, Buleleng. Head of Buleleng Po-lice Operational Section, PC Ida Bagus Wedana Jati, on Sunday (20/5) stated the case at Kunci happened to Putu Ariantosa (38) last Wednesday (16/5) where robber took a male pig from victim’s place at midnight while victim’s asleep which expected

to value IDR 1 million. The case was then reported to Banjar Police which then Head Police, Nyoman Supardi, ordered of-ficers to haunt the robber which then they managed to find ac-cused Putu As (38). Meanwhile at Penglatan, the case hit victim Gede Agus Pertamayasa which his male pig valued IDR 600,000 was taken. The pig was tied up at the back of his house yet in the morning it was missing so victim reported it to Buleleng Police which until now is still being investigated. (kmb15)

Sport and culture effectively promote tourismJakarta (Bali Post)—

Deputy Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sapta Nirwandar, said that sports and music events could effectively serve as means of tourism promotion. On that account, the Ministry of Culture and Creative Economy placed the sport and culture as the entry point to promote tourism and creative economy to foreign countries. “Sport and culture are very effec-tive as entry point for promoting tourism and creative economy other than organizing exhibitions and sales mission,” he said in Jakarta, Sunday (May 20).

Thieves increasing, pig breeder restless

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The buses are queueing in Gilimanuk Harbor.

Tourist buses queued up at Gilimanuk Harbor last weekend

Reduce AIDS spread, Badung establish supervision team

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Medvedev, 46, named premier after Putin returned to the Kremlin on May 7, has pledged to launch pro-growth policies and a privatisa-tion drive to wean Russia’s $1.7 bil-lion economy off its dependence on oil. But, even though the partners in Russia’s ruling ‘tandem’ announced they would switch jobs as long ago as last September, the lengthy and secretive process of forming a gov-ernment has raised concerns that it will be riven by factional conflict.

Medvedev, speaking at a Group of Eight summit at the weekend where leaders discussed how to contain the

euro zone’s debt crisis, rebutted the skeptics. “The government will be substantially renewed - that’s why forming it has taken longer than in the past,” he said at Camp David, U.S. President Barack Obama’s retreat outside Washington.

“We have a plan of action ... that was tested in the first phase of the crisis,” Medvedev told reporters. “If needed, we can put it into effect - in that sense all our guns are loaded.”

The line-up to be unveiled on Monday will bring in new faces from the team of young market liberals who served in the Kremlin

during Medvedev’s four-year term as president.

One, Arkady Dvorkovich, shared smiles with Medvedev’s spokes-woman as the prime minister took questions from reporters outside a log cabin at Camp David.

Dvorkovich has been tipped as a deputy premier, sources and media reports say, with Monday’s edition of financial daily Vedomosti naming him among seven deputy prime ministers who will report to Medvedev. Four of the seven already hold that post.

WHO’S IN CHARGE?Sources say Putin, 59, is likely to

extend his influence over economic policy by ensuring that the finance and economy portfolios are taken by placemen who identify with his credo of state-led economic development.

Reuters

ATHENS - The charismatic Greek leftist who could determine the fate of the euro begins a tour of European capitals on Monday carrying a single message: it’s time to talk. In an interview on the eve of his first visit abroad since his surprise rise in a May 6 election, Alexis Tsipras veered occasionally into the combative rhetoric that has seduced disaffected Greek youth and alarmed Brussels and Berlin.

But he also stressed repeatedly that he wants negotiations to keep Greece in the euro. He said he was looking to forge ties with like-minded European figures, includ-ing new French President Francois Hollande, who want to soften austerity policies by finding new ways to encourage growth.

“The first reason we are taking this trip is because we want the governments of these important Eu-ropean Union countries, France and Germany, to see what we stand for: what is being transmitted in Europe

about us is not what we represent and want,” Tsipras told Reuters at the office of his SYRIZA party.

He will not be meeting govern-ment officials, but will see fellow leftists in France and Germany, in-cluding former French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon and Klaus Ernst and Gregor Gysi of Ger-many’s The Left. He will hold news conferences in both capitals to get his message to a wider audience.

“We are not at all an anti-Euro-pean force. We are fighting to save social cohesion in Europe. We are maybe the most pro-European force in Europe, because its dominant powers will lead the union into instability and the euro zone to collapse if they insist on austerity,” he said.

While he repeated his assertion that the terms of a 130 billion bail-out agreement Greece signed with international lenders in March are now a “dead letter”, he said that if he comes to power he will seek a new policy mix to keep Greece in the euro.

Agence

The leader of putschists who ousted Mali’s president in March will retain the title of former head of state and all privileges coming with it, interim authorities and the West African ECOWAS bloc said. “Captain Amadou Sanogo has the status of former head of state. He will have all the benefits coming with his rank,” Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister Djibrill Bassole, one of the mediators in the post-coup crisis, said on state radio on Sunday.

The Malian authorities and ECOWAS mediators also agreed on

a transition period to full democratic rule of one year, which will start af-ter a 40-day interim period imposed by the constitution under interim President Dioncounda Traore.

Traore, 70, will lead the country during the transition, sources close to the putschists and the Economic Community of West African States mediators told AFP. He was presi-dent of Mali’s parliament until the ouster of president Amadou Toumani Toure by the military on March 22.

Sunday’s agreements were signed by Sanogo, Traore, his Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and Bassole, sources close to Sanogo

and the mediators said.Bassole and the foreign min-

isters of Ivory Coast and Nigeria, Adama Bictogo and Mohamed Nourredine, have been on their mediation mission in Bamako since Saturday, when they reached an agreement in principle for Traore to head the transition period until elections can be held. No timeline was then given.

After the March 22 coup the putschists agreed to return power to a civilian government following an agreement with ECOWAS. Traore was inaugurated as interim president on April 12 but has so far failed to put an end to the political crisis.

AFP Photo/Issouf Sanogo

The leader of putschists who ousted Mali’s president in March, Captain Amadou Sanogo, pictured in April, will retain the title of former head of state and all privileges coming with it, interim authorities and the West African ECOWAS bloc said on Sunday.

Mali coup leader to have status of former head of state

REUTERS/Yorgos Karahalis

Head of Greece’s Left Coalition party Alexis Tsipras (C), accompanied by party officials, leaves from the Presidential palace following a meeting with political leaders and the Greek President in Athens May 15, 2012.

Greek leftist brings message to Europe: “Let’s talk” Russian Presi-

dent Vladimir Putin meets with Igor Kholman-skikh, right, a section head at the Uralvagonza-vod tank fac-tory in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil that builds battle tanks, in Novo-Ogaryovo residence out-side Moscow on Friday, May 18, 2012.

AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Yana Lapikova, Government Press Service

Putin to dominate new Russian governmentReuters

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin will unveil a govern-ment dominated by loyalists on Monday, leaving Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev limited scope to pursue his reform agenda and entrenching the Kremlin’s grip over the economy’s commanding heights.

The rare lunar-solar alignment was visible in Asia early Monday before it moved across the Pacific — and the international dateline — where it was seen in parts of the western United States late Sunday afternoon.

People from Colorado, Oklaho-ma and as far away as Canada trav-eled to Albuquerque to enjoy one of the best vantage points at a park on the edge of the city. Members of the crowd smiled and cheered

and children yelled with excitement as the moon crossed the sun and the blazing halo of light began to form. Some watched the eclipse by placing their viewing glasses on the front of their smartphones.

Eventually, the moon centered and covered about 96 percent of the sun. “That’s got to be the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen,” said Brent Veltri of Salida, Colo.

Elsewhere, viewing parties were

held at observatories in Reno, Nev., and Oakland, Calif., while skywatch-ers gathered in coastal and forest counties in California. In some areas, special camera filters for taking pho-tographs have been sold out for weeks in anticipation of the big event.

Yet, while millions were making an effort to view the eclipse, some American Indians were adhering to tradition by staying indoors. Navajo Bonnie Charley of Monument Val-ley in northeast Arizona said she follows her tribe’s traditions.

“You’re supposed to stay inside,” said the 75-year-old Charley, whose father was a medicine man. “No eating, drinking or sleeping. That’s for the duration of the eclipse.” She said Navajo traditions surrounding eclipses stem from their beliefs regarding creation.

ThiS month marks the 20th anniver-sary of a spectacular day for zoologists. Two decades ago, in May 1992, scientists announced the discovery of a new species — the saola — living in the lush mountain forests that straddle the Vietnam-Laos border. It was the first large mammal discovered since the 1930s.

Yet celebrations are muted in light of the elusive species’ plight; the saola, also known as the “Asian unicorn,” is likely fast disap-pearing, conservationists warned in an an-nouncement today, and they say there could be only 200, or even as few as just several dozen of the animals left on the planet.

The saola is a small, horned animal that resembles a strange antelope hybrid, but is more closely related to a type of wild

cow. Vietnamese scientists first identified the new species only through the bizarre, horned skulls that villagers living near the animal’s range had collected.

Stark markings on the face, long, graceful horns and a tufted tail lend to the animal’s mystique. But according to Barney Long, an Asian species expert for the conservation organization WWF, the creature got its mythical moniker more for its habits than its looks.

“It’s so rare to see that it would almost be like seeing a unicorn,” Long told OurA-mazingPlanet in 2011, when a protected area for saola was created in Vietnam. These secretive ungulates wander the steamy green forests of South Asia’s Annamite Mountains, where poaching is

rampant. Although saola themselves are not prized in the wildlife trade or for their meat, many of their neighbors are.

“Saola are caught largely as bycatch — like the tuna and dolphin scenario,” Wil-liam Robichaud, coordinator of the Saola Working Group, said in a statement. And although the rare creatures are caught and killed by snares, scientists have never ob-served them in the wild. The rare saola that has been captured alive has quickly died.

“When they’re in captivity, they seem to act extremely tame, and they’re very open to having people come up to them and touch them,” Long said, but explained that their sweet demeanor is likely a sign of extreme stress. “The animal is freaking out,” he said.

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Researchers on Thursday chal-lenged a tenet of modern medi-cine that higher levels of “good” cholesterol automatically boost cardiovascular health. In a study published in The Lancet, investiga-tors said they found no evidence to back the belief that higher levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol routinely reduce the risk of a heart attack.

High concentrations of HDL are one of the big markers for blood tests. They are monitored as much as low levels of “bad” choles-terol (low-density lipoprotein, or LDL) as a yardstick of dangerously clogged arteries.

The paper used a method called mendelian randomisation to com-pare heart-attack risk among people who inherited known genetic vari-ants that gave them higher HDL levels.

According to conventional wis-

dom, these individuals would have a lower risk of a coronary. But the study, which looked at nearly 12,500 people with a history of a heart attack and over 41,000 oth-erwise healthy counterparts, found this was not always the case.

The results are important be-cause of the use of drugs, some-times inflicting side effects, which are administered to boost HDL cholesterol levels. “These results show that some ways of raising HDL cholesterol might not reduce risk of myocardial infarction [heart attack] in human beings,” said Sekar Kathiresan of Massachusetts Gen-eral Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

“Therefore, if an intervention such as a drug raises HDL choles-terol, we cannot automatically as-sume that risk of myocardial infarc-tion will be reduced.” In contrast, the study said “bad” cholesterol remained an accurate marker of cardiac risk.

Elusive ‘Asian Unicorn’ Faces Extinction

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A female saola, captured in 1996.

‘Good’ cholesterol doctrine may be flawed: study

AFP Photo/Chris Hondros

A person gives a blood sample for a cholesterol check. Researchers on Thursday challenged a tenet of modern medicine that higher levels of “good” cholesterol automatically boost cardiovascular health.

Eclipse crosses Asia, US: Millions look skywardAssociated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From a park near Albuquerque, to the top of Japan’s Mount Fuji, to the California coast the effect was dramatic: The moon nearly blotting out the sun creating a blazing “ring of fire” eclipse. Millions of people across a narrow strip of eastern Asia and the Western U.S. turned their sights skyward for the annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges.

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

An annular solar eclipse is partially seen at sunrise Monday, May 21, 2012, from the coastal township of Gumaca, Quezon province, 187 kilometers (116 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines.

PHYSICALLY, Dewi Sinta Hotel, Restaurant & Spa is not as grandiose as the hotels located in the premier tourist resorts of Nusa Dua, Sanur or Kuta. However, never misunderstand! The budget hotel located in the Tanah Lot tourist destination has its own unique-ness, both in terms of panorama or services extended. “Though it is a budget hotel, we provide services based on the standard of star-rated hotels,” said I Gusti Gde Aryadi, the owner of the hotel, last week.

Most importantly, continued Aryadi, he provided services for guests with friendliness, honesty and professionalism, so as to create impressive images for the only hotel in the favorite tourist area in Bali. Familiar and familial atmosphere was not only intended for the staff, but also became a priority for ev-

ery single traveler. “We also give awards for the best employees as a way to encourage the morale of our workers in providing the best ser-vices,” added the pioneer of Tanah Lot tourist object calmly.

Dewi Sinta is the oldest hotel since the Tanah Lot was visited by many tourists. The entire building is designed by perfectly combining the traditional elements and stylish ar-chitecture to engender a convenient tourism sanctuary to unwind. Aura of the sanctity exuded by the Tanah Lot Temple, Enjung Galuh Temple and Pakendungan Temple give more profound tranquility. Meanwhile, the existing lush tropical gardens confer a typical countryside nuance.

There are 20 rooms consisting of 2 types on offer, namely standard and deluxe room with air condition-ing, private bathroom with hot and

cold water, IDD telephone, TV, and mini bar. In front of the hotel rooms stretches an enchanting terraced rice fields in combination with the verdant fairways of golf course and swimming pool. These added-value backdrops made this accommoda-tion close to nature. Additionally, it is also equipped with spa treatment facilities featuring with Balinese therapies to blissfully pamper guests with freshness and fitness.

In the meantime, Dewi Sinta is also equipped with restaurant offering a va-riety of menu choices such as Balinese, Indonesian, Chinese, Seafood and Eu-ropean cuisine. All delicacies are care-fully prepared by well-experienced cooks. Interestingly, breakfast, lunch and dinner are optionally served in a la carte or buffet style.

Other amenities equipping the hotel property are an open stage and

a conference room with a capacity of 300 people. Such facilities offer a dinner party with traditional cul-tural performances such as Kecak, Tektekan, Legong and shadow puppets. Best services, guaranteed security and good relationship

with the surrounding communities led the hotel to achieve some out-standing achievements such as the Security Certificate from the Bali Police with gold predicate, bronze medal in THK Awards and the best taxpayer in Tabanan Regency.

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Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for April 20 through May 20, 2012

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

20 Apr Tilem Kedasa - Pura Kahyangan Tiga Batur Bangli- Pura Batur Camenggon-Sukawati- Pura Luhur Bhujangga Camggu Kuta- Pura Kawitan Kayu Selem Tampurhyang Batur-Kintamani

21 Apr Hari Tumpek Kandang - Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota Gianyar- Pura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - Tabanan- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung

25 Apr Buda Wage Menail - Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Cemenggaon Sukawati- Mr. Pasek Dangke bambang - Bangli- Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Pejeng Kaja - Gianyar- Pura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - Bangli- Merajan Agung Blangsinga - Blahbatuh- Pura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh Gianyar- Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Sukawati- Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan Kapal Mengwi

1 May Anggar Kasih Perangbakat - Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - Klungkung- Pura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - Bangli- Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - Buleleng- Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - Klungkung- Pura Gunung Tengsong Lombok.- Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar- Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar- Pura Dalem Banyuning Timur Buleleng- Pura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas Denpasar- Pura Tengah Padang Tegalalang- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - Pupuan Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Denpasar- Pura Hyangaluh/Jenggala Besakih- Merajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan Gunaksa- Mr. Pasek Gelgel Selulung- Merajan Pasek Subrata Medahan- Merajan Pasek Munggu Munggu- Pura Tengkulak Tulikup - Gianyar- Pura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen.

2 May Buda Umanis Perangbakat - Pura Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring- Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana- Pura Batu Bolong Canggu - Kuta- Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan- Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Jembrana- Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan - Buleleng.- Pura Pasek Tangkas Darma Reyanggede Tabanan- Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng- Pr. Srijon Tabanan- Mr. Pasek Gelgel Lebah Pangkung- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Patemon- Pura Tirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak Siring- Pura Dadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba Tegalalang.- Pura Pedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel Tabanan.- Pura Puncak Mundi Nusa Penida.

5 May Purnama Jiyestha - Pura Segara Lombok- Pura Dwijawarsa Malang- Pura Puncaktingguh Angsri Baturiti Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Desa Jatiluwih Penebel Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Batur Tonja Denpasar- Pura Masopahit Grenceng Denpasar- Pura Penyungsungan Pasek Tohjiwa Wanagiri Selemadeg.- Pura Pamerajan Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem- Pura Eka Dharma Sweta Indah-Mataram, NTB.

16 May Buda Keliwon Ugu - Pura Dalem Tarukan Desa Peninjoan Tembuku - Bangli.- Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba-kaba Tabanan- Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng- Pura Desa Kayangan Tiga Desa Bubunan Seririt - Buleleng- Pura Agung Gunung Raung Banjar Taro Kaja Taro - Tegalalang- Merajan Pasek Dangka Bungbungan

20 May Tilem Jiyestha. - Pura Bhujangga Waisnawa Gumrih Jembrana.

Dewi Sinta Hotel:Relishing Sea View in Fusion with Terraced Rice Fields

The film is approaching the $1.2 billion mark worldwide, totaling $457.1 million domestically and $723.3 million internationally. “’The Avengers’ is dominating the market-place so profoundly that the newcom-ers are having a tough time breaking in now,” said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hol-lywood.com.

Universal’s “Battleship” opened a distant No. 2 with $25.4 million domestically, well below industry expectations. But the board-game adaptation starring Liam Neeson, Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna already has grossed $226.8 million overseas since launching in April, giving it a worldwide total of $252.1 million.

“I would be glad to be No. 2 if we

opened to a better number. But given the presence of an absolute juggernaut in the marketplace, there’s nothing you can do,” said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal. “Not to have a shot at being No. 1 this weekend is disappointing. But it’s a challenge with ‘Avengers’ out there.”

Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedy “The Dictator,” in which he plays a tyrannical third-world leader, debuted in third-place with $17.4 million for the weekend. Since opening Wednes-day, the Paramount release has taken in $24.5 million.

“The Dictator” opened with $30.3 million in 29 overseas markets, giv-ing it a worldwide haul of $54.8 million.

Associated Press Writer

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Best-selling author Dan Brown made a rare public appearance in New Hampshire on Friday, saying very little about his next novel other than he’s well into the writing process.

“The Da Vinci Code” au-thor, who grew up in New Hampshire, spoke at a benefit for The Music Hall’s “Writ-ers on a New England Stage” series in Portsmouth.

Brown is working on a new book that again features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as protagonist. In ad-dition to “The Da Vinci Code,” Langdon’s appeared in “Angels and Demons” and “The Lost Symbol.”

Brown was witty through-out the session in the late 19th century brick theater, and set the tone of the evening with several personal anecdotes from his childhood, which influenced his thoughts on the

tense coexistence of science and religion.

Despite persistent ques-tioning from his fans and the media, Brown was tight-lipped about his next novel. Brown said it took a year and a half to research and that he is “well into the process of writing it.”

“The novel will be set in Europe, in the most fascinating place I’ve ever been,” he said. Asked when the new book will be released, he said only “It’ll be done when it’s done.” The author said he felt no pressure to complete the novel soon.

“My publisher wants good books, not quick ones,” he said. Brown began the session by introducing his parents and telling the crowd his mother Constance’s birthday was Sat-urday.

“I owe everything to my parents,” said Brown, whose father was a math teacher and mother was a church organist and piano teacher.

Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO - Getting married was a smart business move as well as a personal milestone for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, with the timing of the wedding, the day after the company’s initial public offering, potentially proving par-ticularly advantageous, California divorce lawyers said on Sunday.

Assuming the couple signed a prenuptial agreement, as most wealthy Californians do, Zucker-berg and Chan would have agreed exactly how to split assets, includ-ing his Facebook stock, if their marriage dissolved in future. Even without a prenup, the wedding’s timing would help establish the

value of their assets in the event of any future divorce battle, lawyers said.

A spokeswoman for Facebook declined to comment on whether the couple signed such an agreement. Priscilla Chan and Zuckerberg live together in the modest house in Palo Alto, Calif., where they were mar-ried on Saturday.

The couple met as undergradu-ates at Harvard University in 2004. Zuckerberg, now 28, dropped out of college to work on Facebook, while Chan, a pediatrician, stayed to earn her undergraduate degree in 2007. Chan’s work led to Facebook created an organ donation page. The pair recently travelled to China.

Had they continued the status

quo, Chan could potentially lay claim to a much larger portion of assets, including a chunk of his $20 billion in Facebook shares, lawyers say.

“In California, people who live together without the benefit of marriage could claim they had an agreement to pool resources and efforts,” said Napa, Calif., lawyer Robert Blevans. Although they are hard to prove, “those claims can get really ugly.”

Zuckerberg’s post-IPO wedding is smart legal move

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Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are seen in this screen-

grab of a wedding photo posted on Zuckerberg’s Facebook page

May 19, 2012.

‘Da Vinci Code’ author Dan Brown speaks in NH

AP Photo/Disney, File

FILE - This file photo of a film image released by Disney shows Iron Man, portrayed by Robert Downey Jr., left, and Captain America, portrayed by Chris Evans, in a scene from “The Avengers.

‘Avengers’ sinks ‘Battle-ship” to remain No. 1Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — “The Avengers” continues to muscle out everything else Hollywood throws at it, easily sinking naval rival “Battleship” and other new releases. With $55.1 million domestically, Disney’s superhero sensation remained No. 1 for a third-straight weekend and took in more than the three big newcomers combined. Overseas, “The Avengers” added an additional $56 million.

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“He died an hour ago,” his brother Abdelhakim al-Megrahi told AFP, putting the time of death at shortly after 1 pm (1100 GMT).

A Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted Megrahi in 2001 of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, which killed all 259 people on board along with 11 people on the ground.

Most of the passengers on the Boeing 747 jet headed from London to New York were Amer-icans.

Megrahi, 60, who suffered from prostate cancer, was re-leased on compassionate grounds in 2009 after doctors said he had only three months to live.

His death on Sunday prompted sharply contrasting reactions.

The US government, which

was outraged by Scotland’s deci-sion to free the former Libyan air-line security chief, said his death ended an “unfortunate chapter.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, said the Libyan should never have been released from prison and rejected calls for an inquiry into his con-viction.

“Megrahi’s death concludes an unfortunate chapter follow-ing his release from prison in 2009 on medical grounds -- a move we strongly opposed,” said US National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor.

“We will continue working with our new partners in Libya toward a full accounting of Kad-hafi’s horrific acts,” he added.

Britain’s newspapers believe that his initial conviction by a Scottish court in 2001 was flawed

and called for an official probe.“With so many loose ends re-

maining and so many questions about the original trial unre-solved, the Scottish government should agree to a public inquiry into the tragedy,” said the left-leaning Independent’s editorial.

“Megrahi’s death is no reason to stop trying to get to the truth,” it added.

Megrahi had always main-tained his innocence, arguing that US agencies “led the way” in securing his conviction, and his brother Abdelhakim defended him on Sunday, saying he was the “scapegoat” of Moamer Kad-hafi’s regime.

“He has died and has left us with the feeling of injustice,” he told AFP. “Everyone knows that the Kadhafi regime blamed its mistakes on others.”

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Sources: Lord Advocate’s Chambers (Edinburgh), Aircraft Accident Report 2/90 (Air Accidents Investigation Branch, 1990), World Aircraft Information Files (Bright Star Publishing plc), AA Road Atlas of the British Isles

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Northern trailSouthern trailMiscellaneous items

Aircraftflight path

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WRECKAGE KEY

A74

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B6357B725

B722

B7068

THE BREAK-UPBomb explodes at 9,450 metres,

splitting the plane into several large pieces which fall almost vertically

The detonation creates a largestarburst rupture with extendedcracking. Shock waves rush intocavities and the plane explodes

Memorial stoneat Lockerbie

Explosion blowsfuselage open

Cargo and debrissever tail plane

Forward fuselage and flight deckseparate,knocking offnumber threeengine

Remaining aircraftdisintegrates, one wing hits town of Lockerbie, exploding in a fireball which creates a large crater

Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died of cancer on Sunday aged 60, leaving many questions on the attack and its aftermath unanswered

THE BOMBING OF PAN AM FLIGHT 103

Remains ofcockpitfound atTundergarth

Semtex bombhidden in radio /cassette player…

Suitcase stowed in lowerdeck container, AVE 4041 PAand placed in the forwardcargo hold

Radio concealedin suitcase

Made of Semtex and invisible to x-rays

Bomb timer

The Boeing 747 explodes with wreckage falling in two distinctive trails – most of the damage being done to two housing estates in Lockerbie

Northern wreckage trailSouthern wreckage trailSherwood Cres. (Crater)Rosebank Cres.Missing

THE FUSELAGE FRACTURES

S C O T L A N D

Edinburgh

Lockerbie

DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY

Pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, 13 flight attendants and 243 passengers died on board the flight; 11 residents of Lockerbie died with five others injured

Three years were spent after the crash cataloguing 20,000 recovered itemsLocal residents spent one year cleaning 11,000 items of clothing and luggage for return to relatives, mostly in the U.S.Tundergarth cemetery holds a memorial book of the dead

THE AFTERMATH

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Lockerbie bombing convict dies in LibyaAgence France Presse

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died almost three years after being freed from jail on com-passionate grounds. Reuters

MELBOURNE - Australia’s top airline Qantas Airways said on Monday it is eliminating 500 jobs by merging maintenance facilities to save up to A$100 million ($98.4 million) annually, as high fuel costs and weak demand take a toll on airline profits.

Qantas, which is emerging from a costly indus-trial dispute, said in statement it will stop heavy maintenance in Tullamarine in Melbourne and concentrate on centers in Brisbane and Avalon, re-sulting in the job cuts. It had, in February, flagged another 500 job cuts for the group.

The latest move will save it A$70 million to A$100 million a year but will result in one-off costs of A$50 million, and takes estimated costs of an overhaul plan for the second half of fiscal 2012 to between A$250 million and A$260 mil-lion, it said.

The overhaul plan is a bid by Chief Executive Alan Joyce to protect profits and the investment-grade rating of Qantas.

Earlier this month, the airline said it would delay taking delivery of two new A380s to cut capital expenditure by a further A$400 million, raising capex cuts to A$900 million. It is also

consolidating engineering, ground and mainte-nance operations and wants to sell some catering centers.

“Like the manufacturing industry, aviation maintenance is a labor and capital intensive sector,” Chief Executive Alan Joyce said in a statement.

“Our cost base in heavy maintenance is 30 per cent higher than that of our competitors - we must close this gap to secure Qantas’ future viability and success.”

The review of heavy maintenance was an-nounced in February when Qantas said its first-half profit halved and follows the introduction of newer aircraft such as the A380 super jumbo and plans for the new Boeing 787s.

“We cannot take advantage of this new gen-eration of aircraft if we continue to do heavy maintenance in the same way we did 10 years ago,” Joyce said.

More than 90 percent of Qantas’s 30,000-plus employees are in Australia, and employee unions’ fears that it will send jobs offshore helped spark last year’s bruising industrial battle that led to the grounding of its entire fleet and prompted inter-vention by Australia’s industrial umpire.

Persistent political divisions — neatly bridged by a Group of Eight summit state-ment that advocates a mix of austerity and growth promotion — and lack of money stand in the way of a comprehensive Euro-pean growth strategy. Analysts said markets were likely to look past the verbal deal, with news about Greece’s struggle to stay in the eurozone and an informal European Union summit Thursday in Brussels more likely to set the tone.

At Saturday’s G-8 summit, German Chan-cellor Angela Merkel — under urging from U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande — signed onto a statement that called for mixing painful

cutbacks with growth-promoting measures to deal with a crisis that threatens the global economy.

The leaders warned that budget deficits have to come down. But they also acknowl-edged that an approach that’s based mostly on austerity and longer-term reforms can’t help countries out of recessions this year or next. That’s the approach that has dominated the continent’s German-led attack on the crisis since it erupted in late 2009, when Greece admitted its finances were broken.

They said little about specific steps and left exactly what to do up to individual countries, saying they recognize “the right measures are not the same for all of us.”

Associated Press

BEIJING — A Chinese conglomer-ate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Enter-tainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China’s biggest takeover of an American company to date.

Dalian Wanda Group Co.’s purchase reflects the global ambitions of a wave of cash-rich Chinese companies that are using acquisitions to speed their expansion by obtaining foreign skills and brand names.

Wanda said the deal will create the world’s biggest movie theater operator. The Beijing-based company said it will invest an additional $500 million to fund AMC’s development. AMC operates 346 cinemas, mostly in the United States and Canada, and says it has 23 of the 50 highest-grossing U.S. outlets.

“We support AMC becoming bigger, not only in the United States but in the global market,” said Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin at a signing ceremony for the acquisition.

The deal reflects rising Chinese in-vestment in U.S. corporate assets despite disputes between the two governments over trade and political issues such as this month’s diplomatic standoff over a blind Chinese legal activist.

The deal is the third-largest Chinese corporate investment in the United States, according to financial research firm Dealogic. It ranks behind invest-

ments by Beijing’s sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corp., of $5 billion in Morgan Stanley and $3 billion in Blackstone Group LP, both for minor-ity stakes in 2007.

Wanda, founded in 1988 and privately owned, operates hotels, department stores, tourism and other businesses and says it had 2011 revenue of $16.7 billion. The company employs 50,000 people and its assets include 86 theaters in China.

AMC’s owners include Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital, the Carlyle Group, CCMP Capital Advisors and Spec-trum Equity Investors.

AMC has reported losses for the past three years but its CEO, Gerry Lopez, said it has returned to profit this year due to strong ticket sales.

Wang, the Wanda chairman, said AMC’s financial problems were due to the cost of servicing high debt. He said conditions should improve once an injec-tion of Wanda’s cash allows it to pay off some of that.

The acquisition comes as Hollywood is looking to China both for its fast-growing audience and for production partners.

Walt Disney Co. has said its next “Iron Man” movie will be co-produced with a Chinese partner and “Chinese elements” will be added to the story to increase its local appeal. DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. unveiled a venture in March with three Chinese companies to make animated and live action material.

Europe faces difficult search for growthAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — On paper at least, European leaders agree: They need stronger growth measures to help their economies expand out of their 2½-year-old government debt crisis. Figuring out exactly what those new steps might be will be the hard part.

Qantas to cut another 500 maintenance jobs

AP Photo/Ron Heflin/file

A May 11, 2005, file photo shows the exterior of the AMC Grand 24 movie theatre in Dallas, Texas. A Chinese conglomerate has announced Monday May 21, 2012 it will buy U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings for $2.6 billion to create the world’s biggest movie theater operator.

Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC

“To that end, the government should help them by providing capital or building other supporting facilities,” he said.

So far, said Teja, the upstream region had a great potential to be developed into a major nature tourism area. However, to maintain its natural beauty, the government should let people manage them-selves and the government only led them. “If relying on large inves-tors, it is worried that people will be unable to enjoy any benefits,” he said.

Based on observation of Bali Post, since the overflowing water from Lake Buyan and Lake Tam-blingan, the tourism activities in the region were still alive. Several tourists still visited the Lake Tam-blingan object. Many groups of for-eign tourists from many countries seemed to visit the object. They were dominated by tourists from France, Holland, Japan and other countries. Those tourists were in-terested in exploring the protected forest escorted by a guide and then traveled around the lake by riding a traditional boat rented by local residents.

A resident delivering tourists around the lake was Jro Nyoman Sari, 50, said that every day there were many tourists visiting Tam-blingan. Averagely the foreign tour-ist visit to Tamblingan reached 40 people. From those foreign tourists making a visit, Sari claimed to get an income from taking them around the lake with a charge of IDR 50,000. In one time departure, he could carry four passengers of for-

eign tourists. The income obtained was deposited to his organization at IDR 10,000, so the net income earned was IDR 40,000. “If there are no strong waves and winds the voyage can take an hour, but under big waves and strong winds the boat will move a bit slower,” he said.

Sari added that since the lake water overflowed and submerged his home, the foreign tourist visits remained normal. Even, in next July and August he predicted the foreign tourist visits would increase as entering a high season. “All the guests even frequently had a closer look at the submerged houses around the lake. Thankfully, though our home has been submerged we can still work to purchase rice and support our school children,” he explained.

Each group of foreign tourists making a visit to Tamblingan object is handled by management on duty at the entrance into the area. At the object, the management offers some tour packages to tourists or the escorting guide. The packages offered are such as trekking into the forest and then picked up by boat owner to further go around the lake. Another package is trekking with-out lake tour. Each group of tourists that took the trekking and lake tour package would be escorted to have a lake tour with boat owner group coalesced into the Astiti Amerta after accomplishing the trekking. “This cooperation has been running well to serve every tourist making a visit here,” said one of the object administrators. (ole/kmb)

It became one of the fastest-selling albums of all time with its innovative fusion of harmony and pulsing beats. The movie launched the career of a young John Travolta whose snake-hipped moves to the sounds of “You Should Be Dancing” established his reputation as a dancer and forever linked his image to that of the Bee Gees.

Recording Academy president Neil Portnow predicted that fans will dance to “Stayin’ Alive” and other songs Bee Gees songs for generations to come.

“Robin has had an indelible impact on music,” he said.

Despite financial success, Robin Gibb and his brothers endured repeated tragedies. Maurice died suddenly of in-testinal and cardiac problems in 2003. Their younger brother Andy Gibb, who also enjoyed considerable chart success as a solo artist, had died in 1988 just after turning 30. He suf-fered from an inflamed heart

muscle attributed to a severe viral infection.

The Bee Gees consisted of Barry Gibb, the eldest, and twins Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb. Their three-part harmo-nies became their musical sig-nature, particularly in the disco phase, when Barry’s matchless falsetto often dominated, and they were renowned for their wide-ranging songwriting and producing skills.

The Gibbs were born in Eng-land on the Isle of Man, an island in the Irish Sea, but moved to Aus-tralia with their parents in 1958 when they were still quite young and began their musical career there. They had been born into a musical family, with a father who was a drummer and bandleader and a mother who liked to sing.

After several hits in Aus-tral ia , their career s tar ted to really take off when they returned to England in 1967 and linked up with promoter Robert Stigwood.

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Penglipuran Village is a tradi-tional countryside owning unique characteristic life, socializing and culture. It is located in Kubu Vil-lage , Bangli Sub district and Bangli Regency. The natural nature and environments of countryside is designating the pittance touch of modernization influence. This countryside is supported by cool atmosphere because it is located on the height land about 700 m above sea level and according to

history of all old doyens that this countryside is taken away from the word Pengeling Pura what its meaning remember to ancestor, but there is also telling that the word of Penglipur mean the entertainer. It is said that at former empire era, all king often use this area as a place to amuse themselves, because its nature is beautiful and can give the peacefulness and inspiration at the time of experiencing a problem.

The houses exist in this coun-tryside from north to the south is look very beautiful in particular the

Balinese traditional entrance gate which are made similar each other. When we step down to this village, we will meet the Balinese houses are oriented northeastwards to Mount Agung which is located in north-east of Bali Island . The structure of house building between one house and others are equal in particular to condition, form, size and function from the building except building of family bed room is freeform. The family temple building is places the same direction to the Agung Mount, kitchen is located in upstate from the

lawn and the building of Bale Sakaen-em is the six beamed building which its function for ceremony place. The place for look after the livestock and the place to plant assorted vegetable are referred as non irrigated dry field which is called Teba. Its Construction material is made from wood except family residence. It is predominated by substance from bamboo because around this countryside is bamboo producer.

The countryside is lead by a leader which is Bendesa or Kelian or Pen-yarikan or Patengan and he/she is as-sisted by Sinoman. The social system is recognized by the 12 group terms that are number 1 until 12 as member of Pemerincik that is commissioned

member converse the problem or plan and its result is submitted to the member. They are very trusting of 12 groups and have represented the tradition in heritage away back. The Consanguinity System in this countryside is Patrilinial system that is according to father lineage. This countryside religion leader is called as Jero Bayan which is consisted of 3 Jero Bayans that is a Jero Bayan Mu-cuk and 2 people of Jero Bayan Nyo-man. The specific cultural potential like pattern of building architecture remains to be traditional, the beauti-ful nature and environment with cool atmosphere, hence this countryside is the ideal place to visit during your vacation in Bali.

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TANGERANG - There are many ways to describe Indonesia’s Abur-izal Bakrie: multi-millionaire busi-nessman, global mining tycoon, heavyweight contender for the presidency in 2014. One description that does not spring to mind is man of the common people.

So when Bakrie strode into a railway station in south Jakarta last week and slapped the equivalent of one U.S. dollar down on the coun-ter for a ticket, it was a moment of political theatre.

It also signaled an early step in the march to presidential elections in mid-2014 in the world’s most

populous Muslim-majority nation. Secular Indonesia, a hot favorite of international investors, is a sprawling archipelago of largely untapped min-eral riches, an increasingly wealthy middle class and an economic growth rate last year of 6.5 percent.

But in a country in which it is deemed unseemly to openly declare ambition, Bakrie, chairman of the nationalist Golkar Party, stressed he was merely testing the waters.

“It is not yet a campaign,” the 65-year-old told Reuters.

“The purpose of the trip is to give a speech, a motivation speech to ... high school students, to meet small vendors, to see also the agri-culture, to see what their problems

are so that I can tell my legislators,” he said.

In fact, Bakrie was doing all the things that politicians do on the campaign trail. He was also con-fronting what his aides say is an ob-stacle on the road to the presidency: the perception that as a member of Indonesia’s elite he is out of touch with the people.

Bakrie is one of Indonesia’s wealth-iest men, ranked number 30 by Forbes magazine with a net worth of around $900 million. He is considered one of the most successful pribumi, or native Indonesian, businessmen in a country where commerce is dominated by ethnic Chinese.

Until 2004, Bakrie headed the

mining, palm oil and telecommu-nications conglomerate founded by his father Achmad, that is as-sociated with London-listed coal venture Bumi Plc. Operations are now overseen by a brother.

Early opinion polls put Bakrie trailing in the list of possible can-didates to take over from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after his second and final term, but with the power of Golkar behind him and his own resources, he is seen as the man to beat.

Golkar, the second biggest party in Yudhoyono’s coalition, was the political vehicle of strongman President Suharto, who ruled the archipelago for over three decades

until 1998. Yudhoyono is yet to endorse a candidate from his Demo-crat Party; however there are some familiar names in the running.

The opposition Greater Indo-nesia Movement Party has named businessman and former general Prabowo Subianto, once married to a daughter of Suharto, as its candidate.

The opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle is di-vided in its support between former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of the country’s first president, and her own daughter, Puan Maharani.

Neither woman has said she will seek the party’s nomination.

“We identified 45 victims com-prising 35 Indonesians and 10 foreigners -- eight Russian, one American and a Frenchman,” said

national police forensics expert Anton Castilani.

“The identification process was completed on Sunday and we will

hand over the victims’ remains and death notifications to their families on Wednesday morning,” he said.

Remains of the foreign victims will be handed over to their relatives or representatives in Indonesia, Castilani added.

The new Sukhoi Superjet 100 ploughed into Mount Salak, south of the capital Jakarta, on May 9 with the loss of all 45 passengers

and crew on board.Body parts were scattered across

an area of dense forest and into a deep ravine, and were transported to Jakarta in 35 body bags.

Experts are investigating the plane’s cockpit voice recorder for clues as to why it crashed dur-ing a demonstration flight. The search continues for the plane’s other “black box”, the flight data

recorder.The promotional flight, aimed

at touting the jet to new customers, was carrying mostly Indonesian airline officials.

There were also four flight crew members and four Sukhoi execu-tives from Russia on board, as well as eight Indonesian cabin atten-dants, a US citizen and a French national.

Associated Press

JAKARTA — Prosecutors said Monday that an Indonesian militant known as the “Demolition Man” should spend the rest of his life in prison for helping to build the car bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks.

Umar Patek, a leading member of the al-Qaida-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah, is the last key suspect to be tried in the blasts that killed 202 people, thrusting Indonesia onto the frontlines in the war on terror.

Many of the victims were foreign tourists, including 88 Australians and seven Americans.

Lead prosecutor Bambang Su-harijadi told the West Jakarta District Court the 45-year-old militant should get a life term. He said Patek was guilty of illegal weapons possession, helping and concealing terrorist acts, immigra-tion violations and premeditated mur-der leading to massive casualties.

A verdict is not expected until next month. It’s still possible, but unlikely, that judges will decide to hand down the maximum penalty of death by fir-ing squad. Analysts, however, expect

he will end up getting less than 20 years behind bars.

Patek, who was arrested last year in Pakistan, has denied playing a major role in assembling the massive car bomb that was the largest bomb used in the attack. He said that job fell to Jemaah Islamiyah bomb-making masterminds, Azahari bin Husin and Dulmatin, both of whom have since been killed in police raids.

The militant also insisted he was against the bombings from the start but didn’t dare to speak out. They were in theory were meant to avenge Western policies in the Palestinian territories. Patek said he saw no connection be-tween the original mission, fighting against the oppression of fellow Mus-lims, and the target, partying tourists.

Patek and his lawyers will respond to the prosecution’s sentencing demand next week. Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, has been hit by a string of terrorist attacks since the Oct. 12, 2002, Bali bombings. But all have been far less deadly, thanks in part, security experts say, to a relentless crackdown on Jemaah Islamiyah that has largely decimated their ranks.

All 45 victims of Indonesia jet crash identifiedAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - The remains of 45 victims killed in a Russian plane crash in Indonesia have been identified, a police forensics official said Monday, as experts probe why the plane slammed into a dormant volcano.

Prosecutors seek life for Bali bombing suspect

AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana

Indonesian Muslim militant Umar Patek is escorted by prosecutors and plain-clothed police officers as he leaves the courtroom after his hearing at West Jakarta district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 21, 2012. Prosecutors are seeking life in prison for Patek who was accused of building the car bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks.

Tycoon Bakrie gears up for presidential bid

Penglipuran Village

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98 InternationalTuesday, May 22, 2012

Bali TodayInternational Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Kare Ikan(Fish Curry)

Ingredients:

1 1/2 Lb, cleaned weight fish 6 Shallots or 1 lg Onion 2 Cloves garlic 2 ts Ground coriander 1 ts Ground ginger 1/2 ts Powdered lemon grass or 1 Blade fresh, lemon grass 1 ts Chilli powder 1 Salam leaf or bay-leaf 1/2 ts Turmeric 1/2 c Tamarind water 1 c Of thick santen (coconut -milk) 2 tb Vegetable oil Salt sl Cucumber Mint

Directions:It is better to select a white fish with firm flesh,

such as haddock, angler-fish, swordfish or dogfish. In Australia the various fish known as whiting would be a good choice. Americans might like to use snappers.

Whatever fish is used, it can be cut into small cubes or slices before frying. Heat a little oil in a heavy frying-pan, and carefully brown the fish in it. Meanwhile, in another frying-pan, fry the chopped shallots (or onion) and garlic until tender. Stir in the chilli, ginger, turmeric, coriander, lemon grass, salam, salt and tamarind water. Let this mixture simmer for 10 minutes, then put in the fish. Cover, and simmer for another 10 minutes.

Add the santen and cook for a further 5 minutes. Serve hot, garnished with very thin slices of cucumber and chopped mint. (Alternatively, put the cucumber and mint into the kare itself for the last 2 minutes of cooking.) Incidentally, the same kare can be made with prawns. There is no need to fry the prawns separately; but fry them in the mixture of onion, etcetera for a few minutes before you put in the tamarind water.

Establishment of the counter completed with a grandiose en-trance gate to Kintamani from Tampaksiring direction is com-plained by many road users. The entrance gates on the straight road covered with paving block of some 20 cm high makes vehicles whose driver does not know the field to jump and it is prone to accidents.

As field monitoring on Sunday, the entrance gates had been dusty and unkempt. Meanwhile, the pav-ing blocks often caused vehicles passing through to jump. No single officer was visible at the location. Admission ticket was still sold at the gate to Penelokan, exactly in front of the Batur Volcanology Museum.

A number of officers that de-clined to be named said the counter of admission ticket made in front of Volcanology Museum was more effective than at Sekardadi because the new gates were only passed through by tourists com-ing from Tampaksiring direction. Meanwhile, the tourists from Be-sakih and Bangli town could not be covered.

One of the residents of Kayu-amba, Susut subdistrict, Wayan Rene, deeply regretted such con-dition. Development of the ticket counter had spent much money but it was then abandoned and not functioned up to these days. Planning of location for the de-velopment was worth questioning. Similarly, location of the construc-tion was even in a straight road section.

He himself who was driving a Suzuki Aerio almost got an accident there. Moreover, when entering the area there was abso-lutely no signs or road markings. “Ideally, before establishing the counter, it should be preceded with feasibility study. It’s a pity that such grandiose building is now not functioned whereas it has been funded by state budget,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Ban-gli Culture and Tourism Agency, Gobang Edy Sucipto, could not be asked for his confirmation re-garding the existence of redundant building in the area. (kmb17)

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Winners of 2012 Unilever “Chef of the Year” competition, Young Chefs Club Indonesia (YCCI) Bali Chapter member Dias RadityaWijaya (Junior) and fellow prize-winner Renovo Suswanda (Senior) were thrilled to meet British Chef Marco Pierre White, in Singapore on 26 and 27 April 2012.

Sanjaya Tan and Ivan Suputro also flew to Singapore to attend the prestigious event, selected as representatives of Bali Culinary Professionals (BCP), along with Rendy Kong and Budi Lee, representing Association of Culinary Professionals (ACP).

Chef Marco Pierre White, not merely a chef but also an engaging tele-vision personality and the first “celebrity chef,” is considered the enfant terrible of chefs. Yet he is most famed for his contributions to contemporary international cuisine and exceptional culinary skills, being the youngest chef ever to be awarded three Michelin stars.

“The experience and great learning does not stop only until at the grand finale, because we also have an opportunity to meet one of the world’s culinary maestros, Chef Marco Pierre White, in person, and to be able to attend his master class is once-in-a-lifetime experience. We are excited to meet Chef Marco face-to-face; he is someone who has dedicated his life to cooking. Many of his works are very inspiring and have a significant influence on us, and therefore we are very excited to meet him,” Dias enthused.

Renovo added, “Being the winner of the ‘Chef of the Year’ is a pride for us chefs and especially for me personally. The experience we had in every stage, from the initial selection, the semi-finals and the grand finale, where we managed to win the competition, was absolutely inspiring. Apart from having the opportunity to prove my capability as a chef, I’ve also learned many new things from other participants in this competition.”

In addition to demonstrating his expertise in preparing the delicious signature Pappered Crusted Beef Fillet with Worchesterserie Sauce, he offered words of wisdom to the young chefs.

In particular, Chef Marco mentioned the three essential qualities of a great chef: to respect nature, to do everything from the heart, and to always share experiences and knowledge with others. He reminded them to ap-preciate and respect classic cooking methods -- “do not alter the shape and flavor of the main ingredients.” Yet he also stressed creativity, describing a recipe as a guideline which need not be followed precisely.

IBPDENPASAR - The automotive

transactions using e-commerce are increasing this year, according to the survey that conducted by popular e-commerce website. Most of the trans-actions are for second hand cars.

PR Manager Tokobagus.com Ichwan Sitorus stated popularity of e-commerce in Indonesia is growing rapidly and people starting to get use to do transaction online. Automo-tive, especially cars becomes one of hot items that people buy from e-commerce website. “According to survey that we conducted, we find out that cars selling are increasing around Mixed Spicy Chicken

(Ayam Bumbu Rujak)Inggredients: 3½ lb. young chicken, cut into frying pieces ¼ cup sliced shallots 3 cloves garlic, sliced 2 tsp. crushed dried red hot chili 5 candlenut, crushed 1/8 tsp. turmeric 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. sugar 2 cups coconut milk 1 Tbs. Vegetable oil 1 thick slice ginger 1 stalk lemon grass

Directions:Blend the shallots, garlic, chili, candlenut, salt and

sugar with ¼ cup of the coconut milk into a paste.Heat the oil in a wok and sauté the paste for a minute

or two until you can smell the aroma.Place the chicken, ginger and lemon grass into the

wok and stir fry for five minutes or more over medium heat. Then add the rest of the coconut milk, and let it cook for forty five minutes, stir the chicken frequently.

It is ready to be served if the sauce is somewhat thickened and the chicken should be tender.

Automotive transactions using e-commerce increase

80 percent in this 11 months compare to the same period last year,” Ichwan explained.

Ichwan stated that members of Tokobagus.com more interest on buying second hand cars rather than new ones. Almost 90 percent of cars’ transaction in this biggest e-commerce website in Indonesia is second hand cars. “The growth of automotive transactions really significant, almost 1,000 units of cars sold every day in Tokobagus.com,” he declared.

The popularity of this website, according to Ichwan, also gave big influence for people to visit and do-

ing transaction online. “People start to believe and feel comfortable do-ing online transaction in Tokobagus.com because we create a safe and secure line for payment transaction,” he added.

Maznoer, one of second hand cars seller, said that he feel comfortable using e-commerce website as me-dium to get buyers. He, who becomes member of Tokobagus.com since 2009, stated that after promoting his cars in the website, transaction num-bers are increasing rapidly. “My busi-ness came from online and around 80 percent of sales come from Tokoba-gus.com,” he stated. (kmb18)

A woman browsing in the e-commerce website to find a used car. The automotive transactions using e-commerce are increas-ing this year, accord-ing to the survey that conducted by popular e-commerce website. Most of the transac-tions are for second hand cars.

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Admission ticket counter at Penelokan displacedBali Post

DENPASAR - A ticket counter serving the tourists making a visit to Penelokan is in poor condition. Having been accomplished until now, the counter established in 2011 at the area of Sekardadi financed with Regional Budget of Bangli was displaced and not functioned.

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A ticket counter serving the tourists making a visit to Pe-nelokan is in poor condition. Having been accomplished until now, the counter established in 2011 at the area of Sekardadi financed with Regional Budget of Bangli was displaced and not functioned.

A taste of class with Enfant Terrible Dias RadityaWijayafrom YCCI Bali Chapter attended the master class

Balinese Culture

98 InternationalTuesday, May 22, 2012

Bali TodayInternational Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Kare Ikan(Fish Curry)

Ingredients:

1 1/2 Lb, cleaned weight fish 6 Shallots or 1 lg Onion 2 Cloves garlic 2 ts Ground coriander 1 ts Ground ginger 1/2 ts Powdered lemon grass or 1 Blade fresh, lemon grass 1 ts Chilli powder 1 Salam leaf or bay-leaf 1/2 ts Turmeric 1/2 c Tamarind water 1 c Of thick santen (coconut -milk) 2 tb Vegetable oil Salt sl Cucumber Mint

Directions:It is better to select a white fish with firm flesh,

such as haddock, angler-fish, swordfish or dogfish. In Australia the various fish known as whiting would be a good choice. Americans might like to use snappers.

Whatever fish is used, it can be cut into small cubes or slices before frying. Heat a little oil in a heavy frying-pan, and carefully brown the fish in it. Meanwhile, in another frying-pan, fry the chopped shallots (or onion) and garlic until tender. Stir in the chilli, ginger, turmeric, coriander, lemon grass, salam, salt and tamarind water. Let this mixture simmer for 10 minutes, then put in the fish. Cover, and simmer for another 10 minutes.

Add the santen and cook for a further 5 minutes. Serve hot, garnished with very thin slices of cucumber and chopped mint. (Alternatively, put the cucumber and mint into the kare itself for the last 2 minutes of cooking.) Incidentally, the same kare can be made with prawns. There is no need to fry the prawns separately; but fry them in the mixture of onion, etcetera for a few minutes before you put in the tamarind water.

Establishment of the counter completed with a grandiose en-trance gate to Kintamani from Tampaksiring direction is com-plained by many road users. The entrance gates on the straight road covered with paving block of some 20 cm high makes vehicles whose driver does not know the field to jump and it is prone to accidents.

As field monitoring on Sunday, the entrance gates had been dusty and unkempt. Meanwhile, the pav-ing blocks often caused vehicles passing through to jump. No single officer was visible at the location. Admission ticket was still sold at the gate to Penelokan, exactly in front of the Batur Volcanology Museum.

A number of officers that de-clined to be named said the counter of admission ticket made in front of Volcanology Museum was more effective than at Sekardadi because the new gates were only passed through by tourists com-ing from Tampaksiring direction. Meanwhile, the tourists from Be-sakih and Bangli town could not be covered.

One of the residents of Kayu-amba, Susut subdistrict, Wayan Rene, deeply regretted such con-dition. Development of the ticket counter had spent much money but it was then abandoned and not functioned up to these days. Planning of location for the de-velopment was worth questioning. Similarly, location of the construc-tion was even in a straight road section.

He himself who was driving a Suzuki Aerio almost got an accident there. Moreover, when entering the area there was abso-lutely no signs or road markings. “Ideally, before establishing the counter, it should be preceded with feasibility study. It’s a pity that such grandiose building is now not functioned whereas it has been funded by state budget,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Ban-gli Culture and Tourism Agency, Gobang Edy Sucipto, could not be asked for his confirmation re-garding the existence of redundant building in the area. (kmb17)

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Winners of 2012 Unilever “Chef of the Year” competition, Young Chefs Club Indonesia (YCCI) Bali Chapter member Dias RadityaWijaya (Junior) and fellow prize-winner Renovo Suswanda (Senior) were thrilled to meet British Chef Marco Pierre White, in Singapore on 26 and 27 April 2012.

Sanjaya Tan and Ivan Suputro also flew to Singapore to attend the prestigious event, selected as representatives of Bali Culinary Professionals (BCP), along with Rendy Kong and Budi Lee, representing Association of Culinary Professionals (ACP).

Chef Marco Pierre White, not merely a chef but also an engaging tele-vision personality and the first “celebrity chef,” is considered the enfant terrible of chefs. Yet he is most famed for his contributions to contemporary international cuisine and exceptional culinary skills, being the youngest chef ever to be awarded three Michelin stars.

“The experience and great learning does not stop only until at the grand finale, because we also have an opportunity to meet one of the world’s culinary maestros, Chef Marco Pierre White, in person, and to be able to attend his master class is once-in-a-lifetime experience. We are excited to meet Chef Marco face-to-face; he is someone who has dedicated his life to cooking. Many of his works are very inspiring and have a significant influence on us, and therefore we are very excited to meet him,” Dias enthused.

Renovo added, “Being the winner of the ‘Chef of the Year’ is a pride for us chefs and especially for me personally. The experience we had in every stage, from the initial selection, the semi-finals and the grand finale, where we managed to win the competition, was absolutely inspiring. Apart from having the opportunity to prove my capability as a chef, I’ve also learned many new things from other participants in this competition.”

In addition to demonstrating his expertise in preparing the delicious signature Pappered Crusted Beef Fillet with Worchesterserie Sauce, he offered words of wisdom to the young chefs.

In particular, Chef Marco mentioned the three essential qualities of a great chef: to respect nature, to do everything from the heart, and to always share experiences and knowledge with others. He reminded them to ap-preciate and respect classic cooking methods -- “do not alter the shape and flavor of the main ingredients.” Yet he also stressed creativity, describing a recipe as a guideline which need not be followed precisely.

IBPDENPASAR - The automotive

transactions using e-commerce are increasing this year, according to the survey that conducted by popular e-commerce website. Most of the trans-actions are for second hand cars.

PR Manager Tokobagus.com Ichwan Sitorus stated popularity of e-commerce in Indonesia is growing rapidly and people starting to get use to do transaction online. Automo-tive, especially cars becomes one of hot items that people buy from e-commerce website. “According to survey that we conducted, we find out that cars selling are increasing around Mixed Spicy Chicken

(Ayam Bumbu Rujak)Inggredients: 3½ lb. young chicken, cut into frying pieces ¼ cup sliced shallots 3 cloves garlic, sliced 2 tsp. crushed dried red hot chili 5 candlenut, crushed 1/8 tsp. turmeric 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. sugar 2 cups coconut milk 1 Tbs. Vegetable oil 1 thick slice ginger 1 stalk lemon grass

Directions:Blend the shallots, garlic, chili, candlenut, salt and

sugar with ¼ cup of the coconut milk into a paste.Heat the oil in a wok and sauté the paste for a minute

or two until you can smell the aroma.Place the chicken, ginger and lemon grass into the

wok and stir fry for five minutes or more over medium heat. Then add the rest of the coconut milk, and let it cook for forty five minutes, stir the chicken frequently.

It is ready to be served if the sauce is somewhat thickened and the chicken should be tender.

Automotive transactions using e-commerce increase

80 percent in this 11 months compare to the same period last year,” Ichwan explained.

Ichwan stated that members of Tokobagus.com more interest on buying second hand cars rather than new ones. Almost 90 percent of cars’ transaction in this biggest e-commerce website in Indonesia is second hand cars. “The growth of automotive transactions really significant, almost 1,000 units of cars sold every day in Tokobagus.com,” he declared.

The popularity of this website, according to Ichwan, also gave big influence for people to visit and do-

ing transaction online. “People start to believe and feel comfortable do-ing online transaction in Tokobagus.com because we create a safe and secure line for payment transaction,” he added.

Maznoer, one of second hand cars seller, said that he feel comfortable using e-commerce website as me-dium to get buyers. He, who becomes member of Tokobagus.com since 2009, stated that after promoting his cars in the website, transaction num-bers are increasing rapidly. “My busi-ness came from online and around 80 percent of sales come from Tokoba-gus.com,” he stated. (kmb18)

A woman browsing in the e-commerce website to find a used car. The automotive transactions using e-commerce are increas-ing this year, accord-ing to the survey that conducted by popular e-commerce website. Most of the transac-tions are for second hand cars.

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Admission ticket counter at Penelokan displacedBali Post

DENPASAR - A ticket counter serving the tourists making a visit to Penelokan is in poor condition. Having been accomplished until now, the counter established in 2011 at the area of Sekardadi financed with Regional Budget of Bangli was displaced and not functioned.

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A ticket counter serving the tourists making a visit to Pe-nelokan is in poor condition. Having been accomplished until now, the counter established in 2011 at the area of Sekardadi financed with Regional Budget of Bangli was displaced and not functioned.

A taste of class with Enfant Terrible Dias RadityaWijayafrom YCCI Bali Chapter attended the master class

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Penglipuran Village is a tradi-tional countryside owning unique characteristic life, socializing and culture. It is located in Kubu Vil-lage , Bangli Sub district and Bangli Regency. The natural nature and environments of countryside is designating the pittance touch of modernization influence. This countryside is supported by cool atmosphere because it is located on the height land about 700 m above sea level and according to

history of all old doyens that this countryside is taken away from the word Pengeling Pura what its meaning remember to ancestor, but there is also telling that the word of Penglipur mean the entertainer. It is said that at former empire era, all king often use this area as a place to amuse themselves, because its nature is beautiful and can give the peacefulness and inspiration at the time of experiencing a problem.

The houses exist in this coun-tryside from north to the south is look very beautiful in particular the

Balinese traditional entrance gate which are made similar each other. When we step down to this village, we will meet the Balinese houses are oriented northeastwards to Mount Agung which is located in north-east of Bali Island . The structure of house building between one house and others are equal in particular to condition, form, size and function from the building except building of family bed room is freeform. The family temple building is places the same direction to the Agung Mount, kitchen is located in upstate from the

lawn and the building of Bale Sakaen-em is the six beamed building which its function for ceremony place. The place for look after the livestock and the place to plant assorted vegetable are referred as non irrigated dry field which is called Teba. Its Construction material is made from wood except family residence. It is predominated by substance from bamboo because around this countryside is bamboo producer.

The countryside is lead by a leader which is Bendesa or Kelian or Pen-yarikan or Patengan and he/she is as-sisted by Sinoman. The social system is recognized by the 12 group terms that are number 1 until 12 as member of Pemerincik that is commissioned

member converse the problem or plan and its result is submitted to the member. They are very trusting of 12 groups and have represented the tradition in heritage away back. The Consanguinity System in this countryside is Patrilinial system that is according to father lineage. This countryside religion leader is called as Jero Bayan which is consisted of 3 Jero Bayans that is a Jero Bayan Mu-cuk and 2 people of Jero Bayan Nyo-man. The specific cultural potential like pattern of building architecture remains to be traditional, the beauti-ful nature and environment with cool atmosphere, hence this countryside is the ideal place to visit during your vacation in Bali.

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TANGERANG - There are many ways to describe Indonesia’s Abur-izal Bakrie: multi-millionaire busi-nessman, global mining tycoon, heavyweight contender for the presidency in 2014. One description that does not spring to mind is man of the common people.

So when Bakrie strode into a railway station in south Jakarta last week and slapped the equivalent of one U.S. dollar down on the coun-ter for a ticket, it was a moment of political theatre.

It also signaled an early step in the march to presidential elections in mid-2014 in the world’s most

populous Muslim-majority nation. Secular Indonesia, a hot favorite of international investors, is a sprawling archipelago of largely untapped min-eral riches, an increasingly wealthy middle class and an economic growth rate last year of 6.5 percent.

But in a country in which it is deemed unseemly to openly declare ambition, Bakrie, chairman of the nationalist Golkar Party, stressed he was merely testing the waters.

“It is not yet a campaign,” the 65-year-old told Reuters.

“The purpose of the trip is to give a speech, a motivation speech to ... high school students, to meet small vendors, to see also the agri-culture, to see what their problems

are so that I can tell my legislators,” he said.

In fact, Bakrie was doing all the things that politicians do on the campaign trail. He was also con-fronting what his aides say is an ob-stacle on the road to the presidency: the perception that as a member of Indonesia’s elite he is out of touch with the people.

Bakrie is one of Indonesia’s wealth-iest men, ranked number 30 by Forbes magazine with a net worth of around $900 million. He is considered one of the most successful pribumi, or native Indonesian, businessmen in a country where commerce is dominated by ethnic Chinese.

Until 2004, Bakrie headed the

mining, palm oil and telecommu-nications conglomerate founded by his father Achmad, that is as-sociated with London-listed coal venture Bumi Plc. Operations are now overseen by a brother.

Early opinion polls put Bakrie trailing in the list of possible can-didates to take over from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after his second and final term, but with the power of Golkar behind him and his own resources, he is seen as the man to beat.

Golkar, the second biggest party in Yudhoyono’s coalition, was the political vehicle of strongman President Suharto, who ruled the archipelago for over three decades

until 1998. Yudhoyono is yet to endorse a candidate from his Demo-crat Party; however there are some familiar names in the running.

The opposition Greater Indo-nesia Movement Party has named businessman and former general Prabowo Subianto, once married to a daughter of Suharto, as its candidate.

The opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle is di-vided in its support between former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of the country’s first president, and her own daughter, Puan Maharani.

Neither woman has said she will seek the party’s nomination.

“We identified 45 victims com-prising 35 Indonesians and 10 foreigners -- eight Russian, one American and a Frenchman,” said

national police forensics expert Anton Castilani.

“The identification process was completed on Sunday and we will

hand over the victims’ remains and death notifications to their families on Wednesday morning,” he said.

Remains of the foreign victims will be handed over to their relatives or representatives in Indonesia, Castilani added.

The new Sukhoi Superjet 100 ploughed into Mount Salak, south of the capital Jakarta, on May 9 with the loss of all 45 passengers

and crew on board.Body parts were scattered across

an area of dense forest and into a deep ravine, and were transported to Jakarta in 35 body bags.

Experts are investigating the plane’s cockpit voice recorder for clues as to why it crashed dur-ing a demonstration flight. The search continues for the plane’s other “black box”, the flight data

recorder.The promotional flight, aimed

at touting the jet to new customers, was carrying mostly Indonesian airline officials.

There were also four flight crew members and four Sukhoi execu-tives from Russia on board, as well as eight Indonesian cabin atten-dants, a US citizen and a French national.

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JAKARTA — Prosecutors said Monday that an Indonesian militant known as the “Demolition Man” should spend the rest of his life in prison for helping to build the car bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks.

Umar Patek, a leading member of the al-Qaida-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah, is the last key suspect to be tried in the blasts that killed 202 people, thrusting Indonesia onto the frontlines in the war on terror.

Many of the victims were foreign tourists, including 88 Australians and seven Americans.

Lead prosecutor Bambang Su-harijadi told the West Jakarta District Court the 45-year-old militant should get a life term. He said Patek was guilty of illegal weapons possession, helping and concealing terrorist acts, immigra-tion violations and premeditated mur-der leading to massive casualties.

A verdict is not expected until next month. It’s still possible, but unlikely, that judges will decide to hand down the maximum penalty of death by fir-ing squad. Analysts, however, expect

he will end up getting less than 20 years behind bars.

Patek, who was arrested last year in Pakistan, has denied playing a major role in assembling the massive car bomb that was the largest bomb used in the attack. He said that job fell to Jemaah Islamiyah bomb-making masterminds, Azahari bin Husin and Dulmatin, both of whom have since been killed in police raids.

The militant also insisted he was against the bombings from the start but didn’t dare to speak out. They were in theory were meant to avenge Western policies in the Palestinian territories. Patek said he saw no connection be-tween the original mission, fighting against the oppression of fellow Mus-lims, and the target, partying tourists.

Patek and his lawyers will respond to the prosecution’s sentencing demand next week. Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, has been hit by a string of terrorist attacks since the Oct. 12, 2002, Bali bombings. But all have been far less deadly, thanks in part, security experts say, to a relentless crackdown on Jemaah Islamiyah that has largely decimated their ranks.

All 45 victims of Indonesia jet crash identifiedAgence France-Presse

JAKARTA - The remains of 45 victims killed in a Russian plane crash in Indonesia have been identified, a police forensics official said Monday, as experts probe why the plane slammed into a dormant volcano.

Prosecutors seek life for Bali bombing suspect

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Indonesian Muslim militant Umar Patek is escorted by prosecutors and plain-clothed police officers as he leaves the courtroom after his hearing at West Jakarta district court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, May 21, 2012. Prosecutors are seeking life in prison for Patek who was accused of building the car bomb used in the 2002 Bali nightclub attacks.

Tycoon Bakrie gears up for presidential bid

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“He died an hour ago,” his brother Abdelhakim al-Megrahi told AFP, putting the time of death at shortly after 1 pm (1100 GMT).

A Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted Megrahi in 2001 of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, which killed all 259 people on board along with 11 people on the ground.

Most of the passengers on the Boeing 747 jet headed from London to New York were Amer-icans.

Megrahi, 60, who suffered from prostate cancer, was re-leased on compassionate grounds in 2009 after doctors said he had only three months to live.

His death on Sunday prompted sharply contrasting reactions.

The US government, which

was outraged by Scotland’s deci-sion to free the former Libyan air-line security chief, said his death ended an “unfortunate chapter.”

British Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, said the Libyan should never have been released from prison and rejected calls for an inquiry into his con-viction.

“Megrahi’s death concludes an unfortunate chapter follow-ing his release from prison in 2009 on medical grounds -- a move we strongly opposed,” said US National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor.

“We will continue working with our new partners in Libya toward a full accounting of Kad-hafi’s horrific acts,” he added.

Britain’s newspapers believe that his initial conviction by a Scottish court in 2001 was flawed

and called for an official probe.“With so many loose ends re-

maining and so many questions about the original trial unre-solved, the Scottish government should agree to a public inquiry into the tragedy,” said the left-leaning Independent’s editorial.

“Megrahi’s death is no reason to stop trying to get to the truth,” it added.

Megrahi had always main-tained his innocence, arguing that US agencies “led the way” in securing his conviction, and his brother Abdelhakim defended him on Sunday, saying he was the “scapegoat” of Moamer Kad-hafi’s regime.

“He has died and has left us with the feeling of injustice,” he told AFP. “Everyone knows that the Kadhafi regime blamed its mistakes on others.”

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Forward fuselage and flight deckseparate,knocking offnumber threeengine

Remaining aircraftdisintegrates, one wing hits town of Lockerbie, exploding in a fireball which creates a large crater

Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died of cancer on Sunday aged 60, leaving many questions on the attack and its aftermath unanswered

THE BOMBING OF PAN AM FLIGHT 103

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Suitcase stowed in lowerdeck container, AVE 4041 PAand placed in the forwardcargo hold

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Pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, 13 flight attendants and 243 passengers died on board the flight; 11 residents of Lockerbie died with five others injured

Three years were spent after the crash cataloguing 20,000 recovered itemsLocal residents spent one year cleaning 11,000 items of clothing and luggage for return to relatives, mostly in the U.S.Tundergarth cemetery holds a memorial book of the dead

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Lockerbie bombing convict dies in LibyaAgence France Presse

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died almost three years after being freed from jail on com-passionate grounds. Reuters

MELBOURNE - Australia’s top airline Qantas Airways said on Monday it is eliminating 500 jobs by merging maintenance facilities to save up to A$100 million ($98.4 million) annually, as high fuel costs and weak demand take a toll on airline profits.

Qantas, which is emerging from a costly indus-trial dispute, said in statement it will stop heavy maintenance in Tullamarine in Melbourne and concentrate on centers in Brisbane and Avalon, re-sulting in the job cuts. It had, in February, flagged another 500 job cuts for the group.

The latest move will save it A$70 million to A$100 million a year but will result in one-off costs of A$50 million, and takes estimated costs of an overhaul plan for the second half of fiscal 2012 to between A$250 million and A$260 mil-lion, it said.

The overhaul plan is a bid by Chief Executive Alan Joyce to protect profits and the investment-grade rating of Qantas.

Earlier this month, the airline said it would delay taking delivery of two new A380s to cut capital expenditure by a further A$400 million, raising capex cuts to A$900 million. It is also

consolidating engineering, ground and mainte-nance operations and wants to sell some catering centers.

“Like the manufacturing industry, aviation maintenance is a labor and capital intensive sector,” Chief Executive Alan Joyce said in a statement.

“Our cost base in heavy maintenance is 30 per cent higher than that of our competitors - we must close this gap to secure Qantas’ future viability and success.”

The review of heavy maintenance was an-nounced in February when Qantas said its first-half profit halved and follows the introduction of newer aircraft such as the A380 super jumbo and plans for the new Boeing 787s.

“We cannot take advantage of this new gen-eration of aircraft if we continue to do heavy maintenance in the same way we did 10 years ago,” Joyce said.

More than 90 percent of Qantas’s 30,000-plus employees are in Australia, and employee unions’ fears that it will send jobs offshore helped spark last year’s bruising industrial battle that led to the grounding of its entire fleet and prompted inter-vention by Australia’s industrial umpire.

Persistent political divisions — neatly bridged by a Group of Eight summit state-ment that advocates a mix of austerity and growth promotion — and lack of money stand in the way of a comprehensive Euro-pean growth strategy. Analysts said markets were likely to look past the verbal deal, with news about Greece’s struggle to stay in the eurozone and an informal European Union summit Thursday in Brussels more likely to set the tone.

At Saturday’s G-8 summit, German Chan-cellor Angela Merkel — under urging from U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande — signed onto a statement that called for mixing painful

cutbacks with growth-promoting measures to deal with a crisis that threatens the global economy.

The leaders warned that budget deficits have to come down. But they also acknowl-edged that an approach that’s based mostly on austerity and longer-term reforms can’t help countries out of recessions this year or next. That’s the approach that has dominated the continent’s German-led attack on the crisis since it erupted in late 2009, when Greece admitted its finances were broken.

They said little about specific steps and left exactly what to do up to individual countries, saying they recognize “the right measures are not the same for all of us.”

Associated Press

BEIJING — A Chinese conglomer-ate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Enter-tainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China’s biggest takeover of an American company to date.

Dalian Wanda Group Co.’s purchase reflects the global ambitions of a wave of cash-rich Chinese companies that are using acquisitions to speed their expansion by obtaining foreign skills and brand names.

Wanda said the deal will create the world’s biggest movie theater operator. The Beijing-based company said it will invest an additional $500 million to fund AMC’s development. AMC operates 346 cinemas, mostly in the United States and Canada, and says it has 23 of the 50 highest-grossing U.S. outlets.

“We support AMC becoming bigger, not only in the United States but in the global market,” said Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin at a signing ceremony for the acquisition.

The deal reflects rising Chinese in-vestment in U.S. corporate assets despite disputes between the two governments over trade and political issues such as this month’s diplomatic standoff over a blind Chinese legal activist.

The deal is the third-largest Chinese corporate investment in the United States, according to financial research firm Dealogic. It ranks behind invest-

ments by Beijing’s sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corp., of $5 billion in Morgan Stanley and $3 billion in Blackstone Group LP, both for minor-ity stakes in 2007.

Wanda, founded in 1988 and privately owned, operates hotels, department stores, tourism and other businesses and says it had 2011 revenue of $16.7 billion. The company employs 50,000 people and its assets include 86 theaters in China.

AMC’s owners include Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital, the Carlyle Group, CCMP Capital Advisors and Spec-trum Equity Investors.

AMC has reported losses for the past three years but its CEO, Gerry Lopez, said it has returned to profit this year due to strong ticket sales.

Wang, the Wanda chairman, said AMC’s financial problems were due to the cost of servicing high debt. He said conditions should improve once an injec-tion of Wanda’s cash allows it to pay off some of that.

The acquisition comes as Hollywood is looking to China both for its fast-growing audience and for production partners.

Walt Disney Co. has said its next “Iron Man” movie will be co-produced with a Chinese partner and “Chinese elements” will be added to the story to increase its local appeal. DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. unveiled a venture in March with three Chinese companies to make animated and live action material.

Europe faces difficult search for growthAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — On paper at least, European leaders agree: They need stronger growth measures to help their economies expand out of their 2½-year-old government debt crisis. Figuring out exactly what those new steps might be will be the hard part.

Qantas to cut another 500 maintenance jobs

AP Photo/Ron Heflin/file

A May 11, 2005, file photo shows the exterior of the AMC Grand 24 movie theatre in Dallas, Texas. A Chinese conglomerate has announced Monday May 21, 2012 it will buy U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings for $2.6 billion to create the world’s biggest movie theater operator.

Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC

“To that end, the government should help them by providing capital or building other supporting facilities,” he said.

So far, said Teja, the upstream region had a great potential to be developed into a major nature tourism area. However, to maintain its natural beauty, the government should let people manage them-selves and the government only led them. “If relying on large inves-tors, it is worried that people will be unable to enjoy any benefits,” he said.

Based on observation of Bali Post, since the overflowing water from Lake Buyan and Lake Tam-blingan, the tourism activities in the region were still alive. Several tourists still visited the Lake Tam-blingan object. Many groups of for-eign tourists from many countries seemed to visit the object. They were dominated by tourists from France, Holland, Japan and other countries. Those tourists were in-terested in exploring the protected forest escorted by a guide and then traveled around the lake by riding a traditional boat rented by local residents.

A resident delivering tourists around the lake was Jro Nyoman Sari, 50, said that every day there were many tourists visiting Tam-blingan. Averagely the foreign tour-ist visit to Tamblingan reached 40 people. From those foreign tourists making a visit, Sari claimed to get an income from taking them around the lake with a charge of IDR 50,000. In one time departure, he could carry four passengers of for-

eign tourists. The income obtained was deposited to his organization at IDR 10,000, so the net income earned was IDR 40,000. “If there are no strong waves and winds the voyage can take an hour, but under big waves and strong winds the boat will move a bit slower,” he said.

Sari added that since the lake water overflowed and submerged his home, the foreign tourist visits remained normal. Even, in next July and August he predicted the foreign tourist visits would increase as entering a high season. “All the guests even frequently had a closer look at the submerged houses around the lake. Thankfully, though our home has been submerged we can still work to purchase rice and support our school children,” he explained.

Each group of foreign tourists making a visit to Tamblingan object is handled by management on duty at the entrance into the area. At the object, the management offers some tour packages to tourists or the escorting guide. The packages offered are such as trekking into the forest and then picked up by boat owner to further go around the lake. Another package is trekking with-out lake tour. Each group of tourists that took the trekking and lake tour package would be escorted to have a lake tour with boat owner group coalesced into the Astiti Amerta after accomplishing the trekking. “This cooperation has been running well to serve every tourist making a visit here,” said one of the object administrators. (ole/kmb)

It became one of the fastest-selling albums of all time with its innovative fusion of harmony and pulsing beats. The movie launched the career of a young John Travolta whose snake-hipped moves to the sounds of “You Should Be Dancing” established his reputation as a dancer and forever linked his image to that of the Bee Gees.

Recording Academy president Neil Portnow predicted that fans will dance to “Stayin’ Alive” and other songs Bee Gees songs for generations to come.

“Robin has had an indelible impact on music,” he said.

Despite financial success, Robin Gibb and his brothers endured repeated tragedies. Maurice died suddenly of in-testinal and cardiac problems in 2003. Their younger brother Andy Gibb, who also enjoyed considerable chart success as a solo artist, had died in 1988 just after turning 30. He suf-fered from an inflamed heart

muscle attributed to a severe viral infection.

The Bee Gees consisted of Barry Gibb, the eldest, and twins Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb. Their three-part harmo-nies became their musical sig-nature, particularly in the disco phase, when Barry’s matchless falsetto often dominated, and they were renowned for their wide-ranging songwriting and producing skills.

The Gibbs were born in Eng-land on the Isle of Man, an island in the Irish Sea, but moved to Aus-tralia with their parents in 1958 when they were still quite young and began their musical career there. They had been born into a musical family, with a father who was a drummer and bandleader and a mother who liked to sing.

After several hits in Aus-tral ia , their career s tar ted to really take off when they returned to England in 1967 and linked up with promoter Robert Stigwood.

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PHYSICALLY, Dewi Sinta Hotel, Restaurant & Spa is not as grandiose as the hotels located in the premier tourist resorts of Nusa Dua, Sanur or Kuta. However, never misunderstand! The budget hotel located in the Tanah Lot tourist destination has its own unique-ness, both in terms of panorama or services extended. “Though it is a budget hotel, we provide services based on the standard of star-rated hotels,” said I Gusti Gde Aryadi, the owner of the hotel, last week.

Most importantly, continued Aryadi, he provided services for guests with friendliness, honesty and professionalism, so as to create impressive images for the only hotel in the favorite tourist area in Bali. Familiar and familial atmosphere was not only intended for the staff, but also became a priority for ev-

ery single traveler. “We also give awards for the best employees as a way to encourage the morale of our workers in providing the best ser-vices,” added the pioneer of Tanah Lot tourist object calmly.

Dewi Sinta is the oldest hotel since the Tanah Lot was visited by many tourists. The entire building is designed by perfectly combining the traditional elements and stylish ar-chitecture to engender a convenient tourism sanctuary to unwind. Aura of the sanctity exuded by the Tanah Lot Temple, Enjung Galuh Temple and Pakendungan Temple give more profound tranquility. Meanwhile, the existing lush tropical gardens confer a typical countryside nuance.

There are 20 rooms consisting of 2 types on offer, namely standard and deluxe room with air condition-ing, private bathroom with hot and

cold water, IDD telephone, TV, and mini bar. In front of the hotel rooms stretches an enchanting terraced rice fields in combination with the verdant fairways of golf course and swimming pool. These added-value backdrops made this accommoda-tion close to nature. Additionally, it is also equipped with spa treatment facilities featuring with Balinese therapies to blissfully pamper guests with freshness and fitness.

In the meantime, Dewi Sinta is also equipped with restaurant offering a va-riety of menu choices such as Balinese, Indonesian, Chinese, Seafood and Eu-ropean cuisine. All delicacies are care-fully prepared by well-experienced cooks. Interestingly, breakfast, lunch and dinner are optionally served in a la carte or buffet style.

Other amenities equipping the hotel property are an open stage and

a conference room with a capacity of 300 people. Such facilities offer a dinner party with traditional cul-tural performances such as Kecak, Tektekan, Legong and shadow puppets. Best services, guaranteed security and good relationship

with the surrounding communities led the hotel to achieve some out-standing achievements such as the Security Certificate from the Bali Police with gold predicate, bronze medal in THK Awards and the best taxpayer in Tabanan Regency.

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Temple CeremonyCalendar Event for April 20 through May 20, 2012

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

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

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

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

Balinese Temple Ceremony

20 Apr Tilem Kedasa - Pura Kahyangan Tiga Batur Bangli- Pura Batur Camenggon-Sukawati- Pura Luhur Bhujangga Camggu Kuta- Pura Kawitan Kayu Selem Tampurhyang Batur-Kintamani

21 Apr Hari Tumpek Kandang - Pura Puseh, Pura Desa Kota Gianyar- Pura Luhur Dalem Sagening Kediri - Tabanan- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Tegal Gede Badung

25 Apr Buda Wage Menail - Pr. Dalem Tarukan Linggih Pajenengan Cemenggaon Sukawati- Mr. Pasek Dangke bambang - Bangli- Pura Penataran Dalem Ketut Pejeng Pejeng Kaja - Gianyar- Pura Puseh Menakaji Desa Peninjoan - Bangli- Merajan Agung Blangsinga - Blahbatuh- Pura Kawitan Gusti Agung Blangsinga Blahbatuh Gianyar- Pura Kawitan Gusti Celuk Sukawati- Baler Pura Sada, Banjar Pemebatan Kapal Mengwi

1 May Anggar Kasih Perangbakat - Pura Bukit Buluh Gunaksa - Klungkung- Pura Tirta Sudamala Bebalang - Bangli- Pura Paibon Pasek Bendesa Sangsit sawan - Buleleng- Pura Pasek Gelgel Pangi Dawan - Klungkung- Pura Gunung Tengsong Lombok.- Pura Dalem Benawah Gianyar- Pura Dalem Bitra Gianyar- Pura Dalem Banyuning Timur Buleleng- Pura Dalem Pauman Batan Getas Denpasar- Pura Tengah Padang Tegalalang- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Desa Sande - Pupuan Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Denpasar- Pura Hyangaluh/Jenggala Besakih- Merajan Pasek Lurah Tutuan Gunaksa- Mr. Pasek Gelgel Selulung- Merajan Pasek Subrata Medahan- Merajan Pasek Munggu Munggu- Pura Tengkulak Tulikup - Gianyar- Pura Penataran Badung Desa Ogang Sidemen.

2 May Buda Umanis Perangbakat - Pura Puri Agung Dalem Tarukan Pejeng Tampak Siring- Pura Rambut Siwi Jembrana- Pura Batu Bolong Canggu - Kuta- Pura Pasek Marga Klaci Tabanan- Pura Agung Pasek Dauh Waru Jembrana- Pura Ratu Pasek Sangsit Sawan - Buleleng.- Pura Pasek Tangkas Darma Reyanggede Tabanan- Pura Desa Banyuning Buleleng- Pr. Srijon Tabanan- Mr. Pasek Gelgel Lebah Pangkung- Merajan Pasek Gelgel Patemon- Pura Tirta Anom Padang Sigi Sading - Tampak Siring- Pura Dadi Agung Pasek Bendesa Dukuh Manuaba Tegalalang.- Pura Pedarmaan Batursari Ngilis Jegu Penebel Tabanan.- Pura Puncak Mundi Nusa Penida.

5 May Purnama Jiyestha - Pura Segara Lombok- Pura Dwijawarsa Malang- Pura Puncaktingguh Angsri Baturiti Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Desa Jatiluwih Penebel Tabanan- Pura Kawitan Batur Tonja Denpasar- Pura Masopahit Grenceng Denpasar- Pura Penyungsungan Pasek Tohjiwa Wanagiri Selemadeg.- Pura Pamerajan Penataran Agung Sidemen Karangasem- Pura Eka Dharma Sweta Indah-Mataram, NTB.

16 May Buda Keliwon Ugu - Pura Dalem Tarukan Desa Peninjoan Tembuku - Bangli.- Pura Pasek Gelgel Boading Kaba-kaba Tabanan- Pura Pemayun Banyuning Tengah Buleleng- Pura Desa Kayangan Tiga Desa Bubunan Seririt - Buleleng- Pura Agung Gunung Raung Banjar Taro Kaja Taro - Tegalalang- Merajan Pasek Dangka Bungbungan

20 May Tilem Jiyestha. - Pura Bhujangga Waisnawa Gumrih Jembrana.

Dewi Sinta Hotel:Relishing Sea View in Fusion with Terraced Rice Fields

The film is approaching the $1.2 billion mark worldwide, totaling $457.1 million domestically and $723.3 million internationally. “’The Avengers’ is dominating the market-place so profoundly that the newcom-ers are having a tough time breaking in now,” said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hol-lywood.com.

Universal’s “Battleship” opened a distant No. 2 with $25.4 million domestically, well below industry expectations. But the board-game adaptation starring Liam Neeson, Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna already has grossed $226.8 million overseas since launching in April, giving it a worldwide total of $252.1 million.

“I would be glad to be No. 2 if we

opened to a better number. But given the presence of an absolute juggernaut in the marketplace, there’s nothing you can do,” said Nikki Rocco, head of distribution for Universal. “Not to have a shot at being No. 1 this weekend is disappointing. But it’s a challenge with ‘Avengers’ out there.”

Sacha Baron Cohen’s comedy “The Dictator,” in which he plays a tyrannical third-world leader, debuted in third-place with $17.4 million for the weekend. Since opening Wednes-day, the Paramount release has taken in $24.5 million.

“The Dictator” opened with $30.3 million in 29 overseas markets, giv-ing it a worldwide haul of $54.8 million.

Associated Press Writer

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Best-selling author Dan Brown made a rare public appearance in New Hampshire on Friday, saying very little about his next novel other than he’s well into the writing process.

“The Da Vinci Code” au-thor, who grew up in New Hampshire, spoke at a benefit for The Music Hall’s “Writ-ers on a New England Stage” series in Portsmouth.

Brown is working on a new book that again features Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as protagonist. In ad-dition to “The Da Vinci Code,” Langdon’s appeared in “Angels and Demons” and “The Lost Symbol.”

Brown was witty through-out the session in the late 19th century brick theater, and set the tone of the evening with several personal anecdotes from his childhood, which influenced his thoughts on the

tense coexistence of science and religion.

Despite persistent ques-tioning from his fans and the media, Brown was tight-lipped about his next novel. Brown said it took a year and a half to research and that he is “well into the process of writing it.”

“The novel will be set in Europe, in the most fascinating place I’ve ever been,” he said. Asked when the new book will be released, he said only “It’ll be done when it’s done.” The author said he felt no pressure to complete the novel soon.

“My publisher wants good books, not quick ones,” he said. Brown began the session by introducing his parents and telling the crowd his mother Constance’s birthday was Sat-urday.

“I owe everything to my parents,” said Brown, whose father was a math teacher and mother was a church organist and piano teacher.

Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO - Getting married was a smart business move as well as a personal milestone for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, with the timing of the wedding, the day after the company’s initial public offering, potentially proving par-ticularly advantageous, California divorce lawyers said on Sunday.

Assuming the couple signed a prenuptial agreement, as most wealthy Californians do, Zucker-berg and Chan would have agreed exactly how to split assets, includ-ing his Facebook stock, if their marriage dissolved in future. Even without a prenup, the wedding’s timing would help establish the

value of their assets in the event of any future divorce battle, lawyers said.

A spokeswoman for Facebook declined to comment on whether the couple signed such an agreement. Priscilla Chan and Zuckerberg live together in the modest house in Palo Alto, Calif., where they were mar-ried on Saturday.

The couple met as undergradu-ates at Harvard University in 2004. Zuckerberg, now 28, dropped out of college to work on Facebook, while Chan, a pediatrician, stayed to earn her undergraduate degree in 2007. Chan’s work led to Facebook created an organ donation page. The pair recently travelled to China.

Had they continued the status

quo, Chan could potentially lay claim to a much larger portion of assets, including a chunk of his $20 billion in Facebook shares, lawyers say.

“In California, people who live together without the benefit of marriage could claim they had an agreement to pool resources and efforts,” said Napa, Calif., lawyer Robert Blevans. Although they are hard to prove, “those claims can get really ugly.”

Zuckerberg’s post-IPO wedding is smart legal move

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Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are seen in this screen-

grab of a wedding photo posted on Zuckerberg’s Facebook page

May 19, 2012.

‘Da Vinci Code’ author Dan Brown speaks in NH

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FILE - This file photo of a film image released by Disney shows Iron Man, portrayed by Robert Downey Jr., left, and Captain America, portrayed by Chris Evans, in a scene from “The Avengers.

‘Avengers’ sinks ‘Battle-ship” to remain No. 1Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES — “The Avengers” continues to muscle out everything else Hollywood throws at it, easily sinking naval rival “Battleship” and other new releases. With $55.1 million domestically, Disney’s superhero sensation remained No. 1 for a third-straight weekend and took in more than the three big newcomers combined. Overseas, “The Avengers” added an additional $56 million.

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Medvedev, 46, named premier after Putin returned to the Kremlin on May 7, has pledged to launch pro-growth policies and a privatisa-tion drive to wean Russia’s $1.7 bil-lion economy off its dependence on oil. But, even though the partners in Russia’s ruling ‘tandem’ announced they would switch jobs as long ago as last September, the lengthy and secretive process of forming a gov-ernment has raised concerns that it will be riven by factional conflict.

Medvedev, speaking at a Group of Eight summit at the weekend where leaders discussed how to contain the

euro zone’s debt crisis, rebutted the skeptics. “The government will be substantially renewed - that’s why forming it has taken longer than in the past,” he said at Camp David, U.S. President Barack Obama’s retreat outside Washington.

“We have a plan of action ... that was tested in the first phase of the crisis,” Medvedev told reporters. “If needed, we can put it into effect - in that sense all our guns are loaded.”

The line-up to be unveiled on Monday will bring in new faces from the team of young market liberals who served in the Kremlin

during Medvedev’s four-year term as president.

One, Arkady Dvorkovich, shared smiles with Medvedev’s spokes-woman as the prime minister took questions from reporters outside a log cabin at Camp David.

Dvorkovich has been tipped as a deputy premier, sources and media reports say, with Monday’s edition of financial daily Vedomosti naming him among seven deputy prime ministers who will report to Medvedev. Four of the seven already hold that post.

WHO’S IN CHARGE?Sources say Putin, 59, is likely to

extend his influence over economic policy by ensuring that the finance and economy portfolios are taken by placemen who identify with his credo of state-led economic development.

Reuters

ATHENS - The charismatic Greek leftist who could determine the fate of the euro begins a tour of European capitals on Monday carrying a single message: it’s time to talk. In an interview on the eve of his first visit abroad since his surprise rise in a May 6 election, Alexis Tsipras veered occasionally into the combative rhetoric that has seduced disaffected Greek youth and alarmed Brussels and Berlin.

But he also stressed repeatedly that he wants negotiations to keep Greece in the euro. He said he was looking to forge ties with like-minded European figures, includ-ing new French President Francois Hollande, who want to soften austerity policies by finding new ways to encourage growth.

“The first reason we are taking this trip is because we want the governments of these important Eu-ropean Union countries, France and Germany, to see what we stand for: what is being transmitted in Europe

about us is not what we represent and want,” Tsipras told Reuters at the office of his SYRIZA party.

He will not be meeting govern-ment officials, but will see fellow leftists in France and Germany, in-cluding former French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon and Klaus Ernst and Gregor Gysi of Ger-many’s The Left. He will hold news conferences in both capitals to get his message to a wider audience.

“We are not at all an anti-Euro-pean force. We are fighting to save social cohesion in Europe. We are maybe the most pro-European force in Europe, because its dominant powers will lead the union into instability and the euro zone to collapse if they insist on austerity,” he said.

While he repeated his assertion that the terms of a 130 billion bail-out agreement Greece signed with international lenders in March are now a “dead letter”, he said that if he comes to power he will seek a new policy mix to keep Greece in the euro.

Agence

The leader of putschists who ousted Mali’s president in March will retain the title of former head of state and all privileges coming with it, interim authorities and the West African ECOWAS bloc said. “Captain Amadou Sanogo has the status of former head of state. He will have all the benefits coming with his rank,” Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister Djibrill Bassole, one of the mediators in the post-coup crisis, said on state radio on Sunday.

The Malian authorities and ECOWAS mediators also agreed on

a transition period to full democratic rule of one year, which will start af-ter a 40-day interim period imposed by the constitution under interim President Dioncounda Traore.

Traore, 70, will lead the country during the transition, sources close to the putschists and the Economic Community of West African States mediators told AFP. He was presi-dent of Mali’s parliament until the ouster of president Amadou Toumani Toure by the military on March 22.

Sunday’s agreements were signed by Sanogo, Traore, his Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and Bassole, sources close to Sanogo

and the mediators said.Bassole and the foreign min-

isters of Ivory Coast and Nigeria, Adama Bictogo and Mohamed Nourredine, have been on their mediation mission in Bamako since Saturday, when they reached an agreement in principle for Traore to head the transition period until elections can be held. No timeline was then given.

After the March 22 coup the putschists agreed to return power to a civilian government following an agreement with ECOWAS. Traore was inaugurated as interim president on April 12 but has so far failed to put an end to the political crisis.

AFP Photo/Issouf Sanogo

The leader of putschists who ousted Mali’s president in March, Captain Amadou Sanogo, pictured in April, will retain the title of former head of state and all privileges coming with it, interim authorities and the West African ECOWAS bloc said on Sunday.

Mali coup leader to have status of former head of state

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Head of Greece’s Left Coalition party Alexis Tsipras (C), accompanied by party officials, leaves from the Presidential palace following a meeting with political leaders and the Greek President in Athens May 15, 2012.

Greek leftist brings message to Europe: “Let’s talk” Russian Presi-

dent Vladimir Putin meets with Igor Kholman-skikh, right, a section head at the Uralvagonza-vod tank fac-tory in the Urals city of Nizhny Tagil that builds battle tanks, in Novo-Ogaryovo residence out-side Moscow on Friday, May 18, 2012.

AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Yana Lapikova, Government Press Service

Putin to dominate new Russian governmentReuters

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin will unveil a govern-ment dominated by loyalists on Monday, leaving Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev limited scope to pursue his reform agenda and entrenching the Kremlin’s grip over the economy’s commanding heights.

The rare lunar-solar alignment was visible in Asia early Monday before it moved across the Pacific — and the international dateline — where it was seen in parts of the western United States late Sunday afternoon.

People from Colorado, Oklaho-ma and as far away as Canada trav-eled to Albuquerque to enjoy one of the best vantage points at a park on the edge of the city. Members of the crowd smiled and cheered

and children yelled with excitement as the moon crossed the sun and the blazing halo of light began to form. Some watched the eclipse by placing their viewing glasses on the front of their smartphones.

Eventually, the moon centered and covered about 96 percent of the sun. “That’s got to be the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen,” said Brent Veltri of Salida, Colo.

Elsewhere, viewing parties were

held at observatories in Reno, Nev., and Oakland, Calif., while skywatch-ers gathered in coastal and forest counties in California. In some areas, special camera filters for taking pho-tographs have been sold out for weeks in anticipation of the big event.

Yet, while millions were making an effort to view the eclipse, some American Indians were adhering to tradition by staying indoors. Navajo Bonnie Charley of Monument Val-ley in northeast Arizona said she follows her tribe’s traditions.

“You’re supposed to stay inside,” said the 75-year-old Charley, whose father was a medicine man. “No eating, drinking or sleeping. That’s for the duration of the eclipse.” She said Navajo traditions surrounding eclipses stem from their beliefs regarding creation.

ThiS month marks the 20th anniver-sary of a spectacular day for zoologists. Two decades ago, in May 1992, scientists announced the discovery of a new species — the saola — living in the lush mountain forests that straddle the Vietnam-Laos border. It was the first large mammal discovered since the 1930s.

Yet celebrations are muted in light of the elusive species’ plight; the saola, also known as the “Asian unicorn,” is likely fast disap-pearing, conservationists warned in an an-nouncement today, and they say there could be only 200, or even as few as just several dozen of the animals left on the planet.

The saola is a small, horned animal that resembles a strange antelope hybrid, but is more closely related to a type of wild

cow. Vietnamese scientists first identified the new species only through the bizarre, horned skulls that villagers living near the animal’s range had collected.

Stark markings on the face, long, graceful horns and a tufted tail lend to the animal’s mystique. But according to Barney Long, an Asian species expert for the conservation organization WWF, the creature got its mythical moniker more for its habits than its looks.

“It’s so rare to see that it would almost be like seeing a unicorn,” Long told OurA-mazingPlanet in 2011, when a protected area for saola was created in Vietnam. These secretive ungulates wander the steamy green forests of South Asia’s Annamite Mountains, where poaching is

rampant. Although saola themselves are not prized in the wildlife trade or for their meat, many of their neighbors are.

“Saola are caught largely as bycatch — like the tuna and dolphin scenario,” Wil-liam Robichaud, coordinator of the Saola Working Group, said in a statement. And although the rare creatures are caught and killed by snares, scientists have never ob-served them in the wild. The rare saola that has been captured alive has quickly died.

“When they’re in captivity, they seem to act extremely tame, and they’re very open to having people come up to them and touch them,” Long said, but explained that their sweet demeanor is likely a sign of extreme stress. “The animal is freaking out,” he said.

Agence France Presse

Researchers on Thursday chal-lenged a tenet of modern medi-cine that higher levels of “good” cholesterol automatically boost cardiovascular health. In a study published in The Lancet, investiga-tors said they found no evidence to back the belief that higher levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol routinely reduce the risk of a heart attack.

High concentrations of HDL are one of the big markers for blood tests. They are monitored as much as low levels of “bad” choles-terol (low-density lipoprotein, or LDL) as a yardstick of dangerously clogged arteries.

The paper used a method called mendelian randomisation to com-pare heart-attack risk among people who inherited known genetic vari-ants that gave them higher HDL levels.

According to conventional wis-

dom, these individuals would have a lower risk of a coronary. But the study, which looked at nearly 12,500 people with a history of a heart attack and over 41,000 oth-erwise healthy counterparts, found this was not always the case.

The results are important be-cause of the use of drugs, some-times inflicting side effects, which are administered to boost HDL cholesterol levels. “These results show that some ways of raising HDL cholesterol might not reduce risk of myocardial infarction [heart attack] in human beings,” said Sekar Kathiresan of Massachusetts Gen-eral Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

“Therefore, if an intervention such as a drug raises HDL choles-terol, we cannot automatically as-sume that risk of myocardial infarc-tion will be reduced.” In contrast, the study said “bad” cholesterol remained an accurate marker of cardiac risk.

Elusive ‘Asian Unicorn’ Faces Extinction

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A female saola, captured in 1996.

‘Good’ cholesterol doctrine may be flawed: study

AFP Photo/Chris Hondros

A person gives a blood sample for a cholesterol check. Researchers on Thursday challenged a tenet of modern medicine that higher levels of “good” cholesterol automatically boost cardiovascular health.

Eclipse crosses Asia, US: Millions look skywardAssociated Press Writer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — From a park near Albuquerque, to the top of Japan’s Mount Fuji, to the California coast the effect was dramatic: The moon nearly blotting out the sun creating a blazing “ring of fire” eclipse. Millions of people across a narrow strip of eastern Asia and the Western U.S. turned their sights skyward for the annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun leaving only a golden ring around its edges.

AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

An annular solar eclipse is partially seen at sunrise Monday, May 21, 2012, from the coastal township of Gumaca, Quezon province, 187 kilometers (116 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines.

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Nigeria’s John Utaka scored the two goals after relegated Auxerre had opened the scoring through Olivier Kapo. Montpellier finished the season on 82 points, leading second-placed Paris St Germain, who won 2-1 at Lorient, by three points.

Eden Hazard scored three in his farewell game as third-placed Lille, who will be in the Champi-ons League playoffs next season, beat Nancy 4-1. Olympique Lyon, who had nothing to gain or lose, finished fourth with a 4-3 defeat by visitors Nice. Girondins Bordeaux, fifth, secured a Europa League spot with a 3-2 victory at St Etienne.

Dijon and Caen were relegated to Ligue 2 with AJ Auxerre. “It’s incredible, I can hardly find the words,” Montpellier keeper Geof-frey Jourdren told Canal + as fans descended on to the pitch to cel-ebrate the title.

“Our only goal was to stay in the top flight and in the end we are champions. I’m going to enjoy it because it will probably be the only time it happens to me.”

The joyous celebrations at the end were in stark contrast to the crowd trouble that repeat-edly marred the second half of the contest.

Emotions spilled over when Auxerre fans threw tennis balls, toilet paper and tomatoes onto the pitch to cause the first two disrup-

tions. Referee Said Ennjimi de-layed the start of the second half by five minutes and then ushered the players back inside the tunnel after suspending the game again just five minutes after the interval.

However, riot police were called in when the match was halted for the third time in the 70th minute after raging Auxerre supporters threw flares onto the pitch.

With the jeering, whistling and booing fans showing no signs of calming down, the police moved in to evacuate sections of the stands, allowing Montpellier to complete their title charge without any fur-ther stoppages.

Montpellier, in only their third top-flight season after a five-year spell in Ligue 2, had climbed up the Ligue 1 ladderthanks to their free-flowing, inspired football and made sure they were rewarded for their hard work and belief on Sunday. At the Abbe Deschamps stadium, a Montpellier fan’s ban-ner read “historical season”. It was meant to be one.

WILD CELEBRATIONS

The players did not let their fans down even though they fell behind when Kapo beat Mapou Yanga Mbiwa to head home from a Roy Contout corner as Auxerre took the lead after 20 minutes. The visitors hit back 12 minutes

later when Utaka latched on to a Souleymane Camara cross from the right to make it 1-1.

Montpellier showed their com-posure amid the chaotic scenes erupting around them as Utaka doubled the tally in the 76th minute with a low shot from just inside the box, triggering wild but peace-ful celebrations in their corner. It ended PSG’s hopes of winning their first title since 1994 after the Qatar-backed side spent over 80 million euros ($101.78 million) on transfers last summer.

“We have to congratulate Mont-pellier. We did a good job tonight, we just lacked a little something,” said PSG coach Carlo Ancelotti, who took over from Antoine Kom-bouare last December when the club was leading the table.

“We need to have faith in the future.” PSG were 1-0 down after 28 minutes when some sloppy defending by Zoumana Camara allowed the unmarked Kevin Monnet-Paquet to head home from a Lucas Mareque cross. That game was also interrupted shortly afterwards for five minutes after PSG fans threw flares on to the pitch. The visitors levelled on 61 minutes thanks to a close-range goal from Javier Pastore. Thiago Motta made it 2-1 for PSG when he headed home from a Nene corner 15 minutes from time. But it was all for nothing.

Reuters

ROME - Napoli won their first major title since the Diego Mara-dona era, denied Serie A cham-pions Juventus the double and handed their captain Alessandro Del Piero an unhappy end to 19 seasons at the club by beating the Turin side 2-0 in the Italian Cup final on Sunday.

Edinson Cavani broke the dead-lock with a penalty just after the hour and Marek Hamsik finished off a counter-attack as Napoli claimed their first trophy since the Maradona-inspired team won Serie A in 1989/90. Juventus had substi-tute Fabio Quagliarella sent off in the 89th minute for a full-blooded elbow in the face of Salvatore Aronica after only 17 minutes on the pitch.

“This was a club that didn’t ex-ist, said Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis, a film-maker who refounded the club after it was de-clared bankrupt in 2004 and led it from Serie C back to the top flight. “In a few years we’ve brought something home, above all the

knowledge that Napoli exists, lives and can be the world champion of the sport.”

Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri said: “It seemed unthinkable to beat Juve. “They hadn’t ever lost this season (in Serie A) and to beat them 2-0 was magnificent work. The team has done something extraordinary in the last three years: Cavani, (Ezequiel) Lavezzi, Hamsik are on everyone’s lips, but it’s an entire team that should be acclaimed as one.”

“This was the 51st game of the season. Anyone who plays football knows that playing these games at that level is hard. We have paid in the championship for this. You can lose to anyone in our league, and we dropped too many points.”

Although Juventus had com-pleted their 38-match campaign in Serie A without losing, there was some debate over their 2-2 Italian Cup draw after extra time against AC Milan in their semi-final sec-ond leg. Milan claimed that, as they were winning 2-1 at the end of 90 minutes, that should count as a Juventus defeat.

Montpellier clinch maiden title as season ends in chaosReuters

AUXERRE, France - Montpellier players kept their cool to clinch a maiden Ligue 1 title with a 2-1 win at AJ Auxerre although the match descended into chaos as police were called in after local fans pelted the pitch with flares, tomatoes and toilet paper to interrupt the game three times on Sunday.

Montpellier’s Garry Bocaly celebrates after his French League one soccer match against Auxerre at the Abbe Deschamps stadium in Auxerre, central France, Sunday, May 20, 2012. Montpellier defeated

Auxerre 2-1 and celebrated its first title.

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Napoli’ s captain Paolo Cannavaro celebrates winning the Italian Cup soccer final after beating Juventus 2 - 0 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy, Sunday, May 20, 2012.

Napoli win first trophy since Maradona era

Mangupura (Bali Post) –The Badung Province Regula-

tion No 1 Year 2008 on HIV/AIDS Prevention Management seemed still not fully applied especially on the sanctions or fines that should be given to the spreader of the vi-rus as the supervision team is still uncreated. Head of Badung AIDS Prevention Commission (KPA) Daily Head, I Ketut Sudikerta, a while ago stated it is being formed which with it will be managed which part will get which sanction and so on. “Will it involve Police Civil Service, Police or KPA,”

Sudikerta stated.Sudikerta who’s also the Vice

Regent of Badung stated on the Regional Law No.1 Year 2008 that besides being jailed HIV/AIDS spreader also will be fined as much as IDR 50 million which its purpose to save the public and young generation from HIV/AIDS threat. Badung Government also supplies free medication in a number of health community centers for sufferers also in socializing the illness. Even so, Sudikerta hoped that all public members

to also support the prevention of this disease moreover 70 percent of this virus was spread by sex intercourse besides through breast feeding, the use of unsterilized injection needle, and blood transfusion. The total case in Badung is placed third in Bali where it is noted up to March 2012 as much as 793 cases which means 410 people with HIV and 383 people with AIDS which 70 of them are dead. Meanwhile the estimate of this case in Badung could reach up to 1,259 cases.(kmb25)

Sapta said that motorsport, tennis, golf and football could become a powerful magnet for the world community, so that many countries competed to become a host of the events to promote their country. For example, the World Cup ever held in Portugal managed to raise the tourist visit rate up to 5-10 percent. Similar positive impact also occurred to Cape Town in South Africa, Bei-jing in China, and London which would host the 2012 Olympics next month and the attention of world community would be fo-cused there.

Strategy to make the sport an entry point had been implemented in a number of destinations such as West Sumatra with the organiza-

tion of international cycling race entitled Tour de Singkarak enter-ing the fourth year and the results obtained was the increase in tour-ist visits to West Sumatera. Sport tourism was developed in a num-ber of destinations such as Bintan with the Bintan Triathlon and boat races on the Musi River.

Meanwhile, the entry point in the cultural f ield, among others, had been packaged in a jazz festival having a universal value. Aside from the Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta that had been famous throughout the world, similar jazz festival activities would also be organized in six other cities including Ambon, Makassar, Bangka-Belitung and Batam. (010)

Negara (Bali Post)—Since Saturday night (May 19)

a long queue of vehicles happened at Gilimanuk Harbor in conjunc-tion with the end of a long weekend holiday. The queues were dominated by tourist buses. Hundreds of tour-ist buses had queued up since last Saturday afternoon at Gilimanuk Harbor to cross to Ketapang Harbor, Banyuwangi.

A number of bus passengers claimed to have arrived at the harbor since the afternoon and some of them were about to stepping aboard. The queue was getting longer and longer at night and went out of the Gili-manuk Harbor. A teacher joining a tour package from Surabaya, Junaedi, 36, said that he was in the entourage

holidaying in Bali for three days. On Saturday, the entourage totally 10 buses would return to Surabaya. He along with high school students were waiting in the queue for up to an hour, but the buses had not entered into the ship. Nevertheless, he could understand because many groups tak-ing advantage of the last weekend for a holiday in Bali.

Another passenger, Rizki, from East Java, had come to Bali for two times with a group. Based on her previous experience, the bus just arrived at Gilimanuk Harbor at night, so it was stuck in a queue for few hours. On that account, the entourage had arrived early in the afternoon, but it was also subject to the queue. Based on observation

until Saturday night, the queues were dominated by tourist buses until reaching the maneuver parking area. The queues increased in the evening and all finally could go out in the morning. Predicted, the peak of queue would happen on Sunday night (May 20) especially for tourist buses and private vehicles.

Operations Manager of Gilimanuk Harbor, Ospar Silaban, said there was an increase in the number of vehicles crossing to Ketapang. They were predominated by tourist buses and private cars that had spent holidays in Bali. According to him, the increase reached about five percent. Estimat-ed, the peak of passenger backflows would take place on Sunday after-noon until evening. (kmb26)

For a week a number of lo-cals in Buleleng’s villages were made unease as a number of pigs robbery cases happened such as at Dusun Kunci, Tigewesa Vil-lage, Banjar and Banjar Dinas Kelodan, Panglatan Vil lage, Buleleng. Head of Buleleng Po-lice Operational Section, PC Ida Bagus Wedana Jati, on Sunday (20/5) stated the case at Kunci happened to Putu Ariantosa (38) last Wednesday (16/5) where robber took a male pig from victim’s place at midnight while victim’s asleep which expected

to value IDR 1 million. The case was then reported to Banjar Police which then Head Police, Nyoman Supardi, ordered of-ficers to haunt the robber which then they managed to find ac-cused Putu As (38). Meanwhile at Penglatan, the case hit victim Gede Agus Pertamayasa which his male pig valued IDR 600,000 was taken. The pig was tied up at the back of his house yet in the morning it was missing so victim reported it to Buleleng Police which until now is still being investigated. (kmb15)

Sport and culture effectively promote tourismJakarta (Bali Post)—

Deputy Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sapta Nirwandar, said that sports and music events could effectively serve as means of tourism promotion. On that account, the Ministry of Culture and Creative Economy placed the sport and culture as the entry point to promote tourism and creative economy to foreign countries. “Sport and culture are very effec-tive as entry point for promoting tourism and creative economy other than organizing exhibitions and sales mission,” he said in Jakarta, Sunday (May 20).

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The buses are queueing in Gilimanuk Harbor.

Tourist buses queued up at Gilimanuk Harbor last weekend

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James didn’t panic. He simply picked up his teammates and carried them to a win. And this time, Dwyane Wade helped.

James scored 40 points with 18 rebounds and nine assists, and Wade added 30 points — 22 in the second half — as Miami rallied to even their semifinal series against Indiana with a 101-93 win on Sunday over the Pac-ers, who had the defending Eastern Conference champions down couldn’t keep them there. “I felt like I had to do whatever it took to win,” said James, who played all but four minutes.

With All-Star forward Chris Bosh injured and back in Florida, the James-Wade tag team saved the Heat, who will host Game 5 on Tuesday night at AmericanAirlines Arena.

“Me and ‘Bron had it going,” said Wade, who bounced back from the worst playoff game of his career — five points on 2-of-13 shooting — with one of his best, “We played off of each other very well. We both were aggres-

sive at the same time. That’s beautiful basketball for the Miami Heat when we play that way.”

The Heat now head home back in control of the best-of-seven series, which is down to a best-of-three with two of the games on Miami’s home floor. “It’s still going to be a dogfight,” James said.

Udonis Haslem, playing with a large bandage covering a nasty cut over his right eye that required nine stitches, added 14 points for Miami. For a while, the Heat’s season was slipping away.

The underrated Pacers had built a 10-point lead in the third quarter and were threatening to run away as they did in Game 3, when James and Wade took over. They scored 38 consecu-tive points in one stretch bridging the second and third quarters and com-bined to score 28 of Miami’s 30 in the third when the Heat seemed to be playing with two to Indiana’s five.

“LeBron had that look,” Heat

forward Shane Battier said. “And when he has that look and Dwyane has that look, you want to run through a wall.”

Wade finished with nine rebounds and six assists, erasing the ugly memory of Game 3 when he also had a confrontation with Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, a public dispute that turned into a bigger deal than it prob-ably was because of a two-day break between games. The next day, Wade, who has refused to blame injuries for his recent struggles, visited his former Marquette coach Tom Crean, who is now at Indiana.

Wade said Crean had film for him to watch. “I was able to be a student of the game,” Wade said. “Just figur-ing out what I needed to do differently to help our team get this win. I just wanted to come out today and affect the game somehow. Obviously, I knew I was struggling a little bit on my offensive game. I wasn’t going to let that affect my overall game.”

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Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) dunks in front of Indiana Pacers’ George Hill (3), Roy Hibbert (55) and Paul George (24) during the second half of Game 4 of their NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series, Sunday, May 20, 2012, in Indianapolis.

James, Wade combine for 70 as Heat win Game 4Associated Press Writer

INDIANAPOLIS — The coveted NBA championship, the one LeBron James needs to validate everything, was vanishing. With 18,000 towel-waving fans roaring like the engines at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Indiana Pacers had knocked the Miami Heat to the floor and to the edge of elimination.

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NEW YORK — It was on the streets of her Harlem neighbor-hood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to winning Wimbledon. But according to the 1940 census, the trailblazing athlete didn’t even exist.

There’s no record of Gibson and her family in the decennial census, the records of which were released online to the pub-lic April 2 by the U.S. National Archives after a 72-year confi-dentiality period lapsed.

She and her family aren’t the only ones — more than a million black people weren’t accounted for in 1940, an undercount that had ramifications at the time on everything from the political map to the distribution of re-sources.

It also had an impact on the

Census Bureau itself, the agency said, leading to efforts that con-tinue to this day as it counts peo-ple every decade, to assess how well it managed to count people and to determine what could be done to improve. An analysis of the 2010 Census’ efficacy is being released May 22. The undercount estimate has gener-ally gone down, but it’s always been disproportionately higher for blacks than nonblacks.

There are a variety of rea-sons for undercounts — people move around; people may not know or be reluctant to answer government questions; ad-dress lists may be inaccurate; extremely crowded areas can be difficult to count, as can ex-tremely isolated areas. Experts believe some of those factors weigh more heavily on minor-ity undercounts, particularly the challenges of counting in urban areas.

Associated Press Writer

Babe Ruth equals big bucks. A baseball jersey worn by The Bambino sold for more than $4.4 million Sunday, a record for any item of sports memorabilia, ac-cording to the buyer and seller.

SCP Auctions, based in Cali-fornia, said the circa 1920 New York Yankees uniform top is the earliest known jersey worn by Ruth and it fetched $4,415,658 at the company’s April auction, which ended Sunday. That price broke the previous record of $4,338,500 set in 2010 for James Naismith’s founding rules of basketball.

Lelands.com said it submitted the winning bid for the jersey, which had been displayed for years at The Babe Ruth Birth-

place Museum in Baltimore. The road top has “New York” written across the front and the Hall of Fame slugger wore it shortly af-ter he was sold to the Yankees by the Boston Red Sox for $100,000 following the 1919 season.

Suzan French, a spokeswoman for Lelands.com, said the compa-ny plans to sell the jersey privately rather than re-auction it.

“Such a spectacular piece will find a home with one of our private clients who truly appre-ciates its historic significance,” Lelands.com president Michael Heffner said in a statement.

Ruth retired in 1935 with 714 home runs, the major league record for nearly 40 years. Hank Aaron broke that mark and then was passed by Barry Bonds, who finished with 762.

Black undercount found in 1940 census records

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FILE - In this June 26, 1956 file photo, trailblazing tennis star Althea Gibson competes in the first round of Wimble-don, in England.

Babe Ruth jersey sells for record $4.4 million

Denpasar (Bali Post)-The commodity of imported fruits

from other parts of the country or outside the country seemed to have flooeded the market a lot dominating up to 60-70 percent of the whole of fruits trading in Denpasar. The high demand daily of them caused Bali farmers disadvantaged as stated by Udayana University great lec-turer and agriculture expert, Prof. Wayan Windia last week. “Local farmers will lose many opportunities to fulfill locals need as they are not able to compete with overseas farmers that used better technol-ogy and marketing in their ways to sell their products. A protection is needed and vital such as a protection to the agriculture by government especially. It is seen that the local agriculture hasn’t been maximal when during religious days imported products flooded the traditional markets as local products quality not as good as the overseas, therefore public would buy it even though it is expensive. And so famers can’t develop further to improve quality,” Windia exclaimed.

Windia reminded the public’s aware-ness that to consume local fruits needs an early plantation while as the mid up to high economy class would use 0.3 percent of their income in buying imported fruits for their religious and consumption needs which means if their income increased 100 percent, then 30 percent of it used for that. The public are too much enjoy-ing imported products especially on fruits compared to local products. Yet even so, if government managed to pressure that then slowly the public would like their own plantation result.

According to sellers imported fruits were dominated due to their continuous supply and not disturbed by seasons while local would depend on seasons. Besides that imported products looked better than locals. Wayan Sudiani, a seller, admit-ted to have sold more of the imported products compared to locals up to now. From business wise, imported ones are much sellable than locals besides they are much further expired, they also gave more profit. “I very much agree if imported fruits distribution is tightened which will also followed by making consumers liking their local products and so it will be better for us in selling them as well,” Sudiani explained. (kmb28)

Such worries were conveyed by a legislator of Karangasem House, I Nengah Perdana Putra aka Matek, Sunday (May 20) in Karangasem. He said there had been 13 rafting companies taking advantage of the rapids of Telaga Waja River. Such amount of rafting companies could have absorbed hundreds of workers.

Perdana Putra who also has a rafting company in the river said he and other rafting investors equally revealed the same worries. In order to prevent the diminishing water discharge of Telaga Waja River and to preserve the sustainability of rafting operation, Perdana Putra hoped the Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, or operator of Telaga Waja River pipeline to find a way out. For example, it could be done by regulating the operating hours of the water source suction held at Arca. “Preferably, the suc-tion should not be carried out during the day,” he said.

Agriculture tech-nology shortage, Bali farmers hard to compete

Telaga Waja River

Sucked by pipeline network

Water of Telaga Waja River feared to shrink

Amlapura (Bali Post)—The lineup of rafting business people taking advantage of the rapids of Telaga Waja

River, Rendang, set to worry if the river’s flow will shrink. It happens because the water source will be later sucked up by the Telaga Waja River water pipeline network to be distributed to eight subdistricts.

He said that currently the rafting entrepreneurs taking advantage of the river already had an association. However, the minimal rate could not be obeyed by the rafting asso-ciation. As many rafting companies operating at the location, namely 13 units and one had gone bankrupt, such condition ultimately triggered an unhealthy competition. There was a newly emerging company that committed a descending price practice. Unavoidably, the un-healthy competition occurred and it was feared to harm all the parties if the government did not promptly take action by giving development or awareness.

He said the official rates estab-lished by the rafting association were IDR 180,000 per person for local tourist and IDR 225,000 per person for foreign tourist. However, due to the practice of descending price, there were operators selling the package at IDR 120,000 per person. As a matter of fact, added

Perdana Putra, the levies of aquatic tourism collected by Karangasem Regency did not matter as long as the minimal rate could be observed by members of the association.

At the moment, the levy of aquatic tourism was IDR 20,000 per person for foreign tourist and IDR 10,000 per person for local tourist. “Investors do not dispute the amount of levy provided that the minimum rate can be obeyed by the members of the association. I urge the government to help discipline the minimal rates of rafting,” he explained.

Related to the expectation of Perdana Putra asking for guidance from Karangasem Regency, the acting officer of the Karangasem Regional Secretary, I Wayan Arta Dipa, said that if requiring such a guidance or awareness develop-ment, the association should write to regency government. For instance, the regency government could be invited to the meeting of the rafting

company association. “Without for-mally invited, the regency govern-ment official certainly cannot come as such because it concerns with the association,” he said.

On the other hand, the Regent of Karangasem, I Wayan Geredeg, said the rafting entrepreneurs in Telaga Waja River should not have to worry if the water discharge would shrink or even run dry. Except, the headsprings decreased because of destruction happening to forests in the catch-ment areas in the upstream or Mount Agung. On that account, all parties, especially the rafting businessmen relying on their livelihood to the water discharge of Telaga Waja River, should actively participate in the forest conservation efforts.

He said the suction of head-springs of Telaga Waja River to be drained to the eight subdistricts in Karangasem through the Telaga Waja pipeline project would be carried out only at night for a few hours to fill in the reservoir. On that account, according to Geredeg, the rafting entrepreneurs should not fear if the water discharge of the river would diminish. (013)

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“I’m so happy, this result is so im-portant for us,” Rossi said following his second-place finish, his best MotoGP result with Ducati. “I know we have a better chance in these conditions for the podium so I tried to ride in a better way to stay concentrated. We knew we had a special chance for [a top three], so it was very important to ride at the maximum.”

The seven-time world champion explained he dropped back in the early

stages of the race - when he was passed by Tech 3’s Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso - due to his visor fogging up, but was able to start pushing again once it had cleared.

“I was behind [Casey] Stoner and I could keep up with him, but then my visor steamed up because we are using a new helmet,” he told Italia1.

“I managed to open it and little by little air came through: when I was again able to see I started pushed again and

overtook the two Yamahas. I saw I was going quick and that I was closing up to Stoner, but Cal and Dovizioso came with me so I had to push at the maximum.

“Then I arrived with Stoner and it was a great battle as always. I’m happy for myself, for all the Ducati boys who work for me and my team. We needed this. Now let’s hope we can be more competitive in the dry too.”

Italian rider Valentino Rossi reacts during the award cer-

emony of the MotoGP Grand Prix of France, in Le Mans, western France, Sunday, May 20, 2012,

after he took the second place.

Jorge Lorenzo labelled his French Grand Prix triumph ‘very sweet’ after delivering a faultless ride in difficult wet conditions. Despite missing out on the front row for the second straight race, Lorenzo was in aggressive mood from the outset and had moved into the lead before the end of the first lap.

He rapidly extended his advantage in the early stages, when no-one could live with his pace, and was ultimately untroubled en route to a victory which earned him an eight-point lead over Honda’s Casey Stoner in the 2012 championship standings.

“The flavour of this victory is very sweet. In the dry it is complicated but in the wet it’s even more,” Lorenzo said. “The race feels much longer and it’s really difficult to hold concentration.

“You have to remember where the corners are slip-pery every lap, and if you forget one you can crash very easily.”

Lorenzo’s lead only ever looked in jeopardy when Stoner began closing around the sixth lap, but the mo-ment proved fleeting and he was soon extending his advantage again over his main points rival.

“When I saw Casey was catching me I didn’t lose it, I kept calm and didn’t force it too much,” Lorenzo said. “It would have been easy to push a bit more and make a mistake at that moment but I waited for a few more laps to see what happened then opened the gap again to win this fantastic race.

“A big thank you to my team who worked very hard in difficult conditions to make a set up that worked for me.”

Rossi knew Le Mans could be a crucial opportunity

Valentino rossi says he and Ducati were aware they had a special chance to finish on the podium at Le Mans given the race’s wet conditions. rossi, who said after qualifying that he was hoping for a wet race, explained that he rode at the maximum under the knowledge that the gP12 could fare better in the adverse conditions than it would have in the dry.

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Lorenzo savours ‘sweet’ MotoGP victory

The tourism village built must em-power the local communities more totally without relying on large investors from outside.

The matter was submitted by a legislator of the Buleleng House from Sukasada, Made Teja, in connection with the development of the upstream region at Pancasari village and Munduk

village. According to Teja, at Pancasari village, for instance, the residents should be empowered seriously to build an agro-tourism. Community activities in strawberry and vegetable garden as well as fishing activities using traditional boats could become a main attraction for tourists.

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LONDON — With his careful-ly tended hair, tight trousers and perfect harmonies, Robin Gibb, along with his brothers Maurice and Barry, defined the disco era. As part of the Bee Gees — short for the Brothers Gibb — they created dance floor classics like “Stayin Alive,” ‘’Jive Talkin’,” and “Night Fever” that can still get

crowds onto a dance floor.The catchy songs, with their

falsetto vocals and relentless beat, are familiar pop culture mainstays. There are more than 6,000 cover ver-sions of the Bee Gees hits, and they are still heard on dance floors and at wedding receptions, birthday parties, and other festive occasions.

Robin Gibb, 62, died Sunday “following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery,” his

family announced in a statement released by Gibb’s representative Doug Wright.

Gibb was the second disco-era star to die this week. Donna Sum-mer — who earned the Queen of Disco title by singing “Last Dance” and “I Feel Love” — died of cancer in Florida on Thursday.

The Bee Gees, born in England but raised in Australia, began their career in the musically rich 1960s

but it was their soundtrack for the 1977 movie “Saturday Night Fe-ver” that sealed their success. The album’s signature sound — some called it “blue-eyed soul” — re-mains instantly recognizable more than 40 years after its release.

The album remains a turning point in popular music history, ending the hard rock era and ushering in a time when dance music ruled supreme.

Tourism village at upstream area

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BULeLeNg - To maintain the lake and for-est environment as well as to secure the sacred area, the government should seriously build a

tourism village in the upstream region such as at Pancasari village in Sukasada subdistrict

and Munduk village in Banjar subdistrict.

Bee Gees’ Robin Gibb dies after long cancer battle

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In this March 1, 2008, file photo, musician Robin Gibb performs at the Dubai International Jazz Festival in Dubai Media City Amphitheater, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.