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There are panoramic aerial battles on Krypton, there are touching mo-ments between young Clark Kent and both his biological and adoptive fathers, there are close-ups of a fist pounding into ice, and there is lots and lots of big-budget flying.

“I wanted the movie to be a big movie-going experience, full of action, full of emotion and full of the biggest super hero in the world,” Snyder said Tuesday before giving the Las Vegas movie theater convention CinemaCon a brief glimpse. “I wanted to give to the cinemas of the world a big, giant ‘movie’ movie.”

The film follows in the modern tradi-tion of the naturalistic superhero mov-ies. It takes place in a gritty-looking, color-drained world of grays, brown and icy blues. All the better to set off that red cape, perhaps.

The scenes of Clark Kent’s Kansas childhood are drenched in Americana, complete with freshly laundered flan-nels flapping on the clothes line. Snyder, who also directed the superhero film “Watchmen,” said he wanted to find a poignancy to add to

the familiar story.We get some hints of that tenderness

in conversations between Kent and his farmer father, played by Kevin Cost-ner, as they struggle to keep the young superhero’s powers hidden.

But then we see Kent grow up, learn to fly and begin to take on an assortment of foes. It’s this part of the legend — not the troubled childhood — that seems to most animate Snyder.

“I’ve been a big fan of the character my whole life,” Snyder said. “He is the greatest super hero. There’s no compe-tition between super heroes, but if there was, he’d win.”

Associated Press Writer

NEW DELHI — Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt was granted more time to work before going to prison for a 1993 weapons conviction linked to a deadly terror attack, though he likely won’t be able to finish his four pending films.

The Supreme Court’s order Wednesday gives him four more weeks beyond the original deadline, which was Thursday. Dutt had appealed to the court that he needed six months to complete his pending film com-mitments, which film industry experts have said are worth at least $20 million. Last month the top court sentenced Dutt to five years in prison for illegal possession of weapons supplied by Muslim mafia bosses linked to the terror attack that killed 257 people in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment hub.

The 53-year-old actor originally had been sentenced to serve six years in prison on the charge of possessing an automatic rifle and a pistol that were supplied to him by men subsequently convicted in the bombings.

Dutt served 18 months in jail before he was released on bail in 2007 pending an appeal. The Supreme Court reduced his prison sentence to five years.

The actor’s case is part of a sprawling Mumbai bombings trial that has lasted 18 years. Dutt maintains he knew nothing about the bombing plot and that he asked for the guns to protect his family — his mother was Muslim and his father Hindu — after receiving threats during sectarian riots in Mumbai.

The 1993 bombings were seen at the time as the world’s worst terrorist attack, with 13 bombs exploding over a two-hour period across Mumbai. Powerful explosives were packed into cars and scooters parked near In-dia’s main Bombay Stock Exchange and other sites in the city. In addition to the 257 dead, more than 720 people were injured in the attack.

The bombings were believed to have been acts of revenge for the demolition of a 16th century mosque by Hindu nationalists in northern India in 1992. After the demolition, religious riots erupted, leaving more than 800 people dead, most of them Muslims.

‘Man of Steel’ promises poignancy from Superman

Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP

Zack Snyder, director of the forthcoming film “Man of Steel,” addresses the audience during the Warner Bros. presentation at CinemaCon 2013 at Caesars Palace on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 in Las Vegas.

Associated Press Writer

LAS VEGAS — Zack Snyder is hoping his Superman reboot “Man of Steel” turns out to be not just a blockbuster, but a movie with a capital “M.”

Indian court gives Dutt 4 more weeks before prison

AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File

FILE- In this March 28, 2013 file photo, Indian Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, gestures dur-ing a press conference at his residence in Mumbai, India.

Boston bomb probe looking at pressure cooker, backpacks

The Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali, Gde Suarsa, said that compared to the occupancy rate in January 2013, the occupancy

rate in Badung, Gianyar and Bule-leng County showed an increase respectively 12.30 points, 4.47 points and 8.89 points. Meanwhile,

in Tabanan, Karangasem and Den-pasar the occupancy rate decreased respectively by 11.44 points, 2.45 points and 1.18 points.

“According to hotel classifica-tion, the room occupancy rate in five star hotels reaches 60.03 percent denoting the highest oc-cupancy rate compared to the other hotel classification. The lowest oc-cupancy rate occurred in two-star hotels reaching 48.04 percent,” explained Suarsa.

Nevertheless, the average length of stay of foreign and Indonesian tourists in star hotels in Bali reach-ing 2.98 days (February 2013) indi-cated a decrease of up to 0.16 point compared to the average length of stay during January 2013 reaching 3.14 days.

“Overall, the average length of stay of foreign tourists in February reached. 3.20 days, much longer than the length of stay of Indone-sian tourists reaching 2.43 days,”

he said.Meanwhile, the number of for-

eign tourist arrival to Bali in Febru-ary, said Suarsa, reached 241,868 people. This figure had increased by 7.02 percent compared to the same month a year earlier. Most of those tourists came to Bali through the airport as many as 236,971 people (97.98 percent), while through seaports amounted to 4,897 people (2.02 percent).

Room occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali increases Bali Post

DENPASAR - Room occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali in February 2013 reached averagely 58.05 percent, increasing 0.48 point compared to the occupancy rate in January 2013 amounting to 57.57 percent. The highest room occupancy rate occurred in Badung County namely at 79.58 percent, while the lowest was in Tabanan County at 30.29 percent.

Tourists trying a water sport facil-ity in Serangan Island, Bali Island. Room occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali in February 2013 reached averagely 58.05 percent, increasing 0.48 point compared to the occupancy rate in January 2013 amounting to 57.57 percent.

US military defends Guantanamo prison raid

Bayern beats Wolfsburg 6-1 in German Cup semifinal

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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, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “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

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Calendar Event for April 5 through 28, 2013

5 Apr Penampahan Kuningan 6 Apr Kuningan & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Taman Pule Mas UbudPura Ularan Takmung KlungkungPura Bukitjati - Gulingan Kawan BangliPura Dalem Tegal Jaya BatubulanPura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Dalem Desa Guwang SukawatiPura Bukit Jati BangliPura Sadha KapalPura Sakenan SeranganPura Pekendungan Kediri TabananPura Pasek Gaduh GrokgakPura dalem Sanding TampaksiringPura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Priok JakartaPura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang BangliPura Agung Blambangan BanyuwangiPura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Banjar Dukuh Gelgel KlungkungPura Panti Banjar Timbrah Desa Pakse Bali KlungkungPura Penataran Agung Margo Weining Krembung Sidoarjo

7 Apr redite Umanis Langkir Memendak ring Pura Sakenan Serangan Den-pasar SelatanPura Dalem Pahuman Bujangga Penatih Den-pasar TimurPura Alas Harum Desa Batur KintamaniPura Alas angker Desa Munduk Culali KintamaniPura Kawitan Dalem Empuaji Banjar Sala Desa Aan Klungkung

10 Apr Tilem Sasih Kedasa Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan MengwiPura Masceti Sanding Tampaksiring

Pura Luhur Batur PucanganPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiOdalan Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem Bangun Sakti Banjar Basang Ta-miang KapalPura Dalem Bias Muntig Banjar Nyuh Desa Ped Nusa PenidaPura Khayangan Tiga Batur BangliPura Batur Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Luhur Bhujangga Canggu KutaPura Kawitan Kayu Selem Tampuryang Batur Kintamani

14 Apr redite Pon Medangsia Pura Agung Petilan Pengrebongan Kesiman DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Krambitan Tabanan

15 Apr Soma Wage Medangsia Pura Nataran Desa Getas BlahbatuhPura Pasek Babakan Gianyar

16 Apr Anggara Kasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Geria Sakti Manuaba Yogaloka Sumur Lampung SelatanPura Luhur Bukit Pecatu KutaPura Penataran Agung - Jukut Paku Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Goa Lawah KlungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralya Banda KlungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Gaduh-Klating Kerambitan TabananPura Dalem Tugu Gelgel KlungkungPura Dalem Banyuning Banyuning Barat BulelengPura Puseh (Odalan Sepen) Camenggaon SukawatiPura Pusering Jagat Pejeng TampakasiringPura Geria Sakti (Dang Khayangan) B a n j a r Menak Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh Ubud

Pura Segara & Pura Pabean Ketewel

17 Apr Buda Umanis Medangsia Pura Desa Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungBhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana Kamasan KlungkungPura Khayangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Kebontinguh Denbatasa TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem Muaspahit Manikan Guwang SukawatiPura Taman - Dukuh Kendran TegallalangPura Desa Sanding TampaksiringPura Sahab Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Cemara Desa Serangan Denpasar

18 Apr Wraspati Paing Medangsia Pura Ulun Suwi Banjar Senapahan Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Desa Bitra Gianyar

21 Apr redite Keliwon Pujut Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran mengwi

25 Apr Purnama Sasih Jiyestha Pura Segara LombokPura Dalem Taman Peguyangan DenpasarPura Dwijawarsa Malang JatimPura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Puncak Tinggah Angsri Baturiti TabananPura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Desa Jatiluwih PenebelPura Kawitan Batur Pande Tonja Tonja DenpasarPura Penyungsungan Pasek Tohjiwa Wanagiri Selemadeg TabananPura Penataran Agung Desa Sidemen KarangasemPura Samuan Tiga Desa Bedulu Gianyar

26 Apr Sukra keliwon Pujut Pura Hyang Tibha Desa Batuan Sukawati

28 Apr redite Paing Pahang Merajan Pasek Sadra Peguyangan Badung

Bali is situated east of Java Island having access within easy reach, either by land, sea, or air. With such an easy access, this island is then popularly chosen as a favorite tour-ist destination. Aside from several amazing beaches, Balinese culture can also be taken advantage as an endless tourist attraction because many temples retain very high cul-tural values. In addition, Bali is also delighted to offer natural attractions in the form of mountain and terraced rice fields resembling a verdant over-lay of rug.

One of the convenient locations situating among the rice field, jungle and mountainous gorges is Ubud. It is an appropriate sojourn and desti-

nation located in the region of Gi-anyar Regency. Here you can find a unique resort offering the indigenous Balinese concept highlighting the harmonious relationship of human to environment, fellow humans and the Creator, namely the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa.

Many fascinating attractions can be encountered here, ranging from relishing the natural atmosphere up to learning the native cultures. “Here, we also invite our guests to appreciate the natural environment, cultural and so-cial life of the Ubud community,” said I Wayan Duartha, General Manager of the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa. With such various activities, many tourists were attracted to stay at Waka.

Waka di Ume Resort and Spa

A Sojourn to Witness Cultural Uniqueness of UbudIBP

Who does not know the Island of Gods or Bali? It’s the bijou island offering all the natural beauties and intriguing sublime cultures. People who never pay a visit can tell much about the island, let alone those knowing it just in a dream.

A variety of facilities have been provided to support the comfort and satisfaction of ev-ery single guest. Waka di Ume Resort and Spa established on November 5, 1995 has 18 rooms, consisting of 3-bed-room Wapa Villa with private pool, 2-bedroom Family Villa with private pool, Villa with Pool, Di Ume Suite, Terrace Villa and the smallest one is the Lanai Terrace. Room rates of the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa ranges from USD 244 to USD 655. Such rates have in-cluded government tax, service and breakfast.

More interestingly, the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa lies very close to the natural and cultural attractions. Among others, they are monkey forest, art muse-ums, Goa Gajah, Ceking rice terrace, Tirta Empul temple at Tampaksiring, Tampaksiring Presidential Palace, and Petulu

village becoming the native and convenient home to thou-sands of white egrets.

One day, if you want to make a visit to the island, especially when would like to

luxuriate in the countryside ambience with five star facili-ties, look no further and decide on the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa as your serene sojourn on the island.

Tabanan (Bali Post)—Flower growers in Tabanan were inflamed. It was kindled

by the condition after Galungan celebration where the price of flowers for the offerings slumped sharply. Such condition made farmers lose out. The complaint was then aggravated by rains causing the yields of flower harvest to decline.

The price of garden balsam in Tabanan only penetrated IDR 3,000 per kilogram. The price fell sharply compared to the previ-ous price at IDR 10,000 per kilogram. Strangely, though the price plunged, the demand for flower tended to decrease. “Since the past few days, the price of garden balsam fell sharply, while the demand was also a few,” sighed Ni Made Karmini, 40, a garden balsam grower at Tunjuk village, Tabanan, Tuesday (Apr 16).

The woman added that in conjunction with the Galungan celebration, the demand for garden balsam always soared and the price skyrocketed. However, in a matter of days the price suddenly dropped. As a result, farmers were distraught to pay back the planting capital loan. The rain also made the harvest yields drop. “The price of garden balsam is very cheap so that we lose out,” she added. Ideally, the price of garden balsam could penetrate over IDR 5,000 per kilogram so that farmers did not lose out. The planting cost of the commodity was relatively expensive, starting from the purchase of seeds to fertilizer.

According to Karmini, the garden balsam could be harvested every day. However, if it rained, farmers could do nothing where-as on average it was time for farmers to harvest their flowers. Typically, in a single harvest farmers could get 10-30 kilograms depending on the area of land. Since the price was low, a number of farmers were reluctant to harvest every day. They chose to harvest once in two days for maximal results. They hoped the price of garden balsam could go up again so that farmers were not in vain to plant the commodity. Moreover, the demand for the garden balsam remained to come. (kmb30)

Staging of the contemporary art collaboration was accompanied with the fusion of traditional Balinese music and modern music. Distinctive tones of gamelan instrument were beautified by the sound of modern music melody and graceful movement of the dancers without having to leave the cores of traditional movement styles.

According to the Coordinator of Giri Anyar Art Studio, Gusti Ngurah Ary-awan, in the staging at the Cultural Hall was presented modern musical instru-ment like electric guitar, bass, acoustic guitar, kojen and keyboard, while the traditional musical instruments in use consisted of 4 units of gangsa semar pegulingan, 2 units of calung, 2 units of jegog, 1 drum, 1 flute, cymbal, and 4 pairs of cengceng baleganjur.

Ngurah Aryawan explained it took him15 days to make preparations for the show. The obstacle encountered was the difficulty to harmonize the vocal of Ray Peni with the music because the vocal of the Balinese pop singer from Batuan was higher. It took longer time to har-

monize the music with the vocal of Ray Peni. But after fitting, Ngurah admitted that Ray Peni was very satisfied with the results of the collaboration.

Aside from presenting Ray Peni with a number of songs like Gianyar Bersatu, Karya Agung, Suka-suka di Hati, the art studio also accompanied the singer Dek Arya with his songs entitled Sekpri and Sing Juari. Similarly, another pop singer Yan Se also made his appearance with the song entitled Blabar Agung and Ngi-dang Sabar. A female singer like Sara also took part in the performance with the songs entitled Taksu, Khatulistiwa and Kala Cinta Menggoda as well as the appearance of Dek Sandi with the song entitled Bungan Sandat and Natad Sandal. The staging taking place for al-most 3 hours was also enlivened by the appearance of Lawak Sangar et al, Fire Dance and Dewa Dewi Dance. The art studio located at Buruan hamlet, Celuk, Sukawati, was established on August 5, 2012 and made its first participation in the anniversary of the Gianyar town.

Gusti Ngurah Aryawan explained the

Giri Anyar Studio was formed to unite the two genres of music developing at Buruan village, namely the traditional and modern one. The performance supported by some 50 people looked very populistic. Even, the audience sat in cross-legged in front of the stage neatly. Impressive nuance was also felt by one of the spectators from Cebaang Serongga, Gianyar, Ida Bagus Agung Purnama. Such night show was truly different from the previous years. “The atmosphere is very populistic. All spectators sat in cross-legged in front of the stage,” said Ida Bagus Agung Purnama.

Division Head of the Arts and Film, the Gianyar Culture Agency, I Wayan Suwija, said the idea of collaboration was held to increase the appeal of the show in the celebration of the 242nd anniversary of Gianyar Town so that it would no longer be monotonous from year to year. “Innovative element was visible from every performance with-out eliminating the cores of traditional rules,” he explained. (dar)The flower farmer in Tabanan

Price of flowers slumps, farmers lose out

Revive, creative music art collaboration in Gianyar

GIANyAr town as the art storehouse never runs out of innovations in the arts. Anniversary of the town is a medium for the artists to express their creative works. It was visible in the collabora-tive performance of the Giri Anyar Blahbatuh song and comedy at the Gianyar Cultural Hall Open Stage, Monday night (Apr 15).

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One of the art gruops doing the collaboration of the traditional and modern music in Gianyar.

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DENPASAR — The Campaign Working Group Head, Bali Electoral Commission (KPU), Dewa Kadek Wiarsa Raka Sandi, said on Tuesday (Apr 16) that governor and deputy governor candidate of Bali would follow a series of debate planned by the Bali Electoral Commission for three rounds namely on May 4, 7 and 10, 2013.

Such debate was in the series of candidate campaign conducted from April 28 to May 11. “Agenda of the candidate debate will be conducted in three rounds and team up with the local and national broadcasters,” he said. For May 4, the candidate debate would be conducted at Aston Hotel with three panelists including two panelists from central govern-ment and another panelist from Bali and broadcast by TVOne.

He further said the candidate debate on May 7 would be scheduled to be held at the Inna Grand Bali Beach and broadcast live on local television stations such as BaliTV, DewataTV, and TVRI

Bali. In the second debate, there would be two local panelists and another panelist from central government. Meanwhile, the debate on May 11 would be broadcast by Metro TV, but the last debate would be without panelist.

He further said the debate schedule had been submitted and disseminated to each candidate campaign team. “We have submitted the sched-ules to respective campaign team,” he said.

Meanwhile, Raka Sandi added that the two pairs of candidate for governor and deputy governor were required to attend the three debates. “These debates must be attended by all the candidates. Indeed, in the regulation there is no penalty for the absent candidate in the debate,” he explained.

Both campaign teams, said Raka Sandi, had committed to present their candidates in the entire agenda of the candidate debate broadcast by TVOne, MetroTV and three local television stations. “We continue to coordinate with the team, so that both candi-dates can attend the candidate debates,” Raka Sandi concluded. (kmb29)

The Lion Air plane missed the runway as it came in to land on Saturday, slamming into the sea and splitting in two. Dozens of the 108 people on board were injured, but there were no fatali-ties.

Terrified passengers swam to shore or were plucked to safety by police in rubber dinghies. Witnesses and experts have sug-gested the crash could have been caused by a freak storm, although no official reason has yet been given.

The salvage team hauled the seats and baggage out of the Boe-ing 737-800, and were aiming to begin cutting the fuselage of the plane into pieces later in the evening, Bali army commander Colonel Anton Nugroho said.

However, local navy command-er Lieutenant Colonel Edi Eka Susanto said the operation had to be carried out very carefully, as the plane “is not yet stable, and we fear there are still oxygen bottles inside that could explode”.

After the plane was cut up, the team planned to lift the parts by

Bali team uses crane to salvage jet wreckageAgence France-Presse

DENPASAR - An Indonesian salvage team on Tuesday used a crane to haul seats and baggage out of a plane that crashed in Bali, as investigators probe what caused the jet to go down.

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

Rescuers inspect a Lion Air Boeing 737 before removing its fixtures as it lies partially submerged in the water three days after it crashed while trying to land at Bali’s international airport near Denpasar on April 16, 2013.

FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

The governor and vice governor candidates raised their hand during the Bali Electoral Commission announcement recently. The Campaign Working Group Head, Bali Electoral Commission (KPU), Dewa Kadek Wiarsa Raka Sandi, said on Tuesday (Apr 16) that governor and deputy governor candi-date of Bali would follow a series of debate planned by the Bali Electoral Commission for three rounds namely on May 4, 7 and 10, 2013.

Bali gubernatorial election debate held in three rounds

Researchers from the Australian National University and the British Antarctic Survey found data taken from an ice core also shows the summer ice melt has been 10 times more intense over the past 50 years compared with 600 years ago.

“It’s definitely evidence that the climate and the environment is changing in this part of Ant-arctica,” lead researcher Nerilie Abram said.

Abram and her team drilled a 364-metre (400-yard) deep ice core

on James Ross Island, near the north-ern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, to measure historical temperatures and compare them with summer ice melt levels in the area.

They found that, while the tem-peratures have gradually increased by 1.6 degrees Celsius (2.9 degrees Fahrenheit) over 600 years, the rate of ice melting has been most intense over the past 50 years.

That shows the ice melt can in-crease dramatically in climate terms once temperatures hit a tipping point.

“Once your climate is at that level where it is starting to go above zero degrees, the amount of melt that will happen is very sensitive to any further increase in temperature you may have,” Abram said.

Robert Mulvaney, from the Brit-ish Antarctic Survey, said the stron-ger ice melts are likely responsible for faster glacier ice loss and some of the dramatic collapses from the Antarctic ice shelf over the past 50 years. Their research was published in the Nature Geoscience journal.

Two new species of previously unknown moths have been dis-covered in the Russian Far East, northeast of Mongolia. The insects strike a unique pose when resting, sticking their hind section into the air and extending their antennae forward onto the ground, or the surface of a leaf, according to a new study describing the animals. As larvae, the moths form strange, cradlelike cocoons from leaves before hatching.

The moths may have gone undiscovered for so long because they are difficult to collect; unlike most moths, they don’t usually fly to-ward lights, a common method of capturing insects for identification, according to the study, published recently in the journal ZooKeys.

In the study, the authors describe the bodies of the new moths, as well as their genitals, which differ enough to make them unique. Scientists often examine genitals to distinguish between different types of moths and other insects.

The new species are both part of the genus Ypsolophid, and have been named Ypsolopha melanofuscella and Ypsolopha straminella. There are now a total of 30 species known in this genus in Russia, accounting for a fourth of the worldwide total in this group.

“Studying the species diversity in East Asia as a whole and in the Far East of Russia in particular is an important endeavor … only the first step in a long row of scientific tasks towards forming a primary database for further theoretical reconstructions and conclusions for the benefit of biodiversity conservation,” said Margarita Ponomarenko, a researcher at the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, in a news release describing the study.

Scientists find Antarctic ice is melting fasterReuters

CANBERRA - The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of global warming on sensitive Antarctic glaciers and ice shelves.

REUTERS/Pauline Askin

Ice melt shows through at a cliff face at Landsend on the coast of Cape Denison in Antarctica December 14, 2009.

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The new moth species, Ypsolopha blandella, at rest.

2 Strange Moth Species Revealed in Russia

Archaeologists have found a tomb in eastern China that may be the grave of the notorious Emperor Yang of Sui, according to news reports.

With inscriptions revealing the surprising identity of the de-ceased, the burial chamber mea-sures about 215 square feet (20 square meters). It was uncovered

in Yangzhou, a city about 175 miles (280 kilometers) southeast of Shanghai, China’s state news agency Xinhua reported.

Shu Jiaping, who leads Yang-zhou’s institute of archaeology, told Xinhua that researchers are “still not sure whether it was the emperor’s final resting place, as historical records said his tomb had

been relocated several times.”Emperor Yang, also known as

Yang Guang, is remembered as a fearsome and decadent tyrant. During his rule from 606 until his death at the hands of rebels in 618, he forced millions of laborers to take part in ambitious construc-tion projects, such as building royal palaces, completing of the

Grand Canal and reconstructing of the Great Wall. Emperor Yang also launched costly military cam-paigns, including a failed conquest of Goguryeo, an ancient kingdom of Korea, which eventually led to the collapse of the Sui Dynasty.

Grave robbers seem to have looted the tomb in the 1,500 years since the emperor’s death, ac-

cording to China Daily. However, archaeologists reportedly found some items considered telltale signs of royalty inside the tomb, including a jade belt with gold details. The tomb was exposed at a construction site last year, and it is connected to another chamber that may belong to the emperor’s wife, Xinhua reported.

Possible Tomb of Chinese Tyrant Uncovered

crane onto a truck, and from there they would be taken to a nearby beach, said Nugroho.

If that was not possible, then the parts would be pushed through the water using balloons to an area of coast where it was easier to lift them, he said.

The 70-strong team, made up of military, rescue agency, airport and Lion Air personnel, hoped to be finished by Wednesday.

The cockpit voice recorder was found wedged between a wing and the body of the aircraft on Monday, and was being flown to Jakarta on Tuesday, Masruri, from the national transportation safety committee, which is prob-ing the crash, told AFP.

“The black box will be cleaned and checked for damage and hopefully we will be able to ex-tract the data in it,” said Masruri, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, adding he would not comment further on an ongoing investigation.

Five passengers were still in hospital on Tuesday following the crash, said Lion Air airport

service director Daniel Putut, although he said he did not have details of their conditions.

Government officials and the airline said at the time of the crash

the weather had been fine, but the transport ministry has since said the jet flew through thick cloud and witnesses have spoken of tor-rential rain before the crash.

Indonesia, which relies heav-ily on air transport to connect its sprawling archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, has one of Asia’s worst aviation safety records.

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While still unable to conclude whether a group or individuals were responsible for the attacks that killed three people and wounded 176, and whether they were foreign or Ameri-can, investigators gathered enough evi-dence at the crime scene on Tuesday to slightly narrow their search.

The two blasts struck seconds apart on Monday at the finish line of the race, maiming victims with shrapnel-packed bombs that inves-

tigators suspect were contained in pressure cookers. Seventeen people remained in critical condition.

President Barack Obama, who will travel to Boston on Thursday for a memorial service, has called the bombings an “act of terror.” It was the worst bombings on U.S. soil since security was stepped up following the suicide hijack attacks of Sep-tember 11, 2001. No suspects were in custody and there were no claims

of responsibility. Evidence collected at the scene was being reconstructed at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, said Richard DesLauriers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s special agent in charge in Boston.

Among the items recovered were pieces of black nylon that could be from a backpack, fragments of ball bearings and nails, and possibly the remains of a pressure cooker device, DesLauriers said.

Bomb scene pictures produced by the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force and released on Tuesday show the remains of an explosive device including twisted pieces of a metal container, wires, a battery and what appears to be a small circuit board.

Associated Press Writer

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — High court judges disqualified former military ruler Pervez Musharraf from Pakistan’s parliamentary election, likely ending any hope of a political comeback. Musharraf has faced paltry public support, a raft of legal challenges and Taliban death threats since he returned to Pakistan last month after years in self-imposed exile.

Many experts predicted Mush-arraf’s fate and have been scratch-ing their heads at what drove his decision to return. Some have speculated he misjudged how much public backing he would get, while others guessed he was simply homesick.

A judge in the remote north-ern district of Chitral had given Musharraf some rare good news in approving his bid to run in the May 11 election, even though Musharraf was disqualified in three other districts for sus-pending the constitution and sacking senior judges while ruling Pakistan. Pakistan allows

a candidate to run for multiple seats simultaneously.

Lawyers challenged the Chi-tral decision and the high court in the main northwestern city of Peshawar disqualified him Tues-day, said two of the lawyers who raised objections, Taufiq Asif and Rao Abdur Rahim.

Asif challenged Musharraf’s candidacy because of his actions while in power, while Rahim said there were procedural flaws with the former military ruler’s nomina-tion. Aasia Ishaq, a spokeswoman for Musharraf’s All Pakistan Mus-lim League party, condemned the court’s ruling and said the entire process was biased.

“They are just targeting Per-vez Musharraf,” Ishaq said. She said the party would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court and field candidates for nearly 200 national and provincial as-sembly seats even if Musharraf is disqualified.

Ashraf Gujar, a Pakistani con-stitutional expert, said he thought there was only a “remote” chance that the Supreme Court would overturn the ruling.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — The Iron Lady is being laid to rest — yet even in death, she remains a divisive figure. World leaders and dignitaries from 170 countries were to attend the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Wednesday, an elaborate affair with full military honors that will cul-minate with a service at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

A coffin bearing the former lead-er’s body will travel by hearse to the church of St. Clement Danes, before

being borne on a horse-drawn gun carriage to the cathedral, where 2,300 invited guests will await.

More than 700 soldiers, sailors and air force personnel will line the route and around 4,000 police officers will be on duty as part of a major security operation, stepped up after Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded over 170.

The woman nicknamed “the Iron Lady” transformed Britain during her 11-year tenure from 1979 to 1990, and died on April 8 at age 87.

Thatcher is being given a cer-emonial funeral — not officially a state funeral, which requires a vote in Parliament. Still, the proceedings will feature the same level of pomp and honor afforded Princess Diana in 1997 and the Queen Mother Elizabeth in 2002.

That has raised the ire of some Britons, those who view her legacy as a socially and economically di-vided nation. Scotland Yard says it is working with a “small number of people planning to protest” peace-fully Wednesday.

Those attending the Thatcher

funeral include Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, 11 prime ministers from around the world, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.

Some high profile guests sent their regrets: Former First Lady Nancy Reagan — whose husband Ronald had a close relationship with Thatcher — will not be able to at-tend; nor will former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who shared key moments in history with the late prime minister. Germany’s Angela Merkel was sending her foreign

minister, while the American politi-cal power families the Clintons and the Bushes declined to attend.

Alicia Castro, Argentina’s am-bassador to the U.K., is not going, since Thatcher was in power in 1982 when Britain defended the Falkland Islands from being taken over by Argentina.

Parliament’s Big Ben bell will be silenced for the funeral service, which will include hymns and passages from the Bible read by Prime Minister David Cameron and the late premier’s granddaughter, Amanda Thatcher.

Britain’s Iron Lady to be buried with full pomp

Pakistan’s Musharraf disqualified from election

AP Photo/B.K. BangashIn this Monday, April 15, 2013 photo, Pakistan’s former President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf shows his party’s manifesto leaflet in Islamabad, Pakistan.

REUTERSBoston Marathon bomb scene pictures taken by investigators show the remains of an explosive device.

Boston bomb probe looking at pressure cooker, backpacksReuters

BOSTON - Boston Marathon bombing investigators on Wednesday

entered the third day of their hunt with an emerging picture of the target: a suspect or suspects carrying heavy bags or backpacks made of dark nylon.

Negara (Bali Post)—

Dozens of policewomen in the lineup of Jembrana Police gave out flowers for road users on Tuesday (Apr16). Aside from flowers, they also put a sticker on the vehicles containing an appeal.

Chief of Traffic Affairs Unit of Jembrana Police, Heri Supri-awan, said his party deliberately deployed policewomen person-nel to welcome the Kartini Day and emphasize the friendliness of police. Besides, they were also assigned specifically to assist pedestrians crossing the road at zebra crossing provided. The Traffic Affairs Unit expected that such real socialization action could arouse the people’s awareness in traffic. Similarly, it was also intended to familiarize pedestrians with the use of zebra crossing.

Supriawan recognized that based on observations many people were not accustomed to crossing at zebra crossing. Even, the function of zebra crossing was forgotten. People were just ac-customed to jaywalking. Though being directed, they were still reluctant to pass the zebra crossing and crossed carelessly. Traffic Police would continue to campaign the zebra crossing especially at vulnerable points. (kmb26)

Although the majority of na-tional exam manuscripts had arrived in Bali, most of the manuscripts received by the National Exam Su-pervisory Working Team (TKP) of Bali Province had not been labeled yet. In other words, the manuscript packages had not been written about the names of the schools whose students registered as par-ticipants of the exam. As pursued by deadline, the printing company just labeled the manuscript in store-house at the Widyasabha Hall of the Udayana University Campus at Bukit Jimbaran. Prof. Dr. I Made Bakta, Coordinator of the National Exam Supervisory Working Team for high school/Islamic high school, high school for the disabled, voca-tional school and equality package C of Bali Province accompanied by the Secretary I Wayan Antara told the matter to Bali Post, Tuesday (Apr 16).

Bakta deeply deplored the in-action performance of the print-ing company. Since the labeling process was just carried out in the storehouse, automatically the verification and distribution of the

national exam manuscript to each county / municipality also delayed. More ironically, until the time if this writing the national exam manuscript had not been received in complete condition whereas the whole manuscript should have been distributed to the county / munici-pality on Wednesday morning (Apr 17). “We are really made dizzy by the printing company whose per-formance is shambles like this,” he criticized.

He affirmed, his party would not sign the receipt of the national exam manuscript whose condition was not yet complete. Before the labeling was completed, his party would not put a signature. His party did not want to be blamed if later on there would be incomplete and confused manuscript due to incom-petent performance of the printing company. “Yes, there is impression if the printing is not ready. By and large, we have received the manu-script package that has been labeled by the printing company so that the verification process can be done quickly,” he said.

Then, what measure will be taken

if until Tuesday night (Apr 16) the printing company cannot distrib-ute the complete national exam manuscript in accordance with the number of schools participating in the national exam? On answering that question, Bakta claimed to have no other choice. No matter how the

condition would be, all the manu-scripts received should be distributed to the county/municipality no later than 05:00 a.m. on Wednesday (Apr 17). “We can no longer wait further without certainty. Moreover, the implementation of the national exam for high school/vocational school

and the equal education in Bali was delayed twice due to incompetent performance of the printing company. Of course, we greatly regret this incident. Central government should take valuable lessons from the chaotic implementation of the national exam this year,” he affirmed. (kmb13)

Pursued by deadline

Labeling of national exam manuscript made in storehouse Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Ghalia Indonesia Printing as the winning bidder for the printing of the national exam manuscript for high school/Islamic high school, high school for the disabled, vocational school and equality package C for Bali Province and 10 other provinces in Indonesia seemed to be really ill-prepared.

IBP/FileThe officers are giving label to the exam papers in the storehouse

Policewomen give out flowers

IBP/FileThe policewoman place sticker on one of the car in Jembrana

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Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The United States will press Europe at the G20-IMF meetings this week to act to increase demand as the EU recession continues to hold back world economic growth, a senior Treasury official said Tuesday.

Economic demand will be the top issue at the International Monetary Fund-World Bank-G20 spring meetings of top finance and central bank officials beginning Thursday in Washington, the official told reporters in a briefing.

“With the forecast for global growth seeing a very marginal improvement over last year, a central focus of these discussions is to be on supporting demand,” the official said.

“Protracted anemic demand in Europe is a growing concern. The world has an immense stake in growth resuming in the euro area.”

Demand in Europe is shrinking by 2 percent a year, the official said, “with no sign that the pace of contraction is slowing.”

The euro area has a “rich tool kit” and “ample capacity” to marshal more demand.

“There is also scope for surplus economies to support demand in such a way that it eases adjustment in periphery countries.”

The official did not name any country, but last week US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew pressed the same issue on a visit to Germany.

On Monday German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to fend off such pressure, also mounting from some eurozone colleagues.

After Germany boosted its crisis-hit economy in 2009 with large-scale spending to increase em-ployment, now, Merkel said, “we do not have the strength for a second economic package without losing international confidence.”

The US official said a second key issue at the talks would be the threat of competitive currency devaluations as countries seek to reflate their economies by pumping out money.

Both China and Japan are in the US focus, China for what the US says is its longstanding effort to keep the yuan undervalued, and Japan for its new aggressive stimulus efforts that have pushed the yen down.

“It’s vital that all G20 countries adhere to the commitment they made in Moscow not to target currencies and not to engage in competitive devaluation,” the official said, referring to Febru-ary’s meeting of finance chiefs of the Group of 20 economic powers in Russia.

“Fiscal and monetary policies should be oriented to domestic objectives, recognizing that this is the best way to ensure the pursuit of growth in each country advances growth in every country,” the official said.

The US looks forward to China’s new leadership moving toward a more market-determined rate for the yuan, or renminbi, the official said.

“We will closely monitor Japan’s new policy initiatives to the extent of which they support the growth of domestic demand,” the official added.

The outlook, however, remains subdued, it said.

In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the IMF said the scenario for the 17-state eurozone is now one of “diminished crisis risks amid prolonged stagnation,” slightly better than its January judgement that “the return to recov-ery after a protracted contraction is delayed.”

The downgrade for 2013, com-pared with revised figures given in a January update, reflects weaker eurozone periphery countries drag-ging down their stronger peers, it said.

The fallout from the just-con-cluded Cyprus bailout could still cause more problems, it added.

In the past six months, “acute

US to press Europe to boost demand

AP Photo/Emilio MorenattiA man withdraws money from a cash machine, right, as another begs in downtown Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its eurozone 2013 growth forecast to minus 0.3 percent from minus 0.2 percent but upgraded next year to 1.1 percent from 1.0 percent as the debt crisis eases.

IMF sees ‘stagnation’ risk for EU, presses policy action

Agence France-Presse

BRUSSELS - The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its eurozone 2013 growth forecast to minus 0.3 percent from minus 0.2 percent but upgraded next year to 1.1 percent from 1.0 percent as the debt crisis eases.

crisis risks in the euro area have diminished,” the IMF said, high-lighting as a major factor the Euro-pean Central Bank’s commitment last year to step into the market and lower borrowing costs for any struggling eurozone member adher-ing to a recovery plan.

In addition, completion of the new eurozone rescue backstop, the European Stability Mechanism, a late 2012 deal on aid payments to Greece and setting up a Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) for banks “have increased confidence in the viability of” the single cur-rency bloc.

Combined with progress in sta-bilising strained public finances, the IMF said this “has greatly improved financial conditions for sovereigns

and banks,” the deadly nexus of the debt crisis which the ESM is supposed to address by providing fresh capital for lenders.

The IMF noted however that lower borrowing costs and im-proved bank liquidity still had not yet produced “improved private sector borrowing conditions or stronger economic activity.”

Worse still, inconclusive elec-tions in heavily-indebted Italy and the problematic Cyprus bailout, which spooked small bank savers, made progress “even more chal-lenging given that financial condi-tions remain highly vulnerable to shifts in market sentiment.”

Eurozone credit overall has continued to contract, the IMF said, cutting the lifeblood for business

as governments committed to austerity face growing political calls to put the focus on growth and jobs as unemployment soars to record highs.

“The need to repair public and private balance sheets, as well as continued policy uncertainty, appears to be weighing against a robust recovery in investment and consumption in both the periphery and the core,” the IMF said.

The report said the eurozone faced a medium-term risk of pro-longed stagnation, with growth around 1.0 percent, which would make it more difficult to resolve the debt crisis. A positive devel-opment would be if eurozone policy makers build on the SSM, the first step towards a banking union, by adding a deposit guar-antee system and a key resolution facility which would step in and close down failing lenders in an orderly way so as to limit their impact on the economy.

AntaraJAKARTA - The upcoming 21st

International Seaweed Symposium (ISS) in Nusa Dua, Bali, from April 21-26, 2013 will be useful for future advance-ment of sustainable seaweed industry in Indonesia.

ISS is held every three years under the auspices of the International Seaweed Association (ISA), an international orga-nization dedicated to the encouragement of research and development of seaweed and seaweed products.

The 21st International Seaweed Sym-posium in Bali will be held in the heart of the Coral Triangle where seaweed farming employs tens of thousands of coastal people.

According to Indonesia organizing committee chairman for 21st ISS, Safari Azis, the event has the theme “Seaweed Science for Sustainable Prosperity”.

Speaking to the press at the Indone-sian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) building here on Monday, Safari, who is concurrently Indonesian Seaweed Association (ARLI) Chairman, said 565 participants from at least 50 countries will attend the symposium in Bali.

However, he regretted that the papers from Indonesian side to be presented were still less than those from other countries such as Malaysia.

“But for Indonesia to host the event, it will be a good opportunity for the country to show various achievements it has made in developing seaweed and seaweed industries,” Safari noted.

According to him, the symposium will provide a forum for scientists, tech-nologists, business people and resource managers to present their latest research results, exchange ideas and develop new synergies.

He said during the symposium, the results of various researches, trade exhibitions and business meetings on seaweed would be discussed in an ef-fort to strengthen the nation’s seaweed industry.

Meanwhile, Kadin deputy chairman for marine and fisheries affairs Yugi Prayanto said his party continued to facilitate and support the International Seaweed Association (ISA) to hold the 21st ISS in Bali.

“The seaweed commodities and their derivatives have a lot of added value and therefore more entrepreneurs are expected to develop it,” Yugi said, adding that seaweed commodity in Indonesia has a very prospective future.

Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Sharif C Sutarjo noted that Indonesia has a strategic geographic location at the heart of Coral Triangle Zone, and therefore the Bali symposium would be very useful for the advancement of sus-tainable seaweed industry in Indonesia in the future.

The minister said Indonesian waters as the tropical region has a seaweed germplasm resource of no less than 555 types such as types of Gracilaria, Ge-

lidium, Eucheuma, Hypnea, Sargassum, and Turbinaria.

Sharif pointed out that the potential for aquaculture in Indonesia is very high, including areas for seaweed cultivation which is estimated at 1,110,900 hectares, so the opportunity to developing seaweed production and industry is enormous.

“The determination of Indonesia as the host of the 21st International Sea-weed Symposium is the right choice, not only because of being endowed with an abundance of seaweed products, Indonesia also have seaweed farmers, researchers, academics and agencies related,” the minister said.

Further, he added that the government has supporting to the development of the seaweed industry through the policies to increase the production of seaweed cultivation, up to 10 million tons in 2014, in a policy framework called seaweed industrialization.

“Seaweed industrialization is an inte-grated activity between the management of cultivation, seed availability, socio-economic, post harvest management, and capital to marketing,” he noted.

He added that it was organized in an integrated manner based on industries to increase value added, efficiency and competitive production scale so that the implementation may involve many people, both govern-ment and private.

“The purpose of policy is not only to increase foreign exchange, but also to provide jobs and prosperity for seaweed farmers and to promote the seaweed cultivation enterprises for small and medium scale,” he went on.

He said it was an honor for Indo-nesia to host the international seaweed symposium, and therefore he expressed hope that all participants will be able to share information, ideas, suggestion, and feedback about seaweed.

On a separate occasion, Indonesian Seaweed Association Chairman Safari Azis said Indonesia is the largest archi-pelagic country whose farmers have been cultivating seaweed for more than 30 years.

But he lamented that the domestic seaweed commodity has so far not yet dominated international market.

“International seaweed market in 2012 was recorded at US$7 billion but the value of the same commodity from Indonesia was only US$200 million,” Safari said here on Monday.

Therefore he expressed hope that the International Seaweed Symposium in Bali could encourage the seaweed farm-ers in Indonesia to continue to cultivate the commodity.

Seaweed has become increasingly popular, primarily for its nutritional ben-efits and also its low calorie count.

Dried seaweed is rich in iodine, mag-nesium, vitamin K that protect against osteoporosis and prevents cell damage by fighting against free radicals created from the breakdown of food.

It was revealed by a member of the Indonesian Tourism Pro-motion Board (BPPI), Nyoman Kandia, in Denpasar, Tuesday (Apr 16). Criminal act such as villa burglary case occurring at 15 crime scenes endangering the public and foreign tourists in Bali was really a chore for police authority to disclose.

“We hope that police officers should not only raid the illegal Toto gambling and cockfighting, but also secure Bali from the unscrupulous behavior of irre-sponsible individuals. It means to bring back the sense of security for the public and police author-ity cannot eschew from this responsibility,” he said.

According to him, the less maximal security system would have a negative impact on the im-age of tourism in Bali especially if the crimes afflicted foreigners spending holidays in Bali. To that end, he hoped that police author-ity could take action quickly to

uncover the cases. Moreover, it involved foreigners that could potentially harm the image of tourism in Bali.

“The security in Bali may not have the zeal and enthusiasm fizzling out quickly. The system implemented in Bali should be integrated and permanent, not only at particular occasion,” he said.

He said that government should focus on improving the security system in Bali and working with the stakeholders to create a security system that was not only integrated but also permanent. The security of Bali should not be done half-heartedly and the government should seri-ously address this problem,” he said.

Chairman of the Associa-tion of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agency (ASITA) Bali, Ketut Ardana, previously had also requested to maintain the security continuously, where it

should not only be strict during a particular event. After that, the maintenance of security was very loose. Even, many hotels still did not examine every single tourist checking in.

“Bali tourism is the mainstay of Indonesia. Many people make a living on this Island of the Gods. Therefore, if the island is damaged, the loss will not only afflict Balinese people, but also Indonesian people in general,” he said.

All the components should be able to keep Bali sustain-ably. To maintain the security of Bali, the hotel and restaurant tax collected by respective local government should be set aside to preserve Bali continuously. “The hotel and restaurant tax col-lected in Bali is a lot. So, please set aside for the maintenance of Bali security. In addition, the ho-tel authority must also maintain the tourism security at all times,” he said. (kmb27)

Bali tourism security remains sporadic

FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman BudhianaProliferation of criminal acts targeting villas in Bali recently received serious attention from the circles of tourism players. They assessed the safety of Bali tourism so far was only sporadically performed at certain times such as at New Year’s Eve, Christmas or international events.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Proliferation of criminal acts targeting villas in Bali recently received serious attention from the circles of tourism players. They assessed the safety of Bali tourism so far was only sporadically performed at certain times such as at New Year’s Eve, Christmas or international events.

“ISS” useful for sustainable seaweed industri advancement

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AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO

A customer (L) pays for rice at a wholesale rice market in Jakarta on April 17, 2013. Indo-nesian inflation accelerated to 5.90 percent year-on-year in March, surpassing the upper limit of the central bank’s target range due to an increase in food prices, official data showed early this month.

“Soon after the incident yes-terday we proactively stepped up security at those premises. It is our obligation to protect embassies of the countries which are potential (targets of attacks),” National Police head of public relations di-vision, Inspector General Suhardi Aliusm, said here on Wednesday.

He said the police doubled security for several countries’ embassies which could be tar-geted for terrorist attacks. He however said that security per-sonnel would not be increased because of the effort.

Suhardi said if the bombings in Boston, the USA, were later found to be linked to terrorism the police would not stop working to protect the country.

He however hoped that the in-cident in the US would not spread to Indonesia and he appealed to the public to remain calm as police would always work to prevent terrorism.

While saying that there has been no threat of big terrorist at-tack he said alleged “minor” acts of terrorism would remain under police surveillance.

AntaraJAKARTA - Development

with capitalism pattern should be changed with economic de-velopment and social value plus the interest of environment, Environmentalist Emil Salim, the professor of the University of Indonesia, has said.

“The time for development with capitalism pattern is over, and it must be changed into eco-nomic development and social value plus environment,” Emil said during a discussion on People Sovereignty in Economic Policy and Climate Change at Megawati Institute here on Tuesday.

He noted that to implement economic development and so-cial value plus environmental interest, market intervention should be made by “Reducing emissions from deforestation and

forest degradation and enhancing forest carbon stock in developing countries” (REDD+) and green economic development.

According to him, green eco-nomic development is a pattern of development that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risk and ecological scarcities.

The former environment minister said the function of REDD+ is an integral part of green economic development and sustainable management of forests designed to increase gross domestic product.

“But its implementation needs a clear constitutional change,” he said, adding that forest manage-ment should be in accordance with local wisdom by upholding people’s sovereignty.

AntaraJAKARTA - The Indonesian

Chamber of Commerce and Indus-try (Kadin) has suggested that the government cut energy subsidy by about Rp150 trillion so that a big-ger fund for regional development could be set aside.

“To create effective and efficient monetary and fiscal polices and to increase the competitive edge of Indonesian businesses, we suggest that the government should cut energy subsidy by Rp150 trillion so that a bigger budget for regional development could be set aside,” Kadin Deputy Chairman for Fis-cal, Monetary and Public Affairs Haryadi B Sukamdani said on the sidelines of the National Congress of Kadin here on Wednesday.

He said that by setting aside a fund of that amount, each provinces could get some Rp4-5 trillion so that a big boost for regional devel-opment would be created.

“We hope that the cutting of the subsidy would be carried out fairly where only the poor group of people will get subsidized energy,” he said.

The other suggestion raised by the Kadin was the creation of efficient and effective fiscal poli-cies, namely improving the budget management system and shortening

unnecessary bureaucratic chains so that the absorption of capital expen-diture would increase.

Kadin also hoped that the central and regional governments would build synergy in adopting policies so that companies in the region would be able to develop their busi-ness effectively.

“The government bureaucracy should also be effective in provid-ing services for the middle-class people as the main generator of development,” he said.

Haryadi said that the govern-ment should also make public a clear calculation on the burden that should be borne based on the National Social Insurance System (SJSN).

It could be in the form of projec-tion in the government’s balance of payment or in the form of a burden borne by the state and by the private businesses.

Unclear division of roles be-tween the government and the private business in improving the people’s welfare and increasing economic growth has served as a source of uncertainty for the private sector in calculating their produc-tion cost.

“In many countries, fixed ben-efit-based social insurance system poses fiscal risks in the future.

Therefore, the government should consider changing the fixed benefit-based system to fixed dues-based system, or lowering the value of the benefit-based system,” he said.

He said that the government and Bank Indonesia (BI/the central bank) needed to cooperate in con-trolling banks’ lending rates which were now still relatively high and posed difficulties to businessmen in developing their business.

“Kadin supports the govern-ment’s efforts to improve the qual-ity and transparency of financial governance for businesses in the country,” he said.

Finance Minister Agus Mar-towardojo said the government at present was focusing on preserving the fiscal affairs so that it would remain sound but on the other hand the prosperity of the people should also be maintained.

“The strategic step in the 2013 state budget in supporting the soundness of the fiscal affairs is formulated in the form of optimiz-ing income, expenditure efficiency, efficiency in official trips and other steps,” he said.

Agus also considered the impor-tance of remaining on alert against big inflow of funds because such funds could return soon when their owners withdrew it.

Police raise security at embassies after Boston bombingsAntara

JAKARTA - Police said they would increase security in a number embassies and consulates general in the country fol-lowing recent bombings in Boston, the USA.

Capitalism development pattern needs changing

Kadin asks government to cut subsidy by Rp150 trillion

Soldiers with riot helmets and shields swept into recreation yards and met with resistance from several dozen prisoners, the leadership of the detention center said in inter-views with journalists visiting the U.S. base in Cuba for the first time since Saturday’s clash.

The confrontation ended within minutes, but not before two guards were struck in the head by prison-ers and five prisoners were injured, including one hit by rubber pel-lets from what the military calls a “less-than-lethal” round fired from a modified shotgun.

“The appropriate amount of force was used for the situation,” said Navy Rear Adm. John W. Smith, the commander of the de-tention center.

The guard force raided Camp 6 because the prisoners had for several weeks covered up 147 of the 160 se-curity cameras, making it impossible to monitor them amid a weekslong hunger strike. Smith and members of his leadership team said they were concerned a prisoner might try to commit suicide. Officials said there were two attempted suicides since the protest began around Feb. 6.

To restore control, prison officials

decided to move the prisoners in Camp 6 out of a communal area, where they were allowed to eat to-gether and freely associate most of the day, into individual cells from which they are released for two hours a day for recreation.

The camp shown to journal-ists appeared to be well under the military’s control. Prisoners could be seen pacing restlessly inside cells on closed-circuit TV monitors from the cameras, now uncovered, inside their cells. In a section of the prison that had been cleared, one prisoner had written in broken and misspelled English a message that appeared to read: “Stop torturing us. Stop des-ecrating our religion.”

Troops trained for three weeks to carry out the raid and were “prepared for any level of potential resistance,” said Army Col. John Bogdan, who is in charge of the guard force. What they encountered were prisoners with more than a dozen makeshift weapons, including broomsticks, homemade knives and long batons made of tightly coiled plastic and other materials.

Two guards were struck in the head during the confrontation but neither was seriously hurt and both

have since returned to duty.Five detainees were injured, in-

cluding one who was hit by rubber pellets. Navy Capt. Richard Stoltz, who is in charge of the detainee hospital, said that “there was no sig-nificant blood loss” and the prisoner was treated at the scene.

The military said another pris-oner cut his own head by banging it on a cell door. Stoltz said he was given about three stitches. Three oth-ers were scraped as guards secured the area and moved the men into the cells. The communal areas of Camp 6 had once been held up as a model in Guantanamo.

Military officials had said pris-oners had grown compliant as they were able to lessen their isolation, watch satellite TV and take classes. But prisoners in February started the hunger strike to protest their in-definite confinement and what they said were intrusive searches of their Qurans for contraband.

Smith said prisoners may later be allowed to return to the com-munal holding areas if they follow prison rules.

The hunger strike goes on, with 45 prisoners refusing meals and 13 being force fed, officials said.

Reuters

TOKYO - Myanmar’s charismatic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made rare comments on Wednesday on sectarian violence in her nation, but said she was “not a magician” and will not be able to solve long-running ethnic disputes.

Speaking to students at Tokyo University while on a visit to Japan, Suu Kyi maintained her stand that the rule of law needs to be established in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and parties involved in the violence have to build an atmosphere of dialogue. She did not directly refer to recent monk-led violence in the city of Meikhtila that have killed 43 people. Thousands, mostly Muslims, were driven from their homes and businesses as bloodshed spread across central Myanmar, putting the Muslim minority on edge in one of Asia’s most diverse countries.

“I’ve said that the most important thing is to establish the rule of law...(it) is not just about the judiciary, it’s about the administration, it’s about the government, it’s about our police force, it’s about the training that we give to security forces,” said Suu Kyi.

She added that Myanmar’s courts do not meet democratic standards as they are “totally dominated by the executive.”

The failure of the Nobel Peace Prize-winner to defuse the tension un-dermines her image as a unifying moral force. Suu Kyi, herself a devout Buddhist, has previously said little on the violence. “They wanted me to talk about how to make these communal differences disappear...I’m not a magi-cian. If I were, I’d say ‘disappear’ and they would all disappear. Differences take a long time to sort out,” she told Japanese students.

“We have to establish an atmosphere of security in which people with different opinions can sit down and exchange ideas and think of the things we have in common.”

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GENEVA/BEIJING - The World Health Organization said on Wednes-day that a number of people who have tested positive for a new strain of bird flu in China have had no history of contact with poultry, adding to the mystery about the virus that has killed 16 people to date.

WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl confirmed that “there are people who have no history of contact with poultry”, after a top Chinese scientist was quoted as saying that about 40 percent of those with the H7N9 virus had had no contact with fowl. “This is one of the puzzles still (to) be solved and therefore argues for a wide investigation net,” Hartl said in emailed com-ments, though he added he did not know the exact percentage.

China has warned that the number of infections could rise from the current 77. The latest victims are from the commercial capital of Shanghai, where the majority of the cases have been found, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. The exact source of infection remains unknown and no human-to-human spread of the virus has been confirmed.

Samples have tested positive in some poultry markets that remain the focus of investigations by China and the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.

Zeng Guang, the chief scientist in charge of epidemiology at the China Disease Prevention and Control Centre (CDPCC), said about 40 percent of the victims had no clear history of poultry exposure, the Beijing News reported on Wednesday. “How did these people get infected? It’s a mystery,” Zeng was quoted as saying.

According to a Reuters analysis of the infections, based on state media re-ports, only 10 of the 77 cases as of Tuesday have had contact with poultry.

AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File

FILE - In this May 13, 2009 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, the sun rises over the Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

US military defends Guantanamo prison raidAssociated Press Writer

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Top officials at the Guantanamo Bay deten-tion center on Tuesday defended a raid that resulted in a violent clash with detainees, saying the operation was critical and the handful of injuries on both sides were minor.

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi says no easy answer to sectarian violence

WHO says no poultry contact in some China bird flu cases

Room “Compared to the same month in the previous year, the number of tourist arrivals coming through the Ngurah Rai Airport increased 13.30 percent. Meanwhile, when compared to the situation in January 2013, this figure rose 2.23 percent,” he said.

He added that by nationality, most tourists coming to Bali was from Australia, the PRC, Japan, Malaysia and Taiwan with their respective percentage of 23.63 percent, 19.79 percent, 5.96 percent, 5.70 percent, and 3.95 percent. (kmb27)

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Lovina is one of the famous tourist places in north part of Bali which own beautiful of calm sea water, blackish chromatic sand and the sea with its dolphin. One of the favorite fascinations in Lovina is dolphin watching tour. Hundreds of dolphins can be seen in the morning time around 1 km offshore. We can see the dolphin attractions in this place like jumping. It is not fail to draw if the tourist has the time to see the sunset here. Lovina area is also supported by the number of

tourism fascination which is can be reached from this location. Places of interests around Lovina are Hot Water Banjar, Wihara Budha (Buddies shrine), Gigit Waterfall and some countryside exist around the location.

Lovina is officially located in Kalibukbuk area and covering some countryside like Pema-ron, Tukad Mungga, Anturan and Kalibukbuk countryside. Kalibugbug countryside it self is located in Buleleng sub district, meanwhile the Kaliasem and Temukus countryside are located in Banjar sub district where it both of them are belong to Buleleng regency. The eastern

countryside is called Pemaron about 5 Km west of Singaraja, and the western countryside is Temukus about 12 Km west of Singaraja.

There are no clear sources or evidence hit the name of Lovina genesis. Pursuant to the reference of the children from Anak Agung Panji Tisna, the clan of famous Buleleng King that the name of Lovina is given by him which is located in Kaliasem countryside, where at the first time he build a bungalow as a resort. He said that the name of Lovina is taken away from a name of small hotel in India that is lafeina whereabouts he stayed

and write the book with the title of Ni Ketut Widhi. This book is translated into some languages. In memory of the hotel name, hence the ownership lands give the Lovina name. But there is also other version that is Lovina Name is given caused by its 2 Santen trees are planted by him and grow embracing each other. In this case Lovina is coming from Latin Language that mean is loving each other or love. Then Lovina’s name is interpreted as abbreviation from Love and Ina and it is interpreted as Love to Indonesia.

Lovina Beach

Caron Butler scored 18 of his 22 points in the third quarter, Blake Griffin added 16 points and DeAndre Jordan had 10 points and nine rebounds for the Pacific Division champion Clippers, who finished their home schedule with a 32-9 record. They end the regular season on Wednesday at Sacramento, and another win would ensure the Clippers have home-court advantage to start the playoffs.

Will Barton scored 17 points and Joel Freeland added 13 points for the Blazers, who never led while losing their 12th in a row.

The Toronto Raptors downed the playoff-bound Atlanta Hawks 113-96 after DeMar DeRozan scored 30 points and Rudy Gay added 22.

The Raptors made two-thirds of their shots in the first half, sprinting to a 68-51 lead as DeRozan scored 19 points and Gay

chipped in with 17. Atlanta went mostly with backups, showing no sense of urgency to claim the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Con-ference.

Atlanta fell into a share of fifth spot with Chicago. The teams finish the regular sea-son Wednesday, with the Hawks traveling to New York to face the Knicks, while the Bulls are home against lowly Washington. Chicago holds the tiebreaker.

Kyle Korver led the Hawks with 13 points, extending his 3-point streak to 73 consecutive games.

Los Angeles Clippers center Ryan Hollins (15) dunks over Portland Trail Blazers center Meyers Leonard (11) in

the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

Reuters

MONTE CARLO - Novak Djokovic will be hoping his gamble to play in the Monte Carlo Masters does not leave his claycourt season going bust after he decided to test his injured ankle in the glamorous principality.

Djokovic’s participation provided a boost to the organisers, who now have three of tennis’ Big Four playing in the event, with only Roger Federer opting to stay away from Monaco.

While Djokovic, who badly sprained his ankle 10 days ago, eight-times champion Rafa Nadal and U.S. Open holder Andy Murray will begin their seasons on red dirt on Wednesday, Juan Martin Del Potro moved into the third round with tricky 1-6 6-4 6-3 win over Alexandr Dolgopolov on Tuesday.

The towering Argentine, who had not played on clay since last year’s French Open, struggled to find his feet in the opening set as Dolgopolov dictated play and produced some fine dropshots.

As the sun set over the Mediterranean, Del Potro started to play deeper and took advantage the Ukrainian’s wayward shots to wrap up the next two sets for victory. “It was really tough to start playing on clay against him. You always try to play long rallies to feel the clay, to settle your play,” fifth seed Del Potro said.

“He plays fast, he comes to the net often ... After one hour and a half, I felt better,” added the world number six, who had not planned to come to Monte Carlo but was given a wildcard.

French number one Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also made it to the last 16 thanks to an authoritative 7-6 6-2 victory over Nikolay Davydenko.

Sixth-seed Tsonga trailed 0-2 in the first set but quickly regrouped and whipped up the roaring crowd by charging to victory.

World number nine Gasquet completed a successful day for the French favourites as he showed no ill effects of the ankle injury that kept him out of the Davis Cup quarter-finals and completed a 6-1 3-6 6-1 win over countryman Benoit Paire.

Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic was the only top-10 player to suffer an early exit with a 7-6 6-1 defeat by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.

Nadal will launch his bid for a ninth consecutive Monte Carlo title against little-known Australian Marinko Matosevic, while 2012 runner-up Djokovic faces a tricky outing against Russian Mikhail Youzhny.

Ferrari team principal Stefano Do-menicali has hailed Marussia driver Jules Bianchi’s “great” start to the season. Bianchi is a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy and has test experience with the Scuderia stretch-ing back to 2009. In the first three races of the season, Bianchi has qualified and finished as the leading driver in the battle between Marus-sia and Caterham. “I think he is having a great season,” said Domenicali of Bianchi.

“The first three races, he has had incred-ible pace with due respect to the car he has. “I’m very pleased for him because he has put in a lot of effort to improve and is part of our programme.”

Domenicali believes that if Bianchi can keep up his current rate of progress, the Frenchman will have the chance to move to a bigger team in the future. Bianchi is on a one-year deal with Marussia, meaning that he could emerge as a potential target for bigger teams having missed out on a Force India drive this year to Adrian Sutil.

“I hope he can keep [up] this pace because I’m sure he will show his potential not only with his team, but also in the future with other teams,” Domenicali said.

Jules Bianchi, MarussiaFerrari continues to monitor Bianchi in his capacity as an FDA member, although he has less direct involve-ment with the team than he did previously.

“I don’t do any simulator work, but I still train sometimes with them at the training camp in Maranello,” Bianchi told AUTOSPORT.

Clippers rout Trail Blazers 93-77Associated Press Writer

LOS aNGeLeS — The Los angeles Clippers trounced the Portland Trail Blazers 93-77 on Tuesday for their sixth straight victory, on a night that saw the Celtics-indiana Pacers game in Boston cancelled in the wake of Monday’s deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.

AP Photo/Reed Saxon

Domenicali hails Bianchi’s start to 2013 F1 season

Djokovic ready for Monte Carlo gamble, Del Potro wins

AP Photo/Lionel CironneauNovak Djokovic of Serbia arrives for a practice session at the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament in Monaco, Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

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SAO PAULO — FIFA will intensify its monitoring of the stadiums being prepared for the upcoming Confederations Cup after local organizers delayed the finish date of the venue hosting the opening match in Brasilia.

Football’s governing body also reiterated Tuesday that such de-lays “will not be tolerated” ahead of the 2014 World Cup.

A day after the delay an-nounced in Brasilia and less than two months before the Confed-erations Cup, FIFA met with local officials and the local 2014 World Cup organizing committee in the nation’s capital and announced it will make a new inspection visit at the Estadio Nacional in two weeks.

The stadium was expected to be opened on Sunday, but prob-lems with the pitch forced orga-nizers to change the date to May

18, just three days before FIFA takes over all six Confederations Cup venues.

“FIFA and the LOC demon-strated concern with the tight deadlines and the short period available for the test events that guarantee the operational success of events with the size of the FIFA Confederations Cup,” FIFA and the local organizing commit-tee said in a joint statement.

“The daily and on-site moni-toring of the stadium construction works and the hiring and assem-bling of the temporary structures by the LOC operational teams already working in the six FCC host cities will be also intensi-fied,” they said.

Officials in Brasilia blamed excessive rain in the region for the disruption of the instal-lation schedule of the pitch. FIFA made it clear that it won’t accept these types of excuses ahead of the World Cup.

“FIFA and the LOC highlight one more time that it is exactly because of natural challenges faced in big construction works - like the heavy rains observed in Brasília - that the stadiums must be ready enough time before and stress again that delays like the ones observed will not be toler-ated for the (World Cup) stadi-ums,” the statement said.

FIFA and the local organizing committee noted that the World Cup involves a “significantly higher number of host cities, teams, fans, matches, journalists and TV audience.”

“This means that the flexibility observed in the deadlines for the FIFA Confederations Cup will not be the same for the FIFA World Cup, when no exception will be made and all FIFA World Cup stadiums must be delivered by end of December 2013 with no compromises to be made by FIFA,” the statement said.

Reuters

LONDON - Arsenal missed the chance to take another step towards securing a Champions League place after fellow European hopefuls Everton held firm in a lively 0-0 Premier League draw at the Emirates on Tuesday.

The Londoners, who had won four in a row to move up to third and are chasing qualification for the continent’s elite competition for a 16th straight season, had the better openings with French striker Olivier Giroud guilty of two bad misses.

Arsenal have 60 points from 33 games followed by Chelsea on 58 from 31, Tottenham Hotspur on 58 from 32 and Everton with 56 from 33. “It was two points that got away. It was a big battle and we had the better chances and better play. We were unlucky not to score,” Arsenal midfielder Mikel Arteta told Sky Sports.

“There is a lot to play for, if Everton won they were right in the mix. The pressure is on every team, Chelsea and Spurs have got tough games coming up.

“David Moyes is doing an unbelievable job at Everton. He has a chance of Europe and he deserves a lot of credit.”

Everton manager Moyes added: “The games are running out now so it’s harder and harder for us to get into the top four. Probably we will get talked about at the end of conversations about the Champions League as we are rank outsiders. But there’s no shame in getting a draw here.”

Leaders Manchester United, with a 15-point advantage over Man-chester City, can move closer to regaining the title when they play at West Ham United on Wednesday when City host fellow FA Cup finalists Wigan Athletic while Chelsea visit Fulham.

Associated Press Writer

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has apologized to David Luiz for his ugly two-footed stamp on the back of the Chelsea defender’s thighs during Sunday’s FA Cup semifinal at Wembley Stadium.

Aguero says in a Twitter post that he has contacted Luiz to say sorry for the 85th-minute tackle in City’s 2-1 win, adding that it

was an “impulse reaction that shouldn’t have happened.”

Luiz used Twitter to thank the Argentina international for a “demonstration of character. We get to know great man and athletes this way.”

Aguero escaped any retro-spective punishment — a likely three-match ban — for the tackle because referee Chris Foy con-firmed he saw at least part of the incident and acted on it during the match.

Reuters

LONDON - Cardiff City were promoted to the English Premier League on Tuesday after a 0-0 draw at home to Charlton Athletic guaranteed the Welsh side a top-two finish in the Championship (second division).

Cardiff, who have agonisingly missed out in the playoffs for the last three seasons, will play in the top flight next season for the first time since 1962.

Their promotion was greeted

with joyous scenes at the final whis-tle with players and fans celebrating on the pitch.

“There are a lot of smiley happy faces and it’s going to be a long night in Cardiff I think,” manager Malky Mackay told Sky Sports against a deafening noise at the Cardiff City stadium.

“I’m delighted for these people. There are a lot of people here who have gone through a lot of hard times and this is for them,” added the Scotsman who took over the team in 2011.

“The staff of the football club, the back office, the training ground staff, the directors and our owners, these players and these fans and the people of Cardiff, it’s a night for them,” added the former Watford boss.

The principality now has two rep-resentatives in the Premier League with Cardiff joining arch-rivals Swansea City, who won the English League Cup final this season.

“I am lost for words right now. We thoroughly deserve that if I’m honest,” Cardiff defender Mark Hudson told the BBC.

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

Wolfsburg’s Slobodan Medojevic of Serbia, top, and Bayern’s Javi Martinez of Spain challenge for the ball during their German Soccer Cup (DFB Pokal) semi final match between FC Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg, in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

Aguero apologizes to Luiz for nasty tackle

Cardiff rejoice in promotion to Premier League

AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

Paramedics and firefighters train during a simulated emergency situation that recreates the aftermath of a fight between soccer fans at a stadium, inside a gym in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednes-day, March 20, 2013.

After delay, FIFA to intensify stadium monitoring

Arsenal held to goalless home draw by Everton

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta, below, vies for the ball with Everton’s Victor Anichebe during the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Everton at the Emirates Stadium in London, Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

Xherdan Shaqiri had a role in three goals and scored one himself, with other goals coming from Arjen Robben and Mario Mandzukic. Diego scored shortly before halftime for Wolfsburg, which conceded four goals after the break.

Bayern stayed on course for a domestic double after securing the Bundesliga championship 10 days ago. Next week, Bayern hosts Barcelona in the Champions League semifinals. “It was a good win against a strong opponent, for a long time they made it difficult for us,” Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes said. “I really want to win this title.”

Heynckes los t the f inal twice as coach, once with Borussia Mo-enchengladbach and last year with Bayern against Borussia Dortmund. Gomez came on for Mandzukic in the 77th minute and had scored his three goals by the 86th.

Bayern will play either Stuttgart or Freiburg, who meet Wednesday. The final is June 1 in Berlin. Since Bayern

is already sure to play in the Champions League as the Bundesliga champion, the other finalist will be in the Europa League.

Shaqiri released Robben in the 17th after a Wolfsburg error and Rob-ben squared the ball to Mandzukic for Bayern’s first goal following a lightning-quick move that ended with Mandzukic slamming it into the roof of the net.

After another Wolfsburg error, Shaq-iri won the ball and played it through for Robben to double the lead in the 35th. Diego reduced the lead in the 45th, with a superb shot from the edge of the penalty area.

Shaqiri ended Wolfsburg’s hopes of a comeback by scoring from 16 meters (yards) after a corner.

Shaqiri also created Gomez’ first goal, although the midfielder could have scored himself but passed the ball two the open Gomez in the 80th.

Gomez then scored in the 83rd and 86th, both times after receiving through balls from Bastian Schweinsteiger.

Bayern beats Wolfsburg 6-1 in German Cup semifinalAssociated Press Writer

MUNICH — Mario Gomez needed nine minutes to score a hat trick after coming on as a late substitute Tuesday in a 6-1 win over Wolfsburg that put Bayern Munich into the German Cup final for the 19th time.

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SAO PAULO — FIFA will intensify its monitoring of the stadiums being prepared for the upcoming Confederations Cup after local organizers delayed the finish date of the venue hosting the opening match in Brasilia.

Football’s governing body also reiterated Tuesday that such de-lays “will not be tolerated” ahead of the 2014 World Cup.

A day after the delay an-nounced in Brasilia and less than two months before the Confed-erations Cup, FIFA met with local officials and the local 2014 World Cup organizing committee in the nation’s capital and announced it will make a new inspection visit at the Estadio Nacional in two weeks.

The stadium was expected to be opened on Sunday, but prob-lems with the pitch forced orga-nizers to change the date to May

18, just three days before FIFA takes over all six Confederations Cup venues.

“FIFA and the LOC demon-strated concern with the tight deadlines and the short period available for the test events that guarantee the operational success of events with the size of the FIFA Confederations Cup,” FIFA and the local organizing commit-tee said in a joint statement.

“The daily and on-site moni-toring of the stadium construction works and the hiring and assem-bling of the temporary structures by the LOC operational teams already working in the six FCC host cities will be also intensi-fied,” they said.

Officials in Brasilia blamed excessive rain in the region for the disruption of the instal-lation schedule of the pitch. FIFA made it clear that it won’t accept these types of excuses ahead of the World Cup.

“FIFA and the LOC highlight one more time that it is exactly because of natural challenges faced in big construction works - like the heavy rains observed in Brasília - that the stadiums must be ready enough time before and stress again that delays like the ones observed will not be toler-ated for the (World Cup) stadi-ums,” the statement said.

FIFA and the local organizing committee noted that the World Cup involves a “significantly higher number of host cities, teams, fans, matches, journalists and TV audience.”

“This means that the flexibility observed in the deadlines for the FIFA Confederations Cup will not be the same for the FIFA World Cup, when no exception will be made and all FIFA World Cup stadiums must be delivered by end of December 2013 with no compromises to be made by FIFA,” the statement said.

Reuters

LONDON - Arsenal missed the chance to take another step towards securing a Champions League place after fellow European hopefuls Everton held firm in a lively 0-0 Premier League draw at the Emirates on Tuesday.

The Londoners, who had won four in a row to move up to third and are chasing qualification for the continent’s elite competition for a 16th straight season, had the better openings with French striker Olivier Giroud guilty of two bad misses.

Arsenal have 60 points from 33 games followed by Chelsea on 58 from 31, Tottenham Hotspur on 58 from 32 and Everton with 56 from 33. “It was two points that got away. It was a big battle and we had the better chances and better play. We were unlucky not to score,” Arsenal midfielder Mikel Arteta told Sky Sports.

“There is a lot to play for, if Everton won they were right in the mix. The pressure is on every team, Chelsea and Spurs have got tough games coming up.

“David Moyes is doing an unbelievable job at Everton. He has a chance of Europe and he deserves a lot of credit.”

Everton manager Moyes added: “The games are running out now so it’s harder and harder for us to get into the top four. Probably we will get talked about at the end of conversations about the Champions League as we are rank outsiders. But there’s no shame in getting a draw here.”

Leaders Manchester United, with a 15-point advantage over Man-chester City, can move closer to regaining the title when they play at West Ham United on Wednesday when City host fellow FA Cup finalists Wigan Athletic while Chelsea visit Fulham.

Associated Press Writer

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has apologized to David Luiz for his ugly two-footed stamp on the back of the Chelsea defender’s thighs during Sunday’s FA Cup semifinal at Wembley Stadium.

Aguero says in a Twitter post that he has contacted Luiz to say sorry for the 85th-minute tackle in City’s 2-1 win, adding that it

was an “impulse reaction that shouldn’t have happened.”

Luiz used Twitter to thank the Argentina international for a “demonstration of character. We get to know great man and athletes this way.”

Aguero escaped any retro-spective punishment — a likely three-match ban — for the tackle because referee Chris Foy con-firmed he saw at least part of the incident and acted on it during the match.

Reuters

LONDON - Cardiff City were promoted to the English Premier League on Tuesday after a 0-0 draw at home to Charlton Athletic guaranteed the Welsh side a top-two finish in the Championship (second division).

Cardiff, who have agonisingly missed out in the playoffs for the last three seasons, will play in the top flight next season for the first time since 1962.

Their promotion was greeted

with joyous scenes at the final whis-tle with players and fans celebrating on the pitch.

“There are a lot of smiley happy faces and it’s going to be a long night in Cardiff I think,” manager Malky Mackay told Sky Sports against a deafening noise at the Cardiff City stadium.

“I’m delighted for these people. There are a lot of people here who have gone through a lot of hard times and this is for them,” added the Scotsman who took over the team in 2011.

“The staff of the football club, the back office, the training ground staff, the directors and our owners, these players and these fans and the people of Cardiff, it’s a night for them,” added the former Watford boss.

The principality now has two rep-resentatives in the Premier League with Cardiff joining arch-rivals Swansea City, who won the English League Cup final this season.

“I am lost for words right now. We thoroughly deserve that if I’m honest,” Cardiff defender Mark Hudson told the BBC.

AP Photo/Matthias Schrader

Wolfsburg’s Slobodan Medojevic of Serbia, top, and Bayern’s Javi Martinez of Spain challenge for the ball during their German Soccer Cup (DFB Pokal) semi final match between FC Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg, in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

Aguero apologizes to Luiz for nasty tackle

Cardiff rejoice in promotion to Premier League

AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

Paramedics and firefighters train during a simulated emergency situation that recreates the aftermath of a fight between soccer fans at a stadium, inside a gym in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednes-day, March 20, 2013.

After delay, FIFA to intensify stadium monitoring

Arsenal held to goalless home draw by Everton

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta, below, vies for the ball with Everton’s Victor Anichebe during the English Premier League soccer match between Arsenal and Everton at the Emirates Stadium in London, Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

Xherdan Shaqiri had a role in three goals and scored one himself, with other goals coming from Arjen Robben and Mario Mandzukic. Diego scored shortly before halftime for Wolfsburg, which conceded four goals after the break.

Bayern stayed on course for a domestic double after securing the Bundesliga championship 10 days ago. Next week, Bayern hosts Barcelona in the Champions League semifinals. “It was a good win against a strong opponent, for a long time they made it difficult for us,” Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes said. “I really want to win this title.”

Heynckes los t the f inal twice as coach, once with Borussia Mo-enchengladbach and last year with Bayern against Borussia Dortmund. Gomez came on for Mandzukic in the 77th minute and had scored his three goals by the 86th.

Bayern will play either Stuttgart or Freiburg, who meet Wednesday. The final is June 1 in Berlin. Since Bayern

is already sure to play in the Champions League as the Bundesliga champion, the other finalist will be in the Europa League.

Shaqiri released Robben in the 17th after a Wolfsburg error and Rob-ben squared the ball to Mandzukic for Bayern’s first goal following a lightning-quick move that ended with Mandzukic slamming it into the roof of the net.

After another Wolfsburg error, Shaq-iri won the ball and played it through for Robben to double the lead in the 35th. Diego reduced the lead in the 45th, with a superb shot from the edge of the penalty area.

Shaqiri ended Wolfsburg’s hopes of a comeback by scoring from 16 meters (yards) after a corner.

Shaqiri also created Gomez’ first goal, although the midfielder could have scored himself but passed the ball two the open Gomez in the 80th.

Gomez then scored in the 83rd and 86th, both times after receiving through balls from Bastian Schweinsteiger.

Bayern beats Wolfsburg 6-1 in German Cup semifinalAssociated Press Writer

MUNICH — Mario Gomez needed nine minutes to score a hat trick after coming on as a late substitute Tuesday in a 6-1 win over Wolfsburg that put Bayern Munich into the German Cup final for the 19th time.

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Lovina is one of the famous tourist places in north part of Bali which own beautiful of calm sea water, blackish chromatic sand and the sea with its dolphin. One of the favorite fascinations in Lovina is dolphin watching tour. Hundreds of dolphins can be seen in the morning time around 1 km offshore. We can see the dolphin attractions in this place like jumping. It is not fail to draw if the tourist has the time to see the sunset here. Lovina area is also supported by the number of

tourism fascination which is can be reached from this location. Places of interests around Lovina are Hot Water Banjar, Wihara Budha (Buddies shrine), Gigit Waterfall and some countryside exist around the location.

Lovina is officially located in Kalibukbuk area and covering some countryside like Pema-ron, Tukad Mungga, Anturan and Kalibukbuk countryside. Kalibugbug countryside it self is located in Buleleng sub district, meanwhile the Kaliasem and Temukus countryside are located in Banjar sub district where it both of them are belong to Buleleng regency. The eastern

countryside is called Pemaron about 5 Km west of Singaraja, and the western countryside is Temukus about 12 Km west of Singaraja.

There are no clear sources or evidence hit the name of Lovina genesis. Pursuant to the reference of the children from Anak Agung Panji Tisna, the clan of famous Buleleng King that the name of Lovina is given by him which is located in Kaliasem countryside, where at the first time he build a bungalow as a resort. He said that the name of Lovina is taken away from a name of small hotel in India that is lafeina whereabouts he stayed

and write the book with the title of Ni Ketut Widhi. This book is translated into some languages. In memory of the hotel name, hence the ownership lands give the Lovina name. But there is also other version that is Lovina Name is given caused by its 2 Santen trees are planted by him and grow embracing each other. In this case Lovina is coming from Latin Language that mean is loving each other or love. Then Lovina’s name is interpreted as abbreviation from Love and Ina and it is interpreted as Love to Indonesia.

Lovina Beach

Caron Butler scored 18 of his 22 points in the third quarter, Blake Griffin added 16 points and DeAndre Jordan had 10 points and nine rebounds for the Pacific Division champion Clippers, who finished their home schedule with a 32-9 record. They end the regular season on Wednesday at Sacramento, and another win would ensure the Clippers have home-court advantage to start the playoffs.

Will Barton scored 17 points and Joel Freeland added 13 points for the Blazers, who never led while losing their 12th in a row.

The Toronto Raptors downed the playoff-bound Atlanta Hawks 113-96 after DeMar DeRozan scored 30 points and Rudy Gay added 22.

The Raptors made two-thirds of their shots in the first half, sprinting to a 68-51 lead as DeRozan scored 19 points and Gay

chipped in with 17. Atlanta went mostly with backups, showing no sense of urgency to claim the No. 5 seed in the Eastern Con-ference.

Atlanta fell into a share of fifth spot with Chicago. The teams finish the regular sea-son Wednesday, with the Hawks traveling to New York to face the Knicks, while the Bulls are home against lowly Washington. Chicago holds the tiebreaker.

Kyle Korver led the Hawks with 13 points, extending his 3-point streak to 73 consecutive games.

Los Angeles Clippers center Ryan Hollins (15) dunks over Portland Trail Blazers center Meyers Leonard (11) in

the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

Reuters

MONTE CARLO - Novak Djokovic will be hoping his gamble to play in the Monte Carlo Masters does not leave his claycourt season going bust after he decided to test his injured ankle in the glamorous principality.

Djokovic’s participation provided a boost to the organisers, who now have three of tennis’ Big Four playing in the event, with only Roger Federer opting to stay away from Monaco.

While Djokovic, who badly sprained his ankle 10 days ago, eight-times champion Rafa Nadal and U.S. Open holder Andy Murray will begin their seasons on red dirt on Wednesday, Juan Martin Del Potro moved into the third round with tricky 1-6 6-4 6-3 win over Alexandr Dolgopolov on Tuesday.

The towering Argentine, who had not played on clay since last year’s French Open, struggled to find his feet in the opening set as Dolgopolov dictated play and produced some fine dropshots.

As the sun set over the Mediterranean, Del Potro started to play deeper and took advantage the Ukrainian’s wayward shots to wrap up the next two sets for victory. “It was really tough to start playing on clay against him. You always try to play long rallies to feel the clay, to settle your play,” fifth seed Del Potro said.

“He plays fast, he comes to the net often ... After one hour and a half, I felt better,” added the world number six, who had not planned to come to Monte Carlo but was given a wildcard.

French number one Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also made it to the last 16 thanks to an authoritative 7-6 6-2 victory over Nikolay Davydenko.

Sixth-seed Tsonga trailed 0-2 in the first set but quickly regrouped and whipped up the roaring crowd by charging to victory.

World number nine Gasquet completed a successful day for the French favourites as he showed no ill effects of the ankle injury that kept him out of the Davis Cup quarter-finals and completed a 6-1 3-6 6-1 win over countryman Benoit Paire.

Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic was the only top-10 player to suffer an early exit with a 7-6 6-1 defeat by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.

Nadal will launch his bid for a ninth consecutive Monte Carlo title against little-known Australian Marinko Matosevic, while 2012 runner-up Djokovic faces a tricky outing against Russian Mikhail Youzhny.

Ferrari team principal Stefano Do-menicali has hailed Marussia driver Jules Bianchi’s “great” start to the season. Bianchi is a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy and has test experience with the Scuderia stretch-ing back to 2009. In the first three races of the season, Bianchi has qualified and finished as the leading driver in the battle between Marus-sia and Caterham. “I think he is having a great season,” said Domenicali of Bianchi.

“The first three races, he has had incred-ible pace with due respect to the car he has. “I’m very pleased for him because he has put in a lot of effort to improve and is part of our programme.”

Domenicali believes that if Bianchi can keep up his current rate of progress, the Frenchman will have the chance to move to a bigger team in the future. Bianchi is on a one-year deal with Marussia, meaning that he could emerge as a potential target for bigger teams having missed out on a Force India drive this year to Adrian Sutil.

“I hope he can keep [up] this pace because I’m sure he will show his potential not only with his team, but also in the future with other teams,” Domenicali said.

Jules Bianchi, MarussiaFerrari continues to monitor Bianchi in his capacity as an FDA member, although he has less direct involve-ment with the team than he did previously.

“I don’t do any simulator work, but I still train sometimes with them at the training camp in Maranello,” Bianchi told AUTOSPORT.

Clippers rout Trail Blazers 93-77Associated Press Writer

LOS aNGeLeS — The Los angeles Clippers trounced the Portland Trail Blazers 93-77 on Tuesday for their sixth straight victory, on a night that saw the Celtics-indiana Pacers game in Boston cancelled in the wake of Monday’s deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon.

AP Photo/Reed Saxon

Domenicali hails Bianchi’s start to 2013 F1 season

Djokovic ready for Monte Carlo gamble, Del Potro wins

AP Photo/Lionel CironneauNovak Djokovic of Serbia arrives for a practice session at the Monte Carlo Tennis Masters tournament in Monaco, Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

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A customer (L) pays for rice at a wholesale rice market in Jakarta on April 17, 2013. Indo-nesian inflation accelerated to 5.90 percent year-on-year in March, surpassing the upper limit of the central bank’s target range due to an increase in food prices, official data showed early this month.

“Soon after the incident yes-terday we proactively stepped up security at those premises. It is our obligation to protect embassies of the countries which are potential (targets of attacks),” National Police head of public relations di-vision, Inspector General Suhardi Aliusm, said here on Wednesday.

He said the police doubled security for several countries’ embassies which could be tar-geted for terrorist attacks. He however said that security per-sonnel would not be increased because of the effort.

Suhardi said if the bombings in Boston, the USA, were later found to be linked to terrorism the police would not stop working to protect the country.

He however hoped that the in-cident in the US would not spread to Indonesia and he appealed to the public to remain calm as police would always work to prevent terrorism.

While saying that there has been no threat of big terrorist at-tack he said alleged “minor” acts of terrorism would remain under police surveillance.

AntaraJAKARTA - Development

with capitalism pattern should be changed with economic de-velopment and social value plus the interest of environment, Environmentalist Emil Salim, the professor of the University of Indonesia, has said.

“The time for development with capitalism pattern is over, and it must be changed into eco-nomic development and social value plus environment,” Emil said during a discussion on People Sovereignty in Economic Policy and Climate Change at Megawati Institute here on Tuesday.

He noted that to implement economic development and so-cial value plus environmental interest, market intervention should be made by “Reducing emissions from deforestation and

forest degradation and enhancing forest carbon stock in developing countries” (REDD+) and green economic development.

According to him, green eco-nomic development is a pattern of development that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risk and ecological scarcities.

The former environment minister said the function of REDD+ is an integral part of green economic development and sustainable management of forests designed to increase gross domestic product.

“But its implementation needs a clear constitutional change,” he said, adding that forest manage-ment should be in accordance with local wisdom by upholding people’s sovereignty.

AntaraJAKARTA - The Indonesian

Chamber of Commerce and Indus-try (Kadin) has suggested that the government cut energy subsidy by about Rp150 trillion so that a big-ger fund for regional development could be set aside.

“To create effective and efficient monetary and fiscal polices and to increase the competitive edge of Indonesian businesses, we suggest that the government should cut energy subsidy by Rp150 trillion so that a bigger budget for regional development could be set aside,” Kadin Deputy Chairman for Fis-cal, Monetary and Public Affairs Haryadi B Sukamdani said on the sidelines of the National Congress of Kadin here on Wednesday.

He said that by setting aside a fund of that amount, each provinces could get some Rp4-5 trillion so that a big boost for regional devel-opment would be created.

“We hope that the cutting of the subsidy would be carried out fairly where only the poor group of people will get subsidized energy,” he said.

The other suggestion raised by the Kadin was the creation of efficient and effective fiscal poli-cies, namely improving the budget management system and shortening

unnecessary bureaucratic chains so that the absorption of capital expen-diture would increase.

Kadin also hoped that the central and regional governments would build synergy in adopting policies so that companies in the region would be able to develop their busi-ness effectively.

“The government bureaucracy should also be effective in provid-ing services for the middle-class people as the main generator of development,” he said.

Haryadi said that the govern-ment should also make public a clear calculation on the burden that should be borne based on the National Social Insurance System (SJSN).

It could be in the form of projec-tion in the government’s balance of payment or in the form of a burden borne by the state and by the private businesses.

Unclear division of roles be-tween the government and the private business in improving the people’s welfare and increasing economic growth has served as a source of uncertainty for the private sector in calculating their produc-tion cost.

“In many countries, fixed ben-efit-based social insurance system poses fiscal risks in the future.

Therefore, the government should consider changing the fixed benefit-based system to fixed dues-based system, or lowering the value of the benefit-based system,” he said.

He said that the government and Bank Indonesia (BI/the central bank) needed to cooperate in con-trolling banks’ lending rates which were now still relatively high and posed difficulties to businessmen in developing their business.

“Kadin supports the govern-ment’s efforts to improve the qual-ity and transparency of financial governance for businesses in the country,” he said.

Finance Minister Agus Mar-towardojo said the government at present was focusing on preserving the fiscal affairs so that it would remain sound but on the other hand the prosperity of the people should also be maintained.

“The strategic step in the 2013 state budget in supporting the soundness of the fiscal affairs is formulated in the form of optimiz-ing income, expenditure efficiency, efficiency in official trips and other steps,” he said.

Agus also considered the impor-tance of remaining on alert against big inflow of funds because such funds could return soon when their owners withdrew it.

Police raise security at embassies after Boston bombingsAntara

JAKARTA - Police said they would increase security in a number embassies and consulates general in the country fol-lowing recent bombings in Boston, the USA.

Capitalism development pattern needs changing

Kadin asks government to cut subsidy by Rp150 trillion

Soldiers with riot helmets and shields swept into recreation yards and met with resistance from several dozen prisoners, the leadership of the detention center said in inter-views with journalists visiting the U.S. base in Cuba for the first time since Saturday’s clash.

The confrontation ended within minutes, but not before two guards were struck in the head by prison-ers and five prisoners were injured, including one hit by rubber pel-lets from what the military calls a “less-than-lethal” round fired from a modified shotgun.

“The appropriate amount of force was used for the situation,” said Navy Rear Adm. John W. Smith, the commander of the de-tention center.

The guard force raided Camp 6 because the prisoners had for several weeks covered up 147 of the 160 se-curity cameras, making it impossible to monitor them amid a weekslong hunger strike. Smith and members of his leadership team said they were concerned a prisoner might try to commit suicide. Officials said there were two attempted suicides since the protest began around Feb. 6.

To restore control, prison officials

decided to move the prisoners in Camp 6 out of a communal area, where they were allowed to eat to-gether and freely associate most of the day, into individual cells from which they are released for two hours a day for recreation.

The camp shown to journal-ists appeared to be well under the military’s control. Prisoners could be seen pacing restlessly inside cells on closed-circuit TV monitors from the cameras, now uncovered, inside their cells. In a section of the prison that had been cleared, one prisoner had written in broken and misspelled English a message that appeared to read: “Stop torturing us. Stop des-ecrating our religion.”

Troops trained for three weeks to carry out the raid and were “prepared for any level of potential resistance,” said Army Col. John Bogdan, who is in charge of the guard force. What they encountered were prisoners with more than a dozen makeshift weapons, including broomsticks, homemade knives and long batons made of tightly coiled plastic and other materials.

Two guards were struck in the head during the confrontation but neither was seriously hurt and both

have since returned to duty.Five detainees were injured, in-

cluding one who was hit by rubber pellets. Navy Capt. Richard Stoltz, who is in charge of the detainee hospital, said that “there was no sig-nificant blood loss” and the prisoner was treated at the scene.

The military said another pris-oner cut his own head by banging it on a cell door. Stoltz said he was given about three stitches. Three oth-ers were scraped as guards secured the area and moved the men into the cells. The communal areas of Camp 6 had once been held up as a model in Guantanamo.

Military officials had said pris-oners had grown compliant as they were able to lessen their isolation, watch satellite TV and take classes. But prisoners in February started the hunger strike to protest their in-definite confinement and what they said were intrusive searches of their Qurans for contraband.

Smith said prisoners may later be allowed to return to the com-munal holding areas if they follow prison rules.

The hunger strike goes on, with 45 prisoners refusing meals and 13 being force fed, officials said.

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TOKYO - Myanmar’s charismatic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made rare comments on Wednesday on sectarian violence in her nation, but said she was “not a magician” and will not be able to solve long-running ethnic disputes.

Speaking to students at Tokyo University while on a visit to Japan, Suu Kyi maintained her stand that the rule of law needs to be established in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and parties involved in the violence have to build an atmosphere of dialogue. She did not directly refer to recent monk-led violence in the city of Meikhtila that have killed 43 people. Thousands, mostly Muslims, were driven from their homes and businesses as bloodshed spread across central Myanmar, putting the Muslim minority on edge in one of Asia’s most diverse countries.

“I’ve said that the most important thing is to establish the rule of law...(it) is not just about the judiciary, it’s about the administration, it’s about the government, it’s about our police force, it’s about the training that we give to security forces,” said Suu Kyi.

She added that Myanmar’s courts do not meet democratic standards as they are “totally dominated by the executive.”

The failure of the Nobel Peace Prize-winner to defuse the tension un-dermines her image as a unifying moral force. Suu Kyi, herself a devout Buddhist, has previously said little on the violence. “They wanted me to talk about how to make these communal differences disappear...I’m not a magi-cian. If I were, I’d say ‘disappear’ and they would all disappear. Differences take a long time to sort out,” she told Japanese students.

“We have to establish an atmosphere of security in which people with different opinions can sit down and exchange ideas and think of the things we have in common.”

Reuters

GENEVA/BEIJING - The World Health Organization said on Wednes-day that a number of people who have tested positive for a new strain of bird flu in China have had no history of contact with poultry, adding to the mystery about the virus that has killed 16 people to date.

WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl confirmed that “there are people who have no history of contact with poultry”, after a top Chinese scientist was quoted as saying that about 40 percent of those with the H7N9 virus had had no contact with fowl. “This is one of the puzzles still (to) be solved and therefore argues for a wide investigation net,” Hartl said in emailed com-ments, though he added he did not know the exact percentage.

China has warned that the number of infections could rise from the current 77. The latest victims are from the commercial capital of Shanghai, where the majority of the cases have been found, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. The exact source of infection remains unknown and no human-to-human spread of the virus has been confirmed.

Samples have tested positive in some poultry markets that remain the focus of investigations by China and the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.

Zeng Guang, the chief scientist in charge of epidemiology at the China Disease Prevention and Control Centre (CDPCC), said about 40 percent of the victims had no clear history of poultry exposure, the Beijing News reported on Wednesday. “How did these people get infected? It’s a mystery,” Zeng was quoted as saying.

According to a Reuters analysis of the infections, based on state media re-ports, only 10 of the 77 cases as of Tuesday have had contact with poultry.

AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File

FILE - In this May 13, 2009 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, the sun rises over the Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba.

US military defends Guantanamo prison raidAssociated Press Writer

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Top officials at the Guantanamo Bay deten-tion center on Tuesday defended a raid that resulted in a violent clash with detainees, saying the operation was critical and the handful of injuries on both sides were minor.

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi says no easy answer to sectarian violence

WHO says no poultry contact in some China bird flu cases

Room “Compared to the same month in the previous year, the number of tourist arrivals coming through the Ngurah Rai Airport increased 13.30 percent. Meanwhile, when compared to the situation in January 2013, this figure rose 2.23 percent,” he said.

He added that by nationality, most tourists coming to Bali was from Australia, the PRC, Japan, Malaysia and Taiwan with their respective percentage of 23.63 percent, 19.79 percent, 5.96 percent, 5.70 percent, and 3.95 percent. (kmb27)

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Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON - The United States will press Europe at the G20-IMF meetings this week to act to increase demand as the EU recession continues to hold back world economic growth, a senior Treasury official said Tuesday.

Economic demand will be the top issue at the International Monetary Fund-World Bank-G20 spring meetings of top finance and central bank officials beginning Thursday in Washington, the official told reporters in a briefing.

“With the forecast for global growth seeing a very marginal improvement over last year, a central focus of these discussions is to be on supporting demand,” the official said.

“Protracted anemic demand in Europe is a growing concern. The world has an immense stake in growth resuming in the euro area.”

Demand in Europe is shrinking by 2 percent a year, the official said, “with no sign that the pace of contraction is slowing.”

The euro area has a “rich tool kit” and “ample capacity” to marshal more demand.

“There is also scope for surplus economies to support demand in such a way that it eases adjustment in periphery countries.”

The official did not name any country, but last week US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew pressed the same issue on a visit to Germany.

On Monday German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to fend off such pressure, also mounting from some eurozone colleagues.

After Germany boosted its crisis-hit economy in 2009 with large-scale spending to increase em-ployment, now, Merkel said, “we do not have the strength for a second economic package without losing international confidence.”

The US official said a second key issue at the talks would be the threat of competitive currency devaluations as countries seek to reflate their economies by pumping out money.

Both China and Japan are in the US focus, China for what the US says is its longstanding effort to keep the yuan undervalued, and Japan for its new aggressive stimulus efforts that have pushed the yen down.

“It’s vital that all G20 countries adhere to the commitment they made in Moscow not to target currencies and not to engage in competitive devaluation,” the official said, referring to Febru-ary’s meeting of finance chiefs of the Group of 20 economic powers in Russia.

“Fiscal and monetary policies should be oriented to domestic objectives, recognizing that this is the best way to ensure the pursuit of growth in each country advances growth in every country,” the official said.

The US looks forward to China’s new leadership moving toward a more market-determined rate for the yuan, or renminbi, the official said.

“We will closely monitor Japan’s new policy initiatives to the extent of which they support the growth of domestic demand,” the official added.

The outlook, however, remains subdued, it said.

In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the IMF said the scenario for the 17-state eurozone is now one of “diminished crisis risks amid prolonged stagnation,” slightly better than its January judgement that “the return to recov-ery after a protracted contraction is delayed.”

The downgrade for 2013, com-pared with revised figures given in a January update, reflects weaker eurozone periphery countries drag-ging down their stronger peers, it said.

The fallout from the just-con-cluded Cyprus bailout could still cause more problems, it added.

In the past six months, “acute

US to press Europe to boost demand

AP Photo/Emilio MorenattiA man withdraws money from a cash machine, right, as another begs in downtown Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its eurozone 2013 growth forecast to minus 0.3 percent from minus 0.2 percent but upgraded next year to 1.1 percent from 1.0 percent as the debt crisis eases.

IMF sees ‘stagnation’ risk for EU, presses policy action

Agence France-Presse

BRUSSELS - The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday cut its eurozone 2013 growth forecast to minus 0.3 percent from minus 0.2 percent but upgraded next year to 1.1 percent from 1.0 percent as the debt crisis eases.

crisis risks in the euro area have diminished,” the IMF said, high-lighting as a major factor the Euro-pean Central Bank’s commitment last year to step into the market and lower borrowing costs for any struggling eurozone member adher-ing to a recovery plan.

In addition, completion of the new eurozone rescue backstop, the European Stability Mechanism, a late 2012 deal on aid payments to Greece and setting up a Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) for banks “have increased confidence in the viability of” the single cur-rency bloc.

Combined with progress in sta-bilising strained public finances, the IMF said this “has greatly improved financial conditions for sovereigns

and banks,” the deadly nexus of the debt crisis which the ESM is supposed to address by providing fresh capital for lenders.

The IMF noted however that lower borrowing costs and im-proved bank liquidity still had not yet produced “improved private sector borrowing conditions or stronger economic activity.”

Worse still, inconclusive elec-tions in heavily-indebted Italy and the problematic Cyprus bailout, which spooked small bank savers, made progress “even more chal-lenging given that financial condi-tions remain highly vulnerable to shifts in market sentiment.”

Eurozone credit overall has continued to contract, the IMF said, cutting the lifeblood for business

as governments committed to austerity face growing political calls to put the focus on growth and jobs as unemployment soars to record highs.

“The need to repair public and private balance sheets, as well as continued policy uncertainty, appears to be weighing against a robust recovery in investment and consumption in both the periphery and the core,” the IMF said.

The report said the eurozone faced a medium-term risk of pro-longed stagnation, with growth around 1.0 percent, which would make it more difficult to resolve the debt crisis. A positive devel-opment would be if eurozone policy makers build on the SSM, the first step towards a banking union, by adding a deposit guar-antee system and a key resolution facility which would step in and close down failing lenders in an orderly way so as to limit their impact on the economy.

AntaraJAKARTA - The upcoming 21st

International Seaweed Symposium (ISS) in Nusa Dua, Bali, from April 21-26, 2013 will be useful for future advance-ment of sustainable seaweed industry in Indonesia.

ISS is held every three years under the auspices of the International Seaweed Association (ISA), an international orga-nization dedicated to the encouragement of research and development of seaweed and seaweed products.

The 21st International Seaweed Sym-posium in Bali will be held in the heart of the Coral Triangle where seaweed farming employs tens of thousands of coastal people.

According to Indonesia organizing committee chairman for 21st ISS, Safari Azis, the event has the theme “Seaweed Science for Sustainable Prosperity”.

Speaking to the press at the Indone-sian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) building here on Monday, Safari, who is concurrently Indonesian Seaweed Association (ARLI) Chairman, said 565 participants from at least 50 countries will attend the symposium in Bali.

However, he regretted that the papers from Indonesian side to be presented were still less than those from other countries such as Malaysia.

“But for Indonesia to host the event, it will be a good opportunity for the country to show various achievements it has made in developing seaweed and seaweed industries,” Safari noted.

According to him, the symposium will provide a forum for scientists, tech-nologists, business people and resource managers to present their latest research results, exchange ideas and develop new synergies.

He said during the symposium, the results of various researches, trade exhibitions and business meetings on seaweed would be discussed in an ef-fort to strengthen the nation’s seaweed industry.

Meanwhile, Kadin deputy chairman for marine and fisheries affairs Yugi Prayanto said his party continued to facilitate and support the International Seaweed Association (ISA) to hold the 21st ISS in Bali.

“The seaweed commodities and their derivatives have a lot of added value and therefore more entrepreneurs are expected to develop it,” Yugi said, adding that seaweed commodity in Indonesia has a very prospective future.

Marine Affairs and Fisheries Minister Sharif C Sutarjo noted that Indonesia has a strategic geographic location at the heart of Coral Triangle Zone, and therefore the Bali symposium would be very useful for the advancement of sus-tainable seaweed industry in Indonesia in the future.

The minister said Indonesian waters as the tropical region has a seaweed germplasm resource of no less than 555 types such as types of Gracilaria, Ge-

lidium, Eucheuma, Hypnea, Sargassum, and Turbinaria.

Sharif pointed out that the potential for aquaculture in Indonesia is very high, including areas for seaweed cultivation which is estimated at 1,110,900 hectares, so the opportunity to developing seaweed production and industry is enormous.

“The determination of Indonesia as the host of the 21st International Sea-weed Symposium is the right choice, not only because of being endowed with an abundance of seaweed products, Indonesia also have seaweed farmers, researchers, academics and agencies related,” the minister said.

Further, he added that the government has supporting to the development of the seaweed industry through the policies to increase the production of seaweed cultivation, up to 10 million tons in 2014, in a policy framework called seaweed industrialization.

“Seaweed industrialization is an inte-grated activity between the management of cultivation, seed availability, socio-economic, post harvest management, and capital to marketing,” he noted.

He added that it was organized in an integrated manner based on industries to increase value added, efficiency and competitive production scale so that the implementation may involve many people, both govern-ment and private.

“The purpose of policy is not only to increase foreign exchange, but also to provide jobs and prosperity for seaweed farmers and to promote the seaweed cultivation enterprises for small and medium scale,” he went on.

He said it was an honor for Indo-nesia to host the international seaweed symposium, and therefore he expressed hope that all participants will be able to share information, ideas, suggestion, and feedback about seaweed.

On a separate occasion, Indonesian Seaweed Association Chairman Safari Azis said Indonesia is the largest archi-pelagic country whose farmers have been cultivating seaweed for more than 30 years.

But he lamented that the domestic seaweed commodity has so far not yet dominated international market.

“International seaweed market in 2012 was recorded at US$7 billion but the value of the same commodity from Indonesia was only US$200 million,” Safari said here on Monday.

Therefore he expressed hope that the International Seaweed Symposium in Bali could encourage the seaweed farm-ers in Indonesia to continue to cultivate the commodity.

Seaweed has become increasingly popular, primarily for its nutritional ben-efits and also its low calorie count.

Dried seaweed is rich in iodine, mag-nesium, vitamin K that protect against osteoporosis and prevents cell damage by fighting against free radicals created from the breakdown of food.

It was revealed by a member of the Indonesian Tourism Pro-motion Board (BPPI), Nyoman Kandia, in Denpasar, Tuesday (Apr 16). Criminal act such as villa burglary case occurring at 15 crime scenes endangering the public and foreign tourists in Bali was really a chore for police authority to disclose.

“We hope that police officers should not only raid the illegal Toto gambling and cockfighting, but also secure Bali from the unscrupulous behavior of irre-sponsible individuals. It means to bring back the sense of security for the public and police author-ity cannot eschew from this responsibility,” he said.

According to him, the less maximal security system would have a negative impact on the im-age of tourism in Bali especially if the crimes afflicted foreigners spending holidays in Bali. To that end, he hoped that police author-ity could take action quickly to

uncover the cases. Moreover, it involved foreigners that could potentially harm the image of tourism in Bali.

“The security in Bali may not have the zeal and enthusiasm fizzling out quickly. The system implemented in Bali should be integrated and permanent, not only at particular occasion,” he said.

He said that government should focus on improving the security system in Bali and working with the stakeholders to create a security system that was not only integrated but also permanent. The security of Bali should not be done half-heartedly and the government should seri-ously address this problem,” he said.

Chairman of the Associa-tion of Indonesia Tours and Travel Agency (ASITA) Bali, Ketut Ardana, previously had also requested to maintain the security continuously, where it

should not only be strict during a particular event. After that, the maintenance of security was very loose. Even, many hotels still did not examine every single tourist checking in.

“Bali tourism is the mainstay of Indonesia. Many people make a living on this Island of the Gods. Therefore, if the island is damaged, the loss will not only afflict Balinese people, but also Indonesian people in general,” he said.

All the components should be able to keep Bali sustain-ably. To maintain the security of Bali, the hotel and restaurant tax collected by respective local government should be set aside to preserve Bali continuously. “The hotel and restaurant tax col-lected in Bali is a lot. So, please set aside for the maintenance of Bali security. In addition, the ho-tel authority must also maintain the tourism security at all times,” he said. (kmb27)

Bali tourism security remains sporadic

FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman BudhianaProliferation of criminal acts targeting villas in Bali recently received serious attention from the circles of tourism players. They assessed the safety of Bali tourism so far was only sporadically performed at certain times such as at New Year’s Eve, Christmas or international events.

Bali Post

DENPASAR - Proliferation of criminal acts targeting villas in Bali recently received serious attention from the circles of tourism players. They assessed the safety of Bali tourism so far was only sporadically performed at certain times such as at New Year’s Eve, Christmas or international events.

“ISS” useful for sustainable seaweed industri advancement

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Bali News International4 Thursday, April 18, 2013 Thursday, April 18, 2013 13International RLDW

While still unable to conclude whether a group or individuals were responsible for the attacks that killed three people and wounded 176, and whether they were foreign or Ameri-can, investigators gathered enough evi-dence at the crime scene on Tuesday to slightly narrow their search.

The two blasts struck seconds apart on Monday at the finish line of the race, maiming victims with shrapnel-packed bombs that inves-

tigators suspect were contained in pressure cookers. Seventeen people remained in critical condition.

President Barack Obama, who will travel to Boston on Thursday for a memorial service, has called the bombings an “act of terror.” It was the worst bombings on U.S. soil since security was stepped up following the suicide hijack attacks of Sep-tember 11, 2001. No suspects were in custody and there were no claims

of responsibility. Evidence collected at the scene was being reconstructed at the FBI laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, said Richard DesLauriers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s special agent in charge in Boston.

Among the items recovered were pieces of black nylon that could be from a backpack, fragments of ball bearings and nails, and possibly the remains of a pressure cooker device, DesLauriers said.

Bomb scene pictures produced by the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force and released on Tuesday show the remains of an explosive device including twisted pieces of a metal container, wires, a battery and what appears to be a small circuit board.

Associated Press Writer

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — High court judges disqualified former military ruler Pervez Musharraf from Pakistan’s parliamentary election, likely ending any hope of a political comeback. Musharraf has faced paltry public support, a raft of legal challenges and Taliban death threats since he returned to Pakistan last month after years in self-imposed exile.

Many experts predicted Mush-arraf’s fate and have been scratch-ing their heads at what drove his decision to return. Some have speculated he misjudged how much public backing he would get, while others guessed he was simply homesick.

A judge in the remote north-ern district of Chitral had given Musharraf some rare good news in approving his bid to run in the May 11 election, even though Musharraf was disqualified in three other districts for sus-pending the constitution and sacking senior judges while ruling Pakistan. Pakistan allows

a candidate to run for multiple seats simultaneously.

Lawyers challenged the Chi-tral decision and the high court in the main northwestern city of Peshawar disqualified him Tues-day, said two of the lawyers who raised objections, Taufiq Asif and Rao Abdur Rahim.

Asif challenged Musharraf’s candidacy because of his actions while in power, while Rahim said there were procedural flaws with the former military ruler’s nomina-tion. Aasia Ishaq, a spokeswoman for Musharraf’s All Pakistan Mus-lim League party, condemned the court’s ruling and said the entire process was biased.

“They are just targeting Per-vez Musharraf,” Ishaq said. She said the party would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court and field candidates for nearly 200 national and provincial as-sembly seats even if Musharraf is disqualified.

Ashraf Gujar, a Pakistani con-stitutional expert, said he thought there was only a “remote” chance that the Supreme Court would overturn the ruling.

Associated Press Writer

LONDON — The Iron Lady is being laid to rest — yet even in death, she remains a divisive figure. World leaders and dignitaries from 170 countries were to attend the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Wednesday, an elaborate affair with full military honors that will cul-minate with a service at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

A coffin bearing the former lead-er’s body will travel by hearse to the church of St. Clement Danes, before

being borne on a horse-drawn gun carriage to the cathedral, where 2,300 invited guests will await.

More than 700 soldiers, sailors and air force personnel will line the route and around 4,000 police officers will be on duty as part of a major security operation, stepped up after Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded over 170.

The woman nicknamed “the Iron Lady” transformed Britain during her 11-year tenure from 1979 to 1990, and died on April 8 at age 87.

Thatcher is being given a cer-emonial funeral — not officially a state funeral, which requires a vote in Parliament. Still, the proceedings will feature the same level of pomp and honor afforded Princess Diana in 1997 and the Queen Mother Elizabeth in 2002.

That has raised the ire of some Britons, those who view her legacy as a socially and economically di-vided nation. Scotland Yard says it is working with a “small number of people planning to protest” peace-fully Wednesday.

Those attending the Thatcher

funeral include Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, 11 prime ministers from around the world, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.

Some high profile guests sent their regrets: Former First Lady Nancy Reagan — whose husband Ronald had a close relationship with Thatcher — will not be able to at-tend; nor will former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who shared key moments in history with the late prime minister. Germany’s Angela Merkel was sending her foreign

minister, while the American politi-cal power families the Clintons and the Bushes declined to attend.

Alicia Castro, Argentina’s am-bassador to the U.K., is not going, since Thatcher was in power in 1982 when Britain defended the Falkland Islands from being taken over by Argentina.

Parliament’s Big Ben bell will be silenced for the funeral service, which will include hymns and passages from the Bible read by Prime Minister David Cameron and the late premier’s granddaughter, Amanda Thatcher.

Britain’s Iron Lady to be buried with full pomp

Pakistan’s Musharraf disqualified from election

AP Photo/B.K. BangashIn this Monday, April 15, 2013 photo, Pakistan’s former President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf shows his party’s manifesto leaflet in Islamabad, Pakistan.

REUTERSBoston Marathon bomb scene pictures taken by investigators show the remains of an explosive device.

Boston bomb probe looking at pressure cooker, backpacksReuters

BOSTON - Boston Marathon bombing investigators on Wednesday

entered the third day of their hunt with an emerging picture of the target: a suspect or suspects carrying heavy bags or backpacks made of dark nylon.

Negara (Bali Post)—

Dozens of policewomen in the lineup of Jembrana Police gave out flowers for road users on Tuesday (Apr16). Aside from flowers, they also put a sticker on the vehicles containing an appeal.

Chief of Traffic Affairs Unit of Jembrana Police, Heri Supri-awan, said his party deliberately deployed policewomen person-nel to welcome the Kartini Day and emphasize the friendliness of police. Besides, they were also assigned specifically to assist pedestrians crossing the road at zebra crossing provided. The Traffic Affairs Unit expected that such real socialization action could arouse the people’s awareness in traffic. Similarly, it was also intended to familiarize pedestrians with the use of zebra crossing.

Supriawan recognized that based on observations many people were not accustomed to crossing at zebra crossing. Even, the function of zebra crossing was forgotten. People were just ac-customed to jaywalking. Though being directed, they were still reluctant to pass the zebra crossing and crossed carelessly. Traffic Police would continue to campaign the zebra crossing especially at vulnerable points. (kmb26)

Although the majority of na-tional exam manuscripts had arrived in Bali, most of the manuscripts received by the National Exam Su-pervisory Working Team (TKP) of Bali Province had not been labeled yet. In other words, the manuscript packages had not been written about the names of the schools whose students registered as par-ticipants of the exam. As pursued by deadline, the printing company just labeled the manuscript in store-house at the Widyasabha Hall of the Udayana University Campus at Bukit Jimbaran. Prof. Dr. I Made Bakta, Coordinator of the National Exam Supervisory Working Team for high school/Islamic high school, high school for the disabled, voca-tional school and equality package C of Bali Province accompanied by the Secretary I Wayan Antara told the matter to Bali Post, Tuesday (Apr 16).

Bakta deeply deplored the in-action performance of the print-ing company. Since the labeling process was just carried out in the storehouse, automatically the verification and distribution of the

national exam manuscript to each county / municipality also delayed. More ironically, until the time if this writing the national exam manuscript had not been received in complete condition whereas the whole manuscript should have been distributed to the county / munici-pality on Wednesday morning (Apr 17). “We are really made dizzy by the printing company whose per-formance is shambles like this,” he criticized.

He affirmed, his party would not sign the receipt of the national exam manuscript whose condition was not yet complete. Before the labeling was completed, his party would not put a signature. His party did not want to be blamed if later on there would be incomplete and confused manuscript due to incom-petent performance of the printing company. “Yes, there is impression if the printing is not ready. By and large, we have received the manu-script package that has been labeled by the printing company so that the verification process can be done quickly,” he said.

Then, what measure will be taken

if until Tuesday night (Apr 16) the printing company cannot distrib-ute the complete national exam manuscript in accordance with the number of schools participating in the national exam? On answering that question, Bakta claimed to have no other choice. No matter how the

condition would be, all the manu-scripts received should be distributed to the county/municipality no later than 05:00 a.m. on Wednesday (Apr 17). “We can no longer wait further without certainty. Moreover, the implementation of the national exam for high school/vocational school

and the equal education in Bali was delayed twice due to incompetent performance of the printing company. Of course, we greatly regret this incident. Central government should take valuable lessons from the chaotic implementation of the national exam this year,” he affirmed. (kmb13)

Pursued by deadline

Labeling of national exam manuscript made in storehouse Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Ghalia Indonesia Printing as the winning bidder for the printing of the national exam manuscript for high school/Islamic high school, high school for the disabled, vocational school and equality package C for Bali Province and 10 other provinces in Indonesia seemed to be really ill-prepared.

IBP/FileThe officers are giving label to the exam papers in the storehouse

Policewomen give out flowers

IBP/FileThe policewoman place sticker on one of the car in Jembrana

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Bali Post

DENPASAR — The Campaign Working Group Head, Bali Electoral Commission (KPU), Dewa Kadek Wiarsa Raka Sandi, said on Tuesday (Apr 16) that governor and deputy governor candidate of Bali would follow a series of debate planned by the Bali Electoral Commission for three rounds namely on May 4, 7 and 10, 2013.

Such debate was in the series of candidate campaign conducted from April 28 to May 11. “Agenda of the candidate debate will be conducted in three rounds and team up with the local and national broadcasters,” he said. For May 4, the candidate debate would be conducted at Aston Hotel with three panelists including two panelists from central govern-ment and another panelist from Bali and broadcast by TVOne.

He further said the candidate debate on May 7 would be scheduled to be held at the Inna Grand Bali Beach and broadcast live on local television stations such as BaliTV, DewataTV, and TVRI

Bali. In the second debate, there would be two local panelists and another panelist from central government. Meanwhile, the debate on May 11 would be broadcast by Metro TV, but the last debate would be without panelist.

He further said the debate schedule had been submitted and disseminated to each candidate campaign team. “We have submitted the sched-ules to respective campaign team,” he said.

Meanwhile, Raka Sandi added that the two pairs of candidate for governor and deputy governor were required to attend the three debates. “These debates must be attended by all the candidates. Indeed, in the regulation there is no penalty for the absent candidate in the debate,” he explained.

Both campaign teams, said Raka Sandi, had committed to present their candidates in the entire agenda of the candidate debate broadcast by TVOne, MetroTV and three local television stations. “We continue to coordinate with the team, so that both candi-dates can attend the candidate debates,” Raka Sandi concluded. (kmb29)

The Lion Air plane missed the runway as it came in to land on Saturday, slamming into the sea and splitting in two. Dozens of the 108 people on board were injured, but there were no fatali-ties.

Terrified passengers swam to shore or were plucked to safety by police in rubber dinghies. Witnesses and experts have sug-gested the crash could have been caused by a freak storm, although no official reason has yet been given.

The salvage team hauled the seats and baggage out of the Boe-ing 737-800, and were aiming to begin cutting the fuselage of the plane into pieces later in the evening, Bali army commander Colonel Anton Nugroho said.

However, local navy command-er Lieutenant Colonel Edi Eka Susanto said the operation had to be carried out very carefully, as the plane “is not yet stable, and we fear there are still oxygen bottles inside that could explode”.

After the plane was cut up, the team planned to lift the parts by

Bali team uses crane to salvage jet wreckageAgence France-Presse

DENPASAR - An Indonesian salvage team on Tuesday used a crane to haul seats and baggage out of a plane that crashed in Bali, as investigators probe what caused the jet to go down.

AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

Rescuers inspect a Lion Air Boeing 737 before removing its fixtures as it lies partially submerged in the water three days after it crashed while trying to land at Bali’s international airport near Denpasar on April 16, 2013.

FOTO ANTARA/Nyoman Budhiana

The governor and vice governor candidates raised their hand during the Bali Electoral Commission announcement recently. The Campaign Working Group Head, Bali Electoral Commission (KPU), Dewa Kadek Wiarsa Raka Sandi, said on Tuesday (Apr 16) that governor and deputy governor candi-date of Bali would follow a series of debate planned by the Bali Electoral Commission for three rounds namely on May 4, 7 and 10, 2013.

Bali gubernatorial election debate held in three rounds

Researchers from the Australian National University and the British Antarctic Survey found data taken from an ice core also shows the summer ice melt has been 10 times more intense over the past 50 years compared with 600 years ago.

“It’s definitely evidence that the climate and the environment is changing in this part of Ant-arctica,” lead researcher Nerilie Abram said.

Abram and her team drilled a 364-metre (400-yard) deep ice core

on James Ross Island, near the north-ern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, to measure historical temperatures and compare them with summer ice melt levels in the area.

They found that, while the tem-peratures have gradually increased by 1.6 degrees Celsius (2.9 degrees Fahrenheit) over 600 years, the rate of ice melting has been most intense over the past 50 years.

That shows the ice melt can in-crease dramatically in climate terms once temperatures hit a tipping point.

“Once your climate is at that level where it is starting to go above zero degrees, the amount of melt that will happen is very sensitive to any further increase in temperature you may have,” Abram said.

Robert Mulvaney, from the Brit-ish Antarctic Survey, said the stron-ger ice melts are likely responsible for faster glacier ice loss and some of the dramatic collapses from the Antarctic ice shelf over the past 50 years. Their research was published in the Nature Geoscience journal.

Two new species of previously unknown moths have been dis-covered in the Russian Far East, northeast of Mongolia. The insects strike a unique pose when resting, sticking their hind section into the air and extending their antennae forward onto the ground, or the surface of a leaf, according to a new study describing the animals. As larvae, the moths form strange, cradlelike cocoons from leaves before hatching.

The moths may have gone undiscovered for so long because they are difficult to collect; unlike most moths, they don’t usually fly to-ward lights, a common method of capturing insects for identification, according to the study, published recently in the journal ZooKeys.

In the study, the authors describe the bodies of the new moths, as well as their genitals, which differ enough to make them unique. Scientists often examine genitals to distinguish between different types of moths and other insects.

The new species are both part of the genus Ypsolophid, and have been named Ypsolopha melanofuscella and Ypsolopha straminella. There are now a total of 30 species known in this genus in Russia, accounting for a fourth of the worldwide total in this group.

“Studying the species diversity in East Asia as a whole and in the Far East of Russia in particular is an important endeavor … only the first step in a long row of scientific tasks towards forming a primary database for further theoretical reconstructions and conclusions for the benefit of biodiversity conservation,” said Margarita Ponomarenko, a researcher at the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, in a news release describing the study.

Scientists find Antarctic ice is melting fasterReuters

CANBERRA - The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of global warming on sensitive Antarctic glaciers and ice shelves.

REUTERS/Pauline Askin

Ice melt shows through at a cliff face at Landsend on the coast of Cape Denison in Antarctica December 14, 2009.

IBP/ist

The new moth species, Ypsolopha blandella, at rest.

2 Strange Moth Species Revealed in Russia

Archaeologists have found a tomb in eastern China that may be the grave of the notorious Emperor Yang of Sui, according to news reports.

With inscriptions revealing the surprising identity of the de-ceased, the burial chamber mea-sures about 215 square feet (20 square meters). It was uncovered

in Yangzhou, a city about 175 miles (280 kilometers) southeast of Shanghai, China’s state news agency Xinhua reported.

Shu Jiaping, who leads Yang-zhou’s institute of archaeology, told Xinhua that researchers are “still not sure whether it was the emperor’s final resting place, as historical records said his tomb had

been relocated several times.”Emperor Yang, also known as

Yang Guang, is remembered as a fearsome and decadent tyrant. During his rule from 606 until his death at the hands of rebels in 618, he forced millions of laborers to take part in ambitious construc-tion projects, such as building royal palaces, completing of the

Grand Canal and reconstructing of the Great Wall. Emperor Yang also launched costly military cam-paigns, including a failed conquest of Goguryeo, an ancient kingdom of Korea, which eventually led to the collapse of the Sui Dynasty.

Grave robbers seem to have looted the tomb in the 1,500 years since the emperor’s death, ac-

cording to China Daily. However, archaeologists reportedly found some items considered telltale signs of royalty inside the tomb, including a jade belt with gold details. The tomb was exposed at a construction site last year, and it is connected to another chamber that may belong to the emperor’s wife, Xinhua reported.

Possible Tomb of Chinese Tyrant Uncovered

crane onto a truck, and from there they would be taken to a nearby beach, said Nugroho.

If that was not possible, then the parts would be pushed through the water using balloons to an area of coast where it was easier to lift them, he said.

The 70-strong team, made up of military, rescue agency, airport and Lion Air personnel, hoped to be finished by Wednesday.

The cockpit voice recorder was found wedged between a wing and the body of the aircraft on Monday, and was being flown to Jakarta on Tuesday, Masruri, from the national transportation safety committee, which is prob-ing the crash, told AFP.

“The black box will be cleaned and checked for damage and hopefully we will be able to ex-tract the data in it,” said Masruri, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, adding he would not comment further on an ongoing investigation.

Five passengers were still in hospital on Tuesday following the crash, said Lion Air airport

service director Daniel Putut, although he said he did not have details of their conditions.

Government officials and the airline said at the time of the crash

the weather had been fine, but the transport ministry has since said the jet flew through thick cloud and witnesses have spoken of tor-rential rain before the crash.

Indonesia, which relies heav-ily on air transport to connect its sprawling archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, has one of Asia’s worst aviation safety records.

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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, sailings, decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted with gold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hung in the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placed red, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods are worshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “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

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Calendar Event for April 5 through 28, 2013

5 Apr Penampahan Kuningan 6 Apr Kuningan & Kajeng Kliwon Uwudan Pura Taman Pule Mas UbudPura Ularan Takmung KlungkungPura Bukitjati - Gulingan Kawan BangliPura Dalem Tegal Jaya BatubulanPura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Dalem Desa Guwang SukawatiPura Bukit Jati BangliPura Sadha KapalPura Sakenan SeranganPura Pekendungan Kediri TabananPura Pasek Gaduh GrokgakPura dalem Sanding TampaksiringPura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Priok JakartaPura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang BangliPura Agung Blambangan BanyuwangiPura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Banjar Dukuh Gelgel KlungkungPura Panti Banjar Timbrah Desa Pakse Bali KlungkungPura Penataran Agung Margo Weining Krembung Sidoarjo

7 Apr redite Umanis Langkir Memendak ring Pura Sakenan Serangan Den-pasar SelatanPura Dalem Pahuman Bujangga Penatih Den-pasar TimurPura Alas Harum Desa Batur KintamaniPura Alas angker Desa Munduk Culali KintamaniPura Kawitan Dalem Empuaji Banjar Sala Desa Aan Klungkung

10 Apr Tilem Sasih Kedasa Pura Tanah Lot Kediri TabananPura Bucabe Mas UbudPura Puseh Desa Ganggang Canggi BatuanPura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri TabananPura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan MengwiPura Masceti Sanding Tampaksiring

Pura Luhur Batur PucanganPura Dalem Tarukan Cemenggaon SukawatiOdalan Ida Ratu Sundaring Jagat Penataran Agung BesakihPura Dalem Bangun Sakti Banjar Basang Ta-miang KapalPura Dalem Bias Muntig Banjar Nyuh Desa Ped Nusa PenidaPura Khayangan Tiga Batur BangliPura Batur Cemenggaon SukawatiPura Luhur Bhujangga Canggu KutaPura Kawitan Kayu Selem Tampuryang Batur Kintamani

14 Apr redite Pon Medangsia Pura Agung Petilan Pengrebongan Kesiman DenpasarPura Pasek Tohjiwa Kesiut Kangin Krambitan Tabanan

15 Apr Soma Wage Medangsia Pura Nataran Desa Getas BlahbatuhPura Pasek Babakan Gianyar

16 Apr Anggara Kasih Medangsia Pura Pesimpangan Geria Sakti Manuaba Yogaloka Sumur Lampung SelatanPura Luhur Bukit Pecatu KutaPura Penataran Agung - Jukut Paku Singakerta UbudPura Andakasa KarangasemPura Goa Lawah KlungkungPura Taman Ayun MengwiPura Suralya Banda KlungkungPura Dalem Senapati Bebalang BangliPura Gaduh Blahbatuh GianyarPura Pasek Gaduh-Klating Kerambitan TabananPura Dalem Tugu Gelgel KlungkungPura Dalem Banyuning Banyuning Barat BulelengPura Puseh (Odalan Sepen) Camenggaon SukawatiPura Pusering Jagat Pejeng TampakasiringPura Geria Sakti (Dang Khayangan) B a n j a r Menak Tulikup GianyarPura Dalem Dauh Ubud

Pura Segara & Pura Pabean Ketewel

17 Apr Buda Umanis Medangsia Pura Desa Purancak JembranaPura Dalem Dauma Batuan SukawatiPura Nataran Kacang Dawa KlungkungBhatara Gede Apol Ubung DenpasarPura Puseh Brahmana Kamasan KlungkungPura Khayangan Jagat Dalem Purwa Kebontinguh Denbatasa TabananPura Dalem Sukahet KlungkungPura Dalem Muaspahit Manikan Guwang SukawatiPura Taman - Dukuh Kendran TegallalangPura Desa Sanding TampaksiringPura Sahab Nusa PenidaPura Dalem Cemara Desa Serangan Denpasar

18 Apr Wraspati Paing Medangsia Pura Ulun Suwi Banjar Senapahan Kediri TabananPura Panti Pasek Gelgel Desa Bitra Gianyar

21 Apr redite Keliwon Pujut Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Kekeran mengwi

25 Apr Purnama Sasih Jiyestha Pura Segara LombokPura Dalem Taman Peguyangan DenpasarPura Dwijawarsa Malang JatimPura Pauman Bhujangga Tonja DenpasarPura Puncak Tinggah Angsri Baturiti TabananPura Kawitan Luhur Bhujangga Desa Jatiluwih PenebelPura Kawitan Batur Pande Tonja Tonja DenpasarPura Penyungsungan Pasek Tohjiwa Wanagiri Selemadeg TabananPura Penataran Agung Desa Sidemen KarangasemPura Samuan Tiga Desa Bedulu Gianyar

26 Apr Sukra keliwon Pujut Pura Hyang Tibha Desa Batuan Sukawati

28 Apr redite Paing Pahang Merajan Pasek Sadra Peguyangan Badung

Bali is situated east of Java Island having access within easy reach, either by land, sea, or air. With such an easy access, this island is then popularly chosen as a favorite tour-ist destination. Aside from several amazing beaches, Balinese culture can also be taken advantage as an endless tourist attraction because many temples retain very high cul-tural values. In addition, Bali is also delighted to offer natural attractions in the form of mountain and terraced rice fields resembling a verdant over-lay of rug.

One of the convenient locations situating among the rice field, jungle and mountainous gorges is Ubud. It is an appropriate sojourn and desti-

nation located in the region of Gi-anyar Regency. Here you can find a unique resort offering the indigenous Balinese concept highlighting the harmonious relationship of human to environment, fellow humans and the Creator, namely the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa.

Many fascinating attractions can be encountered here, ranging from relishing the natural atmosphere up to learning the native cultures. “Here, we also invite our guests to appreciate the natural environment, cultural and so-cial life of the Ubud community,” said I Wayan Duartha, General Manager of the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa. With such various activities, many tourists were attracted to stay at Waka.

Waka di Ume Resort and Spa

A Sojourn to Witness Cultural Uniqueness of UbudIBP

Who does not know the Island of Gods or Bali? It’s the bijou island offering all the natural beauties and intriguing sublime cultures. People who never pay a visit can tell much about the island, let alone those knowing it just in a dream.

A variety of facilities have been provided to support the comfort and satisfaction of ev-ery single guest. Waka di Ume Resort and Spa established on November 5, 1995 has 18 rooms, consisting of 3-bed-room Wapa Villa with private pool, 2-bedroom Family Villa with private pool, Villa with Pool, Di Ume Suite, Terrace Villa and the smallest one is the Lanai Terrace. Room rates of the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa ranges from USD 244 to USD 655. Such rates have in-cluded government tax, service and breakfast.

More interestingly, the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa lies very close to the natural and cultural attractions. Among others, they are monkey forest, art muse-ums, Goa Gajah, Ceking rice terrace, Tirta Empul temple at Tampaksiring, Tampaksiring Presidential Palace, and Petulu

village becoming the native and convenient home to thou-sands of white egrets.

One day, if you want to make a visit to the island, especially when would like to

luxuriate in the countryside ambience with five star facili-ties, look no further and decide on the Waka di Ume Resort and Spa as your serene sojourn on the island.

Tabanan (Bali Post)—Flower growers in Tabanan were inflamed. It was kindled

by the condition after Galungan celebration where the price of flowers for the offerings slumped sharply. Such condition made farmers lose out. The complaint was then aggravated by rains causing the yields of flower harvest to decline.

The price of garden balsam in Tabanan only penetrated IDR 3,000 per kilogram. The price fell sharply compared to the previ-ous price at IDR 10,000 per kilogram. Strangely, though the price plunged, the demand for flower tended to decrease. “Since the past few days, the price of garden balsam fell sharply, while the demand was also a few,” sighed Ni Made Karmini, 40, a garden balsam grower at Tunjuk village, Tabanan, Tuesday (Apr 16).

The woman added that in conjunction with the Galungan celebration, the demand for garden balsam always soared and the price skyrocketed. However, in a matter of days the price suddenly dropped. As a result, farmers were distraught to pay back the planting capital loan. The rain also made the harvest yields drop. “The price of garden balsam is very cheap so that we lose out,” she added. Ideally, the price of garden balsam could penetrate over IDR 5,000 per kilogram so that farmers did not lose out. The planting cost of the commodity was relatively expensive, starting from the purchase of seeds to fertilizer.

According to Karmini, the garden balsam could be harvested every day. However, if it rained, farmers could do nothing where-as on average it was time for farmers to harvest their flowers. Typically, in a single harvest farmers could get 10-30 kilograms depending on the area of land. Since the price was low, a number of farmers were reluctant to harvest every day. They chose to harvest once in two days for maximal results. They hoped the price of garden balsam could go up again so that farmers were not in vain to plant the commodity. Moreover, the demand for the garden balsam remained to come. (kmb30)

Staging of the contemporary art collaboration was accompanied with the fusion of traditional Balinese music and modern music. Distinctive tones of gamelan instrument were beautified by the sound of modern music melody and graceful movement of the dancers without having to leave the cores of traditional movement styles.

According to the Coordinator of Giri Anyar Art Studio, Gusti Ngurah Ary-awan, in the staging at the Cultural Hall was presented modern musical instru-ment like electric guitar, bass, acoustic guitar, kojen and keyboard, while the traditional musical instruments in use consisted of 4 units of gangsa semar pegulingan, 2 units of calung, 2 units of jegog, 1 drum, 1 flute, cymbal, and 4 pairs of cengceng baleganjur.

Ngurah Aryawan explained it took him15 days to make preparations for the show. The obstacle encountered was the difficulty to harmonize the vocal of Ray Peni with the music because the vocal of the Balinese pop singer from Batuan was higher. It took longer time to har-

monize the music with the vocal of Ray Peni. But after fitting, Ngurah admitted that Ray Peni was very satisfied with the results of the collaboration.

Aside from presenting Ray Peni with a number of songs like Gianyar Bersatu, Karya Agung, Suka-suka di Hati, the art studio also accompanied the singer Dek Arya with his songs entitled Sekpri and Sing Juari. Similarly, another pop singer Yan Se also made his appearance with the song entitled Blabar Agung and Ngi-dang Sabar. A female singer like Sara also took part in the performance with the songs entitled Taksu, Khatulistiwa and Kala Cinta Menggoda as well as the appearance of Dek Sandi with the song entitled Bungan Sandat and Natad Sandal. The staging taking place for al-most 3 hours was also enlivened by the appearance of Lawak Sangar et al, Fire Dance and Dewa Dewi Dance. The art studio located at Buruan hamlet, Celuk, Sukawati, was established on August 5, 2012 and made its first participation in the anniversary of the Gianyar town.

Gusti Ngurah Aryawan explained the

Giri Anyar Studio was formed to unite the two genres of music developing at Buruan village, namely the traditional and modern one. The performance supported by some 50 people looked very populistic. Even, the audience sat in cross-legged in front of the stage neatly. Impressive nuance was also felt by one of the spectators from Cebaang Serongga, Gianyar, Ida Bagus Agung Purnama. Such night show was truly different from the previous years. “The atmosphere is very populistic. All spectators sat in cross-legged in front of the stage,” said Ida Bagus Agung Purnama.

Division Head of the Arts and Film, the Gianyar Culture Agency, I Wayan Suwija, said the idea of collaboration was held to increase the appeal of the show in the celebration of the 242nd anniversary of Gianyar Town so that it would no longer be monotonous from year to year. “Innovative element was visible from every performance with-out eliminating the cores of traditional rules,” he explained. (dar)The flower farmer in Tabanan

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Revive, creative music art collaboration in Gianyar

GIANyAr town as the art storehouse never runs out of innovations in the arts. Anniversary of the town is a medium for the artists to express their creative works. It was visible in the collabora-tive performance of the Giri Anyar Blahbatuh song and comedy at the Gianyar Cultural Hall Open Stage, Monday night (Apr 15).

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One of the art gruops doing the collaboration of the traditional and modern music in Gianyar.

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There are panoramic aerial battles on Krypton, there are touching mo-ments between young Clark Kent and both his biological and adoptive fathers, there are close-ups of a fist pounding into ice, and there is lots and lots of big-budget flying.

“I wanted the movie to be a big movie-going experience, full of action, full of emotion and full of the biggest super hero in the world,” Snyder said Tuesday before giving the Las Vegas movie theater convention CinemaCon a brief glimpse. “I wanted to give to the cinemas of the world a big, giant ‘movie’ movie.”

The film follows in the modern tradi-tion of the naturalistic superhero mov-ies. It takes place in a gritty-looking, color-drained world of grays, brown and icy blues. All the better to set off that red cape, perhaps.

The scenes of Clark Kent’s Kansas childhood are drenched in Americana, complete with freshly laundered flan-nels flapping on the clothes line. Snyder, who also directed the superhero film “Watchmen,” said he wanted to find a poignancy to add to

the familiar story.We get some hints of that tenderness

in conversations between Kent and his farmer father, played by Kevin Cost-ner, as they struggle to keep the young superhero’s powers hidden.

But then we see Kent grow up, learn to fly and begin to take on an assortment of foes. It’s this part of the legend — not the troubled childhood — that seems to most animate Snyder.

“I’ve been a big fan of the character my whole life,” Snyder said. “He is the greatest super hero. There’s no compe-tition between super heroes, but if there was, he’d win.”

Associated Press Writer

NEW DELHI — Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt was granted more time to work before going to prison for a 1993 weapons conviction linked to a deadly terror attack, though he likely won’t be able to finish his four pending films.

The Supreme Court’s order Wednesday gives him four more weeks beyond the original deadline, which was Thursday. Dutt had appealed to the court that he needed six months to complete his pending film com-mitments, which film industry experts have said are worth at least $20 million. Last month the top court sentenced Dutt to five years in prison for illegal possession of weapons supplied by Muslim mafia bosses linked to the terror attack that killed 257 people in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment hub.

The 53-year-old actor originally had been sentenced to serve six years in prison on the charge of possessing an automatic rifle and a pistol that were supplied to him by men subsequently convicted in the bombings.

Dutt served 18 months in jail before he was released on bail in 2007 pending an appeal. The Supreme Court reduced his prison sentence to five years.

The actor’s case is part of a sprawling Mumbai bombings trial that has lasted 18 years. Dutt maintains he knew nothing about the bombing plot and that he asked for the guns to protect his family — his mother was Muslim and his father Hindu — after receiving threats during sectarian riots in Mumbai.

The 1993 bombings were seen at the time as the world’s worst terrorist attack, with 13 bombs exploding over a two-hour period across Mumbai. Powerful explosives were packed into cars and scooters parked near In-dia’s main Bombay Stock Exchange and other sites in the city. In addition to the 257 dead, more than 720 people were injured in the attack.

The bombings were believed to have been acts of revenge for the demolition of a 16th century mosque by Hindu nationalists in northern India in 1992. After the demolition, religious riots erupted, leaving more than 800 people dead, most of them Muslims.

‘Man of Steel’ promises poignancy from Superman

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Zack Snyder, director of the forthcoming film “Man of Steel,” addresses the audience during the Warner Bros. presentation at CinemaCon 2013 at Caesars Palace on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 in Las Vegas.

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LAS VEGAS — Zack Snyder is hoping his Superman reboot “Man of Steel” turns out to be not just a blockbuster, but a movie with a capital “M.”

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FILE- In this March 28, 2013 file photo, Indian Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, gestures dur-ing a press conference at his residence in Mumbai, India.

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The Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali, Gde Suarsa, said that compared to the occupancy rate in January 2013, the occupancy

rate in Badung, Gianyar and Bule-leng County showed an increase respectively 12.30 points, 4.47 points and 8.89 points. Meanwhile,

in Tabanan, Karangasem and Den-pasar the occupancy rate decreased respectively by 11.44 points, 2.45 points and 1.18 points.

“According to hotel classifica-tion, the room occupancy rate in five star hotels reaches 60.03 percent denoting the highest oc-cupancy rate compared to the other hotel classification. The lowest oc-cupancy rate occurred in two-star hotels reaching 48.04 percent,” explained Suarsa.

Nevertheless, the average length of stay of foreign and Indonesian tourists in star hotels in Bali reach-ing 2.98 days (February 2013) indi-cated a decrease of up to 0.16 point compared to the average length of stay during January 2013 reaching 3.14 days.

“Overall, the average length of stay of foreign tourists in February reached. 3.20 days, much longer than the length of stay of Indone-sian tourists reaching 2.43 days,”

he said.Meanwhile, the number of for-

eign tourist arrival to Bali in Febru-ary, said Suarsa, reached 241,868 people. This figure had increased by 7.02 percent compared to the same month a year earlier. Most of those tourists came to Bali through the airport as many as 236,971 people (97.98 percent), while through seaports amounted to 4,897 people (2.02 percent).

Room occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali increases Bali Post

DENPASAR - Room occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali in February 2013 reached averagely 58.05 percent, increasing 0.48 point compared to the occupancy rate in January 2013 amounting to 57.57 percent. The highest room occupancy rate occurred in Badung County namely at 79.58 percent, while the lowest was in Tabanan County at 30.29 percent.

Tourists trying a water sport facil-ity in Serangan Island, Bali Island. Room occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali in February 2013 reached averagely 58.05 percent, increasing 0.48 point compared to the occupancy rate in January 2013 amounting to 57.57 percent.

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