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‘Fast Five’ takescheckered flag atbox office

Gadhafi’s son hadsurvived US strikein 1986

Bali propertymarket grows morepromisingly

The small industries which includehandicrafts contributed around 78%from the total revenue gained by Balifrom non oil and gas exports. The handi-crafts made by Balinese artistic handshave entered 83 countries throughout theworld.

Suarsa said that the main countriesimported Bali’s products are US 17%,

People are checkingBalinese handicraftsmade from silver inan exhibition. Bali’snon oil and gasexport worth $47.91million in February2011, increased 8%compared to theprevious monthwhich was $44.14million.

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Bali’s non oil and gas exportsworth $47.91 millionAntara

Denpasar – Bali’s non oil and gas export worth$47.91 million in February 2011, increased 8% com-pared to the previous month which was $44.14 mil-lion. “The export commodities were farming prod-ucts, fishery, and small industries,” said the Head ofBali Statistics Department, I Gede Suarsa.

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Japan 11%, Italy 7%, and 50% wasexported to other countries.

The main export commodities areclothing, fish and scrimps, souvenirsmade from wood, jewelries and house-holds. The government wants to in-crease the revenue gained from ex-ports.

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – Osama binLaden, the face of global terrorismand architect of the Sept. 11, 2001,attacks, was killed in a firefight withelite American forces Monday, thenquickly buried at sea in a stunningfinale to a furtive decade on the run.

Long believed to be hiding incaves, bin Laden was tracked downin a costly, custom-built hideoutnot far from a Pakistani militaryacademy. The stunning news of hisdeath prompted relief and eupho-ria outside the White House andaround the globe, yet also fears of Continued on page 6

US kills Osama bin Ladendecade after 9/11 attacks

terrorist reprisals against the UnitedStates and its allies. “Justice hasbeen done,” President BarackObama said in a dramatic an-nouncement at the White House.

The military operation took mereminutes, and there were no U.S.casualties. U.S. helicopters ferriedtroops from Navy SEAL Team Six,a top military counter-terrorismunit, into the compound identifiedby the CIA as bin Laden’s hideout— and back out again in less than40 minutes. Bin Laden was shot inthe head, officials said, after he andhis bodyguards resisted the assault.

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The drivers of Material Drivers Group(PSM) have been annoyed with the nationalroute Singaraja-Amlapura route at atTejakula Village, Bondalam Village andLes Village at Tejakula also Bukti Villageat Kubutambahan were never taken carefor years and so since Saturday (30/4) toSunday (1/5) they took action by bringing

Arbani , 45, a tour is t boatowner said that persistent rainhad flushed Bedugul since lastweek. Although visitors kept oncoming, they could not enjoy thebeauty of the lake by boat rides.“I do not know what to do as therain kept pouring. I am forced tostop renting the boats,” he saidon Sunday (May 1).

Under normal condition, theboats rented could reach up to 5units per day. A traditional row-ing boa t was ren ted a t IDR55,000 for 30 minutes and usu-

Showered by rain, touristShowered by rain, touristShowered by rain, touristShowered by rain, touristShowered by rain, touristboats unable to operateboats unable to operateboats unable to operateboats unable to operateboats unable to operate

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The boats which areplaced by the operatorson the side of BedugulLake

Tabanan (Bali Post)—Persistent rain flushing the Bedugul lakeside tourist area caused the tourist boat services at the

destination left by passengers. As a result, operators of the tourist boat were forced to stand idle.They moored their boats on the lakeside dock. Since there were many boats, they finally crowdedthe lakeside dock.

ally hired by 3-4 visitors. Mean-while, the roofed boat was rentedat IDR 127,000 and speed boatat IDR 102,000.

According to Arbani, visitorsof the student circles preferredto rent a traditional rowing boat.Apart f rom offer ing cheaperrental price, this kind of boatalso gave a unique experience tothem. They could sail around thelake with ease while rowing itslowly. On location, there were16 traditional rowing boats op-e ra ted by Arbani wi th h i s

friends.He added the rain flushing

Bedugul came erratically. Some-times it rained in the evening andmorning. However, last Sundaythe rain kept on flushing thelakeside tourist object. At thattime, he said there were actuallymany students visiting the tour-ist object. Because of rain, it wastime for the umbrella rentals toget their blessings. In the rain,visitors had a promenade aroundthe lakeside by using the rentedumbrella. (udi)

Singaraja-Amlapura Route Still Not FixedDriver Action, Cover Holes Together

sands and pebbles to cover holes on theroute helped by local residents causingsome traffics on the route yet they alsohelped voluntary even gave donation.

According to one driver, Wayan Tiasa,from Bengkala Village, Kubutambahan, thenarrow and wavy route is very dangerousto go through plus with the holes all over it

as well causingtrucks with materialshard to go through.So they took the ini-tiative to buy mate-rials and work to-gether as the respon-sible institute stillhasn’t gave a datewhen they will fix it.“We pass this roadeveryday and withthese damagesaround still not fixeduntil now makes usto work together infixing so,” he statedwhich agreed by an-other driver, GedeTarsana, fromBanjar Alas Arum,Pacung Village,Tejakula. It is hopedby this action, theholes won’t get anywider and vehiclescan go through eas-ily again. (kmb)

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Mangupura (Bali Post) –When it’s thought it will be

the polemic Bali Spatial Plan-ning Regulations (RTRW Bali)Regional Regulation No 16year 2009 discussion as Badungbecomes the violator and focuson this, Bali Governor MadeMangku Pastika declined totalk it as it is still sensitive. Yetthe gathering by Bali Governorheld at Pura Petitenget wantilanlast Saturday (30/4) discussedsomething else. Besides the cli-mate change, organic andchemical manures are thoughtto be the causer to the Badungwest shores abrasion. WayanTambun, Canggu Village resi-dent explained the abrasion atSeseh Beach, Mengwi, BatuMejan Beach, Canggu andBerawa Beach, it has been hap-pening for quite a long time and

Village Head of Candi Kuning,I Made Mudita, said his party didnot reject or approve the continu-ation plan of the geothermal drill-ing project. However, the resi-dents expected the competent au-thorities related to the projectcould come down directly to com-munity for providing socializa-tion. “We would like to hear theresults of the study regarding tothe positive and negative impactsof the project, including studiesin terms of spiritual perspective,”he said on Sunday (May 1).

So far, added Mudita, localresidents had never obtained adirect explanation from the autho-rized party related to geothermal.On that account, people remainedin doubt associated with the megapower project. “Hopefully, a teamof experts could come down to thecommunity to provide an expla-nation. Similarly, clergymanshould help provide a presenta-tion on spiritual perspective,” hebegged.

According to Mudita, as a vil-lage chief his party always sup-ported the geothermal project ifit was a government’s project. Buthis party expected a more pro-found study both technically andspiri tually. The f inal choicewould lie in the hand of CandiKuning residents directly cominginto contact with the project. Ad-ditionally, his residents alsohoped there would be no politi-cal interest in addressing the

Kuta, DenPostThe situation at Legian Street,

Kuta, last Saturday (30/4) eveninggot tense as a mysterious luggagesuspected bomb was found. Policethen closed the route and causingparty goers to go no near the arearemembering bombs have hit Balitourism area, Kuta, twice, as infor-mation stated last Sunday (1/5).

The luggage was first found bya tattoo maker at the stated street,Komang Wirama, around 5 pm lo-cal time. As the luggage was withno owner, he was suspicious asthese days terrorism has been hit-ting Indonesia again. Komang

Mengwitani, DenPost—A ring of robbers targeting a

bank customer, I Wayan SudanaBima, could not have been de-tected up to right now. More-over, Sudana who is no otherthan the car showroom ownerwas unable to identify the po-lice plate of motorcycle used bythe robbers. As planned, policewould make coordination withBank Mandiri to check theCCTV recording.

“We have just received the re-port and summoned our crimi-nal detective unit to investigatethe case. Maybe tomorrow(Monday), we are going to co-ordinate with Bank Mandiri tocheck the CCTV recordings,”said Chief of Criminal DetectiveUnit, Badung Police, SomaAdnyana, Sunday (May 1).

To date, Chief Soma addedthat his party remained to focuson the examination of witnesses,particularly witnesses aroundthe scene. In addition, policewould also conduct a recon-struction on the crime scenefrom Bank Mandiri on JalanGatot Subroto Tengah,Denpasar, where Sudana with-drew his money until he wasrobbed.

By and large, the perpetratorof tire puncture or robber ofbank customers conducted a re-connaissance in the vicinity ofthe bank. When they saw thevictims bringing the money theywould immediately dogged. Wealso deplore because the victimdid not ask for police escorts ortook his friend when he with-drew a large amount of money,”affirmed Soma.

Meanwhile, according to aresource person of DenPost, thering of robbers was alleged to

As for geothermal,As for geothermal,As for geothermal,As for geothermal,As for geothermal,Bedugul residents askBedugul residents askBedugul residents askBedugul residents askBedugul residents askfor further studiesfor further studiesfor further studiesfor further studiesfor further studiesTabanan (Bali Post)—

Geothermal power project at Bedugul, Candi Kuning Village, Baturiti Subdistrict, Tabanan, iswidely discussed by local residents. An issue came into view that it has been put into the top 10national projects resumed this year. Related to this matter, local residents asked further studies,including in-depth socialization related to the impacts.

project.Mudita added that residents of

six hamlets in the village did notunderstand thoroughly about thegeothermal project. They alsoworried if the project would havenegative impacts on the environ-ment such as collapsed ground,sulfuric smell and decline in thewater discharge of the LakeBeratan. “This should be social-ized to the community. Let themunderstand entirely,” he stated.He also hoped there would be ateam of engineers and higherpriests coming down to the villageto provide more in-depth study forthe community.

If the project continued, saidMudita, his party planed to pro-pose a number of agreements withthe operators. Among them, hisparty would request shares for thevillage and local residents priori-tized to work in the company. Ac-cording to Mudita, the geothermalprojects would be in direct con-tact with 7,000 residents inhabit-ing the Candi Kuning Village. Sofar, local residents had never beeninvited for a discussion related tothe project. However, a number ofvillage leaders and administratorshad been invited to listen to thepresentations of Pertamina andmanagement of geothermalprojects in the Bali House re-cently. But, residents had not beengiven the opportunity to speak onthe occasion.

Similar opinion was disclosed

by a Tabanan legislator fromCandi Kuning, Nyoman Suta.This politician doubling as aformer Hamlet Chief of Bukit1said that geothermal project hadbeen built since 2003-2004 pe-riod. However, up to these days,there had been no further activi-ties. There were only securityguards on duty at the location. “Ifit will be continued, there must besocial izat ion. If required, i tshould be deployed a team of re-searchers getting in touch withresidents,” said politician of theIndonesian Democratic Party ofStruggle (PDI-P). Previously, sixhamlets in the village of CandiKuning had cohesively supportedthe project. Hopefully, with morein-depth socialization, residentscould provide their support again.

So far he said there had beenno notification from the projectmanagement and Bali ProvincialGovernment related to continuationof the project plan. According toSuta, the circle of Tabanan Houseshould ideally be involved in thediscussion regarding to the continu-ation of the power plant project. “Inessence, local residents are waitingfor socialization on the results ofmore comprehensive study of theproject. Furthermore, residents willdetermine their attitude,” he said.As for the attitude of the House, theformer Hamlet Chief of CandiKuning had not dared to give a de-cision because it concerned with theinstitution. (udi)

Mysterious Luggage Found,Legian Street Closed

moved the luggage towards in frontof his work place yet after an hourno one took it.

Komang then reported it to theKuta Police which then Kuta andDenpaar Tourism police officerswent down to location straightaway and closed the busy route toprevent unwanted incidents.Gegana Team then came to locationafter an hour to sterilize the lug-gage. One officer using an antibomb suite came near the luggageto place an equipment on the lug-gage. “To make sure of what’s init, Gegana team keep on checkingand examining it. The equipment

they placed connects to a laptop soit’s detected what’s in it. The nextthing they did was covering the lug-gage with steel covered textile andbrought it to the Headquarters.Legian Street was opened againsince then,” Kuta Police officerexplained.

Head of Kuta Police GedeGanefo confirmed of this situationand have found out that there wasno bomb in it. “As it was investi-gated, turns out the luggage wasowned by a guest who was lookingfor a place to stay and have beentaken back by the owner,” he ex-plained. (109)

Badung West ShoresAbrasion Worries

needs a tackle straight away.In responding to it, Governor

Made Mangku Pastika statedthat his side will coordinatewith a number of institutes inthis problem including theBadung Government. To pre-vent it naturally, it is suggestedfarmers in Badung to not usechemical manure and switch toorganic as chemical manurecauses running waters towardsthe beach polluted and killsplanktons which constructs cor-als that prevent abrasion hap-pening. Badung Regent, AAGde Agung, stated his sideasked supports from all thepeople to tackle this abrasion.To him this abrasion needs sys-tematic management whereBadung government and prov-ince has to back up each other.(kmb25)

Police check recordingof Bank Mandiri’s CCTV

be a tire puncture specialist.Since Sudana rode a motorcycle,they waited for the right oppor-tunity to perform their action.Incidentally the 29-year old manrode the motorcycle alone.“When he was passing througha quiet road section, the victimwas immediately interceptedand attacked by sharp weapon.By chance, the road section wasquiet and near rice field area,”added the resource.

The resource person request-ing anonymity affirmed thatwhen the robbers were in action,there was a witness of householdmother who was sitting. Unfor-tunately, she could not do much.Even, she was scared when see-ing the machete of those rob-bers.

“The robbers were ridingHonda Supra motorcycle and thevictim felt safe because he wasnear his house. In fact, the rob-bers were desperate and attackedthe victim. The victim sped fromthe bank and after near hishome, the victim called theowner of car he wanted to pur-chase,” he said.

Previously, a customer ofBank Mandiri doubling as a carshowroom owner, I WayanSudana Bima, 29, was robbed byfour men armed with machetesat Menesa Hamlet, DarmasabaVillage, Badung, around 10:30a.m. Local Time, Friday (Apr 29).The victim living at Darmasaba,Abiansemal, lost a cash worthIDR150 million. Not only that, thevictim also suffered from swell-ing on the right cheek and backas well as injury on knees. Thecase was then reported to policestation and the case is now beinghandled by Criminal Detective ofBadung Police. (109)

International4 Tuesday, May 3, 2011 News

Ground zero, more familiar thesepast 10 years for bagpipes playing“Amazing Grace” and solemnspeeches and arguments over whatto build to honor the Sept. 11 dead,became, for the first time, a placeof revelry.

“We’ve been waiting a long timefor this day,” Lisa Ramaci, a NewYorker whose husband was afreelance journalist killed in the Iraqwar, said early Monday. “I think it’sa relief for New York tonight just inthe sense that we had this 10 yearsof frustration just building andbuilding, wanting this guy dead, and

Agence France Presse

LONDON – Prince William andhis wife Kate will honeymoon at aluxury villa on an island in theSeychelles, according to Monday’sDaily Mail newspaper. The newly-weds delayed their honeymoon, butwill jet out later this month to spendten days at a £4,000 ($6,700, 4,500euros) a night retreat in the IndianOcean archipelago, the British pa-per reported.

The 28-year-old prince’s protec-tion officers reportedly visited thetop-secret location to assess its suit-ability and were satisfied that the


BEIRUT – The Syrian army con-ducted raids in cities and townsacross the nation Monday, arrestingscores of people in an attempt tocrush the uprising against PresidentBashar Assad’s regime, activists said.Human rights activist Mustafa Ossosaid the army brought reinforcementsto the western cities of Zabadani nearthe Lebanese border and the north-ern towns of Raqqa and Idlib.

“There’s heavy army presenceand soldiers are conducting door-to-door raids,” he told The AssociatedPress. Osso said army vehicles in-

Joyous Americans gatherJoyous Americans gatherJoyous Americans gatherJoyous Americans gatherJoyous Americans gatherto mark bin Laden deathto mark bin Laden deathto mark bin Laden deathto mark bin Laden deathto mark bin Laden deathAssociated Press Writer

NEW YORK – Joyous at the release of a decade’s frustration, Ameri-cans streamed to the site of the World Trade Center, the gates of theWhite House and smaller but no less jubilant gatherings across thenation to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden — cheering, wavingflags and belting the national anthem.

now he is, and you can see how happypeople are.”

She was holding a flag and wear-ing a T-shirt depicting the twin tow-ers and, in crosshairs, bin Laden.Nearby, a man held up a cardboardsign that said, “Obama 1, Osama 0.”

Uptown in Times Square, dozensstood together on a clear spring nightand broke into applause when a NewYork Fire Department SUV drove by,flashed its lights and sounded its siren.A man held an American flag, and oth-ers sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

In Washington, in front of theWhite House, a crowd began gather-

ing before President Barack Obamaaddressed the nation late Sunday todeclare, “Justice has been done.”The throng grew, and within a half-hour had filled the street in front ofthe White House and begun spillinginto Lafayette Park.

“It’s not over, but it’s one battlethat’s been won, and it’s a big one,”said Marlene English, who lives inArlington, Va., and lobbies on de-fense issues. She said she has bakedthousands of cookies to send tofriends serving in Iraq and Afghani-stan over the years and that she wasat the White House because theycouldn’t be.

The celebrations began to cometogether late on Sunday night, afterAmericans began hearing about thedeath of bin Laden from bulletins ontelevision, texts and calls from fam-ily and friends and posts on socialnetworking sites.

AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

Crowds celebrate on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, early Monday, May 2,2011, after President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

AP Photo

In this citizen journalism image taken on a mobile phone and acquiredby the AP, Syrians gather after Friday prayers during an anti-govern-ment protest in the coastal city of Banias, Syria, Friday, April 29, 2011.

Syrian army conducts widespread raids, arrestscluding tanks were also surround-ing Zabadani. Assad is determinedto crush the six-week-old revolt,which began in the now-besiegedsouthern city of Daraa but quicklyspread across the nation of some 23million people.

The arrests are part of an inten-sified crackdown that followed mas-sive anti-regime protests last week.Rights groups say at least 545 Syr-ians have been killed since authori-ties began their crackdown on theuprising.

Now, the once-unthinkable pro-tests are posing the most seriouschallenge to four decades of rule by

the Assad family in one of the mostrepressive and tightly controlledcountries in the Middle East. As thearrests were being made, the Syrianmilitary has intensified its weeklongassault on Daraa as residents,struggled to find food, pass alonginformation and bury their dead.

A drought-plagued city near theJordanian border, Daraa has beenwithout water, fuel or electricitysince last Monday, when the regimesent in troops backed by tanks andsnipers to crush protests seeking theouster of Assad. Syrian army tanksshelled the old quarter of Daraa onSunday.

AFP PHOTO/John Stillwell/POOL

Prince William (R) and his wife Kate, the Duch-ess of Cambridge, walk hand in hand fromBuckingham Palace in London, before de-parting for their honeymoon on April 30, 2011.

William and Kate tohoneymoon inSeychelles: Mail

isolated resort would offer the re-quired privacy.

The luxury wooden villacomes complete with an open-air bathroom, a private garden, afreshwater rock pool and a per-sonal butler and chef. A privatejet will fly the newly-titled Dukeand Duchess of Cambridge to themain island from where they willtake a helicopter to the unnamedholiday hideaway, the paperclaimed.

William, who is a search andrescue helicopter pilot at a RoyalAir Force station in the Welshisland of Anglesey, was forced

to split the annualleave needed for thewedding and honey-moon and is dueback at work onTuesday. A helicop-ter carried the coupleaway fromBuckingham Palaceon Saturday, a dayafter the weddingwhich was watchedby an estimated twobillion people world-wide, to an undis-closed British loca-tion for a “mini-moon”.

The royal familyis thought to be pre-pared to take legalaction to prevent anymedia outlet at-tempting to disruptthe couple’s maintrip.

Meanwhile, TheSun reported thatWilliam was totravel to the FalklandIslands in Septemberwhere he will servefor ten weeks with-out his wife. Thesouth Atlantic islandgroup was the sceneof a war betweenBritain and Argen-tina in 1982.

Activities Tuesday, May 3, 2011 5International

Temple CeremonyCalendar Event forApril 27 through May 23, 2011

EVERY Temple and Shrine has a special date for itannual Ceremony, or “ Odalan “, every 210 days accord-ing to Balinese calendar, including the smaller ancestralshrine which each family possesses. Because of this prac-tically every few days a ceremony of festival of somekind takes place in some Village in Bali. There are alsotimes when the entire island celebrated the same Holi-day, such as at Galungan, Kuningan, Nyepi day, Saraswatiday, Tumpek Landep day, Pagerwesi day, TumpekWayang day etc.

The dedication or inauguration day of a Temple is con-sidered its birth day and celebration always takes place onthe same day if the wuku or 210 day calendar is used. Whennew moon is used then the celebration always happens onnew moon or full moon. The day of course can differ thereligious celebration of a temple lasts at least one full daywith some temple celebrating for three days while the cel-ebration of Besakih temple, the Mother Temple, is neverless 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 dressedwith pieces of cloths and sometimes with brocade, sailings,decorations of carved wood and sometimes painted withgold and Chinese coins, very beautifully arranged, are hungin the four corners of the shrine. In front of shrine are placedred, white or black umbrellas depending which Gods areworshipped in the shrines.

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these um-brellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbul-umbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributesof Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”,long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments ofyoung 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 col-ored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the gracewith which the carry their load on their heads.

Balinese TempleCeremony

27 Apr Pagerwesi DayLaban Sindu Jiwa Temple Kedewatan UbudKehen Temple BangliWirabuana Temple Magelang Jawa TengahPadang Sakti Tangtu Temple Denpasar TimurJogan Agung Temple Ketewel SukawatiGadung Pengiasan Temple Dauh Puri DenpasarPasek Gelgel Temple Buruan Kaja TabananPasek Gobleg Temple Kerambitan tabananPasek Gelgel Meliling Temple TabananMasceti Selasih Temple Sanding Tampak SiringPaek Gaduh Temple BudukDadia Pasek Gelgel Temple Kelabang ModingMerajan Pasek Gelgel Sekalan Marga - Tabanan

2 May Tilem JiyesthaBhujangga Waisnawa Gumrih Temple Jembrana

7 May Tumpek Landep DayPasek Gelgel Temple Pedungan South of DenpasarAgung Pasek Temple Tangun Titi kaler TabananAgung Pasek Silamadeg Temple SelamadegTabananPasek Tangkas Temple Kediri TabananKerta Temple Banyuning Barat BulelengDalem Tenggaling Sengguan Tenggaling SengguanSingapaduKawitan Arya Wang Bang Pinatih Pinatih PeguyanganSingarajaBhujangga Weisnawa Temple Tegalcangkring JembranaTaman Desa Bubunan Temple Seririt BulelengPenataran Pande Dalem Batur Jati Banjar PandeanMengwiDalem Pingit Temple Br, Taro Kaje TegalalangDadia Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Selat Village SukasadaBulelengBatur Arya Warih Kepaon Cengolo Sudimara TabananIda ratu Pande Temple Besakih - KarangasemMr. Pasek Toh Jiwa Temple Toh Jiwa TangungtitiPenataran Pande Kusamba Temple KlungkungPenataran Agung Pinatih Tulikup Temple Banjar MenakDesa Tulikup Gianyar

8 May Redite Umanis UkirSangah Gede Dukuh Segening Temple Tegal TuguGianyar

11 May Buda Wage UkirPasar Agung Temple Besakih - KarangasemPasek Bendesa Pasar Badung Temple Legian KutaGede Gunung Agung Dukuh Temple Munggu BadungHyang Agung Ibuwanasari Temple TegalPuseh Village Temple Temple Bebalang Village BangliDalem Perancak Temple BadungPasek Bendesa Hyang Selat Temple KerobokanBadungKekeran Langit Temple Sading Mengwi

17 May Anggar Kasih KulantirPenataran Tangkas Temple SukawatiDalem Lagan Temple Bebalang BangliPuseh Lembeng Temple Ketewel SukawatiPasek Gelgel Penulisan Temple Kerambitan TabananGaduh Temple SadingDalem Gandamayu Temple KlungkungPura Sanghyang Tegal Temple Banjar Taro KajaTegalalang

18 May Buda Umanis KulantirPasek Tangkas kaler Temple TabananGaduh Benoh Temple Ubung Denpasar

22 May Redite Keliwon ToluDalem Alas Harum Temple Kaba-kaba Kediri Tabanan

23 May Soma Umanis ToluPuseh/Balai Agung Ubung Temple Kupang PenebelTabananKawitan Sakula Gotra Temple Kepuh Kaba-kaba KediriTabananBhujangga Rsi-Tambak Bayuh Temple BayuhPaibon Tangkas Kori Agung Temple Ceningan Kangin-Nusa PenidaBatu Madeg Temple Besakih - KarangasemPenataran Agung Penatih Temple Banjar Saba Penatih

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Tuesday, May 3, 20116 News

Libyan officials announced on stateTV that Seif al-Arab, whose namemeans Sword of the Arabs, was killedalong with three of MoammarGadhafi’s grandchildren in a NATOairstrike against his house in the Tri-poli neighborhood of Ghargour.

The Libyan leader and his wifewere inside but escaped unharmed,according to Libyan officials.

Seif al-Arab, 29, was one of theleast prominent of Gadhafi’s eight bio-logical children, with no clear politi-cal or military power. He clearly triedto avoid rivalries as his siblings jock-eyed for clout.

Seif al-Arab was four when U.S.warplanes bombs his father’s com-pound at Bab al-Azaziya in 1986 af-


MALE, Maldives – Anti-govern-ment demonstrators defied a heavypolice presence Sunday to protest fora second straight night, demandingthe ouster of Maldives PresidentMohamad Nasheed.

More than 3,000 people gatheredat a main intersection in the capital,Male, to protest government inac-tion in controlling rising prices, al-leged mismanagement and wastefulspending.

The protests resumed hours afterpolice used tear gas and batons tobreak up a demonstration in Malethat began Saturday night and con-tinued into early Sunday. Organiz-ers say about 5,000 people took part


PARIS – Investigators have locatedand recovered the missing memory unitof the flight data recorder of a 2009 AirFrance flight — a remarkable deep-seadiscovery they hope will explain whythe aircraft went down in a remote areaof the mid-Atlantic, killing all 228people on board.

France’s air accident investigationagency BEA said a search by a subma-rine probing 3,900 meters (12,800 feet)below the ocean’s surface located andrecovered the unit Sunday morning.The unit is now aboard the Ile de Sein,a ship that’s helping conduct the probe,the statement said.

The statement also included pho-tos of the recorder — a red cylinderpartially buried in sand on the seafloor. Judging from the photos, theunit appeared to be in good condi-tion. Still, BEA officials have warnedthat the recordings may yet prove un-usable, considering the pressure theywere subjected to for nearly twoyears.

“We can’t say in advance that we’regoing to be able to read it until it’s beenopened,” a BEA spokeswoman told

Gadhafi’s son hadGadhafi’s son hadGadhafi’s son hadGadhafi’s son hadGadhafi’s son hadsurvived US strike in 1986survived US strike in 1986survived US strike in 1986survived US strike in 1986survived US strike in 1986

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A picture taken from a TV screen shows, Seif Al-Islam son of Col. Moammer Kadhafi as he speaksduring a visit to Libyan TV channel Al-Libiyah defiying the NATO airstrike which targeted hisfather’s office in Bab al-Aziziyah in Tripoli early April 25, 2011.


CAIRO – Seif al-Arab Gadhafi escaped a U.S. airstrike targeting his father’s compound inTripoli in 1986. Twenty-five years later, the Libyan leader’s second-youngest son was reportedlykilled in a NATO airstrike.

ter Libya was blamed for mastermind-ing a bombing in West Berlin that killedan American soldier and a woman. His15-month-old adopted sister was killedand his younger brother Khamis badlywounded in the attack.

Seif al-Arab was hospitalized butdischarged after a few days, and hisinjuries were never fully known to re-porters.

He spent most of his later years inGermany, where he was said to bestudying for an economics graduatedegree. His elder brother, Seif al-Islam,is believed to have been groomed tosucceed his father. The youngestGadhafi, Khamis, 27, leads an elitemilitary brigade named after him,known to be Libya’s most well-trained.

Three other older brothers, Al-Saadi, Al-Moatassem and Hannibal,have been engaged in either seniormilitary and national security advisoryposts or business deals, and recentlybegan competing with Seif al-Islam,who has appeared to be monopoliz-ing his father’s and international at-tention, according to U.S. diplomaticcables published by the secret-spillingwebsite WikiLeaks.

The cables described a brewing sib-ling rivalry that was expected to bodeill for Libya’s political transition aheadof the developing upheaval. The onlydaughter, Aisha, a lawyer in her mid-thirties, was also vying for a promi-nent role, often disagreeing with Seifal-Islam.

Anti-government protests resume in Maldivesin the earlier protest. Police had setup barricades and were ready withanti-riot gear.

Police spokesman Ahmed Shiyamsaid officers asked the protesters toleave but they started throwing ob-jects at police, resulting in the clashesearly Sunday. He said 10 people werearrested for damaging property.

Mohammed Shareef, a spokesmanfor the opposition Dhivehi RaithungeParty, said about 44 protesters weretaken away by police, including twoparty lawmakers and leading activ-ists. There was no independent con-firmation of how many remain indetention.

Shareef insisted the protest waspeaceful until police used force,saying seven people were injured

and one remains hospitalized.The protesters are mainly upset

over the government’s decision lastmonth to allow the Maldivian cur-rency, the Rufiyaa, to float againstthe U.S. dollar. A sudden devalua-tion of the currency has resulted inhigher prices for essential com-modities, most of which are im-ported.

Nahseed was elected presidentin 2008 in the country’s first mul-tiparty election after 30 years ofauthoritarian rule by MaumoonAbdul Gayoom, who is creditedwith developing the country into apopular tourist attraction.Maldives, an Indian Ocean archi-pelago of 1,200 islets, has a popu-lation of around 300,000.

Investigators find black boxfrom Air France crash

The Associated Press in a telephone in-terview. She did not give her name inaccordance with her agency’s policy.

Last month, the agency said the un-dersea search had identified the “chas-sis” that had held the recorder, but thememory unit was still missing. De-tached from the chassis, the memoryunit was found nearby, the spokes-woman said. The flight data recorderstores technical data from the flight. An-other so-called “black box” recordscockpit conversations. The secondblack box has not yet been found, butthe submarine probes were continuing,the spokeswoman said.

Investigators hope Sunday’s remark-able discovery will allow them to de-termine what caused the June 1, 2009crash of Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro,Brazil, to the French capital, Paris. Theaircraft slammed into the Atlantic north-east of Brazil after running into an in-tense high-altitude thunderstorm.

Automatic messages sent by the Air-bus 330’s computers showed it was re-ceiving false air speed readings fromsensors known as pitot tubes. Investi-gators have said the crash was likelycaused by a series of problems, and notjust sensor error.

Suarsa said that the governmenthas been conducting rapid promotionin the national and international mar-ket to introduce the products fromBali.

Exporters are also trying to de-velop the market in order to gainmore buyers, among the new marketsare the middle east countries. In 2010,Bali received $519.91 million fromexports. The number increased 3%

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compare to the previous year whichwas $502.54 million.

It was above the target of the gov-ernment which was $515.8 million andit was because the contribution of smallindustry products which were sent tomany countries worth $215.28 million.The export in 2009 was decreasing al-most 10% compared to 2008 becausethe economic crisis which happenedall over the world. It affected the num-ber of export of Balinese products be-cause most of the markets for the prod-uct suffered from the crisis so they re-duce the order to Bali.

Three adult males were also killedin the raid, including one of bin Laden’ssons, whom officials did not name. Oneof bin Laden’s sons, Hamza, is a se-nior member of al-Qaida. U.S. officialsalso said one woman was killed whenshe was used as a shield by a male com-batant, and two other women were in-jured.

The U.S. official who disclosed theburial at sea said it would have beendifficult to find a country willing toaccept the remains. Obama said theremains had been handled in accor-dance with Islamic custom, which re-quires speedy burial. “I heard a thun-dering sound, followed by heavy fir-ing. Then firing suddenly stopped.Then more thundering, then a bigblast,” said Mohammad HaroonRasheed, a resident of Abbottabad, Pa-kistan, after the choppers had swoopedin and then out again.

Bin Laden’s death marks a psycho-logical triumph in a long struggle thatbegan well before the Sept. 11 attacks.Al-Qaida was also blamed for the 1998bombings of two U.S. embassies inAfrica that killed 231 people and the

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2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed17 American sailors in Yemen, as wellas countless other plots, some success-ful and some foiled.

In all, nearly 3,000 were killed in theSept. 11 attacks nearly 10 years ago, theworst terror assault on American soil.Moments after Obama’s dramatic late-night announcement on Sunday, theState Department warned of the height-ened possibility for anti-American vio-lence. In a worldwide travel alert, thedepartment said there was an “enhancedpotential for anti-American violencegiven recent counterterrorism activityin Pakistan.”

As news of bin Laden’s death spread,hundreds of people cheered and wavedAmerican flags at ground zero in NewYork, the site where al-Qaida hijackedjets toppled the twin towers of the WorldTrade Center. Thousands celebrated allnight outside the White House gates.

As dawn came the crowd hadthinned yet some still flowed in to be apart of it. A couple people posed forphotographs in front of the White Housewhile holding up front pages ofMonday’s newspapers announcing binLaden’s death. “It’s a moment peoplehave been waiting for,” said, Eric Sauter,22, a University of Delaware studentwho drove to Washington after seeingTV coverage of the celebrations.

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Students praying in front of grave of The Father of National Education, Ki Hadjar Dewantara, to commomeratethe National Education Day on Yogyakarta. They asked government to implement the free education withhigh quality standard.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia’s annualinflation slowed further in April asfood prices eased, giving the centralbank room to leave rates on holdagain this month, though economistsstill expect a hike this quarter as coreinflation picks up.

Analysts are pushing back or re-ducing their forecasts for rate hikesby Bank Indonesia this year after thethird consecutive month of slowerheadline annual inflation, whicheased to a six-month low of 6.16percent, below forecasts for 6.37percent.

Core inflation — which excludesadministered prices and volatilefoods, but includes gold prices thatreached a record high last week —picked up just ahead of forecasts to4.62 percent year-on-year.

“This steady increase in coreprices, suggesting that price pres-sures are becoming more rather thanless widespread in the economy,should have the central bank think-ing about lifting interest rates againafter having only delivered one 25basis points hike since the financialcrisis, but it seems in no hurry andindeed keener to have the rupiah asthe main guard against imported in-

When asked whether the re-lease of the ship also involvedmilitary personnel who had beenmobilized to free the vessel of PTSamudra Indonesia, he merelysaid that “everything is being donetoward this end”.

In the meantime, foreignministry‘s spokesman MichaelTene said he has yet to confirm therelease of MV Sinar Kudus by theSomali pirates who had been hi-jacked since March 16, 2011. Hesaid agreement on releasing thevessel was just between the ship‘sowners and the pirates.

Michael also cannot explainabout payment of the ransom of4.5 million US dollars, adding thatsuch agreement was purely be-tween the company and the pi-rates.

As reported by Reuters, the pi-rates had already released the In-donesian cargo ship after theowner paid the ransom.

MV Sinar Kudus had been hi-jacked by the pirates on March 16,2011 about 512 kilometers northof East Socotra in the Somali wa-ters with a crew of 31, including20 Indonesians.

The pirates said they had freedthe ship after the ransom had beendropped on them by the air.

“We received the 4.5 million USdollars ransom in the small hoursof Sunday. We have left the shipand Sinar Kudus was set to startsailing,” one of the pirates who toldReuters his name was Geney froma coastal village of El Dhanane.

Former Kenyan marine officialand currently editor of marine af-fairs The Somali Report AndrewMwangura confirmed that the shiphad been released, adding however

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JAKARTA - ASEAN SecretaryGeneral Dr. Surin Pitsuwan hasstressed the importance of thedrafting of the ASEAN HumanRights Declaration, which will bea roadmap for the regional humanrights development.

He made the statement in theFifth ASEAN Intergovernmental

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JAKARTA - “Sinar Kudus” cargo ship which had been hijackedby Somali pirates for more than a month is now sailing back toIndonesia, National Defence Forces (TNI) Chief Admiral AgusSuhartono said after heading a roll call on preparations for secur-ing the 18th ASEAN Summit.

that they have yet to start sailing.The families of 20 Indonesian

sailors recently freed from thehands of Somalian pirates haveexpressed their appreciation to thegovernment and shipping com-pany PT Samudera Indonesia forhaving secured the release of theirloved ones.

“A representative of the com-pany (PT Samudera Indonesia),told me that there was good news.He said the crew members, whichhad been held hostage by Soma-lian pirates, have been released. Iam so happy that I could say any-thing,” Isti Karmiati (47), wife ofJhon, one of the released sailors,said here Sunday evening.

However, she had no idea whenher husband would return to Indo-nesia.

Tiur Maida (33), the wife ofanother crew member, IrinusNggotu (47), said she was lookingforward to meeting her husbandagain.

“We cannot communicate be-cause their communication toolshave not been returned yet. But thecompany has assured us that allcrew members are now in a safeplace,” she said.

The two women expressed theirgratitude to the company for theirmaximum efforts to release theirhusbands and other crew members.

“I also thank all people for theirsupport and prayers,” Tiur said.

The 20 Indonesian sailors 2wereamong a total of 31 foreign shipcrew members the Somali piratesreleased on Sunday. The Indone-sians had been held hostage for 46days since their ship, the MV SinarKudus, was hijacked in the Somaliwaters on March 16, 2011.

ASEAN Chief stresses importance of rights declaration draftingCommission on Human Rights(AICHR) Meeting which was heldin Jakarta, from 25 to 29 April 2011.

This Meeting was the secondmeeting of AICHR in 2011 chairedby the Indonesian Representative,Chair of AICHR Rafendi Djamin.

Dr Surin also underscored therole of AICHR and its significantcontribution towards the achieve-ment of an ASEAN Community in

2015.The Meeting had discussed and

adopted the Terms of Reference ofAICHR’s Drafting Group for theASEAN Human Rights Declaration,Rules of Procedure for the ASEANIntergovernmental Commission onHuman Rights (AICHR) Fund andthe terms of reference of the the-matic study of baseline study onCorporate Social Responsibilities

and Human Rights in ASEAN.AICHR had also discussed and

reached agreement on key elementsof the Five-Year Work Plan 2012-2015and the terms of reference for the the-matic studies on Migration.

During the course of the AICHRMeeting, Indonesian Foreign AffairsMinister/Chair of the ASEAN Minis-terial Meeting Dr. Marty M.Natalegawa received the AICHR Rep-

resentatives.They had a substantial dis-

cussion on the work of AICHRand the human rights develop-ments and challenges inASEAN.

AICHR also met and ex-changed views with the Com-mittee of Permanent Represen-tatives (CPR) on their closercooperation and coordination.

Indonesia inflation slows in Aprilflation,” said George Worthington,chief economist at IFR Markets inAsia.

Bank Indonesia has said it will letthe rupiah strengthen to help reduceimported inflation. The currencywas little changed after the data at8,548 per U.S. dollar by 0600 GMT,having touched a 7-year high earlierin the day.

Fauzi Ichsan, economist at Stan-dard Chartered, said the currencystill had room for appreciation andcould surpass the bank’s year-endforecast of 8,500 rupiah per dollarin the near term.

Most analysts see the central bankholding rates again in May after asurprise 25 basis points hike in Feb-ruary that was aimed at calmingmarket worries after inflationpeaked at 7 percent in January. How-ever, analysts still forecast anotherrate hike may come as early as Juneor July.

“I think Bank Indonesia is justgoing to raise it once this year, inJuly to 7 percent, at a time whenpeople are preparing for theRamadhan fasting month,” saidAnton Gunawan, economist at BankDanamon in Jakarta.

Cooler inflation has helped inves-tor confidence. Foreigners have re-

turned to buy Indonesian govern-ment bonds after a sell-off early thisyear, with net buying of 5.72 trillionrupiah ($663 million) last month,while the stock market is at a recordhigh.

Bank Indonesia has said it re-mains in a tightening stance andthere is room for further rate adjust-ments to manage inflationary pres-sures, but it remains less hawkishthan many regional peers.

Thailand’s central bank is likelyto hike its policy rate again at its nextmeeting on June 1, after data onMonday showed annual inflation at4.04 percent in April, far higher thanthe 3.20 percent forecast by econo-mists, due to a rise in food prices.

Thai annual core inflation, whichexcludes fresh food and energyprices, also jumped to 2.07 percentin April from 1.62 percent in March,and Thailand’s central bank uses thisrate to guide monetary policy. Mosteconomists expect a 25 basis pointincrease to 3 percent at the nextmeeting.

The Bank of Thailand said onThursday it expected core inflationto go above its targeted range of 0.5to 3.0 percent at some stage this year,but it forecast 2.3 percent for the fullyear.

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Bali Today

Ketut said the toll way planneeds hundreds of billions rupiah.According to him, the two princi-pal reasons which are; it’s going tobe done for transportation comfortand investment for new incomesource, are not enough as argumen-tation because it will be very weak.

To him this budget is too hugecompared to the comprehensive pub-lic service that the people need alsotoo much risk. Moreover, it is notwithin the Government Law No 58year 2005 and Home Ministry Law13 year 2006 on equity participationwhich stated as long as governmenthas enough assets with optimal in-

Bali Post

JAKARTA - Property growthin Bali progressively improvingis believed to have a positiveimpact on the business of build-ing material industry. “Strategiclocation of Denpasar to someextent also affects the growth ofproperty, so the economicgrowth of Bali is targeted to in-crease this year,” saidSukadhana Wendha.

According to the former ofHead of Indonesia Real EstateAssociation Bali’s Chapter,Sukadhana, location ofDenpasar as capital of BaliProvince as well as central gov-ernment, education and theeconomy was very beneficialboth in terms of economic aswell as tourism aspect of Bali.

The satisfactory economicgrowth of Bali over the pastyear, said Sukadhana, made theproliferation of property busi-nesses such as hotels and resi-

Beji Langon Temple is situated atKapal Village, Mengwi Subdistrict,Badung Regency. As a matter of fact,there are many Beji (springs) templesin Bali. Beji is identical to bathingplace but not for general public. It isconsecrated or made sacred by Hinducommunity because the natural waterexisting in the Beji area is taken ad-vantage for the benefit of religious andtraditional ceremonies.

Adjacent to the Beji LangonTemple can be found a number ofshowers taking out water (as seen onphoto) used for bathing place by thesurrounding community. Its crystalclear water can be directly drunk with-out the necessity to boil. Allegedly, theBeji Langon was established in theeleventh century.

The Beji situated about 10 km northof Denpasar is a tourist object at KapalVillage. Not long ago, Badung Gov-ernment indeed had established sev-eral tourism villages such as the vil-lage of Kapal, Baha, Mengwi,

Badung Investment Plan CriticizedBali Post

MANGUPURA - The Badung investment plan on the NusaDua-Benoa highway gets critics from a number of public fig-ures. They stated it’s not suitable and Badung is asked to notonly think its profit but also the budget is better used to menddamaged infrastructure and public services that are still notmaximal, as stated by Indonesia Farmers Group Secretary forBadung, I Ketut Sugiana.

tensive expectation also low risk.With that, there should be rethink-

ing and limits within which activi-ties should be under the regional eq-uity participation on rights and re-sponsibilities, which area havegrown well and which onemarginalized.

Meanwhile Sibang public figure,I Wayan Sutarja, asked the govern-ment to prioritize which touches thepublic more such as Badung Hospi-tal services, damaged roads fixturesand Mengwi Terminal constructionwhich still stay put. “It’s no usethere’s a flyover if health servicesstill no good,” he stated. (kmb25)

Holy Water at Beji Langon Temple

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Property growth in Bali progressively improving is believed to have a positive impact on thebusiness of building material industry.

Bongkasa and some others.These villages keep a unique and

attractive potential that are worth visit-ing by tourists. The Beji Langon itselfstretches in a cool environment with thebackdrop of verdant trees remainingeternal within the vicinity of Penet Riverthat is suitable for rafting. Its springscome from a natural cave beneath a rockcliff. Then, on the rock cliffs visitorscan observe some reliefs and deity stat-ues, while the greatest is the elephantstatue (as seen on photo). Those sculp-tures and relief remind us of the artisticreliefs found in Goa Gajah and GunungKawi tourist object.

Beji Langon Temple located ap-proximately 300 meters south of theSada Kapal Temple is frequently vis-ited by European tourists. BejiLangon is also interesting enough, soit will be advisable for you to visitthe object while taking a natural bath.A representative parking lot has beenprovided for car that is not far fromthe Beji. (BTN/Yas)

Bali property marketgrows more promisingly

dential house. “The increasingbusiness trend, hotel investmentand housing investment havesparked the increased demand fortile products,” he said.

High demand for ceramic saleshad become one of the importantfactors for building materialbusinesspeople to be more cre-ative in presenting the pattern andmotif. PT Granitoguna BuildingCeramics as one of the homoge-neous tile manufacturers also pro-vided a variety of patterns andvariants in accordance with thedemand of consumers.

“Even, ceramics are no longerfunctioned as floor coverings.Some consumers believe that ce-ramics can be viewed as a mediumof visual art on the building struc-ture,” said the National SalesManager of PT GranitogunaBuilding Ceramics, HunawanHadimargono.

Additionally, he revealed thatGranito sales increased approxi-mately by 20 percent from a year

before. He also expected thatuntil this yearend all types ofGranito products could increasethe sales up to 150,000 m².

Meanwhile, Branch Managerof Granito Bali , DjajantoSetiawan, said the rapid devel-opment of Bali Province had animpact on high demand for ho-mogeneous tiles or the so-calledGranito tiles. “In increasing oursales, we market and distributeGranito products until reachingthe nooks and crannies of Bali,”he explained.

Bali as the province beingrich in art and cultural elementsalso gave an effect to the selec-tion of designs and patterns inuse. As an added value to con-sumers, Granito established aCustomer Care and Design(CCD) services namely a freedesign consultancy for consum-ers, as well as supervision in thefield if required. “It is one of theadded values presented to con-sumers,” said Djajanto. (010)

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Back to nature:

River snail served with Balinese cherry potatoAside from retaining a beautiful view and

challenging attraction like rafting and splashing, riveralso poses a habitat of various food sources. Thereare fish, crab, shrimp and snails. Balinese peoplemay call the latter as ungun or river snail. This snailhas two forms, namely ordinary snail and half snail.The half snail shapes like carapace of turtle. Its fleshis open and has a piece of thin bone. When boiled,its flesh will easily get released from its carapace,while the ordinary one should be taken out by pin,needle and so on.

When their delicacy is combined with sabrang orBalinese cherry potato, they will have typical flavor.Its shape is much smaller than common potato andits leaf resembles to that of broadleaf thyme (jinten).Apart from combined with river snail or chicken, thischerry potato is also good if cooked as singlevegetable. It is usually sold at traditional market orvillage stalls.

Ingredients:2 handful river snail, 250gram sabrang or cherry

potato (peeled) and 800ml water for gravy.Ground spices: 6 cloves shallot, 3 cloves garlic, 2

small chilies, 1 candlenut, 2 tbsp grated coconut(ground with other spices), 1 slice turmeric, 1 slicearomatic ginger and 1 slice galangal

Others: 1 pc salam leaf, 1 tbsp palm oil and ½ tspsalt.

Method:·Cleanse thoroughly the river snail and cherry

potato and drain.·Pre-heat the palm oil on the frying pan. Stir-fry

the ground spices until smelling fragrant. Add somewater and wait until boiling.

·Put the cherry potato and river snail together intothe pan. Add salt, salam leaf and please wait untilthe cherry potato is cooked.

·Take out and it is now ready to serve. (BTN/punia)

Lempog:Sweet side of cassava cake

To get different flavor, cassava can be served inmany ways. One of them is by making it into lempogcake. In the past, this cake was popular and oftenserved in social activities such as activities at ricefield or socio-religious ones. The reason for this waseasy to make and its raw material was widelyavailable at rural area as they cultivated it.

By nature, it is made from boiled cassava. Withadditional ingredients like palm sugar and salt, theyare pounded together in the mortar or plastic base.By doing so, it will be easier to turn each side of thebatter in order it will be tender evenly. When thebatter has been completely tender, it can be slicedinto various shapes as your taste. To serve it, do notforget to sprinkle with grated coconut. Ultimately,have a nice flavor! (BTN/punia)

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DENPASAR – Bali Governmentis planning to establish the Associa-tion if Indonesian Tourism Industry(GIPI) which will become to the as-sociation for all tourism organizationin Bali and there is great hope otherprovince will do the same.

The Head of GIPI convention,Ratna N Eka Soebrata, said Monday,“the plan to establish a new organi-zation is suitable with the rules abouttourism. GIPI will become the asso-ciation for the stake holder in tour-ism business and become the part-ner of the government.”

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Tourists walking near the Jatiluwih rice terrace, which is the famous tourism object in Bali Island.

Bali to establish tourism associationShe explained that based on the

current rules about tourism, BaliTourism Board (BTB) is planning toestablish GIPI Bali. “GIPI is a trans-formation of BTB. In the future, wewill be called GIPI as BTB in En-glish,” she added.

The establishment of the first GIPIin Provincial level was also proposedby Indonesian Cultural and TourismMinister, Jero Wacik. He wanted thatall provinces in Indonesia must havethe similar organization.

According to Ratna, GIPI conven-tion 2011 will be held on Friday, May6, 2011 in Uma Meeting Room, BaliSafari & Marine Park. GIPI will re-

place the current BTB committee andwill strengthen the character of tour-ism business with the slogan “Tour-ism for Bali, Let Preserve it To-gether!”

“We must preserve Bali all thetime because it is our responsibility.The destination is the one who con-nect all tourism destinations in Indo-nesia and we could develop it throughthe program Beyond Bali,” said Ratnawho is also the Sales Manager BaliSafari & Marine Park.

She hope that the new GIPI chiefcould preserve Bali as the best tour-ism destination in the world withoutignoring the current cultural values.

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Tirta Gangga is a beautiful park with the huge water fountain and widepond located at Abang Sub-district, Karangasem Regency in east part ofBali. Tirta Gangga Park is built in the year of 1948 by the KarangasemKing of Anak Agung Agung Angluerah Ketut Karangasem. Before thispark is found, there is big wellspring found in this area which the localsociety believe that this water come from the land is holy spring thereforethey call this place is Embukan means wellspring. According to the localbelieve that this wellspring functioning as a bath place for the god and alsoused as drinking water for the local community from the nearest village.Therefore this wellspring is sacrificed by local people and keeps the parknaturally. The King of Karangasem has got an idea to improve this parkinto a good looking and nowadays, it becomes one of the famous touristdestinations in east part of Bali.

Tirta Gangga Park is also featured by the wide public pool with the cooland clean water where it can be used by everyone who visiting this place.It is situated on the foot Abang Hill with cool temperature in particularnight time or morning time. The lush tropical garden are well surround thepark and big fish ponds are running away at another ponds to give theimpression for every tourist who pay a visit to this beautiful park. Somebuildings and other decorations are intentionally made as according to thespirit from Puri Agung Karangasem (Agung Karangasem Palace), so it canbe said that between Tirta Gangga Park and Sukasada Park (TamanSukasada) which is located at Ujung countryside is a union.

Tirta Gangga is strategically located beside of the main strait fromKarangasem to Singaraja Town and it is just 20 minutes from the localtown or 2 hours and 15 minutes from Denpasar Town. You may also jointhe exciting tour to the east part of Bali that we call it by Karangasem Tourand you will discover many places of interest in east part of Bali includingTirta Gangga. http://kesumatours.com

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PARIS – French Finance Min-ister Christine Lagarde on Mondaywelcomed the killing of al Qaedaleader Osama bin Laden and saidhis death could bolster consumerconfidence and economic growthin the United States.

“The U.S. economy is like theAmerican people. It reacts veryquickly either positively or nega-tively,” Lagarde told France 2 tele-vision. “I wouldn’t be surprised ifthis event prompted a pick-up inconfidence.”

News that a U.S.-led operation

Ruling and opposition lawmakersput aside their differences in an effortto launch efforts to rebuild the country’squake-hit northeast as quickly as pos-sible.

But analysts warned the passing ofthe budget will not ease pressure onunder-fire Prime Minister Naoto Kan,who has faced criticism over thegovernment’s handling of the crisis andthe subsequent nuclear emergency.

The extra budget, which totals 4.015trillion yen, will cover restoration worksuch as clearing massive amounts ofrubble and building temporary hous-ing for the thousands of people wholost their homes.

The 9.0-magnitude earthquake andtsunami on March 11 left nearly 26,000dead or missing and crippled a nuclearpower plant, which has been releasingradioactive materials into the environ-ment.

The nuclear accident and the natu-ral disaster have forced the evacuationof more than 150,000 people from theirhomes.

The government will not issue freshbonds for the extra budget but plans to

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OMAHA – Warren Buffettdoes not spend his time makingstock research recommendations,but he is sure of one thing —America should have a “strongbuy” slapped on it.

Tens of thousands of BerkshireHathaway shareholders who de-scended on Omaha this weekendfor the conglomerate’s annualmeeting got one unmistakablemessage from Buffett — no mat-ter how bad the economy, or thedeficit, or the political divide, theUnited States is as good a placeto live and work as ever.

“I don’t see how anybody canbe other than enthused about thiscountry,” Buffett told Berkshireshareholders on Saturday.

Buffett, often called the“Oracle of Omaha,” is one of theworld’s richest men and leads aconglomerate that owns rail-roads, insurers and ice cream par-lors.

The comments echo thoseBuffett made in February in hisannual shareholder letter, but thewords still may encourage inves-tors looking sideways at thecountry, particularly after Stan-dard & Poor ’s put the U.S.government’s critical “AAA”credit rating on a negative creditwatch.

Buffett told Reuters Insiderthat S&P’s move was premature,given the U.S. government issuesdebt only in dollars and can sim-ply print more money to pay debtif absolutely needed.

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A woman who lost her family in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami prays in the city ofMinamisoma in Fukushima prefecture on May 2, 2011. Japan’s parliament on May 2 passed anemergency 4 trillion yen (49 billion USD) budget to help fund reconstruction after the deadlyMarch 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern regions.

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TOKYO – Japan’s parliament on Monday passed an emergency 4 trillion yen ($49 billion)relief budget to help fund reconstruction after the deadly March 11 earthquake and tsunamidevastated northeastern regions.

divert some funds originally aimed atsupporting pensions and child allow-ances, while also slashing plans to can-cel highway tolls.

Kan plans to submit a “sizeable”second extra budget later to be financedby a government bond issue.

But the prospect of more deficit-spending has placed higher interna-tional scrutiny on the second extra bud-get, as such steps would further worsenJapan’s battered finances, amid calls forhigher taxes to pay for relief measures.

Japan has struggled to whittle downa public debt mountain at around 200percent of GDP, the highest levelamong industrialised nations.

Last week ratings agency Standard& Poor’s cut its outlook on Japan’s sov-ereign debt following the quake-tsu-nami disaster, citing the risk of a down-grade if Japan’s fiscal situation dete-riorates more than expected.

It also warned that reconstructioncosts could pass $600 billion. The topend of the government’s estimate ofdirect damage from the earthquake andthe tsunami is at around $300 billion.

Before the quake, differences be-

tween opposition and ruling partiesdelayed the passage of the regular bud-get for the fiscal year that started inApril and prevented the enactment ofcrucial funding measures yet to clearparliament.

Japan’s unpopular Prime Ministeron Sunday pleaded for public “under-standing” after a poll showed three-quarters of people questioned his lead-ership and handling of the crisis.

In a weekend telephone survey byKyodo news agency, 76 percent of1,010 respondents believed Kan was“not exercising leadership” in dealingwith the March 11 quake and tsunamiand the ensuing crisis at a nuclear powerplant.

A senior nuclear adviser to Kan sub-mitted his resignation Friday, and in atearful press conference said the gov-ernment had ignored his advice andfailed to follow the law.

Toshiso Kosako, a Tokyo Univer-sity professor who was named in Marchas an adviser to Kan, said the govern-ment had only taken ad hoc measuresto contain the crisis at the crippledFukushima nuclear power plant.

France sees U.S.economic lift frombin Laden death

had killed bin Laden in a firefightin Pakistan caused the dollar to re-bound from a three-year low onMonday, and Lagarde said his kill-ing would give a lift to U.S. stocksand other financial securities.

The death of the terrorist leaderwho masterminded the deadly Sep-tember 11 attacks on New York andWashington, would help heal awound that had been open fornearly a decade, she said.

Bin Laden had been the objectof a search since he eluded U.S. sol-diers and Afghan militia forces in alarge-scale assault on the Tora Boramountains of Afghanistan in 2011.

Buffett remains solidon the Americaneconomy

“The United States is not go-ing to default on any obligation,”Buffett told Insider in an inter-view after the annual meeting.“We are not a credit risk, believeme.”

Where Buffett’s enthusiasmwanes to any degree, it is mostlyin conversation on the dollar,which he said is sure to weakenover time, like most other curren-cies.

Buffett, as usual, said he wasshying away from fixed-incomeinvestments for Berkshire’s part,even as he keeps some of his per-sonal wealth in Treasuries forsafety’s sake.

Some worry that safety couldbe threatened by the debate overthe national debt ceiling, an issuethat has divided Congress in re-cent weeks and gotten more tenseas the country gets closer to itslegal limit on debt issuance.

Buffett, asked about the possi-bility Congress would not raisethe ceiling, made one of his most-repeated comments of the wholeweekend, saying it would be thelegislature’s “most asinine act” inits history.

Buffett also affirmed his sup-port for the banking sector, wherehe has big bets on Wells Fargo andU.S. Bancorp, calling the odds ofanother banking crisis “very verylow.”

His partner, Vice ChairmanCharlie Munger, was less san-guine about Europe and the ef-fects of the sovereign debt crisis,saying the continent has “a hellof a problem” in comparison.

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Coming-of-age flick “Prom” onlygot $5 million for its cast of youngand largely unknown actors, whilemoviegoers were similarly unim-pressed by “Hoodwinked Too! Hoodvs. Evil,” a 3-D cartoon which openedwith $4.1 million, according to boxoffice tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Movie ticket sales have been softthis year, reflecting the impact of adeep recession, the worst in the UnitedStates since the 1930s.

Paul Walker and Vin Diesel wereamong “Fast” veterans who reunitedfor the fifth edition in the series, withRio de Janeiro as a setting this time.

The “Hoodwinked” sequel’s poorshowing may owe to the continuedpopularity of two other 3-D animatedfamily films: tropical bird comedy

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LOS ANGELES – When KellyPrice was nominated for a Grammylast December, the R&B nod caughtmany people off guard. Up until thatpoint, Price hadn’t released an R&Balbum since 2003’s “Priceless.” Infact, when she delivered the contem-porary gospel album “This Is Who IAm” three years after that, mostpeople assumed the soulful singerhad chosen a new career path.

“It’s never been a secret that I’ma preacher’s kid,” says Price from herLos Angeles home. “Gospel will for-


DETROIT – Grammy-nominatedartist Kid Rock told nearly 10,000people at the Detroit NAACPbranch’s annual fundraising dinnerthat his use of the Confederate flagduring on-stage performances hasnothing to do with how he feels aboutblacks. “I love America. I love De-troit, and I love black people,” themusician said Sunday night duringthe annual Fight for Freedom Funddinner at Cobo Center.

Kid Rock, whose real name isRobert Ritchie, used the event to dif-fuse criticism aimed at the DetroitNAACP branch which honored himwith its Great Expectations Award.The Macomb County, Mich., nativesaid his use of the flag derives from


LOS ANGELES – The doctorcharged in Michael Jackson’s deathreturns to court Monday to ask fora delay in his upcoming involuntarymanslaughter trial. The move comestwo days before jury selection re-sumes, and one week before open-ing statements are scheduled to be-gin.

Dr. Conrad Murray had beenseeking a speedy trial, but his attor-neys asked for a delay late Friday

Kelly Price releases firstR&B album in eight years

ever be a part of my life; that’s why Ising the way I sing. But I never said Iwas leaving R&B.”

Now, the artist known for beltingout such hits as “Friend of Mine,” “AsWe Lay” and “Heartbreak Hotel” isadding an exclamation point to thatdeclaration with the May 3 release ofher sixth album “Kelly.” Its anthemicopening track “Tired” caughtGrammy voters’ attention. (Alas, shelost to Fantasia). Not only does theproject plant Price squarely back intothe R&B scene, it’s helped the singerachieve her first top 40 hit onBillboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songschart in 11 years: second single “NotMy Daddy,” featuring Mint Conditionfrontman Stokley Williams.

Price and her manager, husbandJeffery Rolle, began dressing the stagefor her return three years ago whenthey relocated from Atlanta to LosAngeles. After the 2006 release of“This Is Who I Am,” Price continuedperforming, averaging between 200and 250 dates per year. But the urgeto return to writing — she had com-posed songs for R. Kelly, WynonnaJudd, Ronald Isley and Faith Evans,among others — and expand into filmand TV began to take hold. That’swhen her attorney suggested shemove to L.A.

Kid Rock acceptsNAACP award in Detroit

a popular song by legendary South-ern rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Earlier, a group of about 50people picketed outside Cobo Cen-ter in protest of the decision to honorRitchie. The group also burned areplica of the flag, considered asymbol of racism and oppression toblacks in the South. It was carriedby secessionist Southern troops inthe American Civil War.

The dinner is the largest fundraiserfor the Detroit NAACP branch. Civilrights pioneer John Lewis gave thedinner’s keynote speech.

Others also were honored Sun-day night, but most of the attentionwas focused on Ritchie. DetroitNAACP President Wendell An-thony said Ritchie was being hon-ored for his advocacy of the city.

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Kid Rock is embraced by NAACP President Wendell Anthony at theorganization’s annual fundraising dinner in Detroit, Sunday, May 1, 2011.

Jackson doctor due incourt to seek trial delay

to give them more time to prepareto rebut the opinions of newly-dis-closed prosecution experts.

The Houston-based cardiologistis accused of giving Jackson a le-thal dose of the anesthetic propofolin the bedroom of the singer’srented mansion in June 2009.Murray has pleaded not guilty.

Los Angeles Superior CourtJudge Michael Pastor said Fridaythat he would consider the delayrequest, but would not necessarilygrant it.

AP Photo/Irfan Khan, File

Dr. Conrad Murray

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LOS ANGELES – The first big budget film of the summer season, “Fast Five,” broke new records as itscored $83.6 million in its first weekend in theaters, industry estimates showed Sunday. Ticket sales for thefifth volume in the high-speed car chase series marked the biggest premiere for any film so far this year,largely outpacing other new films this week.

“Rio,” in second place with $14.4million, and 9th place finisher “Hop,”an Easter romp that scored $2.6 mil-lion in its fifth week on the big screen.

“Rio” previously roosted atop thebox office for two consecutive weeks.The cartoon about pet macaw Bluvoiced by “Social Network” starJesse Eisenberg bolts from chillyclimes to Brazil’s beaches. “Hop,” areal-action-animation hybrid aboutthe wayward son of the Easter Bunny,had also spent two weeks at the top.

In fourth place was the latest co-medic offering from Tyler Perry, thecritically-panned “Madea’s BigHappy Family,” which raked in $10.1million in its second weekend.

Depression-era romance “Waterfor Elephants,” starring British

heartthrob Robert Pattinson and Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon, took in$9.1 million to land in fourth.

The weekend box office hit list put“Soul Surfer” in the seventh spot with$3.3 million, telling the true story ofchurch-going teen surfer BethanyHamilton (played by AnnaSophiaRobb), who returned to the ocean af-ter losing an arm in a shark attack.Horror flick “Insidious,” about a fam-ily in a haunted house, picked up $2.7million in eighth.

Rounding out the top 10 for a sec-ond week in a row was JakeGyllenhaal’s acclaimed sci-fi thriller“Source Code,” about a governmentexperiment to find the bomber of acommuter train, which took $2.5 mil-lion.

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SAN FRANCISCO – Google is the new darling of softwarewizards out to cash-in on the world’s love for customizingsmartphones with fun, hip or functional applications. Devel-opers once obsessed with “apps” for Apple’s hot-selling iPhonesare touting creations tailored for smartphones built on theGoogle-backed Android platform.

“In the past seven months, Android has become the de factosecond platform out there that people are developing for,”AppNation chairman Drew Ianni told AFP during the gather-ing of software entrepreneurs this week in San Francisco. “Ithink there is a general wait-and-see interest regarding plat-forms outside of Apple iOS and Android,” he added.

Mobile platforms being watched by developers includeBlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Phone 7 and Hewlett-Packard’swebOS. Ianni expected smartphones based on Microsoft or HPsoftware to increase in allure as they gain traction in the market.


BURLINGTON, Vt. – A child-hood fascination with archaeologyand a chance encounter with a2,700-year-old Egyptian mummyare helping Vermont doctors andlaw enforcement officials find truthin some of the most challenging ofmodern-day crimes: the unex-plained deaths of young children.

After spotting the mummy at theUniversity of Vermont’s RobertHull Fleming Museum inBurlington, Dr. Jason Johnson, aradiology resident, arranged tohave it put through his hospital’sstate-of-the-art CT scanner. Hewanted to know about the life ofwhat is believed to be the remainsof an Egyptian servant girl of about14 — and what led to her death.

What Johnson didn’t expectwas that some of the scientifictechniques used to reveal themummy’s secrets would haveother applications, including help-ing Vermont’s medical examinerand prosecutors determine if chil-dren who die in infancy are thevictims of crimes.

The hospital’s CT scans helpeddoctors and UVM staffers createa full-size, three-dimensionalmodel of the mummy’s skull —thanks to the latest technology and

A recent US study, however,warned that shale gas carries agreater carbon footprint than oil,coal and conventional natural gasover at least a 20-year period dueto emissions of methane — a green-house gas — in the extraction pro-cess known as “fracking” or hydrau-lic fracturing.

PIG expert Pawel Poprawa be-lieves Poland has supplies of shalegas which could cover domesticneeds “for the next 100, 200 or even300 years.” Warsaw has long soughtways to guarantee its energy secu-rity and should the current flurry ofprospecting produce proof of viablecommercial deposits, Poland’s So-viet-era master Russia would loseits status as the country’s largest gas

AFP/Paul J. Richards

This file photo shows Google’s Nexus One (L)smartphone with service provider from T-Mobile andthe Apple iPhone (R), with provider service from AT&T.

Android smartphones winning over ‘app’ makers“We need a third platform that is viable, otherwise it is going to bethe Android show,” Urban Airship chief executive Scott Kvetonsaid after taking part in an AppNation panel.

“Android is growing at a phenomenal rate,” he continued. “I’mafraid it is going to be Android running away with it.” UrbanAirship provides tools that help developers make money fromsmartphone programs. Early in April the Oregon-based companyadded a feature allowing people to make purchases inside An-droid applications.

“Increasingly, people are finding it a good investment to buildfor Android and build for tablets and we are trying to supportthem,” Google director of mobile Americas Jason Spero said af-ter an on-stage chat at AppNation. Android’s share of the USsmartphone market has surged this year while BlackBerry’s sunk,according to recent figures from industry tracker comScore.

Android commanded a third of the market, while BlackBerryranked second with 29 percent and Apple third with 25 percent,comScore reported.

AP Photo/ University of Vermont, Rajan Chawla

In this Nov. 9, 2010 photo released by the University of Vermont, amummy is seen before a CT scan at Fletcher Allen Health Care, theteaching hospital at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vt.

CT scans of Egyptianmummy help Vt. solve crimes

the sharp detail obtained by crank-ing up the power on the scanner tolevels unsafe for living patients.That also helps in forensics by re-vealing patterns of injury in mod-ern infant death cases that otherscan techniques might miss.

“It made me feel good I came upwith the protocol to work on themummy,” said Johnson, 31, a fifth-year radiology resident at FletcherAllen Health Care, the teaching hos-pital at the University of Vermont. “Inever sat up at night thinking, ‘Howcan I save children from abuse?’”

Since the mummy was scannedin November, physicians workingwith the Vermont medicalexaminer’s office have started us-ing the techniques on infant deaths,which average about one a month.

“It was tremendously helpful,” saidWashington County State’s AttorneyTom Kelly, who used the informationgleaned from a CT in a recent case tohelp determine the age of the bonebreaks in a young abuse victim. Thecase, completed before the mummytechnique was developed, has not beendiscussed in open court so he couldn’tgive further details.

Johnson said that just as impor-tant as helping officials learn if acrime has been committed, the newtechniques can help prove aninfant’s death was natural.

AFP/File/Janek Skarzynski

Polish farmers sow a field with wheat in front of a drilling rig exploring for shale gas in the eastern Polishvillage of Grzebowilk on April 27.

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WARSAW – Poland is dreaming of becoming a European shale gas El Dorado thanks to estimates ofhuge deposits, which if confirmed could make it an natural gas powerhouse and free it from energy depen-dence on Russia. “If early estimates are confirmed, it will be a revolution like in Norway or Great Britainafter the discovery of natural gas in the North Sea,” Piotr Krzywiec, a geologist at Poland’s NationalInstitute of Geology (PIG) told AFP in a recent interview. “Poland could become Europe’s number one orone of its largest natural gas producers,” he adds.

supplier.“This is Gazprom’s nightmare,”

Newsweek’s Polish edition quippedrecently of Russia’s natural gas gi-ant. Currently, ex-communist Po-land, a 2004 EU nation of 38 mil-lion people, covers 30 percent of itsgas needs from domestic resourcesbut Russian imports account for over40 percent of consumption, with therest coming from other countries.

Initial studies suggest the shaledeposits run in a huge 650 kilometre-long (404 miles) diagonal belt acrossPoland, stretching from the north-ern Baltic Sea coast to the easternborder with Belarus and Ukraine.

Over the last two years, leadinginternational fuel companies havedescended on Poland with drilling

rigs to explore the possibility of com-mercial extraction. Poland has al-ready issued nearly 90 exploration li-cences and the country’s liberalleader, Prime Minister Donald Tuskhas said he’s determined to see the“exploration and exploitation of shalegas in Poland become a fact.”

“If possible, we must exploit ev-ery cubic meter of shale gas,” he said.However, serious environmental con-cerns have put the breaks on shale gasdevelopment elsewhere.

Fracking, the principle extractionmethod in shale gas production in-volves injecting massive volumes ofwater and chemicals into shale orsandstone deposits under high pres-sure to force out the gas, includingmethane.

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The United manager acknowl-edged Arsenal themselves had agood claim for a spot-kick turneddown when Nemanja Vidichandled Theo Walcott’s cross inthe first half.

But having seen Chelsea closethe gap at the top to three points 24hours earlier after benefiting fromtwo dubious decisions in the 2-1victory over Tottenham, Fergusonattempted to set the agenda aheadof the Blues’ decisive trip to OldTrafford on May 8.

The title race swungChelsea’s way eleven monthsago when Didier Drogba scoredthe winning goal despite beingin an offside position in the cor-responding fixture and Fergusonis anxious to avoid a repeat. “It’stoo big a game not to get the de-cisions right,” Ferguson said. “Itbalances out in that respect but Ithink it was difficult to see thatone (Vidic’s handball) but theone at the end, Clichy knew, heput his hands up in horror.

“Obviously, it gives Chelsea amajor chance now and that’s whathappens when you get these de-cisions. They (Chelsea) got one


BERLIN – The tactics ofJose Mourinho’s Real Madridagainst Barcelona last weekcame under more fire Mondayfrom Switzerland coach OttmarHitzfeld, twice a ChampionsLeague-winning manager withDortmund and Bayern Munich.

UEFA on Thursday an-nounced it had launched a dis-ciplinary inquiry into eventssurrounding Wednesday’s un-ruly Champions League semi-final tie between Real Madridand Barcelona.

One of the incidents being in-vestigated is Mourinho’s post-match outburst in which thePortuguese coach suggestedreferees always showedfavouritism to Barcelona, whowon 2-0 in Madrid to take ahuge step towards the final.

“Luckily, Mourinho’s de-


ROME – AC Milan need onlyone more point to secure an 18thleague title after a 1-0 victory overBologna on Sunday put them onthe brink of the scudetto crown.

If either Milan avoid defeataway to Roma next week or InterMilan fail to beat Fiorentina, thenthe rossoneri will be Serie A cham-pions. French midfielder MathieuFlamini scored the only goal of thegame early in the first period.

Milan would already be cham-pions but for Giampaolo Pazzini’s

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Manchester United’s English defender Rio Ferdinand (R) wins a header in front of Arsenal’sDutch striker Robin Van Persie (L) during the English Premier League football match betweenArsenal and Manchester United at The Emirates Stadium, north London, England on May 1, 2011.

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LONDON – Sir Alex Ferguson insists Manchester United paid the price for a refereeing errorin the 1-0 defeat at Arsenal as the Premier League title race was blown wide open. Fergusonbelieves referee Chris Foy got it wrong when he failed to award an 88th minute penalty follow-ing Gael Clichy’s clumsy challenge on Michael Owen.

at Old Trafford last season so that’sthe worry now. “But in terms ofability - a game at Old Trafford, thesupporters will be ready for it - andso will our players.”

Aaron Ramsey struck in the 56thminute to cap a period of Arsenaldominance and Ferguson admittedhis side only found anything liketheir normal form in the finalstages of the game. “After that wedominated and I think we deservedsomething,” he said. “I think wedidn’t use the ball properly butonce we lost the goal we were intheir half most of the time.”

Arsenal now lie six points offtop with three games remainingand manager Arsene Wenger re-fuses to call time on the club’sambitions of being crowned cham-pions. Their chances will be im-proved if Chelsea beat United andWenger admitted he would bebacking Carlo Ancelotti’s sidewhen the top two meet.

“I have not given up all hope be-cause we will fight until the lastsecond of the season,” he said. “Wehave been unlucky this season.Let’s hope we have better luck inthe last three weeks. The best po-

sition remains Manchester Unitedand second best is Chelsea becausethey have to play United nextweek.”I still make United strongfavourites because when you playat home for the title you have stillan advantage.

“If we want to have a smallchance it is in our interests forChelsea to win and for us to winour games. Then it’s mathemati-cally possible. But I still say Unitedhas the advantage.”

Wenger admitted his side’s re-cent failings were still likely toprove costly and he pin-pointedtheir previous three games as themoments when their bid faltered.“Last week, at Bolton, againstLiverpool when we were 1-0 up inthe 97th minute and we were 3-1up against Tottenham,” he said. “Ifwe do not win the championship,we could have made nine pointsfrom these games and we wouldhave been ahead of United.”

Samir Nasri came off at half-time with a hamstring strain whileCesc Fabregas missed the gamewith a thigh problem but bothshould be available to face Stokenext weekend.

Milan on brink ofItalian league titleafter Bologna victory

two injury time goals on Saturdaygave Inter a 2-1 win at Cesena.Coach Massimiliano Allegri washappy to admit that the title race isnow over.

“We’ll get one point from threegames, we hope to do it as soon aspossible but we’re in good shape,”said the Milan boss. The formerCagliari boss admitted it hadn’t al-ways been plain sailing against theSan Siro visitors.

“It was a difficult game. Bolo-gna made life difficult for us butwe managed to score early in thegame,” he added.

Boorish Mourinho’s tactics‘shameful’: Hitzfeld

AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini

Ottmar Hitzfeld, German coach of the Swiss national team,pictured prior to his side’s Euro 2012 qualifying matchagainst Wales at Rheinpark Stadium in Basel, Switzerland,October 2010.

structive tactics, aimed solely atprovoking and destroying the op-ponents’ gameplan, did notwork,” Hitzfeld wrote in Germanfootball magazine Kicker. “Sucha way of playing does not relateto the demands of Real, it’s re-ally shameful for Real Madrid.It harms the good name and im-age of this legendary club.”

Hitzfeld, just one of only threecoaches to have won the Cham-pions League with two differentclubs — along with Mourinhoand Ernst Happel, did not hidehis disdain for the Portuguesecoach.

“I’ve met him at UEFA meet-ings and his behaviour is faith-ful to his image: arrogant,haughty, chewing gum andsomewhat of a boor.

“Barca should make him payon the pitch,” he said in refer-ence to Tuesday’s return leg ofthe semi-final.

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Wade scored 38 points on 14of 21 shooting, James Jones set aMiami postseason record with 25points off the bench, and the Heatbeat the Celtics 99-90 on Sundayto open their Eastern Conferencesemifinal series.

“We’re going to have to fightfor every inch, every game weget,” Wade said. “Right now, wewon Game 1. We’re supposed to.We’ll go back and focus on win-ning Game 2. We’re at home, wehave home-court advantage.They’re just trying to come in and


ESTORIL, Portugal – Argentina’sJuan Martin del Potro won his firstclaycourt tournament in 22 monthswith a 6-2, 6-2 defeat of FernandoVerdasco at the Estoril Open on Sun-day. The victory was the second of theseason for the 2009 US Open cham-pion, who missed 10 months of 2010as he recovered from surgery on hisright wrist. Del Potro last played onclay at the 2009 French Open but he


GENEVA – Austral ia’sCadel Evans won the Tour deRomandie here on Sunday afterthe fifth and final stage wasclaimed by Team Sky’s Britishrider Ben Swift.

It was a second overall vic-tory for the Australian BMCteam rider after his previoussuccess in 2006, and he admit-ted to feeling comfortable onSwiss soil.

“It’s a race I like, I’m alwayhappy to win here,” said Evans.“It’s important for us to make agood impression on homeground but also in terms of look-

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Dwyane Wade #3 of the Miami Heat Passes around Kevin Garnett#5 of the Boston Celtics during Game One of the Eastern Con-ference Semifinals of the 2011 NBA Playoffs at American Air-lines Arena on May 1, 2011 in Miami, Florida.

Round 1 to WadeRound 1 to WadeRound 1 to WadeRound 1 to WadeRound 1 to Wadeand the Heat,and the Heat,and the Heat,and the Heat,and the Heat,99-90 over Celtics99-90 over Celtics99-90 over Celtics99-90 over Celtics99-90 over CelticsAssociated Press Writer

MIAMI – Dwyane Wade knew his regular-season numbers against Boston were lacking. Healso knew that wouldn’t matter in the playoffs. And Game 1 — which seemed more like Round 1— of what’s already an emotionally charged series went to Wade and the Miami Heat.

steal one like they’ve done in thepast. So it’s our job to come outwith the same mentality in thenext one.”

LeBron James finished with 22points, six rebounds and five as-sists for Miami, which led by asmany as 19 before a fiery finishthat saw plenty of players jawingat each other — more than that insome cases. Paul Pierce wasejected with 7 minutes left, afterpicking up two technicals in skir-mishes with Wade and Joneswithin a span of 59 seconds.

Ray Allen scored 25 points forBoston, which lost for the firstt ime in f ive games thispostseason. Pierce scored 19 andDelonte West finished with 10 forthe Celtics, while Rajon Rondoand Kevin Garnett were held to acombined 14 points on 6-for-19shooting.

“There’s so many things weneed to do to get better,” Allensaid. “I think everybody in thatlocker room knows that, just froma small conversation we just had.”Game 2 is Tuesday in Miami.

Del Potro wins Estoril tennis crownshowed that he had lost none of histouch on the surface.

He claimed his ninth title, from 12final appearances, to improve his win-loss record for the season to 25-6 andbecome the first Argentine to win theEstoril title since David Nalbandian in2006.

“This is a great victory, it’s unbe-lievable to win on clay. It’s somethingI never expected so soon,” said thechampion. The big Argentine said thatwhile his wrist is not yet at 100 per-

cent, it is not a bother to him on court.“It’s almost fine, it’s getting better.When the weather is humid I feel some-thing, But the doctors say that’s nor-mal. It’s getting better faster than weexpected.

“I’ve stopped worrying about myinjury. It’s just a little pain, but it doesnot stop me wanting to win. That’s moreimportant than any pain.”

Despite his loss, the week was alsoa success for Spain’s second-seededVerdasco who had lost in four of his

five previous tournaments in openingmatches. The Spaniard is fighting torescue a ranking which dropped himfrom the Top 10 to 15th. Sunday’s lossleft his record in finals at 5-10.

Del Potro dominated in the openingset, winning it in 32 minutes after run-ning away to a 5-1 start. But Verdascobegan to find his range in the secondand despite starting it by going down abreak managed to keep Del Potro at bay.The Argentine was tested in the finalgame, with Verdasco saving a pair ofmatch points and forcing his opponentto salvage a break point.

But del Potro finally took victoryon his third winning chance. “Heplayed better and that is why he beat

me by the scoreline today,” saidVerdasco. “He played great. I didn’thave many chances to put him introuble. It was hard, he was hitting theball hard and deep. It was difficult tobe offensive. I didn’t play my best.

“I hope to finish in the Top 10 atthe end of this year. After RolandGarros I will have almost nothing todefend, so I hope to pick up points atWimbledon and other tournaments.”Both men will travel immediately toMadrid where the Masters 1000 hasalready started.

Del Potro faces a first-round matchwith 13th seed Mikhail Youzhny whileVerdasco plays as 15th seed with a startagainst Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun.

Juan DelPotro ofArgentinaraises thetrophy afterdefeatingFernandoVerdasco ofSpain duringthe final atthe EstorilOpen inOeiras,outskirts ofLisbon onMay 1, 2011.

AFP PHOTO/ LUIS MANUEL NEVES

Australian Evans winsTour de Romandie

ing towards the Tour de Franceand other races of the year.

“Now I keep working to-wards the Dauphine but reallymy first objective is the Tour deFrance.”

Evans finished 18sec aheadof German HTC-Columbia riderTony Martin, with KazakhAlexandr Vinokourov of theAstana team in third. The finalstage was won by Swift in asprint finish.

“It was perfect, I really likethe course this year,” Swift said.“I sensed I’d be climbing quitewell this year. My team did abrilliant job, they guided me thewhole day, they protected me.”

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The Honda rider had surgerybetween the Jerez and Estoril racesto remove a plate inserting on hiscollarbone following his Motegipractice crash last year, which hadbegun to cause him to lose feelingin his arm during races.

Yesterday he was concernedthat as he was still healing, hemight lose pace during the grandprix. But instead he was able tokeep the pressure on Jorge

MARCO Simoncelli said coldtyres were the cause of his first-lapcrash in the Portuguese Grand Prix,and is confident he would have beena victory contender had he kept go-ing.

After a breakthrough weekend inwhich he dominated practice andcame close to a maiden MotoGPpole before crashing and having tosettle for second, Simoncelli’s raceended in disaster just four cornersinto the opening lap, when he had aviolent high-side.

The Italian was adamant that hehad done little wrong and that thecrash was due to extremely low tyretemperatures. “I’m so sorry for thiscrash because today we had the po-tential to fight for the podium and

AFP PHOTO / JAVIER SORIANO

Repsol Honda Team’s Spanish Dani Pedrosa celebrates on po-dium after winning the Portugal MotoGP race of the PortugalGrand Prix at Estoril’s racetrack on May 1, 2011.

Pedrosa ecstaticto prove fitness

Dani Pedrosa said that knowing his recent arm issues havebeen resolved was possibly even more satisfying than winningthe Portuguese Grand Prix.

Lorenzo all race, overtake theYamaha with four laps to go, andthen pull away.

“Of course the race win is superbut I can tell you when I was withJorge and the laps were going on, Iwas just smiling inside because Iwas so happy about my arm,” saidPedrosa. “Okay, I had muscle pain,but no numbness and no problem.I was thinking ‘if I finish second inthis race I am more than happy be-

cause it looks likethe problem isgone’.

“So I’m super-happy. The racewas amazing. “Jorge put in avery strong race and he madeit much more interesting.”

Pedrosa said he owed thevictory to the medical teamthat had worked with himprior to the race.

“Thanks to all the doc-tors and all the physios whohelped me to be here fit, evenwith some pain, but thanks toall of them,” he said.

Simoncelli blames cold tyres for crashfor the victory,” Simoncelli told theofficial MotoGP website.

“I did maybe a little mistake. ButI think the fault is of the cold tyreon the left side, because in the exitof Turn 1 we inclined the bike a littlebit on the left on acceleration andthere for the first time I lost the rear.

“So in the other corners I paidattention, especially in Turn 4, I didthe corner with one gear higher tohave the bike more neutral andsmooth but in the middle of the cor-ner, without throttle, I crashed.There was nothing I could do.” Hewas still upbeat about his weekend,saying it had been more importantto show he was quick enough tofight at the front.

“I’m so sorry for me, for my

team, but this is racing,” saidSimoncelli. “The good thing is thatI’m fast and our potential is high,and we’ll try to do better in the nextrace.”The Gresini Honda rider ad-mitted that the accident had been apainful one.

“I have a little bit of pain in myback, and also some problems withmy neck,” he said. Simoncelli’sweekend was also notable for a pub-lic row over with Jorge Lorenzo overon-track ethics during the post-qualifying press conference. TheItalian said the tension betweenthem would remain.

“With Lorenzo, nothingchanged,” Simoncelli said. “I didn’tspeak with him before and I’ll con-tinue with not speaking.”

AFP PHOTO/JAVIER SORIANO

San Carlo Honda Gresini’s Italian Marco Simoncelli falls during the MotoGP free practice ses-sion of the Portugal Prix at Estoril’s racetrack on April 29, 2011.

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