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BAGHDAD – Iraq’s HumanRights Ministry says a SaddamHussein-era mass grave dating tohis 1991 suppression of a Shiite re-volt has been unearthed in the south.

Ministry’s spokesman KamilAmeen says government teamsworking on an irrigation projectfound the grave in an agriculturalarea in Maysan province.

Ameen told The Associated

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An Iraqi soldier stands guard as he looks at a damaged con-crete wall after a bomb attack in Baghdad March 23, 2010. Aroadside bomb wounded four people in central Baghdad, apolice source said.

New Saddam-era massgave found in Iraq’s south

Press Tuesday that about 20 bodieswere unearthed. The irrigationproject has been put on hold untilthe excavation is complete.

Since the 2003 U.S.-led invasiontoppling Saddam’s regime, massgraves have been found across Iraq.

Following Saddam’s defeat inthe first Gulf War, Iraq’s Shiites re-volted in the south, but were bru-tally suppressed. Hundreds of thou-sands are believed to have beenkilled.

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A Chinese woman whose child was killed in a stabbing incident gets help outside a elementary school in Nanping in eastChina’s Fujian province Tuesday March 23, 2010. A former doctor armed with a large knife killed eight children and injuredfive others Tuesday at the school, a local official said.

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BEIJING – A former doctor armed with a large knife rampaged outside an elementaryschool in eastern China, stabbing eight young children to death and wounding five othersTuesday, a local official and a state news agency said.

Agency said. His rampage was fi-nally stopped by passers-by andschool security guards, Xinhuasaid, citing Wu Jiachong, the owner

of a nearby shop.The attacker, Zheng Minsheng,

41, worked as a doctor in a com-munity clinic before resigning last

June, Xinhua said, citing HuangZhongping, spokesman for theNanping city public security bu-reau. Zheng was known to have ahistory of mental illness, said a mansurnamed Wu in the Nanping citygovernment office, who would notgive his full name as is commonamong Chinese officials.

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Bali News

Based on monitoring of Bali Postat a number of banner installationpoints, last Monday (Mar 22), the num-ber of banner installation showed anincrease again. If previously the can-didate couples supported by the Indo-nesian Democratic Party of Struggle(PDI-P) had dismantled the attributesof socialization, later on they re-emerged in larger numbers. Ironically,several banner installations of theleader candidates in the Denpasar Cityignored the prevailing stipulation ofRegional Regulation. For example, thebanners were installed across the pave-ment and the road body.

The banner belonged to candidatecouple of number 1 set up at the nextto Alangkajeng Hamlet, JalanHasanuddin, clearly surpassed theroad border because the end of its

National Examination for se-nior high school (SMA) / highvocational school (SMK) hasbeen held for decades, but onlythis time it ran lousily. Theproblems lay on the exam ma-terials for a number of schoolsin Amlapura got accidentallyexchanged and similar casealso happened at one of theschools in Denpasar. As a re-sult, such incident beyond theimagination of the nationalexam organizers made Gover-nor of Bal i Made MangkuPastika and Deputy Head ofCommission IV of Bali House,Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana furi-ous. Both accused the printinghouse, in th is case PerumPercetakan Negara RI as ring-leader of the chaos.

According to MangkuPastika, the core problem didnot have something to do withthe incompetent performanceof national exam organizers,but purely on incompetence ofprinting house. Apart from theexisting solutions, said MangkuPastika, the matter was not trueand not good because it was af-fecting the mental of childrenfacing the tests. “On that ac-count, we must complain in ac-cordance with the existing pro-vision and regulations to theprinting house. If necessary, weno longer use them because thisposes a bad precedent for theimplementation of the nationalexam,” asser ted MangkuPastika in annoyed face in themidst of his monitoring to theimplementation of nationalexam at SMK 3 Denpasar, lastMonday (Mar 22).

The printing house in chargeto handle the national exam inBali, according to him, shouldwork extra carefully so as notcreate a chaotic implementa-tion of the national exam. Bynature, the national exam itselfrequired the peace of studentsto follow the test and if therewas any chaos it could disrupttheir concentration.

Comparable opinion wasmade by Deputy Head of Com-mission IV of Bal i House,Ketut Kariyasa Adnyana. Even,

Denpasar Mayoral Election

Installation of Banners ofInstallation of Banners ofInstallation of Banners ofInstallation of Banners ofInstallation of Banners ofBoth Candidates Violate RulesBoth Candidates Violate RulesBoth Candidates Violate RulesBoth Candidates Violate RulesBoth Candidates Violate Rules

Denpasar (Bali Post)—The return to voting method by

punching as a follow up of the mecha-nism for the upcoming regional leaderelections is vulnerable to make confu-sion and can potentially create manyinvalid votes. These conditions mustbe addressed seriously by theimplementers and perpetrators, so thatthe public can understand about themechanism as suggested by the ActNo. 32/2004.

A political observer, Tjok Atmadja,stated since the rules had implied so,people might submit to them. Prob-ably, residents could be truly awkwardbecause previously in the GeneralElection and the Presidential Electionthey have been familiar with tickingmethod. “Electoral organizers and per-petrator must undertake it all out in thisregard. Do not let the execution of de-mocracy spend expensive budget, butits political legitimacy is small,” saidTjok Atmadja, last Monday (Mar 22).

This Rector of Ngurah Rai Univer-

Denpasar (Bali Post)—Direction from the Denpasar Electoral Commission with Supervisory Committee to all cam-

paign teams of each candidate of mayor—deputy mayor in relation to attributes associated withsocialization was not fully implemented. The proof, so far a number of installations of socializa-tion attributes belonging to each candidate violated the provisions stipulated in the law. One ofthem was the banner belonging to candidate couple of Dharma-Negara and Subawa-Udiyana onJalan Hasanuddin, Denpasar.

banner occurred above the road. Asimilar condition also happened tothat of Subawa-Udiyana package onthe same street. Even, the packagesupported by Democratic Party andFunctional Group (Golkar) Party alsoset up banner above the park of roadmedian that had been agreed not tobe allowed.

Chairman of Denpasar Supervi-sory Committee, Ni Made Wirati, ad-mitted such violations did not belongto her authority to take action. Whenassociated with the infringement ofRegional Regulation, it became theauthority of Denpasar Sanitation andLandscaping Services (DKP). “Weare only authorized to take actionagainst the offender in connectionwith campaign materials. So if thedeeds violating the Regional Regu-

lation, it is the DKP that should makecoordination,” explained Wirati lastMonday.

Meanwhile, the Secretary of win-ning team of Dharma—Negara, EkoSupriyadi, said his party wouldpromptly dismantle those banners vio-lating the provision. “We will immedi-ately take off the banners. We have justdiscussed about the matter with Mr.Gung Kompyang (AA KompyangRaka, Chairman of the Dharma-NegaraCampaign Team-ed),” said Eko whenencountered at the office of DenpasarHouse.

In the meantime, Wirati also admit-ted her side regularly monitored theinstallation of socialization attributes ofeach campaign team. “If there is anyviolation, we will ask each team to re-move it,” she said. (kmb12)

As for Regional Leader Election by Punching

Potentially Creates Public Confusionsity (UNR) Bali stated the ElectoralCommission still had time to do social-ization. The two months remaining timecould be utilized well by conductingapproach to the community. Simply usethe popular ways so people could un-derstand thoroughly. Meanwhile, par-ticipation of the perpetrators of the re-gional leader elections was still ex-pected in convincing their supporters.Through simakrama or social gather-ing event as usually established, a can-didate could deliver how to use the vot-ing rights in the upcoming elections.“A candidate certainly does not wantto lose the votes of their supporters as aresult of invalid ballots,” he said.

Toward the possibility of many in-valid votes as a result of using the pre-vious punching method, Tjok Atmajasaid it might happen. However, hisparty could not estimate the volume. Itwould depend very much on how theElectoral Commission and their candi-dates made the socialization. “Indeed,the mechanism in use during the legis-

lative and presidential election is ide-ally continued. But, if the rule requiresthe mechanism back to previous punch-ing, people should be willing to do so,”he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Bali Elec-toral Commission, Lanang Perbawahad observed the rules about the elec-tions. So far, the day before the votingtime came, his party had attempted thesocialization, either face-to-face, instal-lation of banners at strategic places orthrough a number of ads on mass me-dia. “We’ve been anticipating this con-dition much earlier,” he explained.

Related to possibility of many in-valid votes as a result of shockedcommunity, Lanang Perbawa did notexpect it to happen. He said the largenumber of invalid votes was not nec-essarily caused by the way of vot-ing. His party then provided ex-amples of mechanisms used in thelast legislative and presidential elec-tion where many invalid votes werefound, too. (015)

Governor of Bali Got AngryAccusing the PrintingHouse as Ringleaderof Chaos

this people’s representativefrom Buleleng accused thestate-owned printing house hadfailed to improve the quality ofthe national exam as aspired bythe government. “Performanceof the printing for the nationalexam in this year is really dis-appointing. Several problemsarise due to inaccurate perfor-mance of the printing house,”he said.

According to Kar iyasaAdnyana, the omens of chaos inthe national exam of seniorhigh school / vocational highschool seemed to find a prob-lem starting from the process ofdistribution made the organizerin Bali frenzy. According toschedule, those exam materialsshould have arrived in Bali atthe latest on last Friday (Mar19) afternoon. However, theexam materials just arrived inBali on Saturday (Mar 20) ataround 11:00 am Local Time.Moreover, the amount of exammaterials distributed was in-complete because there weresome new sub regions just re-ceiving the materials in com-plete state at around 04.00,Monday (Mar 22), or only fourhours before the implementa-tion of the national exam on thefirst day. “Quality of printingperformance was terribly disap-pointing,” he said.

Head of Bali Educational,Youth and Sports Services, IWayan Suasta, admitted to haveheadache to find out a solutionin order the national exam ofSMA/SMK in Bali could beheld as scheduled. His partyhad taken specific policy in re-lation to the accidental ex-change of questions for the sub-ject of Bahasa Indonesia withEnglish happening at someschools. “We have no otherchoice but prepare a backup bycopying them under supervi-sion of the Supervisory Team ofthe national exam and police.This policy had to be done inemergency case so that theexam could be continued anddid not harm the students par-t ic ipat ing in the nat ionalexam,” he added. (By Denpost)

3Wednesday, March 24, 2010International Bali News

Monday (22 / 3) yesterday, theatmosphere of district (regency)

Gianyar looks different fromusual days. Out of the several of-fices in Gianyar Regency neigh-borhood only a few employeeswho seem to have gone to work.

The rest, mostly following theleave for a wedding, Piodalan,and Ngaben ceremony.

From observation done yester-

Earlier, on Saturday (20 / 3) atapproximately 05.00a.m., the vic-tim along with her husbandMasaharu Diraja (51) and familymembers left for Pura Dalem Ped,Nusa Penida to perform prayers.Before leaving they admitted tohave locked the doors and windowstightly.

This family had just returnedthe next day at around 13:00. But a

Gianyar (Bali Post) —Convoys of bridals passing through

Banjar Sema, Bitera, Gianyar, onMonday (22 / 3) yesterday experienceaccident pileup.

Four four-wheeled vehicles,namely Suzuki APV, Toyota Avanza,Mitsubishi

Kuda, and Isuzu rural transport car(Angdes) were in an accident that ab-sorbed locals’ attention.

Information on the location of thepileup incident, which started whenthe bride in Suzuki APV AD 9367 LFdriven by Made Darwika collidedwith DK 1804 KD Toyota Avanza (nota bridal party) which is right in front.Surprised from the crash behind, thedriver of the silver Avanza could notcontrol the vehicle and hit the gaspedal instead. It then hit the MitsubishiKuda DK 1134 EJ in front of him.

Furthermore, the driver ofMitsubishi Kuda, Gusti Made Putrawho is still one party with the bridalprocession was panic. So he hit theAngdes DK 1435 F Isuzu in front ofhim. “I hit the Avanza in front of me,because after the way up, suddenly the

Denpasar (Bali Post) —For the past few months, the po-

lice jurisdiction of the South Kutaare often become the target ofthieves, especially the perpetratorsof theft with violence. However, af-ter doing investigation on the field,the police finally managed to un-cover who was responsible. Appar-ently, the perpetrators of this com-munity had troubling syndicatesfrom Central Lombok (attic).

Unfortunately, the police couldonly arrest one perpetrator Bagianaalias Adi Santoso (28). Meanwhile,five other players with initials UM,MJ, AE, UI, and IN had escaped frompolice pursuit. They are still beinghunted and allegedly still hanging inBali. ‘’We’ve managed to catch oneperpetrator. We are still chasing thefive others,’’ said South KutaKapolsek AKP Nanang Prihasmoko,on Monday (22 / 3) yesterday.

Kapolsek Nanang Prihasmoko ex-plained Bagiana is quite clever. In fact,the police had been fooled when heundergoes a thorough police investi-gation in South Kuta. By pretendingto eat lunch, the suspect apparently

Singaraja (Bali Post)—Implementation of national ex-

aminations (UN) in Buleleng, lastMonday (Mar 22), was interrupted.Other than the existence of questionsgetting accidentally exchanged, thestock of the computer answer sheet(LJK) also ran out. Exchanged ques-tions happened at SMAN 4Singaraja. As consequence, it madethe implementation of the test de-layed for about 30 minutes. Fortu-nately, the Head of Buleleng Educa-tional Services, Made Suyasa,quickly provided with reserve answersheets to the students so the imple-mentation of the national exam couldrun smoothly again.

The National Exam Committee ofBuleleng Regency, Dewa MadeSuyadnya, said the accidental exchangeof exam materials was revealed whenthe teacher on duty opened the enve-lope containing the test scripts ataround 07:45 am Local Time or 15minutes before the test began. Onceopened, the test script inside did notmatch with the label on the envelope.In the envelope, it was written the sub-ject manuscript of Bahasa Indonesia ac-cording to the subjects tested on the firstday. Having been opened and about tobe distributed to students, in fact it wasprecisely about the English script,which should be tested on last Tues-day (Mar 23).

Such situation caused the students,teachers, supervisors and committeepanic. Luckily, at the direction of theHead of Buleleng Educational Ser-vices, the supervisor and the commit-tee could find a solution as soon aspossible. They contacted all schools

Luxury home Burglarized

500 Million500 Million500 Million500 Million500 Millionworth of jewelriesworth of jewelriesworth of jewelriesworth of jewelriesworth of jewelriesare Missingare Missingare Missingare Missingare MissingTabanan (Bali Post) —

A house owned by a conglomerate, Wirawati (41) is located at Jalan By Pas Kediri-Tabanan,Uma Pala environment, Banjar Tegal Belodan, Dauh Peken village, Tabanan, was burglarized bythieves, on Sunday (21 / 3). Jewelries taken were estimated to reach 500 million rupiah.

number of irregularities were foundimmediately. The rear window ofthe house was damaged. Also, theclosets were destroyed and ran-sacked. Apparently some jewelrywas also missing such as: gold-edged diamond necklace weighing50 grams, six gold diamond rings,and a gold emerald necklace weigh-ing 300 grams. The victim estimatesthe number of losses to reach Rp

500 million. The victim reportedthe incident to the City PolsektifTabanan.

Tabanan Police PahumasKompol Endung Hardanto says al-leged perpetrators were suspectedto enter the empty house by pryingthe window. Police have not suc-ceeded in revealing who the perpe-trators of theft of gold ornamentsin large quantities. (KMB 14)

Gianyar regency office vacantday morning, began to go door at-mosphere environment GianyarRegency looked very empty. Usu-ally a large parking lot at the frontdistrict government offices iscrowded with vehicles frompeople who were in need of reg-istration or vehicles owned byemployees. Red plate vehicleswere at minimum. The same scenewas also seen in the district gov-

ernment canteens.The number of employees who

work was only a little, becausemostly asked for leave, said oneof the employees in Gianyar re-gency. In fact, in one of the of-fice, out of the 22 employeesthere were nine who asked forleave. This leave was mostlyasked because of the ceremony.(kmb16)

Central Lombok Violent Crime Syndicate

One Suspect Arrested, Five on the Runfled away. ‘’At last we managed tocatch the suspects again a few hourslater. Directly concerned and thrownhim into prison cells,’’ he explained.

The process began with the arrestof the suspect when police receivedreports from victims Bernadus wholived in Jalan Kemuning, on March14, 2010. The victim claimed to losehis phone allegedly stolen by a thief.When the incident happened, thevictim’s bedroom door was not locked.Reskrim police forces of South Kutainvestigate directly in the field. Crimescene and witnesses examination wasperformed. From the results of thatinvestigation, police suspect Bagiana.

The suspect was arrested at hisboarding house in one of the roomslocated in Jalan Srikandi, NusaDua, on Wednesday (17 / 3) at 11.00am. However, the difficulties thepolice entrap the perpetrator be-cause the evidence was minimal. Inthe course of investigation, the sus-pect suddenly asked permission toeat lunch. ‘’Well, at that time thesuspect fled. So we go back afterhim. On that day, the suspect ar-rested,’’ he said to the media crew.

Fleeing of the suspect has madeinvestigators intensify inspection. Thesuspect had not confessed, after a runand was arrested back the suspect fi-nally opened his mouth. Indeed, rec-ognition of the suspect not only himwho often do the theft. There are stillfive other players who enter the net-work. “This group of six people ismasterminded by UI,’’ he explained.

Of recognition from Bagiana, hejoined theft because he was forced byUI. Bagiana was lured for big incomework. Bagiana joined to Bali. How-ever, upon arriving in Bali, rather thanobtain lawful employment, Bagianainstead forced to make theft. ‘’I wasthreatened by principal UI. If not, Iwill be killed,’’I Bagiana.

In fact, when he stole from thevictim’s house Bernadus, he got amobile phone. The phone’s directsale price was Rp 350 thousand.Furthermore, the money was di-vided by the perpetrator UI. ‘’I wasjust given Rp. 50 thousand. Mean-while, the rest were asked princi-pals UI. This UI often theft with aknife, if caught, he also threatenedthe victim,’’ he added. (kmb21)

Wedding Convoys got accidentAvanza slowed down, I saw the brakelights burning,” said Made Darwikato the police.

Gusti Made Darwika and his sonwho was driving the Mitsubishi Kudaand angdes is part of a convoy of wed-ding party from Negara towardsKarangasem. Prospective groomthemselves were in Mitsubishi Kudadriven by Made Putra. Pileup that oc-curred was not to cause casualties orinjuries. Only material losses are es-timated to reach tens of millions ofrupiah. Almost all vehicles experi-enced the same damage, which iswrecked on the front bumper. Themost severe damage experienced byAvanza owners.

Result of hard crash, the back andfront of the car were wrecked.

Top agreement, officers seized ve-hicle registration from each vehiclefor further inspection. “Three out offour vehicle involved were carryingout religious activities, so while thiswas only the vehicle registrationwhich we stand, “ cleared KasatLantas Polres Gianyar,AKP AriaBima Viyasa, SIK. (kmb16)

National Exam in Buleleng Disrupted:Exam MaterialsSwitch, Answer SheetsRun Out

existing within one sub region to col-lect over the remaining manuscriptsat each school. As the result, the num-ber of scripts needed could just becollected from five schools. Thoughit could be resolved, but participantsat SMAN 4 Singaraja could just startat 08:30 am or 30 minutes later thanschedule.

Meanwhile, the accidentally ex-changed answer sheets also happenedat SMAN 1 Gerokgak. At this school,the envelope should contain aboutBahasa Indonesia subject, but afterunsealed it contained the manuscriptof chemistry.

Head of Buleleng EducationalServices, Gede Suyasa, said the ex-changed test scripts had been quicklyovercome by providing a backupscript given by the committee. How-ever, Suyasa admitted to feel wor-ried if the exchanged answer sheetswould occur again in the implemen-tation of the national exam on thesecond day, last Tuesday. “I worryif this problem occurs again on thesecond day, while the backup scriptshave run out. Hopefully, no moreproblems like this will happenagain,” he said.

In addition, said Suyasa, his partylacked for the reserve of answer sheetsfor the implementation of nationalexam on the second day. This happenedbecause on the first day the number ofanswer sheets was not enough so thecommittee had to take a back up. Ifsimilar problem happened on the sec-ond day as well, the committee wouldfind it difficult to get spare answersheets. “I hope the answer sheet wouldsuffice,” he wished. (kmb15)

International4 Wednesday, March 24, 2010 News

Heinrich Boere, No. 6 on the Simon WiesenthalCenter’s list of most-wanted Nazis, was given the maxi-mum sentence of life in prison for the 1944 killings.

“These were murders that could hardly be outdonein terms of baseness and cowardice — beyond the re-spectability of any soldier,” presiding judge Gerd Nohl

Agence France Presse

LONDON – Prime MinisterGordon Brown’s Labour govern-ment denied involvement in acash-for-lobbying scandal Tues-day, after three of its ex-minis-ters were suspended just weeksbefore an election.

Former Cabinet ministerStephen Byers, who has been atthe centre of the row, was sus-pended late Monday after adocumentary was aired in whichhe was secretly filmed appar-ently offering his lobbying ser-vices for payment.

Former defence secretaryGeoff Hoon and former healthsecretary Patricia Hewitt werealso suspended pending an in-vestigation into the programme’sclaims, the Labour party said.All three deny wrongdoing.

Brown has dismissed calls bythe opposition Conservatives fora government investigation, andofficials said an internal reviewcarried out Monday found nocurrent ministers or civil ser-vants had been improperly influ-enced.

“There is not a shred of evi-dence, not a single scintilla ofevidence, of any improprietywhatsoever,” Justice SecretaryJack Straw told the BBC Tues-day.

However, he said the trio’sbehaviour had brought the partyand parliament “into disrepute”and said there was “incendiary”anger among Labour lawmakers,who have a tough battle to winre-election in a vote expected onMay 6.

“It appears that former cabi-net ministers are more interestedin making money than they arein properly representing theirconstituents,” he said.

In the undercover sting for aChannel Four television docu-mentary, the lawmakers werefilmed apparently making an of-fer to a reporter posing as a lob-byist to use their governmentconnections in exchange formoney.

“The Labour Party expects thehighest standards of its represen-tatives and believes that they

Associated Press Writer

YANGON, Myanmar – Aung San SuuKyi’s lawyers say the detained opposi-tion leader would “not even think” of reg-istering her party for Myanmar’s upcom-ing elections under the junta’s restrictionsbut she will let the party decide for itself.

Suu Kyi is under house arrest and iseffectively barred from running and vot-ing in elections under recent laws enactedby the military-ruled government.

One of the laws requires parties to reg-ister for the elections or cease to exist.Lawyer Nyan Win said Suu Kyi told himTuesday she “would not even think ofregistering under these unjust laws” butshe will let her party decide on its own.

Suu Kyi’s National League for Democ-racy plans to meet next Monday to decidewhether to register for elections later this year.

AFP/File

From left: Cabinet ministers Stephen Byers, Patricia Hewitt and GeoffHoon. Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labour government deniedinvolvement in a cash-for-lobbying scandal, after three of its ex-ministers were suspended just weeks before an election.

Govt in lobbying row asex-ministers suspended

have a duty to be transparent andaccountable servants to theirconstituents at all times,” theparty said, announcing the sus-pensions. Byers described him-self in the programme as a “cabfor hire”, charging up to 5,000pounds a day for his services.

Hewitt and Hoon were filmedsuggesting they would charge3,000 pounds a day for their ser-vices.

All three were close toBrown’s predecessor as primeminister, Tony Blair, and are dueto step down as lawmakers at theelection. Hoon and Hewitt hadalso led a failed attempt to dis-lodge Brown as Labour leader inJanuary.

The scandal comes less thana year after a major row overMPs’ expenses rocked parlia-ment, and Conservative leaderDavid Cameron described it as“shocking”, saying: “It is aquestion of government integ-rity.”

His party said Brown’s re-fusal to launch an investigationwas “outrageous”.

Byers, a former transport sec-retary, boasted to the undercoverjournalist he had made a secretdeal with current Transport Sec-retary Andrew Adonis over thetermination of a rail franchisecontract. Both the rail firm, Na-tional Express, and Adonis de-nied this.

He also claimed BusinessSecretary Peter Mandelson hadamended food labelling regula-tions after he intervened on be-half of a supermarket giant.

Mandelson said he had “norecollection” of having talked toByers about the issue, addingthat the whole incident was“very sad and rather grubby”.

Byers has since insisted he“exaggerated” his influence,adding that he had “never lob-bied ministers on behalf of com-mercial interests”.

In a separate development,the BBC said it had uncoveredwidespread abuse of parliamen-tary rules by more than 20 MPsfrom all the main parties whohad accepted free overseas tripsfrom foreign governments.

AP Photo/Khin Maung WinA Buddhist monk walks past a convoy of riot police deployedoutside Yangon, Myanmar, City Hall on Friday, March 19, 2010. Aday after Myanmar’s ruling military junta announced electoral reg-istration rules, security has been tightened in the town.

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi against party joining elections

Nazi hit man convicted inNazi hit man convicted inNazi hit man convicted inNazi hit man convicted inNazi hit man convicted inGermany for 1944 murdersGermany for 1944 murdersGermany for 1944 murdersGermany for 1944 murdersGermany for 1944 murdersAssociated Press Writer

AACHEN, Germany – A German court on Tues-day convicted an 88-year-old man of murderingthree Dutch civilians as part of a Nazi hit squadduring World War II, capping six decades of effortsto bring the former Waffen SS man to justice.

said. Boere sat in his wheelchair, staring at the floorand showing no visible reaction as the verdict was an-nounced.

During the trial, which began in October, Boere ad-mitted killing a bicycle shop owner, a pharmacist andanother civilian in 1944 as a member of the “Silbertanne”hit squad — a unit of largely Dutch SS volunteers re-sponsible for reprisal killings of their countrymen.

He said he had no choice but to follow orders to carryout the killings. “As a simple soldier, I learned to carryout orders,” Boere testified in December.

“And I knew that if I didn’t carry out my orders Iwould be breaking my oath and would be shot myself.”

But the prosecution argued that Boere was a willingmember of the fanatical Waffen SS, which he joinedshortly after the Nazis had overrun his hometown ofMaastricht and the rest of the Netherlands in 1940.

Though sentenced to death in absentia in the Nether-lands in 1949 — later commuted to life imprisonment— Boere has managed to avoid jail until now.

One German court refused to extradite him becauseit ruled he might have German nationality as well asDutch. Another would not force him to serve his Dutchsentence in a German prison because he was absent fromhis trial, having fled to Germany.

“We welcome the conviction, we welcome the sen-tence and this is again another proof that even at thispoint it is possible to bring Nazi war criminals to jus-tice,” Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi hunter at the SimonWiesenthal Center, said by telephone from Jerusalem.

“It also underscores the significance of the renewedactivity on the part of the German prosecution,” he said.Dolf Bicknese — the son of pharmacist Fritz HubertErnst Bicknese, one of the victims — also voiced satis-faction.

“I’m happy that the judge made a good decision,” hesaid.

Defense lawyer Gordon Christiansen said he wouldappeal to a German federal court. Boere will remainfree until the appeals process is complete.

Boere was born in Eschweiler, Germany — on theoutskirts of Aachen, where he lives today. The son of aDutch man and a German woman, he moved to the Neth-erlands when he was an infant.

Boere has testified that he decided to join the SS atage 18 after the Germans had overrun the Netherlandsand he saw a recruiting poster signed by HeinrichHimmler that inspired him.

After fighting on the Russian front, Boere ended upback in the Netherlands as part of “Silbertanne” — adeath squad believed to be responsible for 54 killings inHolland.

AFP/DDP/Henning KaiserJustice finally caught up with former SS assassinHeinrich Boere as a German court jailed the 88-year-old pensioner for life for shooting dead three civil-ians in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in 1944.

General Info Wednesday, March 24, 2010 5International

Denpasar

There are 4 major hospitals usually used by foreigners -Denpasar General Hospital(RSUP Sanglah), Kasih Ibu Hospital, Rumah Sakit Wongayaand Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada.

RSUP Sanglah is the main provincial public hospital. Itsfacilities have improved since the emergency ward had beenbuilt in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become aproblem anymore since it has complete equipments. It islocated on Jl. KesehatanSelatan 1 Sanglah Denpasar with :Phone : 227 911 – 15Fax : 226 363

Kasih Ibu Hospital is a private hospital which caters forless serious cases such as diarrhea, intestinal disorders, ane-mia, asthma and minor accidents. Kasih Ibu is also equippedto care for pregnant women. This hospital is located on Jl.Teuku Umar 120 Denpasar.Phone : 223 036Fax : 268 690.

Rumah Sakit Wongaya (Public Hospital; Psychiatric Unit)Jl. Kartini, Denpasar.Phone : 222 142.

Rumah Sakit Dharma Husada , (Private)Jl. Sudirman No 50, DenpasarPhone : 227 560, 234 824

In relating with health, Bali also has insurance and medicalevacuation company, thatis:AEA International - SOS Assistance Bali.PT Abhaya Eka Astiti, Jl. By Pass Ngurah RaiNo. 24X, Kuta 80361.Phone : 755 768 Fax : 755 768One thing that should be noted by tourists here is that theBlood Bank in Bali normally carries no stock of Rhesus (Rh)Negative blood.

Badung

Bali Medical ClinicsThere are some medical clinics that are well known by for-eigners in Bali. Some of them are western owned and oper-ated :

Bali International Medical Center (BIMC)Bali International Medical Centre (BIMC) provides excel-lent Primary Health Care & Emeregency Medical Servicesfor tourists, traveler, and expatriate living in Bali.Emeregency Room, Ambulance, Clinic Services, Insurance& Medical Evacuations also available. Open 24 hours Phone: 761 2631. Located Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No.100X, Kuta,Bali 80361 - Indonesia. http://www.bimcbali.com

International SOS Clinic BaliOpened in 1999, offers International SOS members and visi-tors to Bali comprehensive primary health care and 24-houremergency medical service.Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai 505X, Kuta 80361, Bali - IndonesiaPhone : 720 100 Fax : 721 919E-mail : info@sos-bali.comttp ://www.sos-bali.com

Bali Nusa Dua Emergency ClinicJl Pratama No. 81 Phone : 771 324

Kuta ClinicJl. Raya Kuta Phone : 753 268

Dental ClinicDr Indra Guizot, Jl. Patimura 19, DenpasarPhone : 222 445, 234 375

DDS. Ritjie Rihartinah, Jl Pratama No. 81Nusa Dua Phone : 771 324

Retno W. Agung, Jln. Bypass Ngurah Rai No.4ABr. Tamansari – Sanur Phone : 288 501

Australian Consulate GeneralJalan Tantular 32 Renon DenpasarPhone: +62 361 241118Fax: +62 361 221195 (General) +62 361 241120 (Immigration)

Royal Danish & NorwegianMimpi Resort Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 070

The Czech RepublicJalan Pengembak No. 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.286 465

France Consulate AgencyJalan Merta Sari Gang II No. 8 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.285 485

The Federal Republic of GermanyJalan Pantai Karang No 17 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.288 535

The Republic of HungaryJalan By Pass No 219 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.287 701

Italian ConsulateJalan By Pass Ngurah Rai Jimbaran, BaliPhone +62.361.701 005

Honorary Consulate of MexicoJalan Mohamad Yamin 1 A, Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.223 266

Honorary Consulate of The NetherlandsJalan Raya Kuta 127, BaliPhone +62.361.761 506

Honorary Consulate of SpainKomplek Istana Kuta Galleria Blok Vallet 2 No 11. JalanPatih Jelantik Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.769 286

USA Consulate AgencyJalan Hayam Wuruk No. 188 Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.222 426

Consulate General of JapanJalan Raya Puputan No. 170 Renon, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.227 628

Honorary Consulate of BritishJalan Tirta Nadi No. 20 Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.270 601

Swiss and Austria ConsulateJalan Patih Jelantik, Komplek Pertokoan IstanaGalleriaPhone +62.361.751 735

Honorary Consulate of BrazilJalan Legian No. 186, BaliPhone +62.361.757 775

Honorary Consulate of ThailandJalan Raya Puputan Renon 81, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.263 310

Embassy of IndiaJalan Raya Puputan Renon 42-44, Denpasar, BaliPhone +62.361.241 978

Honorary Consulate of Sweden anf FinlandSegara Village Hotel, Jalan Segara Ayu, Sanur, BaliPhone +62.361.282 223

Honorary Consulate of MalaysiaAlam Kulkul Boutique Resort, Jalan Pantai Kuta, BaliPhone +62.361.752 520

Bangli

Bangli General HospitalJl. Kesumayuda 27, BangliPhone : +62 366 91521

Gianyar

Clinic MasJl. Raya Mas, UbudPhone : +62 361 974573

Toyo ClinicJl. Pengosekan, UbudPhone : +62 361 978078

Permata Bunda ClinicJl. Patih Jelantik 50 X, GianyarPhone : +62 361 942082

Ubud ClinicJl Raya Ubud No.36 Campuhan, UbudPhone : +62 361 974911

Gianyar General HospitalJl. Ciung Wanara 2, GianyarPhone : +62 361 943049

Karangasem

Karangasem General HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai, KarangasemPhone : +62 363 21001

Klungkung

Klungkung General HospitalJl. Flamboyan 40-4, KlungkungPhone : +62 366 21371

Negara

Negara General HospitalJl. Gelar, NegaraPhone : +62 365 41006

Tabanan

Laboratorium ClinicJl. Gunung semeru No. 8, TabananPhone : +62 361 819260

Mengwi ClinicJl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai 46, TabananPhone : +62 361 880550

Darma Kerti HospitalJl. Teratai 16, TabananPhone : +62 361 812359

Tabanan General HospitalJl. Pahlawan 14, TabananPhone : +62 361 811027

Praja Taxi : (0361) 289090Bali Taxi : (0361) 701111Ngurah Rai Taxi : (0361) 724724Pan Wirthi Taxi : (0361) 723366Komotra Taxi : (0361) 758855

Singaraja

Prodia ClinicJl. RA Kartini 12, Singaraja Bali0362 - 24-516

Singaraja HospitalJl. Ngurah Rai 30, Singaraja Bali0362 - 22-573

Pet ClinicsKayumas: (0361) 226934Sayang Binatang: (0361) 483121Satwa Kertha Husada: (0361) 263018Pantai Sindhu: (0361) 287518Sidakarya: (0361) 724492Pedungan: (0361) 720026

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Wednesday, March 24, 20106 News

Agence France Presse

LAGOS – Nigeria’s white-collar oil work-ers union on Tuesday protested the murder oftwo colleagues in the restive oil hub of theNiger Delta and gave the government twoweeks to hunt down the killers.

“We have issued a 14-day ultimatum to gov-ernment and the security agencies to fish outthe killers of two of our members,” said BayoOlowosile, secretary of the Petroleum andNatural Gas Senior Staff Association(PENGASSAN).

The duo, staff of a subsidiary of the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum (NNPC),were seized by unknown men on March 13.

Their bodies were found on Saturday in insouthern Delta State, Olowosile told AFP.

“PENGASSAN ...calls for full investigationof this cruel murder and the resultant prosecu-tion of those responsible within 14 days failingwhich our association may be compelled to takewhatever action deemed appropriate to oblige

Agence France Presse

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan – An avalanchestruck a remote mountain area of northernAfghanistan two weeks ago, killing at least35 people and burying houses beneath thesnow, a local official said Tuesday.

The disaster struck in Badakhshan prov-ince in the far north, but harsh weather andthe remoteness of the province borderingChina, Pakistan and Tajikistan meant local

The two former leaders, who weretapped by President Barack Obama tospearhead U.S. fundraising for the crisis,made their first joint visit to Haiti. Theyspotlighted the dramatic need for helpahead of a critical March 31 U.N. donorsconference in New York where Haitian of-ficials will ask for $11.5 billion in recon-struction help.

At a news conference with PresidentRene Preval on the grounds of the col-lapsed national palace, Bush said he wasstruck by the devastation caused by theJan. 12 earthquake.

“It’s one thing to see it on TV, it’s an-other to see it firsthand,” said Bush, whowas making his first visit to Haiti. “Hope-fully our visit will remind people that Haitineeds help.”

Clinton and Bush later greeted quakesurvivors camped on the Champ de Mars,the national mall filled with 60,000 home-less people. Secret Service agents and Hai-tian police surrounded the men as theywaded into a fenced-in section of the mallwhere dozens of families have pitchedblue, orange and silver tarps.

While many of the homeless welcomedthe visit as a sign that the U.S. would con-tinue to supply aid, some said they were

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Former US Presidents Bill Clinton (R) and George W. Bush listen as US Presi-dent Barack Obama speaks about relief efforts following the earthquake in Haiti,during a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC,on January 16, 2010. The former presidents will seek to reassure Haitians witha visit Monday that the world has not forgotten them.

AP

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Former Presidents George W. Bush and BillClinton clasped hands with residents of one of Haiti’s massive tent cities Mon-day on a tour of its quake-devastated capital — a visit intended to remind do-nors of the immense needs facing the recovery effort.

disappointed the presidents did not bringanything more tangible.

“The visit is like no visit at all. Theywalked inside, it’s to show off,” said RenePierre, a 35-year-old homeless man.

About 100 protesters burned tires and anAmerican flag outside the national palaceto demand the return of ousted PresidentJean-Bertrand Aristide, who was flown fromHaiti aboard a U.S. plane during Bush’spresidency and now lives in South Africanexile. Clinton and Bush visited the countryas it struggles to feed and shelter victims ofthe magnitude-7 quake, which killed an es-timated 230,000 people. Another 1.3 millionquake survivors are homeless, with manyliving in camps prone to dangerous flood-ing in the April rainy season.

The former presidents also visited theMaxima SA woodworking plant wheremanager Evelien Degier, a native of theNetherlands, said they can build houses for$2,000. She said she hopes the presidentshelp direct investment to companies likehers that employ Haitians as part of the re-construction effort.

“It’s wonderful to have the handouts andthe food,” she said. “But now people needto go back to work to real life to earn realmoney.”

(AFP/File/Pius Otomi Ekpei)

A Nigerian naval security officer patrol in the Niger Delta. Nigeria’s white-collaroil workers union protested the murder of two colleagues in the restive oil hub ofthe Niger Delta and gave the government two weeks to hunt down the killers.

Nigerian oil unionprotests killings of workers

government to fish out the culprits,” he said.In February 2009, the union threatened to

call a strike to protest the rising wave of kill-ings and kidnappings of oil workers in the re-gion, but the action never took off after gov-ernment promises to address their grievances.

For more than three years, the Niger Delta,home to Nigeria’s multi-billion-dollar oil andgas industry, has been rocked by violent attacksand kidnappings targeting oil companies, work-ers and their families.

Some are carried out by militants claimingto be fighting for a fairer share of the region’soil wealth for local people, others by criminalgangs out to make ransom money.

A government amnesty deal saw a brief lullin violence and kidnappings until the end ofJanuary when a leading rebel group called offits ceasefire it declared last year.

The surge in violent attacks slashed crudeproduction in the world’s eighth largest pro-ducer to 1.5 million barrels a day, from a peakof 2.6 million at the start of 2006.

At least 35 killed in Afghanavalanche: official

officials had to travel for weeks to seek help.“An avalanche swept through five civil-

ian houses in Arghanj Khowa district killing35 people including men, women and chil-dren,” said Marouf Rasikh, the spokesmanfor northern Badakhshan province.

“Two representatives of the district got tothe provincial capital after travelling for 13days on snow-blocked roads and they in-formed us of the incident last night,” headded.

Eight children from Nanping City Experi-mental Elementary School were killed, andfive were being treated at a hospital, Wu said.Six died at the scene.

The victims’ ages were not known, butChinese elementary schools typically havestudents ages 6 to 12.

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The school, located in Fujian province,was closed and students were sent home forthe day. Counseling would be provided forstudents when classes resume Wednesday,Xinhua said.

China has witnessed a series of school at-tacks over the past several years, which areoften blamed on personal grudges or peoplewith psychiatric problems, leading to callsfor improved security.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 7Indonesia TodayInternational

“Two Indonesian representativesin the ACWC have been appointedby the government,” State Ministerfor Women`s Empowerment andChild Protection Linda Amalia Sarisaid here on Tuesday.

She one of the persons would rep-resent Indonesia at ACWC forwomen‘s rights and the other forchildren‘s rights.

Antara

Ambon - At least 62 yachtsfrom abroad have been regis-tered to join the upcoming in-ternational marine event ofSail Banda 2010 from July toAugust this year.

“Our target is that at least200 boats and yachts will par-ticipate in the event, and some62 of them have been regis-tered. We still have threemonths left to have our targetmet,” Sail Banda local commit-tee spokesman Cak Saimimasaid here on Tuesday.

He said the event was in-tended to introduce Maluku’smarine tourism potentials tointernational community, andto convince them that theprovince was really safe fortourists.

Sail Indonesia 2010 will de-part from Darwin on SaturdayJuly 24 at 11 am local time andduring the following 3 monthsthe participants are invited toparticipate in a series of Cul-tural Festivals at the differentstopovers across Indonesia onthe islands of Timor, Banda,Ambon, Buton, Lembata,Wakatobi, Flores, Sulawesi,Bali, Java, Borneo, Belitungand finally on to Batam orBintan just south of Singapore.

“Therefore we are makingevery effort to be good hostand organizer of Sail Indone-sia 2010,” Saimima said, add-ing that President SusiloBambang Yudhoyono on De-cember 14, 2009 appointedBanda, Ambon, and South-west Maluku (MBD) districttown of Wonreli in Kisar is-land to be the location of theinternational marine event.

Antara

Jambi - Floods inundated 2,674buildings in Sarolangun district,Jambi Province, Sumatra Island, asthe Batanghari River overflowed onTuesday.

Houses, school buildings andmosques were flooded, said AslamiMZ of the Jambi administration,

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Jakarta - The government has appointed two persons to represent Indonesia in the ASEAN Commissionon the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC).

“Ahmad Taufan Damanic ofKKSP Foundation in Medan, NorthSumatra, is appointed Indonesianrepresentative for children`s rightsand Rita Serena Kolibonso of MitraPerempuan`s Women Crisis Centerfor women`s rights,” Linda Amaliasaid.

Early in February this year, thegovernment had opened registration

for the selection of Indonesian rep-resentatives in ACWC, because eachASEAN country had to have tworepresentatives: one expert onwomen‘s affairs and one expert onchild affairs.

The candidates should be Indo-nesian citizen, from both govern-ment and non-government officials,have English ability, have good un-

derstanding about women and childissues at national and internationallevels, and have knowledge aboutASEAN cooperation.

“The candidates should also havemoral integrity, be independent, andhave a wide national and interna-tional networks,” the minister said.

She said the Indonesian repre-sentatives in the ASEAN Commis-sion on the Promotion and Protec-tion of the Rights of Women andChildren should be the right personswith high credibility.

Linda Amalia also said the se-

lected representatives were requiredto have a strong understanding aboutchild and women‘s affairs.

She said the selection process wasmade openly and transparently by asmall team made up of related insti-tutions, among others Foreign Af-fairs Ministry and Law and HumanRights Ministry, State Ministry forWomen‘s Empowerment and ChildProtection, Coordinating Ministryfor People‘s Welfare, Manpower andTransmigration Ministry, and theNational Commission of Women andChild Protection

AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah, File

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, a female Sumatran tiger that is believed to have killed 3 men is seen inside a trap set upby forest rangers and environmental activists at a palm oil plantation in Sungai Gelam, Jambi province on Sumatra island, Indonesia. Arare Sumatran tiger dragged a man from a hut in an Indonesian village and broke his neck as friends tried to rescue the victim, an officialsaid Monday.

Some 62yachtsregister forSail Banda2010

Floods submerge 2,674 buildings in Sarolangunhere on Tuesday. The flood also af-fected hundreds of hectares of ricefields and plantations, he said.Floodwaters submerged houses at a heightof up to 150 cm.

Floods triggered by incessantheavy rains, caused the BatanghariRiver‘s tributaries, namely BatangAsai, Batang Limun, BatangMerangin, Batang Tembesi, and

Batang Air Hitam to overflow sincelast Thursday (March 18) at a heightof up to two meters.

At least 23 villages in six sub dis-tricts have been affected by thefloods. The sub districts are Pauh,Mandiangin, Limun and Sarolanguntown.

The worst-affected villages wereMuaro Tempalo in Limun sub dis-

trict and Mandiangin sub district, hesaid.At least 500 families have beenevacuated to higher grounds.

The local authorities have set upemergency tents and distributed re-lief aid such as rice, instant noddles,blankets, baby food to floodvictims.The natural disaster is esti-mated to have caused materiallosses of billions of rupiahs

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Bali Today

Nusa Penida is a small islandlocated 10 miles southeast of Bali.“We must preserve and develop therare seaweed because it has higheconomics value,” Candra added.

According to the locals, re-searchers from Udayana Universityand other universities in Indonesiaand also abroad explained thatspinosum seaweed is very rare. Theresearchers also said that they arevery grateful that they can still findand study about the rare seaweed.

I Putu Balon, a seaweed farmer,said that there are two kinds of

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The picture show seaweed farmer is drying his harvest. Rare seaweed called spinosium whichis only found in Nusa Penida give high economic value to the local.

Antara

Nusa Penida – The people throughout Bali urge the gov-ernment to preserve the rare seaweed (spinosum) wyhich iscurrently developed in Nusa Penida, Klungkung. WayanCandra, the head of Klungkung regency, said that thespinosium seaweed is very rare and in Indonesia only can befound in Nusa Penida area.

seaweeds grow in Nusa Penida,spinosum and katoni. “At first, wedon’t know that it is rare seaweed sowe didn’t develop it. However, nowalmost all of the farmers grow it be-cause it has high economic value,”he added.

An officer in Klungkung Farm-ing Department said that currently,the katoni seaweed is competingwith the similar variant from South-east Sulawesi so the price is not toogood. However, the spinosium isvery rare so it is quite expensive inthe market.

Antara

DENPASAR - The prosecution in the trial of an In-donesian man accused of raping a Norwegian exchangeprogram student demanded a seven-year jail term forthe defendant in a Denpasar District Court session hereMonday.

Oktaviano Prastiwan P Tolok (24) raped the studentwhile she was drunk at a location near the campus ofUdayana University (Unud)’s economic faculty,Jimbaran, last November 15, public prosecutor AriDewanto said in his arguments.

The man who hailed from East Nusatenggara (NTT)was waiting for customers at a motorcycle taxi stand atKuta when he saw the girl making her way in the streetin a wayward way. He then offered her to take her to herhotel on his motorcycle.

But on the way to the hotel the defendant decided totake her elsewhere, a dark and quiet spot near the sportsfield of Unund’s economic faculty where he raped her.

The girl who was left lying on the spot eventuallycame to her senses and, after realizing what had hap-pened to herself, reported the incident to her hotel’s se-curity. Police in the end were able to locate and arrestOctaviano.

The public prosecutor said the defendant had com-mitted an immoral and socially reprehensible act andat the same time damaged Bali’s image as a safe touristdestination. The only alleviating factors about the de-fendant was that had frankly confessed his misdeed andhad never been convicted before.

The court session was adjourned until next March29 when Octaviano would present his defense in court.

Denpasar, Bali Post -Implementation of the first day of

the national examination (UN) forHigh School / Vocational High Schoolin Bali, on Monday (22 / 3) yester-day, was really chaotic. The faultyState Printing party as the winner ofthe RI tender has caused printingproblems in the UN in Bali. A num-ber of schools were so distraught be-cause they were receiving computeranswer sheet (LJK) far below thenumber of UN participants.

There are also LJK in damagedcondition found. Worst of all, thereare a number of schools that receivedinconsistent materials with subjectstested on the first day, such as the In-donesian question confused with theEnglish exam materials which is dueto be tested on the second day, Tues-day (23 / 3).

Confusion about the incident canbe found in Denpasar ’s SMAKHarapan. In this case, there wereabout 8 envelopes (one envelope con-taining an average of about 10 pack-ages) for the social program whosecontents were mixed. The subjectswritten on the cover were differentwith the actual content.

The cover of the envelope listed In-donesian question, but the contentswere about the English language. Er-rors of the printing press were knownonly about 10 minutes before the UNstarts. As superintendent of the room

First Day of UN was Chaoticopened the sealed envelope containingthe Indonesian questions to be distrib-uted to the participants of the UN, it isknown that eight envelopes were con-taining the English language materialsinstead. The findings were immediatelycommunicated to the team for the nextUN inspector reported to the City ofDenpasar Disdikpora. Finally, a decisionwas made to distribute emergencybackup copies.

Chairman of the UN Committee inSMAK Harapan Denpasar, Dra. AatRohati, says that once the mistakes be-came known, it has immediately beingdiscussed with the team supervisor. Notdaring to make a decision, eventuallythey were contacting the Disdikporawhich eventually taken over backupcopy under the supervision of the UNSupervisory Team and police. ‘’All ofthese events we noted in by the minutes.The time taken for this issue to finallycompensated for their exams so that stu-dents get extra time,’’ Rohati firmed.

Problems of the English materials thathad already opened, according to her,was finally sealed immediately after sub-sequent meetings held in Subrayon andsecured by the police in order to preventleak. ‘’UN participants at HarapanChristian High School recorded are 289people, as many as 149 people amongsocial science major,’’ said Rohati ac-companied by Harapan Christian HighSchool’s Principal I Nyoman Rubin.

Rubin added, the school also found

there were a number of UN partici-pants who must answer the questionwith faulty LJK (computerized answersheet), because it seems to have beenfolded. ‘’To overcome this, however,there were no backup LJK,’’ he said.

Problems also found in SMAKSanto Yoseph Denpasar. UN questionsthat every room should have two pack-ages of the package 27 (A) and thepackage 60 (B), even 8 in the majorsIPS room because the same packageof the package 27 (A). Head of St. Jo-seph High School, Drs. NyomanSunarya was reluctant to comment andasked DenPost to contact the Chair-man of IV Subrayon Drs. Wayan Rika,M.Pd. ‘’I’m sorry we do not have theauthority to give a statement on this,because the news events we have re-ported to the Chairman Subrayon IV.Please contact Chairman SubrayonIV,’’ said Sunarya.

Wayan Rika when contacted con-firmed the discovery of such cases ac-cording to reports from St. JosephHigh School. Not only that, when sub-jects were tested biology there was alack LJK by 6 sheets. Finally, the de-cision was made of photocopying LJKto overcome the deficiency.

In SMAN 4 Denpasar, said Rika,also found many imperfect or foldedLJK. LJK in a damaged conditionmakes it worried, lest students’ re-sponses are not perfectly readable bya computer. (BY DENPOST)

Seven yearimprisonmentfor rapist

Balinese Culture

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9al

OVERVIEW:The rich flavor of duck is greatly enhanced by a host

of pungent roots, herbs and seasonings in this dish,which is invariably a great favorite with visitors to Bali.The Balinese have great admiration for the duck andconsider it to be a particularly strong animal as it is, likethe turtle, the only one able to survive on land as water.

INGREDIENTS:1 whole duck, weigh about 2 kg (4 ½ lb)18 shallots, peeled, cut in half, and sliced6 cloves garlic, peeled, cut in half, & sliced3 stalks lemon grass, finely sliced5 fragrant lime leaves, finely sliced6 candlenuts, chopped5 cm (2 in), ginger, peeled and chopped8 cm (3in) fresh turmeric, peeled, chopped8 cm (3in) kencur root, peeled, chopped1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed5 bird’s-eye chilies, slices1 tsp coriander seeds, crushed2 tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted and coarsely

crushed1½ tbsp salt3 tbsp oilBanana leaves, greaseproof paper or aluminum foil

for wrapping

PREPARATION:Wipe the duck dry and set aside. Combine all

ingredients except banana leafs in a bowl and mix well.Rub the duck outside with this mixture and fill the centerof the duck with the remainder.

Close open duck with satay skewer. Wrap in severallayers of banana leaves, greaseproof paper or foil andsteam for 50 minutes. Transfer duck to a moderate ovenand bake at 180o C (350o F) for 30 minutes.

Remove banana leaves, cut duck meat up in smallpieces and serve with stuffing. When cooked, the meatshould be so tender that it falls off the bones.

BEBEK BETUTU(Roast Duck In Banana Leaf)

For Balinese people the days andthe minutes can be lucky or unluckyaccording to their own unique corre-spond to a simple characteristic suchas Monday – ‘moon’day, Sunday -‘sun’day, and Saturday – ‘saturn’ day.

In the Balinese calendar system, thedays have many more names andtherefore more characteristics whichdetermine their over-all quality. Forexample Friday August 10, 2007, be-comes in the Balinese calendar ‘JumatWage, Wuku Krulu’, and so 10 August2007 will be different from the samedate in 2006. Even if two persons wereborn on the same day, let say between23 November and 20 December, ifthey were born in different years theywill have the same zodiac sign but notthe same characteristic as the result ofthe different days of the BalineseHoroscope.

Two children who were born on thesame date but in different years willhave different Balinese birthdays.Those who were born on 18 Decem-ber, 1998 will have a different birth-day, therefore to those born on 18 De-cember, 1999.

In general, both will inherit thecharacteristics of Sagittarius. A moredetailed description of their character-istics can be found, however, in the Ba-linese horoscope.(BTN)

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THE waters are created to havemagical curativas energies. Eachpeople of the year travel throughoutof Bali to be purified in the clearswimming pools. After leaving asmall offer deity of the means, themen and the women are going anyside to bathe. In the Full Moon ofthe fourth month every year, the vil-lagers of next Manukaya take asagrada stone that will be cleanedin Tirta Empul. When the resistedinscription found , the stone was de-ciphered, it gave the fight of thefoundation of Tirta Empul . For thethousand years these villagers hadbeen living. by this tradition with-out being found out the meaningaffected the stone!

In 1969 the temple inTampaksiring was renewed totally.Many of the chapels were con-structed and painted again in shin-ing colors. Outside the temple theyare the rows of the supports of thesales where you can buy the busi-

Tampak SiringHistorical Site

ness of the memories that is carvedjewelry shop of the bone. Right northof Tampaksiring that the way givesreturn to the right to Tirta Empul.

Another way gives return to theleft towards the palace of IstanaNegara de Sukarno, that feels upona green hill that happens through stopTirta Empul. The palace is dividedin two connected main portions witha bridge. Wisma Merdeka was thebuilding where the president re-mained and Wisma Negara wasguesthouse for the friends and theguests of the state, like RonaldReagan and Soviet presidentKrustsjov. In addition there is ahouse for the press, the WismaYudistira, and the one that is for thelife-guards, Wisma Bima. The pal-ace constructed by presidentSukarno is ignoring the temple ofTirta Empul. The buildings of a his-tory are said to be designed by presi-dent Sukarno, who had training ofthe engineering of Bandung.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11

BUSINESS

At a meeting in the Mexicanbeach resort of Cancun, which willwrap up on Tuesday, top bankingand finance officials also agreed tocancel Haiti’s 470 million dollardebt in the wake of January’s dev-astating earthquake.

The increase will allow the in-stitution to “double our capacity tolend to some 12 billion dollars ayear, on average,” said IDB Presi-dent Luis Alberto Moreno.

“Not only is this the largest in-crease in the history of the institu-tion, but it will allow us tostrengthen our position as the topsource of multilateral resources forthe region,” he added.

The bank’s 48 member coun-tries, including several finance min-isters and central bank chiefs, areattending the official gathering to

(AFP/Jose Dominguez)

The president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis Alberto Moreno, speaks dur-ing a press conference in Cancun, Mexico on March 21, 2010 in the framework of the IDB IIC2010 annual meeting. The IDB has agreed to boost its capital by 70 billion dollars, almost dou-bling its capacity to make loans to countries in the region.

Associated Press Writer

ATHENS, Greece – Greecewill have no difficulty in rais-ing money on financial marketsin the coming months, even athigh interest rates, but hopes acommitment of support fromthe EU will help lower borrow-ing costs, Finance MinisterGeorge Papaconstantinou saidTuesday.

The country has aroundeuro20 billion ($27.1 billion) ofdebt maturing over the nextcouple of months and has re-peatedly said it wants to avoidpaying sky-high premiums toraise money from internationalbond markets. It has announceda harsh euro4.8 billion ($6.5 bil-lion) austerity plan designed tobring down its massive deficitand persuade financial marketsit can deal with its debt crisis.But markets have so far beenunconvinced, and Greece facesborrowing costs that are doublethose of Germany’s.

Papaconstantinou insistedAthens does not want a cashbailout.

“I want to make somethingvery clear: Greece has not askedfunding from anyone. We knowvery well that the problems ofGreece are our own problems,”he said during a financial con-ference in Athens, adding that“the way to borrow at goodrates is for us to faithfully fol-low our (austerity) program.”

The government has said thatunless it can borrow at morereasonable rates, it might have

Inter-AmericanInter-AmericanInter-AmericanInter-AmericanInter-AmericanBank boosts capitalBank boosts capitalBank boosts capitalBank boosts capitalBank boosts capitalby $70 billionby $70 billionby $70 billionby $70 billionby $70 billionAgence France Presse

CANCUN – The governing board of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has agreedto boost its capital by 70 billion dollars, almost doubling its capacity to make loans to countries inthe region.

discuss the institution’s future op-erations and development chal-lenges facing Latin America and theCaribbean.

Moreno said earlier this monththat the bank was under pressure toexpand its capital because its lend-ing capacity will start to signifi-cantly fall off next year.

But the capital increase was not aslarge as some delegations had hoped.

“This is the result for the nextthree years. But demand continuesto grow... and I don’t rule out thepossibility that in four years we’llbe returning to talk about a new in-crease in capital,” said Brazil’sMinister of Planning PauloBernardo.

“We were left with a bitter tastein our mouths because while it isan good increase, it is not the size

that Argentina and other countriesin the region wanted,” said Argen-tine Economics Minister AmadoBoudou.

But the United States praised thedecision, saying “there could be nobetter vote of confidence than aconsensus vote on a capital injec-tion of this size.”

Last year, after the global finan-cial crisis increased demands fordevelopment lending, the IDB ap-proved record financing of 15.5 bil-lion dollars — an increase of 38percent from the previous year.

The IDB comprises 48 membercountries — 26 borrowers in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean and 22non-borrowing countries, includingmain shareholder the United States,China, Japan and 16 Europeancountries.

(AFP/File/Aris Messinis)

Greek taxi drivers shout slogans during a protest in Ath-ens on March 18. The Greek debt crisis may directly affectthe US economy by hitting American exports and the fi-nancial system, Atlanta Federal Reserve regional chiefDennis Lockhart warned Monday.

Greece: can keepborrowing from markets

to turn to the International Mon-etary Fund for help. It has saidthat the outcome of a EuropeanUnion summit in Brussels Thurs-day and Friday will be crucial.

Athens is seeking details of aplan for help should it becomenecessary, in order to convincemarkets that it will not be al-lowed to default. Such a blue-print could boost market confi-dence and therefore reduceGreece’s borrowing costs.

Papaconstantinou said the dis-cussion in Brussels “is based onthe decision by EU leaders thatthe stability of the eurozone mustbe defended by all means,” add-ing that he hoped it would havea “positive outcome.”

“But regardless of this out-come, Greece will be totally ableto continue borrowing withoutdifficulty from the internationalmarkets, and fulfill its borrowingneeds — and we will do this,”Papaconstantinou said.

He stressed that he did notwant to predict the outcome ofthe summit, but that the discus-sion was not only about Greece,but about the future of Europe’sjoint euro currency.

“There is a debate in progress,a debate that is quite compli-cated,” he said. “This is not onlya debate about Greece, but alsoabout the future of the euzorone,about the euro. Greece is notcoming to this debate as a beg-gar, under any circumstances.”

German reluctance over bail-ing out Greece has raised thechances that Athens could beforced to turn to the IMF.

Entertainment InternationalWednesday, March 24, 201012

Rock musical “Spring Awaken-ing” — which traveled the oppositedirection, from New York to Lon-don — took four prizes, includingbest new musical.

Weisz won for playing fadedbelle Blanche Dubois in theDonmar Warehouse production ofTennessee Williams’ steamy south-ern drama. Ruth Wilson, Stella inthe same play, was named best sup-porting actress. Weisz said it hadbeen a delight to return to the the-ater after an eight-year absence.

YOU might not even recognizeBen Stiller at the moment, for the usu-ally bulked-up, over-the-top comedicactor has transformed himself into alow-key guy for his latest film, the drycomedy “Greenberg.” With his gray-ing facial hair, longish locks andmuch-thinner frame, it took a secondto realize that the man on ChristineTaylor’s arm at the film’s premiere wasactually the same muscle-bound,black-haired maniac from “TropicThunder.” But it was, and as Stiller andhis wife greeted “Greenberg” writer-director Noah Baumbach on the redcarpet in front of Hollywood’sArclight Cinemas on Thursday, March18, to celebrate the opening of the off-beat comedy, it was obvious that Stillerhad decided to channel Baumbach’slook in order to portray the title role.

“When Noah and I got together,we talked about changing how Ilooked for the movie,” Stiller recalledat an earlier press day for the film.“He suggested growing the hair outa little bit, and then we talked abouteither gaining weight or losing weightto sort of give a different feel to him.I just felt that it was important thatthis guy wasn’t really in his body thatmuch. So we decided to go with los-ing it. I kind of wanted to go for aNoah Baumbach-type look, eventhough it’s not him in the movie atall. So I was just attempting to getthere. So I stopped eating. I meanthat’s it. You just have to do that.”

“Greenberg” follows the adven-tures of a slightly sad slacker, a NewYorker who heads to Los Angeles tohousesit his wealthy brother’s man-sion; in the process, Greenberg findsromance and a reason to reconnectinto life. At the low-key premiere and

SANDRA Bullock’s home inOrange County, California is un-der siege from the media, and herneighbors are furious - they’re beg-ging local lawmakers to do some-thing about the paparazzi who haveset up camp on their street, desper-ate for the first photos of the ac-tress since her marriage split.

Sunset Beach locals have com-plained to police about the noiseand actions of hardcore snappers,who have turned the neighborhoodinto a media circus.

Jim Amormino, a spokesmanfor the Orange County Sheriff’sDepartment, tells the Los AngelesTimes newspaper his agency hasreceived a number of calls fromresidents on the street where Bul-lock lives complaining about mem-bers of the media parking illegallyand loitering. He reveals officers

ANNE Hathaway has reportedly been receiving letters fromher jailed ex-fiance, conman Raffaello Follieri, begging the ac-tress to “wait” for him so they can reunite when he is releasedfrom prison. The Italian businessman was sentenced to four-and-a-half years behind bars in December 2008 after pleadingguilty to 14 counts of wire fraud, conspiracy and money laun-dering.

The Devil Wears Prada actress dumped Follieri in June 2008,shortly before he was arrested by federal authorities and admit-ted to scamming more than $3.6 million from investment andreal estate firms.

The star has since embarked on a relationship with actorAdam Shulman - but Follieri has been finding it hard to moveon, and regularly writes to Hathaway begging for a secondchance, according to Britain’s Sunday Express.

A source tells the publication, “Anne fears anything she saysto him will lead to a fresh avalanche of mail. The letters are notonly torturing Anne, they are putting pressure on her new rela-tionship.”

Ben Stiller Turns Downthe Volume at the

“Greenberg” Premiereafter party, Stiller and Baumbachjoined the movie’s co-stars GretaGerwig, Chris Messina, SusanTraylor, Brie Larson and Rhys Ifansin celebrating. Other famous fans thatturned out for the unspooling of theindependent film included HankAzaria, Jonah Hill, Greg Behrendt,Julian Sands, and Sarah Silverman.

And as for why Ben Stiller decidedto ratchet back his recent over-the-topmovie persona to star in “Greenberg,”that question was simple for him toexplain. “For me this movie was a con-scious choice to work on a film with areally great filmmaker,” Stiller said, re-ferring to Baumbach’s track record asan Academy Award best originalscreenplay nominee for his 2005 film“The Squid and the Whale.” “I’m al-ways looking for that. So this one, justto be able to do something good with afilmmaker that I respect, was very ex-citing for me.”

Fashion Wire Daily/Maria Ramirez

FWD101 Christine Taylor and BenStiller arrive at the Film premiere of“Greenberg” in Los Angeles, Cali-fornia on Thursday, March 18, 2010.

Sandra Bullock’s NeighborsComplain Of ‘Media Circus’

have been patrolling the area on aregular basis, but had found noviolations. He tells the publica-tion, “No one has been arrested.We respond to every call and dopatrols through there to make sureeverybody is behaving. But so farit’s been uneventful.

“They have every right to bethere. There is really nothing wecan do... I know it’s probably an-noying to the residents there, butthey are within their rights.” Bul-lock and her husband Jesse Jamesseparated earlier this week as newsbroke about his alleged infidelity.

A tattoo model went publicwith her affair with the TV star inU.S. magazine In Touch. Sheclaims James had a sexual rela-tionship with her while his wifewas shooting The Blind Side onlocation.

Anne Hathaway Receiving Letters From Jailed Ex

RachelWeisz

Weisz, Rylance win actingWeisz, Rylance win actingWeisz, Rylance win actingWeisz, Rylance win actingWeisz, Rylance win actingprizes at Olivier awardsprizes at Olivier awardsprizes at Olivier awardsprizes at Olivier awardsprizes at Olivier awards

RACHEL Weisz added a stage accolade to Hollywood stardom Sunday,winning the best-actress prize at London’s Laurence Olivier theater awardsfor her role in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” The prize for a Londoner madegood in the U.S. was fitting on a night that rewarded several Broadway-bound productions, including “Enron,” “Red” and “The Mountaintop,” aplay about Martin Luther King by 28-year-old American writer Katori Hall.

“I think it’s the greatest feeling in theworld, being on stage,” she said. “Theadrenaline you get from it ... I think it’svery good for you as an actor.” MarkRylance was named best actor for play-ing charismatic rebel Johnny “Rooster”Byron in Jez Butterworth’s riotous ruraldrama “Jerusalem.” He beat contendersincluding Jude Law, for an acclaimed“Hamlet.” “Somebody asked me what it’slike to be up against Jude Law,” Rylancesaid. “I don’t know what that experienceis like. I’m sure it’s very nice.”

Hall was the surprise winner in the

best play category for “The Mountaintop,” adrama about civil rights leader King set onthe night before his assassination. The playopened in London at the 65-seat Theatre503last year before transferring to the West End.It is scheduled to open on Broadway in thefall. Hall is only the third woman, and thefirst black woman, to win the best new playprize in the Oliviers’ 34-year history.

She attributed her success to King’s statusas a “universal hero.” “I thought that becauseit was an American story about an Americanhero, no one would want to hear it over here,”Hall said. “But I was proved wrong.”

“The Mountaintop” beat the heavily fa-vored “Jerusalem” and Lucy Prebble’s“Enron,” an entertaining account of theTexas energy giant’s fall. Rupert Goold wasnamed best director for “Enron,” whichopens at New York’s Broadhurst Theatrenext month.

International Wednesday, March 24, 2010 13Life Style

TV footage showed lava flowingalong the fissure, and many flightswere canceled due to the threat ofairborne volcanic ash. After anaerial survey Sunday, scientists con-cluded the eruption struck near theglacier in an area that had no ice.“This is the best possible place foran eruption,” said TumiGudmundsson, a geologist at theUniversity of Iceland. Nonetheless,officials sent phone messages to 450people between the farming villageof Hvolsvollur and the fishing vil-lage of Vik, some 100 miles (160kilometers) southeast of the capital,Reykjavik, urging them to evacuateimmediately.

A state of emergency was de-clared although there were no im-mediate reports of injuries or dam-age. Evacuation centers were set upnear the town of Hella, but manypeople returned to their homes laterSunday. The most immediate threatwas to livestock because of thecaustic gases the eruption released.“We had to leave all our animalsbehind,” Eli Ragnarsdottir, a 47-year-old farmer, told RUV, Iceland’snational broadcaster from an evacu-ation center. “We got a call and atext message ... and we just went.”

Scientists say it is difficult to pre-dict what comes next. Like earth-quakes, it is hard to predict the ex-act timing of volcanic eruptions.

“It could stop tomorrow, it couldlast for weeks or months. We can-not say at this stage,” Gudmundsson

Associated Press Writer

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – Whensnow falls on this downtown of brickbuildings and glass storefronts insouthern Oregon, it piles up every-where but the sidewalks. It’s the firstsign that this timber and ranchingtown is like few others. A combina-tion of hot rocks and water like thosethat created Yellowstone’s geysershave been tapped by the city to keepthe sidewalks toasty since the early1990s. They also heat downtownbuildings, kettles at a brewhouse, andgreenhouses and keep the lights on ata college campus.

Geothermal wells in this townof 20,000 mark one of the nation’smost ambitious uses of a greenenergy resource with a tiny carbonfootprint, and could serve as amodel for a still-fledgling indus-try that is gaining steam with $338million in stimulus funds and morethan 100 projects nationwide. “Wedidn’t know it was green. It justmade sense,” said City ManagerJeff Ball. Geothermal energy isunknown in much of the countrybut accounts for 0.5 percent of thenation’s energy production.

It can be seen on a snowy dayin a handful of Western towns likeKlamath Falls. That’s because hotrock is closer to the surface here,and comes with the water neededto bring the energy to the surface.Northern California is home to theworld’s largest geothermal powercomplex. The Geysers, 75 milesnorth of San Francisco, producesenough electricity for 750,000homes. With more than 600 geo-thermal wells heating houses,schools and a hospital as well asturning the turbine on a smallpower plant, Klamath Falls showswhat everyday life could be ifstimulus grants and venture capi-talists turn geothermal energy froma Western curiosity to a game-changing energy resource.

Until now, geothermal energyhas been limited by having to findthe three essentials ingredients oc-

In this aerialphoto, showingmolten lava as itvents from arupture near theEyjafjallajokullglacier inIceland, as avolcano eruptsearly SundayMarch 21, 2010.some hundredsof people havebeen evacuatedfrom a smallvillage insouthernIceland onSunday after avolcaniceruption whichshot ash andmolten lava intothe air, the firstmajor eruptionhere in nearly200 years.

Iceland fears 2nd, evenIceland fears 2nd, evenIceland fears 2nd, evenIceland fears 2nd, evenIceland fears 2nd, evenlarger volcanic eruptionlarger volcanic eruptionlarger volcanic eruptionlarger volcanic eruptionlarger volcanic eruptionAssociated Press Writer

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – A volcano in southern Iceland has erupted for the first time in almost 200 years,raising concerns that it could trigger a larger and potentially more dangerous eruption at a volatile volcanonearby. The eruption at the Eyjafjallajokull (AYA-feeyapla-yurkul) volcano, located near a glacier of thesame name, shot ash and molten lava into the air but scientists called it mostly peaceful. It occurred justbefore midnight Saturday (2000 EDT, 8 p.m. EDT) at a fissure on a slope — rather than at the volcano’ssummit — so scientists said there was no imminent danger that the glacier would melt and flood the area.

said. The last time there was an erup-tion near the 100-square-mile (160square-kilometer) Eyjafjallajokullglacier was in 1821, and that was a“lazy” eruption — it lasted slowlyand continuously for two years. Thelatest eruption came after thousandsof small earthquakes rocked the areain the past month. Scientists in Ice-land have been monitoring the vol-cano using seismometers and globalpositioning instruments, butGudmundsson noted that the begin-ning of Saturday’s eruption was soindistinct that it initially went unde-tected by the instruments.

“The volcano has been inflatingsince the beginning of the year, bothrising and swelling,” said PallEinarsson, a geophysicist at the Uni-versity of Iceland’s Institute of EarthScience. “Even though we were see-ing increased seismic activity, itcould have been months or yearsbefore we saw an eruption like this... we couldn’t say that there was animminent risk for the area.”Einarsson and Gudmundsson saidthe eruption could trigger a moredamaging eruption at the nearbyKarla volcano, which lies under thethick Myrdalsjokull icecap andthreatens massive flooding and ex-plosive blasts if it erupts. “One ofthe possible scenarios we’re lookingat is that this small eruption couldbring about something bigger. Thissaid, we can’t speculate on when thatcould happen,” Einarsson told TheAssociated Press.

Iceland, a nation of 320,000people, sits on a large volcanic hotspot in the Atlantic’s mid-oceanicridge. Volcanic eruptions, commonthroughout Iceland’s history, are of-ten triggered by seismic activitywhen the Earth’s plates move andwhen magma from deep under-ground pushes it’s way to the sur-face. All domestic flights in Icelandwere canceled because airborne ashmight interfere with aircraft engines,although Reykjavik appeared to beunaffected with clear visibility. Avia-tion authorities were to determinewhether it is safe to fly again earlyMonday. A flight to Oslo was can-celed, but most international flightsinto and out of Iceland were delayedbut returning to normal, Icelandairsaid. The airline’s flights from theU.S. — departing from Seattle, Bos-ton and Orlando, Florida — weredue later Sunday in Reykjavik. Ear-lier, a flight was turned back to Bos-ton, leaving about 500 people wait-ing for hours.

First settled by Vikings in the 9thcentury, Iceland is known as the landof fire and ice because of its volca-nos and glaciers. During the MiddleAges, Icelanders called the Heklavolcano, the country’s most active,the “Gateway to Hell,” believing thatsouls were dragged below. In themid-1780s, the Laki volcanoerupted, causing scores to die of fam-ine when livestock and crops weredestroyed and changing weather pat-terns across Europe.

AP Photo/Ragnar Axelsson

Ore. town uses geothermalenergy to stay warm

curring together in one place natu-rally: hot rock relatively close to thesurface, water, and cracks in the rockthat serve as a reservoir. Those limi-tations go away if engineers cantame a technology known as EGS,for Enhanced Geothermal Systems.A 2007 Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology report estimates thatEGS, with support, could be produc-ing 100 gigawatts of electricity —equivalent to 1,000 coal-fired ornuclear power plants — by 2050,and has the potential to generate alarge fraction of the nation’s energyneeds for centuries to come.

“If we are going to try to achievea transformational change in thiscountry, geothermal should be partof that recipe,” said JeffersonTester, chairman of the committeethat produced the report and pro-fessor of sustainable energy atCornell University. “It’s not treatedthat way. It’s typically forgotten.”One form of EGS involves drillingthousands of feet down to reach hotrock, pumping water down to frac-ture the rock to create reservoirs,then sending down water that willcome back up another well as hotwater or steam that can spin a tur-bine to generate electricity.

The system can be dropped inpractically anywhere that hot rocks areclose enough to the surface to makedrilling economical. The major prob-lem with EGS is the potential to cre-ate earthquakes. Pumping water intothe ground to open numerous tinyfractures in the rock for a reservoirmakes the earth move — what scien-tists call induced seismicity. Earth-quakes stopped an EGS project in themiddle of Basel, Switzerland, lastyear, and an international protocol hasbeen developed for monitoring andmitigating earthquake problems. Aslong as the wells are not close to ma-jor earthquake faults, “it is not dam-aging, but very upsetting to the com-munity that lives literally on top of it,”said Ernie Majer, a seismologist atLawrence Berkeley National Labora-tory in California, and lead author onthe protocol.

AP Photo/Jeff Barnard

In this March 10, 2010 photo, dawn breaks on downtown KlamathFalls, Ore., to reveal that sidewalks heated by geothermal energyhave stayed clear while a park bench, trash receptacle and the streetare dusted with snow. A brew pub, greenhouses, and college class-rooms all use heat from volcanic rocks in this timber and ranchingtown. It serves as a model for a fledgling geothermal energy indus-try that is gaining steam with $338 million in stimulus funding.

Wednesday, March 24, 201014 InternationalSport

Bruno’s agent said the formerfighter was “very upset” at thenews.

He said: “When I told him, hesaid it was ‘terrible, sad news’.“Frank has many acquaintancesbut not many real friends. HarryCarpenter was a friend.” Carpen-ter famously appeared to momen-tarily lose his neutral stance dur-ing Bruno’s world title fightagainst Mike Tyson in Las Vegasin 1989, as he said: “Go on... getin there, Frank.”

He worked as a sports re-porter on national newspapersbefore joining the BBC andcommentated on major sportingevents including Wimbledon andthe university boat race. But it wasas the public face - and voice - ofthe corporation’s boxing coveragethat he became best known. An-

Agence France - Presse

MIAMI – Top seed Roger Federer andfourth seed Rafael Nadal will be workingto polish their games as the world’s toptwo aim to make amends on court at theMiami WTA and ATP Masters starting onTuesday. Also keen for some change infortune after disappointing results at thejust-concluded Indian Wells Masters willbe holder Andy Murray and losing 2009finalist Novak Djokovic, both of whomjoined their rivals in early California exitslast week.

British third seed Murray will need aquick improvement after a disappointingdesert trip as he lost in straight sets to pow-erful Swede Robin Soderling. Serbian sec-ond seed Djokovic was victim of the even-tual champion Ivan Ljubicic in the fourthround. World number one Federer was am-bushed in the desert as he went down toMarcos Baghdatis in the third round afterbeating the Cypriot in their six previousmatches.

As usual, the Swiss refused to pushpanic buttons, instead relying on old-fash-ioned practise sessions to put him right.“I need to play matches,” Federer said.”Ihope to get more in Miami. I’ll definitelyplay a lot of practice sets until then.” Nadalsuffered an equally disheartening reversalof fortune at the semi-final stage in theCalifornian desert, losing in a three-setcomeback to Croatian Ljubicic, who isbreathing new life into his game at the ageof 31 after beating Andy Roddick to takethe Indian Wells title.

“That’s tennis. I played bad,” Nadalsaid. “I’m going to try to win in Miami.”

Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Zach Randolph had25 points and 12 rebounds, and the Memphis Griz-zlies used the streaky shooting of O.J. Mayo inthe fourth quarter to beat the Sacramento Kings102-85 on Monday night.

After missing 11 of his first 14 shots, Mayogot going midway through the fourth quarter. Withthe Grizzlies leading by a point, Mayo made fourstraight jumpers and scored 10 points in just overtwo minutes, including a pair of 3-pointers thatput Memphis ahead 92-83 with 3:28 remaining.

Mayo had 20 points and Rudy Gay 17. MikeConley scored 12 points and Hasheem Thabeetadded 10 for the Grizzlies, who outscored theKings 51-33 in the second half. Carl Landry scored23 for the Kings, who have lost three of four. BenoUdrih had 18 points and 10 assists, and SpencerHawes added 13 points. The Kings start a five-game road trip Wednesday against New Jerseyand don’t play another home game until April 3against Portland.

Memphis (38-33) has won two straight and

(AP Photo/Bob Dear, File )

Britain’s heavyweight boxer Frank Bruno, left, with his friend,BBC Sports Commentator Harry Carpenter, during a press con-ference at Bruno’s training headquarters in Canning Town, Lon-don, in this May 22, 1986 file photo. Carpenter, the BBC’s “voiceof boxing” for more than 40 years, has died at the age of 84. Hedied in his sleep in London in the early hours of Saturday morn-ing, the BBC reported on Monday March 22 2010. He joined theBBC in 1949 and commentated on the great ‘Rumble in theJungle’ heavyweight fight between Muhammad Ali and GeorgeForeman in the former Zaire in 1974.

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London - Former world heavyweight champion Frank Bruno has spoken of his sadness at thedeath of BBC commentator Harry Carpenter, describing the legendary broadcaster as a “realfriend”. Carpenter died aged 84 on Saturday at King’s College Hospital, London. During hislengthy career he became closely identified with Bruno, whose catchphrase “Know what I mean,‘arry?” featured in their post-fight interviews.

other former heavyweight champion,George Foreman, felt Carpenter wasa classy operator, with the broad-caster having covered Foreman’s1974 clash with Muhammad Ali inZaire - the legendary Rumble in theJungle.

Foreman told BBC Radio FiveLive: “We all knew if there was go-ing to be some class in boxing, some-one who really brought out boxingand the human being probably, itwould be Harry - great Harry. “Wewere all accustomed to boxingpeople bustling in and arguing butHarry was a real classy human be-ing. Always a good smile, stickingright to the point as though he wantedto give the public a bird’s eye viewof the human being and of theboxer.”

Former world champion BarryMcGuigan said his memories of Car-

penter went back to some of his ear-liest amateur fights. He said: “If Harrywas there, you knew there was realinterest in the fight. He was a lovely,quiet man. A real gentleman. He knewso much about the sport. He was anencyclopaedia of boxing and it wasalways a pleasure to meet him.”

Another former world cham-pion, John Conteh, paid tribute to hisspecial understanding of boxing. Hesaid: “He had the sort of spirit andpassion for the sport that everyoneinvolved could feel.” Boxing pro-moter Frank Maloney said Carpen-ter was “the voice of boxing”. Hesaid: “He was probably one of thegreatest commentators of all time.

“His voice was so distinctive andI remember all those Ali fights andBruno fights he commentated on. It’slike a piece of boxing history hasbeen taken away.”

Mayo gets hot in 4th tolead Grizzlies over Kings

Memphis Grizzlies

forward Rudy Gay, right,

protects the ball from

Sacramento Kings

forward Dominic

McGuire during the first

quarter of an NBA

basketball in Sacra-

mento, Calif., Monday,

March 22, 2010.

Tennis aces all seekimprovement in Miami

As at Indian Wells, leading seeds all benefitfrom first-round byes as lesser lights go intoaction at Crandon Park on the island of KeyBiscayne at the joint ATP-WTA tournament.Both Switzerland’s Federer and Spanish ri-val Nadal will be competing in only theirsecond event since the Australian Open,where Federer beat Murray for the title andNadal quit in the quarter-finals - againstMurray - due to a knee problem.

The Miami tournament. which ismarked by its unique Latin flavor, willmark a change for Nadal, who slipped tofourth in the rankings from third after fail-ing to defend his Indian Wells title. A rashof injury pullouts has affected the men’sand women’s draws, with the WTA drawnow missing both Serena Williams out withher continuing knee injury and numberthree Dinara Safina, dealing with a long-term back problem. Two-time losing final-ist Maria Sharapova was forced into a latewithdrawal after a scan showed bone bruis-ing in her elbow.

The absentee list leaves SvetlanaKuznetsova as the top seed, with the 2006champion eager to make amends for heropening-match Indian Wells embarrass-ment against Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro.Venus Williams is healthy and represent-ing the family at what is considered a home-town event for the Florida sister act. DaneCaroline Wozniacki will be playing as sec-ond in the world displacing Safina in herankings as a result of her Indian Wells fi-nal. Out of the men’s field will be numberfive Juan Martin Del Potro, still sufferingwith a wrist injury, and Russian NikolayDavydenko, the 2008 champion absent asa broken wrist heals.

eight of 11. But with only 11 games remaining,the Grizzlies may have a tough time catching Port-land for the eighth and final Western Conferenceplayoff berth. They are in ninth place and trail theBlazers by four games.

The Grizzlies were without starting center MarcGasol, who missed his third straight game with astrained neck.

The Kings played their second straight with-out injured Tyreke Evans, who leads all rookies inscoring (20.3). Evans suffered a mild concussion,a bruised jaw, lacerated gums and chipped teethafter taking an inadvertent elbow going for a looseball in a March 19 double-overtime loss to Mil-waukee. Evans will also miss Wednesday’s gamein New Jersey, but could return Friday in Boston.Randolph scored eight points in the third quarter,when the Grizzlies outscored the Kings 24-18 andtook a 75-70 lead into the fourth.

Landry scored 13 first-half points and Haweshad 11 for the Kings, who ran off 16 unansweredpoints in the second quarter and led 52-51 at thehalf. Randolph scored 13 points for Memphis andGay had 11.

(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Milan had the opportunity to gotop on Sunday after Inter’s 1-1 drawwith Palermo, but they muffed theirlines and also ended up drawing athome to Napoli. “They have wasted abig chance and now can’t catch us any-more,” Mourinho apparently said.

Inter haven’t won any of theirlast three games in Serie A and arenow just one point ahead of Milan.Massimo Moratti and Julio Cesarboth claimed they were unconcernedand that the team is fully focusedahead of Wednesday’s match againstLivorno. Inter then travel to faceRoma at the Stadio Olimpico on Sun-day in what could be another title de-cider in Serie A.

Meanwhile AC Milan have con-firmed that Alexandre Pato sufferedanother tear to his right thighmuscle. The striker has barely setfoot on the field in 2010 and madehis comeback in Sunday’s 1-1 drawwith Napoli. However, he lasted

They can’t catch us, says MouThey can’t catch us, says MouThey can’t catch us, says MouThey can’t catch us, says MouThey can’t catch us, says MouMilan -

Inter boss Jose Mourinho apparently rallied his playersat training this morning with a cry of ‘they can’t catchus’. Il Corriere dello Sport understands that Mourinho waskeen to play down Inter’s worst run in the League sincethe 2004-05 season.

only 10 minutes before pulling upand calling for a substitution.

“AC Milan announce that Patounderwent medical tests to discover afirst degree tear in the right femoralbicep, at the junction with the tendon,”read the statement. “In the next fewdays Pato will undergo further tests.” Itis not clear how long he will be out forthis time, but reports suggest anythingup to three weeks. It is the latest relapsefor the young Brazilian, who has beendogged by muscular problems this sea-son. Since the start of January, he hassuffered four different injuries, all re-lapses in roughly the same area.

Inter Milan coach JoseMourinho, of Portugal,

gestures prior to the start ofthe Serie A soccer match

between Palermo and InterMilan, in Palermo, Italy,

Saturday, March 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Agence France - Presse

MANCHESTER, England – En-gland captain Rio Ferdinand believesemerging in front from a three horserace will make it all the sweeter forchampions Manchester United if theyretain their Premier League title thisseason. United are two points clear atthe top of the table following Sunday’sresults which saw Sir Alex Ferguson’smen beat bitter rivals Liverpool whileChelsea, who have a game in hand,slipped up in a draw with BlackburnRovers that left them four points adriftof the leaders.

Meanwhile Arsenal have nowmoved into second place, two pointsbehind United and with a worse goaldifference. It all adds up to an intrigu-ing finale with United seeking an un-

Agence France – Presse

LIVERPOOL, England –Liverpool manager Rafael Benitezhas conceded the club’s quest for aChampions League place is no longerin their own hands. Sunday’s 2-1 de-feat by leaders and bitter rivalsManchester United droppedLiverpool to sixth spot in the PremierLeague table and left the Anfield clubfour points behind Tottenham, whocurrently occupy the fourth and finalplace on offer to English clubs fornext season’s Champions League.

Benitez made headlines earlierthis term when he “guaranteed”Liverpool a top four finish. Manches-ter City are fifth in the table, twopoints ahead of the Reds. They alsohave two games in hand, as do sev-enth-placed Aston Villa. Liverpoolhave seven league games of the leftand Benitez knows they will nowneed to win close to all of them tomake sure the Merseysiders are in thelucrative Champions League nextterm.

“We knew the game againstUnited would be very tough. Thequestion is now about the otherteams,” said Benitez. “Tottenhamwon at the weekend but we have tokeep going. We know they have tomake mistakes and we have to keepwinning games to reduce the gap andbe there,” the Spaniard added. “Thereare still a lot of points to be playedfor so we have to keep going. If wecan win our games we will be thereat the end. As a manager you have to

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precedented fourth straight English titleand what would be a record 19th over-all. “This is probably the best title run-in for years,” said Ferdinand. “Thereare three teams in it, which makes itfantastic for the fans and the neutrals towatch,” the centre-back added.

“But we just want to finish on top.That is what we are aiming to do.”

Meanwhile South Korea midfielderPark Ji-Sung enhanced his growingstatus as a United hero by divingbravely to head the winner againstLiverpool, a goal that capped a fineall-round display. “The maths areeasy,” he said. “We have seven gamesleft. If we win every one, we win thetitle. It is not going to be easy and itcould go to the last game. But we be-lieve in ourselves. If we keep playingto our present level we can do it.”

(AP Photo/Tim Hales)

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez reacts against Lille duringtheir Europa League round of 16, second leg soccer match atAnfield, Liverpool, England, Thursday March 18, 2010.

Benitez admits Liverpoolneed rivals to slip-up

believe. It will be more difficult butwe have to keep pushing and I thinkwe can do it.”

“This year is a difficult year withtoo many things against us but stillwe have to keep fighting and I amconfident the team will be ready forthe next game against Sunderland (onSunday).” The loss at Old Traffordcame at the end of a week which sawLiverpool beat bottom of the tablePortsmouth 4-1 and defeat Lille 3-0in the Europa League.

And Benitez insisted the defeat byUnited had to be put in context.

“The team was doing well lastweek, playing well and scoring a lotof goals,” he said. “You could seethey started well against United. Ifyou go there and don’t perform ordon’t show character or are not strongenough that is not good. But weshowed we can beat anyone if we playwell and if we have some chances wehave to take them and it could havebeen totally different. The team wasnot fantastic but it was not worse thanUnited. You couldn’t see the differ-ence in the table out on the pitch. Idon’t think it is a setback.”

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“I think that even if you had wonthe race, you would have thought‘where was the action?’,” Button wasquoted as saying by Reuters. “It’s asport that I love and it’s tough to see aprocession.” He hopes that the lack ofaction at Sakhir will prove to be just ablip. “I’m not going to say ‘What arewe going to do about it? It’s terrible’because I think we’ve got to wait andsee,” said Button.

“It’s only one race in, so it’s notthe end of the world. There’s still an-other 18 races to go. There’s still ev-ery chance it’s going to be a fantasticseason. We just have to see what hap-pens over the next few races and thenpeople have got to start making thedecisions if it’s not going in the rightdirection.” Lewis Hamilton is optimis-tic that next weekend’s Melbournerace will be more entertaining purelybecause of the nature of the circuit.

“You’ve got assume that the nextrace will be more exciting,” he said.“There will be more people there,there should be more of an atmospherein Australia as there always is. Thetrack should be more favourable to thecars, it is a street circuit so it’s not theeasiest place to overtake but it shouldbe more exciting.” Button reckons theTHE Hispania team says its

goal for next weekend’s Austra-lian Grand Prix is to get one ofits cars to the finish of a race forthe first time. After its eleventhhour rescue by co-owner JoseRamon Carabante and new teamboss Colin Kolles, Hispania ar-rived in Bahrain having not testedand with neither car ready to hitthe track.

Bruno Senna eventually madeit out in Friday practice andreached lap 17 of the race beforeretiring due to overheating, while

Button: Give F1 2010 time to improveWorld champion Jenson Button has warned against knee-jerk

changes in the wake of the uneventful season opener in Bahrain -but acknowledged that the opening round of the 2010 campaignhad been a disappointing spectacle. The first race of the new no-refuelling era was largely resolved in the single early pitstops,and would have been settled by lap 17 of 49 had early leaderSebastian Vettel not lost power and fallen from first to fourth.

feverish pre-season excitement gener-ated by the winter driver moves, thereturn of Michael Schumacher and therule changes made Bahrain more ofan anti-climax than would have beenthe case had there been less hype aboutthe 2010 field.

“I think we all put a lot of pressureon ourselves in Bahrain because ev-eryone was saying ‘it’s going to be thebest year ever in Formula 1' so we putthe pressure on ourselves to perform,”Button said. “But it wasn’t an excit-ing race to watch.” He reckons the2009 season saw the ideal level of ex-citement and overtaking. “Even lastyear, people were saying that the rac-ing can be boring, there isn’t enoughovertaking. But for me last year thebalance was good,” said Button.

“You had overtaking, not a lot, butyou had overtaking and when you didmake a move it was a hell of a moveand it was exciting.” He added thatwhile the race format might requiretweaking to ensure excitement, he wasdelighted with the return of low fuelqualifying right through to Q3. “I thinkthat’s great. In that area we’ve reallymade a step forward, having low fueland cars on the limit with low fuel,”Button said.

AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

British Formula One drivers Lewis Hamilton, left, and Jenson Button, right, are seen in front ofa screen showing the new Mclaren MP4-12C Automotive at it’s unveiling at the Mclaren Tech-nology Centre in Woking, England, Thursday, March 18, 2010. Manufacturing of the car willbegin in spring 2011, and the car will cost between 125,000- 175,000 Pounds (190,000-270,000US Dollars).

Hispania sets sights on race finishhis team-mate Karun Chandhokcould not run until qualifying andthen crashed on lap two of the race.Kolles says the team has put in ahuge effort since Sakhir to ensure itcan complete more mileage inMelbourne.

“We have worked extremely hardsince the Bahrain season opener,” hesaid. “We have worked long hoursand successfully with Bridgestone,Cosworth and Xtrac learned from ourfirst laps with the car and found agood basis from which to start prepa-ration for our second grand prix in

Australia in a few days. Our goalis to improve steadily and the nextstep is to work towards our firstrace finish. I am confident we willachieve this goal very soon andhaving seen how we came togetheras a team in Bahrain I can see justhow much potential and commit-ment we have.”

Chandhok agreed that just see-ing the chequered flag would behugely satisfying at this stage.“Finishing the race would be afantastic achievement we willstrive for,” he said.

Bruno Sennaeventually made itout in Fridaypractice andreached lap 17 ofthe race atBahrain, beforeretiring due tooverheating