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The press freedom voulenteers give the petition to the member of Bali House of Representative, on Wednesday, January 18, 2012.

Bali House will summon the Governor KMPKP-HAM gave petition Denpasar (Bali Post) -

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The threat on the press freedom in Bali made hundreds of people joined in the alliance of Balinese People for Press Freedom and Human Right (KMPKP-HAM) concern. On Wednesday, January 18, 2012, they came to Bali House of Representative to ask for an action.

The KMPKP-HAM consists of press freedom volunteers, student, lawyers, and others gave the Sadaksara Petition to the member

of the House. There were received by the Head of Bali House A.A. Ngurah Oka Ratmadi, accompanied by the head of commission I,

I Made Arjaya and the secretary, Pande Maliana.

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The Head of Indonesian Constitution Council, Mahfud MD, visited K Nadha press building on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. He received by the CEO of Bali Post Media Group, Satria Naradha, and the Rector of Mahendradatta University, Arya Wedakarna.

After a dialog about the press freedom, Mahfud MD signed the “Press Freedom” charter. Quoted

from Benyamin Constant, he wrote “Press often makes riots but without press the government will do as they like. For that reason, we must protect the freedom of press so democracy and monocracy can be carried out well.”

Mahfud MD also wrote on the Ajeg Bali inscription, “we already agreed to develop Indonesia as the unite nation, combine the big and small in one. Let us protect Bali and unite the nation in the spirit

that the alliance urge the house to resolve the dispute between Bali Governor and Bali Post.

Another member of the alliance, Agung Wardana said that the Governor as a part of the government supposed to be able to preserve the freedom of press.

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of Bhineka Tunggal Ika.” During the visit, Mahfud reminded that the nation will grow with four pillars and one of them is the press. Currently, most of the pillars are not working well including the press.

“On the other pillars, the damage is all around but on the press only the person acts that create the damage but the institution is still quite clean,” he added.

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Bali News The Legend Of The Seas Cruise Ship docked on Benoa Harbour. The ship carrying 2,300 passengers will stay in Bali for three days.

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Related to arrival of cruise ship

Tourism businessmen disappointed as uninvolved Singaraja (Bali Post)—

The arrival of the MV Seabourn Legend cruise ship that would berth at Celukan Bawang Harbor, Gerokgak Subdistrict, was in fact not well coordinated. Evidently, the regency did not inform the tourism perpetrators coalescing into the Association of the Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) of Buleleng Chapter.

Chairman of PHRI Buleleng, Dewa Ketut Suardipa, said on Wednesday (Jan 18) that he got information if a cruise ship would berth at Celukan Bawang. His party was not involved at all, both in the reception and coordination regarding the other problems. “We are not involved in the activities, let alone be informed,� he said.

According to Suardipa, a former cruise ship worker, many tourism perpetrators were disappointed because of being not involved in the coordination. In tourism-related events, the tourism organization should be involved. Anyhow, technically the tourism perpetrators knew better on how to welcome tourists. If only welcomed by the ranks of regency, it was feared the reception of tourists would be more ceremonial only.

He got information if a cruise ship would berth at Celukan Bawang carrying 208 tourists and crewmen. Government should make careful technical preparation to welcome the arrival of the cruise ship tourists. The port facility, for instance, should support the tourist needs. He pointed out that around

the harbor should be equipped with adequate toilet facilities. Similarly, the parking of vessel should be put separately between the vessel unloading freights and passenger vessel. “Do not let tourists feel disappointed with the service provided. Maybe, the cruise ship only berths at the harbor once and it is then made a jargon by government,� he said.

On the other hand, Suardipa confessed to be pessimistic if the cruise ship could anchor at the quay of Celukan Bawang Harbor.

Moreover, based on information the cruise ship would park in the middle of the sea and the passengers would be picked up by using boats to the harbor. If this happened, then it would be useless to extend the dock port, but in reality it could not be used as a cruise ship quay. In response to this condition, government should make a good preparation. If based on technical analysis Celukan Bawang was not feasible for cruise ships to berth, the vessel would preferably be diverted to Lovina Beach. It would work and be supported by adequate tourism accommodation facilities. “If the

cruise ship parks in the middle of the ocean with a distance of some 1 mile from the land, what are the reasons to choose Celukan Bawang that is very far from tourist accommodation? On Lovina Beach, the ship could also park in the middle of the ocean. Our colleagues could set up a more adequate accommodation and facilities to pick up to cruise ship. Therefore, it will not complicate the tourists,� he explained.

Meanwhile, ahead of the arrival of the MV Seabourn Legend cruise ship, the Regent of Buleleng, Putu Bagiada, expressed his readiness to welcome the tourists travelling with the cruise ship from America.

The regent was also ready to welcome the tourists by offering tour packages to eleven destinations in Buleleng. Based on site inspection, the vessel would be likely to park outside the quay and then the tourists would be picked up by using boats to seaside. “We are ready to welcome the arrival of cruise ships to Buleleng and this will make a sustainable experience that Buleleng has owned a cruise ship harbor,� he said. (kmb)

Weak handling, rabies-free Bali by 2012 just a chimera Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Rabies remains a frightening specter in 2012. A member of Commission 4 of Bali House, Wayan Rawan Atmaja, said on Wednesday (Jan 18) the program of rabies-free Bali by 2012 could not be achieved and would be only a chimera.

It happened due to weak handling of rabies, including the prevention. Procurement of anti-rabies serum (SAR) was still considered minimal so that it could endanger the life of rabies victims.

According to him, so far the related agencies were not responsive to the actual conditions in the community so the rabies handling was not optimal.

He considered the anticipation of rabies was still very weak and even the government seemed overwhelmed when the case appeared and spread.

He said that many dogs had not been vaccinated. Additionally, there were also many rabies cases until claiming casualties.

He pointed out there was a resident of Nusa Dua bitten by a dog not long ago and the victim eventually died.

Likewise, the anti-rabies serum (SAR) was considered very expensive. Even, people often did not get it in the government hospital. As consequence, the family had to get it in private hospitals at higher price to save their life. “If SAR is unavailable, it can endanger the life of rabies victim. It is also very detrimental to the community if they have to buy in private hospitals at a more expensive price. If people buy the SAR in private hospitals as unavailable in the government hospital, government should reimburse them. Do not aggravate their miseries,� said the politician from Nusa Dua. With those problems, he said, the rabies-free Bali by 2012 was ascertained

to fail and would become as chimera only. “I am pessimistic if the rabiesfree Bali will fail if the handling is still slow like this. Related agencies should FKHFN WKH VLWXDWLRQ LQ WKH ÂżHOG PRUH frequently so that it can be anticipated more quickly,â€? he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Bali Health Agency, Nyoman Sutedja, said the current availability of anti-rabies vaccine (VAR) was no problem. However, he admitted to be overwhelmed because there were no supplies from central government. “But, the demand for SAR is not too much because it is only for serious bite,� he said. He also confessed if the dog bite case was still quite high reaching 54, 000 in 2011. But the amount dropped from 64,000 in 2010.

Meanwhile, the mortality rate due to rabies also decreased from 83 in 2010 to 23 people in 2011.

In the meantime, the Head of Bali Livestock Agency, Putu Sumantra, said that his party had done his best to prevent the rabies by mass vaccination.

According to him, the third mass vaccination in all regencies/municipality covering 250,000 dogs would be held next March. “We are targeting the vaccination can cover 70-80 percent of the dog population,â€? he said. According to KLP LW ZDV GLIÂżFXOW WR GHWHFW WKH WRWDO dog population in Bali due to lack of people’s awareness to report their dog.

Estimated, there were some 350,000 dogs across Bali.

His party also claimed to have conducted integrated training on bite cases to minimize the impact on each bite case on human and to accelerate the observation on biting dogs. People were expected to actively report their dog at mass vaccination so the rabies could be prevented. (wid) A dog is examined by the ofďŹ cer due to perevent the spread of rabies in Bali

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Rice supplies to Bali sluggish Denpasar (Bali Post)—

Due to rainy season, the supply of superior rice from East Java to Bali was sluggish. The Bali Industry and Trade Agency recorded a decrease in the rice supply reaching 15 percent. This condition occurred a week ago.

The Head of Bali Industry and Trade Agency, Gde Darmaja, admitted such condition occurred because farmers supplying the superior rice from East Java faced crop failure due to weather anomalies.As a result, the grain production slumped and had the impact on the supply. “The rain accompanied with strong winds, which did not only happen in Bali recently, caused the supply of superior rice from East Java to reduce,� said Gde Darmaja when contacted on Wednesday (Jan 18).

Nevertheless, Darmaja said the condition had no impact on the price of rice in traditional market. Until January 18, the price of superior rice was still IDR 9,500 per kg. Sluggish supply only happened to superior rice, while the rice supply of other quality was still in safe condition. “Superior rice is mostly consumed by the upper-to-middle class society.

Rice supply of other quality is still safe because it is brought in from various areas,� he explained.

To overcome the decline in the rice supply from East Java to Bali, Darmaja acknowledged that Logistic Agency (Bulog) had helped supply from the parent agency to Bali. “It has been assisted by Logistic Agency to address the shortage of superior rice,� he said.

Meanwhile, regarding the price of foodstuff before the Chinese New Year celebration, Darmaja asserted that it was basically still normal. Only a few basic commodities lived through a price hike, even the increase of basic commodities was also not purely caused by Chinese New Year. Âł&KLQHVH 1HZ <HDU KDG OLWWOH LQĂ&#x20AC;XHQFH RQ WKH SULFH KLNH EHFDXVH WKH demand is not too high. The price hike will certainly ensue ahead of GaOXQJDQ EHFDXVH WKH GHPDQG ZLOO GHÂżQLWHO\ LQFUHDVH ´ KH H[SODLQHG Darmaja continued that price hike happened to broiler meat, where previously it lay at IDR 25,000 and then increased to IDR 28,000 per kg.

Meanwhile, the price of local chicken meat increased to IDR 38,000 per kg from IDR 35,000. (par)

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A woman is carrying her son through the flood which happen on Seririt Subdistrict, Buleleng

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heavy rains, the water supply from the upstream region could not be accommodated in the river so it RYHUĂ&#x20AC;RZHG RQWR WKH VWUHHW 2WKHU than the streets, several houses, LQFOXGLQJ WKH RIÂżFH RI WKH 0XQLFLpality Waterworks (PDAM), were also inundated. Even, a number of cars and motorcycles balked because they were desperate to breach the high enough puddles.

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resolve the problem such as by requesting assistance to government. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We submitted a proposal in 2010, but until now we did not get any response,â&#x20AC;? he said.

According to Sutarma, the IUHTXHQW Ă&#x20AC;RRGLQJ LQ WKH DUHD RFcurred because the road was lower than the surrounding plains. Such condition was exacerbated by the narrowing of river borderline as the residents did not build their house pursuant to the rules. â&#x20AC;&#x153;House construction of residents living on the river border exceeds the borderline so the watershed is getting narrower,â&#x20AC;? he said. (kmb15)

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The Head of Denpasar Public Works Agency, I Ketut Winarta, when met in Denpasar on Wednesday (Jan 18) said the efforts to minimize Ă&#x20AC;RRGLQJ KDG EHHQ ORQJ GHVLJQHG +RZHYHU GXH WR UHVWULFWHG IXQGV the handling was carried out in stages. Denpasar already had owned a master plan undertaken in stages. :LQDUWD DGPLWWHG WKDW Ă&#x20AC;RRG SUHYHQWLRQ LQ 'HQSDVDU UHTXLUHG D ODUJH amount of funds, while the fund available in the regional budget was very limited. Therefore, the work implemented was only in the form of maintenance to the existing drainage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To shore up this effort, it is needed a lot of funds and will be coordinated with central government and provincial government,â&#x20AC;? explained Winarta.

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5DL 0DQWUD PHQWLRQHG WKH IXQGLQJ IRU Ă&#x20AC;RRG FRXQWHUPHDVXUH VRXUFHG from the State Budget and Regional Budget of Denpasar. The budget from central government would be disbursed in stages. First phase amounted to IDR 99 billion. The funding was expected to overcome the puddle at some points in Denpasar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The problem on the area of Jalan Bumi Ayu and Jalan Sekuta Sanur has been addressed. But, since it is a serious problem, the central government will also participate to cope with. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is the most severe problem because the area has a basin like a skillet. It has to be sucked with a pump specially brought in from Korea,â&#x20AC;? said Rai Mantra. (kmb12)

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Divers resume search for 21 missing from ship Associated Press Writer

ROME — Divers resumed the search Thursday for 21 people still missing after a cruise ship capsized off the Tuscan coast, but rough seas forecast for later in the day added an element of uncertainty to the operation and plans to begin pumping fuel from the stranded vessel.

The $450 million Costa Concordia was carrying more than 4,200 passengers and crew when it slammed into a reef and capsized Friday after the captain made an unauthorized diversion from his programmed route and strayed into the perilous waters.

Eleven people have been confirmed dead, their bodies removed from the ship and frigid waters.

Divers were focusing on an evacuation route on the fourth level, now about 18 meters (60 feet) below the surface, where five bodies were found earlier this week, Navy spokesman Alessandro Busonero told Sky TG 24.

Officials restarted the search after

determining the ship had stabilized after shifting on the rocks 24 hours earlier.

The ship’s sudden movement also postponed the start of the weekslong operation to extract the half-million gallons of fuel on board the vessel, as Italy’s environment minister warned Parliament of the ecological implications if the ship sinks.

“Today is an important day, the weather forecasts are negative, rough sea, we’ll have to see how the ship reacts to that,” firefighter spokesman Luca Cari said Thursday.

Authorities on Wednesday identified the first victim: Sandor Feher, a 38-year-old Hungarian musician working aboard, who a fellow musician said helped crying children into lifejackets, then disappeared while trying to retrieve his beloved violin from his cabin. His body was found inside the wreck and identified by his mother who traveled to Italy, according to the Hungarian Foreign Ministry.

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Seattle faces unusually strong snowfall

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Snow blankets cars and homes in Tacoma, Wash., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. A widespread snowstorm walloped western Washington on Wednesday with the heaviest blow missing Seattle and hitting the Olympia area, causing accidents, closing schools and canceling flights at Sea-Tac Airport.

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SEATTLE - A Pacific storm blanketed Seattle in more than 4 inches of snow on Wednesday, forcing school closures and airline flight cancellations and snarling traffic throughout a city more accustomed to rain than severe winter weather.

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In this photo taken on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, and made available Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, Francesco Schettino, right, the captain of the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground Friday off the tiny Tuscan island of Isola del Giglio, is taken into custody by Carabinieri in Porto Santo Stefano, Italy.

But the storm, nicknamed “Snowmageddon” as it approached the Puget Sound region, proved less extreme than originally forecast, with the National Weather Service lowering its outlook for possible snow accumulations from up to 10 inches to around 6 inches, meteorologist Dustin Guy said.

The storm, which arrived on Tuesday evening, bore down more forefully on towns in the interior part of Washington state, where snowfall totals ranging from 10 inches to 20 inches were expected, the Weather Service said.

By midday Wednesday, 20 inches of snow already had fallen on the rural town of Rochester, just south

of the state capital of Olympia, said Rob Harper, a spokesman for the state Emergency Operations Center.

Most schools in the Seattle area were closed on Wednesday due to the storm, said Lesley Rogers, a spokeswoman for the Seattle Public Schools district.

Children took advantage of the rare snow day to sled down hilly streets, especially the city’s tallest incline, Queen Anne Hill, which towers 450 feet above nearby Elliott Bay. Four inches of snow was measured at the city’s Sea-Tac Airport by mid-morning, and the Seattle suburb of Bothell was blanketed with nearly 7 inches of snow, the Weather Service reported.

Alaska Airlines canceled over 40 flights departing from or arriving in Seattle as a result of the storm, the company said on its Facebook page. Southwest Airlines cancelled six flights into Seattle early in the day but resumed all flights by midmorning, said company spokeswoman Ashley Dillon.

The snowstorm also slowed traffic on city streets and freeways.

“There’s been tons of collisions, it’s been really slick out there,” said Julie Startup, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Patrol.

The State Patrol responded to reports of 75 collisions and spinouts in King County alone, which includes Seattle, between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m., Startup said.

Normally temperate Seattle is more accustomed to steady rain than snow in winter, averaging just 6 to 7 inches of snow each year, said National Weather Service meteorologist Brad Colman.

Putin says he’s ready for dialogue Associated Press Writer

MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he is ready for dialogue with the country’s newly energized opposition forces but doubts whether their leaders want to talk, according to Russian news reports.

Putin met with top editors of Russian news media and was asked if he is ready for dialogue in the wake of the massive protests that erupted over allegations of vote fraud in last month’s parliamentary

election.

Putin said some figures had been invited for talks “not long ago” but did not come.

“This question occurs to me — what do they want? Do they want to show that there are no discussions or that they do not want to discuss,” Putin was quoted as saying by the ITAR-Tass news agency.

“We’re ready, and I am personally ready to meet with them, to talk. We invited them, but they did not come even one time,” he said.

It was not clear from the reports specifically who had been invited

or when the invitations were issued.

Putin, who was president in 2000-2008, now seeks to return to the Kremlin in an election on March 4. Although he is seen as almost certain to win, his image has taken a significant blow from the protests, including two rallies in Moscow that attracted tens of thousands of people in the largest public show of discontent in postSoviet Russia.

Putin has belittled the protesters, dismissing them as Western stooges, and he has firmly rejected

opposition demands that the parliamentary election be negated and a new one conducted.

In late December, he had appeared to effectively reject talks with the opposition, saying they had no common platform or leadership, so “who is there to talk to?”

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at his meeting with mass media editors in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.

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Dewi Sinta Hotel:

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

Most importantly, continued Aryadi, he provided services for guests with friendliness, honesty and professionalism, so as to create impressive images for the only hotel in the favorite tourist area in Bali.

Familiar and familial atmosphere was not only intended for the staff, but also became a priority for ev-

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

Dewi Sinta is the oldest hotel since the Tanah Lot was visited by many tourists. The entire building is designed by perfectly combining the traditional elements and stylish architecture to engender a convenient tourism sanctuary to unwind.

Aura of the sanctity exuded by the Tanah Lot Temple, Enjung Galuh Temple and Pakendungan Temple give more profound tranquility.

Meanwhile, the existing lush tropical gardens confer a typical countryside nuance.

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

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

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

Other amenities equipping the hotel property are an open stage and a conference room with a capacity of 300 people. Such facilities offer a dinner party with traditional cultural performances such as Kecak, Tektekan, Legong and shadow puppets. Best services, guaranteed

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

Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for January 4 through 26, 2012 4 Jan Buda Paing Wariga Merajan Pasek Gaduh Kayubihi Bangli.

7 Jan Tumpek Uduh/Pengatag Pura Puseh/Pura Desa Batuan Sukawati Pura Pasek Bendesa Kekeran Mengwi Pura Manik Mas Besakih.

8 Jan Purnama Kepitu Ngusaba Ngaed Pr. Benua - Besakih Pura Dalem Desa Camenggaon - Sukawati Pura Suranadhi Lombok Pura Narmada Lombok Pura Segara Ampenan Lombok Mr Agung Dewa Agung Klungkung Sidemen Karangasem Pura . Merajan Pasek Gelgel Ababi Mr. Pasek gelgel Tista Pura di Gunung - Tianyar Kubu - Karangasem.

Pura Pingit Klenting sari Gerokgak - Singaraja Pura di Gunung - Tianyar Tianyar Merajan Pasek Gelgel Ababi Mr. Pasek gelgel Tista Pura di Gunung - Tianyar Kubu - Karangasem Pura Pingit Klenting sari Gerokgak - Singaraja Pura Payogan Agung Kutai Kartanegara.

11 Jan Buda Wage Warigadean.

Pura Kepisah Sumerta Denpasar Pura Pasek Gelgel Pura Pasek Gelgel Pura Puncaksari Penarukan Peninjoan Bangli Pura Bangun Sakti Besakih Pura Antegsari Kaba-Kaba Kediri Tabanan Pura Pesimpangan Batur Pande Kaba-Kaba Kediri Tabanan 13 Jan Sukra Umanis Warigadean Odalan Ida Ratu di Penataran Agung Besakih

Odalan Ida Ratu Puraus Merajan Salonding Besakih.

15 Jan Redite Pon Julungwangi Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Gobleg Banjar Singaraja.

17 Jan Anggar Kasih Julungwangi Pura Tirtaharum Tegalwangi Bangli Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Wanasari Tabanan Pura Pasek Tangguntiti Jakatebel Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Sangsit Buleleng Pura Dalem Waturenggong Taro Tegalalang Pura Ibu (Pura Kaja) Wanasari Selemadeg Tabanan Pura Pasek Gelgel Tulikup Pura manik Bingin Sidemen.

18 Jan Buda Umanis Julungwangi Pura Penetaran Gana Bebalang Bangli Pura Dalem Gede Banjar Pande Bangli Pura Puncaksari Sangeh Abiansemal Pura Dadia Agung Pasek Sanak Sapta Resi Sidan Gianyar Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Jakatebel Merajan Pasek Prateka Batusesa Odalan di Mr. Jeroan Dauh Cemenggon Pr. Puseh Penegil Darma Kubutambahan Singaraja.

23 Jan Tilem Kepitu Aci Petahuan Pura Ulun Kulkul Besakih Ngusaba Buluh Pura Benua Kawasan Besakih.

26 Jan Wraspati Wage Sungsang Pura Kawitan Tangkas Kori Agung Desa Tangkas Klungkung Pr. Siang Kangin Tampuagan Tembuku Bangli Odalan Ida Ratu Mas Penataran Agung Besakih Merajan Pasek Gelgel Petemon Merajan Pasek Gelgel MelinggihGelgel Melinggih Odalan Ida Bhatara Bang Tulus Dewa Besakih

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

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

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

In front of important shrine one sees, besides these umbrellas soars, tridents and other weapons, the “umbulumbul”, long flags, all these are prerogatives or attributes of Holiness. In front of the Temple gate put up “Penjor”, long bamboo poles, decorated beautifully ornaments of young coconut leaves, rice and other products of the land.

Most beautiful to see are the girls in their colorful attire, carrying offerings, arrangements of all kinds fruits and colored cakes, to the Temple. Every visitor admires the grace with which the carry their load on their heads.

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Britain accuses $UJHQWLQD RI ´ colonialism” over Falklands Reuters

AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis

Occupy London protesters chant anti-corporate slogans as they gather on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral, in central London, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012. Britain’s High Court decided Wednesday, Occupy London protest camp an be evicted from outside St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Occupy London campers told to leave cathedral Reuters

LONDON - A British court ruled on Wednesday that a protest camp denouncing economic LQHTXDOLW\ VKRXOG EH UHPRYHG IURP LWV VLWH RXWVLGH /RQGRQ¶V ODQGPDUN 6W 3DXO¶V FDWKHGUDO Dozens of activists from Occupy London, part of an international movement inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protest that began last September, have been camping outside St Paul’s since October.

They are engaged in a legal battle with the City of London Corporation, which has policing powers in the area and wants to evict the campers.

At a packed High Court hearing, judge Keith Lindblom said the camp should be removed on grounds of safety and hygiene and to allow better access to the cathe-

dral for worshippers. “(The corporation) gave the defendants ample opportunity to remove the protest camp without the need for time and money to be spent in legal proceedings,” said the judge.

Dozens of Occupy London members stood in the courtroom, some wearing hats adorned with symbols of peace and nuclear disarmament, and one shouted “Shame!”

DV WKH MXGJH ¿QLVKHG UHDGLQJ RXW his ruling.

John Cooper, a lawyer representing Occupy London, said the camp-

ers would appeal against the decision. A lawyer for the corporation said it would allow the protesters seven days to lodge an appeal.

Protester Rosa O’Connor, a 27year-old student, said she was concerned the authorities would try and use force to remove the campers.

“I think the protest movement is immovable,” she told Reuters after the hearing.

“It has affected so many people ... over issues that were previously overlooked or pushed to one side, taboo or even boring. It has made economics trendy.”

LONDON - Britain accused Argentina of “colonialism” in its claim to the Falkland Islands on Wednesday, as the 30th anniversary of their conflict over the British-ruled territory approaches.

A day after Britain’s National Security Council discussed the Falklands’ defenses, Prime Minister David Cameron told parliament Britain was committed to protecting the South Atlantic islands and added that people there should be allowed to decide their own nationality.

Cameron said he was determined that the islands’ defenses were in order and that islanders’ wishes were paramount. “We support the Falkland islanders’ right to self-determination,” he said.

“What the Argentineans have been saying recently I would argue is actually far more like colonialism because these people want to remain British and the Argentineans want them to do something else.”

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez described Britain last June as a “crass colonial power in decline” for refusing to hold talks over the islands, known as Las Malvinas in Spanish, and Argentine officials were quick to hit back over Cameron’s remarks on Wednesday.

“It’s totally offensive,” said Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, while Foreign Minister Hector Timerman described Britain as “a synonym for colonialism.”

“Evidently at a time when only scraps of colonialism linger, Great Britain ... has decided to rewrite history,” Timerman told the state news agency.

London has controlled the islands, about 300 miles off the Argentine coast, since 1833. Its two-month war with Argentina in 1982 resulted in the deaths of 255 British and about 650 Argentine soldiers.

Without press...

From page 1 He thinks that the rules in Indonesia already regulate the variety in the nation and the governing tools also could manage it. “We agreed that this is a plural country and it is a democracy nation,” Mahfud MD.(kmb13)

Bali House...

From page 1 However, the law suit against the press and ignoring the suggestion by the press council is very opposite with the effort to preserve the press freedom.

Wardana also asked whether the governor already seek a recomPHQGDWLRQ IURP WKH +RXVH EHIRUH ¿OLQJ D ODZVXLW DJDLQVW WKH SUHVV Wayan Jondra, also the member of KMPKP-HAM, said that the lawsuit with the huge amount of money is an effort to make the society poor. Why? Because the press is a part of the society and suppose to be protected not threaten.

The similar thing was also stated by Made Suena. He urged both parties to resolve the issue immediately before there is a friction in the society. If not, the alliance will propose a letter to the house suggested the governor is lying.

The Head of Bali House, Cok Ratmadi said that he is very concern ZLWK WKH LVVXH DQG YHU\ VXUSULVH ZK\ WKH JRYHUQRU ¿OOLQJ D ODZVXLW against the press. He thinks that press has great role in democracy.

“Democracy cannot be back down. We all must preserve it especially the press. It can give constructive correction. I’m afraid if there is a huge scenario to destroy Bali,’ he said.

Ratmadia said he will invite the governor to the House to give explanation on the issue. “We will urge this matter to be resolved in a peaceful way,” he added (wid)

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Kiat Esemka available online IBP

YOGYAKARTA -Kiat Esemka, car made by Mechanical High School (SMK) from Solo, that’s been very famous lately because so many people want to buy it available online thanks to Tokobagus.com. The online site that now gaining popularity in Indonesia help Kiat Motor that produce Kiat Esemka.

According to PR Manager Tokobagus.com A. Ichwan Sitorus, recently, the producer of the famously known car now have account in Tokobagus. com. The management of Tokobagus also made special online shop for the Kiat Motor that owned by Haji Sukiyat.

Ichwan stated that cooperation between Tokobagus and Sukiyat is a way to help Kiat Motor grow bigger. Moreover,

Ichwan who visited the plant of Kiat Esemka recently said the car made by young generation that need support to move forward. ‘’This is a way of Tokobagus.com to support Indonesian product,’’ he said.

President Director Tokobagus.com Arnold Sebastian Egg added that Tokobagus. com gives several facilities to Kiat Motor. They will be able to doing online promotion in Tokobagus. The facilities, among others are verified members label, level power seller, and promotion point. ‘’We have done many things for Kiat Motor because Haji Sukiyat has giving inspiration for so many people,’’ Arnold explained.

He also expressed his admiration to Sukiyat because he able to motivate and help

high school students making Kiat Esemka. The phenomenal car now being ordered by legislators, regents, and celebrities.

Meanwhile, Sukiyat expressed his gratitude because Tokobagus giving support to Kiat Esemka. Through this support, he optimistic that high school students will be motivate and do creative things to improve the quality of their products.

Kiat Esemka commercial advertisement now available online in Tokobagus. The ad was officialy release on January 17, 2012. Kiat Esemka will be listed in Automotive section that available in Tokobagus.com website. The website now have around 120 thousands ads about automotive. (kmb18)

IBP/Courtesy of tokobagus.com

Illegal immigrants case

Five army members named suspects Antara

JAKARTA - Five Indonesian army (TNI-AD) members have been named suspects in the case of illegal immigrants whose boat sank in Prigi, Trenggalek, East Java, recently, on its way to Australia.

“Based on the results of an investigation, more suspects have

been named, namely chief sergeant K, chief corporal K, sub-second

lieutenant S, second sergeant M and second sergeant IAS who are army members, BS, a civil servant, and four civilians,” head of the National Police`s public relations division Inspector General Saud Usman Nasution said here on Wednesday.

He said the army members

were suspected of having facilitated the illegal immigrants` departure by boat to Australia in violation of articles 55 and 56 of the Criminal Code and were now still being detained at the Brawijaya Military Command Headquarters.

A boat carrying more than 200 illegal immigrants from Middle Eastern countries capsized at around 10am in the waters in Prigi, Trenggalek, East Java, on December 19.

The victims were first found by two fishermen in Prigi waters around 25 miles from the coast.

RI to beat Spain economically in 2013 Antara

REUTERS/Supri

Vehicles are stuck in a traffic jam at the central business district in Jakarta January 18, 2012. Indonesia won a fresh stamp of approval as one of the world’s hottest emerging markets on Wednesday when Moody’s ratings agency upgraded its debt to investment grade in a decision that will lure fresh funds to Southeast Asia ‘s biggest economy.

JAKARTA - State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan said he was optimistic Indonesia would surpass Spain in terms of economic progress in 2013 considering the good national economic conditions at present.

“The economy is growing at a rate of 6.5 percent while inflation gas levelled out at 3.9 percent. This is very good,” he said at a discussion titled Financial Lecture: Post-Investment Grade at the Ritz Carlton Hotel here on Wednesday.

He said Indonesia`s economy was now generally better than the Netherlands`. If Indonesia`s economy continued to grow, it was not impossible it would surpass Spain`s next year, he said.

“Right now we have the potentials to beat Spain. This is a big mission. And next year we must be able to realize that,” he said.

Dahlan said Indonesia was now entering a new phase, namely a phase that really separates business and politics.

“When we listen to news reports it seems the country`s economy is messed up and the country is suffering huge losses.

But in reality Indonesia`s economy is advancing,” he said.

Dahlan said, in the midst of a political atmosphere that was heating up Indonesia had kept showing economic progress. He said the situation must be used well and not neglected.

The political atmosphere in Indonesia was heating up in connection with the planned general elections in 2014 which is to be followed by presidential election.

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Bali Today Bali tourism skyrockets, poverty follows

Tourists are enjoying the beautiful scenery of riceďŹ eld in Gianyar area.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;To make the poverty reducE Island o the Gods is not only a avorite tourist destination in Indonesia but also throughRXW WKH ZRUOG %DOL *RYHUQPHQW 7RXULVP 2IÂżFH QRWHG WKDW IRUHLJQ WRXULVW DUULYDOV VLQFH tion program more effective, then KDG JURZQ VWHDGLO\ UHDFKLQJ SHRSOH DQG WKHQ LQFUHDVHG WR SHRSOH the regional working unit (SKPD) VKRXOG ÂżUVW XQGHUVWDQG WKH FKDUDF SHRSOH DV ZHOO DV SHRSOH

Unfortunately, amid the skyrocketing growth of Bali as a tourist destination, the number of poor people also increased. Up to September 2011, Bali still had 183,100 poor people and increased 16,900 people if compared to March only reaching 166,200 people.

According to Deputy of Bank Indonesia Denpasar, Gde Made Sadguna, such condition occurred because the development of Bali tourism was only enjoyed by the owners of big capital, while the small community just got the seepDJH RI WRXULVP EHQHÂżWV â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatever the form of tourism is, it should be developed and may not deviate from the concept of tourism, namely tourism for community, not community for tourism,â&#x20AC;? he said.

According to him, equalization of the tourism growth could be reached by developing tourism village. Development of ecotourism was also good to provide more options of tourist attractions. As a result, if the program could be realized, it would increase the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s income as well as sustain the national economic growth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By such tourism development, it will have an impact on the high HFRQRPLF JURZWK ORZ LQĂ&#x20AC;DWLRQ

and a vast employment can be realized. Therefore, the economic growth will be sustainable,â&#x20AC;? he said.

'HVWLQDWLRQ GLYLVLRQ RIÂżFHU RI the Indonesia Tourism Industry Association (GIPI) of Bali Chapter, Gusti Aya Kompyang, stated the high poverty rate in Bali was caused by uneven development due to many violations against the spatial order plan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Commitment of government to equalize the tourism growth through the enforcement of rules is still in grey zone or indecisive and unclear,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Government, said Kompyang Aya, had to get out of the grey zone in managing the development of Bali. Government should never be controlled by investors. Moreover, there was intention to eliminate the bhisama (religious stipulation) and legalize the building height surpassing 15 meters that should be set in stone and preserved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If government in determining the development is still siding with the interests of certain people, Bali will never be well ordered. As a result, the poor will continue to increase due to uneven development,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Meanwhile, an academician

from Udayana University, Prof.

Nyoman Suparta, mentioned that Bali Provincial Government should understand the dominant factor causing the emergence of poverty. By doing so, the poverty alleviation would not only be implemented as a project only. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mechanism on the implementation of poverty alleviation programs at this time seems partial (sectoral ego or project ego) and poorly coordinated. ConseTXHQWO\ WKH JUHDW VDFULÂżFHV FDQQRW QHFHVVDULO\ SURGXFH D VLJQLÂżFDQW change,â&#x20AC;? he added.

He said many people doubted the number of poor households that did not meet the criteria, because in fact they had livestock or VXIÂżFLHQW VDYLQJ RI JRRGV 0DQ\ poor households deliberately allowed their name to be mentioned in the poor household list with the hope of getting rice package for the poor.

Effective strategies in reducing the poverty were community empowerment, education improvement, health promotion, geo-agroecosystem improvement, women empowerment, entrepreneurship development, social and cultural value strengthening, and charity strategies.

teristics of poverty seriously and know related information behind the causes of poverty,â&#x20AC;? he said.

He added the development of agribusiness, agro-industries and SMEs should be the main activities of empowerment, rural development, and an important instrument to accelerate the agricultural reform and rural economy.

Governments and stakeholders were also required to synergize the development potential of the agricultural sector with tourism sector and handicraft industry.

Meanwhile, the Director of the Bali Tourism Institute (STP) Nusa Dua, Dr. I Nyoman Madiun, also asked the leaders of Bali both the legislative and executive in order to focus their attention on balancing the development between the North and South Bali which admittedly was still full of gaps. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Acceleration or velocity of development distribution in the North and South Bali is actually a very urgent homework to be completed at the moment,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Madiun pointed out that tourism development becoming the backbone of Baliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy was still concentrated in southern Bali. Construction of hotels and supporting facilities in large

scale were almost entirely located in South Bali. He said that uneven development also triggered the high urbanization rate as happening to the community in North Bali whose economy was relatively lagging compared to that of South Bali. This phenomenon was certainly understandable considering the people in North Bali were also entitled to enjoy the tourism pie. If the leaders of Bali would like to equalize the tourism development, he said, they should surely have a political will to drive investment and construction of tourism facilities to North Bali. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do not let tourism development consistently overcrowd the South Bali whose condition has been very dense,â&#x20AC;? he suggested.

To direct the tourism investment to North Bali, said Madiun, of course, the local government should improve the tourism supporting infrastructure such as roads leading to tourist destination in North Bali.

At the very least, the facility should be comparable to the existing facilities in South Bali. Without such a policy, it was impossible to direct investments to North Bali because capital owners would not be interested to invest as the location was QRW FRQVLGHUHG SURÂżWDEOH Âł+RSHfully, commitment of the leaders to equalize the development of Bali should not just be in the level of discourse. On the contrary, it should be actualized in real actions,â&#x20AC;? he said. (par ian)

International

Friday, January 20, 2012

Balinese Culture SATE LILIT

Subak with Art Festival Present Collaboration of Indonesian-Australian Artists A creative and unique Subak with Art Festival (SWAF) was held in the Subak Museum, Tabanan. Various creative art works jazzed up the event opened by the Deputy Regent of Tabanan, Gede Sanjaya, Saturday (Jan 14). Collaboration of the IndonesianAustralian artists as well as elementary school students was so captivating. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This event is intended to raise the public awareness of the importance of subak system, aside from introducing the subak culture to the world community,â&#x20AC;? said Chief of Subak Museum, Ida Ayu Ratna Pawitrani.

In the first presentation, SWAF thoroughly performed a collaborative art show with the theme of subak.Approximately 210 coconut shell crafts made by children of elementary school from SD Panji Singaraja and Sobangan Badung were displayed. The coconut shells were used to illustrate the Balinese calendar for determining the auspicious day for farmers. The table serving as the buffer contained 30 rows of the coconut shell indicating the number of wuku (seven-day week) and lines indicating the day. As the handle, the children employed black, white and red strap or tridatu symbolizing the omnipotence of God. An intriguing work of art was the simple painting highlighting a variety of equipments used by farmers to cultivate their farmland. Although simple, the message implied was so powerful in preserving the superb

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Balinese culture. Among them, there were scarecrow, frog spear, rice pestle, sickle, mortar, bamboo tray, and seedling comb. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By drawing in person the equipment of subak, children must always remember the subak,â&#x20AC;? revealed Ayu Ratna.

Meanwhile, the artists comprising I Komang Gde Made Surya Darma, Made Ngurah Sadnyana, I Gede Putu Setiawan, Gede Suanda, Christine McMillan, Margaret Brooks and Adrian Symes collaborated dynamically to showcase WKH DUW LQVWDOODWLRQV SDLQWLQJV ÂżQH art supported by printed materials, photographs and video documentation. There were also kulkul or wooden split drum and scarecrow. In the meantime, in Balinese Pavilion

was specially exhibited 210 pieces of ketupat or rice bag symbolizing Balinese calendar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The exhibition is DOVR ÂżOOHG ZLWK WKH VFUHHQLQJ RI ÂżOP on subak and children storytelling,â&#x20AC;? said Ayu Ratna.

7KRXJK LW ZDV WKH ÂżUVW HYHQW WKH opening of SWAF was quite lively.

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Later, it was resumed with the drawing of museum collection on post cards and continuously drew on paper to express the knowledge on subak. The exhibition is open every day from 8 00 a.m. up to 3 30 p.m., except holidays and takes place until January 28, 2012. %71

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Tihingan Village

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TIHINGAN Village in Banjarangkan sub district is the center of Gong gamelan production.

Its production is start with crude work then expert work to synchronize the gong sound. This, the most important thing is the expertise to synchronize the gong sound. In Tihingan village there are 2 pande (expert) gong maker groups.

This Village is location in Banjarangkan sub district and can be reached with 2 wheels or 4 wheels vehicles. About 3 km go to the west of Semarapura city. The road to Tihingan is well enough.

The people of Tihing village are very famous in Bali as they are expert of making gamelan instrument like Gong, Other Gamelan instrument gende.

Except Gong, The people in this village can make all kind of gamelan Bali like: Semara Pegulingan, Gender puppet, Kelentangan/Angklung and other, made of kerawang metal. Their expertise may descended by their ancient from hundred years ago. It can be approved by looking at Gamelan instrument having by many villages. Their village (Tihingan) is written on those gamelan.

The gamelan has become famous in the world and many foreign tourists come to Tihingan and reserve Gong to be brought to their country.

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Friday, January 20, 2012

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BUSINESS .RGDN â&#x20AC;ŤŰ&#x2039;â&#x20AC;ŹOHV IRU bankruptcy, secures PLOOLRQ OLIHOLQH Reuters

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Wall Street gains 1 percent as IMF gives Europe hope Reuters

E R - tocks umped to their highest since uly on ednesday as the International Monetary und sought to help countries hit by the European debt crisis hile orecast-beating HDUQLQJV IURP *ROGPDQ 6DFKV GLVSHOOHG VRPH ZRUULHV RYHU EDQN SURÂżWV 7KH VWURQJHU WKDQ e pected earnings rom Goldman achs Group Inc ollo ed disappointing results rom itigroup RQ 7XHVGD\ DQG -30RUJDQ &KDVH &R ODVW ZHHN Goldman shares shot up 6.8 percent to 104.31, while the S P financial sector .GSPF rose 1. percent, leading the S P 500 higher.

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While the Goldman results supported financial shares, the IMFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s willingness to bolster its crisis-fighting resources gave the sector a big push. Financials had suffered throughout 2011 on worries that Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debt

crisis would hit banks globally. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any time liquidity is added to WKH ÂżQDQFLDO V\VWHP LW JLYHV Âżnancials a little bit of breathing room, and it will result in higher prices for the banks,â&#x20AC;? said Kevin Caron, market strategist at Stifel, Nicolaus Co, in Florham Park, New Jersey.

The IMF is seeking to boost its war chest by 600 billion to help countries reeling from the crisis, even though some nations insist (XURSH PXVW ÂżUVW GR PRUH WR VXSport ailing members, according to sources.

Home buildersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shares surged

after data showed U.S. homebuilder sentiment unexpectedly jumped in January to its highest level in 4-1 2 years. The PHLX housing index .HGX climbed 3.1 percent, while the Dow Jones home construction index .DJUSHB rose 4.4 percent.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 96.88 points, or 0. 8 percent, to close at 12,5 8.95.

The Standard Poorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 500 Index .SPX added 14.3 points, or 1.11 percent, to 1,308.04. The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC climbed 41.63 points, or 1.53 percent, to close at 2, 69. 1.

Eastman Kodak Co, which invented the hand-held camera and KHOSHG EULQJ WKH ZRUOG WKH ÂżUVW SLFWXUHV IURP WKH PRRQ KDV ÂżOHG for bankruptcy protection, capping a prolonged plunge for one of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-known companies. The more than 130-year-old photoJUDSKLF ÂżOP SLRQHHU ZKLFK KDG WULHG WR UHVWUXFWXUH WR EHFRPH D VHOOHU of consumer products like cameras, said it had also obtained a 950 million, 18-month credit facility from Citigroup to keep it going.

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Big earnings could drive Google shares to new high Reuters

E R I AG - Investorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; optimism for Google Inc is running high, setting the stage for another jump in its shares to an alltime peak after the Internet search company reports results Thursday.

Options investors appear to be betting on more gains for the stock, which hit a record high of 6 0.25 on January 4. The stock has since pulled back by about 6 percent, closing at 632.91 on Wednesday.

Traders have been purchasing Google calls, which grant the right WR EX\ WKH VWRFN DW D Âż[HG SULFH XS WR D FHUWDLQ GDWH DW D JUHDWHU SDFH than its puts - or rights to sell the stock at a preset price - heading into earnings due after the market close on Thursday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The options market is positioned bullishly ahead of results. Call options have been bought over the past few weeks,â&#x20AC;? Credit Suisse equity derivatives strategist Terry Wilson said. Investors have bought nearly two calls for every put option as a new position on three U.S. options exchanges over the past 10 sessions, according to Schaefferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ,QYHVWPHQW 5HVHDUFK DQ 2KLR EDVHG RSWLRQV UHVHDUFK ÂżUP That call-to-put ratio of 1.93 is higher than 99 percent of the readings taken over the past year, suggesting bullish optimism heading into the results, said Joe Bell, senior equity analyst at Schaefferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

Google, which almost always reports earnings a day before options expiration, is known for volatile post-earnings moves in its shares.

The company has beaten earnings estimates percent of the time since the second quarter of 2005, said Kevin Pleines, analyst at Birinyi Associates, in a report on Wednesday.

After beating estimates, Google shares have opened higher 65 percent of the time, averaging a 4.1 percent gain the next morning, he said.

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“Cougar Town” replaces canceled “Work It”

Entertainment

International

Actor Wahlberg apologizes for 9/11 comments ACTOR Mark Wahlberg has apologized for asserting that he would have stopped terrorists from flying an airliner into New York’s World Trade Center on Sept. 11 if he had been on the plane.

COURTENEY Cox will get a whole lot of love from ABC for Valentine’s Day. The third season of Cox’s comedy “Cougar Town” will premiere on February 14 at 8:30 p.m. -- in place of the network’s ill-fated cross-dressing comedy “Work It.” Though “Cougar Town” had not yet received a seasonpremiere date as of late last week, the series’ executive producer, Bill Lawrence, hinted at the scheduling move Friday night, tweeting, “Hoping CT’s premiere date will be announced Tuesday. Fingers crossed...”

“Work It” lasted just two episodes before ABC pulled the plug. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender groups ripped it before it even aired, saying it would hurt transgender people.

On the “Cougar Town” premiere -- dubbed “Ain’t Love Strange” -- Cox’s character, Jules, becomes angered when her neighbor Grayson, working under an ulterior motive, calls her “predictable,” while Ellie (Christa Miller) worries that her son Stan could be developing into a “devil child.”

The star of the film “Contraband” issued his apology Wednesday after comments he made to Men’s Journal drew criticism He told an interviewer in the February issue that had he been on American Airlines Flight 11 with his children “it wouldn’t have went down like it did.” Terrorists flew

the plane with 92 people aboard into the north tower on Sept. 11, 2001.

In his apology, Wahlberg said to speculate was “ridiculous to begin with.” He said that to suggest he “would have done anything differently than the passengers on that plane was irresponsible.”

FILE - In this July, 23, 2001 file photo, actor Mark Wahlberg arrives for a special screening of “Planet of the Apes,” in New York.

In an apology issued on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, Wahlberg said he was sorry for asserting that he would have stopped terrorists from flying an airliner into New York’s World Trade

Plodding but still satisfying ‘The Road to Mecca’ THIS year is playwright Athol Fugard’s 80th birthday and the first production in New York to be mounted in the honor of this South African trailblazer is, appropriately enough, about the bravery of artists.

The Roundabout Theatre Company’s somewhat sleepy but still satisfying production of “The Road to Mecca” opened Tuesday at the American Airlines Theater featuring Carla Gugino, Jim Dale and the luminous Rosemary Harris.

“It grows on you,” Harris’ character says at the beginning of the play. She’s talking about the small South African village where the action is set, but she might as well be describing the piece itself, which really only gets going in Act 2.

Fugard’s play was inspired by a real woman he knew in passing named Helen Martins, who, after an uneventful life, turned herself into a driven artist, covering the walls of her home with crushed glass patterns and filling her yard with playful concrete sculptures of owls, sheep, camels, religious icons and imaginary beings all facing east toward Mecca.

Shunned by her neighbors as crazy, she nevertheless kept working on her art until she took her own life in 1976. After languishing for decades in a state of disrepair, her home is now a popular tourist attraction.

Fugard puts Miss Helen in the center of a tug-of-war. On one side is Pastor Marius Byleveld, a local priest played by Dale, who finds the widow’s work to be idolatrous and wants to pack her off to a church retirement home. On the other side is Elsa, a

young school teacher from Cape Town played by Gugino, who has arrived to care for the elder woman, finding her inspiring and urging her to keep creating uncomfortable art.

Under Gordon Edelstein’s straightforward direction, Harris plays the widow as a doddering old lady who seems paralyzed by the choice before her at the beginning — should I stay or should I go? — but gradually shakes off her passivity over the course of the play and delivers a rather wonderful speech about why she is driven to create the art she does.

“I had as little choice over all that has happened as I did over the day I was born,” she declares with Harris’ eyes blazing with fire, as always bringing dignity to her part.

“They say mad people can’t tell the difference between what is real and what is not. I can.”

Michael Yeargan’s idiosyncratic set shows only the inside of Miss Helen’s home, which is a bizarre but warm space, the walls crudely painted with beautiful hues of blue and red and crushed glass accents glinting like glitter. The odd sculptures she has been busy making are not shown — a clear statement that what they actually look like matters less than what they stand for.

The set is also made alive by Peter Kaczorowski’s fading sunlight and later filled by candle light.

Gugino plays Elsa as a sophisticated, Balzac- and Camus-reading woman with a restless edge — a woman who is being eaten away by the guilt of being a liberal white South African during apartheid. She returns again and again to her story of picking

up a hitchhiking black woman carrying a baby for miles. She’s haunted by the woman’s plight for both personal and political reasons, which become clear at the end.

The two women have an interesting relationship that’s akin to the push-pull of a mother-daughter dynamic. Elsa is an impatient revolutionary in comparison to the more live-and-let-live Miss Helen, illustrating the divide between urbanized, English-speaking South Africans and rural Afrikaners (though their uneven accents sometimes get in the way of clarity.) Both women haven’t been completely honest with each other and must learn to

trust again.

Their relationship is tested by the appearance of the pastor, who is wonderfully conceived by Dale in a part that has been played by the playwright himself. Dale’s pastor is clearly the villain here and he is played to the unctuous, fussy hilt, and yet he is hardly cartoonish.

Dale almost steals the show — if it wasn’t for Harris up there, too, he’d sneak home with the play.

The pastor slowly reveals his religious objections to the art — he calls them “cement monstrosities” — and his concern for an elderly woman who may be unsafe living alone. “Your life has become

as grotesque as those creations of yours out there,” he tells h The face-off between Elsa and the pastor has been a long time in coming — Act 1 drags on way too long simply to establish the jeopardy Miss Helen is in. The play then has a hard time deciding how to end after Miss Helen has taken the stage for her grand soliloquy, a manifesto for any artist to defy convention.

Before the curtain goes down, Valiums have been handed out — on stage, not off. But with all that candlelight, talk over cups of tea and a heartwarming conclusion, it might seem as if those calming pills were supplied with the tickets.

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Joan Marcus Rosemary Harris, left, and Carla Gugino are shown in a scene from “The Road to Mecca,” in New York.

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Rock Hall of Fame opens archives to public Associated Press Writer

CLEVELAND — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories behind the music through such “artifacts” as personal letters from Madonna and Aretha Franklin and 1981-82 video of the Rolling Stones tour.

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A biography of Joan Jett is one of the over 3,500 books on the shelves at the newlyopened Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Library and Archives in Cleveland on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012.

The collection, catalogued over the last few years, includes more than 3,500 books, 1,400 audio recordings and 270 videos, and is housed in the new four-story, $12 million building.

Thousands more books and recordings and hundreds of videos will be added as previously stored items and new donations are catalogued, said Andy Leach, director of the library and archives.

“We hope to serve music scholars, teachers, students and the general public,” Leach said.

“We hope to see all of them here.”

Tuesday’s opening of the building on the Cuyahoga Community College campus in Cleveland, not far from the Rock Hall, occurred without a lot of fanfare. The low-key opening allows the public to enjoy the library before a grand opening April 9. The college

The strange history of the Volkswagen Beetle Associated Press Writer

“Thinking Small: The Long, Strange Trip of the Volkswagen Beetle” (Ballantine Books),

by Andrea Hiott: The Volkswagen Beetle has a unique and colorful history, with principal characters that include the Nazi dictator who personified evil, the legendary designer of Germany’s most celebrated race cars and the Jewish advertising executive who pioneered a creative revolution on Madison Avenue.

It’s a story whose twists and turns over four decades eventually gave rise to the oddly shaped small car that came to symbolize America’s 1960s counterculture and went on to become the world’s top-selling car model.

Author Andrea Hiott transports readers through the most turbulent decades of the 20th century, from the rise of Adolf Hitler to the Allied victory that left postwar Germany in ruins, to that nation’s economic rebirth epitomized by the success of the Volkswagen plant at Wolfsburg.

A car enthusiast who never drove an automobile or held a driver’s license, Hitler had a vision for a “people’s car” that would extend to Germans the same mobility that Henry Ford’s

Model T gave Americans. The dictator set out to build a network of autobahns and erect a massive factory in a pasture to build what he decreed to be The Strength Through Joy Car. The genius chosen as its designer was Ferdinand Porsche, who was told to produce a prototype by 1935 so that 1 million cars would come off the line within three years.

But with Hitler bent on war, the plant’s mission shifted to arms production, and output shifted to mines, bazookas, V1 flying bombs and jeeplike utility vehicles.

As Wolfsburg started turning out Beetles in increasing numbers, Volkswagen sought to market it to American motorists in an era of bigger cars, dazzling chrome and outsize tail fins. To challenge that mindset, they teamed up with Bill Bernbach, whose quirky ad agency launched a campaign that prompted a significant number of car buyers to “Think Small.”

The book also features the role of Heinrich Nordhoff, a veteran of General Motors’ Opel division before the war. It was his organizational and managerial talents that helped put Volkswagen on the path to prosperity as a key element of postwar Germany’s “economic miracle.”

AP Photo/ Manish Swarup

Indian models unveil the Volkswagen new Beetle during a press preview at the India Auto Expo, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. The five day long automobile event begins Saturday.

funded the building, which the library and archives share with the college’s Center for Creative Arts. The Rock Hall financed construction and furnishings of the interior of its section of the building.

The library also offers photos, albums and covers, oral histories and scrap books.

Leach said the Rock Hall has done a great job of telling the story of rock ‘n’ roll. He said he sees the library as bringing the museum more recognition and showing “it to be a serious place of research.”

The library collection also includes movie posters, photos and memorabilia related to Alan Freed, the DJ credited with coining the phrase rock ‘n’ roll; a handwritten list by Elvis Presley of songs included in one of his concerts; and personal letters from Mick Jagger.

Wikipedia editors question site’s blackout Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Can the world live without Wikipedia for a day? The shutdown of one of the Internet’s most-visited sites is not sitting well with some of its volunteer editors, who say the protest of anti-piracy legislation could threaten the credibility of their work.

“My main concern is that it puts the organization in the role of advocacy, and that’s a slippery slope,” said editor Robert Lawton, a Michigan computer consultant who would prefer that the encyclopedia stick to being a neutral repository of knowledge. “Before we know it, we’re blacked out because we want to save the whales.”

Wikipedia’s English-language site shut down at midnight Eastern Standard Time Tuesday and the organization said it would stay down for 24 hours.

Instead of encyclopedia articles, visitors to the site saw a stark black-and-white page with the message: “Imagine a world without free knowledge.” It carried a link to information about the two congressional bills and details about how to reach lawmakers.

It is the first time the English site has been blacked out. Wikipedia’s Italian site came down once briefly in protest to an Internet censorship bill put forward by the Berlusconi government. The bill did not advance.

The shutdown adds to a growing body of critics who are speaking out against the legislation. But some editors are so uneasy with the move that they have blacked out their own user profile pages or resigned their administrative rights on the site to protest.

Some likened the site’s decision to fighting censorship with censorship.

One of the site’s own “five pillars” of conduct says that Wikipedia “is written from a neutral point of view.” The site strives to “avoid advocacy, and we characterize information and issues rather than debate them.”

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales argues that the site can maintain neutrality in content even as it takes public positions on issues.

“The encyclopedia will always be neutral.

The community need not be, not when the encyclopedia is threatened,” he tweeted.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which administers the site, announced the blackout late Monday, after polling its community of volunteer contributors and editors and getting responses from 1,800 of them. The protest is aimed at the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect Intellectual Property Act under consideration in the Senate.

Wikipedia has seen a small decline in participation, from a peak of 100,000 active editors a year ago to about 90,000 now.

Wikimedia Foundation blames this mainly on outdated editing tools, and believes it can get the number growing again with software upgrades.

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FC Barcelonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eric Abidal from France, left, celebrates with Daniel Alves from Brazil after scoring against Real Madrid during a Copa del Rey quarter ďŹ nal, 1st leg soccer match at the Bernabeu stadium in Madrid

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Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.

Abidal grabs Cup winner for Barca at Real Reuters

MADRID - Eric Abidal netted a rare but superbly-taken goal to give Barcelona a 2-1 comeEDFN ZLQ DW KROGHUV 5HDO 0DGULG LQ D .LQJÂśV &XS TXDUWHU ÂżQDO ÂżUVW OHJ RQ :HGQHVGD\ DV 3HS Guardiolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side tightened their stranglehold over their rivals.

The France fullback, who extended his contract with the Spanish and European champions on Monday, galloped on to a floated Lionel Messi pass 13 minutes from time and calmly slotted past Iker Casillas to give the 2011 runners-up the advantage for next weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second leg in Barcelona.

Real forward Cristiano Ronaldo had put the home side ahead with a breakaway goal in the 11th minute before Barca captain Carles Puyol flung himself at Xaviâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corner to power a header past Spain team mate Casillas for a 49th-minute equaliser. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We won this game but we have to be careful in the return match because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be another tough test,â&#x20AC;? Abidal, whose goal was only the fourth of his career, said in a television interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I seem to be a Cup player,â&#x20AC;? the 32-year-old former Olympique Lyon player added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I scored in the Cup back in France and I seem to be doing it again in Spain.â&#x20AC;? The winners of the tie will face Valencia or their city neighbours Levante, who play their quarter-final first leg on Thursday.

On the other side of the draw, headers from the towering Fernando Llorente and the diminutive Iker Muniain gave Athletic Bilbao a 2-0 win at home to Real Mallorca in their last-eight first leg earlier on Wednesday. If the Basques can hold on in Mallorca next week they will play 2006

champions Espanyol or third-tier Mirandes, who are through to the quarters for the first time.

Mirandes stunned Espanyol by opening a two-goal lead in their first leg on Tuesday before the home side struck three times in four minutes late on to secure a 3-2 lead for the second leg in Miranda de Ebro.

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Real coach Jose Mourinho sprung a couple of surprises in his starting lineup for the fourth of a possible eight meetings between Real and Barca this season.

He included Portuguese compatriot Ricardo Carvalho in central defence despite the Portugal international not having played for several months due to injury.

He also deployed Hamit Altintop at right back, handing the Turkey international only his third start of the season, and moved centre back Pepe forward into midfield to try to thwart Barcaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach play. The match quickly settled into a pattern familiar from recent meetings, with Barca dominating possession and Real looking to use the pace of Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Gonzalo Higuain on the break.

After Ronaldoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opener, when Barca keeper Jose Manuel Pinto let the ball under his body, Casillas produced smart saves to deny Messi and Andres Iniesta while Alexis Sanchez sent a looping header onto a post from a Cesc

Fabregas cross.

Pepe, who had earlier been booked, was lucky to stay on the pitch in the second half after television replays showed he deliberately stamped on Messiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand when the World Player of the Year was sitting on the ground. There were a few ugly challenges late in the game and Carvalho was booked for cynically chopping Messi down from behind as the Argentine was racing away towards goal. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the first half we managed to do what we were looking to but they scored from a set piece, which seem to be causing us trouble recently,â&#x20AC;? Casillas told Spanish TV. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They have their way of playing and we have to congratulate them but we have to use our weapons. Our goal is to continue improving every day to be able to compete with Barca and against all our rivals.â&#x20AC;?

B a r c a â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s v i c t o r y e x t e n d e d Guardiolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent dominance over Real. It was his ninth win in 13 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Clasicosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; since he took the helm in 2008 and came on his 41st birthday. His only reverse was in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cup final, when Ronaldo scored a dramatic extratime winner in a 1-0 victory.

Barca beat Real 3-1 in La Liga last month, when they also fell a goal behind, and secured the season-opening Spanish Super Cup with a 5-4 win over two legs.

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Moments later and Novaraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beating Novara 2-1 after extratime at the San Siro on Wednes- Simone Pesce tried his luck from outside the box but reday night.

Te e n a g e r S t e p h a n E l serve goalkeeper Marco AureShaarawy opened the scoring lio turned the ball around the PLGZD\ WKURXJK WKH ÂżUVW KDOI post.

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In the extra period Brazilian inside a defender and then pair Robinho and Alexandre thumped a shot from distance Pato combined for the latter beyond Alberto Fontana.

The tiring Inzaghi made way to score the winner and secure a clash with Lazio in the next for Pato who soon after teed up Urby Emanuelson but the Dutch round.

Coach Massimiliano Allegri PLGÂżHOGHUÂśV VKRW ZDV WRR FORVH rested star performers such as to Fontana.

Pato seemed keen to make an Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva and Mark van Bommel impact but he was well off target while Kevin-Prince Boateng has with a pair of chances, a shot been ruled out for a month with from an angle and a free-kick from a long way out. a hamstring injury.

And out of the blue, having It meant veteran Filippo Inzaghi was given a starting hardly created anything all berth alongside youngsters such night, Novara equalised when as El Shaarawy and Alexander Radovanovic cracked in a freeMerkel, while France centre- kick from long range.

In extra-time Fontana came back Philippe Mexes was afto his sideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rescue when he forded a rare start.

In fact Merkel was thrust made an instinctive one-handed straight into the team despite save to deny Pato from five only re-joining the club from yards out after Ignazio Abateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s devillish cross.

Genoa 24 hours earlier.

But moments later substitute Allegri was relieved to have Robinho brilliantly dinked the made it through. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We conceded a goal a min- ball past the defence and Pato ute from the end from a free- chipped Fontana before volleykick we could have avoided,â&#x20AC;? ing home. Seconds later Robinho crashed a volley against the he moaned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then we had a chance to post as Milan showed far more make it 3-1. We struggled but urgency than they had done in the important thing was to go the first half. Milan finished through and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done that.â&#x20AC;? with 10 men and under the cosh Chances were few and far be- as Pato limped off injured.

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AC Milan Brazilian forward Pato, left, kicks the ball as Novara defender Michel Morganella, of Switzerland, looks on during the Italian Cup eight ďŹ nal soccer match between AC Milan and Novara, at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.

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Nerveless Novak makes light work of day job Reuters

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Los Angeles Clippers Chauncey Billups (R) scores the game-winning three point shot against the Dallas Mavericks during their NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, California January 18, 2012.

Big Shot Billups lands winning blow for Clippers Reuters

hauncey Billups delivered on his reputation as Mr Big hot ith a game- inning three-pointer ith one second remaining to give the os Angeles lippers a 1- home victory over the Dallas 0DYHULFNV RQ :HGQHVGD\ ,Q D ZLOG ÂżQDO PLQXWH WKDW VDZ WKH 0DYHULFNV HUDVH D ÂżYH SRLQW GHÂżFLW RQ a pair o three-pointers rom ason erry Billups responded to help the lippers see o the de ending champions even ithout in ured point guard hris aul.

A former Finals MVP known for rising to the occasion at key moments, Billups took a handoff from Blake Griffin on his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final possession and drained the winner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a great play,â&#x20AC;? Billups told reporters after finishing with 21 points and eight rebounds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great win for us in our third game in three days. It got a little crazy at the end but we got the win.â&#x20AC;?

Terry had given Dallas the oneSRLQW OHDG RQ D WKUHH SRLQWHU ZLWK ÂżYH seconds to play. The Mavericks had D ÂżQDO LQERXQGV FKDQFH EXW FRXOG QRW convert a lob as they lost their second VWUDLJKW JDPH RQ D ÂżQDO VHFRQG VKRW after falling to the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday.

Paul sat out a third game with a hamstring injury, but Mo Williams came up big with a team-high 26 off the bench for

the Clippers (8-4), who were coming off a painful 29-point defeat to Utah. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m proud of the guys and the way we battled back and fought,â&#x20AC;? Los Angeles coach Vinny Del Negro said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We made plays when we needed to and that was the key.â&#x20AC;?

'H$QGUH -RUGDQ DGGHG DQG *ULIÂżQ tallied 14 points, 1 rebounds and seven assists. Dirk Nowitzki and DelonteWest had 1 apiece for Dallas (8- ).

FIFA tells Brazil it must have beer at World Cup Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO - Beer will sold at the 12 venues of the 2014 World Cup finals, FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke said on Wednesday as he attempted to close all further discussion on a controversial issue in Brazil. Voting on the bill for the World Cup Law has been held up over differences between the tournament hosts and world soccerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s governing body, notably on the sale of alcoholic drinks at sports venues which is banned in Brazil.

The bill was scheduled to have been voted on by the chamber of

deputies at the end of last year but it has been delayed by several issues including the sale of beer, with FIFA demanding protection of sponsorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; trademarks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alcoholic drinks are part of the FIFA World Cup, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have them. Excuse me if I sound a bit arrogant but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t negotiate,â&#x20AC;? Valcke said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact that we have the right to sell beer has to be a part of the Law,â&#x20AC;? he told the foreign press corps in an interview in Rio de Janeiro, where on Thursday he will hold a meeting with the World Cup local organizing committee (LOC).

Alcoholic drinks have been banned

in Brazilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stadiums since 2003 as part of the Supportersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Statutes, aimed at preventing violence among hardcore fans at football matches. Alexandre Padilha, health Minister in President Dilma Rousseffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government, and other members of parliament linked to health matters have put pressure on Congress to maintain the ban in the World Cup Law. One of FIFAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longest-standings sponsors is the U.S. brewer Budweiser, which belongs to the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest beer-selling group AnheuserBusch InBev. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our partner here is in fact a Brazilian company,â&#x20AC;? said Valcke referring to the local AmBev which is part of AB InBev.

ME B R E - Budding Hollywood actor Novak Djokovic led the way with a 6-3 6-2 6-1 demolition of Santiago Giraldo as a trio of former Australian Open champions reduced their opponents to bit part characters on Thursday. Djokovic makes his acting bow in the blockbuster â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Expendables 2â&#x20AC;? later this year but the defending champion showed that he had lost none of his appetite for his day job with an emphatic second round victory at Melbourne Park.

Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams earlier swept into the third round to rumblings about the lack of depth in the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game but second seed Petra Kvitova bucked the trend when her second round match threatened to turn into a horror show.

6FRW $QG\ 0XUUD\ WKH ORVLQJ ÂżQDOOLVW IRU WKH ODVW WZR \HDUV here, was also in imposing form and there was no need for any â&#x20AC;&#x153;Braveheartâ&#x20AC;?-inspired heroics as he despatched Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-1 6-4 6-4. Djokovic revealed after KLV PDWFK WKDW KH JHWV LQWR D ÂżJKW LQ KLV PRYLH GHEXW DQG LI WKH ÂżUVW ÂżOP LQ WKH VHULHV LV DQ\WKLQJ WR JR E\ LW LV OLNHO\ WR be more of a dramatic tussle than the crowd on Rod Laver Arena witnessed on Thursday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A win is a win however it comes to you. I try obviously to not underestimate any opponents in early rounds,â&#x20AC;? the Serbian told reporters afterwards. Âł6DQWLDJR FDPH RXW HDUO\ KLWWLQJ WKH EDOO TXLWH Ă&#x20AC;DW EXW , knew that sooner or later heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to drop the rhythm and I just have to hang in there. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done a good job.â&#x20AC;? There was D EULHI EOLS LQ WKH ÂżUVW VHW ZKHQ IRXU XQIRUFHG HUURUV KDQGHG Giraldo a service break, but the world number one broke back to love immediately and said there had been no nerves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To be honest, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had lots of situations where I was break down in my career so I guess that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t affect PH HVSHFLDOO\ HDUO\ LQ WKH ÂżUVW VHW ´ KH VDLG Âł, NQHZ WKDW I would start hitting the ball better.â&#x20AC;?

Sharapova, the 2008 champion, took just 64 minutes to FUXVK $PHULFDQ TXDOLÂżHU -DPLH +DPSWRQ ZKLOH ÂżYH WLPHV ZLQQHU :LOOLDPV QHHGHG WZR PLQXWHV PRUH WR defeat Czech Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 6-0 6-4. The third former winner in the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s draw, defending champion Kim Clijsters, progressed with a 6-0 6-1 victory on the same Rod Laver Arena on Wednesday.

While a dreaded â&#x20AC;&#x153;double bagelâ&#x20AC;? 6-0 6-0 defeat has yet to be doled out this year, the rash of lop-sided contests has once again prompted questions about the gap in quality between the best and the rest in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis.

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The performance of Kvitovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 58th-ranked opponent Carla Suarez Navarro was a riposte to those questions as VKH IRUFHG WKH :LPEOHGRQ FKDPSLRQ WR ÂżJKW EDFN IURP D break down in the third set to salvage a 6-2 2-6 6-4 win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very tough to get back because you know that she moved very well and she got everything,â&#x20AC;? the 21-year-old Czech said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just try to get more shots and be in the rallies with KHU DQG SOD\ VPDUWHU 7KDW ZDV WKH NH\ ´ :KHQ ÂżW :LOliams has often been at an elite level of her own over the years and her victory over Strycova was the 500th win of her career. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the ultimate. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really, really cool. Five hundred is a lot of matches to play, let alone to win,â&#x20AC;? she said of the milestone, which only her sister Venus, Clijsters and Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn have reached before her among active players.

An older generation of grand slam champions take cenWUH VWDJH LQ WKH ÂżQDO PDWFK RI WKH GD\ ZKHQ ORFDO /OH\WRQ Hewitt, the former U.S. Open and Wimbledon champion, faces 2003 U.S. Open winner Andy Roddick in a match the American said would be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;warâ&#x20AC;?.

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Loeb leads Monte Carlo Rally after Latvala’s crash SEBASTIEN Loeb holds a comfortable lead at the end of day one of the Monte Carlo Rally after rival Jari-Matti Latvala crashed out of first place.

Latvala had been 30 seconds in front of five-time Monte winner Loeb going into today’s final stage, but rolled his Ford and was forced to retire.

All of Loeb’s nearest competitors had tough ends to their days, with Ford’s Petter Solberg ruing his use of two snow tyres on what was now a mostly dry SS4 and Loeb’s Citroen team-mate Mikko Hirvonen damaging a brake in a minor impact with a wall.

Their delays allowed Dani Sordo to

move back into second for Mini despite damaging his suspension in an error this morning, although the Spaniard is 1m04s behind Loeb and just 1s ahead of Solberg.

Sebastien Ogier therefore holds an astonishing fourth place overall in his S2000 Skoda - thanks to some very rapid

stage times as well as the WRC field’s issues. The ex-Citroen WRC driver is just ahead of Evgeny Novikov’s MSport Ford and the delayed Hirvonen, with Francois Delecour holding a highly respectable seventh on his WRC return with another WRC Ford. Thierry Neuville retired from his Citroen debut on the day’s final stage.

P-G Andersson’s Proton holds 10th overall and leads the S2000 class, albeit as one of only two cars still running in the poorly-supported division.

A supporter waving a flare cheers Citroen pilot Sebastien Loeb and his co-pilot Daniel Elena during the second special stage of the 80th Monte Carlo rally between Burzet and Saint Martial, southeastern France, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012.

AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani

Agence France Presse

AFP Photo/Dimitar Dilkoff

Rell Bull’s Sebastian Vettel (left) and McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton wave to supporters on the eve of the Belgium Grand Prix in August 2011.

Lewis Hamilton is a better Formula One driver h i i ld champion h i S b i Vettel, V l than reigning world Sebastian Ferrari’s former world drivers’ championship winner Fernando Alonso has told German magazine Sport-Bild.

“Lewis is very fast, aggressive and totally focused, he is only interested in victory. Sebastian has not reached that level yet,” said Alonso.

“I know he’s the double world champion, but he is still somewhat behind the level Lewis has set.”

Germany’s Vettel secured his second consecutive world drivers’ championship title when he dominated the 2011 season, finishing with 392 points, while Britain’s 2008 champion Hamilton finished fifth - 165 points behind the German.

Spain’s Alonso was fourth last season and won the last of his two world titles in 2006.

The new Formula One season begins on March 18 with the Australian Grand Prix.

Leading positions after SS4: Pos Driver

Team/Car

Time/Gap

1.

2.

3.

4.

Citroen Mini Ford VW Skoda

1h30m30.1s + 1m04.2s + 1m05.2s + 2m21.1s

Sebastien Loeb Dani Sordo Petter Solberg Sebastien Ogier

5. Evgeny Novikov

M-Sport Ford

+ 2m26.5s

6. Mikko Hirvonen 7. Francois Delecour 8. Pierre Campana

Citroen M-Sport Ford Mini

+ 2m30.0s + 2m49.9s + 4m09.7s

9. Ott Tanak 10. P-G Andersson

M-Sport Ford Proton

+ 4m14.0s + 4m33.8s