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Bali tourism fattens predators IBP/File

One of the hotels in Bali.Tourism growth of the Island of the Gods with the tourist visit reaching 2,573,118 people in November 2011 was alleged to only feed up the predators.

Denpasar (Bali Post)— Tourism growth of the Island of the Gods with the tourist visit reaching 2,573,118 people in November 2011 was alleged to only feed up the predators, who were not Balinese community. Deputy of Bank Indonesia Denpasar, Gde Made Sadguna, said that Balinese people only obtained the flakes and negative impacts of such growth.

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“A lot of predators in the system of Bali tourism that do not guarantee the sustainability of the tourism, including the migrant workers are also predators.

Balinese community only gets the physical, social and cultural waste,” revealed Made Sadguna in

Denpasar on Tuesday (Jan 24).

Made Sadguna emphasized, aside from pursuing quality tourists, Bali Government should also boost the tourism having positive impact on the community. Among others, it could be carried out by developing spiritual tourism, na-

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Strong wind which happened in the last few days created some damaged. In Badung Regency, strong wind which happened on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, made trees fell in several places. There were no casualties in the incident but some buildings were badly damaged. Currently, Badung Disaster Handling Department (BPBD) still analyze the loss suffer because of the incident.

Based on the data by BPBD, at least 12 tress fell yesterday. The Head of Logistic Division in BPBD, Putu Ngurah Thomas Yuniarta, said that the most extensive damage was happening in Kancing Gumi Temple in Petang.

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ture tourism and others in order to suppress the negative influence affected by the growth of tourism.

“If this can be realized, the people’s income will rise, economic growth will get higher, inflation will run low and a vast employment can be realized. As conse-

quence, the economic growth will be sustainable,” he said.

Comparable opinion was revealed by the Rector of Udayana University, Prof. Dr. I Made Bakta.

Tourism was only enjoyed by certain circles and Bali only got small flakes so the regulation should set in such a way that people would get a fair portion. “Otherwise, we will only get a trickle and the negative impact because most benefits are enjoyed by those from outside Bali,” he said.

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Strong wind happens in Badung Tree fall down The Bale Gong or the place to play traditional Balinese music was severely damaged amd also one of the house of the local resident.

Damage also happened in Mengwi where the Taman Ayun Temple and Puseh Sobangan Temple were also damage by fallen trees.

According to Thomas the loss was around 100 million rupiah in PUseh Sobangan Temple alone. The similar incident also occurred in Beringkit Market. A huge tree fell in the parking lot. There was no victim in the incident.

Thomas urged everyone to be more cautious because the weather condition is unpredictable.

The people also must report if there is incident or disasters in the area so it can be handled properly. (kmb25)

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One of the tree which fall down in Badung Regency

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The moment ahead of Galungan and Kuningan celebration in Bali is always followed by the increase in pig and poultry supply to meet the needs of flesh as a means of oblation supplement.

Head of Bali Livestock Agency, Putu Sumantra, said on Tuesday (Jan 24) that pork and chicken stock would not experience shortages or the stock was ascertained to be secure, particularly in meeting the high demand of people for meat. Similarly, the high price hike of meat in the market was still considered within the range of stable price. â&#x20AC;&#x153;About 75 percent of the Balinese Hindus raise pigs, so they smartly look for the opportunities to prepare their cattle for the needs of Galungan and Kuningan,â&#x20AC;? he explained.

He further said that based on the data collected in December 2011, the total supply of pig potentially slaughtered was around 330,548.

Population of pigs that could be slaughtered sourced from the young and male pigs amounting to around 45 percent or 14,283 pigs of the 31,740 pig population that could be slaughter, young female pigs but not entirely made into sow and emasculated male pigs (244,856) as well as adult male and sow being ready to slaughter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Based on the existing benchmark, 56 percent of the pig slaughtered will produce some 100 kg of flesh. With the average of 100 kg of flesh for each pig, the total flesh stock produced will approximately reach 18,510 tons. I think it is sufficient to meet the public demand.

If the population of Bali is assumed to reach 1 million, then each member of the community is predicted to gain some 18 kg of pork,â&#x20AC;? he explained.

As for chicken, Sumantra said the number of broiler population in December 2011 reached 6.4 million heads. The figure was constantly increasing within the past two years from only some 4.5 million heads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chicken stock does not need worrying. Probably, the stock will even surpass the demand,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Meanwhile, the price of pork, added Sumantra, had not showed a significant increase. Evidently, the monitoring results from two traditional markets in Denpasar indicated if the price of pork was still in the range of IDR 39,000â&#x20AC;&#x201C;IDR 40,000 per kilogram. The increase in meat price was predicted to take place two days before Galungan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since the flesh stock will also be prepared by the community through the hamlets, I think the price hike will be not too high, maximally around IDR 45.000,â&#x20AC;? he said. (bit)

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Against both escaping inmates, the prison authority would impose a sanction for the violation committed. In accordance with the order of detention, the sanction would be given in the form of isolation.

Rights of both inmates such as receiving a visit, movement in jail, coaching program and others would

be eliminated for two weeks.

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On the other hand, in the matter of security and surveillance, according to Suwendra, it had a valuable learning. The Gianyar Prison House in this case would further enhance its vigilance and alertness. Jailbreak by both inmates was a valuable experience for the SULVRQ HVSHFLDOO\ WKH RIÂżFHUV ZKR should be consistent in carrying out their duties.

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oners escaped around 4:00 p.m.

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When the jailbreak took place, all inmates were given the opportunity to leave their jail for 30 minutes to have dinner, a bath and worship.

He did not think if the prison heavily guarded so far could be broken by the two inmates.

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Hit by tornado

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Two chicken sellers are seen on a market in Denpasar area.

A tornado struck the Pagi Customary Village, Senganan, Penebel, Tuesday (Jan 24). The temple of Pesimpangan Dalem Ped located on the area of Pucak Pengadangan Temple at local village toppled after a hit by a giant mango tree. The old trunk also impeded the village road section. As consequence, two hamlets were isolated. Residents were forced to turn to a different direction of some 20 kilometers to exit from the village.

Strong winds began to emerge at 2:00 p.m. Local Time. The tornado came from the west and then twirled JUHDWO\ 6XFK ÂżHUFH DWWDFN GLG QRW ODVW long, just for 10 minutes. Such strong vortex caused a mango tree growing in the middle of the temple to topple. Âł,W VRXQGHG WHUULÂżFDOO\ EXW OXFNLO\ QR people were in the temple,â&#x20AC;? said Chief of Pagi Customary Village, Wayan Yastra. As a result of the incident, the temple buildings comprising the chamber shrine and compound wall were damaged. When seeing the tree toppled, local residents thronged to approach.

Due to lack of equipment, people were unable to cleanse the debris of the damaged shrines, while the falling

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The fallen tree is seen from above in Senganan, Penebel, Tabanan Regency tree was still left to hinder the road. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will be going to hold a customary meeting to determine the measures of evacuation,â&#x20AC;? said Yastra. This man predicted the total loss reached IDR 30 million. Until Tuesday afternoon, residents still gathered at the scene.

They worked hand in hand to clean the remaining debris scattering in the temple area. The falling tree, according to Yastra, reached hundreds of

years old. Its stem was hollow, while the roots had been brittle.

Residentscomplainedbecausetheir road access was isolated whereas it was an alternative for them toTabanan or Baturiti. Other than damaging the temple, the tornado also broke down dozens of trees around the village. The trees along the village roads were damaged and toppled, while the electricity went out. (udi)

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New body found on wrecked Italian ship Reuters

GIGLIO, Italy - Salvage crews expect to begin pumping thousands of tons of fuel from the wrecked Costa Concordia by Saturday, officials said, as divers found a 16th body on the giant Italian cruise liner, which capsized off the Tuscan coast over a week ago.

Preparations began on Tuesday for the complex task of extracting more than 2,300 tons of diesel oil from the giant liner’s 17 fuel tanks with divers beginning the work of installing external fuel tanks to hold the oil pumped out. As the salvage preparations began on Tuesday, divers found the body of an elderly woman wearing a life jacket, bringing the total number of bodies recovered so far to 16.

At least 16 more people are missing on the 290-meter long vessel, which lies half-submerged on its side just outside the tiny island port of Giglio. Nine victims have been identified and the identities of seven others are so far unknown. Dutch salvage company

SMIT brought a barge carrying defueling equipment alongside the giant hulk as divers worked on installing external tanks that will be used to hold more than 2,300 tons of diesel that must be pumped out of the Concordia.

Navy explosive experts also blasted a hole into the submerged third deck of the ship to allow divers to continue the search of the vessel after the bodies of two so-far unidentified women were found on Tuesday.

“While this operation is underway, rescue efforts are continuing simultaneously,” fire services spokesman Claudio Chiavacci said. Authorities have been increasingly concerned at the threat of an oil spill in the marine reserve where the accident occurred but work on removing diesel and lubricating oil has been delayed by the search for survivors and bodies.

Preparations to begin pumping the oil are expected to take several days and the actual work of removing the fuel from the giant liner’s 17 fuel tanks will take another 28 days.

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Villagers search the site of a landslide that struck villages in the Southern Highlands mountainous region of central Papua New Guinea, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Local media reported Wednesday that dozens of bodies have been recovered.

Several dead after landslide hits Papua New Guinea Associated Press Writer

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Rescuers were pulling bodies from the debris of a landslide that struck mountainous central Papua New Guinea, a disaster official said Wednesday, with reports saying as many as 60 people were dead or missing.

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The Costa Concordia cruise ship which ran aground off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island lies on its side, half-submerged and threatening to slide into deeper waters January 23, 2012.

The full extent of the damage to villages hit by Tuesday’s landslide was not immediately known, said Martin Mose, the director of the South Pacific island nation’s National Disaster Center.

“I just received reports that several bodies have been recovered,” Mose told The Associated Press. He said

he was waiting for officials at the scene — near the town of Mendi — to provide him with the exact number.

The National newspaper reported that 40 bodies had been recovered and 20 people were still missing.

Local lawmaker Francis Potape told Radio Australia’s indigenous language service that the landslide

completely covered two villages while people slept. “There are people buried underneath and a number of them are, from what I have heard, children,” The National quoted Potape as saying.

Reports said the destruction extended more than one mile (two kilometers), leaving roads to villages cut off. Three National Disaster Center officials were being flown by helicopter to Mendi on Wednesday to join police at the disaster site.

The Post Courier newspaper reported that Prime Minister Peter O’Neill would fly to the state later Wednesday.

‘God Save the Queen’ lacks sing-along factor: study Agence France Presse

As the strains of “God Save the Queen” float over Britain during this year of the Olympics and the diamond jubilee, few of her subjects will be singing along, according to new research on Wednesday.

Two academics at British universities who studied anthems found “God Save the Queen” is the hardest to sing along to, while France’s national anthem “La Marseillaise” was the easiest to belt out.

The study was commissioned

by the producers of “Sing-a-long-aGrease”, the classic musical based on life at US high school in the 1950s.

Daniel Muellensiefen, a German music psychologist at Goldsmith’s, University of London, and Alisun Pawley, an American-born musicologist at York University, developed the method used to analyse the anthems of six nations.

They apply over 30 musical variables, ranging from “the amount of vocal effort” involved to the “length of phrases”.

And the academics put the an-

thems to the test in pubs and clubs across northern England, counting how many people sang along to each song that was played -- a total of 1,160 sing-alongs.

France topped the list followed

by Australia, Germany, Canada, the United States and Britain.

Pawley said “La Marseillaise” won because it demands high vocal effort which promotes singing along.

“I don’t think that any country is going to like the results, except the French,” Pawley said.

As the strains of “God Save the Queen” float over Britain during this year of the Olympics and the diamond jubilee, few of her subjects will be singing along, according to new research on Wednesday

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Hard Rock Hotel

The leading entertainment hotel in Bali IBP

Nestling against the shores of Kuta’s famed surf beach, lies a holiday resort that lays testament to the glories of the past fifty years of rock culture. Covering a prime 3-hectare site in the heart of Bali’s entertainment and shopping district, featuring 418 tribute rooms, luxury and deluxe suites, alongside six cutting edge food and beverage outlets. A paradise for couples, families and singles.

With Hard Rock’s signature of limitless energy, unparalleled creativity and quality service, your rockin’ holiday will never be the same again.

Centerstage lies at the heart of the hotel and doubles as a lobby, a bar, a live rock venue with performances every night and even a rock museum.

Starz Diner, the Hotel’s hip all day dining restaurant serves contemporary Asian flavors.

Enjoy the choicest New York style

take-outs at HRBC Deli and check your emails, while you’re here.

Dine Al Fresco at the poolside Splash Bistro, enjoys wood fired pizzas, rockin’ pastas and kool cocktails and watch wet happening by the pool.

Facing the Indian Ocean is the timehonored catalyst of the resort, the Hard Rock Cafe. With nightly live bands, one is assured of a VIP welcome with the hotel Q jumping backstage pass.

Chill out at the Shack bar, half submerged in Bali’s largest free form pool.

Relax in a poolside Cabana for the day and enjoy Aqua Rockercise, water polo and Beach Party.

Spanning 252-square-metre, TABU offers a nightclub equipped with multipurpose DJ Booth, Internet and Gaming Lounge with WII, Xbox Kinetic and PS3 facilities, private cinema area, bar and lounge with chill out area and pool table. Become a TABU member and be the first to feel the new Hard Rock

experience.

If you feel like stretching your vocal cords, the “Boom Box” has Karaoke Rooms as well as Recording Studio, with a Resident Sound Engineer just incase you feel like cutting a few tracks.

Rock Spa offers a wide range of body therapy and treatments to restore and balance the mind, body and soul. Even the kids are taken care of with their very own Lil’ Rock Kids Club, supervised by experienced staff.

The walls of the hotel are adorned with images, icons and memorabilia reflecting the revolution that changed the face of music, fashion and the arts, celebrating artistes from the 50’s to the new Millennium.

Discuss business strategies, have that team building session or organize themed events, private functions and dinners, in any of our rock ‘n’ roll themed meeting and conference rooms.

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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Dropped heart successfully transplanted in Mexico Associated Press Writer ME ICO CITY A heart that was dropped on the ground while being transported to a hospital has been successfully transplanted into a 28-year-old hair stylist.

Dr. Jaime Saldivar says Erika Hernandez doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet know that her new heart made national news when a medic stumbled and the plastic-wrapped heart tumbled out of a cooler onto the street two weeks ago.

Saldivar says it will be up to the family to tell her. A rosy-cheeked HerQDQGH] VSRNH EULHĂ&#x20AC;\ ZLWK UHSRUWHUV RQ 7XHVGD\ DQG WKDQNHG WKH GRQRUÂśV family, saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no words to express what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m feeling right now.â&#x20AC;?

Hernandez was born with a congenital heart defect. She received the heart of a man who died in a car accident.

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A damaged tank is seen after an attack by armed GaddaďŹ loyalists in Bani Walid, a town about 200 km (120 miles) from Tripoli, in this still image taken from video January 24, 2012.

Anger, chaos but no revolt after Libya violence euters %$1, :$/,' /LE\D $ EXOOHW VFDUUHG EDUUDFNV VFRUFKHG DQG DEDQGRQHG OLNH WKH DJHLQJ WDQNV JXDUGLQJ LWV VKDWWHUHG JDWHZD\ ZDV DOO WKDW UHPDLQHG RQ 7XHVGD\ RI ZKDW SDVVHG IRU WKH /LE\DQ JRYHUQPHQWÂśV JULS RQ %DQL :DOLG %XW D GD\ DIWHU WRZQVPHQ SXW WR Ă&#x20AC;LJKW D IRUFH OR\DO WR WKH :HVWHUQ EDFNHG LQWHULP DGPLQLVWUDWLRQ LQ 7ULSROL HOGHUV LQ WKH GHVHUW FLW\ RQFH D EDVWLRQ RI VXSSRUW IRU 0XDPPDU *DGGDÂż GLVPLVVHG DFFXVDWLRQV WKH\ ZDQWHG WR UHVWRUH WKH ODWH GLFWDWRUÂśV IDPLO\ WR SRZHU RU KDG DQ\ DPELWLRQV EH\RQG WKHLU ORFDO DUHD â&#x20AC;&#x153;Allegations of pro-Gaddafi elements in Bani Walid, this is not true,â&#x20AC;? said Miftah Jubarra, who was among dozens of leading citiz ens gathered at a local mosque to form a municipal council now that nominal representatives from the capital have fled. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Libyan revolution, we have all become brothers,â&#x20AC;? Jubarra told Reuters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will not be an obstacle to progress.â&#x20AC;?

That might reassure the National Transitional Council, the body which won NATO backing to oust Gaddafi last year but which is now struggling to restore services and impose order on myriad armed groups. An official of the NTCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government in Tripoli insisted it saw no threat from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;limited local incident.â&#x20AC;?

Yet the violence, 150 km (90 miles) south of the capital, was also symptomatic of major obstacles to Libyan hopes of a rapid transition to peace, democracy and oil-fueled prosperity.

Residents heard warplanes overhead late on Monday as NTC forces hastily drove south from Tripoli to take up positions 50

km from Bani Walid. But those troops had, as yet, no orders to move on the town, where Gaddafi loyalists fought rebel forces to a standstill before negotiating a surrender in October.

Interior Minister Fawzi Abd al-All told a news conference in Tripoli would â&#x20AC;&#x153;strike with an iron fistâ&#x20AC;? anyone who posed a threat to Libyan security - but he also said there would be no NTC move against Bani Walid until it was clear what happened.

People in Bani Walid urged the NTC to keep back and the governPHQW RIÂżFLDO LQ 7ULSROL VSHDNLQJ on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the interim administration was in no hurry to get mired in a dispute he characterized as a spat between local factions, rather than a counter-revolution. â&#x20AC;&#x153;GREEN FLAGSâ&#x20AC;? ABSENT

Though pro-government militiamen who fled on Monday spoke of their barracks being overrun by fighters flying the green flag of the old regime, Reuters journalists who toured the town of 75,000 on Tuesday saw little overt sign of such allegiances to Gaddafi, whose now

captive son Saif al-Islam staged a last stand in Bani Walid before fleeing into the Sahara three months ago.

Rather than green flags, the PRVW FRPPRQ EDQQHUV Ă&#x20AC;\LQJ ZHUH the red, green and black tricolor of WKH 17& 6RPH JUDIÂżWL VSRNH RI lingering nostalgia for the GadGDÂżV LQ D WRZQ ZKRVH GRPLQDQW Warfalla tribe fared well under him. But those willing to talk to reporters insisted the violence was no revanchist putsch but was provoked by local abuses allegedly committed by The May 28th Brigade, a militia loyal to the NTC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When men from Tripoli come into your house and harass women, what are we to do â&#x20AC;? said Fati Hassan, a 28-year-old Bani Walid resident who described the men of May 28th as a mixture of local men and RXWVLGHUV IRUPHU DQWL *DGGDÂż UHEels who had turned into oppressors when given control over the town. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They were arresting people from the first day after liberation.

People are still missing. I am a revolutionary and I have friends in The May 28th Brigade,â&#x20AC;? said Hassan, who said he urged them to ease off. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The war is over now.â&#x20AC;?

AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo

Erika Hernandez, 28, gives a thumbs up from inside an ambulance after being discharged from the hospital where she had a heart transplant in Mexico City, Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012.

Bali tourism...

From page 1 According to him, all stakeholders including the community should be thinking about sustainable tourism development with clear regulations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do not only accept charity or donations, but the regulations must also be set IRUWK ´ KH DIÂżUPHG Prof. Bakta also said that tourism perpetrators should not only pursue the quantity, but should also target quality tourists with much spending and long stay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Other than quality tourists, we also develop the tourism with positive impact on society, such as the development of spiritual tourism, nature tourism and so

forth. By doing so, its negative effect can be minimized,â&#x20AC;? he explained.

According to Prof. Bakta, it would be achieved if government, academician, industry and communities could work hand in KDQG Âł, DP GHÂżQLWHO\ RSWLPLVWLF if the Bali tourism will achieve progresses. Moreover, we still have a Bali branding with a high value,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Similar facts were also recognized by the Head of Bali *RYHUQPHQW 7RXULVP 2IÂżFH ,% Kade Subhiksu. However, the fact needed to get a more in-depth study. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to get a correct assessment on what is really happening. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s think together how to deal with the problems in tourism,â&#x20AC;? he said. (par)

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Hundreds of people are burning houses and carrying weapons during the riot which happen in Lampung.

Mob torches tens of houses in South Lampung Antara

BANDARLAMPUNG - A mob torched at least 60 houses at Sidomulyo village in South Lampung district, Lampung province, on Tuesday following a clash between two groups of people earlier in the day.

The mob also destroyed 23 other houses, sources told ANTARA News. The incident forced residents of the village to take refuge to safer place to avoid another clash.

Hundreds of police officers with

the help of military personnel were deployed to the scene to anticipate undesired thing.

The security personnel were standing by to prevent residents from other areas from entering

the village to help their relatives involved in the clash.

Thousands of people armed with various kinds of sharp weapons were seen on the scene of clash.

The incident forced police to reroute traffic on trans Sumatra highway and close the section of the highway from Katibung to Tanjungan villages in South Lampung district.

A number of buses and pri-

Sumatran elephants could be extinct in 30 years Associated Press

JAKARTA — The Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild within three decades unless immediate steps are taken to slow the breakneck pace of deforestation, environmentalists warned Tuesday.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently listed the animals as “critically endangered” after their numbers dropped to between 2,400 and 2,800 from an estimated 5,000 in 1985. The decline is largely because of destruction of their habitat, with forests all across the Indonesian island of Sumatra being clear-cut for timber, palm oil and pulp and paper plantations.

Sumatra has some of the most significant

populations of Asian elephants outside of India and Sri Lanka and is also home to tigers, orangutans and rhinos.

“The Sumatran elephant joins a growing list of Indonesian species that are critically endangered,” Carlos Drews of the conservation group WWF said in a statement Tuesday.

“Unless urgent and effective conservation action is taken these magnificent animals are likely to go extinct within our lifetime.”

Indonesia’s endangered elephants sometimes venture into populated areas searching for food and destroy crops or attack humans, making them unpopular with villagers.

Some are shot or poisoned with cyanidelaced fruit, while others are killed by poachers for their ivory.

vate cars which happened to pass through the section of the highway were ordered to enter nearby gasoline station compounds for several hours until the security conditions in the area returned to normal.

Police also tightly guarded the road leading to the village and banned other residents from entering the scene.

Chief of the Lampung provincial police Brig. Gen. Jodie Rooseto,

commander of the military district Col. Amalsyah Tarmizi, South Lampung district head Rycko Menoza, and chief of the South Lampung police resort Adjunct Chief Commissioner Harry Muharram had visited the scene.

By Tuesday evening the security conditions on the scene had begun to return to normal and security personnel remained on standby to prevent undesired thing.

XL offers data service for low-end users XL Axiata Tbk PT will offer users of low-end mobile phones an inexpensive data plan for applications such as Facebook and Twitter using software from Blaast Oy, a Finnish startup.

Customers in Indonesia can pay 1,100 rupiahs ($0.12) a day for unlimited access to applications on the service, Axiata and Helsinki-based Blaast said today in an e-mailed statement. Local developers are creating content for the Blaast platform, the companies said.

Blaast keeps most of the application code and data on the network, reducing the load on the simple handsets used

by most mobile consumers in emerging markets. It competes with native- and browser-based application formats from vendors including Opera Software ASA and handset makers such as Nokia Oyj. Investors include Skype venture capital spinoff Ambient Sound Investments and Steve Blank, an entrepreneurship lecturer at Stanford University.

“XL data services have reached more than 24 million users, or more than 50 percent of total subscribers,” XL President Director Hasnul Suhaimi said in the statement. Blaast will allow XL to “differentiate on the competitive market.”

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Bali Today of Galungan penjor paraphernalia

Seasonal business ZLWK SURâ&#x20AC;ŤŰ&#x2039;â&#x20AC;ŹW RI PLOOLRQV RI UXSLDKV Denpasar (Bali Post)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

Farmers are cultivating their rice ďŹ eld

As exuding methane, agriculture triggers a global climate change

Ahead of Galungan celebration, traders of young coconut leaf and various penjor paraphernalia seem to have been ready to offer their merchandise. Buyers of penjor paraphernalia begin to arrive. Similar condition always occurs every six months.

Ornament of penjor hunted by the Hindus will become a promising business opportunity. Not infrequently, seasonal traders take advantage of this consumer trend. By and large, seasonal traders have prepared their merchandise two months before the Galungan. Men Yanik, for example, usually sells fodder and insecticide at Tumbak Bayuh, Badung, everyday. However, ahead of Galungan her stall offers all the necessities to make penjor ranging from decorations and sampian festoon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to help people provide complete penjor paraphernalia so they need not go away to market. So, this will make them much easier,â&#x20AC;? she said.

For penjor paraphernalia, Men Yanik purchased them from traders in the market, while the price of the ornaments and sampian festoon highly depended on the number of decorations and its tier. Despite a seasonal business, the moment of Galungan and Kuningan was able to give blessing for her because of the high demand for penjor paraphernalia especially in rural areas. Unmitigatedly, WKH SURÂżW HDUQHG FRXOG UHDFK ,'5 PLOOLRQ Much the same blessing was also perceived by a seasonal trader in Denpasar, Nyoman. He claimed to have done selling since four days ago. Though the demand was still minimal, it did not matter for him because the penjor paraphernalia made of palm leaf was durable until the next feast. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Indeed the demand is still a little. But, when approaching Galungan the transaction will grow more,â&#x20AC;? he said. Nyoman estimated that price of penjor paraphernalia when approaching Galungan would go up to the range of 5-10 percent. Price changes occurred because at that time many people would be hunting for the penjor paraphernalia. As a result, the traders would take advantage of the moment to raise the price.

Unlike Men Yanik and Nyoman who took advantage of the moment of holiday season by selling penjor paraphernalia, the penjor maker Made Mangku Budiartha getting involved daily with the making of a variety of penjor decoration for wedding and special events in government and private agencies was capable of selling penjor up to hundreds of units in just few days. He could earn up to millions of rupiahs in relatively short time. Âł, FDQ RQO\ UHFHLYH WKH RUGHU RI XQLWV RI SHQMRU EHIRUH *DOXQJDQ EHFDXVH RI OLPLWHG ODERU HYHQ WRGD\ WKHUH KDYH EHHQ RUGHUV RI SHQMRU 7KH UHPDLQing does not include my regular customers,â&#x20AC;? he said. His current buyers were dominated by individuals of Denpasar residents, while the others were private and government agencies.According to Budiarta, today many people preferred buying to making by themselves because they were busy. was not (bit)

Denpasar (Bali Post)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

ricultural sector is believed to enerate a lot of methane as both in the plantation food crops and other sector. Due to methane as produced it becomes one of the sectors tri erin the lobal climate chan e. researcher from the ali nstitute for ricultural echnolo y ssessment P P lit rtha i una said in Denpasar on uesday an that e treme eather condition as caused by the impact of lobal climate chan e. he unstoppable rapid ro th of development also resulted in less favorable impact. One of the impacts can be felt in the a ricultural sector. ood crops and livestoc for instance produce as emission that plays an important role in the lobal climate chan e he said.

According to him, though the agriculture became one of the sectors affected by global climate change, but it also became one of the sectors having contribution to the occurrence of such condition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The agricultural sector lies on two sides,â&#x20AC;? he said. One the one side, the agriculture caused the global climate change because it produced gas causing climate change. On the other side, the ag-

ricultural sector was the recipient of the impact of the global climate change as the weather suddenly changed so that it had a negative impact on the farming system developed.

Negative impacts could be seen from the rampant growth of germs, SHVWV DQG HYHQ GURXJKW DQG Ă&#x20AC;RRGing. These disasters in turn made the production of farmers decrease.

These impacts could be felt, and

happened to date. Movement of the rice price in the market today, for example, continued to surge in line with the rampant crop failures happened lately. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This condition should be promptly anticipated.

Indeed, it cannot be undertaken alone but should start from each individual, including farmer in this case becoming the perpetrator of the farming business,â&#x20AC;? said Alit Artha Wiguna. (bit)

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The makers of penjor paraphernalia are working hard near the Galungan Day.

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Balinese Culture Gambur Anglayang Temple: 0XOWLFXOWXUDO 6SLULW IURP 1RUWKHUQ %DOL 127 PDQ\ VDQFWXPV SK\VLFDOO\ DQG VSLULWXDOO\ UHĂ&#x20AC;HFW the principles of democracy and tolerance in the life of the nation. Among the few numbers, there is the Negara Gambur Anglayang Temple sitting at Kubutambahan Customary Village, Kubutambahan Subdistrict, BuleOHQJ ,I VWDWH RIÂżFLDOV RIWHQ KHUDOG D PXOWLFXOWXUDO VSLULW in establishing the archipelagic sustainability, the Negara Gambur Anglayang actually has showed a kind of past representation about how people in Bali maintained the multicultural spirit until now. In the temple area, there DUH D QXPEHU RI VKULQHV UHĂ&#x20AC;HFWLQJ WKH GLYHUVLW\ HOHPHQWV in peaceful space.

7KH HLJKW VKULQHV LQ WKH WHPSOH UHĂ&#x20AC;HFWLQJ WKH GLYHUVLW\ and tolerance are still maintained until now. They conVLVW RI WKH VKULQH RI 5DWX %DJXV 6XQGDZDQ UHSUHVHQWLQJ 6XQGD HWKQLF 5DWX %DJXV 0HOD\X UHSUHVHQWLQJ 0DOD\V 5DWX $\X 6\DKEDQGDU DQG 5DWX 0DQLN 0DV UHSUHVHQWLQJ &KLQHVH DQG %XGGKLVP HOHPHQW 5DWX 3DVHN *RGGHVV 6UL DQG 5DWX *HGH 6KLZD UHSUHVHQWLQJ +LQGXLVP DQG WKH PRVW XQLTXH LV WKH VKULQH RI 5DWX 'DOHP 0HNDK (Mecca) representing the elements of Islam. Until now, the Kubutambahan customary village remains to maintain this important sanctum properly. Local residents believe that peace will be sustained if those shrines are constantly given the breath and spirit by maintaining and venerating them well. $V KDSSHQHG RQ 6DWXUGD\ 2FW WKH SHRSOH RI .XEXtambahan customary village with customary leaders, including the Chief Jero Warkadea, performed the ceremony preparations vigorously. They welcomed the pujawali or temple anniversary falling on Buda Wage Cemeng Klawu, :HGQHVGD\ 1RY $OO VKULQHV ZHUH HPEHOOLVKHG ZLWK sacred paraphernalia such as clothes, pennants, penjor pole DQG RWKHUV 'HYRWHHV DOVR ZDYHG UHG DQG ZKLWH Ă&#x20AC;DJ LQ WKH temple area, including on the road section leading to the WHPSOH ,QVWDOODWLRQ RI WKH UHG DQG ZKLWH Ă&#x20AC;DJ VHHPLQJO\ told people that nationalism with high tolerance to sustain the archipelago could be constructed from the Gambur

Anglayang Temple.

Jero Warkadea said the temple was actually had three names. Other than Negara Gambur Anglayang, it was also called Pula Negara and Kerta Negara Loka. The three names equally contained the word negara. This could mean that the temple had always been a passion to build and unify the nation. Especially for the name Pula Negara, this phrase was actually derived from the word Pulau Negara (literally, island of the country). In the long run, the word pulau was shortened to pula. If the phrase of Pulau Negara described further, it could have a very broad meaning. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In other words, from an island, a country with diverse ethnic groups can be built very well,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Negara Gambur Anglayang Temple is located on the edge of Tabaning Beach, Kubutambahan. The word Tabaning here is derived from Kuta and Baneng. Kuta means fort and baning means brick. Formerly, about in the thirteenth century, Kubutambahan was a fortress on a large lagoon or lake.

Jero Warkadea said the origin of Negara Gambur Anglayang could not be clearly revealed because of limited supporting resources. However, the history could be estimated by looking at the epigraph data and existing manuscripts. It was estimated the temple had been estabOLVKHG LQ DQFLHQW %DOL WLPHV RU FLUFD $' $W WKDW WLPH Kubutambahan was a place where sea converged with a ODNH 5LJKW RQ WKH PHHWLQJ SRLQW RI VHD DQG ODNH ZDV QRZ the location of Negara Gambur Anglayang Temple. It was formerly a trading port called Kuta Baning. The trading SRUW ZDV IRUWLÂżHG IRU VHFXULW\ UHDVRQ EHFDXVH LW ZDV WKH center of trading activities for throughout the archipelago.

As a trade center, the area was visited by various kinds of people from different tribes, religions and races.

Since the location was believed to have given them life, a variety of different people from different faiths then established a temple. The temple posed a symbol in which religion was believed to be the humansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; goal, from wherever they originated. (BTN/kmb)

BEBEK BETUTU (Roast Duck In Banana Leaf) OVERVIEW: The rich ďŹ&#x201A;avor 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 and consider it to be a particularly strong animal as it is, like the 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 sliced 6 cloves garlic, peeled, cut in half, & sliced 3 stalks lemon grass, ďŹ nely sliced 5 fragrant lime leaves, ďŹ nely sliced 6 candlenuts, chopped 5 cm (2 in), ginger, peeled and chopped 8 cm (3in) fresh turmeric, peeled, chopped 8 cm (3in) kencur root, peeled, chopped 1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed 5 birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-eye chilies, slices 1 tsp coriander seeds, crushed 2 tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted and coarsely crushed 1½ tbsp salt 3 tbsp oil Banana 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 ďŹ ll the center of the duck with the remainder.

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

Remove banana leaves, cut duck meat up in small pieces and serve with stufďŹ ng. When cooked, the meat should be so tender that it falls off the bones.

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Singsing Waterfall WHEN summer, waterfall volume relatively decrease. Road to the waterfall which is mounting represent the pleasant activity for the activity of â&#x20AC;&#x153; trekkingâ&#x20AC;?. The location is near from area Lovina, reachable even by foot walking from Lovina, making this object a lot visited by the tourist which generally those who live in the area of Lovina.

Not far from singsing waterfall, there are Dutch monument. This Monument is develop/builded by Government of Dutch Colonial to commemorate the killed of its Heroic of Dutch army in Banjar war in the year 1868. About 1956 this monument is broken because assumed to respect colonist.

However in the year 1992 this monument is rebuilt by Local Government of Regency of Dati II Buleleng for the purpose of that history cannot be vanished, beside that monument also symbolise the warrior of Banjar peoples capable to defeat heroic of Dutch army.

Singsing Waterfall located in Banjar Labuhan Haji the Countryside of Temukus of Subdistrict Banjar, 3 km from Lovina and 13 km from Singaraja.

To go to the this tourism object is reachable with the motor vehicle to majors of countryside Tigawarsa. A signpost sign show the road which must be followed walkedly ( as long as more or less than 600 metre) to come to the ďŹ rst waterfall. To reach the second higher waterfall you have to passing precipitous road.

Park facility developed and laboured by local banjar, and booth have been made available. Local tourist and also foreign countries a lot of visiting waterfall this is because its atmosphere is calm, peace and suited for corporeal freshness. Waterfall Located in hilly area, giving coastal carpet view of Lovina in North direction, becoming interesting which enough captivate to all tourist.

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BUSINESS Ford marks turnaround juncture with new slogan A history of Ford Motor Co could be told with the succession of slogans it has used over the decades - some remembered within the company as rallying cries, some more as punch lines.

Now, six years into a comeback from near collapse, the automaker has a new VORJDQ WKDW XQGHUVFRUHV FRQÂżGHQFH WKDW its recovery is almost complete: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go Further.â&#x20AC;?

For an automaker with 166,000 workers worldwide and a history of riding boom into bust, the slogan is intended in part as a warning against complacency after three years RI SURÂżWV H[HFXWLYHV VD\ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go Furtherâ&#x20AC;? will be used in marketing campaigns, replacing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drive Oneâ&#x20AC;? in North America and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Feel the Differenceâ&#x20AC;? in Europe. Those slogans were coined to help overcome wariness on the part of consumers about the quality and performance of Ford cars as the car maker bounced back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are at a different point now in our companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history,â&#x20AC;? Jim Farley, global head of sales and marketing, told Reuters.

Ford is not the only automaker that has relied heavily on a catchy slogan.

Crosstown rival Chrysler, now under the control of Italyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fiat SpA , has played up both sides of its heritage with the year-old â&#x20AC;&#x153;Imported from Detroit.â&#x20AC;?

At General Motors Co , former CEO Ed Whitacre was amazed in 2009 that the automaker did not have a sloJDQ WKDW UHĂ&#x20AC;HFWHG D PLVVLRQ VWDWHPHQW so he supplied one: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Design, build and sell the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best vehicles.â&#x20AC;?

But Ford, founded in 1903, has a particularly long history of using slogans meant to resonate both inside its glass-walled Dearborn, Michigan, headquarters and outside with customers. Its sloganeering goes back at least as far as 1914â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ford: The Universal Car.â&#x20AC;? )RU WKH SDVW ÂżYH \HDUV &KLHI ([ecutive Alan Mulally, 66, has driven Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turnaround under the global slogan â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Ford.â&#x20AC;? The motto underscored the need to unify the automakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operations and put an end to H[HFXWLYH LQÂżJKWLQJ In the latest evidence that the plan worked, Ford is due to report its 11th FRQVHFXWLYH TXDUWHUO\ QHW SURÂżW RQ -DQuary 27. In December, the automaker announced it would begin paying a GLYLGHQG IRU WKH ÂżUVW WLPH VLQFH after moving within a notch of regaining an investment grade credit rating.

Farley insists the new slogan is not a replacement for â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Ford,â&#x20AC;? which KH VDLG LV D PRWWR WKDW UHĂ&#x20AC;HFWV WKH automakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core global strategy. And although Ford plans to use â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go Furtherâ&#x20AC;? to market new vehicles around

the world this year, the phrase is also meant to motivate its employees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really see it as kind of documenting the culture or the DNA of the company,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Farley said Ford looked at the success of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just Do Itâ&#x20AC;? for Nike and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Lovinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;? at McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in crafting its new slogan.One expert said that, while Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slogan would resonate for employees who know what the company has been through in recent years, it would not deliver the same kind of message to outsiders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that good. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little too inside the industry,â&#x20AC;? said Jim Wangers, a marketing analyst in Oceanside, California.

In the late 1960s, Ford tried to rally baby boomers around the slogan, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ford has a better idea,â&#x20AC;? using the image of a lightbulb to signal inspiration instead of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;oâ&#x20AC;? in Ford.

In the 1980s, when Ford was scrambling to counter inroads into the U.S. market by Japanese rivals led by Toyota Motor Corp , the automaker rolled out the slogan, â&#x20AC;&#x153; uality is Job 1.â&#x20AC;?

In early 2006, Ford dubbed a wrenching restructuring, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Way Forward.â&#x20AC;?

The plan involved closing 14 plants and cutting more than 25,000 jobs. Some workers joked at the time that it looked more like a giant step backward.

When Mulally arrived later that year, he tapped into the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history of sloganeering with â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Ford.â&#x20AC;?

Mulally even insisted that all workers be issued laminated cards with the turnaround motto: â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Ford, One Team, One Plan, One Goal.â&#x20AC;?

Mulally introduced the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go Furtherâ&#x20AC;? slogan to Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employees around the world in a New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message. The slogan is already being used in advertisements and on Facebook for Ford in Europe. It will be introduced in markets from India to North America later this year.

Justin Wartell, head of brand strategy for Interbrand of Dayton, Ohio, said the challenge for Ford will be to make the slogan concrete in a way that makes sense to consumers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any automaker can use that,â&#x20AC;? Wartell said of the new slogan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What makes it Ford What makes it stand out â&#x20AC;?

Elena Ford, Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s global director of marketing and the great-great granddaughter of founder Henry Ford, said the new slogan was essentially a reminder to employees that they had to set the bar higher after recent gains.

Her way of describing that could itself be turned into a slogan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We go further so you can,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Europe poses global recession threat: IMF Reuters

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The IMF chopped its estimate for 2012 global growth to 3.3 percent from 4 percent just three months ago and warned it could drop as low as 1.3 percent if Europe lets the crisis fester for much longer.

For 2013, it predicted growth of 3.9 percent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The epicenter of the danger is Europe but the rest of the world is increasingly affected,â&#x20AC;? IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard said at a news conference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is an even greater danger, namely that the European crisis intensifies, and in this case the world could be plunged into another recession.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the right set of measures, the worst can definitively be avoided and the recovery can be put back on track,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These measures can be taken, need to be taken, and need to be taken urgently.â&#x20AC;?

The IMF called for swift action from the 17-nation euro zone, which it said would likely see its economy contract this year by 0.5 percent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most immediate policy challenge is to restore confidence and put an end to the crisis in the euro area by supporting growth while sustaining adjustment, containing deleveraging, and providing more liquidity and monetary accommodation,â&#x20AC;? it said in its latest World Economic Outlook report.

Blanchard and other top IMF officials emphasized repeatedly that Europe needs to bolster its rescue funds to win market confidence and lower yields on sovereign bonds so that countries like Italy and Spain can borrow

at affordable rates.

Talks between private bond holders and the Greek government have foundered, raising the risk Athens could face a messy default that would touch off a deeper crisis. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned on Monday that a failure to erect a larger wall against financial contagion could lead to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;1930s moment.â&#x20AC;?

Jose Vinals, director of the IMFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Monetary and Capital Markets Department, said it was important to both increase the size of the Europeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current 500 billion euro rescue fund and its flexibility.

In addition to helping countries it should be able to take direct stakes in troubled banks â&#x20AC;&#x153;to break the link between national sovereign risk and national banks,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The IMF maintained its 1.8 percent growth forecast for the United States in 2012, but said a pick up in spending could be offset if the turmoil in Europe grew.

It also cut its projection for Japan to 1.7 percent from Septemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2.3 percent and urged Tokyo to be more ambitious in reducing its debt and implementing a consumer tax.

Economic activity in advanced economies would expand by 1.5 percent on average in 2012 and 2013, too sluggish to make a major dent in high unemployment rates, the Fund said.

Emerging nations are also feeling the pinch.

The IMF projected growth in emerging economies to slow to 5.4 percent this year, down from 6.2 percent last year and well below the 6.1 percent forecast in September, and it called on them

to focus policies on lifting growth.

It cut Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth figure to 8.2 percent for 2012, down from 9.0 percent. Chinese growth should rebound to 8.8 percent in 2013, it added.

For fast-growing emerging Asia as a whole, the IMF reduced its growth outlook for 2012 to 7.3 percent from 8 percent.

Elsewhere, the IMF said growth in the Middle East and North Africa should accelerate, driven mainly by a recovery in Libya after a nine-month civil war ended with the capture and killing of leader Muammar Gaddafi in October.

Global oil prices are likely to ease slightly in 2012 despite slowing world growth, the IMF said, adding that its baseline oil price projection was broadly unchanged since September when it forecast 100 a barrel.

Non-oil commodity prices are set to fall by 14 percent this year, the IMF said, adding that risks to prices are to the downside for most commodities.

In Africa, the effects of the global slowdown is likely to be limited to South Africa, with the region as a whole expanding by around 5.5 percent this year, second fastest after Asia.

The largest impact of the slowdown would likely be felt in central and eastern Europe, which has strong trade links with the euro zone economies, the IMF said. It revised down its estimate for the region to 1.1 percent in 2012 from a previous forecast of 2.7 percent. Growth should edged up to 2.4 percent next year, the IMF added.

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Actor James Farentino dies of heart failure at 73 ACTOR James Farentino, who appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, died Tuesday in a Los Angeles hospital, according to a family spokesman. He was 73. Farentino died of heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital after a long illness, said the spokesman, Bob Palmer.

Farentino starred alongside Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen in the 1980 science fiction film “The Final Countdown.” The movie featured a modern aircraft carrier that travels back in time to Pearl Harbor hours before the Japanese attack. Farentino also starred opposite Patty Duke in 1969’s “Me, Natalie.”

In 1967, he won a “Most Promising Newcomer” Golden Globe for his performance in the comedy “The Pad and How to Use It.” He also had recurring roles on “Dynasty,” ‘’Melrose Place,” ‘’The Bold Ones: The Lawyers” and “ER,” playing the estranged father to George Clooney’s character.

In 1978, he was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Saint Peter in the television mini-series “Jesus of Nazareth.”

A four-time divorcee, Farentino’s tumultuous personal life made headlines, too. In March 1994, he pleaded no contest to stalking his ex-girlfriend Tina Sinatra, daughter of Frank Sinatra.

In 2010, the actor was arrested at his Hollywood home on suspicion of battery when he tried to physically remove a man from his AP Photo/Richard Drew, File FILE - This Nov. 11, 1980 file photo home. Born in Brooklyn, shows James Farentino and Faye Du- N.Y., in 1938, Farentino naway, who star in “Evita Pero,” in Los is survived by two sons, Angeles.

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Demi Moore seeks treatment for exhaustion A spokeswoman for Demi Moore says the actress is seeking professional help to treat her exhaustion and improve her health.

Publicist Carrie Gordon says the decision is due to the stresses in Moore’s life, and she looks forward to getting well.

Gordon did not release any other details about the nature or location of Moore’s treatment.

The past few months have been rocky for Moore. She released a statement in November announcing she had decided to end her marriage to Ashton Kutcher following news of alleged infidelity. The two were known to publicly share their affection for one another via Twitter.

Moore still has a Twitter account under the name mrskutcher but has not posted any messages since Jan. 7.

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2011 file photo, actress Demi Moore attends the premiere of “Margin Call” in New York. A spokeswoman for Moore on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 said the actress is seeking professional help to treat her exhaustion and improve her health.

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‘Hugo,’ ‘Artist’ inject cinema nostalgia to Oscars AMERICAN master Martin Scorsese journeyed to France, putting Hollywood’s newest technology to work for his dazzling 3-D re-creation of 1930s Paris in “Hugo.”

French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius came to America, reviving oldtime Hollywood with his charming resurrection of early cinema in the silent film “The Artist.”

The two films now head a 21st century Academy Awards show whose top nominees offer loving looks back to the infancy of moviemaking, when flicks really flickered and cutting-edge visual effects amounted to actors jumping out of the frame while the camera was stopped so they would seem to magically disappear.

Scorsese’s Paris adventure “Hugo” led contenders Tuesday with 11 nominations, among them best-picture and the latest directing honor for the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

Hazanavicius’ “The Artist” ran second with 10 nominations, includ-

ing honors for the director and Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo, the stars of the film that could become the first silent movie to win the best-picture prize since year one at the Oscars.

Also nominated for best picture: Alexander Payne’s family drama “The Descendants”; Stephen Daldry’s Sept. 11 tale “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”; Tate Taylor’s Deep South drama “The Help”; Woody Allen’s romantic fantasy “Midnight in Paris”; Bennett Miller’s sports tale “Moneyball”; Terrence Malick’s family chronicle “The Tree of Life”; and Steven Spielberg’s World War I epic “War Horse.”

Arguably the world’s most passionate moviemaker for preserving old films and the heritage of cinema, Scorsese tried his hand at 3-D filmmaking for the first time on “Hugo” and crafted a look with such depth that the images are almost tactile.

“Hugo” follows the adventures of a boy and girl caught up in a mystery surrounding French silent film

pioneer George Melies (Ben Kingsley), who stretched the boundaries of cinema with fantastical short movies in the early 1900s.

Today’s digital technology made it possible for Scorsese to create his elaborate illusion of long-gone Paris. But the process he describes sounds as experimental and innovative as the work Melies did a century ago.

“It was harder to do because every time we put the camera in a position I wanted, we discovered new ways to do things or wrong ways to do things. We were, in a sense, constantly breaking new ground,” Scorsese said. “We had to rediscover how to make movies every day, every setup.”

Among the nominations for “Hugo” are adapted screenplay, cinematography, musical score and visual effects.

“The Artist” is a throwback to black-and-white silent days as a superstar of the pre-sound era (best-actor nominee Dujardin)

falls on hard times when talking pictures arrive, while a rising star (supporting-actress nominee Bejo) becomes guardian angel for the former screen idol.

“Who knows? It might be possible that he’s set off a chain reaction, and we’re off for 100 years of silent movies,” Dujardin said. “I would love it. It’s really fun for an actor. It’s very playful, and it’s pure emotion. In the end, you only see what is essential. You take away the intellect, and what’s left is life.”

Along with his directing honor, Hazanavicius was nominated for original screenplay on “The Artist.” The film’s other nominations include musical score, cinematography and costume design.

While “Hugo” and “The Artist” are testaments to early filmmaking, another key nomination is a tribute to the big-screen’s most famous sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe, a superstar who was never nominated for an Oscar. Michelle Williams earned a best-actress nomination as Mon-

roe in “My Week with Marilyn.”

“I would like to think that the recognition our film has received by the academy is a testament to Marilyn’s legacy,” Williams said.

Williams’ competition includes Meryl Streep, who extended her record for most acting nominations to 17 with a best-actress honor as Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.”

Also nominated: Glenn Close for the Irish drama “Albert Nobbs,” Viola Davis for “The Help” and Rooney Mara for the thriller “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”

Dujardin, the Golden Globe winner for best actor in a musical or comedy, will be up against Globe dramatic actor recipient George Clooney for “The Descendants,” in which the Oscarwinning superstar plays a down-toearth role as a dad in crisis.

While Dujardin and Clooney were almost assured of nominations, there were big surprises across-the-board, with longshots making the cut and favorites getting skunked.

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Space Shuttle Discovery headed to the Smithsonian Associated Press

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WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is preparing to welcome the space shuttle Discovery into its collection.

Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough (cluff) says the shuttle will be flown to Washington Dulles International Airport on the back of a Boeing 747 in April. A flyover is planned above the nation’s capital before Discovery makes its final home at the museum’s massive hangar in northern Virginia.

Clough said Monday the flyover is planned for April 17. A museum spokeswoman later said the flyover has not been confirmed, and details are still being finalized.

A formal welcome ceremony is planned for April 19 at the museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Shuttle Endeavour will travel to the California Science Center in Los Angeles in the second half of the year.

Facebook forces Timeline Associated Press

NEW YORK — Facebook will start requiring people to switch to a new profile format known as Timeline, making photos, links and personal musings from the past much easier to find.

Timeline is essentially a scrapbook of your whole life on Facebook, compared with a snapshot of you today found on Facebook’s traditional profile page. Once activated, Timeline replaces the current profile.

Although some people have already voluntarily switched to Timeline, Facebook hadn’t made that mandatory. Beginning Tuesday, Facebook is telling some users that they have seven days to clean up their profiles before Timeline gets automatically activated. Facebook is rolling out the requirement to others over the next few weeks.

At some point, even those who haven’t logged on to Facebook in a while will be automatically switched.

Timeline doesn’t expose any-

thing that wasn’t available for sharing in the past. Many of those older posts had always been available. People could get to them by continually hitting “Older Posts,” although most wouldn’t have bothered. Timeline allows people to jump to the older material more quickly.

Timeline also doesn’t necessarily reflect the fact that your circle of friends has likely expanded in recent years. A party photo you posted in 2008 to a small group of friends would be more visible to relatives, bosses and others you may have added as friends since then.

You’ll have a week to curate the Timeline by moving stuff around, hiding photos or featuring them more prominently on your page.

Some things to consider: D You can change privacy settings on individual items to control who has access. You might want to narrow embarrassing photos to your closest friends or delete some posts completely, or at least hide them so only you can see them.

D You can change the date on a post. For example, if you took a few months to post photos from a trip to Portugal, you can move them to appear with other posts from the time you took that trip.

You can also add where you were, retroactively using a location feature that Facebook hadn’t offered until recently.

are more like a movie screen than a traditional photo, so a close-up portrait of your face won’t work well, but one of you lying horizontally will. But you don’t even have to be in it.

D You can add things before you joined Facebook, back to when you were born. Life events can include when you broke your arm and whom you were with then, or when you spoke your first word or got a tattoo. You can add photos from childhood or high school as well.

D For major events in your life, you can click on a star to feature them more prominently. You can hide the posts you’d rather not showcase.

D If you feel overwhelmed with so many posts to go through, start with your older ones. Those are the ones you’d need to be most careful about because you had reason to believe only a few friends would see them.

D Besides your traditional profile photo — your headshot — you can add what Facebook calls a cover photo. It’s the image that will splash across the top and can be a dog, a hobby or anything else that reflects who you are. Keep in mind the dimensions

D Click on Activity Log to see all of your posts at a glance and make changes to them one by one.

Open Facebook in a new browser tab first, though.

That way, you can have one tab for the log and the other for the main Timeline.

CDC: Diabetes amputations falling dramatically Assocated Press

ATLANTA — Foot and leg amputations were once a fairly common fate for diabetics, but new government research shows a dramatic decline in limbs lost to the disease, probably due to better treatments.

The rate has fallen by more than half since the mid-1990s, according to what is being called the most comprehensive study of the trend.

For older diabetics, amputations dropped from more than 11 to about 4 per 1,000 people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday.

Other diabetes studies have

shown declines in lost toes, feet and legs, but not as dramatic.

“What jumped out to me was the scale of the improvement,” said Dr. John Buse, a University of North Carolina diabetes expert who was not involved in the new study.

The study was released Tuesday by the medical journal Diabetes Care. Diabetes is a disease in which sugar builds up in the blood.

Roughly 1 in 10 U.S. adults has it, and it is the seventh leading cause of death, the CDC says.

Complications include poor circulation and nerve damage in the lower limbs, resulting in numbness and slow healing of sores and infections. That’s most common

in elderly patients and those with diabetes for at least 10 years.

While diabetes has been growing more common in the United States — driven by obesity-related Type 2 — researchers have noted recent declines in some of the other most dreaded complications, including blindness and kidney failure.

Buse recalled seeing such problems constantly when he first became director of UNC’s Diabetes Care Center in the mid-1990s.

“Pretty much every minute of every day in the waiting room, there would be somebody missing a limb, or with a seeing eye dog or white cane,” he said.

But he hasn’t seen a patient like

that in his waiting room for a few years, he added.

In the CDC study, the researchers checked national hospital discharge records for 1988 through 2008, looking for patients aged 40 and older who had lost a toe, foot or leg to diabetes.

They found that though the number of people with the disease more than tripled over those two decades, foot and leg amputations fell after 1996. The researchers also looked at people who did not have diabetes, and found the rates of amputation were flat.

It’s not clear what happened to start the drop among diabetics, said Nilka Rios Burrows, a CDC epidemi-

ologist who co-authored the study.

But experts note that was a decade in which studies clearly demonstrated the value of close monitoring and stepped-up patient education. It’s also when Medicare began paying for blood sugar monitoring and for protective shoes and other medical devices for elderly diabetics.

CDC officials saw increases in the proportion of diabetics who got annual foot exams, and believe the enhanced care is the main reason for the decline in amputations.

But another element may be that larger numbers of diabetics are being diagnosed earlier and with milder disease, Burrows said.

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MADRID - Third-tier Mirandes came from a goal down to snatch a shock 2-1 win over top-flight side Espanyol in their Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cup quarter-final second leg on Tuesday that sent them through to the last four on the away goals rule.

The 4-4 aggregate result, coming after last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first leg in Barcelona finished 3-2, prompted wild celebrations at the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tiny stadium in Miranda de Ebro in northern Spain and set up a semi-final against Athletic Bilbao or Real Mallorca. Espanyol looked to be cruising when Rui Fonte made it 1-0 shortly after halftime.

Mirandes captain Pablo Infante equalised with just over half an hour left and the home side made a mockery of their humble status by laying siege to the Espanyol goal in the final stages before Cesar netted the crucial goal in the second minute of added time.

Bilbao beat La Liga rivals Real Mallorca 2-0 at the San Mames last week, with the return leg in Palma on Wednesday.

On the other side of the draw, holders Real Madrid need to overturn a 2-1 deficit when they play at 2011 runners-up Barcelona later on Wednesday.

The build-up to the game has been overshadowed by the controversy surrounding Pepeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alleged stamp on the hand of Barcaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Player of the Year Lionel Messi during the first leg in Madrid.

The Portuguese international said it was unintentional and the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) took no action, meaning he is free to play at the Nou Camp if fit.

If Barca eliminate their arch rivals they will probably face Valencia, who beat Levante 4-1 in the first leg and play at their city neighbours on Thursday.

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Crystal Palaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anthony Gardner, top centre, heads his sideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening goal against Cardiff, for their Carling Cup Semi Final First Leg soccer match at Selhurst Park, London, Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012.

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The visitors were reduced to 10 men when captain Patrick McCarthy was sent off for a second yellow with 13 minutes remaining. Extra time failed to break the deadlock and the game went to penalties, despite Cardiffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aron Gunnarsson hitting the bar in the ÂżQDO PLQXWH 3DODFH PLVVHG WKHLU ÂżUVW WZR spot kicks with Cardiff goalkeeper Tim Heaton saving from Jermaine Easter and Sean Scannell to become his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hero as they booked a trip to Wembley, where WKH\ ORVW WKH )$ &XS ÂżQDO to Portsmouth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great night for Cardiff City,â&#x20AC;? Heaton told the BBC. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was a spectator for much of the game and when I got involved it was great to play a part in getting us to Wembley.â&#x20AC;?

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aggregate, Cardiff twice went close to going ahead with Kenny Miller going agonisingly wide with one shot and hitting the post with another. With their one-man advantage following McCarthyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dismissal after a challenge on Miller, Cardiff pushed for a winQHU EXW 3DODFH KHOG ÂżUP WKURXJKout the rest of normal time and extra time to force the game into penalties. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been at this stage before in this competition and the guys who took the penalties had nerves of steel,â&#x20AC;? Cardiff manager Malky Mackay said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tom Heaton has been our Cup keeper and with some of the blame given to KLP DIWHU WKH JRDO LQ WKH ÂżUVW OHJ maybe there was a bit of justice tonight.â&#x20AC;?

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Pirelli tweaks tyre markings for 2012 F1 season PIRELLI has tweaked its tyre markings for 2012 to make the different compounds more visible for fans - with its wet rubber also getting a total revamp in their look. Although Pirelli has kept the four different coloured sidewalls – red (super soft), yellow (soft), white (medium) and silver (hard) – the Italian tyre maker has tweaked the design of the markings to make it easier to differentiate between the rubber.

In particular, the bands and lettering are larger – and in particular the colour of the silver on the hard has been made darker so it is easier to tell it apart from the medium. Pirelli’s motorsport director Paul Hembery

said: “We have increased the bulk of the colours, and we have done a lot of work filming spinning tyres.

“The silver now is quite svelte so, when it will be used with the medium, you will see the white quite clearly. If the tyre looks black, then you know that is the hard. “We had a lot more success with the yellow and the red, and we are now world experts in paint markings. It is not something we are going to stop, as colours are very important for product grouping.”

As well as the tweaks to the dry rubber, Pirelli has totally changed its approach to the wet rubber. Rather than adopting the P-Zero name of the slicks, Pirelli’s wets in 2012 will

run under the Cinturato brand that the company made famous in the 1950’s.

The wet tyre will have blue sidewall brandings, while the intermediate will now be green. As well as hoping the different coloured tyres help fans, Pirelli is to continue efforts with Formula One Management to try and improve the amount of tyre information made available to television viewers.

For 2012, Pirelli is upping access for FOM to the race data feeds that engineers have at events – with the hope being that this, which includes information like how old a tyre is, can then be shown on TV.

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Stoner says switch to Honda has given him a credibility Casey Stoner says his dominance of the 2011 MotoGP championship with Honda - and Valentino Rossi’s struggles after replacing him at Ducati - have given him a credibility he never attained while riding for the Italian marque.

Stoner won his first MotoGP crown with the Desmosedici in 2007 and was a race-winner in the subsequent three seasons, never finishing lower than fourth.

Rather than approbation, however, the Australian said he received ‘nothing but mistrust’ from the media.

He says the situation changed following his move to Honda, with whom he dominated in 2011 – taking 10 wins, 16 podiums and 12 pole positions on his way to a second MotoGP title. That coincided with a first winless season for Valentino Rossi, who moved across to Ducati as Stoner left – something the Australian believes has helped vindicate his ability and prove he could have won more titles.

“Everything has changed very quickly,” Stoner told Motosprint. “In previous years I would get nothing but mistrust from the media, and generally very little consideration for what I was doing and the effort I was putting in.

“But then Valentino and I changed bikes: he took the one I had had for four years, while I took the bike of my dreams to show what I’m able to do.

“This change of situations has allowed me to let everyone understand that I could have fought for the title in previous years too, and that I could have won at least another title.”

Stoner also said Rossi’s claims that Honda operated on a huge budget in 2011 were not just wide of the mark, but also

disparaging of his title success.

“Valentino [Rossi] is saying and doing everything to belittle what was done by myself, my team, and Honda last year,” Stoner declared. “It’s not true Honda spent so much money, because it’s not a company of stupid people. It made no sense to invest a lot on a bike, the 800cc, on the verge of being retired, while in the meantime the new 1000cc was being developed.

“As a matter of fact Honda in 2011 didn’t do much more than usual and the proof is that the 2011 bike wasn’t so different from the 2010 one, except for the gearbox. Moreover, my bike remained practically the same throughout the season.

“The truth is that Honda already had a good bike even before my arrival: it just needed new strength coming from the outside, fresher strength able to make the difference without being frightened by this role.”

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