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Kamui Kobayashi relaxed about Sauber reliability Kamui Kobayashi says the reliability issues that struck Sauber in the first week of winter testing are nothing to be concerned about. Although Sauber had a troublefree first day of running at Jerez last week, it lost mileage to problems on each of the following three days of testing. But Kobayashi said all the glitches were typical new car teething problems. “This is just four days with the new car, problems happen sometimes. It’s a new car. This is why we are here,” he said. “We need to get lots of mileage and investigate prob-
lems. We had a couple of problems and we have to improve that. The mileage for four days is quite a lot so this is quite natural stuff. “In my first season in 2010, we hardly had any problems in the winter, but once we started the races we had big problems. Compared to that, I think we are in good shape. We just had a couple of troubles and we just have to understand that.” He added that Sauber had yet to do much performance work on the C31, but that he felt the car’s basic potential was good. “We’re still checking the aero numbers and the small
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changes to check everything for development. We haven’t worked for the set-up, so I don’t know how much potential we have, but we can definitely improve a lot,” said Kobayashi. “This is the first step of development. They’re going to check the numbers and let’s see. But for me, I’m happy with the car. “The balance was pretty good for me. I think the platform itself is good.”
Trulli sure he will keep his Caterham drive in the car. But asked if he would be racing in F1 this year, Trulli replied: “We are safe, yes.” He acknowledged that economic considerations might play a part in Caterham’s driver decisions at some point, but said he had no indication so far that he was in jeopardy. “I do understand the position of some teams and that un-
some teams that are running into trouble,” Trulli said. “I don’t know the real situation of the teams but I do know that they have to look for sponsors and paying drivers, so at the moment all I can say is I am contracted with the team and I will be testing. “If something different happens I hope that someone from the team comes and talks to me earlier, but so far we never
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had a talk about it through the winter.” Trulli played down the significance of van der Garde trying the car before him. “At the last moment they signed van der Garde and it is important for the team to have a third driver with a bit of experience, so they let him drive,” Trulli said. “He did a reasonable good job in mileage and from there we will start programming the next few tests because I was scheduled to drive at the beginning.”
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Vitaly Petrov was linked with Trulli’s drive during the winter, with the team known to have held discussions with funded drivers. Caterham’s new reserve Giedo van der Garde has also been rumoured to be a candidate for Trulli’s race seat. The Dutchman tested the new Caterham CT01 at Jerez last week, the day before Trulli’s first run
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Denpasar – The Valentine’s Day has become a special day for many people throughout the world, not to mention those in Bali. The youngster in Bali was celebrating the day filled with joy. Roses become an icon in Valentine and one of the most demanded item on Tuesday, February 14, 2012.
Unfortunately, most of the flowers were coming from outside Bali. In Ubud, for example, the demand for roses was increasing highly and that cause increase in price of the flower. A rose usually being sell for 1,000 rupiah on common day but become 5,000 rupiah on Valentine. One of the flower sellers, Kadek Luh, said that the increase of customers came to her shop during Valentine’s Day reached
10%. The flowers were not coming from the island. Kadek Luh explained that she must buy the roses from Malang in East Java because the supply of the flower from Bali is very limited. There are two kinds of roses being bought by Kadek, red and white roses. The white rose is more expensive than the black one. Continued on page 6
Angry Birds fly to Facebook Agence France-Presse
“Angry Birds”, the most-downloaded mobile app of 2011, was catapulted to the world of Facebook on Tuesday in a bid by its Finnish maker Rovio to get one billion people playing the addictive game. Fans were able to test the new Angry Birds Facebook app online Tuesday morning ahead of its official global launch in Jakarta, the world’s most Facebook-connected city. “With the great success of the Angry Birds game on smartphone platforms, Rovio intends to reach more fans and
be on every screen and every platform,” Rovio Asia senior vice president Henri Holm said in a statement. “Therefore, the company developed Angry Birds on Facebook to reach more than 800 million Facebook users worldwide.” In the game, players fling colourful and grumpy wingless birds from a slingshot into smarmy egg-stealing pigs. It has been downloaded more than 700 million times since it launched in 2009 and the birds have become a global phenomenon, featuring on a huge array of merchandise and in popular culture.
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Oxygen tube leaks, visitors of Sanglah Hospital panic
Denpasar (Bali Post)—
An excitement occurred in Emergency Room of Sanglah Hospital on Monday (Feb 13) at around 12:00 a.m. local time where one of the oxygen tubes delivered to Sanglah Hospital leaked, causing white smoke. As assuming the oxygen tube was an LPG cylinder as having an equal shape, some visitors of patients near the scene ran away because they thought the tube would explode. After leaking for long enough, the situation was under control because it contained oxygen. Although leaking, but according to the officers, it would not cause an explosion. When asked about the cause of leaking oxygen tube, the driver delivering the tube to Sanglah Hospital named Sujana said it was probably caused by hot weather so the oxygen stored in the tube expanded and pushed out. As a result, the rubber stopper came off
and the leakage occurred. “Before going to Sanglah Hospital, we have delivered two oxygen tubes to Jalan Imam Bonjol. On the way to Sanglah Hospital, we were long trapped in congestion on Jalan Imam Bonjol and the oxygen tubes were long exposed to sunlight,”
explained Sujana. He had attempted to prevent the leakage by exchanging the tubes on the upper pile to the bottom. However, it did not work and finally one of the tubes exposed to the heat of sunlight leaked and gave off oxygen stored inside. (kmb24)
In 2011, traffic accident compensation reaches over IDR 30 billion Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Traffic accident victims getting compensation from the Jasa Raharja insurance progressively increased every year. In 2011, the total compensation disbursed to the accident victims, either died, had permanent disability or got injury, amounted to IDR 30,116,376,666. The number increased about IDR 3 billion over the previous year in 2010 reaching IDR 27,753,481,565. Of the total compensation disbursed, most accidents or 87 percent involved motorcycles. Despite an increase in the amount of compensation, the Branch Manager of Jasa Raharja Bali, Wahyu Purwanto when met on Monday (Feb 13) admitted there were still traffic accident victims, particularly the injured ones, who were not covered by the compensation of Jasa Raharja. “In 2012, we will more focus on covering the victims of accidents, especially the wounded, to get compensation,” he said. The injured traffic accident victims that were not covered by the compensation amounted to about 37 percent. This number decreased from the previous figure reaching 44 percent. Some constraints could cause the victims to have not been covered by the compensation. For instance, the victims had owned a health insurance, the cases of acci-
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An accident happen on the Denpasar - Gilimanuk Road dent was not reported or the accident victims did not claim their compensation to Jasa Raharja because they thought it difficult to do so. To clarify the wrong presumption regarding the difficulty to claim the Jasa Raharja compensation, added Wahyu, his party would consistently improve the effectiveness of the service “Now, the claim process of the death compensation can be accomplished within five days. Hopefully, it could be made shorter in the near future,” he said. To get information about traffic accident, especially related to injured victims, his party made cooperation with three hospitals in Denpasar, one hospital in Tabanan and one hospital in Gianyar. “Similar cooperation has also been devel-
oped with hospitals in Singaraja, Karangasem and Jembrana,” he explained. With such partnership, the victims were unnecessary to submit the compensation to Jasa Raharja. However, it would be directly administered by the hospital officers. Through this partnership, he expected to cover more victims, chiefly the injured victims. The amount of compensation remained the same as per the last revision in 2008. Compensation for the dead victim was IDR 25 million, permanent disability maximally got IDR 15 million and injured victim maximally got IDR 10 million. Compensation to the dead victim would be given as much as IDR 25 million. (san)
Conflict of fission House of customary village chief destroyed Tabanan (Bali Post)—
Unrest action continued to spread in the region of Tabanan. The house of customary village chief of Bedha, Pangkungkarung village, Kerambitan, Nyoman Surata, was damaged after being stoned by a mass on Sunday night (Feb 12). Such incident was believed to be the aftermath of demand for customary village fission undertaken by customary villagers of Pangkungkarung. Luckily, the incident claimed no casualties. Other than his house, the mass alleged to come from the pro-fission group also destroyed several other houses owned by minority group rejecting the fission. At least, 11 houses lived through light damage as hit by stones and wood. The attack set breaking at around 10:00 p.m. local time. Suddenly the mass attacked blindly. Initially, the mass attacked the house of Wayan Suarnawa and Made Mustika located in the row end of the minority group. The mass rampaged by means of crowbars, wood and stone fractions and pelted both houses. Before attacking, the mass broke all the lightings around the scene. “Apparently, this action has been well organized. Its culprit is quite a lot,” said Made Mustika, Monday (Feb 13). Aside from destroying the lightings and roof of the house, the perpetrators also challenged the residents to get out. Since the victims belonged to minority, they kept silent and stayed in the house. Both houses were severely damaged on the roof and gates. A moment later, the kulkul (wooden split drum) was pounded repeatedly. From the house of Mustika, the mass then moved southwardly. Later, the target was directed to the house of the customary village chief. At this location, the attack was increasingly violent. Several people knocked at the gates, while the others stoned at the house. Likewise, they broke the lighting. In the tense condition, a resident named Bayu Santosa and his brother tried to fight. Even, this young man could capture one of the perpetrators. “I know the man. He admitted just to find out the truth,” said Bayu. The attack to the house of the customary village chief lasted rather long. However, it began to subside after Bayu recklessly went out and threw a chair into the mass. As a result of the attack, the house of the customary village
chief was rather badly damaged. A number of roofs including some shrine buildings broke as hit by stone. From the house of the customary village chief, the mass continued the attack to the house of Ni Made Candri. Her shop’s door was damaged by the mass. Being fear, she did not dare to resist. Besides, the mass also pelted the house owned by the minority group. Finally, the mass attacked the house of Made Astawinawa. The unrest subsided after Mass Control Unit of the Tabanan Police was deployed to location. Mass of the majority group was eventually herded to local village hall. Chief of Tabanan Police, Dekananto Eko Purnomo, affirmed that his party had examined the scene. As a result, it had been noted that some 5 houses were damaged, while the others were only slightly damaged. “We urge the regency government to intervene immediately. It should think about the conflict settlement and do not let the conflict continue to widen,” he said after chairing the notice reading ceremony of the National Police Chief. From the scene, police also secured a number of evidences. Among them, there were fractions of stone and pieces of wood and bamboo. Direct report
Few hours after the attack, the victims whose house was destroyed immediately reported the case to Tabanan Police. They were organized by the hamlet chief of the minority group, Ketut Gumiarsa. Residents preferred to seek legal procedure because they felt to be threatened. “It was a really arrogant action and should be investigated thoroughly,” he said. Meanwhile, the Pangkungkarung customary village chief, Ketut Suidja, did not know exactly about the chronology of the attack. At the time of incident, he and his family were in hospital. “I just knew it after being contacted if there was a commotion,” he said. To anticipate the subsequent attack, his party would hold a meeting with his residents as well as alerted at all the village borders. Conflict on the fission of the Pangkungkarung customary village had taken place since 2008. However, there were no signs of settlement against the customary conflict. (kmb30)
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LeBron helps Heat get better of Bucks
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LeBron James helped Miami finally find a way past the Milwaukee Bucks, scoring 35 points in the Heat’s 114-96 victory on Monday. The Bucks had beaten the Heat in both meetings this season, and three successive times overall, but they were steamrolled on Monday despite taking an eightpoint lead in the first quarter. Inflicting most of his damage from close range, James made 16 of 21 field goal attempts and keyed Miami’s third-quarter surge where they took a stranglehold on the encounter to cruise to a sixth win in seven games. “They beat us twice, handily. We knew it,” James told reporters. “We made a conscious effort to try to get to our game. Like we played last night (in a 20-point win over Atlanta), we wanted to try to do the same thing tonight.” Milwaukee’s quick start was erased in the second quarter and they trailed by five at halftime.
The Heat upped the pace after the intermission and outscored the home team 35-24 in the third. James had 16 in the critical third while Dwyane Wade chipped in with 22 points for the game as Miami (22-7) moved within a halfgame of the Chicago Bulls for the Eastern Conference lead. Carlos Delfino finished with a team-high 24 points for the Bucks (12-16), who shot just 39 percent in slumping to their fifth defeat in seven games. Milwaukee’s struggles have dropped them outside of the Eastern Conference playoff picture.
Brandon Jennings, the team’s leading scorer, had 12 points in another sub-par performance. “We had to get our hands dirty, which we didn’t do in the first two games,” said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra. “But it was a good sign that we did it this way against a very physical team.” Miami Heat’s LeBron James goes up for a dunk during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, in Milwaukee.
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Chisora vows to floor Klitschko Malaysian athlete says in ‘magic’ eighth round official supplied drugs Reuters
MUNICH - British challenger Dereck Chisora pledged on Monday to dethrone WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko with an eighth round knockout when they meet in Munich on Saturday. “Vitali has been around a long time. He’s the king of the sport but it is time someone came in who is young and fresh,” Chisora told a news conference. “It is the end for Vitali, I promise you. I will end the Klitschko reign and cause a massive upset in my magic eighth round. It will be felt around the world. “A lot of people have tried to do
it but they do not have the swagger and the passion to go in there and do the business but I have got it. I am passionate about the sport and I am not scared.” The 28-year-old Chisora was twice scheduled to fight Vitali’s younger brother Vladimir, who holds the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO titles, but the Ukrainian pulled out injured on both occasions. Vitali, 40, who has announced the fight will be one of his last, said he would still be WBC champion after the bout. “When he said that he would finish me in round eight I realised that this guy is serious and I never have prepared as hard for a fight,”
he said. “But I have told him he is not going to be the one to stop me, no one can. “I am going to show everyone why I am the champion and why I have ruled for so long.” Vitali knocked out Poland’s Tomasz Adamek in his last fight on September 10 to improve his record to 43 wins and two losses while Chisora was beaten on a split decision by Finland’s Robert Helenius in a European title challenge on December 3. Chisora, whose record stands at 15 wins and two defeats, also lost his British and Commonwealth titles to compatriot Tyson Fury in July. Ukrainian heavyweight WBC boxing champion Vitali Klitschko (L) and Dereck Chisora of Britian pose after a news conference in Munich February 13, 2012.
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A gold medal-winning Malaysian athlete who failed a drug test at November ’s Southeast Asian Games has claimed a top athletics official arranged his supply of banned substances, a report said Tuesday. Mohammad Yunus Lasaleh, who won gold as part of his country’s 4X400m relay team at the games in Indonesia, said Malaysian Athletic Union (MAU) deputy president Karim Ibrahim introduced him to a Bulgarian doctor who provided the drugs. Yunus was told the pills “could help me win gold”, he told the The Star newspaper. Two Malaysians -- Yunus and a bronze medal-winning Malaysian weightlifter whose identity has yet to be revealed -- tested positive for banned substances at the Games. They both face likely twoyear bans and loss of their medals. The paper said Yunus, along with several coaches and athletes, submitted a sworn statement to the MAU claiming Karim had contacted Yunus in September and told him to meet with the Bulgarian, who was not identified.
Yunus told the paper he was provided with pills that he was told were vitamins, and also received injections two or three times a week. “The doctor informed me that they were B complex shots for recovery after training,” Yunus said. In November, the relay team was at first told they had not qualified for the games, but were later allowed to compete and pulled off a surprise win. The paper said Karim is also alleged to have told six sprinters not to provide urine samples for doping tests as requested by the National Sports Institute in May of last year. It gave no further details. It said 42 national athletes and 16 coaches on Monday handed a memorandum to MAU president Shahidan Kassim calling for Karim’s removal, but Shahidan told the paper that he could not “arbitrarily” remove someone. Relevant Malaysian sports officials could not immediately be reached for comment. The last Malaysian athlete punished for doping was weightlifter Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim, who was banned in 2005 for two years after failing an out-of-competition test.
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AC Milan forward Stephan El Shaarawy, right, celebrates with teammate Maxi Lopez of Argentina who scored the winning goal during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and AC Milan, at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. AC Milan won 2-1.
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Milan aiming to end hoodoo against English clubs
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MILAN - AC Milan will be aiming to beat an English side for the first time since they edged Liverpool in the 2007 Champions League final when they host unpredictable Arsenal in the competition’s Round of 16 first leg on Wednesday. Milan, who lifted the European Cup for the seventh time by defeating Liverpool 2-1 in Athens nearly five years ago, have since been eliminated from the Champions League by Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur and could only draw with Portsmouth in the group stage of the Europa League in 2009. They now face Arsene Wenger’s erratic team again, the Londoners having knocked Milan out in the last 16 in 2008. Serie A leaders Milan welcome striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic back from a domestic ban to boost their chances after they ended a bad patch with Saturday’s late 2-1 win at Italian title rivals Udinese where young forward Stephan El Shaarawy and new signing Maxi Lopez combined for the goals. Half Italian-half Egyptian teenager El Shaarawy will probably have to miss out to accommodate Ibrahimovic despite his good form with the Swede likely to partner Robinho up front. Coach Massimiliano Allegri has several injury problems but the treatment room is beginning to clear out with goalkeeper Christian Abbiati and centre half Alessandro Nesta hoping to be back to face Arsenal, who have won on both of their previous Champions League visits against
Milan at the San Siro. Gennaro Gattuso and Alberto Aquilani are still injured but there is a slight chance Alexandre Pato and Kevin-Prince Boateng could make surprise returns. Defending champions Milan top Serie A by two points but Juventus in second have two games in hand. “It meant a lot to win at Udine, we’d just come off three defeats in five games,” coach Allegri told reporters. “That win has given us balance and serenity. This is the sprit of the guys, we have to move forward like this.” Milan, who qualified along with holders Barcelona from the group stage, have struggled in the competition since their last triumph in 2007. Milan have also not won any of their last seven matches against English clubs and have failed to score in five of those games. WARY WENGER
The key to Wednesday’s game is what tactics Wenger employs and whether he plays safe for a draw or attempts to go for a third straight win against Milan in their own backyard. Wenger could be wary of Milan’s attacking prowess and play it cautiously but their Welsh midfielder Aaron Ramsey believes away goals could prove critical in this tie.
He told Arsenal TV Online: “If we can go there and get a few goals and then come back to the Emirates then that’s going to be a fantastic result for us. “Hopefully, we can get a couple of goals and keep them out as well.” Arsenal’s fortunes have revived since French striker Thierry Henry rejoined the club on loan from New York Red Bulls, and if he does play any part on Wednesday, it is likely to be his final appeareance in an Arsenal shirt. He is due to return to New York on Thursday after scoring three goals in six appearances to take his all-time record for Arsenal to 229 goals. He scored twice at the San Siro against Inter Milan when Arsenal won 5-1 there in the Champions League in 2003 but said he had not thought about signing off with another goal on Wednesday. “I’ve not thought it,” he said. “I just want to help Arsenal on the night. I am an Arsenal player for one more game. “Milan is Milan. It is another type of game and it is never easy to win away in the Champions League.” Arsenal will be without centreback Per Mertesacker for the game after the German pulled up with an ankle injury in Saturday’s comeback 2-1 win at Sunderland with lifted Arsenal into fourth place in the table.
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Mancini treated me ‘like a dog’ - Tevez Agence France Presse
Carlos Tevez headed back to England accusing Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini of treating him “like a dog” in the incident that led to his exile from the Premier League leaders. The Argentina striker said Monday that an angry Mancini swore at him during the Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich in September, where the forward’s refusal to warm-up incensed his Italian boss. Tevez hasn’t played for City since that September 27 match in Germany but is due to return to Eastlands on Tuesday in a bid to revive a career that has effectively been suspended for more than three months. Mancini has indicated his willingness to make peace with Tevez if the player apologises to him. And Tevez, during a Fox Sports interview broadcast in translation on Britain’s Sky Sports News on Mond a y, said: “I do not think I was wrong,
but if they (the club) think so I apologise. “I am ready to return, to win and do the best for the club’s shirt,” he added. “Hopefully I can help City to be champions again.” But given his description of events in Munich, it may take more than Tevez saying ‘sorry’ to repair his relationship with Mancini. “I was kind of in a bad mood and when he brings on (Nigel) de Jong and takes off (Edin) Dzeko and we’re losing 2-0 I thought it was a defensive substitution so I decided to sit back on the bench,” Te v e z r e called. “I had already warmed up for 10 minutes and he has this attitude that he wants to lose 2-0 instead of 4-0.
Sociedad spoil Michel’s debut at helm of Sevilla
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MADRID - Real Sociedad’s Carlos Vela and Ruben Pardo scored to spoil Michel’s debut as the new Sevilla coach in a 2-0 La Liga victory on Monday. Former Real Madrid and Spain player Michel replaced Marcelino as Sevilla boss last week, but failed to make an immediate impact and the sliding Andalucians have now taken only two points from their last eight matches. Mexico striker Vela, on loan from Arsenal, volleyed the opener in the 65th minute
at Anoeta and three minutes later Pardo struck a blistering drive past Andres Palop. Sevilla dropped down to 13th with 26 points from 22 matches, one behind Sociedad in 11th, and only three points above the relegation places. Real Madrid top the standings with 58 points after a 4-2 comeback win at home to Levante on Sunday, when Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick. Jose Mourinho’s men opened up a 10-point lead over faltering champions Barcelona in second, who slumped to a 3-2 defeat at Osasuna on Saturday.
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Continues, policing against advertisement in Denpasar
Denpasar (Bali Post)—
The measure of the advertisement policing team under the Denpasar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) continued. After previously targeting the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai on Monday (Feb 13), the policing was then resumed to Jalan Teuku Umar. The advertisement policed last Monday consisted of billboard and banners. Division Head of Landscaping Services of DKP Denpasar, I.B. Eka Jayana leading the policing revealed the advertisement disciplined because period of their installation permit had been overdue. Additionally, the billboard owners did not renew their permit. Eka Jayana accompanied by the Head of Advertising Section, AA Raka Wedana, said the policing did not only target the Jalan Teuku Umar, but also some road section downtown Denpasar. Some of them were Jalan Gatot Subroto Barat, Jalan Buluh Indah, Jalan Teuku Umar Barat and Jalan Teuku Umar. “We police the advertisement at about 15 points,” said Eka Jayana. From those locations, about dozens of billboards of various sizes were dismantled. The billboards were dismantled because their permit was not renewed. In addition, the policing was also undertaken related to the arrange-
ment of the city’s appearance. However, not all the violating billboards could be dismantled in the policing held last Monday. For instance, a billboard stage of cellular phone product could not be cut. Other than requiring sophisticated equipment, the billboard stage was still energized by electrical power. “Indeed, the permit of such billboard has been overdue but we delay the cutting due to our limited equipment. To cut it, we need special personnel,” said one of the team members. The policing was also overseen by the lineup of Commission C of the Denpasar House. Chairman of the Commission C, Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa, said his party highly appreciated the advertisement policing carried out by the DKP Denpasar. Accompanied by the members such as AA Ngurah Susruta Putra, Putu Oka Mahendra, Nyoman Darsa and H. Mudjiono, Agus Arya Wibawa said that his party did not dispute the policing if it would had an impact on the revenue of the advertising tax. Susruta Ngurah Putra and Oka Mahendra added that to arrange the city’s appearance his party agreed if the enforcement continued to be undertaken. Surely, it should be performed while finding out the best solution, including the possibility of using the technology-based billboard or installation of LED. (kmb12)
Dozens of beggars besiege Ubud tourist resort Gianyar (Bali Post)—
Ubud tourist resort has been famous around the globe. However, the resort is not free from the onslaught of beggars. Dozens of beggars besieged the tourist resort of Ubud. In response to this, the officers of the Gianyar Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) could capture 13 beggars on Monday (Feb 13). Around 09:00 a.m. local time, the agency conducted a search to find out beggars operating around the Ubud area. Among those dozens of beggars, they were mostly the residents of Munti Gunung village, Karangasem Regency. So far, they roamed around freely in the area. Action of those beggars violated the Regional Regulation No. 12/1992 on Sanitation and Public Order. Section Head of the Operations, Gede Daging, with
permission of the Head of Satpol PP Gianyar, Wayan Kujus Parwita, said the dozens of ensnared beggars in the raid were encountered in front of the Ubud Post Office, Gianyar Regency. As an international tourism resort, Ubud area required an extra attention from all the relevant agencies. So, the operation was expected to create a sense of comfort and safety for all people in the area concerned. Later on, all the beggars were taken to the office of Satpol PP Gianyar to be given a coaching prior to be submitted to the Office of Social Services of Gianyar Regency. In that office, they would get further handling, he explained. Among the beggars ensnared in the raid performed by the Satpol PP Gianyar, most of them were children. At least, eight of thirteen beggars arrested were children. (kmb16)
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Taman Ayun, one of the tourism attraction in Badung Regency
Travel agencies ask to negotiate admission fee to tourist attraction in Badung Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Travel agencies coalescing into the Tourism Industry Association of Indonesia (GIPI) of Bali Chapter objected to the increase of admission fee to a number of tourist attractions in Badung Region as it was considered burdensome. They hoped the Badung Government wanted to negotiate in order to find the win-win solution. Regional Coordinator of ASITA for Bali, NTB and NTT Region, Bagus Sudibya, when met in Denpasar on Monday (Feb 13) said that such an increase resulted in a loss to domestic and foreign travel agencies worth IDR 225 billion per year. “The loss should be borne by all the travel agencies operating in Bali. It happened because the admission fee offered to tour operators worked with by local travel agencies was based on the rates before the increase,” he said. According to him, it was based on the assumption of the average rate increase of tourist attraction valued at IDR 10,000. When visiting five attractions, every tourist should pay IDR 50,000. Virtually 70 percent of tourists coming to Bali used a travel agency. The
assumption number of tourist visit used in this calculation was two million foreign tourists per year. “While the number of domestic tourists reaches 2.5 million people, so the overall travelers coming to Bali is 4.5 million people. Ultimately, it is obtained the loss estimation of IDR 225 billion each year to be borne by travel agencies,” he said. Sudibya said the rate increase would not only cause a great loss or additional costs, but also affected the image of tourism. The overseas tour operators assessed it occurred due to chaotic management of the tourism sector on the island. “Though it has been enacted in the Regional Regulation (Perda), we do expect the Badung Government could hold a meeting to
discuss the very detrimental rate increase to the tourism perpetrators,” he said. Previously, Chairman of GIPI Bali, Ngurah Wijaya, said that the request for re-discussing the rates was submitted because so far the local government never involved the perpetrators of Bali tourism. The increase in admission fee seemed to have been enacted in a hurry and ignored the tourism industry perpetrators. N gurah Wijaya urged the Badung Government to perform socialization first before imposing the rate increase so that all the parties could find win-win solutions. Aside from socialization, his party also requested the rate increase should be poised by the improvement of service and supporting facilities. (kmb27)
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LONDON - Dozens of protesters against economic inequality were effectively told they could remain camped outside London’s landmark St Paul’s Cathedral for another nine days while a judge decides whether to listen to their appeal against eviction. London Occupy, part of an international movement, has been camping outside the landmark cathedral for four months, drawing attention to their argument against corporate greed and bankers’ bonuses. It has been locked in a legal battle with the City of London Corporation, which controls much of the land, and which wants the camp removed on grounds of safety and hygiene and to allow better access to the cathedral for worshippers. It won a case in the High Court last month for the tents to be taken away, but the protesters went to the Court of Appeal on Monday
arguing their case had “unique and global” significance and claiming the judge had failed to consider alternative arrangements. Master of the Rolls, David Neuberger, one of the most senior judges in England and Wales, sitting in a packed court, said he would decide on February 22 whether there were grounds for an appeal. “At the very least, today has assured an extra nine days in the camp,” one of the applicants, George Barda, told Reuters. “So fingers crossed that they will actually allow us to bring this to appeal. “It seems today that they were genuinely interested in engaging with the actual substance of this movement which the previous court singularly failed to do.” The area around St Paul’s Cathedral is popular with tourists, and the vast domed baroque cathedral is one of central London’s main landmarks and is where Prince Charles married Princess Diana in 1981.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (pictured in 2011) was in damage control on Tuesday, insisting she did not ask staff to prepare a victory speech two weeks before she ousted then leader Kevin Rudd in a party room coup. “I did not direct staff in my office to prepare a speech for me as prime minister. I wouldn’t have seen the need for it,” Gillard told ABC radio
Australian PM in damage control Agence France Presse
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was in damage control on Tuesday, insisting she did not ask staff to prepare a victory speech two weeks before she ousted then leader Kevin Rudd in a party room coup.
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A man talks on the phone as he walks past tents in the Occupy London encampment outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, February 13, 2012.
As a new opinion poll showed Gillard’s dismal popularity dipping further, the prime minister was forced onto the back foot over claims her office had worked on an acceptance speech a fortnight before Rudd’s brutal removal. “I did not direct staff in my office to prepare a speech for me as prime minister. I wouldn’t have seen the need for it,” Gillard told ABC radio.
“I decided to challenge Kevin Rudd and to ask him for a ballot in the Labor Party on the day I asked him for that ballot.” Gillard came to power in June 2010 after suddenly ousting Rudd, who had lost the support of the party’s powerful factional chiefs and was increasingly unpopular within the caucus. But the overnight leadership
change shocked the electorate and Gillard failed to win a clear majority when she called an election several weeks later, meaning she now leads a fragile coalition government supported by independents. Both Gillard and Rudd, now foreign minister, have refused to discuss what happened in the lead-up to the leadership change, prompting endless speculation about the possible trigger point. Gillard Tuesday described the days before her challenge as tense, and said she could not say exactly when she learned that her staff were working on an acceptance speech.
Greece surveys riot damage after austerity vote
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ATHENS, Greece — Firefighters doused smoldering buildings and cleanup crews swept rubble from the streets of central Athens on Monday following a night of rioting during which lawmakers approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the nation from bankruptcy. Police said rioters destroyed or damaged more than 110 buildings, of which 50 were burned. They included nine listed as national heritage buildings, mostly in the neoclassical style, while 30 stores were looted. Smoke still rose from the remains of a landmark 1870 building which had housed one of the capital’s most loved cinemas, the Attikon, since 1916.
About 100 people held a candle-light protest outside the gutted structure late Monday. “Criminals targeted all that was best in the city of Athens, its neoclassical monuments,” said Thanassis Davakis, cultural policy chief of the conservative New Democracy party, a coalition government partner. “The damage must be swiftly redressed and the city’s memory restored.” The stench of tear gas still hung in the air on Monday, choking passers-by, while traffic lights at many major intersections were out after being smashed. The Athens municipality said cleanup crews had gathered an estimated 40 tons of broken marble and rocks from the streets of the center, while railings, drainage covers and paving
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stones from sidewalks also suffered extensive damage. More than 170 people were hurt in the rioting which also broke out in other Greek cities. Authorities said 109 police needed medical care after being injured by gasoline bombs, rocks and other objects hurled at them, while at least 70 protesters were hospitalized. Police arrested 79 people — including a 14-year-old — and detained a further 92, while in several cases they had to escort fire crews to burning buildings after hooded and masked protesters prevented access, injuring four firefighters. Police also said they were investigating a complaint from a businessman that rioters demanded money to leave his establishment intact.
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People watch as a whale shark swims in an aquarium tank in the Chinese city of Yantai. Sharks killed twice as many swimmers and surfers last year than in 2010, with the increase due largely to a growth in tourism and changing shark patterns due to global warming, a study says.
Humans blamed as shark attacks ‘double’ Agence France Presse
Sharks killed twice as many swimmers and surfers last year than in 2010, with the increase due largely to a growth in tourism and changing shark patterns due to global warming. There were 12 deaths in 46 shark attacks in 2011, a mortality rate of more than 25 percent compared to an average of under seven percent in the last 10 years, according to statistics from the University of Florida. Countries that recorded shark attack deaths included Australia with three fatal out of a total of 11 attacks; South Africa, two fatal out of five; the French island of Reunion, two deaths in four attacks; and Seychelles with two attacks both of which ended in death. Other countries with non-fatal shark attacks included Indonesia (3), Mexico (3),
Russia (3) and Brazil (2). Three locations not normally associated with high numbers of shark attacks -- Reunion, Seychelles and New Caledonia -- registered a total of seven attacks with five fatal outcomes, according to Burgess. “Those areas were not traditional area for tourism in recent years,” the scientist explained. “Over the last decade, more and
more tourists have been going there... So we are getting more people coming to places where there are sharks, and the local communities are not prepared for the number of people going into the water at this time.” He added that medical facilities in these areas may not be developed enough to provide treatment in emergencies of this type. In addition to the influx of tourists, the effects of global warming has meant sharks migrating to regions where they were not normally seen. Last August, authorities even in the far east Russian reported three non-fatal shark attacks in the Primorye region -- not a normal location for the predator.
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A firefighter extinguishes one of the capital’s oldest restored cinemas in central Athens on Monday Feb. 13, 2012.
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In this image released by NASA in 2011, a portion of the west rim of Endeavour crater sweeps southward in this color view from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Aspirin could beat cancer spread: Australian study Agence France Presse
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The United States will scale back Mars exploration under a proposed budget by President Barack Obama released Monday that has some scientists fuming over the risk of a NASA brain-drain. The plan kills a deal between the US and European space agencies to cooperate on Mars robotic rover missions in 2016 and 2018, with a view to preparing to return samples from the red planet in the next decade. NASA administrator Charles Bolden admitted that “tough choices” had to be made in axing the European deal, but vowed to restructure the Mars program so that future robotics mission could potentially be revisited in 2018-2020. “This means we will not be moving forward with the planned 2016 and 2018 ExoMars mission that we have been exploring with the European Space Agency,” Bolden said. The fiscal 2013 budget, which is unlikely to face a vote in Congress while Obama seeks re-election, called for a $226 million reduction, or a near 39 percent cut in the US space agency’s Mars exploration program from $587 million to $361 million. Meanwhile, it funds other big projects such as the James Webb Space Telescope and a new heavy-lift rocket to propel an eventual deep space mission to an asteroid, and provides seed money for private companies seeking to replace the space shuttle which was retired last year. The overall proposal is to give NASA $17.7 billion, a decrease of 0.3 percent or $59 million less than 2012. “It is a real scientific tragedy and I personally believe it is a national embarrassment,” G. Scott Hubbard, a Stanford University professor who served as the first NASA Mars program director, told AFP.
Aspirin and other household drugs may inhibit the spread of cancer because they help shut down the chemical “highways” which feed tumours, Australian researchers announced on Tuesday
Aspirin and other household drugs may inhibit the spread of cancer because they help shut down the chemical “highways” which feed tumours, Australian researchers announced on Tuesday. Scientists at Melbourne’s Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre said they have made a biological breakthrough helping explain how lymphatic vessels -key to the transmission of tumours throughout the body -- respond to cancer. “We’ve shown that molecules like the aspirin... could effectively
work by reducing the dilation of these major vessels and thereby reducing the capacity of tumours to spread to distant sites,” researcher Steven Stacker said. Doctors have long suspected that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin may help inhibit the spread of cancer but they have been unable to pinpoint exactly how this is done. By studying cells in lymphatic vessels, the researchers found that a particular gene changed its expression in cancers which spread, but not when the cancer did not spread.
The results published in Cancer Cell journal reveal that the gene is a link between a tumour’s growth and the cellular pathway which can cause inflammation and dilation of vessels throughout the body. Once these lymphatic vessels widen, the capacity for them to act as “supply lines” to tumours and become more effective conduits for the cancer to spread is increased. But aspirin acts to shut down the dilation of the vessels. “So it seems like we have found a pivotal junction point in a biochemical sense between all these different contributors,” Stacker said.
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Authorities: Houston was underwater in tub Associated Press Writer
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The 48-year-old singer, who had prescription drugs in her room, left behind disconsolate family and friends and unfulfilled dreams. Her body was flown Monday by private jet to New Jersey, where she was born and where her funeral is being planned. Late Monday, a hearse under heavy police escort arrived at the Newark, N.J., funeral home that officials said was handling the arrangements for the late pop star. After an autopsy Sunday, authorities said there were no indications of foul play and no obvious signs of trauma on Houston. It could be weeks, however, before the coroner’s office completes toxicology tests to establish the cause of death. The singer had struggled for years with cocaine, marijuana and pills and her behavior had become erratic, including in the period before her death. Some described her as upbeat and eager to perform at producer Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy Awards bash. Others
described an unfocused woman, unkempt and smelling of alcohol and cigarettes. It recalled the end of Michael Jackson’s life, as he tried to turn his career around with an ambitious series of London concerts. The 50-year-old struck many as youthfully energetic and upbeat, while others said he was bedeviled by insomnia that led him to a fatal dosage of prescription drugs in June 2009. Jackson’s death was quickly linked to the anesthetic propofol, although the criminal prosecution of his doctor was played out through 2011. It took three months for a London coroner to rule that Amy Winehouse drank herself to death last July. Like Jackson, Houston may also get a grand goodbye. Houston’s family raised the possibility of holding a wake Thursday and a funeral Friday at Newark’s Prudential Center, which hosts AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes college and professional sporting events and Whitney Houston fans, Lawanda Howkins, left, and Melanie Braggs honor her memory at seats about 18,000 people. a candlelight vigil in Leimert Park in Los Angeles on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
In this image released by Disney, the character Arrietty, voiced by Bridgit Mender, is shown in a scene from the animated feature, “The Secret World of Arrietty.”
Review: ‘Borrowers’ tale ‘Arrietty’ has warm charm AP Photo/Disney
Considering the eccentric, almost psychedelic fantasy worlds created in Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s tales, a story of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of a house seems almost normal. “The Secret World of Arrietty,” from Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, also is a pleasant antidote to the siege mentality of so many Hollywood cartoons, whose makers aim to occupy every instant of the audience’s attention with an assault of noise and images. Slow, stately, gentle and meditative, “Arrietty” nevertheless is a marvel of image and color, its old-fashioned pen-and-ink frames vividly bringing to life the world of children’s author Mary Norton’s
“The Borrowers.” Already a hit in Japan, “Arrietty” has undergone the typically classy English-language transformation that Disney renders to Studio Ghibli’s films, among them Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning “Spirited Away.” What U.S. audiences get is a hybrid — the grandly fluid picturebook imagery of first-time feature director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, a veteran Studio Ghibli animator, merged with an English-language rendering of Miyazaki’s screenplay, Oscar-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom directing a Hollywood voice cast that includes Carol Burnett, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett. Previously adapted in the 1997 live-action slapstick comedy “The Borrowers,” Norton’s
stories follow the adventures of a family of teeny people who live off things scavenged from nature or from the oversized human world that’s unaware of the existence of this miniature race. Spirited 14-year-old Arrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler, star of Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie”) lives with her mom and dad (real-life couple Poehler and Arnett) and is about to join in on her first borrowing expedition to fetch back supplies from the “human beans” living upstairs. Yet Arrietty violates the rules — she’s seen by Shawn (David Henrie of Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place”), a sickly youth who has come to stay in the country with his aunt.
‘The Artist’ dog honored at Golden Collar Awards Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — Even dog actors can get awards in Tinseltown, and six pooches collected prizes at the inaugural Golden Collar Awards. The ceremony Monday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel proceeded like a traditional Hollywood-style awards show, with actors including “NCIS” star Pauley Perrette and “Hot in Cleveland” star Wendie Malick presenting trophies for the best dog performances on the big and small screens. Uggie, the four-legged star of “The Artist,” was named top dog in a movie. His owner-trainer, Omar Von Muller, was on hand to accept the award. Von Muller said the Jack Russell terrier, who stole hearts in the silent film that’s up for 10 Academy Awards, is a “great performer, but he’s also a great family member.” “He sleeps with us,” Von Muller said. The Golden Collar Awards, dreamed up by Alan Siskind of the website dognewsdaily. com, drew other stars of “The Artist,” including James Cromwell and Missi Pyle, as well as studio representatives and media outlets from around the world. “I’m delighted to be here beAP Photo/Matt Sayles cause I owe my career to Uggie, from the film “The Artist”, arrives at the first a pig,” said Cromwell, annual Golden Collar Awards in Los Angeles, Monwho played the farmer in day, Feb. 13, 2012. The Golden Collar awards recognize the work of dogs in film and television. “Babe.”
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100 Sunset Boutique Hotel and Aston Kuta Hotel and Residence Receive Tripadvisor Choice Awards
LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston’s life was a doleful cover of other addiction-riddled pop stars who put their talent and themselves at risk. Her death has created more heartrending echoes of tragedies past: The painstaking investigation that follows the shocking loss. Why was Houston found underwater in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, beyond resuscitation?
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JAKARTA - Aston International announced that two of the of the groups 10 hotels in Bali, the Aston Kuta Hotel & Residence and the 100 Sunset Boutique Hotel , have received Tripadvisor Travelers Choice Awards for being one of “The Trendiest Hotels in Indonesia ”. TripAdvisor.com is a travel website that assists customers in gathering travel information, posting reviews and opinions of travelrelated content and engaging in interactive travel forums. Being a user generated content website, Tripadvisor relays on candid reviews of millions of travelers and is widely regarded as one of the most reliable and independent research tool for travelers seeking non bias reviews and information on hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions. Aston Kuta Hotel & Residence is a contemporary 4 star hotel located just a short stroll from Tuban beach offering 215 guest rooms and ser-
viced apartments, an eclectic café and an open air roof top lounge, 6 ultra modern meeting rooms and a full service Spa with gymnasium. 100 Sunset Boutique Hotels is an Aston managed 45 guest room and suites boutique hotel located on Sunset Road which connects Seminyak with Nusa Dua and offers easy access to Kuta and Sanur. The hotel has through the past year been frequently ranked amongst Tripadvisors top rated Kuta hotels and is in the midst of building upon its popularity through the impending opening of a second 100 Sunset Hotel due to open in April this year. Aston International’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr. Norbert Vas, said “Aston hotels are no strangers to accolades and awards but this one is truly special as it is probably one of the most democratic awards a hotel can get. Having been labeled as “trendy”, not by your own marketing machine but by thousands of independent travelers, truly speaks volumes about these two hotels.”
Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for February 1 through 15, 2012 1 Feb Buda Keliwon Dunggulan. Pura Wakika Kupang, NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang, NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak. Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta Timur 2 Feb Wraspati Umanis Dunggulan Pura Watukaru Tabanan Pura Lempuyang Luhur Karangasem Pura Kentel Gumi Klungkung Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel Tabanan Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Tiyingan Merajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa 3 Feb Sukra Paing Dunggulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran Pura Luhur Cemenggon, Sukawati. Pura Pasek Ubung Denpasar 4 Feb Saniscara Pon Dunggulan Pura Segara Jembrana Pura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung 5 Feb Redite Wage Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekarmukti-Balubulan. Pura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi-Badung 6 Feb Soma Keliwon Kuningan Pura Dasar Gelgel-Klungkung Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah/Selemadeg-Tabanan Pura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gianyar Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuhan-Busungbiu Buleleng Pura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan. 7 Feb Purnama Kawulu Pura dalem Batur - Bangli Pura Pasek/Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Ngusaba Ngeed Banua Kawan - Besakih
Pura Dalem Suci Sidemen - Karangasem 11 Feb Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan. Pura Taman Pule Mas-Ubud Pura Ularan Takmung-Klungkung. Pura Bukitjati Gulingan-Kawan Bangli Pura Dalem Tegehe Tegehe Pura Dalem Tahak Tahak Pura Dalem Batuaji. Batuaji Pura Dalem Tegaljaya Batubulan Pura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon-Sukawati Pura Dalem Guwang-Sukawati Pura Sadha Kapal Pura Sakenan Serangan Pura Pekendungan Keiri-Tabanan Pura Pasek Gaduh Grokgak Gede Tabanan Pura Dalem Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Puri Tanjung Periuk Jakarta Pura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang-Bangli Mr. Dukuh Tetek Peguyangan-Denpasar Pura Agung Blambangan Banyuwangi Pura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Gelgel -Klungkung Pura Panti Paksebali Klungkung (Perang Jempana) Pura Penataran Agung Margowening Desa Balonggarut, Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur 12 Feb Redite Umanis Langkir Pr. Sakenan Serangan Denpasar Selatan Pr. Batuaji Ubung Ubung-Tengah Denpasar Barat Pura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasa Mr. Pasek Gianyar Kerobokan Pr. Alas Harum Batur Kintamani, Pr. Alas Angker Kintamani Kawitan Dalem Empuaji Aan-Klungkung. 15 Feb Buda Wage Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang-Canggi Batuan Pura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri-Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan Mengwi
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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Police defend raids on Murdoch’s ‘Sun’ Agence France Presse
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In this image made from Klan Kosova TV video, rescuers carry a 5-year-old girl pulled alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both of her parents and at least seven of her relatives in the remote mountain village of Restelica, southern Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.
9 die in Kosovo avalanche; child pulled out alive Associated Press Writer
RESTELICA, Kosovo — Rescuers have pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo. Col. Shemsi Syla, a spokesman for the Kosovo Security Force, said Sunday officers discovered the girl when they heard her voice and cell phone. Her home was buried under 10 meters (33 feet) of snow. Rescuers cheered and pumped their fists in the air late Saturday as the girl was pulled out alive. A video aired on Klan Kosova TV showed rescuers covering the girl with blankets, before she was rushed to hospital. Osman Qerreti, an emergency official at the site, told The Associated Press that at least nine members of her family died when the avalanche in the village of Restelica near Kosovo’s border with Macedonia and Albania destroyed seven houses, of which only two were inhabited. Amid subfreezing temperatures Sunday, local villagers baring fierce snowstorms used shovels to dig deep into the snow-covered rubble — all that remained of the one-story brick houses. One more person is believed missing. “No bigger tragedy has ever struck this region,” said local district official Behar Ramadani. “Two brothers with their wives and
children have been killed.” The girl, identified as Asmira Reka, was recovering in hospital in the nearby town of Prizren. Doctors said her life was not in danger, but her parents had perished in the avalanche, and she had been buried for more than 10 hours. NATO peacekeepers, deployed in Kosovo to end the armed conflict between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians in 1999, had been called in to help local authorities in the rescue, but they were unable to land their helicopter due to a fierce blizzard. Rescuers initially dug out the bodies of a married couple and their 17-year-old son. Six more bodies were discovered during the excavation. The cold snap in Europe, which began late January, has killed hundreds of people — most of them homeless. Heavy snow has been blanketing the Balkans for more than two weeks, with Restelica and roads in the region blocked for several days. In neighboring Montenegro, where the government introduced a state of emergency because of the deep freeze, special police forces on Sunday managed to reach about
50 train passengers stranded for two days after tracks were blocked by avalanches. Police said a 55-year-old passenger had died from a heart attack Saturday night, while the others were sheltering in a nearby tunnel. The airport in Podgorica remained closed Sunday and the streets were blocked by snow up to 57 centimeters (22 inches) high — the highest since measurements started in the capital in 1949. Authorities have banned driving in the capital, while many parked cars were damaged after snowcovered trees fell on them. Police in Bosnia said the roof of a sports center in downtown Sarajevo used for ice skating events in the 1984 Winter Olympics collapsed Sunday under the weight of snow. No injuries or fatalities have been reported. In Serbia, the snow continued to fall Sunday as some 50,000 people remained stranded in snowbound remote areas, some without electricity. In Albania the government is expected to declare a state of emergency in the north and south of the country, said Prime Minister Sali Berisha.
London police on Monday defended a string of arrests at Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid The Sun, which has accused the force of carrying out a “witch hunt” against its journalists. The arrest of five staff at the weekend for allegedly bribing officials has plunged Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper into crisis, with reports that a related phone hacking scandal is set to spread to the United States. The London Metropolitan Police said the “seriousness of the allegations” meant the resources it is ploughing into its inquiries into bribery, phone hacking and computer hacking by journalists were not “disproportionate to the enormous task in hand.” Sun associate editor Trevor Kavanagh penned a stinging attack in the daily on Monday, accusing British authorities of trying to destroy it and its sister publications The Times and The Sunday Times. “The Sun is not a ‘swamp’ that needs draining. Nor are those other great News International titles, The Times and The Sunday Times,” Kavanagh wrote. “Yet in what would at any other time cause uproar in parliament and among civil liberty and human rights campaigners, its journalists are being treated like members of an organised crime gang.” News International is the British newspaper subsidiary of News Corporation, the US-based media empire of which Murdoch is founder and chairman. Kavanagh wrote that the probe was the reason that Britain now lags in 28th place, behind former communist states Poland, Estonia and Slovakia, in a world press freedom survey by Reporters Without Borders. He later told the BBC there were “elements in some political parties” who wanted The Sun to shut like the News of the World, its Sunday sister paper which Murdoch closed in July amid a scandal over phone hacking.
Roses... From page 1 In addition to the florist, other shops such as the one that sell dolls and chocolate were also packed with customers. It gave extra income for the seller during the special day.
Angry Birds... From page 1 The number of players is likely to soar beyond one billion as Rovio offers a new version of the game with more levels and interactive features to around 845 million Facebook users. The new app allows players to compete with their Facebook friends for high scores, send gifts to friends and achieve more precise and powerful targeting by purchasing new “power-ups”. Rovio does not disclose how many Angry Birds apps have been downloaded in Indonesia. But the country’s love for the game is obvious in the ubiquitous paraphernalia in malls, from Angry Birds mobile phone covers to baby jumpsuits. More than 17 percent of Indonesia’s 240 million people are on Facebook, and Jakarta alone has over 17 million Facebook accounts, according to
Holm. “That is more than four times the accounts in New York and almost twice the amount of the second city on the list,” the Rovio official told AFP. Second to Jakarta is Istanbul with 9.6 million Facebook accounts, and third is Mexico City with 9.3 million, according to social networking trackers Socialbakers.com. Indonesia as a whole has 43.1 million Facebook accounts, making it Facebook’s third-biggest user base after the United States with 155.7 million and India, which just surpasses Indonesia with 43.5 million users. Rovio was a little-known company before its Angry Birds took flight. It had previously launched 50 games with successes including mobile versions of “Burnout” and “Need For Speed”.
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Chinese company to seek ban on iPad import, export US, EU clear Google’s $12.5B Associated Press
BEIJING — A Chinese company said Tuesday it will ask customs officials to ban imports and exports of Apple’s iPads due to a dispute over ownership of the trademark. All of Apple’s iPads are manufactured in China, meaning global sales of the popular tablet computers might be affected if authorities agreed to enforce such a request by Shenzhen Proview Technology. The dispute with Proview, which won a court ruling that it owns the iPad name in China, has resulted in authorities seizing iPads from retailers in one city. Proview said it has asked for enforcement in 30 other cities. “We are now working on a request to China Customs to ban and seize all the import and export of the iPad products that have violated the trademark,” said Xie Xianghui, a Proview lawyer. He gave no indication when the request might be filed. Apple, based in Cupertino, California, defended its ownership of the iPad name. “We bought Proview’s worldwide rights to the iPad trademark in 10 different countries several years ago. Proview refuses to honor their agreement with Apple in China,” said an Apple spokeswoman in Beijing, Carolyn Wu. Wu declined to comment on the possibility of Proview requesting a ban on iPad imports and exports. China is Apple’s fastest-growing market. Its iPads and iPhones are manufactured by a contractor, Taiwan-based Foxconn Technologies Group, at factories in southern China. Shenzhen Proview Technology registered the iPad trademark in China in 2001. Apple bought rights to the name from a Taiwan company affiliated with Proview but the mainland company says it still owns the name in China. A Chinese court rejected Apple’s claim to the name in China last year. Apple has appealed. “Our case is still pending in mainland China,” Wu said. Chinese rules allow trademark owners to request seizure of goods that violate their rights, according to Stan Abrams, an American
lawyer who teaches intellectual property law at Beijing’s Central University of Finance and Economics. The rules were enacted partly in response to foreign pressure for Beijing to stamp out rampant unlicensed copying of foreign movies, music and designer clothes. Abrams said exports can be seized under rules meant to prevent manufacturers in China from sending unlicensed copies to other markets. “All of these things that Proview can do, whether it’s going to court or Customs, these are the things that we want to see,” Abrams said. “So it’s definitely ironic.” Chinese news reports say Proview, which makes computer displays, is deep in debt and needs a big settlement from Apple. Proview has yet to make an offer to settle, said Xie, the company’s lawyer. “We are now focusing our work on upholding rights and haven’t made negotiation proposals to Apple yet,” he said. “As for the reasons, you should ask Apple.” Shenzhen Proview Technology is a subsidiary of LCD screen maker Proview International Holdings Ltd., headquartered in Hong Kong. Apple bought rights to the iPad name in 2009 from a Taiwan affiliate, Proview Taipei, that registered it in various countries as early as 2000. A Chinese court ruled in December that Proview is not bound by that agreement. It rejected Apple’s complaint that Proview was violating its rights. Apple might be able to sue the Taiwan company on contract grounds for selling name rights it didn’t own, Abrams said. But he said a victory in such a suit would not give Apple rights to the name on the mainland. “This kind of thing happens, but it’s a mistake and it’s a really bad one in this case,” Abrams said. “They’re paying for it now.”
Motorola Mobility bid Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s $12.5 billion bid to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility has won approvals from U.S. and European antitrust regulators, moving Google a major step closer to completing the biggest deal in its 13-year history. Monday’s blessings mean Google Inc. just needs to clear regulatory hurdles in China, Taiwan and Israel before it can take control of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and expand into manufacturing phones, tablet computers and other consumer devices for the first time. Getting government approval in China looms as the biggest stumbling block remaining. Google’s relationship with China’s ruling party has been on shaky ground since the company blamed hackers in that country for breaking into its computers two years ago. The breach prompted Google to move its Internet search engine from mainland China in protest of laws requiring some results to be censored. Google prizes Motorola Mobility’s more than 17,000 patents — a crucial weapon in an intellectual arms race with Apple, Microsoft and other rivals maneuvering to gain more control over smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Google announced the deal six months ago. The deal will “enhance competition and offer consumers faster innovation, greater choice and wonderful user experiences,” Don Harrison, Google’s deputy general counsel wrote in a blog post. Besides signing off on the Motorola Mobility deal, the Justice Department also approved two other moves in the mobile patent battles. The approvals cover the $4.5 billion purchase of Nortel Networks patents by a group including Apple, Microsoft and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. and a separate Apple acquisition of Novell Inc. patents. Nevertheless, the Justice Department didn’t find any evidence that Google’s ownership of Motorola Mobility would lessen com-
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In this Jan. 17, 2012 file photo, attendees at the National Retail Federation listen to a discussion about Google Wallet, in New York.The EU’s antitrust watchdog has approved Google’s $12.5 billion takeover of cell phone maker Motorola. petition in a mobile device market that is becoming increasingly important as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablet computers instead of desktop and laptop computers. Other key concerns centered on Google’s Android operating system, free software that now powers more than 250 million mobile devices made by a variety of manufacturers, including Motorola Mobility. Competition could be hurt if Google gives Motorola Mobility the most advanced versions of Android or withholds the mobile software from other cellphone makers. Google, though, has pledged to make Android available to all its mobile partners. Even if Google were to discriminate, cellphone makers still could rely on mobile software from Microsoft Corp., Research in Motion and Hewlett-Packard Co., among others. The European regulators see no danger that Google will prevent other device makers from using its popular Android operating system after the takeover. “Android helps to drive the spread of Google’s other services,” the Commission said. “Given that Google’s core business model is to push its online and mobile services and software to the widest possible audience, it is unlikely that Google would restrict the use of Android solely to Motorola,” which only has a small market share
in Europe. The government reviews in U.S. and Europe have come as regulators also have been conducting a broader inquiry into whether Google has been abusing its dominance in Internet search to hobble its rivals. Those investigations are still ongoing. Motorola Mobility’s expertise in mobile devices and set-top boxes for cable TV will allow Google to play an even more influential role in shaping the future of hand-held computing and home entertainment. Even as it navigates the regulatory gauntlet, Google has begun testing a device for connecting electronic components within homes, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission. Absorbing Motorola Mobility also threatens to crimp Google’s earnings growth and drag down its stock price. That’s because Motorola Mobility has been struggling on its own as Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones made by rivals such as Samsung Electronics undercut sales of its products. Google is making a huge bet that Motorola Mobility can do better. The $12.5 billion price is more than the combined amount that Google has paid for the 185 other acquisitions that it has completed since going public in 2004.
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Penelokan is situated on the southern part of Batur Tengah Village of Kintamani District, around 20 kms from the town of Bangli or some 63 km from Denpasar, the capital of Bali Province. Many guests, domestic or foreign choose this place so they can enjoy the cold but refreshing air of the mountainous land. Of course, while they taste the stunning views of the solid black lavas of Mount Batur’s eruption in 1917 that devastated the surrounding village. Batur has scenic views and is part of Kintamani that is in the northern side of Bangli Regency. Penelokan (Look Out Point) is the best ppalce to see the drooping jaws sceneries offered by Mount and Lake Batur. It is about 1,500 meters above sea level. Its temperature is at the average 22 degress Celcius at noo and 16 degress Celcius during the night. And we invite those adventurous to climb the mountain until reaching the peak. The crater seems to be a beautiful painting carved to the mountain. In addition to seeing the mountain, Batur also offers the charming Lake Batur with its clean water and the unique graveyard and Barong Brutuk of Trunyan Village, that cannot be found anywhere else in Bali.
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JAKARTA - Boeing Co said on Tuesday it signed its largest ever commercial airplane order with Indonesia’s Lion Air in a deal worth $22.4 billion.
Boeing said Lion Air, Indonesia’s largest carrier by passenger volume, has ordered 230 airplanes, including 201 737 MAXs and 29 next-generation 737-900 ERs. Lion Air will also acquire purchase rights for an additional 150 airplanes, Boeing said. The announcement was made in a statement at the
Singapore airshow. In November, Lion Air announced the original massive order during U.S. President Barack Obama’s Asia-Pacific tour. Europe’s Airbus had accused the United States of applying political pressure to secure the deal.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is towed to it’s static display berth upon arrival in Singapore, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.
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RI govt preparing three scenarios for fuel price hike Antara
JAKARTA - The government is creating three scenarios to prepare for a hike to prices of subsidized fuel as part of efforts to curb fuel subsidies. Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Widjajono Partowidagdo said on Monday that the three scenarios include raising the price of subsidized fuel oil for private vehicles by Rp500, Rp1,000 or Rp1,500 per liter. He added that the government is also discussing the possibility of raising the price of subsidized fuel oil for public transport vehicles, including small-scale business vehicles, by providing cash back as compensation. “If the increase is Rp1,000 per liter, the cash back will be as much as that amount,” he said. To give cash back controlling cards would be needed. It is not too difficult to provide the controlling cards, he said. He said though the price hike will not apply to motorcycles under this scenario, the fuel price will be raised. However, the increase will not be as high as that of other vehicles. In addition to these options, he said the government is also studying the possibility of providing fixed subsidies amounting to Rp2,000 per liter. The House of Representatives (DPR) Commission VII earlier asked the government to study the possibility of fuel oil price hikes as one of the options to limit the use of subsidized fuels. The government has appointed a consortium consisting of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), University of Indonesia (UI) and Padjadjaran University (Unpad), along with the Oil and Gas Institute of the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, to conduct the study according to the DPR`s request. The result of the fuel oil study is expected to be ready this week. The government plans to discuss it with the House Commission VII at the end of February.
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Indonesia wants to change drug tests for pilots Associated Press
JAKARTA — Pilots should be tested for drugs a few hours or days before they fly, rather than undergoing the routine testing every six months as they do now, Indonesia’s transportation minister said Monday. Testing them every six months may not be effective because drug users could prepare for the tests, Minister Evert Ernest Mangindaan said. The ministry is revising regulations after the arrests of three pilots and a co-
pilot from budget airliner Lion Air since September for using illicit drugs. The arrests have raised concern over security and safety in aviation, a main mode of travel in this sprawling nation of 17,000 islands. “Airlines should carry out strict urine tests for all their pilots few hours or days before they fly aircraft,” Mangindaan said in Surabaya, where one of the pilots was arrested this month. Lion Air pilot Syaiful Salam was arrested Feb. 4 three hours before he was to fly a plane. Authorities said he had a small
amount of crystal methamphetamine, known locally as “Shabu-shabu.” Another colleague was arrested in South Sulawesi in January, and a pilot and co-pilot were caught with Shabushabu and ecstasy pills last September, two months before the airliner signed the biggest order ever from Boeing — 230 planes with a list price of $21.7 billion. Last week, a co-pilot failed a random drug test at Jakarta’s airport and three others failed to show up for the testing, transportation ministry officials said, without identifying them.
President denies relative benefited from Bank Century bailout
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JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono denied rumors that some of the funds to bail out Bank Century had gone to a member of his family and expressed his commitment to laws to settle any cases linked to the bank. “We have agreed in case of any violation of the law or losses suffered by the state (in connection with the bank bailout) the law must be enforced. We support a judicial settlement,” he said at a meeting with journalists at the state palace here on Monday evening. He said based on reports he had received so far and from the results of an
audit by the State Audit Board (BPK) no laws had been broken in connection with the bailout so far. “What I know is the police have worked, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Attorney General`s Office and the BPK have all worked. I followed it. From reports that I have received no irregularities have been found with regard to capital placement worth Rp6.7 trillion in the former Bank Century that could be categorized as violating the laws. BPK actually also had not revealed any loss suffered by the state in connection with that. I am supporting the legal process to find the truth. The decision is in the hands of the law enforcement agencies, the KPK, and I
am sure it can be settled,” he said. The President said “ a member of First Lady Ani Yudhoyono`s family had been mentioned (in connection with the issue). The answer is that indeed he was a customer of Bank Century far before the crisis happened and far before the bailout was done. According to Anto the last transaction he made with the bank was in January 2007 or two years before the bailout and it had nothing to do with the Rp6.7 trillion capital placement. Once again, tell the truth and facts. I believe in KPK and BPK,” he said. President Yudhoyono`s brother-inlaw, Hertanto Edhie Wibowo, had been rumoured having received funds from the Bank Century Bank bailout.
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The House inspects Harrads Hotel & Spa
Tax arrears for two years worth IDR 1.9 Billion Bali Post
DENPASAR - Statement of the Head of the Denpasar Revenue Services, IB Subrata, mentioning about the tax arrears of one of the companies in Denpasar was finally addressed by Commission C of the Denpasar House. The Commission ultimately traced the company concerned and it was known as the Harrads Hotel & Spa and Blue Eyes Karaoke located on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Sanur. company he led currently. He acknowledged that his party had not paid taxes as required. However, the tax arrears of the company in truth had been communicated to central management. “Regarding the tax matter, it becomes the concern of central management. We have coordinated and been sent 18 pieces of bilyet giro to pay this tax,” said Robert. On the other hand, Made Sudana said that Harrads and Blue Eyes had not paid taxes since 2010 amounting to IDR 1.9 billion. In details, in 2010 it had tax arrears of IDR 261,971,956 (hotel) and IDR 493,276,016 (karaoke). Meanwhile, in 2011 the number of tax arrears was IDR 475,012,016 (hotel) and IDR 753,045,340 (karaoke). “Therefore, they totally amount to approximately IDR 1.9 billion,” said Sudana. When seeing the amount of arrears, Susruta asked the management of Harrads to imme-
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The Commission ultimately traced the company concerned and it was known as the Harrads Hotel & Spa and Blue Eyes Karaoke located on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Sanur.
After getting the information on Monday (Feb 13), the lineups of Commission C led by Chairman Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa directly made an inspection to location. Entourage of the Commission C was received by General Manager of Harrads Hotel & Spa, Robert. In addition, the inspection was also attended by the Denpasar Revenue Services represented by Division Head of Data Collection, Made Sudana. On the occasion, Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa, accompanied by his members including Putu Oka Mahendra, H. Mudjiono, AA Susruta Ngurah Putra, Nyoman Darsa and Made Suweta, questioned the obstacles of tax payment faced by the Harrads hotel management. So far, his party got information if the hotel and entertainment business had not undertaken its obligation to pay taxes. To that question, Robert described about the conditions of
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diately pay off the delinquent tax becoming the obligation of businesspeople. Moreover, the tax acquisition becoming the obligation of businesspeople had been paid by customers (hotel guests). On that account, there was no reason for the management not to pay taxes for two years. “If the company could pay the service of employees reaching IDR 500,000 per month for each employee, I think there is no problem with tax payment because the acquisition of tax and service has become a single entity,” said Susruta. After receiving an explanation from the management of Harrads, Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa asked the Harrads to immediately settle the delinquent taxes for 2010 and 2011. “For tax payment of 2010, we give a one-month deadline to pay the taxes,” said the representative of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). (kmb12)
Mystery is unknown to, or at least, not acknowledged by many Balinese. No single matter in heaven as well as on earth is inscrutable. How is this explained? There are three ways to approach reality. The first one is through sensory perception, the second, is through deciphering of signs and symbols and the third through inaugural manipulation. Sensory perception is the commonest approach that everybody uses. However, this applies to simple matters only. Future events and “wishes of the departed” do not belong to this category. Those require a more sophisticated “apparatus”. In the past, the Balinese believed that a “balian taksu” (traditional soothsayer) could predict future events. Parents who had just been blessed with a new-born baby could “meluasang anak alit” (inquire about the reincarnate of the baby) from him. This practice is important, as the concerned family had to know exactly their progenitor’s wishes. If they were ignorant of his or her wishes, troubles and sufferings could be the aftermath and be the baby and the family would undergo hardship upon hardship, even death. A “balian taksu”, either male or female, might for example answer the question by saying: “Panglingsir jerone ane telung undang tenenan numitis, madan I basur. Tetagiane sarwa poleng, slempot poleng, ngupah wayang” (The great-grandfather who is reincarnated through this child is I Basur. He wishes for a checkered outfit: black headdress, checkered sarong, checkered sash and a shadow-puppet performance). Of course, the balian taksu’s words were subject to suspicion. When this happened, the inquiring parents could contradict the balian by reacting thus: “No! We do not have an ancestor named I Basur. You lie! Give us back our offerings.” In order to perform his or her duty, the balian taksu should be in a state of trance. This entranced state results from the inhaling of incense smoke pengasepan. Maluasang (inquiry) can only be carried out when three types of offerings, called canang, daksina and ngelap are presented by the concerned family. If the family was satisfied with the result, they would normally pay a sum of money, called sesari, the amount of which is not fixed. (It has been reported that in a few cases, some balian taksu demanded large fixed sum of sesari before the performance).The normal arrangement
should be based more on mutual understanding and convention, rather than on a tariff created by the balian. The balian’s performance is no easy matter. If he or she was detected to be groggy or speaking incoherently and at random, the “balian “ would undoubtedly be disqualified. The entranced state of the balian was supposed to enable him or her to be “entered” by the information he gave, his gait and manner. To avoid shame, only “balian’s” from distant places were employed, although every balian venturing to deceive was fully aware of running a high risk of losing his reputation. In the case of “meluasang anak gelem” (inquiry about who has caused a disease), the question could be answered this way: Ane nyakitin jeegne landung, sai sai sing mabaju. Bokne uban, sai sai magambahan. The person responsible for the disease is tall, often bare-chested. The hair is greyish and often loose). Since meluasang anak gelem was a delicate matter, which could cause a fight between any two parties concerned, the “balian taksu” was wise enough not to give all the details. With respect to “meluasang anak gelem “, the question often raised was: “Who talks in mediation of the balian: a deity or the spirit of the ancestor”? Most people believe that both can serve as informants. (There is a joke among modernday-Balinese that their ancestors were as clever and diplomaticminded as they themselves are today, by avoiding to come right out with the truth. Their ancestor -who might be the “balians” themselves- did not want to be trapped in a difficult situation). As a medium a “balian taksu” could also serve as medium in an inquiry about what was required by the soul of a departed, as accompaniment for a cremation. The inquiry could proceed in these words: “Most reverent balian, what are the demands of my uncle who is going to be cremated?” The balian may say: “Ane edotang tiang udeng putih, kamben putih, slempot gadang” (dress me in a white headdress, white sarong and green sash). Today’s more critical or “modern” Balinese mind is sometimes reluctant about this practice. As a popular joke says: “What would you do, if your deceased grandfather asks for a tractor? Are you going to comply with his wishes?” (IBP/Doc)
Get Rid of Bad Character of ‘Kala Tiga’
What is mebat or maebat? Mebat is to process the meat into readyto-serve food menu. The mebat is usually done after mepatung. Mebat truly reflects a sense of kinship and mutual assistance. Not only housewife who can act as a cook, but virtually all family members get involved. Some are setting up equipment, cutting the meat, mixing spices and handling the fire. Various types of food are made before the victory day of dharma (truth) against adharma (untruth). Among them, there are pepes, sausage, timbungan, curry, lawar, satay, ares or soup of young banana stem, assorted vegetable with gravy and young jackfruit soup. Having mixed all kinds of food, the menu for the offerings were set aside and then the menu for consumption is taken out. All family members are usually held a party traditionally. Interestingly, after the mebat tradition, it is resumed with ngejot tradition (food gift exchange). Menu of the food gift usually consists of the servings made by that person. Here, people then taste others’ food mutually. On the Penampahan day, all residents can eat meat as much as they like. Similarly, they can enjoy a variety of menus served. For foodies, they will eat much more than
Rujak
(Vegetable & Fruits Salad with Palm Sugar Sauce) OVERVIEW: This popular snack, in intriguing mixture of sweet, sour and spicy hot flavors, is prepared at countless warung throughout Bali. INGREDIENTS: 1 small pineapple, peeled and sliced evenly 1 sour mango, peeled and sliced 1 pamelo or grapefruit, peeled and cut in segments 1 small cucumber, peeled, seeded and sliced 3 water apples (jambu), quartered (optional) 1 medium sized star fruit, sliced ½ small papaya, peeled, cut in half, seeded and sliced in even segments 1 green apple, peeled and sliced 1-cup rujak sauce PREPARATION: Combine all ingredients in salad bowl and mix well. Serve at room temperature. Helpful hint: although this is served as snack in Bali, you can serve it as part of Balinese meal or buffet.
they usually do. According to Jero Mangku Arthana, many people said that Penampahan day was as a moment for family party. As a matter of fact, the Penampahan signified introspection and control against the tamasika character (laziness) so as to defeat the adharma and to win the dharma. Before Galungan human is visited by enemies called Kala Tiga. The visit started on Sunday and it was called Bhuta Dungulan meaning to visit; on Monday called Bhuta Galungan meaning to attack;
and on Tuesday or Penampahan called Bhuta Amangkurat meaning to control. If unable to control the bad qualities, it might trigger a sprain on the Penampahan day and it could lead to an argument. Therefore, the Penampahan had to be addressed wisely because on that day we should be able to cut out all the bad qualities, so human would not be controlled by bhuta. On that account, the devotees could win the dharma on Galungan feast day. “This has been widely proved in the family environment,” he said. (BTN/015)
BASE RUJAK: 6 tbsp tamarind pulp 1-cup palm sugar syrup 1tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted 6 bird’s eye chilies, left whole ½ tsp salt ½ cup water PREPARATION: Combine all ingredients in a heavy pan and bring slowly to the boil. Stir well and simmer for 10 minutes. When cool, squeeze to extract all the juice from the tamarind and strain through a sieve. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)
Jaja Batun Bedil
(Sticky Rice Cake In Brown Sugar Sauce) OVERVIEW: The uninteresting appearance of this dessert belies its delightful flavor and creamy texture. DUMPLINGS: 1 cup glutinous rice flour ½ cup tapioca flour ¾ cup water ¼ tsp salt Make dumplings first. Place rice and tapioca flour in deep mixing bowl and make a well in the center. Add water and salt, mix well and knead dough until it can be rolled and shaped. Dough should not be too dry. Roll small dumplings 1 cm (1/2 in) in diameter. Bring 4 liters (8 cups) of water to boil. Add dumplings, bring back to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Drain and set dumplings aside. SAUCE: 3 cups water 1 cup coconut milk 1/3 cup palm sugar syrup 1 pandan leaf Pinch of salt To make sauce, combine water, coconut milk, palm sugar, pandan leaf, and pinch of salt in small stockpot. Bring to boil. Add flour dumplings and simmer for 20 minutes. Cool and serve at room temperature. TO MAKE PALM SUGAR SYRUP: Combine 2 cups of chopped palm sugar with 1 cup of water and 2 pandan leaves. Bring to boil, simmer 10 minutes, strain and store in refrigerator. (www.baliguide. com/balifood)
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The House inspects Harrads Hotel & Spa
Tax arrears for two years worth IDR 1.9 Billion Bali Post
DENPASAR - Statement of the Head of the Denpasar Revenue Services, IB Subrata, mentioning about the tax arrears of one of the companies in Denpasar was finally addressed by Commission C of the Denpasar House. The Commission ultimately traced the company concerned and it was known as the Harrads Hotel & Spa and Blue Eyes Karaoke located on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Sanur. company he led currently. He acknowledged that his party had not paid taxes as required. However, the tax arrears of the company in truth had been communicated to central management. “Regarding the tax matter, it becomes the concern of central management. We have coordinated and been sent 18 pieces of bilyet giro to pay this tax,” said Robert. On the other hand, Made Sudana said that Harrads and Blue Eyes had not paid taxes since 2010 amounting to IDR 1.9 billion. In details, in 2010 it had tax arrears of IDR 261,971,956 (hotel) and IDR 493,276,016 (karaoke). Meanwhile, in 2011 the number of tax arrears was IDR 475,012,016 (hotel) and IDR 753,045,340 (karaoke). “Therefore, they totally amount to approximately IDR 1.9 billion,” said Sudana. When seeing the amount of arrears, Susruta asked the management of Harrads to imme-
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
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The Commission ultimately traced the company concerned and it was known as the Harrads Hotel & Spa and Blue Eyes Karaoke located on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Sanur.
After getting the information on Monday (Feb 13), the lineups of Commission C led by Chairman Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa directly made an inspection to location. Entourage of the Commission C was received by General Manager of Harrads Hotel & Spa, Robert. In addition, the inspection was also attended by the Denpasar Revenue Services represented by Division Head of Data Collection, Made Sudana. On the occasion, Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa, accompanied by his members including Putu Oka Mahendra, H. Mudjiono, AA Susruta Ngurah Putra, Nyoman Darsa and Made Suweta, questioned the obstacles of tax payment faced by the Harrads hotel management. So far, his party got information if the hotel and entertainment business had not undertaken its obligation to pay taxes. To that question, Robert described about the conditions of
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diately pay off the delinquent tax becoming the obligation of businesspeople. Moreover, the tax acquisition becoming the obligation of businesspeople had been paid by customers (hotel guests). On that account, there was no reason for the management not to pay taxes for two years. “If the company could pay the service of employees reaching IDR 500,000 per month for each employee, I think there is no problem with tax payment because the acquisition of tax and service has become a single entity,” said Susruta. After receiving an explanation from the management of Harrads, Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa asked the Harrads to immediately settle the delinquent taxes for 2010 and 2011. “For tax payment of 2010, we give a one-month deadline to pay the taxes,” said the representative of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). (kmb12)
Mystery is unknown to, or at least, not acknowledged by many Balinese. No single matter in heaven as well as on earth is inscrutable. How is this explained? There are three ways to approach reality. The first one is through sensory perception, the second, is through deciphering of signs and symbols and the third through inaugural manipulation. Sensory perception is the commonest approach that everybody uses. However, this applies to simple matters only. Future events and “wishes of the departed” do not belong to this category. Those require a more sophisticated “apparatus”. In the past, the Balinese believed that a “balian taksu” (traditional soothsayer) could predict future events. Parents who had just been blessed with a new-born baby could “meluasang anak alit” (inquire about the reincarnate of the baby) from him. This practice is important, as the concerned family had to know exactly their progenitor’s wishes. If they were ignorant of his or her wishes, troubles and sufferings could be the aftermath and be the baby and the family would undergo hardship upon hardship, even death. A “balian taksu”, either male or female, might for example answer the question by saying: “Panglingsir jerone ane telung undang tenenan numitis, madan I basur. Tetagiane sarwa poleng, slempot poleng, ngupah wayang” (The great-grandfather who is reincarnated through this child is I Basur. He wishes for a checkered outfit: black headdress, checkered sarong, checkered sash and a shadow-puppet performance). Of course, the balian taksu’s words were subject to suspicion. When this happened, the inquiring parents could contradict the balian by reacting thus: “No! We do not have an ancestor named I Basur. You lie! Give us back our offerings.” In order to perform his or her duty, the balian taksu should be in a state of trance. This entranced state results from the inhaling of incense smoke pengasepan. Maluasang (inquiry) can only be carried out when three types of offerings, called canang, daksina and ngelap are presented by the concerned family. If the family was satisfied with the result, they would normally pay a sum of money, called sesari, the amount of which is not fixed. (It has been reported that in a few cases, some balian taksu demanded large fixed sum of sesari before the performance).The normal arrangement
should be based more on mutual understanding and convention, rather than on a tariff created by the balian. The balian’s performance is no easy matter. If he or she was detected to be groggy or speaking incoherently and at random, the “balian “ would undoubtedly be disqualified. The entranced state of the balian was supposed to enable him or her to be “entered” by the information he gave, his gait and manner. To avoid shame, only “balian’s” from distant places were employed, although every balian venturing to deceive was fully aware of running a high risk of losing his reputation. In the case of “meluasang anak gelem” (inquiry about who has caused a disease), the question could be answered this way: Ane nyakitin jeegne landung, sai sai sing mabaju. Bokne uban, sai sai magambahan. The person responsible for the disease is tall, often bare-chested. The hair is greyish and often loose). Since meluasang anak gelem was a delicate matter, which could cause a fight between any two parties concerned, the “balian taksu” was wise enough not to give all the details. With respect to “meluasang anak gelem “, the question often raised was: “Who talks in mediation of the balian: a deity or the spirit of the ancestor”? Most people believe that both can serve as informants. (There is a joke among modernday-Balinese that their ancestors were as clever and diplomaticminded as they themselves are today, by avoiding to come right out with the truth. Their ancestor -who might be the “balians” themselves- did not want to be trapped in a difficult situation). As a medium a “balian taksu” could also serve as medium in an inquiry about what was required by the soul of a departed, as accompaniment for a cremation. The inquiry could proceed in these words: “Most reverent balian, what are the demands of my uncle who is going to be cremated?” The balian may say: “Ane edotang tiang udeng putih, kamben putih, slempot gadang” (dress me in a white headdress, white sarong and green sash). Today’s more critical or “modern” Balinese mind is sometimes reluctant about this practice. As a popular joke says: “What would you do, if your deceased grandfather asks for a tractor? Are you going to comply with his wishes?” (IBP/Doc)
Get Rid of Bad Character of ‘Kala Tiga’
What is mebat or maebat? Mebat is to process the meat into readyto-serve food menu. The mebat is usually done after mepatung. Mebat truly reflects a sense of kinship and mutual assistance. Not only housewife who can act as a cook, but virtually all family members get involved. Some are setting up equipment, cutting the meat, mixing spices and handling the fire. Various types of food are made before the victory day of dharma (truth) against adharma (untruth). Among them, there are pepes, sausage, timbungan, curry, lawar, satay, ares or soup of young banana stem, assorted vegetable with gravy and young jackfruit soup. Having mixed all kinds of food, the menu for the offerings were set aside and then the menu for consumption is taken out. All family members are usually held a party traditionally. Interestingly, after the mebat tradition, it is resumed with ngejot tradition (food gift exchange). Menu of the food gift usually consists of the servings made by that person. Here, people then taste others’ food mutually. On the Penampahan day, all residents can eat meat as much as they like. Similarly, they can enjoy a variety of menus served. For foodies, they will eat much more than
Rujak
(Vegetable & Fruits Salad with Palm Sugar Sauce) OVERVIEW: This popular snack, in intriguing mixture of sweet, sour and spicy hot flavors, is prepared at countless warung throughout Bali. INGREDIENTS: 1 small pineapple, peeled and sliced evenly 1 sour mango, peeled and sliced 1 pamelo or grapefruit, peeled and cut in segments 1 small cucumber, peeled, seeded and sliced 3 water apples (jambu), quartered (optional) 1 medium sized star fruit, sliced ½ small papaya, peeled, cut in half, seeded and sliced in even segments 1 green apple, peeled and sliced 1-cup rujak sauce PREPARATION: Combine all ingredients in salad bowl and mix well. Serve at room temperature. Helpful hint: although this is served as snack in Bali, you can serve it as part of Balinese meal or buffet.
they usually do. According to Jero Mangku Arthana, many people said that Penampahan day was as a moment for family party. As a matter of fact, the Penampahan signified introspection and control against the tamasika character (laziness) so as to defeat the adharma and to win the dharma. Before Galungan human is visited by enemies called Kala Tiga. The visit started on Sunday and it was called Bhuta Dungulan meaning to visit; on Monday called Bhuta Galungan meaning to attack;
and on Tuesday or Penampahan called Bhuta Amangkurat meaning to control. If unable to control the bad qualities, it might trigger a sprain on the Penampahan day and it could lead to an argument. Therefore, the Penampahan had to be addressed wisely because on that day we should be able to cut out all the bad qualities, so human would not be controlled by bhuta. On that account, the devotees could win the dharma on Galungan feast day. “This has been widely proved in the family environment,” he said. (BTN/015)
BASE RUJAK: 6 tbsp tamarind pulp 1-cup palm sugar syrup 1tsp dried shrimp paste, roasted 6 bird’s eye chilies, left whole ½ tsp salt ½ cup water PREPARATION: Combine all ingredients in a heavy pan and bring slowly to the boil. Stir well and simmer for 10 minutes. When cool, squeeze to extract all the juice from the tamarind and strain through a sieve. (www.baliguide.com/balifood)
Jaja Batun Bedil
(Sticky Rice Cake In Brown Sugar Sauce) OVERVIEW: The uninteresting appearance of this dessert belies its delightful flavor and creamy texture. DUMPLINGS: 1 cup glutinous rice flour ½ cup tapioca flour ¾ cup water ¼ tsp salt Make dumplings first. Place rice and tapioca flour in deep mixing bowl and make a well in the center. Add water and salt, mix well and knead dough until it can be rolled and shaped. Dough should not be too dry. Roll small dumplings 1 cm (1/2 in) in diameter. Bring 4 liters (8 cups) of water to boil. Add dumplings, bring back to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Drain and set dumplings aside. SAUCE: 3 cups water 1 cup coconut milk 1/3 cup palm sugar syrup 1 pandan leaf Pinch of salt To make sauce, combine water, coconut milk, palm sugar, pandan leaf, and pinch of salt in small stockpot. Bring to boil. Add flour dumplings and simmer for 20 minutes. Cool and serve at room temperature. TO MAKE PALM SUGAR SYRUP: Combine 2 cups of chopped palm sugar with 1 cup of water and 2 pandan leaves. Bring to boil, simmer 10 minutes, strain and store in refrigerator. (www.baliguide. com/balifood)
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Penelokan is situated on the southern part of Batur Tengah Village of Kintamani District, around 20 kms from the town of Bangli or some 63 km from Denpasar, the capital of Bali Province. Many guests, domestic or foreign choose this place so they can enjoy the cold but refreshing air of the mountainous land. Of course, while they taste the stunning views of the solid black lavas of Mount Batur’s eruption in 1917 that devastated the surrounding village. Batur has scenic views and is part of Kintamani that is in the northern side of Bangli Regency. Penelokan (Look Out Point) is the best ppalce to see the drooping jaws sceneries offered by Mount and Lake Batur. It is about 1,500 meters above sea level. Its temperature is at the average 22 degress Celcius at noo and 16 degress Celcius during the night. And we invite those adventurous to climb the mountain until reaching the peak. The crater seems to be a beautiful painting carved to the mountain. In addition to seeing the mountain, Batur also offers the charming Lake Batur with its clean water and the unique graveyard and Barong Brutuk of Trunyan Village, that cannot be found anywhere else in Bali.
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JAKARTA - Boeing Co said on Tuesday it signed its largest ever commercial airplane order with Indonesia’s Lion Air in a deal worth $22.4 billion.
Boeing said Lion Air, Indonesia’s largest carrier by passenger volume, has ordered 230 airplanes, including 201 737 MAXs and 29 next-generation 737-900 ERs. Lion Air will also acquire purchase rights for an additional 150 airplanes, Boeing said. The announcement was made in a statement at the
Singapore airshow. In November, Lion Air announced the original massive order during U.S. President Barack Obama’s Asia-Pacific tour. Europe’s Airbus had accused the United States of applying political pressure to secure the deal.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is towed to it’s static display berth upon arrival in Singapore, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.
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RI govt preparing three scenarios for fuel price hike Antara
JAKARTA - The government is creating three scenarios to prepare for a hike to prices of subsidized fuel as part of efforts to curb fuel subsidies. Deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Widjajono Partowidagdo said on Monday that the three scenarios include raising the price of subsidized fuel oil for private vehicles by Rp500, Rp1,000 or Rp1,500 per liter. He added that the government is also discussing the possibility of raising the price of subsidized fuel oil for public transport vehicles, including small-scale business vehicles, by providing cash back as compensation. “If the increase is Rp1,000 per liter, the cash back will be as much as that amount,” he said. To give cash back controlling cards would be needed. It is not too difficult to provide the controlling cards, he said. He said though the price hike will not apply to motorcycles under this scenario, the fuel price will be raised. However, the increase will not be as high as that of other vehicles. In addition to these options, he said the government is also studying the possibility of providing fixed subsidies amounting to Rp2,000 per liter. The House of Representatives (DPR) Commission VII earlier asked the government to study the possibility of fuel oil price hikes as one of the options to limit the use of subsidized fuels. The government has appointed a consortium consisting of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), University of Indonesia (UI) and Padjadjaran University (Unpad), along with the Oil and Gas Institute of the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, to conduct the study according to the DPR`s request. The result of the fuel oil study is expected to be ready this week. The government plans to discuss it with the House Commission VII at the end of February.
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Indonesia wants to change drug tests for pilots Associated Press
JAKARTA — Pilots should be tested for drugs a few hours or days before they fly, rather than undergoing the routine testing every six months as they do now, Indonesia’s transportation minister said Monday. Testing them every six months may not be effective because drug users could prepare for the tests, Minister Evert Ernest Mangindaan said. The ministry is revising regulations after the arrests of three pilots and a co-
pilot from budget airliner Lion Air since September for using illicit drugs. The arrests have raised concern over security and safety in aviation, a main mode of travel in this sprawling nation of 17,000 islands. “Airlines should carry out strict urine tests for all their pilots few hours or days before they fly aircraft,” Mangindaan said in Surabaya, where one of the pilots was arrested this month. Lion Air pilot Syaiful Salam was arrested Feb. 4 three hours before he was to fly a plane. Authorities said he had a small
amount of crystal methamphetamine, known locally as “Shabu-shabu.” Another colleague was arrested in South Sulawesi in January, and a pilot and co-pilot were caught with Shabushabu and ecstasy pills last September, two months before the airliner signed the biggest order ever from Boeing — 230 planes with a list price of $21.7 billion. Last week, a co-pilot failed a random drug test at Jakarta’s airport and three others failed to show up for the testing, transportation ministry officials said, without identifying them.
President denies relative benefited from Bank Century bailout
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JAKARTA - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono denied rumors that some of the funds to bail out Bank Century had gone to a member of his family and expressed his commitment to laws to settle any cases linked to the bank. “We have agreed in case of any violation of the law or losses suffered by the state (in connection with the bank bailout) the law must be enforced. We support a judicial settlement,” he said at a meeting with journalists at the state palace here on Monday evening. He said based on reports he had received so far and from the results of an
audit by the State Audit Board (BPK) no laws had been broken in connection with the bailout so far. “What I know is the police have worked, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Attorney General`s Office and the BPK have all worked. I followed it. From reports that I have received no irregularities have been found with regard to capital placement worth Rp6.7 trillion in the former Bank Century that could be categorized as violating the laws. BPK actually also had not revealed any loss suffered by the state in connection with that. I am supporting the legal process to find the truth. The decision is in the hands of the law enforcement agencies, the KPK, and I
am sure it can be settled,” he said. The President said “ a member of First Lady Ani Yudhoyono`s family had been mentioned (in connection with the issue). The answer is that indeed he was a customer of Bank Century far before the crisis happened and far before the bailout was done. According to Anto the last transaction he made with the bank was in January 2007 or two years before the bailout and it had nothing to do with the Rp6.7 trillion capital placement. Once again, tell the truth and facts. I believe in KPK and BPK,” he said. President Yudhoyono`s brother-inlaw, Hertanto Edhie Wibowo, had been rumoured having received funds from the Bank Century Bank bailout.
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Police defend raids on Murdoch’s ‘Sun’ Agence France Presse
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In this image made from Klan Kosova TV video, rescuers carry a 5-year-old girl pulled alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both of her parents and at least seven of her relatives in the remote mountain village of Restelica, southern Kosovo, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012.
9 die in Kosovo avalanche; child pulled out alive Associated Press Writer
RESTELICA, Kosovo — Rescuers have pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo. Col. Shemsi Syla, a spokesman for the Kosovo Security Force, said Sunday officers discovered the girl when they heard her voice and cell phone. Her home was buried under 10 meters (33 feet) of snow. Rescuers cheered and pumped their fists in the air late Saturday as the girl was pulled out alive. A video aired on Klan Kosova TV showed rescuers covering the girl with blankets, before she was rushed to hospital. Osman Qerreti, an emergency official at the site, told The Associated Press that at least nine members of her family died when the avalanche in the village of Restelica near Kosovo’s border with Macedonia and Albania destroyed seven houses, of which only two were inhabited. Amid subfreezing temperatures Sunday, local villagers baring fierce snowstorms used shovels to dig deep into the snow-covered rubble — all that remained of the one-story brick houses. One more person is believed missing. “No bigger tragedy has ever struck this region,” said local district official Behar Ramadani. “Two brothers with their wives and
children have been killed.” The girl, identified as Asmira Reka, was recovering in hospital in the nearby town of Prizren. Doctors said her life was not in danger, but her parents had perished in the avalanche, and she had been buried for more than 10 hours. NATO peacekeepers, deployed in Kosovo to end the armed conflict between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians in 1999, had been called in to help local authorities in the rescue, but they were unable to land their helicopter due to a fierce blizzard. Rescuers initially dug out the bodies of a married couple and their 17-year-old son. Six more bodies were discovered during the excavation. The cold snap in Europe, which began late January, has killed hundreds of people — most of them homeless. Heavy snow has been blanketing the Balkans for more than two weeks, with Restelica and roads in the region blocked for several days. In neighboring Montenegro, where the government introduced a state of emergency because of the deep freeze, special police forces on Sunday managed to reach about
50 train passengers stranded for two days after tracks were blocked by avalanches. Police said a 55-year-old passenger had died from a heart attack Saturday night, while the others were sheltering in a nearby tunnel. The airport in Podgorica remained closed Sunday and the streets were blocked by snow up to 57 centimeters (22 inches) high — the highest since measurements started in the capital in 1949. Authorities have banned driving in the capital, while many parked cars were damaged after snowcovered trees fell on them. Police in Bosnia said the roof of a sports center in downtown Sarajevo used for ice skating events in the 1984 Winter Olympics collapsed Sunday under the weight of snow. No injuries or fatalities have been reported. In Serbia, the snow continued to fall Sunday as some 50,000 people remained stranded in snowbound remote areas, some without electricity. In Albania the government is expected to declare a state of emergency in the north and south of the country, said Prime Minister Sali Berisha.
London police on Monday defended a string of arrests at Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid The Sun, which has accused the force of carrying out a “witch hunt” against its journalists. The arrest of five staff at the weekend for allegedly bribing officials has plunged Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper into crisis, with reports that a related phone hacking scandal is set to spread to the United States. The London Metropolitan Police said the “seriousness of the allegations” meant the resources it is ploughing into its inquiries into bribery, phone hacking and computer hacking by journalists were not “disproportionate to the enormous task in hand.” Sun associate editor Trevor Kavanagh penned a stinging attack in the daily on Monday, accusing British authorities of trying to destroy it and its sister publications The Times and The Sunday Times. “The Sun is not a ‘swamp’ that needs draining. Nor are those other great News International titles, The Times and The Sunday Times,” Kavanagh wrote. “Yet in what would at any other time cause uproar in parliament and among civil liberty and human rights campaigners, its journalists are being treated like members of an organised crime gang.” News International is the British newspaper subsidiary of News Corporation, the US-based media empire of which Murdoch is founder and chairman. Kavanagh wrote that the probe was the reason that Britain now lags in 28th place, behind former communist states Poland, Estonia and Slovakia, in a world press freedom survey by Reporters Without Borders. He later told the BBC there were “elements in some political parties” who wanted The Sun to shut like the News of the World, its Sunday sister paper which Murdoch closed in July amid a scandal over phone hacking.
Roses... From page 1 In addition to the florist, other shops such as the one that sell dolls and chocolate were also packed with customers. It gave extra income for the seller during the special day.
Angry Birds... From page 1 The number of players is likely to soar beyond one billion as Rovio offers a new version of the game with more levels and interactive features to around 845 million Facebook users. The new app allows players to compete with their Facebook friends for high scores, send gifts to friends and achieve more precise and powerful targeting by purchasing new “power-ups”. Rovio does not disclose how many Angry Birds apps have been downloaded in Indonesia. But the country’s love for the game is obvious in the ubiquitous paraphernalia in malls, from Angry Birds mobile phone covers to baby jumpsuits. More than 17 percent of Indonesia’s 240 million people are on Facebook, and Jakarta alone has over 17 million Facebook accounts, according to
Holm. “That is more than four times the accounts in New York and almost twice the amount of the second city on the list,” the Rovio official told AFP. Second to Jakarta is Istanbul with 9.6 million Facebook accounts, and third is Mexico City with 9.3 million, according to social networking trackers Socialbakers.com. Indonesia as a whole has 43.1 million Facebook accounts, making it Facebook’s third-biggest user base after the United States with 155.7 million and India, which just surpasses Indonesia with 43.5 million users. Rovio was a little-known company before its Angry Birds took flight. It had previously launched 50 games with successes including mobile versions of “Burnout” and “Need For Speed”.
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Chinese company to seek ban on iPad import, export US, EU clear Google’s $12.5B Associated Press
BEIJING — A Chinese company said Tuesday it will ask customs officials to ban imports and exports of Apple’s iPads due to a dispute over ownership of the trademark. All of Apple’s iPads are manufactured in China, meaning global sales of the popular tablet computers might be affected if authorities agreed to enforce such a request by Shenzhen Proview Technology. The dispute with Proview, which won a court ruling that it owns the iPad name in China, has resulted in authorities seizing iPads from retailers in one city. Proview said it has asked for enforcement in 30 other cities. “We are now working on a request to China Customs to ban and seize all the import and export of the iPad products that have violated the trademark,” said Xie Xianghui, a Proview lawyer. He gave no indication when the request might be filed. Apple, based in Cupertino, California, defended its ownership of the iPad name. “We bought Proview’s worldwide rights to the iPad trademark in 10 different countries several years ago. Proview refuses to honor their agreement with Apple in China,” said an Apple spokeswoman in Beijing, Carolyn Wu. Wu declined to comment on the possibility of Proview requesting a ban on iPad imports and exports. China is Apple’s fastest-growing market. Its iPads and iPhones are manufactured by a contractor, Taiwan-based Foxconn Technologies Group, at factories in southern China. Shenzhen Proview Technology registered the iPad trademark in China in 2001. Apple bought rights to the name from a Taiwan company affiliated with Proview but the mainland company says it still owns the name in China. A Chinese court rejected Apple’s claim to the name in China last year. Apple has appealed. “Our case is still pending in mainland China,” Wu said. Chinese rules allow trademark owners to request seizure of goods that violate their rights, according to Stan Abrams, an American
lawyer who teaches intellectual property law at Beijing’s Central University of Finance and Economics. The rules were enacted partly in response to foreign pressure for Beijing to stamp out rampant unlicensed copying of foreign movies, music and designer clothes. Abrams said exports can be seized under rules meant to prevent manufacturers in China from sending unlicensed copies to other markets. “All of these things that Proview can do, whether it’s going to court or Customs, these are the things that we want to see,” Abrams said. “So it’s definitely ironic.” Chinese news reports say Proview, which makes computer displays, is deep in debt and needs a big settlement from Apple. Proview has yet to make an offer to settle, said Xie, the company’s lawyer. “We are now focusing our work on upholding rights and haven’t made negotiation proposals to Apple yet,” he said. “As for the reasons, you should ask Apple.” Shenzhen Proview Technology is a subsidiary of LCD screen maker Proview International Holdings Ltd., headquartered in Hong Kong. Apple bought rights to the iPad name in 2009 from a Taiwan affiliate, Proview Taipei, that registered it in various countries as early as 2000. A Chinese court ruled in December that Proview is not bound by that agreement. It rejected Apple’s complaint that Proview was violating its rights. Apple might be able to sue the Taiwan company on contract grounds for selling name rights it didn’t own, Abrams said. But he said a victory in such a suit would not give Apple rights to the name on the mainland. “This kind of thing happens, but it’s a mistake and it’s a really bad one in this case,” Abrams said. “They’re paying for it now.”
Motorola Mobility bid Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s $12.5 billion bid to buy cellphone maker Motorola Mobility has won approvals from U.S. and European antitrust regulators, moving Google a major step closer to completing the biggest deal in its 13-year history. Monday’s blessings mean Google Inc. just needs to clear regulatory hurdles in China, Taiwan and Israel before it can take control of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and expand into manufacturing phones, tablet computers and other consumer devices for the first time. Getting government approval in China looms as the biggest stumbling block remaining. Google’s relationship with China’s ruling party has been on shaky ground since the company blamed hackers in that country for breaking into its computers two years ago. The breach prompted Google to move its Internet search engine from mainland China in protest of laws requiring some results to be censored. Google prizes Motorola Mobility’s more than 17,000 patents — a crucial weapon in an intellectual arms race with Apple, Microsoft and other rivals maneuvering to gain more control over smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Google announced the deal six months ago. The deal will “enhance competition and offer consumers faster innovation, greater choice and wonderful user experiences,” Don Harrison, Google’s deputy general counsel wrote in a blog post. Besides signing off on the Motorola Mobility deal, the Justice Department also approved two other moves in the mobile patent battles. The approvals cover the $4.5 billion purchase of Nortel Networks patents by a group including Apple, Microsoft and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. and a separate Apple acquisition of Novell Inc. patents. Nevertheless, the Justice Department didn’t find any evidence that Google’s ownership of Motorola Mobility would lessen com-
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In this Jan. 17, 2012 file photo, attendees at the National Retail Federation listen to a discussion about Google Wallet, in New York.The EU’s antitrust watchdog has approved Google’s $12.5 billion takeover of cell phone maker Motorola. petition in a mobile device market that is becoming increasingly important as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablet computers instead of desktop and laptop computers. Other key concerns centered on Google’s Android operating system, free software that now powers more than 250 million mobile devices made by a variety of manufacturers, including Motorola Mobility. Competition could be hurt if Google gives Motorola Mobility the most advanced versions of Android or withholds the mobile software from other cellphone makers. Google, though, has pledged to make Android available to all its mobile partners. Even if Google were to discriminate, cellphone makers still could rely on mobile software from Microsoft Corp., Research in Motion and Hewlett-Packard Co., among others. The European regulators see no danger that Google will prevent other device makers from using its popular Android operating system after the takeover. “Android helps to drive the spread of Google’s other services,” the Commission said. “Given that Google’s core business model is to push its online and mobile services and software to the widest possible audience, it is unlikely that Google would restrict the use of Android solely to Motorola,” which only has a small market share
in Europe. The government reviews in U.S. and Europe have come as regulators also have been conducting a broader inquiry into whether Google has been abusing its dominance in Internet search to hobble its rivals. Those investigations are still ongoing. Motorola Mobility’s expertise in mobile devices and set-top boxes for cable TV will allow Google to play an even more influential role in shaping the future of hand-held computing and home entertainment. Even as it navigates the regulatory gauntlet, Google has begun testing a device for connecting electronic components within homes, according to a filing with the Federal Communications Commission. Absorbing Motorola Mobility also threatens to crimp Google’s earnings growth and drag down its stock price. That’s because Motorola Mobility has been struggling on its own as Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones made by rivals such as Samsung Electronics undercut sales of its products. Google is making a huge bet that Motorola Mobility can do better. The $12.5 billion price is more than the combined amount that Google has paid for the 185 other acquisitions that it has completed since going public in 2004.
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Authorities: Houston was underwater in tub Associated Press Writer
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The 48-year-old singer, who had prescription drugs in her room, left behind disconsolate family and friends and unfulfilled dreams. Her body was flown Monday by private jet to New Jersey, where she was born and where her funeral is being planned. Late Monday, a hearse under heavy police escort arrived at the Newark, N.J., funeral home that officials said was handling the arrangements for the late pop star. After an autopsy Sunday, authorities said there were no indications of foul play and no obvious signs of trauma on Houston. It could be weeks, however, before the coroner’s office completes toxicology tests to establish the cause of death. The singer had struggled for years with cocaine, marijuana and pills and her behavior had become erratic, including in the period before her death. Some described her as upbeat and eager to perform at producer Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy Awards bash. Others
described an unfocused woman, unkempt and smelling of alcohol and cigarettes. It recalled the end of Michael Jackson’s life, as he tried to turn his career around with an ambitious series of London concerts. The 50-year-old struck many as youthfully energetic and upbeat, while others said he was bedeviled by insomnia that led him to a fatal dosage of prescription drugs in June 2009. Jackson’s death was quickly linked to the anesthetic propofol, although the criminal prosecution of his doctor was played out through 2011. It took three months for a London coroner to rule that Amy Winehouse drank herself to death last July. Like Jackson, Houston may also get a grand goodbye. Houston’s family raised the possibility of holding a wake Thursday and a funeral Friday at Newark’s Prudential Center, which hosts AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes college and professional sporting events and Whitney Houston fans, Lawanda Howkins, left, and Melanie Braggs honor her memory at seats about 18,000 people. a candlelight vigil in Leimert Park in Los Angeles on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012.
In this image released by Disney, the character Arrietty, voiced by Bridgit Mender, is shown in a scene from the animated feature, “The Secret World of Arrietty.”
Review: ‘Borrowers’ tale ‘Arrietty’ has warm charm AP Photo/Disney
Considering the eccentric, almost psychedelic fantasy worlds created in Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s tales, a story of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of a house seems almost normal. “The Secret World of Arrietty,” from Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, also is a pleasant antidote to the siege mentality of so many Hollywood cartoons, whose makers aim to occupy every instant of the audience’s attention with an assault of noise and images. Slow, stately, gentle and meditative, “Arrietty” nevertheless is a marvel of image and color, its old-fashioned pen-and-ink frames vividly bringing to life the world of children’s author Mary Norton’s
“The Borrowers.” Already a hit in Japan, “Arrietty” has undergone the typically classy English-language transformation that Disney renders to Studio Ghibli’s films, among them Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning “Spirited Away.” What U.S. audiences get is a hybrid — the grandly fluid picturebook imagery of first-time feature director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, a veteran Studio Ghibli animator, merged with an English-language rendering of Miyazaki’s screenplay, Oscar-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom directing a Hollywood voice cast that includes Carol Burnett, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett. Previously adapted in the 1997 live-action slapstick comedy “The Borrowers,” Norton’s
stories follow the adventures of a family of teeny people who live off things scavenged from nature or from the oversized human world that’s unaware of the existence of this miniature race. Spirited 14-year-old Arrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler, star of Disney Channel’s “Good Luck Charlie”) lives with her mom and dad (real-life couple Poehler and Arnett) and is about to join in on her first borrowing expedition to fetch back supplies from the “human beans” living upstairs. Yet Arrietty violates the rules — she’s seen by Shawn (David Henrie of Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place”), a sickly youth who has come to stay in the country with his aunt.
‘The Artist’ dog honored at Golden Collar Awards Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — Even dog actors can get awards in Tinseltown, and six pooches collected prizes at the inaugural Golden Collar Awards. The ceremony Monday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel proceeded like a traditional Hollywood-style awards show, with actors including “NCIS” star Pauley Perrette and “Hot in Cleveland” star Wendie Malick presenting trophies for the best dog performances on the big and small screens. Uggie, the four-legged star of “The Artist,” was named top dog in a movie. His owner-trainer, Omar Von Muller, was on hand to accept the award. Von Muller said the Jack Russell terrier, who stole hearts in the silent film that’s up for 10 Academy Awards, is a “great performer, but he’s also a great family member.” “He sleeps with us,” Von Muller said. The Golden Collar Awards, dreamed up by Alan Siskind of the website dognewsdaily. com, drew other stars of “The Artist,” including James Cromwell and Missi Pyle, as well as studio representatives and media outlets from around the world. “I’m delighted to be here beAP Photo/Matt Sayles cause I owe my career to Uggie, from the film “The Artist”, arrives at the first a pig,” said Cromwell, annual Golden Collar Awards in Los Angeles, Monwho played the farmer in day, Feb. 13, 2012. The Golden Collar awards recognize the work of dogs in film and television. “Babe.”
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100 Sunset Boutique Hotel and Aston Kuta Hotel and Residence Receive Tripadvisor Choice Awards
LOS ANGELES — Whitney Houston’s life was a doleful cover of other addiction-riddled pop stars who put their talent and themselves at risk. Her death has created more heartrending echoes of tragedies past: The painstaking investigation that follows the shocking loss. Why was Houston found underwater in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub, beyond resuscitation?
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JAKARTA - Aston International announced that two of the of the groups 10 hotels in Bali, the Aston Kuta Hotel & Residence and the 100 Sunset Boutique Hotel , have received Tripadvisor Travelers Choice Awards for being one of “The Trendiest Hotels in Indonesia ”. TripAdvisor.com is a travel website that assists customers in gathering travel information, posting reviews and opinions of travelrelated content and engaging in interactive travel forums. Being a user generated content website, Tripadvisor relays on candid reviews of millions of travelers and is widely regarded as one of the most reliable and independent research tool for travelers seeking non bias reviews and information on hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions. Aston Kuta Hotel & Residence is a contemporary 4 star hotel located just a short stroll from Tuban beach offering 215 guest rooms and ser-
viced apartments, an eclectic café and an open air roof top lounge, 6 ultra modern meeting rooms and a full service Spa with gymnasium. 100 Sunset Boutique Hotels is an Aston managed 45 guest room and suites boutique hotel located on Sunset Road which connects Seminyak with Nusa Dua and offers easy access to Kuta and Sanur. The hotel has through the past year been frequently ranked amongst Tripadvisors top rated Kuta hotels and is in the midst of building upon its popularity through the impending opening of a second 100 Sunset Hotel due to open in April this year. Aston International’s Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr. Norbert Vas, said “Aston hotels are no strangers to accolades and awards but this one is truly special as it is probably one of the most democratic awards a hotel can get. Having been labeled as “trendy”, not by your own marketing machine but by thousands of independent travelers, truly speaks volumes about these two hotels.”
Temple Ceremony Calendar Event for February 1 through 15, 2012 1 Feb Buda Keliwon Dunggulan. Pura Wakika Kupang, NTT Pura Agung Girinatha Sumbawa Besar NTB Pura Dukuh Sakti Dukuh Kediri-Tabanan Pura Atambuananta Kutamba NTT Pura Webananta Kupang, NTT Pura Giripati Mulawarman Pontianak. Pura Mustika Dharma Cijantung I Jakarta Timur 2 Feb Wraspati Umanis Dunggulan Pura Watukaru Tabanan Pura Lempuyang Luhur Karangasem Pura Kentel Gumi Klungkung Pasek Gaduh Umadesa Kediri Tabanan Pura Pasek Kubayan Wangaya Gede Penebel Tabanan Merajan Pasek Tohjiwa Tiyingan Merajan Pasek Gaduh Umadesa 3 Feb Sukra Paing Dunggulan Pura Ulun Suwi Jimbaran Pura Luhur Cemenggon, Sukawati. Pura Pasek Ubung Denpasar 4 Feb Saniscara Pon Dunggulan Pura Segara Jembrana Pura Dalem Gede Losan Klungkung 5 Feb Redite Wage Kuningan Pura Dalem Tegal Tamu Sekarmukti-Balubulan. Pura Kubayan Umagunung Sempidi-Badung 6 Feb Soma Keliwon Kuningan Pura Dasar Gelgel-Klungkung Pura Pasek Tohjiwa Sawah/Selemadeg-Tabanan Pura Pemerajan Agung Benawah Kangin Gianyar Pura Panti Pasek Gelgel Pelapuhan-Busungbiu Buleleng Pura Kahyangan Tulus Desa Apuan. 7 Feb Purnama Kawulu Pura dalem Batur - Bangli Pura Pasek/Ida Ratu Pasek Besakih Ngusaba Ngeed Banua Kawan - Besakih
Pura Dalem Suci Sidemen - Karangasem 11 Feb Saniscara Keliwon Kuningan. Pura Taman Pule Mas-Ubud Pura Ularan Takmung-Klungkung. Pura Bukitjati Gulingan-Kawan Bangli Pura Dalem Tegehe Tegehe Pura Dalem Tahak Tahak Pura Dalem Batuaji. Batuaji Pura Dalem Tegaljaya Batubulan Pura Jenengan Maspahit Cemenggaon-Sukawati Pura Dalem Guwang-Sukawati Pura Sadha Kapal Pura Sakenan Serangan Pura Pekendungan Keiri-Tabanan Pura Pasek Gaduh Grokgak Gede Tabanan Pura Dalem Sanding Tampaksiring Pura Dalem Purnajati Tanjung Puri Tanjung Periuk Jakarta Pura Dalem Tenggaling Guliang-Bangli Mr. Dukuh Tetek Peguyangan-Denpasar Pura Agung Blambangan Banyuwangi Pura Dalem Agung Sri Nararya Kresna Kepakisan Gelgel -Klungkung Pura Panti Paksebali Klungkung (Perang Jempana) Pura Penataran Agung Margowening Desa Balonggarut, Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur 12 Feb Redite Umanis Langkir Pr. Sakenan Serangan Denpasar Selatan Pr. Batuaji Ubung Ubung-Tengah Denpasar Barat Pura Dalem Pahuman Bhujangga Penatih Denpasa Mr. Pasek Gianyar Kerobokan Pr. Alas Harum Batur Kintamani, Pr. Alas Angker Kintamani Kawitan Dalem Empuaji Aan-Klungkung. 15 Feb Buda Wage Langkir Pura Tanah Lot Kediri Tabanan Pura Bucabe Mas Ubud Pura Puseh Desa Ganggang-Canggi Batuan Pura Pasek Pertukangan Kediri-Tabanan Pura Pasek Bendesa Gulingan Mengwi
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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LONDON - Dozens of protesters against economic inequality were effectively told they could remain camped outside London’s landmark St Paul’s Cathedral for another nine days while a judge decides whether to listen to their appeal against eviction. London Occupy, part of an international movement, has been camping outside the landmark cathedral for four months, drawing attention to their argument against corporate greed and bankers’ bonuses. It has been locked in a legal battle with the City of London Corporation, which controls much of the land, and which wants the camp removed on grounds of safety and hygiene and to allow better access to the cathedral for worshippers. It won a case in the High Court last month for the tents to be taken away, but the protesters went to the Court of Appeal on Monday
arguing their case had “unique and global” significance and claiming the judge had failed to consider alternative arrangements. Master of the Rolls, David Neuberger, one of the most senior judges in England and Wales, sitting in a packed court, said he would decide on February 22 whether there were grounds for an appeal. “At the very least, today has assured an extra nine days in the camp,” one of the applicants, George Barda, told Reuters. “So fingers crossed that they will actually allow us to bring this to appeal. “It seems today that they were genuinely interested in engaging with the actual substance of this movement which the previous court singularly failed to do.” The area around St Paul’s Cathedral is popular with tourists, and the vast domed baroque cathedral is one of central London’s main landmarks and is where Prince Charles married Princess Diana in 1981.
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (pictured in 2011) was in damage control on Tuesday, insisting she did not ask staff to prepare a victory speech two weeks before she ousted then leader Kevin Rudd in a party room coup. “I did not direct staff in my office to prepare a speech for me as prime minister. I wouldn’t have seen the need for it,” Gillard told ABC radio
Australian PM in damage control Agence France Presse
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was in damage control on Tuesday, insisting she did not ask staff to prepare a victory speech two weeks before she ousted then leader Kevin Rudd in a party room coup.
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A man talks on the phone as he walks past tents in the Occupy London encampment outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, February 13, 2012.
As a new opinion poll showed Gillard’s dismal popularity dipping further, the prime minister was forced onto the back foot over claims her office had worked on an acceptance speech a fortnight before Rudd’s brutal removal. “I did not direct staff in my office to prepare a speech for me as prime minister. I wouldn’t have seen the need for it,” Gillard told ABC radio.
“I decided to challenge Kevin Rudd and to ask him for a ballot in the Labor Party on the day I asked him for that ballot.” Gillard came to power in June 2010 after suddenly ousting Rudd, who had lost the support of the party’s powerful factional chiefs and was increasingly unpopular within the caucus. But the overnight leadership
change shocked the electorate and Gillard failed to win a clear majority when she called an election several weeks later, meaning she now leads a fragile coalition government supported by independents. Both Gillard and Rudd, now foreign minister, have refused to discuss what happened in the lead-up to the leadership change, prompting endless speculation about the possible trigger point. Gillard Tuesday described the days before her challenge as tense, and said she could not say exactly when she learned that her staff were working on an acceptance speech.
Greece surveys riot damage after austerity vote
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ATHENS, Greece — Firefighters doused smoldering buildings and cleanup crews swept rubble from the streets of central Athens on Monday following a night of rioting during which lawmakers approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the nation from bankruptcy. Police said rioters destroyed or damaged more than 110 buildings, of which 50 were burned. They included nine listed as national heritage buildings, mostly in the neoclassical style, while 30 stores were looted. Smoke still rose from the remains of a landmark 1870 building which had housed one of the capital’s most loved cinemas, the Attikon, since 1916.
About 100 people held a candle-light protest outside the gutted structure late Monday. “Criminals targeted all that was best in the city of Athens, its neoclassical monuments,” said Thanassis Davakis, cultural policy chief of the conservative New Democracy party, a coalition government partner. “The damage must be swiftly redressed and the city’s memory restored.” The stench of tear gas still hung in the air on Monday, choking passers-by, while traffic lights at many major intersections were out after being smashed. The Athens municipality said cleanup crews had gathered an estimated 40 tons of broken marble and rocks from the streets of the center, while railings, drainage covers and paving
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stones from sidewalks also suffered extensive damage. More than 170 people were hurt in the rioting which also broke out in other Greek cities. Authorities said 109 police needed medical care after being injured by gasoline bombs, rocks and other objects hurled at them, while at least 70 protesters were hospitalized. Police arrested 79 people — including a 14-year-old — and detained a further 92, while in several cases they had to escort fire crews to burning buildings after hooded and masked protesters prevented access, injuring four firefighters. Police also said they were investigating a complaint from a businessman that rioters demanded money to leave his establishment intact.
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People watch as a whale shark swims in an aquarium tank in the Chinese city of Yantai. Sharks killed twice as many swimmers and surfers last year than in 2010, with the increase due largely to a growth in tourism and changing shark patterns due to global warming, a study says.
Humans blamed as shark attacks ‘double’ Agence France Presse
Sharks killed twice as many swimmers and surfers last year than in 2010, with the increase due largely to a growth in tourism and changing shark patterns due to global warming. There were 12 deaths in 46 shark attacks in 2011, a mortality rate of more than 25 percent compared to an average of under seven percent in the last 10 years, according to statistics from the University of Florida. Countries that recorded shark attack deaths included Australia with three fatal out of a total of 11 attacks; South Africa, two fatal out of five; the French island of Reunion, two deaths in four attacks; and Seychelles with two attacks both of which ended in death. Other countries with non-fatal shark attacks included Indonesia (3), Mexico (3),
Russia (3) and Brazil (2). Three locations not normally associated with high numbers of shark attacks -- Reunion, Seychelles and New Caledonia -- registered a total of seven attacks with five fatal outcomes, according to Burgess. “Those areas were not traditional area for tourism in recent years,” the scientist explained. “Over the last decade, more and
more tourists have been going there... So we are getting more people coming to places where there are sharks, and the local communities are not prepared for the number of people going into the water at this time.” He added that medical facilities in these areas may not be developed enough to provide treatment in emergencies of this type. In addition to the influx of tourists, the effects of global warming has meant sharks migrating to regions where they were not normally seen. Last August, authorities even in the far east Russian reported three non-fatal shark attacks in the Primorye region -- not a normal location for the predator.
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A firefighter extinguishes one of the capital’s oldest restored cinemas in central Athens on Monday Feb. 13, 2012.
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In this image released by NASA in 2011, a portion of the west rim of Endeavour crater sweeps southward in this color view from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Aspirin could beat cancer spread: Australian study Agence France Presse
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The United States will scale back Mars exploration under a proposed budget by President Barack Obama released Monday that has some scientists fuming over the risk of a NASA brain-drain. The plan kills a deal between the US and European space agencies to cooperate on Mars robotic rover missions in 2016 and 2018, with a view to preparing to return samples from the red planet in the next decade. NASA administrator Charles Bolden admitted that “tough choices” had to be made in axing the European deal, but vowed to restructure the Mars program so that future robotics mission could potentially be revisited in 2018-2020. “This means we will not be moving forward with the planned 2016 and 2018 ExoMars mission that we have been exploring with the European Space Agency,” Bolden said. The fiscal 2013 budget, which is unlikely to face a vote in Congress while Obama seeks re-election, called for a $226 million reduction, or a near 39 percent cut in the US space agency’s Mars exploration program from $587 million to $361 million. Meanwhile, it funds other big projects such as the James Webb Space Telescope and a new heavy-lift rocket to propel an eventual deep space mission to an asteroid, and provides seed money for private companies seeking to replace the space shuttle which was retired last year. The overall proposal is to give NASA $17.7 billion, a decrease of 0.3 percent or $59 million less than 2012. “It is a real scientific tragedy and I personally believe it is a national embarrassment,” G. Scott Hubbard, a Stanford University professor who served as the first NASA Mars program director, told AFP.
Aspirin and other household drugs may inhibit the spread of cancer because they help shut down the chemical “highways” which feed tumours, Australian researchers announced on Tuesday
Aspirin and other household drugs may inhibit the spread of cancer because they help shut down the chemical “highways” which feed tumours, Australian researchers announced on Tuesday. Scientists at Melbourne’s Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre said they have made a biological breakthrough helping explain how lymphatic vessels -key to the transmission of tumours throughout the body -- respond to cancer. “We’ve shown that molecules like the aspirin... could effectively
work by reducing the dilation of these major vessels and thereby reducing the capacity of tumours to spread to distant sites,” researcher Steven Stacker said. Doctors have long suspected that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin may help inhibit the spread of cancer but they have been unable to pinpoint exactly how this is done. By studying cells in lymphatic vessels, the researchers found that a particular gene changed its expression in cancers which spread, but not when the cancer did not spread.
The results published in Cancer Cell journal reveal that the gene is a link between a tumour’s growth and the cellular pathway which can cause inflammation and dilation of vessels throughout the body. Once these lymphatic vessels widen, the capacity for them to act as “supply lines” to tumours and become more effective conduits for the cancer to spread is increased. But aspirin acts to shut down the dilation of the vessels. “So it seems like we have found a pivotal junction point in a biochemical sense between all these different contributors,” Stacker said.
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AC Milan forward Stephan El Shaarawy, right, celebrates with teammate Maxi Lopez of Argentina who scored the winning goal during the Serie A soccer match between Udinese and AC Milan, at the Friuli Stadium in Udine, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. AC Milan won 2-1.
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Milan aiming to end hoodoo against English clubs
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MILAN - AC Milan will be aiming to beat an English side for the first time since they edged Liverpool in the 2007 Champions League final when they host unpredictable Arsenal in the competition’s Round of 16 first leg on Wednesday. Milan, who lifted the European Cup for the seventh time by defeating Liverpool 2-1 in Athens nearly five years ago, have since been eliminated from the Champions League by Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur and could only draw with Portsmouth in the group stage of the Europa League in 2009. They now face Arsene Wenger’s erratic team again, the Londoners having knocked Milan out in the last 16 in 2008. Serie A leaders Milan welcome striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic back from a domestic ban to boost their chances after they ended a bad patch with Saturday’s late 2-1 win at Italian title rivals Udinese where young forward Stephan El Shaarawy and new signing Maxi Lopez combined for the goals. Half Italian-half Egyptian teenager El Shaarawy will probably have to miss out to accommodate Ibrahimovic despite his good form with the Swede likely to partner Robinho up front. Coach Massimiliano Allegri has several injury problems but the treatment room is beginning to clear out with goalkeeper Christian Abbiati and centre half Alessandro Nesta hoping to be back to face Arsenal, who have won on both of their previous Champions League visits against
Milan at the San Siro. Gennaro Gattuso and Alberto Aquilani are still injured but there is a slight chance Alexandre Pato and Kevin-Prince Boateng could make surprise returns. Defending champions Milan top Serie A by two points but Juventus in second have two games in hand. “It meant a lot to win at Udine, we’d just come off three defeats in five games,” coach Allegri told reporters. “That win has given us balance and serenity. This is the sprit of the guys, we have to move forward like this.” Milan, who qualified along with holders Barcelona from the group stage, have struggled in the competition since their last triumph in 2007. Milan have also not won any of their last seven matches against English clubs and have failed to score in five of those games. WARY WENGER
The key to Wednesday’s game is what tactics Wenger employs and whether he plays safe for a draw or attempts to go for a third straight win against Milan in their own backyard. Wenger could be wary of Milan’s attacking prowess and play it cautiously but their Welsh midfielder Aaron Ramsey believes away goals could prove critical in this tie.
He told Arsenal TV Online: “If we can go there and get a few goals and then come back to the Emirates then that’s going to be a fantastic result for us. “Hopefully, we can get a couple of goals and keep them out as well.” Arsenal’s fortunes have revived since French striker Thierry Henry rejoined the club on loan from New York Red Bulls, and if he does play any part on Wednesday, it is likely to be his final appeareance in an Arsenal shirt. He is due to return to New York on Thursday after scoring three goals in six appearances to take his all-time record for Arsenal to 229 goals. He scored twice at the San Siro against Inter Milan when Arsenal won 5-1 there in the Champions League in 2003 but said he had not thought about signing off with another goal on Wednesday. “I’ve not thought it,” he said. “I just want to help Arsenal on the night. I am an Arsenal player for one more game. “Milan is Milan. It is another type of game and it is never easy to win away in the Champions League.” Arsenal will be without centreback Per Mertesacker for the game after the German pulled up with an ankle injury in Saturday’s comeback 2-1 win at Sunderland with lifted Arsenal into fourth place in the table.
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Mancini treated me ‘like a dog’ - Tevez Agence France Presse
Carlos Tevez headed back to England accusing Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini of treating him “like a dog” in the incident that led to his exile from the Premier League leaders. The Argentina striker said Monday that an angry Mancini swore at him during the Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich in September, where the forward’s refusal to warm-up incensed his Italian boss. Tevez hasn’t played for City since that September 27 match in Germany but is due to return to Eastlands on Tuesday in a bid to revive a career that has effectively been suspended for more than three months. Mancini has indicated his willingness to make peace with Tevez if the player apologises to him. And Tevez, during a Fox Sports interview broadcast in translation on Britain’s Sky Sports News on Mond a y, said: “I do not think I was wrong,
but if they (the club) think so I apologise. “I am ready to return, to win and do the best for the club’s shirt,” he added. “Hopefully I can help City to be champions again.” But given his description of events in Munich, it may take more than Tevez saying ‘sorry’ to repair his relationship with Mancini. “I was kind of in a bad mood and when he brings on (Nigel) de Jong and takes off (Edin) Dzeko and we’re losing 2-0 I thought it was a defensive substitution so I decided to sit back on the bench,” Te v e z r e called. “I had already warmed up for 10 minutes and he has this attitude that he wants to lose 2-0 instead of 4-0.
Sociedad spoil Michel’s debut at helm of Sevilla
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MADRID - Real Sociedad’s Carlos Vela and Ruben Pardo scored to spoil Michel’s debut as the new Sevilla coach in a 2-0 La Liga victory on Monday. Former Real Madrid and Spain player Michel replaced Marcelino as Sevilla boss last week, but failed to make an immediate impact and the sliding Andalucians have now taken only two points from their last eight matches. Mexico striker Vela, on loan from Arsenal, volleyed the opener in the 65th minute
at Anoeta and three minutes later Pardo struck a blistering drive past Andres Palop. Sevilla dropped down to 13th with 26 points from 22 matches, one behind Sociedad in 11th, and only three points above the relegation places. Real Madrid top the standings with 58 points after a 4-2 comeback win at home to Levante on Sunday, when Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick. Jose Mourinho’s men opened up a 10-point lead over faltering champions Barcelona in second, who slumped to a 3-2 defeat at Osasuna on Saturday.
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Continues, policing against advertisement in Denpasar
Denpasar (Bali Post)—
The measure of the advertisement policing team under the Denpasar Sanitation and Landscaping Agency (DKP) continued. After previously targeting the Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai on Monday (Feb 13), the policing was then resumed to Jalan Teuku Umar. The advertisement policed last Monday consisted of billboard and banners. Division Head of Landscaping Services of DKP Denpasar, I.B. Eka Jayana leading the policing revealed the advertisement disciplined because period of their installation permit had been overdue. Additionally, the billboard owners did not renew their permit. Eka Jayana accompanied by the Head of Advertising Section, AA Raka Wedana, said the policing did not only target the Jalan Teuku Umar, but also some road section downtown Denpasar. Some of them were Jalan Gatot Subroto Barat, Jalan Buluh Indah, Jalan Teuku Umar Barat and Jalan Teuku Umar. “We police the advertisement at about 15 points,” said Eka Jayana. From those locations, about dozens of billboards of various sizes were dismantled. The billboards were dismantled because their permit was not renewed. In addition, the policing was also undertaken related to the arrange-
ment of the city’s appearance. However, not all the violating billboards could be dismantled in the policing held last Monday. For instance, a billboard stage of cellular phone product could not be cut. Other than requiring sophisticated equipment, the billboard stage was still energized by electrical power. “Indeed, the permit of such billboard has been overdue but we delay the cutting due to our limited equipment. To cut it, we need special personnel,” said one of the team members. The policing was also overseen by the lineup of Commission C of the Denpasar House. Chairman of the Commission C, Kadek Agus Arya Wibawa, said his party highly appreciated the advertisement policing carried out by the DKP Denpasar. Accompanied by the members such as AA Ngurah Susruta Putra, Putu Oka Mahendra, Nyoman Darsa and H. Mudjiono, Agus Arya Wibawa said that his party did not dispute the policing if it would had an impact on the revenue of the advertising tax. Susruta Ngurah Putra and Oka Mahendra added that to arrange the city’s appearance his party agreed if the enforcement continued to be undertaken. Surely, it should be performed while finding out the best solution, including the possibility of using the technology-based billboard or installation of LED. (kmb12)
Dozens of beggars besiege Ubud tourist resort Gianyar (Bali Post)—
Ubud tourist resort has been famous around the globe. However, the resort is not free from the onslaught of beggars. Dozens of beggars besieged the tourist resort of Ubud. In response to this, the officers of the Gianyar Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) could capture 13 beggars on Monday (Feb 13). Around 09:00 a.m. local time, the agency conducted a search to find out beggars operating around the Ubud area. Among those dozens of beggars, they were mostly the residents of Munti Gunung village, Karangasem Regency. So far, they roamed around freely in the area. Action of those beggars violated the Regional Regulation No. 12/1992 on Sanitation and Public Order. Section Head of the Operations, Gede Daging, with
permission of the Head of Satpol PP Gianyar, Wayan Kujus Parwita, said the dozens of ensnared beggars in the raid were encountered in front of the Ubud Post Office, Gianyar Regency. As an international tourism resort, Ubud area required an extra attention from all the relevant agencies. So, the operation was expected to create a sense of comfort and safety for all people in the area concerned. Later on, all the beggars were taken to the office of Satpol PP Gianyar to be given a coaching prior to be submitted to the Office of Social Services of Gianyar Regency. In that office, they would get further handling, he explained. Among the beggars ensnared in the raid performed by the Satpol PP Gianyar, most of them were children. At least, eight of thirteen beggars arrested were children. (kmb16)
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Taman Ayun, one of the tourism attraction in Badung Regency
Travel agencies ask to negotiate admission fee to tourist attraction in Badung Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Travel agencies coalescing into the Tourism Industry Association of Indonesia (GIPI) of Bali Chapter objected to the increase of admission fee to a number of tourist attractions in Badung Region as it was considered burdensome. They hoped the Badung Government wanted to negotiate in order to find the win-win solution. Regional Coordinator of ASITA for Bali, NTB and NTT Region, Bagus Sudibya, when met in Denpasar on Monday (Feb 13) said that such an increase resulted in a loss to domestic and foreign travel agencies worth IDR 225 billion per year. “The loss should be borne by all the travel agencies operating in Bali. It happened because the admission fee offered to tour operators worked with by local travel agencies was based on the rates before the increase,” he said. According to him, it was based on the assumption of the average rate increase of tourist attraction valued at IDR 10,000. When visiting five attractions, every tourist should pay IDR 50,000. Virtually 70 percent of tourists coming to Bali used a travel agency. The
assumption number of tourist visit used in this calculation was two million foreign tourists per year. “While the number of domestic tourists reaches 2.5 million people, so the overall travelers coming to Bali is 4.5 million people. Ultimately, it is obtained the loss estimation of IDR 225 billion each year to be borne by travel agencies,” he said. Sudibya said the rate increase would not only cause a great loss or additional costs, but also affected the image of tourism. The overseas tour operators assessed it occurred due to chaotic management of the tourism sector on the island. “Though it has been enacted in the Regional Regulation (Perda), we do expect the Badung Government could hold a meeting to
discuss the very detrimental rate increase to the tourism perpetrators,” he said. Previously, Chairman of GIPI Bali, Ngurah Wijaya, said that the request for re-discussing the rates was submitted because so far the local government never involved the perpetrators of Bali tourism. The increase in admission fee seemed to have been enacted in a hurry and ignored the tourism industry perpetrators. N gurah Wijaya urged the Badung Government to perform socialization first before imposing the rate increase so that all the parties could find win-win solutions. Aside from socialization, his party also requested the rate increase should be poised by the improvement of service and supporting facilities. (kmb27)
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Oxygen tube leaks, visitors of Sanglah Hospital panic
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An excitement occurred in Emergency Room of Sanglah Hospital on Monday (Feb 13) at around 12:00 a.m. local time where one of the oxygen tubes delivered to Sanglah Hospital leaked, causing white smoke. As assuming the oxygen tube was an LPG cylinder as having an equal shape, some visitors of patients near the scene ran away because they thought the tube would explode. After leaking for long enough, the situation was under control because it contained oxygen. Although leaking, but according to the officers, it would not cause an explosion. When asked about the cause of leaking oxygen tube, the driver delivering the tube to Sanglah Hospital named Sujana said it was probably caused by hot weather so the oxygen stored in the tube expanded and pushed out. As a result, the rubber stopper came off
and the leakage occurred. “Before going to Sanglah Hospital, we have delivered two oxygen tubes to Jalan Imam Bonjol. On the way to Sanglah Hospital, we were long trapped in congestion on Jalan Imam Bonjol and the oxygen tubes were long exposed to sunlight,”
explained Sujana. He had attempted to prevent the leakage by exchanging the tubes on the upper pile to the bottom. However, it did not work and finally one of the tubes exposed to the heat of sunlight leaked and gave off oxygen stored inside. (kmb24)
In 2011, traffic accident compensation reaches over IDR 30 billion Denpasar (Bali Post)—
Traffic accident victims getting compensation from the Jasa Raharja insurance progressively increased every year. In 2011, the total compensation disbursed to the accident victims, either died, had permanent disability or got injury, amounted to IDR 30,116,376,666. The number increased about IDR 3 billion over the previous year in 2010 reaching IDR 27,753,481,565. Of the total compensation disbursed, most accidents or 87 percent involved motorcycles. Despite an increase in the amount of compensation, the Branch Manager of Jasa Raharja Bali, Wahyu Purwanto when met on Monday (Feb 13) admitted there were still traffic accident victims, particularly the injured ones, who were not covered by the compensation of Jasa Raharja. “In 2012, we will more focus on covering the victims of accidents, especially the wounded, to get compensation,” he said. The injured traffic accident victims that were not covered by the compensation amounted to about 37 percent. This number decreased from the previous figure reaching 44 percent. Some constraints could cause the victims to have not been covered by the compensation. For instance, the victims had owned a health insurance, the cases of acci-
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An accident happen on the Denpasar - Gilimanuk Road dent was not reported or the accident victims did not claim their compensation to Jasa Raharja because they thought it difficult to do so. To clarify the wrong presumption regarding the difficulty to claim the Jasa Raharja compensation, added Wahyu, his party would consistently improve the effectiveness of the service “Now, the claim process of the death compensation can be accomplished within five days. Hopefully, it could be made shorter in the near future,” he said. To get information about traffic accident, especially related to injured victims, his party made cooperation with three hospitals in Denpasar, one hospital in Tabanan and one hospital in Gianyar. “Similar cooperation has also been devel-
oped with hospitals in Singaraja, Karangasem and Jembrana,” he explained. With such partnership, the victims were unnecessary to submit the compensation to Jasa Raharja. However, it would be directly administered by the hospital officers. Through this partnership, he expected to cover more victims, chiefly the injured victims. The amount of compensation remained the same as per the last revision in 2008. Compensation for the dead victim was IDR 25 million, permanent disability maximally got IDR 15 million and injured victim maximally got IDR 10 million. Compensation to the dead victim would be given as much as IDR 25 million. (san)
Conflict of fission House of customary village chief destroyed Tabanan (Bali Post)—
Unrest action continued to spread in the region of Tabanan. The house of customary village chief of Bedha, Pangkungkarung village, Kerambitan, Nyoman Surata, was damaged after being stoned by a mass on Sunday night (Feb 12). Such incident was believed to be the aftermath of demand for customary village fission undertaken by customary villagers of Pangkungkarung. Luckily, the incident claimed no casualties. Other than his house, the mass alleged to come from the pro-fission group also destroyed several other houses owned by minority group rejecting the fission. At least, 11 houses lived through light damage as hit by stones and wood. The attack set breaking at around 10:00 p.m. local time. Suddenly the mass attacked blindly. Initially, the mass attacked the house of Wayan Suarnawa and Made Mustika located in the row end of the minority group. The mass rampaged by means of crowbars, wood and stone fractions and pelted both houses. Before attacking, the mass broke all the lightings around the scene. “Apparently, this action has been well organized. Its culprit is quite a lot,” said Made Mustika, Monday (Feb 13). Aside from destroying the lightings and roof of the house, the perpetrators also challenged the residents to get out. Since the victims belonged to minority, they kept silent and stayed in the house. Both houses were severely damaged on the roof and gates. A moment later, the kulkul (wooden split drum) was pounded repeatedly. From the house of Mustika, the mass then moved southwardly. Later, the target was directed to the house of the customary village chief. At this location, the attack was increasingly violent. Several people knocked at the gates, while the others stoned at the house. Likewise, they broke the lighting. In the tense condition, a resident named Bayu Santosa and his brother tried to fight. Even, this young man could capture one of the perpetrators. “I know the man. He admitted just to find out the truth,” said Bayu. The attack to the house of the customary village chief lasted rather long. However, it began to subside after Bayu recklessly went out and threw a chair into the mass. As a result of the attack, the house of the customary village
chief was rather badly damaged. A number of roofs including some shrine buildings broke as hit by stone. From the house of the customary village chief, the mass continued the attack to the house of Ni Made Candri. Her shop’s door was damaged by the mass. Being fear, she did not dare to resist. Besides, the mass also pelted the house owned by the minority group. Finally, the mass attacked the house of Made Astawinawa. The unrest subsided after Mass Control Unit of the Tabanan Police was deployed to location. Mass of the majority group was eventually herded to local village hall. Chief of Tabanan Police, Dekananto Eko Purnomo, affirmed that his party had examined the scene. As a result, it had been noted that some 5 houses were damaged, while the others were only slightly damaged. “We urge the regency government to intervene immediately. It should think about the conflict settlement and do not let the conflict continue to widen,” he said after chairing the notice reading ceremony of the National Police Chief. From the scene, police also secured a number of evidences. Among them, there were fractions of stone and pieces of wood and bamboo. Direct report
Few hours after the attack, the victims whose house was destroyed immediately reported the case to Tabanan Police. They were organized by the hamlet chief of the minority group, Ketut Gumiarsa. Residents preferred to seek legal procedure because they felt to be threatened. “It was a really arrogant action and should be investigated thoroughly,” he said. Meanwhile, the Pangkungkarung customary village chief, Ketut Suidja, did not know exactly about the chronology of the attack. At the time of incident, he and his family were in hospital. “I just knew it after being contacted if there was a commotion,” he said. To anticipate the subsequent attack, his party would hold a meeting with his residents as well as alerted at all the village borders. Conflict on the fission of the Pangkungkarung customary village had taken place since 2008. However, there were no signs of settlement against the customary conflict. (kmb30)
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LeBron helps Heat get better of Bucks
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LeBron James helped Miami finally find a way past the Milwaukee Bucks, scoring 35 points in the Heat’s 114-96 victory on Monday. The Bucks had beaten the Heat in both meetings this season, and three successive times overall, but they were steamrolled on Monday despite taking an eightpoint lead in the first quarter. Inflicting most of his damage from close range, James made 16 of 21 field goal attempts and keyed Miami’s third-quarter surge where they took a stranglehold on the encounter to cruise to a sixth win in seven games. “They beat us twice, handily. We knew it,” James told reporters. “We made a conscious effort to try to get to our game. Like we played last night (in a 20-point win over Atlanta), we wanted to try to do the same thing tonight.” Milwaukee’s quick start was erased in the second quarter and they trailed by five at halftime.
The Heat upped the pace after the intermission and outscored the home team 35-24 in the third. James had 16 in the critical third while Dwyane Wade chipped in with 22 points for the game as Miami (22-7) moved within a halfgame of the Chicago Bulls for the Eastern Conference lead. Carlos Delfino finished with a team-high 24 points for the Bucks (12-16), who shot just 39 percent in slumping to their fifth defeat in seven games. Milwaukee’s struggles have dropped them outside of the Eastern Conference playoff picture.
Brandon Jennings, the team’s leading scorer, had 12 points in another sub-par performance. “We had to get our hands dirty, which we didn’t do in the first two games,” said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra. “But it was a good sign that we did it this way against a very physical team.” Miami Heat’s LeBron James goes up for a dunk during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, in Milwaukee.
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Chisora vows to floor Klitschko Malaysian athlete says in ‘magic’ eighth round official supplied drugs Reuters
MUNICH - British challenger Dereck Chisora pledged on Monday to dethrone WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko with an eighth round knockout when they meet in Munich on Saturday. “Vitali has been around a long time. He’s the king of the sport but it is time someone came in who is young and fresh,” Chisora told a news conference. “It is the end for Vitali, I promise you. I will end the Klitschko reign and cause a massive upset in my magic eighth round. It will be felt around the world. “A lot of people have tried to do
it but they do not have the swagger and the passion to go in there and do the business but I have got it. I am passionate about the sport and I am not scared.” The 28-year-old Chisora was twice scheduled to fight Vitali’s younger brother Vladimir, who holds the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO titles, but the Ukrainian pulled out injured on both occasions. Vitali, 40, who has announced the fight will be one of his last, said he would still be WBC champion after the bout. “When he said that he would finish me in round eight I realised that this guy is serious and I never have prepared as hard for a fight,”
he said. “But I have told him he is not going to be the one to stop me, no one can. “I am going to show everyone why I am the champion and why I have ruled for so long.” Vitali knocked out Poland’s Tomasz Adamek in his last fight on September 10 to improve his record to 43 wins and two losses while Chisora was beaten on a split decision by Finland’s Robert Helenius in a European title challenge on December 3. Chisora, whose record stands at 15 wins and two defeats, also lost his British and Commonwealth titles to compatriot Tyson Fury in July. Ukrainian heavyweight WBC boxing champion Vitali Klitschko (L) and Dereck Chisora of Britian pose after a news conference in Munich February 13, 2012.
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A gold medal-winning Malaysian athlete who failed a drug test at November ’s Southeast Asian Games has claimed a top athletics official arranged his supply of banned substances, a report said Tuesday. Mohammad Yunus Lasaleh, who won gold as part of his country’s 4X400m relay team at the games in Indonesia, said Malaysian Athletic Union (MAU) deputy president Karim Ibrahim introduced him to a Bulgarian doctor who provided the drugs. Yunus was told the pills “could help me win gold”, he told the The Star newspaper. Two Malaysians -- Yunus and a bronze medal-winning Malaysian weightlifter whose identity has yet to be revealed -- tested positive for banned substances at the Games. They both face likely twoyear bans and loss of their medals. The paper said Yunus, along with several coaches and athletes, submitted a sworn statement to the MAU claiming Karim had contacted Yunus in September and told him to meet with the Bulgarian, who was not identified.
Yunus told the paper he was provided with pills that he was told were vitamins, and also received injections two or three times a week. “The doctor informed me that they were B complex shots for recovery after training,” Yunus said. In November, the relay team was at first told they had not qualified for the games, but were later allowed to compete and pulled off a surprise win. The paper said Karim is also alleged to have told six sprinters not to provide urine samples for doping tests as requested by the National Sports Institute in May of last year. It gave no further details. It said 42 national athletes and 16 coaches on Monday handed a memorandum to MAU president Shahidan Kassim calling for Karim’s removal, but Shahidan told the paper that he could not “arbitrarily” remove someone. Relevant Malaysian sports officials could not immediately be reached for comment. The last Malaysian athlete punished for doping was weightlifter Amirul Hamizan Ibrahim, who was banned in 2005 for two years after failing an out-of-competition test.
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Kamui Kobayashi relaxed about Sauber reliability Kamui Kobayashi says the reliability issues that struck Sauber in the first week of winter testing are nothing to be concerned about. Although Sauber had a troublefree first day of running at Jerez last week, it lost mileage to problems on each of the following three days of testing. But Kobayashi said all the glitches were typical new car teething problems. “This is just four days with the new car, problems happen sometimes. It’s a new car. This is why we are here,” he said. “We need to get lots of mileage and investigate prob-
lems. We had a couple of problems and we have to improve that. The mileage for four days is quite a lot so this is quite natural stuff. “In my first season in 2010, we hardly had any problems in the winter, but once we started the races we had big problems. Compared to that, I think we are in good shape. We just had a couple of troubles and we just have to understand that.” He added that Sauber had yet to do much performance work on the C31, but that he felt the car’s basic potential was good. “We’re still checking the aero numbers and the small
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changes to check everything for development. We haven’t worked for the set-up, so I don’t know how much potential we have, but we can definitely improve a lot,” said Kobayashi. “This is the first step of development. They’re going to check the numbers and let’s see. But for me, I’m happy with the car. “The balance was pretty good for me. I think the platform itself is good.”
Trulli sure he will keep his Caterham drive in the car. But asked if he would be racing in F1 this year, Trulli replied: “We are safe, yes.” He acknowledged that economic considerations might play a part in Caterham’s driver decisions at some point, but said he had no indication so far that he was in jeopardy. “I do understand the position of some teams and that un-
some teams that are running into trouble,” Trulli said. “I don’t know the real situation of the teams but I do know that they have to look for sponsors and paying drivers, so at the moment all I can say is I am contracted with the team and I will be testing. “If something different happens I hope that someone from the team comes and talks to me earlier, but so far we never
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had a talk about it through the winter.” Trulli played down the significance of van der Garde trying the car before him. “At the last moment they signed van der Garde and it is important for the team to have a third driver with a bit of experience, so they let him drive,” Trulli said. “He did a reasonable good job in mileage and from there we will start programming the next few tests because I was scheduled to drive at the beginning.”
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Denpasar – The Valentine’s Day has become a special day for many people throughout the world, not to mention those in Bali. The youngster in Bali was celebrating the day filled with joy. Roses become an icon in Valentine and one of the most demanded item on Tuesday, February 14, 2012.
Unfortunately, most of the flowers were coming from outside Bali. In Ubud, for example, the demand for roses was increasing highly and that cause increase in price of the flower. A rose usually being sell for 1,000 rupiah on common day but become 5,000 rupiah on Valentine. One of the flower sellers, Kadek Luh, said that the increase of customers came to her shop during Valentine’s Day reached
10%. The flowers were not coming from the island. Kadek Luh explained that she must buy the roses from Malang in East Java because the supply of the flower from Bali is very limited. There are two kinds of roses being bought by Kadek, red and white roses. The white rose is more expensive than the black one. Continued on page 6
Angry Birds fly to Facebook Agence France-Presse
“Angry Birds”, the most-downloaded mobile app of 2011, was catapulted to the world of Facebook on Tuesday in a bid by its Finnish maker Rovio to get one billion people playing the addictive game. Fans were able to test the new Angry Birds Facebook app online Tuesday morning ahead of its official global launch in Jakarta, the world’s most Facebook-connected city. “With the great success of the Angry Birds game on smartphone platforms, Rovio intends to reach more fans and
be on every screen and every platform,” Rovio Asia senior vice president Henri Holm said in a statement. “Therefore, the company developed Angry Birds on Facebook to reach more than 800 million Facebook users worldwide.” In the game, players fling colourful and grumpy wingless birds from a slingshot into smarmy egg-stealing pigs. It has been downloaded more than 700 million times since it launched in 2009 and the birds have become a global phenomenon, featuring on a huge array of merchandise and in popular culture.
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An image of “Angry Birds”, the most-downloaded mobile app of 2011, is displayed on an iPod Touch.